Recaps

Qianjie accepted Theresa and Verity’s apology gift, a Key of Domination made from Imol that transformed into flaming gauntlets. Theresa then explained the Keys of Domination and Fusion Warriors to the visitors from Star Rail, before revealing she wanted to test her Honkai Beasts against Amphoreus’s Black Tide monsters.

• Kevin stopped Qianjie’s furious attack and explained that fighting him would cause casualties.
• Elysia urged Theresa and Verity to apologize, and Theresa presented Qianjie with a Key of Domination made from Imol.
• The Key of Domination adapted to Qianjie and transformed from a golden greatsword into flaming gauntlets, which he accepted and put on.
• Kevin explained that Keys of Domination could change form and that Fusion Warriors gained power through adapted Honkai Beast genes.
• Theresa said she wanted to pit her Honkai Beast army against the Black Tide monsters and possibly summon Herrscher projections.

Castorice submitted a fanfiction starring Mydei and Bai Fei, and it became popular on the Universal Net. When Mydei heard its dramatic audio adaptation at breakfast, he realized Castorice had written it and rushed to confront her.

• Theresa summoned Mobius and Pardo Felis, who joined the Chrysos Heirs and learned about life in Okhema.
• Castorice submitted her Mydei-and-Bai Fei fanfiction to an editor, who uploaded it to the Universal Net, where readers quickly spread it.
• Theresa cooked a large breakfast for everyone, including Mydei and Aglaea.
• Theresa played an audio adaptation in which Mydei fell for a white-haired catgirl named Bai Fei, embarrassing and angering him.
• Mydei recognized Bai Fei as Phainon in disguise, blamed Castorice for the story, and hurried to her home.

Mydei visited Castorice’s home in Okhema but found her asleep and decided to return later. Meanwhile, Feng Jin arrived and met Aglaea’s traveling companions, who taught her a popular greeting that soon spread through the group.

• Mydei knocked on Castorice’s door, heard that she was asleep, and left to return in the afternoon.
• Feng Jin arrived from the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace, and Aglaea thanked her for caring for the injured.
• Aglaea introduced Feng Jin to the travelers, including Elysia, Theresa, Kevin, Chiyou, Himeko, and Stelle.
• Elysia held Feng Jin’s hand until Theresa intervened, while Kevin won an arm-wrestling match against Chiyou and broke their table.
• Theresa taught Feng Jin the “.Ciallo~(∠?ω＜)⌒☆” greeting, and Feng Jin, Elysia, Tribbie, Verity, and Aglaea’s dressmaker copied it.

Theresa led a group to the Grove of Epiphany after Aglaea reported a Black Tide invasion, severe casualties, and Anaxa’s disappearance. They reached the outer perimeter and began fighting the monsters while searching for survivors.

• Aglaea asked for help rescuing survivors at the Grove of Epiphany and recovering Shesis’s Core Flame, and Feng Jin explained that Anaxa had been her teacher.
• Theresa opened a portal, and she, Acheron, Feng Jin, Castorice, Stelle, Mimi, and Qian Jie traveled to the Grove while others stayed behind.
• Feng Jin led the group through the Grove’s outer perimeter as Qian Jie dismissed the approaching Black Tide monsters as weak.
• Himeko transformed the Black Tide monsters into crawling Dr. Ratios and made them explode, leaving Feng Jin stunned.

The group reached the Grove of Epiphany and used Mimi’s resonance with the Dryad afterimages to learn that a masked man had headed toward the great tree. Feng Jin led them to Teacher Anaxa’s locked courtyard, where they encountered a projection of Anak Sargon.

• Dr. Ratio destroyed the Black Tide monsters, and the group continued to the Branch of Sundering with Feng Jin.
• Castorice explained the grove’s history, and Feng Jin led everyone to the golden tree at its center.
• Mimi resonated with the Dryad afterimages and saw memories of a black-hooded man carrying a black greatsword toward the great tree.
• Feng Jin used an old teleportation device to bring the group to Teacher Anaxa’s locked courtyard.
• A blue figure appeared at the door and introduced himself as Anak Sargon, a Sage and founder of the School of Sapience, insisting they not call him Anaxa.

Theresa and the others met Anaxa’s soul projection in the fallen Grove of Epiphany and learned that he had hidden part of his soul in a gold sheet. After Theresa secured the soul fragment, Anaxa sent them toward the Throne of Enlightenment to retrieve Shesis’s Core Flame, and the group set out to restore his body.

