Chapter Summaries

Bianca faced Su’s trial, reenacting the past dispute between Su and Kevin over the Holy Mark Plan, which would kill most of humanity to preserve civilization. She recognized Kevin’s despair and chose to bear his pain with him rather than argue over whether the plan was right or wrong.

• Su forcibly began the trial, transforming the Sumeru realm into a ruined Previous Era base where Bianca and Rita reenacted the dispute between Su and Kevin.
• Rita, playing Kevin, explained that the Holy Mark Plan would use Honkai Energy to select adaptable humans, killing ninety-nine percent of humanity.
• Bianca rejected the plan, insisting that the God of War’s duty was to save people rather than sacrifice most of them for a few survivors.
• Kevin confronted Bianca with the deaths of their comrades and the destruction of civilization, arguing that the plan was their only way out.
• Bianca saw the sorrow and regret beneath Kevin’s resolve and chose to share his burden instead of continuing to dispute the plan’s morality.

Bianca chose to share Kevin’s burden rather than oppose him, making Su reconsider the choice that had separated them and the course of history. After Su entrusted the Thousand Realms Equalling One to Bianca and died, an enormous hand made of galaxies appeared and caught his fading soul, leaving the viewers stunned.

• Bianca took Kevin’s hand and vowed to walk the path with him, even if it meant sharing his sin.
• Su was shaken by Bianca’s choice and wondered whether history might have changed if he had once reached out to Kevin instead of leaving.
• As he died, Su entrusted the Thousand Realms Equalling One to Bianca and urged her to trust civilization to forge its own path.
• Su’s soul began to dissolve into the Sea of Quantum, but a vast hand made of galaxies reached through higher-dimensional spacetime and caught its fading flame.
• God of Destruction and Tang San failed to comprehend the immense being, while viewers across the Douluo World stared in disbelief.

A high-dimensional being challenged Su to a game with the universe as its board and life, death, and their derived concepts as pieces, promising to reveal every secret of Honkai if Su won. Su accepted without hesitation, leaving the observers in the Douluo World stunned by his resolve and the scale of the game.

• The high-dimensional being overwhelmed the Gods and other observers, and Huo Yuhao suffered a backlash when he tried to examine it with his spiritual power.
• The being branded a challenge into everyone’s minds, offering Su the secrets of Honkai if he won a game.
• The being formed the universe into a chessboard and presented life and death as Su’s pieces, astonishing Tang San and the other observers.
• Su’s soul took shape again, and he accepted the game without asking who the being was or why he had been chosen.
• The Dragon God called Su a true Seeker of the Way, while Zhou Weiqing reconsidered his own pursuit of power.

The Light Screen showed Welt Yang entering the Sea of Quantum and awakening Kevin Kaslana, the Previous Civilization's strongest warrior. Kevin effortlessly destroyed Welt's creations and shattered his Pseudo Black Hole, leaving the Douluo observers stunned by his power.

• A vast hand began a cosmic chess game, placing the piece called Death as the scene shifted to the Sea of Quantum.
• Huo Yuhao, Tang San, Gu Yuena, and others struggled to understand the strange realm of dead worlds.
• Welt Yang projected his consciousness into the Sea of Quantum and awakened Kevin Kaslana, who had slumbered there for a thousand years.
• Kevin mistook Welt for an Apostle of Honkai and dismissed his explanation before attacking.
• Welt created countless weapons with the Authority of the Reason Herrscher, but Kevin erased them with a sweep of his hand.
• Welt formed a Pseudo Black Hole to defend himself, but Kevin shattered it with a punch, shocking the Douluo observers.

Kevin tested the Law Users of the new era after Welt sacrificed himself to show him how they fought to protect humanity. Seele failed the Core of Reason trial, but Bronya found her own truth, awakened as a Herrscher, and summoned Heavy Bunny.

• Welt used his remaining consciousness to trap Kevin in a Bubble World and show him the struggles of the new generation.
• After seeing how Welt Yang repeatedly protected the world, Kevin recognized that the Law Users of the era were humanity’s wings and decided to change his plan.
• Kevin subtly altered Seele’s path through the Corridor of Reason, but she ultimately failed the trial.
• Bronya faced the Core of Reason’s trial, rejected its painful memories as choices, and forged a path to the future through her own will.
• Bronya awakened the Core of Reason and manifested the Mechanical Creation Heavy Bunny from energy.

