Recaps

Lin En recruited Firstborn to help with his plans, but Firstborn secretly decided to meet Lin En’s brother and eliminate him if he threatened their family traditions. Firstborn arrived in Clockwork City and faced Jiu, who recognized him.

• Firstborn accepted Lin En’s request to visit Clockwork City, while his affection for Lin En increased.
• After Lin En ended their call, Firstborn replayed Lin Yin’s praise and decided to meet his brother, whom he threatened to kill in an accident if necessary.
• Lin En returned to his original appearance, resolved to stop contacting Firstborn after using his help, and prepared to pursue his father-in-law with Firstborn and Jiu.
• Firstborn entered Clockwork City and encountered Jiu, who trapped the plaza in a jungle of blades and challenged him about entering Church territory.

Firstborn arrived in Clockwork City to protect Lin En and take charge of the search for Ophiel’s attacker, while Lin En tried to conceal his identity as Yin from Jiu. Jiu revealed that Firstborn was the returned ruler of the Gods’ Families, leaving Lin En stunned by the scale of the power he had invited.

• Firstborn told Jiu that he had come to look after a friend’s relative, then summoned Lin En with an Impression Crystal.
• Lin En arrived and introduced Firstborn as a guest who would help find the culprit who attacked Ophiel.
• Firstborn addressed Lin En as Lin Ke, said Yin had asked him to protect him, and warned him not to reveal anything he should not.
• Firstborn enclosed Clockwork City in a mirrored barrier, declared he would protect everyone for seven days, and left to take control of the city.
• Lin En gave Jiu a fabricated explanation for Firstborn’s presence, but Jiu told him that Firstborn was the Covenant’s former emperor and the Church’s greatest enemy.
• Jiu handed Lin En a dossier describing Firstborn’s conquests and return to power, including his latest appearance in the Imperial City.

Lin En learned that Firstborn had once led the Divine Covenant, ruled as an emperor, and fought the Church, while Jiu warned that his presence could threaten the peace between their factions. After Jiu attacked Lin En for teasing her, they reached the Grand Cathedral, where Firstborn had already broken through its barrier.

• Lin En studied Jiu’s documents and discovered Firstborn’s public identities as the Divine Covenant’s leader and an emperor who had fought the Church.
• Jiu warned Lin En that the Gods’ Families treated ordinary people as livestock and feared Firstborn might use the visit to prepare for another war.
• Lin En asked whether Jiu had fought Firstborn before, and she said she wanted to kill him if she got the chance.
• Lin En teased Jiu about having her heart broken, so she attacked him with her blade and slashes before he escaped.
• Lin En and Jiu returned to the Grand Cathedral and found its barrier broken and its Clerics on alert.
• Jiu warned Lin En that she would turn hostile if Firstborn did anything suspicious, and Lin En entered the Cathedral’s main hall.

Lin En questioned Firstborn about Liu Si’s past and the tragedy that changed him, while Firstborn recognized clues about Liu Si’s wife and daughters. Firstborn then took Lin En into the Spirit Realm, leaving Jiu furious after revealing an old grudge between them.

• Firstborn explained that Liu Si had won the Gods' Families' Hunting Arena decades earlier but refused his attempt to recruit him.
• Lin En said Liu Si’s wife had probably died and hinted that they might encounter her, leading Firstborn to recall seeing her at the Hunting Arena and ask whether they had daughters.
• Firstborn asked Jiu to leave so he could speak privately with Lin En, but Jiu refused and attacked him with blades.
• Firstborn used Reality Collapse to take Lin En into the Third Layer of the Spirit Realm while Jiu was forced back into reality.
• Firstborn told Lin En that he had tricked Jiu three to five hundred times during the war centuries earlier before launching a surprise attack on her Holy City.

Lin En explained the Lord of Crimson’s conspiracy to Firstborn, who agreed to help stop it and proposed using the Red Moon Vessel to force their enemies into action. Lin En revealed that he would not destroy the vessel because the Red Moon Family girl was his wife.

