Chapter Summaries

Klee befriended the village children by giving them bombs, and their day of blasting fish and exploring left the village’s surroundings badly damaged. At dinner, Lu Qiming revealed his plan to prepare Klee for godhood by hunting sun gods, and he and Yukari Yakumo set their sights on Amaterasu.

• Klee asked Lu Qiming to play with the village children, then handed Kana and the others bombs and showed them how to blast fish.
• Kana threw a bomb into the river, destroying its channel and damaging nearby houses, while Lu Qiming told Klee to take future explosions outside the village.
• Klee led the children into the mountains, where they blasted three peaks, leveled another mountain, and bombed nearby lakes and rivers before returning with fish and wild beasts.
• Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko visited Lu Qiming’s cabin, where Yukari noticed Klee’s unusual flame body and bloodline.
• Lu Qiming explained that Klee had a path to godhood and said the sun gods of countless worlds would become her nourishment.
• Lu Qiming asked Yukari Yakumo where Amaterasu was, and they agreed that a god was about to be hunted.

Lu Qiming discussed plans to hunt Amaterasu with Yukari Yakumo, then continued Kohaku’s training until Yuuka Kazami urged him to let Kohaku venture out on her own. Lu Qiming agreed, and he and Kohaku left to pursue her long-held goal of confronting Kaguya Houraisan.

• Yuyuko reminded Yukari Yakumo that Amaterasu had disappeared for thousands of years, so Lu Qiming proposed finding Yorihime Watatsuki and using Amaterasu’s divine power to locate her.
• Lu Qiming trained Kohaku for three years, and she reached Great Demon strength while repeatedly challenging Yuuka Kazami.
• Kohaku used a self-detonation technique she had developed with Klee to injure Yuuka Kazami for the first time, and Lu Qiming decided to teach her battle-axe techniques.
• Yuuka Kazami told Lu Qiming that Kohaku needed to leave his protection and grow through her own experiences, and Lu Qiming agreed.
• Lu Qiming and Kohaku left the village, where Kohaku renewed her determination to find Kaguya Houraisan; Lu Qiming reflected on how the world’s supernatural beings might eventually become legends.

Lu Qiming taught Kohaku to condense spiritual power into battle axes, then went to bring Klee to Hakugyokurou. After Klee devastated a glacier with her bombs, Shikieiki Yamaxanadu redirected them to the Sanzu River, where Klee handed bombs to the trapped souls before Kominami Abeno ferried them onward.

• Lu Qiming reassured Kohaku about the future and taught her a new battle-axe fighting style, leaving her to recover in the village.
• Klee bombed the far-northern glacier until it collapsed, then blasted a giant fish into the air.
• Lu Qiming caught the fish, took Klee, and attempted to travel to Hakugyokurou, but Shikieiki Yamaxanadu diverted them to the Sanzu River.
• Klee gave bombs to the souls trapped in the Sanzu River, believing they wanted to blast fish.
• Kominami Abeno arrived, introduced herself as a Grim Reaper, and began ferrying Lu Qiming and Klee toward Hakugyokurou.

Klee’s bombs wiped out the spirits in the Sanzu River, prompting Shikieiki Yamaxanadu to lecture Lu Qiming, Klee, and Kominami Abeno at Hakugyokurou. Shikieiki ordered Lu Qiming and Kominami Abeno to help replace the lost spirits, then joined the others for pastries beneath the cherry blossoms.

• Klee’s bombs exploded across the Sanzu River, vaporizing its spirits and turning the riverbank’s red spider lilies to ash.
• Lu Qiming sped away with Klee and Kominami Abeno, and the group arrived at Hakugyokurou, where Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko welcomed them.
• Kominami Abeno planned to avoid Shikieiki Yamaxanadu by staying at Hakugyokurou, while Yuyuko offered to treat the group to food provided by Lu Qiming.
• Shikieiki Yamaxanadu arrived, struck Kominami Abeno with her Rod of Remorse, and lectured Lu Qiming and the others about the dead spirits and their past actions.
• Lu Qiming stopped Shikieiki from continuing her lecture to Klee, and Shikieiki ordered him and Kominami Abeno to help capture replacement ghosts.
• Yukari Yakumo invited Shikieiki to admire the cherry blossoms, and Shikieiki accepted while eating Lu Qiming’s pastries.

