Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo finished his commission in Liyue, processed Archon Residue into blueberry-flavored sticks, and accepted a commission to remove the Gem of Desire from Wendy’s legs. He carried Wendy upstairs for the operation while refusing to let Theresa watch, and remembered he still had to find Venti and the others.

• Chen Luo completed his commission by beating Childe, then returned him to Northland Bank, where The Lady prepared to leave for Zapolyarny Palace with the Gnosis.
• Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge turned some of Childhood Fun Park’s Archon Residue into blueberry-flavored sticks, and she asked for more while joking about making money from Venti.
• Theresa brought Wendy to the bar and asked Chen Luo to cure her legs and remove the Gem of Desire.
• Wendy thanked Chen Luo and worried about how he would handle the Gem of Desire, while Chen Luo accepted a commission to remove and contain it.
• Chen Luo carried Wendy’s wheelchair upstairs for the operation and refused Theresa’s request to come along.

Chen Luo removed the Gem of Desire from Wendy, treated her leg, and then tracked down Venti and the others in Liyue Harbor. After collecting his companions, he met Qiqi, gave her an Endless Milk Gourd, and completed her commission.

• Chen Luo surgically removed the Gem of Desire from Wendy, gave her a healing Teleport Anchor, and told Theresa to help her rest.
• Chen Luo followed Venti's Fate Threads to Three Bowls Not Crossing Port, where Venti admitted he had been drinking without money and asked to work off the bill at the bar.
• Chen Luo returned Venti to the bar, thanked Durandal for guarding the harbor, and let her keep the Mora talisman he had made.
• Chen Luo found Xiao You at Chunxiang Kiln and Sirin near the harbor, then met Qiqi, who mistook him for coconut milk and asked for some.
• Chen Luo gave Qiqi his Endless Milk Gourd, completing her commission.

Chen Luo debated which Herrscher Core to fuse, then decided to seek a better discount from Honkai Consciousness by claiming credit for his supposed service to the Honkai cause. He left to confront it, while an enraged Raven arrived at the bar looking for him over a villa island.

• Chen Luo and Herrscher of Knowledge argued over whether he should fuse the Herrscher of Wind Core or the Herrscher of Flame Core, but he ultimately said he wanted the Herrscher of Death's power instead.
• Chen Luo decided to ask Honkai Consciousness for a larger discount and listed his supposed achievements in taking control of Anti-Entropy, infiltrating World Serpent, and undermining Schicksal.
• Chen Luo declared himself the Herrscher of Domination and rushed through the bar's door into a patch of ruins to confront Honkai Consciousness.
• Raven stormed into the bar with a sniper rifle, fired at the ceiling, and was struck by her own ricocheting bullet.
• Herrscher of Knowledge asked Raven what had happened, and Raven said Chen Luo had bought her a villa island.

Raven blamed Chen Luo after her newly built island sank and demanded that he compensate her with two more islands. Chen Luo met the Honkai Consciousness, reported his contributions, and secured a 30% discount on Honkai faction items before returning to continue serving it.

• Raven told the Herrscher of Knowledge that her villa island had sunk after Destiny finished building it, and she blamed Chen Luo.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge teased Raven about her reaction, while Raven vowed to make Chen Luo pay for two more islands.
• Chen Luo entered a pure white space to meet the Honkai Consciousness, which appeared first as him, then Otto, and finally Aili.
• Chen Luo claimed he would test humanity rather than destroy it, and the Honkai Consciousness increased his Honkai faction item discount to 14%.
• Chen Luo demanded better treatment for his service, and the Honkai Consciousness raised the discount to 30% but refused to increase it further.
• Chen Luo accepted the discount and asked the Honkai Consciousness to send him back so he could continue serving the Honkai faction.

Chen Luo returned from the Honkai Consciousness’s space and considered his past, future, and whether to spend Primogems on a Six-star Item. Raven confronted him about her sunken villa island, and he began to suspect the Book of Contracts had reclaimed her property because she had violated their agreement.

• Chen Luo severed his connection with the Honkai Consciousness and wondered whether he had met it in the Previous Era and how his future self’s warnings should guide him.
• Chen Luo entered the bar, where Herrscher of Knowledge told him Raven was looking for him, and he joked about Raven’s cooking and cocktails.
• Raven revealed she had been hiding behind the door and attacked Chen Luo after hearing his remarks; during their argument, she accused him of destroying her villa island.
• Raven explained that a worthless meteorite had struck and sunk her villa island after its renovation, and Chen Luo suspected the Book of Contracts had reclaimed her property because she had violated their agreement.

