Recaps

Fu Qian fought Tan Mingxue while protecting Wen Li, then exposed the supposed rescuer as the assassin who had targeted her. The assassin identified himself as Shadow Nightmare and warned Fu Qian not to attack rashly.

• Fu Qian shattered Tan Mingxue's hair with a metal tabletop and wounded her with an Air Bullet.
• Qi Xue rushed toward Wen Li, but Fu Qian stopped him and warned Wen Li to look closely.
• Wen Li realized that Qi Xue was an impostor, and the disguised man revealed his true appearance.
• Fu Qian recognized the assassin as the man who had controlled Wen Xiuxian and asked his name.
• The assassin called himself Shadow Nightmare, admitted he took paid jobs, and tore off his shirt as he warned Fu Qian not to act rashly.

Fu Qian confronted Shadow Nightmare after the assassin revealed that he had infected himself with highly contagious Scarlet Fever. Shadow Nightmare threatened to kill Wen Li or spread the disease, but Fu Qian seized him anyway and challenged Wen Li to face what she felt about death.

• Shadow Nightmare revealed the red vein-like marks of Scarlet Fever, and Tan Mingxue warned that killing him could infect everyone in the room.
• Tan Mingxue explained that Scarlet Fever increased combat ability but would eventually erupt, while Shadow Nightmare claimed Wen Li would die regardless of Fu Qian's choice.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Li how it felt to await death, and she admitted she was afraid and somewhat relieved.
• Fu Qian vanished, grabbed Shadow Nightmare by the throat, and told Tan Mingxue that no outside help could arrive because the room blocked communication.
• Fu Qian said Shadow Nightmare's threats showed he feared dying, then asked Wen Li if she understood; she felt an unexpected calm and said she thought she did.

Wen Li’s breakthrough unleashed an emotional storm and a rapidly growing blood mass, which Fu Qian swallowed to keep it from killing her. Though Wen Li appeared to reach rank six, the mission ended in failure, and Fu Qian’s replay suggested the woman who stood up afterward was not truly Wen Li.

• Wen Li’s transformation triggered a storm that drove the Shadow Nightmare and Tan Mingxue into violent panic and filled Fu Qian with murderous urges.
• The Shadow Nightmare died as the crimson threads covering its body tore free, while Fu Qian repeatedly broke his own hand to restrain himself.
• A mass of crimson veins grew toward the motionless Wen Li, so Fu Qian opened a mouth in his chest and swallowed it, containing the Scarlet Fever.
• Wen Li awoke and appeared to have reached rank six, but Fu Qian received a notification that Wen Li had died and containment had failed.
• Fu Qian reviewed the replay and noticed a wicked glint in Wen Li’s eyes, suspecting that the woman who rose after the breakthrough was not Wen Li.

Fu Qian obtained the Tyrant's Fist and returned to the Wen Family mansion to get Wen Li to advance to Tier Six. He exposed Eve as a separate supernatural being born from Wen Li's suffering, and Eve asked for five hours to reach the required bottleneck.

• Fu Qian tested the Tyrant's Fist's Scarlet Whip on himself, then entered the containment scene with 32 Sanity Value.
• Fu Qian entered the Wen Family safe room with Wen Li and demanded that she reach Tier Six within an hour.
• Fu Qian blocked the ventilation duct and forced the being inside Wen Li to reveal herself as someone other than Wen Li.
• Eve explained that she had been born from Wen Li's unresolved pain and would awaken fully at Tier Six, causing Wen Li to disappear.
• Eve asked Fu Qian for five hours to reach the bottleneck and offered to let him make use of the extra time.

Fu Qian used Tyrant's Fist and his own amplified emotions to break the entity inside Wen Li and force her transformation to recede. Wen Li regained consciousness, and Fu Qian's containment mission was completed.

• Fu Qian lashed Eve with the Scarlet Whip, triggering her transformation into a crystal-scaled creature and costing him a point of Sanity Value.
• Eve fought back after her scales began to resist the whip, but Fu Qian dodged her attack and kicked her away without killing her, knowing Wen Li was still alive inside.
• When Eve claimed the weapon could not make her lose control, Fu Qian whipped himself to intensify his emotions, which caused Eve to collapse and her crystal scales to shatter.
• Fu Qian threatened to strip Wen Li and throw her out, amplifying Eve's emotional response until the distortions receded and Wen Li woke up.
• Fu Qian received the notification that containment was complete.

