Recaps

Fu Qian investigated Rick Wesley’s former office at the hospital and found that the contamination had affected people who were not close to its source. The Night Watchers arrived and claimed the office had been empty since Rick retired, leaving Fu Qian to challenge the woman who insisted it was hers.

• Fu Qian concluded that the medical professional he encountered had been contaminated, like two people who had obstructed him earlier.
• Fu Qian asked the medical professional where Rick Wesley’s office was, but the man said he did not know and hurried away.
• An elderly gentleman gave Fu Qian directions to Rick’s office, but Fu Qian found no room matching the address.
• Fu Qian entered a woman’s office and asked whether it had once belonged to Rick, but she insisted she had worked there for more than ten years.
• Three Night Watchers entered and said the office had been empty ever since Rick Wesley retired.
• Fu Qian used the Night Watchers’ claim to challenge the woman’s certainty that the office had always been hers.

Fu Qian investigated Rick’s former office, where he encountered an elderly woman who had mistakenly entered and three Night Watchers searching for the same place. After revealing his name and triggering their attack, he vanished with Clear Dream, and the old woman began disappearing as well.

• The elderly woman realized she had entered the wrong place, then revealed that she knew Rick’s office and asked what Fu Qian wanted with him.
• The three Night Watchers questioned Fu Qian, who introduced himself by showing them a card bearing the name Gorimshaw; their leader’s power burned it to charcoal.
• Fu Qian warned the elderly woman to stay clear of the danger, but the Night Watchers accused him of trying to take her hostage.
• Fu Qian activated Clear Dream and vanished as the Night Watchers attacked his empty position.
• A Night Watcher grabbed the elderly woman to help her escape, but she began disappearing, while a giant claw tore through Fu Qian’s afterimage.

Fu Qian confronted the supernatural force controlling the old woman and questioned its connection to Rick Wesley. After it attacked a Night Watcher to provoke him, Fu Qian observed the strike’s effects and identified it as conceptual damage.

• Fu Qian explained how he escaped Clear Dream and realized the old woman had broken free while still under an inhuman force’s influence.
• The old woman attacked Fu Qian with a phantom claw, and he dodged while greeting the mysterious entity.
• Fu Qian ended Clear Dream, restoring the three Night Watchers, and the old woman raised her claw against a rescuer.
• Fu Qian questioned the entity about Rick Wesley and refused to intervene when it brought the claw down on a Night Watcher.
• Fu Qian observed the victim stiffen without physical injury and concluded that the claw inflicted conceptual damage.

Fu Qian watched as the old woman’s attack left a Night Watcher’s body intact but damaged his Primal Self, then allowed the Night Watchers to withdraw with her. After they left, Fu Qian stayed in Mr. Rick’s former office, having already achieved his goal of giving the Night Watchers information to report.

• The Night Watchers pulled their injured teammate away from the old woman while Fu Qian watched.
• The injured Night Watcher said something was wrong as his body began to curl unnaturally, and Fu Qian recognized that the old woman’s claw had damaged his Primal Self.
• The Night Watchers’ leader decided to retreat and report the incident rather than risk his teammate’s life.
• The old woman woke from her sleepwalking, lost her supernatural power, and was no longer dangerous.
• Fu Qian told the Night Watchers they could take the old woman with them, and they withdrew with her and their injured teammate.
• Fu Qian remained in the office without searching it, since provoking the Night Watchers to act and carry information back had been his goal.

Fu Qian investigated Rick Wesley’s office and concluded that a dormant supernatural creation connected to dreams might be the source of the Sin Plague. At the Wesley mansion, Winona warned Claire that Rick was dangerous, just as an unseen speaker suggested he was hiding from an even greater threat.

• Fu Qian examined the documents in Rick Wesley’s office and reasoned that Rick’s contamination had likely mutated recently.
• Fu Qian suspected that a special creation dormant within a dream was spreading the Sin Plague and considered how to destroy it.
• Fu Qian left Rick’s office largely undisturbed so the Night Watchers might wrongly believe he had already found what he wanted.
• Claire pressed Winona for an update, and Winona said that Rick’s former contacts had shown signs of supernatural abilities.
• Winona began to warn Claire about the person Rick was hiding from when a voice beside them interrupted.

