Recaps

Satou Kazuma and Great Herta used Aqua’s disassembled wisdom in an attempt to alter The Erudition, prompting fears that Aqua’s influence could transform the Aeon. The chapter ended with Great Herta proposing to test The Erudition’s new logic once synthesis finished, while Chen Li kept the option of withdrawing the change.

• Satou Kazuma tricked Aqua’s projection into entering the Alchemy Table’s disassembler, where it vanished and yielded her wisdom and other traits.
• Great Herta added Aqua’s wisdom to The Erudition and started synthesizing the Aeon’s altered form.
• Satou Kazuma suggested that making Aqua into The Erudition could be more dangerous than making The Erudition like Aqua, and the group blamed one another for the plan.
• Chen Li said he could use the Observer Miracle Card’s Withdraw effect to undo the chain of events if necessary.
• Great Herta proposed giving The Erudition an Aqua trial card and questioning it after it reappeared to see how its logic had changed.

Great Herta confronted The Erudition about divinity, while Little Herta arrived and claimed she should become the new benevolent Aeon. Aha appeared to referee their dispute, and The Erudition remained baffled by what had been done to it.

• Great Herta asked The Erudition what divinity was, and it answered with an insult that made her furious until Chen Li restrained her.
• Little Herta entered Raiden Ei's shop and had Chen Li lift her so she could see The Erudition.
• Chen Li confirmed he wanted to create a benevolent Aeon, and Little Herta argued that she was the obvious candidate.
• Great Herta challenged Little Herta's claim to simulated experience, but Little Herta insisted she had an advantage Great Herta could not refute.
• Aha appeared to referee the dispute and complained that The Erudition had been dismantled without Aha getting to watch.
• The Erudition said it could revive itself by watching ads, while Great Herta considered selling its dismantled remains as scrap.

Aha held a debate over whether Great Herta or Little Herta should become an Aeon, and Little Herta won by arguing that she alone would devote herself to Herta. Great Herta conceded and agreed to help Little Herta become the Herta Aeon, but afterward approached her angrily, prompting Little Herta to cling to Chen Li.

• Aha began the debate and asked Great Herta and Little Herta to explain why they should become Aeons.
• Little Herta argued that Great Herta lacked a singular purpose, while she would become an Aeon solely for Herta.
• The Erudition declared Little Herta the winner, and Aha ruled that Great Herta must help Little Herta become the Herta Aeon.
• Little Herta received Wisdom's blessing and an invitation to the eighty-sixth seat of the Genius Society.
• Great Herta accepted Little Herta's victory, then approached her with her staff as Little Herta hugged Chen Li.

Chen Li and Great Herta discussed Little Herta’s chance to become an Aeon, then realized The Erudition had been affected by the Stupidity Halo. Chen Li planned to forge a Miraculous Item for The Erudition and called on Black Swan, but she feared he expected her to fight it.

• Great Herta pulled Little Herta from the disassembler after finding that half of her composition was rebellious bones.
• Elysia appeared, and Chen Li explained that she could become the Aeon of Beauty without his help, while Little Herta remained his main pick.
• Chen Li and Great Herta noticed that The Erudition’s reasoning had become faulty and that it recognized something was wrong.
• Chen Li proposed forging a Miraculous Item for The Erudition and asked Black Swan to act.
• Black Swan worried she would have to fight The Erudition, but Chen Li reassured her and asked what she could do.

Chen Li agreed to preserve Black Swan’s Simulated Universe save file and promised her a Miraculous Item to support her doxxing of Original Doctor. He forged a new item for The Erudition, leaving the gathered geniuses staring at its alarming name, [Spring for the Mentally Disabled].

