Recaps

Chen Li explained the Holy Grail War’s awards and arranged for Huo Huo to visit Penacony, where Ternan could meet Mikhail. Ternan learned that Mikhail might be summoned as a Servant and eagerly anticipated the chance to fight alongside or against him.

• Chen Li told Sparkle and the others to discover the Holy Grail War’s awards themselves, then confirmed Qingque could compete for Best Card Player before Fu Xuan threatened her over the eligibility rules.
• Huo Huo arrived at the General’s Mansion, and Chen Li asked her to take Woodman and Mio Takamiya away before offering her seven days off in Penacony.
• Chen Li explained that Huo Huo’s Miraculous Item suited Penacony and that the trip would let Ternan meet Mikhail, who might be summoned as a Servant.
• Ternan considered the possibility of encountering a summoned version of himself and hoped Mikhail would be summoned as Rider in the exhibition group.
• Chen Li told Ternan that Rider’s slot in the official group was already taken, and Ternan looked forward to seeing Mikhail prove himself against the official group’s Rider.

Chen Li sent several people toward Penacony as preparations for the Realm Garden continued, while Fu Xuan secretly kissed him before returning to work. At Mobius’s attempt to take advantage of Elysia during surgery, Elysia turned the tables and dressed Mobius in a pink dress.

• Chen Li encouraged Ternan to face the Rider in Penacony and arranged for Huo Huo to travel there with Guinaifen and Sushang, while Qingque received permission to use her leave to visit.
• Nian, Shu, and Ling prepared to help Yi build the Realm Garden, and Nian decided to promote it through eight forum alt accounts.
• Fu Xuan asked Chen Li not to get angry about a decision she had made to protect his interests, then kissed him before Tingyun arrived to discuss Luofu sponsorship in New Penacony.
• Chen Li went to observe Elysia’s fusion surgery, but Mobius tried to use the visit to indulge herself and asked him to bring Elysia into Fate Invitation Space.
• Elysia revealed she had been pretending to faint, caught Mobius off guard, and dressed her in a pink dress before leaving Fate Invitation Space with Chen Li.

Chen Li and Mobius used a projected scalpel Miraculous Item to extract traits from a Miracle Crystal and fuse them into Elysia. Elysia woke with a playful memory-loss trick, leaving Mobius furious as Elysia celebrated her new power and the professor’s concern.

• Mobius prepared to fuse a Miracle Crystal’s traits into Elysia, who held Chen Li’s hand as Mobius began the procedure.
• Mobius used a projected scalpel to extract the traits, damaging both the projection and the original; Chen Li repaired the original with Fictional Historian.
• Mobius completed the fusion and woke Elysia, who pretended not to know who she was.
• Elysia revealed her act, teased Mobius about her concern, and showed off her new power.
• Mobius lost her temper and called for Chen Li to pull Elysia away.

Chen Li, Elysia, and Mobius examined the new [Thirteen Arbiter-Generals] Miracle Card and used [Then Let Me Ask You] to clarify its vague powers. Chen Li discovered that even matching the Miracle System was almost impossible, leaving the card’s extraordinary potential and steep costs in view.

• Chen Li showed Elysia that fusing with the Miracle Crystal had given her elf-like ears, while Mobius returned his damaged scalpel.
• Mobius inspected the [Thirteen Arbiter-Generals] Miracle Card and complained that its effects were too vaguely described.
• Elysia activated [Then Let Me Ask You], revealing that the card could empower up to thirteen linked heroes to overcome a crisis at a potentially severe cost, and could turn accumulated suffering into success rate.
• Mobius tested the card’s success rates and found that making Elysia stay away from her had no chance, while repairing the scalpel had only a 4% chance.
• Elysia teased Mobius and then checked on Chen Li, who said that matching the Miracle System had less than a 2% success rate and that his other goals required more than 100%.

Chen Li explained how the Miracle Card used suffering to raise success rates, while Elysia revealed her ability to awaken [True Self] stigmata, which matched the card’s thirteen-hero limit. Elysia tested the card after Mobius and Chen Li secretly gave her Victim Points, but becoming the sole female lead still had only a 1% success rate.

