Recaps

Bai Tang watched Blade and Dan Heng fight Yanqing, then joined the group and helped restrain Blade’s Mara-Struck condition. After confronting Blade about Yingxing and Dan Feng, she planned to resurrect Dan Feng and Baiheng and punish the Vidyadhara elders.

• Blade stabbed Dan Heng, who revealed his Imbibitor Lunae form, and Yanqing tried to intervene.
• Bai Tang watched Blade and Dan Heng team up to defeat Yanqing, while Jing Yuan asked her to teach Yanqing swordsmanship.
• Kafka arrived, and Bai Tang suppressed Blade’s Mara-Struck condition before standing with Dan Heng.
• Bai Tang challenged Blade for denying he was Yingxing and defended Dan Heng against Blade’s pursuit.
• Jing Yuan redirected the conversation and sent the group onward, while Bai Tang resolved to resurrect Dan Feng and Baiheng and deal with the Vidyadhara elders.

Jing Yuan reunited with Dan Heng and introduced Bai Tang as Yanqing’s martial aunt before the group met up with the Express crew at Scalegorge Waterscape. Dan Heng accepted their support and parted the sea to reveal the Vidyadhara Palace ruins, while Bai Tang hummed a tune for the scene.

• Jing Yuan apologized to Dan Heng for mistaking him for an old friend, then told Yanqing that Bai Tang would be his martial aunt and give him pointers.
• Bai Tang, Jing Yuan, and Dan Heng left Yanqing behind and traveled to Scalegorge Waterscape to meet Stelle, March 7th, Welt, and Fu Xuan.
• Jing Yuan explained the situation, and March 7th, Stelle, and Bai Tang offered Dan Heng their support before he agreed to help.
• Bai Tang reassured Dan Heng that she recognized him as Dan Heng, not Dan Feng, and promised to have his back.
• Dan Heng used his power to part the ancient sea and reveal the Vidyadhara Palace ruins, while Bai Tang hummed a tune and March 7th caught her.

Bai Tang and the others fought Phantylia, with Bai Tang overpowering and taunting the Lord Ravager before helping Jing Yuan and Dan Heng break her connection to the Ambrosial Arbor. She deliberately left the final blow to Jing Yuan so he could earn merit on the Xianzhou, while planning to kill Phantylia herself when they met again on Amphoreus.

• March 7th and Stelle asked Bai Tang about Tingyun, and Bai Tang said Tingyun was not dead before urging them to fight Phantylia.
• Bai Tang attacked Phantylia with both swords and her customized High-Cloud Quintet finishing move, forcing Phantylia into her third phase before she could complete her speech.
• Bai Tang taunted Phantylia and drew her attention while March 7th, Jing Yuan, Stelle, and Dan Heng joined the battle.
• Phantylia attacked with the force of a falling star, but Jing Yuan’s Luofu bond shielded the group.
• Phantylia seized Bai Tang to inject her with Destruction, but Bai Tang broke free, controlled the Ambrosial Arbor with Abundance, and gave Dan Heng and Jing Yuan time to attack.
• Bai Tang let Jing Yuan deliver the decisive strike so he could earn merit on the Xianzhou, saving her own chance to kill Phantylia for their next meeting on Amphoreus.

Bai Tang left Jing Yuan with a way to contact her and returned to the Express after deciding to protect him from the Luofu’s higher-ups. She promised to tell the crew about her time on the Luofu once everyone had gathered.

• Bai Tang recalled how she had known Jing Yuan since he was young and decided to leave before Bailu arrived.
• Bai Tang discovered that Yanqing’s bond could activate with Jing Yuan and gave Jing Yuan a tiny liquid hyacinth that would contact her in an emergency.
• Bai Tang told Jing Yuan she would stand by him against the Luofu’s higher-ups and suggested he introduce her as his junior sister.
• Bai Tang returned to the Express, where Himeko stopped her and asked about her story from the Xianzhou Luofu.
• Bai Tang said she would tell the crew once everyone was back and wanted Jing Yuan and the others invited too.

