Recaps

After Lin Yu left the archive room, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Nightless Sky Yong Lian discussed their hidden identities and the Nightless Sky Family’s future. Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked to inherit the Creator identity and revealed that she wanted to preserve a trace of her mother.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Nightless Sky Yong Lian awkwardly discussed each other’s identities as the Fairy Queen and the Creator.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian advised Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to stay out of public view and help protect Huo Le’s position as family head.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Nightless Sky Yong Lian not to kill Ailan Rainbowlight and Oumia Bosen, and proposed taking over the Creator identity.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian warned that Supreme Evolution’s ideals could bring destruction and that everyone tied to the organization had to die.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot admitted she liked Ailan Rainbowlight and wanted to continue playing the Creator, then said she wanted to preserve a trace of Nightless Sky Yong Lian and understand her Creator past.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Nightless Sky Yong Lian to let her inherit the dangerous Creator identity, and the two discussed their shared disguises, family pressures, and long-hidden understanding. Nightless Sky Yong Lian accepted her daughter’s wish but warned her to handle the identity carefully, then revealed she had long known Fire Apricot was hiding her talents.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian warned Nightless Sky Fire Apricot that the Creator identity remained dangerous despite her efforts to suppress the Supreme Evolution Remnants.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot assured her mother she would not use the Creator identity recklessly, and Nightless Sky Yong Lian agreed to let her stay with it.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian admitted she had struggled to change the oppressive atmosphere of the Nightless Sky Family and regretted giving her children too little support and companionship.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Nightless Sky Yong Lian recognized similarities between the Creator and Fairy Queen identities and praised each other’s talents and methods.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed she had known Fire Apricot was concealing her abilities and had arranged to disrupt her birthday ceremony; Fire Apricot thanked her for sending Arthur to slaughter people there.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Nightless Sky Yong Lian talked about the succession, the family, and Yong Lian’s feelings for Fire Apricot’s father. Yong Lian then left to settle matters before handing the Nightless Sky Family and Truth Company to Fire Apricot and Huo Le.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian teased Nightless Sky Fire Apricot about becoming Family Head, then asked her to keep Nightless Sky Huo Shu from causing trouble after Huo Le took over.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she had chosen Fire Apricot’s father herself and admitted that his red hair was what she liked most about him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot joked that her father sounded like a red-haired, talented version of Nightless Sky Huo Shu, and she and Yong Lian apologized to Huo Shu together.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she had to leave to deal with people and matters before handing the Nightless Sky Family and Truth Company to Fire Apricot and Huo Le.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian advised Nightless Sky Fire Apricot about traveling to other worlds and left her a notebook from her own visits. After the Creator rescued Ailan Rainbowlight and Oumia Bosen from the Truth Company without causing casualties, Nightless Sky Huo Ming resolved to hunt him down.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian told Nightless Sky Fire Apricot that she could explore other worlds with Arthur, warned her to stay alert, and urged her to enjoy the journey.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed that she had left Nightless Sky Fire Apricot a notebook in the library and departed.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming learned that the Creator had caused no deaths or property losses but had freed Ailan Rainbowlight and Oumia Bosen.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot warned Nightless Sky Huo Ming that the Creator was difficult to catch, but Nightless Sky Huo Ming insisted she would pursue him.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot convinced Nightless Sky Huo Ming to seize nearby corporate bases attacked by the Creator rather than pursue him. Nightless Sky Huo Ming mobilized her forces, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot prepared to address unrest in the City That Never Sleeps and clear President Paris's name.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that pursuing the Creator would cost more than it was worth, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming insisted on settling the score.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot proposed taking over nearby Divine Power Group and Universal Trade Association bases while communications were disrupted by the Alchemy Turbulence.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed that the Creator had attacked the bases, giving them grounds to seize them while answering the Solence Family's call against Supreme Evolution.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming ordered Dongming Shuliu to assemble their forces and prepare to take territory.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot declined to join the raid, saying she needed to manage unrest in the Outer City and tell Huo Le that the Creator had killed Tennyson to clear President Paris's name.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot reassured Nightless Sky Huo Ming that Arthur could handle the Creator and went to explain the situation to Order. She told them their Director was with Arthur pursuing the Creator’s core technology, then offered a video as proof.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming questioned whether Arthur could safely pursue the Creator, but Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that the Creator’s attack did not work on him and persuaded Huo Ming to trust him.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming and Dongming Shuliu began deploying their team while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot went to the records room to meet Order.
• Xiao Nian and Ren Gu demanded to know what had happened to Schreiber and the Director, accusing Schreiber of using Mental Power to knock them unconscious.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot told Order that the Director was safe with Arthur and was close to obtaining the Creator’s core technology.
• When Xiao Nian said they could not verify her account, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot offered to show them a video from the Director.

