Recaps

Hermes subdued Polka Kakami, aided the Astral Express, and used the Chat Group to rescue children in Chen Nan’s world while advancing plans for Star Crown Garden and Phanes. Su Mo built the Azure Emperor’s power, then Hermes merged his realm with reality and founded the Taihao Empire, as a plan to strike the IPC took shape.

• Su Mo defeated Han soldiers in the Yellow Turban Rebellion instance, earned a Legend Point, and began gathering Qing Province’s will around himself as the Azure Emperor.
• Hermes and Herta fought Polka Kakami after she attacked Ruan Mei, and Hermes sealed Polka in a scroll before Fuli gave him a Light Cone.
• Hermes warned the Astral Express Crew about Cyrene, Fuli, and the closed karmic loop surrounding Amphoreus, then brought Herta, Ruan Mei, and Screwllum to Star Crown Garden.
• Chen Nan joined the Chat Group and asked Hermes and Luo Qianqiu to save the children in Black Bullet, so Hermes entered the world and judged its people.
• Hermes healed and relocated the children and other chosen survivors, while transforming Tendou Kikunojo into a Hilichurl and giving the survivors a safe new home.
• Su Mo rallied the Yellow Turbans, defeated the Han forces, and expanded the Azure Sky White Sun Banner across the Han Dynasty until Lu Bu surrendered.
• Hermes and True Seven merged the Azure Emperor Realm with reality, and Hermes named his new empire Taihao while Kikyo agreed to establish its Taichang Temple.
• Hermes, Herta, and Screwllum agreed to take action against the IPC as Ruan Mei and Screwllum prepared another Spacetime Interference Experiment.

Hermes and Herta developed new powers while Myth Court’s conflict with the IPC culminated in the capture of Talavan’s fleet. After the timeline shifted, Hermes entered a fused wuxia world as Emperor Zhu Yimo, while the Luofu dealt with Oswald’s flight and Jing Yuan considered Qing Que for a promotion.

• Hermes, Herta, Ruan Mei, and Screwllum watched Hermes’s past self become a Pioneer Envoy, and Little Herta agreed to study under him after he answered her questions.
• Hermes and Herta developed the Diagram of the Investiture of the Gods, while Herta designed its simulated worldview algorithm and Myth Court expanded across the starfield.
• Myth Court declared war on the IPC over Calderon Chadwick and the destruction of twenty-eight planets, then trapped Talavan’s fleet with Reality Gamification.
• Doctor Primitive identified the superweapon and preserved Talavan as part of its game code, while Hermes refused the IPC’s call and the fleet became a lasting wonder.
• Herta survived the backlash of her Three-Phase Great Magic, formed an embryonic Cosmic Truth, and demanded Hermes’s help with two research projects.
• Hermes and Herta entered the Great Ming Comprehensive Wuxia World, where Hermes became Emperor Zhu Yimo and began consolidating power as three suns hung over the realm.
• Zhu Yimo granted Cao Zhengchun and Yu Huatian new cultivation techniques before an otherworldly Martial God arrived to challenge him across time and space.
• Oswald Schneider fled the IPC with confidential documents, while Jing Yuan considered Qing Que for a Heavenly General and Qing Que took March 7th and the Stellaron Spirit to find Bailu for a card game.

Qing Que became the Luofu’s new General Diheng, while Hermes pursued new paths across the multiverse and helped restore lost souls. As the Star Crown Garden’s Great Universe took shape, Hermes discovered an outsider in the Kindling Realm.

• Qing Que and her companions challenged Phantylia’s dungeon, overcame Jingliu’s stage, and were defeated by Phantylia before Qing Que received Jing Yuan’s appointment as General Diheng.
• Hermes learned more about the worlds connected to the Chat Group, helped Motoo Aiya escape DEM, and Luo Qianqiu confronted the awakening threat of the Ominous Blood Moon.
• Hermes expanded the Great Universe, began improving the Sea of Guixu, and awakened Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Kochou Kanae, and Alice before sending Yoriichi and Kanae back to the Demon Slayer world.
• Hermes turned from his completed work on Infinity Mobius toward new paths, while Chat Group members discussed Lü Dongbin’s struggle with the Balance Heavenly Dao and Kikyo’s encounter with Higurashi Kagome.
• Hermes assigned Naberius and Ronavah to establish a basic life-and-death cycle and appointed the four Goddesses as Heavenly Principles Maintainers.
• Hermes studied the Immortal True Spirit method as a possible way to resurrect Phanes, then discovered an outsider in the Kindling Realm and went to investigate.

Hermes welcomed new allies in Penacony, advanced toward godhood, and revealed that he had created the Great Universe of Star Crown Garden. He set Raiden Mei and the Ten Stonehearts to take control of the IPC, leaving Mei preparing to crush the remaining resistance.

• Jin Russell and Lily Liser conquered the first floor of Rarala Dungeon, obtained a Kindling Invitation, and met Hermes, who brought them to Liyue.
• Hermes introduced Xiangling to a path of gourmet cuisine, and her cooking advanced her to the Fourth Revolution of Void Refinement.
• Hermes prepared to ascend to godhood, gathered allies for Penacony, and resolved to give Amphoreus a perfect ending and free Cyrene from her closed loop of causality.
• Hermes welcomed Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei as the first Envoy of Beauty, gained Mind Cosmic Truth, and appointed Polka Kakami as Myth Court’s Head Maid.
• Hermes fished Tiamat out of the Endless Void Sea and left Ruan Mei to develop a way for her to claim the Great Universe’s concept of life.
• Hermes revealed Star Crown Garden as a Great Universe he had created and explained that Aeons could create such universes but usually avoided doing so because it conflicted with their Paths.
• Hermes sent Raiden Mei to Erpoint to purge inhuman executives and put Jade, Topaz, and Robin in charge of the IPC and its credit currency system.
• Raiden Mei defeated Diamond, while Jade and Robin began taking over the company and Mei demanded a list of resistant executives so she could deal with them at once.