Fu Qian returned to Claire’s home, where Winona failed to stop him and tried to protect Claire by insisting she posed no threat. He questioned Winona about her search and Mr. Rick, then the Night Watchers’ reinforcements arrived as a gunshot and green light erupted beside him.

• Winona recognized Fu Qian’s voice, attacked in a burst of fury, and then froze when he calmly approached Claire and took his seat.
• Winona abandoned her fighting stance and tried to persuade Fu Qian that Claire was an ordinary person who had no value to him.
• Fu Qian challenged Winona’s description of ordinary people and asked why she assumed Claire could not matter to him.
• Winona inferred that Fu Qian had found something at the hospital and asked what it was; he called it interesting but troublesome, then asked whether Mr. Rick had mentioned him.
• Winona said Mr. Rick had not seemed to know Fu Qian and asked how he knew the man had been found.
• A gunshot and a sea of green light appeared beside Fu Qian as the Night Watchers’ reinforcements arrived.

Leilan ambushed Fu Qian with a supernatural attack that infected him with a crystal-forming poison and gave the Night Watchers a way to track him. Leilan demanded an honest conversation, but Fu Qian suggested killing the tracker, and Leilan revealed that Los could share the tracking effect.

• Leilan launched a massive green-bullet ambush that crystallized Fu Qian’s flesh even as Fu Qian activated Blood Conquest.
• Winona tackled Claire out of the way, but Leilan assured Winona that Fu Qian had stayed in place and would not attack them pointlessly.
• Fu Qian reappeared unharmed apart from the infection, and Leilan explained that a special talisman had destabilized supernatural effects in the bullet and triggered its transformation.
• Leilan said the poison would turn Fu Qian’s body into lifeless matter and let the Night Watchers track him, then demanded an honest conversation about their goals and limits.
• Fu Qian proposed killing Leilan to stop the tracking, but Leilan revealed that Los, the Night Watchers’ demigod chief, could share the tracking effect.

Leilan explained how the Night Watchers had prepared to trap Fu Qian and tried to force him to answer their questions, but Fu Qian realized their real goal might be to keep him there. He warned that their actions could leave the city in danger, and the chapter ended with Leilan shaken by the threat.

• Leilan praised Winona for calling for backup and explained that the Night Watchers had planned around Fu Qian’s arrogance and abilities.
• Leilan offered to let Fu Qian question Claire after he answered their questions, warning that the spell’s contamination and tracking would persist.
• Fu Qian suspected that the Night Watchers’ true aim was to make him stay and possibly bring Mr. Rick to the scene.
• Fu Qian said he was unhappy with their approach and warned Claire that the city might not have much time left.
• Leilan’s composure faltered at Fu Qian’s warning.

Fu Qian left the Wesley home after challenging the Night Watchers to hunt him as their marked target, while warning that Los faced a city-destroying threat. A red-haired gunslinger stopped him outside by firing a trench through the grounds, and the chapter ended with her aiming her revolver at him.

• Fu Qian told Winona and Leilan that a city-destroying threat was brewing in Los, but refused to explain unless they hunted him down.
• Fu Qian left the Wesley home, and Leilan decided to take Claire with them while they waited to see what the Night Watchers would do.
• A roar interrupted the group as Fu Qian approached the exit, and Leilan watched the route Gorimshaw had taken.
• A red-haired gunslinger fired her revolver, creating a deep trench that blocked Fu Qian's path out of the Wesley grounds.
• The gunslinger dismissed Fu Qian's concerns about property damage and bystanders, then kept pointing her gun at him.

Fu Qian spoke with Thirteen, Los’s chief, and learned that her supernatural ability amplified the power of her guns. He revealed that he had refused to cooperate so she would come in person, then used Clear Dream on her, prompting her to aim both guns at him.

• Fu Qian asked the gunfighter demigod her name, and she identified herself as Thirteen.
• Thirteen told Fu Qian that her powerful shot had been a warning meant to persuade him to stay and cooperate.
• As they walked outside the courtyard, Thirteen explained that her ability made supernatural structures and attacks burn explosively, amplifying her bullets.
• Thirteen questioned why Fu Qian had refused to cooperate, and he said he had wanted her to appear in person.
• Fu Qian activated Clear Dream, but Thirteen quickly broke free and aimed both guns at him.

