Recaps

Chen Li sent Az Dahaka to gather evil from other worlds, then gave Jingliu a Simulated Star Chart and began fabricating new history to strengthen his Plane Sphere. After Byakuyasha suggested creating an Innate Divine Spirit, Chen Li elevated Aqua into one, bringing the puzzle to four stars.

• Chen Li sent Az Dahaka to the world of Black Bullet to absorb its evil, promising him a chance to challenge Chen Li for his godfather after each world.
• Chen Li gave Jingliu Az Dahaka’s Simulated Star Chart and a list of his new apprentices, then Yakumo Yukari took Jingliu to meet them.
• Chen Li fabricated the Chimei Dragon Lord as a Pureblood Dragon Species hatchling, but the result was only a four-digit Lingering Spirit.
• Chen Li reviewed his Plane Sphere’s seventeen puzzles and noted that it was two stars short of reaching four stars.
• Byakuyasha suggested that Chen Li create an Innate Divine Spirit, explaining that a Star Spirit and a god could have an Innate Divine Spirit child.
• Chen Li called Aqua, confirmed she was born a goddess, and used half a Lingering Spirit of the Poet to elevate her into an Innate Divine Spirit, raising the puzzle to four stars.

Chen Li arrived in the Re Creator world and confronted Altair, who wanted him to help destroy the world in revenge for the abuse that drove her creator, Shimazaki Setsuna, to suicide. He began writing provocative and punitive statements with his Poet's Gift, leaving Altair uncertain whether his strange use of creation would serve her goal.

• Chen Li left Hako Ni with Leticia and arrived in Luna Kindred, where he met Altair.
• Altair accused Chen Li of misusing the power of creation and demanded that he help destroy the world.
• Chen Li revealed that he knew Altair's identity and showed her a copy of Re:CREATORS that omitted its final two episodes.
• Altair explained that her creator, Shimazaki Setsuna, had killed herself after suffering online abuse, and that she wanted the world destroyed in retaliation.
• Chen Li wrote sentences that made readers notice involuntary habits, then wrote a command for online abusers to slap themselves.
• Altair approved of Chen Li's attack on online abusers, while Chen Li reflected on the tragedy and cruelty in the Re Creator and Black Bullet worlds.

Chen Li used Creator's World's Power of Acknowledgment to restore Leticia's lost strength, then tested how the borrowed power worked in Hako Ni World. After discovering he could stabilize Leticia's power by rewriting her history, Chen Li drew Algeal's attention to the same opportunity.

• Chen Li explained that he would create a Hako Ni World work in Creator's World so Leticia could regain her former strength through the Power of Acknowledgment.
• Chen Li rewrote history to make Leticia the acknowledged character from the fictional work, restoring her transformation and damaging the World Correction Force further.
• Chen Li sent Leticia to Hako Ni World, where she briefly regained the Ophiuchus Solar Sovereignty but rapidly drained the borrowed power; he found that using it for personal abilities cost far less.
• Chen Li used the Lingering Spirit of the Poet to stabilize Leticia's power, and Algeal eagerly asked to become two digits.

Chen Li brought Algeal back to the Creator's World and helped Altair undermine the World Correction Force by sending out powerful allies. Altair abandoned her plan to destroy the world after Chen Li gave her a way to resurrect her Creator, but Chen Li insisted that his own mission had not changed.

• Chen Li restored Algeal's Lingering Spirit and, after Altair explained how to weaken the World Correction Force, sent Az Dahaka to absorb the world's malice.
• Chen Li sent Yakumo Yukari to search fictional works for valuable items and bring some people into reality, while Tonghua stayed to study the Power of Acknowledgment.
• Altair asked Chen Li to resurrect Setsuna and verify that her Creator was genuine, so Chen Li gave her a Miraculous Item called Revival Match.
• Altair learned that she could gather Resurrection Cards to let her Creator compete in a Revival Match and decided she no longer wanted to destroy the world.
• Altair asked Chen Li to call back his allies, but he refused, saying his job was still to destroy the world.

