Recaps

Fu Qian investigated the Gate of Freedom, entered a ruined Unseen Hill, and uncovered the Black Doctor’s role in creating the prison. Back in the living city, he found Akasha, who warned that the Darkest Night was coming, and joined her to face what lay ahead.

• Fu Qian revived Catherine and learned that she had died in a conflict, but Crystal appeared and revealed Catherine was Akasha’s Blood Slave.
• Crystal told Fu Qian that Akasha had vanished and that Yuan Fang’s former room now contained a mysterious door promising freedom, so Fu Qian went to investigate.
• Fu Qian entered the Gate of Freedom with the Ram-headed Demon and found a ruined Unseen Hill, where he discovered Yuan Fang and countless ash-covered remains.
• Amber followed Fu Qian into the ruined place, and they found the Black Doctor, who admitted he had created the door after hearing Yuan Fang’s final words.
• Fu Qian exposed the Black Doctor’s deception, survived his attack, and forced him to reveal an antidote before burning him to ash.
• Fu Qian drank the antidote and returned to the restaurant, where Akasha emerged from the shadows and apologized for what had happened with Crystal.
• Akasha warned Fu Qian that the Darkest Night was coming and dawn would never return to Unseen Hill, then invited him to join her team.
• Fu Qian accepted Akasha’s offer and said their next step was to uphold justice.

Fu Qian followed the spread of Gray Descent to Sage’s Lake, where he uncovered A'wei’s plan to use the residents and demigods to take Ji Feng’s place. The clown intervened before A'wei could complete the plan, leaving Fu Qian’s attempt to stop Eternal Night dependent on the clown’s choice to act.

• Fu Qian investigated Gray Descent with Akasha, Crystal, and Holler, and discovered that the phenomenon was spreading through Unseen Hill’s residents.
• The Lord revealed that he had marked Holler and gained power from the night, but Fu Qian pursued him until the clown captured him under the Death Angel’s orders.
• The clown told Fu Qian that the Death Angel had guided the Black Doctor’s Gate of Freedom plan and that a figure called Mother was central to Eternal Night.
• Gray Descent revealed Sophia above the figures beneath Sage’s Lake, and A'wei appeared as the Death Angel before draining the lake and attacking Fu Qian.
• A'wei admitted that he was trying to reach true Eternal Night and take Ji Feng’s place, while Fu Qian connected the plan to Sophia, Ji Feng’s bloodline, and Gray Descent.
• A'wei used the Lord and other demigods as puppets, but Fu Qian destroyed the Lord and fought off the demigods as A'wei began his countdown.
• Fu Qian confronted the clown, who stopped A'wei from interrupting and admitted he had let the plan continue because he found it interesting.

Fu Qian contained the Joker and uncovered clues tying Ji Feng’s bloodline power to the Warehouse, then returned to the Academy and assessed Cas’s Hidden Danger. After following Lord Kelson’s invitation to Moore, Fu Qian was captured by Selena and proposed joining forces against Ji Yin.

• The Clown revealed how he had manipulated A'wei and set up a wager involving Akasha, Crystal, and Amber, but Fu Qian’s Golden Flames killed him and contained No. 1-093.
• Fu Qian received Finger Guess and connected its bloodline effects, the brains in the Warehouse, and the Bronze Headband to Ji Feng’s possible influence on the Ji and Yuan Clans.
• Fu Qian returned to the laboratory, where Cas explained his painful Mythical Form and Hidden Dangers, and Fu Qian used the Return Edict to assess him.
• Cas told Fu Qian that the Spirit Ashes would honor Wen Li and make their collection available to Apocalypse mentors, and Fu Qian later took Wen Li, Liu Shuang, and Professor Lisha on an outing.
• Sunny’s touch let the Dragon King’s corruption reach Fu Qian, who later found Lord Kelson’s invitation hidden in one of Sunny’s books and traveled to the past to follow it.
• Fu Qian boarded a Siren ship in a storm, but Selena’s group pulled him ashore and captured him while searching for Ji Yin.
• Fu Qian identified Selena’s interest in the Death Master and proposed working together to stop Ji Yin, explaining that he alone knew the Death Master’s true Honored Name.

Fu Qian searched the Sea of Ashes for the impact site, then returned to Moore and joined the Greedy Worms in investigating Solondir, the Siren, and Ji Yin’s disappearance. After Selena vanished, Fu Qian followed a strange sign into a decaying version of Moore, where an old man told him everyone was dead.

• Fu Qian returned to Solondir’s ship with Selena’s help, activated Glorious Tyrant, and left the vessel near the Sea of Ashes by forcing his way through a gap with freezing power.
• Fu Qian explored the Sea of Ashes, found the Fallen Angel’s remains, and encountered Brain Jellyfish searching for the point where the stars fell.
• Fu Qian reached the Piled Object and searched its hollow, then caused the stars, ruins, and his bodily changes to vanish by looking back at them.
• Fu Qian returned to Moore, recognized Reverend Tooth Choker among the Greedy Worms, and agreed with Laurie to investigate Solondir’s search and the Siren’s purpose.
• Fu Qian learned that Ji Yin had disappeared, visited a hidden Siren base with Laurie and Tooth Choker, and suspected its people could be manipulating or predicting the weather.
• Fu Qian searched Selena’s room, followed a swarm of fire-lit bats into the storm, and found Moore transformed by decay and strange fires.
• An old man approached Fu Qian near the juice stand and told him that everyone in Moore was dead.