Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo learned that Pardofelis had stolen advanced Fire Moth equipment and arranged for her to guide Cherry through Dusk Street, where Cherry was searching for deserters. The chapter left Cherry and Pardofelis meeting without either realizing the other’s role in the missing equipment.

• Chen Luo asked Danzhu about his emotional troubles, then received a message from Pardofelis about a large deal.
• Pardofelis sent Chen Luo photos of weapons she had supposedly picked up, and Hua identified them as Fire Moth equipment with their insignias removed.
• Chen Luo warned Pardofelis not to sell the weapons soon or all at once, then invited Cherry to dinner and learned her mission had been complicated by the stolen equipment.
• Chen Luo connected Cherry’s mission to Pardofelis’s find, gave Pardofelis Cherry’s contact details, and warned her not to sell Cherry the equipment or reveal his involvement.
• Chen Luo used Peeping Eye to watch Cherry meet Pardofelis outside Dusk Street, unaware that Pardofelis was the one who had stolen the gear she was seeking.

Chen Luo watched Sakura’s investigation draw closer to the sanatorium, whose destruction he believed was necessary for events involving Aponia and Chijie to unfold. At dinner, he disguised his melancholy with a lavish meal called “The Last Supper,” then sent two Assassin Servants to Dusk Street after Mei received an urgent call.

• Chen Luo monitored Mei and Pardo while Sakura investigated her stolen equipment and added the sanatorium to her search.
• Chen Luo hosted a large dinner for his colleagues and served a lavish meal he called “The Last Supper.”
• Mei asked Chen Luo to make a birthday cake for Kevin, and he accepted a commission to prepare it.
• Mei received Sakura’s call about the sanatorium’s Honkai Sickness patients and left with Kevin for an emergency meeting.
• Mobius returned to the laboratory with Klein, and Chen Luo sent two Assassin Servants to Dusk Street to watch over events.

Chen Luo returned home, healed the Warden, and discussed Bai Zhi’s return and possible loyalties with the Herrscher of Knowledge. He then went to the bar and made Merlin take over watching the Previous Era through Clairvoyance.

• Chen Luo returned home and agreed to heal the Warden after the director brought payment; Chen Luo healed the Warden’s injuries in minutes.
• Bai Zhi entered Chen Luo’s home as his partner, but Chen Luo later threw her out, prompting the Herrscher of Knowledge to question their relationship.
• Chen Luo told the Herrscher of Knowledge that he needed to learn why Bai Zhi had returned, how she viewed the church, and what she thought of him before deciding whether to bring her into the bar.
• Chen Luo went to the bar and used Clairvoyance to watch the Previous Era through a door opened beneath a bed.
• After Gil pointed out that Chen Luo’s eyes were sore, Chen Luo ordered Merlin to take over watching the Previous Era for an hour.

Chen Luo forced Merlin to use Clairvoyance to show Sakura’s mission at the sanatorium, where the children faced Sakura’s attack because of Honkai. He told Aili that the Human “Orange Juice” Project could preserve the children’s souls in Puppet World, just as Fire Moth’s Enforcement Department arrived to investigate him.

• Chen Luo used a Command Spell to make Artoria threaten Merlin until Merlin agreed to livestream with the antenna.
• Chen Luo gave Merlin coordinates, and Merlin projected his Clairvoyance onto Chen Luo’s personal terminal so Chen Luo and Aili could watch Sakura’s mission at the sanatorium.
• Chen Luo told Aili that the Orange Juice Project could preserve the children’s souls in Puppet World if Sakura had to kill them, and Aili decided to tell Aponia.
• Chen Luo threatened Xiao You with the photobook and pulled her into his arms as Aili criticized his behavior.
• Aili pointed out that Chen Luo had failed to report the sanatorium’s Honkai outbreak risk to Fire Moth, and the Enforcement Department knocked at the door.

