Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lianqiu and the others broke into the Imperial Mausoleum and discovered an Abundance Divine Miracle growing over the emperor’s coffin. As Jiang Lianqiu reached toward the tree to contact the strange consciousness within it, the tree began to glow rosy, and Herta warned him to let go.

• Himeko found that the mausoleum’s outer Defense System still had a weak energy reaction, and Stelle proposed using a Baseball Bat or the train to break in.
• Stelle fired the Siege Cannon at the gate, destroying the barrier and opening the mausoleum.
• A strange squeaking voice echoed through the passageway, and Jiang Lianqiu sensed a weak, chaotic consciousness ahead.
• The group found a Glazed Golden Tree growing from the emperor’s coffin, and Himeko recognized it as an Abundance Divine Miracle.
• Jiang Lianqiu sensed something familiar in the consciousness on the tree and touched its roots, prompting the tree to glow rosy as Herta shouted for him to let go.

Jiang Lianqiu purified the Glazed Golden Tree and spoke with the Core Flame of the previous Master of the Mecha Servants, who revealed that the Zeroth people had concealed their identity and fabricated history to protect the Mecha Servants. The Core Flame explained that the Zeroth people had closed the Void Realm and killed an Evil God, but it was nearing dissipation and could not remember what happened afterward.

• Jiang Lianqiu purified the Glazed Golden Tree by touching it, and the Core Flame emerged from its lotus.
• The Core Flame revealed that it was a former Master of the Mecha Servants and that the Masters had been Zeroth people, not the race described in the archives.
• The Core Flame explained that the Zeroth people had fabricated history, created the Time Worm, and erased a crucial period so the Mecha Servants would not learn the truth about their extinction.
• The Core Flame said the Zeroth people had lost control, closed the Void Realm themselves, and killed an Evil God that had been born there.
• The Core Flame explained that the Zeroth people had discovered the Void Realm viewed life, matter, and the universe as burdens, then admitted it had forgotten what happened after they sealed the Void Realm.
• The Core Flame warned Jiang Lianqiu that it was close to dissipating and that a figure inside the coffin had mixed into its consciousness.

Jiang Lianqiu learned from the Zeroth person's Core Flame how the Ascension Faction's attempt to manufacture Authorization triggered a cosmic catastrophe and revealed that Jiang Lianqiu had inherited the missing Authorization. The chapter ended with the group hearing how the lucid Zeroth people and Mech Servants kept resisting and researching despite repeatedly losing their sanity.

• The Zeroth person's Core Flame recounted how the Closed Door Sect sealed the Void Realm while the Ascension Faction pursued collective ascension, and both plans failed.
• The Core Flame explained that the Ascension Faction created a degraded counterfeit seal, but its research disrupted a universe whose awakening consciousness carried the Authorization they sought.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned that the universe's nascent consciousness was destroyed and its Authorization passed to him, though he had been human before becoming its bearer.
• The Core Flame explained that the unleashed Psionic Energy caused widespread disasters, and the Ascension Faction and its Mech Servants became The Eradication Protocol.
• The group learned that the Closed Door Sect's attempts to save their corrupted comrades exposed them to the Meme Virus, while the Immortal Dragon God's fall produced the Simulated Void Realm.
• March 7th listened as the Core Flame described the Zeroth people and Mech Servants repeatedly going mad and waking again while continuing to resist and search for a solution.

Jiang Lianqiu learned how the Zeroth people and the Ancient Kingdom Emperor created the Rogue Mech Servants and sealed the mad survivors in eternal sleep, but Little Flame’s final warning revealed that dead universes could no longer return to the sealed Void Realm. As Herta warned of the danger ahead, the story shifted to Jing Yuan, Su Shang, and Yun Li as the Alliance thanked Jiang Lianqiu for his achievement.

