Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo let Poporon work at the bar for a day under a contract, but the guests’ suspicions led him to send her away. After the bar’s regulars argued about their jobs, Mona explained that Klee had unknowingly taken her master’s diary, and she prepared to move to Mondstadt City.

• Chen Luo gave Pekora a rocket launcher and Angel Radar, then told her he had repaired her house and replaced the furniture ruined by spatial fluctuations.
• Pekora asked how Poporon had ended up working at the bar, and Chen Luo explained that she had signed a contract after he offered her the choice of signing or dying.
• Eula and the other guests warned Chen Luo that Poporon seemed dangerous, so he said Poporon would not return to the bar the next day.
• Chen Luo, Mona, Venti, Zhongli, Yakumo Yukari, and Raven argued about whether their occupations counted as proper jobs.
• Mona told Chen Luo that Klee had taken the treasure chest containing her master’s diary, and she accepted a storage ring while explaining that she planned to rent a room in Mondstadt City.

After Xiao’s karmic debt was cleared, Chen Luo received a Scene Copy Card and began planning to copy the Previous Era as a refuge for puppets. At the bar, Fu Hua reunited with the Book of Cang Xuan, but Fu Hua could not remember her.

• Xiao recovered from his ordeal, and the task completion confirmed that his karmic debt had been cleared.
• Chen Luo received a Scene Copy Card and considered copying the Previous Era to create a peaceful world for puppets.
• Fu Hua arrived at the bar with Kiana, Raiden Mei, and others, and Chen Luo served her Calm Heart Tea.
• The Book of Cang Xuan flew into Fu Hua’s arms, but Fu Hua asked why she looked familiar and could not remember her.
• Chen Luo reminded the Book of Cang Xuan that Fu Hua’s brain had been damaged several times.

Chen Luo learned that the Seventh Herrscher’s corpse was being studied and arranged to obtain it by offering Mobius research records from his Void Archive. He then joined Sakura and Rin for an amusement park outing, where he secretly activated a card that caused a burst of golden light in the sky.

• Chen Luo learned from Danzhu and Cang Xuan that the Seventh Herrscher’s core was being sent to their lab and that her corpse was also under study.
• Chen Luo offered Mobius research reports in exchange for the Seventh Herrscher’s body, then proposed making a copy before taking the original.
• Chen Luo left Fire Moth and joined Sakura and Rin for a trip to the amusement park.
• Chen Luo gave Sakura and Rin an altered version of Rin’s guide and secretly activated a card that sent golden light across the sky.
• Sakura and Rin chose between the carousel and roller coaster, and Sakura admitted she was afraid of heights.

Chen Luo collected Honkai Crystals from the Seventh Herrscher’s Core, then secretly copied and stole Himiko’s corpse from the laboratory. Back at his bar, he began repairing her body and wondered whether rewinding time could bring her back to life and what it would cost.

• Chen Luo visited the Seventh Herrscher’s Core, analyzed it, and collected more than twenty Honkai Crystals as it leaked Honkai energy.
• After leaving the laboratory, Chen Luo secretly entered the facility holding the Seventh Herrscher’s corpse and copied Himiko, including her clothes.
• Chen Luo replaced the original corpse with the copy and took Himiko’s body in his backpack without the researchers noticing.
• At the bar, Chen Luo placed Himiko on a medical bed, removed her clothes, and used his puppet ability to begin repairing her injuries.
• As he worked, Chen Luo considered rewinding Himiko to before her death and wondered how much time and cost reviving her would require.

Yakumo Yukari brought Kaguya Houraisan to Chen Luo’s bar after Kaguya recognized Poporon from a manga, prompting Yakumo to investigate whether other worlds had media about her world. Chen Luo refused Yakumo’s commission until she agreed to a contract protecting his exclusive access to that information.

• Raven argued with Chen Luo over Poporon, and Chen Luo warned Raven not to insult his mother.
• Yakumo Yukari arrived with Kaguya Houraisan, who recognized Poporon and revealed that she knew characters from manga and games.
• Yakumo Yukari pulled Chen Luo aside and asked whether he had known who she was before meeting her; Chen Luo said he had read her doujinshi.
• Yakumo Yukari commissioned Chen Luo to bring her games related to her world, but Chen Luo rejected the reward and demanded something in return.
• Chen Luo presented a contract requiring Yakumo Yukari not to discuss related media with anyone from any world, including Kaguya Houraisan.

