Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo accompanied Mobius into Fire Moth under an identity Mei had arranged, and Mobius warned him that both Mei’s investigators and the laboratory’s reputation would shape his new life there. They reached the base, where Chen Luo saw how the guards feared and shunned Mobius.

• Mobius explained that she had taken a long route to give Chen Luo a proper entry record and that Mei had arranged his identity documents.
• Mobius told Chen Luo to buy Tree and Sea knowledge for her research and warned him about people investigating him, especially those sent by Mei.
• Mobius revealed that Mei had asked her to attend Kevin’s birthday party as payment for handling Chen Luo’s documents.
• Chen Luo and Mobius arrived at Fire Moth’s base and passed the guards’ document check.
• Mobius told Chen Luo to prepare for the suspicion and stigma attached to her laboratory, while Chen Luo recalled the guards’ fearful and disgusted reactions to her.

Chen Luo joined the Fire Moth and arranged to stay near Mobius while she hurried him toward her laboratory. After meeting Aili and Hua, he explained to Mobius that the woman who often accompanied him was Hua from fifty thousand years in the future.

• Mobius took Chen Luo through Fire Moth’s procedures and arranged for him to stay beside her dormitory instead of getting a separate room.
• Aili greeted Chen Luo, learned he was Mobius’s research assistant, and asked whether he was from the East like Hua and Sakura.
• Hua appeared, and the Herrscher of Knowledge stirred inside Chen Luo; while he subdued her, he stared at Hua long enough for Aili to tease him about love at first sight.
• Chen Luo followed Mobius toward her laboratory and tried to explain his reaction by describing the woman who often accompanied him.
• Chen Luo told Mobius that the woman was Hua from fifty thousand years in the future.

Chen Luo entered Mobius’s laboratory, met Danzhu and Cang Xuan, and helped deliver milk tea while Danzhu tried to trick him into copying safety rules. The scene then shifted to Chen Luo waking groggily beside a gray-haired woman as someone questioned him.

• Mobius brought Chen Luo into the laboratory, where his attempt to clock in triggered an alarm because his credentials were not yet registered.
• Chen Luo met Danzhu and Cang Xuan, who were auxiliary executors of the Seed Project and old friends of Fu Hua.
• Mobius punished Danzhu for lying about her work hours, and Cang Xuan agreed to activate Chen Luo’s laboratory credentials.
• Danzhu tried to get Chen Luo to copy safety rules for her, but Cang Xuan stopped her and Mobius increased Danzhu’s punishment to fifty copies.
• Chen Luo woke groggily while a familiar voice joked that his surgery had made him a cute girl, then someone asked him his name, age, and who the gray-haired woman was to him.

After buying knowledge of the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum, Chen Luo woke to find that the knowledge had been stored in Stigmata on his hands at the cost of 2,000 Primogems. He discovered the marks contained vast, searchable libraries, including a method for rescuing Seele, and demonstrated that he could manifest the knowledge as a physical book.

• Chen Luo woke after being unconscious for more than a day and learned that the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum had marked his hands while storing their knowledge in Stigmata.
• Chen Luo discovered that the talent panel had automatically spent 2,000 Primogems to protect his mind, bringing his total loss from buying the knowledge to 7,000 Primogems.
• Chen Luo entered the Imaginary Tree Stigmata and absorbed a book about reconnecting a severed world bubble to the Imaginary Tree.
• Chen Luo entered the Sea of Quantum Stigmata and found books that combined into a method for entering the Sea of Quantum and rescuing Seele.
• Chen Luo told Mobius that the knowledge was extensive and searchable, then produced a physical book to show that it could be shared.

Chen Luo discovered that an Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum had appeared in his sea of consciousness, and the pair forcibly expelled the Herrscher of Knowledge when she entered without permission. After she settled into his sea of consciousness with his approval, Mobius became interested in studying her possession method, and Dan Zhu inspected Chen Luo to make sure Mobius had not operated on him.

