Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue’s Wood Clone hurried to the royal capital after learning that Chen Shaokuan was in danger, only to find the city engulfed in a battle between the Taiping Dao, the Sino-Japanese Alliance, and other forces. Chen Shaokuan was fighting for his life while a veteran rival waited for the right moment to strike.

• Liu Xiang and his companions left Long Zhen to support Chen Shaokuan after learning he had likely used up his Rebirth Authority.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone explained that the original body was trapped in a stalemate at Sky City and then followed a Taiping Dao guide into the royal capital.
• The guide sensed that the fighting had begun early and rushed toward the battle as the city’s powerful auras and oppressive atmosphere became apparent.
• Huang Wenjin used his Vajra Warriors to hold back enemies while the Taiping Dao and Sino-Japanese Alliance fought across the royal capital, drawing the kingdom and Eight Fingers into the conflict.
• Chen Shaokuan fought the Lord of Bones and James while their Banner Lord ally watched for an opening to kill him with one strike.

Chen Shaokuan lost control after the banner lord used captured Reincarnators to weaken his resolve, but Xu Yue’s Wood Clone interrupted the banner lord’s killing blow with a long-range shot. The clone prepared to fire again, leaving Liu Xiang, Li Qiao, and Smoke Ghost stunned by Xu Yue’s archery.

• The banner lord showed Chen Shaokuan the captured Reincarnators and used their pleas and accusations to distract him.
• After the banner lord ordered the captives untied, they attacked a Reincarnator who had urged Chen Shaokuan to escape.
• Chen Shaokuan erupted in anger, tore apart James’s giant body, and badly injured him with a claw strike.
• The banner lord seized Chen Shaokuan’s opening and attacked his temple, but an arrow severed the banner lord’s finger and part of his palm.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone appeared on a rooftop with a projected longbow and prepared another shot, astonishing Liu Xiang, Li Qiao, and Smoke Ghost.

Xu Yue overwhelmed the enemy forces with his archery and swordsmanship while Chen Shaokuan kept the Banner Master occupied. The Banner Master teleported to attack Xu Yue, only to lose an arm to Xu Yue’s dual blades.

• Xu Yue wounded the Banner Master with an arrow, allowing Chen Shaokuan to charge back into the fight instead of retreating.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone pierced the Lord of Bones’s illusions, broke through his defensive items, and destroyed him with a barrage of arrows.
• Xu Yue used a barrage of varied arrows to pressure the Banner Master while Chen Shaokuan pinned him down.
• The Banner Master shattered a gem to teleport past Liu Xiang, Li Qiao, and Smoke Ghost and attack Xu Yue directly.
• Xu Yue parried the Banner Master’s strike with one sword and severed his arm with the other.

Xu Yue’s Wood Clone destroyed the Banner Lord with Ryūjin Jakka after his Ice Barrier thwarted their attacks. The survivors signed a confidentiality contract, and Chen Shaokuan explained why the Qing Court had joined forces with foreign representatives, leaving the group angered.

• The Banner Lord trapped himself inside an Absolute Defense Ice Barrier to stall until Xu Yue and Chen Shaokuan ran out of strength.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone projected Ryūjin Jakka, shattered the barrier, and erased the Banner Lord with a pillar of fire.
• Chen Shaokuan asked how Xu Yue had several Zanpakuto, and the Wood Clone explained that his Projection Magic could analyze and duplicate weapons.
• Chen Shaokuan asked Liu Xiang and the other rescuers to sign a confidentiality contract, and they agreed.
• After Forbidden Jutsu backlash left Chen Shaokuan unable to fight, he explained that the Qing Court had cooperated with foreign representatives, angering the others and the Wood Clone.

Chen Shaokuan rescued the captured Reincarnators, but Li Lianying’s arrival turned the victory into a desperate escape. As Chen and the others prepared to use Escape Scrolls, an unknown attack disabled several of them.

