Chapter Summaries

Wang Lei helped the Astral Express Group secure rooms at the Daydream Hotel, accepted Topaz’s Preservation-infused emerald, and gave Robin Harmony power before heading to the VIP lounge. In the elevator, he and Aili Xiya encountered Acheron, whose reaction to Aili Xiya stirred memories of her homeland and left her asking for a hug.

• Wang Lei and Welt escorted the Star God Group and Astral Express Group to the Daydream Hotel, where the receptionist refused to register Stelle without a reservation.
• Topaz intervened on Wang Lei’s behalf, introduced himself as a Strategic Investment Department specialist, and gave Wang Lei a gemstone infused with the Path of Preservation.
• Sunday arrived, arranged rooms for Stelle and the others, and invited Topaz to speak privately; Wang Lei accepted Topaz’s gift and gave Robin Harmony power that could grant her Emanator-level strength temporarily.
• Sunday upgraded Wang Lei’s group to luxurious rooms and lifetime VIP status, while Wang Lei warned his companions to check for surveillance and gather with the Astral Express Group before entering the dream.
• Wang Lei and Aili Xiya met Stelle and Acheron in the elevator, where Acheron reacted sorrowfully to Aili Xiya and briefly manifested the Path of Nihility before asking to hug her.

Acheron resonated with Aili Xiya and briefly manifested a form linked to Mei before her sword suppressed the power, revealing a connection between her and Honkai. After helping Acheron reach her room, Wang Lei and his companions heard the Clockmaker’s message and prepared to enter Penacony’s dreamscape, where Wang Lei planned to seek Black Swan.

• Aili Xiya embraced Acheron, and their Origin energies resonated until Acheron’s sword released Imaginary Number Energy and ended her transformed state.
• Aili Xiya encouraged Acheron to smile, and Acheron, Aili Xiya, and Stelle hugged while Wang Lei watched.
• Wang Lei and Stelle escorted Acheron to her room, making their group the last to join Himeko and Welt.
• Himeko shared the Clockmaker’s encrypted message, but Wang Lei and the Star God Group showed little interest in the Clockmaker’s Legacy.
• Wang Lei prepared to enter the dreamscape and decided to look for Black Swan in the ocean of Memoria.

Sunday warned Robin to keep her distance from Wang Lei, while Topaz and Veritas Ratio discussed the company’s plans for Penacony. Wang Lei entered the Golden Dreamscape, where Sunday and Robin found him and offered to show him around.

• Sunday questioned Robin about Wang Lei’s Harmony power and urged her to stay away from him, but Robin said it had healed her throat and caused no discomfort.
• Veritas Ratio criticized Topaz’s attempt to approach Star and warned that her plan to use Wang Lei could damage the company’s relationship with him.
• Topaz suggested Penacony’s factions might be hiding plans for the Harmony Festival, and she hinted that their conversation could be monitored; Veritas Ratio understood and played along.
• Wang Lei entered the Golden Dreamscape and used the Simulated Fenghuang Down to stop his fall above the city.
• Sunday and Robin found Wang Lei sampling street food and offered to show him around Penacony, so he contacted Nancy and Shenhe for help diverting them.

Wang Lei explored Penacony’s dream-selling service and learned how its dreams could be read and stored as memories. On his way to Aideen Park, he followed a disguised merchant into an ambush, exposed the trick, and discovered the attacker was a Masked Fool.

• Sunday escorted Wang Lei around Golden Hour after Robin, Nancy, and Shenhe left to go shopping.
• Wang Lei bought and experienced three exploration dreams, then used his Gene Engine to analyze memory-reading and storage algorithms and shared them through the World Bubble Computer.
• A suspicious, disguised man lured Wang Lei toward a group of street punks by offering illegal dreams, including one that let customers experience being Robin.
• Wang Lei challenged the man’s claim that the Hound Family would catch them, then restrained him with a transparent fluid barrier.
• The man dropped two red embroidered balls that released pink smoke, but Wang Lei blocked the surprise attacker, knocked her down, and exposed her disguise.
• Wang Lei recognized the twin-tailed girl’s slanted Fool’s mask and demanded to know why a Masked Fool had targeted him.

Wang Lei dealt with Sparkle’s failed prank and ordered Sampo to buy drainage systems for Belobog, then met Stelle and Firefly in Penacony. At Aideen Park, he found Aili Xiya performing for Jingliu and Acheron, and Black Swan invited him to join them for dancing.

