Recaps

The Light Screen showed Surtrochi erasing an entire star system with one sword strike, leaving the worlds watching horrified by his power. Survivors gathered around him and founded Cosmic Tribulation, while the screen announced that its birth began with a baby's first cry.

• Surtrochi casually swung his longsword and erased a fleet, a planet, and its star with a pitch-black fissure.
• The beings watching across the Douluo World and Divine Realm reacted with shock and fear at Surtrochi's overwhelming destructive power.
• The Light Screen revealed that survivors, pirates, and believers gathered around Surtrochi and revered him as a God.
• The Light Screen said Cosmic Tribulation formed around destruction and annihilation, and civilizations named Surtrochi Extreme Evil, the universe's greatest calamity.
• The Light Screen changed to a blood-red message declaring that Cosmic Tribulation began with a baby's first cry.

The Light Screen revealed that Surtrochi had become the pinnacle of cosmic hunting, only to be tormented by the loneliness of unmatched power. He decided to cultivate a disciple to create a worthy opponent for a fight to the death, leaving the watching God Kings and others stunned.

• The Light Screen declared that Surtrochi had reached the pinnacle of power in cosmic hunting.
• The text revealed that invincibility had left Surtrochi lonely and desperate for a worthy opponent.
• Surtrochi chose to cultivate a disciple so he could fight that opponent to the death.
• Lie Yan, Ji Dong, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yuena reacted with horror and sorrow as they considered his desire for a fatal battle.
• Huo Yuhao and the other powerhouses tried to understand Surtrochi's motives, while the God Kings recognized that his power surpassed their own.

The Dragon God erupted in fury after learning of Surtrochi’s cosmic hunting, while the God Kings feared Surtrochi would choose a successor from among them. The Light Screen then showed the Silk Coke Planet being targeted for annihilation because its people possessed Adaptive Evolution.

• The Dragon God condemned Surtrochi’s claim of invincibility and vowed to learn what he had hunted.
• The Light Screen said Surtrochi followed the seer Vedrfolnir’s prophecy to search the sea of planes for a successor blessed with supreme talent.
• Tang San and the other God Kings feared Surtrochi might select someone from among them as his successor.
• The Light Screen showed the peaceful Silk Coke Planet and stated that an extraterrestrial civilization considered its people’s Adaptive Evolution a threat.
• Tens of thousands of fleets emerged from cracks in space and unleashed billions of crimson beams across the Silk Coke Planet.

Sikeke’s home planet was annihilated by an alien fleet, leaving her alone after her parents sacrificed themselves to hide her. Surtrochi appeared among the ruins, noticed Sikeke’s adaptive potential, and took an interest in her.

• The alien fleet wiped out the planet while Ning Rongrong, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, and the others watched in horror.
• Sikeke returned from watching a meteor shower and found her world destroyed, then discovered her dying parents beneath the rubble.
• Sikeke’s parents used their remaining strength to conceal her and died as the fleet’s beams struck them.
• An alien commander reported that the species had been eliminated and its adaptive-evolution samples erased.
• Surtrochi appeared before the commander, recognized Sikeke’s ability to hide and mimic energy fluctuations, and called her potential promising.

Surtrochi erased the invading fleet with a snap, rescued Sikeke, and declared that he made his own Laws. The inventory revealed him and Sikeke as the ninth abnormal master-disciple pair, then showed the brutal training he began for her.

• Surtrochi snapped his fingers and erased the fleet, its soldiers, and its commander from existence.
• Surtrochi approached Sikeke after the barrier protecting her faded and told her that he made his own Laws.
• The Cosmic Inventory named Surtrochi and Sikeke as the ninth pair, titled “Sword and Abyss.”
• The inventory explained that Sikeke’s race possessed Adaptive Evolution, which let its members grow stronger in response to near-death threats.
• Surtrochi took Sikeke as his disciple and threw her onto the monster-infested Death Cradle, telling her to survive.

The vision showed Surtrochi forcing Sikeke to survive years of deadly combat and then pushing her into an Abyss rift, where her Adaptive Evolution let her absorb Abyss Power. Just as she emerged as an embryonic Abyss Empress, Surtrochi began the final stage of her training by piercing her chest with his hand.