• Chen Shaokuan’s group freed the captives, and he gave recovery potions to two badly injured men while the others offered excuses for their betrayal.
• After hearing that the Eight Banners Valiant had died, the masked fighter ordered a retreat, but a shrill voice commanded everyone to hold their ground.
• Huang Wenjin and the masked fighter recognized the newcomer and broke off their fight, while the masked man taunted Huang Wenjin about the danger.
• Chen Shaokuan recognized Li Lianying’s voice and handed Escape Scrolls to the injured men as Xu Yue, Liu Xiang, and the others prepared to flee.
• The rescued captives begged Chen Shaokuan and the others not to abandon them, and an invisible lotus-scented domain enveloped the group.
• Several beams struck the arms of people holding Escape Scrolls, numbing them and preventing them from using the scrolls.

Li Lianying arrived and trapped Chen Shaokuan, Liu Xiang, and the others in his Lotus Domain, then punished Huang Wenjin for Taiping Dao’s interference. As Li prepared to torture Xu Yue, Xu Yue’s Wood Clone revealed he could still strike once and asked whether they should try to escape.

• Li Lianying used his Lotus Domain to halt Chen Shaokuan, Liu Xiang, and the others, while the Sino-Japanese Alliance and Taiping Dao forces gathered.
• The masked figure from the Far East Governor's Mansion apologized to Li Lianying, who said the earlier failure was the fault of a useless subordinate.
• Li Lianying rebuked Taiping Dao and struck Huang Wenjin with his whisk, causing him to spit black blood.
• Huang Wenjin refused to leave and taunted Li Lianying about making an example of someone, prompting Li to summon the Ten Great Tortures.
• Li Lianying chose Xu Yue as his first target, but Xu Yue’s Wood Clone said he could still make one final strike and asked whether they should flee.

Xu Yue’s Wood Clone stayed behind to protect Chen Shaokuan and the others, using Ryūjin Jakka to let them escape before Li Lianying killed him. Li Lianying turned on the remaining Reincarnators and the Taiping Dao, but Huang Wenjin looked up at a familiar figure appearing above the royal capital.

• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone chose to hold off Li Lianying while Chen Shaokuan and the others prepared to escape.
• The Wood Clone unleashed Ryūjin Jakka, shielding Chen Shaokuan, Liu Xiang, Li Qiao, Smoke Ghost, and two others as they escaped with their Escape Scrolls.
• Li Lianying attacked the Wood Clone until he turned to wood and was reduced to dust, mistaking the transformation for the cost of a Forbidden Jutsu.
• Li Lianying killed the rescued Reincarnators who had failed to escape, then turned his hostile attention toward Huang Wenjin and the Taiping Dao.
• Huang Wenjin looked toward the sky, where a familiar figure stood above the royal capital.

Xu Yue revealed that Guang Jing was hiding with Li Lianying, then struck Guang Jing down and seized his Dragon Spirit. The remaining Reincarnators were left stunned as Xu Yue declared himself Heaven.

• Li Lianying recognized Xu Yue's strength, while a masked Reincarnator secretly prepared an Escape Scroll in case the fight turned against them.
• Xu Yue called for Zai Tian, and Guang Jing appeared beside Li Lianying, revealing that Li Lianying had been secretly guarding the Qing Emperor.
• Guang Jing demanded to know how Xu Yue had discovered him, and Li Lianying realized Xu Yue had recognized him from Guangxu's audience and urged him to retreat.
• Guang Jing refused to heed Li Lianying's warning and declared that he had received the Mandate of Heaven.
• Xu Yue struck Guang Jing with red lightning, reduced him to radiance, and drew his bound Dragon Spirit into the illusory world in the sky.

Xu Yue killed Li Lianying and erased the Sino-Japanese Alliance, then used divine power to restore the royal capital and redirect its faith to nourish his God Tree. The tree continued consuming the world’s origin, strengthening Xu Yue before his limited time in the Mission Space ran out.

