Recaps

Chen Li, Feiying, and Pearl tried to escape the abandoned classroom, but Tonghua found them and confronted them through the door. After Pearl challenged Tonghua over Chen Li’s guardianship and Chen Li negotiated safeguards against capture, he opened the door, revealing Tonghua as a young girl.

• Feiying realized Hysilens had not revoked her and Pearl’s school badges, so Chen Li urged everyone to flee before they could be teleported away.
• Tonghua found the classroom, while Hua Hua broadcast Chen Li’s location across Origami University and exposed the surveillance terminal’s message.
• Tonghua accused Chen Li of pretending to have been subdued and demanded that he open the door, then revealed she had watched over him as his guardian.
• Pearl refused to hand Chen Li over and declared that she wanted to challenge Tonghua for guardianship, provoking Tonghua to pound on the door.
• Chen Li demanded proof that Tonghua had no Command Seals or Poké Balls, and Tonghua eventually promised not to capture him.
• Chen Li opened the classroom door after checking the corridor, and Feiying and Pearl saw that Tonghua was a girl who looked like a child.

Chen Li and his companions avoided capture at Origami University by using Tonghua as a decoy, then barricaded the classroom when more pursuers approached. The chapter ended with Chen Li leading Pearl and Feiying toward the window to escape.

• Tonghua and Pearl argued over who would become Chen Li’s mother, while Feiying mistakenly tied Chen Li up before realizing Pearl had not signaled her to do so.
• When Tingyun’s voice approached the classroom, Chen Li signaled Tonghua to act as bait, and she transformed and ran down the opposite corridor.
• Feixiao chased after Tonghua’s decoy while dragging Tingyun along, giving Chen Li time to realize Feixiao had used Tingyun to lure him out.
• After another pursuer called for Chen Li, Feiying clung to his arm and Pearl stepped forward to volunteer as a decoy.
• Chen Li pulled Pearl back, barricaded the classroom door with desks and chairs, and led Pearl and Feiying toward the window.

Chen Li and his companions were trapped in a classroom by a crowd trying to take him to rehearse for a performance, so he gave Feiying a newly forged Cuteness Halo and told her to curse them. The chapter ended as Feiying sweetly began casting a curse on the crowd below.

• Chen Li pointed out that a new school rule barred classroom damage, allowing the group to keep the pursuers outside the barricaded door.
• Chen Li found the athletic field packed with people, including Krydrla, Cipher, Aglaea, and Hysilens, who demanded that he come down and rehearse.
• Chen Li solemnly asked Pearl to remember the crowd and avenge him, then turned to Feiying and entrusted her with a glowing Curio.
• Chen Li placed the Cuteness Halo on Feiying and explained that she could use it by gently delivering a nonlethal curse that harmed the targets' future fortunes.
• Feiying faced the crowd and began cursing the masters and servants, saying they would capture nothing, fail to gather wish power, and lose battles.

Chen Li escaped Origami University by using Pearl’s expulsion as a chance to summon himself away, but outside he learned that Altair was rapidly eliminating Masters in a new arena tournament. The chapter left Chen Li investigating the tournament and its strange broadcasts.

• Feiying’s blessings angered Krydrla, so Hysilens expelled Feiying and Pearl from Origami University.
• Chen Li used Pearl’s expulsion to summon himself away, taunted his pursuers, and made Hysilens blush by calling her “baby.”
• Feiying and Pearl warned Chen Li that the area outside the university was even more dangerous, as announcements reported Altair eliminating three Masters.
• Feiying explained that Sparkle’s capture rules had created too many Wild Masters, prompting the Interastral Peace Corporation to organize a civilian arena tournament.
• Pearl said Jade had created a Duel Arena at the exhibition, and Chen Li used his Miraculous Forger privileges to inspect it before reacting with surprise.

Pearl explained Jade’s Order Duel to Chen Li, who discovered that Altair had exploited a loophole to slaughter the Masters watching from the stands and stack an enormous damage bonus. Chen Li suspected Jade might have benefited from the massacre, while Altair and Shimazaki Setsuna were poised to gain another genuine Command Spell after midnight.

