Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo discovered that his summoned river could triple Talent Seeds, then used the possibility of stronger Talents to reassure the Herrscher of Knowledge that she should wait before risking her Herrscher abilities. The chapter ended with Sirin jumping into the river and three figures appearing beside Chen Luo, though he gained little divine power from the change.

• Chen Luo used the river to turn the Break Cocoon into Butterfly and Boundary Manipulation Talent Seeds into six seeds, raising them to S-rank and SS-rank.
• Chen Luo explained that Break Cocoon into Butterfly could support Mobius's resurrection and evolution, while he planned to save Boundary Manipulation's seed for later.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge asked Chen Luo to strip away her Herrscher of Knowledge Talent so she could gain a powerful Talent, but Chen Luo advised her to wait until they could safely pursue an SS-rank or SSS-rank result.
• Chen Luo gave Sirin an Inner Demon Seed and told her that jumping into the river would let her meet a stronger version of herself.
• Sirin jumped into the river, and Chen Luo appeared there beside three figures but received very little divine power.

Chen Luo tested his River God Ability by fishing in the bar, and Yakumo Yukari became his third catch when she stepped into the illusory river. He revealed that the ability produced ordinary, enhanced, and super-enhanced versions of items, leaving Yakumo Yukari stunned by its power and lack of cost.

• Chen Luo examined the three Sirins summoned by his ability and remarked on their different appearances.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Chen Luo to accompany her to the Moon World, but he insisted on finishing his fishing first.
• Yakumo Yukari stepped onto the illusory river and fell in, so Chen Luo fished up golden and silver versions of her.
• The two summoned Yakumo Yukaris used their boundary abilities to delay their disappearance, then vanished after refusing to give Chen Luo their fans.
• Chen Luo threw Yakumo Yukari's fan into the river and gave her the ordinary and silver versions while keeping the golden one.
• Chen Luo explained that the golden fan was a super-enhanced version, demonstrated its power, and told Yakumo Yukari that his ability cost him nothing and granted him divine power.

Chen Luo explained the limits of his River God ability while Yakumo Yukari asked him to create a super-enhanced Gensokyo. Yakumo commissioned a golden version and insisted they sign a contract, leaving Chen Luo ready to begin the deal.

• Chen Luo caught three Theresas with his fishing rod, kept Judgement of Thunder, and discussed Kallen and Yae Sakura with Theresa.
• Yakumo Yukari asked whether Chen Luo could create three Gensokyos, and he said he needed a suitable river and more divine power or strength.
• Chen Luo offered to create copies of valuable items in exchange for divine power, explaining how they would divide the original, silver, and gold versions.
• Yakumo Yukari commissioned a golden Gensokyo, and Chen Luo accepted after seeing the reward.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Chen Luo to bring out the Book of Contracts and sign an agreement because she did not trust his moral standards with Gensokyo's fate.

Chen Luo used the river’s duplication ability to prepare time for resurrecting Himiko, then decided he and Fu Hua would travel to the Previous Era to carry out the plan. He explained that resurrecting someone in a different world would cost far more because it required using their individual timeline.

• Yakumo Yukari agreed to Chen Luo’s request for a contract with no time limit, and Chen Luo left her to think about payment.
• Fu Hua recognized Chen Luo’s fishing rod and learned that he had used it to expose her secrets, so Chen Luo said they would go resurrect Himiko.
• Chen Luo tossed time into the river, retrieved it without either portion turning illusory, and took Himiko’s body from his backpack.
• Chen Luo told Fu Hua and the Herrscher of Knowledge to prepare to travel to the Previous Era, then explained the difference between using an individual timeline and a world timeline.

Chen Luo used the Moon Clock to reverse time and revive Himiko, while Fu Hua and Herrscher of Knowledge watched anxiously. As Himiko emerged from the flames, she attacked Fu Hua, leaving her facing the painful memories of the day her captain died.

• Chen Luo brought Fu Hua to Mobius and had her change into her old Fire Moth combat uniform before beginning the revival.
• Chen Luo used the Moon Clock to reverse fifty-two and a half days of Himiko's time, then started the visible reversal process.
• Himiko's fatal chest wound reappeared as time moved backward, and Chen Luo reassured Fu Hua and Herrscher of Knowledge that it was a sign the reversal was working.
• Flames erupted around Himiko, and Chen Luo's restraint barrier reduced them to ordinary fire while protecting the group.
• Himiko rose from the operating table and hurled a fireball at Fu Hua, who recalled the ruined wasteland where her captain had died.

