Recaps

Fu Qian destroyed the blood mirrors and confronted the figure they reassembled into, who identified himself as Third Xun and warned that harm done to him would be reflected back onto Fu Qian. Fu Qian learned that the Holy Land had rules affecting people and Xiyuan City, then asked whether those rules were connected to the Sacred Tree.

• Fu Qian used his ice Biochemical Demon Arm to destroy the blood mirrors and the walkway, suffering cracks across his body in the process.
• The Saint reassembled from the mirror fragments and criticized Fu Qian, but Fu Qian raised his Bell Staff to attack again.
• The Saint called himself Third Xun and claimed that any harm inflicted on him would be reflected back onto Fu Qian.
• Third Xun warned that the Holy Land's rules affected everyone within it and said the others had already learned humility.
• Fu Qian asked whether the rules governing the Holy Land and spreading through Xiyuan City were connected to the Sacred Tree.

Fu Qian questioned Third Xun about the Holy Land before following the main rescue team through the ancient building. He arrived at their gathering dressed in Xun-inspired robes and greeted Sha Ming, leaving the group facing his unexpected appearance.

• Fu Qian asked Third Xun whether obeying the Holy Land's rules could lead someone closer to its core, but Third Xun refused to answer and vanished after costing him one Sanity Value.
• Fu Qian considered Third Xun's motives and concluded that the Holy Land punished rule-breaking rather than forbidding it outright.
• Fu Qian used Blood Conquest to cross the ancient building and reach the larger group gathered near Old Master Huang, paying a heavy physical cost along the way.
• Fu Qian changed into gold-and-white robes inspired by the Xun while keeping Gorimshaw's face, then entered the hall where the group had fallen silent.
• Fu Qian looked across Old Master Huang and asked whether the person there was Sha Ming.

Fu Qian met Sha Ming and Old Master Huang Leji’s rescue team in the holy land, where he questioned Sha Ming about their previous visit. The team turned strangely united as Huang Leji pressed Fu Qian to explain how he knew they had come the day before.

• Fu Qian introduced himself as First Xun and sat with Sha Ming and Huang Leji’s team, unsettling them with his casual movement.
• Fu Qian asked Sha Ming whether this was his first time in the holy land, and Sha Ming said it was.
• Fu Qian asked whether Sha Ming’s group had come the previous day, and Sha Ming admitted they had entered before midnight, when the strange building and rules were absent.
• The furious team members crowded toward Sha Ming, but Huang Leji silenced them and approached Fu Qian.
• Huang Leji asked how Fu Qian knew they had visited the day before, and the entire team, including Sha Ming, stepped forward with peculiar smiles.

Fu Qian discovered that the rescue team was connected by mysterious chains that spread any change to everyone linked. Sha Ming explained that the chains appeared after the team left a hall of mirrors, and Fu Qian had just been drawn into the link.

• Fu Qian said he had met Huang Zhixun long ago, prompting Sha Ming and the others to react with surprise.
• Fu Qian explained that he had not known Sha Ming’s intentions and had stayed because the team’s disguise seemed unconvincing.
• Huang Zhen introduced himself and asked why Fu Qian had stayed despite noticing something was wrong.
• Fu Qian noticed illusory chains connecting him and the rescue team, and realized the group had moved Huang Leji close to him to extend the link.
• Sha Ming explained that the chains appeared after the team left a place full of mirrors, could not be escaped, and caused changes to one linked person to affect everyone else.

Fu Qian discovered that the heart-blooming wounds spreading through the group had originated with Old Master Huang Zhen, who called them a path to transcendence and used their shared suffering to demand that Fu Qian reveal what he knew. Huang Zhen then climbed a raised platform as the same wounds opened on everyone.

• Fu Qian reasoned that the group's size had triggered the Chain of Shared Hardship and examined the wounds opening around his heart.
• Fu Qian asked who had first developed the heart-blooming condition, and Old Master Huang Zhen revealed that he had brought it into the Mirror House.
• Old Master Huang Zhen said the condition would lead to transcendence rather than death and that the recent change had spread it to everyone.
• Old Master Huang Zhen demanded that Fu Qian disclose everything he knew, arguing that they were now bound together.
• Fu Qian challenged Huang Zhen's leverage, but Huang Zhen said he was willing to die and began climbing a raised platform as everyone bled in unison.

