Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo agreed to take Herrscher of Knowledge to the Elysian Realm after receiving a commission, then left the bar with Raven to visit World Serpent. On the way, he noticed the Honkai Consciousness had increased its Favorability and asked Raven about her car.

• Herrscher of Knowledge demanded to visit the Elysian Realm, and Chen Luo accepted after a commission appeared; she entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Luo promised Book of Cang Xuan he would take her to see Fu Hua after she finished her online classes.
• Chen Luo met Raven at the bar and left with her for World Serpent, while Venti remained asleep beside the counter.
• Raven opened the Bar Door near World Serpent's headquarters, and Chen Luo floated outside as she noticed he appeared to be barefoot.
• The Honkai Consciousness's item exchange discount rose to 10% off, and Chen Luo cut off his connection to it before discussing Raven's Koenigsegg.

Raven brought Chen Luo to World Serpent headquarters to meet Grey Serpent, while spending work points to have Chen Luo drive and massage her. Chen Luo entered the headquarters cautiously, prepared to escape if anything went wrong.

• Chen Luo offered to change Raven’s car wrap color for free, and Raven commissioned him to drive her for five work points, then to drive while massaging her for ten.
• Chen Luo used Threads Control to drive and massage Raven, and she praised him when they arrived at World Serpent headquarters.
• Raven explained that Grey Serpent had moved their meeting inside because he expected Chen Luo to leave immediately after seeing him.
• Chen Luo suspected Grey Serpent had anticipated his escape plan, but reasoned that Grey Serpent could not harm him without disrupting the past he had already visited.
• Chen Luo followed Raven deeper into World Serpent and focused part of his consciousness on the Herrscher of Knowledge so he could activate War Domain and flee if threatened.

Raven took Chen Luo on a tour of World Serpent headquarters at Grey Serpent’s request, then brought him to the biological laboratory to collect medicine for the children she had adopted. Chen Luo recognized the Stigmata Project and was left accompanying Raven as she went to meet Jackal.

• Raven admitted Grey Serpent had asked her to show Chen Luo around and recruit him, and Chen Luo accepted the tour after charging her twenty work points for the risk.
• Raven showed Chen Luo World Serpent’s headquarters, including its extensive mech forces and weapons production, while boasting about the organization’s capabilities.
• Raven introduced the biological laboratory and explained that Jackal led research into the Stigmata Project, which Chen Luo already knew about.
• Raven said she had come to collect treatment medicine Jackal prepared for the children she had adopted in Changkong City.
• Raven dragged Chen Luo into the laboratory, explaining that Grey Serpent had ordered her to keep him close and away from certain mechs.

Chen Luo toured World Serpent with Raven, where he met Jackal and discovered her interest in researching him. He refused Jackal’s commission, leaving her research request unanswered.

• Chen Luo realized World Serpent’s mechs had been infected by viruses left on Anti-Entropy equipment, though he had not infected them himself.
• Raven brought Chen Luo to Jackal’s analysis room, and Jackal mistook him for someone Raven had captured for her experiments.
• Raven explained that she had given up the capture mission and was showing Chen Luo around at Grey Serpent’s request, then paid him fifteen work points for believing her.
• Jackal asked Chen Luo to help with her experiments, and he refused the commission.

Chen Luo rejected Jackal’s request, toured World Serpent with Raven, and met Grey Serpent, who claimed they had known each other fifty thousand years earlier. The revelation left Chen Luo and Raven wondering whether Chen Luo was an ancient figure from the Previous Civilization Era.

• Chen Luo refused Jackal’s mission, and Raven agreed to ask Grey Serpent whether Chen Luo could participate in an experiment in exchange for the medicine.
• Raven led Chen Luo through World Serpent, where he praised the organization while admitting he had never seen Schicksal or Anti-Entropy.
• Chen Luo teased Raven about becoming an idol, then asked her to stop before she opened the conference room door to Grey Serpent.
• Grey Serpent greeted Chen Luo as “Doctor,” but Chen Luo denied knowing him, and Grey Serpent said Chen Luo had called himself an eternally seventeen-year-old boy fifty thousand years earlier.
• Raven asked Chen Luo whether he was an ancient monster who had lived for tens of thousands of years.

Chen Luo discussed World Serpent’s history and development with Grey Serpent after Raven left them alone. He judged the organization’s strengths and limitations, and Grey Serpent defended its strategy of staying hidden until the decisive moment.