• Pearl explained that Jade’s Order Duel used Command Seals for registration and rewards, while Jade earned unused seals from drawn matches and offered the champion an IPC promotion.
• Pearl warned Chen Li that Altair had added a setting allowing her to bypass the rule against Masters harming one another.
• Chen Li used New Penacony’s administrator system to view Altair slaughtering Masters in the spectator stands while their Servants fought in virtual arenas.
• Chen Li discovered that Altair had made herself both a Servant and a Master, letting her attack the spectators, and that each eliminated Master or Servant increased her damage against all combatants.
• Chen Li realized Altair’s kill count had reached 15,800, granting her a 158-fold damage bonus, and considered how another Command Spell could make her even more dangerous.
• Chen Li questioned why Jade had not intervened and noted that the nearly ten thousand counterfeit Command Seals collected as deposits remained in her prize pool.

Pearl, Chen Li, and Feiying discussed Jade’s response to Altair’s attacks, and Jade announced a massive bounty to rally New Penacony against Altair before midnight. Chen Li also explained the powers and drawbacks of Feiying’s Cuteness Halo, leaving Feiying eager to keep it.

• Pearl agreed that Jade and Altair might be working together, while Feiying questioned why Jade had not responded to Altair’s attacks.
• Jade announced that the organizers had put over 7,000 Counterfeit Command Spells and an IPC promotion voucher up as a bounty for defeating Altair, warning that Altair had a 158-fold damage bonus and could gain another Command Spell at midnight.
• Masters across New Penacony began organizing a mass hunt for Altair, while Chen Li speculated about her motives.
• Chen Li told Feiying that her Cuteness Halo’s curse could not be dispelled with Counterfeit Command Spells, and Pearl defended his explanation by citing the power of Miraculous Items.
• Chen Li explained that completing curses granted Cuteness stacks that could regress targets’ life stages and boost Feiying’s combat abilities; Feiying eagerly clung to the halo after learning its full effects.

Chen Li gave Feiying the [Cuteness Halo] before leaving with Great Herta to witness an Aeon’s synthesis, leaving Feiying and Pearl to return to Origami University. Pearl then accepted Feiying’s offer to test whether her Ruler authority could grant an additional qualification, but the Holy Grail instead awarded Pearl three Command Spells and made her a Hundred-Year Auxiliary Unit if she failed to capture the Dazzling HOMU King as her Servant.

• Feiying accepted the [Cuteness Halo], and Chen Li received 146 Crystals from the transaction.
• Chen Li departed after saying Great Herta had called him to witness the synthesis of an Aeon, and he warned Feiying not to call the Aeon of Abundance for help.
• Feiying and Pearl decided to return to Origami University, where Pearl suggested finding Feiying a Servant; Feiying explained that her Ruler-class status prevented her from summoning one.
• Feiying discovered she had two Command Spells and a half-formed third, then agreed to test whether her authority could grant Pearl another Master qualification.
• The Holy Grail rejected an additional qualification for Pearl, granted her three extra Command Spells instead, and set her failure penalty as becoming a Hundred-Year Auxiliary Unit after she was tasked with capturing the Dazzling HOMU King as her Servant.

Pearl persuaded Feiying to use the Holy Grail War to recruit talented Masters by offering extra Command Spells, and the two set out to ask Jade about transferring them. Meanwhile, Little Herta observed Pearl’s loyalty to Chen Li, but backed away when he suggested inviting Pearl into the Friends Circle.

• Pearl changed her mind about receiving Feiying’s Command Spell punishment and proposed selling Master qualifications to recruit talent for Chen Li.
• Pearl explained that Feiying could attract Masters with three extra Command Spells, then proposed making their limited supply go further by learning how to transfer them.
• Pearl identified Jade as someone who could transfer Command Spells, and she and Feiying decided to meet her at the exhibition.
• Pearl and Feiying saw Kyubey at Pearl Harbor and recognized that recruiting Masters resembled Kyubey’s Magical Girl pitch.
• Little Herta reported Pearl’s apparent loyalty to Chen Li, who declined to check her attributes and teased Little Herta about spying on her.