• Firstborn told Lin En that Jiu hated him and that she could only move within reality after Eternal Night.
• Lin En described his suspicions about the Lord of Crimson, the Red Moon Family’s plans, and the vessel incident, while withholding some personal details.
• Firstborn said he would not help restore another Outer God and wanted to know whether the plan would bring back the former King of the Red Moon or create the Lord of Crimson as an Outer God.
• Firstborn agreed to help Lin En and proposed using the Red Moon Vessel to pressure their enemies into revealing themselves.
• Lin En pointed out that Firstborn’s arrival had alerted their enemies, but Firstborn argued that their obsession would still drive them to take a risk.
• Firstborn asked why Lin En did not kill the Red Moon Family girl to stop the conspiracy, and Lin En answered that she was his wife.

Lin En persuaded the Firstborn to help protect Hana Ye and follow his plan, while discovering the Firstborn’s romantic interest in Lin Yin. Elsewhere, the Lord of Crimson learned that the Firstborn had arrived in Clockwork City, complicating her plans against Lin En.

• The Firstborn questioned Lin En about Hana Ye and whether he intended to marry or sleep with Lin Yin, then revealed he had mistaken Lin En for a romantic rival.
• The Firstborn offered to help keep Hana Ye safe, and Lin En warned him not to kidnap her or interfere with his arrangements.
• The Firstborn suggested waiting until he left Clockwork City to draw out their enemies, or creating opportunities to force them to act sooner.
• The Lord of Crimson confronted the white-haired figure over his failed attack on Ophiel and learned that the Firstborn had arrived in Clockwork City.

Firstborn returned with Lin En to the Grand Cathedral and agreed to ward Hana Ye against being taken to the Ninth Layer of the Spirit Realm. After accusing Lin En of being a lolicon, he learned that Lin En had told Hana Ye the truth, while she remained unconscious and feverish.

• Firstborn and Lin En returned from the Spirit Realm, where Jiu attacked Firstborn before he explained that he had no plans to wage war against her Church.
• Firstborn praised Lin En's political abilities, and Jiu questioned Lin En about why Firstborn's attitude toward him had changed.
• Lin En led Firstborn through the Cathedral to Hana Ye's room so Firstborn could ward her against abduction to the Ninth Layer of the Spirit Realm.
• Lin En told Firstborn that Hana Ye was the Red Moon Family's Vessel and the chosen bearer of the Lord of Crimson and the Red Moon's Authority.
• Firstborn accused Lin En of being a lolicon because of his relationship with Hana Ye, and Lin En ignored him and checked the feverish, unconscious girl's forehead.
• Firstborn asked whether Lin En had told Hana Ye the truth after Lin En asked if there was a way to wake her.

After Hana Ye’s emotional shock, Firstborn tried to replenish her mental energy, but her power surged and nearly transformed him and Lin En into Weirds. They concluded that Hana Ye had awakened the Red Moon’s authority, and Lin En suspected the King of the Red Moon’s corpse was connected to her creation.

• Lin En explained that he had told Hana Ye the truth about her father’s cruelty, and Firstborn said that painful truths were better learned early.
• When Firstborn touched Hana Ye’s forehead, a crimson light erupted and triggered violent transformations in both Firstborn and Lin En, who contained the spreading power.
• Firstborn identified the force as authority rather than an ordinary reaction to the Red Moon, and a crescent-shaped mark appeared between Hana Ye’s brows.
• Lin En explained that Hana Ye had been created using tissue from the King of the Red Moon’s corpse, which could account for her resistance to Firstborn’s Undying power.
• Firstborn and Lin En discussed how the Lord of Crimson and Hana Ye’s mother had reached the hidden corpse, while Hana Ye slept with the crescent mark seemingly beginning to grow.

Hana Ye woke after learning the truth about her past and tried to face her fear, while Lin En introduced her to Firstborn, the powerful ally he had summoned to protect her. Firstborn prepared to place a ward on her as the final showdown approached.

• Hana Ye woke and clung to Lin En, admitting she had suspected her father abandoned her at the Church and insisting she was not afraid.
• Hana Ye broke down crying again and accused Lin En of finding new companions while she slept, mistaking Firstborn for a pretty boy.
• Lin En introduced Firstborn as a powerful ally who had come to protect Hana Ye.
• Firstborn observed Hana Ye and Lin En's closeness, then said he would place a minor ward on her.
• Lin En told Hana Ye the ward was needed because the final showdown was almost here.

Lin En told Hana Ye that her father had attacked Ophiel and become a dangerous enemy, while Hana Ye struggled with her grief and guilt over her family. She let go of the family portrait and decided to be Hana Ye on her own, ending the chapter by insisting she could pluck Lin En down if he became a star.