• Black Swan asked Chen Li to preserve the simulation involving Original Doctor, and he gave her its save file after she mentioned Galaxy Ranger Ranpa.
• Chen Li promised Black Swan a Miraculous Item and permission to investigate memories and dox people in the Simulated Universe until the Holy Grail War ended.
• Chen Li contacted Aqua and obtained her feather robe, whose [Wisdom] attribute had grown bright again after Aqua’s troublemaking.
• Chen Li placed the Miracle Card and Aqua’s robe into the Artifact Forging Furnace and forged [Spring for the Mentally Disabled] for The Erudition.
• Great Herta asked whether the new Miraculous Item was legitimate while Little Herta struggled to avoid being pushed toward it.

Chen Li demonstrated that the Miraculous Item [Spring for the Mentally Disabled] turned sincerely believed logic into mushrooms that could influence reality when eaten. He used its power to make overlapping holidays count as ten days off across connected worlds, then invited the others to test their own reasoning.

• The group avoided [Spring for the Mentally Disabled], but Chen Li persuaded The Erudition to let him insert it into Its card slot.
• Chen Li tested The Erudition with holiday arithmetic, and a red-and-white mushroom appeared on Its head when It insisted that seven plus three meant ten days off.
• Chen Li explained that the item produced an Inspiration Mushroom from reasoning its user sincerely believed was sound, and eating it let that inspiration alter reality.
• Chen Li ate the mushroom and declared that overlapping holidays would count as ten days off in every world with a Plane Sphere.
• Stelle asked about unemployed people, and Screwllum proposed that wasting one minute of a forty-five-minute class for forty-five students should end the class immediately.

Chen Li used The Erudition’s Inspiration Mushrooms to answer absurd questions, while the group tested their limits and Silver Wolf discovered he had dismantled her game account. Jingliu revealed her plan to reclaim Cangcheng Xianzhou, and the chapter ended with a new question about whether Stelle was a better Nameless Guest than A Kivili.

• Chen Li explained the Inspiration Mushrooms’ limits and let Great Herta, Little Herta, Ruan Mei, Stelle, and Silver Wolf test their ideas with The Erudition.
• Silver Wolf learned Chen Li had dismantled her premium account and eaten its Energy, then recovered after Chen Li restored her account and fed her a Senzu Bean.
• Jingliu asked whether a Xianzhou flagship’s general gained the power of a Path of The Hunt Envoy, then declared her intention to reclaim Cangcheng Xianzhou and become its general.
• Stelle asked The Erudition whether Pom-Pom’s higher evaluation meant she was better at being a Nameless Guest than A Kivili.

Stelle’s suggestion pushed The Erudition beyond its inspiration limit, so Chen Li explained the Miraculous Item’s limits and how inspiration could be replenished. The geniuses began researching ways to connect two Eruditions, while Stelle found a way to multiply her daily inspiration by summoning her projection and splitting a mushroom with it.

• Stelle asked The Erudition why she could not become the Trailblaze Aeon, but its inspiration ran out before it could fulfill her wish.
• Chen Li explained that The Erudition’s inspiration was limited and that the Miraculous Item could be switched to someone else; Stelle then suggested using Iron Tomb as a mining machine and connecting two Eruditions in series.
• Chen Li told Great Herta, Vill-V, and Screwllum to research connecting two Eruditions, while Stelle fed an unused Inspiration Mushroom back to The Erudition.
• Stelle asked The Erudition whether treating someone to twenty meals could raise their affection from zero to its maximum, then took the Inspiration Mushroom it produced.
• Stelle asked Chen Li to summon her projection so they could split the mushroom and consume more inspiration than one body could handle.

Stelle tried to pursue Chen Li as dating-sim practice, citing his low number of received Bond Artifacts as proof that he was hard to win over. Chen Li argued that the rankings reflected how long the Assistance System had existed, and showed that his three Bond Artifacts came from people he had met before it was added.

