Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yu, Jing Yuan, and Dan Heng fought Phantylia after she fashioned a giant body from the Ambrosial Arbor. Jiang Yu's attacks injured her soul despite her regeneration, and he unleashed a rain of swords to finish the battle quickly before facing Amdo.

• Amdo recalled Falcorez and a planetary slaughter as he reflected on his past with the Mirror Holders.
• Phantylia created a giant body using the Ambrosial Arbor's Power of Abundance and attacked Jing Yuan and his allies.
• Jiang Yu severed Phantylia's arms with Black Cleave, borrowed Starfall Reverie, and inflicted wounds that regenerated but caused her severe soul pain.
• Jing Yuan's Lightning-Lord destroyed the star Phantylia sent falling toward them, while Dan Heng attacked with Azure Dragons and disrupted her connection to the Ambrosial Arbor.
• Jiang Yu summoned countless Xunfeng Swords and blocked Phantylia's Arcane Root Genesis with power she recognized as Abundance.
• Jiang Yu unleashed his sword barrage while enduring the pain of Coiling Star, and Phantylia curled up to defend herself.

Jiang Yu's Xunfeng Sword Formation overwhelmed Phantylia, but she transformed after Amdo appeared and ignited her Ambrosial Arbor body. Amdo Wesker announced that he would fight the group and use Phantylia as his weapon, setting the stage for another battle.

• Jiang Yu's Xunfeng Sword Formation inflicted unbearable pain on Phantylia and caused her to lose consciousness.
• Jing Yuan praised Jiang Yu's strength and, with Dan Heng, prepared to sever Phantylia's connection to the Ambrosial Arbor.
• Phantylia's body burst into strange flames, restoring her awareness and transforming her into a living antimatter furnace.
• Amdo rose from the rippling ground and introduced himself as Mirror Holder Amdo Wesker.
• Amdo declared that he would be the group's opponent and that Phantylia would serve as his weapon.

Amdo revealed that he had trapped Phantylia by manipulating her reflection and offered Jing Yuan and the Astral Express crew a chance to leave, but they chose to stand by Jiang Yu. As Amdo disclosed the Mirror Holders’ threat to the Luofu and offered to help contain it before the battle, Jiang Yu quietly prepared his own safeguard.

• Amdo explained that he had brought Phantylia under control by giving her reflection life and using it to manipulate her in the mirror world.
• March 7th and the Astral Express crew chose not to abandon Jiang Yu, and Jing Yuan likewise refused to hand over a Xianzhou citizen.
• Amdo said the battle would occur in the mirror world to protect the Luofu, while Jiang Yu secretly began using hand seals to isolate the area.
• Amdo warned Jing Yuan that the Mirror Holders’ reflections could open passages for an attacking army and offered to manifest a reflection on the Luofu to help deal with the threat.
• Amdo revealed the corpses of the other Mirror Holders, shocking the group and Phantylia with his willingness to disclose their plans and wait for the Luofu’s defenses to be secured.

Amdo moved the battle into the Mirror World so the fighters could unleash their full power without endangering the Xianzhou Luofu, then challenged Jiang Yu to a duel. As the duel began, Jiang Yu’s power erupted and the Mirror World was overwhelmed by lightning, darkness, and crushing pressure.

• Jing Yuan accepted that Amdo had spoken honestly and summoned the Lightning-Lord, saying he had already made all the necessary preparations.
• Amdo transported everyone to the Mirror World, where they saw bloodstains left by the Mirror Holders he had killed.
• Amdo explained that they could fight without restraint in the Mirror World, while Phantylia’s bound divine body confronted the Lightning-Lord.
• Amdo challenged Jiang Yu to a duel once Phantylia had drawn the others away.
• Lightning flashed across the Mirror World as Jiang Yu’s power surged, unleashing black tornadoes and a crushing pressure that made the sky seem to fall.

Siberian Duck reached the showdown with Phantylia, whose transformation was interrupted when Jiang Yu appeared and emptied one of her health bars with a Jumping Slash. After the party battled through another phase with Dan Heng’s Cloudhymn Roar and the allies’ combined attacks, Phantylia rose again and the fight entered its second phase.

