Chapter Summaries

Sunday and the Imperial Fighting Team stayed at the haunted hotel, where Sunday privately prepared for the night. Ning Rongrong encountered a mysterious little boy who claimed he was not a ghost, then fainted while fleeing from him.

• Sunday recognized familiar energy in the hotel, checked in with the others, and warned the attendant to stay away from upstairs that night.
• After night fell, Ning Rongrong went to Zhu Zhuqing's room when she heard no strange noises, but Zhu Zhuqing did not answer.
• A pale-blue-haired boy in a hotel attendant's uniform appeared behind Ning Rongrong and offered to check on Zhu Zhuqing.
• A disembodied voice said the boy could see Ning Rongrong, and he revealed strange eyes before asking whether she could see him.
• Ning Rongrong screamed that there was a ghost and ran through the hall, then crashed into a pillar and fainted as the boy hurried to help her.
• A door opened behind the boy as he approached Ning Rongrong.

Dugu Yan and the others were drawn into a dreamlike hall after Ning Rongrong fainted, where they met a clock-headed creature and a mysterious boy. The boy introduced himself as Misha, also known as the Clockmaker.

• Zhu Zhuqing found Ning Rongrong unconscious, and Dugu Yan confirmed she had only fainted.
• The corridor transformed into a lavish dreamscape, and Dugu Yan led the group in pursuit of a little boy.
• The group entered a bustling hall, where a clock-headed creature accused someone of impersonating the Clockmaker and directed them toward a dream bubble.
• The group passed through the dream bubble and met a pale-blue-haired boy, while Ning Rongrong woke and recognized him as the ghost she had seen.
• Dugu Yan introduced herself, and the boy named himself Lagwork Char Mikhail, or Misha, and said they could call him the Clockmaker.

Misha told Dugu Yan and the others about his life as a Trailblazer from the Przesmyr System, then explained how he had arrived in Spirit Crystal City and caused the hotel’s ghost incident. He revealed that Sunday knew he was there and might be using the situation to test the youngsters.

• Ning Rongrong defended Sunday when Misha called him a child, while Dugu Yan asked Misha about the Clockwork Trick and the Trailblaze.
• Misha recounted his childhood on Lushaka, his adoptive parents, and his journey aboard a star-traveling train as a Mechanic.
• Ning Rongrong asked about Sunday, and Misha praised Sunday as a powerful man who had even challenged an Aeon.
• Misha explained that after the final battle in Penacony, he had fallen asleep and later awakened on the Douluo Continent, where his attempt to gather information as a bellboy led to the ghost misunderstanding.
• Ye Lingling asked whether Sunday knew Misha was there, and Misha said Sunday had known from the start and might be testing them.

Misha explained that he was a fading reflection who had left a dream bubble and gathered Dugu Yan and the others to pass on the will of the Trailblaze. As he prepared to rest for the last time, someone stopped him and challenged his decision.

• Osler and the others invited Misha to join their journey, but he refused because he could not last much longer.
• Misha revealed that he had guided the group to entrust them with the will of the Trailblaze and gave Dugu Yan his hat.
• Misha said he would remain in the hotel and rest as Dugu Yan and the others drifted toward the dream bubble.
• As the hotel began to vanish, someone pressed a hand on Misha’s shoulder, stabilized the hotel, and asked why he was so eager to rest if the Trailblaze never ended.

Sunday saved Misha and invited him to continue the Trailblaze as his companion, and Misha accepted, becoming the Imperial Fighting Team’s new teacher. As Sunday set out his plans for a new path on the Douluo Continent, he said his confidence came from the children traveling with him.

• Sunday appeared beside Misha and revealed that he had been involved in the events surrounding the Pocket Watch, then invited Misha to become his companion.
• Misha accepted Sunday’s invitation, and Sunday used Path energy to stabilize Misha before offering him the Pocket Watch, which Misha refused to reclaim.
• Sunday introduced Misha to Dugu Yan and the others as their new teacher and brought them out of The Reverie.
• Sunday proposed telling the city that Misha had tested the Imperial Fighting Team and agreed to instruct them, clearing up rumors and allowing Misha to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• After the others left to spread the explanation and enjoy the city, Misha asked Sunday about his plans, and Sunday described a new path built on fairness, innovation, unity, progress, and hope.
• Sunday said he was confident in his plans because he had the children with him.

