Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lianqiu’s team finished clearing the Void anomalies and prepared to enter Strawberry Parfait’s Dream World while discovering that Syd had entered the Void with Old Syd. Jiang promised to repair the sleeping construct, and the team found the unconscious Night Demon Messenger as Syd’s captain learned she was safe with them.

• Jiang Lianqiu’s team cleared over 95% of the anomaly points and sent Mech Servants into a church to rescue people trapped inside.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned that Syd had entered the Void alone with Old Syd, whose Logic Module had malfunctioned, and promised to restore it.
• Syd told Jiang Lianqiu that Old Syd was only asleep and accepted that it might lose some memories after being repaired.
• Darkness and Megumin reported finding an unconscious ram-horned girl, whom Yuzuha identified as the Night Demon Messenger.
• Jiang Lianqiu connected Syd to the Command Link, and Tsukishiro Yanagi assured Captain Will-o'-the-wisp that Syd was safe and participating in a Silver Crown mission.

Jiang Lianqiu's group rescued Lucia, learned about her connection to Yi Hai and Strawberry Parfait's past, and traveled to Blackwater Base to investigate the Simulated Void Realm. The chapter ended as Aqua and Eris prepared to open a passage to the realm inside Mirage Moon.

• Black Swan returned with an unconscious Lucia, whom Yi Xuan revived, and Lucia reunited with Yuzuha and Alice.
• Lucia explained that her father had become a Yi Hai and helped her investigate the Hollow before they said goodbye; she also revealed that her clan could communicate with Yi Hai but risked being drawn into the Hollow in their sleep.
• Ling sent information identifying Strawberry Parfait as Idrila, whose researcher parents had worked at Blackwater Base and whose abilities to see the past may have been induced during the Zero Void disaster.
• Jiang Lianqiu led the group to Blackwater Base, where Eris explained that the Simulated Void Realm's entrance lay inside Mirage Moon and its core occupied a higher dimension.
• Herta arrived speaking Henan dialect after Ruan Mei's scheme, and Aqua and Eris began praying to open the passage.

Jiang Lianqiu and Herta entered Idrila’s dream realm, where the group became separated and Hoshimi Miyabi escaped a dream of her mother. They tracked Idrila’s likely ideal life to Sui Bian Temple, where they found Ju Fufu being celebrated as a mighty senior disciple sister.

• Aqua and Goddess Eris opened the vortex gate while Black Swan contained the dream’s spread; Herta rushed through first, and Jiang Lianqiu followed with Aqua and Goddess Eris.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Herta found themselves alone in a dreamlike version of Ailidou, while the others had fallen into dreams and could not be contacted.
• Hoshimi Miyabi crashed into Jiang Lianqiu, then explained that she recognized the mother in her dream as fake because she would never argue with him or dislike him.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Herta decided to find Idrila without cutting apart her dream, and Jiang Lianqiu deduced that her ideal life might be set in her old home or at Blackwater Base.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Hoshimi Miyabi followed the address to Sui Bian Temple, where hundreds of Yun Kui Mountain disciples praised Ju Fufu as their mighty senior disciple sister.

Yi Xuan freed Ju Fufu from Idrila’s dream, while Black Swan explored Syd’s memories and uncovered evidence of an ancient cosmic war. A mysterious signal briefly halted the Mecha Servant Civilization, and Observer arrived to tell Belfast that something interesting had happened.

• Yi Xuan pecked Ju Fufu until she returned to her normal form and remembered that she had been trapped in a dream.
• Black Swan visited Syd and used tarot cards to explore her memories while Old Syd watched.
• Black Swan saw young Syd in the Hollow, then witnessed a vast war that ended in a destructive explosion and the disappearance of a radiant crystal.
• Old Syd’s Mechanical Eyes briefly lit up and sent a Ghost Signal across dimensions, causing Mech Servants throughout the Silver Crown Bases to stop for several seconds.
• Observer emerged from the shadows in Belfast’s office and said that something interesting had happened.

Observer discovered that the Mech Servants had all gone dormant for 3.14159 seconds, and Belfast urgently contacted Jiang Lianqiu through Su Shang when Command Link could not reach him. In the Simulated Void Realm, Jiang Lianqiu and his companions prepared to wake little Idrila, while Black Swan realized Syd carried a fragment of Remembrance tied to the crystal; the chapter ended with Vivian rushing in, unable to contact her darling.

