Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo performed fusion surgery on Desdichado, who became Fire Moth’s first mental-type Flame-Chaser without dying. Mobius showed interest in studying her, but relented when Desdichado resisted.

• Mobius considered studying Hen after Chen Luo said he had become a Flame-Chaser through his own efforts, while Chen Luo warned her not to dissect him.
• Chen Luo learned Mobius had died again after her hand slipped, then waited for the third volunteer to arrive.
• Desdichado arrived late, rested with Chen Luo, and revealed her name before entering surgery.
• Chen Luo successfully turned Desdichado into a mental-type Flame-Chaser, and she woke with a headache but no major physical weakness.
• Desdichado nervously objected when Mobius called her valuable research material, and Mobius agreed to leave her alone.

Desdichado became Fire Moth’s fifth Flame-Chaser after a successful fusion surgery, while Chen Luo secretly planted a Puppet Mark in her. Aili announced that she would act as Chen Luo’s temporary bodyguard, but he tried to send her to comfort Desdichado so he could leave Fire Moth.

• Mobius and Chen Luo completed Desdichado’s fusion surgery, and Chen Luo secretly implanted a dormant Puppet Mark in her.
• Desdichado left the laboratory to register as a Flame-Chaser, and Kevin learned that she was the fifth Flame-Chaser and had a mental-type ability.
• Kevin praised Chen Luo’s surgical talent, and Mobius agreed to supervise him while he performed surgeries alone.
• Aili arrived and announced that she had chosen to become Chen Luo’s temporary bodyguard without applying for an official transfer.
• Aili learned that Desdichado had just become a Flame-Chaser, but Chen Luo urged her to go comfort Desdichado instead of showing him around Fire Moth.

Chen Luo discovered that Aili could sense the Imaginary Stigmata on his hand, then learned she had become his bodyguard and began planning ways to avoid her. He tried to arrange for Hua to replace Aili, but the assignment would take three days, leaving him to evade Aili in the meantime.

• Aili felt the Imaginary Stigmata on the back of Chen Luo’s left hand, and Mobius examined it after Chen Luo revealed it.
• Chen Luo asked Cang Xuan not to tell Aili where he was hiding, then slipped into Mobius’s lounge.
• Chen Luo learned that Aili had privately swapped duties with Sakura and made herself his bodyguard.
• Chen Luo asked Cannon Fodder No. 1 to send Aili away on a mission, but Aili was on leave after clearing an area two days earlier.
• Chen Luo asked Cannon Fodder No. 1 to arrange for Hua to become his official guard, but the replacement would take three days.

Chen Luo discussed how Otto could convince Kallen that he was her fiancé from five hundred years in the future, and Otto agreed to let Yae Sakura help with the rescue. The chapter ended with Otto accepting Chen Luo’s offer to give him a strengthened human body and preserve his consciousness-upload ability.

• Aili searched for Chen Luo to recruit him as an experimental assistant, but Cang Xuan pointed her toward Mobius’s lounge while Chen Luo avoided her.
• Otto waited three hours for Chen Luo, then revealed that Durandal had told him about the invitation that could bring Kallen back.
• Chen Luo warned Otto that Kallen might not trust his changed appearance and temperament, and suggested involving Yae Sakura; Otto agreed to let her participate.
• Chen Luo and Otto discussed using a Kallen clone and staging her death to deceive destiny while bringing her to the Current Era.
• Chen Luo offered to create Otto a strengthened duplicate human body and preserve his ability to upload his consciousness into another Soul Steel Body after death, and Otto accepted.

Chen Luo helped Otto transfer his soul into a strengthened flesh-and-blood body and gave him a temporary copy of Void Archive. After collecting his payment, Chen Luo went to Elysian Realm and left Pardo wondering why he was staring at her.

• Chen Luo copied and strengthened Otto's body, then transferred Otto's soul into it and discovered a hidden contract embedded in his soul.
• Otto adapted to his new body, and Chen Luo explained that he could later digitize his consciousness if his lifespan ran out or he faced mortal danger.
• Chen Luo gave Otto a three-day trial version of Void Archive, which Otto used to form Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Chen Luo warned Otto not to access Second Divine Key data, and Otto doubled Chen Luo's payment to 400 Honkai Crystals.
• Chen Luo went to Elysian Realm, where he stared at Pardo and said he was thinking about something.

Chen Luo visited Elysia in the Elysian Realm to discuss his plan to sack her as a surprise, then asked her to train Raiden Mei, Kiana, and the other young Herrschers. Elysia agreed to help, leaving Chen Luo with a potential way to give them more combat practice.