Chen Luo was taken to Fire Moth for questioning after a Honkai outbreak began at the sanatorium he had visited, and Dr. Mei pressed him over his failure to report the danger. He admitted that he had noticed the patients but believed the sanatorium’s caretaker meant to spare them further suffering, leaving Mei to challenge his trust in her.

• Yakumo Yukari tried to broadcast Chen Luo’s interrogation to the bar, but the projection showed a finger that nearly poked her eyes out.
• Fire Moth officers escorted Chen Luo and Hua to separate interrogation rooms, where Dr. Mei questioned Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo learned that a small Honkai outbreak had occurred at the sanatorium and that nearly all its residents had died.
• Chen Luo admitted noticing the Honkai Sickness patients but said he had believed the sanatorium’s caretaker was trying to help them.
• Dr. Mei accused Chen Luo of being naive for trusting the caretaker after only meeting her once.

Mei kept Chen Luo in custody but planned to protect him from serious punishment, while warning him to placate Mobius and arranging Kevin’s birthday feast in exchange for help. At the bar, the others discussed Chen Luo’s unusual patience with the Previous Era and learned that his Human “Orange Juice” Project aimed to preserve its people as puppets after their deaths.

• Chen Luo asked Mei about Hua’s situation and offered to take responsibility for keeping her from reporting the incident, but Mei warned that doing so would worsen his punishment.
• Mei revealed that Mobius had listened outside the interrogation room and advised Chen Luo to placate her; she also agreed to help him in exchange for a proper birthday feast for Kevin without instant noodles.
• Mei said Chen Luo would remain in custody overnight until the Fire Moth operation team returned, then told Mobius that she would handle the matter because the higher-ups valued Chen Luo too highly to punish him severely.
• At the bar, Yakumo Yukari, Venti, Merlin, Aili, and the Herrscher of Knowledge watched Chen Luo rest in custody and discussed how unusually calm he was about being detained in the Previous Era.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge explained that the Human “Orange Juice” Project would turn the Previous Era’s population into puppets, with their souls transferred to the puppet world after death so they could continue their lives in a world without Honkai.

Chen Luo’s friends discussed his plan to preserve the Previous Era’s people in a recreated world, then Chen Luo appeared through a Soul Steel Body while his main body remained in custody. When they realized he could not use most of his usual abilities, Yakumo Yukari tried to torment him, but he stopped her with the Friendship Revolver and restored order in the bar.

• The Herrscher of Knowledge explained that Chen Luo’s Puppet World could give the Previous Era’s people a peaceful continuation, and Aili defended the plan as a chance for them to regain ordinary happiness.
• Chen Luo arrived in a Soul Steel Body and asked why everyone was mourning him, then admitted he was exhausted by the Human 'Orange Juice' Project.
• Yakumo Yukari realized Chen Luo could not use most of his abilities or access his items through the borrowed body and started pinching and stretching his face.
• Chen Luo produced the Friendship Revolver and shot Yakumo Yukari, making the bar’s onlookers abandon their plans to prank him.
• Merlin switched the livestream to the sanatorium scene, while Chen Luo told the children not to watch and then allowed Flandre to keep watching.

Chijie stormed out of the bar after recognizing the scene of his past battle with Sakura, while Aponia and Chen Luo discussed the sanatorium children and how to face Aponia’s guilt. The next morning, Chen Luo remained in Fire Moth’s interrogation room, where Aili and Mobius’s competing attempts to bring him breakfast turned into an awkward encounter.

• Chijie recognized the battle between himself and Sakura as a scene from fifty thousand years ago, cursed Aponia, and left the bar in a rage.
• Chen Luo told Aili that the sanatorium children had arrived at the Puppet Collection Vault and were being restored using the Holy Grail and Prism Cosmos.
• Aponia arrived, thanked Chen Luo for giving the sanatorium children orange juice, and agreed to wait until the following night to see them.
• Aponia suggested that Chen Luo could keep Aponia from seeing the children, prompting the bar’s patrons to mistake his intentions and scorn him.
• Aili visited Chen Luo in the interrogation room with breakfast, then Mobius arrived with breakfast of her own and said she had brought it for Klein.
• Danzhu appeared with breakfast from Klein, and Chen Luo asked her to bring him the breakfast Mobius was holding.

