Chapter Summaries

Su Mo led the defeated Yellow Turban Army to victory over an elite Han force, and both armies submitted to him as the Azure Emperor. His Azure Sky White Sun Banner then swept across the Han Dynasty, ending with Lu Bu’s defeat and surrender.

• Su Mo arrived with three personal guards and rallied Zhang Rao and the routed Yellow Turban soldiers into a force that crushed the Han Army.
• The Han Army commander and his soldiers knelt before Su Mo, and the instance awarded him a Mythic Great Victory and the Aura Skill Blood Surge.
• The Azure Sky White Sun Banner spread from Qing Province across the Han Dynasty, defeating enemies as it advanced.
• Lu Bu led the Bing Province Wolf Cavalry against the Azure Sky White Sun Banner’s million armored cavalry, but his force was crushed.
• Lu Bu lowered his Heavenly Halberd and knelt before the man who had conquered four provinces.

Su Mo continued forging the Azure Emperor status as he and Hermes sensed their connection across worlds, while the instance’s impending fusion with reality drew closer. Elsewhere, Luo Qianqiu and the others fought endlessly reproducing greenskins, and Su Mo glimpsed how the Azure Emperor could rise by joining with the real world’s root.

• Hermes and Azure Emperor Su Mo sensed one another across worlds and realized that their independent avatar could communicate without relying on the Chat Group.
• Su Mo asked True Seven when the descent would be complete and learned that the Present World’s connection and fusion preparations would finish in three days.
• Luo Qianqiu called on Yagami Taichi and Hexi for help against greenskins that kept growing back, while Lumine volunteered to erase them using Light Realm Power.
• Su Mo watched Lumine save the others from the void and continued using the Source of Instance to strengthen the Azure Emperor status.
• Su Mo saw the real world’s Root Great Power take the form of countless azure dragons and understood that the Azure Emperor could ascend by joining with Heavenly Dao—human history.

Hermes merged the conquered Yellow Turban Rebellion dungeon into reality as the Azure Emperor Realm, causing Earth to expand. He began planning the Taihao Empire’s institutions while Kikyo agreed to establish its Taichang Temple.

• Hermes coordinated with True Seven to guide the Ley Lines and merge the Azure Emperor Realm with reality.
• The Azure Emperor Realm appeared as a giant star near Earth, and the world began expanding as it merged.
• Luo Qianqiu and the Chat Group members reacted with surprise when Hermes revealed that Zhang Jiao and the Yellow Turban faction had surrendered to him.
• Hermes explained that he had named his empire Taihao and planned to establish an Imperial Dynasty.
• Kikyo agreed to go to the Taihao Empire and establish the Taichang Temple to oversee sacrificial rites and ceremonies.
• Chen Nan reflected on how to develop his own civilization and wondered whether the Imperial Dynasty system could suit his world.

Chen Nan and Hermes discussed choosing a suitable system for the children, while the Chat Group members compared developments in their worlds. Index then reported that someone had begun tracking her despite her divination-blocking spell, and Hermes identified Laura Stuart and Aleister as the likeliest suspects.

• Hermes advised Chen Nan not to rush into choosing a system, and Chen Nan agreed as he watched the children enjoy their new home.
• Yagami Taichi described the strange changes following his reunion with Hikari, while Luo Qianqiu speculated about their growing powers.
• Zhang Zhiwei explained that the Luotian Dajiao could either stabilize national destiny or attract an Unwilling God to descend.
• Luo Qianqiu resolved to unlock travel between worlds so she could seek phoenix-related opportunities, and Hermes reminded her about the Lightning Fire Phoenix in Floze's world.
• Index told Luo Qianqiu and Hermes that someone seemed to be tracking her despite her protective spell.
• Hermes said Laura Stuart and Aleister were the most likely people capable of finding Index, noting that both posed serious threats.

Index reassured Hermes and Luo Qianqiu that her new spell had blocked tracking while secretly developing ways to strengthen herself. Meanwhile, Hermes, Herta, Ruan Mei, and Screwllum prepared a spacetime experiment and agreed to strike the IPC over its increasingly aggressive probing.

• Index told Hermes and Luo Qianqiu that she had combined nine Great Spells to block tracking, while Aleister chose to have his unseen ally stop Laura Stuart instead of searching for Index.
• Index studied grimoires and considered adapting Heaven-Earth Severance into a spell to overcome the advantages Demon Gods held in her universe.
• Ruan Mei and Screwllum assessed Star Crown Garden, and Screwllum arranged computational support from Screwllum Star for the next Spacetime Interference Experiment.
• Hermes proposed striking the IPC because it had been probing them over the Grammar Empire incident, and Herta agreed after reading Asta's messages.
• Screwllum joined Hermes and Herta's plan to take action against the IPC.

