Chapter Summaries

Hermes fought the Great Powers across the River of Time as Pure Beauty tried to claim the realm, then confronted Nyarlathotep when she appeared on the battlefield. Nyarko fled Hermes’s attack by redirecting its karmic force toward her own avatars and Nito Chris.

• Great Powers emerged across time and space and attacked Hermes’s Pure Beauty Dao Contamination.
• Nyarlathotep appeared beside Hermes and tried to evade his punch by dissolving into chaotic cosmic laws.
• Hermes’s punch forcibly restored Nyarlathotep to its path and left her avatar with a painful panda mark.
• Hermes demanded to know where the beings rampaging through his home in space-time had come from, then attacked Nyarlathotep again.
• Nyarko fled and used weaker Nyarlathotep avatars as scapegoats to absorb the attack’s karma.
• Nyarko dragged part of Nito Chris’s shell into the attack, and Nito Chris cursed her while she continued fleeing.

Hermes revealed himself as Pure Beauty and clashed with Incubator Kyubey, whose power of incubation enveloped the realm as other Great Powers joined the effort to trap him. The battle intensified as Hermes spread his Dao through spacetime and proclaimed his protection and guidance across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

• Nyarko diverted Hermes's pursuing punch by throwing Nito Chris and other versions of herself into its path.
• Hermes reached toward the far shore of spacetime, prompting Incubator Kyubey to manifest and block his attempt to seize the realm.
• Hermes identified Kyubey as the Incubator Civilization, which had advanced through its practice of incubation and its creation of the Law of Cycles.
• Hermes declared that he was Pure Beauty and spread his Weak Multiversal Daode toward the origin of the realm.
• Other Great Powers embedded their Cosmic Truths in Kyubey's World Eggshell to trap Pure Beauty.
• Hermes's Dao hymns rang across the River of Time as he proclaimed that beings throughout the Heavens and Myriad Worlds could receive his protection and guidance.

Hermes pressed his assault on the realm’s source while Spider Queen Lolth intervened, only to be caught in his Questioning Heart Finger. She linked the attack to Nyarko and Incubator Kyubey, prompting Nyarko to call for Azathoth as the phantom of the God of Blind Stupidity descended.

• Hermes dismissed Nyarko’s and Incubator Kyubey’s resistance and began seizing control of the realm through the Akasha Records.
• Spider Queen Lolth appeared and cast fate-webs across the River of Time to capture Pure Beauty’s fate.
• Hermes pierced Lolth’s webs with his Questioning Heart Finger and struck at her across multiple timelines.
• Nyarko and Incubator Kyubey abandoned Lolth, so she linked them to the attack with a thread.
• The Questioning Heart Finger appeared before Nyarko as well, and she called for Azathoth as the God of Blind Stupidity descended.

After Azathoth’s dream ruined the Great Powers’ plans, Hermes returned to Star Crown Garden and considered their likely contingencies and his own gains. He told Mei about their multiverse project, but said he did not need to claim it to advance his path.

• Azathoth’s dream wiped out the Great Powers’ investments, and Hermes escaped to Star Crown Garden.
• Hermes suspected Nyarko had acted deliberately and reasoned that the Great Powers must have prepared backup plans.
• Hermes used his authority over Tree Sea Great Multiverse to ensure no one could sever its connection to Re:CREATORS or force him out of the game.
• Hermes located the world where Mei had been born and considered securing an opportunity for her.
• Hermes explained the Great Powers’ multiverse project to Mei, who asked whether he was reluctant to give it up.
• Hermes told Mei that controlling Tree Sea Multiverse was unnecessary for his path and would not hasten his attainment of the Dao.

Hermes explained to Mei that, as the Tree Sea Multiverse’s sole Multiverse Truth, he could prevent anyone else from attaining that status until his position became irreversible. He agreed to send Mei to witness the creation of another Multiverse, then confronted Nyarko and considered her hints about Azathoth and the Eternal Great Dream.

• Hermes told Mei that no other Great Power could become a Multiverse Truth while he remained unwilling, and that a new Truth might emerge only after his position became irreversible.
• Mei asked whether the forming Multiverse could affect the Tree Sea Multiverse, and Hermes said it could cause only minor harm even if it took the concept of Honkai.
• Mei asked Hermes to send her to witness the Multiverse’s formation, and he agreed after recognizing the opportunity it could give her.
• After Mei left to prepare, Hermes called out Nyarko, who revealed that the hounds had followed Little Military Princess into his domain.
• Hermes dismissed Nyarko, then wondered whether she might act on the Eternal Great Dream associated with Azathoth.

Hermes checked on his projects and joined the Chat Group, where Luo Qianqiu complained about Dragon's restraint while fighting the Anomalies stirred by the blood moon. The group discussed the deaths of Zandar One Kuwabara and Lord of Wisdom, and Luo Qianqiu recalled Zandar's catastrophic plan involving Iron Tomb.