Bai Tang told the Express crew and her friends stories about her childhood with Baiheng, Jingliu, Yingxing, Dan Feng, and Jing Yuan, then briefly recounted how they all died. She insisted she had avenged them and could bring them back, and Jing Yuan and Jingliu praised her.

• Bai Tang introduced herself as Baiheng’s younger sister and described becoming Jingliu’s sword disciple when she was three.
• Bai Tang recalled Yingxing making her four weapons, Dan Feng teaching her how to hit people, and Jing Yuan cheating at games with her.
• Bai Tang recounted Baiheng’s thrilling Starskiff rides, their plans to leave the Luofu, and the birthday Gundam called Tang that her friends built for her.
• Bai Tang said Tang helped wake Dan Feng during his dragon madness and later explained that a machine caused the deaths of all six of them, before she destroyed it.
• Jing Yuan praised Bai Tang, and Jingliu recognized her as a worthy disciple.

Bai Tang recounted her past lives on the Luofu, from being raised by Jing Yuan and learning swordsmanship and forging to dying and returning as a Galaxy Ranger. After she finished, she gave everyone healing Hyacinths, and communications unlocked for those who had checked in, bringing them one step closer to resurrection.

• Bai Tang told everyone how Jing Yuan adopted her and Yanqing, how Jingliu taught her swordsmanship, and how she trained in forging under General Huaiyan.
• Bai Tang said she later returned to the Luofu, restored the Artisanship Commission’s standing, and forged a sword for Yanqing and one for herself.
• Bai Tang recounted Jing Yuan’s death, her own death, and how she and Yanqing became Galaxy Rangers before she fell into Nihility and died again.
• Bai Tang finished her story and sent everyone back to work or rest, giving each person a healing Hyacinth before they left.
• The communications section unlocked for those who had successfully checked in, except Aventurine, leaving them one step away from resurrection.

Bai Tang warned Stelle about Luocha, then secretly investigated the Dragon Preceptors and prepared to protect Bailu during Dan Heng’s companion mission. After Jing Yuan helped stop an attempt on Bailu, the second elder recognized Bai Tang as Vidyadhara and offered to add her to the register.

• After Stelle sent Luocha’s picture, Bai Tang warned her to stay cautious around him and recalled Otto’s history with him.
• Bai Tang searched a Dragon Preceptor’s house for a list of culprits, compared it with Bailu’s list of Vidyadhara, and frightened a high-ranking supporter of Bailu to secure his help.
• Bai Tang told Dan Heng she would not join his companion mission, then gathered the second elder and Jing Yuan to follow Dan Heng and Stelle secretly.
• Bai Tang recorded evidence while Jing Yuan protected Bailu from the Dragon Preceptors’ attempt to kill her.
• The second elder thanked Dan Heng and Jing Yuan, agreed to support the Divine General, recognized a familiar aura in Bai Tang, and offered to add her to the Vidyadhara register.

Bai Tang added her name to the Vidyadhara list and remained determined to bring back the people connected to her panel, though the summon option was still locked. Older Jing Yuan and the awakened companions agreed to find ways to ease her burden, while Older Jing Yuan set out to help the others.

• Bai Tang warned the Second Elder to keep evidence ready and told him she would help only once, then added her name to the Vidyadhara list.
• Bai Tang grew frustrated that the summon option remained locked, and Older Jing Yuan urged her not to rush while she tried to bring back her friends.
• Bai Tang agreed to focus first on bringing back this world's Dan Feng and Baiheng so Jing Yuan could put them to work.
• Older Jing Yuan gathered the awakened companions on the empty Luofu, and they discussed Bai Tang's determination and how much she had changed.
• Aventurine suggested that the outside versions of the group might help, so Older Jing Yuan and the others prepared to act and support Bai Tang.

