Chapter Summaries

Bai Zeming learned that the Shu Han Ensemble shared a powerful General class, then sent Zhao Yun to fight Lancer. The battle escalated into a high-speed clash that left Bai Zeming struggling to follow the fighters.

• Bai Zeming saw Zhao Yun's General class and impressive stats, including an unknown Luck rating, and challenged Lancer and Archer to fight together.
• Zhang Fei urged the group to choose who would take the field, and Bai Zeming selected Zhao Yun to face Lancer.
• Guan Yu and Zhang Fei withdrew into Zhao Yun, who announced himself before Lancer and began their duel.
• Zhao Yun outmaneuvered Lancer with his spear and knocked him down, then returned his crimson spear and criticized his adaptability.
• Lancer launched a fierce high-speed assault, and the fighters' clashes battered the rooftop and forced Archer and Bai Zeming to carry Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya out of the way.

Zhao Yun and Lancer exchanged spear techniques on the rooftop, where Lancer unleashed Gae Bolg and Zhao Yun countered with the final move of his Seven Probes of the Coiling Serpent Spear. Their clash devastated the school building’s rooftop and side wing, leaving Lancer battered but still standing.

• Zhao Yun wounded Lancer’s shoulder with Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix Spear, then named Xiang Yu, Zhang Fei, Tong Yuan, and Lu Bu as spear fighters who could match or surpass Lancer.
• Lancer used Battle Continuation to ignore his shoulder wound and prepared to unleash his Noble Phantasm.
• Lancer fired Gae Bolg toward Zhao Yun’s heart, and Zhao Yun answered with the Fiery Crimson Serpent technique.
• The two attacks collided, and Gae Bolg curved around Zhao Yun’s flood-dragon phantom while Zhao Yun’s attack struck Lancer.
• The clash destroyed much of the rooftop and tore a huge opening through the school building’s side wing, while Lancer emerged battered but alive.

Bai Zeming and Zhao Yun survived Lancer’s causality-reversing Noble Phantasm, forcing Lancer’s Master to spend two Command Spells before the battle ended. Back at the Emiya residence, Bai tried to recruit Shirou into the Holy Grail War and ended by offering to reveal the truth about the fire ten years earlier.

• Zhao Yun blocked Lancer’s heart-piercing strike with his sword and emerged unharmed, while Lancer was suddenly summoned away by a Command Spell.
• Bai Zeming explained Command Spells to Zhao Yun and agreed with Rin Tohsaka and Archer to talk at the Emiya residence.
• Lin Yu told Bai Zeming that his influence had raised Zhao Yun’s Luck to A+ and that he had modified Bai’s Command Spells.
• Rin Tohsaka arranged for the Church and official media to cover up the battle as a gas explosion, while Bai urged Shirou Emiya to join the war.
• Shirou refused to participate, and Rin proposed an alliance with Bai until a victor was decided.
• Bai told Shirou that he had a trump card and asked whether Shirou wanted to know the truth behind the Shinto fire ten years earlier.

Shirou Emiya learned that the fire ten years ago was tied to the Holy Grail War and asked Bai Zeming how to prevent another disaster. Meanwhile, Saiki Kusuo investigated Bai Zeming’s altered role in the war, then met Lin Yu at home and heard him deduce that Saiki had interfered in previous loops but failed to stop the corrupted Holy Grail.

• Shirou Emiya confirmed with Bai Zeming that the fire in Shinto ten years ago was connected to the previous Holy Grail War and asked what he should do.
• Saiki Kusuo secretly watched Bai Zeming and wondered how his involvement as a Master would change the Holy Grail War.
• Saiki Kusuo returned home and found Lin Yu charming his parents with gifts, including coffee jelly that Saiki could not see through its packaging.
• Saiki Kusuo followed Lin Yu to his room and asked whether he was a psychic or a mage.
• Lin Yu deduced that Saiki Kusuo had interfered in earlier Holy Grail War loops but had been unable to affect the corrupted Holy Grail.

