Recaps

Lin Yu entered the Glory Festival disguised as a Rakshasa and used staged battles and Stiller’s rumors to make the claim more believable. At the Healing Place, Lin Yu recognized Jue as a fellow Fraudster and arranged for Stiller to spread the story further as tensions grew among the contestants.

• Lin Yu convinced a Blood Rakshasa Clan brute that he was a Rakshasa, then used the encounter and Stiller’s staged exploits to spread the rumor through the festival.
• After the festival’s rules allowed contestants to fight almost anywhere, Lin Yu and Stiller killed a Blood Luo, and Lin Yu sent Stiller off in disguise to tell others a four-armed monster had killed him.
• Lin Yu met Jue, teamed up with her to kill two giant beasts, and used a bloody display to strengthen her belief that he was a Rakshasa.
• Lin Yu and Jue found the traveling Healing Place, obtained weapons from its intelligent Furnace Fire, and disguised themselves as wounded contestants.
• Lin Yu observed Jue’s careful deceptions and concluded she was a Fraudster who had revealed her identity while misreading him.
• Stiller arrived at the Healing Place with his group as barbarians accused them of poisoning a companion, and Furnace Fire intervened to enforce the ban on fighting.
• Lin Yu sensed distrust and resentment among the groups, then sent Hannah to tell Stiller to spread the Rakshasa rumor quickly.
• Stiller understood that Lin Yu wanted him to improvise a clumsy performance, while Lin Yu hoped the growing belief would grant him the ability to transform, and Lin Yu then warned Jue that the Healing Place might not be safe.

Lin Yu killed Furnace Fire, then used staged events and growing Rakshasa rumors to mislead the festival’s notaries while drawing Nian into a confrontation. After Jue and Zao fought Nian, Lin Yu entered the dream world and joined them under the name Cao.

• Lin Yu extinguished Furnace Fire and shot its exposed core, then the Players argued over who would take the blame for the notary’s death.
• Nian’s influence stirred violence at the Healing Place, but Lin Yu and Jue subdued the crowd and convinced the Arbiter that a disguised Rakshasa was causing trouble.
• Moro fought the Arbiter after the notary suspected Moro was a Rakshasa, while Lin Yu staged a fake notary encounter and revealed his deal with Shuo.
• As Rakshasa rumors spread through the festival, Jue exposed Nian’s hiding place and confronted him in the forest.
• Jue used Sword Control Technique and her Items against Nian, then revealed her alternate personality, Zao, who fought him with a greatsword.
• Nian’s Black Cat plunged Zao and Nian into sleep, and Lin Yu entered the altered dream where he met Jue, Zao, and Little Moss as separate people.
• Lin Yu introduced himself as Cao and joined the group heading toward a light, while suspecting that Moss did not trust him.

Lin Yu and his companions crossed the dream mine, outplayed Nian at cards, and Lin Yu later defeated him by stealing the pendant that powered his predictions. After Nian escaped as a Nightmare, Lin Yu refused to leave the Glory Festival, and Jiang Rong invited him to watch the remaining contests while searching for Shuo.

• Lin Yu and Tai raced ahead through the mine, while Jue and Zao followed and won the skeleton’s bowl games to reach the rest room, where they reunited with Lin Yu and Moss and met Nian.
• Nian challenged the group to a card game, and Lin Yu discovered that Jue, Zao, and Tai were sharing their hidden cards through patterned breathing before joining their exchanges.
• After Lin Yu deliberately busted to help Jue and Zao win, Nian questioned him and identified him as the real Lin Yu, but Lin Yu’s layered deception left Nian believing Moss was Lin Yu.
• Tai negotiated a three-month cooperation contract with Nian in exchange for Dream Sanctuaries and protection, while Lin Yu planned to keep Nian deceived and weaken him.
• At the Glory Festival, Lin Yu transformed the crowd’s belief and Hannah’s Illusion Ink into the giant rakshasa Moro, then attacked Nian while Jue escaped the fight.
• Lin Yu endured Nian’s attacks and deduced that the hidden pendant powered his predictive item, while Hannah stole it during Lin Yu’s relentless assault.
• With the pendant gone, Lin Yu struck Nian down, but Nightmare escaped through a passage, and Old Zheng explained that Nian had preserved his consciousness and returned to Night Valley.
• Lin Yu refused Jiang Rong’s offer to end the competition early, admitted he had helped Shuo escape, and accepted an invitation to watch the rest of the festival with the Ten Great Tribes’ representatives.

Lin Yu entered a Personal Trial to carry out an assassination commission, but first confronted Paris over the attack on the Despair Train and secured a favor. At Nevernight Manor, he became entangled in Huo Le’s succession struggle and received an invitation to Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony before heading to meet the family matriarch.

• Lin Yu completed the Blood and Fire Festival, gained seven days of Survival Time, and discovered that belief in Moro could fuel a brief Rakshasa transformation.
• Lin Yu entered the Extreme Assassination trial, investigated Gold Rush Street, and joined a mercenary team assigned to kill Arter Mercury at Nevernight Manor.
• Lin Yu refused to take part in the team’s plan and infiltrated Truth Tower disguised as Fu Luo to confront Paris about the attack on the Despair Train.
• Paris’s lie detector exposed his denial, and he agreed to owe Lin Yu a personal favor before arranging his visit to Nevernight Manor.
• At the Nightless Sky estate, Huo Shu tried to recruit Lin Yu, but Lin Yu declined to take sides and met Huo Le, who revealed that she needed his help winning her mother’s favor and the succession.
• Lin Yu warned Huo Le about the assassination commission and asked to attend Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony, where he considered targeting Arter Mercury.
• Lin Yu and Huo Le reached the illusion-concealing tower where her mother was waiting, after Hannah and Old Zheng warned him about its Miracle Alchemy.