• Little Flame explained that the Zeroth people had designed the Mech Servants’ Authorization system and that the Ancient Kingdom Emperor had shared a body with a Zeroth person after Abundance and Permanence destroyed his world.
• The Emperor used the Dragon God’s curse to put the Zeroth people and Mech Servants into cursed sleep, while the Awakened spread a virus that left the sleepers outside the Simulated Void Realm a chance to awaken under Jiang Lianqiu’s leadership.
• Little Flame revealed that the Awakened had sacrificed themselves to put every Zeroth person to sleep and that the Emperor had died after the mutated Abundance power trapped his consciousness in the Glazed Golden Tree.
• Before disappearing, Little Flame warned Jiang Lianqiu to beware a universe that died but could not return; Herta explained that sealed Void Realm doors could leave dead universes stranded and potentially produce undead armies or Hollow-related dangers.
• Jing Yuan calmly enjoyed tea while Su Shang and Yun Li watched Jiang Lianqiu, and the Alliance expressed its gratitude to him for his achievement.

The Xianzhou Alliance recovered its homeworld and entrusted it to Jiang Lianqiu, while Fu Xuan gave him the Cloud Cavalry Army’s tiger tally. Yun Li and Su Shang investigated a restricted courtyard and discovered Darkness and Black Swan bound inside, leaving Black Swan full of regret over her impulsive actions.

• Huai Yan and Fei Xiao thanked Jiang Lianqiu for helping recover the Alliance’s homeworld, and Fu Xuan gave him the Cloud Cavalry Army’s tiger tally.
• Jing Yuan explained that the Alliance would entrust its homeworld to Jiang Lianqiu in Silver Crown, where the remaining Psionic Energy could be handled.
• Yun Li led Su Shang to a restricted courtyard after suspecting someone was being held inside.
• Su Shang’s presence made Jiang Lianqiu’s restriction disappear, and she entered the courtyard before running out, flustered and embarrassed.
• Jiang Lianqiu found Darkness and Black Swan bound in the room, where Darkness worried that Su Shang had discovered her unusual hobby and Black Swan regretted provoking another mess.

Jiang Lianqiu explained how Syd’s suppressed emotions and Old Syd’s awakened consciousness were connected to the Ascension Faction’s experiment, then went to Yun Kui Mountain to check on her. There, Ju Fufu was overwhelmed by Syd’s teammates demanding to see her, and Jiang Lianqiu identified them as the Oberon Squad.

• Black Swan recovered from Darkness’s memory illusion, and Jiang Lianqiu freed her while warning her about the danger of recklessly opening Blind Boxes.
• Black Swan described her isolation from the Garden of Recollection’s factions, and Jiang Lianqiu explained how Syd’s heart had been suppressed by an Ascension Faction command code from an illegal crystal experiment.
• Jiang Lianqiu revealed that Syd’s command code had awakened Old Syd’s self, allowing the two of them to learn about hearts and grow together.
• Jiang Lianqiu went to Yun Kui Mountain to visit Syd and found Ju Fufu distressed because a group claiming to be Syd’s teammates had arrived.
• Trigger recognized the visitors as members of the Oberon Squad, and Jiang Lianqiu told Ju Fufu to let her handle them.

Jiang Lianqiu visited Idrila at the base and learned that she had awakened the ability to see the past after he rescued her from the Hollow. Idrila led him to find Syd hiding in an air duct, and the chapter ended with Syd happily reuniting with him.

• Jiang Lianqiu found Idrila writing at a drink shop, where her tentacles misbehaved and embarrassed her.
• Idrila told Jiang Lianqiu that her hallucinations had eased after he rescued her and that she had apparently undergone Psionic Awakening, gaining the ability to see the past.
• Idrila led Jiang Lianqiu to an air duct where Syd had hidden, and she used a tentacle to wake the sleeping girl.
• Syd emerged from the duct, embraced Jiang Lianqiu, and then climbed onto her Children's Scooter.

Jiang Lianqiu welcomed Cyrene, who had suddenly grown into an adult form and wanted to use her Remembrance abilities to help uncover secrets in his past. At Yun Kui Mountain, Cyrene reunited with Ju Fufu while Idrila reflected on the Amphoreus files she had just read.

• Jiang Lianqiu explained how the Synesthesia Beacon let him understand Syd and told Syd and Idrila to seek help if their newly awakened Psionic Energy caused problems.
• Cyrene appeared during Idrila's invitation to Jiang Lianqiu and revealed her new adult form, startling him and calming Idrila's Psionic Energy.
• Idrila recognized Cyrene as her online friend, the Pink Little Sea Hare, and explained that Cyrene had helped her work through doubts about Remembrance.
• Cyrene said she wanted to help Jiang Lianqiu uncover his unresolved past, including mysteries connected to the Time Worm, the Azur Lane World, and Nibelungen.
• At Yun Kui Mountain, Cyrene teased Ju Fufu and admired the grounds while Idrila read about Amphoreus and felt inspired by the Chrysos Heirs' repeated resistance.

