Chapter Summaries

Kiana complained to Cecilia about Phanes while Mei and a transformed game producer urged her to apologize, and Ruan Mei asked how Kiana had managed to make Phanes suffer a loss. Phanes acknowledged Ruan Mei’s astonishing genius and reflected that, despite her own immense Human Order power, she had not reached Cosmic Truth.

• Cecilia restrained Kiana, who complained that Phanes had bullied her and forced their sisterly ranking when Kiana was young.
• Cecilia and Mei encouraged Kiana to apologize to Phanes, while the game producer teased Kiana about Phanes getting revenge next time.
• Hermes joked about comforting the displeased Phanes, and Ruan Mei asked how Kiana had managed to put her at a disadvantage.
• Ruan Mei recalled how studying Phanes’s blood had led her to discover unrelated concepts and eventually derive a model for creating humans.
• Phanes acknowledged Ruan Mei’s genius and noted that Ruan Mei had entered Cosmic Truth, a realm Phanes had not reached.

Phanes lamented that Humanity’s vastness had stalled her progress, so Hermes gave her the Chronicle of Ages, a primordial Seed of Humanity that could grow into a power of her own. The chapter ended with Hermes telling Phanes she could cultivate it into a towering tree called Humanity.

• Phanes sulked after Kitty had caught her off guard with an anti-Civilization attack and beaten her up.
• Phanes explained that Humanity’s slow response and immense scale had become the main obstacles to her breakthrough.
• Hermes recognized that Phanes had reached the limit of what his permission alone could grant her and decided to support her.
• Hermes drew an origin force from Humanity and formed it into a primordial Seed called the Chronicle of Ages.
• Hermes gave the Chronicle of Ages to Phanes and told her she could grow it into a tree belonging solely to her.

Phanes received the Chronicle of Ages from Hermes and understood it as a chance to develop Human Order, while her sisters teased her for seeking his help. Ruan Mei then began designing a system that used regulated Honkai and Dark Destiny to catalyze the evolution of life and civilization.

• Hermes gave Phanes the Chronicle of Ages and praised her talent, leaving her determined to work hard.
• Istaroth and Kiana Kitty teased Phanes for returning to Hermes after suffering a setback, and Raiden Mei restrained Kiana and made her apologize.
• Ruan Mei considered Honkai as a direction for her cultivation and connected its potential to her understanding of life.
• Ruan Mei outlined a plan combining regulated Honkai with Phanes and Herta's Dark Destiny project, which she proposed could be adjusted into a Golden Future.

Ruan Mei presented her Mindscape: Plum Blossom Courtyard's Life Cycle Equation, which Hermes praised as a promising path toward great power. Hermes then teased Kiana about Raiden Mei, and Kiana's confidence began to falter when he suggested asking Mei for a massage.

• Ruan Mei used the mysteries of the Aeons to build a life-cycle grand model, combining life and Honkai before a final descent of Cosmic Light.
• Hermes recognized Ruan Mei's model as both a life universe and a cycle of her Cosmic Truth, while noting that she still had many technical challenges to overcome.
• Hermes teased Kiana about bringing Raiden Mei to meet him, and Kiana insisted that Mei would never be stolen away by a handsome stranger.
• Bronya sensed the gathering tension but could not bring herself to interrupt the meeting in the Creator's Garden.
• Hermes asked what Kiana would do if he called for Mei to massage him, and Kiana's confidence collapsed at the thought.

Raiden Mei massaged Hermes and then recovered memories of Izumo and the hopeless journey of the blade bearers, realizing she had once traveled as Yomotsu before Hermes saved her. Hermes and Phanes recognized that her visit to the Garden had nearly caused her to be assimilated with her powerful counterpart, but believed the encounter might bring both Meis an opportunity.

• Kiana Kitty saw Raiden Mei massage Hermes and feared that he had harmed her.
• Raiden Mei remembered Izumo, the World-Protecting Edict Blades, and the despair of a world trapped in a false search for salvation.
• Raiden Mei recalled traveling through the Universal Galaxy as Yomotsu until Hermes appeared and saved her.
• Hermes explained that his Emanator Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei had transcended her origins and was carefully severing karmic ties with her counterparts.
• Phanes realized Raiden Mei had nearly been assimilated in the Garden, while Hermes and Phanes considered that the encounter could become an opportunity for both Meis.

Elysia arrived at the Star Crown Garden and reunited with Raiden Mei, while Phanes compared their progress as counterparts. Hermes reflected on Cyrene’s continued absence and concluded that he needed to address the matter of counterparts.