Fu Qian helped Wen Li advance to the sixth tier while secretly eliminating Eve, the Immature Form growing inside her. He returned to the real world with a dark red ring, and just as he sat down to eat, someone knocked at his door.

• Wen Li woke up, discovered she had become a sixth-tier transcendent, and told Fu Qian she could not remember what had happened.
• Fu Qian asked whether Wen Li's inability to hide alone was connected to her emotion-sensing ability, then vanished before she could answer.
• Fu Qian received an evaluation confirming that he had eliminated Eve and allowed Wen Li's Supernatural Power to advance without anyone noticing.
• Fu Qian concluded that Eve had been growing inside Wen Li and would have replaced her when she reached the sixth tier.
• Fu Qian returned home at the same moment he had left, noticed the dark red ring on his finger, and made himself noodles.
• Someone knocked on Fu Qian's door just as he was about to eat.

Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu visited Fu Qian to check on his health after noticing his sudden improvement in fitness, then learned he had taken a well-paying part-time job. The visit ended with Qin borrowing Fu Qian’s muscles for a set of photos so he could photoshop himself into them.

• Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu came to Fu Qian’s home to hang out, bringing food while Fu Qian was about to eat noodles.
• The three friends played video games, and Fu Qian easily beat Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu.
• Qin Mingze asked about Fu Qian’s career plans and admitted that he had brought Wu Qingyu to check on Fu Qian’s health.
• Fu Qian explained that he had taken a well-paying part-time job that involved physical work and repeated tasks.
• Qin Mingze had Fu Qian wear his clothes and took photos, planning to replace Fu Qian’s head with his own in the pictures.

Fu Qian entered Containment Scene 1-003, where an Academy exploration team had become lost among ancient, mist-shrouded ruins. After the team asked him to identify a strange material growing on the stones, he recognized it as hair.

• Fu Qian received the assignment to re-contain the Angel of Peace and entered the scene with the requirement to escape the Furnace.
• Fu Qian found himself among an armed Academy exploration team in a maze of ancient ruins, where Yuan Xin and Ji Liushuang decided the group should rest.
• Fu Qian learned that the team consisted of elite students led by the vice dean and that they had ventured far from the other exploration teams.
• A student showed the group tough, hair-thin material growing on the stones and asked Fu Qian to identify it.
• Fu Qian examined the material and said it was hair.

Fu Qian discovered that a lock of strange hair was part of a dangerous attack spreading through the ruins, then left the group to search for an exit. At the ruins’ edge, he found an invisible barrier that let things enter but not leave, and confronted a middle-aged man hiding nearby.

• Fu Qian identified the treasured item as a peculiar lock of hair and realized its trail could reveal the way through the ruins.
• Ji Liushuang cut off a wave of black strands before they reached the group, but several strands pierced the young man’s hand before she burned them away.
• As screams sounded and black strands surged from several directions, Fu Qian slipped away to pursue the mission and headed toward the ruins’ edge.
• Fu Qian found an invisible barrier that stopped his punch, Air Bullets, and a thrown stone, concluding that it allowed entry but prevented escape.
• Fu Qian sensed someone hiding behind a broken stone stele and called him out; a middle-aged man emerged and praised Fu Qian for detecting him.

Fu Qian confronted a middle-aged assassin who had followed him from Li Weixuan’s group and deduced that the man planned to kill Ji Liushuang. The assassin attacked Fu Qian near an invisible barrier, but Fu Qian used it to trap him and killed him with his whip.

• A middle-aged man revealed himself and threatened Fu Qian, but Fu Qian said he had left the group to go home.
• Fu Qian deduced that the man was using him to draw Li Weixuan away from his real target, Ji Liushuang.
• The middle-aged man attacked Fu Qian, missed, and struck an invisible barrier.
• Fu Qian lashed the assassin with his whip, then closed in and killed him when its threads pierced his organs.

Fu Qian returned to the squad after killing the extraordinary being who guarded the invisible barrier, then reported that the group was trapped inside the ruins. Li Weixuan and the others confirmed the barrier was real, and Li Weixuan prepared to test it with his divine weapon.