Sunday and Misha discussed the arrivals on the continent and the emergence of Pathstriders, including Bibi Dong’s awakening to Destruction. They identified Sunday’s earlier-arriving acquaintance as someone from Penacony’s Hound Family, while the source of the arrivals and the strange Astral Express trace remained unclear.

• Sunday said he would keep pursuing multiple Paths despite the risk of failure, and Misha encouraged him to prove his ideas.
• Misha revealed that he had sensed a second Astral Express on the planet, though he could no longer locate it after Sunday restored his energy.
• Sunday told Misha that other people had arrived and that people on the continent were awakening as Pathstriders.
• Sunday explained that Bibi Dong had awakened to Destruction after receiving a glance from Nihility, which puzzled both him and Misha.
• Misha asked about Sunday’s other acquaintance, and Sunday’s clue about Penacony’s security led Misha to identify the arrival as someone from the Hound Family.

Sunday returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Misha and the others, then arranged for Misha to become a specially appointed teacher. At the training grounds, Dugu Bo noticed Misha and asked where his parents were.

• Misha asked Sunday about the children calling him the Clockmaker, and Sunday admitted he had spread the name before Misha said he was joking.
• Dugu Yan and the others left Spirit Crystal City with Sunday, who told Ye Lingling to find him before acquiring a Soul Ring at level 50.
• On the journey, Sunday explained to Misha and Clockie how the Douluo Continent’s Divine Realm and gods compared with Honkai: Star Rail’s Aeons.
• After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Sunday arranged Misha’s appointment as a special teacher and planned to finalize his identity with Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Rongrong brought Misha to the training grounds, where Dugu Bo noticed him and asked where his parents were.

Ning Rongrong manipulated Dugu Bo into agreeing to test Misha’s strength, and Dugu Bo challenged the new teammate. Misha prepared to fight while calling on Clockie.

• Dugu Bo questioned whether Misha was truly the new teammate, and Ning Rongrong urged Misha to play along with her scheme.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded Dugu Bo to test Misha, claiming the team needed to see his abilities before he joined them.
• Dugu Bo agreed to fight Misha using only one hand and no Soul Skills.
• Misha accepted the challenge and addressed Clockie as he prepared to stretch their limbs.

Misha used Clockie to fight Dugu Bo in a dream, earning the Titled Douluo’s respect before Dugu Bo hurried away. Sunday then visited Xue Qinghe at the Crown Prince’s Manor and found him playing with Xue Ke, before offering to share what he had learned on his journey.

• Clockie appeared before Dugu Bo and fought him in a dream while Misha reassured Dugu Yan that her grandfather was safe.
• Misha scolded Ning Rongrong for arranging the prank, then explained that he had used the encounter to test and demonstrate his strength.
• Dugu Bo woke from the dream, acknowledged Misha’s strength, and hurried away, claiming he needed to tend his medicinal garden.
• Misha told Ning Rongrong to begin training and said he would use neither hand.
• Sunday arrived at the Crown Prince’s Manor and found Xue Qinghe playing with Xue Ke in the rear garden.
• Sunday told Xue Qinghe that his journey had been fruitful and that he had come to share his findings.

Sunday visited Xue Qinghe to explain Misha’s situation and ask for help registering him as a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Xue Qinghe agreed to handle the paperwork and, eager to meet Misha, invited Sunday to stay the night and take him there the next day.

• Xue Ke shyly met Sunday, and Xue Qinghe introduced him as Mr. Sunday, whom he often told her about.
• Sunday told Xue Qinghe that Misha was an old acquaintance whose unusual ability had caused people to mistake him for a ghost.
• Sunday explained that he had brought Misha to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to serve as a teacher and needed Xue Qinghe’s help registering his identity discreetly.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to handle Misha’s registration to avoid giving their political rivals grounds to cause trouble.
• Xue Qinghe asked about Misha’s abilities, then invited Sunday to stay and take him to meet Misha the next day.

Sunday learned that Shrek Academy had begun selling a strength-enhancing potion through Tang San’s newly formed Tang Sect. The academy remained open under mounting imperial fines, and the chapter left Sunday examining photographs of the potion and its effects.

