Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo subdued Chi You and explored its interior with Ji Lin, where they found Cang Xuan sealed in invincible crystal. He revealed that Cang Xuan could still be saved, then recovered soulium recordings of her and Dan Zhu's final words.

• Chen Luo reassured the others that Chi You would not harm ordinary people and planned to store it in the Puppet Collection Vault.
• Ji Lin gave Chen Luo permission to use her stigmata, and Himeko returned to the Hyperion with the others.
• Chen Luo told Ji Lin that Fu Hua was Azure Empyrea and promised to restore her memories.
• Chen Luo found Cang Xuan inside invincible crystal, moved the crystal through his Bar Door, and told Corrupted Ji Lin that he could save her in exchange for obedience.
• Chen Luo restored Chi You's flow of Honkai energy and found soulium recordings containing Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's final words.

Chen Luo returned from Chi You with Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin, collected Honkai Crystals, and discovered that puppets could recover inside his Puppet Collection Vault. Back aboard the Hyperion, Otto arranged for Himeko to hand the Xuanyuan Sword back to Ji Lin, leaving Chen Luo's agreement fulfilled and Himeko wondering when he had contacted Otto.

• Corrupted Ji Lin recognized Chen Luo as Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's junior disciple, then complained that he had tricked her into agreeing to his demands.
• Chen Luo collected fifty Honkai Crystals from Chi You's heart and moved Chi You into the Puppet Collection Vault, where he noticed its Honkai energy recovering.
• Chen Luo brought everyone back to the reef and returned to the Hyperion, where he clarified that Himeko could borrow Ji Lin's original stigmata but would have to return them after activating her own.
• Chen Luo handed the Xuanyuan Sword to Himeko, and Otto contacted her to instruct her to give it directly to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo returned the Xuanyuan Sword to Ji Lin and declared their agreement complete, while Himeko wondered when he had notified Otto.

Chen Luo brought Fu Hua to the infirmary to restore her memories after sharing lunch with her and the others. He used the Herrscher of Knowledge’s power to begin the procedure, leaving Fu Hua asleep with her memories still to be recovered.

• Fu Hua appeared and asked Chen Luo to restore her memories after recognizing Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin as familiar.
• Fu Hua invited Chen Luo and the others to lunch, and Chen Luo teased the Herrscher of Knowledge into taking responsibility for cooking at home.
• Chen Luo took Fu Hua and the Herrscher of Knowledge to the infirmary, where he jokingly told Fu Hua to remove her clothes for treatment.
• Chen Luo removed Yu Du Chen and snapped his fingers, causing Fu Hua to fall asleep as the Herrscher of Knowledge’s power spread.

Fu Hua recovered her memories with Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge’s help, then reunited with Ji Lin. Chen Luo proposed reviving Cang Xuan and Danzhu, while Fu Hua recognized his familiar attempt to earn a commission.

• Fu Hua’s memories returned in full, including her time with Chen Luo, and she thanked him after waking.
• Chen Luo offered to revive Cang Xuan and Danzhu, triggering a commission, but Fu Hua recognized that he was trying to farm wishes.
• Chen Luo explained that the Herrscher of Knowledge was resting after helping restore Fu Hua’s memories, then put a Yu Du Chen ornament in her hair and sent her into his sea of consciousness.
• Fu Hua accepted Chen Luo’s help putting on her Yu Du Chen and deduced that he was not yet a Doctor because he was too young.
• Fu Hua reunited with Ji Lin and Corrupted Ji Lin, and Chen Luo’s Loneliness mission was completed.

Chen Luo successfully awakened Himeko's Stigmata, which gave her the power to manipulate flames. He examined the revealed Stigmata on her back to learn its effects, while Himeko struggled to control her new power.

• Chen Luo took Himeko to the Hyperion operating room and awakened her Stigmata despite her doubts about the untested procedure.
• Himeko woke up to find the procedure had succeeded, and Chen Luo teased her about its results and the lack of surgical scars.
• Himeko's anger triggered her first flames, and Chen Luo explained that her Stigmata granted flame manipulation.
• Chen Luo asked Himeko to expose her back, then revealed and analyzed the Stigmata pattern with Furniture Mastery.

Chen Luo explained Himeko’s newly awakened fire stigma and gave her a fireproof outfit, while Fu Hua learned that Himiko’s body was in his possession. Fu Hua buried her former captain at sea, but Chen Luo then revealed that resurrection was possible at a price neither Fu Hua nor the Herrscher of Knowledge could pay.

