Recaps

After the Warehouse gave Fu Qian a powerful scepter and an Inspiration boost instead of a normal mission reward, the scepter and Starry Sky Prism were destroyed when he tried to use them together. The Prism’s lingering effect let Fu Qian uncover a way to combine traits, and he saw a prompt naming the resulting demigod form as the Original Sin Sage.

• The Warehouse awarded Fu Qian the Void Erosion Scepter and raised his Inspiration to 99, but gave him no mission evaluation, regular reward, or event replay.
• Fu Qian fed the scepter to the Starry Sky Prism, briefly glimpsed a figure seated on a platform, and watched the Prism explode and leave only fragments.
• Fu Qian noticed that the Prism’s lingering effect let him see similar starlit shadows inside his traits.
• Fu Qian poured Abyssal Fog and broke the Lies gemstone, turning both traits into starlit solid shadows in his palm.
• Fu Qian crushed the damaged Golden Cup, added its hidden trait to the clump, and received a prompt that fusion would fix his demigod form as the Original Sin Sage.

Fu Qian fused with a hidden trait and became the Original Sin Sage, gaining abilities that let him bypass defenses and acquire powers by devouring targets. After finding no trace of 1-005 and considering the Warehouse’s secrets, he received an early week off, only to be urgently called by Tan Ying.

• Fu Qian fused with the nameless trait and awakened as the Original Sin Sage, gaining Judgment, Sin Determined, and Insight.
• Fu Qian searched the Warehouse for 1-005 but found no trace of it after the Void Erosion Scepter’s destruction.
• Fu Qian reflected on the Furnace, Edral’s notes, and the possibility that others from his world had worked in the Warehouse before him.
• Fu Qian received permission to take the rest of the week off early and wondered where to go.
• Tan Ying, dressed elegantly and looking anxious, urgently called to Fu Qian, who opened his eyes and asked what was wrong.

Fu Qian met Tan Ying during his vacation after Pei Yanqing went missing, and Song Hang offered to help search for her. Fu Qian used the upgraded Clear Dream ring to alter Tan Ying’s appearance in the dream, then watched her accept the change without questioning it.

• Tan Ying told Fu Qian that Pei Yanqing had vanished, and Fu Qian tried to reassure her while she asked him to help find her friend.
• Song Hang arrived, offered to organize a search for Pei Yanqing, and left after Tan Ying reluctantly accepted his help.
• Fu Qian discussed Song Hang’s suitability as a suitor, but Tan Ying said she wanted him to stop bothering her.
• Fu Qian pointed out that Tan Ying’s style had changed, and she explained that she and Pei Yanqing had swapped clothes.
• Fu Qian realized the upgraded Clear Dream ring had changed Tan Ying’s appearance without disrupting her dream, since she quickly accepted the change.

Fu Qian tested the upgraded Clear Dream by making Tan Ying search for Pei Yanqing, whose discovery would end the dream. While they waited for Song Hang’s bodyguards to search the mall, Fu Qian planned to use Song Hang as leverage in a deal to help Tan Ying move on from her troubles.

• Fu Qian explained that the upgraded Clear Dream let him control how deeply people entered the dream and set a reasonable condition for it to end.
• Tan Ying dragged Fu Qian outside to search for Pei Yanqing, while Song Hang watched them from a nearby chair.
• Fu Qian advised Tan Ying to wait for Song Hang’s bodyguards to search the mall and considered using Song Hang as part of a deal for her.
• Tan Ying told Fu Qian that Pei Yanqing had found his house familiar and asked whether he had done something to her after she fainted.
• Fu Qian admitted that he had taken Pei Yanqing back to his place.

Fu Qian quietly concealed his role in the mall’s strange lockdown while Tan Ying and Song Hang searched for her missing classmate and tried to contact the outside. The group remained trapped after finding no way out and discovering that the management office phone was dead.

• Tan Ying teased Fu Qian about his strength and his reputation for being dangerous, while Fu Qian noted that she had told Pei Yanqing about his earlier attack.
• Song Hang’s bodyguards reported that they could not find Tan Ying’s classmate, and Song Hang discovered that calls would not connect.
• Tan Ying and Song Hang realized the mall’s exits were locked, while Fu Qian silently recognized that he had caused the darkness and communication failure.
• Song Hang led Tan Ying, Fu Qian, and the bodyguards to the basement, where they found the parking garage doors locked too.
• Song Hang ordered a bodyguard to kick open the mall management office, but the office telephone had no dial tone.

