Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan realized Queen Medusa was using her innate seduction and bloodline Secret Art to control him, but fire poison and the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame overcame her reason first. He restrained her and fed her a Fire Lotus petal as medicine.

• Xiao Yan noticed Queen Medusa's apparent resistance seemed suspiciously alluring and questioned whether she was trying to ensnare him.
• Queen Medusa's bloodline Secret Art began to affect Xiao Yan, but he recognized the trick and resisted it.
• Queen Medusa's fire poison and attraction to the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame steadily overwhelmed her consciousness, and she began sucking Xiao Yan's thumb.
• Xiao Yan withdrew his hand when he saw Queen Medusa had lost control, deciding not to take advantage of her impaired state.
• Xiao Yan bound Queen Medusa with flames and placed a Fire Lotus petal in her mouth, and she swallowed it obediently.

Xiao Yan used a Fire Lotus to heal Queen Medusa and purify her bloodline, then let her leave. Medusa turned back, deciding to stay near him until she could complete her evolution, just as Xiao Yan expected.

• Queen Medusa regained control after Xiao Yan put the Fire Lotus in her mouth, then absorbed its energy as it healed her and improved her bloodline.
• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa that they were even and opened a passage for her to leave.
• Queen Medusa flew away, then stopped to consider her failed attempt to obtain Heavenly Flames and her need to evolve.
• Queen Medusa decided to return and use her charm to stay close to Xiao Yan until she completed her evolution.
• Xiao Yan counted down, and Queen Medusa returned as he laughed.

Xiao Yan offered Gu He a child flame from his fused Heavenly Flame and helped him refine it, presenting the gift as an investment in Jia Ma Empire’s alchemy community. As Gu He prepared to leave, Xiao Yan revealed his connection to Yun Yun, and Gu He realized that Xiao Yan was the man she had fallen for.

• Xiao Yan explained that he could create a child flame and showed Gu He a miniature Three-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan gave Gu He a child flame called the Glazed Flame Spirit Fire, saying it was a gift to a fellow traveler and an investment in Jia Ma Empire’s alchemy community.
• Gu He accepted the flame, and Xiao Yan helped him refine it on the spot.
• As Gu He turned to leave, Xiao Yan said that Yun Yun had helped him in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Gu He connected Xiao Yan to Yun Yun’s changed behavior and realized Xiao Yan was the man she could never forget.

Xiao Yan recruited Gu He as the Heavenly Mansion’s Pill Hall master by offering him a heavenly flame and promising authority, then revealed that the organization had almost no members or resources. Gu He left feeling trapped but spotted a chance to recruit Yun Yun and the others, while Queen Medusa teased Xiao Yan and he resolved to find a pill to counter her dominance.

• Xiao Yan invited Gu He to join the Heavenly Mansion and lead its Pill Hall, and Gu He accepted after receiving cultivation methods for Soul Power.
• Gu He discovered the Heavenly Mansion had no established base and only one sixth-tier Alchemist, who was Gu He himself, along with very few fighters.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Heavenly Mansion had been established just then, and Gu He left while plotting to recruit Yun Yun and the others.
• Xiao Yan joked about having tricked Gu He as Queen Medusa sat on his lap and challenged him to another round.
• Xiao Yan remembered Queen Medusa overpowering him in the underground magma and decided to research a pill that could turn the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame into pure yang energy.

Xiao Yan discussed Queen Medusa joining the Heavenly Alliance and planned to recruit followers with Child Flames as protection against future threats. After inviting Medusa to help undo a seal in a few days, he teleported to visit Yun Yun, while looking forward to confronting the Soul Hall Protector at Misty Cloud Sect.

• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yan whether she was the Dou Emperor he had mentioned, and Xiao Yan clarified that he meant Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yan offered Medusa the role of acting alliance leader and considered building the Heavenly Alliance into a larger faction that could search for Heavenly Flames and protect his companions.
• Medusa agreed to join but worried about winning others over, and Xiao Yan said her Peak Dou Emperor strength was sufficient while encouraging her to break through sooner.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa to accompany him in a few days to undo a seal, then decided to visit Yun Yun and confront a Soul Hall Protector at Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan dissolved into sparks and teleported to the main hall where Yun Yun was staying alone.

Xiao Yan and Tang San met the newcomer Shirou Emiya, whose body and appearance had been altered by Avalon into a white-haired, androgynous beauty. After learning how his memories and magecraft had changed, they wondered what Servant he would summon in the increasingly unpredictable Singularity.