• Elysia pounced into Raiden Mei’s arms, and Herrscher Kiana endured her jealousy because she understood Elysia’s importance to the Current Civilization.
• Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei took Raiden Mei’s place massaging Lord of Heavenly Principles, leaving Elysia pouting.
• Hermes praised Elysia’s potential, and his compliment left her flustered and drawn toward him despite her efforts to stay away.
• Phanes pointed out that Cyrene and Elysia had both pursued Unique Spacetime, while Raiden Mei had fallen short by comparison.
• Hermes defended Raiden Mei and wondered whether his Mobius Serpent counterpart had frightened Cyrene away.
• Hermes decided that the matter of Counterparts needed to be dealt with.

Raiden Mei met Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei, whose mature strength and life experience gave her a mirror of the self she had once longed to become. Their connection helped Yomotsu approach a deeper understanding of her True Self, while Mei gained a perfect reference to guide her growth.

• Hermes reassured Raiden Mei that she should not compare herself to the older Yomotsu and praised how far she had come.
• Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei recognized Raiden Mei as the self she had once admired and realized Hermes had brought them together as a mirror of the True Self.
• Raiden Mei sensed a connection to Yomotsu and hesitated to benefit from it, but Yomotsu encouraged her to use the opportunity to grow.
• Kiana and the Miss Pink Fairy sulked as Raiden Mei and Yomotsu massaged Hermes, and the fairy decided to bring Eden to the upcoming Gourmet God Championship.

Hermes established a universal law that every being in the Tree Sea Great Multiverse had a unique True Spirit, preventing counterparts from being treated as interchangeable. The Halloween Queen and Zhongli recognized the change’s implications for the Star Lord System, and the Halloween Queen considered joining it early.

• Hermes decided to preserve the connections between counterparts while forbidding them from treating one another as fish to be reeled in.
• Hermes’s will changed the rules across the Star Crown Garden and the Tree Sea Great Multiverse, granting every lifeform a unique True Spirit that reflected its individual experiences.
• The Halloween Queen awoke, understood the new True Spirit law, and realized it could greatly strengthen Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Star Lord System.
• The Halloween Queen considered investing in the Star Lord System before its expected expansion made her too late to join as an original shareholder.
• Zhongli examined the rule change at the Transmigrator Management Bureau, while King of Rocks looked over Liyue with a pleased smile.

Ningguang, Keqing, and several other Liyue figures ascended as Star Lords, stunning the Star Crown Garden with their rapid rise into the heavens. Chu Lan learned from Binchotan how the Star Lord Path worked and realized that the powerful Hermes she called “Brother” was the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate.

• Nearly ten Star Lords ascended across the mortal world, including Ningguang, Keqing, Hu Tao, Beidou, Shenhe, Chongyun, Baizhu, and Yun Jin.
• Star Crown Garden residents marveled at the unprecedented mass ascension and praised the Liyue figures' achievements.
• Chu Lan watched the new Star Lords transform from ordinary mortals into divine beings and struggled to understand what he was seeing.
• Binchotan explained that the Star Lord Path turned a fulfilled inner sea of the mind into a Life Star and drew in matching law authorities.
• Binchotan's Ultimate Fire Path and Omniscient Celestial Phenomenon accelerated her growth as she absorbed laws and nourishment.
• Chu Lan realized that the Hermes Binchotan called “Brother” was the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate.

Klee, Binchotan, and Elk used a supercomputer to develop their powers through Klee’s explosive Jumpy Dumpty recipe, causing Elk to inherit the collective consciousness of the Aeons. As they began to unleash a reality-shaking transformation, an unseen voice stopped them.

• Zhang Chulan envied Binchotan’s abilities and her access to a supercomputer.
• Klee created a Super Jumpy Dumpty recipe by combining Pure Yang and Pure Yin Qi into chaotic lightning, then asked Binchotan to borrow the supercomputer for calculations.
• Binchotan, Klee, and Elk shared the supercomputer’s processing power to refine their ideas and develop their abilities.
• Elk used Klee’s recipe to awaken the Aeon Species Collective Consciousness, drawing more than a hundred million consciousness stars into her Pure White Mind Sea.
• Binchotan applied Klee’s recipe to her Fire of All Things and Ultimate Flame as the three girls prepared to unleash World-Shocking lightning through higher-dimensional spacetime.
• A voice declaring that it was too soon stopped the three girls before they continued.

Elk, Klee, and Binchotan’s recipe experiment awakened immense cosmic power, but Hermes restrained their transformation and sealed their new wisdom for them to develop later. Their brief emergence as Young Star Masters stunned powerful figures across the Star Crown Garden, while the three girls worried about growing up and losing their chance to play.