Chen Luo negotiated a contract with Yakumo Yukari about Gensokyo and travel between worlds, while Kaguya Houraisan joined the talks to secure access to games from other worlds. After they signed, Kaguya and Yakumo settled how much she could tell Eirin Yagokoro, and Yakumo asked to borrow the Book of Contracts.

• Chen Luo required Yakumo Yukari not to reveal information about the bar and not to stop him from visiting Gensokyo, while explaining why he would not yet let her travel to other worlds.
• Yakumo Yukari agreed to Chen Luo's conditions as long as his commissions did not endanger Gensokyo, and Chen Luo added that Yakumo had to pay the contract's cost.
• Kaguya Houraisan agreed to sign after Chen Luo offered games from another world, and the three argued over who could write the contract before reviewing and signing a printed version.
• Yakumo Yukari reminded Kaguya Houraisan not to bring others to the bar, but Kaguya refused to sign her own contract and negotiated permission to tell Eirin Yagokoro.
• Yakumo Yukari asked to borrow the Book of Contracts, but Chen Luo refused because negotiating with them had exhausted him.

Chen Luo completed Yakumo Yukari and Kaguya Houraisan’s commissions, then negotiated with Kaguya over cola and a handshake. After they parted, he checked the scenery card as it began copying the Previous Era Earth into his Puppet Collection Vault.

• Chen Luo gave Yakumo Yukari and Kaguya Houraisan identical USB drives containing the same Gensokyo game and told Yakumo to return hers after copying it.
• Chen Luo offered Kaguya regular or sugar-free cola, and she shook his hand to secure the regular kind before taking both cases home.
• Chen Luo learned that Kaguya’s Hourai Body was costly and decided he had little use for it because he already had a resurrection ability.
• Chen Luo checked his Puppet Collection Vault as his scenery card began pasting a copy of the Previous Era Earth into it.

Chen Luo welcomed Pardo Felice, who had arrived from the Previous Era, and teased her with a Cat Teaser Stick while they discussed his ability to cross civilizations. Pardo produced a contract requiring Chen Luo to pay her wages for more than fifty thousand years in exchange for a letter he had entrusted to her.

• Chen Luo used the scenery card’s False Sky to observe Earth and saw Mobius’s room before quickly shutting off his perspective.
• Pardo Felice rushed into the bar and hugged Chen Luo, but he suplexed her after realizing she thought he was the boss she already knew.
• Aili explained that Chen Luo had traveled between civilizations and had not yet met Pardo, who tried to bargain for a raise before Chen Luo refused.
• Chen Luo teased Pardo and Can with his Cat Teaser Stick, and Pardo revealed that Chen Luo had left her a letter under a contract promising her continued wages.
• Pardo retrieved the contract and letter, and Chen Luo confirmed that the contract promised her a monthly salary for safeguarding the letter until their next meeting.

Chen Luo agreed to repay Pardo’s fifty-thousand-year wage debt in installments and received a letter from his future self. He then went to Mobius for an advance and learned that she had verified the duplicated Seventh Herrscher’s corpse herself.

• Chen Luo promised to honor Pardo’s contract, but explained that he would repay her debt gradually while paying her current wages.
• Pardo handed Chen Luo the letter from his future self, which he read and put away without revealing its contents.
• Chen Luo went to the lab to ask Mobius for an advance on his salary, and she approved two months’ pay through Klein.
• Mobius confirmed that she had dissected the duplicated Seventh Herrscher’s corpse and found it identical to the original.

Chen Luo joined Himeko and the others aboard the Hyperion for the upcoming Jiuyou operation and immediately joked about taking over as its captain. After meeting Ai-chan, he got her to obey his command, leaving Himeko to reassert that she was in charge.

• Chen Luo confirmed Mobius had not made any unexpected discoveries about the Seventh Herrscher's body, borrowed Danzhu's punishment copywork, and collected his advance salary before leaving the Previous Era.
• Chen Luo met Himeko and the others at the bar, then joined them as Himeko ordered the group to board the Hyperion for the Jiuyou operation.
• Himeko introduced the Hyperion's weapons and engines, while Chen Luo teased her about taking the ship and replacing her as captain.
• Chen Luo boarded the Hyperion with Himeko and met Fu Hua, Kiana, Mei, Bronya, and the ship's AI, Ai-chan.
• Ai-chan shook Chen Luo's hand and agreed to depart when he asked, prompting Himeko to remind her that Himeko was the captain.

Chen Luo supported Himeko, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya as they explored Jiuyou in search of the Xuanyuan Sword and Ji Lin's stigmata, while secretly sending threads to reach the sealed Chi You. The Valkyries discovered Anti-Entropy mech wreckage deeper in the cave, and Chen Luo explained that Anti-Entropy was also hunting for the relics.