• Sikeke survived repeated attacks on the Death Star, and her body evolved defenses and heightened senses.
• After several years, Surtrochi took Sikeke to an Abyss rift and shoved her into it.
• Sikeke endured the corrupting Abyss Power and used her Adaptive Evolution to absorb and fuse with it.
• Sikeke crawled out of the rift transformed into an embryonic Abyss Empress.
• Surtrochi began the final stage of training by piercing Sikeke's chest, shocking everyone watching the vision.

The Light Screen showed how Sikeke survived her master's lethal betrayal, evolved to master the Abyss, and gained enough power to suppress a planet. The gods then watched her casually split a moon-sized meteorite, while her identity as the Witch was introduced.

• Surtrochi mortally wounded Sikeke, his apprentice, and her survival instinct and fused Abyss Power triggered her ultimate evolution.
• Sikeke overcame the Abyss and gained complete mastery of its power, becoming strong enough to suppress a planet.
• The gods watched Surtrochi regard Sikeke with a faint, satisfied smile before the Light Screen introduced her as the Witch.
• Sikeke appeared alone in the Abyss, and Tang San recognized the destructive power surrounding her as Abyss Power.
• Sikeke waved her hand and split a moon-sized meteorite in two, then reduced it to dust.

Surtrochi ordered Sikeke to grow stronger by traveling the worlds and cursed her to lose anything she came to love. Sikeke obeyed by wandering alone and refusing every chance to form a bond, leaving the God Realm Central to realize that her coldness hid feelings she was afraid to express.

• Surtrochi told Sikeke to travel through the worlds, then threatened to destroy everything she came to love and make each loss fuel her strength.
• Zhou Weiqing, Rong Nianbing, Ji Dong, and others condemned Surtrochi's cruelty, while Tang Wulin sympathized with Sikeke's enforced loneliness.
• Sikeke silently left through a portal and traveled across technological, magical, and ruined worlds without forming attachments.
• Sikeke saved a child but vanished before accepting the child's flower, then spent three days with a trusting little beast before leaving it behind.
• Ning Rongrong, Tang Ya, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao recognized that Sikeke avoided affection because she feared Surtrochi would destroy whatever she cared about.

Sikeke endured Surtrochi’s threats by turning herself into a weapon, fighting endlessly and suppressing her feelings. After Ying recognized her loneliness and cared for her, Sikeke began letting her guard down, and the chapter ended with them sharing a quiet evening by a campfire.

• Tang San and the Dragon God explained that Surtrochi’s threats trapped Sikeke in a cycle of becoming stronger and suppressing her feelings.
• Sikeke arrived in Teyvat, where Ying thanked her for saving her and told her she seemed tired and lonely.
• Ying continued seeking Sikeke out, sharing food and stories, and shielding her in battle.
• After Sikeke was wounded, Ying insisted on bandaging her despite her ability to heal, and Sikeke let her do it.
• Sikeke began teaching Ying combat techniques, and the two sat together by a campfire as Ying grilled a fish.

After Sikeke accepted Ying’s kindness and showed her first faint smile, Surtrochi announced that her second-stage trial against cosmic darkness had begun. The Light Screen revealed that she spent a hundred years wandering Teyvat and taught a young boy for three months, leaving the Divine Realm stunned and wondering what the brief encounter meant to her.

• Sikeke accepted Ying’s grilled fish and smiled faintly, beginning to make peace with her lonely past.
• Surtrochi interrupted the Divine Realm’s celebration and declared that Sikeke’s second-stage trial had started.
• The gathered gods reacted with shock and condemnation at the prospect of Sikeke facing cosmic darkness in the Abyss.
• The Light Screen revealed that Sikeke wandered Teyvat for a hundred years and unexpectedly taught a young boy for three months.
• The Divine Realm’s spectators reflected on Sikeke’s century of solitude and speculated that the boy’s companionship had been a rare source of light.

The Light Screen revealed Sikeke facing her former best friend Skovnug, setting the stage for their cruel duel. Before the confrontation began, it showed the Extremely Evil Knight Surtrochi silently destroy an entire star system, leaving the witnesses shaken by his incomprehensible power.