• Sparkle’s attempt to trick Wang Lei failed, and he restrained her before Sampo appeared and tried to help her escape.
• Wang Lei recognized Sampo, freed him and Sparkle, and ordered Sampo to purchase advanced drainage systems for Belobog; Sparkle revealed her name and asked Sampo for another favor in exchange for his mask.
• Wang Lei met Stelle shopping with Firefly, recognized Firefly’s likely identity as Sam, and gave Stelle a card to pay for their outing.
• Wang Lei arrived at Aideen Park and saw Aili Xiya singing while Jingliu and Acheron cheered from the crowd.
• Black Swan invited Wang Lei to join her, and he agreed to introduce her to Aili Xiya and Jingliu so they could dance.

Wang Lei traded memories of Otto and the Imaginary Tree to Black Swan for a Light Cone that let him enter and navigate the Sea of Imaginary Matter. After Acheron revealed herself as Raiden Mei, an Emanator of Nihility, Wang Lei showed her the Power of Existence she had instinctively sought.

• Black Swan’s divination card shattered when Wang Lei asked whether he could become an Aeon, revealing an image of the Imaginary Tree.
• Wang Lei exchanged two Memory Bubbles about Otto for Black Swan’s Light Cone, which let him enter and navigate the Sea of Imaginary Matter.
• Acheron sensed an unusual energy from Wang Lei and asked him to explain it, so he took her through a portal into the Sea of Imaginary Matter.
• Wang Lei identified Acheron as Raiden Mei, Guardian of the River of Oblivion, and she transformed and revealed her Nihility Power.
• Wang Lei produced a trace of Power of Existence and explained that it was the energy Acheron had sensed, opposite to Nihility.

Wang Lei and Acheron clashed in the Sea of Imaginary Matter, and their powers carried them into a manifestation of Nihility before they returned to Penacony’s dreamscape. There, they reunited with Stelle and Black Swan and joined their investigation into the Dreamscape’s secrets, while Wang Lei suspected an unknown Emanator was interfering with the area.

• Wang Lei asked Acheron to show him Nihility’s true essence in exchange for a thread of Power of Existence, and she drew her blade to test him.
• Wang Lei infused Power of Existence into his Stellaron energy, causing an explosion that swallowed both him and Acheron and led them to a shadow of Nihility.
• Acheron clarified that their clash had ended in a draw, then pushed Wang Lei back into the Sea of Imaginary Matter, where he opened a portal to Penacony’s dreamscape by mistake.
• Wang Lei and Acheron explored the dreamscape and encountered Stelle and Black Swan, who explained how they had entered the Daydream Hotel to investigate Penacony’s truth.
• Wang Lei learned that more than four System Time units had passed and suspected an unknown Emanator was disrupting the dreamscape, then joined Stelle and Black Swan’s group.

Wang Lei, Acheron, Stelle, and Black Swan encountered a mysterious Memory Zone Meme that appeared to kill Firefly, then followed Firefly’s memories through the Dreamscape. The trail led them back to the Daydream Hotel lobby, where Black Swan identified a silver-white mech as the Stellaron Hunter Sam.

• Black Swan led the group through the Dreamscape and showed them a memory afterimage of Firefly before they reached the Daydream Hotel lobby.
• A concealed Mysterious Path meme attacked Firefly, and Wang Lei wounded it before it escaped; Firefly then dissipated in Stelle’s arms.
• Black Swan contacted Himeko, who reported that she and March 7th were blocked by the Hound Family, and proposed taking the group to safety.
• After Black Swan found another Firefly memory, Stelle persuaded the others to follow it instead of returning to the Golden Dreamland.
• The group followed Firefly’s trail through the burning Dreamscape back to the lobby, where they found a silver-white mech and Black Swan identified it as Sam.

Wang Lei watched Stelle fight Firefly as Sam using a prototype armor, then pursued Black Swan after she took Stelle away. He and Acheron overheard Topaz’s plan and returned to Golden Hour, where Acheron tasted ice cream after consuming Wang Lei’s Power of Existence, while Wang Lei set out to confront Black Swan.