Chen Luo revived Himiko by reversing her time, allowing her to reunite with Fu Hua, but left her without a Herrscher Core. He and Mobius went to Fire Moth to copy the stored core so Himiko could regain her strength while the original remained available for Heavenly Fire Judgment.

• Himiko's flames vanished, and Fu Hua caught her as she collapsed before recognizing her captain, while the Herrscher of Knowledge watched quietly.
• Chen Luo explained that Himiko was weak because she lacked a Herrscher Core, then sent Fu Hua, Himiko, and the Herrscher of Knowledge through the Bar Door while he restored the operating room.
• Chen Luo and Mobius headed to the Engineering Department to obtain a Herrscher Core, and Vill-V stopped them to ask Mobius about Chen Luo and her plans to surprise him.
• Chen Luo used stealth and the Herrscher of Corrosion's ability to enter the laboratory undetected, copied the stored Herrscher of Flame's core into three silver cores, and kept the original intact.

Chen Luo implanted a silver Herrscher of Flame Core into Himiko, restoring her to the peak of her power, then brought her to the bar. There, Himiko met Theresa, Himeko Murata, Cang Xuan, and Dan Zhu, who were startled by her resemblance to Himeko and her return from the dead.

• Chen Luo considered whether to pursue Herrscher Cores or Divine Keys and implanted the silver Herrscher of Flame Core into Himiko, confident his Domination Talent would protect her humanity.
• Himiko teased Chen Luo during the procedure and then emerged with her strength restored and no major problems.
• Theresa mistook Himiko for Himeko and drank golden bitter melon juice, becoming tipsy while Fu Hua tried to explain the mix-up.
• Himeko Murata arrived and Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu mistook Himiko for a ghost, then hid behind Chen Luo despite Cang Xuan briefly greeting her.
• Chen Luo explained that Himiko was alive because he had brought her back to life, easing Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's fears.

Chen Luo revived Himiko as the Herrscher of Flame, and Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu overcame their fear after Fu Hua and Chen Luo vouched for her. Chen Luo examined two newly acquired items, then Theresa challenged his plan to bring Himiko and other unusual figures into St. Freya Academy.

• Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu hid behind Chen Luo when he warned them that Himiko had returned as the Herrscher of Flame, but they relaxed after Fu Hua and Chen Luo assured them she was sane and trustworthy.
• Dan Zhu explained that Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu trusted Chen Luo to judge important matters, prompting Chen Luo to discover that 108 Methods to Prevent Scams made him impossible to deceive while he held it.
• Chen Luo read that Mountain and River Summer Retreat Scripture could prevent heat and add stacking true damage when paired with Inch-Punch Sky-Splitting.
• Himeko questioned Chen Luo about Himiko wearing an outfit identical to one he had given her, but Chen Luo dodged the question by raising Kiana's education with Theresa.
• Theresa objected to Chen Luo adding more strange people to St. Freya Academy, while Chen Luo invoked his control of Schicksal and proposed a training exchange for Kiana and the others.

Chen Luo arranged for Himiko to stay temporarily at St. Freya Academy before bringing her to his world, and Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu negotiated identities there as well. He also proposed sending Kiana and others to train in the Elysian Realm, but Aili’s arrival shifted the conversation to Himiko’s revival.

• Theresa accused Chen Luo of hollowing out St. Freya Academy after learning he planned to bring Himiko to stay there temporarily.
• Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu asked Chen Luo for identities in his world, and Theresa persuaded them to remain at the academy’s research department with triple pay and no attendance requirements.
• Chen Luo explained the Elysian Realm’s training potential to Theresa and suggested that Kiana and others study there, while noting Durandal was needed to protect the world.
• Theresa considered the proposal, and Chen Luo briefly wondered about Schicksal’s unknown S-rank Valkyrie and the possibility of reviving Cheng Lixue.
• Aili entered through the Bar Door, greeted the revived Himiko warmly, and praised Chen Luo for making everyone’s wishes come true.

Elysia met Himiko and the Herrschers, reminisced about Kevin, and was embarrassed when Chen Luo recited her words about humanity. She then spent time talking with Mei, Kiana, and Bronya about Chen Luo while he tried to ignore her and read the Friend's Ledger.

• Chen Luo praised Elysia for 50 Primogems, and Elysia offered to take Himiko through the portal to see Kevin.
• Himiko said she did not hate Kevin for killing her and worried about the pain he had suffered afterward.
• Himiko praised the world’s Herrschers and wondered who had made their humanity and freedom possible, prompting Elysia to feel embarrassed.
• Chen Luo recited Elysia’s words about the daughter of God and humanity, and Elysia angrily told him to stop.
• Chen Luo chose Elysia’s commission for 50 Primogems, while Elysia stayed at the bar to greet Mei, Kiana, and Bronya and tell them about him.
• Chen Luo sat by his wishing pool, ignored Elysia’s conversations, and read Morgan’s Friend’s Ledger.

