Recaps

Fu Qian, Yuan Shan, and Su Gao concluded that the Gulad family changed its plan after Fu Qian desecrated the sun, possibly in response to a dark moon linked to Annalise. With reinforcements still delayed, Fu Qian suggested killing Embo.

• Yuan Shan asked why the Gulad family's business conflict with Gan Zuoxun could have led Embo to Shangjing, and Fu Qian pointed her toward Su Gao for an opinion.
• Su Gao reasoned that the celestial phenomenon Fu Qian caused had forced the Gulad family to change its original plan.
• Fu Qian agreed, and Yuan Shan concluded that the family had altered its methods rather than abandoned its goal.
• Fu Qian brought up Annalise, explaining that the dark moon appearing during both celestial phenomena might have affected the Gulad family.
• Yuan Shan worried that the family might have received a revelation from Annalise and asked Fu Qian what they should do; he suggested killing Embo.

Fu Qian gave Yuan Shan three strategies for dealing with Gulad, and she chose to make the group believe she would kill someone rather than wait for reinforcements or kill Embo outright. Yuan Shan took Fu Qian and Su Gao to dinner at Grantham’s residence, where the Gulad representative welcomed them.

• Fu Qian advised Yuan Shan that she could kill Embo, bluff Gulad into believing she would kill someone, or wait for reinforcements; Yuan Shan chose the bluff.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao that Embo was likely involved because Gulad’s highly hierarchical group had taken such a risky action.
• Fu Qian reasoned that his notebook had crossed eras and that Annalise had existed, then decided he would not return the notebook.
• Yuan Shan drove Fu Qian and Su Gao to Grantham’s private residence in Shangjing for dinner and noted that Gulad’s people were scattered nearby.
• Grantham greeted Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Su Gao, then invited them inside.

Yuan Shan confronted Grantham over Shangjing’s unrest and announced that she would visit Embo the following night, while Fu Qian and Su Gao silently reinforced the pressure. After dinner, Fu Qian argued that the deadline could divide the Gullard Family and give its dissenters time to act, as the dark red night sky hinted that trouble was coming.

• Yuan Shan asked Grantham whether Embo had arrived in Shangjing and said she would visit him herself the next night.
• Yuan Shan urged the Gullard Family to help protect Shangjing, and Grantham promised that the family would do its part.
• Fu Qian agreed with Grantham, while Su Gao’s silence added to the pressure at dinner.
• After dinner, Yuan Shan said Grantham was stubbornly protecting his family’s interests and doubted that her strategy had worked.
• Fu Qian explained that the deadline could expose divisions within the Gullard Family and give its dissenters influence.
• Fu Qian watched the dark red sky and predicted that the night could become lively.

Fu Qian warned Yuan Shan that Grantham might help Embo attempt his advancement that night, despite the Night Watchers’ threat. As they drove, Su Gao noticed something strange about a supposedly drunk man, who suddenly composed himself with eerie precision.

• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that Su Gao’s silent presence had strengthened their threat to Grantham, and Yuan Shan sincerely thanked her.
• Fu Qian explained that Grantham might encourage Embo to make one last attempt at advancing to the Second Order, especially on the full moon.
• Yuan Shan admitted she had positioned some people but lacked time and reinforcements to prepare properly.
• Su Gao noticed something unusual on the street, and Yuan Shan and Fu Qian saw a man abruptly lose all signs of drunkenness and carefully straighten his clothes.

Yuan Shan, Su Gao, and Fu Qian discovered that an elegant ordinary man had been affected after taking an extraordinary drug called Night of Nights. They headed to find Embo, while Fu Qian wondered whether the drug had caused the abnormality or merely triggered it.

• Yuan Shan pulled the strangely composed man from his car and used her demigod pressure to question him, but he continued behaving elegantly and tried to kiss her hand.
• Su Gao confirmed that the man was an ordinary person, and Fu Qian deduced that he had taken an extraordinary drug to keep up with a life of excess.
• The man admitted taking Night of Nights, and Fu Qian told Yuan Shan to leave him and drive them to Embo.
• Yuan Shan condemned Gulad and his people for illegally using an ordinary person, while Fu Qian explained that he recognized the drug's effects from an earlier experience.
• Yuan Shan realized the drug had spread among a small circle, and Fu Qian questioned whether the abnormality had triggered a reaction to it or the drug had caused the abnormality.

Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Grantham investigated the silent, graceful pedestrians filling the vampire district as Grantham confessed that illegally distributed supernatural potions had caused their full-moon transformation. Yuan Shan suspected Grantham was concealing a more dangerous plot involving Embo, and the group set out to follow the pedestrians toward the source of the abnormality.

• Yuan Shan drove Fu Qian and another companion back to the vampire district, where silent pedestrians walked with unnatural elegance.
• Yuan Shan confronted Grantham outside Grantham Manor, and he admitted that the Gullard Family had illegally distributed supernatural potions that affected people during the full moon.
• Yuan Shan realized Grantham was using the potion incident to deflect suspicion from a possible Promotion Ritual and asked where Embo was.
• Grantham claimed Embo had not responded and explained that the affected civilians had gained a vampire-like connection to the full moon that might fade by sunrise.
• Yuan Shan agreed to follow the pedestrians with Grantham to find the source of the abnormality.

Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Grantham followed the crowd to Embo’s empty villa, where Fu Qian questioned Grantham about the crimson moon and the Blood Clan Progenitor. They watched people’s dark impulses spread through the area as the moonlight intensified, leaving Fu Qian to wonder if this was the true Night of Nights.

• Yuan Shan ordered Grantham to abandon the car and follow the crowd toward Embo’s home.
• Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Grantham found Embo’s villa empty, with a silent crowd gathering nearby under the crimson moon.
• Fu Qian asked Grantham about the moon’s color and whether its unusual state could be connected to the Blood Clan Progenitor.
• Fu Qian pointed out a young man crawling on all fours, rubbing against another person, and cutting his face until blood poured out.
• Yuan Shan confronted Grantham about the harm, while Fu Qian observed more people crawling and described their dark desires as flowing through the area.

Fu Qian, Yuan Shan, and Grantham confronted a crowd overwhelmed by dark desires during the Night of Nights, and the blood-red moon intensified the disturbance. Fu Qian discovered another presence in the darkness, leaving its nature and the danger to the crowd unresolved.

• Fu Qian described the crowd’s chaotic behavior as dark desires flowing between people, while Grantham argued that the full moon was amplifying their darker sides.
• Yuan Shan used Dimensional Strike to immobilize the afflicted crowd and demanded that Grantham explain how to stop the disturbance.
• Grantham said they could only contain the crowd until the full moon passed and claimed that Embo might know more, though Embo was missing.
• The moon turned blood-red, the darkness surged, and a person tore open their own throat while appearing delighted.
• A winged Intermediate Tier figure arrived but went mad and was thrown back before reaching anyone.
• Fu Qian tore a patch of darkness from the air and told Yuan Shan and Grantham that something else was present.

Fu Qian and Yuan Shan fought the strange shadows linked to the blood-red moon while Grantham struggled to control the mutating vampires. Fu Qian used the Law Remnants to purify the dark dregs, revealing a monstrous figure that claimed to be the one he was seeking.

• Fu Qian identified multiple strange projections connected to the blood-red moon, and Yuan Shan released her restraints to face them.
• Grantham used phantom bats to restrain the frenzied people, then killed a mutated vampire when it attacked again.
• Su Demigod cut down a shadow, while Yuan Shan and Fu Qian concluded the projections depended on a connection sustained by flowing dark dregs.
• Fu Qian proposed purifying the dregs, and Grantham admitted he did not know how to break the powerful connection.
• Fu Qian activated the Law Remnants, melting the dark tide until it condensed into a towering monster that claimed to be the one he was looking for.
• Fu Qian interrupted the monster and identified it as capital.

Embo subdued the people affected by the red moonlight, welcomed Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Su Gao into his estate, and explained that his advancement had made him Gulad’s divine envoy. As Yuan Shan weighed how to respond to Gulad’s violations, Fu Qian asked Embo what the Ancestor had revealed to him.

