Recaps

Fu Qian completed the Fool’s script in the Crystalline Doomsday and returned to the bookstore with a path to godhood still open. There, Red Moon’s influence converged with Yuan Shan’s, while Fu Qian investigated Old Man Henry’s silence and prepared to enter Shangjing’s gathering.

• Fu Qian became a one-hundred-percent Mythical Form in the Crystalline Doomsday and concluded that crystallization belonged to the real apocalypse.
• Fu Qian completed the Fool’s five-act script, returned to the Sea of Ashes, and saw a road beyond the deep sea when he wore the clown mask.
• Fu Qian followed the road to godhood back to the Warehouse, then returned to his bookstore, where Red Moon appeared in a human form resembling Yuan Shan.
• Red Moon’s thoughts affected Yuan Shan, and the two women’s appearances and memories began to converge as Fu Qian tried to remind Yuan Shan of Old Man Henry.
• Red Moon healed Fu Qian and vanished, after which Yuan Shan told him that her Meria Flower Ball had lost contact with Henry and that she planned to visit the Night Holy Capital.
• Fu Qian connected Henry’s lost signal to his encounter with Rainbow of Yao Bian in the Sea of Ashes, then advised Yuan Shan to check on Henry again and accepted Sir Stos’s invitation.
• Red Moon’s chair let Fu Qian open doors to several locations, including Dancy Crawford’s mansion, and he returned to the bookstore through one of them.
• Chen Ping offered Fu Qian a booklet of the Chen Clan’s ancestral insights, but Fu Qian dismissed him after losing interest in the clan’s cultivation method.
• Fu Qian discussed Shangjing’s power struggles and the resurfaced Qian Ji Jue with Yuan Shan, then left for a walk and recalled Taylor Gullard.

Fu Qian entered the Warehouse’s Clockwork Xi’er mission as an ordinary human, chained to Wen Li and taken toward the Holy See. At the Dark Holy See, the group investigated a sealed checkpoint and suspected a hidden culprit, then began testing one another by torturing Fu Qian, who chose Chief Yuan to go next.

• Fu Qian found Taylor Gullard alive beneath the floor, learned the black cape would let the Gullard family track him, and escaped with the Messenger before a new Leak Incident mission began.
• Fu Qian accepted the Warehouse’s containment task and woke handcuffed beside Wen Li, who said she was taking him to the Holy See.
• Wen Li and Yuan Shan drove Fu Qian toward the Holy Hall, picking up Su Gao and Nepheli along the way as they discussed Su Gao’s Broken Sword and encountered a roadblock.
• Yuan Shan led the group to the Dark Holy See, where Professor Lisha and the masked Liu Shuang received them as night and turbulence closed in outside.
• Lady Number Seven attacked Fu Qian with a mental technique, but Wen Li countered her, and the woman eventually removed her mask and crown before putting them back on.
• Liu Shuang proposed working together to investigate the sealed checkpoint, while Wen Li confirmed that she needed to bring Fu Qian to the Holy See alive.
• After Lisha suggested testing the suspected mole by hurting Fu Qian, Wen Li agreed to let each woman take a turn, and Nepheli began by exposing Fu Qian’s heart and grafting his sense of self onto the Dark Holy See.
• Fu Qian endured Nepheli’s torture with curious calm and chose Chief Yuan to take the next turn.

Fu Qian and the women escaped the contaminated sanctuary, and Fu Qian crossed the checkpoint alone to reach the White-Headed Holy See. He completed the Warehouse’s mission by defiling Your Excellency Amnion’s refuge, then received the Firstborn’s Vision and examined its connection to God of Mourning.

• Wen Li stopped Yuan Shan from treating Fu Qian and warned that a poison was eroding the group’s sense of self, trapping them inside the sealed sanctuary.
• Lady Nepheli accused Professor Lisha of causing the disaster, and Su Gao exposed Lisha as the catalyst who had activated the contamination.
• Fu Qian questioned the women about their roles, while Wen Li linked their pleasure and brought him near death to give them a chance to speak with him.
• Su Gao said she could escape alone, and Fu Qian recognized Lady Number Seven as Rachel and asked her to open the side door with Li Min’s help.
• Rachel opened the door, Li Min communicated through her shoulder, and Su Gao carried Fu Qian out as Wen Li unlocked his handcuffs.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao reached the checkpoint, where Fu Qian pierced his chest with the candlestick, convinced the worker to let him drive through, and crossed alone.
• Fu Qian found the checkpoint transformed by living membranes, drove toward the White-Headed Holy See, and completed the Warehouse mission to defile Your Excellency Amnion’s Primordial Anchor.
• The White-Headed Holy See collapsed, and Fu Qian received 20 Sanity Value and the Firstborn’s Vision before recognizing the ribbon from his vision of the tyrant’s fall and questioning its ties to God of Mourning.

Fu Qian investigated threats tied to the Rebirth Club, tested his companions, and followed strange traces from Liliana’s Hideout to the Blood Lake. There he encountered the Dragon King and confirmed its connection to the Tyrant’s Scarlet Fever.

• Fu Qian returned Clockwork Xi'er to her box, then met Selena Gulad at the bookstore and told her about the Ancient Angel and the Rebirth Club’s ties to Shangjing.
• Fu Qian explained that the Rebirth Club might be seeking the Death Master’s legacy and encouraged Selena to study vampire bloodlines, giving her a Secret Treasure taken from Taylor.
• Fu Qian tested Liu Shuang and Wen Li, recognized Liu Shuang’s Sword Heart Clarity, and arranged a formal working group for Professor Lisha’s archive project.
• Fu Qian advised Ji Liushuang to keep the Ji Clan from rushing into the An Jing and Siren conflict, then told Wen Li to be truthful if the Night Watchers reviewed her condition.
• Fu Qian found crimson seepage and a Blood Lake worm in Liliana’s Hideout, followed footprints to a vantage point, and was injured by a sealed event guarded by an Ancient Guardian.
• Fu Qian entered the Blood Lake and found Soul Butterflies gathering over the remains of the Brooding Phoenixes, where he called out to the Dragon King and met another apostle.
• Fu Qian copied the apostle’s oath gesture as the storm stopped and the Soul Butterflies formed the Dragon King, which demanded to know the date before Fu Qian challenged it.
• Fu Qian let the Dragon King strike him with Scarlet Fever, identified the power as aligned with the Tyrant, and claimed a wisp from its claw.