Chen Li forced Altair to choose between the Holy Grail War and facing three powerful Examiners as the world’s trial began. Altair gathered the other Created Beings to plan their response, while Chen Li joined their meeting and offered them little in the way of rewards.

• Chen Li told Altair that she had to defeat the three Examiners within fifteen days or the world would collapse, and offered the Holy Grail War as a way to make him withdraw them.
• Altair decided to revive Setsuna and fight alongside her, then explained the trial and its dangers to the assembled Created Beings and their allies.
• The group learned that their powers could damage the World Correction Force and that Chen Li could alter their stories, leaving them uncertain how to save the world.
• Meteora Enastite asked whether clearing the trial would bring a reward, and Chen Li said there was none.
• Matsubara Takashi complained about the lack of rewards, so Chen Li offered a certificate of merit and then an Etching Chapter before Matsubara backed down.

Chen Li sent Altair and the others to compete in the Holy Grail War on Penacony, where universal acknowledgment could strengthen their abilities. He then confronted Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott and had Algeal defeat Ellen Mira Mathers, leaving Westcott’s plans in ruins.

• Chen Li dismissed Mamiha Kōjuki’s objections to his methods and told the group they could pass the trial by defeating his examiners or entering the Holy Grail War.
• Altair and the others chose the Holy Grail War, and Chen Li explained that their powers would remain unrestricted and that acknowledgment from the universe could transform their abilities.
• Altair decided to invite Chizuru Chikujoin, while Chen Li warned the group not to let her boast too outrageously.
• Chen Li attacked Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott over the deaths caused by the Eurasian Great Sky Disaster and called on Ellen Mira Mathers to fight him.
• Algeal crushed Ellen’s resistance and dismantled her Manifestation Device while Chen Li ordered her to stop before she stripped Ellen’s clothes.

Chen Li killed Wescott, made Otto the new executive director of DEM Company, and tasked him with testing the Date A Live world through a staged threat. He then summoned Kyubey to turn Ellen into a Magical Girl, but chose a wish for Manifestation Device technology to benefit humanity, leaving Ellen horrified by the plan.

• Chen Li crushed Wescott and grafted Wescott's connections onto Otto, making Otto DEM Company's executive director.
• Chen Li explained the World Final Trial's restrictions and agreed with Otto's proposal to use Kyubey while giving the protagonists help to test the world's ideals.
• Otto asked Chen Li to decide Ellen's fate, and Chen Li chose to make her a Magical Girl.
• Ellen wished for Chen Li to disappear, then tried to offer her life when Kyubey rejected that wish.
• Chen Li made a wish on Ellen's behalf for Manifestation Device technology to improve life and bring relative peace, while Ellen protested that it was not her wish.

Chen Li turned Allen into a Magical Girl through a contract of servitude, assembled her with Otto and Kyubey as the supposed Four Heavenly Kings, and set out to recruit Tokisaki Kurumi for the World Final Trial. Kurumi, who was determined to kill the Origin Spirit and wary of Chen Li’s invitation, discovered that he had identified her real body and shot him with a time-stopping bullet to capture him alive.

• Allen accepted a contract of servitude, and Chen Li used her causality to transform her into a Magical Girl while fulfilling her wish to help Kallen find love.
• Chen Li named Allen, Otto, and Kyubey the Four Heavenly Kings and told them to cooperate in completing the World Final Trial.
• Otto located Tokisaki Kurumi, and Chen Li asked him to open a passage to her and release Nijo Aya from DEM.
• Chen Li crossed the passage and invited Tokisaki Kurumi to join the Holy Grail War and help save the world by killing Spirits.
• Kurumi revealed that she was determined to kill the Origin Spirit, then realized Chen Li had found her real body and fired Bullet Seven at him to stop time and capture him.

Chen Li confronted Tokisaki Kurumi, whose time abilities failed to stop him and whose clones became intoxicated by his scent and Time Value. After agreeing to discuss the Holy Grail War, Tokisaki Kurumi sent her consciousness into her past self, intent on keeping Chen Li from escaping her grasp.

