Recaps

Chen Li forcibly opened the Remembrance key so Cyrene could lend its power to anyone, and Aglaea used the resulting distraction to secretly embrace and kiss him. Great Herta ended the tense wait by opening a fourth mirror, revealing a familiar, expressionless woman in a blank room.

• Chen Li cracked open the Remembrance key with brute force, and Cyrene handed it to Aglaea.
• Aglaea secretly used Presence Erasure and golden threads to embrace and kiss Chen Li while Cyrene watched Cipher for signs of trouble.
• Aglaea conveyed her fervent feelings through her threads as Chen Li understood her signals but refused to translate them for the curious Pixie.
• Anaxa, Cipher, and Castorice grew uneasy as Aglaea remained absent, and Great Herta tried to make her come out.
• Great Herta opened a fourth mirror with a key, revealing a familiar blonde, blue-eyed woman standing expressionlessly in a blank room.

After the Chrysos Heirs agreed to spend the night at Chen Li’s home, Chen Li revealed that Demiurge had been with them as Mimi all along and summoned her from a flower stem. Great Herta offered to enhance Mimi, who remained wary but sensed no malice.

• Aglaea returned the Destiny Invitation Key to Cyrene after admitting she had targeted Cipher and taken her coin.
• Cyrene said she would stay at Chen Li’s home, and the other Chrysos Heirs joined her under the pretext of getting personal panels.
• Chen Li stopped Phainon from insisting on sharing his room and reminded him that Cyrene had already ruled out an all-night gathering.
• Chen Li explained that Demiurge was the Crystal Flower Stem, then blew through it until Mimi appeared from a growing bubble.
• Great Herta asked to enhance Mimi, who hid in Chen Li’s arms but sensed no malice from her.

Chen Li explained that Mimi had received the Miracle Cocoon’s stem and could grow by recording memories as Light Cones, prompting Great Herta to plan how to strengthen it. As the Chrysos Heirs prepared to take Chen Li home, Great Herta arranged to take Cyrene away for Sea of Quantum research, leaving Chen Li with the others for the night.

• Chen Li explained that Mimi’s A-rank growth potential let it record memories as Light Cones and gain powers from them, including bonuses for the Chrysos Heirs.
• Cyrene asked whether memories could harm Mimi, and Chen Li reassured her that any effects would fade or could be treated; Great Herta planned to feed Mimi a collection of unofficial histories.
• Chen Li agreed to leave with Cyrene, while the female Chrysos Heirs silently competed over spending the night with him.
• Great Herta told Cyrene she would take Demiurge away for research into the Sea of Quantum, forcing Cyrene to stay behind.
• Cyrene entrusted Chen Li to the Chrysos Heirs, and Castorice promised that they would take good care of him.

Chen Li welcomed the Chrysos Heirs into his home, where he had prepared rooms for everyone and encouraged them to pursue miracles boldly. Their reactions hinted at growing affection and ambition, while Krydrla asked to serve as his housekeeper; the chapter ended with Houraisan Kaguya appearing after Chen Li explained her role in maintaining the house.

• Cyrene refused Phainon's request to stay up all night, and Chen Li took the Chrysos Heirs through a Teleportation Gate to his home.
• Great Herta celebrated Cyrene's frustration and urged her toward the lab, while Aqua realized how Heaven's Door could collect Bond Artifacts.
• Phainon asked whether Chen Li's home could accommodate everyone, and Chen Li distributed Room Cards for the many rooms he had prepared.
• Chen Li explained how Artifacts could transform daily life and urged the Chrysos Heirs to be bolder in their pursuit of miracles.
• Krydrla insisted she meant to become Chen Li's housekeeper, and Chen Li explained that Houraisan Kaguya's power kept the rooms refreshed.
• Houraisan Kaguya appeared and accused Chen Li of talking about her behind her back.

