Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo completed fusion surgeries for Yae Sakura and Waite, helping them gain new powers while avoiding Mobius and Aili. Afterward, he went to the Previous Era to clock out and learned that his pink hat marked him as a fanatical member of Aili's Support Club, but a contract prevented him from removing it before midnight.

• Chen Luo performed repeated fusion surgeries on Yae Sakura until she succeeded on her third attempt, then explained her mental mutation and new Honkai Beast powers.
• Chen Luo sneaked past Aili and Mobius with Klein's help, found a suitable Honkai Beast gene sample for Waite, and performed Waite's successful fusion surgery.
• Chen Luo found that Waite had strengthened gravity control and gained a stacking mental-piercing attack that could cause thought stagnation.
• Chen Luo returned to the Previous Era to clock out, where Danzhu and Cangxuan noticed his pink hat and explained that its Crystal Flower symbol belonged to Aili's Support Club.
• Chen Luo realized his contract with Aili prevented him from removing the hat until midnight.

Chen Luo learned that Cangxuan and Danzhu had eaten the modified Heavenly Scented Cardamoms, forcing him to reconsider his plans to revive them and restore Fu Hua’s memories. Durandal brought him Otto’s Soul Steel bodies and a villa island transfer agreement, while Chen Luo revealed he was studying the bodies to make Soul Steel puppets.

• Klein told Chen Luo that Cangxuan and Danzhu had eaten the two Heavenly Scented Cardamoms he had asked her to cultivate.
• Misaka Mikoto mocked Chen Luo’s pink hat, so he ordered her to do a hundred frog jumps after she rejected his other proposed punishments.
• Chen Luo realized that Cangxuan and Danzhu’s deaths and eventual roles as Chi You’s cores could disrupt his plans, and he considered asking Fu Hua about reviving them.
• Durandal delivered two Otto Soul Steel bodies, and Chen Luo told her he had already collected fifteen bodies and was studying their weaknesses to build Soul Steel puppets.
• Durandal gave Chen Luo the transfer agreement for his villa island and said it could count as Otto’s final words.

Raven signed over the villa island to herself after Chen Luo let her keep it, and Yelan arrived at the bar to investigate him. Chen Luo reassured her that he had no ill intent toward Liyue, then joked that Zhongli should become the next Geo Archon, while Zhongli firmly refused.

• Chen Luo gave Raven the transfer contract for the villa island, and she signed it over to herself.
• Shenhe arrived at the bar, followed by Yelan, whom Chen Luo recognized by her real name.
• Yelan commissioned Chen Luo to investigate his identity, conduct, and intentions toward Liyue, and Chen Luo said he would not read her mind.
• Chen Luo completed Yelan’s commission, but she said she would judge for herself whether he truly meant Liyue no harm.
• Chen Luo admitted donating 750 million Mora in Zhongli’s name and said he was building Zhongli’s reputation to help him become Geo Archon.
• Venti supported the idea, but Zhongli refused the position, and Yelan asked Chen Luo what reward he wanted.

Chen Luo arranged for Yelan to help Shenhe, set a new appointment with Xiao, and hosted Misaka Mikoto, Kamijo Touma, and Index. The chapter ended with Komeiji Satori arriving at the bar and confronting Yakumo Yukari, who tried to chase her away.

• Chen Luo asked Yelan to look after Shenhe and learned that Keqing and Ningguang had missed his invitation because they never saw his business cards.
• Zhongli explained that Xiao had missed Chen Luo because the bar was closed, so they arranged for Xiao to visit the next morning.
• Chen Luo gave Misaka Mikoto a limited-edition Gekota badge, then welcomed Kamijo Touma and Index, who arrived hungry and short of money.
• Index accepted Chen Luo's offer to eat part of the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast, earning him a commission while Raven served the dishes.
• Komeiji Satori entered the bar, and Yakumo Yukari recognized her and told her to leave.