Chen Luo learned that Fire Moth’s temporary ruling would confine him, increase his fusion-surgery workload, and strip him of holidays. The chapter ended with the higher-ups focused on the two people Sakura had brought back from the sanatorium, leaving Chen Luo’s final judgment pending.

• Chen Luo accepted breakfast from Elysia, Mobius, and Dan Zhu and chose to eat Mobius’s first while Hua explained why she had been released sooner.
• Elysia revealed that the interrogation records blamed Chen Luo for pressuring Hua into keeping the sanatorium’s Honkai Sickness patients secret, and Chen Luo defended his choice to take responsibility.
• Chen Luo asked Elysia about his prospects for release, and she explained that Fire Moth remained busy handling small-scale Honkai incidents despite the recent major eruption.
• Elysia told Chen Luo that Sakura had brought two people back from the sanatorium, and one had so startled Fire Moth’s higher-ups that they had postponed his final judgment.
• Elysia reported Chen Luo’s likely temporary penalties: confinement within Fire Moth, four fusion surgeries per day, and no holidays for an unspecified period.

Chen Luo discussed why he refused fusion surgery and becoming a Flame-Chaser, while Elysia invited him to meet Aponia at Fire Moth. After they left, Chen Luo prepared to collect his promised compensation in the Immortal Realm and retrieve the seal to the Heavenly Prison.

• Chen Luo told Elysia that fusion surgery was too painful and dangerous, and that he wanted to remain human; Hua reconsidered becoming a Flame-Chaser to stay his assistant.
• Elysia offered Chen Luo a chance to touch her ears, but he refused because he feared romantic misfortune and Mobius catching them.
• A Fire Moth soldier reminded Elysia of her appointment, and Elysia explained that she was going to see Aponia, who had been accused of causing a Honkai outbreak.
• Hua accompanied Elysia to meet Aponia, while Chen Luo handed them the last breakfast and stayed behind.
• Chen Luo decided to retrieve the Heavenly Prison seal from the warden and collect the compensation and resources owed to him in the Immortal Realm.

Aponia was held at Fire Moth while the organization investigated whether she had knowingly caused a Honkai outbreak, and Aili tried to comfort and befriend her. Chen Luo remained confined over his concealed knowledge of the sanatorium, and Sakura visited him with another breakfast and apologized for his predicament.

• Sakura brought Aponia to an observation room and explained that the higher-ups had not yet decided her judgment.
• Aponia asked whether the sanatorium residents had survived and wondered whether warning Sakura on Dusk Street could have changed events.
• Aili arrived, offered Aponia breakfast from Chen Luo, and reassured her that Chen Luo faced confinement and extra work rather than a severe punishment.
• Aili drew close to Aponia and insisted that she saw a kind, sorrowful girl rather than a sinner awaiting judgment.
• Sakura visited Chen Luo with a fourth breakfast, and he complained that Aili had kept sending him food.
• Sakura apologized to Chen Luo for being implicated in the sanatorium incident and locked up.

After the sanatorium incident, Aponia visited Chen Luo in the interrogation room, where he learned he was being released to continue performing fusion surgeries. The next day, an exhausted Chen Luo rested outside the operating room, and Mobius reported that Chijie was alive and under observation.

• Aponia apologized to Chen Luo for involving him in the sanatorium case, and Elysia explained that she was handling Aponia’s interrogation.
• Chen Luo questioned why he was confined while Aponia could walk around with Elysia, then learned Mobius was responsible for his case.
• A Fire Moth soldier released Chen Luo with confinement, heavier workloads, and revoked holidays, so he went with Hua to perform surgeries for Mobius.
• Elysia took Aponia to bring Chen Luo a playful breakfast gift containing digestive tablets.
• After completing four surgeries, Chen Luo rested with Mobius and asked about Chijie, whom Mobius said had a bad temper and high research value.

