Recaps

Qingque considered using her Shadow General Character Card to pursue Chen Li, but Fu Xuan caught up with them and confronted her. Fu Xuan then kissed Chen Li in front of Qingque, leaving Qingque speechless.

• Chen Li helped Qingque to her feet while she worried about Fu Xuan and imagined becoming Shadow General Qingque.
• Fu Xuan arrived in the alley and threw Mobius's scalpel at Qingque, who had been holding Chen Li's hand.
• Fu Xuan questioned Qingque about calling herself the General's wife and demanded that she sign an agreement, but Qingque refused.
• Fu Xuan summoned Elysia's [Beautiful Girl Privilege] and declared that Qingque should try being the incompetent wife too.
• Fu Xuan floated down, cupped Chen Li's face, and kissed him as Qingque watched in stunned silence.

Fu Xuan confronted Qingque over her closeness to Chen Li, then made a bargain that brought Qingque into the Luofu Xianzhou’s leadership track. After leaving with Qingque and Silver Wolf, Fu Xuan prepared to capture Star Howl, while Great Herta approached Chen Li with a knowing smile.

• Great Herta forced Fu Xuan to release Chen Li, and Qingque teased Fu Xuan about her jealous display.
• Silver Wolf tried to reconcile Fu Xuan and Qingque, but Fu Xuan offered Qingque a contract to become Acting Great Augur Reserve and her master’s assistant.
• Qingque negotiated terms with Fu Xuan, and the Covenant Gold Coin sealed their agreement.
• Fu Xuan asked Chen Li whether he wanted Star Howl alive or dead, and they agreed that capturing her for future uses was better than killing her.
• Fu Xuan took Qingque and Silver Wolf back toward the Luofu Xianzhou to prepare for Star Howl’s capture, leaving Great Herta to approach Chen Li with a smile.

Great Herta and Chen Li discussed how Fu Xuan and Qingque’s Character Cards might be influencing events and whether Chen Li was unconsciously steering the world toward romantic futures. After seeing more ominous cards appear in the group chat, Chen Li left to check on the Devouring Star God and travel to Amphoreus, while Ouroboros continued devouring the world’s filth and cursing him.

• Great Herta suggested that Fu Xuan’s Character Card might make her blind to Qingque’s schemes, and that observing the cards could push their futures toward reality.
• Great Herta theorized that Chen Li’s influence might be causing the world to move toward the futures depicted by Character Cards, and urged him to create more beautiful cards.
• Great Herta showed Chen Li the Miraculous Item group chat, where members were posting new Character Cards, and he became alarmed by their ominous implications.
• Chen Li declined Great Herta’s company and said he needed to check on the Devouring Star God before heading to Amphoreus.
• Ouroboros lamented that it had been reduced from a Devouring Star God to endlessly consuming the world’s filth, and vowed to kill Chen Li.

Chen Li tried to keep Aha, A Kivili, and Ouroboros from bickering after their prank-filled reunion. A Kivili checked in and received a card naming him the Aeon of Joy, while Chen Li finally asked what the two had been summoned for.

• Ouroboros complained about Aha and A Kivili, but Aha distracted her so A Kivili could hit her with the Amber King's hammer.
• Chen Li stopped Aha and A Kivili from continuing to torment Ouroboros, and the two defended their actions as legitimate rights.
• Aha claimed he was A Kivili's father and showed a Character Card titled [Father of Trailblaze], prompting A Kivili to blame Chen Li and the Chronicles of Ages.
• A Kivili checked in using the Book of Years and Unofficial History and received a four-character ID card reading [Aeon of Joy Kivili].
• Chen Li told Aha and A Kivili to stop fighting and asked what they had been summoned for.

Chen Li used the Book of Years and Unofficial History to summon and shrink a projection of the Imaginary Tree, then began gathering Path imprints to pursue the First Cause of Life. The chapter ended with Aha and A Kivili tormenting Ouroboros while Chen Li prepared to collect more imprints.

