Recaps

Chen Li rejected Furina’s plan to die fulfilling Fontaine’s prophecy and proposed using the accumulated energy to create a happier outcome for the Fontainians. Furina remained uncertain but was left with little choice but to consider witnessing Fontaine’s new beginning with him.

• Scylla reminded Chen Li that the Star-Devouring Whale might have a purpose beyond destruction, so he decided to keep it as a kitchen-waste eater for now.
• Furina asked Chen Li to let Fontaine’s prophecy proceed even if she had to die, and explained that she feared the cost of asking him for help.
• Chen Li refused to accept Furina’s tragic ending and entered the space where she had been confined for five hundred years.
• Chen Li told Furina that the accumulated energy could be used to transform the Fontainians, but Furina rejected his extreme suggestions.
• Chen Li offered Furina his hand and urged her to witness Fontaine’s new beginning with him.

Chen Li freed Furina and transformed every Fontainian into a true human by showering Fontaine with the Gift of Abundance. Furina panicked over its dangers, but Chen Li explained its benefits and reassured her that the Heavenly Principles had no reason to intervene, leaving her furious at the onlookers who had known all along.

• Chen Li emerged from the stapler with Furina during a trial at the Opikilai Opera House and announced that the original sin of the Fontainians would end.
• Chen Li opened the opera house roof and scattered golden-green light across Fontaine, turning every Fontainian into a true human.
• Kitsune Saiguu and the other group members warned Furina that the Gift of Abundance could cause madness, attract cosmic threats, and draw the Heavenly Principles' attention.
• Chen Li confirmed the warnings but explained that the Gift of Abundance could extend the Fontainians' lives by a thousand years and that its worst effects would come only after they reached that age.
• Chen Li pointed out that Furina had not shattered the Hydro Throne, destroyed Sky Island's rules, or returned the Great Power of the Ancient Dragon, and Furina realized the others had withheld that context.
• Furina grew embarrassed and angry at the onlookers while Chen Li placed a hand on her head and seemed about to speak.

Chen Li reassured Focalors that the Gift of Abundance would not provoke the Heavenly Principles or create a Fontaine-only advantage, revealing that he had extended its benefits across Teyvat. His friends discovered the blessing had cost him enormous Life Force, leaving them worried even as Chen Li brushed off their gratitude.

• Chen Li told Focalors that the Heavenly Principles could not interfere with the Gift of Abundance because Teyvat could not replicate its power.
• Focalors worried that Fontainians might become dangerously long-lived, and Kitsune Saiguu suggested Chen Li had weakened the blessing.
• Chen Li revealed that he had granted everyone in Teyvat a lifespan of at least four hundred years so other nations would not covet Fontainians.
• Raiden Ei asked whether the blessing had cost Chen Li much, and Chen Li claimed it had consumed little.
• Furina called out Chen Li's lie, and he admitted he had spent enough Life Force to create a living planet in Teyvat.
• Chen Li explained that he had used his own Life Force because Teyvat was not ready to connect with the interstellar Path of Abundance, then dismissed Focalors's offer to repay him.

Chen Li helped Furina and Neuvillette after saving Fontaine, offered Neuvillette a way to strengthen himself, and took the Judgement of the Oracle. When Chen Li asked to face Fontaine’s strongest Duelist, a blood-red pillar destroyed the Opikilai Opera House.

• Chen Li recovered his Life Force, confirmed progress on the God Loves the World Miracle Card, and explained that Creation and Reincarnation were its completed forms of divine love.
• Furina comforted Furina, then Neuvillette accepted Chen Li’s Miraculous Dragon Transformation Method and chose the red aspiration to become a complete dragon capable of judging all gods.
• Furina chose the aspiration to deprive Chen Li of small cakes for life, while Chen Li agreed to borrow the Judgement of the Oracle and its accumulated Resonance Energy.
• Furina told Chen Li he had broken Fontaine’s ancient law by transforming Fontainians into humans, and he asked to duel a god before the throne.
• Neuvillette explained Fontaine’s Duelist system, and Furina asked him to invite Clorinde to fight Chen Li.
• A blood-red pillar of light pierced the Opikilai Opera House and reduced it to drifting ash, leaving Furina horrified.