Lin Yu explained Saiki Kusuo’s connection to the Counter Forces, reinforced his psychic suppressors, and left him a way to get in touch. Meanwhile, Bai Zeming formed an alliance around Shirou Emiya and Saber and proposed targeting Rider and Matou.

• Lin Yu told Saiki Kusuo that Gaia and Alaya had compromised through his world-changing powers, and Saiki Kusuo decided he would still stop the volcanic eruption regardless.
• Lin Yu reinforced Saiki Kusuo’s psychic suppressors, gave him Bai Zeming’s contact information, and vanished; Kurumi Saiki entered with fruit after he left.
• Bai Zeming brought Shirou Emiya to the warehouse, where Shirou summoned Saber.
• Saber agreed to a temporary alliance with Zhao Yun and Archer after Shirou Emiya explained the situation.
• Bai Zeming proposed that the alliance’s first operation target Rider and Matou.

Bai Zeming revealed that Sakura Matou had summoned Rider but transferred her Master authority to Shinji Matou, and told Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya that Sakura had suffered at the Matou residence. The three went to confront the Matou Family, where they met Zouken Matou and demanded that he hand Sakura over.

• Bai Zeming explained Sakura and Shinji’s roles in Rider’s summoning and revealed that Sakura was Rin Tohsaka’s younger sister.
• Bai Zeming described Sakura’s mistreatment by the Matou Family, prompting Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya to join him in visiting the residence.
• The next morning, Bai Zeming, Rin Tohsaka, and Shirou Emiya watched Shinji Matou complain about the destroyed school barrier, then followed him toward the Matou residence.
• Zouken Matou noticed Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya following Shinji Matou and warned Shinji to act like a Master.
• Rin Tohsaka demanded that Zouken Matou hand Sakura over, and he wondered whether Rin had placed a powerful restriction on Sakura.

Rin Tohsaka and her allies attacked the Matou estate to reach Sakura, while Bai Zeming used his armor to break Zouken Matou’s barrier and held him back. As Saber and Rider clashed outside, Zhao Yun yielded his body to Guan Yu, who challenged Rider to fight him alone.

• Zouken Matou warned Rin Tohsaka to leave the estate, but Bai Zeming shattered its barrier with a repulsor blast and urged her to go inside.
• Archer and Zhao Yun helped protect Rin from Zouken’s attack, while Saber confronted Rider Medusa and Shirou Emiya tried to follow Rin.
• Bai Zeming stopped Shirou from entering the estate and prepared to attack Zouken with a Stark Industries missile.
• Zhao Yun asked Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to take over against Rider, and Guan Yu transformed into his fully armed form.
• Guan Yu told Saber to help her Master and declared that he would claim Rider’s head himself.

Saber left Guan Yu to confront Rider, and he battled Medusa through the forest until she used her Petrifying Mystic Eyes to restrain him. Guan Yu activated his Shengdi Jun state, countered her pressure, and dragged her from the sky as she summoned Bellerophon—Reins.

• Saber decided not to interfere and rushed toward the other battlefield, leaving Guan Yu to face Rider.
• Guan Yu demanded Rider's name and attacked as she used her chain and short sword to evade him through the forest.
• Guan Yu unleashed powerful blade lights that cut through the trees, but Rider dodged with her superior mobility.
• Rider revealed herself as Medusa and lifted her blindfold, using her Petrifying Mystic Eyes to weigh Guan Yu down.
• Guan Yu activated his Shengdi Jun state, resisted Medusa's pressure, and pinned her chain with his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.
• Guan Yu dragged Medusa toward the ground, and she summoned her Noble Phantasm, Bellerophon—Reins.

Guan Yu defeated Medusa in a head-on clash, while Bai Zeming and Shirou Emiya dealt with Zouken Matou and discovered Shinji Matou had died. The survivors regrouped at the Matou residence, where Rin Tohsaka described a mysterious silver-light restriction protecting Sakura Matou, and Bai Zeming realized it meant there was no problem.