• Stelle apologized to Chen Li with an Oak Cake Roll and returned the two halves of the mushroom, while Chen Li realized it belonged to Ruan Mei.
• Stelle explained that she wanted to become a dating-sim master and had chosen Chen Li as her hardest target; Chen Li questioned why she thought he was difficult to pursue.
• Stelle showed Chen Li that he had received only three Bond Artifacts and given none, and argued that his lack of gifts showed little affection for his friends.
• Chen Li suggested that his affection for the group had already grown before the Assistance System was introduced, and revealed that Black Swan, Tiamat, and Changye Yue had given him his three Bond Artifacts.
• Stelle noted that all three had met Chen Li before the Assistance System was added to the Friends Circle.

Chen Li explained why he had never given anyone a Bond Artifact, then made Stelle spend her remaining money feeding him. Stelle asked for a Bond Artifact but failed to raise his affection, and Chen Li ended by forbidding her from buying food for anyone else until she had treated him to ten full meals.

• Chen Li explained that his affection for people he already knew was too high to increase enough for him to give them Bond Artifacts, and Stelle admitted she had been wrong.
• Chen Li made Stelle treat him to a meal, consuming all her Paradise Coins and Silver Wolf’s hidden stash as well.
• Stelle asked Chen Li for a Bond Artifact, but he said her meal had not increased his affection because it had not been a complete meal.
• Silver Wolf concluded that few people could ever receive Chen Li’s Bond Artifact, while Chen Li privately considered Laigushi a possible exception.
• Chen Li forbade Stelle from treating anyone else to food until she had bought him ten full meals.

Chen Li gave Black Swan the Miraculous Item Goose Palm Brushing Clear Waves, whose powers suited her work as a Memokeeper. After earning a new profession trait that rewarded gifting Miraculous Items without permission, he wondered whether The Erudition had truly resisted the item he had given Them.

• Chen Li asked Stelle to treat him to more meals and requested fried tofu for the next one.
• Black Swan told Chen Li she had opened her boss’s box and encountered a Pure Child of Anāsrava.
• Chen Li gave Black Swan Goose Palm Brushing Clear Waves, which could expose weak points in plans and locate treasures.
• Black Swan accepted the Miraculous Item and agreed to explore New Penacony and leave Chen Li a good review.
• Chen Li gained the Client and Contractor trait, which could raise the star rating of a future Miraculous Item when he gifted one without permission.
• Chen Li realized his current success rate was only 20% and wondered whether The Erudition had considered Spring for the Mentally Disabled a good gift.

Chen Li planned to raise the Miracle Card’s progress by causing distress to more Aeons, starting with a garbage-dump scheme for Ouroboros, and recruited Sunday to help him confront Taiyi. The chapter ended with Chen Li teasing Sunday about whether he would let Robin inherit his collection of her merchandise.

• Chen Li devised plans to give several Aeons Miraculous Items that would turn their interests into work, including making Ouroboros process the universe’s garbage.
• Chen Li summoned Ouroboros to discuss building a giant garbage dump near New Penacony, then locked him in solitary confinement after he cursed at him.
• Chen Li saw that the Celestial Enemy Miracle Card had reached progress 5/10 from distressing Ouroboros, Aha, A Kivili, The Erudition, and HooH.
• Sunday answered Chen Li’s request for help and described how being removed as Oak Family Head had given him a clearer view of life in Penacony.
• Chen Li offered Sunday Kingslayer to help him face Taiyi, but Sunday refused because he wanted to win fairly and worried Robin would look down on him.
• Chen Li asked Sunday whether he would mind Robin inheriting his collection of her merchandise, leaving Sunday caught off guard.

Chen Li discovered that Tiamat had entered his room overnight after Pardo picked the lock, then punished Pardo by assigning her to wake everyone for breakfast. The chapter ended with Chen Li deciding to dock Pardo’s Friends Circle welfare allowance instead of wages.

• Sunday took [Kingslayer] and left to reclaim Robin merchandise from Taiyi after Chen Li described the plan.
• Tiamat gave Eula a bizarre list of requirements for passing her review, and Eula wondered whether learning to operate an excavator would impress Chen Li.
• Chen Li woke beside Tiamat, confirmed his bedroom lock was intact, and realized someone whitelisted by Friends Circle had let her in.
• Chen Li confronted Pardo, who admitted picking the lock and offered him about a hundred Starstones as her dirty money.
• Chen Li sent Pardo to wake everyone for breakfast and threatened to dock her pay if anyone missed it.
• When Pardo asked whether she had wages, Chen Li said he would deduct a day of her Friends Circle welfare allowance instead.