Chen Li refused to let Jade use an artifact to interfere in the Holy Grail War, so Jade offered Pearl a different path to obtain Command Spells. Pearl agreed to register as a Paradise Alliance agent in exchange for Jade’s information about the Great Holy Grail.

• Chen Li argued that Feiying’s use of an artifact did not violate his rules because she had no Servant and could not compete in the Holy Grail War.
• Jade told Feiying and Pearl that Taiyi was her Servant and explained that she could not use Jade’s Pawnshop artifact to transfer Command Spells because it could affect their chances of winning.
• Pearl asked Jade about pawning an item to obtain a Command Spell transfer method, but Jade instead offered free intelligence about the Great Holy Grail.
• Jade revealed that Command Spells from dead Masters accumulated in the living Great Holy Grail, which held more than ten thousand spells and was connected to the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King.
• Jade offered to tell Pearl how to find the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King if Pearl registered as a Paradise Alliance agent and listed Jade as her referrer.
• Pearl accepted Jade’s terms, and Jade led her toward the pawnshop’s VIP passage.

Jade revealed that she had kept the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King at her pawnshop, and Feiying and Pearl recruited it to supply Command Seals for their mission. After leaving to seek talented mech-servant candidates, Pearl proposed using AI to generate Command Spell designs and suggested asking Little Herta or Screwllum for help.

• Jade showed Feiying and Pearl the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King, explaining that she had kept him there after he awarded her a medal.
• Pearl objected to obtaining Command Seals directly, but Feiying persuaded the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King to cooperate by threatening his gold and snacks.
• Feiying shook the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King and spilled several Counterfeit Command Spells, revealing that he carried tens of thousands.
• Pearl and Feiying left Jade's Pawnshop with the Little Golden Honkai-Moe King and headed for the Paradise Alliance branch to register as agents.
• Pearl proposed using AI to mass-produce Command Spell designs and suggested asking Little Herta or Screwllum for assistance.
• Watching through the Fourth Mirror, Little Herta reacted when Chen Li suggested Pearl would probably choose Screwllum over her.

Chen Li learned that Ruan Mei’s plan to relocate the Internalized Universe relied on Inspiration Mushrooms, while Little Herta was sent to help with the preparations. Great Herta then argued that geniuses should keep pursuing knowledge before a mysterious girl resembling Cyrene appeared at the door.

• Chen Li coaxed Little Herta into helping with the relocation work, and Ruan Mei confirmed that Prescis had completed her research task.
• Prescis agreed to retrieve the other half of the Origin Stone’s management authority from Doctor so they could move the Internalized Universe to New Penacony.
• Ruan Mei described a false plan involving record restoration, Aeon avatars, and Little Herta’s Simulated Universe save files, then revealed that the actual solution was to use Inspiration Mushrooms.
• Great Herta entered and argued that geniuses would continue seeking knowledge despite The Erudition and the convenience of curios.
• Chen Li challenged Great Herta’s attempt to persuade him to please artifact users, then noticed a quiet girl with a face nearly identical to Cyrene’s writing in a heavy book.

Chen Li met the blue-purple-haired girl Great Herta had taken from Aha and learned she was the reborn self-awareness of Amphoreus’s scepter, Demiurge. Great Herta suggested Chen Li raise her, and the girl eagerly waited for his answer.

• The girl asked Chen Li why her favorability toward him kept rising, and he dodged the question by asking Great Herta to introduce her.
• Great Herta identified the girl as Heroic Spirit Iron Tomb, a blank-slate Demiurge regrown after Aha planted the scepter back into the soil.
• Great Herta explained that the girl might be able to serve as the Iron Tomb’s missing head and gain control over it.
• Chen Li learned that Aha had been summoned in his fused form and had been raising the girl before Great Herta took her away.
• Chen Li urged Great Herta to teach the girl properly, but Great Herta offered to let him raise her instead, and the girl eagerly leaned toward him.