Komeiji Satori discovered that the bar blocked her Mind Reading and decided to stay, considering whether it could help her sister. Chen Luo finished a Soul Steel puppet called the Thousand-Man Herrscher and lent it to the Herrscher of Knowledge for a commission, only to transform it into Fu Hua and provoke her.

• Chen Luo explained that the bar blocked abilities used against other people, so Komeiji Satori stopped trying to leave and chose to enter.
• Komeiji Satori realized Yakumo Yukari wanted to keep the bar secret and considered bringing Komeiji Koishi there.
• Chen Luo completed the Thousand-Man Herrscher, a Soul Steel puppet he could control remotely as a stand-in in the main world.
• Chen Luo explained that the puppet could use many of his abilities and withstand powerful attacks, then accepted a commission to lend it to the Herrscher of Knowledge.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge asked Chen Luo to attach his consciousness to the puppet, and he transformed it into Fu Hua to tease her.

Chen Luo and Herrscher of Knowledge planned how she could approach young Hua in the Previous Era, while Chen Luo prepared to work at Fire Moth. After discussing ways to create a body without exposing Soul Steel, Chen Luo shared a discovery about repeated fusion surgery with Mobius.

• Herrscher of Knowledge punched the Thousand-Man Herrscher after it transformed into its original puppet-like form, then urged Chen Luo to help her get an identity in the Previous Era.
• Chen Luo proposed that Herrscher of Knowledge pose as an imaginary friend to young Hua, then made her sign a contract forbidding her from seriously changing Hua's life or encouraging her to do harm.
• Chen Luo left his bar alone, cleaned his Fire Moth dormitory, and met Mobius in the hallway.
• Mobius warned Chen Luo that a Soul Steel Body could expose him, so Chen Luo considered copying a body with Void Archive and converting it into a puppet.
• Chen Luo told Mobius that repeated fusion surgery increased a puppet's compatibility with a gene sample, and Mobius realized the method could be used on all of Chen Luo's puppets in this world.

Chen Luo brought breakfast and copied safety rules to Cang Xuan and Danzhu, while Mobius considered using further punishments to help him recover the Primogems he had spent. After delivering milk tea to Klein, Chen Luo learned Cang Xuan’s advice for handling laboratory mistakes and fooling Mobius.

• Chen Luo told Mobius that his Armed Puppet had copied a hundred sets of laboratory safety rules for Danzhu in exchange for a hundred Primogems, and Mobius considered punishing Danzhu with more copying to help him earn back Primogems.
• Chen Luo brought breakfast to Cang Xuan and Danzhu, who admitted they had eaten two of his Heavenly Scented Cardamom; he explained that the rare items had to be used in pairs but withheld their effect.
• Chen Luo delivered milk tea to Klein, then returned and heard Danzhu praise his cooking and suggest he work in the cafeteria.
• Chen Luo gave Danzhu the hundred copied safety rules, and she hurried to deliver them to Mobius before she could be punished with more copying.
• After Danzhu left, Chen Luo asked Cang Xuan about laboratory work, and she taught him tricks for concealing experimental mistakes while warning him to finish the experiments properly.

Chen Luo and Mobius were summoned to discuss a failed fusion surgery in which the patient survived, and Fire Moth officials tried to pressure them into revealing how. The meeting turned threatening when a high-ranking official used Chen Luo’s undocumented status against Mobius, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Cangxuan asked Chen Luo about Mobius’s fusion surgery, and Danzhu celebrated passing her handwriting test with his help.
• Chen Luo received a mysterious email and used the Herrscher of Corrosion’s power to identify its sender and copy secret information.
• Mobius told Chen Luo that Fire Moth would see his unusual abilities as useful and warned him not to act impulsively at their meeting.
• Chen Luo cautioned Mobius that sharing knowledge about other worlds could make Honkai grow stronger, and Mobius agreed not to spread it.
• Mobius and Chen Luo entered a meeting with a Fire Moth official who demanded the method behind the surviving fusion-surgery patient and presented copies of Chen Luo’s documents to expose his undocumented status.
• The official threatened that Chen Luo could quietly disappear, prompting Chen Luo to realize the discussion was over.

