Recaps

Xuan Zhe fought Sasuke Uchiha, provoked him into fleeing, then resumed his pursuit of Yotsuki. As Xuan Zhe prepared a powerful attack, Yotsuki ordered Ye Ying to evacuate everyone.

• Xuan Zhe and Sasuke Uchiha exchanged blows while onlookers watched, and Xuan Zhe taunted Sasuke about his identity and family.
• Sasuke Uchiha, enraged by Xuan Zhe's insults, threatened him and fled into the mountain forest.
• Xuan Zhe left Sasuke behind and pursued Yotsuki, who tried to slow him with giant pythons.
• Xuan Zhe attacked a black skull, but a gust from Yotsuki struck him and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xuan Zhe formed a large black fireball, and Yotsuki told Ye Ying to take everyone and retreat.

Yotsuki used his Heart-Eating Insects to badly wound Xuan Zhe, then found a woman who recognized him and begged him to save her. He carried the unconscious woman back to the motionless Heart-Eating Insect and began channeling chakra into it.

• Xuan Zhe attacked Yotsuki with a black fireball, but Yotsuki unleashed his Heart-Eating Insects and had them shoot Xuan Zhe until he was badly wounded.
• Xuan Zhe and Yotsuki prepared to leave, but a woman suddenly collapsed in pain and clung to Yotsuki, pleading for him to take her in and save her.
• Yotsuki pushed the woman away and, when she continued sobbing on the ground, struck her neck and knocked her unconscious.
• Yotsuki carried the woman out of the woods while telling Xuan Zhe he could control the Heart-Eating Insects.
• Yotsuki returned to the spot where the Heart-Eating Insect lay motionless and channeled chakra into its head.

Xuan Zhe struggled to get the apparently unconscious Yotsuki to safety and treated his injuries in the ancient tree. As Xuan Zhe transferred chakra to him, Yotsuki began absorbing it, shocking Xuan Zhe.

• Yotsuki entered a strange pale-blue trance, and Xuan Zhe became numb before carrying him to the ancient tree.
• At the tree, Yotsuki appeared to wake and fall asleep again, then cried out in pain; Xuan Zhe helped him climb and tended to his injuries.
• Xuan Zhe found Yotsuki's hand bound by vines and used chakra to free it, discovering deep claw-like wounds in his palm.
• Yotsuki woke and said he felt better, so Xuan Zhe transferred chakra to help him force out what remained in his body.
• Yotsuki used Xuan Zhe's taught method to absorb the chakra being transferred, leaving Xuan Zhe astonished.

Yotsuki expelled most of the poison’s power from his body while Xuan Zhe watched and worried over him. After Yotsuki unexpectedly broke through again, Xuan Zhe warned him not to rush his cultivation, and Yotsuki agreed to be careful.

• Xuan Zhe discovered that Yotsuki could cultivate, but feared the fierce power inside him would kill him if it continued to spread.
• Yotsuki told Xuan Zhe he could not suppress the poison, then asked him to fetch water and clean clothes while he searched for an antidote.
• After Xuan Zhe returned with water and a pill, Yotsuki sat down to channel his chakra and force the power out of his body.
• Yotsuki spent more than two hours expelling most of the power, though some remained and still threatened his internal organs.
• Xuan Zhe blamed himself for Yotsuki’s poisoning and resented the Situ Family for their role in it.
• Yotsuki’s aura unexpectedly grew stronger, and Xuan Zhe warned him against rushing his cultivation; Yotsuki agreed to be careful.

Mei and Raven left Coral Island after recovering the Herrscher cores and honoring Ana, but their report to Kevin was cut off by an emergency at World Serpent's base. As players debated the tragic mission, a new Fu Hua promotional video appeared online.

• Mei and Raven mourned the destruction of Coral Island and reflected on Ana and Owl's tragic fate.
• Mei joined Ana's pendant halves together at the memorial, then returned with Raven to report to Kevin.
• Mei challenged Kevin over whether he had planned for her to seize the cores, but their call was interrupted by an emergency at the World Serpent base.
• Sister Zhou and the livestream viewers argued over the story's tragic ending and speculated about the attack on the base.
• Lehoyo and the official Honkai Impact 3rd account released a new Fu Hua CG short film, which a player immediately opened.

A new Honkai Impact 3rd CG showed Fu Hua attacking Durandal, Kevin, and Bronya before revealing a mysterious woman who called herself “Turn the Tide of All Creation.” The video went viral, and Hanser discovered that her nephew had watched it and repeated its climactic line.

