Chapter Summaries

Guiji revealed that he had replaced Murata Ryusuke and summoned his newly deceased self through the Holy Grail War, while planning to reconnect with the Astral Express and seek clues about A Kivili. After receiving an invitation to travel to the Astral Express, he worried that King's Land's good-evil assessment would expose his destructive deeds.

• Guiji and Murata Ryusuke revealed that they were one person, and that the Holy Grail had summoned Guiji after Nanook eliminated every individual named Guiji.
• Guiji explained that Aha had inflicted tenosynovitis and a truth-or-dare weakness on him during the Aha Subjugation Battle, with both effects carrying over into reality.
• A Huishi Academy student delivered Murata Ryusuke a letter from the Astral Express inviting him to travel there through the Boundary Stone.
• Murata Ryusuke explained that registering as a temporary agent of King's Land required an assessment of six-dimensional attributes and good-evil value.
• Guiji considered whether Stargazer Wojian's good deeds could offset the Great Extinguisher Guiji's destruction of planets and star systems.

Guiji arranged for Manyuan to revive the real Shuhu and create a crisis in Duality Paradise, hoping to force its residents into New Penacony and gain access to the Paradise Alliance. As the Lord of the Hunt fired at Shuhu, golden threads stopped his arrow before it reached the planet.

• Guiji and Murata Ryusuke planned to trigger a disaster in Duality Paradise so its residents would seek refuge in New Penacony, where Murata Ryusuke could exploit the resulting confusion.
• Guiji revealed that Manyuan might use Shuhu cells and her Command Spells to revive the real Shuhu, despite losing the ability to summon Servant Shuhu.
• A powerful life-force aura rose from Duality Paradise, and Chen Li explained that Manyuan had apparently revived Shuhu using the cells implanted in more than two hundred thousand residents.
• The Lord of the Hunt sensed Shuhu and launched a blazing arrow toward Duality Paradise, prompting the Astral Express crew to fear the planet would be destroyed.
• Golden threads emerged around the arrow and absorbed its force, stopping it just short of Duality Paradise’s atmosphere.

Chen Li agreed to accompany Feiying back to Duality Paradise, where she planned to heal the victims of Happiness Surgery, and arranged for the Astral Express to travel there. The chapter ended with Chen Li joking that he would ask Yaoshi whether the Express counted as movable or immovable property.

• Chen Li explained that Taiyi had intervened because New Penacony offered the infected survivors a chance to be cured without risking permanent death.
• Chen Li ordered Pearl to work with Yao Guang to bring Duality Paradise's survivors to New Penacony, while Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng set off to fight Shuhu with the [Jianghu Bounty Order].
• Chen Li prepared to make a late-night meal for Murata Ryusuke, and Feiying resolved to return to Duality Paradise to help cure the victims of Happiness Surgery.
• Feiying warned Chen Li that healing so many people might put her into a deep sleep and let her fierce second personality take over, but Chen Li offered to accompany her.
• Chen Li pointed out that the Astral Express could carry them to Duality Paradise, and Feiying wondered aloud whether the train was movable or immovable property.
• Chen Li said he would ask Yaoshi the same question, and Feiying wondered whether he had just said something extraordinary.

Chen Li bypassed the Astral Express’s inability to travel from New Penacony by lifting and hurling the entire train toward Duality Paradise, while Himeko went ahead to investigate Ryusuke. The chapter ended at Haiyuan TV Tower, where Manyuan, hosting the revived Shuhu, faced a formidable gathering of heroes.

• Himeko used the Boundary Stone to travel to Duality Paradise alone and investigate whether Murata Ryusuke was genuine.
• Chen Li summoned Raiden Ei and encouraged her to prepare a lavish dinner, despite Pom-Pom and Feiying’s concerns about her cooking.
• Chen Li lifted the Astral Express with one hand and threw it toward Halutopia, leaving Feiying screaming aboard the train.
• In Haiyuan City, Manyuan’s Shuhu-powered body commanded nearly two hundred thousand transformed residents while Galaxy Rangers, Heroic Souls, and bounty hunters tried to capture them safely.
• A powerful group including Yao Guang, Feixiao, Jing Yuan, Dan Heng, Silver Wolf, Sunday, Jingliu, and others gathered atop Haiyuan TV Tower to confront Shuhu.

