Recaps

Apponia explained that the thirteen Flame-Chasers had awakened as memory entities, and Mei entered their trials to understand their powers and choices. After Mei admitted she would save Kiana first, Elysia awakened and confronted Mei with memories of Kiana, ending with Mei admitting she was afraid of losing her.

• Apponia explained that the Flame-Chasers' memories had formed entities that could guide Mei or become her trials.
• Mei told Apponia she sought power to protect Kiana and would save her first if forced to choose between Kiana and others.
• Apponia accepted Mei's honesty, and the first emblem awakened Elysia's memory entity.
• Elysia revealed Mei's memories of Kiana and asked whether Mei feared losing her; Mei admitted that she did.

Mei accepted that she feared losing someone she loved but chose to keep moving forward, clearing Elysia’s first trial and earning preliminary approval. As the second emblem lit, Elysia appeared and welcomed Mei to her world, while the observers from Douluo reacted to learning she was the first Herrscher who loved humanity.

• Mei admitted her fear of failing to protect someone she loved and let purple lightning spread through the Flower Sea without harming its petals.
• Elysia opened the first trial’s sigil, and Mei met its condition by acknowledging her desires and accepting their responsibilities, earning Elysia’s preliminary approval.
• Elysia led Mei deeper into the Flower Sea to learn about those left behind by their era, as the second emblem began to flicker and an icy voice called Mei an interesting specimen.
• The second emblem lit completely, and Elysia emerged from a beam of pink light and introduced herself as the beautiful magical girl who loved humanity most.
• The observers from Douluo questioned Elysia’s appearance and her claim to love humanity, since she was the first Herrscher.

Elysia offered Mei three paths through the Elysian Realm and showed her memories of Kiana, asking why she wanted to become stronger. Mei said she wanted to protect Kiana while letting her choose her own fate, and her answer awakened all three paths.

• The observers debated Elysia’s nature as Mei asked whether she was one of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers; Elysia called herself a guide and presented three mysterious paths.
• Elysia showed Mei the memories and stories of the Flame-Chasers, then asked whether Mei wanted to meet them; Mei said she had come to grow stronger and meet Kevin.
• Elysia revealed scenes from Mei’s memories of Kiana, prompting the observers to object that Mei’s private memories were being exposed without permission.
• Elysia asked why Mei needed strength, and Mei said she did not want to lose Kiana again and wanted Kiana to choose her own fate.
• Mei declared that she would not stop Kiana even if they became enemies, and her violet lightning formed a blade as all three paths illuminated; Elysia praised her answer.

After Elysia approved Mei and led her into the Elysian Realm, Mei met Kevin, who dismissed her hope of changing the future. Kevin revealed that humanity called him a world-saving hero to make its lost war seem meaningful, leaving Mei to face the burden of his despair.

• Elysia approved Mei’s choices and unlocked the first floor of the Elysian Realm.
• Elysia led Mei through the pink mist, warning that some Flame-Chasers would oppose her and that Mei would have to reach the end on her own.
• Kevin appeared at the end of an icy corridor and told Mei to keep walking if she wanted to see him.
• Mei told Kevin she sought the truth and strength so she could change what needed changing, but Kevin said she could not.
• Kevin denied saving humanity and explained that later generations called him a hero to make their lost war seem meaningful.

Mei passed Kevin’s trial by choosing to keep searching for another way to protect Kiana, then faced Qian Jie in a brutal battle. The chapter ended with Mei’s blade at Qian Jie’s chest and his battle-axe beside her shoulder, as he challenged her claim that he had already lost.

• Mei fought Kevin, then said she would give everything to find another path before ever having to stop Kiana by force; Kevin acknowledged her will and let her pass.
• Mei entered a dim hall and met Qian Jie, a Berserker among the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire, who challenged her to survive his assault.
• Qian Jie battered Mei with his battle-axe and urged her to release her pain and desperation, while she repeatedly rose and renewed her lightning attacks.
• Mei and Qian Jie stopped with her blade at his chest and his axe beside her shoulder; when she said he had already lost, he asked, “I lost?”

Mei passed Qian Jie's trial and met Su, who treated her wounds and gave her a memory fragment containing a question about reaching out when she could not save everyone. As the three Flame-Chasers appeared together, a giant eye addressed Mei and the Elysian Realm opened a staircase leading deeper into its past.

