Recaps

Chi Yuan told Lin Zhaoyu how she had failed to save her friends from Chi You and refused to spare Wanru, while Kiana and Bronya realized the Mount Taixu they had entered was an illusion. The feather drew them into another memory, where Su Mei chose to become the disciple of the woman who had killed her mother.

• Lin Zhaoyu paid respects at her tribe’s graves, and Chi Yuan revealed that the people she mourned were her mortal enemies who had died fighting Chi You.
• Chi Yuan admitted the Jiuyou people were Lin Zhaoyu’s parents and tribe, and Lin Zhaoyu accepted that their deaths might have freed them from corruption.
• Lin Zhaoyu asked Chi Yuan to spare Wanru, but Chi Yuan said Wanru had already gone mad and could not be saved.
• Kiana and Bronya identified Lin Zhaoyu as the missing disciple from the Taixu incident five hundred years earlier and concluded that the mountain was not the real Mount Taixu.
• Lin Zhaoyu’s feather summoned Kiana and Bronya into a memory, where Su Mei acknowledged Chi Yuan had killed her mother but chose to become her disciple and repay her kindness.

Kiana and Bronya followed the clues to Fuyun Temple, where the disciples revealed that Chi Yuan was waiting beyond the mountain and the story led them into Fu Hua’s arm. With the next chapter’s data unavailable, Sister Zhou played an old memory of Hua and a friend discussing Hua’s lack of dreams.

• Kiana touched the feather, and Suyi realized she was dead before fading away and leaving ash behind.
• Jiang Wanxi and Jiang Wanru thanked Kiana, then vanished after Jiang Wanru told her that helping someone regain the will to live was difficult.
• At Fuyun Temple, Su Mei said Chi Yuan was waiting beyond the mountain, and she and Ma Yanqing disappeared.
• Kiana and Bronya opened the temple doors and emerged through a gateway in Fu Hua’s arm, leaving the livestream viewers stunned.
• Sister Zhou found that the chapter had no further data and played a memory in which Hua’s friend criticized her for having no dreams of her own.

After Fu Hua's painful memories left the players distraught, Sister Zhou confronted Lin Yuhao on stream and demanded the rest of the story. Lin Yuhao used a player poll to justify releasing the next chapter and two limited banners early, and the story went live after a short maintenance.

• Fu Hua and the girl discussed their painful ties to the past, and Hua said she wanted to remember her precious memories forever.
• Sister Zhou called Lin Yuhao during her livestream and accused him of cutting off the story at a devastating moment.
• Lin Yuhao proposed a poll on releasing the next story chapter alongside the new character, and players demanded the story immediately.
• Lin Yuhao admitted to Zhou Chongfeng that the next chapters were already ready and ordered him to make a poll about dual banners and the story.
• More than a million players voted, with 92.7% approving, and the game announced a 30-minute maintenance before releasing the next main story.
• Sister Zhou thanked Lin Yuhao privately, then entered the new stage on stream.

Fu Hua emerged from the past at the ruined Schicksal Headquarters, believing she had defeated Otto until she discovered he had survived. Otto argued that their deaths had made them even and persuaded her to leave the Valkyries out of her revenge; Fu Hua stormed off, and Otto called after her.

• Fu Hua used Otto's feather to return to the past and surveyed the destruction she had caused at Schicksal Headquarters.
• Fu Hua said she planned to visit old acquaintances, then destroyed the robots that detected her despite her invisibility trick.
• Fu Hua encountered Otto, who revealed that spare bodies in the Biopods had allowed him to survive.
• Fu Hua confronted Otto over his experiments and seven hundred and fifty years of suffering, but Otto claimed their deaths had settled the score.
• Otto reminded Fu Hua that Durandal and the Valkyries should not pay for his sins, so Fu Hua spat at his feet and walked away.
• Sister Zhou and the players laughed at Fu Hua's behavior as Otto called out to ask where she was going.

Fu Hua raced toward Kevin after Otto pointed her to him as a way to recover her past, then used Fenghuang Down to reveal a memory from Otto’s childhood. The memory ended with Nicholas asking Otto whether he had mistaken his neglect for contempt.

• Otto told Fu Hua that Kevin held a Fenghuang Down feather that could help her recover her bearings.
• Fu Hua flew toward Kevin, reflecting on her restored strength and the limits of her incomplete Fenghuang Down.
• Fu Hua revealed that she had copied some of Otto’s memories and showed one to the livestream audience.
• In the memory, Nicholas declared that Kallen Kaslana must die and explained the political crisis facing the three great houses.
• Nicholas spoke of his dead son Ferdinando and criticized Fabian before asking Otto whether he thought his neglect meant he looked down on him.