• Wang Lei recognized that Sam was Firefly and concluded that the dream monster had extracted spiritual bodies rather than killed its victims.
• Wang Lei gave Stelle a Dominion Knight Belt, and she transformed into armor powered by the authorities of the Herrscher of Ice and Herrscher of Stone before fighting Sam.
• After Stelle’s armor ran out of energy, Wang Lei stopped Sam’s kick; Black Swan then took Stelle away, and Wang Lei followed her with Acheron through a portal.
• Wang Lei and Acheron secretly watched Topaz accuse Acheron of killing Robin and invite Stelle to uncover the truth of death, then heard Black Swan warn Stelle against working with him.
• Wang Lei brought Acheron to Golden Hour and gave her Power of Existence, which restored her sense of taste when she drank it; he then left to question Black Swan.

Wang Lei captured Black Swan to question her about her dealings in Penacony and the Light Cone she had given him. When they tested it together, they found that it led to an unfamiliar place and distorted time, leaving them to investigate a possible Aeon-level interference.

• Wang Lei tracked Black Swan to Acheron's room, trapped her memetic transformation, and brought her into his Consciousness Space for questioning.
• Black Swan explained that she had dealt with Topaz to obtain his memories and had followed Stelle to learn more about Firefly and the factions at the Harmony Festival.
• Wang Lei pressed Black Swan about her deal with Topaz, and she revealed that Topaz had told her Acheron was an Emanator who had killed the Netherflame Grand Duke.
• Wang Lei released Black Swan and tested her Light Cone with her, but they arrived on a dilapidated street outside Penacony's twelve-hour dreamscape and lost time again.
• Black Swan suspected an Aeon-level force was preventing Wang Lei from entering Penacony, and Wang Lei told her that Acheron was an Emanator of Nihility before they agreed to explore the unfamiliar dreamscape.

Wang Lei and Black Swan explored Dreamflux Reef, discovered a dangerous Imaginary Matter Accretion Disk above Penacony, and learned from Robin that an unknown Path had infiltrated Harmony. The chapter ended with Black Swan identifying Sunday as the prime suspect in the betrayal.

• Wang Lei and Black Swan reached Dreamflux Reef, learned it was Penacony’s hidden land of exile, and saw the Imaginary Matter Accretion Disk between dreamscapes.
• Misha told Wang Lei and Black Swan that Mimim transported people between dreamscapes, that Robin was in Dreamflux Reef, and that time passed there faster than in Golden Hour.
• Wang Lei and Black Swan met Robin, who explained that she had been investigating a discordant note in Penacony’s Harmony and had been ambushed.
• Robin and Wang Lei concluded that another Path’s power had entered Harmony through one of Penacony’s five Family heads, while Black Swan argued that Remembrance had no motive to interfere.
• Wang Lei speculated that the discordant note might be the Path of Order, and Black Swan named Sunday as the prime suspect.

Wang Lei agreed to help Robin investigate the force corrupting Harmony in Penacony, then pursued his own leads after returning to Golden Hour. He questioned Topaz and captured Sparkle, whose riddles suggested that smart players stayed offstage and that Penacony was resisting Wang Lei.

• Robin rejected Black Swan's suspicion of Sunday, named the heads of the other great Families and the Dream Master as suspects, and asked Wang Lei to protect innocent people while investigating Penacony.
• Black Swan took Wang Lei back to Golden Hour, where he sensed unusual Harmony power in Aideen Park and split from her to investigate Sunday at Dew Pavilion.
• Wang Lei found Topaz giving away gemstones while afflicted by Harmony power, offered to remove it, and then secretly watched as Topaz drew Sparkle out.
• Wang Lei ambushed Sparkle and questioned her about the Aeons influencing Penacony and the mastermind behind the drama.
• Sparkle refused to give Wang Lei her mutual-destruction button, warned him that Penacony did not welcome him, and suggested he could avoid becoming the boss by acting like a Fool and staying offstage.

Wang Lei confronted Sunday and the Dream Master about Order and Sunday’s plan to make Penacony an eternal dream paradise. After Wang Lei forced Sunday to choose Robin over his dream, the Dream Master trapped Wang Lei in a deeper Synesthesia Dreamscape, where he became bound to the lives of people who had fled reality.

• Wang Lei warned Sunday about the Imaginary Matter Accretion Disk and revealed that Robin was trapped beneath it, then used the information to question Sunday about Order.
• The Dream Master spoke through a Hidden Nightjar and, with Sunday, explained their plan to create an eternal Seven Rest Days dream world.
• Wang Lei tested Sunday’s devotion by threatening Robin with the Path of the Hunt, and Sunday chose to protect his sister over preserving his paradise.
• The Dream Master summoned Ena’s power through the Oak Family’s souls and cast Wang Lei into a deeper dreamscape after declaring Penacony would no longer welcome him.
• Wang Lei found himself attached to people living out their struggles, realized he could switch hosts by killing their spirits, and decided to study the dream for a way out.

