Recaps

Fu Qian and Su Gao accompanied Takagi to a clinic, where Takagi confronted Dr. Yamagata for staring at Kanna Kisaragi and later discovered that Yamagata was having a heart attack. Fu Qian suspected Takagi’s extraordinary good fortune had helped keep them delayed, and Su Gao grew displeased with whoever was drawing ordinary people into their supernatural troubles.

• Fu Qian agreed to accompany Takagi, Kanna Kisaragi, and Su Gao to a clinic after Takagi was injured.
• Dr. Yamagata treated Takagi while repeatedly staring at Kanna, and Takagi snapped the doctor’s glasses and threw them away.
• Takagi noticed Yamagata was unresponsive, recognized that he was likely having a heart attack, and alerted the clinic staff.
• Fu Qian concluded that Takagi’s good fortune might have shaped the incident and noted that he and Su Gao had been delayed for another twenty minutes.
• Su Gao agreed that the hidden person’s tricks could have become dangerous and showed displeasure at ordinary people being caught up in them.

Kanna Kisaragi gave Fu Qian her treasured badge as an apology, leaving Takagi devastated by her attention to another man. As the group reached the station, a passerby recognized Takagi, and Takagi's strained reaction to Kanna made Fu Qian suspect his luck was fading.

• Kanna Kisaragi handed Fu Qian the badge she had won at Wushe Temple and told him it mattered to her.
• Takagi struggled to hide his distress as Kanna Kisaragi praised Fu Qian and Su Gao ended the awkward exchange by saying they should leave.
• The four walked toward the station, with Kanna Kisaragi holding Takagi's arm while he forced himself to act as if nothing was wrong.
• A passerby recognized Takagi and teased him about his girlfriend.
• Takagi gripped Kanna Kisaragi's hand too tightly, then panicked and tried to kiss it after she scolded him.
• Fu Qian noticed Su Gao turning to look at him.

Fu Qian and Su Gao left Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi behind and pursued a hidden supernatural who was disrupting Su Gao’s work for Yasui. Fu Qian urged Su Gao to use her full strength as they searched through a crowded park.

• Fu Qian offered to accompany Su Gao, while Kanna Kisaragi left the station with Takagi after he defended her to his friend.
• Fu Qian reflected that Takagi’s will had been worn down by his feelings for Kanna Kisaragi and the supernatural influence surrounding him.
• Su Gao revealed that she had not forgotten anything and had used the excuse to signal that Yasui’s attempt to manipulate people around her needed a response.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian searched several locations for a hidden supernatural who kept moving through the crowds and evaded detection.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao not to hold back and encouraged her to use all the strength she could muster.

Fu Qian and Su Gao tracked down Takahashi Yae, a Yasui Company doctor who had been manipulating events around them. Takahashi revealed he was over three hundred years old, and Fu Qian challenged him for failing to become a demigod.

• Fu Qian urged Su Gao to pursue their hidden target at full speed, and she forced him to flee toward quieter streets.
• Fu Qian bought grilled rice cakes while Su Gao cornered the disguised Takahashi Yae beside a fountain.
• Takahashi introduced himself as a doctor of the Yasui Company and admitted he had been helping a young man troubled by love.
• Fu Qian questioned Takahashi about Wushe Temple and showed him Kanna Kisaragi's badge, unsettling the old doctor.
• Takahashi denied being in charge of the game, then said he had lived for more than three hundred years, prompting Fu Qian to ask why he was not a demigod.

Fu Qian pressed Takahashi Yae to explain his ability after Takahashi used it to bring misfortune down on him. Violetta attacked, and Su Gao defeated Takahashi’s escape technique, leaving him to explain that his power controlled the momentum of events toward an outcome.

• Takahashi Yae threatened Fu Qian and revealed that his ability could impose misfortune on him.
• Takahashi used his ability on Fu Qian, but Violetta launched a deadly attack that forced him to split into six shadows and flee.
• Su Gao picked up a broom and swung it like a sword, shattering Takahashi’s shadows and sending his true body into the fountain.
• Takahashi offered to undo the effect on Fu Qian, but Fu Qian refused and insisted that he answer questions first.
• Takahashi explained that his ability controlled the momentum pushing events toward a particular outcome.

Fu Qian questioned Takahashi Yae about his fate-based ability and his role in the Yasui Company, then examined the Infamy Law badge. Takahashi left after the exchange, while Fu Qian and Su Gao discussed the strange rules behind the badge.