Mobius and Chen Luo turned a Fire Moth executive and his secretary into puppets after the executive threatened them and tried to seize Mobius’s Fusion Surgery research. Mobius decided to perform painful Fusion Surgery on the executive, while Chen Luo returned to the laboratory and learned that he and Mobius had been assigned a surgery case.

• A Fire Moth executive tried to use his authority to force Mobius to hand over her Fusion Surgery technology, and Mobius left the office.
• Chen Luo turned the executive and his secretary into puppets, and Mobius ordered him to send the executive to her laboratory for Fusion Surgery without anesthesia or pain relief.
• Cang Xuan, Danzhu, and Klein questioned Chen Luo about Mobius’s anger, but he avoided explaining what had happened and changed the subject to breakfast and work attendance.
• Klein received a notice that a Hyper-Evolution Surgery case had been added to the laboratory schedule for ten minutes later, with Mobius and Chen Luo in charge.

Chen Luo and Mobius performed repeated fusion surgeries on Cannon Fodder No. 1, with Chen Luo reviving him after each failure until the seventh attempt succeeded. Meanwhile, Killer No. 1 spread a cover story about Chen Luo’s powers, and the chapter ended with Mobius asking Chen Luo to turn her into a puppet so she could test his authority.

• Mobius and Chen Luo began operating on Cannon Fodder No. 1 without anesthetic, and Chen Luo explained that the selected genetic sample could not succeed before the man’s first death.
• Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, and Klein read Killer No. 1’s announcement, which framed Chen Luo as a survivor of the Sixth Herrscher’s outbreak with the ability to save patients after failed fusion surgeries.
• Chen Luo questioned Killer No. 1 about the announcement and learned that the executive’s authority and a forged background had helped establish Chen Luo’s cover identity.
• Chen Luo’s distraction caused the sixth surgery to fail, so he killed and revived Cannon Fodder No. 1 before continuing the seventh attempt.
• The seventh surgery succeeded, and Chen Luo identified Cannon Fodder No. 1’s mental-suggestion ability, sealed it, and sent him away with Killer No. 1.
• Mobius asked Chen Luo to turn her into a puppet for research, but Chen Luo refused because it was too dangerous.

Chen Luo met Kevin, encouraged him not to define himself by his past mistake, and discovered his power could briefly reverse Kevin’s memories. He offered to suppress Kevin’s Honkai Beast factors so he could spend time with Mei, and Kevin revealed that the prospect mattered to him.

• The Herrscher of Knowledge left Chen Luo to explore Hua’s mind and consider what form to take as Hua’s Fantasy Friend.
• Back at the laboratory, Chen Luo met Kevin, who apologized for the deaths caused by his decision during the Sixth Herrscher incident.
• Chen Luo clarified that he had survived a different Sixth Herrscher outbreak and urged Kevin not to let one mistake erase his achievements or drive him to despair.
• Chen Luo used his time-reversal ability to undo Kevin’s memories of their brief interaction, then noticed Kevin’s unusually low body temperature.
• Chen Luo offered to suppress the Ice Pig Factor in Kevin’s body temporarily, and Kevin said the chance to interact with normal people would matter to him.
• Kevin looked toward Mei, and Chen Luo realized Kevin had romantic feelings for her as a new commission appeared.

Chen Luo agreed to help Kevin briefly raise his body temperature so he could embrace Mei, then negotiated daily fusion-surgery quotas with Mei. He left Mei questioning why he needed to search outside Fire Moth to strengthen his abilities.