Sunday used Dominicus to extract Shuhu’s power from infected people across Duality Paradise and transfer it to Manyuan, freeing the victims while strengthening her. As the Astral Express suddenly fell toward Haiyuan City, Himeko reunited with her father Murata Ryusuke at Huishi Academy, where their conversation ended with his question about why the Astral Express’s Master had not summoned A Kivili.

• Sunday summoned The Great Septimus—The Harmonious Choir, Dominicus, and drew Shuhu’s power out of infected people across Haiyuan City and Two-Dimensional City.
• The extracted power flowed into Manyuan, restoring the victims to their ordinary bodies and making Manyuan stronger.
• March 7th spotted the Astral Express streaking toward Haiyuan City, and Stelle realized it was falling from the sky.
• At Huishi Academy, Himeko met Murata Ryusuke, who apologized for their estrangement and agreed to apply for an agent’s jade token.
• Murata Ryusuke told Himeko how he had become Guiji’s Master, and Himeko confirmed that A Kivili had appeared at Origami University.
• Murata Ryusuke asked why the Astral Express’s Master had not summoned A Kivili, leaving Himeko to consider the complicated answer.

Chen Li arrived at Huishi Academy and alarmed Murata Ryusuke by pretending to be Himeko’s partner and Stelle’s father. He revealed that he had crashed the Astral Express into the academy courtyard, while Himeko trusted that he had a deeper reason for doing it.

• A huge crash shook Huishi Academy, and Chen Li kicked open the principal’s office door to greet Himeko.
• Chen Li summoned Stelle and introduced Murata Ryusuke as Himeko’s father, prompting Stelle to call him Grandpa.
• Chen Li teased Murata Ryusuke by implying that he and Himeko had a child together, while Himeko defended Chen Li as a good person.
• Chen Li asked whether his ride was safe, then Murata Ryusuke opened the window and saw the Astral Express embedded vertically in the courtyard.
• Murata Ryusuke confronted Himeko about Chen Li’s treatment of the Astral Express, but Himeko trusted Chen Li and moved closer to him.

Murata Ryusuke objected to Chen Li’s relationship with Himeko, but she admitted she knew he was engaged and did not mind. When Guiji tried to calculate his chances against Chen Li, Long appeared and confronted him; afterward, Chen Li, Himeko, and Murata Ryusuke returned to the nose-down Astral Express, where Himeko joined Chen Li in teasing Murata Ryusuke.

• Murata Ryusuke confronted Chen Li over Himeko, but Himeko said she knew Chen Li was engaged and did not mind.
• Stelle left to return to her raid, calling Murata Ryusuke “Grandpa” before vanishing.
• Guiji tried to calculate the possibility of killing Chen Li, but Long seized his die and confronted him in the monitoring room.
• Chen Li urged Murata Ryusuke to enter the Astral Express, which remained stuck nose-first in the ground, and defended leaving it that way as sacred.
• Murata Ryusuke worried that Guiji had gone missing after Long appeared, then complained to Himeko about Chen Li’s insults.
• Himeko suggested Murata Ryusuke get a health checkup, leaving him stunned that she seemed to take Chen Li’s side.

Chen Li brought Murata Ryusuke aboard the vertically embedded Astral Express, where Himeko's affection and Pom-Pom's trust frustrated Murata Ryusuke's attempts to discredit him. Himeko prepared to serve coffee after Murata Ryusuke displayed unexpectedly precise technical knowledge of the Express's lighting.