• Siberian Duck watched Jiang Yu speak privately with Amdo Wesker before Phantylia fused with the Ambrosial Arbor and revealed her immense form.
• Jiang Yu flew into the cinematic and struck Phantylia with a Jumping Slash that emptied her first health bar.
• Siberian Duck learned from chat that Phantylia had four health bars, then began the battle as Phantylia attacked with a falling planet.
• Dan Heng unleashed Cloudhymn Roar, and Siberian Duck defeated the first battle phase.
• Dan Heng, the Lightning-Lord, March 7th, Stelle, and Old Yang combined their powers against Phantylia before Jiang Yu slammed her into the ground with another Jumping Slash.
• Phantylia rose again, pushed her powers of Destruction and Abundance to their limits, and began the second phase.

Jiang Yu activated Xunfeng Sword Formation, giving the team powerful follow-up attacks that helped them defeat Phantylia. After Phantylia reignited and Amdo appeared, the scene shifted into a new battle against Amdo, with Jiang Yu as the players’ sole character.

• Jiang Yu blocked Phantylia’s Arcane Root Genesis and deployed Xunfeng Sword Formation, which made enemy units vulnerable and triggered additional sword attacks whenever allies dealt damage.
• Siberian Duck used the Sword Formation to help defeat Phantylia’s second phase, and Jiang Yu then overwhelmed her with a rain of swords.
• Phantylia caught fire as the group prepared to seal the Ambrosial Arbor, and Amdo arrived to speak with Jing Yuan and the others.
• Amdo challenged Jiang Yu to a duel, causing the Mirror World and Grotto-Heaven to collapse and transform into a vast expanse of deep space.
• The next boss fight began against Amdo, with Jiang Yu as the only character available to the players.

Siberian Duck learned how Jiang Yu’s unleashed sword techniques worked as Jiang Yu’s Skyfall devastated Amdo’s Mirror World. Amdo praised Jiang Yu and agreed to fight despite taking heavy damage, and the battle ended before Jiang Yu could unleash Skyfall again.

• Siberian Duck read the tutorial explaining Jiang Yu’s Sword Intent and the Skyfall follow-up attack.
• Jiang Yu’s Skyfall damaged Amdo and the surrounding Mirror World, but Amdo interpreted it as a bold response to his duel and praised Jiang Yu’s beauty and power.
• Players discussed Amdo’s righteousness and speculated about his past while Siberian Duck reviewed Jiang Yu’s enhanced attacks.
• Siberian Duck fought Amdo, whose basic sword attacks contrasted with Jiang Yu’s powerful Wind techniques.
• Jiang Yu defeated Amdo before Skyfall could be unleashed again, and another cutscene began.

Jiang Yu defeated Amdo’s first form by turning his longsword against him and striking him down. Amdo transformed into the Worldburning Omen, Falcorez, and began the second phase of the battle as Siberian Duck’s team faced his fire attacks.

• Phantylia fought Jing Yuan and the Astral Express Crew while Siberian Duck’s team defeated her phase and triggered Amdo’s transition cutscene.
• Jiang Yu observed Amdo’s swordplay, used Animate Weapon to make Amdo’s longsword attack him, and knocked him to the ground with Black Cleave.
• Amdo recovered, praised Jiang Yu’s strength, and transformed into a living flame within his silver armor.
• Amdo declared himself the Worldburning Omen, Falcorez, and began fighting Siberian Duck’s team with new fire-based attacks.

Siberian Duck unleashed Jiang Yu’s Ultimate, which devastated Amdo but failed to end their duel. Amdo admitted he could not win through strength alone and prepared one last trump card to reclaim the divine-body fragment.

• Siberian Duck activated Jiang Yu’s four-strike Ultimate, which emptied Amdo’s HP bar and impressed the stream’s viewers.
• Amdo continued fighting Jiang Yu after transforming into Worldburning Omen, but Black Cleave repeatedly knocked him down.
• Jiang Yu’s attacks weakened Amdo’s control over Phantylia, who was struck by the Black Hole, the Azure Dragon, and the Lightning-Lord before leaving the battle.
• Amdo acknowledged that he was no match for Jiang Yu’s skill and strength, then announced he would use his final trump card to reclaim the fragment.
• Jiang Yu listened to Amdo’s declaration while aching from the fight and impatient for him to stop talking.

Amdo unleashed a Neutron Star Bomb that overwhelmed the group as Jiang Yu searched for a way to stop it. After the system suggested a self-sacrificing act, Jiang Yu realized he might have a plan.

