Chapter Summaries

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.

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.