• Hermes merged the three girls’ Dao Fruit Prototype into their bodies and sealed their World-Shocking Wisdom, preventing them from dissolving into the Dao.
• Elk, Klee, and Binchotan recalled strange glimpses of becoming a star, a boundless sea of consciousness, and an Ultimate Fire.
• Star Lords, Great Emperors, ancient sages, and Teyvat’s Archons sensed the aura of a Star Master and wondered who had advanced.
• Binchotan told Elk and Klee that Hermes had stopped them from transforming so they could keep playing until they grew up.
• Klee worried that she might have missed her chance to blow up fish, while Elk feared growing up would make her less cute and less loved.
• Binchotan said Hermes had promised to make her the Flame Emperor when she grew up, while Zhang Chulan stood petrified by what he had witnessed.

Lumine awakened as a Star Master and defeated Herta-controlled Great Black Tomb, swallowing the Dark Calamity and beginning a new era. Halloween Queen discovered Lumine was a supreme hero who had crossed the Final Trial, just as Hermes reminded her of her promise to serve him as a maid.

• Lumine realized she had become a Star Master and summoned a Heavenly Star to attack Great Black Tomb.
• Herta-controlled Great Black Tomb punched back, while Hermes, Ruan Mei, and Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei anticipated Lumine’s defeat of Herta’s stand-in.
• Lumine unleashed her power, freed the souls trapped in the Dark Calamity, and swallowed the calamity to establish a Primordial New Era.
• A Life Star rose in the Star Crown Garden, and Halloween Queen investigated the newly ascended Star Master’s identity.
• Halloween Queen learned Lumine was a supreme hero who had crossed the Final Trial, and Hermes reminded her to come serve him tea as a maid.

After returning from creating a Perfect World, Lumine received a first-tier authorization for the Lord of Heavenly Principles' Vault from Phanes and realized she had forgotten to rescue Kong. Hermes revealed that Kong was charging at a tree and congratulated Lumine on finally becoming a Star Master, only for her to learn that Binchotan, Elk, and Klee had already reached that rank.

• Lumine confronted Phanes for celebrating with the Chronicle of Ages, but Phanes gave her a first-tier Vault exchange authorization as her mission reward.
• Istaroth described Phanes' unusually generous, motherly treatment of Lumine and asked whether she had rescued Kong.
• Lumine realized she had forgotten Kong and asked Paimon and Hermes where he was.
• Hermes showed that Kong was charging at a tree to imitate Aha's path to enlightenment.
• Hermes congratulated Lumine on becoming a Star Master and revealed that Binchotan, Elk, and Klee had already achieved the same rank.

Lumine recovered from a bewildering dream, and Istaroth teased her before vanishing. Hermes advised the two Meis to ascend to Star Master, while Kiana struggled with Mei’s growing feelings for him and Bronya called the situation a win-win.

• Istaroth teased Lumine about asking Phanes whether she would take Lumine as a daughter or a little sister, then disappeared.
• Hermes urged the two Meis to prepare for ascending to Star Master and explained the advantages his Star Lord Path gave its cultivators.
• The two Meis accepted Hermes's advice and left, while he teased Kiana by holding their hands.
• Kiana dragged the two Meis away, and Raiden Yomotsu Kari Mei explained that little Mei's feelings for Hermes had developed through her memories.
• Bronya arrived and told the devastated Kiana that the arrangement was a win-win.

Cyrene remembered the countless cycles she had endured with Hermes and the hope they had shared of freeing Amphoreus from eternity. After Hermes returned as the Serpent, they greeted each other again in the Demiurge Matrix.

• Cyrene recalled enduring thirty million cycles and recording her memories in As I Have Written.
• She remembered Hermes arriving from beyond the heavens and joining her in their Trailblazing adventures.
• Hermes nearly shattered Amphoreus's cycle, but the Divine Audience's intervention banished him.
• Cyrene continued writing about Hermes and waited for him to return, even after he became the Serpent.
• Cyrene welcomed Hermes back, and Hermes welcomed Cyrene in return.

Zhou Zhe suppressed an Anomaly Church with the Southern Heavenly Gate and escaped, hoping to avoid the grim fate predicted for him. In the chat group, Luo Qianqiu teased Lumine over her exhausting victory, while Lumine plotted to invite her sister to the Gourmet God Championship.