• Kalpas attacked Anaxa’s projection, but Anaxa explained that he had refined part of his soul into gold so it could guide the group.
• Theresa revealed herself as the Cat Girl Titan, and Anaxa praised her for helping humanity and Okhema’s final king, Krydrla.
• Theresa retrieved the gold sheet containing Anaxa’s soul fragments from beneath the flagstone and warned Stelle not to touch its formation.
• Anaxa said that most of the Grove’s scholars had evacuated to Okhema, but he feared his original body had been lost when the Grove fell.
• Theresa promised to restore Anaxa with the Power of Abundance, returned his soul to the formation, and led the group toward the Throne of Enlightenment to retrieve Shesis’s Core Flame.

Theresa and the others met Shesis, the Titan of Reason, in the Grove of Epiphany and learned that Shesis needed help recovering the Core Flame and escaping a black-cloaked invader. Theresa bypassed the grove’s challenges, and the group headed for the Throne of Enlightenment with Shesis following.

• Feng Jin led the group through a library in the Grove of Epiphany, where Theresa identified Shesis hiding inside a heart-like fairywood tree.
• Shesis asked Theresa about her past appearances, and Theresa explained that she and her companions had come from the future.
• Shesis revealed that a black-cloaked swordsman had driven them from the Core Flame of Reason and asked the group to revive the fairywood tree, retrieve the Golden Branch Oath Laurel, and unlock the waterwheel.
• Theresa used the Power of Abundance to revive the tree and retrieved the laurel with her divine sense, bypassing Shesis’s intended challenges.
• Qian Jie pressured Shesis to start the waterwheel, which opened a door, and the group set off for the Throne of Enlightenment with Shesis following.

Shesis explained how he survived the black-robed swordsman and asked the group to help restore his Core Flame and revive Anaxa. The group reached the Throne of Enlightenment, where Shesis merged into Anaxa’s body as they confronted the swordsman.

• Shesis revealed that he had hidden half of his Core Flame inside Anaxa and had helped him fake his death to escape the black-robed swordsman.
• Shesis admitted he wanted the group’s help to restore his Core Flame and revive Anaxa, and he also sought revenge on the swordsman.
• The group followed Shesis toward the Throne of Enlightenment, collecting Anaxa’s soul fragments along the way.
• At the throne, Shesis secretly merged into Anaxa’s body while the black-robed swordsman turned to face the group.
• Mimi sensed the swordsman’s terrifying aura, and Castorice warned that death and countless lingering souls surrounded him.

Acheron battled the Flame Reaver while Theresa and the others watched, and the Flame Reaver tested their strength by sending out a swarm of Broken Vessels. The fight ended with an unknown attacker piercing the Flame Reaver through the chest, leaving him wounded and facing the culprit.

• Castorice warned everyone about the black-robed swordsman, but Acheron charged him before the others could react.
• Theresa told everyone to let Acheron fight, then brought out snacks as he battled the Flame Reaver and destroyed his Broken Vessel clones.
• The Flame Reaver summoned over a hundred clones and sent some after the others, but Acheron used lightning clones to destroy them.
• Acheron grew furious that the Flame Reaver divided his attention and continued attacking him as the Flame Reaver unleashed the power of his Core Flames.
• The Flame Reaver attacked Acheron with a Ritual Sword, but a cyan Magic Array appeared on his chest and an unknown hand pierced through his heart.
• The Flame Reaver freed himself and turned toward the attacker while Theresa remarked that she could have healed him if he were not an enemy.

Theresa trapped Flame Reaver and Kalpas in a barrier so they could settle their fight, then protected Kalpas from Flame Reaver’s devastating attack. When Flame Reaver’s mask broke, he revealed a face resembling Phainon and identified himself as Khaslana, who had forgotten most of his memories but remembered needing to stop the Journey of the Fire and return the Core Flame.

• Theresa sealed the area around the Throne of Enlightenment to prevent Kalpas from burning down the Tree Garden or escaping the fight.
• Kalpas transformed into his Artificial Collapse Flame Demon form, and Flame Reaver answered with a powerful attack using his Ritual Sword and Morning Greatsword.
• Theresa’s Immortality Shield protected Kalpas from Flame Reaver’s charged slashes, while the Binding Barrier contained the attack’s shockwaves.
• Flame Reaver’s mask fell away, revealing a man who looked like Phainon and named himself Khaslana.
• Theresa healed Khaslana and Kalpas, cooled Khaslana with frostfire, and Stelle asked whether he had recovered any memories.

