Recaps

Raphael struggled to hold back the Penglai Immortal Sect’s marionettes while Klein stole the Fool pathway’s Uniqueness from Antigonus. The Ancient Sun God’s aid and Wen Tuo’s rise as the new Underworld Daoist turned the Western Continent battle around, and Raphael called for the True Lord’s Jade Bodies to be destroyed.

• Raphael sent the Lord of Evil Desires to hold off an advanced marionette while he fought as Zhou Fei against the Penglai Immortal Sect’s forces.
• Klein realized he had become Antigonus, used the prayers of his believers to steady himself, and stole the Fool pathway’s Uniqueness.
• The Ancient Sun God sent power through a narrow mystical channel to Raphael, then illuminated the Astral World so Amon could find Klein, though the Evernight Goddess blocked Amon at the palace.
• The Underworld Daoist vanished into the River of Eternal Darkness, and Wen Tuo became the new Underworld Daoist with the strength of a Multiple Pathway King of Angel.
• The Ancient Sun God’s power restored the Five Lakes Sword Sect’s fighters and raised its five leaders to King of Angel level, allowing Raphael’s side to fight on equal terms.
• Raphael ordered his allies to destroy the True Lord’s Jade Bodies that powered the enemy marionettes.

Amon interrupted Klein’s accommodation of the Fool’s Uniqueness, causing the Celestial Worthy to awaken through a contradiction in history. On Penglai Immortal Island, Wen Tuo used the Secret Realm’s power to put the Celestial Worthy back to sleep, while the battle against the Penglai forces and their high-level marionettes remained unresolved.

• Raphael destroyed many of the Penglai Immortal Sect’s “True Lord’s Jade Bodies” and led the allied cultivators into the Palace Complex, where they continued attacking the sect’s forces.
• Amon’s avatars appeared around Klein, disrupted his accommodation of the Fool’s Uniqueness, and stole his remaining reason; Klein merged Zaratul’s remnant psyche into himself and began preparing the Fool potion.
• The contradiction between Klein’s history and the Celestial Worthy’s history caused the Celestial Worthy to awaken, and Raphael warned the fighters on Penglai Immortal Island.
• Wen Tuo told the sect leaders to use the Secret Realm’s power against Immortal Venerable Xuanhuang, while Raphael drew on the Dark Hut’s power without completing his union with the Dao.
• The high-level marionettes coordinated their attacks, leaving the Lord of Evil Desires, Qinglan, the Celestial Master, and the Holy Monk in danger as the Penglai forces’ spirit body threads turned many cultivators into marionettes.
• Wen Tuo expanded a black-and-white domain that subdued the spirit body threads and put the Celestial Worthy to sleep again.

Klein completed his advancement to the Fool, then discovered that Amon had invaded Sefirah Castle. On Penglai Immortal Island, the sect leaders entered the mist to investigate the underground ruins, where Raphael was separated from the group.

• Klein used the Fool Uniqueness and Sequence 1 characteristic to form the potion, completed his ritual by fooling fate, and became the Fool after the Evernight Goddess killed him and he returned from the Historical Void.
• Wen Tuo forced the Celestial Worthy back into slumber, and the Western Continent’s sect leaders destroyed the marionettes and exposed the vast underground passages beneath Penglai Immortal Island.
• The sect leaders and Grand Cultivators entered the mist together after realizing the mountain’s hidden depths remained unexplored.
• Klein familiarized himself with his new authorities in Sefirah Castle, then discovered Amon stepping through a door in the gray fog.
• Raphael and the others searched beneath the mountain, but their flight was stolen and Raphael was sent alone to a stone chamber, where he kicked open the door to explore.

Raphael used a magma eruption to reunite the Grand Cultivators and lead them through a seal toward the Celestial Worthy’s presence. In Sefirah Castle, Klein and Amon fought for control, and Klein proposed risking the Celestial Worthy’s awakening before both began to transform.

