Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo tested the limits of his Void Stealth against Yakumo Yukari, trapping her hand across dimensions until she agreed to give him demonic-beast cultivation methods. Yakumo Yukari explained that Chen Luo’s other-dimensional state had layered protection, leaving him with a clearer but still developing understanding of the ability.

• Chen Luo joked about riding Little Eight, and Yakumo Ran explained that the fox could barely support his weight.
• Chen Luo confirmed that the Friendship Revolver made Yakumo Yukari laugh for exactly ten minutes before she recovered and punched at him across dimensions.
• Chen Luo caught Yakumo Yukari’s hand through his other-dimensional protection and forced her to promise her collection of demonic-beast spiritual cultivation methods.
• Yakumo Yukari agreed to provide the methods that night, and Chen Luo released her hand.
• Yakumo Yukari described Chen Luo’s Void Stealth as a position in a gap between dimensions protected by rules, and warned that a stronger version might place him beyond her reach.

Yakumo Yukari urged Chen Luo to focus on mastering his many abilities, then challenged him to an unrestricted fight in his War Domain. Their battle began with Chen Luo countering Yukari’s ambush, and it ended with Yukari manipulating the boundary between her front and back to defend herself.

• Yakumo Yukari advised Chen Luo to develop a signature ability, while Chen Luo explained that his abilities multiplied faster than he could study them.
• Yakumo Yukari challenged Chen Luo to a danmaku game, and they agreed to fight in Chen Luo’s War Domain after he offered to create a battlefield.
• After they arrived at Gu Yun Pavilion, Yakumo Yukari revealed that the loser would have to fulfill the winner’s wish, and they agreed the fight had no restrictions.
• Yakumo Yukari secretly fired a magical bullet at Chen Luo, but Chen Luo teleported behind her and struck her with Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting.
• Chen Luo warned Yakumo Yukari that attacks to his opponent’s back could deal critical damage or potentially kill them, and Yukari used Boundary Manipulation to swap her front and back.

Chen Luo fought Yakumo Yukari by exploiting her Boundary Manipulation and his Ghost Shark abilities, ultimately knocking her unconscious with Tai Xu Sword God. Yakumo Yukari recovered from her brief period of incoherence and immediately gave Chen Luo a martial arts beatdown.

• Yakumo Yukari summoned Yakumo Ran and empowered her to attack Chen Luo, while Chen Luo countered with a giant serpent and began preparing a trap.
• Yakumo Yukari attacked Chen Luo with her Boundary of Life and Death, and he let it reduce his life force to trigger Ghost Shark’s Unyielding effect.
• Chen Luo grabbed Yakumo Yukari and struck her with Tai Xu Sword God, leaving her unconscious while he restored his own strength with Three-Colored Dumplings.
• Chen Luo explained to the Herrscher of Knowledge and Yakumo Ran that Yakumo Yukari would recover, while the Herrscher of Knowledge discussed his modified Tai Xu Sword God.
• Yakumo Yukari regained her senses after about ten minutes and immediately trapped Chen Luo in an armbar and beat him down.

Chen Luo forced Yakumo Yukari to honor her promise and guide him to Gensokyo Scarlet Devil Mansion so he could meet Patchouli. They entered the mansion grounds, where Chen Luo noticed the gatekeeper sleeping on duty.

• Chen Luo used the threat of exposing Yakumo Yukari’s age and embarrassing past, along with the Friendship Revolver, to make her agree to help him meet Patchouli.
• Yakumo Yukari brought Chen Luo to Gensokyo Scarlet Devil Mansion and confirmed that she would ensure he was welcomed rather than chased away.
• Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari walked toward the mansion while trading sarcastic remarks about her unusual ways of appearing.
• Chen Luo spotted the mansion’s gatekeeper standing in an attack stance while asleep.

Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari entered the Scarlet Devil Mansion, where Izayoi Sakuya led them past the sleeping gatekeeper Hong Meiling and explained the mansion’s unusual layout and its fairy staff. They reached the darkened main hall, where Chen Luo felt tempted to bring out the food he had made.

• Yakumo Yukari and Chen Luo passed Hong Meiling while she slept on guard, and Izayoi Sakuya arrived and punished Hong Meiling by deducting a month’s wages.
• Izayoi Sakuya confirmed that Remilia Scarlet had asked her to wait for the visitors and escorted Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari into the mansion.
• Chen Luo noticed that the mansion’s interior was much larger than its exterior, and Yakumo Yukari explained how Sakuya’s time manipulation could affect space.
• Sakuya cleaned up after a fairy broke a vase, while Yakumo Yukari explained that the fairies were weak and often caused Sakuya extra work.
• Sakuya led Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari into the main hall and closed the door, leaving them in darkness behind curtains that blocked the sunlight.

Chen Luo visited Remilia Scarlet at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, refused her offer to become her subordinate, and was sent to meet Patchouli Knowledge. After seeing Flandre Scarlet confined in the basement, he offered to cure Patchouli’s asthma, but Patchouli doubted ordinary medicine could help her.

• Remilia Scarlet welcomed Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari in the dark hall, then offered Chen Luo a place in her mansion and the chance to become a vampire; he refused.
• Remilia told Izayoi Sakuya to take Chen Luo to Patchouli, and privately sensed that he would bring change to the mansion and might help Flandre Scarlet.
• Sakuya led Chen Luo through the underground mansion, where he saw Flandre’s sealed room and considered helping Remilia resolve her sister’s confinement.
• Sakuya brought Chen Luo to the Great Library, where he met Patchouli Knowledge and offered to cure her asthma.
• Patchouli rejected the idea that medical skill alone could cure her illness and questioned Chen Luo’s claim.

Chen Luo demonstrated his ability to strip curses by removing the mixed curses Patchouli placed on Koakuma, convincing Patchouli that he might cure her asthma. They began negotiating a trade, with Patchouli offering him one-tenth of her library in exchange for treatment.

• Patchouli offered to trade Chen Luo the method of Insect Shedding Magic or other valuable magical knowledge, but Chen Luo declined becoming a pure magus and said he was a puppeteer.
• Chen Luo explained that his Stripping Ability could remove diseases and curses, and Patchouli called Koakuma over to test it.
• Chen Luo exhausted himself stripping the mixed curses from Koakuma, and Patchouli confirmed that they had all been removed without harming her.
• Patchouli said her asthma had also affected her organs, and Chen Luo assured her that his puppetry could treat it.
• After examining Koakuma and confirming Chen Luo's ability, Patchouli agreed to negotiate, offering one-tenth of her library when Chen Luo asked for it.

Chen Luo negotiated with Patchouli to cure her asthma in exchange for borrowing books from the Great Library, then signed a carefully reviewed contract. Patchouli began teaching him how to spot and create contract loopholes, while Yakumo Yukari worried that he would become harder to deceive.

• Yakumo Yukari warned Chen Luo that Patchouli's offer of one-tenth of the library's collection might include useless books, so Chen Luo asked for borrowing rights to the entire library instead.
• Patchouli proposed a magical contract, and she and Chen Luo agreed that he could borrow up to five books at a time for one month each in exchange for curing her asthma.
• Patchouli added that Chen Luo could neither remove nor add anything unrelated to treating her asthma, and Chen Luo explained that he also wanted to test his ability before using it on Yun Lian'er.
• Chen Luo asked Patchouli for knowledge about contracts as extra compensation, and she agreed to prepare it for him in two days.
• Patchouli showed Chen Luo how a contract's wording and acrostics could conceal traps, then taught him ways to guard against and create them as Yakumo Yukari watched through a Gap.
• After Patchouli revised the contract until Chen Luo approved it, he signed it, and Patchouli's contract lesson ended.

