Recaps

Fu Qian tested the Kamakura Family’s Cursed Sword Dao against Kamakura Keiji and discovered that its power could wound him without a direct strike. The observation team discussed how the sword’s lingering cuts worked, while Ji Liushuang hinted that Fu Qian’s earlier words had inspired her.

• Kamakura Keiji attacked Fu Qian with Nightclub Queen, but his swordsmanship failed to land a hit and the sword’s effects badly cut his own arm.
• A cut appeared on Fu Qian’s cheek without Kamakura Keiji touching him, prompting the Kamakura clan to celebrate that their swordsmanship had wounded a demigod.
• Fu Qian joined the observation team, where A Kai and Cas concluded that the sword’s damage was not directly caused by Kamakura Keiji and could repeatedly cancel out healing.
• Fu Qian explained that the wound persisted because continuous cuts reopened it, and Cas suggested finding and severing the power’s source.
• Ji Liushuang thanked Fu Qian for inspiring her and left him wondering whether she was referring to something he had said before.

Fu Qian watched the Academy of Revelation debate the Kamakura family’s unstable powers, while Ni Huayuan tested his theory by triggering another violent reaction in Kamakura Keiji. Ni Huayuan argued that an enemy had attacked the family through the Cursed Sword Dao and suggested the attack might be connected to their role as tomb guardians.

• Fu Qian realized Ji Liushuang remembered words he had once used to provoke the Sword Heart, while she carefully concealed her reaction.
• Cas and A Kai discussed their failure to identify the cause of the Kamakura family’s power instability and the difficulty of severing its connection.
• Ni Huayuan called out to Kamakura Keiji, triggering a painful episode that left Keiji badly wounded as he tried to attack him.
• Ni Huayuan explained that cutting Keiji off from the outside world had triggered the same severing effect, and argued that something within the family was destabilizing their power.
• Ni Huayuan proposed finding whoever was causing the effects and suggested the Kamakura family’s enemies had attacked them through the Cursed Sword Dao because they were famous as tomb guardians.

Ni Huayuan persuaded the Kamakura family to let the academy lead another expedition into the ancient ruins, where they hoped to find traces explaining the divine seal’s loss of control. As the group set out, Ji Liushuang thanked Fu Qian for his insights.

• Ni Huayuan suggested that the attacks might have targeted something in the ruins, and Kamakura Mi agreed to share the family’s secret and cooperate.
• After Kamakura Keiji said his grandfather had gone into the ruins seeking a solution, Ni Huayuan persuaded the Kamakura family to let the academy investigate again.
• Fu Qian decided the expedition would help him pursue his mission, though he doubted Ni Huayuan’s method could stop the changes affecting Kamakura Keiji.
• The academy members gathered at the ruins, where A Kai asked Fu Qian how he understood deities; Fu Qian said he had no interest in replacing them and invoked the sword’s pursuit of the self.
• Ni Huayuan led the group toward the ruins, and Ji Liushuang quietly thanked Fu Qian for sharing his insights.

Fu Qian spoke with Ji Liushuang about swordsmanship and the ruins as the group explored the Kamakura Family’s ancient site. They reached the chamber where the body had been found, and Ni Huayuan suspected the shattered statue held something unusual.

• Fu Qian told Ji Liushuang that general observations could point her in the right direction but could not replace personal understanding, and she thanked him for the advice.
• Ji Liushuang asked what the ruins had originally been, and Fu Qian suggested they might once have been a temple before becoming known as a tomb.
• Ni Huayuan asked Kamakura Mi to lead the group to the room where the body was found, and Kamakura Mi guided them to the deepest part of the ruins.
• Ni Huayuan entered the chamber with the others and asked why the deceased had chosen it, but Kamakura Mi said it did not seem special.
• Ni Huayuan examined the bloodstains and the bare chamber before focusing on the shattered statue and sensing something unusual about it.

Ni Huayuan summoned two strange hounds to investigate the wall behind the damaged statue, but an unseen wielder of the Cursed Sword Dao cut them apart. The group concluded that someone was behind the wall and decided to find a way around.

• Ni Huayuan and the others noticed that the broken statue looked less human than the statues outside, and Kamakura Mi said he had never seen its design before.
• Ni Huayuan summoned two grotesque hounds from his arms and sent them to investigate the wall behind the statue.
• The hounds passed through the wall, but an unseen force cut them apart before they could return.
• Jian Jingzheng recognized the cuts as the work of the Cursed Sword Dao, and Kamakura Mi said no other tomb keepers were present.
• Ni Huayuan proposed finding a way around the wall to investigate who was on the other side.