• Observer told Belfast that Laplace's Demon had detected several hundred terabytes of BUG code after the Mech Servants went dormant for 3.14159 seconds, and Belfast ordered Hood to inspect the command system.
• Belfast could not reach Jiang Lianqiu through Command Link, so she summoned Su Shang to use Five Senses Resonance to contact him.
• Black Swan told Syd that the memories they had seen were a fragment of Remembrance that did not belong to her, then took her to find Jiang Lianqiu.
• Jiang Lianqiu and his companions watched little Idrila play with her parents, and he paused their approach to hear Belfast's report through Su Shang.
• Herta explained that changing pi could destabilize the laws of a miniature galaxy, and Vivian burst into Belfast's office saying she could not contact her darling.

Vivian foresaw a fleet using the Silver Crown Mecha Servants’ technology destroying Alice’s world, while Screwllum connected the threat to the Eradication Protocol and a shared origin with the Rogue Mecha Servants. In Idrila’s dream, Jiang Lianqiu met her parents, whose lingering wills had protected her, and learned that their past research was tied to her powers and suffering.

• Vivian foresaw Alice’s world being destroyed by fleets like theirs and said the attackers used Psionic Energy.
• Screwllum reported that a Ghost Signal matched the Command Link protocol and the Eradication Protocol, and proposed that the two forces had once shared an origin.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned from Black Swan that Syd’s unusual power had once helped Old Syd break its limiter to protect her.
• Wiland Murphy revealed that he and Angel Murphy were lingering wills who had stayed beside their daughter Idrila in the Void.
• Angel Murphy said that about half a year earlier, Idrila began sensing her parents in the Void and repeatedly entered it to feel their presence.
• Wiland Murphy admitted that Idrila’s condition resulted from his and Angel’s research at Blackwater Base.

Wiland and Angel revealed how they sacrificed themselves to save Hailey during the Zero Void eruption and how her uncontrolled powers created the dream. Hailey reunited with her parents before they faded away, then woke and rejoined her friends; she also explained that her subconscious had wandered into other worlds and confirmed that Yasakyoichi had met with misfortune.

• Wiland and Angel explained that they had died saving young Hailey during the Zero Void eruption and later watched over her as lingering consciousness in the Void.
• Angel helped Hailey awaken from her dream, and Wiland and Angel faded away after saying goodbye; Jiang Lianqiu gathered their remaining wills into a harmless gemstone for Hailey.
• Black Swan transported the other dreamers out, and they recounted their strange dream experiences as Hailey returned to her mature form and reunited with her friends.
• Hailey told Jiang Lianqiu that her subconscious had drifted into other worlds and had often approached Axel because of his Psionic Energy.
• Hailey confirmed that she knew Yasakyoichi, but said he had already met with misfortune.

Jiang Lianqiu and the others uncovered how his Psionic Energy and Idrila’s lost consciousness led to the Demon King’s replacement and the rift between worlds, then learned that enemies in the Simulated Void Realm had locked onto their worlds and would attack within three hours. The story then shifted to Fumizuki Academy students visiting an observatory, where they learned its telescope used technology supported by their school.

• Idrila explained that her subconscious reached the Demon King’s Castle, where a being born from Jiang Lianqiu’s Psionic Energy and other forces influenced the Demon King and Cocoon replaced him.
• Jiang Lianqiu reasoned that the mimicked Demon King opened a passage to the Simulated Void Realm, was absorbed there, and strengthened his army before leaving to destroy the world he disliked.
• Jiang Lianqiu decided to send the others home and enter the Simulated Void Realm with Herta, while Herta and Black Swan refused to leave him.
• Su Shang relayed Hood’s warning that enemies from the Simulated Void Realm had locked onto New Ailidou and Aqua’s homeworld and could arrive within three system hours.
• A mechanical broadcast declared that it was too late, and Jiang Lianqiu blamed Black Swan for triggering the signal that had awakened the enemy.
• At an observatory, Yoshii Akihisa and Sakamoto Yuji discussed daytime telescope use, while Satou Kazuma and the other students learned the facility used technology supported by their school.