Chen Luo returned from the Previous Era and reunited with the Herrscher of Knowledge before heading out to retrieve a seal and investigate Yvette’s absence. At home, he found Bai Zhi and Xiao Ke’er waiting for him, and their conversation turned to his sword and Bai Zhi’s abilities.

• Mobius left to discuss matters with Mei after agreeing to join Chen Luo for lunch later, while Aili dragged Chen Luo and Aponia to the cafeteria.
• Chen Luo returned to his room, where the Herrscher of Knowledge woke and hugged him before they planned to visit the Immortal Realm and investigate Yvette’s return to the church.
• Chen Luo said they would first find the warden and retrieve the seal True Lord Jin Yang had used to control the Heavenly Prison.
• Chen Luo opened his front door, saw Bai Zhi, and immediately slammed it shut before letting her and Xiao Ke’er inside.
• Bai Zhi explained that Xiao Ke’er was her friend and fellow A-rank Talent User, then advised Chen Luo to leave home more often.
• Bai Zhi dismissed the Xuanyuan Sword as a useless antique, while Chen Luo knew it was particularly effective against her conceptual abilities.

Chen Luo arranged to split treatment earnings with Bai Zhi, then used Identity Proof to give the little fox a powerful Spirit Fox identity. The resulting mission forced him to end every sentence with “meow,” leaving him struggling to communicate as Herrscher of Knowledge laughed at him.

• Bai Zhi offered to split her Relevant Department salary with Chen Luo, and Chen Luo instead agreed to split the spirit stones he earned from treatment with her.
• Xiao Ke'er teased Bai Zhi about having feelings for Chen Luo and was punched and later struck on the head.
• Bai Zhi left with Xiao Ke'er after discussing the Switch Chen Luo had given her, and Chen Luo was relieved to be alone.
• Chen Luo applied for an identity for the little fox, and Identity Proof assigned her the high-potential Spirit Fox identity and charged him 1,000 Primogems.
• Chen Luo received a mission requiring him to end every form of communication with “meow” for one to three days, with a 2,000-Primogem reward.
• Herrscher of Knowledge laughed at Chen Luo's predicament as he prepared to leave and worried about using his River God identity while the mission was active.

Chen Luo visited Yun Lian'er to arrange cover for his trip to the Immortal Realm while struggling with a mission that made him add “meow” to everything he said. He reached the Heavenly Prison and used signs to obtain its controlling seal from the Warden, preparing to travel onward.

• Chen Luo went to Yun Lian'er and Sister Meng for help hiding his plans, and Yun Lian'er suggested explaining his forced “meow” endings as a curse or contract.
• Yun Lian'er told Chen Luo about the valuable items in the Abyss Channel and offered to explore Xinghai City's newly opened channel with him later.
• Chen Luo left after transforming with his halo and traveled to the Heavenly Prison, where the Warden and director were stationed during preparations to relocate it.
• Chen Luo used written signs to ask the Warden for the Heavenly Prison's seal, and the director urged the Warden to hand it over.
• The Warden gave Chen Luo the seal, allowing him to proceed with his plan to go to the Immortal Realm.

Chen Luo used signs to communicate with the master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, delivered supplies, and sought a way to help Shenhe with her Solitary Star Calamity fate pattern. After learning the Seal Fiend Method almost instantly, he left the master astonished by his ability.

• Chen Luo left the director after telling him to contact the River God by throwing something valuable into a river.
• Chen Luo met the master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and accepted compensation and supplies for delivery to the lower realm.
• Chen Luo asked the master to teach him a method to treat Shenhe’s Solitary Star Calamity, and the master warned that it would take years to learn.
• The master gave Chen Luo a secret manual as a test, and Chen Luo quickly read it and formed Star Ink using the River Diagram and Luo Script.
• The master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion watched Chen Luo use the Seal Fiend Method and marveled that he had learned in seconds what had taken him ten years.

