Recaps

Fu Qian watched the future Princess accept the flaws in the wedding and sign the marriage certificate first, while suspecting that Jose’s ritual depended on her as a special carrier of the Seed of Ecstasy. Don Juan took the pen after thanking her, bringing the ceremony closer to its final contest.

• Jose had a priest bring out the royal marriage certificate and told the couple to sign it together.
• Jose invited the future Princess to sign first, while Fu Qian concluded that Jose’s preparations concealed a larger goal and that Old Master Ji was acting with confidence.
• The future Princess said she would treat the couple’s understanding as proof they were meant for each other and began writing her name.
• Fu Qian suspected that the Princess’s devotion to love was a manifestation of ecstasy and that she had an irreplaceable role in Jose’s ritual.
• Don Juan thanked the Princess and took the pen.

At the wedding, Old Master Ji claimed he was not Don Juan and that the real Don Juan had become a wooden man, while the bride insisted the real groom would appear because the Deity had told her so. Lord Jose rejected the idea that a name could erase responsibility, leaving the wedding’s true outcome uncertain.

• Old Master Ji hesitated over signing the Marriage Certificate, then told Jose he was sure he would write the wrong name.
• Old Master Ji declared that he was not Don Juan and said the real Don Juan had turned into a wooden man.
• The bride insisted Don Juan would stand beside her on the stage, saying the Deity had promised he would be there.
• Fu Qian considered how the bride’s conviction and the opposing candles might connect to the Seed of Ecstasy and the Eye of Consort Xing.
• Jose solemnly warned that abandoning a name would not resolve the responsibilities resting on Don Juan.

At the wedding, Old Master Ji posed as Don Juan while Lord Jose tried to make him sign his name and then showed him a wooden doll made in his likeness. The chapter ended with Old Master Ji admitting that he had turned someone into the doll and hidden him away.

• Lord Jose challenged Don Juan over his name, and Old Master Ji insisted he had no name that should exist in this spacetime.
• Old Master Ji started to sign, but Lord Jose froze him before the pen could move.
• Fu Qian realized Jose believed Old Master Ji was his son and could not see through his disguise.
• Lord Jose summoned a wooden doll resembling Don Juan and asked whether it was the figure he had mentioned.
• Old Master Ji confirmed that he had turned the person into the doll and hidden him away.

At the Blood Wedding, Fu Qian realized Old Master Ji had engineered the groom’s disappearance to provoke Lord Jose while keeping him confident in his own judgment. Old Master Ji then revealed that Jose himself was the real Don Juan, and Jose thrust the wooden puppet into his own abdomen.

• Fu Qian reasoned that Old Master Ji had deliberately arranged for the wooden groom to be discovered and used the wedding to stir Jose’s emotions.
• Jose examined the puppet, dismissed the incident as a prank, and insisted that only his own eyes could be trusted.
• Old Master Ji resumed signing, while Don Juan taunted Jose for hesitating to complete the wedding.
• Old Master Ji declared that Jose was the real Don Juan and that the gathered lovers’ desire was calling for him.
• Jose thrust the wooden puppet into his own lower abdomen.

Fu Qian pieced together that the mission was designed to make Lord Jose succumb to ecstasy, while Old Master Ji manipulated Jose into testing whether he was Don Juan. Jose’s black flames revealed a connection to the Mother of Gospel, and he concluded that Old Master Ji really was not Don Juan.

• Fu Qian inferred that Old Master Ji was following Warehouse’s instructions to spread the Seed of Ecstasy and make Lord Jose fall.
• Lord Jose reached into his wound, discovered that the object was only a piece of wood, and accused Old Master Ji of lying about it being Don Juan.
• Old Master Ji calmly asked Jose to let go so he could continue, but Jose hesitated and then burst into flames.
• Lord Jose burned Old Master Ji while keeping him restrained and concluded that he really was not Don Juan.
• Fu Qian recognized the black, claw-shaped flames as resembling those he had seen at Silver Mist Manor and connected them to the Mother of Gospel.

