Recaps

Fu Qian and Su Gao investigated the pit where Angel Lord died and concluded that he had hidden himself in a special space beneath the Institute of Curses. They left the search unresolved, with Su Gao considering how to locate that space.

• Su Gao proposed that Angel Lord had briefly detached himself from the real world when the meteor struck, leaving the pit and its gray feathers behind.
• Fu Qian questioned why Angel Lord had chosen the Institute, and Su Gao reasoned that the building had helped him conceal himself from Fu Qian’s mark.
• Fu Qian agreed that they needed to find a nearby space beyond their perception and suggested Nepheli might know about it.
• Su Gao considered using a meteor to locate the hidden space, while Fu Qian explained that they would need to identify the place first or wait for a meteor to strike nearby.
• Su Gao began testing her sword strokes by cutting feathers in the pit.

Fu Qian and Su Gao searched the underground space for the hidden shelter the Angel Lord had sought, using Su Gao’s Echo to detect distortions. They found a concealed opening and entered, discovering what appeared to be a ship.

• Su Gao slashed at drifting feathers to test whether her Echo could detect a hidden spatial distortion, and she sensed something near a square pillar.
• Fu Qian confirmed the pillar was not a core support and let Su Gao break into it.
• Su Gao found the hidden spot and pierced it, opening a vibrating passage in the empty space.
• Su Gao leapt through the shrinking opening, and Fu Qian followed her.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao landed on wooden planks, and Su Gao wondered if they were aboard a ship.

Fu Qian and Su Gao explored a strange, ship-like space beneath the Institute of Curses and fought off two humanlike aquatic creatures. They found evidence that Angel Lord had been there, then discovered several bodies suspended above the ship.

• Fu Qian and Su Gao recognized the wooden, blue-lit space as resembling a sunken ship, and Su Gao warned that their perception was severely restricted.
• Su Gao opened the door and stepped into the mist, where she struck a creature that attacked from above.
• Fu Qian examined the humanlike aquatic creature as Su Gao cut it down, then she swiftly killed a second one that attacked from behind.
• Fu Qian found a feather on the second creature and said it showed that Angel Lord had left traces in the area.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian moved deeper into the vast ship-like space and spotted several bodies hanging from ropes that stretched up from the floor.

Fu Qian and Su Gao explored a sunken ship filled with amber-encased human bodies and found signs that some had escaped. They considered whether the ship had sheltered people through the Long Night, then Fu Qian asked whether any Night Watcher leaders practiced the Institute of Curses’ miraculous power.

• Su Gao and Fu Qian examined the ship’s rows of amber-encased bodies and noticed empty ropes where some captives seemed to have escaped.
• Su Gao wondered whether the attackers had come from the amber forms, and Fu Qian agreed that the lack of further threats was strange.
• As they walked toward a passage leading down, Su Gao proposed that an ancient deity’s power might have sustained the ship and its occupants.
• Su Gao asked whether the ship had protected its passengers through the Long Night, and Fu Qian said it was possible while considering whether it was an ark.
• Su Gao questioned why the ship had appeared in the Academy and noted the lack of signs of faith, so Fu Qian asked about Night Watcher leaders skilled in the Institute of Curses’ miraculous power.

Fu Qian and Su Gao investigated a hidden area beneath the Institute of Curses, suspecting miracles and Nepheli connected it to the Native Council and perhaps some Night Watchers. They found a field buried in feathers and were attacked by feather-covered corpses, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Fu Qian theorized that a long-lasting miracle might have connected the hidden place beneath the academy to the Institute of Curses, and Su Gao agreed Nepheli could be involved.
• Su Gao reasoned that the earlier attack on Fu Qian might be linked to the Native Council, while Fu Qian warned that the danger could extend to her and possibly involve some Night Watchers.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian descended to a foggy level blanketed in gray feathers and concluded the attacker had likely been hiding there before a meteor strike destroyed him.
• A feather-covered corpse burst from the feathers and attacked, but Su Gao killed it with her blade.
• Another feather-covered figure sprang from the mass and flew into the air as Fu Qian noticed its strange, fin-like wings.