After Raven's villa island sank, Chen Luo discovered that the Book of Contracts had punished her for violating her work agreement. He promised to find her a replacement island after she repaid her work-point debt, while Raven learned that the contract could not simply be canceled.

• Chen Luo showed Raven the contract and found a record stating that her unexcused absence had led the Book of Contracts to repossess her villa island.
• Chen Luo explained that the contract's penalties were judged by the Book of Contracts, and Raven realized she had effectively agreed to work for him until she went bankrupt.
• Raven faked tears to record Chen Luo promising a solution, but rejected his offer of a floating island and demanded her villa island back.
• A commission tasked Chen Luo with buying Raven a new villa island, and he agreed to do so after she repaid her more than 820 outstanding work points.
• Raven asked whether the Book of Contracts could destroy her replacement island or whether their contract could be ended, and Chen Luo said it probably would not punish her again but could not be canceled without spending Primogems.

Chen Luo reassured Raven about her bar job, then went shopping alone and encountered a strange entity before meeting Xiao Lin and her mother. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin still upset with Chen Luo for taking her lollipop.

• Chen Luo and Raven argued about her lifelong bar contract, pay, retirement, and the lost villa island, before Raven agreed to cook him dinner using the bar's kitchen.
• Chen Luo asked Herrscher of Knowledge what she wanted from the supermarket and went shopping alone while she remained unable to enter his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Luo explained how strange entities formed and behaved, then crushed a faint entity that was peeping at women in the mall.
• Chen Luo bought groceries and ice cream, including an unexpectedly expensive flavor, and stored his purchases in Storage Space.
• Xiao Lin greeted Chen Luo, but she turned away and guarded her lollipop because she still thought he was a bad person.

Chen Luo failed a commission to stop Xiao Lin from eating a lollipop, then encountered cultivators investigating a vanished anomaly. On his way home, he spotted a schoolgirl with spiritual energy on a rooftop, but Fate Threads revealed she was powerful and her destiny was concealed, so he left.

• Chen Luo accepted a commission to stop Xiao Lin from eating a lollipop, but she quickly ate it and caused the commission to fail.
• Xiao Lin gave Chen Luo a second lollipop, while her mother secretly planned to punish Xiao Lin's father for giving it to her.
• Chen Luo saw two Talent Users investigating the spot where a dead man's resentment had vanished, and he sensed that the compass-holding man was a cultivator.
• Chen Luo heard a repeated warning aimed at a girl standing on a high-rise roof in his school's uniform and noticed spiritual energy around her.
• Chen Luo tried to read the girl's fate, found that her destiny was concealed and she was at least an A-rank Talent User, then rode away.

Chen Luo met Su Yuan, a sheltered Sword Immortal Talent User who had flown from the Land of Shu to Xinghai City and sought his help because of his Sword Heart. After feeding her, he watched her try to repay the meal with an enchanted copper coin.

• Chen Luo refused Su Yuan’s request to spar and persuaded her to repay his help by answering questions instead.
• Su Yuan explained that she wore the school uniform because her master had sent her down the mountain to attend school, though she had traveled for nearly a month and flown from the Land of Shu without knowing it was summer vacation.
• Chen Luo noticed Su Yuan was hungry and bought her a meal, completing a commission that rewarded him with 50 Primogems and the Purifying Dust Technique.
• Su Yuan insisted on repaying Chen Luo and offered him a copper coin from her sect that she said had gained the power to ward off evil.

Chen Luo learned that Su Yuan, the Sword Immortal seeking her cousin, was his distant relative, whom his mother had reclassified from aunt to younger female cousin. He accepted that he would have to look after Su Yuan, and their conversation ended with her teasing him over their family seniority.

• Chen Luo copied Su Yuan’s evil-warding copper coin and offered her money, then learned she had come to find her cousin, enroll at school, and challenge Xinghai City’s three S-rank Talent Users.
• Chen Luo asked whether Su Yuan’s cousin was Liu Wenxuan, but she said the cousin’s name was Chen Luo and handed him the address.
• Chen Luo called his mother, who explained that Su Yuan was a distant relative and that she had bargained to make Su Yuan his younger female cousin rather than his aunt.
• Chen Luo’s mother told him to look after Su Yuan, then hung up before he could refuse.
• Su Yuan revealed she had overheard Chen Luo’s call and asked whether to address him as cousin or nephew; he corrected her to niece, and she explained that her sect called her Little Martial Grand-Aunt.

