Recaps

Lin Yu returned safely after Nightless Sky Huo Le intervened in Gray Street Three, and she warned him about the mysterious Fairy Queen. When Lin Yu revealed that the Fairy Queen was Nightless Sky Huo Le’s sister, Huo Le rejected the claim as impossible.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le let the gang members from Gray Street Three live, though the ringleaders would face investigation and detention.
• In the car, Nightless Sky Huo Le scolded Lin Yu for risking danger and explained that she had used the arrests to expand her influence in Gray Street Three.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le warned Lin Yu that people who investigated the Fairy Queen had vanished without a trace and urged him not to get involved with her.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that he knew the Fairy Queen’s identity and said she was her sister.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le dismissed Lin Yu’s claim, arguing that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot could not have ruled Gray Street Three while growing up under strict confinement.

Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that someone had commissioned an assassination of a Royal Noble at Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony. Huo Le went to warn her mother while sending Lin Yu to the Truth Tower, and Lin Yu revealed he had never planned to accompany her.

• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that he had prepared a gift for Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and explained that the Solence Family had not framed him at the Heavenly White Jade Palace.
• Lin Yu admitted that he had killed three intermediaries after uncovering a commission to assassinate a Royal Noble at Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le feared the attack could devastate her family and asked Lin Yu what he had learned about the target and client.
• Lin Yu said the target was likely a Royal Noble who had not appeared publicly in a long time, but he had found no leads on the client.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le decided to report the threat to her mother and arranged for Lin Yu to go to the Truth Tower instead of joining her.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that he had not intended to go with her to warn the Family Head.

Lin Yu met President Paris at Truth Tower and learned why Paris had deliberately let Nightless Sky Huo Le reprimand him. Paris then asked Lin Yu to bring a mysterious person into Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony to steal something, offering him a benefit in return.

• Paris greeted Lin Yu at Truth Tower and escorted him to his office, where Lin Yu asked why Paris had provoked Nightless Sky Huo Le at Demon Pig Bar.
• Paris explained that he had let Huo Le scold him to deflect criticism over her use of armed forces and to discourage people from targeting Lin Yu.
• Paris admitted he also wanted to mend his relationship with Lin Yu after their earlier conflict on the train.
• Paris asked Lin Yu to bring an unidentified person into Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony to steal one of the valuable gifts, promising Lin Yu a reward.

Lin Yu learned that President Paris wanted to recruit him for a mission involving stolen Advanced Alchemy and discovered that his supposed contact was Nightless Sky Huo Ming. He realized Huo Ming planned to assassinate Arter Mercury, a detail Paris himself had not known.

• Lin Yu pressed Paris about the mission’s payment, and Paris offered him a branch of original Advanced Alchemy.
• Paris brought in the red-haired woman, and Lin Yu recognized her as someone he already knew.
• The woman revealed that she was Nightless Sky Huo Ming and warned Paris that privately possessing or trading Advanced Alchemy was a serious offense.
• Lin Yu inferred that Huo Ming had secretly returned from the Great Wilderness without her mother’s knowledge.
• Lin Yu revealed that Huo Ming’s mission was to assassinate Arter Mercury, and Huo Ming confirmed that Paris had not known about the assassination.

Lin Yu used Paris and Huo Ming’s secrets to force them into cooperating on the plan to assassinate Arter Mercury. The three revised the commission and arranged support for Huo Ming’s infiltration of Huo Xing’s coming-of-age ceremony.

• Lin Yu revealed that he knew Huo Ming planned to act independently and had prepared a small alliance, then promised to keep the secret from Paris.
• Lin Yu warned Paris that his private contact with Huo Ming could look like collusion, so Paris agreed to support the plan wholeheartedly.
• Lin Yu revised the commission: he would bring Huo Ming into the ceremony while Paris created a distraction and supplied elite personnel, including Stiller.
• Lin Yu told Huo Ming to provide people for the operation and make use of Zhu Rong, whom Huo Ming had rescued.
• Huo Ming revealed that the Divine Power Group would send a box of Jade Laurel leaves, and Lin Yu demanded half if the operation succeeded.