Jing Yuan spoke with his other self in a dream, who asked him to look after Bai Tang and share Yingxing’s story. After Bai Tang successfully summoned Yingxing, she brought Blade to a forge and deliberately frustrated him during a smithing lesson, hoping to stir his emotions and make him feel alive again.

• Jing Yuan dreamed of speaking with Bai Tang’s older Jing Yuan, who asked him to look after her and tell others her story.
• Silver Wolf arranged for Bai Tang to meet Blade on the Luofu, where Jingliu and little Jing Yuan took Yingxing away to explain the situation.
• Bai Tang checked in Yingxing, added him to her party, and summoned his forge, where she began smithing with Blade watching.
• Blade took over the lesson when Bai Tang struggled, then patiently taught her smithing while intending to honor Yingxing’s deceased master.
• Bai Tang pretended not to learn a technique she had mastered, deliberately provoking Blade so he would show anger and feel alive again.

Bai Tang manipulated Blade into continuing her lessons, then agreed to meet Aventurine and promised to help him become an Emanator. She used a Realm Anchor to travel to his office and discuss his proposed cooperation in person.

• Bai Tang stopped Blade from leaving by clinging to him, offering Jing Yuan’s liquor, and warning that her poor technique could damage his reputation; Blade resumed teaching her.
• Blade returned to the Stellaron Hunters furious after realizing Bai Tang had pretended not to learn, but Kafka restrained him with Spirit Whisper before he could go after her.
• After waking aboard the Astral Express, Bai Tang read Himeko’s message that Aventurine wanted to make a deal and agreed to contact him.
• Bai Tang told Aventurine to call her big sister and promised to help make him an Emanator when they reached Penacony, though she could not bestow a blessing directly.
• Aventurine proposed cooperating and exchanging information through Bai Tang’s Dream Passport; Bai Tang asked him to show sincerity and arranged to meet at his office instead of discussing matters in Penacony.
• Bai Tang used a Realm Anchor to travel to Aventurine’s office.

Bai Tang traded Penacony’s hidden history to Aventurine for a Dream Passport and unlimited reimbursement, then gave him two enchanted hyacinths to aid him on Penacony. After accepting Aventurine’s list of treasures, she fell asleep in his office, and he decided to carry her to the guest room.

• Bai Tang negotiated with Aventurine, who offered her a Penacony Dream Passport and to cover her expenses in return for information.
• Bai Tang told Aventurine about Penacony’s origins, Mikhail’s dream, and its secrets, then warned him about the two little birds of Order.
• Bai Tang gave Aventurine a pale blue hyacinth that would alert him when an Aeon descended, and a purple hyacinth that would protect his life.
• Aventurine called Bai Tang big sister and handed her a list of priceless treasures, which she began choosing from while he worked.
• Bai Tang fell asleep on Aventurine’s sofa after messaging Himeko, and Aventurine decided to take her to the guest room.

Aventurine noticed Bai Tang was alarmingly light as he carried her, while she dreamed of the childhood neglect and abuse she suffered as Bai Xiaopei before being reborn as Bai Tang. She woke in an unfamiliar place, wondering who was nearby.

• Aventurine lifted Bai Tang and was surprised by how nearly weightless she felt.
• As Bai Xiaopei, the little girl came home proud of her perfect exam score, but her mother dismissed her and left to buy Bai Lianghao a hamburger.
• Bai Lianghao insulted Bai Xiaopei and demanded she clean up after him, and she finally tried to strike him.
• Her father ignored what had happened and beat Bai Xiaopei with a wooden stick while comforting Bai Lianghao.
• Baiheng welcomed her newborn sister Bai Tang and happily told her family she would show her to Jingliu.
• Bai Tang woke from the dream and wondered where she was and whether a stranger was nearby.