• Chen Li resisted Tokisaki Kurumi’s Time Stasis Domain and warned that he could erase her Space Abilities.
• Tokisaki Kurumi sent clones to sample Chen Li’s Time Value, but they became drunk after touching and tasting him.
• Chen Li made Tokisaki Kurumi’s clones vanish when they reached for him, and she stopped pressing her advantage after recognizing his strength.
• Chen Li said Tokisaki Kurumi would save the world as a Holy Grail War participant and promised special assistance if she became his partner.
• Chen Li introduced himself as Chen Li, the Miraculous Forger, and the Poet.
• Tokisaki Kurumi used Bullet Six to send her consciousness into her past self and vowed to keep Chen Li from escaping her grasp.

Tokisaki Kurumi used Bullet Six to return to the past and prepare to conquer Chen Li, while Chen Li celebrated that her time travel had generated a singularity. A future Kurumi appeared to tell her about the possible routes ahead, but an impostor and a truth card left the past Kurumi with confusing revelations before the future visitor’s countdown became clear.

• Tokisaki Kurumi shot herself with Bullet Six and transferred her consciousness into her past self, creating a singularity that delighted Chen Li.
• Tokisaki Kurumi prepared for Chen Li’s arrival and encountered another version of herself, who joked about conquering him and listed four options: talk, kill, assault, or leave.
• A future Tokisaki Kurumi emerged from the other woman’s shadow, exposed the apparent visitor as an illusion made with Sparkle’s doll, and used a Truth Card to convince Tokisaki Kurumi of her identity.
• The future Tokisaki Kurumi confirmed that most of the impostor’s claims were true, including its provocative remarks about Chen Li.
• Tokisaki Kurumi learned that the future version had come through a special time-reversal countermeasure mechanism and had thirty minutes left after her countdown light began flashing red.

Future Tokisaki Kurumi stopped her past self from traveling back in time and gave her a plan to win the Holy Grail War and obtain a powerful artifact from Chen Li. The past Kurumi returned to her own time, while the future Kurumi faced Sparkle, who had overheard their conversation.

• Future Tokisaki Kurumi explained that Wescott had caused the first world-destruction crisis, while Chen Li had caused the second.
• Tokisaki Kurumi tried to use the Eleventh Bullet to send herself into the future, but Chen Li's overwhelming presence froze time and stopped her.
• Future Tokisaki Kurumi revived the stunned Tokisaki Kurumi and instructed her to enter the Holy Grail War, travel to the real Penacony, and chip a piece off Clock Boy's statue.
• Future Tokisaki Kurumi told Tokisaki Kurumi to summon Mikhail with the statue fragment, choose Nijo Aya as a teammate, and use her wish from Chen Li to obtain a Shared Artifact for Zafkiel.
• Tokisaki Kurumi's consciousness returned to the future, and the future Kurumi began erasing her past self's memories as Sparkle asked whether she feared being reported to Chen Li.

Chen Li discovered that Tokisaki Kurumi had returned from the singularity without learning the World Final Trial’s purpose or its main enemy, while her summoned past selves caused an embarrassing commotion. He tried to fill in some gaps, but Kurumi’s confusion over the contestants left him wondering what her future self had actually told her.

• Chen Li teased Tokisaki Kurumi about her past phases and watched her summon four embarrassing versions of herself, who claimed she was the fake and tried to take him from her.
• Tokisaki Kurumi drew her gun and forced the four clones back into the shadows after they attacked her.
• Chen Li asked whether Kurumi had learned the World Final Trial’s purpose in the singularity, and she said she had not.
• Kurumi revealed that her past self had told her to go to Penacony, pry open Clock Boy’s statue, and summon Mikhail for the Holy Grail War, but she had focused on Chen Li instead.
• Chen Li explained that Byakuyasha could grant divinity and suggested Kurumi seek her out, while Kurumi mistakenly saw divinity as a way to gain more Time Value from him.
• Chen Li asked how Kurumi planned to handle Otto, Allen, and Kyubey, but she did not know who Otto or Kyubey were, leaving Chen Li bewildered about her briefing.

