Chapter Summaries

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.