• Li Lianying lunged at Xu Yue after Zai Tian’s death, but Xu Yue trapped him in a small world and burned him with black flames.
• Xu Yue erased the masked man and the remaining Reincarnators of the Sino-Japanese Alliance, then turned his attention to Huang Wenjin and the others he had brought along.
• Endless Holy Light restored the royal capital, erased memories of the riots, and caused the kingdom’s faith to surge as thirty percent of its national fortune vanished.
• Six Arms withdrew from the fight, while the aged king and the princes wondered whether a god had intervened and the blonde princess reacted with a strange smile.
• Xu Yue used the kingdom’s faith to nourish the God Tree, which consumed the world’s origin and further solidified his realm.

Xu Yue completed his Promotion Mission, advanced to Intruder, and parted ways with Long Zhen, Quan Long, and Quan Hu. He used his new authority and the Nameless Spellbook to create the Magic Mall for premium members, then prepared to face Beiyang's inquiries.

• Xu Yue obtained Orichalcum-class adventurer qualifications after presenting a monster's head to the Adventurer Guild.
• Long Zhen, Quan Long, and Quan Hu confirmed that their group had completed its Promotion Missions and bid farewell to Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue advanced to Intruder, unlocked Rebirth Authority purchases, and gained new permissions after his military rank increased.
• Xu Yue reviewed the Nameless Spellbook and the information he could sense from the Overlord world through its believers.
• Xu Yue added the Magic Mall to the Penguin Merchant Guild, offering magic through normal and premium gacha pools.
• Xu Yue left Reincarnation Space and prepared to answer Beiyang's inquiries.

Xu Yue returned from the Promotion Mission and told Chen Shaokuan and the others how he had survived Li Lianying and completed the mission. After Beiyang’s intelligence officers confirmed the Sino-Japanese Alliance’s defeat and learned that divine intervention had punished the alliance, Chen Yao began negotiating a new legion contract for Xu Yue, but Zhang Zuolin arrived to handle the talks himself.

• Xu Yue reunited with Chen Shaokuan, Liu Xiang, and the others, explained that Li Lianying’s army had been wiped out by Divine Punishment, and said he had completed his Promotion Mission.
• A communications officer summoned the group to Beiyang intelligence, where they helped piece together the mission’s events and confirmed that the Sino-Japanese Alliance had been wiped out.
• Chen Yao praised Xu Yue’s role in Li Lianying’s defeat and offered to renegotiate his legion contract now that he had been promoted.
• Chen Yao privately discussed a tailored contract with Xu Yue, but Zhang Zuolin arrived and asked to take over the negotiations because Xu Yue had saved him and received resources from him.

After Zhang Zuolin protected Xu Yue from rumors that he had betrayed Beiyang, Xu Yue’s reputation grew while Zhang Xun faced public backlash. Zhang Xun then reassigned two low-ranking Reincarnators, including Liu Shengcai, hoping to extract information about the mission where the Sino-Japanese Alliance was destroyed.

• Taiping Dao revealed that Guang Jing had died again, leaving Beiyang to learn that both he and Li Lianying had fallen in the mission.
• Zhang Xun spread suspicions that Xu Yue had made an agreement with Taiping Dao, but Zhang Zuolin suppressed the accusations and identified Zhang Xun as their source.
• Xu Yue told Zhang Zuolin not to force him to prove his innocence, and Chen Shaokuan and Liu Xiang confronted Zhang Xun while accounts of Xu Yue’s selfless actions spread through Beiyang.
• Zhang Xun stopped pressing the rumors and transferred two Reincarnators under Chen Shaokuan, intending to question them and sell what they knew about the mission.
• Liu Shengcai met Zhang Xun and reflected on how Xu Yue, whom he had once encountered as a newcomer, had risen to prominence.

Zhang Xun discovered that Xu Yue had become a Reincarnator before Wu Pei recruited him and began investigating the secret. Meanwhile, Xu Yue consolidated the Penguin Merchant Guild’s rapid expansion, leaving it as a major force in the Huaxia Zone and strengthening its influence through affiliated merchant guilds, Penguin Coin, and new services.