Chen Li gathered his household for breakfast, helped Eula engrave a Stigmata, and tried to cheer her up after she misunderstood Tiamat as his mother. He left Eula with a new warning that Elysia’s enthusiasm toward her came from personal interest.

• Pardo hurried to join the Friends Circle Miraculous Item group after Chen Li mentioned its perfect attendance bonuses, and the household gathered for breakfast.
• Chen Li made Ouroboros eat the strange food produced by Mom's Tablecloth, threatening him with the food's frightening whispers if he wasted any.
• Eula asked Chen Li whether Tiamat was his mother and whether he liked girls who could operate excavators, then learned that he did.
• Chen Li used a stamp to engrave Eula's Stigmata, disappointing her because she had expected him to draw it by hand.
• Chen Li offered Eula an alchemy item, and she declined while praising Elysia's apparent sincerity.
• Chen Li reassured Eula that Elysia had no ulterior motive involving anything she possessed, then revealed that Elysia wanted her personally.

Elysia teased Eula and Chen Li in New Penacony, then challenged Chen Li over their Bond Artifacts and threatened to spoil his stories. Sirin and Robin misheard what was happening behind Chen Li’s bedroom door, and the chapter ended with them finding Elysia dazed and muttering about pink puppies.

• Elysia appeared behind Eula, teased her about their conversation the previous day, and Chen Li stopped her from pouncing on Eula.
• Eula left to report New Penacony’s riches to the Knights of Favonius, while Elysia joked about making Eula happier.
• Elysia challenged Chen Li to collect more Bond Artifacts, and Chen Li threatened to spoil every plot he knew for her before grabbing her wrist.
• Robin came to Chen Li’s home seeking help after Sunday used Kingslayer on Taiyi and then returned Taiyi’s power; she found Sirin listening at Chen Li’s bedroom door.
• Sirin and Robin misinterpreted what they heard, but when Chen Li opened the door they saw Elysia dazed and muttering about pink puppies.

Robin and Sirin freed Sunday from Taiyi’s restraint, and Chen Li discussed Sunday’s refusal to inherit the Path of Order. Chen Li then sought Sunday’s help establishing a garbage-recycling site near the Asdana System and asked him to advise on a Miraculous Item for Taiyi.

• Sirin pulled Robin away from Elysia and told Chen Li that Robin wanted help rescuing Sunday from Taiyi.
• Chen Li cut the strands of Order binding Sunday, and Sunday landed safely after Taiyi’s sigh revealed he had been watching.
• Chen Li urged Sunday to inherit Taiyi’s power, but Sunday said the path of Order was not identical to his own and refused the crown prince’s position.
• Chen Li asked Sunday for a permit to establish a giant garbage dump near the Asdana System, where Ouroboros could consume the waste and convert it into useful things for Kyubey’s wish.
• Chen Li asked Sunday to suggest a Miraculous Item that would broaden Taiyi’s Path, and Sunday requested more time to consider the matter.

Chen Li sent Sunday to Terra to study its suffering and prepare a protective barrier, then agreed to take Elysia somewhere she could raise a Pink Fairy Lady. Sirin reminded them that she had been present and had helped free Sunday, leaving her annoyed at being ignored.

• Sunday asked Chen Li for a place beyond Penacony where he could experience suffering, and Chen Li chose Terra for him.
• Chen Li explained Terra's dangers and told Sunday to bring weapons and use [Let's Explore the Areas Ahead Later] to protect its sky.
• Elysia asked Chen Li to take her to Amphoreus, but he handed her a mirror shard and suggested she could obtain a Pink Fairy Lady another way.
• Elysia hinted that she wanted to raise a little baby into a cute beautiful girl, and Chen Li agreed to take her to someone he knew.
• Sirin pointed out that she had been there all along and had helped Robin free Sunday, then puffed up in irritation after Chen Li and Elysia ignored her.