• Embo absorbed the dregs of the Law Remnants and confined the red moonlight to the estate, leaving the affected people asleep and recovering.
• Embo invited Yuan Shan, Fu Qian, and Su Gao inside and revealed that he had become a divine envoy of Gulad.
• Yuan Shan demanded an explanation, while Embo described the night’s events and admitted Gulad had mishandled illicit drugs.
• Grantham acknowledged Gulad’s management failures and backed Embo, whose new rank had united the clan behind him.
• Yuan Shan considered whether to punish Gulad, and Fu Qian interrupted to ask Embo what the Ancestor had told him.

Fu Qian provoked Embo by asking whether the Blood Clan Progenitor had told him to come to Mom, then realized he alone had heard the Progenitor’s gentle voice. As Embo unleashed his Mythical Form and Red Moon power, Selena was forced out of hiding and appeared under the crushing pressure.

• Embo refused to reveal the Progenitor’s message, and Fu Qian asked whether it had been “Come to Mom.”
• Embo transformed into his Mythical Form, declared Fu Qian an enemy of the Blood Clan, and threatened him for blaspheming the Progenitor.
• Fu Qian recalled hearing the Progenitor whisper to him and realized no one else had heard the same words or lost Sanity Value.
• Embo rose and unleashed the Red Moon’s power, causing everything ordinary in the room to rapidly decline and forcing Yuan Shan, Su Gao, and Grantham to struggle against the pressure.
• Selena emerged from the shadows after the Progenitor-like aura disrupted her concealment, and Embo addressed her by name.

Embo trapped the group in a warped space and gravely wounded Selena, then offered the Gullard Family’s sacrifice of two demigods as a reason for the Night Watchers to overlook his rise to divine envoy. As Yuan Shan weighed whether to accept, Fu Qian began outlining three possible strategies.

• Selena defied Embo and accused him of relying on her talent because he lacked the ability to lead the Gullard Family himself.
• Embo warped the surrounding space with moonlight and declared that the family’s future was before them.
• Embo attacked Selena with moonlight needles, piercing her wings and gravely wounding her.
• Embo offered two demigods in exchange for his advancement to divine envoy, and Grantham confirmed that every Gullard Family member accepted the outcome.
• Yuan Shan considered whether to accept Embo’s offer and looked to Fu Qian for advice.
• Fu Qian cleared his throat and said there were three strategies: the best, the middle, and the worst.

Fu Qian laid out three strategies for dealing with Embo, and Yuan Shan chose to reject his proposal and fight. Embo’s claim that he first received the Progenitor’s revelation one month earlier reminded Fu Qian of the day he first synchronized with Shangjing.

• Fu Qian explained that the worst strategy was to attack Embo, the middle strategy was to accept his proposal to sacrifice Selena, and the best strategy was to consult the Night Watchers’ superiors while protecting the public.
• Fu Qian warned that Embo would likely escape if the Night Watchers accepted his proposal and later became strong enough to kill him without risk.
• Selena questioned Embo’s claim that the Progenitor had acknowledged him, but Embo insisted that he had received revelations and authority from the Progenitor.
• Fu Qian asked Embo when he first received the revelation, and Embo answered that it was a month ago on the full moon.
• Yuan Shan chose the worst strategy, and Fu Qian realized that Embo’s first revelation had occurred on the day he synchronized with Shangjing.

Yuan Shan attacked Embo and trapped him inside a protective cocoon, but Embo countered her attacks and tried to kill the wounded Selena before Su Gao intervened. As Embo faced Su Gao and dismissed the others’ chances, Fu Qian announced he was adding unknown variables to the outcome.

• Yuan Shan refused Embo’s proposal and enclosed the room in a cocoon, then attacked him with illusory spears.
• Embo evaded Yuan Shan’s first strike, caught and broke one of her spears, and explained that his power had changed how he understood strength.
• Embo attacked the wounded Selena, but Su Gao blocked him with her curved sword and injured his wing.
• Embo praised Su Gao’s perception and combat ability, then told her and Yuan Shan to give up because the outcome was decided.
• Fu Qian answered Embo that he was adding unknown variables to the predetermined outcome.