Cyrene explained how Jiang Lianqiu’s past actions helped create Demugge and bound Cyrene to Amphoreus’s cycles. She revealed that after escaping the simulation, she entered the depths of the real Amphoreus’s Emperor’s Scepter, where Demugge’s grave lay.

• Cyrene told Jiang Lianqiu that the Primal Scepter, the recovered solar megastructure, and the Destruction Path had combined to create Demugge inside Iron Tomb.
• Cyrene explained that Demugge and Cyrene were the same person at different points in time, and that Jiang Lianqiu had disrupted their cycle.
• Cyrene recounted how the first Cyrene arose in a simulation and sought the hero she sensed beyond Amphoreus.
• Cyrene revealed that Jiang Lianqiu’s ripples on the Nihility Path helped the first Cyrene escape Amphoreus’s self-simulation.
• Cyrene clarified that she later created the illusion that the Seed of Years had returned in every Eternal Recurrence, then entered the Emperor’s Scepter and Demugge’s grave.

Cyrene explained how she and Demugge endured millions of Eternal Recurrences before using the Seed of Years to send Demugge back as the newborn Cyrene, breaking Amphoreus’s cycle. The next day, Idrila met Yuzuha and Alice, then left for the Yun Kui Mountain rear-base after Jiang Lianqiu summoned her.

• Cyrene explained that Nihility prevented her from being born in the simulation, so she entered the Demugge Matrix and told Demugge the story of her life, gaining Authorization to return to the Eternal Recurrence.
• After each cycle, Cyrene recovered her memories, returned to Demugge’s tomb, and told her what had happened; after more than fifteen million cycles, Demugge was born and helped bear the growing Seed of Years.
• Cyrene and Demugge used the Seed of Years to travel back to before Cyrene’s birth, and Demugge became the newborn Cyrene beneath the tree at Aedes Elysiae.
• At Guangying Plaza, Idrila spent the afternoon with Yuzuha and Alice, who joked about her writing, Alice’s heterochromatic eyes, and Idrila’s wayward tentacle.
• After receiving a message that Jiang Lianqiu had returned, Idrila left the café and went to the Yun Kui Mountain rear-base, where a Mech Servant loudly declared that the Commander’s orders would be carried out.

Jiang Lianqiu, Cyrene, Herta, and Idrila prepared to trace the past connected to Authorization, with Cyrene and Idrila agreeing to investigate while Jiang Lianqiu anchored the present. They arrived at Herta’s vast space testing ground, where Jiang Lianqiu asked when she had built it.

• Idrila was teleported to a starport after a Mech Servant asked her to put in a good word with Jiang Lianqiu, but she realized she had never learned the servant’s name.
• Herta examined Cyrene, and Cyrene explained that she had concealed her recovered memories until she confirmed that Demugge and Cyrene were the same person.
• Sirius brought Idrila to the laboratory, where Herta and Jiang Lianqiu teased her about her tentacles before Cyrene intervened.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that Cyrene and Idrila would trace the past related to Authorization while he stayed behind as the present Anchor, and Idrila agreed to help.
• Herta led the group to a space testing ground powered by a contained Black Hole, and Jiang Lianqiu stopped her from proposing to open the Void Realm’s gate.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Herta when she had built the testing ground, which he had never seen before.

Jiang Lianqiu oversaw Herta’s rewind experiment while Cyrene and Idrila traveled backward through time, anchored by Aglaea’s golden threads. They found a mirror showing Elysia as a baby, and Jiang Lianqiu began to suspect Cyrene was connected to her appearance.