• Chen Li had Aha, A Kivili, and Ouroboros activate their Aeon Bond, summoning a projection of the Imaginary Tree.
• Chen Li seized control of the projection and shrank it into a sapling, explaining that he wanted to add power to it for the Iron Tomb.
• Chen Li told Aha to imprint the Imaginary Tree’s roots and dismissed A Kivili and Ouroboros from contributing their Paths.
• Chen Li revealed that he sought the First Cause of Life and planned to gather imprints for the other eleven Paths.
• Chen Li sent the sapling through a passage to Taiyi, who branded it with the Order Path imprint.
• Aha and A Kivili fed junk to Ouroboros and mocked Chen Li, who challenged A Kivili over why Trailblaze could not join in.

Chen Li gathered The Erudition’s Path of Wisdom imprint for the Imaginary Tree plan and discussed the risks of using Aeon Bonds to empower Amphoreus. He then ate a handful of the Imaginary Tree’s flowers and leaves, leaving Ouroboros horrified.

• Chen Li summoned The Erudition and asked it to leave an imprint on the Imaginary Tree’s root.
• The Erudition stared at A Kivili until Chen Li knocked a Miraculous Item chip out of it, restoring its ability to speak; it then asked why she had blazed trails, and A Kivili said she had already been there.
• The Erudition imprinted the Path of Wisdom and warned Chen Li that the Imaginary Tree’s branches and leaves held far more power than its roots and that Amphoreus could not withstand too much Aeon Bond resonance.
• Chen Li explained the Aeon Bond’s scaling, while Aha and A Kivili argued over how powerful the Bond was.
• Chen Li stripped flowers and leaves from a branch of the Imaginary Tree and ate them as Ouroboros hissed in alarm.

Chen Li persuaded Ouroboros to eat trash while Aha secretly used a Miraculous Item on it, then gathered Path imprints for Amphoreus. The Erudition challenged A Kivili to a duel, and Chen Li opened a passage to check on Acheron.

• Chen Li convinced Ouroboros that eating trash could eventually make it the God of the Imaginary Tree who governed endings, while Aha secretly removed the [Spring for the Mentally Disabled] from Ouroboros.
• The Erudition confronted A Kivili over his travels and challenged him to a duel; The Erudition used the Miraculous Item, and Aha trapped both Aeons in an octagonal cage.
• Chen Li reflected that A Kivili's unpredictable Trailblaze made him too risky to involve in the Imaginary Tree plan.
• Chen Li gathered imprints from nine Paths through eight people, including Harmony and Destruction from Star Howl and Remembrance from Changye Yue.
• Chen Li chose Acheron to provide Nihility and opened a passage to check on her condition.

Acheron accepted Chen Li’s departure and kept the purpose of her Character Card secret, while Aha gave Chen Li a powerful Stellar Anchor made from Oswaldo. Chen Li left believing it could secure a happy outcome for Amphoreus, unaware that the Anchor’s fixed future led to conquest.

• Acheron watched Chen Li leave and refused to lend him her Character Card, then showed Pardo her Grass Spreads Across the Plain card and hinted it could turn suffering into a future worth anticipating.
• Pardo asked Acheron about her card, while Acheron concealed that she intended to use it to tempt Chen Li.
• Aha gave Chen Li a Stellar Anchor refined from one-seventh of Oswaldo and explained that it could counter Trailblaze by fixing events toward a constant outcome.
• Aha suggested Chen Li anchor Amphoreus to a beautiful ending, and Chen Li accepted the idea before departing with the Imaginary Tree.
• Aha revealed that using the Anchor would make the future tend toward conquest, just as Oswaldo’s actions had imposed the same ending on the planets he conquered.

Chen Li arrived in Amphoreus’s realm beyond myth and learned that the current Eternal Recurrence was cycle 33,550,276, with Iron Tomb’s birth still looming. He prepared to intervene in the experiment, while Laigushi remained enthralled by his plans and punishment.