Lin Yu finalized his cooperation with President Paris and Nightless Sky Huo Ming, securing help for the remaining parts of his plan before Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s birthday party. He then disguised himself and entered the Divine Power Group’s research department, where he heard rumors about an assassin hired to kill a Royal Noble.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming agreed to give Lin Yu half of the Jade Laurel, and Lin Yu confirmed his cooperation with her and President Paris.
• Lin Yu asked Paris to prepare a large, sealed transparent container for his gift to Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, then asked Huo Ming for help using her connections in the Great Wilderness.
• After leaving Truth Tower, Lin Yu changed into a Divine Power Group technician’s outfit and entered the company’s campus with Old Zheng helping conceal him.
• Lin Yu reached the Divine Power Group’s crowded technical research department and heard technicians discussing a commission to assassinate a Royal Noble.

As rumors spread that a Royal Noble would be assassinated at Nightless Sky Fire Apricot's coming-of-age ceremony, Nightless Sky Huo Le and Paris strengthened the Nightless Sky Family's security and tried to quell suspicion. Nightless Sky Huo Le grew concerned when Sherlock became a popular suspect and remained missing after promising to prepare surprises.

• Paris inspected the Nightless Sky Family's heightened defenses, while Nightless Sky Huo Le admitted she still feared they might not be enough.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le reviewed reports showing rumors had spread from suspicion of the Nightless Sky Family to accusations against prominent Royal Nobles, including herself.
• Paris reassured Nightless Sky Huo Le that the rumors were unreliable and that their security preparations were thorough.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le found Sherlock among the most popular assassination suspects and dismissed the claim as absurd.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le worried that Sherlock's disappearance for nearly a day was allowing the rumors to grow and wondered what surprises he was preparing.

President Paris took the spreading rumors as a sign that he and Sherlock were safer, and he expected Sherlock’s gift to arrive before Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s birthday celebration. Sherlock’s gift arrived ahead of the other offerings: an elaborate aquarium containing a living Pink Octopus, which astonished the guests.

• President Paris told Nightless Sky Huo Le not to worry about Sherlock and said Sherlock’s gift should arrive soon.
• The Saint Orchid Family, Solence Family, Mercury, and Autumn Family sent their gifts to the Nightless Sky Family, followed by other nobles and officials.
• Stiller drove President Paris’s pickup truck to the side entrance and explained that Sherlock had ordered him to deliver the gift quickly.
• The servants uncovered a large ornamental aquarium filled with seaweed and coral, revealing a living Pink Octopus inside.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le and the surrounding guests admired the rare gift and accepted that it had been allowed to arrive ahead of the other offerings.

At the exhibition hall before Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age banquet, Sherlock’s octopus aquarium drew attention as guests discussed his ties to recent conflicts. President Paris spotted a dangerous stranger posing as a waiter, but let him continue because he suspected Sherlock had arranged him.

• Guests admired Sherlock’s pink octopus aquarium and discussed his pursuit of Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and his connections to the Nightless Sky and Saint Orchid families.
• The guests connected Sherlock to the Assassinate King Commission and the recent killings and disputes in the City That Never Sleeps.
• President Paris noticed a tall, thin man carrying heavy bags without an employee ID and questioned him.
• Paris gave the man a spare Truth Company ID card and told him to return to work.
• Paris recognized the man as a hostile, bloodied Wild Dog from the outer city, but let him go because he thought Sherlock had arranged him.

Bone Spur infiltrated the Nightless Sky Family’s exhibition hall by posing as a Truth Company employee, believing his disguise had gone unnoticed despite heightened security. As the ceremony approached, Saint Orchid Kui arrived early and complained to Paris about the placement of the exhibits, including his gift.

• Bone Spur explained how he had bribed a Truth Company employee and used an old uniform to infiltrate the venue, where the president had unknowingly given him a valid ID card.
• A Truth Company team leader sent Bone Spur to serve wine while Paris discussed the heightened security and missing team leader with the vice president of Divine Power Group.
• Servants announced Saint Orchid Kui’s arrival, and the guests bowed as the Royal Noble entered the exhibition hall.
• Saint Orchid Kui questioned Paris about the exhibition’s arrangement, accepted that Sherlock’s aquarium belonged in the center, and objected that his own sculpture had been placed in a far corner.

Saint Orchid Kui proudly displayed his hand-carved statue of Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and waited for Sherlock to arrive, convinced he had already won her favor. Alter Mercury arrived at the exhibition hall and gave Saint Orchid Kui Essence of Life for his bedridden mother, leaving Kui feeling guilty about accepting an assassination commission.