Ronova arrived to confront Chen Li for granting immortality to all of Teyvat, but Chen Li recovered his strength and captured her with a Poké Ball. He immediately summoned Ronova again, leaving her with no chance to rest.

• Ronova destroyed the Opikilai Opera House and confronted Chen Li about granting immortality to everyone in Teyvat.
• Ronova asked Chen Li to come with her, believing his life force was nearly depleted, but Chen Li revealed that his strength had returned.
• Chen Li challenged Ronova with a Poké Ball, and Furina angrily objected because Ronova had destroyed her opera house.
• Chen Li physically grabbed Ronova and captured her in the Poké Ball, where she said she was finally able to rest.
• Chen Li released Ronova again, and she wondered why she had been summoned after finally escaping into the Poké Ball.

Chen Li captured Ronova in a Poké Ball after demonstrating that he could erase death with death, then left Teyvat with the Herrscher of Reason. The Herrscher of Reason emerged as Fu Hua and broke the Divine Sakura Tree, which Chen Li repaired with Imaginary Value, while the others considered how to handle Teyvat’s changes.

• Chen Li forced Ronova to rebuild the Opikilai Opera House, demonstrated his command of death, and watched her retreat into her Poké Ball.
• Chen Li left the rebuilt opera house in Furina and Neuvillette’s care as they discussed explaining the presence of two Hydro Archons and adapting to longer lifespans.
• Chen Li pulled the Herrscher of Reason from the Divine Sakura Tree, breaking it and revealing the newly awakened Fu Hua.
• Fu Hua dodged Yae Miko’s demands for compensation, and Chen Li repaired the Divine Sakura Tree with Imaginary Value.
• Vill-V took the stapler to research, while Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei took Morax and Scylla to other worlds to record Occupational Systems.

Chen Li helped the Herrscher of Reason capture and hang Yae Miko, then learned about the Herrscher of a Thousand she had raised as familiars, memory stores, and emergency food. When Raiden Makoto, Raiden Ei, Morax, and Scylla returned, Chen Li concealed Yae Miko in God's Perspective and left her hanging overnight.

• Yae Miko paid the Herrscher of Reason 200 Starstones, and Chen Li arranged for the Herrscher of Reason to hang her from the Divine Sakura Tree.
• The Herrscher of Reason used Yae Miko's childhood memories to turn her into a pink fox, then tied her up and hung her from the tree.
• The Herrscher of Reason revealed that her 1,000 Black Moths could merge, share consciousness, store memories, amplify her powers, and serve as food.
• Chen Li ate one Black Moth and received detailed memories about Liyue's history and the current Liyue Qixing.
• Raiden Makoto, Raiden Ei, Morax, and Scylla returned, and Chen Li used the Battlefield Reporter's Pass to hide Yae Miko in God's Perspective until she woke.

After exhausting himself to obtain the Miracle Card God Loves the World, Chen Li brought Scylla and Morax to his crowded home, where the guests’ crimson aspirations overwhelmed him. He sought comfort from Elysia, while Sirin misread his request to alter the basement as a hint for a secret romance.

• Chen Li suggested going home, sleeping, and helping Scylla and Morax obtain personal panels, then released Scylla from her Moe Ying Body state.
• Elysia introduced Scylla to her friends as guests crowded Chen Li’s home, including Feixiao, Jingliu, and Fu Xuan exercising to power the Phenomenal Record.
• Sirin found Chen Li curled up in an armchair, but he told her to fill in the basement, and she went to do so.
• Chen Li saw the guests’ crimson aspirations and, feeling overwhelmed, accepted Elysia’s comforting embrace and asked about her Mysterious Shop’s grand prize.
• Sirin returned and Chen Li told her to dig up and expand the basement; she interpreted the request as a plan for a secret romance and eagerly headed back downstairs.

Chen Li refined One Heart's Aspiration into a Two-star Artifact, giving it more aspiration slots and new wish-based effects, while also upgrading the Destiny Invitation Key. The chapter ended with the group realizing their aspirations could advance through wishes and several of them calling Chen Li over.