• The crowd and several witnesses reacted with grief to the revelation that Sikeke had to defeat her best friend Skovnug.
• The Light Screen showed Sikeke confronting Skovnug amid ruined surroundings, and he greeted her as his best friend.
• Sikeke tightened her grip on her sword when Skovnug addressed her.
• The Light Screen shifted to the stars, where Surtrochi extinguished a star and destroyed its orbiting planets with a flick of his finger.
• The witnesses, including Huo Yuhao, Tang San, Lie Yan, and Ji Dong, struggled to comprehend Surtrochi's power.

The God Kings learned that Surtrochi had destroyed civilizations to raise Sikeke into an opponent who could defeat him and unleash universal chaos. As Sikeke appeared fighting in the Abyss, the Light Screen revealed a new, shocking statement: someone had status equivalent to the world.

• Rong Nianbing described Surtrochi as empty rather than evil, and the Light Screen revealed that he wanted Sikeke to grow strong enough to defeat him.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao concluded that Surtrochi sought to create two beings capable of destabilizing the universe, while the God Kings reacted with dread.
• Surtrochi turned toward the distant observers and seemed satisfied before the Light Screen shifted to Sikeke fighting a deep-sea Great Beast in the Abyss.
• The Light Screen displayed the words "Status equivalent to the world," and Zhou Weiqing and the God Kings reacted in shock.

The God Realm’s inhabitants learned that Kong and Ying had world-equivalent status and had been captured by the mortal nation of Kandria using a Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array. They feared that the siblings had fallen from Kandria’s capture into another cage after the Maintainer of Heavenly Principles separated them, leaving Gu Yuena deeply sympathetic toward them.

• The Dragon God and the other observers were shocked to learn that Kong and Ying’s life essence was equivalent to an entire world, and Huo Yuhao injured himself trying to analyze that status.
• Gu Yuena recognized Kong and Ying as descenders who could travel between worlds, while Tang Wulin felt their misfortune exceeded his own.
• He Caitou and the others questioned how Kandria’s Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array had captured beings equivalent to worlds, and Rong Nianbing warned that the nation’s ambitions posed a grave threat.
• Tang San reasoned that Kandria had captured the siblings despite their extraordinary status, while the mortal emperors feared the gap between their ambitions and Kandria’s.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan concluded that the Maintainer of Heavenly Principles had separated Kong and Ying after Kandria captured them, trapping them in a second cage, and Gu Yuena empathized with their loss of freedom.

The Light Screen revealed that Kandria’s goal went beyond capturing the Descenders, and showed Kong’s memories being altered to make him a prince. After a Kandrian girl helped him remember Ying and reunite with her, an overwhelming force descended as the siblings tried to escape.

• The Light Screen revealed Kong seated as Kandria’s prince and labeled him a vessel of Abyss Power.
• The scene showed black energy tearing apart Kong’s memories of Ying and implanting a false identity, until a Kandrian girl’s Teyvat Flower helped him remember his sister.
• Kong regained his memories, followed clues to Ying’s crystal prison, and freed her; the siblings reunited.
• As Kong and Ying prepared to leave Kandria, a blood-red rift opened and a figure descended under power that alarmed the God Kings.

After the Maintainer of Heavenly Principles sealed Ying and destroyed Kandria, Kong embraced the Abyss Power and swore to take revenge and revive his homeland. The Light Screen then revealed that he became the Abyss Order’s Prince and manipulated Tvalin to attack Mondstadt, shocking the watching Gods.

• Asmoday sealed Ying in scarlet cubes and teleported Kong away.
• Kong witnessed Heavenly Nails and Abyss corruption destroy Kandria and its people.
• Kong vowed revenge on Heavenly Principles and to revive Kandria, then controlled the Abyss Power.
• The Light Screen revealed that Kong founded the Abyss Order with cursed survivors of Kandria.
• The Light Screen disclosed that the Abyss Order manipulated Tvalin into attacking Mondstadt, and Ye Yinzhu reacted with fury.

The image revealed Kong as the Abyss Prince, leading Khaenri'ah's survivors in a campaign of revenge against the Heavenly Principles. He orchestrated Tvalin's corruption to turn Mondstadt's guardian against the city, then declared that overthrowing the seven nations was only the first step toward confronting the power beyond the heavens.