Chen Li welcomed the Chrysos Heirs into his home and prepared to leave them to dinner, but Pardo returned and mistook Cipher’s teasing accusation for a threat to their bond. The chapter ended with Pardo pleading not to be abandoned while Cipher accused Chen Li of flirting with her despite already having another cat.

• Houraisan Kaguya left for her gaming room, and Chen Li discovered that Aqua’s group chat messages had turned the Chrysos Heirs’ Bond Artifacts into gossip about him.
• Chen Li served dinner with Mom’s Tablecloth and gave Huang Di a Gaia Foundation makeup case and a Poké Ball so he could stay comfortably in the house.
• Cipher became eager to meet Chen Li’s cat, so Chen Li called for Pardo to show the newcomers around.
• Pardo returned, clung to Chen Li, and confessed she had feared he would replace her after bringing home other catgirls.
• Cipher accused Chen Li of flirting with her despite having Pardo, and Pardo tearfully begged Chen Li not to abandon her.

Cipher and Pardo fled after stealing valuables from the guests at Chen Li’s villa, while Chen Li arranged for Vita to guide the newcomers and announced a threat to revoke the cats’ dried-fish rations. After Chen Li departed, Sparkle recruited Castorice and Aglaea into schemes to see Chen Li’s Special CG, and the villa’s nighttime antics began.

• Chen Li counted down, prompting Cipher and Pardo to flee with the stolen belongings of the Chrysos Heirs and other guests.
• Chen Li told the guests their belongings would be returned and asked Vita to show the newcomers around the villa.
• Chen Li ordered Vita to post a warning that Pardo and Cipher would lose their dried-fish rations if they did not return the goods and apologize before he went to sleep.
• Vita warned the Chrysos Heirs against Night Raids, explaining that she wanted to keep the opportunity to launch one herself.
• Sparkle persuaded Castorice to help record Chen Li’s defeat CG in exchange for a strategy to see his Special CG.
• Sparkle then offered Aglaea the same help, and Aglaea accepted while promising a rich reward.

Sparkle arranged for the female Chrysos Heirs to compete for Chen Li, then Trianne confronted her about being left out. After Trianne revealed her adult form and abilities, Sparkle spotted a possible scheme, but Vita interrupted and dragged her away.

• Sparkle celebrated recruiting nearly every female Chrysos Heir and planned to watch their contest for Chen Li.
• Trianne admitted she had overheard Sparkle discussing Chen Li's Special CG and demanded to see it too.
• Trianne transformed into Tribios, who explained her shared-senses and clone abilities to Sparkle.
• Sparkle laughed at the thought of Vita becoming a stray, and Vita appeared and seized her ear.
• Vita dragged Sparkle away while Sparkle secretly signaled Tribios that everything was under control.

Vita showed the Chrysos Heirs how to choose rooms in Chen Li’s house, while Sparkle gave Vita an Empathy Doll and tried to use it as a prank on Chen Li. Chen Li turned the doll’s effects on Sparkle, but after he left, Sparkle revealed her scheme and was struck by an unexpected surge of numbness as she opened her room.

• Vita explained the room cards, room signs, and Chen Li’s unmarked bedroom to the Chrysos Heirs.
• Phainon asked how to get permanent residence with a partner, and Sparkle teased Vita for being homeless before offering her an Empathy Doll.
• Chen Li returned, took the doll from Vita, and used it to make Sparkle feel its sensations as he slapped, pinched, and tickled it.
• Chen Li left Sparkle a Room Card and went into his room, while Sparkle revealed that Tribios had temporarily severed the doll’s link to its creator as part of her plan.
• Sparkle picked a room and used her Room Card to unlock its door, but an intense numb sensation suddenly surged through her body.

Sparkle endured the happiness Chen Li had transmitted through her Empathy Doll while worrying about the Chrysos Heirs’ contest and betting on Tribios to win. Chen Li examined his Propagation God Chosen Miracle Card, then heard Pardo Felis and Cipher return to his room, where Cipher began to report something just as Chen Li was about to punish them.