• Raphael triggered an underground earthquake and volcanic eruption, using the flowing magma to find and reunite the other Grand Cultivators.
• Raphael found a seal shielding part of the underground complex, altered it so the group could pass, and joined Wen Tuo in fighting Penglai Immortal Sect cultivators and marionettes.
• The reunited Grand Cultivators descended through the complex, sensed the Celestial Worthy awakening nearby, and Raphael urged them to hurry.
• Klein grafted Amon to the Light Gate to awaken the Celestial Worthy’s residual psyche, but Amon stole Klein’s authority and turned the struggle against him.
• Klein proposed that he and Amon wager on who would awaken more of the Lord of the Mysteries’ will, then began changing into a form closer to the Lord of the Mysteries.
• Amon accepted Klein’s wager and summoned tentacles as his own aura shifted toward the Lord of the Mysteries.

Raphael disrupted the Celestial Worthy’s revival by unleashing the Mother Tree of Desire’s Clone inside the link to Sefirah Castle, then completed Union with the Dao and attacked the weakened orb. In Sefirah Castle, Klein trapped Amon and destroyed his body, while Raphael and Wen Tuo left the Celestial Worthy’s remnant consciousness disconnected from the Real World.

• Raphael and Wen Tuo reached the cavern beneath Penglai Immortal Island, where Wen Tuo tried to connect with the River of Eternal Darkness as Raphael defended him from the Celestial Worthy’s Advanced Marionettes.
• An Advanced Marionette struck Wen Tuo and severed his connection, so Raphael released the Mother Tree of Desire’s Clone into the bluish-black orb to disrupt the Celestial Worthy’s revival.
• The distraction gave Wen Tuo time to reconnect with the River of Eternal Darkness, while Raphael completed Union with the Dao and rose to the level of a Dual Sequence King of Angel.
• Inside Sefirah Castle, Klein exposed Amon’s deception, blocked his escape, and destroyed his body, leaving his Uniquenesses and Sequence 1 Characteristics behind.
• Raphael borrowed the Dark Hut’s power to strike and corrupt the orb, while Wen Tuo used the River of Eternal Darkness to put it to sleep.
• Raphael’s successive attacks shattered the orb and severed the Celestial Worthy’s remnant mental consciousness from the Real World.

Raphael helped weaken the Celestial Worthy in the Western Continent, then attended an impromptu Tarot Club gathering where Klein revealed he would enter a slumber and commissioned the members to help awaken him. Klein granted Raphael’s wish for a smooth, protected advancement to the Chained, leaving the Tarot Club to prepare for a long struggle while the World remained asleep.

• Klein sensed that the Celestial Worthy’s will had been greatly weakened after the Western Continent’s sects and Raphael fought at great cost.
• Raphael resurrected, sealed a weakened clone of the Mother Tree of Desire, chose the Uniqueness of Uncertainty as his share of the spoils, and returned to Sefirah Castle.
• Raphael revealed that his newly released Oldest One Personality had become a fourth personality, and Klein explained that their sacrifices had improved his chances in a battle beyond the sequences.
• Klein told the Tarot Club that the World had entered a slumber, assigned the members long-term tasks to spread his name and aid his awakening, and warned them that details of the greater conflict could corrupt them.
• Klein granted Raphael’s wish to advance smoothly to the Chained without interference from Outer Deities, astonishing the members who realized Raphael was approaching godhood.

After Klein entered the Light Gate, Raphael reflected on how to contain the mental imprints influencing him and concluded he needed to develop a fourth stage of Union with the Dao. He emerged from seclusion with plans to become a god and help Klein, then went to bargain with Farbauti's clone for an Abomination characteristic.

• Klein ended the Tarot Club gathering, released the people held in cocoons to be reborn, and entered the Light Gate with Arrodes.
• Raphael realized that divinity had dulled his grief over the first Underworld Daoist and resolved to hurry with the fourth stage of Union with the Dao.
• Raphael spent more than three months in the Dark Hut refining his plans, then decided to collect the remaining Sequence 1 characteristics and Uniqueness, prepare his advancement ritual, and help Klein.
• Raphael traveled to Tizamo Town, where the first Underworld Daoist's phantom appeared to leave Farbauti's sealed clone in his care.
• Raphael offered Farbauti's clone a future Filthy Monarch characteristic and a rebuilt clone in exchange for its Abomination characteristic, then revealed his power as a Dual Pathway King of Angel.