• Fu Qian killed the middle-aged extraordinary being with Internal Organ Critical Hit, failed to damage the barrier, and cleaned up the scene.
• Fu Qian found Ji Liushuang, Yuan Xin, and the rest of the injured squad with Li Weixuan, then told them an invisible barrier blocked their way out.
• Li Weixuan recognized that Fu Qian had reached sixth order and ordered him to lead them to the barrier.
• Yuan Xin and the squad members confirmed the barrier existed, and Ji Liushuang's sword strike failed to pierce it.
• Li Weixuan told everyone to move aside as Fu Qian waited for him to attack the barrier with his divine weapon.

Li Weixuan failed to break the ruins’ invisible barrier, then led the trapped students toward an Arrow Bell and fought a monster that killed two people. Fu Qian identified the monster as an Arm Collective after examining one of its severed limbs.

• Li Weixuan struck the barrier with his sword, but it remained intact and his weapon shattered.
• An archer tried shooting arrows overhead, and the arrows hit a domed barrier that sealed the ruins.
• Li Weixuan led the students toward an Arrow Bell and found another team under attack by a gigantic hand, which he wounded before it escaped.
• Li Weixuan ordered everyone to regroup after learning that two students had been killed.
• Fu Qian examined a severed limb and identified the monster as an Arm Collective, revealing that each apparent finger had five smaller fingers at its tip.

Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang suspected the monsters in the ruins were made from people trapped there, while a new team arrived and learned the ruins were enclosed by a barrier. Li Weixuan canceled the operation and split the trainees into two teams to survey the barrier, leaving Yuan Xin and Huang Zhaoyan under a warning not to fight.

• Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang discussed whether the hair and finger-hand monsters came from people who had entered the ruins and been trapped there.
• Yuan Xin watched Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang with displeasure, and the third team arrived led by Huang Zhaoyan, who appeared surprised to see Ji Liushuang alive.
• Li Weixuan announced that two trainees had died, explained the barrier, and canceled the operation.
• Li Weixuan split the trainees into two teams to follow opposite sides of the barrier and check for gaps.
• Yuan Xin and Huang Zhaoyan traded insults, and Li Weixuan warned them that he would punish anyone who caused conflict.

Fu Qian investigated the corpse of the assassin he had killed and discovered that the Furnace Ruins decomposed the dead into parts used to form monsters. After the group failed to find a way out, a long-haired man arrived announcing that his group had found something.

• Fu Qian left the resting group and went to inspect the assassin's buried corpse, while Huang Zhaoyan followed him.
• Fu Qian uncovered the body and found it had dried out and twisted unnaturally, confirming that the ruins decomposed the dead.
• Huang Zhaoyan examined the corpse after Fu Qian left, but Fu Qian saw no clear sign that he would reveal his involvement.
• Fu Qian rejoined Li Weixuan and the others, who had found no way in or out of the ruins.
• A group arrived, and the long-haired man called to Li Weixuan that they had found something.

Fu Qian revealed that he had killed the strange corpse found in the ruins, while Li Weixuan suspected the attack had been a diversion aimed at someone else. Ji Liushuang theorized that the ruins transformed dead visitors into monsters, and Fu Qian urged the group to head deeper inside to find where the missing body parts went.

• Huang Zhaoyan led Li Weixuan and the others to a corpse whose arms were nearly torn off, and Li Weixuan asked Fu Qian why he had not mentioned seeing it.
• Fu Qian admitted that he had killed the man in self-defense after the man attacked him and told him to run and call for backup.
• Li Weixuan ordered the group to search the corpse's belongings and promised Fu Qian an explanation once they escaped, while suspecting the killer had really been targeting someone else.
• Fu Qian said he and Ji Liushuang had discussed theories about the corpse, prompting Ji Liushuang to suggest that the ruins gathered dead visitors' remains into monsters.
• Fu Qian pointed out that the corpse was missing parts matching the monsters they had encountered and proposed that the group explore deeper into the ruins to find their destination.

Fu Qian convinced the group that entering the ruins might erase them from everyone’s memories outside, leaving rescue impossible. Li Weixuan led the shaken team deeper into the ruins, where they encountered enormous centipedes made of human skulls.