After curing Patchouli’s asthma and removing her curse, Chen Luo borrowed grimoires from her library and rapidly absorbed forbidden knowledge. He woke from a three-hour unconscious spell to find a faint gray mist of forbidden poison in his sea of consciousness.

• Chen Luo operated on Patchouli, cured her asthma, and sealed her curse inside a Crystal Ball.
• Patchouli gave Chen Luo three grimoires about curses and allowed him to borrow books from her library.
• Chen Luo read and mastered the contents of five bookshelves of grimoires in half an hour, then fell unconscious.
• Patchouli warned Chen Luo that forbidden knowledge could poison and eventually destroy his mind.
• Chen Luo inspected his sea of consciousness and noticed faint gray mist he identified as forbidden poison.

Chen Luo showed Patchouli that the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum had nearly finished digesting the Forbidden Poison in his consciousness, then invited her to his bar. After Patchouli suffered three mishaps caused by a cursed grimoire, she entered the bar and decided to wait for the special ability user Chen Luo had mentioned.

• Chen Luo explained that the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum had absorbed most of the Forbidden Poison, and Patchouli asked to buy his method for handling it.
• Chen Luo summoned the Bar Door in the library and invited Patchouli inside, but she tripped over a grimoire on the floor.
• Patchouli tripped over the same book again, then kicked it barefoot, hurt her toe, and fell onto a sofa.
• Chen Luo recognized the book as a Cursed Grimoire that distorted luck, and Patchouli gave it to him as payment for curing her asthma.
• Patchouli entered the bar after composing herself, asked about its connection to other worlds, and chose to wait for the special ability user Chen Luo had mentioned.

Chen Luo used Patchouli’s visualization method to connect with the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum, which both empowered him and nearly overwhelmed his sea of consciousness. The bar severed the connection and shaped their remaining power into a boat that could travel across the Sea of Quantum.

• Patchouli traded Chen Luo a 120%-efficiency Forbidden Poison conversion method and visualization method for a discussion with Yun Lian'er, while Chen Luo lent her Yun Lian'er's grimoire.
• Chen Luo began the visualization by using his existing Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum as models and opened the bar door to the Honkai World to establish a connection.
• The Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum both recognized Chen Luo and left their marks on him, then competed by pouring power into his sea of consciousness.
• Their escalating power threatened to damage Chen Luo's sea of consciousness, so the bar door closed and cut off the connection.
• The remaining power was suppressed, shaped into a Little Boat, and left floating on the Sea of Quantum.

Chen Luo discovered that the boat created from the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum power could evolve, while the visualization method continuously expanded his consciousness and strengthened his spiritual power. After Patchouli explained why the method kept working even when he was not meditating, she grew jealous of the advantages he had gained.

• Chen Luo inspected the Little Boat, learned it could evolve using Imaginary Tree, Sea of Quantum, Honkai, or elemental power, and considered turning it into a Hyperion.
• Chen Luo found that the Little Boat floated safely in his consciousness and that his consciousness had expanded by over fifty percent as his spiritual power became stronger.
• Chen Luo told Patchouli that his consciousness was continuously expanding even though he was not meditating, and she asked him to explain what had happened.
• Patchouli helped Chen Luo realize that the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum remained in his consciousness as his visualization objects, allowing the method to improve his spiritual power continuously.
• Patchouli sent Chen Luo away and privately resented how easily he had gained powerful benefits from her visualization method.

Chen Luo gave Patchouli Mora and let her use his visualization method, then Patchouli met Yun Lian'er at the bar and they compared what they knew about his magical abilities. They went upstairs to discuss magic, while a green-clad guest arrived at the bar.