Song Hang, Tan Ying, and the others found the mall deserted after returning from the underground management office, where their phones had failed. They followed a strange metal door down a spiraling staircase, only to emerge in another part of the mall, leaving Song Hang wondering whether what they saw was real.

• Song Hang found that the management office phone could not contact the outside, so Tan Ying suggested returning upstairs.
• The group emerged from the elevator to find the mall completely empty, while Fu Qian silently concealed that he had let everyone else out of the dream.
• Tan Ying spotted an unfamiliar metal door and led the group down a staircase, with Song Hang insisting they stay together.
• After descending through several identical stairways, the group opened a door and found themselves in another part of the mall.
• Song Hang stared back at Fu Qian and wondered aloud whether the scene was real.

Song Hang and the others discovered that the mall’s stairwell led to a different exit despite the group traveling in opposite directions, leaving them questioning whether they were dreaming. Song Hang resolved to find a way out.

• Tan Ying suggested sending people back through the metal door, and two bodyguards went to retrace the route while she stayed with Song Hang, Fu Qian, and bodyguard number two.
• Fu Qian told the group that if they were dreaming, his opinions might simply reflect their own thoughts, deepening their doubts about reality.
• Tan Ying spotted the two bodyguards across the mall atrium at the same height, and they hurried over to rejoin the group.
• The bodyguards reported that they had walked uphill the whole way and found no side paths, but Tan Ying recognized that their exit was not the one the group had entered through.
• Song Hang declared that he needed to get out as soon as possible.

Song Hang led the group to test the mall’s boundary, but the black fog outside and the bodyguards’ refusal to risk an escape left everyone shaken. Fu Qian helped Tan Ying question her feelings about Song Hang, then described himself as someone destined for hell.

• Song Hang told the group to find a window and escape, while Fu Qian stayed behind and wondered what would happen at the dream’s edge.
• The group broke a second-floor window and found the mall surrounded by dense black fog; a bodyguard threw a fire extinguisher into it, and it vanished without a sound.
• Tan Ying suggested using the fire hose as a safety line, but the bodyguards refused to go out, and Song Hang lacked the courage to try it himself.
• Fu Qian found Tan Ying and explained that Song Hang’s helplessness showed what he was like stripped of his social advantages, giving Tan Ying a reason to reconsider her feelings about him.
• Tan Ying asked what Fu Qian was like, and he replied that people like him were destined for hell.

Fu Qian’s dream ended, and Tan Ying and Pei Yanqing returned to the mall as the young people resumed their conversation. Tan Ying acted on her lingering impressions by offering to trade clothes with Pei Yanqing, while Song Hang confronted Fu Qian about his self-satisfied attitude.

• Tan Ying and Fu Qian drank juice and wondered where Pei Yanqing had gone before she emerged from the elevator after searching the mall.
• Fu Qian felt the dream collapsing, and the young people suddenly returned to their normal surroundings.
• Tan Ying offered to trade clothes with Pei Yanqing and glanced at Fu Qian for his opinion.
• Song Hang joined the group, and Tan Ying offered to buy him a drink before accompanying Pei Yanqing to the restroom.
• Song Hang criticized Fu Qian’s self-satisfied attitude, and Fu Qian admitted he still did not understand how the world worked.

Fu Qian entered the Warehouse and found himself in the bookstore beneath an unnatural full moon, where shadowy marks trapped and slowed him. His Law Remnants briefly broke the marks before being overwhelmed, leaving him to suspect a powerful law far beyond the demigod level.

• Fu Qian entered the Warehouse, put on the Emissary Mask, and woke in the bookstore beneath a starry night sky.
• Fu Qian used the Abyss Notebook to test the strange setting and suspected someone had arranged the anomaly to trap him.
• Fu Qian found black marks spreading across his hands, formed by shadows cast by objects in the moonlight, and realized they were slowing his body.
• Fu Qian activated his Law Remnants, which briefly destroyed the marks before the moonlight and shadows swallowed the golden radiance.
• Fu Qian examined the moon and wondered whether a law beyond the demigod level was responsible for the trap.