Fu Qian watched Old Master Ji reveal that Lord Jose had been harboring the Mother of Gospel’s influence, then return Jose’s lost self and draw the black flames into himself. After the viewing ended, Fu Qian considered how the Larrea family, Don Juan, and the Mother of Gospel were connected, while the Blood Wedding exploration came to a temporary end.

• Old Master Ji regained control, wrote “Don Juan” on the marriage certificate, and confirmed that Jose’s judgment about him had been correct.
• Old Master Ji drew Jose’s black flames onto himself, causing Jose’s Divine Human Face to collapse into an expression of worldly desire.
• Fu Qian returned from the viewing to Mr. Dancy’s restaurant and found that the observation mouth and Eye of Consort Xing had disappeared without replacing his skill.
• Fu Qian concluded that Old Master Ji had used himself as a vessel to help the Warehouse erase the Mother of Gospel’s influence from Jose.
• Fu Qian wondered whether Don Juan had once been part of Jose and whether the Larrea bloodline had attracted several Higher Beings.

Fu Qian pieced together how the Blood Wedding had been engineered to make Jose sever himself from Don Juan, potentially unleashing the Mother of Gospel’s power. He also suspected that Consort Xing had been groomed as part of the scheme and that her remains might have been used to create the Bronze Lady; he then left the dining room.

• Fu Qian concluded that Warehouse had targeted Jose and that Old Master Ji had used the wedding to provoke Jose’s indulgence and push him toward severing himself from Don Juan.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the Larrea family’s faces were containers for different Higher Beings, and that the Mother of Gospel had entered Jose through a loophole left by the Dark Moon’s vanished power.
• Fu Qian suspected that the Mother of Gospel had cultivated Don Juan’s bride and planted a Seed of Ecstasy in her to create a powerful monstrosity.
• Fu Qian connected Consort Xing’s dismemberment to the human-tissue artwork called the Bronze Lady and wondered whether her remains had been used in it.
• Fu Qian picked up the tea leaves and walked toward the main entrance.

Fu Qian returned to his bookstore after retrieving tea leaves, reflected on what he had learned from Old Master Ji Feng’s mission, and turned away a prospective customer. He then used a black-and-red ring to travel to Prison Break, where his Scarlet Fever began spreading through the ruins.

• Fu Qian considered how Old Master Ji Feng’s mission might have led to discoveries about bloodlines, world barriers, and the Bronze Lady.
• Fu Qian spotted a young woman outside the bookstore but lowered the blinds instead of inviting her in.
• Fu Qian used a black-and-red ring to travel from the bookstore to Prison Break.
• Fu Qian tested the Face of One Destined for Godhood and found that he could not see the path to godhood in Prison Break.
• Fu Qian rolled up his sleeve, and his Scarlet Fever spread scarlet mist across Prison Break.

Fu Qian discovered that Vacuum Flowers had appeared in the King of Prison Break's divine kingdom and suspected they embodied a fundamental force tied to supernatural power and Sanity Value. After testing the connection, he reduced his Sanity Value by one and found that the number of flowers also fell from seventy-nine to seventy-eight.

• Fu Qian considered how Vacuum Flowers and his Blood Face's Corrupting Breath both transformed the mundane into chaotic supernatural power.
• Fu Qian condensed the crimson mist in the divine kingdom into transparent, crystalline Vacuum Flowers and counted seventy-nine of them.
• Fu Qian noticed that the flower count matched his Sanity Value and wondered whether the flowers represented its underlying power.
• Fu Qian used Mythical Form to reduce his Sanity Value by one, then created another batch of flowers with Scarlet Fever.
• Fu Qian counted seventy-eight flowers in the new batch, confirming that their number had decreased alongside his Sanity Value.

Fu Qian reasoned that Prison Break could relay prayers to the King of Prison Break despite his lost Supernatural Perception, and greeted the emerging Northern Jiang En. She responded that she was cursed, leaving Fu Qian to face the source of the summons.

• Fu Qian recognized the silhouette as a manifestation of Jiang En's call to the King of Prison Break.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Prison Break itself could receive prayers and relay their signals through its connection to the King of Prison Break.
• Fu Qian inferred that old-timers had marked and united with the essence of their respective authorities.
• Fu Qian greeted the increasingly distinct Northern Jiang En.
• Northern Jiang En lifted her bloodied head and said she was cursed.