• Chen Luo explained that Himeko’s fire stigma enhanced her abilities, grew stronger as she was injured, and could be controlled by imagining the flames as a candle and blowing them out.
• Chen Luo gave Himeko a fireproof outfit once worn by Himiko, then revealed that he had taken Himiko’s body from Fire Moth and left a replica in its place.
• Fu Hua asked Chen Luo to let her bury Himiko, and he accepted the commission and transported Fu Hua and the Herrscher of Knowledge to a reef by the sea.
• Fu Hua chose to scatter Himiko’s remains at sea and pulverized her ice-encased body, completing the burial.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge asked whether Himiko could be resurrected, and Chen Luo said it was possible but required an extremely precious price.

Chen Luo agreed to revive Himiko, Cang Xuan, and Danzhu, explaining the conditions and costs involved. After bringing Fu Hua, Ji Lin, and the Book of Cang Xuan to his home, he gave Heavenly Scented Cardamoms to the crystal-protected Cang Xuan and Danzhu and waited to see if they would revive.

• Herrscher of Knowledge and Fu Hua asked Chen Luo to revive Himiko, and he said the previous civilization’s timeline and Himiko’s complete body were required.
• Chen Luo explained that Himiko’s thoroughly copied clone satisfied the body requirement and said he could revive her on an auspicious day, while Cang Xuan and Danzhu could be revived that afternoon.
• Chen Luo returned home with Fu Hua and Ji Lin, where the Book of Cang Xuan greeted Fu Hua and learned that Cang Xuan and Danzhu were about to be revived.
• Chen Luo explained that Cang Xuan and Danzhu were protected by pale green crystals after eating his life-saving items, and the Book of Cang Xuan questioned how they could receive anything through the crystals.
• Chen Luo shot a Heavenly Scented Cardamom through each crystal into Cang Xuan and Danzhu’s mouth, then sat nearby to wait for them to revive.

Chen Luo revived Cang Xuan and Danzhu with a second Heavenly Scented Cardamom, which healed them inside a shrinking crystal. He kept them in his world to copy laboratory safety rules, while Shenhe and Yelan arrived at the bar together after Shenhe followed his advice literally.

• Chen Luo watched the crystal shrink as it healed Cang Xuan and Danzhu, and Void Archive failed to analyze the Heavenly Scented Cardamom.
• Cang Xuan and Danzhu woke up, and Chen Luo examined them before explaining how the resurrection item had worked.
• Chen Luo forbade Cang Xuan and Danzhu from returning to their world until they copied the laboratory safety rules seven thousand times.
• Cang Xuan and Danzhu complained about Chen Luo in the bar, and he threatened to double their copying punishment.
• Shenhe told Chen Luo that she had found Yelan after beating up Treasure Hoarders, and Chen Luo realized Yelan had endured Shenhe's literal interpretation of his advice.

Aili, Cang Xuan, and Danzhu visited Chen Luo's bar, where their future connections and old debts over copied Laboratory Safety Rules came to light. Chen Luo tried to distract Aili from wondering whether he had tricked her by confessing, but she punched him for turning her earlier joke against her.

• Aili met Cang Xuan and Danzhu and learned that they, like her, had come from fifty thousand years in the future.
• Cang Xuan and Danzhu explained that Chen Luo had made them copy Laboratory Safety Rules to repay the punishments he had once delivered for them.
• Mobius revealed that the punishment total had grown from seven thousand copies to around eight thousand, and Chen Luo pressed Cang Xuan and Danzhu to revise their contract with him.
• Aili worried that Chen Luo might have trapped her with one of their contracts, so Chen Luo abruptly told her he liked her.
• Aili heard Chen Luo add that he liked everyone else too, then punched him twice as the others listened and watched.

Chen Luo tried to calm the bar’s romantic squabbles before examining the Xuanyuan Sword he had received as a mission reward. He discovered the supposedly divine sword was extraordinarily fragile but repaired itself, then turned to investigate the Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting technique.

• Chen Luo used Pardo’s Cat Teaser Stick time to keep Aili from punching him while Mobius questioned what he had meant by liking Aili and “everyone else.”
• Raven told Chen Luo the villa island would be finished the next day and offered to cook a celebratory meal, but he rejected her cooking before pretending his earplugs kept him from hearing her.
• Chen Luo inspected the Xuanyuan Sword and learned it had powerful protective and authority-related effects, but was described as too fragile to strike hard objects with.
• Chen Luo snapped the Xuanyuan Sword while testing its flexibility, then found that its broken pieces rejoined and restored the blade.
• Chen Luo broke and repaired the sword again, then considered how even a fragile sword could still inflict damage and turned his attention to Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting.

Chen Luo examined his new Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting technique before Accelerator arrived with Aleister’s request for him to visit Academy City. Chen Luo agreed after making peace with Accelerator, and the chapter ended with them arriving in Academy City, where Chen Luo noticed Aleister had replaced the corrupted Sky Floating Lines.