Students at a planetarium spotted an enormous fleet assembling near Saturn, and Kirishima Shoko, Satou Kazuma, and others realized they needed to alert Jiang Lianqiu. Shimada Minami then sensed through the Command Link that he already knew.

• Yoshii Akihisa spotted what he thought was a spaceship through a telescope, and Himeji Mizuki soon screamed after seeing a vast fleet gathering near Saturn.
• Kirishima Shoko recognized the fleet as an emergency and set out to contact Jiang Lianqiu, while Todo Kaoru and the old curator tried to alert their own contacts.
• Satou Kazuma and Mikami Kyoya left the planetarium, and Kirishima Shoko stopped Kazuma after recognizing that he knew Qiu.
• Shimada Minami realized Kazuma had been to Belzerg and confirmed that she meant Jiang Lianqiu, not Aqua or Eris, when she spoke of the Lord God.
• Kazuma prepared to return to Axel to find Jiang Lianqiu, but Shimada Minami said the Command Link indicated that he already knew.

Jiang Lianqiu toured the Civilization Judgment as the Silver Crown assembled allies and prepared for the Eradication Protocol’s attack on nearly ten universes. With the crisis far beyond any single commander’s ability to coordinate, he remained confident in his legion’s strength but admitted he could not make detailed plans.

• Jiang Lianqiu introduced Megumin and Yuyu to the enormous Civilization Judgment, whose Ship AI, Fairy, complained that he had neglected it.
• Su Shang told Jiang Lianqiu that the Xianzhou Alliance’s fleets and commanders had offered support, while Asta reported that the Company fleet was ready to depart through the Star Gate.
• The Eradication Protocol targeted nearly ten universes, alarming the Honkai: Star Rail factions and prompting Silver Crown to reveal more of its vast military power.
• Aventurine learned that Silver Crown controlled forces and fortresses across many universes, and Jiang Lianqiu explained that he had largely stopped trying to manage the legion’s expansion.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Hood that he could not make detailed plans for a war on this scale and asked for her assessment.

Jiang Lianqiu’s forces faced the Eradication Legion as it invaded several war zones, while its attack rapidly extinguished the stars of the Canis Major Galaxy. The chapter also showed people on Earth celebrating a successful crewed lunar landing.

• Fairy reported that Jiang Lianqiu’s position was the Eradication Legion’s primary reconnaissance direction.
• Klyutdra learned that the enemy had chosen her war zone and prepared to command the battle, while Hysilens cautioned her.
• The Eradication Legion attacked across several war zones by disrupting the speed of light and destabilizing spacetime.
• The Canis Major Galaxy’s stars rapidly became Black Holes before the Law Stability Anchor halted the invading force’s expansion.
• Jiang Lianqiu’s fleet detected enemy warships resembling Servant Legion ships, but their hulls appeared translucent and light-made.
• A lunar landing team touched down on the moon, and viewers across Earth celebrated as the astronauts began their work.

Three astronauts survived a mysterious energy beam that exposed a seemingly impossible cosmic phenomenon, while Jiang Lianqiu’s fleet gained the upper hand against a technologically matched enemy because its awakened Machine Souls were ecstatic. The enemy’s Joint Shield collapsed, and Jiang Lianqiu’s forces launched Gravity Tear Bombs to prevent the opposing fleet from escaping.

• Zhao Peng, Liu Hexiang, and Chen Dongling saw an azure beam pass over the Moon, lost contact with Ground Command Center, and later discovered that all three were unharmed.
• Ground Command Center told Zhao Peng to abandon the original mission after scientists determined that an energy torrent from the Canis Major Galaxy had reached the Solar System seemingly without delay.
• Hood ordered the fleet to attack the Eradication Fleet, but the enemy’s Joint Shield withstood their opening volleys.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned from Hood and Fairy that their fleet had the advantage because its Machine Souls had undergone Psionic Awakening and were ecstatic.
• Jiang Lianqiu’s forces broke the enemy’s Joint Shield with another wave of Warp Jump bombs, then launched Gravity Tear Bombs to stop the enemy fleet from fleeing.

Hood’s Gravity Tear Bombs disrupted the Eradication Fleet’s reinforcements, and the allied forces launched a counterattack. Stelle’s newfound ability to control the Stellar Railway helped trap and destroy the enemy fleet, leaving the battle won and the train returning to the Civilization Judgment.