• Paris moved Saint Orchid Kui's mislabeled statue into a prominent display case after Kui explained that he had carved it himself for Nightless Sky Fire Apricot.
• Paris and the Divine Power Group vice president distracted themselves by discussing bubbles in the aquarium while avoiding criticism of Kui's statue.
• Saint Orchid Kui listed his reasons for believing he had surpassed Sherlock, then asked Paris when Sherlock would arrive.
• Alter Mercury entered the exhibition hall, exchanged respectful greetings with Saint Orchid Kui, and asked about Kui's parents.
• Alter Mercury gave Saint Orchid Kui Essence of Life to take to his mother, and Saint Orchid Kui felt ashamed of accepting an assassination commission.

As Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony approached, guests speculated about Sherlock’s absence while the Solence Family and Security Bureau moved against him. Nightless Sky Huo Le sent people to find Sherlock first, but Paris discovered that his agents seemed to have defected.

• Guests at the Nightless Sky Family banquet wondered why Sherlock had not arrived, while Saint Orchid Kui and Alter Mercury discussed how Sherlock might win Fire Apricot’s favor.
• Ba told Saint Orchid Kui that Security Bureau personnel had arrived with the Solence Family, and Saint Orchid Kui chose to wait while remaining ready to help Sherlock.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le saw the Security Bureau approaching on surveillance and asked Paris to send people to locate Sherlock before they did.
• Paris tried to contact his agents and reported to Nightless Sky Huo Le that they seemed to have defected.

Fopolo interrupted Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony with a magic show, drawing every guest’s attention away from the waiting birthday girl. He made rain rise back into the sky and return as an array of dishes, leaving the nobles astonished.

• Paris told Nightless Sky Huo Le that Stiller had likely sided with Fopolo and hidden his whereabouts.
• Paris pointed out Fopolo’s orange car near the back entrance of the Nightless Sky Family residence, prompting Nightless Sky Huo Le to question what he was doing.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le welcomed the Royal Nobles and led them into the auditorium to await Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s entrance.
• The nobles discussed their hopes of marrying Nightless Sky Fire Apricot as her coming-of-age ceremony approached.
• Fopolo stepped onto the stage, introduced himself, and announced his magic show, Food From the Sky.
• Fopolo made rain fall over the stage, rise back into the sky, and return as delicious dishes.

Sherlock’s surprise performance at Huoxing’s coming-of-age ceremony was interrupted when the Security Bureau accused him of murder and a contract killing. Nightless Sky Huo Le confronted the arrest, but Nightless Sky Huo Xian revealed his support for the bureau and his desire for Huoshu to inherit their mother’s position.

• Sherlock performed a food-producing magic show, and Truth Company’s staff shared the food with the audience.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le and Paris discussed whether Sherlock had prepared for the Solence Family’s plans.
• The Security Bureau director accused Sherlock of three murders and involvement in a contract killing, citing footprints and DNA as evidence.
• Sherlock pretended to flee, prompting a fight between Truth Company’s staff and Security Bureau experts, before Huo Le ordered them to stop.
• Huo Le challenged the arrest and Larry Solence’s authority, while Nightless Sky Huo Xian admitted he had invited the bureau and backed Huoshu as their mother’s successor.

Nightless Sky Huo Le accepted that Nightless Sky Huo Xian and the Solence Family had arranged Sherlock’s arrest, and promised to secure his release and retaliate. President Paris protected the Truth Company guards while privately fearing that Sherlock really had helped plan the assassination, as the ceremony resumed before the conflict could escalate.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le apologized to Sherlock, promised to free him, and left as the Security Bureau took him away.
• President Paris challenged Director Dyke and Larry Solence over the arrest of the Truth Company guards, and Larry ordered the Bureau to take only those involved in the case.
• Stiller told President Paris he did not know what Sherlock had been doing, while Paris privately worried that Sherlock and he had truly joined the assassination plot.
• President Paris saw a Pioneer Team member quietly leave the group and hoped that Nightless Sky Huo Ming knew the plan.
• The ceremony bells rang, and both sides let the confrontation subside rather than risk provoking the Nightless Sky Family Head.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s banquet descended into chaos after corpses revealed her disappearance and a recording exposed her escape and a deadly gas trap. With Great Wilderness People raiding the exhibition hall and the alchemy array sealing everyone inside, the guests learned that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s mother had taken control of the array.