Herta projected herself into Amphoreus and confronted its administrator, Luguegos Laigushi, at the Genesis Vortex Core. Laigushi warned that forcing entry could unleash a Great Void Lord, and Herta left while apparently planning to bring reinforcements.

• Herta used four mirrors to project herself through the encrypted layers to the Genesis Vortex Core, which she recognized as the entrance to simulated Amphoreus.
• Laigushi appeared and identified itself as Amphoreus’s administrator and the mastermind behind the Iron Curtain Project, but refused to explain more or let Herta proceed.
• Herta challenged Laigushi’s blockade, and it warned that Amphoreus was sealed, that it could guarantee mutual destruction, and that breaking through could free a Great Void Lord of Destruction.
• After Laigushi described the threat to the galaxy, Herta said she had been persuaded and vanished, apparently intending to return with reinforcements.

Theresa brought the Flame Reaver to the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace, where she introduced him to Aglaea and the others and explained his history. She then restored Anaxa’s body and consciousness, leaving him to reunite with Aglaea through their usual insults.

• The Flame Reaver followed Theresa’s group toward the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace while Shesis warned that he might still be dangerous.
• Theresa told the group that she had left a Tree of Abundance in the Grove of Epiphany and had revived the scholars killed by the Flame Reaver.
• At the Hero’s Bath, Theresa introduced the Flame Reaver to Aglaea and the others, and Kevin teased him about his name.
• Aglaea confronted the strange voice speaking through Anaxa, and Theresa explained that Cthugha had occupied his body after he faked his death.
• Theresa healed Anaxa’s body and restored his consciousness, and Anaxa immediately traded sarcastic remarks with Aglaea.

The Flame Reaver revealed that Phainon’s Trial of Strife was destined to fail and urged the group to investigate the Genesis Vortex Core. There they found Laigushi, who exposed his role in Re-creation and demanded that everyone leave Amphoreus.

• The Flame Reaver explained that he had spent thousands of years trying to stop the Chrysos Heirs from returning the Core Flame, then warned that Phainon’s Trial of Strife would fail.
• Theresa opened a portal to the Genesis Vortex Core and led the group there to check on Phainon.
• The group arrived in Theresa’s flower-filled Genesis Vortex Core, where the Flame Reaver became hopeful that she could change Amphoreus’s fate.
• Aglaea and Anaxa recognized Laigushi, who revealed that Divine Spectator was only one of his identities and insisted that Re-creation continue.
• Laigushi demanded that everyone leave Amphoreus, while Stelle mocked him and the group refused to be intimidated.

Khaslana revealed that he was the first cycle’s Phainon and warned the Chrysos Heirs that Amphoreus was simulated data being used to evolve the Iron Tomb. Theresa and Himeko disrupted Laogushi, while Mydei and Yinyueyue entered the Genesis Vortex Core to interfere in the Trial of Strife; Khaslana then waited for Phainon and took out his anger on Laogushi, who fled.

• The Flame Reaver accused Laogushi of masterminding Iron Curtain’s evolution and revealed that Amphoreus was a simulated world destined to produce the Iron Tomb.
• The Flame Reaver removed his mask and identified himself as Khaslana, the first cycle’s Phainon, shocking Aglaea, Mydei, and Anaxa.
• Anaxa laughed at the revelation, while Kalpas, Kevin, Pardo, and Elysia discussed the danger and Theresa and Himeko prepared to intervene.
• Theresa asked Himeko to make Laogushi absurd, and Himeko corrupted their personality until they glitched and laughed uncontrollably.
• Theresa sent Mydei and Yinyueyue into the Genesis Vortex Core to interfere with the Trial of Strife and retrieve Phainon.
• Khaslana said he would pass his knowledge to Phainon, then slapped Laogushi so hard their head spun off before their body vanished and they fled.

Black Calamity revealed that he was a version of Phainon who had endured more than thirty million cycles of Eternal Return, and asked Phainon to inherit his power and stop the birth of the Great Void Lord Iron Tomb. Phainon accepted the Khaslana legacy, while Himeko secretly preserved Black Calamity’s consciousness as he dissipated.

• Black Calamity killed Laogushi, and Yinyueyue and Phainon appeared at the Genesis Vortex Core.
• Phainon explained that Mydei had taken the Trial of Strife in his place, then recognized Black Calamity as the supposed butcher of Ailishi.
• Black Calamity revealed that he was Phainon and recounted the truth of Eternal Return, including the plan to hatch the Great Void Lord Iron Tomb.
• Black Calamity entrusted Phainon with the Ritual Sword and the Khaslana legacy, asking him to end the cycle and prevent Iron Tomb’s birth.
• Phainon stabbed Black Calamity with the Ritual Sword and inherited his power, transforming as data surged into him.
• Black Calamity urged Phainon to carry the wrath of the cycles and declare war on Nanook before dissipating, while Himeko preserved his consciousness in a container for Theresa.