Chen Li, Great Herta, and Ruan Mei chose a guardian and codename for the newly sentient girl, whom they called Sophia, then used the Book of Years and Unofficial History to simulate her future under Great Herta’s care. Sophia’s first character card revealed the title [The Writer], leaving Great Herta surprised by the blue card’s description.

• Chen Li proposed using the Book of Years and Unofficial History to simulate Sophia’s future with different guardians.
• Great Herta suggested the codename Purple Tomb, but Sophia chose Chen Li’s suggestion, Sophia, while reserving the right to find her own real name.
• Chen Li began the simulation with Great Herta as Sophia’s guardian, and Great Herta expected to guide her onto the Path of Wisdom.
• The book produced a blue character card, and Great Herta handed it to Chen Li after reading it.
• Chen Li read the card’s title, [The Writer], and its description of spreading knowledge to civilizations across the stars.

Chen Li and Great Herta tested different character-card paths for Sophia until a golden Trailblaze card appeared, revealing a wildly fabricated history tying The Erudition, A Kivili, and Aha together. Great Herta was left reeling after reading the card’s description.

• Chen Li and Great Herta tried several caregivers and Paths, producing mostly blue and purple cards that reflected Sophia’s compassionate and conservative nature.
• Chen Li temporarily expanded Sophia’s card slots, and Sophia hugged him, though she regretted not managing to kiss him.
• Chen Li tried acting as Sophia’s guardian and got the bizarre [Great Rat Hunter] card, then chose the Trailblaze Path with Himeko as caregiver.
• Sophia drew the gold [Train Navigator] card, and Great Herta confidently guessed its description before Sophia revealed that her guesses matched it.
• Great Herta read the card’s account of The Erudition falling in love with A Kivili and Aha rescuing Sophia, then fell silent as the story overwhelmed her.

Great Herta’s Curio-induced distress left her clinging to Chen Li for kisses, hugs, and uppies, while Cyrene arrived and met Sophia. Cyrene welcomed Sophia and began explaining that she needed an intermediate name as she grew, leaving the two girls considering what she should be called.

• Great Herta tossed aside the character card and clung to Chen Li, demanding kisses, hugs, and uppies after the Psychological Committee Member Curio took effect.
• Cyrene arrived at the laboratory and found Chen Li holding Great Herta aloft as she refused to let go.
• Chen Li asked Cyrene to help, but Great Herta continued clinging to him and complaining that she had not gotten a kiss.
• Cyrene met Sophia, who nervously explained that she was a previous version of Demiurge and that Sophia was her codename.
• Cyrene reassured Sophia and said she needed an intermediate name corresponding to the Cyrene stage of her growth, then began thinking of one.

Sophia chose the codename First Ripple, and the group dealt with Great Herta’s embarrassment after a character card made her kiss, hug, and lift Chen Li in public. They then turned to Sophia’s final character card slot, deciding to test the Path of Destruction after ruling out Propagation, while Trailblaze remained the best fit for her.

• Cyrene suggested the name First Ripple, and Sophia revealed that Chen Li had independently given her the same name, though he had asked her to choose for herself.
• Chen Li completed the character card’s kiss, hug, and lift sequence with Great Herta, who regained her senses and blushed when she realized what she had done in public.
• Cyrene revealed that her Light Cone had recorded Great Herta’s antics and teased her, while Sophia took notes on using recordings as leverage.
• Sophia asked about choosing the Path of Propagation, and First Ripple explained that Little Herta had mentioned it during a Simulated Universe test.
• Chen Li and the others awkwardly warned First Ripple away from Propagation, then Ruan Mei and Great Herta redirected the discussion to the Path of Destruction.
• The group agreed to continue testing character cards, with Trailblaze identified as the Path best suited to First Ripple and a likely route for her to join the Nameless.

First Ripple used the Book of Years and Unofficial History to draw an Iron Tomb character card, revealing her potential on the Path of Destruction. Great Herta then prepared to summon the Herrscher of Corruption for her Synthesized Aeon project, and a girl appeared in the laboratory.