• Mobius examined a book Chen Luo materialized from his stigmata and found that its methods for observing other worlds relied on the Herrscher of Void's authority.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge entered Chen Luo's sea of consciousness, where a giant tree and a dark sea appeared and knocked her back out.
• Chen Luo let the Herrscher of Knowledge enter again, but the tree and sea worked together to expel her when she tried to fight back.
• Chen Luo granted the Herrscher of Knowledge access, and she rested on a branch while carving insults into the tree.
• Mobius watched Chen Luo leave and considered studying the Herrscher of Knowledge's possession method.
• Dan Zhu and Cang Xuan met Chen Luo outside the laboratory, and Dan Zhu inspected him for signs that Mobius had performed surgery.

Chen Luo chatted with Danzhu, Cangxuan, and Klein at Fire Moth, where they mistakenly pitied his supposed hard life. In the cafeteria, he offered milk tea to Sakura, a recently transformed Flame-Chaser, who asked what he thought of people like her.

• Chen Luo told Danzhu and Cangxuan that he had passed out from lack of sleep, and Danzhu imagined a tragic life for him.
• Cangxuan explained that Mobius had seemed anxious when Chen Luo collapsed, and Chen Luo described how Mobius had recruited him after they met at his milk tea shop.
• Klein asked Chen Luo for milk tea, and Danzhu and Cangxuan decided he was so pitiful that they should help him.
• Chen Luo returned with milk tea and joined Danzhu, Cangxuan, and Klein for lunch in the cafeteria.
• Sakura approached the group after undergoing Fusion Surgery, and Chen Luo offered her a cup of milk tea.
• Sakura accepted the drink and asked Chen Luo how he viewed Flame-Chasers.

Sakura investigated Chen Luo at the laboratory while he described his skills and was summoned to assist with a fusion surgery. Chen Luo operated on a volunteer whose procedure failed, but he saved the man from dying by turning him into a puppet, leaving Mobius eager to study his techniques and ability.

• Sakura approached Chen Luo, shared a meal with him, and recorded their conversation as she investigated his danger level.
• Chen Luo discussed his broad research skills and joked with Dan Zhu about his talent for chess before saying he would assist Mobius in the laboratory.
• Klein relayed Mobius's message that Chen Luo should return for a fusion surgery, and he left the lunch gathering.
• Chen Luo performed the fusion surgery on a volunteer despite warning Mobius that the man's chance of survival was extremely low.
• When the surgery failed, Chen Luo used his puppet-granting ability to save the volunteer, and Mobius began assessing his surgical skill and power.

Chen Luo learned that his puppet could survive failed fusion surgery, which threatened to draw Fire Moth’s leaders and volunteers to him for the procedure. After discussing how to handle the attention with Mobius, he returned to the bar and learned that business had collapsed while he was away.

• Chen Luo explained to Mobius that his puppets gained enhanced physical abilities and could be revived at a cost, prompting them to consider having puppets undergo repeated fusion surgeries.
• Mobius warned Chen Luo that the surviving patient’s case would attract many people seeking fusion surgery, and Mei ordered Sakura to examine the patient while continuing to observe Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo proposed explaining his survival as a limited life-infusing ability, but Mobius left him to decide how to handle the coming requests.
• Chen Luo returned to his world through the bar after asking Mobius to clock him in and not dock his pay.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge told Chen Luo that most customers had left the bar when he was absent, leaving him with only about one hundred Primogems in revenue.

Chen Luo received a commission to return home and found Su Yuan and Yun Xia on the verge of fighting. After he stopped them and completed the commission, Yun Xia explained she had come to check on him, while Su Yuan’s presence prompted questions about Chen Luo’s unusual circle of powerful acquaintances.