• Murata Ryusuke boarded the Astral Express and discovered that its internal gravity worked normally despite its vertical position.
• Chen Li carried Himeko aboard, and Himeko's affectionate behavior angered Murata Ryusuke.
• Chen Li comforted the motion-sick Feiying, while Himeko dismissed Murata Ryusuke's criticism of his closeness to another girl.
• Murata Ryusuke suggested specific repairs for a dim chandelier, prompting Chen Li to question his apparent technical expertise.
• Pom-Pom accepted Chen Li's promise to replace the kitchen after Raiden Ei's cooking and declined to punish him for embedding the Express in the ground.
• Himeko agreed to make coffee, and Murata Ryusuke requested an extra-strong serving for Chen Li after Shush mocked its lethality.

Murata Ryusuke challenged Chen Li over his relationship with Himeko, then passed out after drinking Raiden Ei’s chicken soup. Chen Li set out to wake Feiying and heal the Duality Paradise residents, but Himeko’s coffee knocked Feiying unconscious when he gave it to her as motion sickness medicine.

• Murata Ryusuke accused Chen Li of manipulating Himeko, while Shush revealed Chen Li had already been involved with multiple people before meeting her.
• Murata Ryusuke drank Himeko’s coffee while Chen Li left his cup untouched, then refused Chen Li’s offer to share it.
• Murata Ryusuke chose Raiden Ei’s chicken soup instead, drank it, and collapsed as the soup corroded the table.
• Chen Li restored the table with his Fictionalize ability and said he would wake Feiying and treat the Duality Paradise residents implanted with Abundance cells.
• Chen Li found Feiying motion-sick and gave her Himeko’s coffee as medicine, causing her to slump unconscious in his arms.
• Chen Li took a sip of the coffee to find out what had happened.

Feiying’s second personality briefly took over after drinking coffee mixed with Raiden Ei’s chicken soup, and it revealed an unusual affinity between Chen Li and the Path of Abundance. Feiying tried to investigate that connection herself, but Yao Guang arrived and interrupted her before they could leave for Haiyuan City.

• Chen Li revived Feiying with the Horse Talisman and saw her second personality open golden eyes.
• Feiying’s second personality called Chen Li her benefactor, licked his cheek, and said he tasted like home before Chen Li flicked her forehead and brought Feiying back to herself.
• Chen Li threatened to use the Monkey Talisman on Feiying’s fox ears, and Feiying apologized while claiming her second personality was responsible.
• Feiying suspected Chen Li carried an aura connected to the Path of Abundance and tried to lick his cheek to confirm it, but Chen Li held her back.
• Yao Guang teleported into the Parlor Car and teased Feiying for clinging to Chen Li, then reminded them that Haiyuan City’s situation could not wait.

Chen Li, Yao Guang, and Feiying reached Haiyuan TV Tower, where Jingliu attacked the Abundance Fiend. Feiying teased Chen Li about their shared Medicine Seeker status, but Jingliu’s powerful sword strike nearly hit her before Chen Li caught it barehanded.

• Yao Guang reported that Haiyuan City had been evacuated, and Chen Li ordered the evacuation of as many Two-Dimensional City residents as possible.
• Yao Guang opened a Teleportation Gate and teased Feiying by asking her to pay one Starstone before letting her pass for free.
• At Haiyuan TV Tower, Feiying saw Jingliu attacking Manyuan and learned from Yao Guang that Jingliu was Chen Li’s teacher and that Chen Li was also a Medicine Seeker.
• Feiying hinted that she wanted to take advantage of Chen Li’s seniority as a fellow Medicine Seeker and darted toward his cheek.
• Jingliu’s enormous crescent-shaped sword wave headed toward Feiying, and Chen Li caught and crushed it with his hand.

Chen Li and his allies killed Manyuan after defeating Shuhu, then Chen Li took charge of using Shuhu’s remaining Power of Abundance to treat the two hundred thousand people harmed by Duality Paradise. He began preparing to distribute the power himself, while Feiying doubted anyone could dose so many people precisely.