Fu Qian and Su Gao encountered feathered, fish-like creatures that had emerged from Accumulated Feathers and discovered that the ship had likely absorbed something from the Angel Lord’s death. As the creatures spread a strange sacred light across the ship, they decided to leave them alone and continue downward.

• Feathered attackers emerged from Accumulated Feathers and watched Fu Qian and Su Gao from a distance.
• Su Gao’s sword cleared away some feathers, revealing that the ship itself was covered in rows of feathers.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao suspected the ship had absorbed power from the Angel Lord when he died.
• The Feathers and Fish roared, shaking loose glowing white feathers and causing light to spread throughout the ship.
• Su Gao reported that the light seemed non-hostile, and Fu Qian noted that feathers on a nearby corpse were glowing too.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao to leave the creatures alone and continue downward.

Fu Qian and Su Gao descended to another level of the ark and found its remaining cocooned inhabitants were pregnant, including men and nonhumans. Their investigation left them suspecting the ship had altered its sleeping passengers, until they discovered a cocooned woman with a maw split open in her abdomen and realized something may have been born successfully.

• Fu Qian and Su Gao passed the frozen natives and descended deeper into the ark without being attacked.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian found that nearly all the amber cocoons on the level had vanished, while the few that remained held emaciated, pregnant bodies, including pregnant men and mutated nonhumans.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao speculated that the ark had sheltered its followers through the Long Night and that its sea-like nature had gradually changed them.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian found an intact cocoon whose female occupant had a gaping, folded maw where her abdomen had split open.
• Fu Qian concluded that at least some of the pregnancies had not failed to produce offspring.

Fu Qian and Su Gao investigated the ship’s mutated offspring and discovered that the Great Light was rapidly transforming Su Gao into a porcelain doll. Fu Qian urged her to open a passage and escape, but her face and hand had already changed.

• Su Gao and Professor Fu examined a mutated corpse and speculated that severe contamination had enabled it to give birth to offspring.
• Su Gao encountered a large, heavily mutated creature in the third room, and Fu Qian identified it as one of the offspring they had sought.
• Fu Qian realized the Great Light was transforming Su Gao rather than merely purifying her, while leaving him unaffected.
• Fu Qian urged Su Gao to open a passage immediately, and she raised her sword as her face and left hand turned to porcelain.

Su Gao transformed and cut open an exit from the Ark while Fu Qian tested a newborn creature that seemed connected to Marco and the Native Council. They emerged safely at the Institute of Curses, where Fu Qian suspected time had flowed differently inside the Ark, and he told Su Gao to check herself before they went outside.

• Su Gao entered her Mythical Form and used her sword to break through the Ark's sealed space.
• Fu Qian frightened the half-ticket child with his Biochemical Demon Arm, provoking it to use a technique associated with Marco from Dunis.
• Fu Qian suspected the newborn might be Marco reborn and considered whether the Mal brothers and other Native Council elites had been born inside the Ark.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian exited the Ark and found themselves at the Institute of Curses, though it was now night.
• Fu Qian suggested that time had flowed differently inside the Ark and told Su Gao to examine herself before they went outside.

At the academy, Su Gao sensed a special connection to the ark and described its folded, unstable state to Fu Qian. Fu Qian used the Return Edict after hearing her assessment, leaving their investigation of the ark unresolved.

• Fu Qian reflected on the ark's history and suspected some of its missing inhabitants had become the attackers he had encountered.
• Su Gao said she could sense the ship through a special connection, though examining it was still dangerous.
• Fu Qian asked Su Gao to describe the ark, and she explained that its space was folded and reversed, its routes did not lead back the way they came, and it seemed liable to vanish from history.
• Su Gao agreed that the underground of the Institute of Curses was a dock in both space and time.
• Fu Qian thanked Su Gao and activated the Return Edict.

Fu Qian kept watch while Su Gao purged the corruption, then encountered Professors Rob and A Kai, who had sneaked into the crime scene to investigate the meteor shower incident. He warned them they were in trouble just as Professor Chang Mo appeared behind them.