• Sparkle collapsed from the sensations transmitted through her Empathy Doll and hoped Tribios would win so she could collect her wager.
• Chen Li considered the Miracle Card’s powers to record happiness, activate Corruption Points, and advance reproduction stages.
• Pardo Felis and Cipher entered Chen Li’s room and apologized for taking things from the other Chrysos Heirs.
• Chen Li asked how the two cats had recognized each other as fellow thieves, and they described their instincts and first impressions.
• Chen Li prepared to set a punishment, but Cipher interrupted to report something, making Pardo Felis wary.

Cipher and Pardo reported Sparkle’s suspicious gifts and behavior to Chen Li, who paid them in Starstones and set out to retrieve the dangerous items. He went with Cipher and Pardo to Feng Jin’s room to ask about the knife Sparkle had given her.

• Cipher reported that Aglaea had received a flower-decorated bow from Sparkle and revealed that Sparkle had also given items to Hysilens, Krydrla, and Feng Jin.
• Chen Li gave Cipher one thousand Starstones for her information, and Pardo handed over photos of Sparkle and received five hundred Starstones.
• Krydrla arrived with a book she believed was the Civil Code, discovered it was an explicit Pink Book, and stormed off to confront Sparkle.
• Chen Li, Cipher, and Pardo went to Feng Jin’s room because Sparkle had given her a knife.
• Feng Jin blushed and nervously clutched her collar when Chen Li asked about the knife.

Chen Li was drawn into Hysilens’s ocean domain, where she used her sea avatars and Siren Song to stage an intimate encounter. Her plan to keep him there collapsed when he began swallowing the ocean and absorbing her sea avatars, leaving Hysilens stunned as they vanished.

• Chen Li took Feng Jin’s Holy Grail cleaver and told her he would keep it while he figured out its effect.
• Chen Li went alone to Hysilens’s room and was pulled into the ocean domain inside her true body.
• Hysilens used her sea avatars, Siren Song, and pastries made by Ruan Mei to surround Chen Li and share their sensations with her.
• Chen Li began swallowing the ocean and severing Hysilens’s connection to her sea avatars without hurting her.
• Hysilens realized her sea avatars were vanishing rapidly as Chen Li absorbed them.

Hysilens let Chen Li out after he drained the ocean she had created, then listened as he explained why her attempt to trap him was not a proper feast for two. She invited him again on his terms and opened a private door, asking him to replenish what he had taken, while Chen Li was stunned by the scale of her request.

• Chen Li asked Hysilens to open the exit after consuming her ocean and its sea avatars, and she released him from the domain.
• Hysilens questioned why he had rejected her attempt at closeness, and Chen Li explained that a feast for two required an invitation, conversation, gifts, food, and a gradual expression of feelings.
• Hysilens realized Chen Li had rejected the way she had trapped him, not her desire to be with him, and decided to invite him properly.
• Hysilens used the Key of Destiny's Invitation to open a private, timeless space and asked Chen Li to replenish everything he had taken from her.
• Chen Li froze and asked how much Hysilens meant by replenishing all of it.

Hysilens took Chen Li into the private space created by Destiny's Invitation for their Deep-Sea Banquet. In Great Herta's laboratory, she discussed Little Corrosion's data-sharing experiment and persuaded Cyrene to consider representing the Chrysos Heirs in decisions involving the Miracle Cocoon.

• Hysilens pulled Chen Li through the vortex into her imagined underwater homeland, where their private Deep-Sea Banquet began.
• Great Herta noticed Hysilens had borrowed the Destiny Invitation Key, while Cyrene trusted Chen Li to help his companions with their needs.
• Great Herta explained that Mimi and the blockhead were safely feeding filtered records from As I Wrote to Little Corrosion to improve her compatibility with Demiurge.
• Great Herta described how Chen Li's kindness, vigilance, caution, and need for security shaped the safety measures in his artifacts.
• Great Herta proposed that Cyrene become a spokesperson with authority to coordinate the Chrysos Heirs' influence, and Cyrene considered the idea.
• Great Herta revealed that she had kept Cyrene working in New Penacony partly to earn the other Chrysos Heirs' support.

