Chapter Summaries

Spider-girl leveled up by killing monsters while Ruan Mei collected creatures for research at Herta Space Station. In Penacony, Old Auden recruited Scott as an ordinary contestant in the Holy Grail War, which he planned to promote as a major event.

• Spider-girl asked Ruan Mei to leave monsters alive for her to kill, and she broke her teeth trying to bite an Armored Lizard before Ruan Mei healed her.
• Spider-girl killed a Venomous Frog, reached LV.4, and molted as she recovered from her injuries; Ruan Mei ordered the Purifiers to capture more monsters for study.
• After capturing six thousand monsters, Ruan Mei took Spider-girl to Herta Space Station to evolve and brought along the egg containing Uruha Mebuki, a reincarnated Earth Dragon.
• Ruan Mei and Herta examined Uruha Mebuki's egg and began investigating how monsters leveled up.
• Old Auden told Scott that he had been chosen as a Holy Grail War contestant because his ordinary wish to become a P45 executive could make him an appealing underdog story.
• Old Auden said the contestants included Penacony shareholders and special guests, including the Astral Express Nameless, and directed Scott to Robin for details.

Scott learned that the Express Crew would compete in Penacony’s Holy Grail War, but Aha stole the Holy Grail before the event could begin. Aha launched a new Holy Grail War on the Mirthful Little Broken Ball, and Old Auden decided to enter a team to win the Grail back.

• Scott celebrated that the Express Crew would be among the contestants and vowed to win the Holy Grail War.
• Aha stole the Holy Grail from Old Auden’s basement, prompting Old Auden to halt preparations and mobilize Penacony’s Family to search for it.
• Robin told the train’s guests that the Holy Grail War might not proceed, but Hu Tao pointed them to Aha’s Group Chat announcement for a new competition.
• Aha announced an independently run Holy Grail War, and Sparkle said participants could already summon Servants at the Grand Theater of Mirth.
• Robin told Old Auden that Aha had taken the Holy Grail, and Old Auden stopped the search and assembled a team to compete for it.

Aha and Sparkle launched a gacha-style Holy Grail War at the Grand Theater of Mirth, selling summoning tickets to the assembled contestants. Stelle wasted a fortune on mostly weak Heroic Spirits while Kiana summoned the SS-Rank Archer Sun Shangxiang, leaving Ye Yun stunned by the event’s bizarre roster.

• Aha introduced Sparkle as the event host, and Sparkle explained the seven-day competition and the free and purchasable Servant-summoning tickets.
• Stelle spent 100,000 Star Coins on ten pulls and received only D-Rank Heroic Spirits.
• Stelle spent another million Star Coins on 101 pulls and got one A-Rank, one B-Rank, and mostly D-Rank Heroic Spirits.
• Aha drew additional summoning circles as the other guests began buying tickets and summoning Servants.
• Kiana summoned the SS-Rank Archer Sun Shangxiang with one pull, and Ye Yun was shocked to see a Three Kingdoms character in the roster.

Stelle summoned Artoria Pendragon with her last free scroll, while Bronya also summoned Joan of Arc on her first try. After the group returned home, Stelle and Pom-Pom helped feed Artoria, who was delighted by the train’s plentiful food.

• Stelle used her final summoning scroll and summoned the SSR Saber Artoria Pendragon, who pledged to protect her.
• Bronya summoned the SSR Ruler Joan of Arc, while other participants summoned Servants including Red A, Cú Chulainn, and Li Shimin.
• Ye Yun summoned a D-Rank Waiter and planned to put him to work in his shop.
• Stelle brought Artoria back to the train, where Artoria said she was hungry and asked for food.
• Stelle asked Pom-Pom to heat up the leftovers, and Pom-Pom, Misha, Stelle, Artoria, and Elio shared a meal.
• Stelle offered Artoria a bottle of SoulSoda, and Artoria asked whether it was water.

Noelle discovered that her Sword of Promised Victory matched Artoria’s, and asked Artoria to teach her how to wield it. Artoria began training Noelle in swordsmanship while Stelle and the others watched.

• Noelle returned from Rimuru's World, and Artoria sensed a familiar aura from her.
• Noelle showed Artoria her Sword of Promised Victory, and Artoria revealed an identical weapon of her own.
• Noelle asked Artoria to teach her how to use the sword, and Stelle gave her permission.
• Artoria and Noelle went to a clearing in Rimuru's World, where Rimuru and others came to watch.
• Artoria repeatedly parried Noelle's attacks and corrected her technique, helping Noelle's swordsmanship and fighting spirit improve.

Joan of Arc helped Belobog repel a sudden Antimatter Legion invasion by shielding its defenders from a warship’s cannon with her banner. After the battle ended in victory, she collapsed from exhaustion, and Bronya helped her.