• Chen Li warned Mobius and Elysia to spend suffering value carefully because their suffering was nearly out of print and success rates depended on their circumstances.
• Elysia borrowed the Miracle Card and left to cash in suffering, while Chen Li explained that she could awaken up to five [True Self] stigmata for each of thirteen people.
• Chen Li put Mobius's scalpel into the Miracle Fire to reforge it, then he and Mobius used their time together to satisfy Elysia's curiosity.
• Elysia returned to the laboratory, found Mobius back in loli form, and checked the card's success rate for becoming the sole female lead.
• Elysia saw that her success rate had risen by only 1%, and Mobius joked that she would need to help her more than ten thousand times.

Mobius gained an exclusive one-star Miraculous Item after Chen Li reforged her scalpel, while the Friends Circle reacted to the discovery. Vita accidentally caused Chen Li to select [Workaholic] instead of [Stealing Leisure Amidst Work], and he made her work as a cleaner for seven days.

• Chen Li reforged Mobius's scalpel into an exclusive one-star Artifact with stronger effects and a special bonus for Mobius.
• Mobius explained the three requirements for making an exclusive Miraculous Item, and the Friends Circle discussed whether their own items could qualify.
• Vita burst into Chen Li's room while he was choosing between two career traits and caused him to select [Workaholic].
• Chen Li made Vita a cleaner for seven days as punishment, and she admitted she had interrupted his choice while trying to help him pick the more ambitious trait.
• Little Herta asked about the traits, and Chen Li explained that [Workaholic] restored increasing amounts of forging energy after each item, while [Stealing Leisure Amidst Work] improved energy and mood recovery during idle time.

Chen Li’s new Workaholic trait let him take on more Miraculous Item commissions, while Vita and Sparkle bickered at his house. As the group prepared to inspect New Penacony before the Holy Grail War, Chen Li planned to forge the sentient newspaper into an item for Gretel and invited everyone to apply for new or upgraded items.

• Sirin warned that Chen Li’s commissions might surge, and Sparkle praised Vita for helping him while Vita demanded Sparkle bow to her.
• Vita attacked Sparkle for claiming the house as her home, but Sparkle escaped behind Chen Li as Vita used the Power of Eternity to restore the damaged floor.
• Chen Li explained that Heaven’s Lost Property could steer an observer’s fate toward its malicious interpretations, then decided to forge it into a beginner Miraculous Item for little Gretel before making it her exclusive item.
• Little Herta raised the question of fusion surgeries for other Friends Circle members, and Chen Li said he would prioritize forging beginner Miraculous Items and invited eligible members to apply.
• Sparkle urged Chen Li to inspect New Penacony before the Holy Grail War began, and Chen Li explained that Sparkle could use her award to increase her forging priority or exchange it for another Miraculous Item.

Chen Li explored New Penacony, where Shu’s combined Abundance and Voracity powers had produced miraculous crops and new abilities. He offered Shu an Exclusive Profession, and she began considering where to place its stigmata before the Holy Grail War.

• Sparkle kissed Chen Li on the cheek, then vanished while the others teased her for getting shy.
• Chen Li confirmed that provoking people could generate Victim Points and encouraged everyone to search New Penacony for Easter Eggs and rewards.
• Chen Li found Shu tending crops, including a bubble-bearing tree whose fried eggs could revive someone who had died within three minutes.
• Shu’s growing mastery of the Paths of Abundance and Voracity let her purify fiendish power and potentially treat Mara-Struck people.
• Chen Li offered Shu an Exclusive Profession in thanks for her work in New Penacony, and explained that she would need to draw a stigmata on her body.
• Shu considered placing the stigmata on her leg, leaving Chen Li stunned.

Chen Li prepared New Penacony and received Masters for the Holy Grail War exhibition match, advising them to exploit alliances and loopholes to survive. Itsuka Kotori arrived with her group and declared that she would stop him from drawing worlds into dreams.

