Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian theorized that Old Master Ji’s operation involved the Seed of Ecstasy and that Jose, rather than Don Juan, was the true focus of the Blood Wedding. The scene then shifted to a ceremonial gathering where Fu Qian saw Jose, Don Juan, Consort Xing, and the young stepmother.

• Fu Qian connected the sensual atmosphere at Ermu Mansion Palace and Jose’s strange behavior to the Seed of Ecstasy and a possible cleansing process.
• Fu Qian concluded that Old Master Ji might have targeted Jose, whose importance could explain the Warehouse’s willingness to accept the costs of the Blood Wedding.
• Fu Qian speculated that Old Master Ji had locked the person in the wardrobe in place and might have used emotional reactions to intensify the operation.
• The scene shifted as a bell rang, and Fu Qian saw a young priestess-like woman standing beside Camera Six.
• Fu Qian spotted Jose, the young stepmother, Don Juan, and Consort Xing, who stood facing each other and gazing into each other’s eyes.

During the wedding ritual at Ermu Mansion Palace, Fu Qian suspected Old Master Ji’s mission had led them into a ceremony with a hidden purpose. Lord Jose invoked the White King, but “Don Juan” rejected his identity as Jose’s son and made a startling confession to the hall.

• Fu Qian recognized Camera Position Six as a priest and suspected the wedding scene was part of an extraordinary ritual.
• The bride openly declared her love for Old Master Ji, who replied politely as the guests watched.
• Lord Jose praised the ceremony, and “Don Juan” knelt before him.
• Lord Jose told “Don Juan” to remember his identity and named the White King the king of all, the Holy Spirit of a Thousand Faces.
• “Don Juan” declared that he was not Jose’s son, but merely the person Jose had imagined himself to be, then looked across the hall, especially at the women.

At the wedding, Don Juan defied Lord Jose and rejected the arranged marriage, accusing his father of shaping his identity and treating him as an extension of his own desires. He declared that the bride was right for Jose, not for him, while Fu Qian suspected the public rebellion was part of Ji Feng’s ritual targeting Jose.

• Don Juan shouted that he was not Lord Jose’s son, sparking outrage among the women in the audience who had been involved with him.
• Fu Qian connected Don Juan’s defiance to Ji Feng’s suspected ritual against Jose, which involved the women below the stage.
• Lord Jose calmly told Don Juan that he did not understand what he wanted and that someone else could make the right choices for him.
• Don Juan accused Jose of leaving his mark on his identity and said he had pursued pleasure and love to feel something that belonged only to himself.
• Don Juan claimed that his affairs had pleased Jose because his happiness served as a continuation of his father’s life.
• Don Juan removed his cloak, refused the wedding, and told the bride that she was right for his father rather than for him.

At Don Juan’s wedding, Jose challenged the groom’s rebellion by asking whether he had respected the bride’s own choice, but Consort Xing calmly reaffirmed her decision. Fu Qian realized Jose had likely chosen Consort Xing because she was already connected to Your Excellency Amnion before arriving at Ermu Mansion Palace.

• Fu Qian observed Old Master Ji, posing as Don Juan, provoke Jose while carefully keeping the wedding from collapsing.
• Jose accused Don Juan of hypocrisy and argued that the bride’s own choice mattered more than either man’s wishes.
• Consort Xing calmly insisted she had never doubted her choice, quieting the guests’ jealousy and drawing their admiration.
• Consort Xing said she had known Don Juan longer than he had known her and therefore knew the correct answer.
• Fu Qian inferred that Jose had known Ermu Mansion Palace was behaving strangely and had chosen Consort Xing because she was already contaminated by Your Excellency Amnion.

Fu Qian pieced together possible motives behind Jose’s choice of bride and suspected that Jose had arranged a past encounter between her and Don Juan. As the bride insisted that Don Juan was her destined husband, the ceremony’s disruption put Jose’s plan to the test.

• Fu Qian considered whether the bride carried a Seed of Ecstasy and whether Jose had chosen her to serve a larger purpose.
• Fu Qian suspected that Jose and Old Master Ji were preparing rituals and that Jose might have once met the bride in his son’s place.
• Don Juan asked the bride why she had chosen him, and she said they had met before and that he was her destined husband.
• The chapel fell silent as the bride repeated that Don Juan simply did not remember their earlier meeting.
• Fu Qian suspected Jose had arranged the bride’s belief through a past encounter or psychological suggestion, and that her performance was helping the plan withstand sabotage.