Chen Luo strengthened Shenhe’s Vision into a golden one and warned her to use its power responsibly. Yakumo Yukari then negotiated a contract with Chen Luo, agreeing to obey his orders in matters involving the bar or other worlds in exchange for a permanent golden Gensokyo.

• Shenhe tried Chen Luo’s river, and he returned her Visions with one strengthened into a golden Cryo Vision.
• Chen Luo gave Shenhe the golden Vision and told her that she still needed to build her strength through her own efforts.
• Yakumo Yukari questioned Chen Luo about whether summoned golden items could be dismissed, then accused him of withholding that detail.
• Chen Luo asked Yakumo Yukari to obey his orders concerning the bar and other worlds, while taking his opinions seriously in Gensokyo.
• Yakumo Yukari agreed to Chen Luo’s terms and added that he could not dismiss the golden Gensokyo.

Yakumo Yukari signed a contract with Chen Luo to secure access to Golden Gensokyo and other worlds, then struggled to find a river large enough to hold Gensokyo. Chen Luo proposed the Milky Way as a river, but Yukari refused to give him a massage, leaving the river’s usefulness for moving Gensokyo unresolved.

• Yakumo Yukari explained why she feared entering the Root and asked Chen Luo how he traveled between worlds while keeping his powers.
• Chen Luo and Yakumo Yukari signed a contract governing Gensokyo, their trips to other worlds, and her obligations while at the bar.
• Chen Luo asked Yukari for a massage, and she said she could learn rather than admit she did not know how.
• Yukari worried about finding a river large enough to hold all of Gensokyo, and Chen Luo suggested the Milky Way could count as one.
• Yukari pointed out that Gensokyo could not be moved into the Milky Way, then denied knowing how to massage Chen Luo; Shenhe patted his back as he reacted.

Chen Luo tested his River God ability by throwing gold into the river, which produced Mithril and Adamantine. Yakumo Yukari’s boast that she would eat a keyboard if the silver-colored metal was not silver left her biting a key while Chen Luo watched.

• Remilia offered Chen Luo gold to compensate for the keyboards she had broken, but Chen Luo tossed it into the river instead.
• Chen Luo summoned silver-colored and gold-colored versions of the gold, and Patchouli identified them as Mithril and Adamantine.
• Patchouli accidentally dropped the Adamantine into the river while returning both metals to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo reminded Yakumo Yukari that she had promised to eat a keyboard if the silver-colored metal was not silver.
• Remilia brought Yakumo Yukari a keyboard, and Yakumo Yukari began biting the Shift key as Chen Luo watched.

Chen Luo used the River God ability to duplicate Remilia’s Gungnir, then agreed to help normalize her younger sister’s mental state. He invited Komeiji Satori to bring her own sister to the bar as well, while Patchouli continued experimenting with the river.

• Remilia threw keyboards into the river and received gold and silver versions, then tossed in Gungnir and reclaimed its three copies from Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo determined that the enhanced Gungnir copies were fake, borrowed the original from Remilia, and considered using Void Archive to create his own copy.
• Remilia asked Chen Luo to treat her younger sister, and he proposed bringing her to the bar for social interaction and psychological treatment, followed by temporarily sealing her power.
• Komeiji Satori asked to bring her younger sister to the bar, and Chen Luo agreed.
• Patchouli tested the river by throwing in various objects, including her pajamas, while Chen Luo retrieved their copies and agreed to lend her the gold pair for research.

Chen Luo learned from Kaguya Houraisan that the small river he had treated as a tool was a phantom of the River of Time. After revealing a vast version of it, he considered how its power might let him reach places such as Gensokyo, while Yakumo Yukari left to find Remilia.

• Patchouli told Chen Luo that Yun Lian'er had gone with three S-rank Talent Users to investigate a god reported near the Capital City, and Chen Luo worried they might be searching for him.
• Kaguya Houraisan asked Chen Luo for online games, then identified the river in his bar as the River of Time.
• Chen Luo expanded the small river into a vast phantom that showed the personal time of everyone in the bar, then dismissed it and summoned the small river again.
• Kaguya Houraisan explained that Chen Luo had summoned only a phantom of the River of Time, while Yakumo Yukari suggested he might use it to cover Gensokyo.
• Chen Luo acknowledged he had never tested how large the river phantom could become, and Yakumo Yukari left to find Remilia.

