Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fangxu had Na Dou Tong and the Zhuge Family assess and build the Xing Tian armor from Zhuge Qing’s blueprints. After six months of secret work, the first prototype came online.

• Zhao Fangxu summoned Elder Liu and other master artifact crafters to evaluate Zhuge Qing’s blueprints, and they confirmed the design could be built.
• Elder Liu estimated the team could complete a prototype within half a year if they had enough materials.
• Zhao Fangxu launched the top-secret “War God” plan, with Zhuge Qing leading artifact refiners from Na Dou Tong and the Zhuge Family.
• The refiners grew to regard Zhuge Qing as a revolutionary authority after his designs transformed their understanding of artifact crafting.
• Six months later, the Xing Tian armor’s energy core activated, and the artifact refiners celebrated the first prototype.

Zhao Fangxu showed Uncle Li footage of an armored suit’s extraordinary capabilities and revealed that an ordinary person could operate it. Uncle Li recognized its military potential, and Zhao Fangxu asked him to help bring the technology to higher authorities.

• Zhao Fangxu visited Uncle Li and showed him footage of a crimson armored figure lifting a truck, outrunning a sports car, withstanding gunfire, and slicing through armor.
• Uncle Li dismissed the footage as a display of an Outsider’s power until Zhao Fangxu said an ordinary person had controlled the suit.
• Zhao Fangxu explained that the suit was developed by the scientist Zhuge Qing and that the company had tested it over the past half year.
• Uncle Li realized disciplined soldiers equipped with the armor could transform military operations and asked whether the results were genuine.
• Zhao Fangxu confirmed the tests were real and asked Uncle Li to help introduce the technology to higher authorities.

Zhuge Qing presented the Xing Tian armor to senior military officials and technical experts, explaining how Primordial Qi let it function as a brain-controlled extension of the wearer. After the armor passed its strength and speed tests, the generals discussed its military potential and proposed a real combat trial, with Zhao Fangxu suggesting the operation against the Medicine Immortal Society.

• Zhuge Qing explained that the Xing Tian armor used Primordial Qi for power and direct brain control, then invited the officials to test it.
• The lead general wore the prototype and discovered that it moved like part of his body.
• The general smashed a reinforced armor target and destroyed every test target in under three seconds.
• The military officials questioned Zhuge Qing about production, maintenance, endurance, and specialized abilities, and he described the armor’s potential adaptability.
• The lead general asked to see the armor perform in real combat, and Zhao Fangxu asked whether he meant the operation to eliminate the Medicine Immortal Society.

Zhuge Qing prepared the Xing Tian Armor for live combat against the Medicine Immortal Society and trained Leng Feng to fight by trusting the armor’s predictions. As Leng Feng mastered it, the South China Division received orders to cooperate in testing the weapon.

• Zhao Fangxu explained that the Medicine Immortal Society was a gu-using cult involved in widespread human trafficking, and Zhuge Qing said one armored soldier could theoretically wipe it out.
• The generals approved Zhuge Qing’s proposal to train the armor’s wearer before deploying it in the operation.
• Leng Feng of the War Wolf Squadron arrived at the top-secret base, and Zhuge Qing began training him to treat the Xing Tian Armor as an extension of his body.
• After several days of practice, Leng Feng sensed the armor’s predictions and used an unexpected kick to send Zhuge Qing flying.
• Liao Zhong received an order for the South China Division to help test new single-soldier equipment and questioned the decision.

Leng Feng entered the Medicine Immortal Society’s stronghold wearing the Xing Tian Armor to test its capabilities and found the cult sacrificing children. He killed the Society’s leader in a single strike, leaving the battle just beginning.

• Liao Zhong objected to Leng Feng entering the operation alone, but Zhuge Qing explained that the Xing Tian Armor’s life-support system could resist Gu poison and that the mission would test its limits.
• Leng Feng donned the crimson Xing Tian Armor and walked into the mist-shrouded mountains while the military remained on standby.
• At the Medicine Immortal Society’s cavern, Leng Feng found a hollow-eyed child on an altar and a heap of children’s remains among venomous creatures.
• The Society’s leader confronted Leng Feng, who used Shifting Shadows to appear behind him and sever his head with the energy sword.

Leng Feng used the Xingtian Armor to destroy the Medicine Immortal Society and rescue the girl, while the successful test stunned the military command. Zhuge Qing then warned national leaders that Behemoth was close to using collective belief to make superpowered beings emerge on a large scale, prompting secret meetings among top officials.