• The image showed the Abyss and its monsters, and Huo Yuhao recognized the suffering souls of Khaenri'ah's survivors beneath their twisted forms.
• Kong appeared as the Abyss Prince, and an Abyss Herald reported that they planned to exploit Tvalin's resentment and poisoned blood against Mondstadt.
• A Hydro Abyss Mage manipulated Tvalin's grief and anger until the dragon lost control and flew toward the city it had once protected.
• Tang San, Ji Dong, Rong Nianbing, and Tang Wulin condemned or mourned the suffering caused by Kong's plan.
• Kong addressed his Abyss forces and declared that the true enemy was the one beyond the heavens who had destroyed Khaenri'ah and cursed its people.

The Light Screen revealed that Paimon was the powerless, amnesiac remnant of Phanes, the first Heavenly Principles, who had been gravely wounded and split apart in a war against the Second Throne. The revelation stunned the watchers and left Gu Yuena reflecting on the Dragon God's similar fate.

• The Light Screen showed Phanes fighting the Second Throne in a war that shattered stars and left her gravely wounded.
• The narration revealed that Phanes's body and soul had been separated, and that she had regressed into Paimon after losing her powers and memories.
• Emperor Xue Ye, the Shrek Academy students, and the Divine Realm's watchers were shocked to learn Paimon's true origin.
• Tang Wulin felt his Golden Dragon King bloodline react to the revelation, while Gu Yuena recognized a painful parallel with the Dragon God being split apart.

The God Kings reacted to the revelation that Paimon was a weakened, amnesiac Supreme God, while Tang Wulin reassured Gu Yuena that he would love her regardless of who she was. The Light Screen then showed Ying arriving in Mondstadt, where a corrupted dragon attacked, leaving the crisis underway.

• Ji Dong wondered whether Lie Yan could be reborn as Paimon had, but Lie Yan told him that Paimon's situation was different.
• Tang San considered whether an unknown Second Throne might have been behind the Dragon God's ancient war and feared that the history of the Divine Realm could be rewritten.
• Paimon insisted that she was the best guide and asked Ying to stop calling her emergency food, unaware of her revealed identity.
• Tang Wulin took Gu Yuena's hand and promised that she would always be his Na'er, whatever her identity.
• The Light Screen showed Ying entering Mondstadt as a purple-black-eyed dragon attacked the city, and the Dragon God reacted to its appearance.

Ying purified the corrupted dragon Tvalin, helped Liyue suppress the awakened Demon God Osial, and confronted the Electro General in Inazuma. The chapter ended with Ying blocking the General’s Musou Isshin using the gathered wishes and convictions of Inazuma’s people.

• Ying used the wind and her lyre to cleanse the corruption from Tvalin, restoring the dragon’s clarity.
• Ying and Liyue’s leaders and Adepti fought Osial, and Liyue’s leader dropped the Jade Chamber to suppress the Demon God beneath the sea.
• A message revealed that the Abyss Order’s plan was connected to Osial’s awakening, prompting the observers to wonder about Ying and Kong’s conflicting actions.
• Ying fought the Electro General over the Vision Hunt Decree and was drawn into the Sanctuary of Oneness.
• The Electro General unleashed the One Hundred Thousand, but Ying gathered the people’s wishes and blocked the divine slash with her sword.

The Light Screen revealed that Kong had become the Abyss Order’s prince after his plans repeatedly clashed with Ying’s efforts to protect the world, setting the siblings on a path toward a fated duel. Kong declared vengeance against the Heavenly Principles, leaving the observers to question how he could challenge a power capable of imprisoning him and Ying.

• The Light Screen showed Kong’s schemes being thwarted by Ying in Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma, and portrayed the twins as destined to face each other.
• Ying and Kong met among the ruins, drew their swords, and Ying shed a tear before the screen went dark.
• The Light Screen revealed Kong as the Abyss Order’s Prince, surrounded by monsters, shocking Xue Ye and the others.
• Kong declared that the Heavenly Principles had stolen his kin and destroyed the nations he had witnessed, and vowed revenge on behalf of the Abyss.
• Rong Nianbing, Ji Dong, Chang Gongwei, Zhou Weiqing, and Dai Hao reacted gravely to Kong’s challenge and questioned whether he could defeat the Heavenly Principles.

The Light Screen showed Ying setting out to confront Kong after he declared war on the Heavenly Principles and vowed to shatter the False Sky. Though the siblings fought as enemies, the narration revealed they would eventually join hands again and continue their journey beyond Teyvat.