• Chen Li finished drawing Shu’s template with the Wondrous Brush, then invited her and the others to his place to seek personal panels.
• Chen Li described New Penacony’s shops and attractions before greeting exhibition-match Masters.
• Chen Li advised Saintess to pursue endorsements and offered to connect her with an Interastral Peace Corporation executive and help her obtain a Holy Relic.
• Altair revealed her plan to summon Shimazaki Setsuna using a Resurrection Card, and Chen Li confirmed that the plan did not violate the rules.
• Tokisaki Kurumi, Nijo Aya, Itsuka Kotori, and Yatogami Tohka arrived, and Itsuka Kotori warned Chen Li that she would stop him from drawing worlds into dreams.

Chen Li welcomed the Problem Children group and faced Little Scylla’s anger after forgetting her, while Byakuyasha selected her support lineup for the Holy Grail War. The group headed off to meet the other Masters and summon Servants as Byakuyasha considered using herself as a Holy Relic.

• Chen Li greeted Itsuka Kotori, took her lollipop, and paid her five Starstones.
• Scylla confronted Chen Li for leaving her behind, and he placated her with the lollipop while Byakuyasha teased him.
• Chen Li threatened Byakuyasha with a Master-Apprenticeship Invitation after Little Scylla called him a scumbag teacher.
• Byakuyasha named Black Rabbit, Leticia, and Izayoi Sakamaki as her support choices and agreed not to swap them for the Halloween Queen.
• Byakuyasha wondered whether she could use herself as a Holy Relic to summon this world's sun, then joined Chen Li’s group to meet the other Masters.

Chen Li welcomed Chongyue, Ji, and Yu to New Penacony and arranged a central commercial district shop for Yu to run as a restaurant. The Sui brothers prepared to develop their position in the Holy Grail War, while Chen Li warned that other shops held important Easter Eggs.

• Chongyue introduced himself to Chen Li as the Terra Continent team's representative and presented Ji and Yu as his younger brothers.
• Chen Li pointed out the 181 Black Chess Pieces in Yi's backpack and told the brothers he would not interfere as long as they followed the Holy Grail War handbook.
• Ji learned that Shu was stationed at the Realm Garden and became suspicious of Chen Li's fragrance before accepting his explanation about Shu's work.
• Chen Li offered Yu a free shop in the central commercial district, and Yu gladly accepted the chance to work as a cook.
• Chongyue and Ji thanked Chen Li, who explained that the district's shops sold poor food but contained important Easter Eggs.

Chen Li welcomed Morax and the Liyue group to New Penacony, then examined Shenhe’s fate and offered to use his [Restriction] skill to change it. Shenhe could not say what kind of person she wanted to become, leaving Chen Li without a fate to shape for her yet.

• Ji agreed to Chen Li’s offer of a shop and dragged his lackey away before he could argue about the food.
• Morax explained that he and Zhongli had split their personalities, and that Zhongli had left him the Paths of Destruction, Preservation, and Trailblaze for the Holy Grail War.
• Morax introduced his assistants, including Xiao, the Ta Dragon King Ruo, and True Monarch of Dust and Waves, who gave Chen Li two Serenitea Pots and gave Xiao a Friends Circle Terminal and resurrection link.
• True Monarch of Clouds Ascending asked Chen Li to help Shenhe, whose red cords restrained her fate and emotions.
• Chen Li offered to use [Restriction] to alter Shenhe’s destiny, but she said she did not know what kind of person she wanted to become.

Chen Li rewrote Shenhe’s fate, replacing her Solitary Star Calamity with two auspicious destiny charts and promising to take responsibility for her well-being. After Shenhe wondered about Chen Li’s past, he recruited the sleeping Ritsuka Fujimaru into Penacony’s Holy Grail War, which began in fifteen minutes.

• Chen Li used a Miracle Crystal to remove Shenhe’s Solitary Star Calamity and give her the Heavenly Noble and Peach Blossom Auspicious Star destiny charts.
• Chen Li refused Shenhe’s offer of payment, explaining that helping her also reconciled him with his own former fate, and gave her a Friends Circle Terminal.
• Chen Li told Shenhe that her red cords could gradually be removed as her new destiny took effect, then left to find the last group of Masters.
• Shenhe asked Scylla to pass a message to Chen Li, while wondering about his past and their similar fates.
• Chen Li woke Ritsuka Fujimaru and told her she had been assigned as a Master in Penacony’s Holy Grail War, despite her objections.