• Chen Luo considered saving Primogems for a Six-star Item and spotted missions he could complete with Herrscher of Knowledge’s help.
• Chen Luo received a commission warning that Su Yuan had encountered trouble at home, so he left the bar and returned to his house with Book of Cang Xuan and Sirin.
• Chen Luo found Su Yuan and Yun Xia confronting each other, with Yun Xia wielding a ruler transformed by her Sword card and Su Yuan preparing to fight back.
• Chen Luo intervened before the two S-rank Talent Users could damage his house, completing the commission.
• Yun Xia said she had come to check on Chen Luo after sensing spiritual power from Su Yuan, and she wondered how he knew so many high-ranking people.

Chen Luo revealed his SS-rank Talent and his ability to travel to other worlds to Yun Xia after she signed a confidentiality contract. He also introduced her to the strange beings around him, then promised the Book of Cang Xuan he would take her to see Fu Hua after she copied the Laboratory Safety Rules one hundred times.

• Su Yuan asked to fight Yun Xia, and Chen Luo said he would arrange a suitable place rather than let them fight in someone’s home.
• Chen Luo explained that his Talent was not the Wandering Swordsman and revealed that he had an SS-rank Talent, which had broken through the day before.
• Yun Xia signed Chen Luo’s confidentiality contract, then learned that he had a tavern connecting to other worlds and had received his Vision from Barbatos.
• Chen Luo explained his world-traveling Talent to Yun Xia and introduced the Herrscher of Knowledge, Sirin, and the Book of Cang Xuan.
• The Book of Cang Xuan demanded that Chen Luo take her to see Fu Hua, and Chen Luo promised to do so after she copied the Laboratory Safety Rules one hundred times.

Chen Luo brought Book of Cang Xuan back by promising a visit with Cang Xuan and Danzhu, then modified Yun Xia’s phone into a puppet linked to his network. After Su Yuan defeated Yun Xia, Chen Luo asked whether she knew a dangerous cultivation technique that could help him develop Yvette.

• Chen Luo persuaded Book of Cang Xuan to return by offering to take her to meet Cang Xuan and Danzhu, while she continued copying laboratory safety rules in Danzhu’s handwriting.
• Yun Xia learned that Chen Luo had defeated Yvette and claimed the War Domain, then prepared to fight Su Yuan above the ocean.
• Chen Luo turned Yun Xia’s phone into a puppet, enhanced its functions, and connected it to his Collective Network.
• Chen Luo considered reviving Yvette but learned he would have to spend 3,048 Primogems to redeem her Angel Ring, so he postponed his plans to prioritize a six-star item.
• Su Yuan defeated Yun Xia, who explained that she had converted only around thirty of her fifty Clow Cards into Yun Xia Cards and had less experience as an S-rank Talent User.
• Chen Luo asked Su Yuan whether her cultivation techniques included a dangerous move like the Great Demon Transformation Technique.

Chen Luo acquired three sacrifice techniques for his puppets and traveled to the Previous Era to collect a Honkai Beast gene sample and ask Klein to grow two rare seeds. The chapter left Klein briefly away from the fragrant seeds as Dan Zhu entered the laboratory, while Kiana and Ling argued over Cecilia at lunch.

• Chen Luo learned three self-sacrifice techniques from Su Yuan and uploaded them to the Collective Network so he and his puppets could learn them.
• Yun Xia offered to take Su Yuan shopping and help her prepare to challenge Yun Lian'er, while Chen Luo went to another world.
• Chen Luo visited Mobius and retrieved Honkai Beast gene sample 0119 from Klein, who warned him that news of a successful recovery from failed fusion surgery had spread through Fire Moth.
• Chen Luo gave Klein two Insanely Modified Heavenly Scented Cardamom seeds to cultivate, and she left them beside a Not Edible sign while putting away a culture dish.
• Cecilia served lunch to Ling, and Kiana confronted Ling for calling her mother Big Sister; Ling refused to stop and said she had only come because of the food.

Chen Luo offered Himeko ways to extend her life and gain power, including a dangerous Hyper-Evolution Surgery, but clarified that its guaranteed success depended on her having a chance of surviving it. The chapter ended with the group asking how Chen Luo would check Himeko’s odds.