Raphael obtained Farbauti’s “Abomination” Characteristic, then found the “Chained God” with help from the “Fool” and the “Ancient Sun God.” After the “Chained God” attacked and fled, Raphael fought to capture him, and Wen Tuo appeared to block his escape.

• Raphael took the “Abomination” Characteristic from Farbauti’s avatar and sealed the black rock to sustain it.
• Raphael used the “Mother Tree of Desire’s” sapling as a medium to ask the “Fool” for the “Chained God’s” approximate location.
• Zhou Fei told Wen Tuo that the “Evernight Goddess” could become a “Great Old One” and that doing so left no other path for Wen Tuo; Wen Tuo agreed to help Raphael fight an opponent at the Grand Cultivator level.
• Raphael asked the “Ancient Sun God” to reveal the “Chained God’s” exact location, and holy light exposed the hidden flower bud containing him.
• Raphael tried to persuade the “Chained God” to stop resisting the “Mother Tree of Desire,” but the “Chained God” attacked him with “Restraint” and fled after Raphael struck back.
• Wen Tuo appeared and blocked the “Chained God’s” escape route with a Golden Illusory Greatsword.

Raphael and Wen Tuo defeated the Mother Tree of Desire’s control over the Chained God, allowing him to escape while they destroyed the vines. Raphael taught the Evernight Goddess how to pursue Union with the Dao, then returned to prepare for his advancement before finding Audrey in Connaught.

• Wen Tuo put the Chained God to sleep while Raphael attacked him, and the Abyss opened beneath the fleeing god.
• Wen Tuo used Slumber on the Mother Tree of Desire’s vines, allowing the Chained God to relinquish his Uniqueness and explode free of their control.
• Raphael extracted an Abomination characteristic as the Chained God reformed an arm, took an Ancient Bane characteristic, and escaped through the Spirit World.
• Raphael and Wen Tuo burned the vines, then Raphael told the Evernight Goddess how to achieve Union with the Dao in exchange for her help with his future advancement.
• Raphael returned to the Dark Hut to contemplate the Dao, then found Audrey and Susie in Connaught after about a year apart.

Raphael asked Audrey to become an Angel and enter Mr. Fool’s dream with him, using a gold coin entrusted by Mr. Fool. After Raphael arranged help from the Ancient Sun God and a way to obtain Audrey’s Beyonder characteristic, they followed an imagined Ariehogg through the Dream World in search of the real dragon.

• Raphael met Audrey after a year away from the Tarot Club and explained that he wanted her to enter Mr. Fool’s dream once she became an Angel.
• Audrey said her dream abilities should strengthen at Angel level, and Raphael revealed that Mr. Fool’s gold coin could guide them into His dream.
• Raphael promised the Ancient Sun God would help Audrey advance without a ritual or supplementary ingredients, and asked her to pass along that the Gods would cooperate against the Apocalypse.
• Raphael explained that he planned to find Ariehogg and use the dragon’s Discerner characteristic for Audrey’s advancement.
• Audrey led Raphael into the Dream World near Hedrak Village, where the Ancient Sun God used her memories to imagine Ariehogg and trace the dragon’s escape route.

Ankewelt tried to kill Audrey before the Sun God’s envisioned dragon could expose him, but Raphael defeated him and secured the materials needed for Audrey’s advancement. Raphael prepared Audrey’s angel potion, leaving her on an uninhabited island with the pale liquid in hand.

• Ankewelt sensed his power draining because the Sun God had envisioned a clone of him, and he flew out to destroy the clues that could expose him.
• Ankewelt attacked Audrey from the collective consciousness sea, but Raphael protected her and fought back after Ankewelt revealed his ambush.
• Raphael resisted the Primordial’s residual psyche, killed Ankewelt, and collected his blood and Beyonder characteristics.
• Raphael made the Discerner characteristic safe for Audrey, then obtained supplementary ingredients and had the Ancient Sun God weave two true identities for her.
• Raphael prepared Audrey’s angel potion and handed her the pale liquid on an uninhabited island.

Audrey advanced to Sequence 5 with the Ancient Sun God’s guidance, then joined Raphael in entering Mr. Fool’s dream under the Evernight Goddess’s watch. They emerged in a modern world resembling Klein’s former home, where they struggled to find him and discovered that the dream had assigned Audrey a wealthy identity.