• Chen Luo discovered that the Xuanyuan Sword had broken after wounding his arm and examined his new Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting technique.
• Accelerator arrived at the bar and told Chen Luo that Aleister wanted to meet him in Academy City.
• Chen Luo agreed to go after shaking hands with Accelerator and offering to help him with future wishes.
• Chen Luo gave Accelerator a can of coffee, left Raven and Poporon to mind the bar, and followed Accelerator to Academy City.
• Chen Luo sensed that Aleister had replaced the corrupted Sky Floating Lines, while Accelerator tossed his gibberish-numbered phone to Chen Luo.

Chen Luo met Accelerator, offered to help him reach Level 6 in exchange for becoming his puppet, and accepted a commission to help him break through in the future. After Aleister summoned Chen Luo to discuss cooperation, Chen Luo left with a box of corrupted Sky Floating Lines and a possible arrangement for help hunting angels.

• Chen Luo told Accelerator he could not make him invincible, but offered to help him reach Level 6 in the future and accepted a commission; Accelerator rejected becoming Chen Luo’s puppet for an immediate breakthrough.
• Awaki tried to teleport Chen Luo, but her ability failed until Chen Luo temporarily disabled his Herrscher of Void ability.
• Aleister’s observer reported that Chen Luo might be skilled at dealing with angels and suspected the blonde girl at the bar was an angel.
• Chen Luo met Aleister in the windowless building and asked to take the corrupted Sky Floating Lines; Aleister discussed possible cooperation and support in hunting angels.
• Chen Luo left through the Bar Door with a box containing the corrupted Sky Floating Lines.

Chen Luo bargained with Aleister for Sky Floating Lines, then dealt with Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu’s punishment for copying laboratory safety rules by demanding wishes in exchange for leniency. After accepting commissions to make Dan Zhu and Cang Xuan suffer bad luck, he ended the punishment and magically duplicated their completed copies to reach the required hundred.

• Chen Luo accepted Aleister’s condition not to invade Academy City’s Sky Floating Lines again in exchange for the batch and a 300 Primogem commission.
• Chen Luo demanded wishes from Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu instead of letting them escape their punishment, but their commissions only waived half the remaining copies.
• Dan Zhu asked Chen Luo to beat up her past self, and he accepted the commission after explaining that the Previous Era was real, not a parallel world.
• Dan Zhu asked Chen Luo to make Cang Xuan unlucky too, and he accepted that commission, provoking Cang Xuan’s anger.
• Chen Luo forgave the sisters the last two copies, then duplicated their forty-eight completed copies until they had a hundred.

Chen Luo tricked Danzhu into thinking he had completed her punishment copying, while Mobius and several others revealed how the scheme worked. After bringing Cang Xuan and Danzhu to his home, Chen Luo arranged for them to stay under a contract and set up the Xuanyuan Sword to guard the house.

• Chen Luo revealed that Mobius knew about Danzhu’s copied punishment lines, and Danzhu realized they had all been conspiring together.
• Chen Luo accepted a commission from Danzhu to bring breakfast, while Book of Cang Xuan revealed she had written the first hundred lines of Danzhu’s earlier punishment assignment.
• Venti bargained with Chen Luo for Divine Wine, and Chen Luo later tried unsuccessfully to persuade Book of Cang Xuan to sleep beside him.
• Cang Xuan and Danzhu explained they wanted to experience life in a world without Honkai energy, so Chen Luo prepared rooms and required them to sign a contract about what they learned.
• Danzhu eagerly accepted Chen Luo’s phone and tablet to watch anime, and Chen Luo hung the Xuanyuan Sword in the living room to protect the house.

Chen Luo protected his house with the Xuanyuan Sword, then shared breakfast with Su Yuan, Cang Xuan, and Danzhu while explaining his work in another world. He helped Danzhu finish her punishment copywork and caused Cang Xuan and Danzhu to drop their eggs, advancing his bad-luck mission.

• Chen Luo placed the Xuanyuan Sword to protect his house, and the Herrscher of Knowledge decided to keep her distance from it.
• Chen Luo woke with Xiao You and Sirin in his arms, while the Book of Cang Xuan remained unwilling to become his puppet.
• Su Yuan complained that Chen Luo had stood her up, and Chen Luo promised to test the sword with her after finishing work.
• Chen Luo explained his otherworldly job to Su Yuan, while Cang Xuan and Danzhu realized he had secretly been traveling to another world for years.
• Danzhu thanked Chen Luo for helping her complete a hundred copies of her punishment, and Cang Xuan stole a fried egg from her breakfast.
• Chen Luo tugged at Cang Xuan and Danzhu's Threads of Destiny, making them drop their peeled eggs and raising his bad-luck mission progress to 10%.

