Recaps

After leaving the Ancient Notebook replay, Nightless Sky Huo Le decided to bring Lin Yu to the Nightless Sky Family and rewarded him with new resources and authority at Truth Company. They boarded a flying vehicle together, with Huo Le insisting that Lin Yu sit beside her.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le told Lin Yu she would speak to her mother about his plan before taking him to meet her.
• Huo Le ordered Paris to arrange their return to the Nightless Sky Family and prepare a guest room for Lin Yu.
• Huo Le granted Lin Yu an independent laboratory, a ten-person project team, and a higher clearance, while Paris proposed making him acting Secretary-General.
• Huo Le instructed Heiler to ensure the directors did not obstruct Lin Yu's promotion at the next board meeting.
• Huo Le and Lin Yu boarded a flying vehicle at Truth Tower, and Huo Le told the staff to seat him with her.

Lin Yu waited at the Nightless Sky Family estate, received a message from Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, and was summoned to meet Nightless Sky Yong Lian. He entered the tower library and found Nightless Sky Huo Le sitting across from Nightless Sky Yong Lian, who was reading on the staircase.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le left Lin Yu in a guest room while she went to speak with her mother, Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• An otter delivered Lin Yu a note from Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who asked him to plead her case and mentioned that Nightless Sky Huo Ming was at home.
• Lin Yu read the note, destroyed it by eating it, and followed a maid to the tower after Nightless Sky Yong Lian summoned him.
• Lin Yu entered the third-floor library and saw Nightless Sky Huo Le sitting rigidly while Nightless Sky Yong Lian read on the staircase.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Huo Le asked Nightless Sky Yong Lian to approve restarting the Fear Project, and Yong Lian initially condemned the plan. After Huo Le defended Lin Yu and insisted on an explanation, Yong Lian revealed her opposition had been a test and agreed to let them proceed.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian called Lin Yu's theories about Fear baseless and warned that restarting the project could bring disaster to City That Never Sleeps.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le challenged Yong Lian's account and defended Lin Yu, saying his investigation had uncovered evidence missing from the surviving records.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le argued that they should be allowed to test the project or be told why Yong Lian had sealed it, and she said Lin Yu should not be blamed for reaching mistaken conclusions.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le pointed out that Yong Lian had been reading an amusing book, and Yong Lian threw it at her in anger.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le demanded a reason for rejecting the project, and Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she had only been testing Huo Le's resolve before agreeing to let her restart Fear.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian approved Nightless Sky Huo Le’s plan to restart the Fear Project after warning her about the risks. She ordered Huo Le to leave Lin Yu alone with her for questioning, leaving Huo Le worried about how the conversation would go.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian examined Nightless Sky Huo Le’s plan and agreed that she could restart the Fear Project, while cautioning her to consider the dangers and consequences.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian ordered Nightless Sky Huo Le to leave Lin Yu behind so she could question him alone and test his abilities.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed that she suspected Huo Le had been advised to oppose her, then used a gentle force to push her out of the library and shut the door.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le worried that Nightless Sky Yong Lian might suspect Lin Yu knew too much about the Fear Project and feared he might offend her.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian opened the door to tell the pacing Nightless Sky Huo Le that she would not harm Lin Yu and promised to return him soon.

After Nightless Sky Yong Lian sent Huo Le away, Lin Yu explained that he had taken on a B-1 supervisor identity and joined Huo Le to gain a reason to meet her. They discussed exchanging answers and restarting the Fear project, but Yong Lian’s most important question was how A Luo had really died.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian sent Huo Le away, then spoke privately with Lin Yu about his plans and their relationship.
• Lin Yu said his main reason for taking the supervisor position and joining Huo Le was to find a proper way to meet Yong Lian.
• Lin Yu offered to answer Yong Lian’s questions and help restart the Fear project in exchange for answers to his own questions.
• Yong Lian said she had a more important question than the details of Lin Yu’s Fear plan.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Lin Yu how A Luo had really died.

Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Yong Lian that Sherlock had been murdered and that he suspected the killers were connected to the secret organization he was investigating. Yong Lian offered to help avenge Fu Luo, then revealed she sensed his dead Soul Fragments inside the Ancient Notebook; Lin Yu said he wanted to see if Sherlock could appear again in another form.

• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Yong Lian that Sherlock had been murdered after returning from City That Never Sleeps, and explained his suspicion that the murder was tied to the organization that had placed a bounty on him.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed that Fu Luo had been a dear friend who reminded her of her first husband, and promised to help kill his murderer if Lin Yu brought them to City That Never Sleeps or the Great Wilderness.
• Lin Yu asked how Yong Lian knew Sherlock had left, and she explained that her methods on Fu Luo had grown unclear before she sensed the Ancient Notebook Lin Yu carried.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she sensed Fu Luo's dead Soul Fragments inside the notebook and asked Lin Yu what he planned to do with them.
• Lin Yu said he wanted to find out whether he could make Sherlock appear again in another form.

Lin Yu asked Nightless Sky Yong Lian for Fu Luo’s Soul Fragment so he could try to create a lasting illusion life-form resembling him. Nightless Sky Yong Lian took Lin Yu to the library back room and agreed to give him the fragment, asking him to bring Fu Luo to visit the City That Never Sleeps if he succeeded.

• Lin Yu explained that the Ancient Notebook could create a lasting, lifelike imitation from a Soul Fragment, though it would lack complete memories and eventually diverge from the original.
• Lin Yu speculated that the god worshiped by the Mercury Family might help him give life to Fu Luo’s Soul Fragment, but Nightless Sky Yong Lian refused to ask Arlan Mercury on his behalf.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed that she also possessed Fu Luo’s Soul Fragment, and Lin Yu assured her he was highly confident he could create an illusion life-form without damaging it.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian used her power to move Lin Yu into the library back room, where she kept Fu Luo’s Soul Fragment.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian offered the fragment and asked Lin Yu to bring Fu Luo to visit the City That Never Sleeps if his attempt succeeded.

Lin Yu used the [Ancient Notebook] and Sherlock's Soul Fragment to continue restoring Fu Luo as an Information Lifeform, while Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained how her inner chamber connected to the notebook. After she recognized the notebook’s link to an Authority, she began to explain why she had let it leave her possession.

• Lin Yu accepted Nightless Sky Yong Lian's request and used the [Ancient Notebook] to absorb Sherlock's Soul Fragment, which reactivated the fragments from Fu Luo.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained that her inner chamber was an extension of the [Ancient Notebook] and showed Lin Yu how to extract things from it directly.
• Lin Yu extracted Fu Luo's partially formed soul, allowing the process of restoring her as an Information Lifeform to continue.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian sensed the [Information Authority] in the notebook and said it might be an Authority itself, while Lin Yu admitted he had suspected as much.
• Lin Yu asked why Nightless Sky Yong Lian had let the notebook pass from her to Professor Dort and then Veil Valetti, and she offered to explain while Fu Luo's illusion took shape.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained the Ancient Notebook’s origins and why she tried to send it to another world, revealing that she founded the Fear Project and entrusted the notebook to Professor Dort. Lin Yu clarified that his theory about the project targeting Otherworlders was an improvised guess, leaving Yong Lian surprised by how closely it matched the truth.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian told Lin Yu that the Ancient Notebook was an artifact of unknown origin and that the Nightless Sky Family’s three scrolls and book were imitations made through Supreme Alchemy.
• Yong Lian explained that she tried to send the notebook through the Gate of Boundary because its Authority resembled her Lord’s, but the notebook could not approach the gate.
• Yong Lian said she gave the notebook to a trusted subordinate to place where an Otherworlder might find it, and Lin Yu realized the Fear Project had been her undertaking.
• Yong Lian admitted that she founded the Fear Project and that Professor Dort was both her trusted assistant and the notebook’s custodian.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had seen the Ghost Ship in another world and had invented his claim about the Fear Project targeting Otherworlders to persuade Huo Le.
• Yong Lian was astonished that Lin Yu’s improvised explanation, repeated by Huo Le, had coincided with the truth.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained how the [Ancient Notebook] enabled her to develop fear alchemy and why she halted the Fear Project. Lin Yu then accused her of using the Ghost Ship project team to transfer the Authority of fear between worlds and briefly gain godhood, leaving her to answer his charge.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said the [Ancient Notebook] revealed that a fallen god in another world still held the Authority of fear, and she created a ritual to graft fear into alchemy.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she halted the Fear Project because its use risked drawing the Authority of fear into her world, while Lin Yu’s Otherworlder identity could reduce that danger.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had encountered the sealed Ghost Ship and the higher beings of the world where the Information Authority and the Authority of fear originated.
• Lin Yu accused Nightless Sky Yong Lian of using the Ghost Ship team as a sacrifice to transfer fear between worlds, with help from Otherworlders, and of briefly gaining control of the Authority and attaining godhood.

Lin Yu used his knowledge of the Ghost Ship and the Authorities of Fear and Information to uncover Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s hidden role in the Fear Project and her first contact with an otherworldly god. He left the conversation alive, having argued that his value and connection to Sherlock made cooperation more useful to her than killing him.