Fu Qian discovered that Jiang En’s unexplained wounds and weakness came from the Greedy Worms’ shared injuries, then received Taylor, who appeared in the prison without seeming to know who Fu Qian was. The chapter ended with Jiang En asking Taylor who he was.

• Jiang En told Fu Qian that he had been cursed and was developing unexplained wounds and weakness.
• Fu Qian realized the Greedy Worms were reflecting injuries onto Jiang En and reassured him that the curse might also be a blessing.
• Fu Qian concluded that Jiang En seemed to be in a deep-dreaming state and did not remember why he had come.
• Another visitor emerged from the red mist, and Fu Qian recognized him as Taylor and arranged seats for both guests.
• Taylor asked Fu Qian who he was, and Jiang En immediately returned the question by asking Taylor who he was.

Fu Qian watched Taylor and Jiang En clash as Taylor accused Jiang En of hiding a connection to the King of Prison Break. Their exchange left Jiang En momentarily unable to answer, deepening Taylor’s suspicions.

• Fu Qian introduced Taylor as a Shangjing genius and pureblood vampire, and Jiang En mocked the description.
• Taylor recognized Jiang En as his nemesis and accused him of pretending not to recognize the King of Prison Break’s emblem.
• Fu Qian recalled how he had arranged for Taylor to test Jiang En and for Miss Wen to influence Jiang En’s reaction to the emblem.
• Taylor cited Jiang En’s unusually firm denial as evidence that their past encounter had been suspicious.
• Jiang En fell silent as Taylor pressed him, while Fu Qian recognized that Jiang En’s curse had made him suspect a Higher Being.

Fu Qian listened as Jiang En and Taylor pieced together how the King of Prison Break had manipulated the incident in Shangjing, then revealed that the King was the Bookstore Owner. The chapter left Jiang En and Taylor stunned by Fu Qian’s claim that the Bookstore Owner was Fu Qian himself.

• Jiang En admitted that he had not known what the object was, though Taylor’s actions had left him cursed ever since.
• Taylor accused Jiang En of helping the King of Prison Break target Shangjing and questioned whether his sudden breakthrough had been a reward for aiding the operation.
• Fu Qian interrupted their argument, asked who the King of Prison Break was, and said he knew the answer.
• Fu Qian identified the King of Prison Break as Shangjing’s Bookstore Owner and revealed that his real name was Fu Qian.

Fu Qian told Jiang En and Taylor that the King of Prison Break was named Fu Qian, lived in a bookstore, and taught at the Academy, prompting them to debate whether the Night Watchers were cooperating with or being misled by him. When Jiang En suggested testing the name by praying to Fu Qian, he seized the opportunity to make Taylor vanish.

• Taylor and Jiang En doubted Fu Qian's claims about the King of Prison Break and his ties to the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian revealed that the being was also a professor at the Academy, and Jiang En considered whether the Night Watchers knew only part of the truth.
• Taylor and Jiang En argued over whether the Night Watchers might be involved in the King of Prison Break's schemes, then agreed that the claims needed verification.
• Jiang En proposed that Taylor pray to the name Fu Qian to see whether he received a response.
• Fu Qian approved of the proposed test and snapped his fingers, causing Taylor to vanish.

Fu Qian tested whether Taylor could summon Prison Break using the name Fu Qian instead of King of Prison Break, but the attempt failed. He proposed testing another of his alleged identities, Jade Soul Master, and left the experiment ongoing.

• Fu Qian severed Taylor's connection to Prison Break so Taylor could try summoning it with the name Fu Qian.
• While Taylor was gone, Jiang En taunted his absent rival, and Taylor returned after Fu Qian restored the connection with a Scarlet Angel.
• Taylor reported that using the name Fu Qian had not worked, surprising Jiang En and deepening Fu Qian's suspicions.
• Fu Qian admitted he had given Taylor the name, then claimed the bookstore owner's real name was Jade Soul Master.
• Fu Qian proposed another competition to test whether Prison Break would respond to Jade Soul Master.