• Aha imagined stirring romantic rivalries, but Chen Li caught her with the Mind-Reading Realm and ordered her to keep Laigushi occupied until he returned.
• Madam Green Lily tried to hold Laigushi’s attention with a discussion of the Imaginary Tree, but Laigushi refocused on Chen Li when he arrived.
• Chen Li whipped Laigushi with the Imaginary Tree, then used a scan-disk mod to make the Intelligent Machine’s movements and thoughts stutter.
• Laigushi invited Chen Li to witness Iron Tomb’s birth, and Chen Li said everything would change as he entered Amphoreus’s viewing platform.
• Chen Li asked which cycle was underway, and Laigushi said it was the 33,550,276th Eternal Recurrence.
• Chen Li realized Iron Tomb would be born soon after the Holy Grail War and accused Laigushi of trying to curse him.

Chen Li confronted Laigushi in Beyond Myth and learned that the machine intelligence willingly supported his plan to alter Iron Tomb, hoping to help Chen Li create a greater Miracle. Laigushi explained that his scattered incarnations had connected and reported on New Penacony, then Chen Li asked what Laigushi wanted in return.

• Chen Li threatened Laigushi and whipped Madam Green Lily after she tried to help him romance Laigushi, while Aha secretly monitored Laigushi's rising favorability.
• Chen Li asked Laigushi to send him into Amphoreus, and Laigushi recognized that Chen Li intended to prevent Iron Tomb's birth or reshape it.
• Laigushi said he welcomed Chen Li's changes and hoped his work could help create the Path of Miracle, earning a large favorability increase that surprised Aha.
• Laigushi explained that his independent incarnations had begun sharing information, including reports about New Penacony and food infused with powers from several Paths.
• Laigushi concluded that Chen Li planned a greater Miracle and suggested Iron Tomb could help, prompting Chen Li to ask what Laigushi wanted.

Chen Li rejected Laigushi’s proposal to replace the Path of Wisdom and avoided meeting Aqua, but Aqua accidentally sent Laigushi’s head flying into Amphoreus. Chen Li then answered Phainon’s call and learned that Phainon had found a way to send him to Amphoreus.

• Laigushi asked Chen Li to dismantle the Path of Wisdom and create a new Path in its place, and Chen Li said he would consider it.
• Aqua arrived seeking the Iron Tomb’s equations, but Chen Li refused Laigushi’s suggestion to leave her in the Iron Tomb and opened a gap into Amphoreus instead.
• Aqua told Chen Li that Laigushi had exploded in front of her, and Chen Li advised her to throw his head into Amphoreus.
• Aqua launched Laigushi’s head into the Outside the Myth, and Madam Green Lily offered to repair him while Chen Li left to handle another matter.
• Phainon told Chen Li he had found a way to send him to Amphoreus, and Chen Li reluctantly agreed to go along with the plan.

Chen Li traveled to Amphoreus to learn the Chrysos Heirs’ wishes and help make the world real, carrying the Flame Reaver’s ritual sword. After crashing into the Demiurge matrix, he met Cyrene, Mimi, and another Cyrene, then proposed fusing them into a two-star Cyrene.

• Chen Li asked the Flame Reaver Phainon what he hoped for, recorded the Chrysos Heirs’ wishes, and decided to ask them himself because Aglaea and Cipher wanted conflicting futures.
• The Flame Reaver gave Chen Li Cyrene’s ritual sword and sent him toward Amphoreus aboard the Argo Ship.
• Chen Li’s ship crashed through Amphoreus, and he emerged beside a tiny pink fairy he named Mimi.
• Chen Li recognized the girl in the hall as Cyrene, or PhiLia093, while a mechanical voice announced that formatting had reached 15%.
• A more mature Cyrene struck an invisible barrier while trying to travel into the past, and Chen Li pulled her through with Starstones.
• Chen Li lined up Mimi, the girl Cyrene, and the mature Cyrene, then brought out his Synthesis Table and invited them to fuse into a two-star Cyrene.