• Guan Yu summoned Red Hare and used Thousand Mile Ride Alone to break through Medusa’s Bellerophon and kill her.
• Bai Zeming and Shirou Emiya defeated Zouken Matou, and Bai Zeming burned the worms left behind after Zouken’s death.
• Shirou found Shinji Matou dead beneath a bloodstained rock and struggled to accept his death.
• Bai Zeming explained that his Command Spell could absorb the souls of people he killed and transform them into Heroic Spirit bodies.
• Bai Zeming and Shirou heard an explosion from the forest, and Bai Zeming left to check on Guan Yu before Sakura Matou, Rin Tohsaka, and Archer appeared.
• Rin told Bai Zeming that a silver-light restriction protected Sakura from being touched, and Bai Zeming concluded that there was no problem.

Bai Zeming revived Medusa by temporarily taking Sakura Matou’s Master authority, then returned it to Sakura. At the Emiya Residence, Rin Tohsaka offered Sakura the choice to return to the Tohsaka Family, while Lin Yu secretly empowered Sakura to choose for herself.

• Bai Zeming told Rin Tohsaka he could revive Rider by using Sakura Matou’s Master authority, and Rin agreed not to stop him.
• Sakura transferred her authority to Bai Zeming, who summoned Medusa and immediately returned Rider’s authority to her.
• Everyone returned to the Emiya Residence, where Rin asked to speak with Sakura alone and Bai Zeming started a live stream for the chat group.
• Rin acknowledged that the Tohsaka Family had been wrong to send Sakura to the Matou Family and told her she could choose whether to return or stay.
• Lin Yu activated the power he had left in Sakura, and her fear and hesitation suddenly gave way to clarity and courage.

Sakura reunited with Rin, and Lin Yu revealed that Zouken Matou had hidden an Engraved Insect inside her heart to make her a Lesser Holy Grail. After Lin Yu removed the insect and captured Zouken’s soul, Bai Zeming explained that the Holy Grail had already descended before the war and that the ritual was intended to gather Heroic Spirit souls as its contents.

• Sakura reached for Rin and wept over their separation, and Rin embraced her as Medusa joined them.
• Bai Zeming explained that Lin Yu had protected Sakura from the Matou family’s abuse, then revealed that Zouken Matou’s soul remained within an Engraved Insect in her heart.
• Lin Yu appeared and explained that Zouken had used a fragment of the Holy Grail to turn Sakura into an incomplete Lesser Holy Grail capable of holding his soul.
• Lin Yu removed the insect from Sakura’s heart, healed her wounds, and captured Zouken Matou’s soul in Bai Zeming’s Command Spell.
• Bai Zeming told Rin and the others that the Holy Grail had descended before the war began and that the ritual’s real purpose was to gather Heroic Spirit souls as its contents.

Lin Yu revealed that the Holy Grail War’s Command Spells had been altered so Masters could become Grail contents, allowing Bai Zeming’s group to avoid fighting until the end. After returning to his Internal Universe with a gaming pod and news of two newly discovered worlds, Lin Yu visited He Jingfeng, who explained why he had taken over Shadow Three’s Beverly Hills estate.

• Lin Yu revealed that he had modified the Command Spells so Masters and mages could become Holy Grail contents, and Bai Zeming calculated that the alliance could remain intact if it had fewer than eleven members.
• Rin Tohsaka asked Lin Yu to end the war permanently, but he warned that deeper interference with the Holy Grail could provoke the Vortex of the Root.
• Lin Yu returned to his Internal Universe, where he brought out a gaming pod made by Kosuke Saiki and noted that he had discovered coordinates for Under One Person and the Marvel Multiverse.
• Lin Yu left the gaming pod for Ling Hua and the Main Body Consciousness to study, then traveled to meet Lin Lie and He Jingfeng.
• He Jingfeng explained that Shadow Three had given him the Beverly Hills estate because its location was no longer secret, and said Lin Yu’s displays had made others believe He Jingfeng was only a spokesperson for White Jade City.