Fu Qian tested whether different names could summon the King of Prison Break, and Jiang En successfully made contact by calling himself Jade Soul Master after Fu Qian failed to connect using his own name. Jiang En claimed victory and wondered whether the Night Watchers knew the title, while Fu Qian ended the argument by offering Ramon as another name.

• Taylor and Jiang En argued over whether the title Jade Soul Master was genuine and which of them should test it.
• Fu Qian broke the connection between himself and Jiang En, and a new outline appeared in the red mist less than ten seconds later.
• Fu Qian concluded that Jiang En had called in using the name Jade Soul Master and that the title had worked where Fu Qian had not.
• Jiang En claimed he had won and asked whether the Night Watchers knew the name Jade Soul Master.
• Taylor suspected they had been deceived, so Fu Qian apologized and said the real name should be Ramon.

Fu Qian tested whether five names associated with Jade Soul Master could receive prayers in Forsaken Prison, then reasoned that his own name was bound to Sanity Value and the world’s underlying rules. He swallowed the Entwined Umbilical Cord to gain 99 points of Sanity Value.

• Fu Qian summoned Ramon and Meria on separate platforms and had Southern Taylor and Northern Jiang En test whether their names were genuine.
• Taylor and Jiang En confirmed that Ramon’s name worked, then argued over the result as Fu Qian introduced Abomination, Boerthia, Typhon, and Ao.
• The volunteers tested all five names successfully, accused each other of manipulating the experiment, and were sent back when the Scarlet Angel withdrew from their bodies.
• Fu Qian concluded that his name could not receive prayers because it came from the world’s underlying rules, while Sanity Value represented his connection to them.
• Fu Qian produced the Entwined Umbilical Cord and swallowed it to gain 99 points of Sanity Value.

Fu Qian tested how Sanity Value affected the Vacuum Flowers in Forsaken Prison and developed a theory that Sanity Value measured an outsider’s connection to the world’s fundamental laws while Inspiration measured synchronization with them. He concluded that his Inspiration remained intact despite suppressed Supernatural Perception and reconsidered why Parchi the Deceiver had targeted Warehouse’s Sanity Value.

• Fu Qian used the umbilical cord to raise his Sanity Value back into triple digits, then surveyed the Vacuum Flowers and platforms in Forsaken Prison.
• Fu Qian removed The Firstborn's Vision and found 177 more Vacuum Flowers, whose outlines had become much clearer after his Sanity Value increased.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Sanity Value reflected connection to the world’s fundamental laws and acted like a protective shield that triggered a dangerous impact when depleted.
• Fu Qian theorized that Inspiration measured synchronization with the world, explaining his carrying capacity, his access to deeper layers of reality, and why Inspiration capped at 99.
• Fu Qian concluded that his Inspiration had persisted despite his suppressed Supernatural Perception and that Parchi the Deceiver had sought Warehouse’s rare Sanity Value as a resource linked to the world’s fundamental laws.

Fu Qian reflected on his research into the Sea of Mind before returning to his bookstore in Shangjing, where Gan Baobao visited him in secret. She asked what he thought of her father, the Alliance Leader.

• Fu Qian considered how the Sea of Mind rejected beings closer to the world's essence and recalled Brother Pachi's ambitions.
• Fu Qian returned to his bookstore and looked out over Shangjing, expecting Jiang En and Taylor to stir up the martial world.
• Gan Baobao, the Alliance Leader's daughter, arrived at the bookstore, and Fu Qian invited her inside.
• Gan Baobao explained that her father had forbidden her from visiting and said curiosity had brought her there.
• Gan Baobao asked Fu Qian what he thought of her father.

Gan Baobao visited Fu Qian and asked what he thought of her father, Gan Zuoxun, then revealed her doubts about whether ordinary people’s efforts mattered in a world ruled by transcendent beings. Fu Qian answered bluntly that ordinary people were frail, but suggested that fear of death remained common even among transcendent beings.

• Gan Baobao asked Fu Qian what he thought of Gan Zuoxun, and Fu Qian called him gutsy.
• Gan Baobao explained that she had come to speak with Fu Qian because she admired her father but felt sorrowful and questioned whether his extraordinary actions had meaning.
• Fu Qian told Gan Baobao that ordinary people were exceedingly frail before transcendent beings.
• Gan Baobao asked whether transcendent beings feared death, and Fu Qian replied that resilience only made them harder to kill and that even powerful figures could bluff.