• Amdo’s tiny speck of light resisted Old Yang’s simulated black hole, Dan Heng’s Azure Dragon, and Jing Yuan’s Lightning-Lord as its blast knocked March 7th and Stelle down.
• Jiang Yu sheltered behind Black Cleave, whose strange cry drew his concern even as the blade shielded him from the blast.
• Amdo explained that the speck contained a recorded neutron star explosion and called it his final resort, the Neutron Star Bomb.
• Jing Yuan and Dan Heng tried to shield the group while Old Yang attempted to understand the Mirror World and prepare Singularity Reconstruction.
• As the explosion continued expanding, Jiang Yu asked the system for ideas, then realized he might be able to act and announced that he had a plan.

Jiang Yu rushed toward the Neutron Star’s explosion, reasoning that his body of fragments might let him interact with the recorded image. Watching him, Amdo recalled how a Destruction bombardment had wiped out the people he once helped on the Silvergray Mountains, leaving him to awaken among the ruins.

• Black Cleave endured the Neutron Star’s impacts while worrying about the pain Jiang Yu suffered when he used his full strength.
• Jiang Yu announced that he had an idea and charged beyond the barrier toward the explosion’s bright point.
• Dan Heng shouted at Jiang Yu, who explained that he was made of fragments like Amdo’s shattered mirror.
• Amdo recalled arriving on the Silvergray Mountains, helping the local people with crops and searching for water.
• A white beam struck the settlement, and a fleet’s Destruction cannons bombarded the planet, killing its inhabitants.
• Amdo awoke in the devastated landscape and heard workers dismissing the possibility that anyone could live there.

Amdo recalled how his fury transformed him into Worldburning Omen Falcorez, and questioned whether his current pursuit of mirror fragments resembled the company’s past actions. As Phantylia watched, Jiang Yu swallowed the mirror fragment recording a neutron star explosion.

• Amdo killed two company employees, disguised himself in their armor, and infiltrated their base to learn more about the planet’s destruction.
• After hearing the company’s representative dismiss the deaths, Amdo’s rage awakened his power, and he burned the planet, the company employees, and their warships.
• Falcorez later regained Amdo’s consciousness after taking a mirror from a Mirror Holder, but Amdo reflected on whether collecting fragments made him like the company he had once opposed.
• Jiang Yu leaped toward the explosion and swallowed the mirror fragment in front of the astonished onlookers.

Jiang Yu swallowed the mirror fragment containing the neutron star explosion, but the blast erupted from within him and threatened to shatter Amdo’s Mirror World and endanger the Xianzhou Luofu. Amdo tried to move the collapsing world away from the Luofu as Phantylia fled, while Jiang Yu’s fate remained uncertain.

• Jiang Yu swallowed the mirror fragment, and the explosion’s effects initially seemed contained.
• The neutron star explosion erupted from Jiang Yu, tore through Phantylia’s divine body, and caused the Mirror World to begin collapsing.
• March 7th tried to rush toward Jiang Yu, but Stelle held her back as the others defended themselves from the blast.
• Amdo realized the Mirror World’s collapse could carry the explosion into the Luofu and risked his life to move it farther away and compress it into a plane.
• Phantylia abandoned her divine body and escaped through a crack in the Mirror World.

Amdo received renewed strength through Beauty and opened a rift for Jing Yuan and the others to escape before sacrificing himself to send the Mirror World away. As the Luofu’s explosion became a radiant star, beings across the galaxy saw Beauty, while March 7th and Old Yang glimpsed figures in its light.

• Amdo prayed to Beauty, regained his strength, and opened a rift so Jing Yuan and the others could escape.
• Jing Yuan led the group through the rift as Amdo sent the Mirror World farther into deep space and collapsed.
• As he fell through the breaking Mirror World, Amdo realized Beauty had never abandoned him and died in its embrace.
• A river of stars contained the Luofu’s explosion and transformed it into a radiant sun that spread Beauty’s image across the galaxy.
• March 7th said the figure in the light looked like Little Fish and wondered if Little Fish was a girl, while Old Yang glimpsed a red-haired woman and recalled seeing Arahato.

After surviving the explosion in an unusual state, Jiang Yu learned from Secretary Tong that he was still alive and that his body was only a shell fashioned from the Fragment of Beauty. When he heard Phantylia and the Mirror Holders were about to flee, he called on the Luofu for help.