• Zhang Xun learned from Liu Shengcai that Xu Yue had completed missions before joining Beiyang and decided to ask the Shogunate Gate about the circumstances of Liu’s capture.
• Huang Wenjin spread Taiping Dao’s seeds through the legions while the group waited for a chance to eliminate its Dao Master.
• Quan Long and Quan Hu joined the Penguin Merchant Guild as Intruders and helped Richest Under Heaven agree to become its subsidiary.
• Richest Under Heaven and several other merchant guilds joined Penguin’s network, allowing it to rise to eleventh place in the Huaxia Zone.
• Xu Yue expanded Penguin’s offerings with Penguin Live and Penguin Magic Gacha, while Penguin Coin and the guild’s market influence grew.

Zhang Xun and other Reincarnators were stunned by the Penguin Merchant Guild’s explosive rise and its addictive Magic Gacha, while the clashes between Beiyang and the Qing Court drained both sides’ reserves. As the factions shifted toward recovery and local operations, Xu Yue was assigned to the Holy Grail War with Li Jinglin.

• Zhang Xun discovered the Penguin Merchant Guild’s new services and struggled to resist spending his S-Rank Plot Points on the Magic Gacha.
• The Magic Gacha became wildly popular, sparking fights, forum theories, and livestreams across the Reincarnators’ community.
• Beiyang and the Qing Court fought several major clashes, with the Qing Court restoring Guang Jing and Li Lianying early at great cost.
• Zhang Yulin told the Fengtian Clique to avoid major designated operations and focus on recovery, coordination, and low-loss gains.
• Xu Yue and Li Jinglin agreed to cooperate in their assigned Mission Space, the Holy Grail War.

Xu Yue and Li Jinglin prepared Beiyang’s Reincarnators for the Fourth Holy Grail War, choosing to avoid competing for the Grail and gather in Fuyuki City instead. Xu Yue entered the mission as the Clock Tower’s Modern Magecraft Department head and considered how his powers fit into the world’s distinction between magecraft and Magic.

• Xu Yue and Li Jinglin arrived at the plaza, where Qian Zuo and Qian You recalled how Xu Yue had saved them during the Third Shinobi World War.
• Li Jinglin briefed the twenty-one Beiyang Reincarnators on the mission’s dangers, including powerful suppression and the risk of elimination for killing civilians recklessly.
• Li Jinglin said the team would not actively compete for the Holy Grail and would instead head to Fuyuki City to look for leftovers.
• Xu Yue received the identity of Modern Magecraft Department head at the Clock Tower after entering the Fourth Holy Grail War mission.
• Xu Yue reviewed the world’s magecraft and Magic system and wondered whether he could be considered a Magic user or the Counter Force.

Waver Velvet entered a lecture by Xu Yue and discovered a Noble Phantasm designed to help new-generation magi compensate for their weaker Mage Circuits. Kaineth El-Melloi Archibald challenged Xu Yue’s ideas, but Xu Yue offered him a different Noble Phantasm to test, leaving Kaineth holding the Cross.

• Waver Velvet brooded over Kaineth El-Melloi Archibald’s public criticism of his paper on new-generation magi.
• Waver entered a Modern Magecraft Department lecture and heard Xu Yue explain how technology and Noble Phantasms could help overcome innate disadvantages.
• Waver was impressed by Xu Yue’s design for a magecraft Noble Phantasm that stored magical energy and began taking frantic notes.
• Kaineth arrived, praised Xu Yue’s research, and argued that established magi would use such tools to extend their lead.
• Xu Yue described the Noble Phantasm’s limitations and offered Kaineth a Cross-shaped device to test and help perfect.
• Kaineth took the Cross and felt a sense of serene clarity rise within him.

Xu Yue traveled toward Fuyuki after arranging for Waver to obtain Kaineth’s intended Holy Relic, while Tohsaka Tokiomi learned that another Clock Tower department head was heading there. On the flight, Xu Yue met Irisviel and Artoria and inferred that Reincarnators had prompted Kiritsugu Emiya to summon his Servant early.