Ritsuka Fujimaru negotiated for special support before heading to New Penacony, while Chen Li received Shenhe’s mysterious red string. The Holy Grail War broadcast then turned into a spectacle when Boothill’s Command Spell forced Oswald Schneider to obey an obscene order, with fatal results.

• Ritsuka Fujimaru asked Chen Li for time-stopping or life-preserving items, the Constraint Bracelet or Candle in the Wind, and one use of magical technique before joining the war.
• Little Scylla gave Chen Li the red string Shenhe had prepared and suspected it was an intimate garment.
• Sparkle hijacked the Holy Grail War broadcast to show Boothill summoning Lancer Oswald Schneider with an employee badge as his Holy Relic.
• Boothill used a Command Spell to order Oswald to love himself, and the command made Oswald obey despite his protests.
• Oswald’s forced actions became a public spectacle, and he ultimately loved himself to death in front of the livestream audience.

After Oswaldo died during Sparkle’s disastrous livestream, Sparkle and Boothill turned the spectacle into a profitable event and solicited Command Spells to bring him back for more deaths. Aventurine and Doctor Truth discussed the likely source of the extra Command Spell, while Aventurine regarded his sister Kekasha as a valuable card in the coming Holy Grail War.

• Oswaldo died after being shot 108 times, and Black Swan uploaded the memory of his humiliating final moments to Good Sight Heaven.
• Sparkle thanked viewers and revealed that she had extorted sponsorship money from the Interastral Peace Corporation.
• Boothill offered to buy extra Command Spells, promising contributors a say in Oswaldo’s next death and a share of the next livestream’s proceeds.
• Aventurine donated one billion Credits under the name Turn Stone into Gold, and the Xianzhou Alliance and other viewers added donations to the prize pool.
• Aventurine and Doctor Truth reasoned that the Astral Express’s Datank could have provided Boothill with an extra Command Spell.
• Aventurine looked to his sister Kekasha as a strong card for the Holy Grail War, while she told him he had better choices than her.

Aventurine revealed that he had summoned his sister as a hidden fifteenth Master, while Chen Li prepared to deliver Ritsuka Fujimaru’s Holy Relic gift pack. The livestream resumed its contestant introductions, with the Saintess, Altair, and Tokisaki Kurumi presenting their stories and wishes.

• Aventurine reassured his sister that his hidden Foreigner status and reliable companions would help them avoid becoming targets in the Holy Grail War.
• Chen Li covered little Scylla and Robin’s eyes during the livestream, then left in his Golden Honkai-Moe King costume to deliver Ritsuka Fujimaru’s requested Holy Relic gift pack.
• Little Scylla noticed Robin’s damp wings and suspected that she and Chen Li had been doing something while her eyes were covered.
• Sunday introduced the Saintess, who described her homeland’s suffering and vowed to fight for a shared home with the Cursed Children.
• Altair said she wanted to revive her deceased ally and save her world, while Kiana complained that Altair’s story sounded like hers.
• Tokisaki Kurumi began introducing herself as an ordinary high school girl before recalling that she met someone who called himself a Justice Partner.

Sunday introduced the Holy Grail War contestants before the first Servants were summoned. Ternan, Shimazaki Setsuna, Mikhail, and Fairy Knight Lancelot answered their Masters’ summons, while Ritsuka Fujimaru remained resentful about her dramatic introduction.

• Sunday introduced Chongyue as a Master fighting to save his family and Morax as a candidate seeking to reform the Market Expansion Department.
• Byakuyasha dismissed his introduction, and Sunday presented Ritsuka Fujimaru as humanity’s last Master before announcing the summoning ritual.
• The Saintess summoned Boreklin Ternan with a Hunter’s Fang Medal, and he eagerly answered to fight alongside Mikhail again.
• Altair summoned Shimazaki Setsuna, her creator and Caster, and the two pledged to fight side by side.
• Tokisaki Kurumi summoned Misha, who revealed himself as Mikhail; Ternan greeted him over the livestream as a statue struck Ternan.
• Chongyue summoned a white-haired girl who identified herself as Fairy Knight Lancelot, then questioned why she had become a Saber.