• Audrey drank her potion, endured the mind world’s assault, and successfully advanced with Raphael’s help and the Ancient Sun God’s guidance.
• A week later, Raphael and Audrey prayed to the Evernight Goddess at Saint Samuel Cathedral, then used a special gold coin and Audrey’s Dream Infiltration to enter Mr. Fool’s dream.
• Raphael and Audrey passed through a mystic door, boarded a train, and found themselves in a subway carriage from the modern world where Klein had once lived.
• They left the subway station and found themselves penniless amid busy traffic and skyscrapers, prompting Raphael to realize he had forgotten to create money.
• A limousine and an elegant female assistant arrived for Audrey, revealing that the dream had given her an identity as a wealthy woman, while the assistant regarded Raphael suspiciously.

Raphael and Audrey entered Zhou Mingrui’s dream, where Raphael reunited with Zhou Mingrui and learned that he had drunk an Assassin potion. As Raphael tried to warn him about Beyonder potions and mental corruption, the barbecue restaurant dimmed when the Celestial Worthy noticed the intruders.

• Raphael got Audrey a spare phone, and they waited outside Zhou Mingrui’s office building until he finished work.
• Raphael met Zhou Mingrui and introduced Audrey, then the three went to a barbecue restaurant.
• Raphael asked Zhou Mingrui about mysterious incidents, and Zhou Mingrui revealed that he had drunk an Assassin potion.
• Raphael warned Zhou Mingrui not to drink more potions and claimed that an Official Beyonder organization had sent him to explain the dangers of the Beyonder world.
• Raphael began explaining Beyonder Characteristics and mental corruption, but the restaurant lights dimmed as the Celestial Worthy noticed him and Audrey.

Raphael and Audrey entered Klein’s dream to deliver Raphael’s plan for awakening Mr. Fool, but the Celestial Worthy trapped them when Raphael exposed his identity. Raphael had already hidden the crucial message in a stone bollard, allowing Klein to receive it and rescue them; back at Saint Samuel Cathedral, Raphael said they had done all they could and needed to wait.

• Raphael and Audrey’s first attempt to teach Zhou Mingrui about resisting mental erosion ended when enormous eyes appeared and Audrey pulled them out of the dream.
• Raphael devised a plan to seal a message into the World’s spirit body and returned to the dream a week later with Audrey and Leonard watching over them.
• Raphael used a childhood memory about playing with a stone bollard to hide his message in it, then confronted Zhou Mingrui and identified him as the Celestial Worthy.
• The Celestial Worthy trapped Raphael and Audrey in a restaurant private room, but Klein appeared and said he had received Raphael’s information.
• Raphael and Audrey returned to Saint Samuel Cathedral, where Raphael told Leonard they had done everything necessary and would now wait.

Derrick discovered a message in the Fool’s Bible that suggested Mr. Fool was beginning to awaken, and the Tarot Club debated whether it was genuine. The members agreed to act on the message, while Audrey suspected Raphael lived in the moving castle and offered to contact him.

• Derrick heard the cathedral bell ring, then found it motionless and the Fool’s Bible altered with a message saying Mr. Fool would return in a year.
• Derrick brought the suspected message to the Tarot Club, where Alger argued it was likely genuine and Xio reported that Amon’s main body had entered the Astral World two months earlier.
• Audrey warned the members not to ask Mr. Fool to judge whether the message was authentic, and Cattleya suggested they could safely follow its instructions regardless.
• The members discussed Raphael’s absence and the strange incidents linked to the Black Mage’s Moving Castle.
• Audrey said Raphael most likely lived in the moving castle and offered to find it and contact him.

Audrey tracked Raphael to his moving castle, delivered Mr. Fool’s message, and learned why Raphael had been creating Beyonder incidents. Raphael then prepared to advance by entering a Southern Continent pharaoh’s tomb and beginning the ritual that would seal him as a mummy.

