Recaps

Yu Sheng and the Special Operations Bureau traced the Holy Ascetic Society’s World Bridge activity while Luo returned to the Darkflow Starfield to investigate Black Stone Station’s missing data. An Artificial Saintess appeared to break free of her masters, but a clash in an unstable rift ended with the Great Sage’s explosion and the rift’s collapse.

• Zheng Zhi glimpsed the Hermetic Society and an Artificial Saintess across a spacetime divide, prompting Yu Sheng and Baili Qing to investigate signals linked to the World Bridge and the Holy Ascetic Society.
• Yu Sheng and Baili Qing planned to lure the Holy Ascetic Society with counterfeit Angel Catalysts, while Luo set out for the Darkflow Starfield with supplies and guards.
• On Grey Dwarf Star, Luo met Old Qiao, who demanded her research data and trade keys in exchange for restoring her position, and Yu Sheng secretly infected his robotic avatar.
• An Artificial Saintess and Brass Knights attacked Xu Jiali’s team in Dark Alley, but the Saintess later approached Zheng Zhi, took his sweet potato, and gave him game tokens before vanishing.
• Yu Sheng, Eileen, Huli, and Luna followed Zheng Zhi’s Spiritual Vision to a transformed underground garage, where they found the Saintess dead and a rift opening onto Hermetic Society forces.
• The group fought the Brass Knights and priests, but a gold-glowing priest’s lightning storm blasted Eileen apart and wounded Yu Sheng and Luna while Huli fought in her nine-tailed form.
• Eileen rose from living blood and battered the Great Sage as Luna attacked the enemy forces, while the unstable rift began to crack and psychic energy surged through the garage.
• The Great Sage revealed his body was filled with light and self-destructed, killing the Hermetic Society forces before the rift vanished and the parking lot returned to normal.

Yu Sheng and his allies uncovered the Hermetic Society’s use of Old Qiao and the Zolda Black Stone, then captured him at Deep Rock Fortress. Luo learned the full extent of his cruelty and destroyed his consciousness, while Yu Sheng stayed with her afterward.

• The Great Sage collapsed the spatial rift by destroying himself, and Yu Sheng returned home with Huli, Eileen, and Luna as Golendel’s old injuries reappeared after his rebirth.
• Eileen discovered a giant spider battle form and dreamed of her origins as an experimental model, the Ancient Holy Spirits, and the Boundary Bridge’s passage through the Crossroads.
• Yu Sheng and Baili Qing investigated the Hermetic Society’s rift technology and prepared counterfeit Angel Catalysts as bait, while Luo traced leaked research to Iron Hand and confronted Old Qiao’s forces.
• Luo was driven into the lower ruins, where her allies attacked Black Dot’s forces, but Old Qiao escaped and later became contaminated by the bloody mist.
• Yu Sheng, Luo, Eileen, Huli, and Luna entered Old Qiao’s base through a doorway and fought through its soldiers and defenses until they captured him.
• Luo questioned Old Qiao and learned that the Hermetic Society had used him to connect her to the Zolda Black Stone and sought his data to stabilize an Eden Gate.
• Old Qiao revealed that he had displayed Luo’s spinal cord, discarded her skin, and fed her organs to Su, so Luo destroyed his consciousness and burned his remains.
• Yu Sheng reminded Luo that Long Hair was waiting to roast mushrooms and reassured her that they were friends.

Luo rescued the prisoners from Deep Rock Fortress and helped Yu Sheng prepare to infiltrate the Holy Ascetic Society by impersonating Old Qiao and selling it a counterfeit Angel Catalyst. The Society took the catalyst, while Yu Sheng and his allies prepared to trace it to the Holy Realm and launch an operation against Eden Gate.

• Luo found her preserved spine, then met Momo and the other freed laboratory workers and brought them to Black Stone Station.
• Momo explained Old Qiao’s dealings with the Holy Ascetic Society, and Yu Sheng and Luo concluded his false data had left Eden Gate impossible to shut down.
• Yu Sheng and Baili Qing planned to seize Eden Gate before attacking the Society, while Luo brought Momo to Fairy Tale Valley and offered her a job at Black Stone Station.
• Yu Sheng built Doll Town for Eileen’s puppet production, then worked with Luo to stage an emergency sale of a forged Angel Catalyst under Old Qiao’s identity.
• A cracked mirror drew Yu Sheng into a vision of Black Star, but Eileen pulled him back and the mirror healed.
• The Council agreed to support an infiltration of the Holy Realm, while Luo located a safe rift and prepared the disguised Old Qiao transmission.
• Yu Sheng negotiated with the Hermetic Society and agreed to deliver the Angel Catalyst at the Morona Fault, where its cruiser inspected and accepted the counterfeit.
• Yu Sheng returned to Black Stone Station as Luo began tracing the cruiser toward an illegal stargate, while the Holy Seat announced that the Society was bringing the catalyst back to Eden Gate.

Yu Sheng and his companions traced the Hermetic Society’s Star Gate to the Holy Realm, where they discovered the Eden Gate’s connection to the past and helped the Unified Fleet seize the border. After the first Eden Gate collapsed, they searched the Holy Realm for a second one, which Baili Qing believed was hidden at the planet’s original core.

• Yu Sheng led Eileen and Huli to the Hermetic Society’s hidden Star Gate and infiltrated its defenses, where he glimpsed the Shadowless Bones bound to the Eden Gate.
• Yu Sheng arranged for Baili Qing’s fleet to use the captured Star Gate, then discovered that the Holy Realm’s past was trapped behind a time barrier connected to Eden Gate.
• The Unified Fleet attacked and captured the border Star Gate while Yu Sheng reached the Holy Realm’s past and used his blood connection to send the Angel Catalyst into Eden Gate.
• The Angel Catalyst destabilized Eden Gate, and Yu Sheng confronted the Holy Seat as puppets poured out and the fleet’s forces fought the Hermetic Society.
• Yu Sheng and his companions escaped as Eden Gate collapsed, then learned that another, larger rift source lay beneath the Holy Realm.
• The Unified Fleet arrived at the Holy Realm, and Yu Sheng told Hong that the Shadowless Bones might be behind the Holy Ascetic Society and that a second Eden Gate could be underground.
• Baili Qing scanned the planet and reported that the Hermetic Society’s homeworld was hollow, with the second Eden Gate likely hidden at its original core.
• Yu Sheng flew with Huli, Eileen, and Luna to a suspected facility, where they entered through a breach and heard heavy footsteps in the corridor.