Otto recalled how Nicholas had offered him Kallen’s life and family power in exchange for forcing her to honor their marriage agreement. Dark Fu Hua reached the World Serpent base, demolished its defenses, and was recognized by Jackal on the security footage.

• Nicholas told Otto that Marcel would inherit authority and ordered him to marry Kallen in exchange for her life and leadership of the family.
• Otto realized Nicholas intended to use the marriage agreement to seize the Kaslana family’s assets, though he knew Kallen did not want the marriage.
• Dark Fu Hua speculated about ambushing Kevin, then sensed unusual minds beneath a World Serpent outpost.
• Fu Hua destroyed the mechs that attacked her and decided to force the World Serpent Sovereign to come meet her.
• Jackal saw footage of Fu Hua at the base and was shocked because she believed Hua was dead.

Fu Hua rampaged through World Serpent’s underground base while Jackal tried to stop her with mechs and an electromagnetic cage. The cage trapped Fu Hua in rising heat, and she had only one Feather of Yu Duchen left as danger continued to close in.

• Jackal watched Fu Hua destroy Schicksal on surveillance and heard her threaten to come for World Serpent and Kevin.
• Fu Hua got lost on level B2, then fought through Jackal’s mech units as Jackal broadcast orders and taunted her over the speakers.
• Fu Hua mocked Jackal and emerged unharmed from an electromagnetic net, while Sister Zhou and the livestream viewers laughed at their exchanges.
• Jackal activated the cage’s microwave-like heating, trapping Fu Hua as the metal walls turned red and began to warp.
• Fu Hua considered using the Feather of Yu Duchen but noted that only one remained and its control range was too short.

Fu Hua broke through World Serpent’s heat-insulating barrier and entered its depths, where she discovered Kevin’s consciousness was present but unresponsive. Jackal deployed the Death Weaver and switched it to AI control, leaving Fu Hua facing the enhanced killing machine.

• Fu Hua identified a weakness in the barrier and shattered it with her One-inch punch, Heavenly Opening.
• Jackal suspected Fu Hua was the forbidden Hua and ordered the Death Weaver Plan activated.
• Fu Hua sensed Kevin’s consciousness but found him emotionless and unaware of her presence.
• Fu Hua charged into the enemy camp and shut down the living Death Weaver with her mental suppression.
• Jackal switched the Death Weaver to pure AI control and piloted it against Fu Hua, who dismissed its technology as vastly outdated.

Fu Hua defeated Death Weaver and faced Kevin, who challenged her identity before fighting her and accepting that she was Hua. Kevin returned a Feather of Yu Duchen to her, and the chapter left her setting off as he asked where she was going.

• Fu Hua defeated Death Weaver, and Kevin stopped Jackal from deploying more weapons before promising to come for Fu Hua himself.
• Fu Hua called Kevin an old friend and explained that she had died after Otto shot her, but Kevin questioned whether she was really Hua.
• Kevin drew the Skyfire Greatsword and demanded that Fu Hua say whether she was friend or foe.
• Hours later, Fu Hua recalled fighting Kevin and using Sword Transformation: Cloud Eagle to neutralize Skyfire's flames.
• Kevin acknowledged that Fu Hua was there and returned a feather from the Feather of Yu Duchen to her.
• Fu Hua caught the feather and walked away as Kevin asked where she was going.

Fu Hua left World Serpent after warning Kevin about Otto, then freed and restored the weakened Feather of Yu Duchen. When Fu Hua asked the feather to merge back into her, it questioned who she was and refused to respond as expected.

• Fu Hua refused Kevin's offer to join World Serpent, said she might form her own team, and warned him that Otto could not be trusted.
• Kevin watched Fu Hua leave and said he already knew what she had told him about Otto.
• Fu Hua sensed something wrong with the sealed Feather of Yu Duchen, broke its restraints, and restored its failing energy.
• Fu Hua explained that she was the feather's original body and asked it to return its power and memories, but the feather stared at her and asked who she was.

The real Fu Hua revealed that the imposing Fu Hua was a discarded shell, while the other was a consciousness living in Feather of Yu Duchen. As they traveled toward Mount Taixu, the two disputed which of them was truly Fu Hua, and the chapter ended with the real Fu Hua calling the other an entirely new aberration.