Chen Luo agreed to help Kamijo Touma resolve Angel Fall, which had scrambled people’s appearances and identities, and planned to visit Touma’s world the next day. Kanzaki Kaori then entered the bar, and Chen Luo began testing whether Touma’s Imagine Breaker could erase rare metals.

• Yakumo Yukari declined to visit the Moon World, while Chen Luo planned to use the Moon Clock to adjust its time and shorten the Holy Grail War.
• Kamijo Touma told Chen Luo that Angel Fall had swapped people’s appearances and identities, and Chen Luo accepted a commission to stop the ritual and protect Touma’s family.
• Chen Luo promised to travel to Touma’s world the next day and gave Touma dinner to take to Index, who was sulking in her room.
• Kamijo Touma collided with Kanzaki Kaori at the bar entrance and brought her inside after the dinner fell to the ground.
• Chen Luo gave Touma Mithril and refined gold to test whether Imagine Breaker could erase them, then welcomed Kanzaki Kaori as a customer.

Chen Luo helped Yakumo Yukari locate Uryuu Ryunosuke, then traveled around the world while disguising his whereabouts and completed a commission by strengthening a bully. He emerged from a river to answer Ye Yunshang’s call and annoyed her by calling her an auntie.

• Chen Luo asked Yakumo Yukari to find Uryuu Ryunosuke before he obtained Command Spells and summoned a Servant.
• Aili took Mei and the others to the Elysian Realm for the night, then teased Chen Luo about joining them.
• Chen Luo appeared at unpredictable places around the world and accepted a commission from a boy who wanted to grow stronger and taller.
• Chen Luo beat the boy in the War Domain, used Break Cocoon into Butterfly to heal and strengthen him, and completed the commission.
• After hearing someone call for Little Stelle and checking the boy’s name, Chen Luo erased some of the boy’s key memories and disappeared.
• Chen Luo surfaced from a river before Ye Yunshang and called her an auntie, prompting her to snap at him.

Ye Yunshang asked Chen Luo to contact the Immortal Realm for more sword manuals for her exceptionally gifted disciple, Su Yuan, and he accepted her commission after teasing her. The next morning, Su Yuan explained how her master's Dual Cultivation Talent worked, then hurried off with Yun Xia to find the River God.

• Ye Yunshang told Chen Luo that Su Yuan had exhausted the sword manuals of Shushan, Kunlun, and Penglai Island, and asked him to request more from the Immortal Realm using her rings as tokens.
• Chen Luo received a commission to obtain sword techniques for Ye Yunshang, agreed, then withdrew his agreement and demanded she shake his hand before he would help.
• Su Yuan told Chen Luo that Ye Yunshang's A-rank Dual Cultivation Talent boosted cultivation through an established relationship, and that their master-disciple bond strengthened both of them.
• Su Yuan assured Chen Luo that she would keep the Talent's details private, ate breakfast, and said she and Yun Xia planned to find the River God.

Chen Luo hid his identity as the River God while learning about Su Yuan’s master and continued his Flame-Chaser surgeries with Aili nearby. After testing the Moon Clock’s time jump, he discovered that he could gain skills and rewards during skipped time but could not accept new commissions, leaving him frustrated.

• Su Yuan told Chen Luo that she planned to find the River God and complained about his behavior, while Chen Luo kept his identity secret and considered testing her master’s Talent.
• Chen Luo met Aili outside the laboratory, then learned Mobius had to attend a meeting about the Herrscher of Flame Core and left him to perform surgeries.
• Hen spoke with Chen Luo about becoming a Flame-Chaser, and Mobius returned to supervise the surgery of a terminally ill Fire Moth executive.
• Chen Luo completed the executive’s surgery successfully, secretly making him a Flame-Chaser and his puppet, while telling Hen that the man’s condition had improved.
• Chen Luo tested the Moon Clock by jumping back ten minutes and found that he could gain proficiency and rewards during the skipped period but could not accept new commissions.

Chen Luo accepted a new assistant and bodyguard after Aili’s temporary assignment ended. Hua took the role, and Chen Luo met with her to discuss her new duties.

• Chen Luo reflected on the Moon Clock’s time-jumping ability and considered how skipping ahead could cost him commission rewards.
• A Fire Moth executive awakened after Chen Luo’s fusion surgery, and Chen Luo expected more officials to seek the procedure.
• Chen Luo attended a small dinner with Hen, Blanca, Griseo, Mobius, and Aili, where he learned Aili was being replaced as his temporary guard.
• Mobius explained that the higher-ups had assigned Hua to guard Chen Luo, and Aili agreed to accept the decision and urged Chen Luo to treat Hua gently.
• Chen Luo greeted Hua and told her she would guard him from then on, and Hua asked why she had been chosen.