Fu Qian tested the bond linking the group by killing Old Master Huang, triggering a spreading death effect that withered everyone’s heads. Sha Ming struck the corpse with electricity, turning it into a mass of flowers and severing the bond before the effect could continue.

• Old Master Huang walked up and down the platform, accepting new wounds through the bond to pressure Fu Qian into giving in.
• Fu Qian fired an ice spear at Huang Zhen, then killed him with an Air Bullet when he dodged the first attack.
• Huang Leji shouted at Fu Qian as Huang Zhen’s death spread through the bond, withering the heads of everyone in the group.
• Sha Ming struck Huang Zhen’s corpse with an electric attack, causing it to transform into a mass of flowers and dissolve its connection to the bond.
• Fu Qian praised Sha Ming after the spreading death effect stopped.

Sha Ming revealed that Blood Lion had returned to seek something that might grant divinity, and explained how his group’s Mind World item and Huang Zhixun were connected to the strange place. He concluded that the place was likely a projection of Huang Zhixun’s Mind World and that finding him was their only way out.

• Sha Ming stopped the spread of death with a casual wave, prompting Huang Leji to demand that he explain what he had been hiding.
• Sha Ming said Blood Lion was seeking something that might grant divinity, which Huang Zhixun had encountered before and now regretted passing up.
• Sha Ming admitted that he had tried to provoke the unseen being during the crisis and believed its power was connected to the thing that had affected him.
• Sha Ming denied creating the strange structures and said a Supernatural Item that enabled entry into the Mind World had disappeared along with Huang Zhixun.
• Sha Ming explained that three people were needed to activate the item, and said Huang Zhixun had likely made a Mind World projection with help from a higher being.
• Sha Ming said they had to go deeper and find Huang Zhixun to escape.

Sha Ming explained how Huang Zhixun’s scheme and the mysterious Being had trapped the group in a projection of the Mind World. The group descended into a muddy underground passage, where Fu Qian predicted conditions would worsen and a stronger Sanity Value loss confirmed it.

• Sha Ming revealed that Huang Zhixun had returned alone with a special item and used the Being to manifest his inner projection, trapping the group.
• Huang Leji and the others agreed to follow Sha Ming through a dark opening that led farther down.
• The group descended sticky, sludge-covered steps while asking what would happen if they died below.
• Sha Ming asked Fu Qian about the danger, and Fu Qian said Huang Zhen had probably died but warned that deeper areas should be more serious.
• A voice from the damp wall triggered a Sanity Value loss of five, confirming the danger had increased.

Fu Qian tested how Third Xun Brother’s Sanity Value-draining attacks affected the bonded team and concluded that Sanity Value might be an attribute unique to administrators. He discovered that attacks from behind drained more Sanity Value, then faced Third Xun Brother with a chilling smile.

• Third Xun Brother appeared and attacked Fu Qian, but Huang Leji and the others could neither see him nor detect his attack.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the team remained unaffected because native Transcendents did not possess Sanity Value, which served as an alternative health bar for administrators.
• Third Xun Brother appeared again and drained five points of Fu Qian’s Sanity Value while the team remained unaffected.
• Fu Qian turned to face Third Xun Brother during another attack and found that the attack drained only one point of Sanity Value.
• Fu Qian realized attacks from behind were more vicious and smiled at Third Xun Brother, who had failed to disappear immediately.

Fu Qian spoke with Third Xun about the increasingly strict laws governing the underground, then joined the others as Huang Leji ordered the group to press onward. The team began descending, while Sha Ming remained composed and addressed Fu Qian as “Mr. Xun.”

• Fu Qian reasoned that Third Xun had staged his failed backstab to test him, then asked why Third Xun would not simply explain the rules.
• Third Xun said that breaking the laws and suffering their punishment was another way to experience them, then disappeared.
• Fu Qian relayed Third Xun’s answer to Huang Leji and watched Sha Ming for signs that he could also perceive the unseen Xun.
• Sha Ming urged the group to keep moving, and Huang Leji ordered his subordinates to advance without falling behind.
• Huang Leji’s subordinates concluded that moving ahead might force Sha Ming to protect them, and some rushed toward the exit.
• Sha Ming invited Fu Qian to proceed with him, addressing him as “Mr. Xun.”