Hermes gathered Herta, Ruan Mei, Screwllum, and Istaroth for a spacetime interference experiment, while the geniuses discussed Teyvat and plotted against the IPC. Herta proposed rewriting her own timeline to create parallel versions of herself, and the group agreed to begin the experiment.

• Ruan Mei joined Herta, Screwllum, and their discussion about striking at the IPC.
• Hermes summoned Istaroth to assist with another spacetime interference experiment and explained Teyvat and Phanes to the three geniuses.
• Herta proposed using the experiment to rewrite her timeline and create a second version of herself if her past self threatened to replace her.
• Ruan Mei and Screwllum approved Herta’s dual parallel-time lifeform plan after considering it.
• Herta celebrated the prospect of becoming three connected Hertas, and Hermes agreed to begin the experiment.

Hermes and his companions observed his past self on Azure Star become a Pioneer Envoy after his trailblazing deeds were recognized, while Hermes explained the power of his newly formed Authority: Infinity. He then met Little Herta and tried to recruit her as his disciple, but she demanded that he answer her questions first.

• Hermes, Ruan Mei, Screwllum, and Herta used spacetime projection to watch Hermes’s past self arrive at Azure Star and become a Pioneer Envoy.
• Hermes explained that his past self’s trailblazing deeds had earned recognition from the Path of Trailblaze, and discussed how Energy Science and Life Science could reach similar breakthroughs.
• Hermes reflected that his Authority: Infinity had immense potential and might represent a Cosmic Truth.
• Hermes met Little Herta and offered to teach her, suggesting she could become a true genius and take his place.
• Little Herta declared that she intended to become a Beauty Envoy and challenged Hermes to answer her questions before she would study under him.

Hermes and Little Herta joined forces to organize Azure Star’s research and complete a mythological concept-model Curio called the Diagram of the Investiture of the Gods. The chapter ended with them admiring its starry spectacle as Little Herta teased Hermes about following the Path of Beauty.

• Hermes effortlessly answered Little Herta’s difficult questions, and she agreed to study with him.
• Hermes ruffled Little Herta’s hair, but she buried her suspicions and formally introduced herself as Herta; Hermes introduced himself as a Nameless named Hermes.
• After saving Azure Star from annihilation three times, Hermes became its leader and gathered its resources for research with Herta.
• Hermes organized data on Devil Fruits and divine bodies while Herta built a sand sculpture that could function as a miniature world.
• Hermes and Herta linked their minds to the Diagram of the Investiture of the Gods and watched its mythological concept models fill the Curio with a dazzling starfield.
• Little Herta called Hermes an orthodox Pathwalker of the Path of Beauty.

Hermes and Little Herta developed the Diagram of the Investiture of the Gods, with Herta taking on the challenge of creating its supporting algorithm. Decades later, Azure Star and Myth Court had expanded, and Herta struggled to teach other scientists while joking that she could have become a Beauty Envoy if the Lord of Wisdom had not noticed her first.

• Little Herta praised the promise of Devil Fruit technology but criticized the divine body system as an unfocused mixture of scientific branches.
• Hermes explained that the Diagram would combine Devil Fruits, Dimensional Technology, and divine body principles, then challenged Little Herta to create the algorithm that could support its simulated worldview.
• Little Herta accepted the challenge, confident she could create the algorithm quickly.
• Over the following decades, Hermes led Azure Star as Myth Court expanded across the surrounding starfield and clashed with the IPC over its lost influence.
• Herta complained that scientists could not understand the algorithm despite her repeated simplifications and lectures, while Hermes encouraged her to keep training them.
• Hermes remarked that Herta might have become a Beauty Envoy if the Lord of Wisdom had not noticed her first, and Herta agreed with regret.

Hermes and Herta presided over a Myth Court assembly, where their followers proposed titles for them and Herta accused the IPC of destroying Myth Court planets with the Imaginary Collapse Pulse. Meanwhile, Titania managed the Grammar Empire with Firefly as its only Awakened One, and Firefly continued carrying the burden of administration.

• Hermes teased Herta about the wildly popular posts from Herta's Fans, and Herta arranged for the posts' data to be lost in a network attack.
• Aries, Taurus, and the assembled Myth Court members proposed naming Hermes Heavenly Emperor and Herta Heavenly Empress, but Hermes suggested deciding the titles later through a public vote.
• Herta accused the IPC of imprisoning Calderon Chadwick and forcing him to create the Imaginary Collapse Pulse, which destroyed twenty-eight planets that later became Myth Court territory.
• Titania reflected on the Grammar Empire's obedient citizens and hoped more of them would become Awakened Ones.
• Firefly, the empire's only Awakened One and its chief executive, complained about the workload, but Titania encouraged her to keep serving while strengthening her with Propagation power.