• Chen Luo gave Patchouli fifty thousand Mora and left her to study it while he investigated his self-improving sea of consciousness.
• Patchouli read Yun Lian'er's elemental magic compendium and recognized her as the person she had been waiting to meet.
• Yun Lian'er arrived at the bar and told Chen Luo that Sister Meng was keeping watch outside before joining Patchouli.
• Patchouli suggested Chen Luo could remove Yun Lian'er's curse, and the two discussed their differing accounts of his magical talent and experience.
• Patchouli and Yun Lian'er realized their information about Chen Luo did not line up, then went upstairs to talk about magic.
• A green-clad figure entered the bar, and Chen Luo greeted them as Snake Snake.

Chen Luo discovered that a random reward could let him invite Kallen Kaslana to the bar, giving him a possible way to save her and fulfill his bargain with Otto. Otto was absent, so Chen Luo told Durandal about his lead and asked about Cecilia, whose memories had still not returned.

• Mobius reminded Chen Luo to clock out, and he assigned Danzhu and Cangxuan reduced copying punishments before returning to the laboratory.
• Chen Luo hacked the laboratory system to change his clock-out record, then used ten saved random rewards and received an invitation for Schicksal’s strongest Valkyries.
• Raven explained that Schicksal had several Valkyries known as its strongest, and Chen Luo found Kallen Kaslana among the invitation’s eligible guests.
• Chen Luo looked for Otto but learned from Durandal that Otto was busy preparing a Schicksal Idol Competition.
• Durandal asked whether Chen Luo had found a way to revive Kallen, and he said he had some leads before asking how Cecilia was doing.
• Durandal said Cecilia’s memories had shown no change, though she continued training with Durandal and Kiana.

Chen Luo explained how Durandal’s Bar Invitation could help resurrect Kallen, while teasing Durandal and joking with Xiao You. He revealed the invitation could bring Schicksal’s strongest Valkyrie to the bar, and said Otto would likely keep managing Schicksal if Chen Luo came to own it.

• Durandal said Cecilia had not had enough time to regain her strength or memories, and Chen Luo reflected on how quickly his own life had moved.
• Xiao You asked about the missing Little Eight, and Chen Luo said he had left her in Gensokyo with Yakumo Ran before Xiao You pounced on Durandal and ended up in Chen Luo’s arms.
• Chen Luo teased Durandal about Kallen’s resurrection and showed Raven an invitation he said was worth more than Schicksal.
• Chen Luo explained that the Bar Invitation came from Durandal’s reward and could invite Schicksal’s strongest Valkyrie, making it a way for Otto to save Kallen himself.
• Raven pointed out that Chen Luo might become Schicksal’s Bishop, and Chen Luo said Otto would probably keep managing it while Schicksal belonged to him.
• Durandal asked about the wanted notices for her father and Raiden Ryoma, and Chen Luo told her to leave them as they were.

Ganyu visited Zero Bar after working through dinner, where Chen Luo fed her and learned how exhausting her overtime in Liyue had been. He asked her to remind Keqing to pay the money she still owed him.

• Raven tried to trade work points for Chen Luo’s Raven’s Rolling Tantrum Scene Coupon, but he reminded her she owed him one thousand work points.
• Ganyu entered Zero Bar, ordered vegetarian food, and met Zhongli, who revealed that she had missed his dream messages because she worked through the nights.
• Chen Luo piled food into Ganyu’s bowl, while Shenhe failed to understand Ganyu’s attempts to ask her for help stopping him.
• Chen Luo asked Ganyu whether she could meet Keqing and reminded her that Keqing had not repaid the money promised for his work as the Seven Stars’ messenger.
• Ganyu offered to remind Keqing to return the money.

Chen Luo tried to make Keqing write an IOU, then reunited with the little fox and helped Patchouli return to the Scarlet Devil Mansion before she resumed her magical exchange with Yun Lian’er. Yun Lian’er praised Patchouli’s magical knowledge and challenged Chen Luo about his ability to read two thousand grimoires in half an hour.