• Xue Qinghe explained that Xue Ke was studying in the palace because tensions between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Clear Sky Sect ruled out sending her to the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Xue Qinghe said Shrek Academy was still operating despite its troubles, but the empire was fining it frequently and it could no longer recruit new students.
• Xue Qinghe told Sunday that a potion had become popular at Shrek Academy, making users excited and temporarily stronger.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that Tang San and the Shrek Team controlled the potion, which was only available to members of the Tang Sect.
• Xue Qinghe handed Sunday photographs showing the potion and the physical changes in those who had taken it.

Sunday warned Xue Qinghe that Tang San's strength-enhancing potion likely drained its users' vitality, and explained why Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and others may have taken a defective version. Xue Qinghe considered investigating the potion and using it to build a force, while Sunday suspected Yu Xiaogang had helped Tang San obtain it from him.

• Sunday examined a photograph of the green potion but said he needed a sample, smell, or taste to identify it.
• Xue Qinghe said investigating Shrek Academy could provoke Yu Xiaogang, Tang Hao, and the Clear Sky Sect, and revealed that he was considering raising Death Soldiers with the potion.
• Sunday warned that the potion severely drained vitality and confirmed that Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai had used it.
• Sunday argued that Tang San treated his classmates as tools and suggested their pride had kept them from suspecting that he would poison them.
• Sunday hypothesized that Yu Tianheng had asked Yu Xiaogang to obtain Tang San's potion, giving Yu Xiaogang an excuse to pursue a cure for his martial soul defect.

Sunday told Xue Qinghe that Tang San’s soul came from another world and explained that Tang Hao had recognized his abnormality but spared him to use him to regain the Clear Sky Sect. Sunday argued that Tang Hao’s obsession with the Clear Sky Hammer had wasted Tang San’s greater potential in the Blue Silver Emperor; the chapter left Xue Qinghe better informed about Tang San’s origins and Tang Hao’s motives.

• Xue Qinghe asked Sunday about the Tang Sect after learning that Tang San required potion buyers to pledge to join it.
• Sunday explained that the Tang Sect came from another world and revealed that Tang San, like himself, had crossed over from elsewhere.
• Xue Qinghe wondered whether Tang Hao had noticed Tang San’s abnormal behavior, and Sunday said Tang Hao had known from the beginning.
• Sunday claimed Tang Hao kept Tang San alive to use him to return to the Clear Sky Sect, not out of fatherly affection.
• Sunday criticized Tang Hao for prioritizing the Clear Sky Hammer over Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor potential and speculated that cultivating it might have led Tang San to godhood.

Sunday explained to Xue Qinghe how people crossing into the Douluo Continent could change its future by giving its inhabitants new knowledge and perspectives. Xue Qinghe realized that Sunday's guidance had made him wary of Tang San and could lead the continent toward a different outcome.

• Xue Qinghe wondered whether the Douluo Continent was like a zoo with few locals left, and Sunday agreed that there were not many locals remaining.
• Sunday described people who crossed into the world as Outer Heavenly Demons and explained the saying about a thousand people having a thousand Hamlets.
• Sunday compared Tang San to Hamlet and asked Xue Qinghe how he would act if someone warned him Tang San was more than an ordinary protagonist.
• Xue Qinghe said he would take Tang San seriously and might eliminate him early, recognizing that Sunday's guidance had changed his perspective.
• Sunday explained that without his arrival, Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect might have defeated Spirit Hall, but his intervention could lead the continent toward a new future.

Sunday explained parallel spacetime to Xue Qinghe, who wondered whether another world could hold the happy family he had always wanted. After Sunday reassured him, they turned to how to prepare for Tang San, and Sunday proposed strengthening Xue Qinghe instead.

• Sunday described how transmigrators could create new timelines and change the Douluo Continent's future.
• Xue Qinghe asked whether a parallel world could have a happy family of three, and Sunday assured him that such a world existed.
• Xue Qinghe thanked Sunday for helping him avoid tragedy and said he would focus on the problems before him.
• Xue Qinghe proposed discussing how to deal with Tang San, and Sunday said they should strengthen themselves rather than focus on stopping him.
• Sunday considered giving Xue Qinghe potions and medicinal herbs to help him reach level 80 and begin his divine trial sooner.