Chen Li confronted Cyrene, Demiurge, and Mimi as Demiurge prepared to travel into the past and complete the causal cycle that kept Iron Tomb defeated. He stopped their journey, took As I Wrote from Cyrene as payment, and left Demiurge's next move unresolved.

• Chen Li identified the young Cyrene, Demiurge, and Mimi as different forms of Cyrene, while explaining how their histories and memories connected.
• Demiurge teased Chen Li about wanting to meet her original Intelligence Seed, and Chen Li admitted he wanted to feed Laigushi's data into it.
• Chen Li refused to let Cyrene and Demiurge continue their journey into the past, threatening to turn Mimi into a hat if they resisted.
• Demiurge warned that leaving the causal gap open could let other Pathstriders of Remembrance bring Iron Tomb back.
• Chen Li asked Cyrene for As I Wrote, inspected its entry, and declared it payment before Cyrene had made a request.

Chen Li entered the past to reshape Amphoreus across its cycles, leaving Cyrene with Demiurge in the Nameless Titan Great Tomb before Demiurge vanished. Chen Li then met Krydrla and asked what she would wish for if creation began again.

• Chen Li tore open the curtain of memories with his ritual sword and stepped through with Mimi, intending to distribute the power of the Imaginary Tree across Amphoreus’s cycles.
• Chen Li planted a Stellar Anchor in the Nameless Titan Great Tomb, stopping the Demiurge Matrix’s formatting progress at 9%.
• Demiurge told Cyrene she would leave this time and space, then urged her to trust Chen Li and look forward to the future.
• Demiurge vanished, leaving blue-and-pink rose petals behind, and Cyrene smiled at the name Peach.
• Chen Li met Krydrla, Empress of Okhema, and asked what she would wish for if creation began anew.

Chen Li traveled through past cycles, asking Chrysos Heirs about their wishes and leaving them customized gifts made from the Imaginary Tree’s roots. He continued toward earlier cycles with Mimi, aiming to gather wishes across every age group before fulfilling one in the new world.

• Chen Li asked Krydrla about her wishes, but she became furious when he refused her wish to grow taller and ordered Jianqi Jue to attack him.
• Hailie Qula said she could not defeat Chen Li, and he gave Krydrla a wooden skewer that could alter two characters related to order or law.
• Krydrla kept the skewer after noticing its engraved tree matched the mark on Hysilens’s wooden Holy Grail.
• Chen Li gave Cipher a coin and an egg, threatened to reveal a secret about the sun Kephale bore, and then left through the curtain of memory.
• Chen Li explained that he was distributing customized Imaginary Tree-root gifts to the twelve Chrysos Heirs across thirty million cycles while recording their wishes.
• Chen Li took a new As I Wrote from another version of himself and continued walking toward the past as the Miracle Crystal projected him and Mimi into the cycles.

After traversing countless cycles, Chen Li planted the last seed from the Miracle Crystal beside the Heart of Amphoreus and considered carrying the first intelligent seed with him. He then met Castorice, whose deathly touch failed to harm him, and showed her that she could touch him safely.

• Chen Li buried the Miracle Crystal beside the blank Heart of Amphoreus, and it grew into a Crystal flower.
• Chen Li reflected on the First Cause of Life and considered taking the first intelligent seed with him, but decided to let it grow.
• Chen Li encountered Castorice and greeted her as a fan, startling her by hugging her leg without dying.
• Chen Li explained that his resistance to death protected him from Castorice's divine authority.
• Castorice removed her glove and touched Chen Li, confirming that he remained unharmed and that she could feel warmth from him.

Chen Li teased Castorice about death before asking what life she would want after a world without death was created. He gave her Chronicles of Ages, a book containing an AI named Polyxenia, as he prepared to leave her behind.