• The CG showed Fu Hua battling Durandal at Schicksal headquarters and confronting Kevin amid flames.
• Fu Hua attacked Bronya on a rain-soaked bridge, and Project Bunny sacrificed itself to protect her before Fu Hua declared she would reshape the world.
• Kiana faced a mysterious woman atop a skyscraper, who introduced herself as “Turn the Tide of All Creation,” and the video ended.
• Players shared the CG widely and speculated about Fu Hua’s transformation as it surged across social media on Lunar New Year’s Day.
• Hanser caught her nephew repeating the woman’s line, learned he had watched the new CG, and checked its rapidly rising view and share counts.

After the new Honkai Impact 3rd CG stirred up fans, Lin Yuhao refused to reveal story details to Qin Xiaofeng and Sister Zhou. He then ran into Sister Zhou and Xiao N at a restaurant and offered Sister Zhou a chance to debut Lehoyo’s planned VR version of the game on stream.

• Hanser watched the new CG with her nephew and called Lin Yuhao, but his line was busy.
• Qin Xiaofeng called Lin Yuhao to ask what happened to Fu Hua in the CG, and Lin Yuhao hung up without giving him spoilers.
• Sister Zhou called Lin Yuhao to ask when the next main story would release and whether the character was Fu Hua, but he refused to answer and ended the call.
• Sister Zhou and Xiao N spotted Lin Yuhao at a restaurant, where he invited them to share his table.
• Lin Yuhao told Sister Zhou that Lehoyo was developing a VR version of Honkai Impact 3rd and offered her its streaming debut when it was ready.

Lin Yuhao’s Fu Hua CG continued to inspire players and children, and Lehoyo built anticipation for its next update and concert. When the new main story chapter launched, Sister Zhou began uncovering the immortal’s identity through memories and voices representing parts of her soul.

• Sister Zhou agreed to watch Lin Yuhao’s new story content, while children nearby imitated Fu Hua’s famous line and Lin Yuhao wondered whether his stories could help them grow.
• The CG’s popularity surged, and a recently laid-off young Shaoji decided he had to join Lehoyo after watching it repeatedly.
• Lehoyo released a new version preview after the Spring Festival holiday, revealing upcoming story content, characters, and battlesuits as players eagerly reacted.
• Lin Yuhao directed his staff to finalize the story schedule and concert preparations, while Qin Xiaofeng anxiously awaited the update.
• After maintenance ended on Thursday, Sister Zhou opened the new main story chapter and encountered the immortal’s Id and Superego, which told her to recover her memories and find her Ego.
• The immortal’s memories revealed several past identities, including a girl, a female warrior, an immortal, and an Academy class monitor, before the Id began speaking nervously.

Sister Zhou played through a VR Honkai Impact 3rd scene in which a woman woke from a five-hundred-year sleep and confronted Otto Apocalypse. After a memory revealed that Otto had shot her, she attacked him, leaving him slammed against a wall.

• The woman woke inside a Schicksal life-support pod as her three personalities argued about Otto Apocalypse and urged her to escape.
• Sister Zhou chose to break the pod open with her fist and emerged to find Otto waiting outside.
• Otto said he had revived and healed her because he did not want her to die, but her inner voices accused him of betrayal and killing her.
• A memory replayed Otto shooting her after saying, “Red Kite Immortal, I did not lie.”
• Sister Zhou followed her inner voices’ command to kill Otto and slammed him against the wall.

Otto was beaten to death as Schicksal Headquarters was devastated, while Theresa and Bronya struggled to make sense of the simultaneous attacks on Schicksal and World Serpent. Kiana ignored the turmoil and reached Mount Taixu with Bronya to search for Fu Hua’s traces and the Taixu Sword Energy.

• Otto’s body was found destroyed after an unseen assailant battered him, and Schicksal Headquarters lay in flames and ruins.
• Theresa told Bronya that Otto was missing, Durandal had taken control, and World Serpent’s headquarters had also been attacked by someone who fought its Sovereign and escaped unharmed.
• Bronya told Theresa that Kiana was training in Fu Hua’s techniques, and Kiana said she wanted to focus on the journey to Mount Taixu rather than the outside conflict.
• Kiana explained that she sought Fu Hua’s traces and the Taixu Sword Energy, which could suppress the Herrscher Core.
• Kiana and Bronya reached Mount Taixu and began searching its weathered paths for clues about Fu Hua’s past.

