Recaps

Lu Yuan recruited Dunn and Jurgen, uncovered contamination among Bronze City’s nobles, and helped Klaus fight a Grey Covenant assault. As the Pipe Network’s seal began to loosen, Leike was drawn into a vision where the Person on the Wall showed him an Empire outpost overwhelmed by an Insect Tide.

• Lu Yuan and Boer traveled to Gubo Town, recruited Dunn and Jurgen, and reported Jurgen’s Eerie Transcendence and the town’s unsettled forest to the Branch.
• Lu Yuan used the Worm of Knowledge to remove the Glazed Water injury and lingering Sea of Knowledge imprint from Klaus, then prepared to observe the Earl’s Bottom-Turning Operation.
• At the Earl’s gathering, Hilde Winter’s screening exposed contamination among the nobles, and Jie triggered the contaminated attendees’ transformations before attacking Klaus with J and Nine.
• Lu Yuan used Bolen’s Inscription Silver Shards to loosen Bronze City’s suppression as Klaus fought the Grey Covenant attackers, then used Time Bestower to rescue Klaus before the Guardian arrived.
• Lu Yuan and Leike interrogated captured Grey Covenant members, discovered a severed limb from the Sea of Knowledge, and entered the Pipe Network to investigate the rising Bronze Pillars and spreading inscriptions.
• Lu Yuan found the Copper Wall’s inscriptions spreading and its seal loosening, then carried the frozen Leike away after an outside force drew away his consciousness.
• The Person on the Wall offered to grant Leike’s wish, rejected his requests to eliminate the Empire’s enemies or reach the Seventh Order, and showed him an Empire outpost destroyed by an Insect Tide.

Lu Yuan and the Night Watchers fought the Grey Covenant, uncovered the threat beneath Bronze City, and rushed to the Tower of Erudition as its final Seed awakened. Lu Yuan entered the Person on the Wall’s domain and secured a Wish, then returned to find the Seed’s roots spreading through the Great Ascendant.

• Leike resisted the Person on the Wall’s attempt to twist his wish, while Lu Yuan entered the Gray Mist to search for him and faced the Person on the Wall.
• Klaus and Lu Yuan assembled allies to attack the Grey Covenant, and the assault ended with Jie dead, Nine, J, and Q captured, and K escaping.
• Lu Yuan discovered that a Wooden Man connected to a vast tree-filled world, while the Guardian warned that he could endure only through the next dive.
• Kame revealed that he had contracted with the Person on the Wall, that the final Seed had sprouted atop the Tower of Erudition, and that the Copper Wall’s threat was growing.
• Klaus convened the city’s factions and led them to the sealed tower, where the Great Ascendant found a black Seed beneath the Skull and its roots infected his metal arm.
• The Seed’s roots awakened the Person on the Wall’s remains, which incapacitated the group and trapped them in the tower, while Lu Yuan carried several unconscious allies to safety.
• The Great Ascendant revealed the Forbidden Society and his plan to imprison the Person on the Wall, but Lu Yuan called the entity’s name and was swept into its domain.
• Lu Yuan offered to remove the Seed from the Person on the Wall’s eye in exchange for freeing everyone, received the Wish, and returned to find the Great Ascendant frozen as the roots spread through him.

Lu Yuan removed the Seed from the Skull and joined the descent into the Abyss, where the group found Forest Seed infections consuming the Copper Pillars and uncovered a second Key Fragment. As the Guardian stopped the Grey Covenant’s forced harvest at the Tower of Erudition, Lu Yuan prepared a risky treatment for him.

• Lu Yuan used the Sea of Knowledge’s Authority to strip the Great Ascendant’s chains, then removed the Seed from the Skull as the Worm of Knowledge retreated.
• The Great Ascendant revealed the Ascension Society could transfer Fourth Order consciousness, and Klaus led a joint expedition into the Abyss to investigate the failing Bronze Sin network.
• Lu Yuan identified a Wood-Armored Ghoul whose life essence had been replaced by a Forest Seed, and the infection spread through Ghouls and began corroding the Born and Copper Pillars.
• The group fought its way to a Copper Pillar, where Lu Yuan received a second Key Fragment and learned the fragments pointed toward one another, but activating the pillar’s defense drew a vast horde of Ghouls.
• The expedition retreated as Forest Seed roots contaminated the Born, while Lu Yuan mapped the tunnels and concluded that the next dive should follow the passages toward the Seal Network’s core.
• At the Tower of Erudition, the Guardian stopped Kame’s forced harvest, killing Kame and K as Arthur shut down the Fishing Channel, but the Guardian’s power faded and the Old Dean died.
• Lu Yuan examined supplies and devised a treatment for the Guardian using the drained Seed and other ingredients, then asked Klaus for help after his copper sword could not pierce the Guardian’s skin.

After Lu Yuan helped stabilize the Guardian, the Person on the Wall used the black stone to bind them and unleashed a crisis beneath Bronze City. Lu Yuan escorted East District residents to Oak Forest City, then refused Isabella’s offer to stay because Bronze City and its people still needed him.

• Lu Yuan helped the Guardian stabilize, but the Guardian remained bound to the Tower of Erudition and the Person on the Wall.
• The Person on the Wall merged Kame’s black stone into its skull, binding itself to the Guardian and sending darkness through the tower toward Bronze City’s depths.
• Klaus mobilized Bronze City’s defenders while Lu Yuan led 210 residents and sixteen Night Watchers east toward Oak Forest City.
• Lu Yuan’s convoy fought off Sunk Ones and a charging beast, then avoided an Eye-Spine Centipede that was moving toward Bronze City.
• At a roadside inn, Lu Yuan and the Night Watchers found twenty-seven polluted bodies that transformed into Corpse-Mutants, which they destroyed before continuing on.
• Klaus rallied nobles and merchants to reinforce the Collapse Pits as Great Ghouls attacked underground, while Lu Yuan’s convoy reached Oak Forest City.
• Isabella offered Lu Yuan a place among Oak Forest City’s Night Watchers, but he declined because Bronze City and its people still needed him.