• Chen Luo tested his power on Kevin and found he could keep Kevin's body near twenty degrees for about a minute, while Kevin promised to share rare Honkai Beasts with him.
• Kevin brought Chen Luo to Mei and Mobius, and Mei worried about the risks of making the fusion-surgery proposal public.
• Mei set three daily surgery quotas, and Chen Luo agreed to make up missed surgeries the next day.
• When Mei asked why he needed to leave Fire Moth to strengthen his abilities, Chen Luo pointed at Mobius instead of answering.

Chen Luo agreed to let Sakura guard him temporarily while Fire Moth arranged a permanent guard, then learned she had urgent business on her day off. A commission asked him to let Sakura take her little sister Rin to the amusement park, and he promised to stay inside Fire Moth so Sakura could go.

• Mei warned Chen Luo that leaving Fire Moth alone put him at risk and suggested he find a guard; Kevin offered to accompany him, but Chen Luo declined.
• Mei proposed that Sakura guard Chen Luo temporarily, and Mobius accepted the arrangement.
• Chen Luo planned his schedule, negotiated flexible surgery hours with Mobius, and met Sakura after she arrived to discuss her guard duties.
• Sakura explained that she had urgent matters to handle the next day, when she had planned to take Rin to the amusement park.
• Chen Luo received a commission to let Sakura take Rin to the amusement park and promised he would not leave Fire Moth the next day.

Chen Luo arranged to visit an amusement park with Sakura after using the Herrscher of Knowledge to help her change her plans. Meanwhile, news that Cannon Fodder No. 1 survived fusion surgery drew Fire Moth higher-ups toward the procedure, and Chen Luo began considering how to use their interest and protect those who failed.

• Chen Luo persuaded Sakura to move their amusement park visit to tomorrow after learning that Dr. Mei had rejected Sakura's leave application.
• Cannon Fodder No. 1 told Chen Luo that Fire Moth higher-ups were interested in fusion surgery after seeing him survive its failure and retain physical enhancements.
• Cannon Fodder No. 1 described the Fire Moth higher-ups' ruthless behavior and admitted that he had secretly used Honkai Sickness to eliminate rivals.
• Chen Luo considered accepting more Fire Moth higher-ups as puppets, since he wanted their resources and believed some volunteers might benefit from surviving as puppets.
• Chen Luo contemplated marking fusion surgery volunteers so he could turn them into puppets near death and preserve their souls in the Collective Network.

Chen Luo gave Klein a Puppet Mark for protection and accepted an extra Hyper-Evolution Surgery for Kalpas after Blanca contacted Mobius. He considered possible bodyguards and was left facing Cang Xuan’s question about why Mobius and Klein called him Chen Luo.

• Chen Luo implanted Klein with a Puppet Mark that would turn her into a puppet if she died, then Mobius delivered a surgery schedule with three candidates per day.
• Blanca contacted Mobius, who added Kalpas to the schedule as a fourth surgery candidate, and Chen Luo agreed to perform the extra operation.
• Chen Luo modified Mobius and Klein’s communicators to link them to the Collective Network.
• Cannon Fodder No. 1 discussed possible bodyguards with Chen Luo, suggesting Aili for a few days and Hua for the long term after Sakura’s guard duty.
• Cang Xuan asked Chen Luo why Mobius and Klein sometimes called him Chen Luo.

Chen Luo began clearing Xiao’s karmic debt by sending him into Childhood Fun Park, where he would play for ten days while the artifact absorbed it. As Zhongli waited, Ling arrived and asked Chen Luo for a rice ball, then noticed Xiao sitting unconscious.

• Chen Luo accepted commissions from Xiao and Zhongli to resolve Xiao’s karmic debt and help the last Vigilant Yaksha.
• Xiao revealed the intense black aura of his karmic debt, and Chen Luo sent his consciousness into Childhood Fun Park with instructions to play while the artifact absorbed it.
• Chen Luo told Zhongli that Xiao would spend ten days in the amusement park, which should amount to only a short time in the real world.
• Ling entered the bar, exchanged remarks with Chen Luo about her age, and requested a small rice ball from Yae Village.
• Ling noticed Xiao sitting with his eyes closed and asked Chen Luo what was wrong with him.