• Xiao Yan sensed two unusual newcomers in the Gray Fog Space and arrived alongside Tang San.
• Xiao Yan and Tang San mistook Shirou Emiya for a woman, teased him about his appearance, and learned he insisted he was a man.
• Tang San recognized Shirou Emiya, and Xiao Yan examined his memories to learn that Avalon had reshaped his body and helped restore his past-life memories.
• Shirou Emiya explained that he was preparing to summon a Heroic Spirit and expected to summon the King of Knights.
• Xiao Yan, Tang San, and Sasuke warned that the altered timeline could produce a different Servant, possibly Morgan or Mordred, and Shirou Emiya considered their teasing about his romantic prospects.

Shirou Emiya and the others questioned a strange newcomer who had transmigrated as Silver Chariot, the Stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Silver Chariot claimed he could turn everything he saw to stone, then changed form after Xiao Yan touched him.

• Shirou Emiya admitted he had no idea which Heroic Spirit he would summon and could only wait for his consciousness to return.
• The group noticed the second newcomer, a hollow suit of silver armor who identified himself as Silver Chariot.
• Xiao Yan and the others mocked Silver Chariot's supposed lack of useful abilities while Tang San Zang questioned how he could use an eye-based power without eyes.
• Silver Chariot claimed he could turn everything he saw to stone, but Tang San Zang pointed out that he had no eyes.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and high-fived Silver Chariot, who flashed a strange smile and transformed with a Robin Hood hat appearing on his head.

Xiao Yan and the others learned that Silver Chariot had awakened into a self-aware, freely transforming Requiem form and chosen the name Don Quixote. Don Quixote explained that Polnareff had never lost control of him; Tang San Zang suggested Silver Chariot’s difficult limitations may have enabled his awakening.

• Xiao Yan examined Silver Chariot’s memories and learned that the Stand had awakened after the arrow transformed it into Requiem.
• Don Quixote explained that he could switch between Silver Chariot and Requiem, with Polnareff controlling the former but not the latter.
• After Tang San Zang and Han Li discussed what to call him, Silver Chariot chose the name Don Quixote.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that Polnareff had apparently mistaken Requiem’s independence for loss of control, and Don Quixote confirmed it.
• Tang San Zang suggested that Silver Chariot’s short range and inability to share vision might have helped cause its awakening, leaving the others puzzled.

Tang San Zang and the others mocked Silver Chariot’s role in Polnareff’s past while Don Quixote explained his evolved abilities and their limits. In 1999, Don Quixote appeared before Jean Pierre Polnareff, who mistook his silence for an uncontrollable Stand and panicked.

• Tang San Zang argued that Silver Chariot’s weakness had set off the chain of events that awakened Requiem, and the others debated whether the Boss could have attacked Polnareff directly.
• Don Quixote explained that his evolved form could swap souls, control a powerful Stand, copy its abilities, and empower a user by possessing their body.
• Don Quixote proposed combining with Bites the Dust to gain a new ability, while Shirou Emiya vowed to cause trouble after returning to his world.
• In the Italian countryside in 1999, Don Quixote appeared before Jean Pierre Polnareff in a transformed form and asked whether he was his Stand user.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff tried and failed to control Don Quixote, then shouted that his Stand was out of control.

Polnareff discovered that the Insect Arrow had transformed Silver Chariot into Silver Chariot Requiem, a conscious Stand named Don Quixote with powerful abilities over minds and souls. After learning he could precisely put targets to sleep or swap their souls, Polnareff remembered his fallen companions and regretted that he had survived Egypt.

• Polnareff tested voice commands on Don Quixote and found that his Stand obeyed some orders but ignored others.
• Polnareff concluded that the Insect Arrow had evolved Silver Chariot and created a new consciousness, which identified itself as Don Quixote.
• Don Quixote explained that he could put living creatures within range to sleep, swap their souls, and strengthen Stands to trigger their evolution.
• Don Quixote said Polnareff could manually target individuals with greater precision, prompting Polnareff to remember Avdol, Noriaki Kakyoin, and Iggy.
• Polnareff reflected that he should have been the one to die in Egypt.

Don Quixote restored Jean Pierre Polnareff’s legs by borrowing Gold Experience’s ability from Italy and revealed that he could control and use other Stands. He proposed recruiting Jotaro Kujo in Morioh and returning to the past to gather the Stardust Crusaders and prevent their tragedies.

