Recaps

Sylutia settled in Scorched Stone City, learned gardening and began studying under Scholar Heide while hiding her appearance. As Heide revealed the Secret Forest’s dangerous path to greater power, Sylutia and her fellow students considered what they hoped to gain from their studies.

• Sylutia reached Scorched Stone City with Vandhi’s caravan, settled into a house with Talia, and discovered that moonlight seemed to surround her.
• Sylutia studied with Winnie, explored the Adventurers Guild, and chose gardening after Mailin explained her options.
• Sylutia planted Swan Orchid seeds, mastered the Dew Prayer Technique, and learned from Scholar Heide that Radiant Moon might help restore her lost memories.
• Sylutia disguised her silver hair and joined Heide’s students, where she met Comia and Karen and saw Iona arrive from White Cliff City.
• A fight broke out between Baron’s and Solin’s groups, and Sylutia treated the injured before Coach Burke assessed the students’ combat skills.
• Heide explained that he and Viscount Xuefeng could recommend students to the Secret Forest, where entrants could pursue power beyond Fifth Order but lost their identities and legal protection.
• Heide taught the students about the Covenant and the world’s history, while Valenie offered Sylutia clerical work and Comia asked her about the Radiant Moon and Phantom Moon.

Sylutia improved her cultivation, helped her classmates, and earned a place at Lady Falan’s estate through her success with the Swan Orchids. The arc left her settled in the mansion, where she would learn Horticulture and assist Lady Falan.

• Scholar Heide gave Sylutia the Emerald Eye Potion recipe and an ingredient note, while Mick borrowed money from Jero to buy Blood Wine.
• Mick defeated Ray in the assessment, but Solin, Comia, and Toss also stood out, and Iona finished first overall.
• Sylutia joined Comia and Karen at dinner, reconsidered whether she had family in this life, and resolved to search for them.
• Sylutia used the Emerald Pupil Potion to diagnose the Swan Orchids, then adjusted their growing conditions.
• During the village trip, Sylutia gathered herbs, helped Mick after he collapsed, and was asked by Scholar Heide to tutor him.
• Sylutia tutored her friends, improved their combat skills, and cultivated three Swan Orchids until they bloomed with First Order Emerald Nectar.
• Sylutia placed first in the month-end assessment and visited Lady Falan, who offered to teach her Horticulture in exchange for work at the manor.
• Sylutia hunted with Karen, Comia, Mick, and Ray, then moved with Talia into Lady Falan’s mansion.

Sylutia became Lady Falan’s student, developed her gardening abilities, and prepared for the Secret Forest trials while building friendships and trading medicinal oil. In Linden Village, she discovered a path into the World of Shadows, survived its distortions, and witnessed the oath that shaped Holin’s fate, while Yero chose to pursue his own ambitions.

• Sylutia tended Lady Falan’s sunflower fields, advanced [Sleeping Maiden] into [Maiden in the Flower Sea], and became Lady Falan’s student and possible heir.
• Solin, Mick, and Ray made progress in their training, while Sylutia shared Blood Wine with her friends and later watched Mick defeat Solin in a hard-fought spar.
• Sylutia learned gardening techniques from Lady Falan, met local noblewomen as Anloer, and supplied Sun Seed Oil to visitors seeking treatment for Baron Beto’s wife.
• Sylutia chose to pursue the Secret Forest trials, studied the Blossom Method, and learned about the trials from Winnie as she prepared plants and considered battlefield medicine.
• Sylutia negotiated a sale of 303 bottles of Sun Seed Oil to Albayou, received 1,200 gold coins, and began learning Garden Swordsmanship from Lining.
• Sylutia accompanied Talia to Linden Village, heard about Talia’s family and the strange history of the mountains, then followed a sensation into a gray-and-white world where Emerald Nectar let her endure its pain.
• Sylutia fought Fallen Leaf Monsters and a Pitch-Dark Strange Cat, whose distortion corrupted her Fate Disk until silver meteors purified her and transformed [Gardening Apprentice Girl] into [Girl Under the Starry Sky].
• Sylutia found a Weathered Iron Sword and dreamed of Sir Knight Holin’s oath to establish a kingdom and purge corruption, while Scholar Heide told Yero the history of the Secret Forest and let him choose his own path.

Sylutia returned from the World of Shadows, rebuilt her Emerald Nectar abilities, and entered the Secret Forest assessment. After surviving its monsters and joining forces with Iona to defeat a Two-Headed Ogre, she claimed the Blood Alien Flower and faced Iona in another sword match.

• Sylutia honored Knight Holin in the World of Shadows, explored the temple, recovered memories of her mother, and gained the scripture “Melancholy Praying in the Lake.”
• Sylutia regained an Alien Star Aspect, found a crack in space and time, and returned to the Cloud Sea Continent before Lady Falan helped her return to the Emerald Nectar path.
• Sylutia trained with Lining and Iona, learned about the dangerous Secret Forest selection, and prepared a Fireglow Orchid lantern for the assessment.
• The students entered the altered forest to find spring water, kill a First Order monster, and retrieve a Blood Alien Flower as an Ogre killed one student and injured others.
• Sylutia found Solin poisoned and revived him, while Mick, Comia, and Karen reunited with Jero after his party was killed by Ogres.
• Melinsa arrived at the assessment camp, and Scholar Heide recognized the powerful Nightmare Aspect user as the senior he had met sixty years earlier.
• Sylutia and Iona worked together to kill the Two-Headed Ogre, then Sylutia saved Iona from a Gale Vulture and killed it.
• Sylutia retrieved the Blood Alien Flower, but Iona demanded another match, and Sylutia used the Blue Water Shell Pearl to freeze Iona’s blade as their sword fight reached a stalemate.