• Bronya brought Joan of Arc to her office, where Joan agreed to wait while Bronya reviewed documents.
• A Silvermane Guard warned Bronya that the Antimatter Legion was attacking the Belobog Planting Area, and Joan joined Bronya and the defenders.
• An Antimatter Legion warship charged its main cannon, but Joan invoked her banner’s protective domain to shield the city wall and its defenders.
• Joan led the Belobog forces in a counterattack, and they held the Planting Area until Screwllum’s Purifier fleet arrived and helped defeat the Legion.
• Bronya found Joan resting by a tree after the battle, and Joan collapsed from depleted magic power as Bronya helped her up.

Bronya helped Joan of Arc recover her Magic Power, while Screwllum left Belobog after helping defend it. On the Luofu, Taishang Laojun improved Fu Xuan’s divination skills, and Fu Xuan decided to study under him.

• Bronya arranged for Icefield Deer to be brought to her home, and Joan of Arc restored her Magic Power by eating two deer in hot pot.
• Screwllum thanked Cocolia and Serval, then returned to the Spear of Adun with the Purifier fleet to see the creatures Ruan Mei had captured.
• Cocolia and Serval summoned Belobog’s engineers to repair the damaged city walls, while Sampo marveled at Joan of Arc’s strength.
• Jing Yuan told Li Shimin about the Nameless who followed the Path of Trailblaze and their work charting safe routes through the galaxy.
• Taishang Laojun taught Fu Xuan divination techniques that made her readings clearer, and Fu Xuan decided to hand Qingque the Divination Commission’s affairs so she could study with him.

Qingque learned that Fu Xuan was leaving the Divination Commission for a few days and appointing her Acting Diviner, so she tried to squeeze in more Jade Tiles before taking over. Later, Focalors went for a nighttime walk in Fontaine and befriended a black cat that the Knights of Lancelot regarded with caution.

• Qingque won another Jade Tiles round against Lumine, Yelan, and Guinaifen, who complained about their losses.
• Fu Xuan called Qingque and appointed her Acting Diviner while she was away from the Divination Commission for several days.
• Qingque lamented the workload but continued playing Jade Tiles with Lumine, determined to enjoy her remaining free time.
• Focalors finished her paperwork and took a late-night walk accompanied by eight Knights of Lancelot.
• Focalors offered dried fish to Little Black Cat, who gave in to the treat and let her stroke its head.

Focalors adopted a black cat and named it Little Black, who revealed a powerful spatial ability at breakfast. Furina took Little Black out to a pet shop for a bath, while Neuvillette quietly kept his fondness for a novel secret.

• Focalors brought the sleepy black cat back to the Palais Mermonia and named it Little Black.
• Focalors introduced Little Black to Furina, Neuvillette, Clorinde, and Sigewinne at breakfast, where Furina eagerly fed it.
• Neuvillette and Sigewinne sensed a powerful force inside Little Black, and Clorinde identified its ability as spatial manipulation.
• Little Black produced a popular novel and retrieved Furina's bag from her room, while Neuvillette diverted attention from the novel he had been reading.
• Furina took Little Black and Lancelot out toward a pet shop in the Bailu District to get the cat cleaned up.

Furina took Focalors’s familiar Little Black to Hearth Pet Home for a bath, where he unexpectedly transformed into a cat-eared boy before changing back. After the bath, Furina left with Little Black and Lancelot to have clothes made for both of his forms.

• Furina brought Little Black to Hearth Pet Home, where Lynette welcomed her and arranged a grooming service.
• During the bath, Little Black suddenly transformed into a cat-eared boy, startling the staff and Furina.
• Little Black changed back into a black cat, and Furina reassured the staff that he was Focalors’s familiar and would not hurt anyone.
• The staff finished Little Black’s bath, and Furina topped up one hundred million Credits for a pet-shop membership.
• Furina left with Little Black and Lancelot and headed to Chiori’s clothing store to order outfits for both of Little Black’s forms.

Furina brought Little Black Cat aboard the train, where Stelle and the others crowded around and overwhelmed him with attention. Ye Yun learned that Little Black Cat, whose real name was Luo Xiaohei, had been invited into the Star Rail World and asked whether he wanted to return home; Luo Xiaohei wanted to go back but also hoped he could visit Focalors and Furina again.

• News spread through Fontaine that Focalors had acquired a cat-shaped familiar, and Focalors realized the familiar was Little Black Cat.
• Furina brought Little Black Cat onto the train and told Stelle and the others about his spatial abilities and human transformation.
• Stelle caught Little Black Cat after he tried to evade her, and the group crowded around to pet and examine him until Himeko intervened.
• Ye Yun asked the system how Luo Xiaohei had arrived, and the system explained that the Star Rail World had invited him rather than treating him as a stowaway.
• Ye Yun asked Luo Xiaohei whether he wanted to return to his original world, and Luo Xiaohei said he did but asked whether he could visit Focalors and Furina again.