• Don Quixote urged Jean Pierre Polnareff to stop dwelling on his losses and focus on the future.
• Don Quixote turned Polnareff’s prosthetic legs into butterflies and used a borrowed ability from Gold Experience to restore his legs and strengthen his body.
• Don Quixote explained that he could control other Stands and use their abilities, then shared information about his powers with Polnareff.
• Don Quixote offered three plans for confronting the boss, including an assault with allies and seeking outside help.
• Don Quixote told Polnareff to go to Morioh, find Jotaro Kujo, return to the past, and reassemble the Stardust Crusaders.

Don Quixote persuaded Polnareff to pursue a chance to return to the past and save their friends, then the two confronted Yoshikage Kira in Morioh. Don Quixote put Kira to sleep and seized control of Killer Queen while Polnareff studied their captive.

• Polnareff considered contacting Joseph Joestar and Jotaro Kujo, but Don Quixote convinced him to pursue the possibility of going back in time.
• Kira left home, confident that Hayato Kawajiri had exposed his identity to people who would be killed by Bites the Dust.
• Don Quixote and Polnareff confronted Kira, and Kira was shocked when Killer Queen approached him without being recalled.
• Don Quixote seized Killer Queen with his psychic power and put Kira to sleep.
• Polnareff questioned Kira's reputation as a time-rewinding threat, and someone nearby cried out in astonishment and delight at seeing him.

Polnareff reunited with Jotaro in Morioh, but Jotaro mistook his changed behavior and injuries for evidence of a fake impersonator and flew into a rage. Polnareff revealed that Diavolo had crippled and imprisoned him, then questioned how Jotaro had guessed so much.

• Polnareff greeted Jotaro in Morioh, and the two embraced after believing they had not seen each other in ten years.
• Jotaro noticed that Polnareff’s manner and appearance seemed different and concluded that a Stand User had created a fake to deceive him.
• Jotaro summoned Star Platinum and smashed the wall beside Polnareff before apologizing for arriving too late.
• Jotaro asked who had injured and imprisoned Polnareff, and Polnareff named Diavolo and described his time-erasing ability.
• Polnareff stopped himself and asked Jotaro how he had figured out what happened and whether the old man had taught him something new.

Jotaro reunited with Polnareff in Morioh and deduced how Diavolo had impersonated him and what he had endured. Jotaro realized Polnareff’s changed Stand had restored his body, while a boy with steak-shaped hair interrupted them with questions.

• Jotaro confirmed Polnareff’s identity and told him about his doctorate, family, and search for the Arrow in Morioh.
• Jotaro showed Polnareff the phone number of the man who had impersonated him, and Polnareff realized Diavolo had kept in contact with Jotaro under his name.
• Jotaro deduced Polnareff’s injuries from his pale skin, prosthetic-looking limbs, and wheelchair, then vowed to become strong enough to avenge him.
• Jotaro noticed that Don Quixote was Silver Chariot in an evolved form and inferred that the Stand had restored Polnareff’s body.
• The boy with steak-shaped hair interrupted Jotaro and Polnareff to ask who they were talking to.

Jean Pierre Polnareff reunited with Jotaro and demonstrated his new ability, while Don Quixote revealed that he could copy other Stands’ powers. After explaining Killer Queen’s abilities and the possibility of reversing time, Don Quixote introduced a new Stand called Purple Thorn Entanglement.

• Jean Pierre Polnareff greeted Jotaro and Josuke Higashikata, then shared information about Don Quixote’s abilities through a mental-energy trick.
• Don Quixote demonstrated that he could copy Killer Queen’s powers and explained the limits of his borrowed abilities.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff asked whether Don Quixote had obtained Bites the Dust, and Don Quixote explained its time-reversal ability and revealed that it was why they had come.
• Jotaro questioned whether changing the past would truly bring back the same people, leaving Jean Pierre Polnareff to consider the consequences.
• Don Quixote dismissed their worries and manifested thorny vines, naming his new Stand Purple Thorn Entanglement.

Don Quixote explained how he had obtained and understood Bites the Dust, then revealed that Silver Chariot Requiem could exploit Jean Pierre Polnareff’s past despair to trigger time rewinds. He concluded that he could bring them back to Egypt, while Jotaro realized Hermit Purple might help solve the remaining problem.