Order members interpreted Lin Yu’s message as a possible request to find him and organized a search of the Great Wilderness. They left the records room to look for Lin Yu, who had gone with Schreiber to retrieve the Creator’s research on Authority.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot projected Lin Yu’s message, which explained his deal with the Creator and said the research on Authority was hidden in an abandoned place in the Great Wilderness.
• Ren Gu and the others questioned why Lin Yu had been vague about his leads and the Creator’s hints.
• Loquat Candy suggested Lin Yu might be indirectly asking them to find him and might not want to share all the technological information with Schreiber.
• Xiao Nian proposed searching likely abandoned locations, and the group agreed to split up and look for Lin Yu.
• Good Night questioned whether Paper Kite could search alone, and Paper Kite promised to prioritize finding Lin Yu.

Order's members split up to search suspicious facilities across the Great Wilderness while Nightless Sky Yong Lian broke into Jin Solence's office. She told him she had come to see her old friend and rival one last time, and he feared she intended to kill him.

• Xiao Nian assigned Order's members separate search areas, and they left the outpost to investigate the Great Wilderness.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming led a team to take over the empty outposts while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot traveled through an underground passage toward the city.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian entered Jin Solence's office without permission and criticized his coffee.
• Jin Solence confronted Nightless Sky Yong Lian about hiding Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and reminded her that she had been responsible for his eldest son's death.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she had come to see Jin Solence one last time, and he asked whether she meant to kill him.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian visited Jin Solence, first frightening him before explaining that she had come to say goodbye because she planned to die rather than prolong her life. Jin Solence admitted he would miss her as a rival and friend, and Yong Lian asked him for one last favor.

• Jin Solence feared Nightless Sky Yong Lian might have come to kill him, but she laughed and showed she was unarmed.
• Jin Solence recognized that Yong Lian had killed people recently by smelling blood and detecting lingering alchemy energy.
• Yong Lian told Jin Solence she had not come for Supreme Evolution but to see him one last time.
• Jin Solence learned that Yong Lian intended to die, despite being able to extend her life, because she was tired of remaining in the City That Never Sleeps.
• Jin Solence told Yong Lian he felt sorrow and regret and would miss her as a rival and friend.
• Yong Lian asked Jin Solence to grant one request from his dying old friend.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Jin Solence to take Nightless Sky Huo Shu into the Universal Trade Association after his death, explaining that the appointment would help protect Truth Company during the coming business struggle. Jin understood that the arrangement could also give his company a future pretext to interfere in Truth Company’s affairs.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Jin Solence to hear his final request, and Jin agreed out of respect for him.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Jin Solence to take Nightless Sky Huo Shu to the Universal Trade Association and give him a sinecure like Nightless Sky Huo Xian.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained that the Divine Power Group and other families would likely pressure Truth Company after he stepped down.
• Jin Solence realized that Nightless Sky Yong Lian wanted the appointment to discourage Jin from joining the business struggle and to signal a possible alliance to the Divine Power Group.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian acknowledged that having Nightless Sky Huo Shu and Nightless Sky Huo Xian at the Universal Trade Association could later give Jin a pretext to interfere in Truth Company’s affairs.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian persuaded Jin Solence to accept her proposal to send her son to the Solence Family, then opened Lin Yu’s file containing her forgotten research into the World Origin and Deity Domain. The knowledge made her contact the God of Wisdom and begin an act that Jin realized would end in her death and send shockwaves through the City That Never Sleeps and the world.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained that sending Nightless Sky Huo Shu to the Solence Family carried risks but might ultimately benefit her family, and Jin Solence accepted her proposal.
• Jin Solence agreed to bring Yong Lian’s son to the Universal Trade Association and test whether her daughters could protect the Nightless Sky Family without her guidance.
• Yong Lian received and opened a file from John H. Arthur containing the alchemy research she had created and later sealed away.
• Yong Lian rapidly regained the research, activated her Divine Power, and formed a Wall of Truth as the God of Wisdom projected Divine Power and part of the Divine Kingdom into the office.
• Jin Solence realized Yong Lian was influencing the God of Wisdom and preparing to die in his office, creating a disturbance only a handful of people could conceal.

Jin Solence realized that Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s Divine Descent was consuming her soul, and he used a costly Alchemy God descent to conceal the event and its aura. As Yong Lian’s life faded, Jin Solence thanked her as an old friend.