• Mei told Qian Jie that his axe strike had shown he never truly wanted to kill her, and Qian Jie let her go after the trial system recorded her passage without recognition.
• Su treated Mei's injuries and explained that Kevin represented responsibility, Qian Jie anger, and his own role was to remind her that living was a choice.
• Su gave Mei a memory fragment and asked whether she would still reach out if she knew she could not save everyone; Mei said she would because that did not mean she should do nothing.
• Mei received Su's memory fragment as the paths of Kevin, Qian Jie, and Su converged, and she realized she had to find her own path through the civilization's scars.
• A giant eye in the Elysian Realm asked Mei if she was ready to face the true past, then the scenes vanished and memory fragments formed a green staircase beneath her.

Mei confronted Mobius, who wanted to take over Mei’s body and use it to escape the Elysian Realm. Mobius called the realm a prison of repeating memories and began attacking Mei after she rejected her claim that taking over her consciousness would give her a new life.

• Mobius revealed herself to Mei and said she wanted to make Mei’s body her new vessel.
• Mobius explained that Mei’s Herrscher Authority, powerful body, and resilient spirit could let her leave the Elysian Realm.
• Mobius described the realm as a prison where the Flame-Chasers were trapped repeating echoes of their pasts, and admitted she wanted a real life outside it.
• Mei realized Mobius intended to control her body and erase her consciousness, and she rejected Mobius’s claim that this would let her live on in another way.
• Mobius defended her plan by calling life a process of devouring and tightened the green bands around Mei.

Mobius tried to break Mei's resolve and take over her body, but Kevin, Qian Jie, and Su helped Mei resist and reclaim her identity. Mobius revealed a prepared body identical to Mei's and began a final experiment as Mei attacked her in the laboratory.

• Mobius invaded Mei's consciousness and used visions of her companions to persuade her to surrender her body.
• Kevin and Qian Jie confronted Mobius while Su reminded Mei who she was, helping Mei break free of the mental attack.
• Mei declared herself Lightning Mei and refused to be devoured, but Mobius continued her assault and revealed a second body with Mei's face in a Cultivation Pod.
• Mobius explained that she had prepared the replacement body to transfer Mei's consciousness and claim a new body for herself.
• Mei attacked Mobius in the laboratory, and Mobius blocked her lightning blade with a serpent-shaped mass of green energy.

Mei fought Mobius in the laboratory, where Mobius used the Elysian Realm and her preparations to control the battlefield and pressure her into revealing her power. Mobius merged with the laboratory and attacked Mei as Kevin and Qian Jie joined the fight, while her plan to record Mei’s authority data and complete a possession remained underway.

• Mobius distorted the space around Mei with green threads and struck her into a metal wall.
• Mei unleashed a lightning storm, then used electricity to disrupt Mobius’s tendrils and cut her shoulder.
• Mobius merged with the laboratory, drawing on the Elysian Realm’s memory energy as the body in the Cultivation Pod rose.
• The observers realized Mobius wanted to record Mei’s authority data to complete her possession.
• Mobius drove Mei into a fierce battle, and Kevin and Qian Jie arrived to help her.
• Kevin froze most of Mobius’s serpentine shadows, but the remaining force struck Qian Jie and sent him flying.

Mei found Elysia’s surviving strand of pink light in the Laboratory’s Dome, exposing a memory that challenged Mobius’s claim that she had killed her original. The memory showed Elysia choosing to sacrifice herself for humanity and Mobius rushing out too late to stop her.

• Su shielded Mei’s consciousness and urged her to find the core, while Kevin, Qian Jie, and Su protected her from Mobius’s attacks.
• Mei spotted a pink strand among the Dome’s green conduits and cut through the Dome to expose it.
• Mobius revealed a memory of her original pursuing immortality, while Tang San and Gu Yuena suggested that Mobius’s insistence on killing her original was an attempt to prove her independence.
• Mei questioned Mobius’s certainty, and the memory showed Elysia choosing to die so humanity could have a future.
• Mobius rushed toward Elysia but failed to reach her before the light swallowed her.

Mei confronted Mobius with the truth that the original had abandoned eternity after Elysia died, rather than being killed by the memory entity. Mobius finally admitted she had known that recreating Elysia would not bring her back, as Mei prepared to end her obsession.

• The original Mobius deleted the Eternity Project after deciding that a future without Elysia had no meaning, and Mei realized she had chosen to give up living.
• Mei exposed the memory entity Mobius’s belief that she had defeated and replaced the original, causing Mobius to lose control and attack her.
• The observers discussed Mobius’s refusal to accept the original’s choice, while the Dragon God urged remembering Elysia and carrying on toward the future she never reached.
• Mei told Mobius that her pursuit of eternity was really an attempt to bring back those she had lost, and pointed out that the empty replacement body could never truly be Elysia.
• Mobius admitted she had always known that recreating Elysia would not restore her, and Mei declared she would end Mobius’s obsession as purple lightning and pink petals rose around them.

