Chapter Summaries

Bella thanked Ren Yu for saving her and caring for her, then fled in embarrassment as she realized she felt happy about being close to him. The next morning, Ren Yu prepared to check on the sisters when the maid Yu'er approached him.

• Bella thanked Ren Yu for chasing after her into the World Bubble and sharing his special energy, which had kept her Herrscher Core functioning.
• Bella apologized for her past actions and then rushed out of Ren Yu's room, overwhelmed by embarrassment.
• Outside the room, Bella wondered why Ren Yu's closeness made her happy and collapsed in flustered confusion.
• Ren Yu let Bella calm down and soon fell asleep as the night passed.
• The next morning, Ren Yu prepared to check on the sisters, but maid Yu'er cautiously asked if she could speak with him.

Ren Yu met Rita, the version of her from this world, after her maid Yu'er led him to the study. Rita questioned who he was and why he had come, while Ren Yu insisted he was only staying temporarily and would leave in time.

• Yu'er invited Ren Yu to meet Rita and led him to her study.
• Ren Yu entered and found Rita reading, then realized he was facing the Rita of this world.
• Rita asked Ren Yu who he was, having learned that another soul had occupied her body.
• Ren Yu introduced himself and said he had no purpose beyond staying temporarily before leaving.
• Rita remained wary because Ren Yu was powerful enough to contend with the Exotic Beast Yan Luo.

After Ren Yu destroyed Yan Luo, Rita worried that his overwhelming power could threaten the Huangyue Kingdom. Guan Xing visited him, and Ren Yu revealed that he came from another world.

• Rita feared that Ren Yu might turn his power against the Huangyue Kingdom.
• Guan Xing visited Rita’s residence and said she had come specifically to see Ren Yu.
• Guan Xing asked Ren Yu about his stay and invited him to live at the imperial palace, but he declined.
• Guan Xing guessed Ren Yu came from beyond their continent, and Ren Yu told her he was from another world.

Guan Xing told Ren Yu that her grandfather’s activation of Grem had unleashed four powerful Exotic Beasts that threatened to destroy the world, and she asked Ren Yu to stay and help. The chapter ended with Guan Xing insisting that Ren Yu was trustworthy as Rita stepped between them.

• Guan Xing learned that Ren Yu’s homeland, Shenzhou, had once been a single country, and asked him to stay in her world.
• Guan Xing explained that her grandfather had activated Grem at the Submarine Altar more than ten years earlier to drive away the Exotic Beasts.
• Guan Xing said four powerful Exotic Beasts now gnawed at the seals in the east, south, west, and north, and could wipe out humanity if they escaped.
• Guan Xing asked Ren Yu to help save the world, and Ren Yu challenged her certainty that he was a good person.
• Guan Xing insisted that Ren Yu’s clear eyes proved he was trustworthy, and Rita pulled her behind her.

Ren Yu agreed to eliminate the remaining Exotic Beast Yan Luos after learning that Grem and its World Bubble would become his vassals and aide. Guan Xing explained where the beasts were, and she proposed using an official visit to reach the northern beast's location in the Schicksal Theocracy.

• Ren Yu agreed to hunt the remaining Exotic Beast Yan Luos after hearing what Grem would grant him.
• Guan Xing told Ren Yu that the northern, western, and eastern beasts remained, and that they were in the Schicksal Theocracy and Pirate Federation.
• Rita explained that the northern beast's location was a forbidden ground containing the legendary Sword in the Stone.
• Guan Xing warned Ren Yu about the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the site, then proposed requesting an official visit to enter it.

At St. Freya Academy, Su tried to convince Fu Hua that she was a Fusion Warrior from the Previous Era and asked for her Feather Dust, but she demanded to know who had sent him. Hours later, Fu Hua hurried off after class while Su prepared to leave for Sea Abyss City.