Sunday agreed to help Xue Qinghe strengthen his Six-Winged Angel martial soul with immortal herbs and went to Dugu Bo’s garden to collect them. Dugu Bo warned that Xue Xing was plotting something, and Sunday returned to the Crown Prince’s Manor with two herbs for Xue Qinghe.

• Sunday told Xue Qinghe he could provide immortal herbs to help him break through rank eighty, and Xue Qinghe cleared the back garden for a quiet absorption.
• Sunday teleported to Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden and asked for several immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo worried the herbs might be for Dugu Yan and the others, but Sunday explained they were for someone else and that the others should not take another dose yet.
• Dugu Bo warned Sunday that Xue Xing had recently asked him for help, and Sunday said Xue Xing was up to something but it was not yet a major problem.
• Sunday returned to the Crown Prince’s Manor and gave Xue Qinghe a cockscomb phoenix sunflower and a Clear-Mind Light-Stamen Grass.

Sunday gave Qian Renxue two immortal herbs, which strengthened her Six-Winged Angel and its flames as she broke through to Soul Douluo. After absorbing them, she thanked Sunday and confirmed that she felt stronger without any discomfort.

• Qian Renxue asked whether the Clear-Mind Light-Stamen Grass and cockscomb phoenix sunflower were both for her, and Sunday handed them over and explained that she could absorb them directly.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the herbs in the pavilion while Sunday sealed the Back Garden behind a golden barrier.
• After roughly two hours, Qian Renxue emerged amid crimson-gold flames and an Angel Phantom, with her light and fire attributes greatly strengthened.
• Qian Renxue stabilized her cultivation, broke through to level eighty, and hugged Sunday to thank him.
• Sunday asked how she felt, and Qian Renxue reported no discomfort and said she felt more powerful than ever.

Sunday recognized that Qian Renxue’s enhanced strength and powers might indicate the emergence of ultimate light and fire attributes, then explained ultimate attribute theory and how her Martial Soul had been transformed. Qian Renxue learned that even her sacred flames and Angel’s Light still fell short of their ultimate forms.

• Qian Renxue told Sunday that her physique, sacred flames, and light attribute had grown much stronger.
• Sunday suspected that Qian Renxue had gained ultimate attributes and considered how powerful she could become if her light and fire reached their ultimate forms.
• Sunday explained that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Clear-Mind Light-Stamen Grass had purified and transformed Qian Renxue’s Martial Soul.
• Sunday described the Five Elemental Academies’ focus on developing single attributes and clarified that their elemental powers were not true ultimate attributes.
• Sunday told Qian Renxue that her sacred flames and Angel’s Light also fell short of ultimate fire and ultimate light because Spirit Hall had not developed that approach to cultivation.

Sunday explained the strengths and weaknesses of the extreme and balanced schools, then promised to help Qian Renxue obtain a suitable eighth soul ring. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong began sweeping reforms in Spirit Hall, leaving the story with Spirit Hall purging corruption under her leadership.

• Sunday told Qian Renxue that the extreme school had formidable power but was vulnerable to countering attributes, while the balanced school could compensate through cooperation.
• Sunday said Qian Renxue's holy fire and sacred light nearly reached ultimate attributes and promised to take her for an eighth soul ring after her strength stabilized.
• Qian Renxue asked whether they would hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest, but Sunday said he had found a better-suited soul beast that could help her reach level ninety and support her divine trial.
• Bibi Dong launched sweeping reforms in Spirit Hall, purging accumulated corruption while the Worship Hall stayed out of the Papal Hall's affairs.

Bibi Dong worried that Qian Renxue might be in trouble and rushed from Spirit City toward Heaven Dou City. Meanwhile, Sunday explained that Qian Renxue’s next soul ring would come from a powerful sea beast, leaving her astonished by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s near-million-year age.

• Bibi Dong feared Qian Renxue might act rashly in Heaven Dou City, left Ghost Douluo in charge of consulting Hu Liena, and flew out of Spirit City.
• Qian Daoliu noticed Bibi Dong’s departure but chose not to interfere.
• Sunday asked Qian Renxue what lay beyond the continent and brought up Devil Island, which she refused to visit.
• Sunday clarified that he meant Sea God Island and explained that the ocean held many powerful sea soul beasts.
• Sunday told Qian Renxue about the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who was nearing a million years old but could not become a god under the Divine Realm’s rules.