• Hood’s Gravity Tear Bombs twisted newly arrived Sanction capital ships and threw the Eradication Fleet’s deployment into panic.
• Zuikaku called for the second wave, and Stelle charged the Stellar Railway into the enemy formation with Mydei fighting alongside her.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned from Xiadie that Mydei and Lord Blade were competing over their deaths, while Himeko panicked about Stelle taking the train into battle.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Himeko discovered that Stelle could control the Stellar Railway, while Pom-Pom begged them to stop her from wrecking it.
• The Stellar Railway laid silver tracks that divided the enemy fleet into isolated regions, allowing the allied forces to destroy the ships as they fled.
• Jiang Lianqiu called Stelle back, and she guided the Stellar Railway into the Civilization Judgment.

Stelle returned from Ruan Mei’s experiment with the ability to connect to the train’s thoughts and the power Acheron left behind, though Jiang Lianqiu suspected Aha had turned the experiment into one of its schemes. After the Alliance defeated the invaders, Jiang Lianqiu prepared to enter the Simulated Void Realm, while Herta revealed that Kafka had warned her of a future in which Iron Tomb turned her into a universe-destroying Demon King.

• Stelle leaped from the train and reunited with Jiang Lianqiu, but Himeko scolded and spanked her for recklessly charging into battle.
• Stelle explained that Ruan Mei had used Laigus’s research to try to awaken her power, and that she had gained a connection to the train and inherited power Acheron left on it.
• Stelle admitted that Aha had spoken to her after the experiment, prompting Jiang Lianqiu to suspect Aha had influenced what happened.
• Fei Xiao reported that the Alliance and its allies had defeated the invaders, but contamination had destabilized the Malz Star Ring Zone and its Silver Rail.
• Jiang Lianqiu decided not to oppose the Corporation’s plans to study the contaminated zone and focused on preparing to enter the Simulated Void Realm.
• Herta told Jiang Lianqiu that Kafka had warned her she would become a Demon King and slaughter the universe if he had not gone to Amphoreus.

Jiang Lianqiu, Himeko, Herta, and the Astral Express Crew prepared to enter the Simulated Void Realm aboard the Stellar Railway. The train reached the realm safely, where the crew saw a dark, ruined expanse filled with drifting skyscraper wreckage.

• Himeko proposed using the Stellar Railway to enter the Simulated Void Realm, and Jiang Lianqiu agreed after learning Stelle could make the train break through its limits.
• Herta brought a swarm of specialized Herta Dolls aboard the train, while March 7th and Stelle were overwhelmed by the puppets.
• Himeko led the crew to the locomotive, and Pom-Pom announced their departure from Ophiuchus Starport toward the Simulated Void Realm.
• Stelle guided the Stellar Railway through Warp Jump, and March 7th collapsed from dizziness despite the smooth ride.
• The train arrived in the Simulated Void Realm, where the crew saw dark-red space filled with drifting ruins and shattered skyscrapers.

The crew entered the Simulated Void Realm aboard the Stellar Railway and discovered a cosmic graveyard filled with psionic planets and the enormous rib of the Immortal Dragon God. After Herta decided to investigate outside, Jiang Lianqiu stopped her and she teased him about whether he would let her get hurt.

• Jiang Lianqiu explained that the train was passing through a high-dimensional entrance amid the ruins of Old Ailidou, and Stelle held his hand as the train traveled onward.
• Herta noticed that the train was weaving Silver Rail energy into a network, and Stelle used her connection to Preservation to establish contact with the unfamiliar world.
• Jiang Lianqiu sensed that the purple lights were planets enveloped in dense Psionic Atmosphere, then guided the train toward a startling sight.
• The crew reached a celestial graveyard and saw a colossal rib of the Immortal Dragon God, which Herta calculated was 230 million kilometers long.
• Herta prepared to go outside, but Jiang Lianqiu stopped her and she teased him about whether he would really let anything happen to her.

Jiang Lianqiu and the others explored the Dragon God Remains, where Herta failed to take a sample and Jiang used Cyrene’s power to read the rib’s memories. He discovered Nibelungen had visited the Simulated Void Realm and that both the Rogue Mecha Servants and the Eradication Protocol were suffering from confused self-perceptions.