• Feixiao praised One Heart's Aspiration as it helped her run faster and pursue her dream of starting a family after the Buli Ren were wiped out.
• Pardo asked to clean Chen Li's room every day, hoping to earn Starstones toward her aspiration of holding him during afternoon naps.
• Chen Li told everyone they were the truly valuable things in his room, causing their red aspirations to twitch.
• Chen Li refined One Heart's Aspiration into a Two-star Artifact and upgraded the Destiny Invitation Key.
• The upgraded One Heart's Aspiration added more aspiration slots and let completed secondary aspirations grant a matching wish spell or greatly advance the main aspiration.
• Chen Li handed the new Destiny Invitation Key to Great Herta as several people called him over to discuss their aspirations.

Chen Li explained the upgraded One Heart's Aspiration and Destiny Invitation Key, including new cooperative aspiration links and daily strategy events. After Elysia revealed her three Chen Li-related aspirations, she exposed that he could see everyone’s choices, leaving him caught by her teasing.

• Chen Li told Great Herta that upgrading One Heart's Aspiration and Destiny Invitation Key had earned a profit, and Great Herta accepted his explanation of the items’ improvements.
• Chen Li explained that One Heart's Aspiration now let people connect shared aspirations and choose daily strategies that could create events, while warning them about risky choices and failure penalties.
• Pardo abandoned her plan to learn Vill-V's personality-splitting technique after learning that only three aspirations could generate events and their outcomes were random.
• Elysia showed Chen Li her three red aspirations, including wishes involving his mysterious shop, Mobius, and a mole on her chest, and Chen Li instinctively looked at her chest.
• Elysia confronted Chen Li for seeing her aspirations, and he admitted he could see everyone's choices after she revealed that she had invented her mysterious-shop prize on the spot.

Elysia used three aggressive aspirations to get Chen Li to kiss her and take her to a flower-filled amusement park, where they spent the night together. The next morning, Chen Li freed Elysia from her playful pink Crystal spell, and they shared breakfast before preparing to leave the Paradise.

• Elysia showed Chen Li her aggressive events and persuaded him to help, then pinned him against his bedroom door and kissed him.
• Chen Li used the Destiny Invitation Key to open a flower-filled Paradise with an amusement park, and Elysia eagerly ran with him toward its Ferris wheel.
• Vita, Sirin, Little Herta, and others arrived at Chen Li's bedroom seeking his help, but a golden Friends Circle barrier blocked them from entering.
• The next morning, Chen Li found Elysia enclosed in pink Crystal and freed her with a kiss, only to learn that the spell's real solution had been the sound of his approaching footsteps.
• Elysia took a selfie in the flower sea, asked Chen Li to praise her, and agreed with him that it was time to leave the Paradise.

Chen Li returned from the Fate Invitation Space with Elysia and found everyone exhausted after spending the night at his house. Elysia helped Pardo complete an aspiration and join her in forming an everyday version of the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals, while Pardo and Sparkle arranged their business plans around Chen Li.

• Elysia said she wanted everyone to reach the Paradise someday, then gathered Easter Eggs with Chen Li in the Fate Invitation Space for six days while only a short time passed in reality.
• Chen Li found the household awake with dark circles, and Elysia offered to record Pardo a lullaby before teasing her by handling her ears and tail.
• Elysia asked Pardo to form the everyday version of the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals, and Pardo explained her aspirations to earn one hundred thousand Starstones and secure official authorization for Chen Li merchandise.
• Sparkle objected to Pardo's merchandise plan, but Pardo offered to help complete Sparkle's aspiration, and Chen Li granted Pardo official authorization.
• Pardo and Sparkle completed aspirations, and Elysia shared her new aspiration with Pardo so they could pursue it together.

Elysia gathered the expanded Thirteen Arbiter-Generals and planned to take Herrscher of Reason to meet Hua, while Chen Li gave her a space-devouring blade for Mobius. As Elysia prepared for her fusion surgery, Scylla challenged her former master Surt, who revealed his own aspiration to defeat Chen Li.