After Mobius vanished, Mei entered a candlelit staircase and encountered Apponia, whose prophecies showed Mei a future filled with suffering and loss. The chapter ended with Mei rejecting the visions while the observers debated whether fate could undermine free choice.

• Mobius dissolved into luminous dust after accepting that she would no longer chase Elysia, and Mei remained alone in the empty Laboratory.
• A dark ripple erased the Laboratory from the Light Screen and revealed a seemingly endless staircase where Mei met Apponia, the third seat of the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire.
• Huo Yuhao tried to sense Apponia and immediately perceived that he would fail, while Gu Yuena and the Dragon God identified her power as one that converged possibilities into outcomes.
• Apponia told Mei she would suffer, lose important people, and discover that victory was not what she truly wanted, then showed her visions of destruction and repeated loss.
• Mei tore apart the illusions with violet lightning and rejected Apponia's visions as her future.
• The observers debated whether Apponia's prophecies forced people toward their predicted outcomes or merely made them believe their choices could not change fate.

Apponia revealed the painful future she foresaw for Mei, but Mei rejected her prophecy and vowed to change it. Apponia stepped aside, leaving Mei free to continue up the stairway as her warning reached the observers beyond the Light Screen.

• Mei attacked Apponia with lightning, but an invisible rule stopped the blade before it could reach her.
• Apponia described Mei's feared future and claimed that even Mei's resistance was part of fate.
• Apponia confronted Mei about seeking power to change the ending and began issuing commandments.
• Apponia sensed the Douluo group beyond the Light Screen and warned that some observers might open a forbidden door in the future.
• Mei declared that she would not accept Apponia's future or let Apponia decide for her, and Apponia stepped aside.

Mei confronted Apponia over her prophecy that Mei would die by Apponia’s hand in ten days, then entered the crimson door as Apponia warned that the next trial concerned the person Mei least wanted to lose. Outside the Light Screen, the observers realized Apponia’s power narrowed possible outcomes, but they were left uncertain whether Mei could avoid the foretold death.

• Apponia warned Mei not to blame herself when she saw someone fall, then said the next discipline concerned the person Mei least wished to lose.
• Mei entered the crimson beyond the butterfly-covered door, while Tang San and Gu Yuena recognized that Apponia was only its keeper.
• Apponia removed her butterfly-shaped blindfold and told Mei she would die by Apponia’s hand in ten days.
• Mei attacked Apponia, but her lightning blade stopped short of Apponia’s brow as Apponia said the attack was already within the prophecy.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Apponia compressed possible outcomes, while Tang San and Gu Yuena described limits to her power and the cost of changing fate.
• The Dragon Prince asked whether Mei could avoid death by refusing to go to Apponia, but the chapter ended before anyone answered.

Mei confronted Apponia about the person she wanted to save and learned that she would die in ten days if she sought answers, while the person would die if she stayed away. Mei opened the crimson gate to challenge the prophecy, but Apponia stopped her and insisted that Mei's death would be the price she chose to pay for an answer.

• Mei questioned Apponia about the person she wanted to save, and Apponia said Mei would die in ten days if she came seeking answers while the person would die if she did not.
• Mei insisted she could change the future, but Apponia showed her visions of how she repeatedly sacrificed herself to protect others.
• Mei slashed open the crimson gate and entered, blasting aside the chains that attacked her.
• Apponia appeared before Mei and used Discipline to extinguish her lightning and knock her to the stairway's end.
• Mei asked why Apponia did not kill her immediately, and Apponia said the tenth day had not yet come and that death was the price Mei willingly offered for an answer.

Mei sought Elysia’s help to reach Apponia and defy the prophecy that she would die in ten days, but Elysia said Apponia’s prophecy was fate and refused to help. Mei drew her sword in the shattered flower garden, still intent on fighting the foretold outcome.

• Tang San argued that Apponia’s prophecy might have limits, but Apponia revealed she knew they were searching for a loophole and warned that fate would fulfill every interpretation.
• Mei declared that she might not be the one who died, as a ten-day countdown began and a hidden voice announced that the first Discipline was complete.
• Mei found Elysia in her secret garden and asked her to take her to Apponia.
• Elysia refused, saying Apponia’s prophecy was fate and that Mei’s struggles over the next ten days would still lead to the foretold endpoint.
• Mei drew her sword and unleashed violet lightning, tearing through the cherry-blossom garden.