Kiana and Bronya found Fu Hua’s hidden feather at Mount Taixu, where Lin Zhaoyu revealed that Kiana needed to cultivate Sword Heart to control her power. The feather opened a sealed memory of Fu Hua’s youth, showing her life before she left home for Canghai City.

• Kiana and Bronya found the feather at Fu Hua’s secluded retreat, but Kiana could not break its seal before Honkai Beasts attacked.
• Lin Zhaoyu killed the Honkai Beasts and identified herself as the guardian of Mount Taixu, then led Kiana and Bronya to the summit.
• Kiana asked Lin Zhaoyu to teach her complete Taixu Sword Energy, but Lin Zhaoyu explained that Sword Heart—not sword techniques—was what Kiana needed.
• Lin Zhaoyu said she could not teach Sword Heart because of a blood oath, but she used Fu Hua’s feather to unlock its sealed memory.
• Kiana was overwhelmed by a vision of Fu Hua as a teenage girl, training each morning and preparing to leave home for Canghai City.

Kiana and Bronya explored Mount Taixu’s sealed Heart Imprints and discovered more of Fu Hua’s lonely, vulnerable past. After finding a feather they could not unseal, they grew suspicious of Lin Zhaoyu’s convenient appearances.

• Lin Zhaoyu explained that the first memory was a Heart Imprint left by the Red Kite Immortal, and said she would help unseal any feathers the girls found.
• Kiana and Bronya found a blue feather showing Hua struggling to approach her classmates during her first week of school, then reflected on her isolation.
• Kiana wondered whether Fu Hua had followed orders at St. Freya, and Bronya told her to ask Fu Hua directly when she returned.
• Kiana and Bronya found another feather sealed by an unfamiliar power, and Kiana questioned why Lin Zhaoyu kept appearing whenever they needed clues.

Kiana and Bronya returned to Lin Zhaoyu, who gave Kiana the feather and triggered Hua’s memories of her conflict with Kevin in the Previous Era. The livestream viewers reacted to the painful flashback, and Bronya recognized Kevin Kaslana.

• Kiana and Bronya discussed whether to trust Lin Zhaoyu, then returned and handed her the feather.
• Lin Zhaoyu gave the feather to Kiana, stirring fragments of Hua’s memories.
• Hua confronted Kevin over Dr. Mei’s orders, the death of their captain, and the suffering caused by the MANTIS program.
• Kevin urged Hua to unite with him against the Honkai and said he was going to find Sakura; Hua let him leave.
• The livestream viewers reacted to the flashback, and Bronya recognized Kevin Kaslana.

Kiana and Bronya uncovered more of Fu Hua’s ancient history as Lin Zhaoyu revealed the Taixu Sword Sect’s rule against corruption. They found another Feather of Yu Duchen, which showed Fu Hua struggling with the burden of retaining every memory from her long life.

• Kiana told Lin Zhaoyu that she had seen Chi Yuan’s past, and Lin Zhaoyu explained that Shenzhou called Honkai “true qi” or “demonic qi.”
• Bronya and Kiana suspected that Fu Hua had established the Taixu Sword Sect’s rule that those who fell to corruption must be slain.
• Kiana and Bronya fought Honkai beasts on Mount Taixu and found another Feather of Yu Duchen in a crevice.
• Fu Hua awoke after passing out, and Cangxuan and Danzhu urged her to rest before they fought more Honkai beasts.
• Fu Hua suffered a dizzy spell during the fight, then described recurring headaches and countless thoughts pressing into her mind.
• Cangxuan warned Fu Hua that her immortal life caused memories to accumulate until they threatened to collapse her consciousness, and urged her to use the Feather or seek psychological intervention.

Fu Hua explained why her memories connected her past self to the person she had become, while Cangxuan and Danzhu secretly discussed protecting her from Dr. Mei’s plan. After Kiana was overwhelmed by the memory, Lin Zhaoyu identified her condition as the affliction of Selflessness.

• Fu Hua killed the giant Honkai Beast, and Cangxuan confirmed that the Honkai energy had disappeared.
• Fu Hua told Cangxuan that her memories tied her present self to the frightened girl she had once been, and asked for more time before clearing them.
• As Fu Hua lay awake, she overheard Danzhu and Cangxuan discuss her failing sense of self and their resolve to keep her from becoming a pawn in Dr. Mei’s plan.
• Kiana remained dazed after experiencing Fu Hua’s memories, and Bronya took her to see Lin Zhaoyu.
• Lin Zhaoyu explained that Selflessness could make people lose their sense of self and mistake themselves for the immortal.