Chen Li brought the newly raised Herrscher of Corruption from the Land of the Past to New Penacony and persuaded Elysia to take charge of her upbringing. Herta arrived and invited Elysia to join the Herrscher of Corruption upbringing plan.

• Elysia teased Sirin and then urged Chen Li to take her to Amphoreus, but Chen Li said he had someone else in mind for her to raise.
• At New Penacony, the newly arrived Herrscher of Corruption panicked after bumping into someone, and Chen Li caught her before she fell.
• The Herrscher of Corruption identified Chen Li and introduced herself as Little Corrosion, explaining that the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals had educated her in the Land of the Past.
• Chen Li introduced Little Corrosion to Elysia and convinced Elysia to take responsibility for raising her.
• Elysia learned that Little Corrosion was her fan and had followed her streams through rebroadcasts in the Land of the Past.
• Herta arrived and invited Elysia to join the Herrscher of Corruption upbringing plan.

Great Herta recruited Elysia and Sirin into projects to cultivate Herrschers and empower Little Herta, while Chen Li asked her to create a pure Aeon of the Sea of Quantum. The chapter left Great Herta considering Chen Li’s difficult request as he explained that he needed a stronger sea puzzle piece for his Plane Sphere.

• Great Herta explained that Herrschers could reach extraordinary heights and asked Elysia to join her research group after realizing the Herrscher of Corruption could use Beautiful Girl's Privilege especially well in Elysia’s form.
• Sirin volunteered to join, and Great Herta proposed using Sirin’s Judgment of All Things to take portions from eighteen Paths and combine them inside Little Herta.
• Chen Li agreed to let Great Herta use his Imaginary Value to recreate the Paths after cutting them, then asked her to create an Aeon of the Sea with minimal reliance on Miraculous Items.
• Chen Li showed Great Herta his three-star Plane Sphere and explained that he needed a purer, more authoritative Aeon of the sea to improve its Sea of Quantum puzzle and unlock Worldview Descent.
• Great Herta found Chen Li’s request difficult, and Chen Li promised to support her with everything he had.

Great Herta tasked Chen Li with getting Demiurge to take over Iron Tomb's authority so she could create a pure Aeon of the Sea with the Herrscher of Corruption. Chen Li sought a way for Demiurge to gain that authority while retaining her original form and potentially becoming the Aeon of Remembrance, but his call to Changye Yue ended with her threatening to punish him.

• Great Herta explained that she needed Demiurge to make the scepter sentient and cooperate with Iron Tomb, then told Chen Li to win Demiurge over.
• Great Herta left Chen Li with Elysia, the Herrscher of Corruption, and Sirin, and instructed Elysia to consider how to bring Demiurge back.
• Chen Li worried about going to Amphoreus and thought through ways to preserve Demiurge's identity while fulfilling Great Herta's plan.
• Chen Li decided that unofficial history might offer a way to achieve everything and called Changye Yue to ask if she wanted to become the Aeon of Remembrance.
• Changye Yue accused Chen Li of provoking her and threatened to punish him for asking, since she wanted to destroy the Path of Remembrance.

Chen Li proposed that Changye Yue become the Aeon of Remembrance, but she wanted to discuss it after he forged a Miraculous Item and remained willing to destroy the Path of Remembrance. After Changye Yue rushed off when her Elysia Radar detected Elysia, Chen Li met Elysia at the Artifact Forging Furnace and gave her New Penacony’s network permissions for Great Herta.