Chen Luo helped Mona and Lumine set off for Mondstadt, then considered using his Puppet Collection Vault to create a world for the dead. After leaving the lab, he sparked rumors among Cangxuan and Danzhu about Mobius’s matching storage ring.

• Ling learned that her sister Sakura was Forget-me-not, the killer who left forget-me-nots beside her victims.
• Mona arrived with Lumine, collected the book Astrology Ritual, and asked Chen Luo to open a portal toward Mondstadt.
• Chen Luo opened a door to Whisperwind Plains, and Mona and Lumine left for Mondstadt City.
• Chen Luo wondered whether he could build a world inside the Puppet Collection Vault to house people who died in the Honkai disaster.
• Chen Luo left the lab after a failed fusion surgery, and Cangxuan and Danzhu speculated that Mobius’s matching ring meant she was pursuing him.

Chen Luo’s plans to help Su Yuan challenge Xinghai City’s S-rank Talent Users were delayed while he finished building Pekora a cardboard house in another world. He completed the commission with a sturdier shelter and earned a doubled reward, while Su Yuan and Yun Xia waited for him to return.

• Dan Zhu nearly gossiped about Mobius’s ring, but Mobius caught her and made her choose between writing the laboratory safety rules one hundred times and joining fusion surgeries.
• Su Yuan and Yun Xia asked Chen Luo to arrange fights with Liu Wenxuan and Yun Lian'er, but he explained that he was using a Soul Steel Body without his Book of Contracts.
• Chen Luo told Su Yuan and Yun Xia he was busy building a house for Pekora and warned them that Honkai energy made visiting the Honkai World dangerous.
• Chen Luo said he could resist Honkai corrosion by becoming a Herrscher, then ended the conversation as Su Yuan and Yun Xia stared in shock.
• Chen Luo finished strengthening Pekora’s cardboard house, completed his commission, and received 240 Primogems instead of the original 80.

Chen Luo finished Pekora’s expanded cardboard home, but Poporon arrived and tried to kill Pekora to keep her new position in Heaven. Chen Luo defeated Poporon and took her Angel Ring, then bit off a piece and discovered he had apparently ruined it.

• Chen Luo expanded Pekora’s cardboard home and furnished it, and Pekora was delighted with it.
• Poporon found Pekora and revealed she intended to kill her so she could keep her position in Heaven.
• Poporon attacked Pekora and threatened Chen Luo, prompting Pekora to commission him to defeat the angel.
• Chen Luo used a Teleport Anchor to kick Poporon down and removed her Angel Ring, leaving her unable to use her powers.
• Chen Luo bit a piece off Poporon’s Angel Ring and briefly glowed, then learned from Pekora that the damaged ring could no longer be used.

Chen Luo subdued Poporon, an angel who had tried to kill him, and began filling her with Domination Marks and Puppet Marks. After Pekora and Little Evil God left, Poporon tried and failed to escape, while Chen Luo searched her bag and discovered he could use her angelic weapons.

• Chen Luo decided not to rewind the Angel Ring because the time cost had risen to three months, and Pekora explained that eating it concealed traces of angel killings from angels in this world.
• Poporon tried to escape after Chen Luo removed his foot, but he caught her in threads and completed the mission to defeat her.
• Chen Luo failed to turn Poporon into a puppet immediately, so he filled her with Domination Marks and Puppet Marks to influence her gradually.
• Little Evil God arrived with curry, took Pekora to her house, and Chen Luo received a commission to rebuild Pekora's house.
• Poporon crawled away while Chen Luo ate, but he sensed her and forced her to crawl back; he then took her shoulder bag and found that he could use her Wolf-tooth Club and Sword of Light.