Yukari Yakumo accelerated her plan to establish Gensokyo as the world's Spiritual Energy began vanishing, and Lu Qiming agreed to let Klee become its anchor. Yukari began using the Boundary of Illusion and Reality to isolate the prepared continent, leaving the Great Barrier's establishment underway.

• Yukari Yakumo told Lu Qiming that the world's accelerated slumber forced her to establish the Great Barrier ahead of schedule and asked Klee to anchor its Spiritual Energy.
• Klee agreed to become the anchor, while Yukari Yakumo revealed that Kagome would serve as the shrine Miko connecting Gensokyo to reality; Kagome agreed to the role.
• Lu Qiming, Yukari Yakumo, Klee, and their companions joined Ran Yakumo at the prepared site, where Klee's enormous, flame-covered true body appeared.
• Klee's roots spread beneath and around the continent, supporting it and forming a shrine as the Great Barrier's anchor points lit up.
• Yukari Yakumo rose above Klee's crown and enveloped the continent in the Boundary of Illusion and Reality.

Yukari Yakumo brought Lu Qiming and the others into Gensokyo, explained how the Great Barrier would isolate it, and used Kagome as a medium to draw Spiritual Energy into the land. While Kagome remained to complete the process, Kikyo and Inuyasha set out to collect the remaining Four Souls Jewel Shards, and Lu Qiming stayed in Gensokyo with his companions.

• As Yukari Yakumo's barrier made the continent fade from memory, Lu Qiming led the group through a shrine passage into Gensokyo, where their memories returned.
• Yukari Yakumo explained that the Great Barrier reversed the common sense of Gensokyo and the outside world, and that the group would not forget Gensokyo if they left.
• Kagome became the barrier's medium, transforming into a miko and drawing Spiritual Energy into Gensokyo to sustain its inhabitants during the world's future dormancy.
• Kikyo decided to collect the remaining Four Souls Jewel Shards and invite willing villagers to Gensokyo; Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango left with her, while Shippo stayed with Kagome.
• Lu Qiming relaxed in Gensokyo with his companions, and Yuyuko arrived hungry after giving his stored food to Shikieiki; A-Yin secretly watched them and thought that Lu Qiming was hers.

A-Yin, Divine Judgment, and Fan Yu prepared an elaborate meal from unusual ingredients to make Lu Qiming and the others succumb to its effects. After eating, Lu Qiming became dazed, but he regained his senses before anything happened with Divine Judgment and sent her away, then stayed with A-Yin and Fan Yu.

• A-Yin told Lu Qiming she had learned cooking from Chef Komatsu and went to prepare a meal while he wondered why Divine Judgment and Fan Yu were absent.
• Divine Judgment and Fan Yu brought A-Yin parts from a lust-influencing monster, and A-Yin revealed the ingredients were meant to keep Lu Qiming from sharing his affection with others.
• A-Yin, Divine Judgment, and Fan Yu served their dishes to Lu Qiming, Yukari Yakumo, Yuyuko, and the others, whose behavior grew increasingly affected as they ate.
• A-Yin carried the dazed Lu Qiming to the Shrine, but he regained his senses, sent Divine Judgment into the Divine Kingdom, and welcomed Fan Yu to stay with him and A-Yin.
• Shippo, who had eaten only a little, waited in the lake and guessed that Lu Qiming and the others had knowingly eaten the meal.

Lu Qiming woke to A-Yin and Fan Yu’s carefully prepared morning, while Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko plotted to use the previous night’s mishap to secure his agreement to an undisclosed plan. The chapter ended with Lu Qiming assuming Yukari would ask to let Yuyuko feast in his Divine Kingdom, unaware that she and Yuyuko had already schemed together.

• Lu Qiming woke when a newly transformed Sparrow Demon chirped at his window, and A-Yin and Fan Yu carried out their planned surprise beneath the quilt.
• Kominami Abeno fled Yukari Yakumo’s room, learned from Shippo how Fan Yu had carried her and the others there, and decided she had been an innocent bystander.
• Yukari Yakumo told Yuyuko she had decided to pursue a plan involving Lu Qiming and would use the incident to make him agree.
• Lu Qiming emerged with A-Yin and Fan Yu, misunderstood Yukari Yakumo’s dangerous expression, and asked whether A-Yin had made something strange grow on her.
• Fan Yu admitted she had put Yukari Yakumo, Yuyuko, and Kominami Abeno in the same room, and Lu Qiming promised to compensate Yukari for the mistake.
• Yukari Yakumo accepted Lu Qiming’s promise without revealing her plan, while he assumed she would ask to let Yuyuko eat in his Divine Kingdom.