Fu Qian watched the future Princess accept the flaws in the wedding and sign the marriage certificate first, while suspecting that Jose’s ritual depended on her as a special carrier of the Seed of Ecstasy. Don Juan took the pen after thanking her, bringing the ceremony closer to its final contest.

• Jose had a priest bring out the royal marriage certificate and told the couple to sign it together.
• Jose invited the future Princess to sign first, while Fu Qian concluded that Jose’s preparations concealed a larger goal and that Old Master Ji was acting with confidence.
• The future Princess said she would treat the couple’s understanding as proof they were meant for each other and began writing her name.
• Fu Qian suspected that the Princess’s devotion to love was a manifestation of ecstasy and that she had an irreplaceable role in Jose’s ritual.
• Don Juan thanked the Princess and took the pen.

At the wedding, Old Master Ji claimed he was not Don Juan and that the real Don Juan had become a wooden man, while the bride insisted the real groom would appear because the Deity had told her so. Lord Jose rejected the idea that a name could erase responsibility, leaving the wedding’s true outcome uncertain.

• Old Master Ji hesitated over signing the Marriage Certificate, then told Jose he was sure he would write the wrong name.
• Old Master Ji declared that he was not Don Juan and said the real Don Juan had turned into a wooden man.
• The bride insisted Don Juan would stand beside her on the stage, saying the Deity had promised he would be there.
• Fu Qian considered how the bride’s conviction and the opposing candles might connect to the Seed of Ecstasy and the Eye of Consort Xing.
• Jose solemnly warned that abandoning a name would not resolve the responsibilities resting on Don Juan.

At the wedding, Old Master Ji posed as Don Juan while Lord Jose tried to make him sign his name and then showed him a wooden doll made in his likeness. The chapter ended with Old Master Ji admitting that he had turned someone into the doll and hidden him away.

• Lord Jose challenged Don Juan over his name, and Old Master Ji insisted he had no name that should exist in this spacetime.
• Old Master Ji started to sign, but Lord Jose froze him before the pen could move.
• Fu Qian realized Jose believed Old Master Ji was his son and could not see through his disguise.
• Lord Jose summoned a wooden doll resembling Don Juan and asked whether it was the figure he had mentioned.
• Old Master Ji confirmed that he had turned the person into the doll and hidden him away.

At the Blood Wedding, Fu Qian realized Old Master Ji had engineered the groom’s disappearance to provoke Lord Jose while keeping him confident in his own judgment. Old Master Ji then revealed that Jose himself was the real Don Juan, and Jose thrust the wooden puppet into his own abdomen.

• Fu Qian reasoned that Old Master Ji had deliberately arranged for the wooden groom to be discovered and used the wedding to stir Jose’s emotions.
• Jose examined the puppet, dismissed the incident as a prank, and insisted that only his own eyes could be trusted.
• Old Master Ji resumed signing, while Don Juan taunted Jose for hesitating to complete the wedding.
• Old Master Ji declared that Jose was the real Don Juan and that the gathered lovers’ desire was calling for him.
• Jose thrust the wooden puppet into his own lower abdomen.

Fu Qian pieced together that the mission was designed to make Lord Jose succumb to ecstasy, while Old Master Ji manipulated Jose into testing whether he was Don Juan. Jose’s black flames revealed a connection to the Mother of Gospel, and he concluded that Old Master Ji really was not Don Juan.

• Fu Qian inferred that Old Master Ji was following Warehouse’s instructions to spread the Seed of Ecstasy and make Lord Jose fall.
• Lord Jose reached into his wound, discovered that the object was only a piece of wood, and accused Old Master Ji of lying about it being Don Juan.
• Old Master Ji calmly asked Jose to let go so he could continue, but Jose hesitated and then burst into flames.
• Lord Jose burned Old Master Ji while keeping him restrained and concluded that he really was not Don Juan.
• Fu Qian recognized the black, claw-shaped flames as resembling those he had seen at Silver Mist Manor and connected them to the Mother of Gospel.

