Recaps

Bronya and Zhao Bai shared a smile as they rode together, while Cocolia watched them and grew furious, hoping An would steer Bronya back toward strength. Across the ocean, a woman with heterochromatic eyes rode at the center of an amphibious Titan squadron.

• Bronya watched Zhao Bai as he drove, and she smiled when he smiled.
• Cocolia watched the pair through a satellite feed, threw her cup, and blamed love for Bronya’s change.
• Cocolia hoped An would lead Bronya back onto the right path and urged An not to disappoint her.
• A squadron of twenty-five amphibious Titans raced across the ocean with a short-haired woman seated on the golden Godfather Titan.

Zhao Bai and Bronya dove underwater to deal with Chiyou, while Zhao Bai wondered about Heavy Cannon Rabbit and asked Bronya where it came from. The two continued their descent toward the mission, communicating over the radio.

• An-Mar sensed Bronya’s scent and eagerly hoped to encounter her during the operation as she piloted a Titan underwater.
• Zhao Bai arrived late with Bronya, and the pair prepared to dive and deal with Chiyou.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya descended underwater using turbine propulsion devices while Heavy Cannon Rabbit followed them.
• Zhao Bai asked Bronya who controlled Heavy Cannon Rabbit, and Bronya said it was a precious gift from an important friend.
• Bronya asked why Zhao Bai kept saying “over,” and he explained that they were using radio communication.

Raiden Mei secretly followed Zhao Bai and Bronya on their underwater outing, only to discover them diving together. Zhao Bai and Bronya sped away from her as Mei challenged their tangled roles and relationships.

• Raiden Mei boarded the freight ship and prepared to follow Zhao Bai and Bronya underwater.
• Mei entered the sea in her diving suit and detected Zhao Bai and Bronya on her radar.
• Bronya warned Zhao Bai that someone was approaching, and Mei joined their radio channel while coughing from her rapid descent.
• Zhao Bai took Bronya's hand, and they boosted their propulsion devices to dive away from Mei together.
• Mei protested that Zhao Bai was her kendo instructor and that he and Bronya had confused everyone's generations.

Zhao Bai and Bronya reached the hidden land from the Primordial Era, where Bronya discovered signs that a squad of Titans had been there. The chapter ended with her identifying one of them as possibly a Godfather Titan.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya outpaced Mei during their dive and warned her to avoid diver’s syndrome.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya entered the fissure and found themselves standing on the land from the Primordial Era.
• Bronya noticed familiar tracks and suspected someone had recently visited the area.
• Bronya counted traces from twenty-five Titan mechs, including one heavier mech that might have been a Godfather Titan.
• Zhao Bai recognized the Godfather Titan and recalled how dangerous it was.

Zhao Bai realized that Anti-Entropy might have reached Chiyou first, and Mei arrived after racing through the water in her diving suit. A violent tremor scattered everyone, leaving Zhao Bai alone on a stone platform beneath a strange starry sky as he called for Bronya and Mei.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya suspected An-Mar was the only Anti-Entropy member who could be leading the operation.
• Mei arrived at the Divine Land after pushing her diving suit to its limits, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• The ground began to tremble, and violent shaking engulfed the area inside Chiyou.
• Zhao Bai found himself alone on a stone platform beneath a dark purple starry sky and called out for Bronya and Mei.

Zhao Bai searched Chiyou’s vast interior for its heart and uncovered An, who woke up asking for Bronya and threatening to kill her. Meanwhile, Chiyou’s shifting interior left Mei sick and Bronya floating safely with her anti-gravity device.

• Zhao Bai realized Chiyou’s stomach was larger inside than out and decided to find and destroy its heart.
• Zhao Bai dug An out of the dirt, and An woke up asking where Bronya was and saying she would kill her.
• An recalled that a pulse from the Primordial Era had knocked her unconscious while she was leading the Titan army in the Godfather.
• Chiyou’s interior shook and transformed into a cosmic starry sky, leaving Bronya floating while Mei vomited.

Bronya found Mei unconscious on Chiyou’s vast interior island, but Mei awakened as the Third Herrscher and attacked her. Unable to contact Zhao Bai, Bronya faced the Herrscher, who released her and demanded information.

