Chapter Summaries

Sirin returned to the family home and joined Kiana's birthday celebration, finding the loving family life she longed for. After the happy evening, a visitor challenged her by asking whether she was running away from reality.

• Siegfried came home to find Cecilia and Kiana preparing a birthday celebration for Kiana, who had turned sixteen.
• Theresa tried to surprise Sirin when she arrived, and Sirin joined the family for dinner, happy to be welcomed home.
• Kiana received a DS4 from Siegfried and a giant Hohom plush from Theresa, then played games with Sirin.
• Cecilia sent Kiana and Sirin to bed after they spent the evening gaming together.
• As Sirin wondered whether she could stay in her ideal world forever, someone appeared and asked if she was running away.

Feng Chen confronted Sirin about escaping into her ideal world and showed her the memory of her death at Cecilia’s hands. He left after admitting he was interested in her, and Sirin mistook his interest in cute children for proof that he was a lolicon.

• Sirin explained that she had created her ideal world because she longed to regain the happy family she had lost when her mother died in a Honkai eruption.
• Feng Chen accused Sirin of running away from reality, and she became angry when he called her a little kid.
• Feng Chen recreated the scene of Sirin’s death, where Cecilia fought her as a Honkai Split Missile descended, and Sirin refused to resist.
• Feng Chen returned Sirin to her room and said he was interested in her reactions and in cute children.
• Sirin called Feng Chen a lolicon, and he denied the accusation.

Fu Xi explained that burning the Feather of the Crossing would erase Chiyuan’s memories and asked Feng Chen to stop her from using it. Feng Chen agreed but worried he would be too weak to intervene, while Fu Xi and Sirin misread his intentions and mocked him.

• Feng Chen and Sirin continued their rivalry as Fu Xi entered and noticed them examining Chiyuan’s past with the Feather of the Crossing.
• Fu Xi explained that the Eighth Divine Key could create illusions and that burning its feather greatly increased power at the cost of the user’s memories.
• Fu Xi told Feng Chen that Chiyuan would burn the feather at least twice and asked him to stop her when she was about to do so.
• Fu Xi began undressing after mistaking Feng Chen’s concern about his strength for a request to pay with her body, and Sirin laughed at him.
• Feng Chen restored Fu Xi’s clothes with his ability and insisted he was not a lolicon, while Sirin warned him not to try anything.

Feng Chen took Rita to the Sakura Cycle Stigmata Space so they could spend time alone before she entered cryogenic sleep. Rita used a Time Fracture to surprise him, leaving him to realize he was inside her Stigmata Space.

• Rita asked Feng Chen for more time alone with him before entering the cryogenic pod, and Bella encouraged him to go with her.
• Feng Chen left Higanbana with Bella and took Rita to the Sakura Cycle Stigmata Space.
• Rita reminisced about meeting Feng Chen and asked him to close his eyes.
• Rita used a Time Fracture and touched Feng Chen's face while his eyes were closed.
• Feng Chen opened his eyes and sensed another woman's scent, and Rita told him he was inside her Stigmata Space.

After countless years, Xuanyuan and Shennong climbed the mountain where Chiyuan lived and entered her house, where a painting marked Xuanyuan with a Divine Key. Chiyuan decided to keep the two on the mountain and observe them, beginning their legendary story.

• Xuanyuan led Shennong up the mountain to investigate the home of the supposed immortal and monster-raiser.
• Xuanyuan and Shennong entered the house and found a painting of two sisters, which Feng Chen secretly took away.
• Chiyuan returned and confronted Feng Chen about the missing painting, and he restored it to the wall.
• The painting sent a beam of light toward the unconscious Xuanyuan and left a tiny mark on her body.
• Chiyuan noted Shennong's affinity for Honkai Energy and decided to keep both youths on the mountain for observation.

Feng Chen asked Xiao Yun to train Xuanyuan and Shennong while Chiyuan tested their hearts with a feather. He later argued with Sirin over rescuing her, and she dragged Bella into the Imaginary Space before sealing its gate from the outside.

• Feng Chen kept Xuanyuan and Shennong tied up after they woke, then asked Xiao Yun to teach them combat techniques.
• Xiao Yun agreed to train them, while Chiyuan used a red feather to test their hearts.
• Feng Chen entered the room and traded barbs with Sirin about meddling in other people's affairs and saving her because she looked thirteen.
• Sirin summoned spears at Feng Chen, but he destroyed the space behind himself and pinned her against the wall.
• Sirin pulled Bella into the Imaginary Space and made its gate impossible to close from the outside.