• Jingliu threatened Feiying for touching Chen Li, but Chen Li stopped their quarrel so the group could finish dealing with Shuhu.
• Blade killed Shuhu, whose body began to wither as Manyuan lamented that Duality Paradise had taken fifteen years to kill her.
• Chen Li let Manyuan die, explaining that her suffering did not excuse her later crimes against the people in the Happiness Research Society.
• Chen Li asked Feiying to use Shuhu’s Power of Abundance to heal the two hundred thousand victims, but she said she could not distribute the precise doses they needed.
• Chen Li sensed that Shuhu remained dormant inside the giant bud and gathered its remaining Life Force into golden-green light.
• Chen Li looked down at the weakened citizens of Haiyuan City and condensed the gathered power into golden-green powder.

Chen Li used the Power of Abundance to heal people, rebuild damaged structures, and restore Hatopia, while the public mistook him for the Aeon of Abundance. He reminded Feiying that she had lost their bet, then clarified that the bite he wanted was from her Ambrosial Arbor true form.

• Chen Li scattered the refined Power of Abundance across the Duality Paradise and New Penacony, directing it to the injured and damaged places.
• The power healed residents, rebuilt buildings, restored Hatopia’s resources, and revived its spirits and Imagenae, while crowds praised the Aeon of Abundance.
• Feiying questioned how Chen Li had made the Power of Abundance restore so much, and he told her to practice more before asking whether she wanted to learn.
• Chen Li refused to teach Feiying and reminded her that she had promised her life if he could heal the people; he proposed taking a bite instead.
• Feiying misunderstood his request and leaned toward him, so Chen Li flicked her forehead and explained he meant a bite from her Ambrosial Arbor true form.

Chen Li arranged for Feiying to help bring World-Painting to the Astral Express to interrogate the captive Murata Ryusuke about Guiji’s escaped hands. As Chen Li and the others returned to the train, one of Guiji’s severed hands appeared on a Pipixian’s shoulder in New Penacony.

• Chen Li asked Feiying to give him her life, and she agreed before learning he intended to assign her work after the Holy Grail War.
• Dan Heng explained that the Cold-faced Great Azure Dragon had broken Guiji’s three hands, which came alive and fled in separate directions as Guiji’s body and dice vanished.
• Chen Li asked Feiying to bring World-Painting to the Astral Express to exorcise Murata Ryusuke and question him about the escaped hands.
• Pearl offered to summon World-Painting, and Yao Guang teased her before agreeing to accompany her to the Astral Express.
• Chen Li led the group back to the Astral Express, while Jingliu chose to go with him.
• In New Penacony, a severed blue-violet hand gripped the shoulder of a short Pipixian in a green suit.

Himeko and the others discussed whether Murata Ryusuke had knowingly helped Guiji or had been manipulated, while Murata World-Painting interrogated him in the Party Car. Chen Li suggested Himeko go hear what World-Painting had learned, and he planned to add cars to the Astral Express.

• Pearl explained that Murata Ryusuke had visited worlds later destroyed by Guiji and suggested he might have been searching for Guiji to lift the World-Painting clan's curse.
• Himeko asked whether Guiji had truly died, but Chen Li said he could not confirm that all of Guiji's clones had been erased.
• March 7th wondered whether Murata Ryusuke might be a good person, prompting Himeko to consider the possibility.
• Chen Li encouraged Himeko to visit the Party Car and learn what Murata World-Painting had discovered during her interrogation of Ryusuke.
• Chen Li said he planned to use Mission Guaranteed to build additional cars for the Astral Express, while Feiying urged the group to catch up with World-Painting.

World-Painting’s interrogation of Murata Ryusuke revealed that he was Guiji, but Himeko learned that he had replaced her real father when she was six. Chen Li gave Himeko the Law on the Protection of Minors, which began striking Guiji with lightning and left his punishment underway.

