Recaps

Griseo and Yixuan confronted the Azure Nether Sword’s cost, Yunkui Mountain’s betrayal, and the Praise Society’s schemes as they worked to prevent the First Lord’s arrival. The arc left Griseo and Liuyin connecting the mine’s ancient array to the Society’s plan, while Wise and his companions continued investigating Reverie Town.

• Griseo offered to replace the Azure Nether Sword’s conflicting powers with her own and gave Yixuan the Signet of Mortal Life to study, while Isolde began moving against the Praise Society.
• During Hollow Zero’s eruption, Isolde revealed Lorenz’s betrayal to Yixuan and pursued revenge, but Griseo stopped Yixuan from attacking her and helped Isolde leave to begin her operation.
• Darkboxes released Sacrificial Ghosts across Weifei Land, and Yixuan used Griseo’s domain to help clear the city as Isolde shot Lorenz and entered Lemnian Hollow.
• Isolde transformed into the Desecrator by absorbing Corruptive Breath, and Yixuan fought her until Hua arrived and cleaved through the attack with Taixu Sword God.
• After Yixuan returned to Yunkui Mountain, Griseo revealed that Lu Hengzhou and thirty-seven disciples had secretly arranged for Ye Shunguang to test the Azure Nether Sword, and Yixuan confronted Lu Hengzhou over the scheme.
• Griseo and Hua witnessed Yijiang’s memories, while Hua helped Yixuan reconsider her guilt over Ye Shunguang before Griseo departed to address the Azure Nether Sword and the First Lord.
• Wise’s power surged inside Lemnian Hollow, but Griseo restrained it and helped him reunite with Mato and Lucia, who were investigating the dreaming phantoms of Reverie Town.
• Belle and Griseo joined Liuyin to investigate the mine, where Ye Shunguang arrived to help fight Ethereals and Griseo sent away the Azure Nether Sword Case.
• Liuyin told Griseo how she had survived being sacrificed to the Hollows, accepted Griseo’s offer to leave Black Branch, and explained that the ancient array gathered ether energy and Corruptive Breath for the First Lord’s arrival.

Griseo confronted Primus at Lemnian Hollow while Wise and his companions freed the sleepers and faced the memories haunting Zenis Space City. After helping Liuyin guide lost souls and gathering friends at Whatever Temple, Griseo shared the stories of Kosma, Sakura, and Hua, leaving the group wondering what their Signets might mean for them.

• Griseo summoned Hua to destroy Primus’s Eightfold Heavenly Dragons, and together they erased Primus’s fleeing consciousness while Ye Shunguang killed Sobek.
• Mato activated the damaged TOPS device, freeing the sleepers from Moss’s Cocoon as Moss and the Reverie Dwellers vanished.
• Wise, Lucia, Mato, and Yidhari followed Little Lucia through memories of the abandoned experimental grounds, where Lucia learned that the Wandering Hunter was her father’s final dream.
• Griseo restored Lucia’s father with Anivia’s help, and Lucia reunited with him before he later departed in peace.
• Griseo returned to New Eridu and met with Hoshimi Soichiro, Zhao, and Liuyin as the Municipal Government and TOPS arrived at Anywhere Observatory.
• Liuyin helped grieving souls find peace, including Uncle Li’s daughter’s father, Paul, and the orphanage ghosts who reunited with Onne.
• Miyabi and Yixuan’s planned duel turned into a lively feast and drunken martial arts lesson, with Griseo’s special brew drawing the gathering into dancing.
• Griseo presented Kosma’s story to Belle and the others, then showed Sakura’s and Hua’s histories at their request, prompting questions about the burden and meaning of the Signets.

Griseo’s group traced the Black Flowers and Corruptive Breath to the Huiling Stone production base, where they uncovered clues about Wanzhou and helped Ye Shunguang master the Azure Nether Sword. Jianshu betrayed them in an attempt to awaken Primus, but Griseo and Vill-V contained the intelligence within it, leaving Jianshu to confront Wise and Belle over New Eridu’s inequality.

• Griseo split the teams to investigate the sites gathering Corruptive Breath, while she, Belle, Wise, and Ye Shunguang headed for the Hollow’s center.
• Griseo revealed that she came from another world and identified Wanzhou as a construct whose history was tied to Kiana, before Jianshu appeared and offered to guide the group.
• Ye Shunguang and Griseo fought through the Black Flowers as the group followed clues connecting Wanzhou, the factory, and the First Lord.
• Remiel attacked Elda Wanzhou, demanded that she stop the Sun-Chasing Project, and left before identifying the woman who wanted the sealed secrets.
• At the factory, Ye Shunguang reconciled with her other personality and purified the Black Flowers, while Griseo planned to use Wise and Belle to balance the Azure Nether Sword’s opposing powers.
• Pelois took control of Wise’s body and fought Griseo, then agreed to cooperate after she defeated him and forced him to reveal the Authority of [Sun].
• Ye Shunguang unleashed the Azure Nether Sword to clear the Black Flowers across the ruins, but collapsed as her body began to fade.
• Jianshu triggered the mine’s destruction and tried to awaken Primus, but Griseo purified the Corruptive Breath and Vill-V captured the intelligent construct inside Jianshu.
• Jianshu returned to normal, admitted its ties to the Praise Society, and challenged Wise and Belle to face New Eridu’s inequality, calling Phaethon the Sinner’s Child.