• Herta had Jiang Lianqiu, Cyrene, and Idrila stand close together on the platform, and Cyrene merged into Jiang Lianqiu as his Memetic Spirit.
• Herta activated the rewind, allowing Jiang Lianqiu to receive vague impressions of what Cyrene and Idrila encountered.
• Cyrene and Idrila struggled against the pressure of moving backward through time until Jiang Lianqiu used Aglaea’s golden threads to anchor them and transmit what they saw.
• Cyrene warned Idrila not to touch the fragments of the past, since Idrila lacked the power to travel through time safely.
• Cyrene and Idrila found a Mirror of Time showing a pink-haired baby; Cyrene said the child was not her, and Jiang Lianqiu identified her as Elysia.
• Jiang Lianqiu wondered whether Cyrene’s connection to Elysia explained why the rewind showed Elysia’s birth near Vostok-51 Town.

Cyrene used the Mirror of Time to leave a pink crystal and a blessing for the infant Elysia, hoping to preserve the Previous Civilization’s memories and create new possibilities after its end. As she, Jiang Lianqiu, and Idrila continued through the past, they found the decaying universe of Teyvat and sensed genuine life awakening inside Frost Moon.

• Cyrene used her glimpse of Elysia’s future to place a pink crystal in the infant’s swaddling cloth, and a couple found and adopted her.
• Cyrene said Elysia would struggle to preserve the memories of her civilization but encouraged her to keep trying.
• Jiang Lianqiu, Cyrene, and Idrila traveled through time fragments and reached a universe filled with dim, dying stars.
• Idrila spotted Teyvat, where the Extreme Evil Knight broke through the Fake Sky and fled into space.
• Cyrene sensed a faint consciousness inside Frost Moon, and Idrila recognized the radiance of genuine life there.
• Jiang Lianqiu concluded that the Authorization concept had briefly descended into Teyvat’s past, since he could not otherwise have appeared there.

Jiang Lianqiu’s time-tracing experiment revealed that Authorization had appeared in Teyvat’s past, where Alice accidentally captured golden light that entered her body and made her pregnant. After the experiment, Welt and Dan Heng raised an urgent problem involving Welt’s Earth and the Origin Ruler from Earth’s Previous Civilization.

• Jiang Lianqiu’s group watched Alice provoke the Frost Moon, which nearly fired its main cannon before his future golden light calmed it.
• The newborn Frost Moon Goddess fell toward Nod-Krai, while Alice captured a trace of golden light that entered her body and left her pregnant.
• Jiang Lianqiu ended the time-tracing experiment as Cyrene and Idrila grew tired, and he told Herta that Teyvat had once been connected to Authorization and faced cosmic decay.
• Jiang Lianqiu returned home with Cyrene and Idrila and found Welt, Dan Heng, Himeko, Black Swan, and Hanabi waiting for him.
• Welt told Jiang Lianqiu that he and Dan Heng had come because of a serious problem involving his hometown, and Black Swan explained that only the Garden of Recollection’s mirrors could reflect that distant world.

Welt explained that Earth and its Solar System had vanished from history, apparently devoured by the Time Worm, and Jiang Lianqiu realized they might still be recoverable. He arranged for Von Noymiau to search for the lost world, then visited the empty starfield where it had been.

• Welt told Jiang Lianqiu that records linked Earth to the Immortal Star God and that the Solar System had disappeared completely from memory and history.
• Black Swan and Hanabi revealed that their search for Earth had uncovered signs of a Time Worm, which Welt believed had erased his hometown from time.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that the Time Worm devoured time and history rather than physical objects, so Earth might still exist outside the normal timeline.
• Jiang Lianqiu said the gift left for Elysia could act as a beacon, and Welt realized that Kiana might have a chance to return to life.
• Jiang Lianqiu arranged for Von Noymiau to search for Earth using technology from the Xianzhou homeworld, then visited the starfield where the Solar System had been and found it completely blank.

Jiang Lianqiu reunited with Cipher, then joined Aglaea, Feng Jin, and the fainted Idrila in the bath, where Idrila’s uncontrolled tentacles ensnared everyone until Aglaea bound them. The next morning, Aglaea prepared to return to Amphoreus while allowing Feng Jin to stay with Jiang Lianqiu for a few more days.