• Great Herta and Chen Li explained that they needed First Ripple to pursue Destruction and help create a Sea of Quantum bond, so First Ripple agreed to try for Iron Tomb.
• Cyrene reassured First Ripple that writing Iron Tomb represented only one possible future, and First Ripple wrote Iron Tomb and Destruction into the Book of Years and Unofficial History.
• First Ripple drew a green character card named [Purple Tomb · Chulian], and Great Herta explained that its low grade reflected the future’s limited potential development.
• Great Herta and Chen Li traded jokes before Ruan Mei redirected them to the Synthesized Aeon project and they realized the Herrscher of Corruption had gone out to play.
• Great Herta summoned the Herrscher of Corruption with Little Corrosion’s help, and a girl with hair similar to First Ripple’s appeared before them.

Great Herta prepared to use Polymerization to fuse the Herrscher of Corruption and First Ripple into a Core Flame Aeon, then planned to travel to the Sea of Quantum to activate its faction bond. Cyrene insisted on joining and hinted that she could help the doomed World Bubbles there, though Great Herta doubted her reach.

• The Herrscher of Corruption and First Ripple used their character cards to transform into mature forms, with First Ripple assimilating the Iron Tomb without losing her innocent mind.
• Great Herta used Magic Card: Polymerization with the Core Flame Aeon card to reveal the precise fusion recipe for the Herrscher of Corruption and Great Extinguisher Iron Tomb Cyrene.
• Great Herta decided the group should perform the summon inside the Sea of Quantum, where Chen Li would need to make a major display of power to attract its attention.
• Cyrene asked to come along, but Great Herta said she would have no practical use; Cyrene then argued that she could help the World Bubbles doomed to perish in the Sea of Quantum.
• Great Herta warned that even Cyrene as the Aeon of Remembrance could only stabilize World Bubbles near the Solar System or Milky Way.

Cyrene proposed using Chen Li’s Miracle Power to save the World Bubbles in the Sea of Quantum, and Chen Li considered turning the entire Sea into an Artifact. Their discussion of creating a paradise led Great Herta to realize Chen Li’s belief that people are born good came with a frightening exception: he would eat anyone who lacked the four moral instincts.

• Cyrene revealed [The Story of Being Because of You] and proposed protecting World Bubbles from vanishing in the Sea of Quantum.
• Cyrene asked Chen Li to use Miracle Transmutation on the Sea of Quantum, and Chen Li considered the idea because it could earn crystals.
• Great Herta warned that transforming or emptying the Sea of Quantum could upset its balance with the Imaginary Tree, but Chen Li said he wanted to create a paradise for everyone.
• Chen Li explained that he considered people inherently good at birth, and Great Herta recognized why that belief troubled her.
• Chen Li said people without compassion, shame, courtesy, or a sense of right and wrong should be eaten, leaving First Ripple stunned and Great Herta vindicated.

Chen Li devised a complicated plan to gather Crystals and protect the Sea of Quantum, using First Ripple to help summon its phantom and grant wishes. To advance the plan, he decided to seek a Theresa named Kongming in a World Bubble, who could lead him to Golem, another being capable of granting wishes.

• Chen Li proposed forging an Artifact to collect World Bubbles without causing the Sea of Quantum to collapse, while earning Crystals.
• The Herrscher of Corruption’s remark gave Chen Li an idea, and he outlined a plan that convinced Great Herta despite its complexity.
• Chen Li revealed that First Ripple was crucial to summoning the phantom of the Sea of Quantum so he could make it grant three wishes.
• Chen Li chose the phantom moon of Duality Paradise and Golem as targets for wishes to advance his Wish Machine card.
• After admitting he did not know which World Bubble contained Golem, Chen Li decided to find Kongming, a Theresa lookalike who could take them there, and produced a bell.

Chen Li used Rita and the Wish Granting Curio to summon Theresas from across the Sea of Quantum, hoping to find Kongming. After Cyrene lured most of the arrivals upstairs with bitter melon juice, Chen Li spotted a trembling Theresa in a distinctive Gothic dress and recognized her outfit.