Phainon became Khaslana, restored Cyrene’s memories, and joined Theresa’s plan to strengthen the Chrysos Heirs. Himeko reconstructed Black Calamity in a new cat-eared girl’s body, leaving her bewildered.

• Phainon said he had remained himself through more than thirty million cycles and returned the Ritual Sword to Mimi, awakening her as Cyrene.
• Cyrene recovered most of her memories and reunited with Stelle, affirming that they were closest companions.
• Phainon declined Kalpas’s challenge, warning that his newly acquired power could endanger Amphoreus.
• Theresa proposed continuing the Journey of the Fire and having Phainon lead a group to awaken Hysilens and Krydrla.
• Himeko reconstructed Black Calamity’s consciousness in a white-haired cat-eared girl’s body, and Black Calamity woke up confused by her transformation.

Black Calamity accepted her new identity as Karisilana after passing her Core Flames to Phainon, who vowed to resist destruction and stop the Iron Tomb. Theresa organized missions to claim more Core Flames and protect Okhema, leaving the group preparing to travel to the sky fortress and the underwater city of Styxia.

• Theresa named Black Calamity Karisilana, and Karisilana accepted her new life after transferring her Core Flames to Phainon.
• Phainon vowed not to act impulsively and said the group’s priority was stopping the Iron Tomb from hatching.
• Theresa sent Stelle, Cyrene, Anaxa, Yinyueyue, Phainon, and Feng Jin through a portal toward the Eye of Dawn and Dusk to confront Aegle.
• Theresa gave Karisilana Valkyrie Armor and opened a portal toward Styxia, where she, Elysia, Airi, Acheron, and Himeko planned to awaken Hysilens.
• Verity gained backend access from Himeko, removed Laigushi’s authority over Okhema, and planned to build a Soul Steel defensive wall.

Theresa and her companions reached the underwater city of Sterekstia, where they awakened Krydrla and Hysilens from a sleep lasting over a thousand years. The two learned that Amphoreus’s future had changed and listened as Himeko explained the truth about Eternal Return.

• Yinyueyue split the sea and placed a Realm Anchor so Theresa’s group could enter Sterekstia.
• Theresa created a barrier against the seawater, and Karisilana guided the group to Krydrla and Hysilens’s sleeping place.
• Himeko restarted the Cryo Pods, and Krydrla and Hysilens awoke after more than a thousand years.
• Krydrla and Hysilens recognized Yinyueyue from an old prophecy and said she would inherit Ogles’s authority as the new Earth Titan.
• Theresa told them that Phainon had changed and driven Laigushi away, then Himeko explained the story of Eternal Return.

Krydrla explained that she had feigned her death and entered hibernation after seeing how much her people resented her, while Hysilens had joined her in waiting for a new era. After they returned to Okhema with Theresa and the others, they reunited with Aglaea and Tribbie.

• Karisilana said she had found a new turning point after the Stellaron Hunters arrived, and Krydrla and Hysilens learned the others had protected their carriage from Nykdori.
• Krydrla explained that she had faked her death to learn whether her people still needed her, then entered Deep Sleep after seeing them welcome her apparent death.
• Hysilens said she had settled her affairs, left Okhema, and entered hibernation beside Krydrla to await the era a thousand years later.
• Krydrla and Hysilens led Theresa and the others to the ruined mead-brewing platform, but Theresa purified it and everyone abandoned the idea of using it.
• Theresa opened a portal to Okhema, where Aglaea and Tribbie welcomed Krydrla and Hysilens, and Pardo asked when they would get a mead platform.

Theresa and the others established a vineyard outside Okhema and brewed honey brew with the help of Verity’s machines. After Elysia and Theresa stomped the grapes, more than ten sherry casks were completed.

• Aglaea invited Krydrla to help govern Okhema, and Krydrla agreed to experience life among its people under a new identity.
• Theresa proposed that the Chrysos Heirs farm grapes and brew honey brew, and Aglaea approved using grassland behind Okhema.
• Theresa and Himeko cleared the surrounding Black Tide zones, restored the land with the Power of Abundance, and began building an estate.
• Verity arrived with a plowing machine, dug a well, and installed irrigation and harvesting equipment while Theresa planted and accelerated the growth of grapes and flowers.
• Theresa built a huge brewing vat, and Elysia and Theresa stomped the grapes barefoot before the grapes were processed into more than ten sherry casks of honey brew.