• Su told Fu Hua that she came from the Previous Era and that Feather Dust held her lost memories.
• Fu Hua produced Feather Dust, then pulled it back and demanded to know who was behind Su.
• Su agreed to tell Fu Hua the truth after she threatened to attack him.
• Fu Hua hurried out of class without her glasses, and Kiana chased after her with them.
• At the helipad, the pilot warned Su that they would miss the last deep-sea vessel to Sea Abyss City if they waited longer.

Su met Fu Hua in the forest and hurried her onto a helicopter bound for an Anti-Entropy deep-sea vessel heading to Sea Abyss City. Fu Hua discovered Kiana had secretly followed them to return her glasses, and Kiana’s casual remarks left Fu Hua stunned to learn that Mei and Bronya were apparently turncoats too.

• Su waited in the forest, greeted Fu Hua when she arrived, and hurried her onto the helicopter.
• Su ignored a strange clang as the helicopter took off, and the group later boarded a deep-sea vessel in the Far East.
• Fu Hua found Kiana clinging to the helicopter and learned she had followed to return Fu Hua’s glasses.
• As Transport No. 5 prepared to dive toward Sea Abyss City, Fu Hua worried that Kiana was aboard an Anti-Entropy vessel.
• Kiana called Fu Hua a turncoat and said Mei, Bronya, Assistant Teacher, and she were turncoats too, leaving Fu Hua shocked.

Kiana forced her way onto a shuttlecraft bound for the Sea of Quantum after learning Ren Yu was in trouble, despite Fu Hua and the Anti-Entropy agents trying to stop her. In Huangyue Kingdom, Ren Yu explained to Rita that another-world version of her shared her body and promised to separate their souls.

• Kiana arrived in Sea Abyss City and demanded to board a shuttlecraft to the Sea of Quantum.
• Anti-Entropy agents and Sigfried tried to stop Kiana, but she vanished into the shuttlecraft through a dark passage.
• Fu Hua found Kiana aboard the departing shuttlecraft and told her to get off, but Kiana refused and worried about Ren Yu and the Lord of Spirits.
• Ren Yu told Rita that a soul from another world lived inside her and promised to find a way to separate them.
• Rita struggled to believe Ren Yu's explanation but said they could assume it was true.

After the rebellion subsided, Rita and Guan Xing prepared to leave Huangyue City for Schicksal to investigate the crisis involving the four altars and Exotic Beast Yan Luo. Guan Xing refused to delay for a coronation, and the chapter ended as Liu Bao San greeted them at the eastern gate and Rita asked whether the troops were ready.

• Rumors spread that Rita’s assembled Huangyue Iron Cavalry meant another purge, alarming townspeople and court officials.
• Rita told Guan Xing that Schicksal’s Grand Bishop had invited them to visit and asked whether she was certain about departing before taking the throne.
• Guan Xing insisted that the danger posed by the four altars and Exotic Beast Yan Luo made delay too risky for Huangyue Kingdom and the world.
• Guan Xing and Rita left their carriage at the eastern gate, while Ren Yu regretted that Benares could no longer fly and Bella glared at him.
• Liu Bao San greeted Guan Xing and Rita as they reached the Iron Cavalry, and Rita asked whether the troops were ready.

Guan Xing prepared to leave for Schicksal while Rita remained in Huangyue City, but Rita suddenly collapsed as Ren Yu and Bella sensed a threat. Beneath the sea, a dormant machine awakened and targeted Kiana and Fu Hua, forcing them to abandon their shuttlecraft.

• An Iron Cavalry officer promised Guan Xing they could reach Schicksal within three days, and she entrusted Huangyue City to Rita before setting out with Ren Yu.
• Rita suddenly grew dizzy and coughed, prompting Yu'er to call for an imperial physician and the Iron Cavalry to form ranks.
• Ren Yu and Bella sensed danger and looked toward the sky as a steel statue rose from an underwater altar and began a correction procedure against foreign lifeforms.
• Kiana and Fu Hua felt themselves being targeted aboard their shuttlecraft, and Fu Hua ordered everyone to jump out.
• Kiana crushed her seat's armrest and stood up in fury, calling the unseen attacker an insolent insect.