• Elysia explained that One Heart's Aspiration could reveal other people's circumstances when her existing aspirations failed, then gathered nineteen people for the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals.
• Herrscher of Reason tried to use her red Great Wish Spell to make everyone acknowledge her as Fu Hua, but Pardo stole it before she could spend it.
• Elysia reassured Herrscher of Reason about Sparkle, Vita, and Merlin, then persuaded her to visit Hua by promising to show her young Hua.
• Chen Li gave Elysia a living ice blade that could devour space and create coordinates, asking her to deliver it to Mobius for Sakuya.
• Eden read Elysia's diary about her six days with Chen Li, and Elysia said she was preparing for her fusion surgery while Chen Li drew a Stigmata for Scylla.
• Scylla challenged Surt in the Weekly Instance, and Surt revealed his aspiration was to defeat Chen Li.

Scylla challenged Surt while reflecting on how her aspirations and Exclusive Profession could help her surpass her master. Meanwhile, Chen Li arranged to hold a Holy Grail War in Penacony, and Old Audi proposed expanding the competition and inviting contestants from other worlds.

• Scylla challenged Surt, who explained that a pink-haired woman and a blue-haired child had beaten him in the Weekly Instance.
• Scylla recorded a tactic for exploiting an opponent's injury in her Master-Slaying Diary.
• Chen Li brought little Scylla to Penacony and negotiated with Old Audi over hosting a Holy Grail War.
• Chen Li confirmed that Old Audi was not a Masked Fool, and Sunday reminded Old Audi that the Oak Family controlled the event and its invitations.
• Chen Li set the Holy Grail War for the day before the Grand Gala, and Old Audi agreed to host it in Penacony.
• Old Audi suggested increasing the event to fourteen competitors and inviting contestants from other worlds, prompting Chen Li to react cautiously.

Chen Li and Sunday prepared the Holy Grail War, drawing five dangerous commissions and deciding that the tournament would take place in Chen Li’s blank world. Chen Li left Old Audi responsible for repairing the event’s publicity and securing its arrangements while he waited for his Reputation to reach the final point needed for Novice Task Eight.

• Sunday agreed that contestants from other worlds could join the Holy Grail War, and Chen Li drew five commissions whose requesters sought to destroy or erase their worlds.
• Chen Li proposed that visitors from other worlds fight exhibition matches in Penacony’s Dreamscape while the official Holy Grail War took place in his blank world, and Old Audi offered to have the Clover Family fund a venue there.
• Chen Li learned that the Clover Family’s clarification had left his Reputation at Lv4 (399/400), then demanded that Old Audi issue an apology and provide gifts for Penacony tourists.
• Old Audi offered Chen Li the Radiant Spar as an apology, and Sunday agreed that the Oak Family could address the Dreamscape Hotel’s room shortage with Chen Li’s technical support.
• Chen Li confirmed that the hosts had two reserved slots, but told Old Audi that one was for Robin; Old Audi readily accepted the remaining slot.

Chen Li and Sunday arranged the final Holy Grail War slot and discussed plans to turn Penacony into a larger dream Paradise. As Yakumo Yukari worked on a barrier for Penacony, Chen Li considered a powerful boundary-controlling Star Spirit from Little Garden who might help her grow stronger.

• Old Audi secured the final reserved Master slot by agreeing to fund Dream Weavers and requesting Penacony's underlying design code, which Sunday approved.
• Chen Li and Sunday discussed the Master slots, Robin's possible interest in summoning an Aeon, and their plan to use the Holy Grail War to draw visitors and dreams to Penacony.
• Sunday asked about Yakumo Yukari's progress, and Chen Li explained that she was using her boundary abilities to create a barrier allowing visitors to enter Penacony's dream world without dream pools.
• Chen Li reviewed Yakumo Yukari's Caster profile and identified the Halloween Queen of Little Garden as a much stronger boundary-controlling Star Spirit who might help Yakumo Yukari improve.

Chen Li prepared to connect Penacony to Hell and build a Holy Grail War system, while Great Herta discovered he had laid an Imaginary Tree branch as its ley line. Their discussion revealed Chen Li had access to Ouroboros’s Path, and the chapter ended with him demonstrating that destroying a dream shop produced pure Path energy.

