Chapter Summaries

Hermes watched Index calmly speak with Othinus while Phoenix complained that he kept targeting her. Phoenix then used the Twelve Archdemons Array to unleash a multiverse-shaking strike, which Primordial Heavenly Venerate crushed, scattering her undying flames across countless Fantasy Worlds and allowing her to spread her Fire Dao Contamination through every phoenix concept and achieve her One True Phoenix Form.

• Hermes watched Index converse with Othinus and kept a protective eye on her while his other self punched Phoenix into nirvana.
• Phoenix accused Hermes of singling her out, and Kyubey, Chaos, and Taiyi each objected to her insults.
• Phoenix drew on the Twelve Archdemons Array and combined the other Demon Gods' powers into a civilization-fueled ultimate strike.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate caught Phoenix's strike in his palm and crushed it, leaving only undying flames drifting through time and space.
• Kyubey realized Phoenix's flames were spreading through countless Fantasy Worlds, where they empowered or transformed phoenixes and spread her Fire Dao Contamination across every phoenix concept.
• Phoenix devoured myriad worlds through the scattered flames and achieved her One True Phoenix Form.

Kyubey secretly approached Akemi Homura and claimed he could save the Law of Cycles’ human side, then hinted that the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate’s true identity offered a way forward. He believed he had found a powerful leverage point, though Homura remained wary.

• The Great Powers suspected Phoenix had reached a secret understanding with Primordial Beginning and quietly began making their own moves.
• Kyubey appeared before Akemi Homura in the world of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and she threatened to kill him for causing the Law of Cycles’ predicament.
• Kyubey said he had a way to save the Law of Cycles’ human side, stopping Homura from attacking.
• Homura rejected the idea that the Land of Gods and its Acknowledged Power could change Madoka’s fate, and Kyubey agreed that power alone was insufficient.
• Kyubey asked Homura about the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate and revealed that he was more than the creator of the heavens, believing his connection to Pure Beauty could be exploited.

Luo Qianqiu admired the expanding Fantasy Worlds but warned that powerful beings, including Demon Gods from A Certain Magical Index, were challenging the Real Realm’s supremacy. She reassured her followers that she had prepared to exploit the upheaval, as her power continued to grow through the phoenix concept.

• Luo Qianqiu watched Fantasy Worlds collide with the Real Realm and felt the lingering pain of a punch that had also brought her benefits.
• Mahiru Shiina massaged Luo Qianqiu using a Pokémon technique she had adapted for humans, and Luo Qianqiu praised her.
• Yukino Yukinoshita told Luo Qianqiu that national leaders were asking when their world would merge completely with the Real Realm.
• Luo Qianqiu urged them to wait, explaining that the Real Realm might lose its transcendent status as powerful beings crossed between worlds.
• Luo Qianqiu named the Demon Gods from A Certain Magical Index as one threat, then reassured Mahiru and the Little Mikos that she had made thorough preparations.
• Luo Qianqiu’s power continued to rise as she occupied the phoenix concept in more worlds.

Luo Qianqiu began using the Chat Group’s simulated Phoenix Ancestor identity to turn countless versions of herself into the true phoenix across all realms. As her power surged, she used the Pure Beauty Jade Disc to stabilize herself and assemble her path to Dao attainment, which the Chat Group dubbed the Pinduoduo Path Attainment Technique.

• Luo Qianqiu ordered the Little Mikos to gather scholars and experts so she could collect Acknowledged Power and forge her Phoenix Dao.
• Luo Qianqiu sensed countless phoenix versions of herself connecting and overlapping, and wondered whether the process would let her become the True Self of myriad worlds or destroy her.
• The Chat Group explained that Luo Qianqiu’s simulated Phoenix Ancestor identity had a time limit and that she had to turn its possibility into reality before it expired.
• Luo Qianqiu suspended the Pure Beauty Jade Disc above her spiritual platform to suppress her growing power and experience the process of making the simulation real.
• The Chat Group compared combining thousands of Luo Qianqius into a true phoenix to assembling a puzzle and jokingly named the method the Pinduoduo Path Attainment Technique.
• Luo Qianqiu joked about the popularity of combination-based approaches to opening heaven and attaining Dao.

Luo Qianqiu sought Hermes’s punches to refine her True Self, while Hermes learned that multiple players were targeting the Spider Queen. Sissikarr arrived at the Garden, confident that Hermes would help her.

• The Chat Group warned Luo Qianqiu that merging too many versions of herself had clouded her spiritual platform and urged her to seek Hermes’s fists to temper her mind.
• The Phoenix Ancestor charged the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate again, was struck into the torrent of time, and vowed to rebuild its true phoenix body.
• Hermes recognized Luo Qianqiu’s plan and punched her, forging her into steel tempered a hundred times over.
• Hermes learned that Zhu Youjian intended to meddle in the effort involving the Spider Queen and considered the possibility of helping him.
• Sissikarr appeared in the Creator’s Garden within the Star Crown Garden and told Hermes that, as fellow Genius Club members, they already knew he would agree to help.

