Chapter Summaries

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.