• Leng Feng's Xingtian Armor resisted the cultists' Gu attacks and killed every Medicine Immortal Society member in the cave, leaving only the little girl alive.
• Liao Zhong and the other command-center officials watched the live feed in shock as Zhuge Qing ordered the epidemic prevention team to secure the scene and sent out the Xing Tian armor test data.
• Zhuge Qing met a national leader in the capital and argued that Outsiders' arts could be studied scientifically because they were objective and reproducible.
• Zhuge Qing explained that Behemoth was nearing a breakthrough in using collective belief and a staged supervillain invasion to make superheroes and supervillains manifest through the Heavenly Dao.
• After Zhuge Qing left, officials compiled the conversation into a top-level encrypted report, and secret meetings began across relevant departments.

After the Xing Tian Armor’s combat test and Behemoth’s plans were assessed as national threats, the government created the South Heavenly Gate project to develop the armor under Zhuge Qing’s leadership. Zhuge Qing began assembling its research team and moved into Na Dou Tong’s South China Division, where he faced the rescued Gu Body Sacred Child.

• Senior officials reviewed the Xing Tian Armor test and Behemoth threat report, then ordered Na Dou Tong’s research resources transferred into a new, highly classified South Heavenly Gate project led by Zhuge Qing.
• Zhao Fangxu received the order to separate Na Dou Tong’s research departments and personnel, accepting the loss as an unavoidable shift in national policy.
• Zhuge Qing received broad government authorization and began building a research headquarters in a remote mountain region.
• Zhuge Qing took in Na Dou Tong’s research staff and submitted a list of experts from leading institutes for recruitment.
• Zhuge Qing led a core team to Na Dou Tong’s South China Division and stood before the rescued Gu Body Sacred Child on a data screen.

Zhuge Qing and Liao Zhong explained that the Gu Body Sacred Child’s cultivation had fused Gu insects with her organs, leaving her emotionally numb and steadily draining her life. They believed she had no treatment and would live to thirty at most, but the chapter ended with someone suggesting there might still be a way.

• Leng Feng asked Zhuge Qing why the rescued Gu Body Sacred Child showed no emotion or response.
• Zhuge Qing explained that the Medicine Immortal Society’s Gu Body technique forced its practitioner to endure insects devouring her organs while maintaining perfect stillness.
• Liao Zhong said the Gu insects and the girl’s organs had formed an inseparable parasitic system, and completing the technique had made her a living source of Gu poison.
• Zhuge Qing and Liao Zhong said the technique was consuming her Primordial Qi and that doctors estimated she would live to thirty at most.
• Leng Feng demanded to know whether anyone in the Outsider world could save her, and Liao Zhong said conventional treatments could not help.
• Someone said the girl’s condition might not be a dead end after all.

Zhuge Qing reassured Leng Feng and Liao Zhong that the injured child could eventually be treated, then organized South Heavenly Gate into research teams to investigate Outsiders. After authorizing a major survey of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, he returned to the mysterious space and found four unfamiliar people there.

• Zhuge Qing told Leng Feng and Liao Zhong that advanced biotechnology or the Eight Extraordinary Skills might restore the child's body, and tasked them with helping her respond to the outside world.
• Zhuge Qing and Meng Delu began studying materials seized from the Medicine Immortal Society, including its gu-cultivation methods and the Gu Body Sacred Child's Gu Mother Qi.
• Zhuge Qing introduced South Heavenly Gate to its gathered staff and assigned teams to develop the Xing Tian Armor, study Primordial Qi and the seized samples, and investigate ancient Outsider relics.
• Zhuge Qing made the Seeking the Way team's highest-priority archaeological target the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and promised professional Outsider support.
• Several days later, Zhuge Qing returned to the mysterious space and found four unfamiliar people there.

Zhuge Qing and the others welcomed four newcomers from worlds threatened by a dying sun, ruled by soul research, or caught up in a deadly Holy Grail War. After sharing memories, the group discussed possible help for the newcomers, while Kayaba Akihiko hinted that Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald was in for bad luck.