After Acheron freed Wang Lei from Penacony’s dreamscape, he realized that the Dream Master and Sunday had driven him toward Self-Annihilation by making him experience countless tragic lives. He began converting Penacony’s Memoria into Power of Existence to resist Nihility, leaving the conflict unresolved as he destroyed an insect swarm’s dream.

• Wang Lei endured hundreds of thousands of tragic dreams and used Power of Existence to keep himself from becoming a Self-Annihilator.
• Acheron’s blade opened a path out of the dreamscape, and Wang Lei reunited with Acheron and Topaz in the black-and-white space.
• Wang Lei warned Acheron that Sunday and the Dream Master followed Order, asked her to alert his companions and the Astral Express, and explained that he intended to consume Penacony’s Memoria.
• Acheron agreed to carry his warning and promised to cut him down if Nihility devoured him, then sent him back to Penacony.
• Wang Lei flew to the Memoria Accretion Disk and converted an insect swarm’s entire dream into Power of Existence.
• Wang Lei found that Nihility was still eroding the Memoria and remained locked in a precarious struggle with Existence.

After Sunday sent Wang Lei into Taiyi's Dream, Gallagher attacked him with the Meme named Death, while Wang Lei's companions learned he was in danger. Acheron convinced them not to assault Penacony and to leave the Asdana Star System, while Nancy prepared to pressure The Family and make a show of force.

• The Dream Master told Sunday that Wang Lei had been placed in the Order Dreamscape, then left Sunday to handle the Harmony Festival and another threat to Penacony.
• Gallagher confronted Sunday in Dew Pavilion, revealed his links to The Family's members, and summoned Death to stab Sunday.
• When Wang Lei's connection to the Astral Express failed, Nancy's companions prepared to force their way into Penacony, but Boti Ou arrived and claimed to be an Aeon of Preservation.
• Acheron and Black Swan appeared aboard the train, and Acheron delivered a relic to Boti Ou before reporting that Wang Lei had fallen into self-annihilation and planned to sacrifice the Asdana Star System's Memoria to resist Nihility.
• Nancy accepted Acheron's warning and ordered the Astral Express to warp out of the system, while she planned to contact Topaz and have Jingliu and Himeko create a threatening meteor shower near Penacony.

Nancy ordered Jingliu and Murata Himeko to create a terrifying but harmless meteor shower over Penacony before the Astral Express fled, while Wang Lei’s struggle against Nihility escalated into a cosmic clash with Existence and quantum power. The Imaginary Tree sapling began absorbing Nihility, mutuality intervened, and several Aeons gathered unseen in the Asdana Star System as Penacony faced a rapidly growing threat.

• Nancy reassured Topaz that Jingliu and Murata Himeko would turn their asteroids into harmless meteorites, then warned Penacony that her patience was limited.
• Jingliu and Murata Himeko shattered the asteroids into small meteorites, frightened Penacony’s residents, and returned with the Astral Express before the Family could respond.
• The Dream Master persuaded Penacony’s families to blame the meteor shower on the Harmony Festival, while Topaz demanded that the Family explain Wang Lei’s disappearance to the Star God Group.
• Wang Lei’s real body became the center of an expanding Nihility Shadow as Nihility invaded his World Bubble, destroyed the captured Suiyang, and began confronting the Imaginary Tree sapling.
• The Aeon of mutuality aided the sapling, weakening the Remembrance barrier and reopening the Imaginary Matter Hole; the resulting Memoria surge restored Wang Lei’s accretion disk and intensified the conflict between Existence and Nihility.
• IX chose not to stop the sapling from absorbing Nihility, while Fuli, Mith, and Aha secretly came to watch the unfolding event and Xipe observed from afar without intervening.

The Astral Express uncovered Sunday and the Dream Master’s devotion to Order, but a looming Nihility Shadow forced the rival factions to set aside their conflict. As Penacony prepared for the disaster, Firefly left to bring back the departed Astral Express while Himeko organized a joint response.