• Su Gao used the Return Edict to purge the corruption while Fu Qian stood guard.
• Two walking corpses approached, and Fu Qian recognized them as Professor Rob and Professor A Kai.
• Rob and A Kai explained that they had entered at night to investigate the meteor shower incident after Dean Li barred access to the area.
• Fu Qian learned they had come alone and ordered them to move closer to him.
• Professor Chang Mo shouted at Rob and A Kai from behind them.

Fu Qian and Su Gao arrived at the sealed Institute of Curses site, where they met Professor Chang Mo and two academy members who had sneaked inside. Su Gao woke as the Night Watchers' investigator, and Chang Mo sent the intruders to speak with Dean Li.

• Professor Chang Mo confronted Fu Qian and asked who Su Gao was after the group appeared inside the site.
• Fu Qian identified Su Gao as the Night Watcher investigating the incident and described himself as a temporary action consultant.
• Fu Qian refused to claim Rob and A Kai had arrived with him, and Rob admitted that they had sneaked in and explored below.
• Rob and A Kai noticed that Fu Qian's Return Edict had restored their lifelike appearances, removing their deathly aura.
• Chang Mo softened and told Rob and A Kai to discuss their punishment with Dean Li.
• Su Gao opened her eyes and said she would go along, too.

Su Gao took charge after the exorcism and led the group to meet Dean Li Weixuan, where she revealed that a high-rank transcendent had died aboard an ancient ship hidden beneath the Institute of Curses. She assigned the academy staff to investigate the ship and help identify the dead transcendent, while officially naming Fu Qian a special operations consultant for the Night Watchers.

• Su Gao refused to summon Dean Li Weixuan and instead led Chang Mo, Rob, and his companion to meet him at the Sword Participation Institute.
• Chang Mo and Li Weixuan explained the academy's investigation, and Su Gao said she and Fu Qian had already examined the scene.
• Su Gao revealed that a high-rank transcendent had hidden beneath the Institute of Curses and died there.
• Su Gao explained that the hiding place was an ancient ship accessible through an overlap between two spaces, possibly connected to a previously activated miracle.
• Su Gao asked Professor A Kai to search the Institute of Curses' records and directed Li Weixuan and several instructors to assist her and Fu Qian.
• Su Gao identified Fu Qian as a special operations consultant for the Night Watchers.

After Su Gao secured Professor Fu’s cooperation in the investigation, Li Weixuan arranged support for the Institute of Curses and accepted Rob and A Kai’s help with security. Su Gao and Fu Qian then discussed the meeting’s outcome before she headed off to continue the Night Watchers’ work.

• Su Gao’s remarks prompted Li Weixuan to welcome Professor Fu’s role as a special-action consultant and offer the academy’s cooperation.
• Li Weixuan asked Rob and A Kai to help Professor Chang Mo guard relics left by high-level extraordinaires, and they agreed.
• Su Gao asked Fu Qian whether the meeting had gone as intended, and he praised how she had handled it.
• Su Gao spotted Fu Qian’s laboratory tower, accepted his invitation to rest there later, and left to continue her work.

Fu Qian returned to the lab and opened an ornate box containing a screaming bone creature. Professor Lisha arrived to ask what he thought of her gift, leaving its purpose unexplained.

• Fu Qian returned to the lab and found Liu Shuang meditating.
• Fu Qian opened the ornate box and heard a piercing scream from the bone creature inside.
• Liu Shuang told Fu Qian that Professor Lisha had delivered the box and warned her not to touch it.
• Fu Qian shut the creature back inside when it began crawling out, then invited Professor Lisha to explain it.
• Professor Lisha entered and asked Fu Qian what he thought of the creature, and he called it very interesting.

Professor Lisha told Fu Qian and Liu Shuang how a fragment from the Forbidden Zone let her reassemble the first bat skull into the living Bone Horseshoe Crab. The creature had appeared when she finished assembling it, leaving Fu Qian struck by the possibility that the process could create a pure soul.