Titania planned to use the Gram Iron Cavalry to make an example of those encroaching on Grammar territory, but news shifted attention to Myth Court’s war with the IPC. The IPC sent Talavan Keen’s fleet to confront Myth Court, only for Talavan to learn that Myth Court had deployed weapons of mass destruction first.

• Firefly told Titania that outside forces were disrupting the reclamation of old Grammar’s territory, and Titania decided to kill a prominent target as a warning.
• Oswald Schneider learned that Myth Court had declared war on the IPC over its coercion of Dr. Calderon Chadwick and the destruction of twenty-eight planets.
• The IPC denied producing weapons of mass destruction and broadcast plans for economic sanctions against Myth Court.
• The IPC sent Talavan Keen and a fleet of Star Destroyers to Myth Court’s star system to end the conflict quickly.
• Talavan sensed danger, ordered his subordinates to use the company’s weapons, and learned ten minutes later that Myth Court had deployed weapons of mass destruction first.

Talavan’s fleet was trapped inside Myth Court’s unknown dimensional weapon, and Diamond ordered Oswald to fire the Imaginary Collapse Pulse to save him. Oswald revealed that Dr. Calderon Chadwick had destroyed the weapon’s data and fled, leaving the rescue plan in doubt.

• Talavan learned that Myth Court’s dimensional weapon had enveloped his fleet and ordered an escape attempt and the activation of the Exotic Banishment of Dimness.
• Talavan’s fleet failed to escape the attack, and he told Diamond that even the Exotic’s banishment ability had failed.
• Diamond advised Talavan to preserve himself and ordered support while contacting Oswald Schneider.
• Diamond ordered Oswald to activate the Imaginary Collapse Pulse and shatter the starfield around Talavan’s fleet.
• Oswald said Dr. Calderon Chadwick had destroyed the weapon’s data and fled before Oswald could capture him.

Diamond searched for a way to rescue Talavan Keen from Myth Court’s superweapon, while the trapped Luofu Xianzhou and Penacony faced the crisis. The IPC and Genius Society built a rough model of the weapon but could not quickly identify its weaknesses.

• Diamond cut off the Market Development Department head, who realized Talavan’s trap had failed and feared Diamond would punish him.
• Jing Yuan learned that the Luofu Xianzhou was trapped by the superweapon’s lockdown and ordered Fu Xuan to contact the Marshal about negotiations with Myth Court.
• Diamond searched the IPC’s technology and Curios for a way to save Talavan while the Company and Genius Society studied the weapon.
• Doctor of Truth and Professor Ratio helped construct a rough model, but Doctor of Truth said finding the weapon’s weak points would take time.
• Diamond tried contacting the Genius Club, but Screwllum refused the Company’s invitation and most other geniuses were unavailable.

Doctor Primitive examined the dimensional superweapon engulfing Talavan’s fleet and discovered that it was transforming people and objects into game elements. He identified it as Reality Gamification and warned Diamond that Talavan would become an NPC unless the transformation was delayed.

• The IPC contacted Doctor Primitive after failing to reach Dr. Calderon Chadwick, and he dismissed their model before analyzing the raw data.
• Doctor Primitive learned that Hermes had joined the Genius Club in Amber Era 2158 and deduced that Hermes had returned to 2157 to cause the crisis.
• Diamond asked Doctor Primitive to rescue Talavan, and he agreed to focus on preserving the Preservation Envoy’s life.
• Doctor Primitive observed the superweapon altering the local area, fixing lives and timelines, and turning people into characters controlled by its user.
• Doctor Primitive named the weapon Superweapon: Reality Gamification and told Diamond to have Talavan delay his transformation while he devised a countermeasure.

Myth Court's Reality Gamification weapon transformed an IPC fleet into game NPCs, while Talavan Kira turned himself into a line of code to escape that fate. Hermes rejected the IPC's calls to negotiate, and Diamond ordered continued efforts to rescue Talavan while blaming Oswald Schneider.

• Talavan Kira resisted Reality Gamification with his Preservation Authority as Doctor Primitive devised a way to preserve his life as part of the game’s code.
• Diamond transmitted Doctor Primitive’s solution, and Talavan Kira disintegrated into amber inscribed with patterns resembling talismans and code.
• Doctor Primitive explained that the fleet had become game characters and that the IPC would have to negotiate with Myth Court to retrieve Talavan.
• Diamond urged the IPC to contact the board and negotiate, but Hermes refused the call and named the weapon Reality Gamification.
• Diamond ordered the IPC to keep trying to contact Myth Court and rescue Talavan, then blamed Oswald Schneider for Talavan’s predicament.