After Xuanyuan and Shennong emerged from the Feather of the Crossing, Chiyuan left them with Feng Chen, who asked Xiao Yun to teach them about Honkai Energy. When Xiao Yun warned them that Honkai would destroy their homeland and civilization, Xuanyuan resonated with a golden greatsword and began to crack like glass.

• Xuanyuan said she had seen endless food in the Feather of the Crossing, while Shennong described testing and eating medicinal herbs.
• Chiyuan carried Xuanyuan and Shennong away and told Feng Chen he was responsible for teaching them to fight.
• The next day, Xiao Yun explained Honkai Energy to Xuanyuan and Shennong and warned that Honkai would destroy their homeland and civilization.
• A golden greatsword burst from the ground and floated before Xuanyuan and Xiao Yun, and Xuanyuan reached for it.
• Xuanyuan's face developed cracks as Shennong tried to reach her, but Feng Chen blocked Shennong with his black greatsword, which resonated with Xuanyuan's sword.

Shennong fought Feng Chen to become strong enough to protect Xuanyuan, and Feng Chen decided Chiyuan should train him. After Chiyuan launched a massive attack at Feng Chen, he prepared to use the Eye of Balor to destroy it.

• Shennong charged Feng Chen despite being unable to land a hit, then pleaded to be taught so he could become stronger and protect Xuanyuan.
• Feng Chen detected Chiyuan hiding nearby, and she attacked him with Immortal Style: Phoenix World.
• Feng Chen escaped and teased Chiyuan, while Shennong failed to understand their movements.
• Chiyuan used Extreme Fist Technique: Thunderclap to send a vast sphere of Honkai Energy after Feng Chen.
• Feng Chen called out Higanbana, but she retreated into his Stigmata instead of stopping the attack.
• Feng Chen judged that his changed soul could withstand the Eye of Balor's cost and prepared to destroy Chiyuan's technique.

Feng Chen survived Chiyuan’s attack and learned from Sirin that the Eye of Balor carried the power of death and could not be controlled by him. After leaving Imaginary Space with Bella, he sensed the Key of Domination resonating and checked on Xiao Yun.

• Feng Chen cracked and crushed Chiyuan’s enormous sphere with the hands summoned from the space behind him, then was pulled into Imaginary Space.
• Sirin explained that Feng Chen’s eyes came from Balor and wielded death, warning him to value his life and survive for Bella.
• Feng Chen blamed Sirin for his inability to use Imaginary Space, and the two resumed their usual quarrel.
• Sirin told Feng Chen to keep his eyes on her, then hid behind Bella and asked her to take him away.
• Feng Chen carried Bella out of Imaginary Space and noticed the Key of Domination resonating with Ruoshui, concluding that Xiao Yun seemed safe.

As the Divine Key selection neared completion, Feng Chen and Chiyuan raced to extinguish a fire sparked by Honkai Beasts on the mountain. Feng Chen won, leaving the loser responsible for teaching Xuanyuan and Shennong and protecting their tribe from Honkai Beasts.

• Feng Chen sensed that the Divine Key's consciousness feared occupying Xuanyuan because of her Stigmata, while Honkai Beasts gathered around the mountain's golden light.
• A fire-element Honkai Beast ignited the mountain, destroying Shennong's medicinal herbs and prompting Feng Chen to ask Bella to put out the flames.
• Bella refused, addressing Feng Chen as her king and revealing her anger over the conflict between him and Sirin.
• Feng Chen challenged Chiyuan to a contest to extinguish the fire, with the loser tasked with teaching Xuanyuan and Shennong and guarding their tribe.
• Feng Chen used Yin Yang World and Eye of Balor to extinguish the flames, winning the competition.

Feng Chen took Xuanyuan and Shennong from Chiyuan and tried to teach them why humanity had to fight the Honkai, then challenged them to a battle. The fight began with Feng Chen using his powerful left hand, and Xuanyuan and Shennong worked together to counter his opening attack.