• Lin En covered Hana Ye's crescent mark and warned her that he was using her to draw out her father, but promised to keep her safe.
• Lin En told Hana Ye that her father had attacked Ophiel and explained the trap and Magic Formation he had uncovered at the Castle.
• Hana Ye wondered whether her birth had caused her mother's death and her family's misery, then rubbed her own drawing from the family portrait.
• Hana Ye threw the family portrait out the window and decided she would be Hana Ye from then on.
• Lin En joked that he might become a star, and Hana Ye declared she would pluck him down from the sky.

Lin En returned to Mesijie Street to check on Salgon and Lilith’s production-line projects. Lilith revealed that her succubus-run entertainment venue had already earned 350,000 emotional fragments, leaving Lin En and Salgon stunned.

• Lin En returned to Mesijie Street and asked Salgon and Lilith how their production-line research was progressing.
• Salgon reported that he had started a production line in a remote human settlement to secure supplies independently of Clockwork City.
• Lilith showed Lin En rings containing earnings from her new entertainment venue and revealed that the fragments totaled 350,000.
• Lilith explained that she had recruited her mother’s succubus friends to lure men, give them restorative supplements, and harvest emotional fragments from both the men and the succubi.
• Lin En worried that the operation would exhaust its customers, but Lilith said the supplements helped and joked that her mother would enjoy working at her company.

Lilith collected the most fragments but nearly forced herself on Lin En as a reward, until Mirror stunned and pulled her away. Salgon then presented his smaller haul and pitched a plan to turn the Spirit Realm into a systematic fear-based business, which Lin En approved.

• Lilith admitted she had resisted joining the others because she was focused on winning Lin En's favor, then lunged at him in public.
• Mirror stunned Lilith with Salgon's leg bone and pulled her off Lin En.
• Lin En asked Salgon how many fragments he had collected, and Salgon reported only twenty thousand.
• Salgon explained his plan to hire evil spirits, create frightening scenarios, and use Spirit Realm Overlay to bring people into them overnight.
• Lin En praised Salgon's business sense and agreed that the plan sounded promising.

Lin En considered how to finance Salgon’s expensive fear-scenario business, which promised a large supply of fragments to help him face the Lord of Crimson. He decided to make and sell ownerless origin substance to raise the startup capital.

• Salgon asked Lin En for funding to launch his fear-scenario operation and proposed an initial budget of five hundred thousand.
• Salgon lowered his request to three hundred and fifty thousand and claimed the scenarios could earn one hundred to two hundred thousand fragments per run and expand across multiple locations.
• Lin En agreed to find the money quickly so Salgon could scale up and help him prepare for the Lord of Crimson.
• Lin En rejected ideas including embezzling Church funds, soliciting donations, selling himself, and selling or borrowing against Lin Yin.
• Lin En decided to turn his stockpile of fragments into ownerless origin substance and sell it on the Black Market.

Lin En used his vast supply of Emotional Fragments to synthesize three ninth-tier and five eighth-tier second-stage origin substances. After implanting one with powerful spatial abilities and five Reality Anchoring sequences, he tested its effects and wondered whether it could let him exceed his ten-second limit when using his true body's power.

• Lin En converted all of his fragments into hundreds of origin substances and repeatedly synthesized the second-stage ones into higher tiers.
• Lin En combined discarded high-sequence substances from the Firstborn’s ring and produced three ninth-tier and five eighth-tier origin substances.
• Lin En revealed his first prize, a heart implant with five Reality Anchoring sequences and several spatial abilities, and installed it.
• Lin En used the implant to reinforce and compress the space around him, crushing a chair with a clenched fist.
• Lin En wondered whether Reality Anchoring could let him use power beyond his body's limit without triggering the ten-second restriction.

Lin En tested his improved ability to sustain his third-stage power and discovered that he could hold it for thirty seconds. After reviewing two new origin substances and judging one useful for himself and the other suitable for Lilith, he spent his remaining stockpile synthesizing first-order origin substances to strengthen his Vessel.