• The real Fu Hua revealed that her consciousness had transferred into Feather of Yu Duchen and asked who the Fu Hua controlling the body really was.
• The real Fu Hua took the other Fu Hua above the clouds, where they discussed how the feather preserved memories and consciousness.
• The two began traveling together toward Mount Taixu, and the real Fu Hua said the other did not resemble Fu Hua and might be a new aberration.
• The other Fu Hua rejected that claim and insisted that possessing Fu Hua's memories and past made her the real Fu Hua.

Black Fu Hua confronted True Fu Hua about their shared past and admitted she was avoiding her memories while trying to accept the responsibilities attached to her identity. She left their conversation unresolved as they continued toward Mount Taixu.

• Black Fu Hua conjured images of Kevin and Otto Apocalypse, criticizing their attachments while acknowledging that Otto had once saved her life.
• True Fu Hua asked whether Black Fu Hua hated her former self and her disciples, but Black Fu Hua claimed she could not remember them and dismissed their betrayal as a debt repaid.
• Black Fu Hua and True Fu Hua saw images of Raiden Mei, Kiana, and Bronya, and their conversation softened as Black Fu Hua asked how the girls were doing.
• True Fu Hua asked why Black Fu Hua was determined to return to Mount Taixu, and Black Fu Hua admitted she was running from her memories and struggling to accept her fate as Fu Hua.

Black Fu Hua searched Mount Taixu for a sense of belonging and recovered a feather containing Otto and Kallen’s memories. Feeling free after recognizing herself as Fu Hua, she found another feather and awakened its data, ordering the apparition to hand over its memories and power.

• Black Fu Hua said she wanted to visit a land she could call home, and True Fu Hua walked with her along Mount Taixu’s secluded path.
• Black Fu Hua activated a feather and relived Otto’s memory of Kallen refusing Schicksal’s marriage conditions and choosing resistance, even if it meant death.
• After the memory ended, Black Fu Hua told True Fu Hua that she felt free, had discovered she was Fu Hua, and was excited by the possibilities ahead.
• Black Fu Hua found another feather on the mountain and awakened its dormant data with Honkai energy.
• Black Fu Hua told the blank apparition that she was its master and ordered it to hand over its memories and power.

Dark Fu Hua and Fu Hua argued over the past and entered a village overrun by Honkai Zombies, where they found a corrupted girl. The chapter ended as Dark Fu Hua silenced Fu Hua before she could speak.

• Dark Fu Hua condemned Dr. Mei’s leadership and vowed to choose her own path instead of obeying Dr. Mei, Otto, or Kevin.
• Fu Hua reflected on her lost home as she and Dark Fu Hua explored Mount Taixu and approached a village.
• A horde of Honkai Zombies emerged, and Dark Fu Hua questioned why they should save the villagers; Fu Hua argued that helping them was right and cost nothing.
• Dark Fu Hua agreed to enter the village, where she and Fu Hua found the silent settlement and heard movement inside a dilapidated house.
• A thin girl with purple Honkai markings appeared from the house, and Dark Fu Hua told Fu Hua to shut up as she was about to speak.

Black Fu Hua and True Fu Hua searched a ruined village, where Black Fu Hua comforted a dying girl and restored a statue before granting the girl a peaceful final dream. When True Fu Hua began explaining why Honkai had erupted on Mount Taixu, Black Fu Hua silenced her and left, threatening to erase the phantom of the Feather of Yu Duchen.

• Black Fu Hua found a corrupted girl and promised to help her, while True Fu Hua said the girl was beyond saving.
• The two searched the ruins, defeated the Honkai Beast leader, and found no other survivors.
• Black Fu Hua restored the village's statue and granted the dying girl a dream in which she could live peacefully until the end.
• True Fu Hua began explaining that Honkai should not have been able to invade Mount Taixu, but Black Fu Hua cut her off and threatened to erase her.
• Black Fu Hua left the fragile Feather of Yu Duchen phantom behind, and the phantom realized her source power had run dry.

Black Fu Hua questioned her bond with the Feather of Yu Duchen’s phantom, then heard True Fu Hua’s account of Otto, Himeko, and Kiana. The two noticed a powerful Honkai presence near Mount Taixu, and Black Fu Hua went to confront it.