• A heap of corpses tumbled into the banquet hall, and Stiller reported that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was missing while the servants had been bound.
• The servants told Lord Huo Le that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had attacked them and escaped, and a recording of her mocked the guests and warned of a hidden gift.
• Saint Orchid Lai identified the gas seeping into the hall as Isomerial Combustion Gas and urged everyone to shut down their alchemical creations.
• Great Wilderness People broke into the exhibition hall to steal the Jade Laurel, while the alchemy array raised barriers and sealed the banquet hall and exhibition hall.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed that she had lost control of the array and that her mother was the only person with higher authority.

Paris was stabbed during the chaos at the Nightless Sky Family banquet, while Director Dyke discovered that the man he had arrested was actually Stiller in disguise. Inside the sealed exhibition hall, Lin Yu appeared by exploding the aquarium and announced his second magic act.

• Paris was stabbed by someone disguised as Stiller, who said Pankto Feng Valetti sent his regards and that the attack was for Coleman.
• A servant attacked the Mercury Family’s nobles as the banquet descended into further chaos, and Paris realized the supposed Great Wilderness People included Pankto.
• Director Dyke’s identity machine identified the arrested man as the real Stiller, who warned that Dyke’s arrests had endangered the nobles in the hall.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming wondered how to escape the activated Alchemy Array while clutching the Jade Laurel, then heard Sherlock’s voice offering to help her out.
• Lin Yu appeared from the shattered aquarium, introduced himself as the performer of the second magic act, and named it The Grand Vanishing Act.

Lin Yu revealed himself as the cause of the celebration’s chaos and used the Alchemy Array and seawater to terrorize the nobles. After Nightless Sky Huo Le confronted him, he admitted that the massacre was a conspicuous diversion connected to his plan to kill a Royal Noble.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming traded Lin Yu four Jade Laurel leaves for safe passage and left with the Great Wilderness People.
• Lin Yu crossed into the auditorium and drowned a duke, then killed a Truth Company executive, prompting the powerful guests to flee.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le stayed in place and accused Lin Yu of using the massacre to conceal his real target.
• Lin Yu confirmed he had used a substitute after the Security Bureau took him away and said Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had exposed a flaw in his plan to act secretly.
• Lin Yu explained that he had changed his approach and made himself conspicuous to carry out the plan to kill a Royal Noble.

Lin Yu exposed his identity as Freud after stealing Nightless Sky Huo Le’s Heavenly Scroll and used the nobles’ mistaken belief in his story to gain the peak mind-and-soul powers of First Generation Freud. With Old Zheng operating those abilities, he commanded everyone in the hall to fall asleep.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le confronted Lin Yu over the deaths and chaos, but he argued that the city’s powerful nobles were complicit in its brutal rules.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le drew the Heavenly Scroll, and Lin Yu struck through her wrist, took the book, and explained that her kindness had given him an opening.
• Lin Yu removed his hat and revealed the glowing brain, telling Nightless Sky Huo Le that he was Freud, not Sherlock, and had stolen Sherlock’s identity.
• Lin Yu used the Tooth of Prophecy and Tongue of Deception to make the nobles believe he possessed First Generation Freud’s peak powers over minds and souls.
• Old Zheng took control of Lin Yu’s newly acquired abilities and ordered everyone in the hall to fall asleep.

Lin Yu revealed that the assassination commission involving Alter Mercury concealed a fifty-year deception tied to the Mercury Family’s succession. The chapter ended with Lin Yu telling Alter Mercury that he was not the Chosen of the God of Life, but a man who had died by accident fifty years earlier.

• Lin Yu finished off surviving nobles named on the Nightless Sky Family Head’s list while the hall slept, clearing obstacles to Nightless Sky Huo Le’s plans.
• Lin Yu brought Old Zheng to Alter Mercury and used Mental Power to wake him.
• Alter Mercury guessed that he was the target of an assassination, and Lin Yu confirmed it before explaining that the commission involved a fifty-year deception.
• Lin Yu connected the deception to Arlan Mercury’s disappearance and Alter Mercury’s succession as head of the Mercury Family.
• Lin Yu told Alter Mercury that Arlan had concealed the truth to keep him alive, and revealed that Alter Mercury had died by accident fifty years ago and was not the Chosen of the God of Life.