Fu Qian deduced that the moonlight was weighing down his body, escaped briefly with the Return to City Spell, then returned to his bookstore to wait for the attacker. When a shadowy, bat-winged figure attacked him, Fu Qian countered and captured it.

• Fu Qian concluded that the moonlight's power was causing his growing sluggishness and considered how to escape without revealing his Return to City Spell.
• Fu Qian used the spell to return to the Warehouse, felt the moonlight's effects vanish, and immediately returned to the street.
• A shadowy figure leaped between patches of darkness toward Fu Qian's bookstore and found him waiting outside beneath the moon.
• The figure attacked with a black beam and claws, but Fu Qian blocked its strikes and wounded it with a massive fist.
• Fu Qian trapped the wounded figure in tentacles and asked what he should call it.

Fu Qian trapped the escaping Selena Gulad in a cocoon of tentacles and questioned her about the Abyss Notebook. After learning why she had come, he used the notebook to test how old she was.

• Selena transformed her body into bats to escape Fu Qian's tentacles, but Fu Qian caught them in a tightening cocoon.
• Fu Qian released Selena, and she recovered her humanoid form before giving her name as Selena Gulad.
• Selena confirmed that she had come because she lost her connection to the Abyss Notebook and learned Taylor was supposed to have it.
• Selena explained that the notebook had limited uses and that she valued it because few things remained memorable after her long life.
• Fu Qian wrote that Selena was younger than 500 years old in the notebook, and the writing quickly faded.

Fu Qian questioned Selena about Ancient Recollection and figured out how its moonlight restraints worked. He revealed that the black marks covering him were only dirt, leaving Selena stunned by how he had fooled her.

• Selena explained that the hidden realm was called Ancient Recollection and that it had existed before she found it.
• Selena said the restraints affected everyone who entered and that she had attacked Fu Qian because demigods were difficult to kill.
• Fu Qian deduced that uneven exposure to moonlight caused the restraints to accumulate through the misalignment of light and shadow.
• Selena pressed Fu Qian to explain how he had resisted the restraints when he disappeared.
• Fu Qian shed the black marks from his body and revealed that they were dirt rather than shadows or restraints.

Fu Qian and Selena escaped the moonlit illusion, and Fu Qian questioned her about the Ancient Recollection and the Gulad family. Selena revealed that the family had ordered everyone to avoid provoking Fu Qian, while he kept the Supernatural Item as she prepared to leave.

• Fu Qian revealed that he had escaped the restraints by faking their appearance, then persuaded Selena to help them leave before anyone found them.
• Selena activated the Ancient Recollection by kneeling and gathering the moonlight into its sphere, transporting them from the street to the bookstore and ending the restraints.
• Fu Qian examined the Ancient Recollection, and Selena explained that ten minutes in direct moonlight activated it and drew nearby people into its illusion.
• Fu Qian asked whether anyone else in the Gulad family knew about the Abyss Notebook, and Selena said she knew of no one besides herself.
• Selena told Fu Qian that the family had ordered its members, including Gan Zuoxun's side, not to provoke him and to cooperate with him.
• Fu Qian dismissed Selena but kept the Ancient Recollection in his hand, and she left without getting it back.

Selena failed to reclaim Ancient Recollection from Fu Qian and left after accepting her loss. Fu Qian showed his spoils to Chief Yuan and told her about the Gulad Family’s unusual behavior, leaving them wondering what the family was planning.

• Selena asked Fu Qian to return Ancient Recollection, but after he mocked her, she decided not to fight him and retreated.
• Fu Qian considered the value of his new Supernatural Items and suspected the Gulad Family had suddenly changed course because of an important plan.
• Fu Qian went to Chief Yuan’s office, where Yuan Shan asked whether he had wiped out the Gulad Family and recognized Selena’s item among his spoils.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that Selena had come after him over the Notebook and described the Gulad Family’s internal ban and recent behavior.
• Yuan Shan agreed that the Gulad Family’s unusual obedience was out of character and fell silent in thought.