Lin Zhaoyu told Kiana how Chi Yuan’s six disciples betrayed and killed her, then revealed that Chi Yuan returned twenty years later and confronted them. A flashback showed Hua waking in a refuge after Canghai City was destroyed, where the woman who saved her explained that she would be sent to Australia while the disaster remained unresolved.

• Lin Zhaoyu explained the purpose of the Sword Heart Art and told Kiana the story of Chi Yuan’s seven disciples.
• Lin Zhaoyu recounted how Su Mei planned an ambush at Fuyun Temple, where the disciples killed Chi Yuan after the fifth disciple struck her between the brows.
• Lin Zhaoyu said Chi Yuan returned from death twenty years later and found her disciples, but refused to explain what happened next.
• In a flashback, Hua remained isolated in a cabin at the Refuge Base after an unidentified creature destroyed Canghai City.
• The mysterious woman who saved Hua told her that almost no one survived, that she would take responsibility for her, and that her destination was Australia.

Kiana continued collecting feathers on Mount Taixu and witnessed memories of Fu Hua’s life before the catastrophe. In the memories, Hua chose to learn the truth about the disaster and gradually formed a close friendship with an outgoing classmate.

• A woman told Hua that Canghai City and all of East Asia had fallen, and that Hua’s family and classmates had not survived.
• Hua insisted on learning the truth so she could discover how far she could go, and the woman offered to reveal the secret and its lifelong cost.
• Kiana woke after the memory and continued gathering feathers with help from Lin Zhaoyu.
• Fu Hua rescued an outgoing girl from zombies, and the girl introduced herself as a classmate and walked back with her.
• The girl encouraged Hua to wear new clothes instead of her uniform, and Hua thanked her as she left for the term break.

Kiana and Bronya witnessed Hua’s memories of losing her home and friends in the Third Eruption, then learned how her captain urged her to give soldiers moments of happiness amid the war. The memories ended without revealing the Sword Heart Art or the double, and Kiana insisted they keep searching.

• Hua’s departure from Canghai City was interrupted when the Third Eruption struck and destroyed the city, leaving her home, school, and friends lost.
• Bronya and Kiana watched the memory and recognized how Hua’s newfound happiness had been crushed by the catastrophe.
• Hua told her captain that celebrating after losing comrades to defeat the Sixth Herrscher made her sick, and the captain said people needed to forget their pain and find reasons to be happy.
• A year later, Hua prepared to attend another ball, hoping to give the exhausted soldiers a brief respite from the war.
• Bronya noted that the memories had revealed neither the Sword Heart Art nor the double, while Kiana vowed to keep searching.

Hua used the Key of Consciousness to contain the Twelfth Herrscher’s mental contamination at the base, but the crisis had already devastated humanity. The chapter ended with Hua and Kevin confronting the fall of three major cities and the heavy cost of their victory.

• Hua discovered that the Twelfth Herrscher was contaminating the base and used the Key of Consciousness to seal the residents’ minds.
• Hua created a personality-free copy of her consciousness to protect the sealing process, then erased it after the defenses were reinforced.
• Hua met Kevin, who told her that Sakura was gone and that about a hundred people at the base had died while nearby residents became zombies.
• Kevin revealed that the virus had seized the defense network and launched every warhead in the silos at populated areas, causing all three major cities to fall.
• Hua collapsed under the guilt of failing to stop the attack, while Kevin sat beside her and spoke of humanity’s costly struggles against the Honkai.

Kevin and Hua faced humanity’s near-total defeat, then reaffirmed that they would not give up. As Hua entered cryogenic sleep ten thousand years before the present, Kiana and Bronya watched her memories and Kiana began to understand the burden Fu Hua carried.

• Kevin confessed to Hua that he had once fought for selfish reasons, and Hua reminded him that they had chosen their path themselves.
• After admitting that he had not given up, Kevin regained his resolve, and he and Hua agreed that humanity would win before heading to the war room.
• The memory ended, and Kiana and Bronya reflected on the fallen strongholds, the Herrschers, and Fu Hua’s past with Kevin.
• Kevin told Hua that their farewell would last ten thousand years and that humanity would ultimately defeat Honkai as she entered a cryopod.
• Hua asked Prometheus how much time remained before the hibernation plan began, and Prometheus told her that sixty-eight minutes remained.