Two years after the Great Barrier was established, Lu Qiming returned to the Shrine after growing stronger through daily battles with Yuuka Kazami and the oni. Yukari Yakumo had recorded his embarrassing Apostle Transformation, and Lu Qiming agreed to spend the night transformed as her body pillow in exchange for the recording.

• Two years after the Great Barrier formed, Spiritual Energy had transformed many plants and animals into demons, and a Sparrow Demon recognized Lu Qiming when he returned to the Shrine.
• Lu Qiming explained that a year of fighting Yuuka Kazami, Suika Ibuki, and the other oni had strengthened him, but he regretted revealing that Apostle Transformation turned him into a golden-haired little loli.
• Yukari Yakumo showed Lu Qiming a recording of his transformation and offered to give it up if he let her cuddle him in that form for a night.
• Lu Qiming accepted Yukari Yakumo's condition, while A-Yin kept Kominami Abeno, Yuyuko, and Shippo occupied with food.
• That night, Lu Qiming transformed and joined Yukari Yakumo in bed, where she hugged him as her body pillow.

Lu Qiming checked his progress toward completing the Trial Mission and planned to hunt gods after the Great Barrier was finished. Inuyasha and his companions returned with the Four Souls Jewel, and Kikyo planned to purify it and place it at Hakurei Shrine.

• A-Yin used a Sparrow Demon to wake Lu Qiming, who retrieved a crystal from Yukari Yakumo and checked his status panel.
• Lu Qiming decided to wait for the Great Barrier to be completed before hunting gods to gain experience and advance his Trial Mission.
• Yuuka Kazami and the Four Heavenly Kings of the Oni Tribe arrived to catch Lu Qiming, and they spent hours eating and drinking together.
• Inuyasha and his companions returned, and Hoshiguma Yuugi was force-feeding wine to Shippo until Inuyasha pulled him away.
• Inuyasha asked when Kagome would wake, and Lu Qiming said it would take at most a year.
• Kikyo said she would purify the Four Souls Jewel and place it at Hakurei Shrine, then Inuyasha told Yukari Yakumo that only half the villagers had agreed to move.

Lu Qiming learned about foreign gods from Hoshiguma Yuugi, who gave him Helios’s stolen Sun Chariot as bait for a future hunt. As he and the oni began their Trial Mission, Yukari Yakumo moved willing villagers toward Gensokyo, while Fujiwara Mokou continued searching for Kaguya Houraisan.

• Yukari Yakumo agreed that the villagers could serve as an anchor for the Hakurei Great Barrier and planned to collect those willing to leave.
• Lu Qiming asked Suika Ibuki where to find gods to hunt, and she brought Hoshiguma Yuugi over to share what she knew about foreign gods.
• Hoshiguma Yuugi gave Lu Qiming Helios’s Sun Chariot and explained how she had stolen it from the Sun God.
• Lu Qiming, Yuuka Kazami, Suika Ibuki, Hoshiguma Yuugi, and the others entered a white space to begin their Trial Mission and immediately fought each other.
• Yukari Yakumo sent the villagers willing to leave through a Gap, then went to govern nonhuman factions willing to join Gensokyo.
• Fujiwara Mokou killed a group of youkai who could not tell her where Kaguya Houraisan was and continued searching for her.

Fujiwara Mokou fought a Phoenix sent by Amaterasu, survived its attempts to destroy her body, soul, and will, and eventually absorbed its undying flames and power. She awoke months later beneath the magma lake, stronger than before, and decided to return to the village to ask Lu Qiming and Yuuka Kazami what had happened.

• Mokou froze the fires near the magma lake and decided to return to the village, but the Phoenix ambushed her and knocked her into the lava.
• The Phoenix attacked Mokou for being an undying sinner, and Mokou fought back with Magic Cannons and an explosion, repeatedly reviving after devastating injuries.
• The Phoenix used Amaterasu's power to burn Mokou's soul, but Mokou revived again and revealed her name before the Phoenix attacked her will directly.
• Mokou fought the Phoenix within her consciousness while her body lay beneath the magma lake, and months later the Phoenix's phantom dissolved into her body.
• Mokou awoke with control over the Phoenix's flames and a fused power that made her Magic Cannon stronger, then resolved to return to the village and ask Lu Qiming and Yuuka Kazami about it.