Fu Qian tested Lady Thirteen and confirmed that she might be infected with the Evil Plague, then realized she was leading him toward Mr. Rick. He walked with her, intending to use the Night Watchers as support, and asked about Mr. Rick’s attacks on animals.

• Fu Qian concluded that Lady Thirteen may have caught the highly contagious Evil Plague and that the Night Watchers’ isolation plan was justified.
• Lady Thirteen fired a strange electric bullet at Fu Qian, who caught and crushed it in a giant frost-covered claw before diagnosing her dream and emotional-control problems.
• Lady Thirteen praised Fu Qian’s power and said she believed he did not intend to threaten Winona and the others.
• Fu Qian and Lady Thirteen admitted they had both been testing each other, and Fu Qian realized she was stalling and guiding him toward Mr. Rick.
• Fu Qian decided to take advantage of Lady Thirteen’s presence and asked why Mr. Rick attacked cats and fish.

Fu Qian discussed Rick’s strange habits with the Thirteenth Chief, speculating that age and his bizarre ecosystem philosophy might explain them. He warned that a crisis was approaching Los and kept walking despite her demand to stop, catching her shot with his frost-covered hand as frost burst from his chest.

• The Thirteenth Chief said Rick’s licking habit had begun after he turned fifty-nine, prompting Fu Qian to wonder whether age also explained the senior doctors’ behavior.
• Fu Qian suggested Rick’s habits came from growing more eager to connect with his ecosystem, while the Thirteenth Chief described Rick’s belief that he was its center.
• The Thirteenth Chief questioned why Fu Qian had come to Los, and he said shadows loomed over the city and fate was about to arrive.
• Fu Qian continued walking after the Thirteenth Chief ordered him to stop, so she fired at him.
• Fu Qian caught the shot with his frost-covered hand, and frost violently burst from his chest.

Fu Qian survived Lady Thirteen’s explosive ambush and revealed that his apparent demigod identity was a deliberate cover. Lady Thirteen accused him of manipulating events to cultivate a change in Mr. Rick, then revealed that she had ordered Mr. Rick executed.

• Fu Qian stopped the ice crystals erupting from his chest and explained that Lady Thirteen had used the gunshot to distract him while detonating his existing wound.
• Fu Qian revealed that he had concealed his true power and adopted a prepared cover identity, while Lady Thirteen admitted her ambush had failed to seriously injure him.
• Lady Thirteen warned Fu Qian that the Night Watchers would target him, while he said he was waiting for fate.
• Lady Thirteen accused Fu Qian of steering Mr. Rick into contact with the Night Watchers to cultivate a special change in him.
• Lady Thirteen revealed that she had ordered Mr. Rick executed on the spot rather than brought back.

Fu Qian learned that the Night Watchers had executed the mutated Mr. Rick, but Lady Thirteen revealed that two demigods were pursuing him. He escaped after removing Leilan’s tracking trace and set out to find the mysterious creature he believed was his real target.

• Lady Thirteen told Fu Qian that the Night Watchers had executed Mr. Rick despite his dangerous mutation.
• Lady Thirteen revealed that a demigod had overseen the execution and warned Fu Qian that another demigod was pursuing him.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Mr. Rick had been spreading corruption through a vow and that the mysterious creature might have been trying to exploit Rick.
• Fu Qian joked that his actions deserved a reward, and Lady Thirteen offered to register him with the Association after he survived the pursuit.
• Lady Thirteen drew her guns as Fu Qian sensed two demigods, but he vanished after erasing Leilan’s tracking trace and headed for the mysterious creature.

Fu Qian used the Night Watchers to eliminate Mr. Rick, then returned to the hospital and made a corrupted old doctor the core of a dream. He discovered that the dream opened onto a place inhabited by other elderly people, suggesting a possible path to the mysterious creature.

• Fu Qian left as Master Gorimshaw vanished and concluded that Mr. Rick had to die to expose the creature hiding through him.
• Fu Qian returned to the hospital and visited the old doctor who had earlier given him directions.
• Fu Qian made the old doctor enter a dream and wander through a strange door into a sunlit square filled with elderly people.
• Fu Qian used False God Incarnation to raise his rank, overcome the corrupted doctor's resistance, and make him the dream's core.
• Fu Qian discovered other old people at the edges of the dream and wondered whether the creature's hiding place was tied to corrupted people over fifty-nine.