• Jingliu asked to spend the night in Baiheng’s room, and Baiheng gladly went to prepare fresh bedding.
• World-Painting whipped the gagged Murata Ryusuke, while Stelle pointed out that he could not answer with cloth stuffed in his mouth.
• Stelle removed the gag, and Ryusuke begged them to stop; Chen Li explained that World-Painting’s whip was exceptionally effective against him.
• Himeko asked when Guiji had replaced her father, and Ryusuke revealed that he had taken over when Himeko was six, after killing the real Ryusuke at her mother’s funeral.
• Himeko whipped Guiji, then accepted the Law on the Protection of Minors from Chen Li, causing lightning to strike Ryusuke.

Chen Li punished Guiji while World-Painting interrogated him, then retreated to a newly built Astral Express carriage to plan more Miraculous Items. He persuaded Pixie to use her earnings to help complete his Novice Task, leaving her to work overtime while he prepared to sleep.

• Chen Li increased the lightning striking Guiji after Guiji refused to reveal where his other clones were, while World-Painting watched him suffer.
• Chen Li summoned new Astral Express carriages and announced he would sleep; Jingliu quietly followed him toward them.
• In the new carriage, Chen Li discussed Pixie's Miraculous Items and their differing approaches to choosing users.
• Chen Li told Pixie he would leave her the hundred Crystals she had earned, then clarified that he expected her to forge more items for his Novice Task.
• Pixie reluctantly agreed to work overtime but refused Chen Li's suggestion that she forge a One-star Artifact.

Chen Li began forging a Miraculous Item for Taiyi while World-Painting and Feiying left the Fate Invitation Space to visit New Penacony. Pearl stayed behind, focused on a more important task she kept to herself.

• Chen Li decided to forge an octagonal-cage Miraculous Item for Taiyi, using the Audience of Divine Ceremony Miracle Card and other materials.
• Chen Li added Crystals to the Artifact Forging Furnace and began hammering the new Miraculous Item.
• World-Painting stopped whipping Guiji after her resentment eased, and Pearl told her she could join Feiying in the Holy Grail War.
• Feiying persuaded World-Painting to leave the Invitation Space and go to New Penacony to meet a Master and Servant with a creator-and-creation relationship.
• Pearl declined to join them and kept her more important plan secret from Himeko.

Chen Li forged a powerful Miraculous Item and sent Pixie to deliver it to Taiyi, while Jingliu and Pearl separately set out to visit Chen Li during the night. Pixie helped Jingliu bypass Chen Li’s door after extracting a promise that she would keep their encounter going until sunrise.

• Stelle asked to borrow March 7th’s camera to photograph Chen Li, but Pearl discouraged her and learned how the camera worked.
• Pearl borrowed March 7th’s camera, paid her five million Credits, and headed toward Chen Li’s car after claiming she wanted to prevent anyone from bothering him.
• Jingliu left Baiheng’s room and headed for Chen Li’s room, intending to finally approach her disciple.
• Chen Li finished forging the two-star Order Octagon Cage, which could turn abstract disasters and suffering into monsters that could be defeated for great rewards.
• Chen Li asked Pixie to deliver the Order Octagon Cage to Taiyi, and Pixie encountered Jingliu outside Chen Li’s room.
• Pixie agreed to disable Chen Li’s soul recognition device for Jingliu after Jingliu promised not to let their encounter end before sunrise.

Jingliu entered Chen Li’s room with Pixie’s help, sealed the door in ice, and approached him while he was in bed. Meanwhile, Pearl set up March 7th’s camera to immobilize anyone entering the eighth car, trapping herself and Chen Li in the ninth car until sunrise.

• Pixie granted Jingliu access to Chen Li’s room and left, and Jingliu froze the door shut behind her.
• Jingliu told Chen Li to call her Master and climbed onto the bed with him.
• Pearl mounted March 7th’s snapshot camera above the door and activated its four-hour time-lapse mode.
• Pearl tested the camera by sending a reconnaissance robot into the eighth car, where it froze in place.
• Pearl entered the ninth car and shut the door, leaving herself and Chen Li trapped there until sunrise.