Chapter Summaries

The Astral Express crew rescued Bai Tang, a wounded Foxian drifting in space, and Dan Heng discovered that she carried the energies of numerous Paths. After Bai Tang realized she had arrived in the world of Honkai: Star Rail without a system, she happily accepted food from the crew.

• March 7th spotted a bloodied person in space in one of her photographs and alerted the crew.
• Dan Heng retrieved Bai Tang and brought her aboard the Astral Express as Pom-Pom set course for the Herta Space Station.
• Dan Heng examined Bai Tang and found her body ravaged by several Paths but kept alive by an indistinguishable energy.
• March 7th went to fetch food while Dan Heng and Himeko prepared to treat Bai Tang's wounds.
• Bai Tang searched for a system, celebrated its absence, and then uncurled to drink the yogurt March 7th brought her.

Bai Tang recovered aboard the Astral Express, declined contact with the Xianzhou, and accepted Himeko’s invitation to join the crew. She introduced herself as an ordinary doctor who could also cook medicinal meals and repair weapons, leaving the Express with a new companion.

• Bai Tang finished her meal, remembered her name, and told March 7th and Dan Heng that she had lost her memory and was not a Xianzhou native.
• March 7th worried that Bai Tang might get in trouble for leaving the Xianzhou, and Himeko stepped in to ease the awkward conversation.
• Himeko invited Bai Tang to board the Astral Express, and Bai Tang accepted after deciding she wanted to join its crew.
• March 7th took a group photo with Bai Tang, Himeko, and Dan Heng to welcome Bai Tang to the Express.
• Bai Tang introduced herself as a doctor who could cook medicinal meals and forge or repair weapons, while March 7th praised her skills.

Bai Tang discovered a Honkai: Star Rail character screen and inventory aboard the Astral Express, then warned the crew that the Antimatter Legion had attacked Herta Space Station. After meeting Asta, she rushed off while Dan Heng and March 7th set out to rescue researchers.

• Bai Tang cleaned the grime from her body with Destruction and listened as Pom-Pom explained the Astral Express’s rules.
• Bai Tang found a character screen, team setup, and a stocked inventory containing her characters, Credits, Relics, Light Cones, and other items.
• Bai Tang sensed danger at Herta Space Station and warned Dan Heng that the Antimatter Legion was there.
• Himeko sent Bai Tang, Dan Heng, and March 7th to help Asta while she followed with the Relic.
• Asta commissioned the crew to rescue researchers and Arlan, and Bai Tang vanished as Dan Heng and March 7th prepared to leave.
• Asta gave March 7th the elevator key, and March 7th and Dan Heng went to bring researchers to the Master Control Zone.

Bai Tang used her map and sword to fight through the station, then reached the Stellaron Hunters as Kafka awakened Stelle. After Kafka and Silver Wolf departed, Bai Tang cleared enemies near the Base Zone and returned to secretly record Dan Heng meeting Stelle.

• Bai Tang used a navigation route to reach the Storage Zone and cut down Antimatter Legion enemies with the sword Peaceful.
• Kafka implanted the Stellaron in Stelle and awakened her while Silver Wolf waited nearby.
• Bai Tang burst into the room, met Kafka and Silver Wolf, and learned they wanted her to look after Stelle and keep their visit secret.
• Kafka and Silver Wolf vanished before the Astral Express crew arrived, and Bai Tang left after retrieving her sword.
• Bai Tang cleared enemies around the Base Zone, then returned to hide and record Dan Heng offering Stelle help.

Bai Tang reunited with Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng before warning Himeko that the Doomsday Beast was approaching Herta Space Station. After Himeko began preparing, Bai Tang received a request from Silver Wolf to help with a corporate system.

• March 7th explained that the wrecked room was likely damaged by the Antimatter Legion, while Stelle insisted she had not caused it.
• Bai Tang arrived and assessed Stelle, who had memory loss and asked Bai Tang to scold her.
• Dan Heng went to find Arlan, while March 7th and Stelle left together and Bai Tang returned to the master control zone.
• Bai Tang warned Himeko that the Doomsday Beast was approaching, and Himeko alerted Asta and Welt to prepare.
• Bai Tang exchanged messages with Silver Wolf, who asked her to help handle part of the corporation's system and sent her a file.

Bai Tang examined the character and team-formation files Silver Wolf sent before helping the Express crew fight the Doomsday Beast. After Xing took a blast protecting March 7th, Welt stabilized her, and Bai Tang healed the others; the group then took commissions, with Bai Tang choosing to restore damaged files.