Sirin rescued Kiana and the others from the shuttlecraft’s explosion by opening a spatial passage, but the escape destroyed Kiana’s Valkyrie armor. The group landed in a forest and faced a huge pack of wolves as night fell.

• The steel statue detected no life signs near the shuttlecraft and ordered a new law suppressing foreign lifeforms.
• The shuttlecraft exploded, and Sirin opened a spatial passage to bring Kiana and the others to safety.
• Kiana and the others emerged badly injured but alive, while Kiana’s White Comet armor overheated and broke down.
• Sirin and Kiana argued over the lack of Honkai Energy crystals as a wolf pack approached.
• Kiana spotted countless green eyes in the dark forest and asked Sirin whether she could fight the wolves alone.

Fu Hua defeated the starving wolves bare-handed and amazed Kiana and the Anti-Entropy agents. As the group reacted to the victory, the ground split open and a huge surge of underground water erupted beneath them.

• Fu Hua rushed into the wolf pack and killed the wolves while the Anti-Entropy agents prepared to fight.
• Fu Hua defeated the wolf king with Inch Punch: Heaven Split, and the surviving wolves fled.
• The Anti-Entropy agents turned on their flashlights, and Kiana recognized Fu Hua and was astonished that she had fought without Valkyrie armor.
• Fu Hua asked why Kiana was staring at her, but Kiana warned her about what was behind her.
• The ground split apart, and a huge surge of water erupted as an Anti-Entropy agent urged everyone to escape.

As Kiana's group fled rising floodwaters, Schicksal learned that the forbidden land had flooded early and the Sword in the Stone had appeared. In Huangyue City, Ren Yu's group returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion after Rita was attacked, where Ren Yu moved to save her despite the physician's grim prognosis.

• Kiana's group hurried toward higher ground as the water rose.
• An attendant told the yellow-robed Bishop that the forbidden land had flooded, and the Bishop rushed to inform the Pope about the Sword in the Stone.
• Iron cavalry sealed Huangyue City's gates after Prime Minister Rita was attacked, forcing Ren Yu's group to return to the mansion.
• An imperial physician said Rita might not awaken, and Yu'er rushed to her bedside in distress.
• Ren Yu approached the unconscious Rita, said he was saving her, and insisted she was not sick.

Ren Yu used Apocalypse - War to reveal strange golden chains draining Rita and several others, then tested whether Bella was connected to one. The blade found no chain on Bella, but frightened her, leaving Ren Yu to explain that he had only been experimenting.

• Ren Yu swung Apocalypse - War toward Rita, but stopped when flames gathered around the blade.
• Ren Yu struck an unseen object and revealed a golden chain connecting Rita to an unknown place.
• Ren Yu swung his blade around the room, revealing similar chains connected to Yu'er, Guan Xing, and the imperial physician.
• Ren Yu swung at Bella, but the blade stopped before hitting her and revealed no chain.
• Ren Yu told Bella it had been an experiment, and she angrily scolded him for frightening her.

Ren Yu discovered that everyone in the World Bubble practiced qi because those who did not died before age ten. In Schicksal, the bell tower shook and rang seven times as a white beam of light rose over the capital.

• Ren Yu found strange chains on Rita, Guan Xing, and the imperial physician, but not Bella, and suspected the residents were being controlled or having something extracted from them.
• Ren Yu asked Guan Xing, Yu'er, and the imperial physician about qi and learned that nearly everyone cultivated it to survive beyond childhood.
• Guan Xing told Ren Yu that qi cultivators lived to around thirty or forty and aged rapidly after thirty.
• A burning beam fell behind Ren Yu, smashing tables, chairs, and porcelain.
• The Yellow-Robed Bishop and his attendant arrived at the Pope's floor in Schicksal's bell tower, where the tower shook and its bell rang seven times.
• People across Schicksal's capital looked toward a white beam of light shooting into the sky from the southwest.