Lin Yu discovered that Arter Mercury’s brother, Arlan, had kept Arter alive for fifty years by making everyone believe he was the Chosen of Life. After Arter survived Lin Yu’s attempt to kill him, Lin Yu planned to undo Arlan’s arrangement by convincing people that Arter was truly dead.

• Lin Yu explained that Arlan Mercury had made Arter appear to be the Chosen of Life to keep him alive after he died or nearly died.
• Arter accepted that he should have died long ago and said he would not resist, though he still wanted to live.
• Lin Yu stabbed Arter through the throat, but Arter’s body healed itself and he revived with no memory of being killed.
• Lin Yu considered killing Arter repeatedly but agreed not to use that method unless necessary.
• Lin Yu proposed destroying Arlan’s arrangement by making people believe Arter had died, then asked Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to assess her dolls.

Lin Yu uncovered Nightless Sky Fire Apricot hiding among the corpses and learned how Arlan Mercury used a Faith Ritual to keep Alter Mercury alive. Lin Yu planned to expose Alter Mercury as not being the Chosen of Life and use his belief-based ability to overwrite the ritual, leaving the conflict between his power and the gods’ ritual unresolved.

• Lin Yu deduced that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was hiding inside one of the corpses, and she emerged and praised his perceptiveness.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot greeted Alter Mercury and admitted that she had joined the assassination contract against him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot explained that Arlan Mercury used a Faith Ritual to link a created concept of life to Alter Mercury through the City That Never Sleeps’ belief in him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot estimated that dismantling the ritual had a fifty-percent chance of success, and Lin Yu accepted the odds.
• Lin Yu privately planned to expose Alter Mercury as not the Chosen of Life, then use his belief-based ability to create the fact of his death.

Lin Yu tried to make Arter Mercury appear to die peacefully so he could deceive the Nightless Sky Family and protect Greedo Mercury. As Arter’s body began to glow with powerful Life Energy, Arlan Mercury burst into the hall, threatening Lin Yu’s plan.

• Lin Yu used his abilities to make Arter Mercury believe he would die in his sleep, and Arter wrote a last letter for Greedo Mercury.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot swallowed Arter’s letter for safekeeping, and Arter settled down and fell into a deep sleep.
• Lin Yu adjusted Arter’s body to resemble a corpse and explained that they needed to convince people he was dead before thorough examinations exposed the truth.
• The hall’s Alchemy Array trembled as brilliant azure light and Life Energy surged around Arter Mercury’s body.
• Arlan Mercury tore through the hall’s barrier and demanded to know who was trying to kill his elder brother.

Lin Yu faced Arlan Mercury after Arlan discovered his elder brother Arter near death, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot escaped through a tunnel. Lin Yu and Old Zheng used the fallen nobles’ corpses to hold back Arlan’s Life Giant, beginning a clash between life and death.

• Lin Yu realized Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had fled through a tunnel beneath the auditorium.
• Arlan found Arter in a weakened state and demanded to know why Lin Yu had harmed his elder brother.
• Lin Yu admitted he had acted at someone else’s request, and Arlan attacked him with a giant formed from pure Life Energy.
• Lin Yu asked Old Zheng to control the corpses, and Old Zheng raised them into a formation that blocked the Life Giant.

Lin Yu provoked Arlan Mercury into questioning whether keeping his elder brother alive against his wishes was truly right, then ordered Old Zheng to release the corpses. As the Life Giant attacked, Arter Mercury spoke, and the giant stopped before Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu taunted Arlan about spending his life force to preserve his elder brother and asked whether Arlan had ever considered what his brother wanted.
• Arlan rejected Lin Yu’s accusations, defended his choice, and poured more life force into the Life Giant.
• Lin Yu challenged Arlan to face his elder brother and ordered Old Zheng to withdraw control of the corpses.
• The corpses scattered, and the Life Giant charged at Lin Yu despite Old Zheng’s warning.
• Arter Mercury told Arlan to stop, and the Life Giant froze before Lin Yu.