Mei repeatedly tried to reach Apponia, but Kevin and the other Flame-Chasers blocked her path throughout the Elysian Realm. On the ninth day, Mei reached the depths again without attacking, leaving her next move uncertain.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Apponia had foreseen an endpoint Mei was approaching, not an unchangeable fate, but Tang San warned that Mei would not stop.
• Kevin confronted Mei in the passage and defeated her with Absolute Zero, then warned that the Flame-Chasers' Memory Entities would stop her wherever she went.
• Mei fought past repeated obstacles, but Flame-Chasers' Memory Entities blocked every route and forced her to start over.
• On the seventh day, Mei confronted Apponia's image in a corridor, but Apponia stayed away and warned that Mei would die if she continued.
• On the ninth day, Mei reached the depths of the Realm again and did not swing her blade.

Mei confronted Apponia and challenged the prophecy that she would die at Apponia’s hands, then appeared to shatter Apponia’s vision with a new choice. The Light Screen revealed that Mei had discovered a loophole: the prophecy named who would kill her, but did not say she had to survive until the tenth day.

• Mei told Apponia she would change her choices and identity rather than ask Apponia to change the prophecy.
• The Douluo group and others watched Mei’s defiance, while the Dragon God said fate could bind only choices already made.
• On the tenth day, Mei faced Apponia and created countless versions of herself, declaring she had not come alone; Apponia removed her blindfold as the future she saw shattered.
• The Light Screen reflected the ninth day, when Mei found Apponia’s image in a mirror and asked what the prophecy meant.
• Mei realized she could die at someone else’s hands before the tenth day, preventing the prophecy from coming true, and Apponia’s mist stirred at the suggestion.

Mei tested whether Apponia truly believed the prophecy was absolute by deliberately risking her life, forcing Apponia to intervene and reveal that she feared Mei might reach a point of no return. Apponia admitted the prophecy was not simply fate, but she left its exact nature unexplained.

• Mei reasoned that Apponia would stop her from dying before the prophecy's tenth day and deliberately provoked Apponia into restraining her.
• Apponia ordered Qian Jie's Memory Entity to attack Mei but not strike any vital points, and she diverted his spear when it wounded Mei.
• Mei turned her blade toward her own chest, and Apponia knocked it away and pushed her to safety, confirming that she would intervene to prevent Mei's death.
• Mei challenged Apponia's claim that the prophecy was absolute, and Apponia admitted she feared Mei would reach a point of no return while trying to disprove it.
• Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Tang San, Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, Ning Rongrong, and Ning Tian discussed Mei's test and whether Apponia would reveal the truth.

Mei learned that Apponia’s prophecy showed Mei piercing Apponia’s chest, then discovered the plan required her to nearly die at another Flame-Chaser’s hands before the tenth day. The chapter ended with Mei preparing to seek out Qian Jie, while those watching feared she was choosing certain death.

• Mei told Apponia she would challenge the prophecy by choosing how she died, and Apponia promised not to let her die before the tenth day.
• Apponia revealed that Mei’s future showed her sword piercing Apponia’s chest, but Mei rejected the image as an answer.
• The plan’s instructions named Qian Jie as the target who had to kill Mei before the tenth day to undermine the prophecy.
• Mei recognized Qian Jie as a dangerous, unpredictable warrior and tightened her grip on her sword.
• Xu Sanshi and the others realized Mei intended to seek out Qian Jie, and Xu Sanshi warned that the plan was effectively suicide.

Mei challenged Qian Jie to attack her without holding back so she could test whether Apponia’s prophecy would protect her, and he battered her with flames that suppressed her lightning. As Qian Jie unleashed black fire infused with the Will of Destruction, Mei could barely stand, but she still refused to retreat.

• Mei told Qian Jie she had come to escape the Realm and asked him to fight her until she was at death’s door, hoping to learn whether fate needed people to uphold it.
• Qian Jie attacked Mei with flames, sending her crashing into a pillar and shattering her blade as she charged him again.
• Qian Jie struck Mei through the collapsing hall, then seized her shoulder and blasted her body until her lightning faltered and she fell to her knees.
• Mei admitted she feared Kiana’s death and Kevin’s plans, but said she could not stop even if death awaited her.
• Tang Wulin, Dai Hao, Emperor Xue Ye, Tang San, and Huo Yuhao discussed Mei’s resolve and her gamble on Apponia’s prophecy as black flames spread around Qian Jie.
• Gu Yuena and Lie Yan identified Qian Jie’s black flames as carrying the Will of Destruction, which burned resistance, will, and fear of death.