• Chen Li sent Sunday to handle Tendo Kikunojo from Black Bullet and left to connect Penacony’s ley lines to Hell.
• Great Herta objected when Chen Li used a branch of the Imaginary Tree as the ley line for the Holy Grail War.
• Chen Li explained that he had learned to graft Imaginary Tree branches through his connection to the Cocoon of Eternity.
• Great Herta urged Chen Li to consider becoming an Aeon, but he said he was focused on holding a Holy Grail War and needed pure Imaginary Energy.
• Chen Li revealed that Ouroboros had lent him a Path, then took Great Herta to a dream shop under construction in Hell.
• Chen Li and Great Herta destroyed the shop, producing a chicken drumstick bubble that gave Great Herta pure Path of Wisdom energy when she ate it.

Chen Li and Great Herta prepared Hell’s Holy Grail War by completing its rules, summoning system, and Master qualifications, while Chen Li’s changes to the Path of Voracity caused Ouroboros to be captured by Kliper. The chapter left travelers arriving at Penacony in anticipation of the coming event.

• Chen Li explained that he had altered the Path of Voracity in Hell to provide food and paid a Dream Weaver to rebuild Penacony, then changed the rules to prevent visitors from wrecking buildings.
• Chen Li revealed that he had locked the Devouring Star God’s authority behind a password, leaving Ouroboros unable to reclaim the Path of Voracity without it.
• Chen Li prepared the Holy Grail War with a Holy Grail and a modified Summoning Ticket, while Great Herta challenged him about his use of the Invitation Space.
• Chen Li used his authority to grant Master qualifications, causing the Path of Voracity to resonate with its counterpart in Hell.
• Ouroboros raged against Chen Li, but Kliper struck him into a Poké Ball, which unexpectedly captured him.
• Passengers arrived at Penacony and discussed the cheap tickets, Chen Li’s involvement, and the upcoming Holy Grail War.

Bocchi boarded a ship to Penacony with a Holy Relic, intending to summon Oswaldo Schneider and take revenge. Meanwhile, Sunday and Chen Li prepared Robin’s summoning in the half-built hell, and a white-haired Servant appeared as the chapter ended.

• Bocchi accepted the IPC’s offer to join the Holy Grail War and received Oswaldo Schneider’s employee ID as his Holy Relic.
• Sunday described the oppressive Black Bullet world and his negotiations with Kikunojo Tendo, while Chen Li urged him to attack the old man.
• Sunday used the Slap Gloves to cross worlds and repeatedly punched Kikunojo Tendo with Primordial Action.
• Chen Li blocked Sunday’s return request so Robin could begin summoning her Servant first.
• Robin activated the summoning circle, and a white-haired figure appeared before her.

Chen Li’s Holy Grail War preparations brought Robin face-to-face with her summoned Servant, who revealed that she was both Commander Infinite and the future Great Extinguisher Zephyro. Meanwhile, Dan Heng gained a Command Seal in the unfinished Penacony, and the group discussed the upcoming war’s unknown seventh Master and Robin’s confidence in defeating Old Audi.

• Robin recognized the white-haired Servant as Commander Infinite, who also named herself Zephyro, leaving Robin astonished by Chen Li’s unusual summon.
• Stelle and March 7th played with a tiny Astral Express while Dan Heng kept watch and killed a Dimensional Roly-Poly with Strike Cloud.
• Dan Heng collected a rare Command Seal, and Chen Li said it could be kept despite the Holy Grail War not officially starting until the next day.
• Chen Li explained that the seventh Master slot was open to any creature in the Honkai: Star Rail Universe capable of eating, and that he did not know who would fill it.
• Robin said her Servant should be able to defeat Old Audi without help.

Dan Heng, Stelle, Chen Li, and Robin discussed Starshatter’s identity and the possibility of restoring her True Name, while Stelle proposed gathering seven Great Extinguishers to challenge Nanook. Himeko then summoned Dan Heng and Chen Li back to the Astral Express because something unexpected had happened, leaving March 7th alone to fight King's Bucket.

• Starshatter called Stelle a child and briefly drew her toward her before Dan Heng intervened and demanded to know who she was.
• Dan Heng identified Starshatter as a Great Extinguisher connected to Stellarons, and Chen Li explained that Robin’s Servant had the combined powers of Commander Infinite and Starshatter.
• Robin said she wanted to help Caster recover her True Name, and Chen Li supported investigating Starshatter’s connection to Stellarons and preventing their spread.
• Stelle proposed using the Holy Grail and seven Great Extinguishers to contact Nanook and claim the Aeon of Destruction’s seat, and Chen Li praised the idea.
• Himeko called Dan Heng and Chen Li back to the Astral Express over an unexpected development, while Robin went with them and March 7th remained in Hell fighting King's Bucket.