• Fu Qian argued that the group had to explore the ruins, while Yuan Xin and Huang Zhaoyan urged them to wait for help.
• Fu Qian claimed that entering the ruins erased people from the memories of everyone outside, and his warning silenced the group.
• Li Weixuan ordered everyone to follow him into the ruins, and no one objected.
• Li Weixuan led the way, cutting down hair monsters and savage hands with his sword as the group advanced.
• The group found the ruins packed with buildings and encountered enormous white centipedes whose bodies were made of human skulls.

Li Weixuan fought the old man controlled by the blood pool while Fu Qian discovered that his blood remained separate from it and flowed toward the man. After Li Weixuan destroyed the pool’s blood pillar and freed him, the old man remembered that he was Feng Yunhong, the Academy’s Fourth Dean.

• Li Weixuan reached the center of the ruins and found an old man suspended above a living pool of dark red blood.
• The old man attacked Li Weixuan with a halberd, and Li Weixuan ordered the exploration team to retreat before fighting back.
• Fu Qian poured his blood into the pool and saw it float on the surface before flowing toward the old man.
• Li Weixuan attacked the blood pillar supporting the old man and tore it apart, freeing him from the pool.
• The old man thanked Li Weixuan, admitted he could not remember how he had become trapped, then recognized the Academy’s students and identified himself as Feng Yunhong, its Fourth Dean.

Li Weixuan and the others learned that Feng Yunhong had been trapped in the ruin for nearly a century, while Fu Qian deduced the place erased outsiders’ memories of those who entered. Fu Qian threw a bloodied finger into Feng Yunhong, transforming him, and warned everyone to run as Feng Yunhong exploded in a burst of flesh and force.

• Feng Yunhong claimed he had once been the Academy’s fourth dean, but Li Weixuan said his grandfather Li He held that position and had never heard of Feng Yunhong.
• Li Weixuan told Feng Yunhong that the ruin’s victims were forgotten by the outside world, and Fu Qian explained his theory about the place.
• Feng Yunhong said he had been trapped for nearly a hundred years and that the ruin had swallowed other powerful beings who wandered in.
• Fu Qian threw a bloodied finger into Feng Yunhong, and it melted into his body as his face twisted into an inhuman grin.
• Fu Qian told everyone to run as Feng Yunhong exploded, unleashing a violent force over the group.

Feng Yunhong blew himself up, killing most of the exploration team, while Fu Qian realized Feng Yunhong had been formed from powerful Transcendents the furnace could not digest. As the survivors questioned Fu Qian, he intimidated them and left them facing a blood-red figure forming in the pool.

• Feng Yunhong exploded, and Li Weixuan sacrificed himself to shield Ji Liushuang and the others while most of the exploration team died.
• Fu Qian watched the remains flow into the blood pool and realized Feng Yunhong had absorbed powerful Transcendents, with Li Weixuan now being consumed to form another Feng Yunhong.
• Ji Liushuang and five others survived, and Yuan Xin demanded to know how Fu Qian had understood Feng Yunhong's scheme.
• Ji Liushuang stopped Yuan Xin from pressing Fu Qian, but Fu Qian released his killing intent and reminded the survivors that they had no power to force him to answer.
• Fu Qian watched a blood-red humanoid figure take shape in the pool and asked Ji Liushuang whether she knew what ambergris was.

Fu Qian entered the blood pool and attacked Feng Yunhong, aiming to disrupt his plan to become an indigestible object and escape the furnace. As the fight raged, Huang Zhaoyan and the others joined them to absorb the blood and gain strength.

• Fu Qian explained that Dragon Saliva Incense formed when a whale expelled an indigestible object, and suspected Feng Yunhong was using the same principle to escape the furnace.
• Fu Qian dismissed Ji Liushuang and the others' hopes of escape, then jumped into the blood pool and tore off his right arm to absorb its blood.
• Feng Yunhong rose from the pool and tried to stop Fu Qian, revealing that he had spent years preparing to become too large for the furnace to contain.
• Feng Yunhong grabbed Fu Qian by the throat, but Fu Qian attacked his internal organs and made the blood pool shake as Feng Yunhong screamed.
• Huang Zhaoyan jumped into the pool to absorb its blood, and the others followed him toward the center.