Ye Yun arranged for Little Hei to use a Teleportation Portal and join Furina for a meal before she returned home. Stelle and her companions visited Amphoreus, where Phainon and Cyrene were preparing a limited re-creation to help March 7th, and the chapter left them hopeful that the plan would work without involving Fuli.

• Ye Yun explained how Little Hei could use a Teleportation Portal to travel between worlds, and Little Hei asked to visit Sister Focalors before returning.
• Xiangling invited Little Hei and Furina to eat, and Little Hei joined Stelle and the others for a meal.
• Stelle, Hu Tao, and their companions decided to visit Amphoreus and see how Phainon and Cyrene's re-creation was progressing.
• At the Ruins of Xuanfeng City, Aglaea, Phainon, Cyrene, and the others worked to isolate the area, organize memories, and clear nearby Black Tide creations.
• Mydei explained that the re-creation depended on Phainon organizing the correct memories, while Stelle said they hoped it would help March 7th without requiring Ye Yun's costly solution or asking Fuli for help.

Sunday asked Mydei to clear the ruins from Castrum Kremnos while Stelle and the others dealt with a clone of Laigues. On the Luofu, Gamin found work performing a lion dance, and Fu Xuan consulted Taishang Laojun about simplifying the Clear Spirit Pill process.

• Sunday asked Mydei to remove the murals, pots, jars, and weapons from Castrum Kremnos so they would not interfere with the Re-creation, and Mydei began demolishing the ruins.
• Stelle, Hu Tao, and the others spent time at the site and caught and beat up a clone of Laigues, whose real body remained hidden.
• Gamin secured a lion-dance performance at a soon-to-open restaurant in Aurum Alley and ran into Yun Jin, who had just performed in Exalting Sanctum.
• Gamin and Yun Jin went to a teahouse, where Fu Xuan noticed them and put their meal on her tab while she continued consulting Taishang Laojun.
• Taishang Laojun advised Fu Xuan to divide the Clear Spirit Pill recipe into separate steps so more alchemists could help brew the pills.

Taishang Laojun taught Bailu an advanced alchemy method at the Luofu Alchemy Commission, helping her refine one million Spirit Cleansing Pills in a single batch. He accepted her as his disciple and gave her eighty-one pill formulas before Ye Yun and the others returned to the train.

• Fu Xuan asked Taishang Laojun to teach the Alchemy Commission, and he agreed in exchange for more shrimp dumplings.
• Taishang Laojun summoned Bailu and taught her how to use the giant pill furnace to refine more than a million pills at once, with Leos supplying the flames.
• Bailu persevered through the exhausting process and produced one million Spirit Cleansing Pills, impressing Taishang Laojun with her alchemy talent.
• Bailu called Taishang Laojun her teacher, and he gave her a book containing eighty-one pill formulas.
• Jing Yuan ordered Yanqing to collect the pills for distribution among the Xianzhou, while Ye Yun returned to the train with Klee, Qiqi, and the others.

Ye Yun met Tree, the Imaginary Tree's avatar, who explained that she wanted Xiaohei's power system to help the Star Rail World ascend. Ye Yun agreed to help strengthen Xiaohei's sense of belonging to that world, and Xiaohei returned to his forest with snacks for Meowu.

• Xiaohei asked Ye Yun to send him back to his original world, and Ye Yun did so with the system's help.
• Puni told Ye Yun that Tree wanted to speak with him, and the system invited her to visit the shop to discuss a collaboration.
• Ye Yun sent the little ones to Rose Castle, then met Tree in his shop and learned she wanted Xiaohei's power system to help the Star Rail World ascend.
• Tree asked Ye Yun to strengthen Xiaohei's sense of belonging to the Star Rail World and gave him one million Stellar Jade.
• Tree revealed that she had given Xiaohei a realistic dream that awakened his spatial ability.
• Xiaohei returned to his forest, reunited with Meowu, and shared the snacks he brought back.

Little Black drove human bulldozer operators out of the forest, while Venti, Istaroth, and Asmoday traveled to Old Teyvat so Venti could enter the Ashen Sea. As Venti and Istaroth went through the portal, Asmoday distracted the Abyss Master with a lollipop and sent him fleeing in pain.