Bai Tang trained Yanqing in swordsmanship and gave him a finely crafted sword she had forged with Blade. Yanqing loved the gift, and Jing Yuan showed him his famous weapon as Bai Tang began explaining its maker’s renowned creations.

• Bai Tang sparred with Yanqing and taught him swordsmanship while Jing Yuan watched.
• Bai Tang gave Yanqing a blue sword she had forged with Blade, and Yanqing eagerly tested it.
• Stelle messaged Bai Tang and Jing Yuan while searching for the general; Bai Tang told her Jing Yuan would reply himself.
• Yanqing praised his new sword, and Bai Tang asked Jing Yuan to show him his famous weapon.
• Jing Yuan summoned his Formation Saber for Yanqing to see.

Yanqing received a sword forged by Yingxing from Bai Tang, while a Heliobus that tried to inspect her memories was attacked by several terrifying versions of her. The Heliobus was knocked out of her memories and left as a lightless flame in Bai Tang’s hand.

• Bai Tang told Yanqing that Yingxing had forged Jing Yuan’s Formation Saber, Dan Heng’s Cloud-Piercer, and her own sword, then gave Yanqing a sword of his own handiwork.
• Yanqing thanked Bai Tang for the gift, and Jing Yuan teased her about her own attachment to Yingxing and his sword.
• Stelle arrived with the Ghost-Hunting Squad, so Bai Tang slipped away from Jing Yuan.
• A Heliobus entered Bai Tang’s memories to inspect her obsessions, but successive versions of Bai Tang pursued and attacked it.
• Bai Tang struck the Heliobus out of her memories with a sword blow, then held its lightless flame in her hand.

Bai Tang delivered a Heliobus fragment to Fyxestroll Garden after it was assimilated by her memories, then explained how dangerous it could have been if it possessed someone else. Jing Yuan and Cirrus stopped her from leaving, and Jing Yuan persuaded her to keep him company while he rested.

• Bai Tang brought the assimilated Heliobus fragment to Fyxestroll Garden, where Jing Yuan and Cirrus had just finished negotiating.
• Jing Yuan arranged for Bai Tang to help with Cirrus's challenge, but Stelle, Huohuo, Guinaifen, and Sushang defeated the opponents without Bai Tang fighting.
• Bai Tang handed the fragment to Huohuo, and it identified itself as Preservation-Destruction, surprising Cirrus with its changed beliefs.
• Bai Tang explained that the Heliobus could have caused great destruction if it had possessed someone else, while Jing Yuan trusted her ability to withstand it.
• Bai Tang tried to leave, but Cirrus and Jing Yuan stopped her, and Jing Yuan persuaded her to stay by acting tired and aggrieved.

Bai Tang told Jing Yuan about a disastrous timeline in which Propagation transformed soldiers into insects and Jingliu became a Lord Ravager, prompting him to investigate her memories through the Matrix of Prescience. With Feixiao, Aventurine, Robin, and others watching, the Matrix began displaying Preservation-Destruction’s memories, starting with Bai Tang’s sister, Baiheng.

• Bai Tang warned Jing Yuan to keep an eye on Jingliu and described a future where Propagation turned soldiers into insects, Jingliu became a Lord Ravager, and Feixiao died on the Yaoqing.
• Jing Yuan noticed Bai Tang losing herself in the memories, woke her, and caught her when she fainted.
• Jing Yuan borrowed Preservation-Destruction from Huohuo and decided to use the Matrix of Prescience to examine its memories, notifying Feixiao and others.
• Fu Xuan activated the Matrix of Prescience while Feixiao, Aventurine, Robin, and the others watched remotely.
• Preservation-Destruction’s memories showed two similar-looking Foxians heading to Aurum Alley, and March 7th identified the older one as Baiheng.

A memory showed Bai Tang losing the High-Cloud Quintet and seizing a Reignbow Arbiter arrow, before the story shifted to her childhood on Yaoqing, where Feixiao and Jiaoqiu considered taking her in. Years later, Bai Tang learned that Jingliu and Jing Yuan were in trouble, but Feixiao’s disappearance from Moon Madness forced her to rush out first.