• Chen Luo teased Elysia about putting her in a sack and asked how to apologize to her afterward.
• Elysia suggested that Chen Luo wrap himself in a gift box and leave himself at her dormitory door.
• Chen Luo asked Elysia whether she had anything to do in the Elysian Realm.
• Chen Luo proposed bringing Raiden Mei, Kiana, and the other Herrschers to train with Elysia after school.
• Chen Luo explained that real combat training could help the young Herrschers improve beyond what their school training offered.

Chen Luo tried to verify his theory by contacting the Honkai Consciousness, then went to Gensokyo to confront Yakumo Yukari over her promise to give him boundaries between life and death. The Honkai Consciousness rejected him, while Yakumo Yukari hid in the Gap, and Chen Luo fired his Friendship Revolver at her.

• Chen Luo visited the Elysian Realm and asked Elysia to recruit beautiful girls as training partners for the Honkai recruits.
• Chen Luo contacted the Honkai Consciousness in Changkong City, annoyed it with requests to change its appearance, and was expelled after conjuring the Friendship Revolver.
• Chen Luo fired the Friendship Revolver at a disappearing bullet, tried to reenter the Honkai space, and stopped after his discount briefly fell to 20% off.
• Chen Luo went to Mayohiga and demanded that Yakumo Yukari fulfill her promise, while Yakumo Ran offered him tea.
• Chen Luo realized Yakumo Yukari had hidden in the Gap to avoid him, then fired the Friendship Revolver to punish her.

Chen Luo used Yakumo Yukari’s Boundary Manipulation between life and death to push his Puppeteer skill to Master level, while the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum absorbed the power she used. He then tested his new ability by creating a life-sized combat puppet modeled after Durandal, which caught the Herrscher of Knowledge’s attention.

• Chen Luo repeatedly shot Yakumo Yukari with the Friendship Revolver after she hid in the Gap, then demanded three doses of Boundary Manipulation as promised.
• Yakumo Yukari suppressed Chen Luo’s vitality, but his chainsaw’s effect kept him from dying while the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quantum devoured the boundary power.
• Chen Luo repeated the process until his Puppeteer skill reached Master level, then explained that facing death helped him break through skill limits.
• Chen Luo demonstrated a life-sized melee puppet powered by infused magic or spiritual energy and capable of using recorded combat skills.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge recognized the puppet as resembling Durandal and objected when Chen Luo called her the strongest Valkyrie.

Chen Luo used his master-level puppeteering to begin reviving Yvette as a puppet, combining her soul and body with holy light essence and Puppet Marks. He then returned to the laboratory, where Mobius discussed his lack of research progress and reminded him that he would operate on Kevin the next day.

• Chen Luo explained that his master-level puppeteering had changed how he planned to handle Yvette and went upstairs to prepare her revival.
• Chen Luo fed Yvette holy light essence and her processed soul, then surrounded her with Puppet Marks so her body and soul could undergo puppet transformation together.
• Chen Luo heard Keqing's angry voice downstairs and left Yvette cocooned in threads as her revival continued.
• Mobius criticized Chen Luo for neglecting laboratory research, while Chen Luo defended his priorities and learned that his fusion-surgery appointments were booked a year ahead.
• Chen Luo noted that all three fusion surgeries had failed, then Mobius told him he would operate on Kevin the next day.
• Chen Luo asked why his salary was lower than Cang Qiong's and Dan Zhu's, and Mobius answered that he was still in his three-month probation period.

Chen Luo tried to make up for ignoring Aili’s messages by ambushing her with a pink sack, then carried her to Mobius’s lounge. After Aili confronted him, he offered her wine as compensation, and she insisted on going with him so he could not run off with it.

• Mobius left Chen Luo to find Vill-V after he awkwardly described their relationship as experimenter and test subject.
• Chen Luo found Aili waiting outside the laboratory and tried to apologize while hiding a pink sack behind his back.
• When Aili turned around to see his promised surprise, Chen Luo trapped her in the sack and carried her to Mobius’s lounge as Dan Zhu watched in shock.
• Aili challenged Chen Luo over the prank and demanded the sack, but he refused, fearing she would use it to trap him.
• Chen Luo offered Aili two bottles of wine to make amends, and she stood up to accompany him because she did not trust him to return with it.

Chen Luo gave Aili wine to make amends, agreed to help investigate Desdichado’s ability, and steered Aili toward teasing Kevin. He then went to the bar to prepare to save Kallen, where Yae Sakura and Otto faced off as rivals, each unwilling to give way.