Fu Qian watched Old Master Ji reveal that Lord Jose had been harboring the Mother of Gospel’s influence, then return Jose’s lost self and draw the black flames into himself. After the viewing ended, Fu Qian considered how the Larrea family, Don Juan, and the Mother of Gospel were connected, while the Blood Wedding exploration came to a temporary end.

• Old Master Ji regained control, wrote “Don Juan” on the marriage certificate, and confirmed that Jose’s judgment about him had been correct.
• Old Master Ji drew Jose’s black flames onto himself, causing Jose’s Divine Human Face to collapse into an expression of worldly desire.
• Fu Qian returned from the viewing to Mr. Dancy’s restaurant and found that the observation mouth and Eye of Consort Xing had disappeared without replacing his skill.
• Fu Qian concluded that Old Master Ji had used himself as a vessel to help the Warehouse erase the Mother of Gospel’s influence from Jose.
• Fu Qian wondered whether Don Juan had once been part of Jose and whether the Larrea bloodline had attracted several Higher Beings.

Fu Qian pieced together how the Blood Wedding had been engineered to make Jose sever himself from Don Juan, potentially unleashing the Mother of Gospel’s power. He also suspected that Consort Xing had been groomed as part of the scheme and that her remains might have been used to create the Bronze Lady; he then left the dining room.

• Fu Qian concluded that Warehouse had targeted Jose and that Old Master Ji had used the wedding to provoke Jose’s indulgence and push him toward severing himself from Don Juan.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the Larrea family’s faces were containers for different Higher Beings, and that the Mother of Gospel had entered Jose through a loophole left by the Dark Moon’s vanished power.
• Fu Qian suspected that the Mother of Gospel had cultivated Don Juan’s bride and planted a Seed of Ecstasy in her to create a powerful monstrosity.
• Fu Qian connected Consort Xing’s dismemberment to the human-tissue artwork called the Bronze Lady and wondered whether her remains had been used in it.
• Fu Qian picked up the tea leaves and walked toward the main entrance.

Fu Qian returned to his bookstore after retrieving tea leaves, reflected on what he had learned from Old Master Ji Feng’s mission, and turned away a prospective customer. He then used a black-and-red ring to travel to Prison Break, where his Scarlet Fever began spreading through the ruins.

• Fu Qian considered how Old Master Ji Feng’s mission might have led to discoveries about bloodlines, world barriers, and the Bronze Lady.
• Fu Qian spotted a young woman outside the bookstore but lowered the blinds instead of inviting her in.
• Fu Qian used a black-and-red ring to travel from the bookstore to Prison Break.
• Fu Qian tested the Face of One Destined for Godhood and found that he could not see the path to godhood in Prison Break.
• Fu Qian rolled up his sleeve, and his Scarlet Fever spread scarlet mist across Prison Break.

Fu Qian discovered that Vacuum Flowers had appeared in the King of Prison Break's divine kingdom and suspected they embodied a fundamental force tied to supernatural power and Sanity Value. After testing the connection, he reduced his Sanity Value by one and found that the number of flowers also fell from seventy-nine to seventy-eight.

• Fu Qian considered how Vacuum Flowers and his Blood Face's Corrupting Breath both transformed the mundane into chaotic supernatural power.
• Fu Qian condensed the crimson mist in the divine kingdom into transparent, crystalline Vacuum Flowers and counted seventy-nine of them.
• Fu Qian noticed that the flower count matched his Sanity Value and wondered whether the flowers represented its underlying power.
• Fu Qian used Mythical Form to reduce his Sanity Value by one, then created another batch of flowers with Scarlet Fever.
• Fu Qian counted seventy-eight flowers in the new batch, confirming that their number had decreased alongside his Sanity Value.

Fu Qian reasoned that Prison Break could relay prayers to the King of Prison Break despite his lost Supernatural Perception, and greeted the emerging Northern Jiang En. She responded that she was cursed, leaving Fu Qian to face the source of the summons.

• Fu Qian recognized the silhouette as a manifestation of Jiang En's call to the King of Prison Break.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Prison Break itself could receive prayers and relay their signals through its connection to the King of Prison Break.
• Fu Qian inferred that old-timers had marked and united with the essence of their respective authorities.
• Fu Qian greeted the increasingly distinct Northern Jiang En.
• Northern Jiang En lifted her bloodied head and said she was cursed.