• Jin Solence sensed that the God of Wisdom’s Divine Kingdom was unstable and that Yong Lian’s soul was being consumed, leading him to suspect this explained why the Nightless Sky Family’s Chosen of Wisdom died young.
• Jin Solence decided to hide Yong Lian’s death and the God of Wisdom’s descent to prevent political upheaval from engulfing the Solence Family and the city.
• Jin Solence summoned the Alchemy God and spread his Divine Kingdom across nearly the entire Inner City, masking the aura in his office and blocking the Alchemy Turbulence outside the city.
• Jin Solence worried that the costly descent would damage his vitality, while planning a sales festival as a public explanation for the spectacle.
• Yong Lian thanked Jin Solence for helping her conceal the commotion and said she had chosen him because he was the best person available.
• Jin Solence saw Yong Lian’s symbols and life aura fade, then called her his old friend and accepted her thanks.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian left Jin Solence’s office to return to her family, while Ren Gu followed clues from an old Order report to a hidden passage in the snowy mountains. Ren Gu entered the site of the Truth Company’s old Fear Project, hoping it would reveal what Director had meant and provide insight into Authority.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian told Jin Solence she was going home, then vanished using a method he could not sense and that seemed connected to the Gate of Boundary.
• Jin Solence realized Nightless Sky Yong Lian might be approaching the essence of the world and felt relieved that she was about to die.
• Ren Gu crossed the snowy mountains, believing they were where Director and Schreiber had gone.
• Ren Gu used Sherlock’s old Order report about Lin Yu and Fu Luo’s first Instance to locate the former Fear Project site.
• Ren Gu touched the rock face, revealing a dark passage, and decided to enter it to investigate the monster and seek clues about Authority.

Ren Gu explored the abandoned Fear Project base and found signs that someone had cleaned up the ruins after Chate’s destruction. He met Loquat Candy there, who revealed that they were trapped in the cavern.

• Ren Gu descended to the Fear Project’s deepest chamber and found no trace of Chate, only scorched equipment and unusually neat piles of wreckage.
• Ren Gu suspected someone had deliberately cleaned the base and considered whether Schreiber and Authority Technology were involved.
• Ren Gu began examining the wreckage, then heard someone enter and found Loquat Candy.
• Ren Gu and Loquat Candy realized they had both come to investigate the site based on Director’s hints.
• Loquat Candy told Ren Gu that he had arrived an hour earlier but could not escape because every route led him back into a loop.

Ren Gu and Loquat Candy found that the passage repeatedly reset, trapping them in a cycle, and suspected Schreiber’s mental abilities were behind it. Loquat Candy proposed that the Director and Schreiber had planned the trap together to capture one specific Order member who could decipher the Director’s clues.

• Ren Gu followed Loquat Candy through the passage and found the rubble he had cleared had returned, along with the passage’s earlier state.
• Ren Gu suspected Schreiber had created the trap, possibly by making him believe he had used his abilities to remove the rubble when he had not.
• Loquat Candy agreed that Schreiber was more likely than the Creator to be responsible, but rejected Ren Gu’s theory that Schreiber had discovered the location by tampering with the Director’s messages.
• Loquat Candy argued that the Director and Schreiber had worked together from the start, with the Director revealing the hidden location and Schreiber setting the trap.
• Loquat Candy said the trap was intended to catch one particular Order member who could decipher the Director’s clues, rather than everyone in Order.

Ren Gu realized that Loquat Candy, not himself, had been the intended target of Director and Schreiber’s trap, then confronted him about his unusual interest in Director and the Fear project. Loquat Candy killed Ren Gu before Director arrived, and taunted Director for being too late, as he had been with Sherlock.

• Ren Gu compared his and Loquat Candy’s arrival in the abandoned place and concluded that Loquat Candy had been deliberately lured there by Director.
• Loquat Candy confirmed that he had recognized the setup from the start and said Ren Gu’s arrival had been an accident.
• Ren Gu questioned Loquat Candy’s motives, suspecting that he cared more about Director, Sherlock, and Veil Valetti than about Authority Technology.
• Loquat Candy apologized to Ren Gu and, with a silent Rule, caused his old lethal wounds to reopen and killed him.
• Director arrived after Ren Gu fell, and Loquat Candy called him too late and compared his failure to the time with Sherlock.

Loquat Candy admitted that he had been involved in Sherlock and Gao Shan’s deaths and could likely have saved them, but believed their deaths were necessary. Fu Luo emerged from the darkness and challenged Loquat Candy’s willingness to treat people’s lives as sacrifices.