Ni Huayuan led the group through a hidden chamber behind the statue, where they found a long-dead, mangled body and an open passage. He suggested the person attacking the Kamakura family might still be inside the ruin, leaving the group to investigate where the passage led.

• Ni Huayuan had an academy member break through the wall behind the statue, and Jian Jingzheng widened the opening with sword energy.
• Fu Qian questioned Kamakura Mi about the statue, and Kamakura Mi explained that his ancestors had settled there after receiving a dream revelation and that each generation gained a divine mark.
• Ni Huayuan led the group into the chamber beyond the wall, where they found a deformed, long-dead body and an open door.
• Ni Huayuan argued that the attacker might still be inside the ruin and could have used special means to cause the Kamakura family's troubles.
• Kamakura Mi accepted that Ni Huayuan's explanation was possible, and Ni Huayuan urged the group to hope the passage did not lead outside.

Ni Huayuan led the group through the ruins to pursue the people who had escaped, then divided them into smaller teams to search the branching corridors. When Fu Qian offered to explore alone, Ji Liushuang and Chang volunteered to accompany him, and Ni Huayuan approved.

• Kamakura Mi agreed to pursue the culprits rather than repeat the failed attempts to mask the connection.
• Ni Huayuan led the group through a stone passage into the ruins’ labyrinthine corridors, where Kamakura Mi admitted he did not recognize the area.
• Ni Huayuan ordered the group to split up at branches, accepting the risk that the smaller teams might be hunted in exchange for leaving traces.
• Fu Qian volunteered to explore a branch alone, but Ji Liushuang offered to go with him.
• Jian Jingzheng objected, and Chang volunteered as well; Ni Huayuan approved the three-person team, to the Kamakura Family’s relief.

Fu Qian, Ji Liushuang, and Chang Mo explored the ruins, discussing the Nameless Deity, its unusual follower, and the destruction of its statues. When they reached a damaged hall with no visible exit, Fu Qian concluded that another level lay below.

• Ji Liushuang asked Chang Mo about the strange statue, and Chang Mo explained that depictions of deities could change over time.
• Fu Qian suggested that the Nameless Deity's statue in the hidden chamber depicted an unusually shaped follower whom other followers may have rejected.
• Chang Mo explained that followers had destroyed many deities' statues during the long night and warned Ji Liushuang against adopting the Kamakura Family's spiritual totem practices.
• The group entered a heavily damaged hall with no visible way forward, and Fu Qian inferred that the ruins had another level below.

Fu Qian opened a passage into a lower level of the ruins, where he and Ji Liushuang continued with Chang Mo. In the corridor below, Chang Mo discovered a crystal-covered creature clinging to the ceiling and struck it, but her sword did no harm.

• Chang Mo realized Fu Qian was making excuses to go downstairs and that Ji Liushuang intended to follow him.
• Fu Qian transformed his left arm into a blade and cut a triangular opening through the stone floor.
• Fu Qian, Chang Mo, and Ji Liushuang jumped into the lower level and followed a sound through its corridor.
• Chang Mo spotted a crystal-covered creature dropping from the ceiling and struck it, but the blow left it unharmed.

Fu Qian, Chang Mo, and Ji Liushuang pursued a resilient crystal creature into a hidden chamber, where they discovered that the apparent pool was a massive formation of living crystals. As the crystals stirred and the Kamakura Family members approached, Fu Qian led the others behind the door.

• Fu Qian wounded the crystal creature with Man-Sword Unity, but it escaped after Chang Mo's sword strike failed to harm it.
• Chang Mo and Ji Liushuang followed Fu Qian through a stone door into a chamber containing a clear-looking pool, but they could not find the creature.
• Fu Qian took Ji Liushuang's sword and struck the pool, revealing that its surface was made of joined crystals rather than water.
• The crystal formation cracked, rippled, and reached out with tendrils while remaining one enormous creature.
• Fu Qian told Chang Mo not to focus on killing it and said the Kamakura Family members had arrived, then led the group behind the door.

Fu Qian and the others joined Cas to investigate a strange Pool of Crystals beneath the Kamakura Family’s ruins, where they learned a Crystal Worm had merged into it. When A Kai tried to take a sample, the crystals formed a hand around his wrist.