• Fu Qian asked Professor Lisha how she had obtained the Bone Horseshoe Crab, and she admitted Spirit Ash had angrily confronted her over the last Forbidden Zone expedition.
• Lisha explained that after returning from the Forbidden Zone, she tested the bat skull but could not restore the spirit around it.
• Lisha said a dimming bone fragment from the creature they had crushed in the Forbidden Zone naturally broke the original bat skull into pieces when she brought them together.
• Liu Shuang guessed that Lisha had reassembled the fragments into the creature in the box, and Lisha confirmed it.
• Lisha described how the Bone Horseshoe Crab appeared and came to life after she completed the assembly.

Professor Lisha presented her theory that the bone spirits were fragments of an original body whose spirit could assemble into new forms and gain divinity, and Fu Qian considered what the theory might imply. He suggested the process could resemble an alternative path to godhood, while warning that following it would likely end badly, and Lisha noted the Spirit Ash Institute was focused on a young Tier Four Mental System Transcendent.

• Professor Lisha explained that bone spirits shared an essence, could be dismantled and reassembled, and might gain divinity through the original body's authority.
• Fu Qian praised Lisha's theory, proposed that assembling the bones in the huge pit might restore a Body of a Deity, and asked Ji Liushuang for her opinion.
• Fu Qian approved a joint project between their labs and suggested the bone spirits' progression could resemble an alternative path to godhood.
• Fu Qian warned Lisha that anyone attempting to follow that path would probably meet a bad end.
• Lisha said the Spirit Ash Institute was focused on a young Tier Four Mental System Transcendent, and Fu Qian invited the girl to join them when she arrived.

Professor Lisha joined Fu Qian’s laboratory after bringing him a box and a bone shard connected to the meteor shower investigation. The appearance of a magnificent crown left her wondering whether it was tied to the incident and where she had seen it before.

• Professor Fu told Lisha that he had become a temporary consultant for the Night Watcher investigation team and that the next person in charge might visit the laboratory.
• Lisha asked about the Institute of Curses, and Fu Qian said he could not discuss its situation without permission from the person in charge.
• Lisha said Dean Cas was away doing field research and admitted she did not know when he would return.
• Fu Qian returned the box and bone shard to Lisha, then invited her to rest and write a report; she instead asked to stay at the laboratory.
• Lisha inspected the laboratory’s upgraded equipment and asked how Fu Qian had secured the resources, then noticed a magnificent crown where the box had been.
• Lisha studied the crown and said she felt she had seen it somewhere before.

Fu Qian used a distinctive crown to draw Professor Lisha into discussing the Larrea family and the suspected supernatural contamination surrounding the Blood Wedding. Their conversation was interrupted when Su Gao arrived at Fu Qian’s door, concealing her presence and carrying a restrained aura.

• Lisha recognized the crown’s design as connected to the Larrea family, and Fu Qian refused to reveal its origins.
• Lisha explained Cas’s theory that the Larrea bloodline’s power contaminated people at Don Juan’s wedding, twisting the women’s wills and possibly contributing to Don Juan’s unnatural death.
• Lisha added rumors that Don Juan’s wife went mad after giving birth, while Fu Qian considered whether the Warehouse’s will had influenced the wedding’s outcome.
• Lisha began asking what the Larrea family had to do with the meteor shower, but a knock interrupted her.
• Fu Qian invited the unseen visitor inside, and Su Gao appeared in black with her aura deliberately restrained; they solemnly greeted each other.

Fu Qian welcomed Su Gao and Professor Lanaia, revealing that Su Gao was the Night Watcher investigating the earlier incident and that Lanaia had been invited to coordinate. The visitors and the others sorted out their misunderstandings, and Fu Qian invited them inside.

• Su Gao arrived at Fu Qian's location, leaving Professor Lisha unable to sense or judge her strength.
• Fu Qian called out to someone hiding in the darkness, and Professor Lanaia emerged, asking how he knew she was there and what duty he expected her to perform.
• Fu Qian explained that Su Zhiyan had told him Lanaia was coming, then invited both visitors inside and asked Ji Liushuang to fetch drinks.
• Fu Qian introduced Su Gao as the client for his temporary consulting job and introduced Professor Lisha and Ji Liushuang to her.
• Su Gao apologized to Professor Lanaia for mistaking her for someone suspicious, and Lanaia explained that she had made the same mistake about Su Gao.
• Lanaia realized Fu Qian had deliberately said strange things to unsettle her, and Fu Qian invited both guests to come in and rest.