Chen Li negotiated rewards with Tokisaki Kurumi for the upcoming Holy Grail War, including help against the Origin Spirit and a way to summon Nijo Aya. Kurumi then asked for a huge amount of Time Value from Chen Li and began taking off his pants.

• Chen Li explained that joining the Holy Grail War could help trial-crossers overcome their World Final Trials, and encouraged Tokisaki Kurumi to pursue godhood.
• Chen Li offered to weaken the Origin Spirit and let Kurumi choose compensation; Kurumi kissed him and received Time Value support.
• Kurumi chose Nijo Aya as a teammate and received a Wish Granting Miraculous Item and a Friends Circle Terminal from Chen Li.
• Kurumi asked to sacrifice two other teammates in exchange for more help, and Chen Li agreed to consider her requests.
• Kurumi asked for a massive amount of Time Value from Chen Li, then reached for his pants, prompting him to protest.

Tokisaki Kurumi summoned Nijo Aya, who offered to help her win the Holy Grail War in exchange for some of Kurumi’s Time Value. Meanwhile, Chen Li prepared the remaining Masters for the exhibition match before a new commission from Wang about the Sui Beast caught his attention.

• Tokisaki Kurumi summoned Nijo Aya with Wish Granting, and Nijo Aya confronted her over kissing Chen Li.
• Nijo Aya offered to help Tokisaki Kurumi win the Holy Grail War if Kurumi shared some of her Time Value.
• Chen Li buried the Black Mud-filled Holy Grail in an uninhabited area and planned the remaining slots in the exhibition match.
• Chen Li considered recruiting Prescis, but a new commission from Wang appeared, asking for help killing the Sui Beast.
• Chen Li replied to Wang with “There?”, and Wang asked the mysterious person in the shadows to show himself so they could talk.

Chen Li recruited Wang into the Holy Grail War by offering him a Resurrection Card and a chance to sever his connection to Sui. After Wang agreed, Chen Li considered the suffering in Wang’s world and decided to think about how to save it rather than unleash another trial.

• Chen Li sent Wang a Resurrection Card link, then invited him to join the Holy Grail War in exchange for the phone’s unlock password.
• Wang agreed after learning that Masters eliminated from the war could be revived, and Chen Li gave him the Judgment of All Things scissors.
• Wang used the scissors to sever his connection to Sui’s main body, then reconsidered joining when Chen Li explained the stakes and slapped him through a black hole.
• Wang agreed to participate after Chen Li offered the Holy Grail and help defeating Sui, and asked Chen Li to leave.
• Chen Li sensed the suffering in Wang’s world, decided not to conduct a World Final Trial there, and began thinking about how to save it.

Wang negotiated with Chen Li to bring three companions into the Holy Grail War and sent Yi to help build Penacony in exchange. Wang and Yi secretly planned four Easter Eggs for the event, each tied to one of their sisters, while trying to avoid angering Chen Li.

• Chen Li agreed to let Wang bring three teammates into Penacony after Wang offered Yi’s help with its construction, and he gave Wang the Slap Gloves.
• Wang used the Slap Gloves to contact Yi and persuaded him to help build Penacony by claiming the opportunity could help resurrect their sister Jie.
• Wang told Yi to make Penacony’s Easter Eggs engaging and hinted that he could use the work to arrange useful staff and hidden advantages.
• Yi proposed four Easter Eggs involving mahjong, farming, a drunken distributor, and an extraordinary ink-wash painter.
• Wang stopped Yi at four Easter Eggs, which corresponded to Nian, Shu, Ling, and Xi.

Chen Li infiltrated Ratatoskr to capture Muramasa Reine, only to find Itsuka Shiori transformed into a Magical Girl with Kyubey aboard. He abducted Reine after revealing her identity as the Origin Spirit, leaving Itsuka Kotori stunned and unable to attack.