• Chen Luo gave Aili two bottles of wine, one for her and one to gift to a friend, and she agreed to trust him again.
• Aili asked Chen Luo to assist with Desdichado’s ability experiment, and he accepted the commission while postponing the investigation until the next day.
• Chen Luo told Aili about Kevin’s brief embrace with Mei, prompting Aili to hurry off and question Kevin.
• Chen Luo entered the bar intending to save Kallen and found Yae Sakura and Otto glaring at each other.
• Otto stressed his claim as Kallen’s fiancé and reminded Yae Sakura of his five centuries of effort, but Yae Sakura remained unwilling to withdraw.

Yae Sakura and Otto argued over Kallen while Chen Luo refused Otto’s commission to interfere in their relationship. Chen Luo presented a Schicksal invitation that could bring Kallen to the present, and Otto proposed a plan to keep her there after her arrival.

• Yae Sakura taunted Otto about her past with Kallen, and Otto defended his efforts to revive Kallen, including the experiments that created Theresa.
• Otto asked Chen Luo to make Yae Sakura stop disturbing his private world with Kallen, but Chen Luo refused and abandoned the commission.
• Chen Luo gave Otto and Yae Sakura a limited strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal Bar Invitation and asked how they would persuade Kallen to enter the present world.
• Otto proposed knocking Kallen unconscious, erasing her memory of the bar, using his body-only clone to die in her place, and placing her in cryogenic storage after her rescue.
• Yae Sakura rejected Otto’s plan, warning that Kallen’s intuition was strong, and Otto accused her of calling Kallen stupid.

Chen Luo used the invitation to summon Kallen from the end of her life, where her timeline was safest to alter. The Bar Door became a curtain of light, but Kallen had not appeared by the end of the chapter.

• Chen Luo argued that Kallen would willingly leave her timeline if she learned staying could destroy the world, and planned to use the Herrscher of Knowledge as evidence.
• Chen Luo opened the invitation, selected Kallen from among Schicksal's strongest Valkyries, and sent the invitation toward the Bar Door.
• Durandal entered the bar with the invitation stuck to her face, and Chen Luo told her to attach it to the door.
• Durandal placed the invitation on the Bar Door, and Chen Luo chose the final point in Kallen's life because nearly all earlier moments were marked as dangerous to change.
• Chen Luo confirmed the choice, turning the wooden Bar Door into a curtain of light as Otto, Yae Sakura, and the others waited in silence.

Chen Luo opened a door to the past to invite Kallen, who was imprisoned before her execution, and Otto rushed through first. The others were blocked from following, and Chen Luo suspected Otto had sealed the entrance with Void Archive.

• Chen Luo explained that Kallen’s imprisonment had activated manual invitation mode, so the group needed to reach her and bring her to the bar.
• Yakumo Yukari tried to join the trip, but Chen Luo refused to take her because her powers and outsider status could cause trouble.
• Otto entered the light curtain and found Kallen shackled in a cell, where she mistook the door for one of his inventions.
• Yakumo Yukari blocked Chen Luo and Yae Sakura from following until Yae Sakura persuaded her to move aside.
• Yae Sakura struck the light curtain and bounced back, while Chen Luo passed his head through using Void Stealth.
• Chen Luo suspected Otto had used Void Archive to turn the entrance into a blocked alloy door, and Yae Sakura grew angry at Otto.

Chen Luo arranged for Yae Sakura to stay out of the rescue in exchange for a five-day trip with Kallen, then slipped through the alloy door to reach Otto and Kallen. Otto asked Kallen to leave prison with him, but she refused, leaving him disappointed and relieved that she remained true to herself.

• Yae Sakura wanted to break through Void Archive's alloy door, but Chen Luo stopped her to avoid harming Kallen.
• Chen Luo refused Yakumo Yukari's request to join the mission and promised to take her to a different world another time.
• A commission asked Chen Luo to give Otto and Kallen time alone, so he negotiated with Yae Sakura: she would skip the rescue in exchange for a five-day trip with Kallen and her sister.
• Chen Luo entered Void Stealth, stored Otto's ice coffin containing Kallen's clone, and flew through the alloy door.
• Otto asked Kallen to leave the prison with him, but she refused; Otto felt disappointed and relieved by her answer.

Chen Luo helped Otto remain with Kallen while arranging her rescue and imposing conditions on Otto, including a trip for Kallen with Yae Sakura and a beating from the Herrscher of Knowledge. Otto returned invisibly to Kallen’s cell and revealed where his past self was preparing to cause chaos, leaving the Herrscher of Knowledge ready to find him.