• Kaineth left after Xu Yue showed him an unusual object, and Xu Yue decided to use his growing knowledge to slowly become a third Counter Force.
• Xu Yue guided Waver until he obtained a fragment of the King of Conquerors’ cloak, then Waver secretly set out for Fuyuki while Kaineth searched for another Holy Relic.
• Xu Yue departed for Fuyuki, and Tohsaka Tokiomi received intelligence about his trip and resolved that the Holy Grail War would still belong to him.
• During a flight transfer, Xu Yue encountered Irisviel and Artoria, whose intuition warned her that he was dangerous.
• Irisviel sat beside Xu Yue and asked whether he planned to enter the Holy Grail War; he confirmed it and flirted with her, while Artoria watched him closely.
• Several unfamiliar passengers boarded, and Xu Yue suspected their presence had caused Kiritsugu Emiya to summon Artoria earlier than expected.

Xu Yue and the women traveled to Fuyuki City while a group of Reincarnators tracked them, and Artoria recognized the newcomers as members of the group that had attacked them before. Meanwhile, Li Jinglin’s gathered allies learned that several comrades were missing, and they feared their meeting place had been compromised.

• A group of Reincarnators boarded the same plane as Xu Yue, Irisviel, and Artoria, and the team leader’s calm manner prompted the others to imitate his coffee order.
• Artoria sensed that the Reincarnators carried the aura of the group that had attacked them, while Xu Yue deflected her suspicions with a teasing offer to help her replenish magical energy.
• After landing, Xu Yue noticed that the Reincarnators were still observing Irisviel, then said goodbye to Irisviel and Artoria and left the airport.
• At an izakaya in Fuyuki City, Li Jinglin and other gathered Reincarnators discussed missing allies and the possibility that their meeting place had been exposed.
• A veteran warned that they could not keep waiting because the enemy might already know their gathering place.

Li Jinglin ambushed and defeated the forces waiting for him in Fuyuki, leaving Liu Wangyang badly wounded before Nathan arrived. Tohsaka Tokiomi, Kirei Kotomine, and Old Man Matou each considered the implications of Li Jinglin’s arrival as the Holy Grail War approached.

• A sniper fired at Li Jinglin’s group, but Li Jinglin’s illusion array diverted the shot into a fire hydrant and sent flying swords after the hidden attackers.
• Li Jinglin’s flying swords killed the ambushers, and he left with his companions while Liu Wangyang survived with a severe chest wound.
• Nathan arrived too late to stop Li Jinglin, helped Liu Wangyang heal, and decided to wait for more forces and consider using the Holy Grail War against him.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi considered meeting the overseer to find and eliminate Li Jinglin, while Kirei Kotomine grew interested in his purpose.
• Old Man Matou welcomed the disruption, believing it could divide Tohsaka Tokiomi’s attention and leave events under his control.

Reincarnators across Fuyuki City were unexpectedly chosen as Masters, including Li Jinglin, several of his rivals, and Yi Kuang. At Ryudou Temple, a monocled figure hinted that the selection had been manipulated and urged someone hidden away to come out.

• Nathan and Liu Wangyang learned that Anderson planned to become a Master, while Mister Wang explained the state of the European and Qing Court forces.
• Liu Wangyang told Mister Wang that Li Jinglin had nearly killed him in one move, then Mister Wang received a Command Spell; Nathan and Liu Wangyang received them too.
• Li Jinglin escaped an encirclement with Beiyang's people and discovered that he had also been chosen as a Master.
• A heavily bearded man received a Command Spell and canceled his plan to hunt a Master.
• Yi Kuang and Eunuch Chen received Command Spells, and Yi Kuang celebrated the chance to take part in the Holy Grail War.
• At Ryudou Temple, a monocled figure claimed they could select seven more and suggested that someone hidden away come out.