Fu Qian warned Yuan Shan that the Gullard Family might be preparing a Promotion Ritual in Shangjing, possibly for a divine envoy, and suggested provoking them with another solar anomaly. After he caused one, he connected with the Dark Moon Pope and learned her cult was celebrating the anniversary of an eighth light appearing in the night sky.

• Fu Qian and Yuan Shan discussed the Gullard Family's recent retreat from public affairs, their bloodlines, and the resources they could offer Huang Zhixun.
• Fu Qian proposed that the family had withdrawn after the solar anomaly to prepare a ritual, and Yuan Shan worried they might be pursuing a divine envoy's promotion.
• Fu Qian suggested causing another solar anomaly to flush the Gullard Family out, and Yuan Shan condemned the idea before arranging to meet him again.
• Fu Qian drew Blasphemous Embrace and fired a rust-colored arrow at the sun, causing tendrils to blot out the sky and leaving him in a colorless state.
• Fu Qian reconnected with the Dark Moon Pope, who told him her cult was celebrating the seventh anniversary of an eighth light appearing in the night sky.

Fu Qian spoke with the Witch, declined her offer of a holiday gift until he had earned another merit, and returned to his bookstore. After several peaceful days in Shangjing, he went back to the Warehouse and received a new containment assignment.

• Fu Qian discussed the Witch’s church, the rotting painted world, and his Emissary Mask with her.
• Fu Qian declined the Witch’s offer of another gift and asked whether he could call on her in a crisis and what her name was.
• The Witch told Fu Qian to call her Your Holiness and warned him not to die before she could give him the gift.
• Fu Qian returned to his bookstore, and Shangjing remained peaceful for several days without Yuan Shan visiting or another vampire bringing a gift.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse and received an assignment to enter Jiali’s 3-0530 Containment Scene and complete recontainment.

Fu Qian entered a modern city and received a mission to find Kanna Kisaragi’s corpse before six in the evening. After learning where Kanna could be found, he headed to Anjing Building, where she attended daily drug-trial testing, leaving him to consider why the deadline mattered.

• Fu Qian entered Containment Scene 3-0530 and received the mission to find Kanna Kisaragi’s corpse before six that evening.
• Fu Qian asked a fortune-teller about Kanna, and she gave him an address for Kanna’s home.
• Fu Qian went to the Kisaragi home and confirmed that Kanna was not there.
• Mr. Kisaragi told Fu Qian that Kanna went to Anjing Building at six every afternoon for drug-trial observation and testing.
• Fu Qian recognized Anjing Building’s connection to Anjing Group and wondered why he had to find Kanna before six.

Fu Qian searched for Kanna Kisaragi before the testers realized she was missing and learned that her neighbor Takagi had secretly collected extensive information about her. Takagi offered a stack of files on people close to Kanna who might know where she had gone.

• Fu Qian left the Kisaragi residence and noticed a neighbor watching him through a curtain.
• Fu Qian forced his way into the neighbor's home and questioned Takagi about Kanna Kisaragi.
• When Takagi denied knowing anything, Fu Qian choked him until he offered to lead Fu Qian to someone who might have information.
• Takagi opened a hidden room filled with photographs of Kanna, a map tracing her movements, and other collected items.
• Takagi gave Fu Qian files on people who had been close to Kanna and might know where she was.

Fu Qian followed Takagi’s suspicion and investigated Dancy Crawford, finding human organs in his kitchen and a body hidden beneath his villa. He reached the body but had not yet confirmed whether it was Kanna Kisaragi.

• Fu Qian examined Takagi’s files and asked which man he disliked most, and Takagi singled out Dancy Crawford as seeming inhuman.
• Fu Qian went to Dancy’s villa and found him washing a human lung in the kitchen.
• Fu Qian identified the lung, liver, and heart as recently removed human organs and confronted Dancy about the discarded body parts.
• Dancy led Fu Qian through the courtyard to an underground passage, where Fu Qian found a naked body on a stone slab.

Fu Qian discovered Kanna Kisaragi’s corpse and, after Dancy Crawford tried to kill him, used Dancy’s organs to repair it. His mission then updated to ensuring Kanna successfully completed the HAP0032-667 project test.