Chen Luo received the Seal Fiend Method and sword manuals from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master, then agreed to supply cultural products from the human world for the immortal realm. When he returned home, he found Ye Yunshang waiting there with Bai Zhi and Su Yuan.

• The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master explained how the Seal Fiend Method used stellar power to suppress baleful fate, and Chen Luo accepted the manual while learning the conditions for using it on Shenhe.
• The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master gave Chen Luo sword art manuals from Shu Mountain, Kunlun, and Penglai, then proposed buying cultural products from the human world.
• Chen Luo accepted the cultural-products commission and discussed bringing entertainment such as short videos and online novels, while avoiding dramas he thought would upset immortal realm residents.
• Chen Luo visited Ye Yunshang's empty courtyard, returned to Yun Lian'er, and left after the commission forced him to end his sentences with “meow.”
• Chen Luo arrived home and found Bai Zhi, Su Yuan, and Ye Yunshang outside his door; Su Yuan introduced Ye Yunshang as her master, who planned to stay for a few days.

Chen Luo met Su Yuan’s master, Ye Yunshang, and let her share his internet connection after construction left her without access. Ye Yunshang moved into Su Yuan’s neighboring house, then suddenly remembered she had promised to meet the River God.

• Ye Yunshang analyzed how Talent Users’ abilities reflected their personalities and concluded that Chen Luo’s talents and charm made him a likely calamity for beautiful women.
• Ye Yunshang admitted she had come to escape the internet outage caused by construction on the mountain, then asked Chen Luo to share his connection.
• Chen Luo accepted a commission and installed an internet cable for Ye Yunshang, who moved into the room Su Yuan had prepared and shut herself away online.
• Ye Yunshang came downstairs and asked whether there was a river nearby because she had promised to meet the River God.

Chen Luo studied the cultivation manuals from the Immortal Realm while using Othinus to store the knowledge, leaving him dazed and mentally exhausted. Morgan took advantage of his vulnerable state to seek Soul Materialization through the Third Magic, but her first attempt failed.

• Chen Luo returned home, brought the Herrscher of Knowledge out of his consciousness sea, and began rapidly reading the manuals stored in the ring.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge left while Chen Luo continued studying, with Othinus storing the knowledge to lessen the strain on his mind.
• Morgan told Chen Luo she had stopped resisting Puppet Transformation and asked how he felt when looking at her.
• Morgan kissed Chen Luo while he was dazed, hoping their exchange of bodily fluids would transfer the Third Magic, but she received no Soul Materialization.
• Morgan demanded that Chen Luo use the Third Magic, while recognizing him as her Master and explaining that she had sought the power for herself.

Chen Luo told Morgan that blood could transmit the Third Magic, revealing that Merlin had misled her into believing it required lovers to exchange bodily fluids. Morgan pursued Merlin into Avalon and attacked him, while Chen Luo helped her; back at the bar, Yakumo Yukari laughed at Chen Luo’s meowing and reached the threshold for a Friendship Revolver shot.

• Chen Luo explained that blood could transmit the Third Magic, and Morgan realized Merlin had deceived her about how it worked.
• Morgan insisted on obtaining the Third Magic and pressed herself against Chen Luo, then waited by the bar entrance to confront Merlin.
• Yakumo Yukari laughed at Chen Luo’s meows, and Chen Luo recorded her laughter toward a Friendship Revolver penalty.
• Morgan blocked Merlin from entering the bar, then received Chen Luo’s permission to cross into Avalon and attack him.
• Merlin inferred that Morgan had gained the Third Magic through her relationship with Chen Luo before her attack interrupted him.
• Yakumo Yukari laughed again, bringing her recorded total to three, and Chen Luo aimed the Friendship Revolver at her.