• Black Fu Hua wondered whether the phantom was pulling her toward her past, but she insisted she would not become the old Fu Hua or take the phantom back by force.
• Black Fu Hua asked True Fu Hua what had happened after Otto stopped her, and True Fu Hua explained that Himeko had sacrificed herself to awaken Kiana and then fallen into Imaginary Space.
• Black Fu Hua criticized Otto for treating others as pieces in his plans and celebrated killing him at the Airport, while True Fu Hua noted that he could return in another body.
• Black Fu Hua sensed Honkai Beasts near Mount Taixu and set out to clear them away as True Fu Hua warned that the spatial rift carried an unusually intense Honkai reaction.

Black Fu Hua tried to merge with True Fu Hua, but their souls kept them apart, and their confrontation left Black Fu Hua deeply wounded. Meanwhile, Honkai Impact 3rd surged toward the top of the mobile game rankings before Tencent’s promotional push widened the gap again, while Lin Yuhao expected the story’s biggest moment to come.

• Black Fu Hua decided to stop hiding and tried to absorb True Fu Hua, but the Feather of Yu Duchen slipped away because their souls were fundamentally different.
• Black Fu Hua accused True Fu Hua of seeing herself as the only legitimate Fu Hua and cruelly called her a dead feather, upsetting Sister Zhou and the livestream viewers.
• Zhou Chongfeng saw Honkai Impact 3rd climb to second place nationwide and told Boss Lin that the game could challenge Tencent for the top spot.
• Tencent ordered new skins, limited-edition avatar frames, and widespread promotions to draw players back, causing the popularity gap to widen again.
• Lin Yuhao told his colleagues that Tencent's move was only an appetizer and that the truly stunning chapter was still to come.
• The livestream returned to Sister Zhou's story, where white-clad Fu Hua coldly insisted that the truth was right there and could not be denied.

Black Fu Hua confronted her past and accused herself of failing to act against decisions that led to tragedy. She continued challenging True Fu Hua’s belief that humanity’s welfare had to come first.

• Black Fu Hua transformed Mount Taixu into the alley where her younger self first chose to fight Honkai Zombies, then effortlessly destroyed the creatures attacking them.
• Black Fu Hua recalled the Captain becoming a Herrscher in Australia and being killed on Dr. Mei’s order, with Kevin carrying it out.
• Black Fu Hua said her deepest regret was surrendering her choices to others and remaining silent when Cangxuan and Danzhu proposed accelerating civilization’s progress.
• Black Fu Hua blamed herself for not stopping Danzhu from handling the Chi You crisis, while True Fu Hua recalled the devastation and defended prioritizing all humanity.
• Black Fu Hua rejected True Fu Hua’s claim that humanity’s welfare had to come first.

Black Fu Hua confronted True Fu Hua with memories of past mistakes, arguing that her appeals to humanity’s welfare had excused atrocities and failed to stop Honkai. She left True Fu Hua facing the question of whether Schicksal should have been destroyed during its campaign in Shenzhou.

• True Fu Hua admitted she still regretted Cangxuan and Danzhu’s deaths, while Black Fu Hua insisted they shared the same pain.
• Black Fu Hua showed True Fu Hua Schicksal’s invasion of the Cuman Steppe and mentioned Ningshuang, a figure connected to Kevin’s Stigmata Project.
• Black Fu Hua argued that the war between nations had caused greater suffering than Chi You and challenged True Fu Hua’s claim that they fought only to protect humanity from Honkai.
• Black Fu Hua showed Kallen on the battlefield and claimed that sparing her led to Otto’s rise and later disasters.
• Black Fu Hua argued that Fu Hua should have destroyed Schicksal’s expeditionary army in Shenzhou, reclaimed the Divine Keys, and crushed its rulers.

True Fu Hua confronted Black Fu Hua over her destructive actions and argued that she was a Herrscher whose efforts were helping the Honkai. Black Fu Hua tried to defend her humanity and appealed to their bond, leaving True Fu Hua to answer her.

• Black Fu Hua destroyed the illusions of Otto and Kallen, but True Fu Hua stepped in and challenged her.
• True Fu Hua explained that Black Fu Hua was not the body's owner and said the remaining feathers could not account for her powers or awakening.
• True Fu Hua accused Black Fu Hua of being a Herrscher and pointed to her destruction of Schicksal and World Serpent as aid to the Honkai.
• Black Fu Hua argued that she wanted to protect humanity, questioned True Fu Hua's own nature, and claimed she had spared her because they were companions.
• Black Fu Hua eagerly waited for True Fu Hua to affirm her humanity as viewers urged True Fu Hua to comfort and praise her.

Black Fu Hua summoned Kiana and Bronya as judges while the story revealed how the Eighth Herrscher had awakened inside Fu Hua’s body. The game’s popularity surged, threatening Penguin’s lead, and NetEase’s executives learned that Lehoyo was developing another project.