• Lin Yu reconstructed that Nightless Sky Yong Lian had obtained the [Ancient Notebook] and begun researching Fear before becoming family head.
• Lin Yu inferred that Yong Lian had connected herself to the Authority of Fear through an Otherworlder aboard the Ghost Ship, causing its Material Reality to vanish into the Gray Domain.
• Lin Yu concluded that Yong Lian later sent the Authority of Fear away through the Gate of Boundary, likely so she could become the Chosen of the God of Wisdom.
• Yong Lian threatened to kill Lin Yu for uncovering her greatest secret, but Lin Yu argued that his usefulness made cooperation the better choice.
• Yong Lian questioned whether Lin Yu was truly Sherlock’s friend, and Lin Yu said he was using their relationship to help avenge Sherlock.

Lin Yu pressed Nightless Sky Yong Lian for the truth about her past cooperation with Otherworlders and their possible connection to Sherlock’s death. She revealed details about the Authority of Fear and described three Otherworlders, then Lin Yu showed her Cyber Ghost’s Electronic Coffin to identify the Item she had forged.

• Lin Yu explained that one of Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s former Otherworlder collaborators might be connected to Sherlock’s killer, and that the Earth Scroll had been offered as a bounty for him.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said the Earth Scroll was still in her possession and clarified that she had promised her collaborators Supreme Alchemy lessons and help forging an Item.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained that the Ancient Notebook held the power of Fear and that she had sacrificed the Ghost Ship and several Nightless Sky Family members to escape a dangerous Projection of the Authority of Fear.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she had worked with three Otherworlders: a robust man called Xiao Yuan, a handsome and taciturn man who loved eating, and a lively short girl called Shui Shui.
• Lin Yu brought out Cyber Ghost’s Electronic Coffin and asked Nightless Sky Yong Lian whether it was the Item she had forged for Shui Shui.

Lin Yu confirmed that Shen Bingmiao had worked with Nightless Sky Yong Lian to create the outer shell of [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin], but concluded that this clue did not strongly connect her to Sherlock's killer. Yong Lian asked him to keep the Fear project appearing promising for five years, then revealed that she had little time left to live and trusted Lin Yu to protect the Nightless Sky Family after Huo Le took over.

• Lin Yu realized that “Shui Shui” was Shen Bingmiao and reconsidered whether the former collaborators were connected to Sherlock's killer.
• Lin Yu decided to keep investigating the City That Never Sleeps and said he had no more questions for Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• Yong Lian asked Lin Yu to make the Fear project seem feasible and progressing for about five years, rather than expecting him to guarantee its success.
• Lin Yu agreed to investigate Fear's arrival in the Night Valley Realm and its connection to the Abyssal Lord.
• Lin Yu inferred that Yong Lian expected to step down within five years, and she revealed that she had little time left to live.
• Yong Lian said Lin Yu's ties to her daughter and family had put her at ease that he would protect the Nightless Sky Family.

Lin Yu refused Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s request to become the God of Wisdom’s Chosen One, though he promised to help protect the Nightless Sky Family. He suggested Huoxing as a more suitable candidate to succeed Yong Lian as the family’s Chosen One.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Lin Yu to help safeguard the Nightless Sky Family after her death.
• Yong Lian offered to make Lin Yu the God of Wisdom’s Chosen One, explaining that Huo Le might be unable to take on the role.
• Lin Yu refused, wary of the obligations and risks of becoming a Chosen One, but promised to help the family within his abilities.
• Lin Yu proposed Huoxing as a likely candidate, citing her wisdom, alchemy skills, lack of ambition, and blood relation to Huo Le.
• Yong Lian recognized that Lin Yu meant Huoxing.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian and Lin Yu discussed making Nightless Sky Fire Apricot the Chosen of the God of Wisdom, and Lin Yu agreed to try persuading her. Their meeting then shifted as an Information Lifeform based on Fu Luo’s fragmented soul appeared and mistook Lin Yu and Yong Lian for people he knew.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot sneezed and told her butler she felt someone might be plotting to slander or impeach her, then decided not to worry and thought of Arthur as her way out.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian agreed that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot could be a suitable Chosen of the God of Wisdom, but worried that she might refuse.
• Lin Yu asked whether Yong Lian could make Fire Apricot agree, and Yong Lian said her daughter would follow her own will on such an important matter.
• Lin Yu offered to try persuading Fire Apricot and said protecting the Nightless Sky Family served his interests too.
• Lin Yu sensed that the Information Lifeform made from Fu Luo’s fragmented soul was complete, and it appeared in the study, mistaking Lin Yu for Fire Le and asking who he was.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Lian spoke with an information lifeform modeled on Fu Luo, who deduced that he was dead and had been recreated as a clone. Fu Luo accepted his new existence and asked them to treat him as Sherlock, leaving their response unresolved.