• Don Quixote showed Hermit Purple and Bites the Dust, then explained the Stand’s activation and detonation rewinds.
• Don Quixote said he could use a person’s remembered despair as a source and coordinate to activate Bites the Dust.
• Don Quixote used Jean Pierre Polnareff’s despair from the day his companions fell in Egypt as the basis for a rewind.
• Don Quixote explained how Silver Chariot Requiem could steal mental power to sustain a large-scale rewind.
• Jotaro began asking how they would solve the remaining problem, then stopped when he noticed Hermit Purple in Don Quixote’s hand.

Don Quixote explained how he would rewind time and bring the group back to the past, with the cost of temporarily reverting to Silver Chariot. He activated the rewind, but as it began, someone reacted in alarm that people connected to the Joestars were being brought back too.

• Don Quixote explained that he would anchor key facts, rewind time gradually, and temporarily lose his ability to act independently as the cost.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff accepted the price, and Don Quixote reassured Josuke Higashikata that he could anchor Josuke’s state in the past.
• At Angelo Rock, Don Quixote confirmed the group was ready and promised Okuyasu Nijimura he would bring Shigechi, his brother, and the others back.
• Don Quixote transformed into armor around Jean Pierre Polnareff and used the silver hourglass to begin reversing time.
• Jotaro saw the world warp backward while the group remained protected, and Okuyasu Nijimura and the other anchored people stayed fixed in place.
• Someone cried out that people whose fates intertwined with the Joestars were being brought back as well.

Don Quixote’s rewind pulled unanchored people into a tangled timeline, while Jean Pierre Polnareff traveled back to save Sherry and then continued toward Japan with Don Quixote. They reached a point near the port, unsure where the others had ended up or what the broken timeline would bring.

• Don Quixote sensed that people in Rome, Naples, Morioh, and Florida—and something in the sky—had been drawn into the rewind, draining his mental energy as he suspected the timeline had become tangled.
• Yoshikage Kira returned to his own face in Morioh, while Josuke Higashikata, Giorno Giovanna, Diavolo, and Father Pucci each encountered strange changes as the rewind swept them along.
• Nineteen-year-old Jolyne Kujo appeared beside her younger self and realized she had used Made in Heaven and Stone Free Requiem to answer Don Quixote’s summons.
• Jean Pierre Polnareff killed J. Geil when he threatened Sherry, then embraced his sister and promised to be there for her before vanishing and leaving her a tiny model rapier.
• Three years later, Jean Pierre Polnareff and the wheelchair-bound Don Quixote arrived near a Japanese port, where Don Quixote explained that the rewind had forced them through the timeline to save Sherry.

Don Quixote, Jean Pierre Polnareff, and Joseph reunited with Avdol after rewinding time, restoring the group’s memories and bringing Avdol back to life. With DIO’s Stand Users closing in and the future uncertain, Avdol decided their first priority was rescuing Jotaro.

• Don Quixote and Jean Pierre Polnareff reached the harbor and Joseph caught Jean Pierre Polnareff, revealing that he had recovered his memories and gained strength from the rewind.
• Joseph brought Avdol to them, and Avdol recounted his death and his experience of being pulled backward through time.
• Don Quixote sensed Stand Users approaching from three directions and recognized among them the powers of Sethan and Anubis.
• Avdol divined that the future had changed and that their actions would determine what came next.
• Avdol concluded that the group should first assemble the Stardust Crusaders and rescue Jotaro.

After the rewind, Joseph and the others rushed to free Jotaro while Don Quixote approached Star Platinum and proposed a Stand alliance. Jotaro recovered his memories, but Joseph realized Kakyoin might still be endangered by Dio’s flesh bud, and the group discovered Don Quixote and his wheelchair were missing.

• Joseph warned that Jotaro might shoot himself and led Avdol and Jean Pierre Polnareff to the jail while Don Quixote went after Star Platinum.
• Don Quixote reached Star Platinum in midair, restored his memories of the rewind, and invited him to join a Stand alliance.
• Don Quixote told Star Platinum that Hierophant Green seemed to be in danger, and Star Platinum prepared to help.
• Avdol and the others freed Jotaro, and a touch from Avdol restored Jotaro’s memories.
• Joseph remembered that Dio had implanted a flesh bud in Kakyoin and feared Kakyoin might be killed, while Jean Pierre Polnareff noticed Don Quixote and his wheelchair were gone.