Fu Qian entered a shared dreamland to find the corrupted being behind Mr. Rick’s death, but instead of searching its vast expanse, he used the Glorious Tyrant to tear the dream apart. He destroyed the entity’s hiding place and left the force driving him out replaced by its anguished howl.

• Fu Qian explored the plaza and concluded that the dream was a convergence of many people’s dreams, making it difficult to locate his hidden target.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the target’s corruption had restricted its range and that its effort to expel him showed it could not simply escape elsewhere.
• Fu Qian transformed into the Glorious Tyrant and began unraveling the dream rather than searching through it.
• Fu Qian reached through a fissure at an aged sculpture and used Internal Organ Critical Hit to destroy the target as a single whole.
• The force rejecting Fu Qian vanished, and the corrupted being let out a soul-piercing howl.

Fu Qian confronted the mysterious creature inhabiting the old man after destroying its sanctuary, and it transformed into a giant body while keeping its host unharmed. Fu Qian rang the Eternal Clarity of Thought, stopping the creature’s raised claw midair.

• Fu Qian returned to the Reappearance Office and found the old man transformed, with growth-covered eyes and giant claws emerging beneath his ribs.
• The creature threatened to kill Fu Qian and explained that destroying its sanctuary had freed it from its restraints.
• Fu Qian told the creature that he would kill both it and the old man if it tried to escape, and the creature began pulling its full body out of its host.
• The creature transformed into a gigantic, tissue-covered dragon while carefully restoring the old man’s body.
• Fu Qian rang the Eternal Clarity of Thought, freezing the giant claw raised to strike the old man.

Fu Qian used Eternal Clarity of Thought to wound the source of the evil plague, then pursued it as it tried to escape. After its body burst apart, he attacked it again in the void, bringing its massive form back into view.

• Fu Qian used Eternal Clarity of Thought to freeze the dragon and tore into its chest and abdomen, but the source of the evil plague soon recovered and accused him of using the hostage as bait.
• Fu Qian explained to himself how he had timed the attack, then activated Blood Conquest and adopted a higher-rank perspective.
• The wounded source of the evil plague fled through a wall and into the sky, but Fu Qian followed and trapped its wings with Thread of Concern.
• Fu Qian struck it again with Internal Organ Critical Hit, causing its body to burst into strands.
• Fu Qian used Extreme Hunger Infection to cross the sky, unleashed Frostburn Myriad Tentacles in the void, and brought the source of the evil plague's massive body back into view.

Fu Qian defeated Delusion, the corrupted being behind Mr. Rick’s worsening condition, and heard its final explanation before it crumbled. Delusion revealed a vision of Fu Qian’s higher form and the King of Prison Break, but Fu Qian’s attempt to clarify the image only made it blur as the mission ended.

• Fu Qian explained how he had tracked and destroyed Delusion’s concealed core using the Wriggling Seed and Extreme Hunger Infection.
• Delusion identified itself as fear made flesh and explained that a filthy authority had corrupted it, leaving it able to control only a sliver of its will.
• Delusion thanked Fu Qian as its body crumbled and showed him a vision of a vast river, the King of Prison Break, and Fu Qian’s higher form.
• The mission notification announced that containment of 2-020 had succeeded.
• Fu Qian used Gospel Blast on Delusion’s fading will, but the vision became even blurrier before disappearing.

Fu Qian suspected that the Blasphemy Monarch had corrupted Huo and shaped the events around Mr. Rick, then finished the task by killing Huo and granting it repose. The Warehouse’s evaluation confirmed that Fu Qian had thwarted another chance for the Blasphemy Monarch to escape, while awarding him a special reward.

• Fu Qian reasoned that the Blasphemy Monarch may have corrupted Huo and manipulated its thoughts and apparent gratitude.
• Fu Qian suspected that Huo’s offer to show him an advancement ritual had been another part of the deception.
• The Warehouse evaluated Fu Qian’s task, explaining that Mr. Rick’s corruption had spread through concepts and that Fu Qian had given Huo complete repose.
• The Warehouse recorded Huo’s death and awarded Fu Qian 25 Sanity Value and the special reward Typhoid Fear.