• Feng Chen left Xuanyuan and Shennong with Chiyuan, then agreed to take responsibility for cultivating their resolve to fight the Honkai.
• When the tribe grew suspicious of Xuanyuan and Shennong’s absence, Feng Chen showed them the primitive world and explained humanity’s development and the threat of Honkai.
• Feng Chen used Feather of the Crossing to show Xuanyuan and Shennong the dead, Honkai Beasts, and Herrschers, warning them that fighting the Honkai was an all-or-nothing gamble.
• Feng Chen revealed his green and black wings and challenged Xuanyuan and Shennong, saying he would use all his strength except for his eyes and the world.
• Feng Chen struck at them with his left hand, Shennong blocked his feint with an elbow, and Xuanyuan swung her golden greatsword at his waist.
• Feng Chen used Crescent Moon to cave in the ground, forcing Xuanyuan to change the direction of her sword.

Feng Chen, Sirin, and Bella helped Xuanyuan and Shennong overcome their training battle, then Feng Chen urged the young warriors to wait and hold on to hope. As Chiyuan prepared to take them down the mountain, Feng Chen sensed a greater challenge approaching.

• Feng Chen caught Xuanyuan’s attack while Sirin and Bella helped seize Xuanyuan and Shennong, ending the battle in their favor.
• Feng Chen and Sirin argued until Bella’s laughter eased the tension between them.
• Chiyuan told Feng Chen to offer Xuanyuan guidance before she and Shennong left the mountain.
• Feng Chen told Xuanyuan and Shennong to wait and hold on to hope when facing seemingly irreversible predicaments.
• Feng Chen sensed that the Gem of Destruction in his heart and his destructive eyes heralded a greater challenge ahead.

Feng Chen recognized the being behind the eyes in the collapsing mental world as Balor, the Celtic demon god. After Balor’s power resonated with him, Sirin and Bella feared he would be overwhelmed, but Sirin held him and promised he would not die.

• Feng Chen endured the pressure of the eyes in the sky while Bella and Sirin avoided looking at them.
• Feng Chen identified the being as Balor after his eyes reacted to its gaze.
• Balor transformed the feather and used its power to destroy what had grown inside it, pulling Feng Chen, Sirin, and Bella out of the imagined world.
• Feng Chen heard a powerful heartbeat and realized he had resonated with Balor, putting him at risk of being consumed by its power.
• Sirin cried, held Feng Chen, and promised he would not die.

Feng Chen and the girls confronted Balor, whose deathly Eye challenged Feng Chen’s powers and left him gravely injured. Sirin attacked Balor to protect Feng Chen, confessed that she liked him, and Feng Chen reached out to touch her head.

• Balor explained that he had survived as long as proof of his existence remained and challenged Feng Chen to test how closely their eyes matched.
• Balor used his Eye to remove the surrounding air and expose Feng Chen and the two girls, then recognized Feng Chen’s time-stopping speed and its limits.
• Feng Chen’s Eye of Balor clashed with Balor’s, burning his soul and leaving him unable to see.
• Sirin lost control after Feng Chen was injured, opened a spatial rift’s energy at Balor, and wounded him with the Spear of the Void.
• Sirin told Feng Chen that she liked him, and Feng Chen reached out to touch her head despite being unable to see.

Feng Chen recovered after fighting Balor and learned that his eyes were drawing him closer to the powers of [Destruction] and [Death]. Sirin returned to her Stigmata Space, while Feng Chen was left flustered by a misunderstanding over her rush toward him.

• Honkai told Feng Chen he had risked his life by confronting Balor and revealed that he had planned to use a feather hidden in his soul to escape with Sirin and Bella.
• Honkai urged Feng Chen to pay attention to Sirin, saying she held a key to stopping [Honkai] in the world.
• Honkai warned Feng Chen that using his eyes would bring him closer to [Destruction] and [Death], which could eventually make him embody those forces.
• Bella stirred in Feng Chen's arms, and Sirin emerged and accused him of trying to do something improper with Bella.
• Sirin ran toward Feng Chen to return to her Stigmata Space because her soul lacked the energy to return from a distance, leaving Feng Chen embarrassed by his mistaken assumptions.

Sirin struggled to understand her feelings for Feng Chen while he and Chiyuan went to defend Xuanyuan and Shennong’s tribe from a Honkai Beast assault. After Feng Chen intervened against Xuanyuan’s dangerous attack, the story shifted to Otto preparing to use S-444 alongside K-423.