• Audrey questioned Waughn about strange events in his village, learned of the moving castle, and used a psychological suggestion to make the villagers forget the incident.
• Audrey found Raphael’s moving castle, met the living stuffed doll Brook, and toured the castle before joining Raphael for tea.
• Audrey conveyed Mr. Fool’s thanks to the Lord of Evil Desires and said he could proceed with his plan; Raphael asked whether Mr. Fool had begun to awaken.
• Raphael explained that he needed more anchors to sustain his humanity and argued that his Beyonder incidents gave ordinary people a higher form of feedback than the Rose School’s violence.
• After Audrey left, Raphael told his other personalities to prepare for an advancement attempt and prayed for Mr. Fool to make 100 days in a royal tomb count as 100 years.
• Raphael hid his moving castle in the Spirit World, entered a prepared pharaoh’s tomb, and lay in an emptied coffin so his marionettes could turn him into a mummy.

Raphael underwent the Chained advancement ritual inside a sealed sarcophagus, enduring a century of curses and using the time to refine his Union with the Dao. As he reached the ritual’s climax, he balanced restraint and release, but the Mother Tree of Desire found him and attacked.

• Raphael had his organs removed, was wrapped as a mummy, and was killed by the Lord of Evil Desires, his clone, before the Chained potion was placed inside him.
• The Lord of Evil Desires sealed Raphael in the Royal Tomb while the Fool altered the passage of time and the Evernight Goddess concealed the tomb.
• Raphael endured the potion’s curses for a hundred years and used the prolonged ritual to separate residual-psyche divinity from the Oldest One Personality and investigate rule-related divinity.
• The Lord of Evil Desires sensed the Mother Tree of Desire searching for the Royal Tomb as the six gods held the Astral World barrier against her attacks.
• Raphael’s sarcophagus burst open as his advancement reached its critical point, and he survived the trial of balancing restraint and release.
• The Mother Tree of Desire found Raphael, whose body began sprouting thorn-covered branches and tongues as she attacked him.

Raphael completed his advancement to Chained and survived the Mother Tree of Desire’s attempt to seize control of him, while the Fool and Ancient Sun God intervened against the Great Old Ones threatening him. After becoming the first Chained, Raphael changed several Pathway curses into graces and began exploring his new authorities.

• The Mother Tree of Desire entangled Raphael during his advancement, but he completed it and briefly unleashed the Chained authority, causing widespread supernatural incidents and mutations.
• The Mother Tree of Desire overwhelmed Raphael with emotions and desires, then used his connection to the Shadow World to seize the Dark Hut as Cosmic Darkness emerged from the Abyss to kill him.
• The Demon Personality took control according to Raphael’s contingency plan, used the Mother Tree of Desire’s influence to complete the fifth stage of Union with the Dao, and repelled her vines.
• The Ancient Sun God struck Cosmic Darkness with Holy Light, while the Fool made the Mother Tree of Desire expose her true body beyond Earth’s barrier; the Six Gods concealed her, and she retreated when other Great Old Ones turned toward her.
• Raphael thanked the Ancient Sun God and the Fool, completed his advancement, changed the curses of Werewolves, Zombies, Wraiths, and Marionettes into graces, and summoned his Moving Castle to examine his new authorities.

Raphael examined his newly strengthened authorities after becoming a god, then merged with the Shadow World and reached the level of half a Great Old One. He used God Almighty’s arrangements to awaken Him within the Cosmic Darkness, allowing the Ancient Sun God to suppress that awakening and begin accommodating the Chaos Sea.

• Raphael studied his authorities of restraint, aberrations, curses, and items, then rested before entering the Dark Hut to merge with the Sefirah.
• In the Abyss, the Mother Tree of Desire, God Almighty, and Farbauti argued over how to escape Raphael, unaware that he could merge with the Shadow World far faster than they expected.
• Raphael emerged in the Abyss as half a Great Old One, and the Cosmic Darkness fled deeper into it while he pursued them.
• Raphael used the cross containing God Almighty’s arrangements to strengthen His awakening within the Cosmic Darkness, but God Almighty resisted and declared that He did not want to awaken there.
• The Ancient Sun God intercepted God Almighty’s declaration and issued the higher-level command, preventing His awakening for the time being.
• The Ancient Sun God used the opportunity to begin accommodating the Chaos Sea.