• Black Fu Hua refused to comfort True Fu Hua and pointed to the Hyperion, saying Kiana and Bronya would judge which Fu Hua should live.
• Kiana and Bronya arrived at Fuyun Temple as the scene shifted to the past, where narration explained that the Eighth Herrscher had taken over Fu Hua’s empty body in a Schicksal Biopod.
• Honkai Impact 3rd’s popularity surged, prompting a gaming news anchor to switch to breaking news and Penguin’s designers to prepare giveaways and an early anniversary preview.
• NetEase’s executives called Qin Xiaofeng, who said Lehoyo had run no event and that he was working on a new project rather than Honkai Impact 3rd.

A NetEase executive warned that Lehoyo still had a trump card as colleagues dismissed the threat. On Mount Taixu, Black Fu Hua revealed her deception to Kiana and Bronya, and their confrontation turned into a fight.

• A NetEase executive told his colleagues that Lehoyo still held a trump card, though they insisted Tencent was their only serious rival.
• Black Fu Hua met Kiana and Bronya on Mount Taixu and tried to explain herself after they recognized that she was not their Class Monitor.
• Black Fu Hua summoned an apparition of True Fu Hua, then silenced her and revealed that she had staged the encounter to expose her past and intentions.
• Bronya accused Black Fu Hua of manipulating them, and Black Fu Hua explained that Mount Taixu was real but that she had altered their perceptions and used True Fu Hua as a guest actor.
• Kiana and Bronya transformed and attacked Black Fu Hua, who evaded their strikes and urged Kiana to control her power.

Kiana and Bronya fought Black Fu Hua, who overwhelmed them while True Fu Hua secretly explained that their opponent was a newborn Herrscher inhabiting her body. True Fu Hua told Kiana to make Black Fu Hua doubt her identity, leaving Kiana to find a way to exploit that weakness while Bronya held the enemy off.

• Black Fu Hua easily beat back Kiana and Bronya, boasting of her strength and urging Bronya to discard Welt's core.
• True Fu Hua contacted Kiana and Bronya, explaining that the Herrscher persona had mistaken itself for Fu Hua after absorbing fragments of her memories.
• Bronya drew Black Fu Hua away from Kiana, then raced through a conjured, collapsing city while the Herrscher pursued her.
• True Fu Hua recounted how Fu Hua's recovered memories overwhelmed the newborn Herrscher consciousness before a beguiling voice began Fu Hua's descent into darkness.
• True Fu Hua warned Kiana that Bronya could not hold out and advised her to make Black Fu Hua doubt her identity so that she would weaken and expose an opening.

Kiana refused to judge between True Fu Hua and Black Fu Hua without understanding who the shadow was, so Black Fu Hua showed her memories to explain how she had changed. After condemning her former obedience to Otto and Project Ember, Black Fu Hua destroyed an illusion of Rita, leaving her argument unresolved.

• Black Fu Hua ended the false prison and revealed that Bronya had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
• Black Fu Hua asked Kiana to decide which Fu Hua was real, but Kiana said she could not fairly judge someone she did not know.
• Black Fu Hua created an illusion of Kiana's fall into becoming a Herrscher and criticized her former self for obeying Otto and Project Ember without taking responsibility.
• Black Fu Hua showed an illusion of Rita as a Schicksal maid and condemned her as blindly obedient to Otto.
• Black Fu Hua attacked and destroyed the phantom Rita with a forceful punch.

Kiana challenged Black Fu Hua’s certainty that Herrschers had to be killed, shaking her conviction as True Fu Hua prepared to sacrifice herself from within the Feather of Yu Duchen. True Fu Hua then recreated a memory at Shencheng Pharmaceuticals, where Black Fu Hua’s confident infiltration attempt immediately triggered an alarm.

• Kiana questioned Black Fu Hua about the Class Monitor’s choices and whether humans could control Herrscher power, forcing Black Fu Hua to admit she did not know.
• Black Fu Hua declared that she would kill Kiana and then slaughter Otto, whose phantom appeared as her rage toward him surged.
• True Fu Hua, weakened inside the Feather of Yu Duchen, resolved to die and began to address everyone.
• Kiana asked what Black Fu Hua would have done to protect her while powerless, and True Fu Hua offered to recreate their memory at Shencheng Pharmaceuticals.
• Black Fu Hua confidently tried to infiltrate the World Serpent base with Kiana, but an alarm exposed them after only a few steps.