• Zhou Zhe used the Southern Heavenly Gate to seal and suppress the Anomaly Church in Pritz Town, then erased his traces and fled into a concealed Supernatural place.
• Zhou Zhe reflected on the Chat Group Leader’s prediction that he might share the fates of the Lord of the Restroom and Erlang Shen, and took comfort in having a cheat and a plan.
• Luo Qianqiu congratulated Lumine on clearing five checkpoints and defeating six generals, then joked that she had become a roadside stray after her adventure.
• Lumine objected to Luo Qianqiu’s teasing and considered inviting her to Star Crown Garden for the Gourmet God Championship.
• Luo Qianqiu insisted that Lumine had never been inferior to anyone, and Lumine had finally kept pace with Binchotan, Elk, and Klee.

Zhou Zhe learned that Klee, Binchotan, and Elk had become Star Masters through a chain of coincidences that Floze recognized as a carefully arranged gift from the Lord of Pure Beauty. Kikyo recalled a similar miracle from her hometown, where a little girl and her grandmother’s spirit began a path toward Star Lord, and she predicted the girl’s story would support her rise.

• Zhou Zhe read the chat and was stunned that Klee, Binchotan, and Elk had attained the path of Star Masters before Lumine.
• Floze explained how Polka Kakami’s supercomputer, Klee’s recipe, Binchotan’s help, and Elk’s Aeon collective consciousness came together in an improbable chain of events.
• Floze reassured Lumine that her achievements came from her own struggles, while the three Little Guys had been specially favored and prepared for.
• Kikyo described a little girl who reunited with her deceased grandmother as a Guardian Spirit after lighting saved firewood to keep warm.
• Kikyo said the girl and her Guardian Spirit had become Star Lords, and that the girl’s growing story could lay the foundation for her future ascent.

Kikyo revealed that Yakumo Yukari had lost control of her Reality and Fantasy boundary while visiting the flower-blessed Magus Xia An'an, leaving her trapped as a Dream Flower and enslaved by a Flower Immortal's Magus. Hexi then questioned why Hermes showed no special favor to her Angels, and Chen Nan offered to explain why the Aeon of Pure Beauty overlooked them.

• Kikyo said Yakumo Yukari had teased Xia An'an, a young time-traveling Magus favored by flower spirits and gods, while visiting her as a Dream Flower.
• Kikyo explained that Yakumo Yukari's Reality and Fantasy boundary went out of control, leaving her stuck as a Dream Flower and enslaved by a Flower Immortal's Magus.
• Aozaki Touko and the Chat Group members concluded that Yakumo Yukari had been set up again.
• Hexi complained that Hermes ignored her beautiful, sincere Angels despite favoring younger-looking Little Cuties.
• Zhou Zhe laughed at Hexi's complaint, and Chen Nan suggested he knew why the Aeon of Pure Beauty overlooked the Angel Race.
• Hexi asked Chen Nan to reveal the reason, saying she had never dared investigate Hermes with a supercomputer.

Hermes explained that his Pure Beauty favored the Angel Race indirectly because they were already united in pursuing their ideals, while his strongest personal affection belonged to children rather than Angels. Hexi considered using the Star Lord System to register her Angels under Pure Beauty, and Zhou Zhe raised the sponsorship issue.

• Chen Nan said he would choose little children over Angels because children could belong to everyone.
• Hermes praised the Angel Race’s pursuit of Pure Beauty and explained that it already followed its own path, which needed no outside interference.
• Hermes said his personal preference for children also meant he favored them more than Angels, since Angels were not his own children.
• Hexi realized she might register her Angels under Pure Beauty by introducing the Star Lord System.
• Zhou Zhe asked Hexi to discuss sponsorship, while Haibara Ai reflected on how unusually well he was doing in the Chat Group.

Hexi used the Celestial Computer to devise preliminary Sequence Potion knowledge and formulas for Zhou Zhe, while warning him that he still needed to test them. The chat group discussed the risks and promise of his world and urged him to control Ghost Faith, a key step toward becoming the Heavenly Emperor.

• Hexi gave Zhou Zhe preliminary Sequence Potion knowledge and formulas based on the materials he had provided, and asked him to keep collecting more data.
• Zhou Zhe thanked Hexi and recognized that her work could save him from dangerous trial and error while developing his own potion path.
• Hermes considered sponsoring Zhou Zhe with a celestial supercomputer, but Zhou Zhe refused because he feared he could not withstand the resulting anomaly.
• Luo Qianqiu asked Zhou Zhe how his Ghost Faith Project was progressing and advised him to keep Ghost Faith under his control.
• Asuka Kudō offered to obtain a Faith and Spirit Status Conversion Formula if Zhou Zhe succeeded in dominating Ghost Faith, which could help him form his own Heavenly Emperor Spirit Status.