• Fu Qian recognized Kanna Kisaragi’s body but wondered why his mission remained incomplete.
• Dancy Crawford attacked Fu Qian, then tried to escape when the attack missed and Fu Qian appeared behind him.
• Dancy warned Fu Qian about the Anjing Group’s Death Mark, which would retaliate if Dancy died unnaturally.
• Fu Qian killed Dancy and removed three organs, placing them into Kanna’s corpse to see if repairing it would satisfy the mission.
• Fu Qian’s mission updated to ensure Kanna Kisaragi successfully completed the HAP0032-667 project test.

Fu Qian waited as Kanna Kisaragi revived after the drug trial, then helped her leave Dancy’s hideout and make contact with the test project. Kanna arranged a later appointment at Anjing Building, while Fu Qian suspected his task was to ensure the project’s tests showed nothing unusual.

• Fu Qian disguised himself as Dancy, destroyed the corpses, and waited beside Kanna Kisaragi’s body until she revived.
• Kanna Kisaragi asked Fu Qian what had happened, and he pulled the knife from her thigh before helping her leave.
• Kanna Kisaragi received a call at six from the test project and explained that an accident had kept her from attending.
• The caller rescheduled Kanna Kisaragi’s test at Anjing Building, and Fu Qian wondered whether the task was meant to keep the project from detecting anything unusual.
• Kanna Kisaragi noticed the prepared dinner, said she was hungry, and went to shower.

Fu Qian watched Kanna Kisaragi cook with ingredients she recognized as human organs, then welcomed Hayami Suzune, a Night Watcher investigating him for disappearances and murder. Hayami revealed that Kanna’s participation in the Miracle Potion experiment brought the case under the Night Watchers’ jurisdiction.

• Fu Qian considered investigating Kanna’s resurrection and watched her clean up and bandage her wound.
• Kanna noticed the unusual ingredients in the kitchen but chose to cook them, and Fu Qian wondered whether eating them might affect her.
• Kanna prepared three dishes and sat down to eat with Fu Qian, who announced that another guest had arrived.
• Hayami Suzune entered Fu Qian’s home and accused him of involvement in disappearances and murder.
• Fu Qian identified Hayami as a Night Watcher and questioned her authority over the case.
• Hayami said Kanna had taken part in the Miracle Potion experiment, placing anything related to her under Night Watcher jurisdiction.

Fu Qian and Kanna Kisaragi faced an accusation from Night Watcher Suzune, who suspected Fu Qian of harming Kanna. Kanna calmly claimed she had cut herself, and Suzune left without acting; Fu Qian then agreed to take Kanna to her rescheduled test that night.

• Fu Qian realized Suzune had been watching Dancy Crawford and connected Kanna Kisaragi’s trial participation to the Miracle Potion project.
• Suzune exposed Kanna’s bandaged leg and questioned her, but Kanna said she had accidentally stabbed herself while cooking.
• Kanna ate the dishes she had prepared, leaving Suzune confused and Fu Qian focused on whether eating her own lung would affect her wound.
• Suzune threatened Fu Qian as she left, and he replied that she should act within the rules.
• Kanna apologized for not explaining things earlier and said her test had been moved to ten that night; Fu Qian offered to take her.

Fu Qian drove Kanna Kisaragi to the Anjing Building for her Miracle Potion test and learned how the applicant-funded program worked. Kanna left disappointed, while Sawada, the test supervisor, tried to recruit Fu Qian for a test, which he refused.

• Fu Qian asked Kanna Kisaragi about the Miracle Potion program, and she explained that she had waited nearly ten months for an interview and believed miracles were as rare as winning the lottery.
• Kanna Kisaragi told Fu Qian that applicants paid for testing because the Night Watchers had only approved a program led by ordinary people, with Anjing Group providing public assistance.
• Fu Qian and Kanna Kisaragi arrived at the Anjing Building, where many applicants waited to be tested, and Kanna entered the testing area.
• Kanna Kisaragi returned less than ten minutes later disappointed, though Sawada said her observation period was still underway.
• Sawada introduced himself as Kanna Kisaragi's test supervisor, praised her talent, and invited Fu Qian to take a test for a suitable potion.
• Fu Qian refused Sawada's invitation and wondered whether his identity as Dancy had attracted the man's attention.