After speaking with Gan Baobao about fear and equality, Fu Qian entered the Warehouse’s special recontainment mission for Demon Mountain, a task he could not skip and had to complete before his Sanity Value reached zero. The Containment Scene loaded with his abilities restricted and no extra items available.

• Fu Qian discussed fear of death and the gulf between ordinary people and the extraordinary with Gan Baobao, who left satisfied.
• Fu Qian checked in at the Warehouse and received the recontainment task for Demon Mountain, Number 1-013.
• Fu Qian spent 1 Sanity Value to enter the mission and learned he had to complete containment before his Sanity Value reached zero.
• The Warehouse warned Fu Qian that he could carry no additional items and that most injuries would not be repaired after the mission.
• Fu Qian noticed he could not select the King of Prison Break skill, then entered the loaded Containment Scene.

Fu Qian arrived at a mountain sanatorium as a visitor but found himself restrained, blindfolded, and unable to move. Warehouse gave him a containment condition to leave before Judgment Day on the thirteenth day, and someone entered the room without making a sound before kissing another person.

• Fu Qian regained his senses in total darkness and realized he was restrained in a chair with his head enclosed.
• Fu Qian considered how the restraints seemed more suited to a prison than a sanatorium and wondered about the Old Acquaintance he had come to visit.
• Warehouse announced that Fu Qian had to leave the sanatorium before Judgment Day arrived on the thirteenth day.
• Fu Qian probed his restraints and listened to the apparently empty room for a chance to escape.
• Someone opened and closed the door without footsteps, then Fu Qian heard the sound of two people kissing.

Fu Qian overheard Tracy and her companion treating him as an audience and a private record while they met in secret. After revealing that he could see them, he asked the date and learned that it was the forty-eighth.

• Fu Qian listened as an older man and Tracy met in the secluded area, unaware that he could understand their conversation.
• Tracy explained that she had chosen the place partly because Fu Qian was there and could serve as a witness who recorded what he heard without understanding or responding.
• The man agreed with Tracy and praised her idea, revealing that Celsus had said Fu Qian no longer possessed human characteristics.
• Fu Qian cleared his throat and told them they were welcome, startling the pair as they hurried toward the door.
• Fu Qian told the man that he could see them and asked what date it was, and Tracy answered that it was the forty-eighth.

Fu Qian questioned Tracy and her companion about his arrival and their attempt to keep their encounter secret. Tracy threatened to either loosen his restraints or tighten them, and Fu Qian judged that tightening them would be safer for them.

• Fu Qian learned from Tracy that he had arrived on the 1st, forty-eight days earlier, and inferred that Judgment Day on the thirteenth was probably not counted from his arrival.
• Tracy and her companion asked Fu Qian to keep what had happened confidential, but Fu Qian’s strange questions made them wary.
• Fu Qian promised to keep their encounter secret, yet Tracy and her companion said they did not know whether they could trust him.
• Tracy offered Fu Qian a choice between having his restraints undone or being tied even tighter.
• Fu Qian said tightening his restraints would be more reliable because his escape could otherwise expose them.

Fu Qian used his knowledge of Tracy and her companion to pressure them for information about his confinement and arrival at the sanatorium. After learning that he had entered as a supposed cultural columnist and fallen ill on his second day, he provoked Tracy’s companion until the man struck him.

• Fu Qian explained why freeing him could expose Tracy and her companion, while permanently silencing him would be a more reliable but bloodier choice.
• Tracy’s companion threatened Fu Qian, and Fu Qian asked how he had ended up tied up at the sanatorium.
• Tracy said Fu Qian had fallen ill and attacked people on his second day before Selvis ordered him moved and restrained.
• Tracy told Fu Qian that he had toured the sanatorium on his first day while claiming to be a cultural columnist.
• Fu Qian claimed he was a secret investigator looking into Tracy and her companion, then mocked their relationship until Tracy’s companion struck him.