Fu Qian and Sha Ming guided Huang Leji’s group deeper through the passage, with Third Xun confirming that the destination lay beyond the next bend. The group reached a steep final stretch where they were ordered not to move, and Huang Leji confronted Sha Ming about their sudden injuries.

• As the group grew weary and asked how much farther they had to go, Sha Ming said the destination lay beyond the next bend and invited Fu Qian to ask Third Xun for confirmation.
• Fu Qian questioned Third Xun through the wall, and Third Xun confirmed that they would reach the destination after the next bend and would not need to go farther.
• Huang Leji led the group onward, while Sha Ming hinted that the Xun would explain what the title meant and followed the others.
• As Fu Qian caught up with the group, wounds appeared across his body amid cries of alarm and orders for everyone to stay still.
• On the steep final stretch, Huang Leji demanded to know why they were being injured while walking downhill, and Sha Ming replied that they no longer needed to walk farther.

Sha Ming led Huang Leji and his group to a one-way endpoint where going uphill also caused severe injuries, leaving them trapped. He revealed that Huang Zhixun was close by but separated by a boundary, and said he had told Fu Qian this because Fu Qian still had the strength to go farther.

• Huang Leji tested Sha Ming’s claim by walking uphill and suffered fresh injuries, confirming that leaving the path in either direction brought punishment.
• Fu Qian argued that Huang Leji and his group should consider whether escaping their cramped area would help, since the boundary might not follow ordinary logic.
• Sha Ming confirmed that Huang Zhixun had stolen his belongings and returned alone, but admitted he had allowed Huang Zhixun to believe he was acting on his own.
• Fu Qian questioned why Sha Ming had sent a rescue team after Huang Zhixun, and Sha Ming said he had done so because Huang Zhixun was already close to him.
• Sha Ming told Fu Qian that Huang Zhixun was near the endpoint but separated by a difficult boundary, and that he had shared this to motivate Fu Qian to keep going.

Sha Ming revealed that the Xun abhorred divinity and identified Fu Qian as a demigod, but Fu Qian admitted he had impersonated the Xun to provoke a reaction and learn about them. Sha Ming hinted that he had a reason Fu Qian could not refuse, and Third Xun Brother appeared amid countless beams of light.

• Sha Ming explained that the Xun abhorred divinity and said Fu Qian's convincing imitation had exposed him as a high-ranking Transcendent.
• Huang Leji and the others reacted with fear when Fu Qian openly accepted Sha Ming's claim that he was a demigod.
• Fu Qian explained that he had impersonated the Xun to draw out information about them rather than hide his identity.
• Fu Qian said Sha Ming's explanation was not enough to make him do more, and Sha Ming hinted that he knew something about Fu Qian that would compel him.
• Hundreds or thousands of beams of light appeared, with Third Xun Brother standing at their center, and Fu Qian confirmed that he had arrived.

Third Xun revealed that the myriad truths had made the place and everyone in it immutable, trapping the narrator in a form he could not escape. He urged the narrator to fight for freedom, warning that delay would only deepen his hopelessness.

• The narrator suspected Sha Ming was a divine target whose power or tool concealed him from the narrator’s Inspiration.
• Third Xun appeared, reduced the narrator’s Sanity Value by one, and showed him the lines of truth filling the seemingly empty space.
• Third Xun claimed that the myriad truths transcended reality and that his existence was immortal, while the Warehouse’s protection had proved illusory.
• The narrator recognized that Third Xun had once worked for the Warehouse and had abandoned it after witnessing the Law’s immortality.
• Third Xun warned that the narrator was trapped in the cage of myriad truths, bound to return even if he left, and urged him to struggle for freedom.

Fu Qian realized Sha Ming and Third Xun had brought the team through the thorns to expose the laws and push him toward breaking them. He resisted Third Xun’s pressure and learned that Third Xun considered Sanity Value a lifeline, but another rescue team member was suddenly killed on the staircase.

• Fu Qian concluded that the Warehouse had locked his existence to this world, making escape from the cage impossible without abandoning his career.
• Fu Qian inferred that Sha Ming and Third Xun had used the exploration team to reveal the laws, and that they wanted him to test the rules and suffer punishment.
• Third Xun repeatedly reduced Fu Qian’s Sanity Value and was shocked when Fu Qian showed no sign of breaking.
• Fu Qian taunted Third Xun and drew out his claim that he was truly immortal because the lifeline around his neck had been cut loose.
• A rescue team member fell down the staircase and was torn apart by an invisible force.