• Loquat Candy told Lin Yu that he had acted against the Copper Furnace and considered Sherlock’s death more like end-of-life care than murder.
• Lin Yu accused Loquat Candy of having had the ability and opportunity to save Sherlock, and explained that A Luo had helped him identify Loquat Candy.
• Loquat Candy admitted that he might have been able to save Fu Luo or Gao Shan but had never considered doing so an option.
• Loquat Candy said everyone must die and that he would not interfere when someone’s death was valuable enough.
• Fu Luo stepped into the light and asked Loquat Candy whether he considered Fu Luo’s death, Captain Shan’s death, and Ren Gu’s life necessary sacrifices.

Fu Luo and Lin Yu explained how Sherlock's final code exposed Loquat Candy as the hidden killer. Loquat Candy understood that they had only confirmed his identity when he appeared, and remained convinced that killing Sherlock had been the right choice.

• Loquat Candy recognized Fu Luo and assumed he was an illusion meant to frighten him, but Lin Yu said Fu Luo had come to explain how Loquat Candy was exposed.
• Fu Luo explained that his final code, “Veil Valetti,” also pointed to the movie “L.A. Confidential,” helping him realize that the person pretending to be the Secretary was not the Secretary.
• Lin Yu and Fu Luo revealed that the code had only told them someone was hiding behind the Secretary; they confirmed Loquat Candy's identity only after he appeared.
• Loquat Candy realized Lin Yu and Fu Luo had waited to see whether he or Ren Gu would arrive, and admitted he had come because he suspected Sherlock had left another clue.
• Loquat Candy said his decision to kill Sherlock had been right, and Fu Luo challenged his confidence that Lin Yu could not defeat him.

Loquat Candy revealed the vast power and allies he had amassed since surviving the Previous Version, while Lin Yu kept him talking as his trap unfolded. Just as Loquat Candy anticipated a fight with Conception or Schreiber, Lin Yu summoned another avenger with the Clapperboard.

• Loquat Candy accused Lin Yu of letting Ren Gu die, but Lin Yu said he had come for revenge, not to debate morality.
• Loquat Candy revealed that he had survived the Previous Version from its beginning through the Final Trial and retained his Player status.
• Loquat Candy displayed powerful Items and claimed his reserves surpassed those of the super Tier 3s and some Tier 4s.
• Loquat Candy explained that Sheng Lanzhi was keeping Conception occupied and revealed that he had prepared for Lin Yu's trump card.
• Lin Yu said he was not present and that someone else seeking revenge for Sherlock would face Loquat Candy.
• The Clapperboard activated, and a cheerful voice expressed surprise at being summoned.

Lin Yu questioned the defeated Loquat Candy about Sherlock’s death and learned that Loquat Candy believed Sherlock’s connection to Hacker threatened Lin Zhao’s plans. Loquat Candy revealed details about the Previous Version and warned that Lin Zhao’s death had been caused by an accident involving Hacker, Shen Bingmiao.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian defeated Loquat Candy but kept him alive because Lin Yu still had questions for him.
• Lin Yu asked why Loquat Candy had caused Sherlock’s death, and Loquat Candy said Sherlock was close to Lin Yu and had been chosen by Hacker.
• Loquat Candy claimed he knew more about Lin Zhao and the Previous Version than the General or Hacker, and explained that the Copper Furnace had only two official members: the Emperor and the Secretary.
• Loquat Candy said Lin Zhao alone could stop the Death game and had bought everyone another version, but Lin Yu might have been intended as her last-resort safeguard rather than her first choice for resurrection.
• Loquat Candy blamed Hacker, Shen Bingmiao, for an accident that forced Lin Zhao to truly die and seek resurrection through Lin Yu, and said he had suspected a similar danger around Sherlock.

Lin Yu rejected Loquat Candy’s justification for killing and chose to imprison him rather than let him die as a self-proclaimed sacrifice. He then revealed that Nightless Sky Yong Lian had survived and become the God of Wisdom, leaving Yong Lian surprised that Lin Yu had uncovered his deception.

• Loquat Candy defended his killings as necessary sacrifices for surviving the Final Trial and resurrecting Lin Yu’s sister.
• Lin Yu used his Mental Power to knock Loquat Candy unconscious and ordered Nightless Sky Yong Shang to take him to the deepest part of the Eternal Prison.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang left with Loquat Candy after Lin Yu argued that his crimes warranted imprisonment, while Nightless Sky Yong Lian asked Lin Yu to bring Yong Shang back to talk.
• Lin Yu confronted Nightless Sky Yong Lian, identifying him as the God of Wisdom and explaining how Authority Fusion had allowed him to create a Deity.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian admitted he had expected Lin Yu might see through his act, and Lin Yu explained that Yong Lian’s behavior around Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had first aroused his suspicion.

Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained to Lin Yu why she had hidden her ascension to godhood and asked him to keep watching over her children. She gave him the [Poetry Flower] and an [Abyss Gaze] entrusted to her by his sister, leaving Lin Yu wary of what the gift might mean.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian told Lin Yu she had faked her death to mislead rival families and keep her children from relying on her divine status.
• She said she had hidden her ascension from her children so they could live their own lives, and asked Lin Yu to look after them.
• Lin Yu demanded hush money, threatening to tell Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, and Nightless Sky Yong Lian gave him a [Poetry Flower].
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian also gave Lin Yu an [Abyss Gaze], a dangerous Night Valley Realm creation that had inspired the [Shady Corner].
• She revealed that Lin Yu's sister had entrusted the [Abyss Gaze] to her to give to someone when the time came, and that she had recognized Lin Yu as that person.

Lin Yu explained how he had saved Ren Gu and exposed Loquat Candy’s apparent murder as an illusion, then proposed staying in the Barren Realm to investigate changes in the City That Never Sleeps. The group prepared to reunite with Order, while Lin Yu kept Ren Gu’s survival secret from Loquat Candy so he might suffer later.

• Nightless Sky Yong Lian departed after telling Lin Yu that her most precious gift would arrive later, leaving him with another Deity as an ally.
• Lin Yu and Old Zheng woke Ren Gu, who had believed Loquat Candy killed him, and Lin Yu explained that he had secretly kept Ren Gu alive and healed him.
• Ren Gu learned that Lin Yu and Old Zheng had obtained the Creator’s Authority Technology, and agreed that they should meet up with Xiao Nian and the others before deciding whether to stay in the Barren Realm.
• Lin Yu proposed staying another day to investigate the coming change in the City That Never Sleeps, and Old Zheng said the Nightless Sky Family was about to have a new master.
• As Lin Yu contacted Order, he told Ren Gu that Loquat Candy still believed he had killed him and urged Ren Gu to keep that secret if he ever went to the Eternal Prison.

After returning to the City That Never Sleeps under martial law, Order regrouped and discussed Loquat Candy’s betrayal while assigning members to stay safe and gather information. Xiao Nian gave Lin Yu permission to pursue his own business, then revealed she had a Heaven Amusement Park ticket and intended to avenge his death by killing Fluoxetine.

• Ren Gu told Order that Loquat Candy had attacked him, and the members learned Loquat Candy had survived the Previous Version and helped kill Sherlock.
• Xiao Nian confirmed the Storage Device contained information about Authority and let Lin Yu decide to hand it to Good Night while he investigated the Nightless Sky Family.
• Xiao Nian told Yin Lan, Paper Kite, and the others to remain in the Apartment, where Yin Lan could keep Paper Kite from attacking Eris Mercury.
• Yin Lan said she planned to cut back on drinking while temporarily managing the Northwest District, and she worried that Ren Gu would struggle without Loquat Candy’s help.
• Xiao Nian praised Lin Yu’s work during the operation and allowed him to pursue personal business as he investigated the Nightless Sky Family.
• Xiao Nian showed Lin Yu her Heaven Amusement Park ticket and said she would kill Fluoxetine to avenge him, offering to let him witness it.

Xiao Nian offered Lin Yu a chance to assist her in Fluoxetine’s dangerous instance, but he declined and encouraged her to cooperate with his friend from the Freedom Alliance. Lin Yu then visited Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who was delaying her succession because accepting the role felt like accepting her mother’s death, and asked her to help find Pankto Valetti’s missing wife and daughter.

• Xiao Nian offered Lin Yu her reinforcement slot for Fluoxetine’s Heavenly Amusement Park instance, but Lin Yu urged her to leave it for the Professor.
• Xiao Nian learned that Lin Yu’s friend from the Freedom Alliance would also enter the instance and agreed to avoid conflict and prioritize working together against Fluoxetine.
• Lin Yu visited Nightless Sky Fire Apricot at the Demon Pig Bar, where she was organizing Fairy Queen materials instead of beginning her succession as Chosen of Wisdom.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot admitted that taking on the role felt like admitting her mother was gone, so she wanted to delay the succession a little longer.
• Lin Yu asked Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to help locate Pankto Valetti’s missing wife and daughter, and she agreed that helping a friend came first.