Chen Luo and Su Yuan argued over whether he should call her Auntie or Cousin, then agreed on when to use each title. After bringing her home under a confidentiality contract, Chen Luo arranged for Su Yuan to live in the neighboring villa.

• Chen Luo used a copper coin and a meal to argue that Su Yuan owed him a favor, then negotiated a compromise over their family titles.
• Su Yuan agreed to call Chen Luo Cousin while others were present, while he would call her Auntie when they were alone.
• Chen Luo took Su Yuan to buy more ice cream after she ate his entire stock and told her she would need to sign a confidentiality contract before moving in.
• Chen Luo brought Su Yuan home, where Herrscher of Knowledge questioned his decision to bring a newly met relative there.
• Chen Luo showed Herrscher of Knowledge the Book of Contracts and explained that Su Yuan had signed an experimental contract before the official one.
• Chen Luo said Su Yuan would live in the villa next door rather than in his home.

Chen Luo settled Su Yuan into the villa next door and kept the bar’s secrets from her, while Su Yuan’s swordsmanship and family-role contract complicated their relationship. After Su Yuan nearly killed Xiao Ke’er for spying, she accepted a mid-grade spirit stone as compensation, and Chen Luo recounted the incident to Raven.

• Chen Luo introduced Su Yuan to the Herrscher of Knowledge, who mistook her aura for that of an inner demon until Chen Luo explained it came from Inner Demon Lure.
• Su Yuan offered to repair the Herrscher of Knowledge’s broken sword heart, but she refused because she was glad it was broken.
• Chen Luo helped Su Yuan settle into the neighboring villa and discussed their contract, which sometimes required him to call her Auntie in exchange for her listening to his opinions.
• Chen Luo decided not to tell Su Yuan about the bar because revealing it offered little benefit and carried risks.
• Su Yuan caught Xiao Ke’er spying in her house and nearly killed her, but accepted one mid-grade spirit stone to let her go.
• Chen Luo told Raven that Su Yuan had nearly beheaded Xiao Ke’er and described how the spirit stone had settled the matter.

Venti introduced Zhongli to Chen Luo’s bar, where Zhongli sensed a familiar aura in Venti’s liquor and asked about it. Chen Luo suggested Zhongli might need a different recipe, leaving him curious about what it could be.

• Venti began drinking liquor mixed with Archon’s Remains, but Zhongli’s sudden arrival made him spit it out.
• Zhongli asked Venti how he had found the bar and focused on the familiar aura coming from Venti’s glass.
• Venti tried to distract Zhongli by offering him Geo Archon’s Liquor or Wind God’s Liquor and described their effects.
• Venti turned to Chen Luo for help, and Chen Luo told Zhongli he might need another recipe.
• Zhongli asked Chen Luo what recipe he meant.

Chen Luo used temporary Geo and Anemo Gnoses to make divine wine for Zhongli and Venti, earning commissions and affection. He then promised Mobius he would visit her laboratory the next day, where she planned to put him to work as a research assistant.

• Chen Luo offered Zhongli wine made with a temporary Geo Archon's Gnosis, and Venti learned that Chen Luo had forgotten he could make Gnosis wine.
• Chen Luo used Honkai energy to create Geo and Anemo Gnoses, ground them into powder, and mixed two glasses of divine wine for Zhongli and Venti.
• Zhongli and Venti drank the wine, completing their commissions and earning Chen Luo Primogems and Zhongli's affection.
• Chen Luo greeted Mobius and told her he would come to her laboratory on time the next day, then gave her a non-alcoholic drink.
• Mobius said Chen Luo could serve as a research assistant using Void Archive, while Chen Luo wondered whether the laboratory could have two doctors.

Chen Luo asked Mobius which doctoral-level knowledge he should obtain through his ability, and she recommended research into the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum. The costly choice would consume one-sixth of his money, but Mobius urged him to seize the one-time opportunity.

• Mobius laughed at Chen Luo’s suggestion that he could become a doctor, while Chen Luo explained that his title could grant him recognized credentials and doctoral knowledge.
• Chen Luo asked Mobius to recommend a field of study, and she first suggested Honkai energy research because it already had an academic foundation.
• Mobius realized Chen Luo’s ability could apply across worlds and proposed that he purchase knowledge about the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum.
• Chen Luo confirmed that Tree and Sea knowledge cost five times as much as Honkai energy knowledge, though it included the latter.
• Chen Luo admitted the purchase would cost one-sixth of his money, and Mobius urged him to buy it because the opportunity came only once.