• Hermes reviewed Buer and Ruan Mei's progress on the Virtual Universe Company and checked on developments in Little Garden.
• Luo Qianqiu crushed the thirteenth Ghost God to emerge in Tokyo and worried that the threat behind its growing activity might force her to ask the Chat Group for help.
• Dragon said he would restrain himself and act according to his principles, and Hermes agreed that there was no need to rush.
• Hermes told Lumine and the others that Zandar One Kuwabara and Lord of Wisdom had perished together, prompting the group to discuss how the conflict had unfolded.
• Luo Qianqiu recalled that Zandar's incarnation Laikush had planned to use Iron Tomb to infect every living being in the Universal Galaxy before destroying himself alongside Lord of Wisdom.

Li Hanyi pursued the Sword Realm by challenging Peerless City, while Konan decided she wanted to leave the Ninja World’s political struggles by joining the Star Lord Path. The chapter ended with the Chat Group members listening as Konan described the life she hoped to live.

• Li Hanyi severed Dugu Yifang’s hands outside Peerless City to announce her arrival and seek a duel with Sword Saint Dugu.
• Konan and Nagato rendered Jiraiya unconscious after he asked them to postpone direct conflict with Konoha.
• Yahiko supported sealing Jiraiya, believing it was best for him and for their cause.
• Konan told Hermes and the Chat Group that she was tired of the Ninja World’s oppressive atmosphere and political struggles.
• Konan chose the Star Lord Path so she could pursue peace while visiting the worlds and experiences she longed for.

Konan accepted Hermes's offer to join the Star Lord Dao Lineage, while other Chat Group members weighed the risks of forging their own paths. Aozaki Touko began considering abandoning her pursuit of the Root, but a familiar red figure approached her.

• Floze and Hexi explained why creating a new Dao was risky and why Konan's choice was sensible.
• Motoo Aiya wondered whether her plan to create a Kabbalah path made her look foolish, while Luo Qianqiu and Chen Nan fell silent.
• Hermes welcomed Konan and sent her the Star Lord Path's root authority and complete cultivation method, making her its representative in the Ninja World.
• Konan accepted the red packet and jokingly asked whether she should call Hermes Boss.
• Aozaki Touko considered giving up on reaching the Root because the Counter Force blocked her access, then saw a familiar red figure approaching.

Hermes invited Himeko to forge a new Path of Exploration for the Astral Express, then revealed how Sissikarr had prepared to claim part of the ownerless Path of Erudition. Sissikarr seized a sliver of its fundamental authority, surprising even Great Herta.

• Hermes set aside leisure plans to study the future paths of Buer, Ruan Mei, and the others.
• Himeko visited Hermes in the Garden while March 7th, Chang Yeyue, Stelle, Welt, and Dan Heng explored its wonders.
• Hermes asked Himeko to help forge a new Path of Exploration, explaining that Trailblaze's unclaimed source left room to shape it.
• Hermes revealed that Sissikarr had undergone Dimension Ascension at the end of her short life and left preparations for the Path of Erudition becoming ownerless.
• Sissikarr returned and seized a sliver of Erudition's fundamental authority, astonishing Great Herta and her fellow geniuses.

After Lord of Wisdom fell, Hermes explained how the Genius Club tried to claim Erudition’s authority and how Hooh’s intervention stopped them from becoming minor Aeons. He proposed using similar methods to forge new Trailblaze paths, then welcomed Phanes, four Goddesses, and Finality Kiana to the Garden, where Kiana and Welt recognized each other.

• Himeko and the Astral Express Crew learned that the Genius Club members sought to refine their own authority after Lord of Wisdom fell, while Hooh patched the disturbance and prevented their immediate ascension.
• Hermes explained that he could combine Dan Heng’s power of Permanence with Trailblaze to create a path belonging to Dan Heng, prompting March 7th and Himeko to consider similar possibilities.
• Stelle wondered whether she could blaze a Trailblaze path dedicated to Trash Can Aesthetics, and Hermes teased her about the idea.
• Hermes revealed plans to combine Buer and Ruan Mei’s Virtual Universe project with the Crew’s efforts to blaze new paths and other preparations.
• Phanes arrived at the Garden with four Goddesses and Finality Kiana, and Welt recognized Kiana as the original rather than her counterpart.

Liu Xiu returned from a journey through a dream of the future with a registered Virtual Universe Player account, and he planned to use his knowledge to claim the future’s greatest opportunity. He left his companions preparing sacrificial offerings so he could connect to the Virtual Universe ahead of everyone else.