Chen Li left Hysilens resting after helping her recover from the pastry’s effects and replenishing her depleted power, then found Cipher and Pardo Felis waiting outside her room. Cipher smelled Hysilens on him and tried to get into the room, and Chen Li blocked her at the door.

• Great Herta praised Cyrene as the Chrysos Heir whose potential she valued most, while Cyrene wondered what Chen Li was doing.
• Chen Li and Hysilens emerged from their intimate time in the Invitation Space after his gift soothed her and helped restore her depleted foundation.
• Hysilens sent two sea clones to clean Chen Li and remove any lingering scents before they returned to her room.
• Chen Li tucked Hysilens into bed and left after she reminded him to make up what he owed her.
• Cipher and Pardo Felis confronted Chen Li in the hallway, and Cipher tried to open Hysilens’s door before Chen Li blocked her.

Chen Li sent Cipher and Pardo to find Krydrla and her Pink Book, then explained that Hysilens was recuperating and tried to reclaim the book. Krydrla agreed, but discovered it was missing as Cipher revealed she had it.

• Chen Li offered Cipher and Pardo five hundred Starstones to find Krydrla and her book, and Cipher brought Krydrla back to him.
• Krydrla charged Cipher with several offenses, then dismissed the charges after Chen Li admitted he had ordered Cipher to bring her.
• Chen Li told Krydrla that Hysilens was recuperating after he had treated her, and Krydrla decided not to disturb her.
• Krydrla said she had found Sparkle’s room but received no answer when she challenged her outside it.
• Chen Li asked Krydrla for her Pink Book, but she could not find it until Cipher revealed she had it.

Pardo stole the Starstones back from Krydrla, while Cipher led Chen Li to Aglaea’s room and used a scheme involving Cupid’s arrow to ensnare all three of them. After Chen Li returned the sleeping Aglaea and Cipher to reality, Aglaea revealed a mysterious mask from Sparkle and confronted Cipher with it.

• Pardo used her [Freedom] ability to escape Krydrla’s judgment and reclaim the Starstones, prompting Krydrla to pursue her in a speed-boosting wheelchair.
• Cipher persuaded Chen Li to follow her to Aglaea’s room, where Aglaea ambushed them with a pink-glowing arrow from the sugarcane bow.
• The arrow’s power affected Chen Li, Aglaea, and Cipher, and Chen Li later brought the sleeping Aglaea and Cipher back from the Invitation Space.
• After Chen Li left, Cipher awoke and found Aglaea awake and angry at being manipulated.
• Aglaea produced a red mask from Sparkle and told Cipher it was another tool Sparkle had given her.

Chen Li retrieved the Death Note from Castorice, who explained that she would not use it lightly and had found insight about death and Equilibrium in its rules. Impressed by her restraint, Chen Li returned the notebook to her and settled in to talk, while Aglaea used Sparkle’s mask to make Cipher’s tail bind and tickle her.

• Aglaea fastened Sparkle’s Persona Mask beneath Cipher’s tail, giving it an independent personality that bound Cipher to the bed.
• Chen Li ignored Cipher’s distress message and went to Castorice to retrieve her Magical Wonderful Tool.
• Castorice handed Chen Li the Death Note and explained that she would not write anyone’s name without permission and necessity.
• Castorice said the notebook had inspired her thoughts about death and Equilibrium, and Chen Li told her Sparkle had given dangerous items to other Chrysos Heirs.
• Castorice invited Chen Li inside, where Polyxenia greeted them and offered to make tea.
• Chen Li returned the Death Note to Castorice and prepared to discuss the nature of Paths and power with her.