• Cas thanked Fu Qian, Chang Mo, and Ji Liushuang, then led the gathered teams through the door to investigate the suspicious target.
• Ni Huayuan joined the group and agreed to Cas’s plan to inspect the chamber.
• Chang Mo told Cas that a smaller Crystal Worm had attacked them and then merged into the Pool of Crystals.
• Kamakura Mi explained that the Kamakura Family rarely entered the area and had left the ruins undisturbed.
• A Kai used a glove to grab a Crystal Tendril, but the crystals reassembled into a hand that clamped around his wrist.

The group encountered a crystal hand that attacked A Kai, and Cas destroyed it with a black-flame spear before the pool produced crystalline spears. Cas and Fu Qian judged the phenomenon relevant to their investigation, and Fu Qian turned attention to Kamakura Mi as someone who had yet to act.

• Chang Mo and Jian Jingzheng failed to damage the crystal hand as it tried to drag A Kai into the pool, but Cas pulled A Kai clear and shattered the hand with a black-flame spear.
• The crystal pool calmed, then raised tendrils that transformed into crystalline spears, so Cas urged everyone to retreat.
• In the corridor, Ni Huayuan argued that they should leave, but Cas insisted the phenomenon was relevant to their investigation despite having no clear way to handle it.
• Fu Qian said he also had no good solution and pointed out that Kamakura Mi had yet to make a move.

Fu Qian sent Kamakura Mi to confront the crystal pool’s growing abnormalities, and Kamakura Mi’s swordsmanship failed to damage them. After he was wounded and dropped his saber, the pool’s creatures suddenly split apart under the Severing Divine Seal, leaving Fu Qian to recognize the seal’s power.

• Fu Qian argued that Kamakura Mi’s family history of guarding graves made him suited to face the threat, and Cas ordered him to try.
• Kamakura Mi entered through the Stone Door and attacked the crystal pool’s strange, living shapes with his family’s sword technique.
• Kamakura Mi failed to break the creatures’ defenses, was wounded in the arm, and dropped his saber.
• The crystal wheel he had attacked developed a cut, then cracks spread through every shape in the pool until they shattered into fragments.
• Fu Qian realized the Severing Divine Seal had split the crystal creatures apart, even though Kamakura Mi’s saber had not harmed them.

Fu Qian and Cas concluded that the Kamakura Family’s cursed sword drew on higher-level power after Kamakura Mi’s strike shattered the crystal pool. Fu Qian suspected the pool had once contained followers of the Nameless Deity and that something similar to the Kamakura Family’s transformation had happened to them.

• Cas ordered A Kai and the others to treat Kamakura Mi after his cursed sword reduced the crystal pool to sand.
• Fu Qian and Cas noted the sword’s unexpectedly powerful effect and suspected the problem lay within the Kamakura Family.
• Ni Huayuan urged the group to collect samples and continue his plan, but Cas left him to pursue it alone.
• Fu Qian noticed that the hand-like creature in the pool resembled the mutated being behind the wall, and Ji Liushuang confirmed the resemblance.
• Fu Qian speculated that the pool had once held the Nameless Deity’s followers and asked whether they had undergone a change like the Kamakura Family.

Fu Qian proposed that the strange pool and the Kamakura Family’s Cursed Sword Dao might be connected to an ancient deity, provoking Kamakura Mi to defend his family’s history. The group accepted that the ruin held secrets about the swordsmanship but left its workings unresolved, and Cas ordered them to collect samples and return.

• Fu Qian speculated that the pool was formed through repeated cycles of believers being chopped up and restored, possibly under a divine blessing.
• Jian Jingzheng pointed out that Fu Qian had never been part of the investigation team, making everyone question his motives and knowledge of the ruin.
• Kamakura Mi rejected Fu Qian’s theory and said the family’s swordsmanship came from their ancestors’ cultivation insights, not a deity.
• Fu Qian considered that the Cursed Sword Dao might be a ritual calling on a higher power, while wondering whether the ritual or the deity had gone wrong.
• Cas told the group to take samples and return, concluding that the ruin concealed ancient secrets even though they could not explain the swordsmanship.

Cas's group collected a sample from the crystal pool and returned to the city, where A Kai discussed the Institute of Curses and its miracles with Fu Qian. Fu Qian learned that miracles could be reproduced by following their exact procedures, but only their discoverers gained advancement feedback, and he realized that simply reciting an incantation might still work.