• Little Black transformed into a giant cat, stopped a bulldozer driver from destroying the forest, and scared all the operators away.
• Infinite received news of Little Black’s attack and changed course toward the forest.
• Venti asked Asmoday to open a passage to the Ashen Sea, and Istaroth decided to accompany him.
• Asmoday opened a portal at the ruined Holy Fire Arena, and Venti and Istaroth entered the Ashen Sea.
• The Abyss Master appeared, and Asmoday gave him an Abyss-Alps lollipop that made him clutch his backside and flee.

Asmoday repaired the barrier and played games while Spider-girl struggled through the lowest level of the Aiur Great Labyrinth and resolved to find her way back. At Herta Space Station, Ruan Mei discovered that Uruha Mebuki could grow stronger by killing monsters, leaving her trapped in an experiment she could not understand.

• Asmoday repaired the damaged barrier after the Abyss Master fled, then sat down to play offline games.
• Spider-girl tried to eat a cockroach-like monster, vomited from its awful taste, and regained her determination by remembering Xiangling’s cooking.
• Evil God D watched Spider-girl’s resolve recover and wondered why she could not enter Another World.
• Ruan Mei, Herta, and Screwllum observed Spider-girl’s evolution before Uruha Mebuki woke in the space station.
• Ruan Mei put Uruha Mebuki in the arena and made her kill Level 1 cockroaches; after the hundredth, her body had grown stronger.
• Uruha Mebuki realized she was in an unfamiliar world and could not understand the researchers, so she reluctantly cooperated with their experiment.

Uruha Mebuki grew stronger while fighting Ruan Mei’s monsters, then met Jashin-chan, who helped Ruan Mei learn that she knew a classmate named Wakaba. After Ruan Mei failed to find Spider-girl and sent Purifier Mechs to search for her, she returned Uruha to the Herta Space Station; meanwhile, Asmoday prepared to leave Old Teyvat and taunted the Abyss Master over the laxatives she had given him.

• Ruan Mei released increasingly powerful monsters for Uruha Mebuki to fight, and Uruha grew stronger until mental exhaustion forced her to rest.
• Ruan Mei brought Uruha in a cage to Ye Yun's shop, where Jashin-chan translated and learned that Uruha knew a classmate named Wakaba.
• Ruan Mei found Spider-girl's nest destroyed and dispatched twenty Purifier Mechs to search the Aiur Great Labyrinth for her.
• Jashin-chan reassured Uruha and persuaded Ruan Mei to let her out of the cage, and Ruan Mei took Uruha back to the Herta Space Station.
• After Istaroth confirmed that the willing souls had been gathered, Asmoday prepared to go to New Teyvat and mocked the Abyss Master for the laxatives she had tricked him into eating.

Puni returned to Teyvat to collect lizards for Klee and sent the Abyss Master flying into space. At the Xianzhou generals' meeting, Fu Xuan explained how Bailu had learned alchemy from Taishang Laojun, and the generals planned to cultivate herbs so Spirit Cleansing Pills could be supplied throughout the Xianzhou.

• After Asmoday left through the Teleportation Portal, the Abyss Master waited there to attack her, but Puni emerged and sent him flying three Star Systems away.
• Puni found a bag of lizards for Klee and returned to the train, while the Abyss Master landed in a crater and lamented his fate before returning to the Abyss.
• Jing Yuan, Feixiao, Huaiyan, and Fu Xuan met with Marshal Hua at Ye Yun's shop, where Jing Yuan announced that the Xianzhou would have a steady supply of Spirit Cleansing Pills.
• Fu Xuan told Hua how the Holy Grail War led to Taishang Laojun teaching Bailu alchemy and giving her an alchemy tome.
• Xuan Quan invited Bailu to the Fanghu, but Jing Yuan argued she should remain on the Luofu, and Hua agreed she should stay near Ye Yun.
• Hua directed the generals to focus on cultivating medicinal herbs for Spirit Cleansing Pills, which Huaiyan called the Xianzhou's new vaccine.

Feixiao told Ye Yun that Marshal Hua wanted to join the Loving Family Group Chat, and Hua quickly became part of its lively exchanges. After enjoying the group, Hua ordered her adjutant to target nine Abundance forces, while Venti returned souls to New Mondstadt and Istaroth went to explore the city.

• Ei shared Dango Milk and Flower Cakes with Acheron, who chose to stay on the train after Feixiao headed back to Yaoqing.
• Tree agreed to provide people from a world she rescued to help the system attack the Delta World, in exchange for knowledge that could raise the Star Rail World's power level.
• Feixiao gave Ye Yun Marshal Hua's contact information, and Ye Yun added Hua to the Loving Family Group Chat.
• Hua sent a red envelope to the group, enjoyed the members' lively welcomes, and ordered her adjutant to send out the locations of nine Abundance forces for elimination.
• Venti brought the souls from the Ashen Sea back to New Mondstadt, where they merged into the ley lines, and Istaroth went to look around the city.