Sha Ming revealed that his power had grown beyond demigod level and used the rescue team to pressure Fu Qian, while Third Xun Brother disclosed that Sha Ming had an unseen Xun follower to contend with. Fu Qian then called out to Miranda, who appeared and was asked whether she knew she was being used.

• Sha Ming kicked another rescue-team member and restored his appearance, undermining Huang Leji's hope that the team could use their bond as leverage.
• Sha Ming told Huang Leji and Fu Qian that he had been a demigod half an hour earlier and had since grown stronger through the mental projection and exploration.
• Fu Qian questioned why Third Xun Brother was not dealing with Sha Ming, and Third Xun Brother said they would grow together and hinted that someone was already dealing with Sha Ming.
• Fu Qian realized the rescue team had been reduced to material for pressuring him and asked Sha Ming whether Miranda knew the real plan.
• Fu Qian turned toward the path behind them and asked whether Miranda knew she was being used, and Miranda emerged in response.

Fu Qian accepted Sha Ming and San Xun’s advice and tested the Law Remnants, but the holy place suppressed them. He transformed into a massive, mirror-scaled dragon instead, leaving the group terrified and partly buried in rubble.

• Miranda confronted Sha Ming, but Fu Qian judged her actions and the fate of her group as evidence that she was probably not working with him.
• Fu Qian stopped questioning Miranda and accepted the concerns raised by Sha Ming and San Xun, announcing that they would begin.
• Fu Qian tried to activate the Glorious Tyrant and his other powers, but all three auras failed in the holy place.
• Fu Qian put a sedative between his teeth and transformed into a huge, ice-crystal-like dragon, collapsing part of the ancient structure.
• The gathered members emerged from the rubble and stared in terror at Fu Qian’s transformed form, with the Bell Staff still in his mouth.

Fu Qian transformed into a Frost Mirror Dragon and used Gospel Blast against Sha Ming, learning that its mental shock spread through the bonds while leaving Sha Ming’s control of the cage intact. After Third Xun urged him to tear apart the holy place, Fu Qian said he believed him and took another deep breath.

• Fu Qian shaped himself into a Frost Mirror Dragon and roared at Sha Ming with Gospel Blast, causing Sha Ming and the bonded people to reel from mental shock.
• Sha Ming claimed that Fu Qian’s attack could not disrupt his connection to the cage or create an escape opening, and said breaking the barrier would lead to Blood Lion.
• Fu Qian asked whether Huang Zhixun was in the pit, then aimed another Gospel Blast at Third Xun and felt the attack’s reflected impact.
• Third Xun remained unaffected and told Fu Qian that he could banish him by defiling the holy place and tearing the cage apart.
• Fu Qian said he believed Third Xun and took a third deep breath.

Fu Qian used the Prison of Myriad Truths to summon Rainbow of Yao Bian into the underground confrontation. The being immediately unleashed a powerful attack, leaving Fu Qian, Sha Ming, and the others facing the blast.

• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse, recovered, and put on the mask again to reenter the prison.
• Fu Qian struck the lantern and used the Great Summoning Technique to bring a cosmic being into the underground space.
• Rainbow of Yao Bian appeared as a blurry, color-draining figure, stunning Sha Ming and the Xun followers.
• Rainbow of Yao Bian spoke to Fu Qian, then formed a sphere and released a blinding blast across the underground.

Fu Qian and the rescue team escaped Blood Lion’s Mind World projection, finding Blood Lion transformed into golden plants and the Record of True Transcription beside him. Sha Ming insisted that the radiance of Order had returned, while Fu Qian challenged his certainty.

• A dazzling burst erased the wasteland projection without harming the people inside, leaving Fu Qian and the rescue team in a cave.
• Sha Ming stared in shock at the vanished Mind World, while the iridescent figure remained nearby and Third Xun Brother disappeared.
• The group found Blood Lion transformed into golden, flower-laden plants, with scattered clothes and a golden book among the leaves.
• Fu Qian asked Sha Ming for the book’s name, and Sha Ming identified it as the Record of True Transcription.
• The iridescent figure explained that the book recorded and stored laws through resonance, while Sha Ming argued that Order’s radiance had returned and his advancement proved it.
• Fu Qian cut off Sha Ming’s claims by asking what had happened to his one-on-one Follower.