Fu Qian discovered that Jiang En’s unexplained wounds and weakness came from the Greedy Worms’ shared injuries, then received Taylor, who appeared in the prison without seeming to know who Fu Qian was. The chapter ended with Jiang En asking Taylor who he was.

• Jiang En told Fu Qian that he had been cursed and was developing unexplained wounds and weakness.
• Fu Qian realized the Greedy Worms were reflecting injuries onto Jiang En and reassured him that the curse might also be a blessing.
• Fu Qian concluded that Jiang En seemed to be in a deep-dreaming state and did not remember why he had come.
• Another visitor emerged from the red mist, and Fu Qian recognized him as Taylor and arranged seats for both guests.
• Taylor asked Fu Qian who he was, and Jiang En immediately returned the question by asking Taylor who he was.

Fu Qian watched Taylor and Jiang En clash as Taylor accused Jiang En of hiding a connection to the King of Prison Break. Their exchange left Jiang En momentarily unable to answer, deepening Taylor’s suspicions.

• Fu Qian introduced Taylor as a Shangjing genius and pureblood vampire, and Jiang En mocked the description.
• Taylor recognized Jiang En as his nemesis and accused him of pretending not to recognize the King of Prison Break’s emblem.
• Fu Qian recalled how he had arranged for Taylor to test Jiang En and for Miss Wen to influence Jiang En’s reaction to the emblem.
• Taylor cited Jiang En’s unusually firm denial as evidence that their past encounter had been suspicious.
• Jiang En fell silent as Taylor pressed him, while Fu Qian recognized that Jiang En’s curse had made him suspect a Higher Being.

Fu Qian listened as Jiang En and Taylor pieced together how the King of Prison Break had manipulated the incident in Shangjing, then revealed that the King was the Bookstore Owner. The chapter left Jiang En and Taylor stunned by Fu Qian’s claim that the Bookstore Owner was Fu Qian himself.

• Jiang En admitted that he had not known what the object was, though Taylor’s actions had left him cursed ever since.
• Taylor accused Jiang En of helping the King of Prison Break target Shangjing and questioned whether his sudden breakthrough had been a reward for aiding the operation.
• Fu Qian interrupted their argument, asked who the King of Prison Break was, and said he knew the answer.
• Fu Qian identified the King of Prison Break as Shangjing’s Bookstore Owner and revealed that his real name was Fu Qian.

Fu Qian told Jiang En and Taylor that the King of Prison Break was named Fu Qian, lived in a bookstore, and taught at the Academy, prompting them to debate whether the Night Watchers were cooperating with or being misled by him. When Jiang En suggested testing the name by praying to Fu Qian, he seized the opportunity to make Taylor vanish.

• Taylor and Jiang En doubted Fu Qian's claims about the King of Prison Break and his ties to the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian revealed that the being was also a professor at the Academy, and Jiang En considered whether the Night Watchers knew only part of the truth.
• Taylor and Jiang En argued over whether the Night Watchers might be involved in the King of Prison Break's schemes, then agreed that the claims needed verification.
• Jiang En proposed that Taylor pray to the name Fu Qian to see whether he received a response.
• Fu Qian approved of the proposed test and snapped his fingers, causing Taylor to vanish.

Fu Qian tested whether Taylor could summon Prison Break using the name Fu Qian instead of King of Prison Break, but the attempt failed. He proposed testing another of his alleged identities, Jade Soul Master, and left the experiment ongoing.

• Fu Qian severed Taylor's connection to Prison Break so Taylor could try summoning it with the name Fu Qian.
• While Taylor was gone, Jiang En taunted his absent rival, and Taylor returned after Fu Qian restored the connection with a Scarlet Angel.
• Taylor reported that using the name Fu Qian had not worked, surprising Jiang En and deepening Fu Qian's suspicions.
• Fu Qian admitted he had given Taylor the name, then claimed the bookstore owner's real name was Jade Soul Master.
• Fu Qian proposed another competition to test whether Prison Break would respond to Jade Soul Master.