• Fu Qian mocked Takahashi Yae’s luck, and Takahashi explained that he had joined the Yasui Company because it revealed possible paths toward demigodhood.
• Takahashi said he was not in charge of the Infamy Law project and refused to identify the person who was.
• Fu Qian thanked Takahashi for answering his questions and told him he could leave.
• Takahashi checked that Su Gao would not stop him, then departed.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao that the Infamy Law badge seemed to follow its own rules and that he wanted to meet its inventor.

Fu Qian and Su Gao visited retired Transcendent Delin after Hayami Suzune invited Su Gao to meet him. Delin welcomed Su Gao but ignored Fu Qian, and began reflecting on the dangers of his former life as Su Gao asked about the crisis that changed their lives.

• After a quiet night, Hayami Suzune visited Fu Qian and asked to see Su Gao.
• Hayami Suzune said Leigo wanted to know whether Su Gao was free to meet a retired Transcendent, and Fu Qian agreed to accompany her.
• Leigo drove Fu Qian and Su Gao to Delin's home near the Night Watcher's headquarters.
• Delin welcomed Su Gao but ignored Fu Qian, then invited the visitors to drink tea in the courtyard.
• Delin said he was grateful to have left his dangerous former life, and Su Gao asked when the crisis that changed their lives had happened.

Su Gao questioned Delin and Leigo about a crisis on Leaf Island thirteen years earlier, hoping to recover details tied to her lost memories. Fu Qian provoked Delin by asking about his daughter, then realized the visit might have been arranged to cast him as a dangerous Man-Demon and make Su Gao seem innocent.

• Su Gao asked Delin and Leigo about their crisis thirteen years earlier, but they refused to reveal its details because they had been ordered to keep them confidential.
• Delin said an incomprehensible being had helped them survive, though the Night Watchers never confirmed what happened afterward.
• When Delin asked Fu Qian if he had questions, Fu Qian asked about Delin's daughter, prompting Delin and Leigo to react with hostility.
• Fu Qian continued asking about the daughter's schooling, and Delin calmed down and returned to his seat.
• After Mrs. Delin left to warm the pastries, Fu Qian suspected Leigo and Delin had arranged the visit as a trap to portray him as a Man-Demon and Su Gao as an innocent young woman.

Delin hosted Leigo and the others while quietly weighing their plan to deal with Dancy Crawford. Their conversation about the Depth Four badge ended with Rebecca defending Fu Qian's right to enjoy it and arguing that more people were learning about the supernatural world.

• Mrs. Delin introduced Rebecca to the guests, while Delin watched Dancy Crawford warily.
• Delin reflected on agreeing to help Leigo deal with Dancy and explained why he had not killed him during their earlier meeting.
• Hayami Suzune asked Violetta whether she had gone out, and Su Gao said they had visited Wushe Temple.
• Fu Qian showed Leigo and the Night Watchers his Depth Four badge and teased them about breaking down the barrier between ordinary people and the supernatural world.
• Rebecca objected when Leigo dismissed the badge as a children's toy, saying it was fun and that more people were learning about it.

At the Delins’ tea gathering, Rebecca argued that knowing someone could be measured by depth, while Su Gao revealed that Mr. Dancy had saved her. After the gathering ended, Fu Qian and Su Gao walked home, and Fu Qian bought a mask as he prepared for what Carlos might do next.

• Rebecca argued that her idea of knowing someone was more interesting than supernatural powers, and Su Gao agreed that it could be quantified.
• Su Gao told the Delins that Mr. Dancy had saved her, undermining their plan to turn her against him.
• Fu Qian said goodbye to the Delins, and Hayami Suzune and Leigo worried that Su Gao trusted Dancy despite the coming conflict between Siren and An Jing.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao walked home while Fu Qian considered how Carlos and Takahashi Yae might respond to the events at Wushe Temple.
• Fu Qian bought a ghastly white mask that he planned to wear when greeting guests.

Fu Qian layered masks to conceal his identity and prepared for a potentially dangerous visit while Su Gao rested. Asao Sakura arrived instead of the mysterious expert he expected and cautiously questioned them about their contact with the Night Watchers.