• Otto discovered the portal had vanished, and Chen Luo appeared, explaining that Kallen’s rescue would keep Yae Sakura away until Kallen returned to the modern world.
• Chen Luo required Kallen to accompany Yae Sakura on a five-day trip after her rescue, and Otto reluctantly agreed.
• Chen Luo added that the Herrscher of Knowledge could beat up Otto’s past self, and Otto accepted the condition.
• Chen Luo told Otto to leave the prison, gave him a necklace that lowered his presence, and teleported him back to Kallen’s cell.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge asked Otto where his past self was, and Otto said he was near the underground area beneath the cathedral, planning to release imprisoned Honkai Beasts and flee with Kallen.

Chen Luo appeared to Kallen as an imaginary devil and offered to grant her wishes in exchange for her soul, while secretly seeking commissions from her. He repaired her broken chain before the guards arrived, then stayed nearby as Kallen refused treatment and remained resolved to die.

• Otto asked Chen Luo to alter what Kallen heard about his past self releasing the Honkai Beasts, and Chen Luo agreed to repair the broken chains.
• Chen Luo introduced himself to Kallen as a spirit who granted wishes, but Kallen distrusted him and called him a devil.
• Chen Luo offered to eliminate the Herrschers or the Honkai, but refused because Kallen's soul was not worth the price.
• When the guards approached, Kallen asked Chen Luo for help, and he used alchemy to restore her chain before they searched her cell.
• Kallen asked about Herrschers again, refused Chen Luo's offer to treat her weakened body, and said she was going to die anyway.

Chen Luo tried to keep Kallen’s execution from changing history, then realized Herrscher of Knowledge’s attack on Otto might have left dangerous memories in Void Archive. As Chen Luo went to fix the problem, Herrscher of Knowledge planned to use Puppet Marks on Fu Hua’s seven traitorous disciples so they could be brought back as puppets.

• Chen Luo spoke with Kallen about other worlds, souls, and making a wish in exchange for hers, while Otto sat silently nearby.
• After Herrscher of Knowledge beat Otto and erased his memories, Chen Luo realized Void Archive might still remember the incident, keeping the threat level high.
• Chen Luo reassured Herrscher of Knowledge that he could take control of Void Archive and erase its records, then decided to find Otto before it was too late.
• Herrscher of Knowledge asked Chen Luo for Puppet Marks so she could mark Fu Hua’s seven traitorous disciples and turn them into puppets in the modern era.
• Chen Luo agreed to provide 140 Puppet Marks and considered seeking commissions to save people from history, including Cheng Lixue.

Herrscher of Knowledge received 140 Puppet Marks from Chen Luo and set off to confront Fu Hua’s seven disciples. Meanwhile, Chen Luo found the past Otto and Void Archive, subdued them, and revealed that he was a Herrscher of the current civilization; he began demonstrating his powers as the chapter ended.

• Chen Luo gave Herrscher of Knowledge 140 Puppet Marks, a Teleport Anchor, and Three-Colored Dumplings before she went after Fu Hua’s seven disciples.
• Chen Luo used Fate Threads to locate the past Otto beneath Schicksal and struck him with Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting, leaving him in soul shock.
• Chen Luo took Void Archive and began examining and altering its records about himself.
• Void Archive questioned Chen Luo about Herrscher of Knowledge and suspected that Chen Luo himself might be a Herrscher.
• Chen Luo confirmed he was a Herrscher of the current civilization and began demonstrating the powers of the Herrscher of Reason, the Herrscher of Void, and the Herrscher of Thunder.

Chen Luo seized control of Void Archive, altered its programming, and returned to Kallen as her execution approached. As Kallen was led out of her cell, Chen Luo joked with her about her soul and his plans for a betrothal gift.

• Chen Luo revealed several Herrscher powers, then used his own Void Archive to seize control of Void Archive and alter its underlying programming.
• Chen Luo returned to Kallen and told her that he would receive her soul at her execution, though she could make a wish if she offered it willingly.
• Chen Luo tracked the Herrscher of Knowledge’s fights across Tai Xu Mountain as his threat-level progress repeatedly surged and fell.
• Arthur arrived at Kallen’s cell, had the guards replace her chains with a wooden cangue, and led her toward the execution.
• Kallen declined another meal after Chen Luo had given her a rice ball, and she questioned him about his family and love life.
• Chen Luo told Kallen he planned to use her soul as a betrothal gift for someone he loved.