• Jiang Yu mistook his disembodied state for death and a ghostly existence until Secretary Tong corrected him.
• Secretary Tong explained that Jiang Yu remained whole and that the body below him was a shell fashioned from the Fragment of Beauty.
• Jiang Yu wondered whether he was human, and Secretary Tong said he could be if he wished.
• Secretary Tong warned Jiang Yu that Phantylia and the other Mirror Holders were about to flee.
• Jiang Yu called to the Luofu for help, and the vessel answered with deep tremors from its gears and engines.

Siberian Duck mourned Jiang Yu’s apparent death as Stelle spoke with the silent Astral Express crew. Yukong then announced that the Xianzhou Luofu was out of control, as a strange purple Sea of Stars enveloped the ship and sent it accelerating.

• Siberian Duck stood frozen after Jiang Yu’s sacrifice, then sobbed as she guided Stelle around the scene.
• Stelle spoke with Jing Yuan, Dan Heng, Welt, and March 7th, who grieved over Jiang Yu’s condition.
• Stelle interacted with Jiang Yu’s body, recalling his brief presence in her life as the quest updated.
• Yukong projected a message to Jing Yuan and warned that the Xianzhou Luofu was out of control.
• A dusky purple Sea of Stars spread through space, enveloped the Luofu, and accelerated the ship.

Jiang Yu connected with the Xianzhou Luofu and took command as it pursued Phantylia and the fleeing Mirror Holders. After enjoying the hunt, he learned that Aha was floating behind him.

• Jiang Yu sensed the Luofu’s eagerness for the hunt, and Secretary Tong confirmed the ship awaited his command.
• Using the Luofu’s lens array, Jiang Yu spotted fleeing Mirror Holders and Phantylia’s emerald-green flame.
• Jiang Yu ordered the Luofu to pursue Phantylia, fire on the Mirror Holders, and destroy distant targets along the way.
• The Luofu accelerated under the power of The Hunt and blasted Mirror Holder ships as Jiang Yu thrilled at commanding it.
• Secretary Tong warned Jiang Yu to return to his own body and told him Aha was behind him.
• Jiang Yu turned and saw a dark, indistinct figure wearing Aha’s signature mask.

Jiang Yu met Aha in the Sea of Stars, where they joked about Jiang Yu’s antics and Aha warned him that his influence across the universe was attracting trouble. Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of the Aeon of Equilibrium, and Jiang Yu fled toward the Xianzhou Luofu to avoid being nagged.

• Jiang Yu and Aha traded jokes, and Jiang Yu urged Aha to choose a thoroughly battered battleship if he wanted to play with one.
• Aha warned Jiang Yu that his illusory traces across the universe could attract a troublesome obsessive and told him to rein them in.
• Jiang Yu admitted he did not know how to return to his body, then asked Aha to look him in the eye.
• Aha said looking directly at Jiang Yu would drive him mad, and the two continued their banter in the Sea of Stars.
• The Aeon of Equilibrium called out, startling Jiang Yu and Aha.
• Aha warned Jiang Yu that Equilibrium would likely nag him, so Jiang Yu covered his ears and rushed toward the Xianzhou Luofu.

Jiang Yu returned to his body after hearing HooH demand Equilibrium, leaving March 7th and Siberian Duck relieved to see him alive. He insisted that he had never died at all.

• Jiang Yu heard HooH call for Equilibrium and tried to reenter his body.
• Jiang Yu overcame the resistance of his body, regained his senses, and stood up.
• March 7th saw Jiang Yu rise and called it a miracle.
• Siberian Duck watched Jiang Yu return in the story and smiled through her tears.
• March 7th hugged Jiang Yu, and he told her he had never died.

Jiang Yu awoke after the explosion and explained that his soul had left his body without him dying. He reconnected with the Xianzhou Luofu, discovered it was capturing the Mirror Holders, and used Imaginary Energy to trap Phantylia.

• Jiang Yu woke up and told March 7th that the explosion had knocked his soul out of his body, but he had never died.
• Jiang Yu reestablished his connection to the Xianzhou Luofu and saw it capture the fleeing Mirror Holder ships and send them to the Prison of Deep Seclusion.
• Cloud Knights reported the unexpected arrivals in the Prison of Deep Seclusion to Jing Yuan, who was baffled by the Luofu's new ability.
• Jiang Yu focused on controlling the Xianzhou Luofu while the others let him rest.
• Phantylia found herself trapped in a cage of Imaginary Energy that Jiang Yu had recreated, and the Luofu captured her.