• Cas ordered the group to take samples from the crystal pool, and A Kai bottled some of its water without any reaction.
• The group returned toward the city with the gravediggers, and Ni Huayuan's plan to hunt the killer was quietly abandoned.
• A Kai asked Fu Qian whether ancient deities could still answer when called, and Fu Qian replied that it was only a guess.
• Ji Liushuang explained that the Institute of Curses used accumulated knowledge to produce miracles and had strict admission standards.
• Fu Qian asked whether perfectly copying a miracle's materials and procedures would reproduce its effects, and A Kai confirmed that it would.
• A Kai explained that only the person who discovered a miracle gained advancement feedback, and Fu Qian realized that reciting an incantation might be enough to use one.

Fu Qian investigated the Kamakura Family’s swordsmanship and concluded that their meditation and swordplay formed a prayer ritual, then offered to treat Kamakura Shinji. He cleared the room and activated the Return Edict, leaving the treatment’s result unknown.

• Fu Qian questioned Kamakura Mi about the family’s meditation and learned that they used a special method to calm their minds.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the Kamakura Family’s ritual might be failing because its members had become unfaithful to their deity.
• Cas assigned the group to find a way to stop the Kamakura Family’s condition, and Fu Qian offered a treatment with a chance of failure and a risk of making the patient permanently ordinary.
• Kamakura Mi asked Fu Qian to treat Shinji first, since he was in the worst condition.
• Fu Qian sent everyone out of Shinji’s room and activated the Return Edict.

Yun used the Return Edict on Kamakura Shinji, removing the mark that had anchored the Kamakura family to the nameless god and stopping his wounds from worsening. A new mission prompt revealed that watching Everyone Knows the Notorious had caused the divine mark to go out of control, and Yun set out to investigate further.

• Yun concluded that the Kamakura family’s ritual could be countered by targeting the divine anchor and used the Return Edict on Kamakura Shinji.
• The Edict dispelled A Kai’s miracle, causing Shinji’s wounds to reopen, but Yun kept him on the bed and continued the test.
• Shinji’s birthmark vanished, and his wounds stopped tearing wider after Yun deactivated the Edict.
• Yun learned that Shinji had been watching Everyone Knows the Notorious before meditating and recognized the show as the source of the corruption.
• A mission prompt told Yun to remove all severance marks and establish contact with the nameless god, and he went to find someone.

Fu Qian used the Return Edict to cure the Kamakura Family’s curse, erasing the marks that had made them tomb guardians and returning them to ordinary lives. After leaving the academy group behind, he set off to pursue legal archaeology.

• Fu Qian concluded that An Jing Shizhi had masterminded the Kamakura Family’s curse and suspected the Native Council had helped.
• Fu Qian told Kamakura Mi and the others that Kamakura Shinji was recovering, then offered treatment to the affected family members.
• Kamakura Keiji urged Kamakura Mi to accept Fu Qian’s help, and the tomb guardians stayed for treatment.
• Fu Qian activated the Return Edict, healing the tomb guardians and making their marks and cursed swords disappear.
• Fu Qian dismissed Ni Huayuan’s hostile question, welcomed a future visit to the academy through A Kai, and left to go archaeology.

Fu Qian returned to the ruins to complete his mission of establishing a connection with the Nameless God, using the Kamakura Family’s Cursed Sword Dao as a model. He began striking the crystalline mass in the pool, trying to invoke the god’s power.

• The academy members confirmed that the Kamakura Family’s curse and bodily marks had disappeared, though their levels had fallen to zero and they were now ordinary people.
• Kamakura Keiji said Mr. Yun had merely sat with them before the curse stopped, leaving the academy members baffled.
• Cas said the situation was temporarily stable and arranged for the academy to observe the family for several more days.
• Fu Qian returned to the ruins and used a tentacle to probe the pool, then retrieved Ji Liushuang’s sword and provoked the crystalline mass into forming an arm.
• Fu Qian copied the Kamakura Family’s Cursed Sword Dao and repeatedly slashed the crystalline arm while silently invoking the Nameless God.

Fu Qian used the Kamakura Family's Butcher's Knife Technique to fracture the pool and draw the attention of an Unknown God, while the Kamakura instructors suspected he had caused their loss of control and Divine Seal. He promised Ji Liushuang he would return to the academy, then completed his mission by containing No. 3-0129.