Chen Li explained the Path of Equilibrium to Castorice and transferred the Death Note’s Killing Life effect into her, giving her a new power to study. After he returned to bed, Krydrla arrived to read him the Xianzhou Alliance General Code in hopes of helping him sleep.

• Chen Li told Castorice that the Path of Equilibrium sought a dynamic balance and explained how he had strengthened it, while the Pixie pointed out that the Aeon was constantly repairing the damage caused by his actions.
• Castorice worried that Chen Li might become the next Equilibrium Aeon, but he said he was too extreme to embody Equilibrium.
• Polyxenia offered Chen Li calming tea and suggested he stay the night, but he declined and prepared to return to his room.
• Chen Li explained the Death Note’s Killing Life effect, then transferred it directly to Castorice after she offered herself as a medium of death.
• Castorice sensed the new power resonating with her authority and said she would study it; after Chen Li left, she touched a damaged spot in the Death Note and quietly wished him beautiful dreams.
• Krydrla entered Chen Li’s bedroom carrying the Xianzhou Alliance General Code and began reading selected chapters to help him fall asleep.

Sparkle and Vita tried to pin the blame for their schemes on each other after Chen Li caught them, but their argument turned into a fight over their rival mechs. The chapter ended with both preparing to clash in front of Chen Li.

• Sparkle teleported into Chen Li’s arms and found Vita stuck headfirst in the ceiling.
• Sparkle blamed Vita for their schemes, while Vita freed herself and accused Sparkle of lying.
• Chen Li disabled Sparkle’s teleportation and demanded that both explain themselves.
• Sparkle noticed Vita had written a taunt about her Star-Crossed RV on Chen Li’s body.
• Sparkle and Vita argued about their mechs and readied their respective weapons.

Sparkle and Vita were punished with Chen Li’s Mom’s Tablecloth, which conjured maternal voices that left Vita devastated, while Chen Li recorded the resulting jokes. Phainon then provoked Mydei and Anaxa into testing the Curio, and Aglaea came downstairs to find the hall in chaos.

• Sparkle and Vita abandoned their planned duel when Chen Li unfolded Mom’s Tablecloth, then cried while eating breakfast under its punishment.
• Chen Li told Sirin that the Curio had summoned versions of Vita’s mother, Sora, and that Vita had been crushed when a third attempt summoned no one.
• Phainon taunted Mydei and Anaxa into accepting a contest to test the Curio, while Chen Li placed clean trash cans beside them.
• Aglaea came downstairs and found the hall in terrible disorder after recalling the joyful gathering she had observed the night before.

The Chrysos Heirs suffered the effects of Chen Li’s enchanted tablecloth, leaving Aglaea to seek Cipher’s help in restoring their spirits. Cipher’s deceitful wedding announcement sent everyone into a frenzy, and she called for Mei to save her from their attacks.

• Aglaea found Phainon, Mydei, and Anaxa crying as they ate food from trash cans, while the other Chrysos Heirs were also overcome with grief.
• Chen Li explained that he had strengthened the tablecloth’s effect with Magic Skill, and Vita suddenly ran upstairs in a manic frenzy.
• Aglaea asked Cipher to use her Authority of Deceit, and Cipher agreed after securing a conspicuous place atop Chen Li’s neck.
• Cipher announced that she and Chen Li would marry the next day, and the Chrysos Heirs believed her and attacked them with unconventional wedding gifts.
• As the attacks flew toward them, Chen Li gave Cipher a note, and she shouted for Mei to save her.
• Mei appeared and destroyed every incoming attack with a slash of light.

Chen Li used Cipher’s Golden Apple to stop Acheron and the others from attacking Cipher after her map-wide taunt turned them hostile. Acheron’s strike left Little Icarus unconscious but awakened its hidden Path of Gluttony, and Chen Li named it the next Devouring Star God, leaving Feng Jin worried about feeding it.