• Liu Xiu woke at home among Zhuge Liang, Zhang Zhongjing, Guan Yu, Hua Tuo, and Deng Yu, who were relieved that his journey had gone smoothly.
• Liu Xiu recalled his gains from the journey and realized he had become a registered Player in the future Virtual Universe.
• Deng Yu asked Liu Xiu what he considered the journey’s greatest gain, and Liu Xiu told him to wait and see.
• Liu Xiu ordered Deng Yu to buy the finest sacrificial offerings from the Old He Family so he could offer them to the Virtual Universe and log in early.

Lumine, Stelle, and Klee tested Buer’s Virtual Universe by leading Liu Xiu through a disastrous battle against Guangwu, which they cleared before the meteor arrived. Their successful run yielded a Philosopher’s Stone as the Virtual Universe project continued to develop, though Screwllum reported that the system still had many vulnerabilities.

• Lumine, Stelle, and Klee abandoned Liu Xiu during a chain of floods and landslides, then watched from high ground as he struggled to save his army.
• Lumine, Stelle, and Klee used Klee’s luck to ambush the Great Demon Master before the meteor descended and clear the experiment.
• Liu Xiu defeated the Great Demon Master and reflected that Wang Mang had endured an astonishingly difficult battle against him.
• Stelle showed March 7th the Philosopher’s Stone she had earned, while Herta compared it with Hermes’s more advanced version.
• Cyrene saw promising changes in the conquered virtual instance, and Screwllum reported that the system still had 739 major and 17,899 minor vulnerabilities.

Hermes learned that the Type-Moon world’s Counter Forces had reached out to him, and decided to meet them despite his past resentment. The chapter ended with a five-year-old girl abandoned in a worm pit, realizing her father had left her behind.

• Screwllum and Herta discussed whether to invite Sissikarr to join their project, while Screwllum explained that Ruan Mei was working with Tiamat on a Life Heavenly Dao system for the Virtual Universe.
• Hermes and Himeko reviewed the Virtual Universe’s first closed beta, noting that Guangwu Star Lord had already registered an account before the prototype existed.
• March 7th, Stelle, Lumine, and Klee returned to the Garden, where Himeko welcomed Klee with Rainbow Pudding and Hermes warned Lumine not to steal bricks from his foundations.
• Istaroth and Asmodeus asked Hermes about a connection from the Type-Moon world, and he recognized that Gaia and Alaya had initiated contact.
• Hermes recalled how the Counter Forces had treated him with suspicion during his previous visit, but chose to meet them anyway.
• A five-year-old girl lay in a worm pit and realized that her father had abandoned her.

Five-year-old Sakura was abandoned by Tohsaka Tokiomi and subjected to the Matou Family’s insect-based magecraft, but a flower’s power brought her to Hermes’s Garden and eased her pain. Hermes and his companions welcomed her, while he learned that the Type-Moon World’s Counter Forces had granted him permanent access and permission to establish a Dao Lineage there.

• Tohsaka Tokiomi gave Sakura to the Matou Family, where Matou Zouken placed her in a pit of Imprint Worms.
• A dreamlike flower merged with Sakura and transported her to the Garden of the Star Crown Garden, where its beauty comforted her.
• Sakura recognized that her father had abandoned her and that her sister had not come to save her.
• Hermes appeared and used the Garden’s rainbow light to soothe Sakura as March 7th and Lumine approached her.
• Hermes explained that the one who sent Sakura had first asked his permission, then revealed that the Type-Moon World’s Counter Forces had granted him permanent access and the right to establish a Dao Lineage.

Hermes restored Sakura after she arrived traumatized and injured, while Phanes argued that the mages responsible deserved harsh punishment. Phanes revealed that her curse had transformed Khaenri'ah's people into Hilichurls as a way to contain the Abyss and redeem them.

• Hermes reacted with disbelief when he learned he could establish a Dao Lineage as the orthodox path in the Type-Moon World.
• Himeko brought Sakura to Hermes, who recognized her suffering and cleansed her body of the worms with a touch.
• Sakura began crying in Himeko's arms, then fell asleep as she recovered.
• Phanes urged Hermes to punish the magi and proposed using her Hilichurl Grand Curse.
• Hermes explained that Phanes had transformed Khaenri'ah's people into Hilichurls to contain the Abyss and help purify the Ley Lines.

Hermes set aside the Type-Moon World and sent the Astral Express Crew to explore the Sea of Quantum, where they could practice his method for transcending World Bubbles. In the Chat Group, Unohana Retsu revealed that she had killed Ichigo Kurosaki and was trying to save his consciousness through his connection to the Soul King.