• Bronya searched for Zhao Bai after confirming Mei was not in mortal danger, but found no sign of him.
• Bronya noticed lightning flicker across Mei’s fingers and stepped back too late as the Third Herrscher seized her by the neck.
• Bronya tried to contact Zhao Bai, but the starry sky blocked the radio signal.
• The Third Herrscher realized the bomb in her chest could not transmit data to St. Freya’s headquarters and that she could use her powers without restraint.
• Curious about Bronya’s connection to Zhao Bai, the Third Herrscher lowered her to the ground and demanded answers, but Bronya refused to reveal anything.

The Third Herrscher threatened Bronya with lightning but asked how she and Zhao Bai had gotten together, turning the interrogation into a request for a love story. After An woke up and accused Zhao Bai of wanting to commit bigamy, Godfather appeared and prepared to attack him.

• The Third Herrscher held a sphere of lightning over Bronya and demanded to know how she and Zhao Bai had gotten together.
• Bronya realized the Third Herrscher wanted to hear a love story and sighed that Zhao Bai was a man burdened with sin.
• An woke up, recognized Zhao Bai, and accused him of wanting to commit bigamy.
• Zhao Bai questioned whether An’s ability to see sins was really an eye for legal exams.
• Godfather emerged, complained that Zhao Bai would not call him Dad, and raised its fist as someone ordered it to smash him to pieces.

Zhao Bai survived the Godfather’s hammer and defeated it, then confronted An and challenged her beliefs about good and evil. He left her with a blunt question about whether he should restrain his desire to spank her.

• An watched the Godfather attack Zhao Bai and assumed its hammer had killed him.
• Zhao Bai revealed his Godfather Overlord Fists and fought the Godfather on equal terms.
• Zhao Bai switched to Black Abyss White Flower, pierced the Godfather’s force field, and split its body in half.
• Zhao Bai turned to An and argued that people remained good as long as they kept evil thoughts from becoming actions.
• Zhao Bai told An he wanted to strip her pants off and spank her, then asked whether he should restrain himself.

An used her Chaos Clock ability to slow Zhao Bai and sent a spear toward his heart, believing he would die in lingering pain. Zhao Bai figured out how her ability worked and escaped her attack, leaving An startled as he prepared to share two pieces of news.

• An formed her two rapiers into a spear and activated Chaos Clock against Zhao Bai.
• Zhao Bai realized An's ability accelerated her thoughts and movements while making his surroundings seem slow.
• An approached Zhao Bai and argued that humans were guilty and had to create sin to become human.
• Zhao Bai spoke at normal speed, seized An by the waist, and flipped past the spear.
• Zhao Bai told An he had one good piece of news and one bad piece of news.

Zhao Bai spanked An while insisting she was human and needed correction, while Bronya told the Third Herrscher a love story that gradually drew her in. The chapter left the Third Herrscher listening intently to Bronya.

• Zhao Bai caught An as she tried to retreat and spanked her.
• Zhao Bai told An that she was physically human and that her spirit was merely a little off.
• Zhao Bai continued the spanking as he lectured An about her belief that she had to commit sins to become human.
• Bronya told the Third Herrscher a long, dull love story.
• The Third Herrscher lowered her contemptuous posture and listened to Bronya with interest.

Bronya feared that the Third Herrscher would take Zhao Bai from her, but the Herrscher decided to help protect her instead. After flying across Chiyou and destroying its parasites, the Third Herrscher left Bronya’s side of the story unresolved while Zhao Bai finished beating An.

• Bronya realized she had no idea how to defend herself if the Third Herrscher tried to steal Zhao Bai.
• The Third Herrscher decided to protect Zhao Bai’s wife and carried Bronya over her shoulder, asking whether she still had the silk ribbon.
• The Third Herrscher flew across Chiyou with Bronya and destroyed the parasitic creatures with lightning.
• Zhao Bai withdrew his hand after beating An, who found it unbearably painful even to sit down.

Zhao Bai defeated An in a fight, then helped her stand and asked her to help deal with the Judgment-class Honkai Beast. The rest of the chapter was an author’s bounty notice.

• An attacked Zhao Bai with strikes and poison-coated daggers, but he neutralized them and beat her with slaps.
• Zhao Bai helped An to her feet and carried her over his shoulder when she struggled to walk.
• Zhao Bai told An that they needed to kill the Judgment-class Honkai Beast before it awakened and asked her to help.
• An asked how she could help, and Zhao Bai told her to stay quiet and not cause trouble.