• Bai Tang watched Jingliu, Dan Feng, Baiheng, Yingxing, and Jing Yuan die, then caught a Reignbow Arbiter arrow despite its corrosive energy.
• The image showed six-year-old Bai Tang on Yaoqing, where she restrained Moze and demonstrated her sword skills to Jiaoqiu.
• Bai Tang impressed Jiaoqiu by memorizing his books, while Feixiao and Jing Yuan argued over whether she belonged on Yaoqing or the Luofu.
• As a teenager, Bai Tang learned that Jingliu had gone mad and something had happened to Jing Yuan, but then heard Feixiao had gone missing after succumbing to Moon Madness.
• Bai Tang hardened her expression and rushed outside to search for Feixiao.

The viewers watched Bai Tang’s memories of becoming a general, resisting the corruption of Propagation, and later protecting the young Kakavasha. The chapter ended with Bai Tang killing the people who tried to seize Kakavasha, but being too young to save him.

• The viewers saw Bai Tang, now a general of the Yaoqing, defend Jiaoqiu and promise to search for Feixiao.
• Bai Tang resisted Celenova’s attempt to make her accept Propagation, summoned a divine manifestation, and killed herself to briefly disrupt Harmony.
• The viewers watched Bai Tang reluctantly let a blond child follow her through the desert, then raise Kakavasha and conceal his eyes in the city.
• When people discovered Kakavasha was Avegian, Bai Tang fought them, but she was too young to rescue him and only managed to free two trapped birds.
• Robin realized that her brother had appeared in the memories, but decided to keep the viewing from Sunday as requested.

Bai Tang’s memories revealed her life with Robin, Aventurine, Jing Yuan, and the Xianzhou, including her deaths and later battles. As the generals argued over where she belonged, Herta identified the power within Bai Tang as belonging to the rare Path of “Wish,” whose Aeon had disappeared long ago.

• Gafium warned Bai Tang that leaving the Family would cause her to die before eighteen, but she insisted on finding her little brother Kakavasha.
• Bai Tang’s memories showed Robin comforting her, her accepting Robin and Sunday as siblings, and her searching for Kakavasha and vowing revenge on those who had abused him.
• The visions showed Bai Tang growing up with Jing Yuan and Yanqing, learning forging on the Zhuming, and eventually becoming a general after Fu Xuan.
• The memories showed Bai Tang becoming a Galaxy Ranger, fighting the Aeon of “Destruction,” and pointing her sword at a pair of eyes resembling her own.
• Feixiao and Jing Yuan argued over whether Bai Tang belonged on the Yaoqing or the Luofu, while Aventurine offered to care for her as her younger brother.
• Stelle told Himeko that Herta had identified Bai Tang’s power as belonging to the Path of “Wish,” and Dan Heng said its Aeon had long since disappeared.

Dan Heng explained that Bai Tang’s power might come from the rare Path of “Wish,” while Bai Tang woke and reunited with the others at the Matrix of Prescience. After returning to the Astral Express, she learned that a Heliobus had taken control of Yanqing and planned to visit Herta Space Station with Stelle, hoping to avoid Professor Dr. Ratio.

• Dan Heng explained that the Dreamchasers followed the Path of “Wish” and that Bai Tang’s power could place her near an Emanator’s level.
• Bai Tang woke at Jing Yuan’s house, exchanged messages with Herta, and found the others at the Matrix of Prescience.
• Feixiao invited Bai Tang to visit the Yaoqing, and Bai Tang said she would visit when she had time but planned to stay with the Astral Express.
• Bai Tang returned to the train with Dan Heng and March 7th, while Stelle continued dealing with the Heliobus.
• Stelle told Bai Tang that the Heliobus had taken control of Yanqing, and Bai Tang told her to find Jing Yuan.
• Bai Tang and Stelle agreed to visit Herta Space Station, where Bai Tang planned to avoid Professor Dr. Ratio.