Hermes’s second spacetime experiment was cut short when Lan detected his interference, but the timeline had already changed on a vast scale. People across the Universal Galaxy began recalling conflicting histories, and the IPC’s power declined as Myth Court and the Grammar Empire rose above it.

• Diamond tracked down the Market Development Department director after Talavan fell, while Reality Gamification transformed Talavan’s fleet into a lasting wonder of the Universal Galaxy.
• Hermes received Marshal Hua’s diplomatic letter and Lan’s attention after his actions involved the Luofu Xianzhou, and spacetime expelled him from the past.
• The changed timeline left Asta and Arlan with two clear, conflicting sets of memories about their identities and affiliations.
• March 7th, Himeko, Welt, and Dan Heng discovered their memories had changed, while Yanqing hurried to contact Himeko.
• Jing Yuan lamented that the Luofu Xianzhou had again been caught up in a major incident.
• The IPC fell to third place among the Universe’s major powers, behind Myth Court and the Grammar Empire, and Reality Gamification deterred other forces from challenging Myth Court.

IPC executives met to discuss Herta and Hermes’s blows against the company, with many blaming Oswald Schneider and proposing to hand him over as an apology. As Topaz, Robin, and Jade discussed the consequences of the IPC’s possible collapse, Jade hinted that she knew more about the situation.

• Diamond opened an IPC meeting about the damage Herta and Hermes had inflicted on the company.
• Executives and council members blamed Oswald Schneider and proposed delivering him to Herta and Hermes to demonstrate the IPC’s sincerity.
• A pink-haired executive asked where Oswald was and drew envy from others because Herta trusted his daughter, Asta.
• Topaz teased Robin about the IPC going bankrupt, and Robin pointed out that its collapse could devastate planets and ordinary people.
• Jade explained that other factions would intervene if the IPC’s downfall threatened the balance of the Universe, then hinted that there was more behind her words.

Jade told Topaz and the other Ten Stonehearts that Hermes had invited them to join Myth Court. Meanwhile, Herta used her Three-Phase Great Magic to create a Dual Herta Parallel Time Lifeform, but time and karma struck back and trapped her consciousness in a perilous ordeal.

• Jade revealed that Hermes had invited the Ten Stonehearts to join Myth Court, prompting Topaz and the others to consider his offer.
• Herta used the Momentary Flowing Light Brick to ease the backlash as she gathered data on her Three-Phase Great Magic.
• Ruan Mei and Screwllum offered suggestions for resolving the problem of two Hertas coexisting in the same spacetime.
• Herta explained that her technique anchored one fundamental self while projecting higher-dimensional consciousness, rather than simply creating a clone.
• Hermes warned Herta that temporal and causal backlash was approaching, and it dragged her consciousness into darkness.
• Herta tried to anchor and project her consciousness as the backlash slowed her thoughts, while Hermes, Ruan Mei, and Screwllum watched calmly.

Herta successfully anchored her consciousness in higher-dimensional spacetime and completed a preliminary form of Unique Spacetime through the Three-Phase Great Magic. After Hermes explained the breakthrough, Herta realized she had formed an embryonic Cosmic Truth and demanded that Hermes help with two more research projects.

• Herta used her prepared contingencies to anchor her consciousness and escape the calamity.
• Hermes explained that Herta had simulated an alternative version of herself in past spacetime, effectively reaching a simple form of Unique Spacetime before filling in the steps.
• Screwllum understood that the Three-Phase Great Magic was a profound framework of principles, while Ruan Mei's thinking rapidly changed as she observed Herta's technique.
• Herta celebrated her new power and recognized that she had formed an embryonic Cosmic Truth through her Authority of Simulation and the Three-Phase Great Magic.
• Hermes tried to pat Herta's head, but she stopped him and demanded his help with two research projects as compensation.

Hermes persuaded Herta to let him pet her in exchange for helping perfect her Three-Phase Great Magic with his avatar-account technique. In the Great Ming World, Yue Buqun explained why he had disrupted Mount Hua’s plans, and Ning Qingyu ordered the sect to suspend its ambitions amid the upheaval in spacetime.

• Hermes offered Herta research materials and his avatar-account technique to help her gather alternate Hertas across timelines, and Herta agreed to let him pet her.
• Yue Buqun told Ning Qingyu that he had returned from the future to repay a great karma, but acted early because Ning Qingyu’s opportunity changed his plans.
• After Yue Buqun vanished, Ning Qingyu suspended Mount Hua’s plan and ordered the disciples to conserve their strength until the heavenly upheaval ended.
• Feng Qingyang saw other versions of Mount Hua appear through the distorted sky and lamented that Yue Buqun had ruined the sect’s century-long plan.
• Hermes spent his quiet period refining Herta’s Three-Phase Great Magic with Herta and preparing to recruit more geniuses.