Chen Li’s summoning ritual produced Fairy Knight Lancelot for Chongyue, a comrade of Morax for Morax, and Berserker Khaslana for Byakuyasha. Khaslana fused with Byakuyasha’s Solar Sovereignty and briefly became a sun over New Penacony before Sunday forced him back down, leaving Byakuyasha pleased with her Servant.

• Chongyue accepted Fairy Knight Lancelot’s arrival without dwelling on why she had been summoned.
• Morax summoned Haengistus, whose affectionate reunion with Morax convinced the watching netizens they were more than comrades.
• Byakuyasha used the Sargol, representing Solar Sovereignty Aries, as a Holy Relic, and the summoned figure fused with it to become a blazing sun above New Penacony.
• Sunday struck the sun with an enormous phantom finger, dimming it and bringing the Servant back down to the Summoning Circle.
• Byakuyasha identified the Servant as Berserker Khaslana and saw that his skills and Noble Phantasms had been enhanced through his bond with the Solar Sovereignty and the Sargol.
• Byakuyasha considered testing whether Khaslana could absorb all fourteen of her Solar Sovereignties and decided she was satisfied with him.

Ritsuka Fujimaru used Aha as a Holy Relic to summon a Noblesse Bug that had once held the full power of the Path of Joy, then proposed using it to destroy New Penacony. Chen Li stopped his plan by pointing out that Ritsuka would have to pay for the damage upfront.

• Sunday redirected the livestream to Ritsuka Fujimaru and asked whether he would summon the Great Hero or use a Holy Relic.
• Ritsuka called for the Miraculous Forger, and Chen Li appeared as the Golden Honkai-Moe King to ask what relic he wanted.
• Chen Li brought Aha to the summoning circle, and Ritsuka used Them as a Holy Relic to summon a Noblesse Bug with the power of the Path of Joy.
• Ritsuka fastened a Constraint Bracelet (Imitation) around the bug and declared it the second-strongest Envoy of Joy, then proposed making it self-destruct in New Penacony.
• Chen Li warned that destroying buildings required payment, and Ritsuka learned he had to pay upfront under a rule Chen Li had changed one second earlier.

Chen Li established the rules and rewards for the Holy Grail War exhibition match after Ritsuka Fujimaru’s summoned bug nearly died from Aha’s flick. The seven Master groups began their separate livestreams, and Ritsuka learned his fragile Servant’s basic skills as Chen Li gave him a Poké Ball to keep it safe.

• Chen Li announced that the Holy Grail War would proceed and offered Miraculous Items for special accomplishments, while Aha demanded and received a promise of one before returning to the Astral Express.
• Aha flicked Ritsuka Fujimaru’s bug, leaving it foaming at the mouth until Ritsuka used the Power of Abundance to revive it.
• Chen Li declared the summoning ceremony over, promoted the exhibition match and its awards, and drew viewers to New Penacony with the promise of Miraculous Items.
• Sunday shut down the main livestream, and viewers received separate streams for the seven Master groups under rules that prevented them from sharing information about other contestants.
• Ritsuka Fujimaru ended his livestream, checked the bug’s skills with Sunday, and accepted a Poké Ball from Chen Li to protect it.

Ritsuka Fujimaru laid out a plan to keep the Holy Grail War’s Masters from being hurt while distributing its awards, then asked Chen Li to help when she acknowledged how easily the plan could fail. Chen Li revealed his own ambition to build an ideal world by combining Worldviews, and Ritsuka offered to help him.

• Ritsuka explained that she planned to attract the other Masters, cooperate with a wealthy planner, and divide the Holy Grail War’s awards so everyone could benefit.
• Ritsuka said she had devised the plan while changing clothes after learning she would be a Master, but admitted that greed, eliminations, and the unknown tournament situation could derail it.
• Ritsuka asked Chen Li, the Miraculous Forger, to help manage the plan’s uncontrollable risks.
• Ritsuka told Sunday that Chen Li was an idealist who would have backup plans for both saving the world and earning his Graduation Certificate.
• Chen Li ruffled Ritsuka’s hair as he explained that he wanted to combine Worldviews into an ideal world and needed Graduation Certificates to pursue that goal.
• Ritsuka praised Chen Li’s ambition and offered to help him.