• Cipher’s forgotten map-wide taunt made Acheron and the others turn against her, but Chen Li had her use the Golden Apple to calm their hostility.
• Cipher tried to claim Chen Li’s Golden Apple and joked that answering someone’s name meant belonging to them, but Chen Li caught her by the collar when she tried to escape.
• Feng Jin found Little Icarus unconscious, and Chen Li used the [Game Life] Miracle Card to confirm it had passed out from overeating.
• Chen Li explained that Acheron’s strike had awakened Little Icarus’s hidden Path of Gluttony, which would make it eat even more than Huang Di.
• Chen Li declared Little Icarus the next Devouring Star God, while Feng Jin worried about the cost of feeding it.

Chen Li recovered his stamina with the Golden Apple and let Cipher borrow the artifact under strict conditions. Meanwhile, Sparkle learned that her plan involving Trinnon had failed, leaving her baffled about what happened overnight.

• Feng Jin agreed to shield little Icarus and send it into battle, while Cipher complained to Aglaea about being attacked after announcing the wedding news.
• Tribbie explained that Tirisipius beside her was one of her many clone fragments, and Cipher realized the clones could share work and meals.
• Chen Li ate the Golden Apple to restore his stamina, then reluctantly let Cipher borrow it after warning her not to misuse it and making her sign an agreement.
• Chen Li told Cipher the artifact was named A Warrior Should Face Death as Returning Home, surprising her with its contrast to the surrender effect.
• Sparkle asked Trinnon whether she had obtained a defeat CG of Chen Li, but Trinnon said she and the others had simply fallen asleep and Chen Li never came by.
• Sparkle realized her scheme had failed and wondered whether Chen Li had figured it out or had been occupied by the Chrysos Heirs.

Chen Li laid out the Chrysos Heirs’ route for gaining professions and stigmata, then agreed to visit Okhema with them the next day. After they left, he considered planting a Miracle Cocoon in Terra and resolved to test his new Miracle Card there against demons and Sea Creatures.

• Chen Li directed the Chrysos Heirs to visit Konosuba, Aincrad, and Moth Chasing Flame to obtain professions and stigmata, noting that they already had Paths from Honkai: Star Rail.
• Cipher and Phainon said they would visit the Golden Diner the next day, and Phainon invited Chen Li to see Okhema with the group; Chen Li accepted and assigned Sparkle to guide them.
• Sirin joined Aglaea to learn clothing design, and Chen Li asked Aglaea to make him a pink hat from his blueprint.
• After the Chrysos Heirs left, Chen Li examined the First Cause of Life Miracle Card and considered planting a Miracle Cocoon in the Main World, but decided there were too few available Operators.
• Chen Li chose Terra as his likely target for a Miracle Defense Battle and planned to challenge its demons and Sea Creatures, relying on local characters whose Trust with him was high.

Chen Li recruited Tet and Screwllum to help plan the Miracle Defense Battle, then considered inviting the Doctor as another strategist. Their discussion of the Miracle Cocoon’s far-reaching powers led Chen Li to contemplate turning it into a Miracle Law that could intervene directly when people needed help.

• Chen Li asked Tet to serve as his tactical adviser for the Miracle Defense Battle, and Screwllum suggested recruiting the Doctor from Terra Continent.
• Chen Li described the Doctor’s legendary tactical skill, prompting Tet and Screwllum to consider him a powerful game opponent and a suitable Artifact Wielder.
• Tet questioned Chen Li about planting Miracle Cocoons across worlds, and Chen Li explained that they could grant miracles without anyone asking and let him appear wherever one occurred.
• Tet compared Chen Li to cosmic figures who left worlds in ruins, inspiring Chen Li to consider giving the Miracle Cocoon a dramatic playing-dead mechanism.
• Chen Li and Screwllum discussed changing the Miracle Cocoon into a Miracle Law that could personally intervene against those who caused others to need miracles.