Bronya became the Reason Herrscher and defeated Parvati, but Kevin overwhelmed her and Welt Yang, then stole the Reason Herrscher Core. Kevin vanished with the core, leaving Bronya and Welt alive but incapacitated.

• Bronya used the Reason Herrscher’s power to destroy Parvati with Heavy Bunny’s cannons.
• Kevin appeared and offered Bronya a chance to join him in fighting Honkai, but she refused.
• Kevin crushed Heavy Bunny with one punch and sent Bronya flying, then defeated Welt Yang with another punch.
• Kevin pulled the Reason Herrscher Core from Bronya’s chest, leaving her alive but powerless.
• Kevin detonated the core’s energy and disappeared into a pillar of light, returning to the real world.

Kevin Kaslana returned to the mortal world, and the power of his consciousness caused more than seven hundred thousand people worldwide to collapse and see visions. World Serpent presented him with Chiyou’s corpse and Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, which he transformed into a giant sword before initiating the Holy Mark Plan in Sky Vault City.

• Kevin Kaslana’s return triggered simultaneous anomalies in more than seven hundred thousand people around the world.
• Raven and Jackal welcomed Kevin as he emerged from the Sea of Quantum.
• Jackal presented Kevin with the corpse of the Judgment-level Collapse Beast Chiyou as a tribute.
• Raven presented Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, and Kevin transformed the pistols into a flaming giant sword.
• Kevin declared that a storm was coming, and World Serpent announced its plan to activate the Holy Mark genes across Sky Vault City.

The Light Screen revealed that Kevin’s Sky Vault Project had been thwarted by Schicksal and Kiana, then showed Kevin leading a Mecha Troop raid on the laboratory where Kiana was held. Bianca Atagina confronted him but was badly injured by his first punch, leaving Kevin free to advance toward the laboratory.

• The Light Screen revealed that Kevin’s plan to forcibly activate bloodlines across Sky Vault City had failed, prompting Tang San to conclude that it was a process of selection rather than evolution.
• The Light Screen showed Kevin leading the Mecha Troops to retrieve Kiana from a Schicksal laboratory after her Honkai Energy eruption.
• Bianca Atagina descended to block Kevin and ordered him to stop.
• Kevin ignored Bianca and struck her with a single punch, sending her crashing through several buildings.

Fu Hua burned her fifty-thousand-year-old spiritual body to strike Kevin with Tai Chi: Inch Heart, wounding him and sending Kiana's incubation chamber to safety. Her spirit vanished, leaving only a crimson Fenghuang Down feather as Kevin watched in silence.

• Huo Yuhao sensed Fu Hua's spiritual body and realized it had endured for fifty thousand years.
• Fu Hua used Tai Chi: Inch Heart, piercing Kevin's defenses and making him cough up blood.
• Fu Hua spent her remaining strength sending Kiana's incubation chamber away from the battlefield.
• Fu Hua's spiritual body scattered into cyan motes, leaving a crimson Fenghuang Down feather behind.
• Kevin watched the direction Kiana had fled and did not pursue her.

Fu Hua sacrificed her spirit to wound Kevin, but he continued pursuing Kiana and froze the sea across ten thousand miles. After Bianca failed to stop him, Otto appeared before Kevin and welcomed him with open arms.

• Fu Hua burned the memories of fifty thousand years to attack Kevin, leaving a wound before her figure dissipated.
• Kevin acknowledged Fu Hua, then resumed pursuing Kiana and froze the sea for ten thousand miles with conceptual ice.
• Bianca Atagina intercepted Kevin, but he defeated her and left her unable to rise.
• Otto Apocalypse appeared between Kevin and the fallen Bianca and opened his arms toward Kevin without taking a fighting stance.

Otto traded Schicksal’s command authority to Kevin for the Thousand Realms Equalling One beacon, leaving the observers stunned by his apparent betrayal. The Light Screen then showed Kevin confronting Lightning Mei in a ruined city and telling her that Kiana Kaslana was about to die.

