Recaps

Fu Qian helped Lisha investigate the dead underworld, where they uncovered signs of its collapse and killed a bone centipede. He then traveled to Xiyuan in disguise and recruited Hao Ke after confirming a shadow had come there.

• Fu Qian used the paired armchairs to travel between his laboratory and the Half-step Moon, then visited the Sword Participation Institute and discussed the cathedral report with Yuan Fang and the others.
• Fu Qian admitted killing Bai Jinting for opposing grafting and revealed that a high-ranking power had protected him, while Yuan Fang agreed to report the matter discreetly.
• Fu Qian demonstrated his sword strike to Li Weixuan, who gained insight and went into seclusion, then helped Lisha after she cured Lita and her headaches returned.
• Fu Qian and Lisha entered the underworld ruins, where they found signs of withering, a skeletal centipede, and a preserved family whose corpses supported Fu Qian's theory that the underworld had died.
• Fu Qian and Lisha tracked the centipede as it devoured bone spirits and grew, then Fu Qian destroyed it after it formed a malformed head and gathered divinity.
• Lisha gave Fu Qian a sample of Kalaodola's flesh, and Fu Qian used the Messenger and Blood Conquest to travel to the Western Plains in Gorimshaw's appearance.
• Hao Ke trapped Fu Qian in a specially designed pit, but Fu Qian escaped and forced him to explain his suspicions about Xiyuan's unusual peace.
• Fu Qian confirmed that a shadow had come to Xiyuan, and Hao Ke offered to help while Fu Qian noted that the dormant volcano showed no unusual activity.

Fu Qian investigated Xiyuan’s unnatural peace and discovered that people had acquired unconscious protections connected to the mysterious tree. His investigation led beneath the Huang estate into a volcano filled with lethal paths and mirrors, where he confronted saints while Huang Zhixun remained missing.

• Fu Qian questioned Tan Mingxue in her dream and learned that Huang Zhixun, Sha Ming, and Miranda sought something connected to the tree near the Huang family’s ancestral home.
• Fu Qian gathered Hao Ke’s acquaintances, and Qiu’s unexplained memories led them to find Yuli and her boyfriend decapitated.
• Fu Qian confirmed that Qiu possessed Sacred Law protection and had sentenced Yuli and her boyfriend to beheading without realizing it.
• Fu Qian infiltrated the Huang estate and learned that Huang Zhixun had disappeared and the Huang family’s elite were searching inside the volcano.
• Fu Qian followed Xiao Ying into the volcano and discovered invisible paths where climbing upward caused blades to grow inside a person’s body.
• Fu Qian crossed a mirror passage whose figures inflicted shared injuries and Sanity Value losses, then found Huang Lezhan, Miranda, and other injured team members attempting to dig their way out.
• Fu Qian learned that Miranda’s party had visited before the abnormalities appeared, then crossed the blood-covered staircase while the stranded team hesitated to follow.
• Fu Qian entered a hall lined with blood-red mirrors, destroyed one attacking saint’s reflection, and unleashed a giant icy arm against the saints that appeared afterward.

Fu Qian followed Sha Ming and the rescue team into the Holy Land, where the Xun’s rules and a Mind World projection revealed a cage tied to the Warehouse. After destroying the projection and claiming the Record of True Transcription, Fu Qian found himself connected to a golden tree whose presence suppressed his auras.

• Fu Qian destroyed the blood mirrors and confronted Third Xun, who warned that the Holy Land reflected harm and punished those who broke its rules.
• Fu Qian joined Sha Ming and Huang Leji’s team, discovered their Chain of Shared Hardship, and killed Old Master Huang Zhen to stop him from using the bond to force Fu Qian’s cooperation.
• Sha Ming revealed that Huang Zhixun had used a special item and a higher being to trap the group in a Mind World projection, then led them deeper to find him.
• Third Xun attacked Fu Qian with the laws of the cage, while Sha Ming disclosed that Fu Qian’s existence was bound to the world and that escaping would require breaking the barrier.
• Fu Qian transformed into a Frost Mirror Dragon and attacked the cage, then returned from the Warehouse and summoned Rainbow of Yao Bian to erase the projection.
• The group found Blood Lion transformed into golden plants and the Record of True Transcription, while Fu Qian learned that Parchi the Deceiver had hidden the group’s awareness of the prison and its laws.
• Miranda advanced toward Sha Ming, exploded into pieces that engulfed him, and the remaining rescue team members collapsed as a rag doll emerged from her body.
• Fu Qian seized the Record of True Transcription with the Thread of Concern, connected with the motionless golden tree, and recognized it from his earlier encounter in Lairding.

Fu Qian escaped Xiyuan with the False Law Authority and returned to Shangjing, where he and Yuan Shan protected Wen Li from an Angel Lord trapped in a repeating cage. The encounter yielded no proof against Kelin, but Yuan Shan agreed to investigate while Fu Qian began a dangerous trial with the Meria Flower Ball.

• Fu Qian swallowed the unstable copper-ring fish, bound the False Law Authority as World-Weariness, and used Return Home to leave Xiyuan.
• Fu Qian recovered in the Half-step Moon, where the Red Moon praised him, improved his condition, and left him wearing scarred armor fused to his body.
• Fu Qian returned to Shangjing and told Yuan Shan that Wen Li’s attacker was likely a Night Watcher, leading Yuan Shan to shelter Wen Li and help investigate.
• At Wen Li’s home, Yuan Shan’s whip exposed a hidden Transcendent, while Fu Qian recognized a dissolving white feather from the Angel Dungeon and linked it to Wen Li’s fading emotions.
• An Angel Lord emerged through a rift and attacked Yuan Shan and Wen Li inside a Time Cage, where repeated cycles magnified injuries and Fu Qian fought back with his powers.
• Fu Qian escaped the Angel Lord’s attacks and struck it with Mercy, but Yuan Shan could not sense that it had taken damage before it vanished.
• Fu Qian and Yuan Shan returned to the Night Watcher base without evidence against Kelin, and Yuan Shan agreed to protect Wen Li and investigate while Fu Qian requested information about the Larrea Royal Family and Ermu Mansion Palace.
• Fu Qian chose to endure Yuan Shan’s Meria Flower Ball trial, and the blows tore open his flesh as his body began transforming into the King of Prison Break.