Hermes prepared to use the Cause-and-Effect Blade while Spider Queen Lolth secretly used the Great Powers’ strength to transform the [Fate Spider]. As Lolth sacrificed herself into the web of fate, Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate struck with a blade that buried cause and effect.

• Sissikarr appeared in person, demonstrated her ability to adapt her techniques across Worldviews, and granted Hermes her request before departing.
• Hermes raised the Cause-and-Effect Blade and slashed into the void.
• Spider Queen Lolth revealed she had been using the Great Powers’ resources to empower the web of fate and transform the [Fate Spider].
• Lolth ignited herself and charged into the web of fate, sacrificing herself for the Dao.
• Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate raised the Cause-and-Effect Blade and struck as the other Great Powers were no longer before him.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Causality Blade to force Spider Queen Lolth to gather power into the Fate Spiderweb, transforming it into a nearly perfect Cosmic Truth symbol. Lolth believed she had gained a chance to reach the Weak Multiversal realm, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that he had also obtained what he wanted.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Causality Blade severed Lolth’s lesser karmic traces, so she destroyed them herself and drew their power back into the Fate Spiderweb.
• Lolth used the web to siphon power from the Myriad Heavens Great Powers, trapping them as she gathered her strength to resist the blade.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate continued striking the web, prompting Lolth to burn her remaining karma and fate until only one protected karmic thread remained.
• The Causality Blade completed the Fate Spiderweb by supplying the karmic power it lacked, giving the web multiverse-shaking might.
• Lolth thanked Primordial Heavenly Venerate and celebrated the web as a nearly perfect Cosmic Truth symbol, while he said he had obtained what he wanted too.

Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate used Spider Queen Lolth’s betrayal of Xiluo Duo as the basis for a Causality Blade and severed the karmic traces she had left in her homeland. As Lolth searched for a way to survive, Xiluo Duo awakened within her, determined to reclaim what she had taken and save Modo.

• Spider Queen Lolth sensed that the fate of Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate had changed, but he revealed that he had grasped her fatal weakness.
• Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate forged the karma of Lolth’s betrayal of Xiluo Duo into the Causality Blade and struck her.
• AO, Lady of Pain, and the great Death-Life Cycler let the karmic reckoning proceed without interference.
• Lolth realized the strike had severed her karmic traces in her homeland, leaving her with only her current body, and tried to use the Fate Spiderweb to escape.
• Xiluo Duo’s consciousness awakened within Lolth, intent on reclaiming what she had taken, returning to Modo, and mending every regret.

Xiluo Duo restrained the Spider Queen’s transcendent Dao Fruit so Zhu Youjian could attack Her consciousness, while his system gathered the strength of a possible Achievement reward. As the battle continued, the watching Great Powers debated whether to intervene and joked about claiming compensation from the Spider Queen.

• Xiluo Duo used his remaining consciousness to restrain the Spider Queen’s Dao Fruit and left the fight to Zhu Youjian.
• Zhu Youjian charged into battle, and the Spider Queen shattered his consciousness, but his system’s transcendent status kept him from perishing.
• Zhu Youjian repeatedly attacked the Spider Queen as his system gathered Achievement strength that might help him win.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate watched without interfering and considered the plans behind the staged battle among the Great Powers.
• Ancestor Minghe and the others discussed the Spider Queen’s blocked resurrection and joked that She owed them compensation for the blood She had drawn.

The Great Powers abandoned their confrontation with the Primordial Heavenly Venerate to discuss making the Spider Queen compensate them, while the Primordial Heavenly Venerate lamented that their retreat disrupted his plans. Nyarko then appeared seeking a share of the inheritance, and the Great Powers attacked her avatar before she escaped behind the Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

• Taiyi Heavenly Venerate proposed turning the Spider Queen into an innate spiritual treasure to repay the Great Powers, and the Phoenix Ancestor joined in demanding compensation for her injuries.
• Ancestor Minghe and Taiyi Heavenly Venerate agreed that the Spider Queen owed them compensation despite their quick recovery.
• The Great Powers stopped fighting and focused on the completed Fate Spiderweb, frustrating the Primordial Heavenly Venerate's plan to defeat and recruit them.
• Nyarlathotep appeared and demanded a share of the inheritance, prompting more than ten Great Powers to attack the silver-haired figure.
• The Daughter of Bloating took the blow meant for Nyarko, who reappeared behind the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and praised her sister for taking the hit.