• Sunday revealed that the Penacony Grand Theater and Dreamscape were built on the Stellaron, and Gallagher explained that its power consumed the minds of countless dreamers.
• The Astral Express split up: Himeko, March 7th, Stelle, and Firefly searched for Clockmaker’s legacy while Welt accompanied Sunday and Robin to confront the Dream Master.
• Sunday and the Dream Master tried to cast Welt and Robin into the Dream of Order, but Robin resisted with Harmony power granted by Wang Lei and escaped.
• Stelle and Firefly completed the challenge to reach the Grand Theater, where Sunday tried to persuade the Astral Express to embrace Order before Firefly warned that a Nihility Shadow was approaching Penacony.
• Sunday confirmed the danger, agreed to cooperate, and released Welt; Firefly then departed as Sam to catch up with the Astral Express, while Himeko planned to gather allies and prevent panic.

The Astral Express Group gathered allies to face the expanding Nihility Shadow, and Sunday proposed combining their powers to strike it. Acheron explained that heartfelt positive emotions could expose the shadow’s core, so Robin planned a Harmony Festival while Boti Ou called on the Aeon of Preservation’s followers for support.

• Stelle recruited Argenti and Sparkle, while Himeko found Aventurine and March 7th reunited with Welt and Robin.
• Sunday awakened the power of Order and proposed using the gathered Paths and the Oak Family’s souls to attack the Nihility Shadow, but Sparkle warned that the plan could strengthen it.
• The Astral Express returned, and Acheron, Black Swan, Dan Heng, Boti Ou, and the Star God Group gathered at the Daydream Hotel, where Nancy accused Sunday and the Dream Master of causing Wang Lei’s entanglement with Nihility.
• Acheron said genuine positive emotions could expose the Nihility Shadow’s core, and warned Sunday that manufacturing happiness through the Dream of Order would worsen the danger.
• Robin proposed holding a Harmony Festival and rewarding Penacony’s residents and workers to inspire genuine joy, while Boti Ou offered to summon the followers of the Aeon of Preservation as additional support.

Sunday and Robin gathered Penacony’s happiness and the Star God Group’s power into a multicolored train that pierced the Nihility Shadow and opened a path to Wang Lei. As the Star God Group’s members fought to stop Acheron from striking Wang Lei, Aili Xiya fired a powered-up arrow through the Nihility shell to wake him.

• Robin opened the Harmony Festival with a song, and Sunday announced free services for visitors and triple pay for Penacony’s employees.
• Boti Ou fired a bullet into the sky, drawing more than a hundred thousand Preservation ships to Penacony, while Black Swan and the Memokeepers relayed their power to Sunday.
• Robin used the Power of Trailblaze to unite the gathered forces into a multicolored train, which Sunday launched toward the Nihility Shadow and which opened a path to Wang Lei’s true body.
• Jingliu attacked Acheron to stop her from striking Wang Lei, while Murata Himeko, Shenhe, Gui Zhong, Argenti, and Sparkle held back the other fighters.
• Nancy gave the Herrscher of Corruption Core to Aili Xiya, who transformed it into an arrow and summoned a giant energy construct.
• Jingliu cleared a path to Wang Lei’s core, Acheron lent the construct the Power of Origin, and Aili Xiya fired an arrow that pierced the Nihility shell.

After Aili Xiya’s arrow let the Imaginary Tree sapling break free of Nihility, Wang Lei connected it to the Imaginary Tree’s main body and survived by immersing his soul in the Sea of Quanta. He ascended as the Aeon of Existence, returned Penacony and its star system to their places, and ended the chapter by curing Firefly and sending a message to Elio.

• Aili Xiya’s arrow pierced Nihility’s barrier, allowing the Imaginary Tree sapling inside Wang Lei to break through and grow by absorbing the surrounding memetic matter.
• Wang Lei discovered that his soul had been woven from the Power of Existence and the Sea of Quanta, then found himself transformed into a vast tree with no hands.
• Wang Lei connected his tree body to the Imaginary Tree’s main body and used the Sea of Quanta to preserve his consciousness, becoming a quantumized branch and opening the Path of Existence.
• Wang Lei declared himself the Aeon of Existence, restored Penacony and its star system, and answered Aha by giving the Aeon coordinates to a world where Sakata Gintoki lived.
• Wang Lei reunited with Nancy and Shenhe, opened the Path of Existence for Stelle, and cured Firefly’s Entropy Loss Syndrome before asking her to tell Elio that the script could remain unchanged despite the different outcome.