Recaps

Fu Qian and a team led by Stos explored the ark, where advancing synchronization, hidden attackers, and the ship’s powerful will trapped them. After uncovering the Mal Brothers’ attempt to provoke them, the team realized the ark was moving and sinking, while Fu Qian judged that they still had time to observe or try a last resort.

• Fu Qian treated Ji Yin’s moving Tumor Flower Blooms and learned that the Benevolent Virtue Society had poisoned him for being a Transcendent.
• Fu Qian tested Sunny’s entry into Clear Dream with Su Gao and concluded that Sunny could enter the Mind World but remained detached from it.
• Stos arrived with a team of high-ranking Transcendents, and A Kai volunteered to investigate the ark’s suspected miracle.
• The team boarded the ark and found its light growing brighter as their synchronization advanced, while Stos destroyed Feathers and Fish and Aiko killed the creature called young Marco.
• Stos split the group to search for two missing people, but the ark resisted their exploration, concealed attackers struck, and the ship trapped them aboard.
• Stos began burning the ark, and Su Gao opened a passage through the floor as A Kai’s attempted protective miracle produced a destructive scythe that destabilized the vessel.
• Fu Qian persuaded Stos to wait rather than risk acting on the ark’s distorted sense of time, and Malfo revealed he had survived by parasitizing Malka.
• The Mal Brothers attacked and exploded, while Fu Qian and Su Gao suspected they had meant to provoke the team into harming the ark, and the ship absorbed the remains and began sinking into a hollow in the ocean.

Fu Qian and Su Gao investigated the Ark’s transformations, uncovering a passage into a child’s Mind World before the Ark vanished and the group returned to the Institute of Curses. Fu Qian then entered the Realm of Ultimate Bliss, where he began investigating its reincarnation cycle and encountered the Brotherhood’s followers.

• Fu Qian and Su Gao explored the Ark and met Nepheli, who admitted sabotaging Professor A Kai’s miracle and said the ship was undertaking one final voyage.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao descended into a newly opened passage, found a child’s dream of the ancient Long Night, and used Sword Three Missing One to help Su Gao resist its effects.
• Aiko called Fu Qian and Su Gao back as amber bodies on the Ark began moving, and the passage folded away.
• The Ark returned the group to the Institute of Curses, where Stos explained his Madness Fire and connected an ill-omened flame to the Jade Soul Master.
• Fu Qian used the Return Edict to help A Kai, then brought a blackened eyeball to the Warehouse and accepted a task in the Realm of Ultimate Bliss.
• Fu Qian arrived in the Realm of Ultimate Bliss under the name Lu Ming, and Keke explained its reincarnation cycle and the mission to reach the next heaven.
• Keke guided Fu Qian through the City of Ultimate Bliss, warned him about the Brotherhood, and explained that murder trapped victims in reincarnation.
• Fu Qian went to Keke’s home to learn about the city, where a burly man arrived carrying a person strapped to a board and said he would interest Fu Qian too.

Fu Qian killed his way through the City of Ultimate Bliss, endured the Brotherhood’s Heart-Beast Punishment, and awakened from a coffin in the Realm of Ultimate Bliss. After resonating with the Seed of Ecstasy and resisting its pleasure, he awoke in an unfamiliar town, uncertain whether he had reached the Third Heaven.

• Fu Qian killed Brother Tough Guy, then stabbed himself and awakened in a new body in the City of Ultimate Bliss with a mission to kill the Ancient One of the Nine Heavens.
• Fu Qian drew the Brotherhood to the Nameless Church, claimed he had found wisdom there, and killed Holun when the group tried to take him back.
• Fu Qian led the Brotherhood to settle a dispute with the scarf-wearing Lady and her guest, then confronted the leaders in their Incense Hall over Holun’s incense burner.
• Fu Qian endured the Yin-Yang Head Old Man’s Heart-Beast Punishment, stopped resisting the darkness, and woke in a coffin in a cemetery.
• The gravedigger explained that Fu Qian had escaped the Realm of Ultimate Bliss’s dreamlike trap, then guided him to the White-Headed Holy See.
• Fu Qian resonated with ultimate bliss and planted the Seed of Ecstasy in himself, then fought the resulting pleasure by embracing pain.
• Fu Qian endured the fading bliss until a gentler light filled his consciousness, then awoke in an unfamiliar town and questioned whether he had reached the Third Heaven.

Fu Qian escaped the Joy Factory, killed Eckhart, and returned to the academy, where he tested the Axe of Rebellion and investigated Spirit Ash and the Sword Pavilion. He discovered that the Jade Soul Master had entered the game and was binding them together through the academy, while the academy itself appeared to be made of layered mycelium.

• Fu Qian escaped the Joy Factory and entered Brother Repentant’s body, then killed Eckhart by striking him with Dimensional Strike and erased him from every heaven.
• Fu Qian received World Poison and other mission rewards, then returned to the laboratory, where Ji Liushuang brought him the Axe of Rebellion.
• Fu Qian tested the axe on Professor Kalaodola’s divine flesh, which transformed into a living mass and revealed a baby before the magic faded.
• Fu Qian reassured Ji Liushuang about her mother’s love, then visited the Spirit Ash Institute and used the Return Edict while asking Professor Weilong to pass his offer to Wen Li.
• Fu Qian unleashed a storm of blades in the Sword Pavilion, but the weapons turned to sand and consumed his hands and arms.
• Fu Qian suspected the Jade Soul Master had influenced Spirit Ash and restored the Sword Pavilion, though his missing hand did not return.
• Fu Qian realized the Jade Soul Master had entered the game and bound them together as heart demons, then found mushroom-like mycelium inside the academy’s window ledge.