• Fu Luo mistook Nightless Sky Yong Lian's changed appearance for that of a relative of Miss Huo Le, then asked Lin Yu who he was.
• Lin Yu introduced himself as Arthur, a B-1-level supervisor of Truth Company, and asked Fu Luo about his final memories.
• Fu Luo recalled investigating the memory-altering organization Copper Furnace with a friend, but could not remember his more recent experiences.
• After Fu Luo realized he could no longer sense the Death game, Nightless Sky Yong Lian confirmed that he was dead.
• Fu Luo deduced that he was a clone rather than a resurrected original, confirmed he would not have a short lifespan, and asked Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Yong Lian to treat him as Sherlock.

Fu Luo questioned whether he was truly the original Fu Luo or a new being created from his memories and a Soul Fragment, and tried to reassure Nightless Sky Yong Lian and Lin Yu. After learning Lin Yu had created him, Fu Luo accepted his new life but asked how the original had died.

• Fu Luo compared his uncertain identity to the Ship of Theseus and told a slime story about whether a copy of a loved one should be treated as the original.
• Fu Luo told Nightless Sky Yong Lian and Lin Yu not to feel sorry for him as long as they considered him alive.
• Fu Luo said Lin Yu felt familiar, and Lin Yu revealed that he had disguised himself and that Fu Luo had simply failed to recognize him.
• Lin Yu explained that he had used part of Nightless Sky Yong Lian's Soul Fragment and Fu Luo's memories and personality to create the current Fu Luo.
• Fu Luo accepted that being alive was better than being dead, then asked how the original Fu Luo had died.

Lin Yu told Fu Luo that a Hidden Organization had killed him and Captain Gao Shan, and recruited Fu Luo to help investigate the murders. After learning that Fu Luo and his companions had traveled to the Great Wilderness, Lin Yu planned to return there with Fu Luo, while Nightless Sky Yong Lian offered to send someone to accompany them.

• Lin Yu told Fu Luo that the Hidden Organization he had investigated likely killed him, and Fu Luo agreed to help investigate his own murder.
• Lin Yu explained that Fu Luo and Captain Gao Shan had entered an Instance in the City That Never Sleeps, then traveled with a third person to the Great Wilderness, where Gao Shan was also killed.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian recalled that Fu Luo and his companion had visited secondhand shops, gathered Great Wilderness materials, and left through the Turbine Gang's smuggling route.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian blamed herself for failing to protect Fu Luo and his companion, but Fu Luo comforted her and urged her to focus on finding the culprit.
• Lin Yu said he would take Fu Luo to the Great Wilderness to investigate, and Nightless Sky Yong Lian offered to send someone with them.

Lin Yu left Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s library with Fu Luo, who chose to tell Huo Le the truth about his return and help with his revenge. They met Huo Le outside, but Lin Yu and Fu Luo kept up Lin Yu’s cover as Arthur by claiming they had previously worked together on the Fear Project.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian added techniques to the [Ancient Notebook] so Lin Yu could create Temporary Projections from recorded Physical Information.
• Lin Yu released Fu Luo and explained that he would need to spend much of his time inside the notebook, but reassured him that he was still his friend.
• Fu Luo decided he wanted to see Huo Le and tell her what had happened so she could join his revenge.
• Lin Yu and Fu Luo left the library and told Huo Le that Fu Luo had come to help with the Fear Project.
• Lin Yu claimed he had met Fu Luo at a Fear Project research base, and Huo Le was surprised that the two already knew each other.

Lin Yu and Fu Luo arranged to investigate the Fear Project ruins in the Great Wilderness with Nightless Sky Huo Ming, following the Family Head’s decree. After Nightless Sky Huo Le left, Lin Yu explained his identity and the project to Fu Luo, then revealed that he was using Map access rather than entering an Instance.

• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that he and Sherlock needed to inspect Fear Project ruins in the Great Wilderness, and showed her the Family Head’s verbal decree ordering Huo Ming to lead them.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le agreed to take them to Huo Ming, warned them to follow her guidance, and left to prepare for a board meeting.
• Lin Yu asked Fu Luo why he had kept the truth from Huo Le, and Fu Luo said he could not bring himself to tell her while she faced pressure over the Family Head position.
• Lin Yu explained that he had used Fu Luo’s name to gain the identity John H. Arthur and described how the Fear Project connected to Authorities, gods, and the Barren Realm.
• Fu Luo asked about Lin Yu’s Instance quest, and Lin Yu revealed that he had no quest because he had Map access instead.