• Chen Luo denied being over fifty thousand years old, while Grey Serpent and Raven teased him about his age.
• Grey Serpent asked Raven to leave so he could speak privately with Chen Luo, and Raven waited outside the door.
• Grey Serpent’s thoughts triggered a strange commission for Chen Luo, which Chen Luo immediately completed for Primogems and Crystals.
• Grey Serpent asked Chen Luo to assess World Serpent, and Chen Luo praised its technology and covert growth while noting its lack of a powerhouse able to dominate its rivals.
• Grey Serpent accepted the criticism and defended World Serpent’s hidden strategy, saying that surviving to the end mattered more than attracting attention.

Chen Luo decided to visit Elysian Realm after realizing Rin had been there for days without contacting him and worrying that Mobius might have taken her in. Before leaving World Serpent with Raven, he learned that Raven’s children would soon move to a protected beachside villa and that he had been made a World Serpent Guest Official.

• Grey Serpent invited Chen Luo to visit Elysian Realm, but Chen Luo initially refused because he wanted to conceal that he already knew about it.
• Chen Luo remembered that Rin had gone to Elysian Realm five days earlier and worried that Mobius might be experimenting on her, so he changed his mind and agreed to go.
• Grey Serpent told Raven that her mission reward was ready and that the beachside villa for her children would be ready to move into in about an hour.
• Raven accepted the villa arrangement and declined Grey Serpent’s offer to arrange plane tickets for the children.
• Grey Serpent informed Raven that Chen Luo had become a World Serpent Guest Official, a role that gave him access to World Serpent locations and required members to protect him in special circumstances.

Chen Luo joined World Serpent and Raven took him to her room before preparing to show him Elysian Realm. They agreed to keep each other’s secrets, with Chen Luo warning Raven not to mention the bar there.

• Grey Serpent confirmed Chen Luo could enter anywhere within World Serpent’s domain, and Chen Luo accepted his new position.
• Raven hurried to retrieve a bag of gemstones and artworks, then refused Chen Luo’s offer to appraise them because she planned to ask Eden instead.
• Chen Luo explored Raven’s room and spotted the ten counterfeit Plague Gems he had given her among her weapons and tools.
• Raven said she would take Chen Luo to Elysian Realm while they waited for her villa to be ready, and Chen Luo realized she had been using Eden for free art appraisals.
• Chen Luo received a commission to keep Raven’s arrangement with Eden secret and made Raven promise not to mention the bar in Elysian Realm.

Raven escorted Chen Luo toward the Elysian Realm, warning him about the Flame-Chasers and betting that he would meet no more than three. They reached the golden palace, where Chen Luo complained about the long walk as Raven pointed out that he had been flying.

• Raven gave Chen Luo survival advice about several Flame-Chasers and admitted she had met only five of them.
• Chen Luo argued that Aponia was more dangerous than Raven realized, then bet her sixty work credits that he would meet at least four Flame-Chasers.
• Raven accepted the bet, and Chen Luo formed a contract that would punish anyone who broke their word by devouring rock.
• Raven punched Chen Luo in the stomach after he claimed that apologizing quickly meant no one could hit him.
• Raven led Chen Luo through World Serpent's long passage to the golden palace, where he complained about the walk despite having flown beside her.

Chen Luo and Raven entered the Elysian Realm, where Aili's surprise ambush caught Raven instead of its intended target. Chen Luo reunited with Ling and encountered several Flame-Chasers, leaving Raven unable to deny that she had lost their bet.

• Raven explained that World Serpent's pilgrimage corridor had no fast-travel devices and admitted she joined for the pay.
• Raven opened the Elysian Realm's doors, and Aili's confetti, net, and sack ambush trapped her while Chen Luo watched from nearby.
• Ling recognized Chen Luo, and Aili and the other Flame-Chasers realized he was standing behind them.
• Aili mistook Chen Luo for a ghost and punched through him, while Raven climbed out of the sack and asked what had happened.
• Chen Luo pointed out that five Flame-Chasers were present, proving Raven had lost their bet.
• Aili complained that Chen Luo had forgotten her, but he claimed his name was Chen and addressed her as a senior.