Chen Luo used his Fate Threads to bring Cang Xuan and Danzhu a string of minor misfortunes, then helped Danzhu submit her punishment copies while arranging three surgeries with Mobius. Mobius’s interrupted conversation with Chen Luo left Danzhu facing unpaid overtime and a fusion-surgery lesson, and Chen Luo received three surgery notifications after an hour of rest.

• Chen Luo explained that changing Cang Xuan and Danzhu’s fate had drained his stamina, then told them he planned to assist with three surgeries that morning.
• Chen Luo and Mobius discussed Fire Moth’s power struggles and whether Mobius would survive the Previous Era, and Mobius hinted that she wanted to travel with Chen Luo to other worlds.
• Danzhu entered Mobius’s lounge without knocking to submit the hundred punishment copies, interrupting Mobius before she could ask Chen Luo about her wishes.
• Mobius ordered Danzhu to attend an unpaid fusion-surgery lesson after work, leaving Danzhu distressed and Cang Xuan puzzled about what had angered the Doctor.
• After resting in the lounge for an hour, Chen Luo received three fusion-surgery notifications.

Chen Luo used Fusion surgery and Puppet Marks to test how he could turn doomed volunteers into puppets, while Mobius observed. The experiment succeeded, and Chen Luo began considering how to save Pre-Civilization humanity despite his shortage of Puppet Marks.

• Chen Luo operated on Chris, who died during Fusion surgery but was revived as a puppet with the Shadow Leap ability.
• Chen Luo performed surgery on a volunteer who wanted to become a Flame-Chaser, using Puppet Marks to upload his soul into the Collective Network when he died.
• The volunteer returned as a puppet with his ability sealed until he chose to awaken it, completing the Pre-Civilization Puppet Conversion Plan mission.
• Chen Luo prepared a second Puppet Mark for Mei's subordinate, who wanted to survive rather than become a Flame-Chaser.
• Chen Luo considered moving Pre-Civilization humanity into the Puppet Collection Vault, but realized he lacked enough Puppet Marks and wondered how he could create enough for everyone.

After a fusion surgery, Chen Luo discovered a way to create a vaccine that slightly increased Honkai Sickness resistance and began considering how to spread Puppet Marks worldwide. He declared that he wanted to reshape the imperfect world, only to find Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, and Klein had been listening.

• Chen Luo completed the third surgery, revived the volunteer after his death, and helped him become a Flame-Chaser.
• Kevin warned Chen Luo that the Flame-Chaser program would continue and that Chen Luo’s limited lifesaving ability could not meet future demand.
• Chen Luo found a book in the Imaginary Stigmata that explained how to make a vaccine that slightly increased Honkai Sickness resistance.
• Chen Luo considered distributing Puppet Marks through vaccines to expand his network and help the Previous Era, while acknowledging he was not a savior.
• Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu applauded Chen Luo, and Klein nodded sleepily as he realized they had heard his declaration.

Chen Luo joked with the MANTIS researchers about his dramatic ambitions, then met Aili and Vill-V as they came to collect the Seventh Herrscher Core. He reflected on his thwarted dream of becoming an archaeologist and worried that his parents might encounter jiangshi while exploring tombs.

• Chen Luo discovered that Dan Zhu, Cang Xuan, and Klein had heard his declaration about changing the world, and Dan Zhu teased him for sounding chuuni.
• Dan Zhu sneezed three times after Chen Luo blamed her laughter on divine punishment, then declared that she would change the world herself.
• Aili and Vill-V arrived at Mobius's laboratory to retrieve the Herrscher of Flame Core, and Aili praised Chen Luo's declaration and said Kevin had spoken well of him.
• Chen Luo told Aili that he had hoped to become an archaeologist, but sudden changes had altered his life.
• Chen Luo worried that his parents might encounter jiangshi during archaeological work and decided he should ask whether they had a fixed site and send them the Insanely Modified Heavenly Scented Cardamom.

Chen Luo left the lab with Aili, while Mobius warned Vill-V not to pry into him and offered her a fusion surgery. At his dorm, Chen Luo let Aili inside to complete a commission, and she looked around his nearly empty room.

• Dan Zhu apologized to Chen Luo for dismissing his ideal of changing the world and driving out Honkai.
• Chen Luo left the lab with Aili, and Mobius warned Vill-V against being curious about him before discussing fusion surgery.
• Vill-V considered undergoing fusion surgery with Chen Luo's help, but she backed out when Mobius offered to arrange one for the next day.
• Aili asked Chen Luo to dress as a cute girl, but he refused and declined her offer to teach him how to become popular.
• Chen Luo reached his dorm and closed the door on Aili, then invited her inside to complete a commission worth fifty Primogems.
• Aili inspected Chen Luo's sparse room, praised its tidiness, and offered to give him pink wallpaper.