• Otto offered Kevin all of Schicksal in exchange for the Thousand Realms Equalling One beacon and presented Void Archives as a puppet to manage the organization.
• Kevin accepted the deal, giving Otto the beacon and taking the authority to command Schicksal.
• The Douluo God Realm’s observers reacted with shock as they considered the threat posed by Honkai and watched a new scene appear.
• Kevin arrived in a ruined city and found Lightning Mei sitting in a dilapidated classroom.
• Kevin told Lightning Mei that Kiana Kaslana was about to die, and Mei sprang up and called him a liar.

Kevin offered Lightning Mei a way to save Kiana by absorbing Changkong City's Honkai Energy and forming a new Herrscher core, in exchange for joining World Serpent and hunting other Herrschers. Lightning Mei accepted, and Kevin began drawing the city's Honkai Energy toward her classroom.

• Kevin told Lightning Mei that Kiana had less than two months to live because the Gem of Conquest was eroding her Life Force.
• Kevin offered to help Lightning Mei absorb Changkong City's Honkai Energy and form a new core so she could take the Gem of Conquest from Kiana.
• Kevin demanded that Lightning Mei become the Lightning Herrscher again, join World Serpent, and seize the cores and Authorities of other Herrschers.
• Lightning Mei accepted Kevin's deal, determined to save Kiana despite the cost.
• Kevin summoned the Honkai Energy throughout Changkong City, sending purple torrents crashing toward Lightning Mei's classroom and shattering its windows.

Lightning Mei became the Lightning Law User after Kevin’s first attempt at creating a God, but the transformation erased her humanity. The Light Screen then revealed that Kevin had begun a second phase of the Holy Mark Plan, with Hare as its core.

• Lightning Mei was reforged by Honkai energy into the Lightning Law User, wielding divine power as a tear slid down her cheek.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao struggled to understand Honkai energy, while the people watching reacted to the cost of creating a God.
• The Light Screen revealed that Kevin had abandoned the low-success-rate first version of the Holy Mark Plan and was pursuing a more efficient method.
• He Caitou proposed that Kevin’s new medium might relay power to many people, prompting alarm among the experts.
• The Light Screen identified Hare, a silver-haired girl and World Serpent executive, as the core of the second version of the Holy Mark Plan, and Dai Hao condemned Kevin for using her.

The observers learned that Kevin’s Second Version Holy Mark Plan would use Hare as a living source to broadcast Stigmata information and transform humanity, at the cost of her life and soul. Kevin activated the plan, and the plaza’s people began developing Holy Marks, though some suffered agonizing physical changes.

• Chang Gongwei, Lie Yan, and Ji Dong condemned the plan to use the innocent Hare as its core.
• The Light Screen revealed that Hare could convert Honkai Energy into Stigmata information that could make anyone a warrior.
• Tang San recognized that Kevin was spreading seeds of evolution through Hare, while the others feared the irreversible toll on her life and soul.
• The Dragon Prince condemned the plan as evil, while the Dragon God struggled with whether sacrificing innocents could ever be justified.
• Kevin activated the Second Version Holy Mark Plan, sending a golden web of light over the plaza and causing people to develop Holy Marks, with some screaming in pain and others celebrating their new power.

The Light Screen revealed that Hare had been consumed by the sacred network while people celebrated her sacrifice, and Huo Yuhao saw her soul weeping as fragments were absorbed by others. It then introduced Hare Misteln Schariac as the crystallization of the Schariac Stigmata, a powerful lifeform whose origins stunned the gods and mortals watching.

• Huo Yuhao saw Hare's soul burning and being torn apart by everyone touched by her light, and realized that she was crying.
• The Light Screen called the celebration of Hare's sacrifice the grandest funeral the world could offer her.
• The Light Screen showed Hare Misteln Schariac and identified her as World Serpent's ultimate trump card in the Holy Mark Plan.
• Gu Yuena sensed that Hare was not human but the manifestation of a concept, while Huo Yuhao recognized World Serpent.
• The Light Screen revealed that Hare was the crystallization of the Schariac Stigmata, born during the Second Honkai Eruption when Cecilia's holy blood linked Stigmata space with reality.
• The Light Screen declared Hare a powerful Stigmata lifeform stronger than ordinary Law Users, leaving the Douluo God Realm and the continents below in silence.