Chen Li explained the design of New Penacony, where the Masters and their Servants explored, built, and pursued their own plans instead of fighting the Holy Grail War. Byakuyasha tested one of his treasure chests and discovered its soda reward granted a powerful attack boost, though only if she drank it.

• Ritsuka Fujimaru cheered Chen Li on as he considered using Fairy Knight Lancelot and Phainon to complete his Miracle Card and looked forward to watching Phainon challenge the Aeon of Destruction.
• The seven groups of Masters occupied themselves in New Penacony: the Saintess promoted Interastral Peace Corporation products, Altair spent time with Shimazaki Setsuna, Tokisaki Kurumi searched for treasure, and Chongyue and Zhongli made plans with their Servants.
• Chen Li explained that New Penacony was an enormous, expanding world built for exploration and development, and that he wanted people across the galaxy to help create it.
• Byakuyasha handed out Gift Game parchments and complained when a cat carried off a chest monster, preventing her from opening the treasure chest.
• Byakuyasha activated Host Authority, kicked open the chest, and found one bottle of Classic Su Le Da Soda; Chen Li explained that drinking it would grant her a 10% attack boost and 120 attack power in her normal state.

Chen Li met Byakuyasha’s Servant, Phainon, and asked about the wish that brought him to the Holy Grail War. Phainon began explaining Amphoreus and Laigushi’s plan to create Iron Tomb.

• Byakuyasha opened Chen Li’s puzzle chest, received Classic SoulGlad, and paid him five hundred Paradise Coins for damaging the chest.
• Chen Li summoned Byakuyasha’s silent Servant, whom she teased as Brother Lieyang, and discussed Phainon’s potential to become a godlike Lingering Spirit.
• At Chen Li’s request, Phainon removed his mask and said he had been forcibly summoned but did have a wish.
• Phainon introduced himself as Khaslana and described Amphoreus as a Virtual World calculating the creation of Iron Tomb.
• Phainon began recounting how he and Cyrene learned that Laigushi destroyed the world they cherished to obtain the highest-quality Equation of Destruction, and planned to kill him.

Phainon explained that the Argo could send a hero to Amphoreus, and he wanted Chen Li to break the deadlock there. Since the ship chose its passenger randomly, Phainon prepared to spend millions of draws trying to select Chen Li, leaving the chapter on the question of what would happen if he still failed.

• Phainon told Chen Li that his memories ended when another version of himself killed him, and that he had gained an ability to summon former companions using their Core Flames.
• Phainon revealed that the Argo could use Core Flames to send a hero to a time and place he had known, but it had enough energy for only one transmission.
• Phainon asked Chen Li to save Amphoreus, and Chen Li agreed to go using the Core Flames as fuel.
• Phainon explained that the Argo chose its passenger randomly from heroes in New Penacony, so he would have to reset the selection repeatedly to try to get Chen Li.
• Phainon said each reset cost twelve Core Flames in hero-selection potential rather than consuming the flames themselves, and Chen Li asked what would happen if more than thirty million attempts still failed.

Chen Li explained the Amphoreus situation to Welt and discussed ways the group could help Phainon reach it. He left Phainon pulling cards in hopes of drawing him, while Welt suspected Chen Li might not even be in the hero pool.

• Phainon kept pulling cards to find Chen Li, and Chen Li told Byakuyasha to keep him fed and provide mana.
• Chen Li suggested Aqua as an alternative and asked Byakuyasha to stream Phainon’s pulls for a chance at the Most Popular Award.
• Chen Li told Welt about Amphoreus, the Chrysos Heirs, and Phainon’s plan to pull him from the hero pool.
• Welt proposed that group members such as Little Herta, the Traveler of Erosion, Aha, or Kevin could help deal with Laigushi and the Scepter.
• Chen Li explained that Phainon’s aspiration was to draw him, but admitted thirty million pulls might not be enough and that he might not be in the hero pool.
• Welt questioned whether Chen Li was in the hero pool, while Chen Li said Phainon could attack Amphoreus or the Aeon of Destruction if his pulls drove him to rage.