• Lin En transformed for thirty seconds before withdrawing his aura, confirming that his Vessel could now withstand his third-stage power three times longer than before.
• Lin En examined an origin substance with Mind Detonation and decided its corruption-laced psychic blast could devastate creatures in a wide area.
• Lin En chose the origin substance with increased speed, agility, and other positive sequences for Lilith, since its Desire Freezing Point sequence could curb her excessive desire.
• Lin En used up his remaining stockpile in targeted synthesis, producing eighty first-order origin substances, more than half of which contained three Flesh sequences.
• Lin En began combining the new substances to obtain five Flesh sequences and free himself from the influence of Lin Yin's origin substance.

Lin En repeatedly synthesized origin substances in an effort to remove stubborn feminization sequences and raise the number of [Flesh] sequences. He combined his two high-tier results, but the new nine-sequence substance still contained [Peerless Feminization · Ultimate], leaving his plan unresolved.

• Lin En turned eighty five-sequence substances into thirty-six six-sequence substances and four five-sequence substances, then synthesized them into a seven-sequence substance with six [Flesh] and [Feminization].
• Lin En used [Peerless Feminization] as a base and combined it with other substances, producing a second seven-sequence substance with six [Flesh] and [Peerless Feminization].
• Lin En combined the [Feminization] substance with nine others, creating an eight-sequence substance with seven [Flesh] and [Feminization] after the unwanted sequence survived.
• Lin En combined the [Peerless Feminization] substance with his remaining four substances, but it also advanced to eight sequences with seven [Flesh] while retaining its negative sequence.
• Lin En fused the two eight-sequence substances together and produced a full-sequence nine-sequence origin substance containing eight [Flesh] and [Peerless Feminization · Ultimate].

Lin En fused and implanted a Supreme Perfection Origin Substance, gaining a vast increase in flesh power while transforming into an even more beautiful version of Lin Yin. Mirror saw his new form and was stunned.

• Lin En panicked when his Sequence Nine Origin Substance evolved through fusion and lamented that he had spent all his emotional fragments.
• Lin En decided to implant the Origin Substance despite fearing that its Supreme Perfection evolution might cause another abnormal change.
• The Origin Substance unleashed immense flesh power, remodeled Lin En’s body, and sent tentacles surging into the sky around the Council Hall.
• Mirror and the others rushed to the courtyard, where Lin En said the new Origin Substance had greatly improved his vessel.
• Lin En emerged transformed into a breathtakingly beautiful girl, and Mirror asked whether he was really her master.

Lin En discovered that the Third Phase evolution had transformed him into an extraordinarily beautiful female-looking form while leaving him male anatomy and greatly increasing his strength. He resolved to replace Supreme Perfection so he could use the power without risking being caught in the wrong form.

• Mirror stopped Salgon from entering the courtyard and seeing Lin En naked, then followed Lin En's order to keep his changed form secret.
• Lin En examined his reflection and realized Supreme Perfection had made him far more beautiful, leaving him horrified by his appearance.
• Lin En checked that he still had male anatomy and concluded that the new form's physical power had multiplied several times over.
• Lin En worried that he might be ambushed before he could transform and vowed to replace Supreme Perfection with emotional fragments.
• Lin En noticed his clothes hung loosely on his smaller body and joked that he could earn quick money by selling his services.

Lin En went to Clockwork City's Black Market to sell second-tier origin substance and raise funds for Salgon's production line before the Lord of Crimson attacked. He set out his goods in the Red-Light District, while Salgon learned of Lin En's efforts and resolved to work harder.

• Lin En gathered his origin substance, told Mirror to have Salgon start recruiting and set up the scenario, and went to the Black Market to test the market.
• Lin En chose not to sell through the Void Consortium because of its thirty-percent commission and set up a stall in the Red-Light District.
• Lin En displayed origin substance from one to three sequences with prices ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 Spirit Coins.
• Mirror told Salgon that Lin En was raising money for him, and Salgon vowed to set up the scenario that night if the funding came through.
• Salgon realized Lin En might have gone to the tax-free Red-Light District, where the available services were risqué, but did not explain this to Mirror.

Firstborn visited the Void Consortium to investigate Ophiel’s would-be assassin and Hana Ye’s history in the Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, Lin En’s Origin Substance stall drew a frenzied crowd after customers mistook his sales pitch for an offer of sexual services.