Fu Qian deduced that both the tree and the Record of True Transcription shaped the laws in Xiyuan City, while Sha Ming tried to approach the tome despite his suspicions. Just as Sha Ming neared it, several rescue team members collapsed, while Fu Qian and his summon remained still.

• Fu Qian concluded that the tree and the Record of True Transcription were separate sources of Xiyuan City's order, and that the book was recovering its strength by using the rescue team and him.
• Fu Qian welcomed Sha Ming's threat, but Sha Ming hesitated to approach the Record of True Transcription because of Fu Qian and the summon.
• Huang Leji stopped several excited rescue team members from rushing toward the golden tome.
• Sha Ming asked Fu Qian why he was allowing events to unfold, then decided to approach the tome himself.
• As Sha Ming came within a few steps of the tome, multiple rescue team members suddenly collapsed while Fu Qian and the summon remained motionless.

Fu Qian realized the apparent victory over the pursuer had been a smokescreen inside the mental projection, then identified the rainbow figure as Parchi the Deceiver rather than the god it appeared to be. Parchi revealed himself and spoke with Fu Qian, leaving Fu Qian asking how he had performed his impressive move.

• Two members of Huang Leji’s team suddenly died, while the survivors found themselves unharmed and confused.
• Sha Ming concluded that the team remained inside the mental projection, and Fu Qian explained that he had stayed still because he was cautious.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the rainbow figure could not be the god at the other end of the connection, since that god would recognize the cage as a trap and avoid entering it.
• The rainbow figure revealed himself as Parchi the Deceiver, whom Fu Qian had previously met on Leaf Island.
• Parchi praised Fu Qian’s progress, and Fu Qian asked how Parchi had performed his impressive move.

Fu Qian questioned Pachi about how he had hidden their prison and its injuries from the group, then deduced that the trick had also affected the Record of True Transcription. Pachi confirmed the book had become more active, while Sha Ming realized Fu Qian had found a way to make Pachi undo the effect.

• Fu Qian kept his distance from Pachi and asked how he had concealed their conversation from Sha Ming and the others.
• Pachi explained that he had removed their awareness of the prison and its laws from cognition rather than freeing them from the cage.
• Fu Qian deduced that the hidden injuries had continued to accumulate until the victims died, and that Pachi's power affected living things beyond their minds.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the Record of True Transcription had also been affected, and Pachi confirmed that he had hidden its awareness of being a Mind World projection.
• Sha Ming stopped and appeared to understand that Fu Qian had maneuvered Pachi into undoing the effect.

Fu Qian watched as Huang Leji and the rescue team tried to force Sha Ming to lift the bond, while Miranda deliberately triggered its deadly effect. After Miranda’s body engulfed Sha Ming, a rag doll sprang toward the Record of True Transcription, but Fu Qian took the book first.

• Fu Qian declined to intervene as Huang Leji urged the team to threaten Sha Ming by triggering the bond together.
• Sha Ming taunted the team to act, and Miranda began walking toward him despite Huang Leji’s warning.
• Miranda’s advance caused the team members to fall, but she kept going until she reached Sha Ming.
• Miranda’s body burst into pieces and engulfed Sha Ming as the remaining rescue team members collapsed.
• A rag doll leaped toward the Record of True Transcription, but Fu Qian seized the book and said he would take it.

Fu Qian exposed the hidden observer inside Miranda and seized the Record of True Transcription, discovering its connection to the tree. Through that connection, he saw the tree transformed into an immobile golden body and recognized it from Lairding, suggesting something beyond the King of Prison Break might be returning.

• Fu Qian recognized the bloodstained Ragdoll emerging from Miranda as the surveillance device Tan Mingxue had used, and realized Miranda had been infected without anyone noticing.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Night Watchers had deliberately allowed Xiyuan City to be abandoned and suspected their powerful leader had approved the plan.
• Fu Qian used the Thread of Concern to seize the Record of True Transcription and formed a strange connection with the tree.
• Fu Qian saw that the tree had become motionless and golden, and found that his three auras no longer worked in its presence.
• Fu Qian recognized the golden tree from his earlier encounter in Lairding and wondered whether someone besides the King of Prison Break was returning.