Kohaku returned to the village and learned that Lu Qiming and the others had moved to Gensokyo, so she set out to find them after spending ten days with Sakura. Meanwhile, Lu Qiming unlocked a powerful fusion of his five class abilities during a battle with Yuuka Kazami and the oni, and the fight ended when Yukari Yakumo intervened as their training space collapsed.

• Kohaku returned to the village, reunited with Sakura and the children, and learned that Grandma Kaede, Purple, and the others had gone to Gensokyo in the far east.
• Kohaku stayed for ten days to keep Sakura company and help teach the village children before leaving toward the east to search for Gensokyo.
• Lu Qiming fought Suika Ibuki and Hoshiguma Yuugi, then combined the powers of his five classes and overwhelmed them with his transformed strength.
• Yuuka Kazami and the Four Heavenly Kings of the Oni Tribe joined the battle against Lu Qiming, and their attacks pushed Yukari Yakumo's reinforced space to the verge of collapse.
• Yukari Yakumo and the Great Tengu entered the battlefield and stopped the fight before it destroyed the planet, while Lu Qiming's system offered him the option to submit his completed Trial Mission.

Aya Shameimaru was caught after planning to publish a false scandal about Lu Qiming and the Great Demons, while the Great Tengu prepared to move Youkai Mountain into Gensokyo. Kagome awakened as the Great Barrier’s god, learned the limits of her future role as Hakurei Miko, and Lu Qiming turned to Klee’s awakening.

• Aya Shameimaru tried to flee after Lu Qiming overheard her planned Bunbunmaru News headline, so he handed her over to Yukari Yakumo for a lesson at the Great Tengu’s request.
• The daitengu introduced herself to Lu Qiming, then returned to Youkai Mountain to prepare its move into Gensokyo; Yuuka Kazami lifted the Sunflower Field, and Yukari Yakumo transported it through a Gap.
• Kagome awakened while merging with the Great Barrier, and Inuyasha tried to save her with Tessaiga before Lu Qiming and Yukari Yakumo stopped him.
• Yukari Yakumo expanded the Great Barrier and restored Kagome, who learned that she had become its god and gained authority over it; she also warned Kagome that a Hakurei Miko could serve only until twenty years after the Hakurei Great Barrier was established.
• Yukari Yakumo explained that retired Hakurei Mikos could become hermits and train successors, while Lu Qiming sensed Klee awakening and submitted his Trial Mission to the System.

Lu Qiming celebrated Klee’s birth as a sun spirit and welcomed Fujiwara Mokou back to Gensokyo. He discovered that a Phoenix was secretly eroding Kohaku’s consciousness and used Divine Judgment to kill it before leading them to the banquet.

• The system rewarded Lu Qiming for completing the Trial Mission, strengthened its authority, and granted him designated transmigration authority.
• Klee awakened with a complete body, and Lu Qiming announced a banquet to celebrate her new life and the completion of the Great Barrier.
• Fujiwara Mokou arrived at Gensokyo and showed Klee her new Undying Flame, which Lu Qiming recognized as Phoenix power.
• Lu Qiming examined Kohaku and discovered that the Phoenix had hidden in her soul and was slowly eroding her consciousness.
• Lu Qiming used Divine Judgment to kill the Phoenix at its root, freeing Kohaku from its influence.
• Lu Qiming led Klee and Kohaku through a passage into Gensokyo to join the banquet.

Lu Qiming left Gensokyo after the banquet, while Klee and Kominami Abeno set out with Kohaku to search for spirits and Kaguya. Kaguya had secretly brought the Lost Bamboo Forest into Gensokyo and was eagerly waiting for Kohaku to find her.