• Fu Qian bought a plain white mask to conceal the recognizable Witch Mask beneath several layers.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao returned to their lodging, where he wore the layered masks and warned her not to rush into a fight if their visitors exposed them.
• Su Gao went upstairs to rest, and Asao Sakura arrived to visit Fu Qian.
• Asao Sakura asked whether Fu Qian had left Xidào and learned he had visited Wushe Temple and earned a badge.
• Asao Sakura asked about Fu Qian's contact with the Night Watchers, so he called Su Gao downstairs to answer her.

Asao Sakura tried to recruit Fu Qian and Su Gao to the Yasui Company, but Fu Qian unsettled her by revealing what he knew about the Kawasaki Family. He then realized Su Gao had been changing since Asao arrived, and sensed that a hidden threat had silently affected them both.

• Asao Sakura praised the Yasui Company and offered Violetta substantial exemptions as she tried to draw Fu Qian and Su Gao away from the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian said they had visited Delin, then asked whether Asao feared the Yasui Company would suffer the Kawasaki Family's fate.
• Asao Sakura was shaken when Fu Qian described the Kawasaki Family's destruction and the survival of its distant branches.
• Su Gao remained composed despite becoming unusually still and inhuman in appearance, and Fu Qian realized the change had begun after Asao arrived.
• Fu Qian sensed extreme danger when he recognized that something had silently affected both him and Su Gao, despite their demigod senses.

Fu Qian suspected that An Jing Shizhi was secretly observing him and Su Gao, but could not confirm whether a divine envoy had concealed its presence or was simply ignoring him. As Asao Sakura continued discussing Yasui Company's promises, Su Gao asked what would count as a formal promise, and Fu Qian began to suspect Sakura had another purpose for coming.

• Fu Qian challenged Asao Sakura's authority to make promises and suggested that only someone like An Jing Shizhi could offer a credible commitment.
• Asao Sakura said she had not been told to escalate the matter to An Jing Shizhi, though higher-ranking Yasui Company officials might make promises if the two demigods were interested.
• Fu Qian deliberately called out An Jing Shizhi to test whether the suspected divine envoy was watching, but received no reaction and prepared to use False God Incarnation if necessary.
• Asao Sakura reassured Fu Qian that Yasui Company never broke its promises and tried to involve Su Gao in the discussion.
• Su Gao asked what would qualify as a formal promise from Yasui Company, while Fu Qian reconsidered why Asao Sakura had come and wondered if she had a separate purpose.

Fu Qian suspected that an unseen figure connected to the Native Council was using Asao Sakura to enter Su Gao’s perception, so he activated Clear Dream to expose it. The dream drew in Asao Sakura and Su Gao, and Fu Qian returned to find a woman beside them whom he believed was Emperor An Jing.

• Fu Qian connected the unseen presence to the Native Council’s concealment technique and suspected Asao Sakura was serving as its medium.
• Fu Qian left the living room to make tea while Asao Sakura remained with Su Gao and Violetta.
• In the tea room, Fu Qian activated Clear Dream and enveloped the building in his domain.
• Asao Sakura entered the dream immediately, and Su Gao stopped resisting after recalling Fu Qian’s warning.
• Fu Qian returned to the living room and saw a smiling woman beside Su Gao and Asao Sakura, whom he identified as Emperor An Jing.

Fu Qian investigated the unseen Divine Envoy during Su Gao and Asao Sakura’s tea ceremony and deduced that she existed in her targets’ minds rather than physically in the room. He suspected she had not possessed him because he was a man, but the reason remained uncertain.

• Fu Qian returned to the table and noticed that the Divine Envoy could see Su Gao and Asao Sakura, while she seemed to avoid looking directly at him.
• Fu Qian tested whether the Divine Envoy could observe something Su Gao could not see by removing his Witch Mask, and she showed no reaction.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Divine Envoy could only perceive what her host perceived and theorized that her possession existed purely in her targets’ minds.
• Asao Sakura finished the tea ceremony and served Fu Qian, while he wondered why the Divine Envoy had not possessed him.
• Fu Qian noticed the Divine Envoy glaring at him with disgust and suspected that she possessed only women.

Fu Qian used his control over the dream to conceal the Divine Envoy’s departure and make Asao Sakura believe she had fallen asleep over tea. After Asao Sakura left, the Divine Envoy’s presence faded, and Fu Qian told Su Gao that the tea was harmless but something was wrong with him.