Lin Yu told Fu Luo how quickly he had advanced through the Rank Advancement Instances and why he had kept his strength secret, while warning him to conceal his identity. They prepared to meet Nightless Sky Huo Ming and persuade her to guide them through the Great Wilderness.

• Lin Yu explained that he had cleared his Rank Advancement Instances on his first attempts, reached the Tier 2 advancement after only three Instances, and unlocked his Map permissions after the latest one.
• Fu Luo promised to keep Lin Yu's advancement secret, and they agreed Fu Luo would usually remain in Lin Yu's notebook and disguise himself when necessary.
• Lin Yu reminded Fu Luo that his survival as a self-aware Sherlock was also a secret and warned him not to expose himself around Order members.
• Lin Yu took the recorder from the Nightless Sky Family Head, and he and Fu Luo set out to meet Nightless Sky Huo Ming.
• Lin Yu considered Huo Ming's resentment toward her family and decided he needed to win her cooperation so she would guide them through the Great Wilderness as they investigated Fu Luo's and Gao Shan's past.

Lin Yu and Fu Luo visited Nightless Sky Huo Ming to secure her escort for their journey to the Great Wilderness, but she refused to be drawn into the Nightless Sky Family’s succession struggle. Lin Yu challenged her to clarify whether she truly intended to remain neutral or merely rejected Huo Le’s side.

• Lin Yu and Fu Luo entered Nightless Sky Huo Ming’s courtyard and found her roasting a massive beast’s leg.
• Fu Luo asked Huo Ming to escort them to the Great Wilderness, and she agreed to accompany them on their departure day.
• Fu Luo tried to build a personal connection with Huo Ming, but she warned him not to visit often because others saw him as Huo Le’s man.
• Lin Yu insisted that Fu Luo followed only the family head’s orders, but Huo Ming said his presence would still make others suspect her of siding with Huo Le.
• Lin Yu asked Huo Ming whether she truly wanted neutrality or simply did not want to join Huo Le.

Lin Yu used his information advantage to confront Nightless Sky Huo Ming with evidence that she was building influence as an independent competitor, not merely staying out of the feud between Nightless Sky Huo Le and Nightless Sky Huo Shu. After revealing that he and Mr. Sherlock answered directly to the family head, he was invited to sit down and continue the conversation.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming denied siding with Nightless Sky Huo Shu or Nightless Sky Huo Le, while Lin Yu said he needed to know her position before considering cooperation.
• Lin Yu suggested Nightless Sky Huo Ming was pursuing power as a third competitor rather than simply avoiding trouble.
• Lin Yu cited her use of the word “exiled” and her efforts to build connections with other nobles as evidence of her ambitions.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming demanded to know Lin Yu’s background, and he showed her the token from Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• Lin Yu said he and Mr. Sherlock took orders directly from the family head, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming invited him to eat while they talked.

While sharing roasted meat, Lin Yu reassured Nightless Sky Huo Ming that her mother valued her work in the Great Wilderness and was not testing her. He revealed that he knew about her secret contacts with nobles from other families and proposed turning their operation into the start of a long-term partnership.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming, Lin Yu, and Fu Luo ate and praised the roasted leg meat, and Huo Ming explained how fragrant wood charcoal gave it its flavor.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming asked whether her mother had sent Lin Yu and Sherlock to reprimand her.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Ming that her mother valued her irreplaceable role in the Great Wilderness and did not believe she had ulterior motives.
• Lin Yu revealed that he knew about Nightless Sky Huo Ming's secret contacts with nobles from other families, though her mother did not.
• Lin Yu said the journey was an ordinary investigation and proposed that it could give them both the chance to gain a long-term partner.

Lin Yu secured a partnership with Nightless Sky Huo Ming and prepared to leave for the Great Wilderness to investigate Captain Gao Shan’s death. At his mansion, he summoned Freud from the Ancient Notebook to help prepare for the journey.

• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Huo Ming agreed to cooperate and planned to leave for the Great Wilderness the next morning.
• Lin Yu declined a guest room at the Nightless Sky Family residence and returned to his mansion with Fu Luo to prepare.
• Lin Yu and Fu Luo discussed the danger of traps in the Great Wilderness and their limited experience there.
• Lin Yu summoned a thin man in a white coat from the Ancient Notebook, surprising both Fu Luo and the newcomer.
• Lin Yu identified the newcomer as Freud, founder of the Psychology Society and its First Generation.