• Wang planned to recruit his siblings as Holy Grail War assistants and use Terra Continent treasures as internship fees, while Chen Li decided to overlook the scheme and its surveillance.
• Chen Li arrived aboard the Fraxinus and encountered Itsuka Kotori, Magical Girl Itsuka Shiori, and Kyubey.
• Chen Li took Shiori’s transformation card and learned that her wish had given her the ability to borrow other people’s power.
• Kyubey identified Chen Li as the World Final Trial and warned Kotori that he could appear through their karmic connection.
• Kotori transformed into Efreet and attacked Chen Li, but he used Imaginary Hands to seize Muramasa Reine instead.
• Chen Li revealed Reine as the Origin Spirit and escaped through a Teleportation Gate with her, leaving Kotori questioning the revelation.

Chen Li forced Woodman and Muramasa Reine to make wishes that advanced his work-and-rest agenda, while Ratatoskr prepared to oppose him in the Holy Grail War. He then accepted Yi and four siblings for Penacony’s Realm Garden under a collateral agreement, leaving them poised to help build it and find refuge from Sui.

• Chen Li captured Muramasa Reine, threatened her and Woodman into making wishes for seven days off and communism, and explained how their causality could affect the world's survival.
• Itsuka Kotori learned Kyubey's account of Chen Li's Wish Machines and decided Ratatoskr would enter the Holy Grail War, while Itsuka Shiori stayed behind as the world's last hope.
• Kyubey revealed that it was a low-end version of endless wish-granting energy, and Itsuka Kotori prepared to find another Spirit to fight alongside her.
• Wang presented Chen Li with four treasures and Yi's collectibles as collateral for their Penacony agreement.
• Yi released four siblings from the Realm Garden and asked Chen Li to let them join him in Penacony, where they could help build the garden and take refuge from Sui.

Chen Li interviewed the four Sui sisters for roles at his attraction, accepting Ling, Shu, and Xi despite Xi appearing only as a painting. Nian’s forging specialty caught his attention, but his barrage of combat-related questions left her accusing him of treating her unfairly.

• Ling introduced herself as a poet who enjoyed drinking, passed the interview, and received a jar of Divine Wine from Chen Li.
• Shu described her divination, farming, and cooking skills, and Chen Li gave her Abundance Wheat Ear to help suppress the evil force beneath Great Desolation City.
• Chen Li discovered that Xi was present only as a painting, but accepted her and asked Shu to deliver his unfinished painting to her.
• Chen Li made a cute dragon doll from Xi’s painted figure, and Shu identified the white-haired woman as her younger sister Nian.
• Nian introduced herself as a forger, but Chen Li questioned her combat stats, prompting her to accuse him of applying double standards to the sisters.

Chen Li evaluated Nian’s skills and recruited her to direct a deliberately disastrous promotional film for Penacony. After agreeing to let the group work there, he told Yi to design an unconventional Easter egg featuring a honey trap.

• Chen Li challenged Nian’s forging skills with impossible tasks, then offered to lend her Hephaestus’s divine spark if she proved her value.
• Nian eagerly accepted Chen Li’s offer to make a Penacony promotional film, while Wang warned that she had no directing talent.
• Chen Li explained that he wanted Nian’s film to be spectacularly bad so it would draw attention and make the other films look better.
• Chen Li and the others agreed that the group could go to Penacony, and Yi asked what direction to take for its Easter egg design.
• Chen Li told Yi to take an unconventional approach and suggested adding a honey trap.

Chen Li brought the Sui fragments to Penacony and delivered Woodman and Mio Takamiya to the Xianzhou Luofu for punishment. He then persuaded Fu Xuan to support a plan to let the Ten Lords Bureau revive the dead with Resurrection Cards, leaving Xueyi’s chance at complete resurrection unresolved.

• Chen Li severed the Sui fragments’ connection to their original body, linked them to one another, and prepared to take them to Penacony after stopping at the Xianzhou.
• Chen Li brought Woodman and Mio Takamiya to the General’s Mansion, where Fu Xuan sentenced them to accumulate thirty million Resurrection Cards each before release.
• Xueyi arrived under the Ten Lords’ decree to apprehend Woodman and Mio Takamiya, and Chen Li asked whether she wanted a complete resurrection.
• Chen Li proposed creating a Hall of Heroes for revivals, then urged Fu Xuan to adopt Resurrection Cards as a cheaper alternative for the Ten Lords Bureau.
• Fu Xuan agreed to change the Bureau’s arrangements once the Xianzhou Alliance issued an appointment, as its authority began shifting toward the Six Commissions.