Fu Hua’s memories left Sister Zhou questioning what would remain of her own life, prompting her to decide to ask Lin Yuhao out. The story then returned to Chi Yuan and the Book of Cangxuan as they entered a village where demonic energy filled the air beneath a bustling, seemingly unaware crowd.

• Fu Hua recalled her lost martial arts school, friends, and captain before entering the cryogenic chamber and saying good night to Prometheus.
• Sister Zhou wondered whether her life held any memories worth revisiting, then announced that she would ask Lin Yuhao out.
• Lin Zhaoyu examined the sealed Fenghuang Down feather and wondered why Chi Yuan cared about the person connected to it.
• Lin Zhaoyu brought Kiana into the Cloud Ink Painting Scroll, where Chi Yuan and the Book of Cangxuan continued their journey.
• Chi Yuan and the Book of Cangxuan entered a village filled with demonic energy, but its residents carried on with their daily lives.

Chi Yuan found a chained Honkai Zombie in the hills and prepared to kill her, but the Book of Cangxuan persuaded her to investigate first. The villagers revealed that the zombie was the Lin family's daughter-in-law, and the village chief privately asked Chi Yuan to end her suffering and lay her to rest.

• Chi Yuan sensed demonic energy near the village, questioned the villagers, and headed into the hills when she could not find its source.
• Chi Yuan and the Book of Cangxuan found a Honkai Zombie chained to a pillar with food placed before her.
• The Book of Cangxuan stopped Chi Yuan from attacking and urged her to learn why the zombie had been imprisoned.
• The villagers explained that the Lin family's daughter-in-law had turned into a demon, injured her husband, and been chained up after the young men subdued her.
• The village chief privately told Chi Yuan that the villagers feared the chained woman would escape and asked her to lay the daughter-in-law to rest.

Chi Yuan purified the HonKai Zombie despite Cangxuan’s sadness, then dreamed of reuniting with the dead Danzhu and Cangxuan. The reunion left Chi Yuan afraid that speaking would end the dream and force her to wake.

• Chi Yuan questioned the villagers, then decided the HonKai Zombie had to be purified despite one man’s resentment.
• Chi Yuan performed the purification ritual, and the HonKai Zombie dissolved into motes of light.
• Cangxuan told Chi Yuan she was sad for her, recalling how Danzhu and Cangxuan had created her to watch over Chi Yuan and protect her from her mission.
• Chi Yuan dreamed of meeting Danzhu and Cangxuan again after 2,600 years, and they acknowledged that they were both dead.
• Chi Yuan cried and told Danzhu and Cangxuan she was happy to see them, then feared that the dream would end if she spoke.

Kiana and Bronya followed a feather Lin Zhaoyu left into a tampered memory of Mount Taixu, where they learned Chi Yuan might be in danger. After fighting their way past several of Chi Yuan’s disciples, they reached Fuyun Temple, where Su Mei and Ma Yanqing blocked their path.

• Kiana and Bronya found Lin Zhaoyu gone and used the feather she left behind to enter a memory.
• Kiana and Bronya followed Chi Yuan up Mount Taixu and encountered Qin Suyi, whose shadow attacked them after she asked if they had come to save her master.
• Bronya realized someone had tampered with the memory, and Kiana suspected it reenacted the night the Taixu Seven Swords attacked Yunmo.
• Kiana and Bronya fought Jiang Wanxi and her elder sister, then watched Ling Shuang vanish after she called the scene fake.
• Kiana and Bronya reached Fuyun Temple, where Su Mei and Ma Yanqing barred their way.

Kiana and Bronya explored Fu Hua’s memories, uncovered evidence that Lin Zhaoyu was the eldest of the seven disciples, and watched her travel south with a strangely cold Chi Yuan. The memory ended aboard a fishing boat, where Chi Yuan showed a brief sign of emotion as Lin Zhaoyu thanked her for accompanying her to her parents’ tombs.

• Kiana and Bronya defeated the phantoms of the Taixu Seven Swords, then opened a door that returned them to Mount Taixu without revealing what lay inside.
• Kiana touched a newly discovered feather and entered a memory of Lin Zhaoyu accompanying Chi Yuan south, while worrying about her younger sisters.
• Lin Zhaoyu bought offerings and gifts for her sisters, but Chi Yuan acted distant and said she had forgotten their old stop in town.
• Sister Zhou speculated that Chi Yuan’s coldness was tied to a secret plan and skipped ahead in the memory.
• Aboard a dilapidated fishing boat, Lin Zhaoyu thanked Chi Yuan for accompanying her to visit her parents’ tombs, and Chi Yuan softly called her name.