• Cipher visited Jiang Lianqiu with the seamstress and teased him about her cleanliness, prompting him to advise her to bathe and get scratched by her.
• Jiang Lianqiu entered the bath and embraced Feng Jin, then discovered that Aglaea and the fainted Idrila were there too.
• Idrila’s uncontrolled tentacles wrapped around Jiang Lianqiu, Feng Jin, and Aglaea, so Aglaea used golden threads to restrain them.
• Feng Jin examined Idrila and found that she had fainted from mental exhaustion, likely caused by reversing the years earlier that day.
• The next morning, Aglaea woke beside Jiang Lianqiu and Feng Jin, then explained that she needed to return to Amphoreus but would let Feng Jin stay a few more days.

Jiang Lianqiu heard an unknown girl singing a lullaby directly into his mind and learned that the voice belonged to Kutal, a moon-connected girl worshipped by the Frostmoon Scions. Herta discovered the mysterious link was draining Jiang Lianqiu’s mental power, but its source and the way to fix it remained unknown.

• Aglaea left with Little Ika, and Jiang Lianqiu heard an unfamiliar girl humming while Feng Jin heard nothing.
• Kutal’s memories showed how the Frostmoon Scions named her their Moon God and how she used her fading powers to help them.
• Kutal sang her lullaby, and Jiang Lianqiu and Herta exchanged complaints through their unexplained mental connection.
• Herta analyzed the song’s lyrics and found that they repeatedly referred to the moon.
• At Herta’s laboratory, Herta told Jiang Lianqiu that the connection was abnormal, could not be traced, and was depleting his mental power.

Jiang Lianqiu investigated the mysterious voice linked to him and learned that Kutal had been singing moon songs in Nod-Krai after March 7th and Stelle suggested them. Herta proposed using the Primal Scepter to trace the connection, but warned it could activate every other scepter in the universe.

• March 7th and Stelle suggested moon-themed songs for Jiang Lianqiu to teach the mysterious girl, and Kutal sang them through the night in Nod-Krai while Alice watched.
• Herta determined that a relay had created an erroneous Mental Link between Jiang Lianqiu and the voice's owner, and Jiang Lianqiu sensed the link break when Kutal fainted.
• Herta told Jiang Lianqiu that the voice's owner had been steadily weakening and might lose the ability to speak in five or six hundred years.
• Herta proposed that Jiang Lianqiu use the Primal Scepter to trace the Signal Source, but warned that doing so might activate the universe's other scepters.

Jiang Lianqiu continued hearing Kutal’s intermittent voice while Alice tried to understand Kutal’s condition and origins. Meanwhile, the Silver Crown detected an approaching world contaminated by Class Three Pollution, and its latest analysis showed a silver-haired girl falling toward a familiar planet.

• Jiang Lianqiu gave up on activating the remaining scepters, but Kutal’s voice disturbed him again that night.
• Alice found that her Dodoco detector could not detect Kutal’s communication with Jiang Lianqiu, then learned Kutal sensed something familiar inside her.
• Alice explained Klee’s mysterious origins and taught Kutal about family and friendship; Kutal accepted Alice as a friend and agreed to learn a way to ease her weakening condition.
• Belfast told Jiang Lianqiu that the Space-Time Hub had detected an approaching world whose coordinates could not be locked and that it carried Class Three Pollution.
• A Mechanical Servant displayed the latest analysis, showing a silver-haired girl falling toward a planet Jiang Lianqiu recognized.

Jiang Lianqiu traced an anomalous signal from Teyvat to meet Istaroth, who had brought him to Natlan outside the present timeline. Istaroth explained that she had blocked Furina, Buer, and Nahida from contacting him until an event involving Aether and Paimon occurred.

• Jiang Lianqiu learned that Phanes's Fake Sky and Ley Lines prevented him from sensing or contacting Furina, Buer, and Nahida, though Buer had once urged him not to worry.
• Mech Servants detected a recursive time signal from Teyvat and traced it to an unstable channel, so Jiang Lianqiu teleported through it while Belfast monitored him.
• Istaroth moved Jiang Lianqiu from the Sea of Embers to a mountain in Natlan, where he existed outside the present timeline.
• Istaroth admitted that she had told Buer, Furina, and Nahida to wait before contacting Jiang Lianqiu, because a future event involving Aether had to happen first.
• Istaroth explained that the Ley Lines had recorded Aether's awakening five hundred years in the future, and Jiang Lianqiu suspected the event involved Aether finding Paimon.