Recaps

Fu Qian completed the pact containment mission, then entered Fool's Cage as Doctor to help Violetta reach her mother. He learned the fairy-tale world was connected to the Snow White sisters' dreams and entered the darkness alone, where he found Su Gao almost entirely covered in porcelain.

• Fu Qian killed William, completed the containment mission, and used the Thorn Sapling to upgrade Tyrant's Fist.
• Fu Qian returned home, reunited with Qin Mingze, Wu Qingyu, Tan Ying, and Pei Yanqing, and hosted them for lunch.
• Fu Qian entered Fool's Cage, met Violetta and the Torrances, and discovered that the hotel and its strange inhabitants threatened their journey.
• Fu Qian helped Violetta escape the Witch and navigate the hotel, then found that the room beyond her golden key held four girls who looked like Su Gao.
• Fu Qian learned through Violetta's sisters that their mother was dead and that the sisters risked becoming trapped in their dreams.
• Fu Qian accompanied Honey to find Bella, destroyed the crocodile with an explosive green apple, and helped Bella wake from her fairy tale.
• Fu Qian followed Soufflé to a hidden red metal door, learned she had found it in recurring dreams, and insisted on entering the darkness to try to free everyone.
• Fu Qian left Violetta's body and sent her back to Soufflé, then passed through another doorway and found Su Gao with porcelain covering almost her entire face.

Fu Qian helped Su Gao overcome the mental influence threatening to turn her into a puppet, then took on the task of recontaining Unclean Ecstasy. After Jia Yi was murdered and Fu Qian became a suspect, he began investigating the masked-ball invitations and their mysterious organizer.

• Fu Qian joined Su Gao in the tower, uncovered the hallucinations and manipulation surrounding her Hidden Thread die, and helped her survive its tenth use and reclaim herself.
• Su Gao recovered, advanced to demigod, and told Fu Qian that the King of Leaf Island might be connected to the Native Council.
• Fu Qian entered the Containment Scene for Unclean Ecstasy, disrupted a masked ball, fought its guards and attackers, and agreed to attend an academy hearing.
• Fu Qian investigated Betty Green’s invitation through her dream and learned that invitations connected guests through pleasure, leading him to suspect the gathering’s organizer, the Old Man.
• Lanaia told Fu Qian that Jia Yi had been murdered, and Yuan Fang named Fu Qian a suspect because he had no alibi.
• At Jia Yi’s mansion, Fu Qian noticed signs that the murder could be a frame-up and secured permission to investigate alongside Lanaia.
• Fu Qian questioned Qiao Yanchuan, who said the masked balls began experimenting four months earlier and that a silver-masked man had given him an invitation and taught him to summon pleasure.
• Fu Qian learned that the silver-masked man urged guests to let their pleasure grow unchecked, then left with Lanaia to question Honma.

Fu Qian uncovered Ian’s Ecstasy experiments, killed him, and gained a new way to strike at any form of existence. Later, he entered a strange containment scene, tracked the Inner Eye through a hidden group of extraordinary beings, and was invited to help with a ritual.

• Fu Qian forced Honma to reveal that Qiao Yanchuan had invited him to the masquerade, where Qiao’s new bride was the most popular woman.
• Fu Qian and Lanaia confronted Old Master Qiao, who admitted that Ian had arranged his marriage, and Fu Qian exposed the scars and patterns carved into his body.
• Fu Qian and Lanaia found Ian’s underground laboratory, where he revealed that he had created Ecstasy by turning desire into an entity and using people in his bid for demigodhood.
• Fu Qian and Lanaia fought Ian’s Mythical Form, and Fu Qian later killed Ian again at the academy before the system reported that containment of No. 2-095 had failed.
• Fu Qian crushed the Carnival of Evil Desire and connected with a vast being covered in Seeds of Ecstasy, then learned that Internal Organ Critical Hit could damage any form of existence.
• Fu Qian took the haunted-house mirror and photograph into the Warehouse, then entered a new assignment involving Artificial Eye and delivered a dossier to Che Shunyong before killing him.
• Disguised as Che Shunyong, Fu Qian met Roland, learned that Roland had guided Che’s visions, and accepted an invitation to a gathering of extraordinary beings.
• At the gathering, Fu Qian listened to the group discuss rituals, demonstrated his beast form, and accepted an invitation to help with a ritual.

Fu Qian helped Li Min pursue her ritual, uncovered Claudio’s role in the revelations around Port City, and killed him. Back in Shangjing, he investigated Gan Zuoxun and reconnected with the Witch, while Yuan Shan began looking into the ocean location Fu Qian had identified.

• Shang Shiming recruited Fu Qian to help destroy an old bell tower as part of a ritual, but Teresa interfered and the tower collapsed amid strange frost.
• Teresa explained that rituals drew on divine knowledge, then attacked Fu Qian, who killed her and made her death appear connected to the tower incident.
• Roland arranged for Li Min to receive a ritual revelation from Claudio, and Li Min enlisted Fu Qian’s help while keeping the ritual’s true purpose secret.
• Fu Qian drew Night Watcher Andrew away from Li Min’s ritual, then found Roland and Rachel guarding illusions while Li Min confronted Claudio in his courtyard.
• Fu Qian revealed himself to Claudio, stopped Li Min from attacking further, and killed Claudio after rejecting his offer of supernatural insight.
• Fu Qian learned that Claudio had orchestrated Port City’s rituals and revelations, received the Starry Sky Prism, and used it to glimpse a starry sky over a black sea before asking Yuan Shan to identify the location.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian to discreetly assess Gan Zuoxun, and Fu Qian questioned Gan at City Hall before using Blasphemous Embrace to cover the sun in rust-colored haze.
• The Witch contacted Fu Qian, gave him a mask that concealed his supernatural presence, and said their connection was weakening, and afterward Yuan Shan confronted him about the incident, and Wen Li arrived with another matter.