Recaps

Lin Shuang investigated Gallagher and Penacony’s hidden dreamscape while dealing with Sparkle, Sunday, and the Stellaron Hunters. She discovered Dreamflux Reef and the Family’s concealed use of lives to sustain the Dreamscape, leaving Firefly shaken and questioning Sunday.

• After Sparkle sent Lin Shuang a cryptic message and deleted her account, Acheron resolved to watch Lin Shuang more closely before they reached Penacony.
• Lin Shuang visited Silver Wolf, discovered she was rebuilding her game accounts, and later caught her in person after binding her with vermilion threads.
• In Penacony, Lin Shuang questioned Sunday about his surveillance of her and Firefly, rejected his offer to cooperate, and suspected he was concealing a plan.
• Lin Shuang saw through Sparkle’s Gallagher disguise, then met Gallagher and glimpsed a monstrous silhouette in his shadow.
• Sparkle sent Lin Shuang into the Memory Zone, where Black Swan guided her through Memory Zone Memes and back toward The Reverie.
• A Memory Zone Meme stabbed Lin Shuang during her call with Topaz, and she passed through the sea of Memoria to Dreamflux Reef.
• Mika explained Dreamflux Reef’s cenotaphs and Gallagher’s connection to the Memes, while Lin Shuang learned that the hidden settlement faced a growing black hole of memoria.
• Lin Shuang confronted Sparkle and learned she had seen parts of the Script from Silver Wolf, then agreed to investigate whether actions in the dream could affect the Stellaron.
• Lin Shuang told Firefly about Dreamflux Reef and its secrets, and Firefly realized the Family had concealed a Stellaron and used lives to sustain the Dreamscape.

Lin Shuang helped Huohuo and Sushang deal with a dangerous Heliobus, then deepened her bonds with Acheron and Gepard while negotiating with Topaz and gaining Sparkle’s disguise ability. The stretch ended with Lin Shuang accepting Himeko’s invitation to join the Astral Express and spending the night with March 7th.

• Lin Shuang captured a Heliobus and joined Huohuo in investigating a supposed ghost market in Aurum Alley, where a Heliobus possessed Sushang.
• Lin Shuang entered the Heliobus’s illusion, defeated it with a Nihility-like slash, and helped Huohuo seal it after Sushang awoke.
• Lin Shuang trained against Fragmentum Monsters, reunited with Gepard, and received Acheron’s warning that imitating her blade could draw Lin Shuang into Nihility.
• Lin Shuang rejected Topaz’s restoration proposal but traded information about Penacony for the proposed Credits, then made Button Bombs with Sparkle and gained the Fool’s Mask disguise skill.
• Lin Shuang shared information with Topaz under contract and practiced transforming into Acheron and Gepard, while Gepard recognized the horned outfit Lin Shuang had created.
• Lin Shuang visited the Astral Express, posed as the Herrscher of Thunder for March 7th’s photos, and startled Welt when he mistook her for the figure.
• Himeko welcomed Lin Shuang’s interest in joining the Astral Express and invited her to celebrate with coffee and pastries.
• March 7th shared her bed with Lin Shuang, cuddled against her in her sleep, and woke to find Lin Shuang’s pajama top unbuttoned.

Lin Shuang joined the Astral Express, recovered a hidden train with Firefly and Sparkle, and explored the Simulated Universe with Herta and Ruan Mei. As the train underwent repairs at Herta Space Station, Lin Shuang helped Ruan Mei experiment on the Swarm and created a new kind of insect, while March 7th and Stelle encountered one themselves.

• Himeko and Paimon announced Lin Shuang had joined the Astral Express as its navigator, awakening her power from the Path of Trailblaze.
• Sparkle led Lin Shuang and Firefly to a stormy planet, where Lin Shuang rescued a damaged train from a Swarm and sent its location to Himeko.
• Firefly admitted she wanted to travel with Lin Shuang, while March 7th and Stelle reunited with Lin Shuang and Herta agreed to repair the train at the Space Station.
• Lin Shuang experienced the Swarm Disaster through the Simulated Universe, resisted becoming an Aeon, and deepened her understanding of Paths and Permanence.
• Ruan Mei recruited Lin Shuang to help with her artificial Emanator experiment and study Lin Shuang's dragon form and connection to Permanence.
• While the train was repaired, Lin Shuang helped March 7th teach Stelle about female physiology and common sense, then carried a sleepy Stelle back to their room.
• Ruan Mei showed Lin Shuang how the Swarm had spread through the Seclusion Zone, where Lin Shuang transformed larvae into Abundance-infused and Permanence-infused insects.
• March 7th and Stelle encountered an invisible Swarm insect, subdued it together, and called for Lin Shuang while arguing over March 7th's jinxing.