• Chen Luo asked Ganyu to get Keqing to write an IOU for the Mora she owed, but Ganyu advised him to save the Qixing’s promised wish for a more important opportunity.
• Chen Luo jokingly suggested that the Qixing support Zhongli as the next Geo Archon, and Zhongli said he was considering the succession.
• Yakumo Ran returned the little fox to Chen Luo, who apologized for leaving her behind in Gensokyo and gave her fried tofu.
• Yakumo Yukari told Chen Luo that Remilia was looking for Patchouli, so Chen Luo asked Patchouli to return home and notify her before coming back.
• Yun Lian’er told Chen Luo that she had learned from Patchouli’s approach to magic and said Patchouli’s knowledge surpassed hers.
• Yun Lian’er asked Chen Luo why he had never mentioned that he could read two thousand grimoires in half an hour.

Chen Luo absorbed dozens of puppet-related grimoires and sought Yakumo Yukari’s help to trigger a Puppeteer breakthrough, but she postponed using the Boundary of Life and Death until the next day. Remilia Scarlet visited Zero Bar, where Yakumo Yukari arranged a contract in exchange for revealing how Chen Luo could help stabilize Remilia’s younger sister’s mental state.

• Yun Lian’er urged Chen Luo to practice his magic and get a casting medium, while Chen Luo admitted that Fireball Technique was his strongest combat spell.
• Patchouli brought Chen Luo dozens of grimoires about puppets, and he finished reading them immediately, bringing his Puppeteer skill close to a breakthrough.
• Chen Luo asked Yakumo Yukari to use the Boundary of Life and Death on him, but she refused because her yokai power had not recovered and agreed to help him tomorrow.
• Patchouli brought Remilia Scarlet to Zero Bar, where Remilia tested her Destiny Ability and found she could not interfere with anyone’s fate inside.
• Yakumo Yukari persuaded Remilia to sign a contract by promising to explain how Chen Luo could help stabilize her younger sister’s mental state.
• Yakumo Yukari told Chen Luo to bring out the Book of Contracts and offered to help him die repeatedly the next day as payment.

Chen Luo discovered that Identity Proof could grant identities as powerful as the Honkai Consciousness, but his casual joke triggered an application that cost him 2,000 Primogems. He mourned the loss and worried about the mission attached to the identity as Mobius arrived to collect Dan Zhu and Cang Xuan’s copied punishments.

• Remilia learned that the bar’s posted bullet-hell challenge could earn her a wish, cursed Yakumo Yukari, and went to play while Chen Luo rejected her commission.
• Chen Luo opened a Physics Staff reward that worked better for fighters than magicians, then defended the crowbar-like staff to Raven.
• Chen Luo examined the Identity Proof booklet and joked about applying to become the Honkai Consciousness, triggering a successful application and a 2,000-Primogem deduction.
• Chen Luo lamented the lost Primogems to Dan Zhu and Cang Xuan and worried about the identity mission’s potential consequences.
• Mobius arrived, and Dan Zhu handed her the copied punishments, which Mobius told them to put in the display cabinet.

Chen Luo reviewed his identity application mission, which warned him not to alter the First Civilization Era enough to threaten the Current Era, and discovered that his household register could trigger identity applications from casual remarks. After canceling two alarming applications, he went to perform fusion surgery for Mobius, who asked whether Mark became a Flame-Chaser.

• Cangxuan took the copied punishments to the laboratory display case, while Danzhu abandoned her plan to photocopy them after Mobius warned her.
• Chen Luo considered the mission’s threat-level bar and the transferable identity he had received for the Honkai World, then wondered who might be Honkai Consciousness.
• Chen Luo accidentally triggered applications to become the seventy-sixth director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles’ boyfriend, but canceled both.
• Chen Luo calculated that the next auspicious day for his six-star draw was the day after tomorrow and decided to summon future Raiden Mei that night.
• Mobius called Chen Luo to perform fusion surgery, then asked whether Mark became a Flame-Chaser.