• Bai Tang reviewed the roster and found thirty-four characters, including a blindfold-free Jingliu and a young Jing Yuan, but she could not form a team.
• March 7th found Bai Tang and told her the Doomsday Beast had broken in, so they joined Dan Heng and Xing on the platform.
• March 7th, Dan Heng, and Xing attacked the Doomsday Beast while Bai Tang healed the team and Himeko fired her orbital cannon.
• Xing stepped in front of March 7th and took the Doomsday Beast's laser, and Welt stopped the unstable Stellaron from exploding.
• Bai Tang confirmed Xing was stable, and the crew gathered to take Asta's commissions.
• Bai Tang chose to restore damaged files and produced a file about the firewall before Asta could offer ordinary files.

Bai Tang repaired Asta’s damaged files, then returned to the Astral Express as Stelle chose to become a Trailblazer. As the train prepared to warp away from the Herta Space Station, Bai Tang settled into her new room and began planning her purchases.

• Bai Tang repaired Asta’s files, and Asta increased her commission fee for the technical work.
• Bai Tang encouraged Stelle to weigh a safe life against joining the Astral Express, and Stelle later boarded the train as a Trailblazer.
• Dan Heng gave Bai Tang a collection of Xianzhou poetry and offered to help her in the future.
• Bai Tang remodeled her room in the passenger car, and Stelle visited before the train’s departure.
• Pom-Pom announced the warp, and Bai Tang, March 7th, and Stelle prepared to leave the Herta Space Station.

Bai Tang and the others explored the frozen planet before Aha abruptly pulled her into Path Space. There, Aha claimed it wanted Bai Tang as a Nameless, while the Reignbow Arbiter confronted it.

• March 7th, Dan Heng, Stelle, and Bai Tang discussed the ruined planet and its people’s faith in Preservation as they crossed the snow.
• Bai Tang blasted a Shivering Snow Pile with a flamethrower, revealing Sampo, then warned Stelle she might suddenly disappear.
• After Sampo fled and Silvermane Guards surrounded the group, Stelle told Dan Heng and March 7th that Bai Tang had vanished.
• Aha spirited Bai Tang into Path Space and said it wanted her to become a Nameless.
• The Reignbow Arbiter appeared and aimed its bow at Aha, which claimed Bai Tang belonged to it; Bai Tang insisted she belonged to herself.

Bai Tang helped Silver Wolf escape from the Genius Society’s attack, then cut her connections and contacted the Astral Express crew. She met Aventurine in his office and asked him to cover for her while she sought Himeko.

• Bai Tang used her hacking abilities to help Silver Wolf evade the Genius Society and retrieve the item she had hidden.
• The Genius Society traced Bai Tang’s general location to company headquarters, so she struck at the Market Development Department, disconnected, and packed everything away.
• Bai Tang messaged Himeko, Dan Heng, March 7th, and Stelle to explain that she had been taken from Jarilo-VI.
• Aventurine confronted Bai Tang in his office about helping Silver Wolf, and Bai Tang admitted it and asked him to say he had escorted her to Himeko.
• Bai Tang asked Aventurine for his hand and successfully checked in.

Bai Tang unlocked Aventurine’s character profile after checking in with him, then made her way back toward the Astral Express after buying gifts for the crew. Along the way, she left a trail of rumors and company losses after turning space robbers into specimens, while the crew learned that Sampo’s boss had played a role in her disappearance.

• Aventurine chose not to investigate Bai Tang’s identity and decided he would ask her about it himself.
• Bai Tang unlocked Aventurine’s check-in rewards, skills, and bonds, and found that his affection was 100 and his contact rate was 67%.
• March 7th, Dan Heng, and Stelle questioned Sampo about Bai Tang’s disappearance, and Stelle revealed that Sampo’s boss had screwed him over.
• Sampo realized Stelle meant his boss upstairs, Aha, and Dan Heng demanded to know who Sampo’s boss was.
• Bai Tang encountered robbers in space, turned them into specimens, and unknowingly caused rumors and financial losses for the company.
• Bai Tang bought gifts for the Astral Express crew and messaged them that she would soon return, reflecting on how they had accepted her as a companion.

Bai Tang reached a bug-infested planet and encountered Boothill fighting bugs alongside Market Development Department employees. She unleashed her power as an Emanator of The Hunt to help the employees escape, while Boothill stayed behind and waited for his backup.