• Zhuge Qing assessed the four newcomers as they arrived and exchanged memories with them.
• Zhuge Qing learned that one Zhang Qi was working on the Moving Mountain Project to flee a sun nearing its end, while another Zhang Qi lived in a world threatened by the Trisolarans.
• Zhuge Qing discovered that Mayuri Kurotsuchi led Soul Society's Research and Development Institute and that Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald was a Clock Tower lord preparing for the Fuyuki Holy Grail War.
• The two Zhang Qis asked Masaki Keigo to seek Ultraman's help with the dying sun, and Masaki agreed to try.
• Kayaba Akihiko teased Kenneth about his bad luck, and the group turned to hear what he meant.

Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald reviewed his inherited memories of Fate/Zero and learned how his former self was ruined and killed during the Fourth Holy Grail War. He realized that across every known timeline, his death appeared to be the fixed condition for Waver Velvet to become Lord El-Melloi II.

• Kenneth recalled his former self’s prodigious talent, prestigious lineage, and engagement to Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri.
• He reviewed how Waver Velvet stole his Holy Relic, forcing him to summon Lancer with another catalyst.
• Kenneth remembered Kiritsugu Emiya destroying his workshop and crippling him with Origin Bullets.
• Sola betrayed Kenneth, took his Command Spells, and forced him to order Diarmuid Ua Duibhne to kill himself before Kiritsugu shot Kenneth.
• Kenneth concluded that Waver’s rise as Lord El-Melloi II depended on his death in every known timeline.

Kenneth reconsidered his Holy Grail War plans and tested which powers from other worlds he could use in the Type-Moon world. When he traced a Rune rune, his Command Seals flared and began forcibly summoning a Heroic Spirit.

• Kenneth decided he would participate in the Holy Grail War but would change his predecessor’s plan and leave Sola-Ui behind.
• Kenneth rejected Naruto techniques, EVA and Kryonaut technology, and Bleach Kidō as unusable in his current circumstances.
• Kenneth successfully formed a faint flame with Qimen techniques and theorized that their weakness came from lacking a connection to the Chinese magecraft system.
• Kenneth traced a Rune rune from the Marvel world, and his Command Seals blazed as his magical energy drained in a sudden summoning reaction.

Kenneth accidentally activated Fuyuki’s Heroic Spirit summoning ritual by copying Runes from another world, and he tried to stop the uncontrolled summoning. The powerful Servant overwhelmed his interference, appeared in his ruined study, and identified herself as Scathach.

• Kenneth realized that writing the Marvel Runes had triggered a summoning despite his lack of a Holy Relic.
• Kenneth reasoned that a Heroic Spirit had contacted the Holy Grail and descended in response to his otherworldly Runes.
• Kenneth poured magical energy into his Command Spells to interrupt the summoning, but the force on the other end effortlessly consumed it.
• A magical storm demolished Kenneth’s study, and a purple-haired woman emerged from the smoke and teased him about his welcome.
• The woman introduced herself as Scathach of the Land of Shadows, and Kenneth reacted with shock.

Kenneth made a deal with Scathach to win the Holy Grail War in exchange for sharing his otherworldly Rune knowledge, but she also declared him her disciple. Kenneth and Scathach headed for Mifune City, while three unfamiliar figures appeared in Fuyuki City.

• Kenneth identified the woman as Scathach and questioned how she could be summoned despite still being alive.
• Scathach explained that she had followed the connection to Kenneth because she was interested in his otherworldly Rune knowledge.
• Kenneth offered to share his knowledge if Scathach helped him win the Holy Grail War, and she accepted.
• Scathach declared that Kenneth would be her disciple, just as his assistant burst into the study and mistook them for lovers.
• Kenneth left the Clock Tower with Scathach for Mifune City instead of Fuyuki City.
• A black-haired man, a short-haired girl with glasses, an orange-haired girl, and a small white beast appeared in a secluded corner of Fuyuki City.

Kenneth and Scathach visited Aozaki Touko at her agency in Mifune City and offered to lift her Sealing Designation in exchange for her help cracking the Einzbern Family’s technology. Touko agreed to hear what Kenneth wanted, leaving their bargain unresolved.

• Kenneth and Scathach arrived at Garan no Do, where Scathach shattered Aozaki Touko’s Rune barrier with a touch.
• Touko realized her barrier had been breached and prepared to defend herself when a visitor knocked at the agency door.
• Kenneth entered, introduced himself, and revealed his Command Spells and Scathach as his Servant.
• Kenneth offered to help lift Touko’s Sealing Designation, and she asked what he wanted in return.
• Kenneth said he needed an expert to crack the Einzbern Family’s technology.