Stelle returned to the Astral Express and learned that Aha had sabotaged the crew’s attempts to revive A Kivili by persuading him to become a Grand Rider instead. Chen Li and Pom-Pom tried to stop A Kivili from surrendering, but A Kivili revealed he had been holding back his Revival Match opponent and appeared ready to act now that his resurrection applications were withdrawn.

• Stelle found Himeko, Kafka, and Star Howl waiting on the Astral Express, where Himeko warned her against risky schemes and explained that A Kivili could not be revived normally.
• Himeko recounted how Aha had used a Resurrection Card to enter A Kivili’s Revival Match and convinced him to refuse revival so he could become a Rider.
• A Kivili repeatedly surrendered in the match, leaving the Astral Express crew to use four Resurrection Cards without reviving him.
• Chen Li admitted he could not force A Kivili to win, while Pom-Pom threatened to summon him and command him to clean the train.
• After Chen Li gave Pom-Pom the remaining Resurrection Cards, A Kivili revealed he had been restraining his opponent and released him.

Pom-Pom pursued Sparkle across worlds after Aha and Sparkle summoned A Kivili aboard the Astral Express, leaving Sparkle to propose luring the two back so Pom-Pom could punish them. Pom-Pom asked Chen Li for a plan, while Sparkle remained under his protection.

• Aha and Sparkle summoned A Kivili aboard the Astral Express, and Pom-Pom became furious when the two fled and left Sparkle behind.
• Chen Li advised Sparkle to summon A Kivili with her Command Seals, but she said Aha's contract prevented her from using them, so Pom-Pom chased her with the Astral Express.
• Pom-Pom's train pursued Sparkle across several worlds until Kliper pulled the Astral Express from his chest and attached a planet-sized Poké Ball to it.
• Sparkle escaped into a carriage and found Chen Li writing a fabricated history; Pom-Pom confronted her over the mess the chase had made.
• Sparkle offered to use Friends Circle to lure Aha and A Kivili back, and Pom-Pom asked Chen Li how to stop them from fleeing.

Chen Li used the Covenant Gold Coin to impose strict rules on the Astral Express, trapping Aha and A Kivili after they broke them. He left Sparkle without her Servants as punishment and pushed her to win the Holy Grail War, while she realized she would have to face the other contestants alone.

• Chen Li explained that the Covenant Gold Coin could establish rules aboard the Astral Express if most current passengers agreed, and Sparkle supported using it to make things exciting.
• Aha and A Kivili found the new passenger safety rules and discovered they had to copy the Trailblaze Oath as punishment for disguising A Kivili as Pom-Pom.
• Pom-Pom praised Chen Li's rules, and Chen Li took responsibility for punishing Sparkle.
• Chen Li revealed that the Radiant Feldspar was his and suggested Sparkle win the Holy Grail so she could claim its wish-granting cup; Sparkle blushed and resolved to win.
• Sparkle realized Aha and A Kivili had been detained and that she would have to face the Holy Grail War's other contestants without her Servants.

Sparkle proposed expanding the Holy Grail War into a chaotic free-for-all, while Chen Li agreed to make Ouroboros the final boss through a scheme involving Old Audi and Propagation. The group discussed how to unleash the plan as Old Audi prepared to summon himself as a Servant.

• Sparkle argued that the Holy Grail War needed more participants and suggested adding Servants from earlier Singularities, allowing Master qualifications to be stolen, and appointing an Aeon as the boss.
• Chen Li accepted the Amber King's commission to forge a construction Miraculous Item in exchange for Crystals, after learning the Amber King had given him Ouroboros in a Poké Ball.
• Chen Li and Sparkle decided that Old Audi could be eliminated into the Holy Grail and cause a commotion that would release Propagation as the villainous Aeon.
• The others enthusiastically discussed setting Old Audi up and having Propagation fight the Immortal Aeon to a draw.
• Old Audi sneezed and celebrated after summoning himself as a Servant, recognizing his own legendary figure in the mirror.