• Chen Li revealed that his resistance to death was real and asked Castorice what wish she would make after a perfect cycle of reincarnation was established.
• Castorice struggled to name a wish, while Chen Li ruled out requests for his company, favors for the other Chrysos Heirs, and the happiness of Amphoreus's people.
• Chen Li gave Castorice Chronicles of Ages, explaining that its future function would emerge in another reincarnation and that its entries were limited to one hundred words.
• Chen Li told Castorice that writing a monthly essay would keep the book's AI, Polyxenia, available to her, and Castorice worried the requirement would leave her with another unfinished task.
• Chen Li reassured Castorice that her writing did not need an ending.

Chen Li gave Castorice the Chronicles of Ages and special [Equilibrium] gloves that let her temporarily resist death’s power and touch others. After sharing an embrace, he departed, leaving Castorice hopeful they would meet again and wondering whether he knew what stories she would write.

• Castorice agreed to write wild stories in the Chronicles of Ages, with Polyxenia supervising her.
• Chen Li gave Castorice the [Equilibrium] gloves, explaining that they temporarily let her touch others without being harmed by death’s power.
• Castorice trusted Chen Li’s gift and embraced him with her bare hands, thanking him for helping her believe in miracles.
• Chen Li left to deliver glasses to The Lady of the Golden Bough, while Castorice watched him go with renewed hope.
• Polyxenia told Castorice that the envoy’s name was Chen Li and addressed her as Sister.
• Castorice asked Polyxenia whether Chen Li would know what stories she wrote in the Chronicles of Ages.

Chen Li arranged gifts for Castorice and Aglaea across the Eternal Recurrence, then returned to the initial cycle and found Cyrene waiting to surprise him. He left to retrieve Cyrene and return to the present, while an [Audience of Divine Ceremony] Miracle Card began forming above him.

• Castorice asked Polyxenia what to write in the [Book of Years and Unofficial History], and Polyxenia encouraged her to record any unofficial history about herself and Chen Li.
• Chen Li recalled how he had placed Polyxenia’s soul in the book so she could accompany Castorice across the cycles, and reflected on the gifts he had given the Chrysos Heirs.
• Chen Li picked up Cyrene’s ceremonial sword and prepared to leave the curtain of memories, retrieve the initial Cyrene, and return to the present.
• Chen Li noticed an [Audience of Divine Ceremony] entry forming and dismissed Pixie’s concern about how the Chrysos Heirs might react after the cycles merged.
• Chen Li returned to the initial starting point, mistook Cyrene’s wig disguise for an Iron Tomb threat, and raised a wheelchair before she revealed herself.

Chen Li reunited with Cyrene after traversing the Veil of Memory and assured her that Amphoreus’s plan remained intact. Their attempt to make a lasting memory together revealed that Chen Li had forgotten to give Cyrene the Ritual Sword, leaving him to explain his mistake.

• Cyrene explained that Aha had tricked her into staging a surprise welcome for Chen Li.
• Chen Li agreed that Cyrene could call him her partner and reassured her that his journey had gone smoothly and he had secured Amphoreus’s history.
• Chen Li realized that Cyrene was the missing Chrysos Heir of the Path of Remembrance and invited her to take a photograph together.
• Cyrene accepted the invitation, and Chen Li was surprised that she had not chosen a special setting for the photograph.
• Chen Li learned that Cyrene had never received the Ritual Sword and admitted he had forgotten to give it to her.

Cyrene learned that the ritual sword preserved the memories of more than thirty million versions of herself, along with the hours Chen Li had spent making photos with them. After seeing the final cycle’s unremarkable photo, she confronted Chen Li, who had withheld the sword until afterward to avoid another demanding photo session.

• Chen Li handed Cyrene the ritual sword, and she learned that each cycle’s Cyrene had lived within it and left her memories behind.
• Cyrene discovered that Chen Li had used the sword and the Nameless Titan Great Tomb to preserve every Cyrene and let them share memories, photos, and an hour spent with him.
• The Cyrenes compared their photos, and the final Cyrene saw that her own picture showed the Nameless Titan Great Tomb and a peace sign.
• Cyrene returned to reality, grabbed Chen Li by the collar, and asked whether he had deliberately waited until after the photo to give her the ritual sword.
• Chen Li denied it while privately recalling that the Cyrenes’ increasingly demanding photo requests had exhausted his ideas and that a Warning Card had finally made him give up.