Lord El-Melloi II brought Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash Kyrielight to Fuyuki to find allies for the Holy Grail War, while Kenneth arrived with Scathach and Aozaki Touko and chose to dine before acting. At the docks, Lord El-Melloi II’s prediction of Kenneth’s opening move failed, and an explosion sounded elsewhere.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash Kyrielight, and Lord El-Melloi II discussed the altered Holy Grail War, and he said they needed allies to defeat their most troublesome opponent.
• Kenneth, Scathach, and Aozaki Touko sensed that they were being watched after entering Fuyuki City.
• Kenneth dismissed the need to act immediately and said they should find somewhere to eat, confident that he had prepared for Kiritsugu Emiya’s trump card.
• At the docks, Lord El-Melloi II expected Kenneth to send Diarmuid to provoke the other Masters, but no Servant appeared.
• Lord El-Melloi II wondered whether the Singularity had changed events from the start, then an explosion erupted in the opposite direction.

Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash, and Lord El-Melloi II intervened when Gilles de Rais attacked Saber and Irisviel on the beach. Their arrival triggered a clash with a mysterious Black Knight, while Kenneth realized the unexpected newcomers had disrupted his plans.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka and Lord El-Melloi II found Saber defending Irisviel from Gilles de Rais and his sea demons.
• Lord El-Melloi II persuaded Fujimaru Ritsuka to help Saber’s group, and Mash charged into the sea demons with her shield.
• Saber recognized Mash’s shield as resembling the Round Table, but a Black Knight appeared and attacked her, shouting, “Arthur.”
• Mash was overcome by sudden fury and charged at the Black Knight against her Master’s orders.
• From a distant cliff, Kenneth recognized a possible future Waver Velvet among the newcomers, while Aozaki Touko became fascinated by Mash and Irisviel.
• Kenneth realized the interlopers had disrupted his plan to use the corrupted Holy Grail as leverage with the Einzbern Family.

Scathach entered the battlefield and killed Caster, ending the sea demon attack before Rider descended in his chariot and declared his identity. Lord El-Melloi II recognized Iskandar and his young Master, leaving him shaken by the familiar yet altered Holy Grail War.

• Kenneth sent Scathach into the battle, where she cleared a path through the sea demons and overwhelmed the other fighters.
• Scathach pierced Gilles de Rais and his grimoire with her spears, killing Caster and causing the sea demons to vanish.
• The black knight withdrew as Saber guarded Irisviel and Mash protected Lord El-Melloi II.
• Scathach challenged Saber, but a lightning rift opened and Iskandar arrived in his divine bull chariot.
• Iskandar announced his True Name and invited the others to join him, while his young Master angrily scolded him for revealing it.
• Lord El-Melloi II recognized Iskandar and the boy, then furrowed his brow at the familiar yet changed scene.

Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald appeared on the beach and confronted his former student, Waver Velvet, while Saber and Irisviel escaped amid the confusion. After Rider departed, Kenneth turned his attention to Lord El-Melloi II and Mash, whose origins intrigued him.

• Saber refused Iskandar's offer to protect her, and Scathach showed she would not submit to him.
• Kenneth emerged from the shadows and greeted Waver, revealing that the two were former professor and student.
• Kiritsugu ordered Maiya to deploy a smoke grenade and told Saber to retreat, while Kenneth dispersed the smoke with a gale.
• Saber and Irisviel vanished, leaving others to believe Rider and Lancer had formed an alliance.
• Iskandar recognized the ruse, carried Waver onto the Gordius Wheel, and departed with him.
• Kenneth watched Rider leave, then turned toward Lord El-Melloi II and Mash.

Lord El-Melloi II met Kenneth in Fuyuki and claimed Chaldea had been built under Kenneth’s leadership to secure his cooperation. Kenneth accepted the story, and Chaldea’s data showed the Singularity rapidly extending into the future.

• Lord El-Melloi II identified himself and his companions as representatives of Reines, and Kenneth invited them to explain in a villa.
• Kenneth summoned a maid from his modified Moon Spirit Essence, and Fujimaru Ritsuka compared it to the Terminator.
• Lord El-Melloi II explained Chaldea’s time-travel system and falsely credited Kenneth with uniting the magecraft organizations to build it.
• Kenneth accepted the explanation and reasoned that developing Chaldea would have followed naturally from his research.
• Romani Archaman saw the Singularity’s data extending toward the future at an unbelievable speed.