• Fu Qian repeatedly struck the pool's grotesque hands with the Butcher's Knife Technique, then landed a final blow that spread cracks through the crystalline surface.
• Fu Qian sensed a growing connection to an ancient Unknown God as cuts appeared across his body, and he called out the Ji Liushuang hiding behind the Stone Door.
• Jian Jingzheng told the Kamakura Family instructors that Fu Qian had returned to the ruin and suggested he might have caused the family's loss of control and Divine Seal.
• Ji Liushuang said she had come to retrieve her sword and asked whether Fu Qian would visit the academy; Fu Qian promised he would and handed her the sword.
• Fu Qian's mission completed, and No. 3-0129 was successfully contained.

Fu Qian completed the Kamakura mission and received the Old Day Engraving, a powerful skill that inflicted wounds indiscriminately under the Mad God's gaze. Back at the mansion, he gave Su Gao the Abyss Notebook, warning her about its side effect.

• The mission evaluation reported that the Kamakura family had lost its role as tombkeepers, while the Night Watchers sealed the ruins and the clan could no longer summon the Nameless Deity.
• Fu Qian received the Old Day Engraving and inferred that the Nameless Deity was dead, though its authority remained intact in a mad corpse.
• Fu Qian activated the Old Day Engraving to test its power, enduring multiplying wounds that quickly healed after he turned the skill off.
• Fu Qian returned to the mansion at the same time he had left and gave Su Gao the Abyss Notebook, warning her that it would remember her if she opened it.

Fu Qian and Su Gao discussed their plans after the Divine Envoy’s visit, then received a visit from Yin Hehong, the Night Watchers’ regional chief on Leaf Island. Yin Hehong said An Jing Shizhi had told him about Su Gao’s presence, and Fu Qian realized An Jing was using the Night Watchers to investigate them amid his escalating conflict with the Siren.

• Fu Qian decided not to rush their departure and told Su Gao to rest while he considered how his recent assignments might be connected.
• Fu Qian put on two masks in case the Divine Envoy returned, but Yin Hehong arrived instead.
• Fu Qian recognized Yin Hehong as the Night Watchers’ regional chief and suspected his visit was connected to the Divine Envoy’s inquiry.
• Su Gao came downstairs and greeted Yin Hehong after he identified her as Lady Violetta.
• Yin Hehong said An Jing Shizhi had informed him about Su Gao and explained that An Jing was wary because clashes with the Siren were escalating.
• Fu Qian concluded that An Jing had turned to the Night Watchers to investigate or monitor them because he was under pressure and wanted to control unexpected developments.

Yin Hehong explained Leaf Island’s policy toward conflicts between Transcendents and invited Su Gao to respect its order, while warning Fu Qian that he wanted to see him die. After Yin Hehong left, Fu Qian and Su Gao discussed what he knew about An Jing and Siren, and Fu Qian went to check on Kanna Kisaragi but found her hut closed.

• Yin Hehong told Fu Qian that An Jing and Siren had suffered heavy losses in their conflict, which the Night Watchers allowed as long as ordinary people stayed safe.
• Yin Hehong recognized Fu Qian’s Infamy Badge and said its game had not crossed the line, then welcomed Su Gao to Leaf Island and warned Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao concluded that Yin Hehong did not know about An Jing’s Miracle Potion violations and might mistake them for Siren’s hired muscle or Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian left Su Gao behind and went to visit Kanna Kisaragi, but found the diviner’s hut closed.
• A sweet voice greeted Fu Qian from behind as he stood outside Kanna Kisaragi’s hut.

Fu Qian and Hayami Suzune found Chie Kisaragi tied up in Takagi’s hidden room and learned that Takagi had taken Kanna Kisaragi. Chie warned them that Kanna was in danger and asked them to find her.

• Fu Qian met Hayami Suzune near the Kisaragi house and headed to Takagi’s home, with Suzune following him.
• Fu Qian picked the locks and discovered a hidden room behind a bookcase.
• Fu Qian and Hayami Suzune found Chie Kisaragi bound to a chair and freed her.
• Chie told them that Kanna had summoned her the previous night, then Takagi tied her up and took Kanna away.
• Chie warned that Takagi was unstable and asked Fu Qian and Hayami Suzune to find Kanna as soon as possible.