• The Dragon God pointed out that Kong had vowed to shatter the False Sky, shocking the observers with the possibility that Teyvat's sky was false.
• Ying watched a projection of Kong declaring war on the Heavenly Principles and recognized that he had chosen a path of destruction.
• Ying summoned her sword and set out to find Kong, with companions from the seven nations beside her.
• Kong and Ying fought with powers born from the same source, and the observers felt the sorrow behind their clashes.
• The narration revealed that Kong and Ying would eventually join hands again because Teyvat was only one stop on their endless journey.
• Gu Yuena suggested that the duel might confirm their resolve and paths so they could find an answer that let them walk together again.

The Light Screen revealed that the Abyss Power in Teyvat was only a projection of the multiverse's primordial Will of Destruction, which had destroyed a civilization in Heavenly Principles' homeland and could erase superclusters. The revelation left the Douluo God Realm and its wider audience overwhelmed as the screen began showing the vast cosmic structure at risk.

• After the Light Screen showed Ying and her sibling crossing swords through tears, the image faded and stunned the audience into silence.
• The Light Screen identified the Will of Destruction as a primordial force born alongside Cosmic Brightness, and Rong Nianbing, the Sea Dragon God, and Tang San reacted with alarm.
• The screen revealed that Teyvat's Abyss Power was merely a projection that had destroyed the civilization in Heavenly Principles' homeland, shocking Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy students.
• The screen warned that the projection was encroaching upon the universe and could easily erase superclusters, frightening the God Kings, the Dragon God, and the Dragon Prince.
• The Light Screen shifted from words to an image of countless galaxies woven into an immense cosmic network.

A recording showed Dark Fate erasing an immense supercluster from existence, terrifying the witnesses and leaving them despairing. The screen then targeted the Douluo God Realm’s twin-star system and announced a new entry: the Primal Will, equal to Dark Fate.

• Darkness silently erased a supercluster, and the recording identified it as a projection by Dark Fate.
• Xue Ye fainted, while the Douluo witnesses and gods were shaken by the overwhelming power of the erasure.
• Gu Yuena recognized that the darkness was nullifying the laws and existence of the world, and Tang Wulin’s destructive bloodline instinctively feared it.
• Tang San reasoned that a Will of Creation might oppose the Will of Destruction.
• A crimson crosshair locked onto the twin-star system containing the Douluo God Realm, leaving its gods and mortals stunned.
• The Light Screen revealed the title “The Primal Will, equal to Dark Fate,” and the Dragon God reacted sharply to the word “equal.”

The Light Screen revealed that the Primal Will represented all existence and creation, and that Teyvat's Radiant Realm Power originated from it. The gods watched a world being born from a gentle light, leaving them shaken by how small their own powers seemed and wondering about Dark Fate's destructive counterpart.

• The Light Screen declared that the Primal Will stood equal to Dark Fate and represented all existence and creation, shocking Tang San, the Dragon God, Gu Yuena, and the others.
• The Light Screen identified Teyvat's Radiant Realm Power, including the power that created Nibelungen, as originating from the Primal Will.
• The Light Screen showed a gentle light creating laws, matter, stars, oceans, and life, while Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power dissolved when it touched the light.
• Lie Yan, Ye Yinzhu, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Dai Hao, Xue Ye, and Longbow. Wei recognized how insignificant their powers and ambitions were beside creation.
• A'Dai (Mandun) silently sensed that such magnificent creation must have an equally terrifying counterpart in destruction.

The Light Screen revealed that the Primal Will created the universe and gave rise to the Laws, then introduced Dark Fate as a force that corroded the universe and extinguished galaxies. The Dragon God and the other onlookers were left confronting a cosmic threat beyond their understanding.

• The revelation about the Primal Will overwhelmed the gathered Gods, and the Dragon God admitted they had never understood the truth of their world.
• New writing on the Light Screen described Dark Fate corrupting the universe and causing galaxies to go dark.
• Tang San and the others reacted with fear as Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Eye to perceive worlds disappearing within the Void.
• The Dragon God warned that Dark Fate seemed like an incurable disease spreading through the universe, while Chang Gongwei sensed an absolute ending in its name.