Zhao Bai carried An across the floating lands while searching for Chiyou’s heart, fighting awakened worms and teaching An not to cause trouble. He offered An a reward for crossing an icy bridge without interfering, leaving her surprised that she could have caused trouble at all.

• An wondered whether not causing trouble could help Zhao Bai, while recalling her spanking and feeling conflicted.
• Zhao Bai explained that An’s confiscated weapons were unfit for use and continued his effort to correct her chuunibyou.
• Worm-like creatures emerged from the ground, and Zhao Bai cut them apart while carrying An.
• Zhao Bai created an icy bridge between floating lands and crossed it with An without letting her interfere.
• Zhao Bai offered An a reward for behaving on the slippery bridge, and An realized she had not known she could have caused trouble.

The Third Herrscher found Zhao Bai and An while carrying Bronya through the purple galaxy, and An laughed at Bronya’s bedraggled state. An’s laughter stopped when Zhao Bai slapped her, and she later quietly wondered whether she alone found Bronya’s predicament funny.

• The Third Herrscher searched the purple galaxy with Bronya, who struggled against the Honkai energy without asking for help.
• The Third Herrscher spotted ice-connected landmasses and fixed her appearance before descending toward Zhao Bai.
• The Third Herrscher held Bronya by the collar and showed her to Zhao Bai.
• An laughed at Bronya, but Zhao Bai slapped An while she was slung over his shoulder.
• An quietly wondered whether anyone else found Bronya being carried like a kitten funny.

Zhao Bai faced the Third Herrscher in her true form and responded to her attempt to recruit him by patting her head. An watched in disbelief as Bronya joined in, and the encounter ended with the Third Herrscher staring at Zhao Bai while he continued patting her.

• The Third Herrscher descended with Bronya and revealed her true form as Zhao Bai judged that he could handle her.
• Zhao Bai interrupted the Third Herrscher's offer and patted her head despite the lightning hurting him.
• Bronya asked whether she was worth only one pat, prompting the Third Herrscher to agree that Zhao Bai should pat her more.
• The Third Herrscher realized the two humans might be baiting her and fell silent while Zhao Bai kept patting her.
• An approached Bronya, who told her not to speak.

Zhao Bai organized the group to locate Chiyou’s remaining energy nodes and used Heavenly Fire Judgment to make the Third Herrscher cooperate. As the search began, Bronya left An behind, leaving her helpless and still longing for Bronya.

• Zhao Bai proposed that the Third Herrscher scout for Chiyou’s energy nodes while Bronya and An searched for Heavy Cannon Rabbit and the Titans.
• The Third Herrscher refused to follow Zhao Bai’s orders, so he used Heavenly Fire Judgment to split the floating landmass and demonstrate his power.
• The Third Herrscher agreed to fly through Chiyou and search for the energy nodes.
• Bronya leapt between the platforms to search for Heavy Cannon Rabbit and left An behind.
• An watched Bronya with longing as someone asked why she had been left behind.

Bronya found Heavy Cannon Rabbit among Chiyou’s worms and returned toward Zhao Bai, while the Third Herrscher slaughtered worms that crawled before her. The two continued through Chiyou’s interior by very different means.

• Bronya found Heavy Cannon Rabbit peacefully mingling with the worms inside Chiyou, whose ally recognition had been triggered by its Chiyou Cannon.
• Bronya called Heavy Cannon Rabbit over and rode back toward Zhao Bai, wondering whether the cannon had been made from Chiyou’s body despite Chiyou still being alive.
• The Third Herrscher’s presence made the worms crawl out and prostrate themselves before her.
• The Third Herrscher complained about the worms’ appearance and burned them to ash with lightning.

The Third Herrscher attacked Chiyou’s heart with a full-force spear strike, setting off a violent reaction throughout its body. Zhao Bai explained to An that he had trusted the Third Herrscher to help because she was a fatally tsundere person.

• The Third Herrscher sensed the Honkai energy nodes sustaining Chiyou and hurled a purple spear at its heart.
• An asked Zhao Bai how he had known the Third Herrscher would listen to him.
• Zhao Bai forced An to smile, then whispered that the Third Herrscher would help even while claiming she would not.
• The Third Herrscher’s spear pierced Chiyou’s heart and triggered a reaction that split the floating landmass and shook the surrounding sea.
• Zhao Bai dismissed the upheaval as Chiyou’s final burst of strength.