• Himeko explained that her failing health made it urgent to search Jiuyou for Ji Lin’s Xuanyuan Sword and Stigmata, and Durandal volunteered to help when needed.
• Chen Luo arrived and proposed replacing Himeko’s body, but she rejected the idea and asked about ways to help without changing bodies.
• Chen Luo offered Himeko a Hyper-Evolution Surgery that could make her a Flame-Chaser, warning that its initial success rate was one in ten thousand.
• Chen Luo joked with Kiana about improving Himeko’s odds, and Kiana took his misleading math seriously until Himeko stopped the exchange.
• Chen Luo clarified that he could guarantee the surgery only if Himeko had a chance of surviving it, and the group asked how he would assess her odds.

Chen Luo advised Himeko to seek a Stigmata before considering fusion surgery and accepted a commission to awaken one for her in exchange for items from the Nine Nether expedition. After the group agreed to move up the mission, Chen Luo summoned Armed Puppet Sirin, whose arrival startled everyone and drew her wary attention to Cecilia and Kiana.

• Chen Luo explained the risks of fusion surgery and offered Himeko Stigmata transplantation as a safer way to restore her body and lifespan.
• Himeko asked what Chen Luo wanted in return, and he accepted a commission to awaken her Stigmata in exchange for the Book of Cang Xuan, the largest Honkai Beast, and a ghost from Nine Nether.
• Chen Luo urged Himeko's group to advance their Nine Nether operation so they could remove Chi You's seals, and the group agreed to move up the mission.
• Chen Luo introduced Armed Puppet Sirin by summoning her into the living room, startling Theresa, Cecilia, Fu Hua, Ling, Raiden Mei, Bronya, Kiana, and Himeko.
• Armed Puppet Sirin hid in Chen Luo's arms, watched the others, and focused her attention mostly on Cecilia and Kiana.

Chen Luo arranged for Kiana and Fu Hua to stay behind after lunch, then revealed that the Herrscher of Knowledge was Madame Green Lily, the person who had looted Fu Hua’s home. The Herrscher of Knowledge admitted she was a Herrscher and claimed to be Fu Hua from two years in the future, but Fu Hua remained unconvinced.

• Kiana asked about Sirin’s connection to her, and Chen Luo said Durandal already knew about the separation between them.
• Chen Luo persuaded Himeko to let Kiana skip class, then asked Fu Hua to stay behind as well.
• Chen Luo sent Sirin to play games with Cecilia and gave Kiana a manga to read while he spoke with Fu Hua.
• Chen Luo brought out the Herrscher of Knowledge and identified her as Madame Green Lily, the culprit who had looted Fu Hua’s home.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge revealed her identity and claimed she was Fu Hua from two years in the future, but Fu Hua rejected the proof Chen Luo offered.

Fu Hua concluded that the Herrscher of Knowledge was not her future self, and Chen Luo revealed the truth about her identity after accepting Fu Hua’s commission. Fu Hua learned about the Herrscher of Knowledge’s origins and questioned whether she should continue working with Otto, while Chen Luo encouraged her to comfort the girl.

• Fu Hua caught the Herrscher of Knowledge calling her an Old Fossil and decided she could not be her future self.
• Chen Luo received a commission to tell Fu Hua the truth about the Herrscher of Knowledge’s birth and persuaded her to reveal her identity.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge realized Chen Luo had accepted Fu Hua’s Primogems, then agreed to let him explain her identity anyway.
• Chen Luo took Kiana’s tablet and used it to show Fu Hua footage of events involving Otto and the Herrscher of Knowledge.
• Fu Hua asked Chen Luo whether she should continue cooperating with Otto, and he advised her to keep him as a tool and seek his help if Otto acted badly.
• Chen Luo advised Fu Hua to comfort the Herrscher of Knowledge, while Fu Hua considered what attitude to take toward her.

Kiana learned the truth about her identity as K423 and asked how to understand her relationship with Durandal and the real Sirin. Chen Luo explained that memories and experiences shaped who they were, and Kiana began to accept that she and Sirin could be treated as separate people.