Fu Qian answered the Red Moon’s call and glimpsed a possible connection between it and Hamadus before the entity told him not to lose himself in lies. The Red Moon’s power over Embo then vanished, letting Su Gao and Yuan Shan capture him.

• Fu Qian decided to answer the Red Moon’s call, hoping to learn about the Blood Clan Progenitor and take control of the situation.
• The Red Moon appeared before Fu Qian, called him its child, and told him not to lose himself in lies before disappearing.
• Fu Qian noticed the Red Moon’s markings reminded him of Hamadus and realized the Red Moon had withdrawn the power it lent Embo.
• Embo tried to escape through Yuan Shan’s barrier, but Su Gao struck him down and Yuan Shan trapped him.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that his backup duty was done without explaining what had happened.

Yuan Shan and Su Gao killed Old Man Embo after his power suddenly weakened, ending his threat to Selena and the Gullard Family. Fu Qian concealed his role in Embo’s collapse, suggested the Blood Clan Progenitor might be compromised, and left with Su Gao as Grantham was left to face Yuan Shan.

• Su Gao wounded Embo, and Yuan Shan’s black spears destroyed his bat escape before she sliced apart his head and killed him.
• Grantham worried about the Gullard Family’s fate as Selena recovered, watched the red moonlight fade, and left without addressing him.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian why Embo’s rank had fallen, and Fu Qian claimed his words had frightened Embo and suggested the Progenitor might be unstable.
• Yuan Shan thanked Fu Qian and Su Gao, then Fu Qian left after remarking to Grantham that keeping things balanced was hard.
• Su Gao followed Fu Qian, while Yuan Shan gave Grantham a cold glance and left without speaking to him.

After resolving the crisis at Embo's estate, Fu Qian returned to the bookstore and began a new containment mission. He found himself trapped inside a spiked Iron Maiden as someone outside announced his death sentence.

• Fu Qian and Su Gao left Embo's estate after the Night Watchers arrived, and Fu Qian asked Su Gao how she felt about fighting a demigod.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao returned to the bookstore, where Su Gao went upstairs to sleep and Fu Qian opened the shop for business.
• Fu Qian began a new Warehouse mission called Virtue, which placed him among five college students vacationing at an old house in a southern town.
• Fu Qian discovered that he was trapped in a dark, enclosed, spike-filled metal device and suspected it was an Iron Maiden.
• A sinister voice outside declared that the jury had sentenced Fu Qian to death.

Fu Qian escaped a prank in an unused Iron Maiden and learned that he was staying at a mountain compound with four other young people. When three of them returned from shopping in a small red car, their lifeless silence struck him as deeply unusual.

• Fu Qian stayed silent as a young woman pretended to begin an execution, then reassured her that he was fine when she opened the Iron Maiden.
• Fu Qian left the moldy basement with the girl, who told him Cartman and two others had gone shopping.
• Fu Qian explored the compound and saw that it stood on a mountain near a cluster of rooftops.
• A small red car returned with Cartman and two others, and Fu Qian noticed that all three seemed lifeless and unusually downcast.

Fu Qian investigated the strange group at Lei’s family house while continuing his mission to find Lasik. After he revealed an Iron Maiden in the basement, Cartman faced pressure to climb inside it himself.

• Fu Qian received a mission to find Lasik as Jessica reunited with Cartman and Lei, who had returned from town with unusually synchronized movements.
• Fu Qian learned that Cartman and Jessica were a couple, Lei owned the house, and Fran was Jessica’s friend.
• Fu Qian told Lei that he had found an old torture device downstairs, making Lei, Cartman, and Jessica react tensely.
• Lei led the group to the basement, where they found an Iron Maiden that Lei said he knew nothing about.
• Fu Qian said he had climbed inside the Iron Maiden, and Cartman struggled with whether to try it himself.

Fu Qian and the others visited Lei’s aunt and her husband, the local sheriff, for dinner, hoping to learn more about the area. After dinner, Mr. Jones returned from an urgent call and confronted Fu Qian with a question about a fatal car accident.