• Bai Tang arrived at the battle and watched Boothill and the company employees fight swarms of bugs.
• Boothill recognized Bai Tang as a powerful Foxian and asked what plan she had to survive.
• Bai Tang decided to use her strength, and her power briefly erupted across the planet.
• The company employees escaped into their spacecraft, leaving Boothill behind after his own spacecraft was destroyed.
• Boothill told Bai Tang he had contacted a companion who might come to rescue him.

Bai Tang escaped the bug-infested planet by launching Boothill into space, then arrived in Belobog just in time to heal the Trailblazers and help them defeat Cocolia. After saving Cocolia from dying with the Stellaron, Bai Tang reunited with her companions and met Serval and Gepard.

• Bai Tang used the powers of The Hunt, Destruction, and Preservation to hurl Boothill through the Swarm and off the planet, while the Company spacecraft followed the opening he made.
• Stelle was stabbed by Cocolia, entered the space between Paths, received a Preservation stamp from the Amber Lord, and returned to the fight.
• Bai Tang appeared in Belobog and healed the Trailblazers, allowing Stelle, Dan Heng, and March 7th to defeat Cocolia.
• Bai Tang used hyacinths to keep Cocolia alive as the Stellaron threatened to consume her, and Bronya thanked Bai Tang and invited the group to attend the event.
• Bai Tang gave gift boxes to her companions, hid behind Dan Heng when Cocolia wanted to talk, and left with the Trailblazers, Serval, and Gepard.

Bai Tang returned to the Astral Express after helping Belobog’s soldiers, and Himeko comforted her as buried anguish overwhelmed her. The chapter ended with Stelle collapsing after drinking Himeko’s coffee while Bai Tang found it sweet.

• Dan Heng recognized that Bai Tang’s battlefield healing came from an unknown Path rather than Abundance, and Serval thanked Bai Tang and offered her a ticket to a rock show.
• Bai Tang returned to the train with souvenirs, told Himeko and Pom-Pom she was safe, and hugged Himeko before breaking down in tears.
• Himeko comforted Bai Tang, while March 7th and Dan Heng returned and gave them space.
• Himeko offered Bai Tang coffee, which Bai Tang found sweet, and Stelle drank the rest before collapsing on the floor.

Bai Tang reunited with the Astral Express crew and talked about her trip to the IPC headquarters, the Paths she hated, and what happened when a Pathstrider became an Aeon. She left Stelle with a collection of Xu Zhao's comics and considered how to get more money for her collecting.

• March 7th and Stelle were delighted by the gifts Bai Tang had brought them, and Bai Tang told the group that Aventurine had returned her from the IPC headquarters.
• Bai Tang said she liked the Reignbow Arbiter most and hated Destruction, Propagation, and Harmony, while March 7th and Stelle shared their answers.
• Dan Heng joined the group and explained that an Aeon whose humanity faded was no longer the same person, while one who retained it would be an Emanator.
• Bai Tang gave Stelle a collection of Xu Zhao's comics when Stelle asked for something juicy.
• Bai Tang reflected that she had run out of money after collecting local specialties and wanted to find a way to earn more.

Bai Tang discovered Himeko’s bond skill and figured out how Realm Anchors worked, then followed Silver Wolf’s directions to meet Kafka and Blade. Blade mistook her for Baiheng and confronted her, while Bai Tang insisted that he was Blade rather than Yingxing.

• Bai Tang saw Himeko wake up in her room, found that Himeko had an Astral Express Phantom bond skill, and went to sleep.
• Bai Tang realized she could use Realm Anchors she had activated herself, while other Trailblazers’ anchors became usable only after a Trailblazing mission ended.
• Silver Wolf told Bai Tang that Blade was nearby, and Bai Tang warned Dan Heng before going to find him.
• Bai Tang reached Kafka, Silver Wolf, and the unconscious Blade on the snowfields; Blade woke and mistook Bai Tang for Baiheng.
• Bai Tang told Blade she was not Baiheng and considered Blade distinct from Yingxing, while Kafka and Silver Wolf stood aside.

Bai Tang poisoned Blade after he attacked Dan Heng, then beat him while defending Dan Heng as her companion. March 7th embraced Bai Tang after realizing her attitude had changed, and the Stellaron Hunters left with the unconscious Blade while Bai Tang and March planned to blame them for the damage.