• Fu Hua asked Chen Luo to teach her how to soothe the Herrscher of Knowledge, but the Herrscher interrupted his advice.
• Kiana struggled to understand whether she was Sirin or K423, and Chen Luo said identity depended on memories and experiences.
• Chen Luo told Kiana that Durandal knew the truth and had built her own life around her name, so Kiana should respect that identity and carry her own name forward.
• Chen Luo, Kiana, Fu Hua, and the Herrscher of Knowledge bickered over Kiana's poor grades and Chen Luo's class ranking.
• Chen Luo explained that the girl he held was the real Sirin, created after the Queen consciousness was separated and hatched from a pet egg.
• Kiana concluded that she could view herself and the real Sirin as separate people, and she reflected on how her family continued to treat her as their own.

Chen Luo discussed Kiana’s Herrscher of Void Core and Fu Hua agreed to teach her Tai Xu Sword Qi in exchange for help recovering her memories. Chen Luo accepted Fu Hua’s commission, but Herrscher of Knowledge negotiated a short delay so she could enjoy teasing Fu Hua before her memories returned.

• Chen Luo explained that Kiana’s dormant Herrscher of Void Core could awaken after a Great Eruption, and Fu Hua offered to teach Kiana Tai Xu Sword Qi.
• Fu Hua asked Chen Luo to help restore her memories, and her commission offered him 800 Primogems and Yu Du Chen.
• Herrscher of Knowledge urged Chen Luo to delay restoring Fu Hua’s memories because she wanted time to tease her, then agreed to wait only a couple of days.
• Chen Luo offered to restore Fu Hua’s memories and heal her injuries, explaining that Azure Empyrean’s outfit contained a device that could continuously treat her.
• Fu Hua realized the outfit had been healing her and asked whether Chen Luo could remove the device, but he refused.

Chen Luo brought Yae Sakura to the Elysian Realm to undergo fusion surgery after she chose the high-risk procedure, which his Fate Threads Ability could guide and her puppet body could survive through revival. There, Aili approached with her Beauty Radar and recognized Yae Sakura.

• Chen Luo told Fu Hua that staying close to her clothes would help heal her injuries, and promised to restore her memories with Little Senti once she recovered.
• Chen Luo let Sirin stay with Cecilia while he went to meet Yae Sakura for fusion surgery.
• Yae Sakura chose the high-risk, high-reward fusion surgery after reading about the options through the Collective Network.
• Yae Sakura told Chen Luo that she accepted being his puppet and the dangers of his cultivation techniques because he had revived Rin and might revive Kallen.
• Chen Luo brought Yae Sakura to the Elysian Realm, where Aili arrived with her Beauty Radar and reacted with surprise at seeing Sakura.

Chen Luo worked with Mobius on a fusion surgery for Yae Sakura, using his Fate Threads to anticipate Mobius’s solution and avoid her attempt to extort him. He accidentally shot Elysia with the Friendship Revolver, then carried both laughing Flame-Chasers out and began the surgery.

• Elysia greeted Yae Sakura and hid a Beauty Radar she said Chen Luo had given her.
• Chen Luo teased Elysia about waiting for Rin’s manga, then revealed that he had met Elysia and Hua in the Previous Era and produced the pink sack Elysia had once used on him.
• Chen Luo and Mobius found that fusion surgery with Yae Sakura’s Pseudo-Herrscher nature was unlikely to succeed, and Mobius demanded a shot from the Friendship Revolver in exchange for her solution.
• Chen Luo used his Destiny Ability and Fate Threads to anticipate Mobius’s method of repeatedly performing fusion surgery to build compatibility, then shot her with the revolver.
• Elysia rushed into the operating room after hearing the gunshot, and Chen Luo accidentally shot her too.
• Chen Luo carried the laughing Elysia and Mobius out of the operating room, sealed the broken doorway with threads, and began Yae Sakura’s fusion surgery.