Kiana and Fu Hua pulled the holy sword from a floating island, became the new kings of Schicksal, and received a command to destroy four Submarine Altars. Ren Yu broke the chain restraining Rita, who woke up as the chain snapped.

• Kiana and Fu Hua pulled the rusty sword from the ground, triggering a beam of light and sacred feathers across the capital.
• The people learned that Kiana and Fu Hua had become kings of Schicksal, and the two received a command to destroy four Submarine Altars and free the four divine beasts.
• Ren Yu drew Apocalypse Greatsword again in the Prime Minister's Mansion, alarming everyone because it was the last surviving building there.
• Ren Yu poured Emblem Energy into Apocalypse - War and repeatedly struck the chain restraining Rita until it snapped.
• Rita sat upright on the bed and gasped for breath.

Rita woke after experiencing a strange void where countless consciousnesses were being pulled together, only to be caught by a stronger golden chain. Ren Yu attacked the chain with his empowered longsword, and a massive nine-tailed demon fox appeared to intercept its attack on him.

• Rita woke in familiar surroundings after a red flash snapped the chains in the void and returned her to reality.
• A golden chain wrapped around Rita's arm, apparently responding to Ren Yu's earlier attack.
• Ren Yu poured more Emblem Energy into his longsword and unleashed a rapid series of red, flame-wreathed strikes against the chain.
• The chain abandoned Rita and shot a spiked end toward Ren Yu's face.
• A snow-white demon fox with nine tails appeared and brought its claws down toward the incoming chain.

Ren Yu cut through the chains controlling the World Bubble, enraging the Fifth Order statue at the Submarine Altar. The statue then watched Sie appear inside the barrier and damage the altar, leaving it unsure how to stop her without freeing the sealed guardian spirits.

• Ren Yu used the lingering force of his blade to sever the remaining golden chains before his Emblem Energy ran out.
• The statue at the Submarine Altar sensed that its chains had been cut and grew furious that someone had disrupted its plans.
• Sie swung her enormous scythe at a giant beast but missed and struck the stone altar instead.
• Inner Sie scolded Sie for her clumsy attack as the statue wondered how she had entered the barrier.
• The statue hesitated to attack Sie because opening the altar could awaken the sealed guardian spirits.

After Rita recalled Former Emperor Otto's warning about the alien beasts, Guan Xing began to suspect that her wishes at the Submarine Altar had caused Huangyue Kingdom's disasters. A pillar of light signaled the Hero King's return, and Guan Xing rushed to the imperial palace to retrieve the Imperial Seal.

• Rita remembered Otto saying that the alien beasts should be protected rather than destroyed.
• Guan Xing recalled Otto's warning about making wishes at the Submarine Altar and connected the wishes to Huangyue Kingdom's recurring disasters.
• A white pillar of light appeared in the north, and Guan Xing realized the Hero King had appeared again in Schicksal.
• Guan Xing decided her prophecy might be correct, mounted a horse, and led Ren Yu and the others to the imperial palace.
• Guan Xing searched the dragon throne's desk and found the intact Imperial Seal.

Guan Xing dropped the Imperial Seal, and Rosaliya caught it before golden chains attacked her. Ren Yu took the Seal and unleashed a powerful slash that destroyed the chains and the palace formation, leaving the hidden threat and the Seal’s secret unresolved.

• Guan Xing stumbled and dropped the Imperial Seal, but Ren Yu caught her before she hit the ground.
• The golden dragon totems transformed into chains and attacked Rosaliya, who leapt clear of their strike.
• Rosaliya hurled the Imperial Seal toward Ren Yu while the chains pursued it.
• Ren Yu struck with Apocalypse - War, shattering the chains and destroying the formation carved into the palace floor.