• Firstborn reminded the Void Consortium lords of their agreement and asked for information about Ophiel’s attacker and the Great Demon invasion, especially Hana Ye.
• A customer mistook Lin En’s Origin Substance stall for a brothel and asked about the differences between its prices.
• Lin En explained that higher-priced Origin Substance had more sequences and could be used in more combinations, while the customers interpreted his claims as increasingly enticing services.
• Lin En assured the crowd that the Origin Substance was unused and promised a hundredfold compensation if that claim proved false, sending customers into a bidding frenzy.
• Lin En announced that he also had an eight-sequence Origin Substance and promised buyers permanent ownership and a year of protection.

Firstborn learned that the Lord of Crimson might invade and promised the Void Consortium protection. As he prepared to leave the Black Market, a familiar voice from a crowd stopped him.

• The Void Lord told Firstborn that the Lord of Crimson had met Hana Ye's mother and had issued a Bounty Writ for Hana Ye.
• The Void Lord shared intelligence about the Lord of Crimson's followers and a secret Vessel Corps that could serve as her trump card.
• Firstborn promised to protect the Void Consortium and walked with its lords to the Black Market's outer reaches.
• Firstborn declined the Void Lord's offer to arrange a meeting with a beautiful young woman and prepared to depart.
• A girl's excited shout about a three-hundred-thousand bid made Firstborn freeze because he recognized her voice.

Lin En’s stall drew a three-hundred-thousand-Spirit-Coin bid for three pieces of origin substance, but the Void Consortium Lord outbid everyone with an offer of one million each. Delighted by his three-million windfall, Lin En followed the Void Lord to meet his master, misunderstanding the Lord’s insistence that he provide company.

• Lin En offered three pieces of origin substance, and a diseased human Ability User bid three hundred thousand Spirit Coins for all three.
• As Lin En prepared to close the sale, the Void Consortium Lord arrived and offered one million Spirit Coins per piece.
• Lin En accepted the Void Consortium’s three million in checks and followed the Void Lord toward his master.
• The Void Lord told Lin En to keep his master company, while Lin En wondered why he made it sound like Lin En was selling himself.

Lin En entered the Void Consortium’s hall to meet the buyer of his origin substance, only to discover the mysterious customer was Firstborn. Firstborn mistakenly believed Lin En had come to sell himself for money, and Lin En angrily rejected his offer of help.

• Lin En entered the hall and pitched the buyer on higher-grade origin substance and additional services.
• Firstborn stopped Lin En from inspecting him and revealed his identity.
• Lin En panicked at seeing Firstborn and demanded to know why he was there.
• Firstborn asked why Lin En had come to do business and said Lin En could have asked him for money.
• Lin En insisted he could support himself and angrily asked why he had to come to Firstborn.

Lin En tried to sell origin substance at a street stall, but the Firstborn mistook his business for prostitution and confronted him. After Lin En accepted his offer of three million, the Firstborn demanded that he undress, leaving Lin En stunned as he prepared to force the misunderstanding further.

• The Firstborn found Lin En selling origin substance at a street stall and accused him of choosing strangers over accepting his help.
• Lin En explained that he wanted to raise money without taking an inflated price from someone he knew, and the Firstborn wrongly believed he was selling himself.
• The Firstborn offered three million for Lin En’s goods, and Lin En accepted as compensation for the Firstborn disrupting his sale.
• The Firstborn asked Lin En to take off his clothes, revealing that he thought the deal was for six sexual encounters rather than origin substance.
• The Firstborn, convinced Lin En had agreed to sell his body, asked whether Lin En would undress himself or need help.

Lin En discovered that the Firstborn had mistaken his Origin Substance sale for an offer to sell his body and furiously beat him for the misunderstanding. Outside the hall, the Void Lord and the Void Consortium misread the noise as evidence that the Firstborn was having sex with Lin En.

• The Firstborn tried to remove Lin En’s cloak, believing Lin En was selling himself, and Lin En punched him into a wall.
• Lin En pinned the Firstborn and demanded to know why he thought Lin En was soliciting; the Firstborn asked what else Lin En could be doing.
• Lin En repeatedly struck the Firstborn with a stool and shouted that he had come to sell Origin Substance.
• The Firstborn realized Lin En meant actual Origin Substance, while the Void Lord and the Void Consortium outside mistook the beating sounds for sex.
• Lin En recalled the crowd bidding at his stall and feared they had wanted to sleep with him rather than buy his wares.