Chen Luo pretended not to know Aili, teasing her while keeping his identity secret from the Flame-Chasers. Su explained that Aili’s warmth and Chen Luo’s difficulty accepting others’ warmth made their relationship unusually awkward, leaving Aili doubting whether Chen Luo was really Luoluo.

• Chen Luo called Aili a senior and then an auntie, while insisting that they had just met and introducing himself as Luo Chen.
• Aili challenged Chen Luo over how he knew her name and Eden’s, and Chen Luo falsely identified Raven as Nata.
• Chen Luo considered why he could not safely explain that he had come from the future and decided to reveal clues gradually instead.
• Aili offered to let Chen Luo touch her ears if he admitted he was Luoluo, and Chen Luo agreed immediately, making her question whether he was really the person she remembered.
• Eden and Su watched Aili struggle to read Chen Luo, and Su described their interaction as an affinity mutation: Chen Luo could show warmth but struggled to accept it from others.

Chen Luo visited Elysian Realm with Raven and met Elysia, who tried to welcome him with a pink sack while he denied being the Chen Luo she remembered. Su and Elysia began to suspect that Chen Luo had traveled back through time, while Elysia defended his efforts to help the Previous Era.

• Elysia warmly introduced herself to Raven, then recognized her after Chen Luo shook the streamers from Raven's hood.
• Chen Luo and Elysia argued over whether he was the Chen Luo she knew, while Ling denied telling Elysia about his earlier meeting with her.
• Elysia explained that she had planned to capture Chen Luo with a net and a pink sack, and Chen Luo took the sack after realizing it resembled one Elysia had used on him before.
• Su reasoned that Chen Luo might have traveled upstream through time, citing his distance from the Previous Era and his apparent ability to anticipate events.
• Elysia argued that Chen Luo had likely helped the Previous Era and pointed to Ling's return as evidence that he had eased the Flame-Chasers' regrets.

Chen Luo confronted the possibility that saving the Previous Civilization would destroy the Current Civilization, while Aili teased him and the Flame-Chasers tried to protect him from learning too much about their future. The welcome gathering ended with Chen Luo insisting that Rin still deserved a spanking.

• Su warned that the Core Flame left for the next civilization might have caused the Previous Civilization’s destruction, and Aili realized Chen Luo faced the fates of two civilizations.
• Aili pretended to feel hurt that Chen Luo had chosen the Current Civilization, then tried to net him, but Chen Luo pulled Raven into the net’s path and offered her a redemption voucher.
• Sakura thanked Chen Luo for bringing Rin home, and Chen Luo asked to spank Rin; Sakura and Rin each tried to take the punishment for the other.
• Aili redirected the blame toward herself and then declared that the Flame-Chasers should keep their shared past secret from Chen Luo to protect him and her popularity.
• Chen Luo said he regretted something, then confirmed that he still intended to spank Rin.

Aili used a wish-making trick to get Chen Luo to forgive her, then explained how people in Fire Moth could call on him to fulfill sincere wishes. Chen Luo clarified why Raven needed work points for risky or unreasonable requests, and Raven asked whether she could buy work points with money.

• Aili interlocked her fingers and made a wish, prompting a commission that led Chen Luo to forgive her.
• Aili told Rin how to call on Chen Luo and explained that he fulfilled reasonable wishes when he could, while keeping his own limits.
• Raven asked Chen Luo why she needed work points when others could make wishes without them, and he explained that work points covered difficult or dangerous commissions.
• Chen Luo said Raven could exchange work points for money or save them for special rewards, and Raven asked to recharge by trading money for work points.
• Chen Luo refused Raven's request to buy work points with money.

Chen Luo negotiated with Raven over buying her a villa island with work points, then agreed to host Aili’s welcome party at his bar. The gathering began with Raven and Chen Luo stunned to see Chijie carrying welcome signs.

• Chen Luo quoted Raven at least 1,200 work points for a villa island, then offered to sell her half of her chosen island for 800 points and proposed an interest-free loan.
• Raven agreed to the deal and offered to return the ten imitation gems Chen Luo had given her in exchange for a discount.
• Aili told Chen Luo that the welcome party planned for him seemed awkward because he was not fully restored, and Chen Luo offered to host it at his bar.
• Aili agreed to hold the party at the bar and urged Chen Luo to summon its door.
• Chijie kicked open a door and appeared carrying signs that read “Welcome Home, Luo Luo!” and “Did You Miss Us?”, leaving Raven and Chen Luo dumbfounded.