• Fu Qian concluded that the Divine Envoy had not noticed the dream changing and planned to let her leave without revealing his abilities.
• Fu Qian altered the dream so Asao Sakura appeared to brew and serve tea, then criticized her tea-making by comparing her to Hayami Suzune.
• Asao Sakura fell asleep when Fu Qian triggered the dream’s release condition, then woke to find Dancy Crawford wearing a mask and accused him of drugging her.
• Fu Qian denied putting anything in the tea, and Asao Sakura left after telling him to consider her earlier words.
• The Divine Envoy’s presence faded as Asao Sakura departed, and Fu Qian assured Su Gao that the tea was harmless before telling him something was wrong with him.

Fu Qian and Su Gao identified the unseen visitor as an An Jing Divine Envoy and discussed Su Gao’s ability, Echoes. Fu Qian decided to leave Leaf Island with Su Gao, then entered the Warehouse to prepare for a possible attack.

• Fu Qian explained that a hidden Divine Envoy had been sitting beside Su Gao and described her obscuring methods.
• Su Gao revealed that her ability, Echoes, instinctively adapted her attacks and defenses to her target.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao discussed Crow Feather and the possibility that he belonged to the Native Council.
• Fu Qian decided they should leave rather than risk exposing Su Gao by approaching the local Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian entered the Warehouse to retrieve equipment and prepare for the Divine Envoy’s attack, where he encountered a leakage warning for Divine Seal, Number 3-0129.

Fu Qian entered Containment Scene 3-0129, where the Kamakura Family’s Severing Divine Seal had begun spiraling out of control. He found a mangled corpse in an underground tomb and disguised himself just as an Academy investigation team arrived, leaving his identity and the cause of the death unresolved.

• Fu Qian accepted the recontainment mission and entered Scene 3-0129 without restrictions on his abilities or items.
• Fu Qian found himself in an underground tomb beside a shattered statue and a corpse covered in wounds, with blood still flowing from its body.
• Fu Qian picked up a hollow, cracked-looking blade beside the corpse and heard people trying to open the stone door.
• Fu Qian changed his appearance to conceal his identity as the stone door opened and three people entered.
• Jian Jingzheng arrived with an unfamiliar demigod and a wounded Kamakura Family member, who demanded to know what had happened.
• The Old Man noticed Fu Qian was a demigod and asked him about it.

Fu Qian posed as the supposedly dead swordsman Yun and claimed that facing death had carried him across the path to demigodhood. After meeting Cas of the Academy of Revelation, he revealed his grudge against Fu Qian and threatened to repay him for granting him death.

• Fu Qian introduced himself as Yun, and a Kamakura Family member recognized him despite believing he had died.
• Fu Qian said the dead man had already been dead when he arrived, then handed the Kamakura Family member the hollowed-out greatsword.
• Fu Qian dismissed Jian Jingzheng and praised Li Weixuan, while Cas introduced himself as the head of the Academy of Revelation.
• Fu Qian asked Cas about Fu Qian, and Cas explained that Professor Fu had left the Academy after a minor mishap.
• Fu Qian touched his neck and said he would return the gift of death to Fu Qian; Cas offered to pass along his regards.

After Cas confirmed that Kamakura Keiji’s grandfather had died from the family’s loss of control, he invited Fu Qian to help investigate the Kamakura family’s Divine Seal. The group returned from the underground structure, where Kamakura Mi thanked Fu Qian and Fu Qian spotted Ji Liushuang among the investigators.

• Kamakura Keiji identified his grandfather’s body, and Cas used black flames to confirm that the old man’s death came from his condition rather than a struggle.
• Cas invited Fu Qian to advise the Kamakura family about their out-of-control Curse Swordsmanship, and Fu Qian accepted as his mission updated to investigate the Divine Seal’s loss of control.
• Fu Qian, Cas, Jian Jingzheng, and Kamakura Keiji left the underground chamber and returned outside with the old man’s body.
• Kamakura Keiji told Kamakura Mi that Fu Qian was alive, had advanced to demigod, and had been cleared by Cas.
• Kamakura Mi thanked Fu Qian, who noticed Ji Liushuang among the elite investigators waiting nearby.

Fu Qian and the investigation team arrived at the Kamakura Family’s guarded site, where Ni Huayuan challenged Cas’s findings and questioned Fu Qian’s actions. Their dispute exposed a rift within the academy, and the chapter ended when a Sword Participation Institute instructor called them back to the investigation.