• Chen Luo joked with Ai-chan and Himeko aboard the Hyperion before joining Kiana and the others on their mission channel.
• Chen Luo narrated the legend of Ji Lin and explained that he was staying aboard the Hyperion as support while Himeko, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya entered the underwater cave.
• Chen Luo instructed the Valkyries to place the twelve blue crystals in the cave, and they scattered them as they explored.
• The crystals unraveled into countless threads that burrowed through the cave toward the sealed Chi You, leaving Chen Luo drained of his thread supply.
• Kiana found wrecked Anti-Entropy tactical mechs, and Chen Luo explained that Anti-Entropy was searching for the Xuanyuan Sword and stigmata too.

Himeko’s team explored Jiuyou, deciphered the stone steles about Ji Lin and Chi You, and discovered that the red kite bird statue pointed toward a hidden passage. Himeko and then Kiana, Mei, and Bronya were pulled through a glowing stone wall into a vast maze, where Fu Hua identified the terrain as arranged according to the Eight Trigrams.

• Himeko decided to continue the mission with the bar as an escape route, and her team opened the stone door by finding two keys in the side passages.
• Chen Luo translated the steles, learning that Ji Lin had sealed Chi You in Jiuyou and that Lian Shan had followed her red kite bird to the site while searching for her remains.
• Himeko became discouraged when a stele said Ji Lin’s remains and the Xuanyuan Sword were missing, but Kiana suggested investigating the red kite bird statue.
• A voice spoke from the stone wall, and Himeko was sucked inside when it reacted to her Honkai energy; Kiana, Mei, and Bronya followed.
• Kiana’s group wandered through a vast, confusing space for an hour without finding Himeko or an exit, until Fu Hua reported that the terrain followed the Eight Trigrams.

Kiana, Mei, Bronya, Fu Hua, and Chen Luo escaped the cave’s maze and found the Xuanyuan Sword, which Chen Luo freed from its seal by exhausting dozens of talismans. Himeko was briefly controlled by the sword, but Chen Luo subdued her with a crystal and took the weapon; Himeko awoke still bound.

• Fu Hua guided Kiana and the others through the maze, and they escaped after Kiana blundered into a deadly gate and the floor collapsed.
• Chen Luo used repeated Hundred Taboos Scroll copies to break the Xuanyuan Sword’s barrier and bring the sword down.
• Himeko seized the Xuanyuan Sword and attacked Kiana, but Chen Luo bound her with a crystal after receiving a pile of commissions.
• Chen Luo took the Xuanyuan Sword from Himeko, ending its control over her, and examined the evolved Key of Domination.
• Kiana tried to retrieve the crystals and learned they stuck wherever they landed, while Mei and Bronya dropped theirs as instructed.
• Himeko regained consciousness while tied up, and Chen Luo poked her stomach with a twig.

Chen Luo kept Himeko and the others exploring Jiuyou while his threads secretly eroded the sealed Chi You, and he hunted Honkai Beasts for crystals. The group then learned Anti-Entropy had breached their communications and surrounded them, as a petite figure approached.

• Chen Luo freed Himeko from her bindings, and Theresa warned that Anti-Entropy forces had appeared near Jiuyou and were after the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Chen Luo persuaded Himeko to keep exploring for the stigmata, while his threads continued spreading through Chi You as it began to stir.
• Chen Luo changed his requested Jiuyou items from three to four, then followed a different path and hunted Honkai Beasts for crystals.
• Theresa told Himeko that Anti-Entropy remained outside Jiuyou, but an Anti-Entropy voice interrupted their channel and announced that the group had been surrounded.
• A petite figure approached Chen Luo and the others as a faint laugh echoed through Jiuyou.

Chen Luo and the others were surrounded by Xing and Anti-Entropy mechs, but Chen Luo took control of the machines and captured Xing. As Mei held the glowing Xuanyuan Sword, Corrupted Ji Lin emerged from it, revealing the next danger.

• Xing summoned Anti-Entropy mechs to surround Kiana, Mei, Bronya, Himeko, Chen Luo, and the others, then threatened them and demanded the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Chen Luo gave Kiana and Mei gloves and used a joking incantation to take control of the mechs, which pinned Xing beneath a Titan.
• Chen Luo teased Xing and restrained her with threads, intending to use her as leverage in a trade with Cocolia.
• Mei warned that the Xuanyuan Sword was glowing and being pulled by an unknown force.
• A ghostly girl emerged from the sword, and Chen Luo identified her as Corrupted Ji Lin, the shadow formed from Ji Lin's loneliness, fear, and regret.