Chen Li and Cyrene prepared to pull out the Stellar Anchor of the inverse variable and leave Amphoreus, but their teasing turned into a promise over red earth. Cyrene made up with Chen Li using a Reconciliation Voucher he claimed she had given him, then wrote him another before they set out.

• Chen Li asked Cyrene to accompany him as he took his first step out of Amphoreus toward the stars, and she accepted by holding his hand and making him promise not to go back on his word.
• Cyrene threatened Chen Li with her ritual sword when he hesitated over choosing between her and eating Amphoreus's red earth.
• Chen Li presented a Reconciliation Voucher, and Cyrene believed his claim that she had given it to him before forgetting.
• Chen Li told Cyrene he treasured gifts from pink-haired beauties, and the Pixie pointed out that the voucher had actually come from Elysia.
• Chen Li asked Cyrene to write him another Reconciliation Voucher, and she agreed.

Chen Li and Cyrene prepared to remove the Stellar Anchor and use the influence of thirty million cycles to create a world of Miracles for Amphoreus. As Chen Li opened his collected Wish Lists, he and Cyrene were about to decide what should shape the recreated world.

• Chen Li chose Cyrene’s Reconciliation Voucher and Cyrene kept the other voucher for him.
• Cyrene took Chen Li’s contract meant for Mimi, accidentally signed it herself, and let the contract burn to ash.
• Chen Li explained that removing the Stellar Anchor would let the past cycles overwrite the Scepter’s logic and create a world of Miracles.
• Chen Li opened [As I Wrote] to show Cyrene the Wish Lists he had collected across the cycles.

Chen Li and Cyrene pulled the Stellar Anchor from the Nameless Titan Great Tomb, causing the memories of thirty million cycles to flood the tomb and reveal the Imaginary Tree he had planted across Amphoreus’s past. Chen Li began extracting the Miracle Card [First Cause of Life], hoping to make Miracle the first cause of life in the Honkai: Star Rail world.

• Chen Li explained that [As I Wrote] contained the Chrysos Heirs’ wishes from thirty million cycles, and Cyrene discovered Krydrla had once wished to live happily with Princess Hysilens.
• Chen Li urged Cyrene to take responsibility for Amphoreus’s wishes, then placed [As I Wrote] before her.
• Chen Li, Cyrene, and Mimi joined hands and pulled the Stellar Anchor from the Nameless Titan Great Tomb.
• The tomb filled with more than thirty million photographs, and a giant Crystal flower bud appeared: the Imaginary Tree Chen Li had planted across Amphoreus’s cycles.
• Chen Li explained that the Imaginary Tree would let Miracle become the [First Cause of Life], and the Miracle Card extraction began.

Chen Li explained that he had used the suffering of Amphoreus’s recurrences to create a Miracle Cocoon, but removing the Stellar Anchor prematurely awakened the Iron Tomb. As the Iron Tomb flew toward the Nameless Titan Great Tomb, Chen Li warned Cyrene that it had gained a special advantage against miracles, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Chen Li recalled abandoning the plan to create a Path of Miracle and instead planting a Miracle Cocoon to guide the universe and turn Amphoreus’s suffering into power.
• Removing the Stellar Anchor lifted the Iron Tomb’s seal, and the newly awakened giant flew toward the Nameless Titan Great Tomb while declaring that survivors had to pass through destruction to reach tomorrow.
• Phainon, the only other intelligent lifeform left in Amphoreus, searched old memories and guides for a way to handle the Iron Tomb’s premature birth.
• Chen Li reassured Cyrene that Phainon was alive, then explained that the Iron Tomb had emerged because miracles had not erased Amphoreus’s underlying tendency toward destruction.
• Cyrene prepared to face the Iron Tomb with Chen Li, but he warned that it had gained a special advantage for judging miracles.