• Fu Qian noticed Ji Liushuang had improved, while Kamakura Mi kept her clan from reacting to Ni Huayuan’s pointed questions.
• Ni Huayuan asked Fu Qian why he had gone to the guarded site, but Fu Qian refused to answer and Ni Huayuan turned his challenge toward Cas.
• Cas affirmed that Fu Qian was innocent and mocked Ni Huayuan’s Spirit Ash Institute, prompting Ni Huayuan to demand that Fu Qian be handed over.
• Jian Jingzheng explained that Cas had found no signs of supernatural power at the scene, and Cas invited Ni Huayuan to check again.
• Fu Qian recalled that the academy knew he had killed Ian and worried that Lanaia was facing trouble, while a Sword Participation Institute instructor urged the team to begin the investigation.

Ni Huayuan used the dead Kamakura elder’s blood to reveal a fading image of his final moments, supporting the view that Yun had not killed him. Fu Qian joined the investigation at the Kamakura estate, where Cas asked about the family’s curse before Kamakura Mi reported another collapse.

• Ni Huayuan examined the corpse and made its blood form a brief image of the elder collapsing without visible external injuries.
• A female mentor concluded that Yun did not appear responsible, and Kamakura Mi agreed to return to the estate with the investigators.
• Fu Qian followed the group to the Kamakura estate and noticed bloodstains on many of the family’s transcendent practitioners.
• Cas asked Fu Qian what might be causing the Kamakura family’s power to turn against them, and Fu Qian said he could not be sure.
• Kamakura Mi hurried over and told Cas that someone else had collapsed.

Fu Qian and the others examined Kamakura Shinji as his body suffered the same mysterious wounds linked to the Kamakura Family’s cursed swordsmanship. After Shinji revealed he had only been calming his mind and watching TV, Cas asked A Kai whether there was a way to save him.

• Fu Qian and his companion arrived to find Kamakura Shinji critically wounded, and Teacher Chang gave him some of her unlabeled medicine.
• Kamakura Shinji told Kamakura Mi that he had not practiced swordsmanship but had only been calming his mind, then his wounds reopened and worsened.
• Ni Huayuan snapped his fingers to calm Shinji and questioned him until Shinji remembered he had been watching TV.
• Cas mocked Ni Huayuan’s interrogation, examined Shinji’s wounds, and confirmed with Kamakura Mi that they came from the Family’s Cursed Swordsmanship.
• Cas turned toward A Kai and asked whether Shinji could be saved.

A Kai stabilized Kamakura Shinji’s worsening wounds, though the treatment left him in agony and would last less than three days. Ji Liushuang argued that the power harming him was not swordsmanship, and Cas asked Fu Qian to judge her claim.

• Cas called on A Kai, who warned that he could only stabilize Kamakura Shinji’s condition and that the process would be extremely painful.
• Kamakura Mi accepted A Kai’s offer, and A Kai performed a ritual that slowed Shinji’s bleeding and deterioration without healing his wounds.
• A Kai said the stabilization would last less than three days, and Cas judged that it would be enough.
• Cas asked Ji Liushuang to assess the out-of-control Sword Intent, and she said the power might not be swordsmanship.
• Kamakura Mi and the others challenged Ji Liushuang, but Cas silenced them and asked Fu Qian what he thought.
• Fu Qian agreed that the Kamakura Family’s divine seal blessing did not resemble Sword Intent.

Fu Qian challenged the Kamakura family to demonstrate their Shattered Divine Seal so he could experience its effects, arguing that their inherited curse had nothing to do with true sword cultivation. In the dojo, Kamakura Keiji prepared to face him while the Academy team watched.

• Fu Qian agreed with Ji Liushuang that the Kamakura family's divine seal was unrelated to swordsmanship and criticized their centuries-old understanding of the Way.
• Kamakura Mi asked Fu Qian for advice, but Fu Qian proposed experiencing the family's Shattered Divine Seal instead.
• Fu Qian promised not to fight back and taunted the Kamakura family until Kamakura Keiji volunteered to demonstrate the technique.
• Kamakura Mi let Keiji proceed despite fearing the seal might cause him the same fate as Kamakura Shinji.
• The group went to a dim dojo, where Keiji took up his sword and faced Fu Qian as the Academy team watched.