Fu Xuan prepared to take charge of Luofu while Chen Li’s friends and subordinates disrupted the General’s Mansion. The chapter ended with Sushang presenting Shu and her sisters as suspected Abundance remnants, only for Fu Xuan to recognize Chen Li’s involvement.

• Fu Xuan discussed expanding her authority over the Ten Lords Bureau as Chen Li supported her.
• Sparkle arrived, and Fu Xuan confiscated a photograph and camera before Xueyi tried to arrest Sparkle for ten days of revival leave.
• A guard reported that Sushang had captured suspected remnants of the Medicine Master's Legacy, and Fu Xuan summoned them to the General’s Mansion.
• Sushang brought Qingque, Shu, Nian, and Ling before Fu Xuan, accusing them of carrying a Plague of Abundance artifact.
• Fu Xuan recognized the artifact as a grain of wheat Chen Li had given Shu, while Shu, Nian, and Ling saw through Chen Li’s disguise.

Chen Li’s disguise exposed him and briefly convinced Sushang and Guinaifen that the General’s Mansion had fallen to Abundance traitors, until Fu Xuan explained the misunderstanding. He then gave Guinaifen the Gift of Abundance and revealed that a new festival featuring his Moe Ying Body item would soon take place on the Xianzhou Luofu.

• Sushang and Guinaifen suspected the General’s Mansion was tied to Abundance Fiends, and Chen Li revealed himself as the thief from the Six Lords Conference.
• Nian broke her shackles while Fu Xuan and Qingque explained that Chen Li and the others were not enemies, then blamed him for the confusion.
• Qingque described Chen Li’s widespread use of Abundance across other worlds, and Chen Li offered Guinaifen longevity and a Resurrection Card.
• Chen Li injected Guinaifen with the Gift of Abundance, then told her the gift could also have been taken as a pill.
• Chen Li revealed that the Xianzhou Luofu would soon hold Moe Ying Day and showed the group the Moe Ying Body he had forged to treat Mara-Struck and other mental illnesses.

Chen Li offered Guinaifen and Nian roles promoting Penacony, then realized Sparkle might have been handling the promotional campaign in her own way. Sparkle asked Fu Xuan about summoning the Reignbow Arbiter and received a poem describing his supposed sacrifice and disappearance.

• Chen Li offered Guinaifen a chance to stream in Penacony and introduced her to Nian, whom he advised to make short videos instead of terrible movies.
• Chen Li remembered that he had assigned Sparkle to film Penacony's promotional video and worried about what she might have done.
• Chen Li appeased Sparkle with Starstones and a Reckless Voucher after she confronted him.
• Sparkle, acting as Penacony's promotional chief director, asked Fu Xuan which Servant she wanted to summon in the Holy Grail War.
• Fu Xuan gave Sparkle Part Five of "Song of the Emperor Bow's Trail," which described the Reignbow Arbiter's final battle and disappearance.

Chen Li discussed the Holy Grail War’s powerful Masters and his plans to balance the exhibition matches, while appointing Sparkle and Nian as competing directors. He explained how Miraculous Forger levels worked and offered increasingly valuable prizes for director awards, prompting Sparkle to aim for Best Director.

• Sparkle complained that the Holy Grail War’s Masters and their sponsors were too powerful, and Chen Li described their various advantages as a dynamic balance.
• Chen Li said he would check whether Morax had cheating methods and suggested preparing some if Morax lacked them, alarming Sparkle and Nian.
• Chen Li appointed Sparkle, Nian, and Guinaifen to direct different kinds of promotional films, then announced that the most popular director would win a Miraculous Item.
• Sparkle and Nian turned against each other after Chen Li revealed that winning more awards could earn increasingly powerful Miraculous Items.
• Chen Li explained his Miraculous Forger progression and revealed he was at level seven, while Sparkle asked about winning twenty-seven awards and managing Paradise.