• March 7th spotted Bai Tang and saw her poison Blade, pin him down, and smash him into the ground, collapsing a nearby house.
• March 7th recognized Blade as a Stellaron Hunter and messaged Dan Heng about the fight and the damage.
• Bai Tang told Blade that Dan Heng was her companion and refused to let Blade lecture her, then dropped him beside Kafka.
• Silver Wolf observed that Blade’s taunts had provoked Bai Tang into an emotional outburst and helped her accept Dan Heng and March 7th as companions.
• Bai Tang hugged March 7th after her check-in succeeded, and March suggested they coordinate their account of the incident.
• Kafka and Silver Wolf left with Blade while Bai Tang blamed the Stellaron Hunters for the destruction.

March 7th and Bai Tang celebrated their safety by hugging the Astral Express crew, while Bai Tang’s check-in panel unlocked new entries for March 7th, Dan Heng, and Evernight. Bai Tang went to sleep excited about her progress and planned to explore the Simulated Universe with Stelle the next day.

• March 7th reassured Bai Tang that the Express crew would blame the Stellaron Hunters for the damage, then helped her hug Dan Heng and Stelle.
• Bai Tang gave Dan Heng several bottles of the drug that had knocked out the Stellaron Hunter, then hugged Welt and Pom-Pom.
• Bai Tang checked her panel and saw that March 7th and Dan Heng’s entries had unlocked with new bonds and abilities.
• Bai Tang discovered Evernight’s entry, which showed mostly unknown details, half affection, and a bond only with March 7th.
• Bai Tang saw March 7th chatting with Evernight, noticed Aventurine return to his room, and went to sleep after planning to visit the Simulated Universe with Stelle.

After Bai Tang’s data scan destroyed the Simulated Universe, Herta asked to study her, but Bai Tang postponed her decision and earned money doing commissions for Asta. As the Astral Express prepared to leave for the Xianzhou, Silver Wolf sent Bai Tang a script instructing her to stay until she sensed an Emanator, leaving Bai Tang to plan how to act surprised.

• Bai Tang’s scan caused the Simulated Universe to explode, and Herta asked her to stay for study; Bai Tang said she would think about it.
• Stelle went to Belobog for commissions while Bai Tang completed paid jobs for Asta at Herta Space Station.
• Himeko told Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng that the train was ready to depart after Welt sealed the Stellaron, and Bai Tang considered the coming trip to the Xianzhou.
• Silver Wolf sent Bai Tang a script asking her to remain on the Xianzhou until she sensed an Emanator, then tell the Nameless before leaving.
• Bai Tang decided to practice acting surprised so the others would not realize she already knew what was coming.

Bai Tang dreamed of the ruined Xianzhou Luofu, then woke and spent her time crafting Dan Heng merchandise and deliberately tragic liquid-sand shakers. When Himeko called the crew to vote on traveling to the Luofu, Dan Heng and Bai Tang said they could not go, and Himeko began explaining the vote.

• Bai Tang woke from a nightmare about the Luofu and messaged Himeko, who told her to rest while the crew considered their next move.
• Bai Tang crafted Dan Heng body pillows, a transforming figure, and seven liquid-sand shakers depicting her favorite characters and their losses.
• March 7th told Bai Tang that Himeko wanted the crew to travel to the Luofu after a Stellaron erupted there, and Bai Tang gave March a Pom-Pom doll to cheer her up.
• Xing joined March 7th, and March said the crew should vote against going because she suspected the Stellaron Hunter had caused the eruption.
• Dan Heng said he could not go to the Luofu because he was forbidden from setting foot there, while Bai Tang also declined for her own reasons.
• Bai Tang, Dan Heng, March 7th, and Xing met Himeko and Welt, and Himeko began presenting the situation and explaining how the vote would work.

Bai Tang detected a Lord Ravager on the Xianzhou Luofu and decided to leave the train to help her companions. Dan Heng, encouraged by Himeko, also set out to join them, while Bai Tang searched for the enemy.

• Bai Tang abstained from visiting the Luofu at first, but sensed Destruction and other Emanators moving there from her room.
• Bai Tang warned Himeko that a Lord Ravager might be lurking on the Luofu and said she wanted to protect her companions and her home.
• Himeko let Bai Tang leave the train after confirming she would return, and Bai Tang promised to come back as a Nameless.
• Dan Heng learned Bai Tang had gone to confront the threat, reflected on his ties to her and the Luofu, and decided to join his companions despite being forbidden to visit.
• Bai Tang confirmed by message that a Lord Ravager was present, told Dan Heng to meet Stelle and March, and continued searching for the enemy.