Fu Qian defeated Feng Yunhong by swallowing the blood pool and his blood-form, leaving himself dangerously overloaded with blood and qi. He set off toward the barrier, intending to test whether he could escape before Feng Yunhong and the other trapped voices destroyed him from within.

• Ji Liushuang remembered Fu Qian’s warning and stayed on the bank as Huang Zhaoyan, Yuan Xin, and three others were caught by tentacles in the blood pool.
• Fu Qian used Internal Organ Critical Hit on Feng Yunhong, then wounded himself and swallowed huge amounts of blood to weaken his opponent.
• Fu Qian struck Feng Yunhong back into his blood form and swallowed him, while the remaining blood restored Fu Qian’s wounds and severed limbs.
• Feng Yunhong and the other voices inside Fu Qian threatened to wait for his body to explode, but Fu Qian walked toward the barrier and proposed that they would all be annihilated if he escaped.

Fu Qian forced his way out of the ruins’ barrier, but his damaged soul caused the mission to fail and sent him back to the Warehouse. Ji Liushuang asked him to visit Silver Mist Manor and pass along a greeting to Ji Xue, while Fu Qian received credit for killing Zhao Ran and twenty-seven other Transcendents.

• Fu Qian refused to rescue the people trapped in the blood pool and invited Ji Liushuang to watch him escape.
• Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang walked through the ruins as the creatures kept their distance, then Fu Qian reached the barrier and found he could pass through it.
• Ji Liushuang told Fu Qian about the night-blooming flowers at Silver Mist Manor and asked him to greet Ji Xue for her.
• Fu Qian squeezed through the barrier, but a notification said his soul was incomplete, and his body disintegrated as the scene shattered.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse, where the mission was marked failed and he learned he had killed Zhao Ran and twenty-seven Transcendents.

Fu Qian activated Feast and discovered it let him freely transform his body. After reviewing the containment failure, he spotted a mark on the Blood Faces that suggested Feng Yunhong could suppress his mental breakdown, then entered the scene again and moved ahead alone.

• Fu Qian tried Clear Dream, equipped the ring, and activated Feast despite its irreversible effect.
• Fu Qian discovered Feast let him reshape parts of his body instantly without them falling apart.
• Fu Qian used Incident Replay to find a rotating four-hand mark on the Blood Faces released when Feng Yunhong exploded, and suspected Feng Yunhong had a way to suppress his breakdown.
• Fu Qian touched the Mist Door and re-entered the containment scene with Yuan Xin and the others.
• Fu Qian ignored Yuan Xin and went ahead to scout, dodging black spikes that sprang from behind a broken wall.

Fu Qian pretended to recognize and rescue Feng Yunhong, then used the names of trapped supernatural beings to unsettle him. After Feng Yunhong vanished, Fu Qian followed him beneath the blood pool and found him seated in a strange underground structure.

• Fu Qian met Feng Yunhong at the blood pool and claimed he had come to rescue the missing dean.
• Fu Qian mentioned Shui Jing and Chi Hesheng’s cries for help, making Feng Yunhong urge him to leave.
• Fu Qian doubled back after leaving, expecting his warning about Li Weixuan to pressure Feng Yunhong into acting.
• Fu Qian returned to find Feng Yunhong gone and an opening beneath the blood pool.
• Fu Qian jumped into the underground structure and found Feng Yunhong sitting amid wailing figures in a spiral-shaped room.

Fu Qian fought Feng Yunhong to reactivate the Transcendents’ suppressed consciousnesses and exploit the resulting chaos. Feng Yunhong’s body and mind began to twist under the strain, but he lunged for Fu Qian’s neck as the battle continued.

• Fu Qian watched Feng Yunhong use the stone seat to suppress the wailing Transcendents, then approached as their faces faded beneath Feng Yunhong’s skin.
• Feng Yunhong revealed that he had noticed Fu Qian and attacked him with his halberd, while Fu Qian pressed in at close range.
• Fu Qian struck Feng Yunhong with a scarlet whip, stirring the restlessness within him and destabilizing the suppressed consciousnesses.
• Feng Yunhong wounded Fu Qian repeatedly and nearly severed his neck, but Fu Qian survived by using Feast to grow a new head.
• Fu Qian kept lashing Feng Yunhong, intensifying the wailing and twisting his body, until Feng Yunhong dropped his halberd and grabbed for Fu Qian’s neck.