Jing Yuan used Fu Xuan’s Matrix of Prescience to view Bai Tang’s record of the High-Cloud Quintet’s fates and sent the footage to Blade, Dan Heng, and Jingliu. The visions left Jing Yuan facing his companions’ losses and Bai Tang’s wish for him to find happiness.

• Jing Yuan handed Fu Xuan Bai Tang’s liquid shaker charm, and Fu Xuan used the Matrix of Prescience to reveal footage of the High-Cloud Quintet’s fates.
• The footage showed Baiheng’s death, Yingxing’s collapse, Dan Feng’s failed Dragon Transformation, and Jingliu’s descent into madness, while Bai Tang lamented each of them.
• Jing Yuan saw Bai Tang’s frozen message thanking him and wishing for his health and happiness, then sent the footage to Blade, Dan Heng, and Jingliu.
• Blade, Dan Heng, Jing Yuan, Jingliu, and Baiheng each received a fortune-teller’s prediction, and the footage revealed how their later fates fulfilled it.

Bai Tang visited Herta at the Herta Space Station and learned that Dr. Ratio also possessed the energy of "Wish." Back on the train, she joined Stelle and March 7th for a pillow fight while Dan Heng watched from the sidelines.

• Bai Tang showed Herta items connected to several Aeons, then dodged Herta's questions about the Aeon of "Wish" by claiming Dan Feng was pregnant and leaving.
• Stelle told Bai Tang that Dr. Ratio possessed "Wish" energy, and Bai Tang secretly watched him while he recalled how the Path of "Wish" had chosen him.
• Bai Tang and Stelle returned to the train, where March 7th started the long-awaited pillow fight with them and Dan Heng.
• Bai Tang, Stelle, and March 7th traded pillow attacks while Dan Heng sat aside and silently collected the pillows that hit him.
• March 7th surrendered after falling and getting hit by both Stelle and Bai Tang, and the three later collapsed on the bed laughing.

Bai Tang recognized that the Express’s cleanup trip had become the bug-infested incident she remembered, then protected the train with the power of the Wish Path when it was struck. After the danger passed, the author explained Bai Tang’s repeated lives, return to her original world, and eventual journey back to the world of Honkai: Star Rail.

• Bai Tang woke first, learned from Pom-Pom that the Express was due for its big cleanup, and remembered that Argenti and bugs had been part of the day.
• Bai Tang sensed the Propagation nearby as the Express veered off course, and March 7th remembered the horror of people transforming into giant bugs.
• The Express was struck, and Bai Tang used Wish to steady and repair it while Argenti arrived and began praising March 7th.
• Bai Tang explained that a prayer let Dreamchasers draw heavily on Wish while preserving their basic abilities, and told March 7th that she could not use it without possessing the Path.
• The author recounted that Bai Tang had endured repeated world restarts, returned to her original world, and spent five years planning her way back to the Honkai: Star Rail world.

Bai Tang attended a Honkai: Star Rail cosplay convention with four fellow students, dressed as a battered Baiheng while they acted out scenes from the High-Cloud Quintet. The group joined a streamer’s gathering for a larger character cosplay photo.

• Bai Tang met her Jingliu-cosplaying senior sister, who joked about Jingliu’s madness after Baiheng’s death and praised Bai Tang’s tragic Baiheng costume.
• A Dan Feng cosplayer arrived, and the five students reunited as a group cosplaying the High-Cloud Quintet.
• The Jing Yuan cosplayer urged everyone into the convention, where Bai Tang’s companions staged an over-the-top funeral scene with her in a coffin.
• A Dr. Ratio cosplayer invited the group to a streamer’s gathering of Honkai: Star Rail cosplayers, and the six headed there together.