• Herta directed her Little Automatons to explore the Simulated Void Realm while Jiang Lianqiu, Stelle, and March 7th followed her toward the Dragon God Ribs.
• Herta’s drill broke against the rib, and Stelle’s Flame Lance also failed to leave a mark.
• Changye Yue warned Herta not to endanger March 7th, and Jiang Lianqiu used Cyrene’s power to read the rib’s memories.
• Jiang Lianqiu saw Nibelungen worshipping the Dragon God Remains and absorbing power from the rib.
• The memories showed the Rogue Mecha Servants and the Eradication Protocol arriving in the realm and resuming their battle; Nibelungen plunged into the fight and was critically injured.
• Jiang Lianqiu realized that both fleets were mistaking their own forces for the enemy because their self-perceptions had become unstable.

Jiang Lianqiu learned that the Mech Servants and Eradication Protocol had merged after a mysterious Psionic Energy disaster, while Herta suspected a strange crystal caused their conflicting identities. Himeko then discovered a suspicious planet near the Dragon God Remains, and Jiang Lianqiu led the group across its barren sands toward something he had detected.

• Jiang Lianqiu recalled how an Ecological Immigrant Ship exploded, a Psionic Energy shockwave expelled Nibelungen, and the Mech Servants and Eradication Protocol merged into one faction.
• March 7th, Stelle, and Herta woke Jiang Lianqiu from his memory-reading state, and he explained what he had seen before they discussed the factions’ unexplained cognitive confusion.
• Herta connected the confusion to the strange crystal, while Jiang Lianqiu warned her that researching the cursed Dragon God Remains could be dangerous.
• A Little Automaton relayed Himeko’s discovery that nearby planets seemed to be patchworks from different worlds, and the group chose to investigate one whose probe had failed.
• The Astral Express descended through the Psionic Atmosphere onto a lifeless desert planet, where Jiang Lianqiu detected something and directed Pom-Pom toward it.

Jiang Lianqiu parted the Sea of Sand and uncovered an ancient city he identified as the Xianzhou Alliance’s lost homeworld, then used Su Shang’s Five Senses Link to tell Fu Xuan about it. His crude message instead provoked Fu Xuan, who confronted him while Qingque was caught in the middle.

• March 7th hid beneath Jiang Lianqiu’s cloak, and he secretly teased her while Herta noticed her flustered expression.
• Jiang Lianqiu stopped the wind and sand and used his power over earth to reveal a vast, ancient city beneath the dunes.
• Jiang Lianqiu identified the city as the Xianzhou Alliance’s mother planet and read an inscription about an emperor who sent Xianzhou ships searching for the Method of Longevity.
• Stelle failed to message Fu Xuan, so Jiang Lianqiu linked with Su Shang and sent Fu Xuan a crude message about her stocking pictures and a treasure.
• Fu Xuan questioned Jiang Lianqiu through Su Shang, threatened to punish Su Shang, and shut the office door when Qingque tried to leave.
• Jiang Lianqiu teased Fu Xuan by bringing up Qingque and the Penacony bathhouse, and Fu Xuan accused Qingque before Jiang Lianqiu told her to stop using Qingque to jab at him.

Jiang Lianqiu told Fu Xuan that he had found the Xianzhou Alliance’s lost mother planet inside the Simulated Void Realm, where he and his companions were investigating an Imperial Mausoleum and the hidden Eradication Protocol. After Fu Xuan reacted with concern and attacked him through Su Shang’s body, Jiang Lianqiu and the others continued toward the ancient city.

• Qingque served Jiang Lianqiu tea, and Fu Xuan’s mood shifted as he teased her about making time to see her.
• Jiang Lianqiu revealed that he had found the Alliance’s mother planet and its Imperial Mausoleum inside the Simulated Void Realm, leaving Fu Xuan stunned.
• Fu Xuan recognized the mother planet’s spiritual and political importance, then warned Jiang Lianqiu to be careful as he explored the dangerous realm.
• Fu Xuan kicked Su Shang in the face through their linked senses, and Su Shang mistook the attack for a reward from Jiang Lianqiu.
• Jiang Lianqiu, March 7th, and Stelle reached the ancient city, whose traditional architecture concealed traces of advanced technology.