The Spider Queen tried to use the Fate Spiderweb against the Great Powers, but they discovered that Sissikarr had secretly stolen her kill and claimed the web's fortune. As Hermes rewarded Sissikarr, another consciousness appeared inside the Fate Spiderweb and began erasing its inscribed First Cause.

• The Daughter of Bloating fled after the Great Powers rebuked her, while Nyarko defended her actions to Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• The Spider Queen used the Fate Spiderweb to suppress Xiluo Duo, but the Great Powers remained unalarmed because they were bound to her by karma.
• The Great Powers realized Sissikarr had traveled to the oldest era and stolen the Spider Queen's kill without their noticing.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate praised Sissikarr's feat, and Hermes sent her a reward from the Sea of Trees Infinite Multiverse.
• A lively voice emerged from the Fate Spiderweb, claiming it as an ownerless treasure, while a consciousness began erasing its First Cause about Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate.

The World Weaver transformed the Fate Spiderweb and spread it across the Real Realm, astonishing the Great Powers as Sissikarr expanded her already-attained Path. Hermes showed Herta what Sissikarr had done, and Herta found inspiration in her colleague’s methods as she plotted to catch up.

• The Fate Spiderweb’s will changed its origin to the World Weaver and spread a triple-helix web of fate, karma, and dimensions throughout the Real Realm.
• The Great Powers watched Sissikarr expand the fruits of her Path, while Ancestor Minghe and Primordial Beginning discussed the standards for a newly transcendent Great Power.
• Hermes grabbed Herta, showed her Sissikarr’s achievement, and scolded her for neglecting her debts and cultivation.
• Herta ignored Hermes’s criticism and studied Sissikarr’s methods, hoping to find a shortcut to rapid progress in Cosmic Truth.
• Hermes and Herta argued over who was more ridiculous, then returned to watching as Herta imagined making Hermes and her puppets serve as her cheering squad.

Sissikarr seized the Fate Spiderweb and united her versions across realities, attaining the status of a Great Supernatural Being. The Great Powers accepted that they could not easily take back the fruits of victory, while Taiyi Heavenly Venerate suggested Sissikarr could one day rival Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

• Ancestor Minghe explained that Sissikarr had made every version of herself across timelines, dreams, and fictional dimensions equal in power and essence.
• Taiyi Heavenly Venerate realized that an expert had supported Sissikarr, and Ancestor Minghe saw that she had made the concept of webs across an Immeasurable Multiversal Great World her symbol.
• Sissikarr emerged from the Fate Spiderweb, thanked the Spider Queen, and offered the Great Powers a share of its Subordinate Authority.
• The Great Powers recognized that Sissikarr had united her versions across realities and attained the standing of a Great Supernatural Being, making her difficult to challenge or stop.
• Incubator Kyubey identified [Web] as Sissikarr's Dao, and Taiyi Heavenly Venerate said she might rival Primordial Heavenly Venerate if she gathered the Three Thousand Daos into a self-consistent [Principle].

Sissikarr found her path toward the Weak Multiversal realm, while the Three Pure Ones drew Nightmare Space, the Main God Hall, and Reincarnation Paradise into a long-prepared trap. The Three Rascals fought back, but Pangu Hall began pulling them in as the battle continued.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate praised Sissikarr, and Primordial Beginning secretly sent her part of the Three Pure Ones' plan.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate manifested his Primordial Dao Fruit and began contaminating Nightmare Space, while Yue Buqun, Hachiko Hikigaya, and Kazuko Kirigaya planted three nails to anchor it.
• Nightmare Space discovered the nails and fought back by uniting its contaminated worlds into a Pseudo-Multiverse Creation Diagram.
• Lingbao Tianzun fought the supreme reincarnation, while the Main God Hall clashed with an Elixir Furnace as the Three Rascals burned their accumulated power to resist.
• Pangu Hall appeared outside the Real Realm and began drawing in the beings entangled with the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerate.

Herta developed her [Simulation of Heavens] system with support from [Lord of Wisdom], but her early attempts failed as she refined its algorithms. After trading for key techniques and Star Coin authority, she advanced the system and revealed its basis in recursively reflecting mirrors, inspiring Hermes to adapt the idea as a technique embodying [Infinity].

• Herta repeatedly failed to compile her new [Simulation of Heavens], and Sissikarr explained that she had not yet mastered [Cause from Effect].
• Sissikarr offered Herta the latest [Cause from Effect] and [Sissikarr's Maze] techniques in exchange for being called Big Sister, and Herta accepted after a brief hesitation.
• Hermes offered Herta any technique she wanted in exchange for calling him Hermes Brother, and she asked for a little authority over Star Coins.
• Herta's system gained three crucial contributions and advanced by ten percent as Sissikarr and Hermes identified its core as a self-replicating mirror.
• Hermes recognized that recursively reflecting mirrors could form a Proving Dao Technique embodying [Infinity], then turned his attention to Index's experiment in the Real Realm.