• Chen Li chose Raiden Ei's restaurant for the summoning and had Rita ring the bell to call the Theresas.
• Theresa after Theresa appeared in the restaurant, crowding the first floor as Rita delighted in the gathering.
• Chen Li signaled Cyrene, who drew most of the Theresas upstairs by offering them bitter melon juice.
• Chen Li searched the few Theresas who remained but did not find Kongming among them.
• Chen Li approached a trembling Theresa in a black-and-red Gothic dress and recognized something about her outfit.

Chen Li restrained a starving vampire Theresa, treated her bloodlust, and watched her regain consciousness in despair over biting him. Theresa believed her bite had infected Chen Li and begged him to kill her, while her tragic memories as Otto’s experimental subject explained her guilt.

• Theresa lunged at Chen Li and bit at his neck, but could not pierce his skin.
• Chen Li healed Theresa with the Horse Talisman, restrained her with golden threads, and gave her Sanity Recovery Fluid to calm her bloodlust.
• After waking, Theresa remembered attacking Chen Li and concluded that she was a monster who deserved to die.
• Theresa begged Chen Li to kill her, claiming her bite had infected him and that they would die together if she died.
• Theresa recalled being Otto’s A-872 experiment, being named by Kallen, and escaping the laboratory with her sister to see the outside world.

Chen Li comforted Theresa after she broke down over her urge to drink blood and her wish to see the outside world, but she fell asleep before he could decide whether to fulfill that wish. Meanwhile, Kongming hid among hundreds of Theresas on the second floor, convinced that the mysterious group was targeting her.

• Theresa sobbed in Chen Li's arms, blaming herself for his death and saying she still wanted to see the outside world.
• Chen Li used the [Psychological Committee Member] Curio to diagnose Theresa's urge to drink blood and prescribed her to drink more water.
• Cyrene and Great Herta discussed how Theresa's emotional outburst could ease her psychological pressure, but Theresa fell asleep before Chen Li acted on her wish.
• Chen Li noticed a white-haired figure peeking from the second floor and turned his attention to the gathering of Theresas.
• Kongming sent another Theresa to scout downstairs, rewarded her with bitter melon juice, and hid in a corner while plotting against the people she believed were targeting her.

After Kongming fainted during a bitter melon juice promotion, Chen Li found her in an attic and examined her apparent amnesia. Kongming secretly pretended to have lost her memory and tried to make Chen Li pose as her fiancé, but he claimed he was her grandfather, leaving her stunned.

• First Ripple announced a promotion offering free bitter melon juice to anyone who recruited a new Theresa, and Detective Theresa pointed out Kongming as someone who had never tried it.
• Kongming argued with Detective Theresa over the misunderstanding and fainted from anger, prompting First Ripple to declare the floor under attack.
• Kongming woke in an attic beside Chen Li and a sleeping Theresa, then pretended not to remember who she was or where she was.
• Chen Li used the Eye of Heavenly Wisdom, learned Kongming was faking amnesia, and acted as if he believed her.
• Kongming tried to steer Chen Li into claiming he was her fiancé, but Chen Li introduced himself as her grandfather.

Chen Li tried to convince Kongming that he was her grandfather by listing her private preferences and summoning Fu Xuan to pose as her grandmother. Kongming resisted the explanation but began to waver, while Fu Xuan’s affectionate behavior toward Chen Li left her wondering whether she had become their wingman.

• Chen Li claimed Kongming was his granddaughter and recited her favorite foods and trusted companion to prove he knew her well.
• Kongming pointed to the sleeping Luna Kindred, and Chen Li said she was Kongming’s twin younger sister.
• Chen Li summoned Fu Xuan, who played along as Kongming’s grandmother and revealed Kongming’s height, weight, and other preferences.
• Fu Xuan embraced Chen Li and called him her husband, prompting Kongming to suspect she had become a wingman.
• Kongming accidentally called Chen Li Grandpa, and Chen Li explained that Fu Xuan was a long-lived Xianzhou native over a hundred years old before she pinched his waist.