• Welt said that Phanes's curse could be a form of salvation for someone burdened by destroying their world, and the Astral Express Crew reflected on her reasoning.
• Hermes deferred Gaia and Alaya's invitation, suppressed March 7th and the Stellaron Spirit, and told the Astral Express Crew to put their Universal Galaxy route on hold.
• Hermes explained that World Bubbles formed in the Sea of Quantum and sent the Astral Express Crew there to pursue infinite possibilities and practice his method.
• Unohana Retsu asked the Chat Group what to do after her friend had killed Ichigo Kurosaki, worrying that he might be needed to stabilize the Three Realms.
• Luo Qianqiu and Motoo Aiya guessed that Unohana Retsu herself had killed Ichigo, and she admitted that he had died beneath the sword of an unknown Fourth Division captain.
• Unohana Retsu said Ichigo's consciousness might survive because of his connection to the Soul King, and she planned to work harder to save him.

Unohana Retsu accidentally killed Ichigo Kurosaki with a sword strike that revealed the terrifying force of her Sword Principle, then rescued his consciousness and reincarnated him as a Soul Reaper. With Ichigo now officially enlisted, she declared Rukia Kuchiki’s supposed crime void and dismissed the gathered captains.

• As Ichigo Kurosaki passed Unohana Retsu on his way to rescue Rukia Kuchiki, he swung his sword, prompting her to reflexively unleash her Sword Principle and erase him.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto worried that Unohana Retsu’s old murderous nature had resurfaced, while Byakuya Kuchiki angrily wondered why Ichigo had died after Byakuya had let him defeat him.
• Unohana Retsu caught Ichigo’s fading consciousness, ordered Nekoneko to gestate him anew, and concluded that his noble three-race hybrid nature was gone.
• Unohana Retsu declared that Ichigo could now serve as a Soul Reaper and that Rukia Kuchiki’s crime no longer stood, then told everyone to disperse.
• Sōsuke Aizen wondered whether his Mirror Flower Water Moon could affect Unohana Retsu, while Yoruichi Shihoin was relieved that Ichigo had survived.

Yamamoto decided that keeping Luo Qianqiu in Soul Society was worth making accommodations for, while Unohana Retsu explained how she had forged a dangerous new sword principle. The group then discussed Emiya Shirou’s warning that humanity’s future was collapsing toward the Steel World, leaving Gaia and Alaya desperate because their existence was bound to Earth and humanity.

• Yamamoto reconsidered and decided to keep Luo Qianqiu in Soul Society, believing his talent would make him a future pillar.
• Unohana Retsu told the group that studying supreme sword techniques had led her to create the [Heavenly Killing Sword Principle], which nearly drove her to slaughter Soul Society.
• Lumine recounted the many near-disasters Liu Xiu had faced, while Aozaki Touko described how Servant · Emiya Shirou warned her that humanity’s future timeline was converging on the Steel World.
• Hermes explained that the Steel World’s impending fate threatened Gaia and Alaya because they were bound to Earth and humanity, unlike Type-Moon’s Multiverse as a whole.
• The group concluded that Gaia and Alaya had approached Hermes with generous promises because the Steel World’s outcome posed an existential crisis for them.

Hermes entered the Type-Moon Multiverse through a connection opened by Gaia and Alaya, then punished Matou Zouken while spreading his Source of Pure Beauty into parallel worlds. His provocation drew the attention of powerful figures across the timelines, including the Grand Caster candidates.

• Hermes examined the Type-Moon Multiverse and found it afflicted by chaotic whispers and strangely auraed Transmigrators.
• Hermes accepted Gaia and Alaya’s invitation and sent his will into the Type-Moon World through the Root aura.
• Hermes intervened in the 1993 timeline as Matou Zouken prepared to put Sakura in the worm pit, severing his control over the Imprint Worms.
• Hermes made the Imprint Worms devour Matou Zouken’s body and soul while keeping him conscious.
• Hermes began spreading his Source of Pure Beauty across the Type-Moon Multiverse and challenged its powers to stop him.
• Powerful figures beyond the timelines heard Hermes’s declaration, and Grand Caster candidates discussed the intruder in their chat group.

Hermes used Gaia and Alaya’s recognition to assert his authority over the Type-Moon Multiverse, prompting most of its Great Powers to withdraw while a few local wills continued to oppose him. He relaxed with Phanes, whose newfound deference surprised Kiana.

• In the Clairvoyance Chat Group, Merlin and Gilgamesh urged each other to challenge Hermes, but the Grand Caster candidates ultimately held back.
• Hermes confronted the watching Great Powers and presented the origin aura certified by Gaia and Alaya as proof of his standing.
• Many Great Powers withdrew after recognizing Hermes as an outsider pursuing Dao Spreading Through Heavens, though several local wills remained defiant.
• Hermes accepted tea from Phanes and praised her brewing, while she reflected on his domineering nature beneath his gentle appearance.
• Kiana questioned Phanes for serving Hermes tea, and Phanes punched her and ordered her to call her Big Sister.