Lin Yu visited Nether Pavilion’s West Coast Base with He Jingfeng and learned how the organization had become White Jade Group, a technology company with a vast security force and research program. The chapter ended as He Jingfeng introduced him to the base’s chief researcher, Doctor Kai Turner.

• He Jingfeng led Lin Yu to a convoy and introduced him to the Tang Sect disciples working as Nether Pavilion bodyguards, including Tao Tao.
• He Jingfeng explained that Nether Pavilion had shifted toward technology, consolidated its legitimate businesses into White Jade Group, and retained its assassins as a force for security and intelligence.
• He Jingfeng described White Jade Group’s research bases, its recruitment of mercenary groups, and the generous benefits used to attract security staff and researchers.
• He Jingfeng brought Lin Yu to the West Coast Base, a hidden underground research facility beneath a former industrial park.
• Lin Yu examined the base with his spiritual power and saw its five-level layout, fifteen research teams, and sealed lower levels.
• He Jingfeng introduced Lin Yu to the base’s chief researcher, Doctor Kai Turner, and Lin Yu greeted him.

Lin Yu toured the West Coast Base, approved its new civilian products, and helped He Jingfeng establish portals linking the base and the World in Painting to other locations. He then connected more of the Marvel Universe to the Reincarnation Pavilion and continued developing a game-like system for deploying followers as Chitauri officers, though completing it would take at least another month.

• Dr. Turner showed Lin Yu the base's research facilities and five products, including the Peregrine and Vanguard power armors.
• Lin Yu approved trial production of the civilian exoskeletons and bionic prosthetics, while reserving the military equipment and power armors for the group.
• Lin Yu and He Jingfeng fixed portals in the World in Painting, including a secret portal to the Internal Universe in He Jingfeng's room.
• He Jingfeng entered Lin Yu's Internal Universe, and Lin Yu left him with Ling Hua before traveling to the Marvel Universe.
• Lin Yu fixed portals at Lin Lie's residence, in the parallel universe belonging to Whitebeard and Gu Yi, and on the Chitauri homeworld.
• Lin Yu worked on using gaming pods, [War Goddess], and soulless Chitauri bodies to deploy followers as officers, but the system remained far from complete.

Bai Zeming’s group approached Ryuudou Temple to confront Medea and rescue Issei, only to discover Medea had recruited Illya and her Berserker. Illya chose Shirou Emiya and one of the Tohsaka sisters as her targets, while Medea prepared to attack the rest of the group.

• Shirou Emiya worried that Issei Ryudo might be in danger, but Bai Zeming argued that Medea was unlikely to harm the monks at Ryuudou Temple, and Shirou vowed to try to save his friend either way.
• Medea waited at Ryuudou Temple with Assassin and discussed stopping Bai Zeming’s group when they arrived.
• Illya and Heracles emerged from the woods, and Illya accepted Medea’s offer to choose opponents from the group.
• Illya selected Shirou Emiya and a Tohsaka sister, insisting that she and Berserker were not Medea’s companions.
• Heracles charged down the mountain with Illya, Medea vanished to arrange support from her Dragon Tooth Soldiers, and Assassin remained at the temple gate awaiting a worthy opponent.

Bai Zeming and his allies fought off Illyasviel von Einzbern’s Dragon Tooth Soldiers, then faced Heracles, her Berserker. After learning that Heracles could be killed only by overcoming his powerful Twelve Labors, they divided their forces: Shirou Emiya and the Tohsaka sisters would hold him off while Bai Zeming and Rider went to rescue the monks at Ryuudou Temple.

• Zhao Yun and Archer sensed that the group had been discovered, and Dragon Tooth Soldiers emerged from the forest as Rin Tohsaka and Bai Zeming fought them off.
• The shattered bones gathered into a giant Dragon Tooth Soldier, which Bai Zeming destroyed with a missile before Zhao Yun deflected an axe-sword aimed at him.
• Berserker appeared with Illyasviel von Einzbern, who greeted Shirou Emiya as her Onii-chan and challenged the group to fight.
• Bai Zeming identified Berserker as Heracles and explained that his Twelve Labors let him nullify weaker attacks and revive eleven times, requiring twelve different killing methods.
• Shirou Emiya volunteered to stay with Saber, and Bai Zeming assigned both Tohsaka sisters to help hold Heracles off while he and Rider headed for Ryuudou Temple.
• Illyasviel ordered Berserker to attack as the group finished dividing their forces.