Chen Luo welcomed the Flame-Chasers to his bar, where Aili coaxed Chijie into joining them and the group learned that Mobius was researching makeup instead of attending. Eden mentioned a wine she had tasted long ago, prompting Chen Luo to receive a commission to bring her another glass of Tears of the Deep Sky.

• Chijie held two embarrassing light signs for Chen Luo, threw one at him, and joined the group after Aili persuaded him to come to the bar.
• Chen Luo showed everyone how to summon the bar, and Aili tested the trick successfully.
• Chen Luo asked Klein about Mobius and learned that she was researching makeup and wanted him to visit her laboratory when he had time.
• Klein declined Chen Luo's invitation to the bar and agreed to wait for him there until he could visit Mobius.
• Eden described Tears of the Deep Sky as a wine she had not tasted in a long time, and Chen Luo received a commission to bring her another glass.

Aili and the Flame-Chasers discovered the names of drinks Chen Luo had given them, earning Raven a list of valuable commissions. When Chen Luo introduced the Herrscher of Knowledge, Aili recognized her as a Herrscher, leaving Hua shocked by the possibility that she would become one.

• Aili asked the Flame-Chasers about Chen Luo’s wines, and Su, Sakura, Chijie, Kevin, and Hua named drinks that prompted new commissions.
• Aili called Hua out of the lounge, and Chen Luo greeted her awkwardly because he knew her from the future.
• Aili explained that Chen Luo’s bar connected to other worlds and possibly other times, then led the Flame-Chasers toward it.
• Chen Luo tried to introduce someone, woke the sleeping Herrscher of Knowledge, and pulled her out of his body.
• Aili sensed that the Herrscher of Knowledge was a Herrscher, and Hua was shocked to learn that her future self might become one.

Chen Luo explained how the current era’s Herrschers differed from those of the Previous Era and discussed the Eighth Herrscher incident with the Flame-Chasers. He then set off to see Mobius, but Aili’s warning about Aponia left him seeking answers from Kevin.

• Chen Luo explained that the current era had reached the Third Herrscher and that Sirin was expected to be born again in about three years.
• Su asked whether Chen Luo had been the mysterious person who saved Dr. Spacetime during the Eighth Herrscher incident, and Chen Luo said he could not know what his future self had done.
• Aili took the Herrscher of Knowledge to the bar for a conversation while Chen Luo asked Raven to look after the guests and went to see Mobius.
• Aili warned Chen Luo that he might encounter Aponia, then left him wondering what conflict he had with her.
• Chen Luo asked Kevin about Aponia, and Kevin said Aili often told harmless little lies without giving him further details.

Chen Luo questioned Kevin and Klein about why the Flame-Chasers were withholding information, then met Mobius in her laboratory after fifty thousand years apart. Mobius recruited him to assist with an experiment that could help him find a safer Hyper-Evolution Surgery for Himeko.

• Kevin told Chen Luo he did not know why Aponia looked at him strangely, then left for Aili's banquet without answering Chen Luo's questions.
• Klein suggested the Flame-Chasers might be content with how Chen Luo had already made up for their regrets, and admitted she had handled his many game chores.
• Klein escorted Chen Luo to Mobius's laboratory, where Mobius confronted him for disappearing for fifty thousand years.
• Mobius declared Chen Luo hers, then asked him to assist with an experiment to improve Hyper-Evolution Surgery and reduce its side effects.
• Chen Luo accepted the commission and considered whether Mobius's research could help Himeko undergo a safer fusion surgery.

Chen Luo agreed to help Mobius with an experiment, but she secretly used Klein’s milk and a candy to knock him unconscious. Mobius explained how she had exploited the limits of Chen Luo’s wish-granting ability, leaving Klein confused and Chen Luo in her arms.

• Chen Luo suited up for Mobius’s experiment and asked about her earlier experiment on Raven, which Mobius said had concerned reincarnation and shown that time could change.
• Klein gave Chen Luo his usual warm milk, and he drank it before checking that he had not been poisoned.
• Mobius drew Chen Luo close and slipped him a piece of candy, causing him to lose consciousness.
• Mobius laughed and told Klein that the milk and candy were harmless separately but caused unconsciousness when combined.
• Mobius explained that she had used Klein to deliver the milk and disguised her desire to knock Chen Luo out by also genuinely wishing for his help with the experiment.