• Sirin wondered whether her feelings for Feng Chen meant she liked him, but insisted she could never fall for him.
• Feng Chen learned that Honkai Beasts were attacking Xuanyuan and Shennong’s tribe, with a Judgment-class beast among them.
• Xuanyuan tried to use a dangerous attack, so Feng Chen caught her greatsword and warned her not to use a move whose consequences she did not understand.
• Feng Chen swept the Honkai Beasts away with his powers and destroyed many of them with a gigantic katana.
• Otto visited S-444 in a secret chamber at the Helsheim Laboratory and said he would use her and K-423.

After the battle, Feng Chen was blamed for the damage to the land and sought a way to restore it. He sent Bella and Sirin to deal with the Beginning of Honkai, while Sirin confronted his avoidance of her confession.

• Feng Chen acknowledged that his attack had damaged the land, and Chiyuan left him to handle the aftermath.
• Chiyuan used a Feather of the Crossing to disappear, and Feng Chen caught the feather she left behind.
• Honkai directed Feng Chen to the seaside, where he could find the Beginning of Honkai, but Feng Chen chose to use Jizou Mitama instead.
• Feng Chen summoned Bella and Sirin and sent them to deal with the Beginning of Honkai.
• Sirin asked Feng Chen about her earlier confession, and he claimed he had not heard her clearly, prompting her to accuse him of avoiding her.

After restoring the land, Feng Chen exhausted his Honkai Energy and collapsed, so Sirin carried him toward Mount Tai Xu. On the way, he awkwardly acknowledged his feelings, and Sirin and Bella made clear that neither would yield in their fight for him.

• Feng Chen used Jizou Mitama, Zero Rated Power to restore the battered land, then collapsed after running out of Honkai Energy.
• Sirin carried Feng Chen on Bella's back toward Mount Tai Xu and teased him when he tried to respond to what she had said earlier.
• Sirin pulled Feng Chen's head onto her knees and said she did not hate him, while Feng Chen tried to explain himself.
• Bella told Sirin to stop teasing Feng Chen and declared she would not give up on winning him over.
• Sirin said she would not let anyone take Feng Chen away from her, leaving Feng Chen exasperated by their rivalry.

Humanity drove the Honkai back and enjoyed several years of peace, while Chiyuan questioned Feng Chen about leaving the remaining beasts alive and learned more about his purpose. As a Judgment-class Honkai Beast threatened the tribe, Feng Chen warned Chiyuan that he would soon leave, and the calm began to give way to renewed danger.

• Humanity's warriors pushed the Honkai forces to the outskirts, allowing people to live peacefully for several years.
• Chiyuan asked Feng Chen why he had not eliminated the remaining Honkai Beasts, and he explained that changing history could alter the future.
• Chiyuan revealed that she had used the Feather of the Crossing to inspect Feng Chen's memories and learn about his abilities, purpose, and origins.
• Chiyuan and Feng Chen discussed Xuanyuan's likely struggle against a Judgment-class Honkai Beast and the burden of her responsibilities as the tribe's leader.
• Feng Chen told Chiyuan he might soon leave and relayed Fuxi's warning not to burn her feathers unless doing so was necessary to save her life.
• Humanity remained vigilant as the years of peace neared their end.

The Honkai launched a powerful second attack on humanity, forcing Xuanyuan to defend her tribe while Feng Chen stayed on Mount Tai Xu and avoided intervening. Xuanyuan ordered the others to flee and prepared to face the surrounding beasts alone, drawing on the Key of Domination as the story left her standing against the assault.

• The Honkai attacked the tribe with Knight-class and stronger beasts, and Xuanyuan cut them down with a golden sword flash.
• Feng Chen recognized the attack as a dangerous counteroffensive and worried that Xuanyuan and Shennong lacked the strength to face it without the Key of Domination.
• Feng Chen chose not to intervene and visited the basement, where Rita remained asleep inside a capsule-shaped machine.
• The Honkai Beasts surrounded Xuanyuan and the tribe's warriors urged her and Shennong to escape, but Xuanyuan ordered everyone else to flee and help the other tribespeople.
• Xuanyuan spoke with the consciousness of the Herrscher of Domination and asked it to lend her power.