Fu Qian pieced together how Mr. Rick's contamination worked and confirmed that the Blasphemy Monarch had manipulated Rick and targeted Jian. He received the Typhoid Fear statue as his reward, clocked out of the Warehouse, and prepared to check on Young Master Qin and the others.

• Fu Qian realized that Mr. Rick's contamination could reach unseen targets and that approaching Rick while concealed would have been fatal.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Blasphemy Monarch had made Mr. Rick its oathbound and had tried to claim Jian, while Jian had understood the truth before she died.
• Fu Qian examined his reward, the Typhoid Fear statue, which could make a target sense an unavoidable death threat for fifty-nine minutes.
• Fu Qian received notice that his work was complete and his weekly progress was 2/4.
• Fu Qian activated the mark on his wrist to check on Young Master Qin and the others.

Fu Qian opened the bookstore and arranged a lunch break so he could use Wen Li’s emotional power to influence the Greedy Worms, who were arguing over whether the King of Prison Break’s blessing was a trap. The chapter ended as Fu Qian unleashed a wave of fear and attempted to activate a dragon-shaped figurine against the group’s most skeptical member.

• Fu Qian finished his morning inspection, returned to the bookstore, and found Wen Li serving a busy crowd of customers.
• Fu Qian interrupted a customer’s inquiry by declaring a lunch break and sent everyone out of the bookstore.
• Wen Li asked Fu Qian what he needed, and he requested another emotional ripple, this time one of fear.
• Fu Qian listened as the Greedy Worms debated whether the King of Prison Break’s blessing was genuine or a trap.
• Wen Li sent a wave of fear toward the arguing Greedy Worms, while Fu Qian tried to activate a dragon-shaped figurine against the old man who doubted the blessing.

Fu Qian used the statue he had received as a mission reward to inflict a shadow of death on Greedy Worm, turning their doubts into fear of the Death Master’s wrath. He left the group struggling to understand what was happening and sent Wen Li to visit Jiang En.

• Fu Qian decided to test how faith affected Greedy Worm by punishing the group for doubting the Death Master.
• Fu Qian used the statue to target Greedy Worm through their connection, and Wen Li watched as its effect took hold.
• The Old Man felt an overwhelming premonition of death after voicing his doubts and covered himself in golden spikes.
• Master Tooth Choker and the other members of Greedy Worm also felt groundless fear, and the Old Man warned them that something was above them.
• Fu Qian withdrew his attention, thanked Wen Li for helping, and sent her to visit Jiang En.

Fu Qian gave Wen Li a Deception Ritual Elixir for Jiang En, hoping he could use it to advance through a different ritual and inspire the Greedy Worms. Wen Li led Fu Qian to Jiang En’s home, where they found him shut away and wearing the painful Tooth Choker, and Fu Qian activated Clear Dream.

• Fu Qian explained that the Deception Ritual Elixir could let a transcendent use a ritual not meant for them, and asked Wen Li to deliver it to Jiang En as a thank-you gift.
• Fu Qian and Wen Li walked to Jiang En’s home during their lunch break, and Wen Li slipped past its security measures.
• Wen Li told Fu Qian that Jiang En had shut himself away, though an unusual item seemed to be keeping his body active.
• Fu Qian identified the item clamped to Jiang En’s arm as the Tooth Choker and found Jiang En lying motionless beyond the closed door.
• Fu Qian decided to shape Jiang En’s comeback story and activated Clear Dream.

Fu Qian and Wen Li chose the Death Wish ritual to help Jiang En break through the Intermediate Tier bottleneck. After Jiang En woke from the Clear Dream, the Tooth Choker triggered its ancient seal and revealed a secret advancement ritual to him.

• Fu Qian asked Wen Li to choose a ritual for Jiang En, and she proposed the Death Wish ritual she had learned from Chief Yuan.
• Wen Li explained that the ritual required sitting in darkness, bleeding, and ignoring the approach of death while a Divine creature attacked the focus of one's will.
• Fu Qian approved the ritual and told Wen Li that Jiang En had already received it through the Supernatural Item on his arm.
• Jiang En woke and reached for the Tooth Choker, which had grown hot and pierced his arm.
• The Tooth Choker released translucent liquid and voices in Jiang En's mind as its ancient seal activated, revealing a secret advancement ritual.