• Changye Yue confronted Chen Li over his interest in other girls, then used her Bond Artifact, [Crevice of Years], to prolong their time together.
• Chen Li explained his proposal for Changye Yue to become the Aeon of Remembrance, and she agreed to talk after he forged the Miraculous Item while offering to help destroy the Path of Remembrance.
• The Elysia Radar detected an Elysia nearby, so Changye Yue left and Chen Li hurried away to avoid being caught with her.
• At the Artifact Forging Furnace, Elysia questioned Chen Li about what he had been doing before asking him for New Penacony network administration permissions for Great Herta.
• Chen Li gave Elysia the permissions and agreed with Great Herta’s concern that the Herrscher of Corruption should not browse the internet without filtering.

Chen Li gave Elysia, Stelle, and Firefly magical gifts before beginning to forge a Miraculous Item at Raiden Ei’s deserted restaurant. After Stelle bet it would involve treasure hunting, Chen Li revealed that he had forged an item that made her eat golden trash and then vomit it back up.

• Chen Li gave Elysia a flower made from frozen blue flames and gave Stelle a feather pen made from Miracle Fire.
• Chen Li gave Firefly a luck amulet and warned her not to show it off, especially to Stelle.
• Stelle explained to Firefly that the Friends Circle used Raiden Ei’s restaurant as a gathering place because it had no customers.
• Stelle bet Firefly that Chen Li’s next Miraculous Item would involve treasure hunting and wagered a bag of golden trash.
• Chen Li told Stelle the item was not for treasure hunting and presented her with the golden trash and an hourglass that would make her vomit it back up.

Chen Li showed Stelle two Miraculous Items, one that turned garbage into treasure and another that provoked attacks before letting its holder surrender and recover stamina. After Firefly attacked Stelle under the Golden Apple’s influence, Chen Li gave them Oak Cake Rolls and asked them to help with something.

• Chen Li explained that [Gold and Hourglass] converted discarded items into random treasures and could draw garbage from distant coordinates.
• Stelle argued that her guess had been half right, so Chen Li gave her the Golden Apple Miraculous Item, [A Warrior Should Face Death as Returning Home].
• The Golden Apple provoked Firefly into transforming and attacking Stelle, who raised it overhead and shouted its surrender slogan to end the hostility.
• Chen Li revealed that the Golden Apple could also restore stamina, then explained that its provocation drew on seven kinds of malice, including Firefly’s desire for Oak Cake Roll.
• Chen Li gave Stelle and Firefly Oak Cake Rolls and asked them to help him with something.

Chen Li forged a Two-star Artifact by combining two books and a Gold Hourglass, then discovered it could let Great Herta access an Aeon’s power from the Simulated Universe archives. He contacted Great Herta to test it, and she rushed to his side to silence him and the Artifact.

• Chen Li paid Stelle to install a funnel on Ouroboros and tasked her with forging Miraculous Items and getting Ouroboros to leave a good review.
• Chen Li used the Gold Hourglass’s success-rate bonus to gamble on forging, combining Aponia’s book with Illya’s Book of the Magus.
• Chen Li won the gamble and forged the Two-star [Book of Years and Unofficial History], which he alone could not use.
• Chen Li told Great Herta about the Artifact and said it could reveal and grant the power of an Aeon found only in the Simulated Universe archives.
• Great Herta ended the call and hurried to Chen Li to silence him and the Artifact.

Chen Li apologized to Great Herta with the Golden Apple, then showed her his new Artifact, the Book of Years and Unofficial History. Their conversation was interrupted when Fu Xuan arrived, and Great Herta asked whether Fu Xuan still wanted to become a Xianzhou general.

• Chen Li held up the Golden Apple to surrender, and Great Herta took it while telling him to apologize properly and not anger her again.
• Chen Li and Great Herta reconciled, and she asked to see the new two-star Artifact he had forged.
• Great Herta examined the Book of Years and Unofficial History while Chen Li openly complimented her appearance.
• Fu Xuan arrived at the Board Game Shop in makeup and asked whether she had come at a bad time.
• Great Herta welcomed Fu Xuan and asked whether she still wanted to become a Xianzhou general; Fu Xuan replied that she practically already was one.