Chen Luo weighed Mobius’s request to buy and share knowledge of the Tree and Sea against his promise to report to her laboratory, and decided to keep his appointment first. He then chose which Talent to upgrade, settling on Herrscher of Domination as the most useful target, though the chapter ended before he used the card.

• Mobius urged Chen Luo to buy knowledge of the Tree and Sea, and a commission appeared promising Primogems and a random reward for sharing it with her.
• Chen Luo delayed the purchase until after his laboratory check-in, while Mobius tried and failed to persuade him to postpone the appointment instead.
• Chen Luo reviewed his S-rank Talents and ruled out Herrscher of Thunder, Herrscher of Void, Herrscher of Corrosion, Herrscher of Knowledge, Fate Threads, and Infinite as upgrade choices.
• Chen Luo decided Herrscher of Domination was the best Talent to upgrade because he had developed it to its limit and needed more functional abilities for commissions.
• Chen Luo considered how Infinite’s value had risen through its growth and estimated that an S-rank Talent might need to be worth 20,000 Primogems to reach SS-rank.

Chen Luo upgraded his Domination Talent into Domination · Puppeteer, gaining abilities that included controlling and stripping traits from others and resurrecting dolls. He tested Domination on Raven, then welcomed a wary new customer whose ability had once been obtained by one of his Younger Brothers.

• Chen Luo gave Mona half of his supermarket supplies and planned to save the rest for Pekora.
• Chen Luo upgraded the Herrscher of Domination Authority into the SS-rank Domination · Puppeteer Talent, which gained enhanced threads, dolls, stripping, and a Collective Network, as well as Domination and resurrection abilities.
• Chen Luo tested Domination on Raven, who resisted his command and struck him with a frying pan after he released her.
• A new customer arrived, and Chen Luo used Domination to persuade her to enter the bar.
• Chen Luo recognized the new customer as the source of an ability belonging to one of his Younger Brothers.

Chen Luo accepted a commission to restore Kato Megumi’s presence and used his Stripping Ability to remove her unusual trait. The operation succeeded, but Megumi sat silently at the bar afterward, glaring at him.

• Chen Luo brought Kato Megumi to his bar and offered to grant her a wish, prompting her to reveal that she wanted her exceptionally weak presence fixed.
• Chen Luo explained that he could strip away the trait and received a commission to raise Megumi’s presence to an ordinary level.
• Megumi agreed to sign a contract with Chen Luo before following him to the laboratory on the bar’s third floor.
• Chen Luo used Domination to put Megumi to sleep, then combined his Stripping Ability with the Eye of Discernment to find and remove her weak-presence trait.
• The operation succeeded, but Megumi sat silently at the bar and stared coldly at Chen Luo as he tried to break the silence.

Chen Luo restored Kato Megumi’s sense of presence, gave her a weakened Electromagnetic Control crystal, and passed her former trait to Xiao Ke’er. Zhongli then asked whether Chen Luo could handle karmic debt, before the story shifted to Su Yuan waking Chen Luo at five in the morning to practice.

• Chen Luo showed Kato Megumi the crystal containing her former weak-presence trait, and she declined his offer to restore it.
• Chen Luo offered Kato Megumi a weakened Electromagnetic Control crystal, and she accepted it in exchange for building a friendship with him.
• Kato Megumi crushed the crystal and began experimenting with her new ability, completing Chen Luo’s commission.
• Chen Luo sent Kato Megumi’s weak-presence trait to Xiao Ke’er and told her to watch his house.
• Zhongli asked Chen Luo whether he could deal with karmic debt.
• Su Yuan woke Chen Luo at five in the morning and entered his room to make him practice.

Chen Luo arranged for Su Yuan to guard his home after testing her in the War Domain, then traveled with Mobius to her world for his first visit to Fire Moth. Mobius hurried him toward her laboratory so he could check in and buy the knowledge of Tree and Sea, but he had to return to fetch milk tea for Klein first.

• Chen Luo woke Xiao You with a Durandal photo as payment for having her sleep beside him, then discussed Su Yuan’s strength and the limits of S-rank Talent Users.
• Chen Luo took Su Yuan to the ruined Gu Yun Pavilion in the War Domain to summon opponents for her to fight.
• After Su Yuan fought Yakumo Yukari, Chen Luo left her to watch the house and went to meet Mobius at the bar.
• Mobius led Chen Luo to her world, but he returned to get the milk tea he had promised Klein.
• Chen Luo drove Mobius toward the laboratory while she insisted that he was now her life assistant and urged him to check in and buy the knowledge of Tree and Sea.