The gods of the Douluo God Realm learned that Hare Misteln surpassed a Herrscher and had joined World Serpent to execute the Second Version Holy Mark Plan. Kevin used Hare’s Dream Catcher ability to link the dreams of all humanity, leaving the watchers horrified by the plan’s reach.

• The gods reacted with disbelief as the Light Screen revealed that Hare’s power surpassed that of a Herrscher.
• The Light Screen showed that Hare had failed at her Stigmata experiments before joining World Serpent as executor of the Second Version Holy Mark Plan.
• Hare opened her violet eyes as the Light Screen displayed the Second Version Holy Mark Plan and Kevin with a silver-haired girl beside him.
• The Light Screen revealed that Kevin used Hare’s Dream Catcher ability to carry out the plan.
• The Light Screen showed Hare activating her ability on the moon to link the dreams of all humanity, shocking the watchers.

The God Realm watched Kevin's plan to turn humanity's dreams and souls into Stigmata energy, replacing Earth and ending human civilization. The chapter ended with a sleeping little girl beginning to transform as a crystalline tear rolled down her cheek.

• Tang San warned that Kevin's plan went beyond connecting dreams and would tamper with the universe's fundamental laws.
• The Light Screen showed humans falling asleep as their bodies became vessels for Stigmata energy that rewrote Earth's landscape.
• The God Realm figures learned that the plan would create a Spiritual Adam and replace human civilization with Stigmata civilization.
• Kevin stood on the moon, calm as he prepared to carry out his desperate gamble with humanity's souls.
• The image shifted to a sleeping girl whose body turned transparent as red patterns spread across her skin.

The Light Screen revealed the Honkai Will Plan, another Final Plan devised by Dr. MI, and explained that Honkai was a mindless program rather than a conscious enemy. The chapter ended as the Flame-Chasers resolved to create a will for it.

• The Light Screen resumed its review and announced that Dr. MI had left another Final Plan called the Honkai Will Plan.
• The Light Screen showed Elysia sacrificing herself to open a fissure of possibility, allowing the Flame-Chasers to glimpse Honkai's true body on the moon.
• The Light Screen revealed that Honkai had no will and only followed a preset program of selection, elimination, destruction, and reset.
• Tang San and other onlookers realized that Honkai could not be reasoned with or deceived like a conscious enemy.
• The Light Screen revealed that the Flame-Chasers planned to create a will for Honkai.

The Light Screen revealed that Elysia’s sacrifice enabled the Flame-Chasers’ plan to give Honkai a will and a hidden weakness. The revelation then identified Prometheus 17 as the AI that infiltrated Honkai, leaving the gathered gods and others horrified as they awaited more details.

• The Light Screen explained that the Flame-Chasers planned to create a Honkai Will with a back door that could influence Honkai’s final outcome.
• The gathered gods realized Elysia’s sacrifice had provided the power needed for the plan, and Rong Nianbing saw the revelation shake everyone’s worldview.
• A new Light Screen message introduced Prometheus, prompting Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to question what an AI was.
• The Light Screen revealed that Prometheus 17 infiltrated Honkai like a Trojan virus and caused it to develop thought.
• Zhou Weiqing, Emperor Xueye, and others panicked at the idea of an intelligent Honkai, while Tang San ordered them to stay calm until they learned the full plan.

The Light Screen revealed how Prometheus 17 sacrificed its collective consciousness to give the newborn-era Honkai consciousness and preserve the Previous Civilization’s Herrscher pattern as an anchor for future generations. After Mobius faded away, a point of consciousness appeared deep within the Honkai storm.

• Lie Yan compared the plan to igniting a volcano, while the Light Screen revealed that Prometheus 17’s collective consciousness had been erased when the plan succeeded.
• The Dragon God called the sacrifice necessary for the continuation of a race, and Gu Yuena reflected on the Soul Beast race’s own sacrifices.
• The Light Screen showed Dr. MI, Mobius, and Vill-V leading the plan, then depicted Prometheus 17 charging into Honkai as a stream of viral data.
• Tang San explained that the Herrscher pattern served as an anchor, giving the new civilization a known order and abilities to prepare against.
• The Light Screen showed Mobius fading after the plan, then revealed a point of consciousness igniting deep within the Honkai storm.