• Fu Qian asked Lei whether he knew Lasik, but Lei and the others had never heard of him.
• Lei told the group that his aunt had invited them to dinner and that her husband was the local sheriff.
• Lei drove everyone to his aunt’s home, where Mr. Jones greeted them and joined them for dinner.
• Mr. Jones received a call, left during dinner, and returned after the meal while Fu Qian waited outside.
• Mr. Jones offered Fu Qian a cigarette and asked whether he had hit and killed someone with his car.

Sheriff Jones suspected Fu Qian of running over Mrs. Harold and insisted he stay at the Jones home overnight. The next morning, after Mrs. Harold was confirmed missing, Jones recruited Fu Qian and the others to help search for her.

• Jones confronted Fu Qian with his suspicions, citing the group's guilty behavior and their unusually clean car, then told him to stay the night.
• Jones announced that Mrs. Harold had gone missing, and Cartman, Fran, and the others reluctantly accepted the offer to stay at his house.
• Fu Qian chose not to flee and planned to use Jones's suspicion to steer him toward Lasik.
• A younger officer arrived the next morning, and Fu Qian met Mr. Harold, who confirmed that his wife had not returned.
• Jones recruited Fu Qian and the others as volunteers to search for Mrs. Harold, then called Fu Qian over to ride in his car.

Fu Qian accompanied Sheriff Jones and the others to investigate suspicious skid marks on the mountain road, where they followed a trail to a covered grave. The grave was empty, leaving Jones and the group with unexplained signs of a possible cover-up.

• Fu Qian rode beside Harold as Jones directed the group up the mountain, where Harold appeared uneasy.
• Jones stopped at fresh skid marks, and Fu Qian pointed out a snapped branch nearby.
• Jones led the group through trampled vegetation to a clearing covered with freshly cut branches.
• The young officer removed the branches and found an empty, old grave with no other traces around it.
• Fu Qian suggested that they would need more volunteers to continue the search.

Sheriff Jones and the others found Mrs. Harold’s abandoned car on an old, blocked road, but the evidence left it unclear whether she had been abducted there or had fled an attack. Jones warned the volunteers that the mountain might be dangerous and offered them a place to stay, but Lei declined, so Jones decided to escort them back first.

• Jones led the group onto a narrow, old road and found Mrs. Harold’s yellow car abandoned by a rubble-blocked section.
• A young officer concluded that Mrs. Harold might have been attacked and taken from the car, while Harold said he did not know where she had gone.
• Fu Qian questioned whether Mrs. Harold could plausibly have taken the deserted road by mistake, and Jones agreed that her actions seemed suspicious.
• Jones warned Cartman and the others that the mountain might not be safe and offered them shelter, but Lei declined.
• Jones decided to escort the volunteers back before they continued up the mountain.

Fu Qian watched Sheriff Jones investigate Harold and the old house while quietly steering him toward the name Lasik. After the others returned to their rooms, Fran told Fu Qian that Jessica had gone missing.

• Jones questioned Harold about where he had been the previous day, but Harold said he had stayed home and had no one to confirm it.
• Jones searched the old house, including its basement, while Lei explained that Fran had kept the place tidy and mentioned Fu Qian climbing into the Iron Maiden.
• Jones confronted Fu Qian about why he was at the house and asked who Lasik was, but Fu Qian dismissed his question as a whim.
• Jones left with his deputy and Harold, and Fu Qian reflected that he had planted Lasik's name to make Jones investigate it.
• Fran knocked on Fu Qian's door and told him that Jessica was missing.

Fran told Fu Qian that Jessica had vanished along with her personal belongings, and she wondered whether the disappearance was connected to Mrs. Harold's absence. Lei and Cartman arrived at Fu Qian's door and proposed searching the building for Jessica before contacting Sheriff Jones.

• Fran told Fu Qian that Jessica and Cartman were missing from their room, but Jessica's belongings were gone and Fran could not reach her.
• Fran suggested that Jessica's disappearance might be connected to Mrs. Harold's disappearance and asked whether they should tell Sheriff Jones.
• Fu Qian opened the door and found Lei and Cartman listening outside; Cartman said Jessica was missing, too.
• Lei proposed searching the building before calling Sheriff Jones, and Fu Qian agreed.