Bai Zeming left Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka, and Illya to face their battle while he and Zhao Yun went to Ryuudou Temple, where Zhao Yun fought Kojiro Sasaki. Just as Kojiro prepared to show Zhao Yun his secret technique, Caster transported Bai Zeming away, and Zhao Yun agreed to give Kojiro three breaths to finish their duel.

• Bai Zeming left Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka, and Illya behind to recreate a battle that might win Illya's favor, then flew with Zhao Yun toward Ryuudou Temple.
• Kojiro Sasaki greeted Zhao Yun in fluent Chinese and challenged him to a sword duel, introducing his blade as Monohoshi Zao.
• Zhao Yun and Kojiro Sasaki traded blows, and Zhao Yun cut Kojiro's kimono after switching between light and heavy swordsmanship.
• Caster suddenly transported Bai Zeming away, and Zhao Yun broke off the duel in anger while Kojiro insisted that Caster was responsible.
• Kojiro asked to settle the fight with one move using the technique he had developed to cut down a flying swallow, and Zhao Yun granted him three breaths.

Kojiro Sasaki used Tsubame Gaeshi against Zhao Yun, but Zhao Yun countered with the Azure-Glow Sword and defeated him. At Ryuudou Temple, Bai Zeming fought Medea until Zhao Yun arrived and severely wounded her, setting up another round of battle.

• Kojiro Sasaki unleashed Tsubame Gaeshi, but Zhao Yun used the Azure-Glow Sword to break the attack and cut him down.
• Kojiro realized Zhao Yun had understood and countered his technique before dissolving into motes of light.
• At Ryuudou Temple, Medea attacked Bai Zeming after draining his armor, but he used his thunder-element spell to replenish its energy and fought back.
• Bai Zeming held out against Medea’s barrage until Kojiro Sasaki’s disappearance signaled that Zhao Yun had finished their fight.
• Zhao Yun rushed to Bai Zeming’s side and pierced through Medea’s barriers, severely wounding her.
• Bai Zeming smiled at the injured Medea and announced the start of round two.

Bai Zeming and Zhao Yun fought Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki at Ryuudou Temple while Medusa moved the hostages to safety. Medea and Kuzuki died in the battle, but the appearance of Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon beyond the temple left the fight outside uncertain.

• Souichirou Kuzuki confronted Medea about her crimes, and she admitted to killing civilians to steal magical energy.
• Medusa rescued the remaining monk and revealed that she had moved the other monks, including Issei Ryudo, outside the temple.
• Kuzuki attacked Medusa to protect Medea, while Bai Zeming and Zhao Yun battled Medea in the air.
• Bai Zeming heard Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon attacking beyond the mountain gate and urged Zhao Yun to end the fight quickly.
• Zhao Yun pierced Medea through the heart, and the wounded Kuzuki died before Medea; Medea then vanished while holding his corpse.

Lin Yu saved Illya, revealed the truth about the Lesser and Greater Grails, and brought the scattered participants in the Holy Grail War together. With the Greater Grail exposed beneath Ryuudou Temple, he prepared to settle the war as Gilgamesh challenged him to explain his purpose.

• Bai Zeming summoned Lin Yu, who healed Illya after Gilgamesh removed the Lesser Holy Grail from her chest.
• Lin Yu revealed that Illya was the Lesser Holy Grail and explained her connection to Alice and the previous war.
• Lin Yu raised the Greater Grail from beneath Ryuudou Temple and said he planned to settle the Holy Grail War.
• Lin Yu used the Qimen Formation to bring Lancer and Kirei Kotomine to the ruins and transfer the others beneath the stone pillar.
• Gilgamesh called Lin Yu an existence whose radiance surpassed the gods and asked what he wanted from the Holy Grail War.