Fu Qian, Su Gao, Lanaia, and Professor Lisha cleared up a nighttime misunderstanding after a disturbance brought Lanaia back to the academy. Su Gao planned to use Fu Qian’s laboratory as her base while awaiting the council’s decision about the discovery beneath the Institute of Curses, and Fu Qian offered her an experiment that needed a volunteer.

• Su Gao concealed her presence and alerted Fu Qian that someone was following her, and he guessed the watcher was Lanaia.
• Fu Qian pulled Su Gao into the laboratory, where Lanaia explained she had returned to investigate a reported noise after being called away from her post.
• Professor Lisha claimed the noise came from a joint experiment with Fu Qian, and Su Gao offered to help at the Institute of Curses and disclosed the suspected death of a high-ranking Transcendent below it.
• Su Gao asked to have her supplies delivered to Fu Qian’s laboratory, and he agreed before saying he needed a volunteer for an experiment.

Su Gao agreed to help Fu Qian with an experiment, while Lisha explained Dean Cas's theories about bloodline inheritance and cultivation talent. After Lisha returned the crown and offered future support, Lanaia departed as dawn approached, and Fu Qian hoped the academy would remain quiet.

• Su Gao agreed to volunteer for Fu Qian's experiment while she awaited the Council's response.
• Fu Qian asked Lisha about Dean Cas's belief that bloodlines affected the inheritance of Supernatural Power, and Lisha described his interest in the Sword Participation Institute.
• Lisha returned the crown to Su Gao and confronted Fu Qian for misleading her about its connection to the Institute of Curses.
• Fu Qian let Lisha keep the crown, and she offered to provide technical support if he needed it.
• Lanaia prepared to leave as dawn neared, and Fu Qian asked whether anything unusual had happened at the academy besides the meteor incident.

Fu Qian tested whether Su Gao could control a dream and open a passage beyond it, hoping to learn how outsiders were treated by the world. Su Gao vanished through a dark doorway, leaving Fu Qian to conclude that outsiders faced serious prejudice, while she remained asleep in the lab.

• Fu Qian asked Su Gao to enter a dream and control it without letting it collapse.
• Su Gao entered the unstable dream and, with Fu Qian watching, gradually gained control over it.
• Su Gao found a door behind the curtains, opened it, and stepped into a pitch-black void.
• The dream shifted to a bright morning, and Su Gao vanished; Fu Qian sensed that outsiders were treated with serious prejudice.
• Fu Qian ended the dream and found Su Gao asleep at the table, so he let her rest.

Fu Qian observed Su Gao enter a boundless darkness in her dream, where she seemed welcome while he was rejected, before their dreams split apart. He then began the containment scene for 2-001, an isolated Siren Group island that also served as a prison.

• Fu Qian watched Su Gao open a door in the dream and step into a vast darkness that seemed deeper than ordinary mist.
• The darkness rejected Fu Qian as an outsider, and Su Gao's dream separated from his, leaving him in an amusement park while she slept soundly.
• Fu Qian considered testing Su Gao with the umbilical cord but chose to let her rest until it was safe.
• Fu Qian received a task to recontain Virgo, number 2-001, and entered its Containment Scene.
• The scene placed Fu Qian on an isolated Siren Group stronghold where prisoners were held underwater and mermaid songs offered them brief comfort.

Fu Qian arrived at an underwater prison and found himself trapped in heavy, restrictive armor alongside a talkative roommate. He left his helmet sealed and ended the conversation by repeating his roommate’s complaint.

• Fu Qian regained his senses in darkness and discovered that metal armor covered his body, with spikes at his neck and a chain restricting his movement.
• Fu Qian opened the helmet’s mouth latch and mused about the Sirens, the Night Watchers, and whether prison meals were mostly seafood.
• Fu Qian’s roommate told him to be quiet, then later tried to draw him into conversation and explained how prisoners adjusted to their restraints.
• Fu Qian stayed silent as his roommate coaxed him to speak, then replied, “You’re too noisy.”