Elysia and Theresa made separate batches of honey brew, which Verity's robot refined and served to the group. Both brews earned enthusiastic praise, and the chapter ended with everyone comparing their flavors as roughly equal.

• Elysia named her pink honey brew True Self's Wish—Flawless Return, and Hysilens and the others praised its sweet taste and floral fragrance.
• Theresa stomped grapes for her own brew, then Verity's robot mixed the juice with fermentation starter, floral nectar, and red honey.
• Theresa named her bright red honey brew Binding Honey Brew—Moonlit Vow and joined everyone in tasting it.
• Verity, Kalpas, Krydrla, Hysilens, and Castorice praised Theresa's brew, while Hysilens and Krydrla judged it roughly equal to Elysia's.

Phainon and his companions explored the Eye of Dawn and Dusk, uncovered the history behind the Rain People and Sun People’s feud, and changed the fortress’s weather to draw out Aegle. Feng Jin invoked her ancestors’ pact as the group faced the Sky Titan, and a giant bird descended before them.

• Phainon used Ignite Dawn to wipe out a horde of Black Tide monsters while Stelle, Cyrene, and Karisilana watched.
• Stelle and Cyrene helped solve the fortress’s puzzles, and Feng Jin explained how the Rain People and Sun People fought over the Celestial Sphere Device.
• Phainon and Karisilana guided Feng Jin through the weather murals, turning the sky to rain and forcing Aegle’s projection to reveal itself.
• Phainon led the group across a rainbow bridge to the fortress’s summit, where Feng Jin declared that her people had honored their ancestor’s pact and brought the answer Aegle needed.
• The platform trembled as Aegle descended, and an enormous bird flew before the group.

Phainon defeated Sky Titan Aegle and recovered the Sky Core Flame, but the corrupted Titan’s battle destroyed the Dome Fortress. Feng Jin, Solabis, Lunaebis, and the others escaped through a portal opened by Theresa, leaving the fortress to explode.

• Phainon transformed into Khaslana, drew Sky Titan Aegle into his domain, and endured its attacks while Feng Jin healed him.
• Phainon struck Aegle with the Morning Greatsword, but the Black Tide corrupted the fallen Titan and turned it into a monstrous form.
• Stelle stopped time as Mimimi transformed into Cyrene, and Phainon crushed the Black Tide Titan beneath a moon-sized meteor.
• Phainon retrieved the Sky Core Flame and gave it to Feng Jin, then invited Solabis and Lunaebis to return to Okhema with the group.
• As the Dome Fortress began to collapse, Stelle called Theresa, who opened a portal that everyone entered before the fortress exploded.

Phainon and the others returned to Theresa’s manor with the recovered Core Flame, where Theresa and Himeko restored the Pegasus and griffin while everyone enjoyed their honey wine. After passing the trial of strife and gaining control over his Blood Qi, Mydei reached Okhema and set out to challenge Phainon, unaware of how much stronger Phainon had become.

• Phainon and the others escaped through Theresa’s portal, reported defeating Sky Titan Aegle, and shared honey wine at the manor.
• Theresa learned that Solabis and Lunaebis were Memory Fragments, and Himeko used her authority to restore their bodies.
• Krydrla challenged Solabis and Lunaebis to a game, with the loser becoming her mount.
• Mydei returned from the trial of strife able to shape his Blood Qi into weapons and believed he could defeat Phainon with an elbow strike.
• Mydei heard people praising Theresa and Elysia’s honey wine in Okhema, then went to find Phainon for a duel.

Mydei returned to Okhema and went to find Phainon, only to discover him at Theresa’s mead estate, where an invisible shield kept Mydei from reaching him. Phainon’s relentless teasing drove Mydei to unleash his strongest attack, but Phainon caught and crushed the spear with one hand.

• Mydei asked the Lion of Truth where Phainon and the others were, learned they were at Theresa’s mead estate, and flew there.
• Mydei spotted Phainon and tried to surprise him by diving down, but he crashed into the estate’s invisible shield while Phainon photographed him.
• Phainon taunted Mydei from behind the shield, repeatedly jumping out to tease him and then retreating beyond Mydei’s reach.
• Mydei summoned Nicadori’s heroic soul and formed a crimson battle spear to smash the shield, but Phainon stepped outside and caught the spear barehanded.
• Phainon crushed Mydei’s spear in his grip, leaving Mydei’s attack unable to reach him.