Misaka Mikoto was transported to another world, where Index and Othinus explained that the Demon Gods were approaching and that Mikoto had little time to return. As Aleister and Aiwass discussed Index’s changed identity, Aleister called her the lamb offering knowledge to the recorder in heaven.

• Mikoto worried that Accelerator would kill the Sisters after she was transported away from Academy City.
• Othinus told Mikoto that the Demon Gods had found the worlds’ coordinates and were pushing their original world toward this one.
• Index reassured Othinus that the Demon Gods would need time to adapt to the realm, giving her enough time to act.
• Kikuhara Asia reported that other powerful beings, including a Phoenix Divine Lord and the Sage of Six Paths, were gathering Acknowledged Power.
• Aleister gathered online information about the Index Universe and spoke with Aiwass about Index’s new identity.
• Aleister described Index as the lamb upon the earth offering knowledge to the recorder in heaven.

Aleister and Aiwass realized Index’s altered Magic Name, Metatron, was part of a plan that needed their joint recognition to anchor a Supreme Angel. After Index returned safely from her ritual, Luo Qianqiu stopped her from slipping into a heightened state and warned her not to take such risks again.

• Aleister explained that Index’s Magic Name, Dedicatus545, had subtly changed into Metatron, a title associated with a Sacred or Celestial Scribe.
• Aleister and Aiwass concluded that Index was trying to make Index and Metatron overlap, with their shared acknowledgment forming an anchor.
• Aiwass said she helped because she was an angel, born to hear Heavenly Will and deliver Divine Oracles.
• Index returned to the Present World after completing her ritual, and Yotsuya Miko saw angelic phantoms around her.
• Luo Qianqiu tapped Index’s forehead with Phoenix Divine Fire to wake her, and Index admitted she might have become a Demon God without her preparations.
• Luo Qianqiu tidied Index’s hair and told her not to take such risks again.

Index used her Metatron identity without accepting its drawbacks while Luo Qianqiu watched the gods and demons clash across the stars. Luo Qianqiu stayed behind to keep watch as Index considered escaping the noise by traveling to another world.

• Index claimed that Metatron occupied the Demon God position whenever she needed it, while she remained Index whenever she did not.
• Othinus and Nuada confronted Nephthys, the zombie, and the Shijiexian, while Dr. Mei appeared and observed the unusual paths by which the Demon Gods had risen.
• Zeus attacked Demon God Chimera, and Emperor Ziwei joined the battle as gods and demons began a vast free-for-all across the starry sky.
• Mei told Vill-V and Mobius to wait for the right moment, as they anticipated the emergence of hidden schemers amid the chaos.
• Index and Luo Qianqiu chose not to join the fighting; Luo Qianqiu told Index she could travel to another world, but said she had to remain and keep watch.

Hermes accepted Kyubey’s magical-girl technologies, Akemi Homura’s token, and an access privilege to the Law of Cycles, then wondered how to achieve a happy ending for Madoka and Homura. In the Chat Group, Luo Qianqiu and Index shared their gains, while Liang Bing reunited with Hexi and Kaisa and worried that they knew she had once been Morgana.

• Kyubey gave Hermes the magical-girl information, Akemi Homura’s token, and an access privilege to the Law of Cycles, and Hermes agreed to the transaction before sending Kyubey away.
• Hermes wondered how he could reach a happy ending for Madoka and Akemi Homura, then opened the Chat Group to relax.
• Luo Qianqiu shared her and Index’s gains, and Index explained that Qianqiu had saved her from becoming a Demon God.
• Dragon compared his gains with the others and recalled that his battle with Imu had left them merely scratching each other.
• Hexi reunited with Liang Bing and Kaisa, while Liang Bing asked whether anyone knew Morgana and Liang Bing were the same person.
• Kaisa teased Liang Bing that no one would connect her to Morgana, thanks to her old smoky makeup.

Liang Bing returned to herself, while Carl discovered that she was back. In the Chat Group, Index considered where to visit, and Hermes decided to take Little Gardevoir back to the Pokemon World.

• Liang Bing resolved to make amends for her years as Morgana and erase the traces of the Demon Civilization, while Kaisa comforted her and Hexi watched with relief.
• Carl discovered that Liang Bing's information had reappeared and rejoiced at her return.
• Asuka Kudō complained that the Halloween Queen kept giving her powers and sending her to dangerous worlds for training.
• Index said she wanted to visit somewhere peaceful, and Cynthia invited her to the Pokemon World with a picture of Uesugi Erii playing with a nine-tailed fox.
• Hermes decided it was time to take Little Gardevoir back to her hometown in the Pokemon World.