The Herrscher of Knowledge subdued Corrupted Ji Lin after enduring her attacks, just as Chi You awakened and rose from the sea. Chen Luo used his Herrscher powers and spirit threads to restrain the colossal beast, but Chi You’s struggle sent a tsunami toward the group.

• The Herrscher of Knowledge appeared before Corrupted Ji Lin, who attacked her over being abandoned and sealed for five thousand years.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge used Fenghuang Down to put Ji Lin to sleep and caught her as Chi You began to awaken.
• Kiana, Chen Luo, Himeko, and Bronya saw Chi You emerge from the sea, while Chen Luo restored the Anti-Entropy mechs with quantum blocks.
• Chen Luo opened spatial holes above Chi You and connected spirit arms to threads inside its body to suppress and control it.
• Chi You struggled and sent a tsunami toward the reef, while Kiana said the group could escape and nudged the bound Aether.

Chen Luo used the Sea God's Authority and the Domination Authority to restrain Chi You, whose resistance was complicated by Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's powerful seals. After Chi You's attempt to unleash its Honkai energy failed, Chen Luo flooded it with spirit threads and began binding it.

• Chen Luo stopped Chi You's tsunami with the Sea God's Authority, then formed a giant seawater creature to keep Chi You at a distance.
• Theresa warned that Chi You might self-destruct, but Chen Luo explained that Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's seals blocked its Honkai energy channels and prevented it from going berserk.
• Chen Luo fired an arrow carrying accumulated thread crystals into Chi You, causing its Domination Authority corruption to reach its limit.
• Chen Luo snapped his fingers, and countless threads burst from Chi You's body, binding it and plugging its mouth.

Chen Luo continued subduing Chi You while Kiana discovered she could open spatial passages with the Herrscher of Void’s power. The group reunited above Chi You’s cocoon, where Chen Luo explained the identities of Ji Lin and Fu Hua and considered restoring Ji Lin by merging her two souls.

• Chen Luo sealed Chi You inside a spiritual-thread cocoon and continued evolving and controlling her while Kiana and the others discussed what to do with Xing and the mechs.
• Kiana opened an Imaginary passage, then she and Raiden Mei fell through the insubstantial cocoon before Chen Luo caught them with threads.
• Himeko and Bronya joined the group, and Chen Luo explained that Ji Lin was the ghost from the Xuanyuan Sword, Fu Hua was Chi Yuan, and the Book of Cang Xuan and two crystals were among his goals.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge brought corrupted Ji Lin to Chen Luo, who sensed spirituality in the Xuanyuan Sword and suggested merging the two versions of Ji Lin.

Chen Luo used Astral Projection to consult Ji Lin about whether to merge her with Corrupted Ji Lin, and she chose to become a separate person. He then began turning both into puppets, while the Herrscher of Knowledge reacted to Chen Luo’s teasing.

• Chen Luo explained that Astral Projection could split and merge souls, then gave the Herrscher of Knowledge a Heavenly Scented Cardamom for protection.
• Chen Luo presented Ji Lin with the choice to merge with Corrupted Ji Lin or become an independent person through Puppet Transformation.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge spoke with Ji Lin, who chose to remain separate and promised to take responsibility for educating Corrupted Ji Lin.
• Chen Luo placed Puppet Marks on Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin, and noticed how readily both accepted them.
• Chen Luo teased the Herrscher of Knowledge about turning her clothes into puppets, and she objected.

Chen Luo discussed the rapid Puppet Transformation of Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin, then tested Corrupted Ji Lin’s evolution and new Talent. Later, Chi You completed its evolution and gained a powerful rolling attack, while Ji Lin’s Heroic Soul remained too weak to evolve.

• Chen Luo explained that Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin accepted Puppet Transformation quickly, and Corrupted Ji Lin lost her ability to fly after becoming a doll.
• Chen Luo made Corrupted Ji Lin eat dark chocolate sticks, which she found delicious and which slightly increased her power.
• Corrupted Ji Lin gained the A-rank Talent Corruption, allowing her to grow stronger by absorbing darkness without becoming more insane.
• Ji Lin’s Heroic Soul declined to discipline Corrupted Ji Lin, and Chen Luo said Ji Lin would evolve after her weakened body recovered.
• Chi You completed Break Cocoon into Butterfly, strengthening its ability to eat and grow while gaining the Rollout Talent.