Zhao Bai watched Chiyou weaken while the Third Herrscher attacked, but a crack in the starry sky triggered her bomb and forced her to land. Bronya returned with news about Heavy Cannon Rabbit, giving Zhao Bai an idea for destroying Chiyou.

• Zhao Bai decided he was willing to let Chiyou die even if its death dragged down Canghai City's residents.
• The Third Herrscher attacked Chiyou with lightning, but Chiyou's movement exposed a crack that triggered her bomb's countdown.
• The Third Herrscher suppressed her Honkai energy to disarm the bomb and waited for Zhao Bai to help her.
• Zhao Bai realized the Third Herrscher could still sense Honkai energy and could guide him to attack Chiyou.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Heavy Cannon Rabbit had been recognized as friendly because it possessed the Chiyou Cannon, and Zhao Bai formed a plan.

Zhao Bai and Bronya traveled on Heavy Cannon Rabbit toward the second node, while Zhao Bai explained how he had changed An’s outlook. They reached the Third Herrscher, and Zhao Bai drew Crimson Dyed Cherry to strike the node.

• Bronya confirmed that Heavy Cannon Rabbit was identified as an ally because it carried the Chiyou Cannon.
• Bronya took Zhao Bai aboard Heavy Cannon Rabbit and left An behind in a cloud of dust.
• Bronya remarked that An had become more obedient, and Zhao Bai credited his guidance with changing her.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit carried Zhao Bai and Bronya to the second node, where they found the Third Herrscher and ancient inscriptions.
• Zhao Bai drew Crimson Dyed Cherry and struck at the node.

Zhao Bai flew toward Chiyou’s heart with Bronya after the Third Herrscher pointed out the way. Left behind and unable to fly, the Third Herrscher vowed to show Zhao Bai a Herrscher’s wrath.

• The Third Herrscher directed Zhao Bai toward Chiyou’s heart.
• Zhao Bai praised the Third Herrscher mockingly, then flew off with Bronya on Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• The Third Herrscher realized she had lost her wings and watched Zhao Bai leave, furious at his disrespect.
• The Third Herrscher vowed to make Zhao Bai witness a Herrscher’s wrath, though she was unsure how to do it.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai what he was doing, and he said he had been testing how tolerant a tsundere could be.

Zhao Bai descended into Chiyou’s heart to find a crack where he intended to deliver death to a noble warrior. He reached the healed wound carrying Dragon's Spine, while the heart’s small Honkai Beasts froze in response to its pulse.

• Zhao Bai asked Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C to throw him down, and it sent him toward the heart.
• Zhao Bai landed on the heart and moved through its purple rivers and ancient pulses.
• Small Honkai Beasts emerged to attack Zhao Bai, but Dragon's Spine's matching pulse left them frozen.
• Zhao Bai pushed through the swarm and found the faint crack he had come to reach.

Zhao Bai awakened Ji Lin and faced her in battle within the violet heart. After their first clash showed he could not defeat her honorably with the Xuanyuan Sword, he prepared to overwhelm her with a storm of attacks.

• Zhao Bai found Ji Lin asleep in the heart and called her back to consciousness.
• Ji Lin summoned a black warhorse, drew her sword, and attacked intruders with hostility.
• Zhao Bai put away Dragon's Spine and took up the Mysterious Yellow Xuanyuan Heavy Sword.
• Ji Lin charged Zhao Bai on her enormous warhorse, and their swords collided in midair.
• The impact numbed Zhao Bai's arms and sent him flying backward, so he resolved to unleash a storm of attacks.

Zhao Bai defeated Ji Lin’s warhorse in the Memory Battlefield and told her that he had come to kill her because her life was bound to Chiyou’s heart. Ji Lin accepted her fate and asked him to make it quick.

• Zhao Bai used his overwhelming authority to stop Ji Lin’s warhorse and cut off its foreleg.
• Zhao Bai pinned the warhorse with Dragon's Spine, then decapitated it with his blade.
• Ji Lin watched the horse die as light returned to her eyes and asked Zhao Bai if he had come to save her.
• Zhao Bai told Ji Lin that her life was bound to Chiyou’s heart and that he had come to kill her.
• Zhao Bai chose Crimson Cherry Blossom to kill Ji Lin, and she told him to do it quickly.