• Lu Qiming departed at dawn, leaving Klee behind, and Kominami Abeno promised to help her follow him someday.
• Klee invited Kohaku to travel with her and Kominami Abeno, and Kohaku buried her own revived corpse beneath a tree after dying to shake off her hangover.
• Yukari Yakumo and Ran Yakumo discussed locating Amaterasu, while Yukari noticed the Lost Bamboo Forest had appeared in Gensokyo.
• Kaguya Houraisan and Eirin Yagokoro settled the Lost Bamboo Forest in Gensokyo to evade the Watatsuki sisters, and Kaguya recognized Kohaku's presence and looked forward to meeting her again.
• Eirin Yagokoro tested a new medicine on Reisen, who transformed into a huge muscular figure and pursued Inaba Tei.
• Kohaku, Klee, and Kominami Abeno set off together, and Kohaku vowed to find Kaguya.

Ariel hid the crown containing the revived Amphitrite, but Lu Qiming found it and returned it in exchange for her help locating the continent’s gods. After healing Ariel, Lu Qiming watched as she went to confront the Sun Divine Temple’s party approaching the island.

• Charles and Roryli ordered their crew to use enslaved people to lure out the wounded fishman who had stolen the Divine Temple’s relic.
• Ariel checked the hidden crown and restored her strength by praying to it, then planned to draw pursuers away from the revived Amphitrite.
• Lu Qiming removed the crown from its sea-clam hiding place, returned it to Ariel, and asked her to guide him to the continent’s gods.
• Ariel explained the gods and their pantheons, while Lu Qiming planned to seek out the Sun God and its family.
• Lu Qiming healed Ariel, then pointed out the approaching Sun Divine Temple party; Ariel went to deal with them.

Lu Qiming used Ariel’s crown to arrange a way into the Sun God’s Divine Kingdom and traveled with Roryli to the continent. He arrived at the Sun God Temple carrying the crown, where a priest greeted him and asked whether he had come to return the god-bestowed object.

• Roryli led Charles’s soldiers and slaves to search for Ariel, who killed them with magic when they attacked her.
• Lu Qiming stopped Ariel from killing Charles, took the crown, hid Ariel inside it, and killed Charles before catching up with Roryli.
• Lu Qiming persuaded Roryli and the surviving soldiers to take him back to the continent, then left them near Basenona as Chuck Veen’s fleet approached.
• Chuck Veen killed Roryli and ordered the wooden ship’s crew slaughtered after learning that Charles was dead and the crown was gone.
• Lu Qiming reached the Sun God Temple carrying the crown, and a white-and-gold-robed man greeted him and asked if he had come to return the god-bestowed object.

Lu Qiming returned the Mermaid Tribe Crown to the Sun God Temple and used its blessing ritual to draw Helios into opening a passage to his Divine Kingdom. Lu Qiming entered with the crown, while the high priest realized the Sun God was in danger and secretly fled with his trusted aides.

• Lu Qiming handed the Mermaid Tribe Crown to the high priest and refused any reward beyond receiving the Sun God's Falna.
• As the high priest prayed for a blessing, Helios sensed the Sun Chariot's aura on Lu Qiming and Amphitrite's aura in the crown.
• Helios opened a passage to his Divine Kingdom, believing his power made him safe despite suspecting a possible conspiracy.
• Lu Qiming took the Mermaid Tribe Crown, warned the high priest to leave the Sun God's sphere of influence, and entered the passage.
• The high priest concealed Lu Qiming's warning from the temple knights, then escaped the continent that night with trusted aides and their wealth.

Lu Qiming sealed the Sun God Temple, lured Helios into reclaiming the Sun Chariot, then ambushed him with bombs and fought him with Divine Judgment. Helios survived Lu Qiming’s first killing blow by using an absorbed god source as a substitute, and Lu Qiming charged at him again, determined to kill him repeatedly.

• Lu Qiming entered Helios’s temple, handed him the Mermaid Tribe Crown, and secretly sealed the temple while Helios extracted the Sun Chariot’s aura from him.
• Lu Qiming produced the Sun Chariot, then struck Helios with the Holy Light Battle Hammer as Helios eagerly reclaimed it.
• Helios sat on the Sun Chariot, triggering Lu Qiming’s hidden bombs; the blasts devastated the temple and severely injured Helios.
• Lu Qiming confronted the wounded Helios, who recovered with a blood-colored sun and attacked him with a golden spear.
• Lu Qiming beheaded Helios with Divine Judgment, but Helios survived by sacrificing an absorbed god source.
• Lu Qiming identified himself as Helios’s friend and charged at him again, intending to kill him until he could no longer revive.