Chapter Summaries

Keqing reluctantly accepted her role as a Fatui Harbinger in Haiyuan City, then set boundaries when Lu Jingming's affection turned intimate. Meanwhile, The Great Black Tower prepared to open the black hole, and the Demon Empress was surrounded at sea by the Sea God Family's fleet.

• Keqing confronted Lu Jingming over making her a Fatui Harbinger, but agreed to keep the position until he found a replacement.
• Lu Jingming comforted Keqing, and they began kissing before she stopped him from crossing their agreed boundary.
• Lu Jingming used the Thousand Realms Equinox to teleport himself and Keqing to her room, while The Great Black Tower prepared to use a stellar explosion to open the black hole.
• The Demon Empress, injured after defeating the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan, was surrounded by thousands of Soul Tool Battleships.
• Chen Huijie identified the Demon Empress as a Deep Sea Demon Whale and prepared to face her with the Sea God Helmet.

Demon Empress revealed that she had destroyed the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan and attacked the Sea God Family when Chen Huijie confronted her at sea. After disabling the family's Soul Tool Battleships with electromagnetic force, she unleashed a massive explosion, leaving the fleet trapped behind its shields.

• Chen Huijie led the Sea God Family's forces toward the Sea God Helmet's signal and confronted Demon Empress at sea.
• Demon Empress declared that she had wiped out the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan, and Chen Huijie ordered over a thousand Soul Tool Battleships to attack her.
• Demon Empress used the Herrscher of Thunder's electromagnetic barrier to withstand the barrage and transformed into her Thunder Armor form.
• Demon Empress released an electromagnetic pulse that paralyzed the Soul Tool Battleships.
• Demon Empress used Abyssal Siphon to create a huge electromagnetic vortex and explosive thunderflames, forcing the fleet to activate its Soul Tool Shields.

The Demon Empress battled Chen Huijie and the Sea God Family, using her control of thunder and the ocean to overwhelm their fleet and attack. The chapter left the battle raging as she unleashed a devastating magnetic storm, aided by the electromagnetic knowledge Möbius had taught her.

• Chen Huijie invoked his Ocean Avatar and fought the Demon Empress, restoring his arm after she pierced it with lightning.
• The Sea God Family fired a Level Nine Soul-Guided Cannonball, which the Demon Empress detonated at a distance with lightning.
• The Demon Empress used Plasma Whale Song to disorient Chen Huijie and make the other Sea God Family disciples suffer hallucinations and spontaneous combustion.
• The Demon Empress triggered undersea volcanic eruptions and unleashed corrosive acid lightning with her Subcurrent Magnetic Storm.
• The chapter explained that Möbius had taught the Demon Empress about electromagnetic force, helping her use her Herrscher authority with greater precision.

Demon Empress defeated the Sea God Family’s forces in a battle that destroyed their Soul Tool Battleships and the Sea God Helmet, while Chen Huijie died protecting his clansmen. After sending the family’s intelligence to World Serpent, she withdrew to recover, and Lu Jingming considered how the family’s defeat might affect future plans.

• Demon Empress’s corrosive acid lightning destroyed the Sea God Family’s Soul Tool Battleships, and Chen Huijie counterattacked with Azure Dragon's Wrathful Sea.
• Demon Empress’s lightning whale overwhelmed Chen Huijie’s sea dragon and pierced the Sea Giant avatar, prompting Chen Huijie to order surviving clansmen to seek help from the Clear Sky Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Demon Empress grew stronger as she fought, while Chen Huijie’s Sea God Helmet rapidly lost power and he spent his life force to keep the Sea God Family’s survivors from being trapped.
• Demon Empress’s Magnetic Storm Slash shattered the Sea God Helmet, and she killed Chen Huijie before diving into the sea to recover from her injuries.
• Demon Empress sent World Serpent intelligence about the Sea God Family, and Lu Jingming considered the family’s defeat a potential benefit to his plans.

Lu Jingming prepared to condense his first Soul Core, using his ultimate-attribute Soul Power and the energy-rich territory of The Great Black Tower. After Keqing returned to work, he began absorbing energy, and his Soul Power started to compress within his dantian.

• Keqing woke beside Lu Jingming, then washed and changed while he politely turned away; she promised to grant him one wish next time.
• Keqing left to return to her office, worried about explaining her disappearance to her subordinates and acquaintances.
• Lu Jingming connected to the Thousand Realms Equinox and went to The Great Black Tower's territory to condense his first Soul Core.
• Lu Jingming found an energy-rich area beside Honkai Energy reactors and began absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth.
• Energy particles streamed into Lu Jingming as his body trembled and the Soul Power in his dantian grew brighter.

Lu Jingming condensed his first Soul Core, then accepted the Holy Grail’s invitation to summon a Servant and drew Raiden Yae. She confronted him after he mistook her for someone else, then reflected that she had been stronger eight years earlier.

• Lu Jingming broke through to Soul Sage, condensed his first Soul Core, and realized his strength had grown enough to threaten even Limit Douluo.
• Lu Jingming noticed a Command Spell on his Stigmata and accepted the Holy Grail’s invitation to summon a Servant for fun.
• Lu Jingming summoned a gold-ranked Memory Core and eagerly expected to draw Acheron, but a different purple-haired woman appeared.
• Lu Jingming recognized the woman as Raiden Yae, and she drew her katana and demanded to know why he had called her “Auntie Yae.”
• Raiden Yae withdrew her blade and lamented that she had been summoned after losing most of her power, rather than eight years earlier.

Lu Jingming explained to Raiden Yae that, as the Holy Grail War’s initiator, he had already secured her victory, then invited her to cook and meet his companions. Raiden Yae settled into the group but became confused by how intimately several women treated Lu Jingming despite Meng Hongchen being his girlfriend.

• Lu Jingming teased Raiden Yae about her mature appearance, then explained that she would receive the Holy Grail War’s rewards without fighting because he had initiated the war.
• Raiden Yae agreed to cook, and Meng Hongchen arrived with lunch to find Yae preparing a feast for Lu Jingming.
• Lu Jingming introduced Raiden Yae as his Servant and reassured Meng Hongchen that the Holy Grail War posed no danger to him.
• Raiden Yae greeted Meng Hongchen, then welcomed Liu Ying, Castorice, San Yueqi, Jing Xi, Zhigeniao, Gu Yue, and the others when they gathered for the meal.
• As the women picked food for Lu Jingming and sometimes fed him, Raiden Yae wondered why they were all so close to him and why Meng Hongchen did not mind.

Raiden Yae met Raiden Makoto, whose striking resemblance to her surprised everyone, while Lu Jingming reflected on the escalating Holy Grail War and the approaching academy competition. As the Sun Moon Empire prepared to use the competition to expose Masters and Servants, Lu Jingming reached his eighteenth birthday.

• Jing Xi told Raiden Yae she would get used to the girls' closeness with Lu Jingming, and San Yueqi and Zhigeniao remarked that Yae looked like Raiden Makoto.
• Raiden Makoto appeared through the Sacred Mark of Thunder, and she and Raiden Yae marveled at their resemblance while Meng Hongchen saw her as a rival.
• In the God Realm, Tang San fought Ma Hongjun and the Golden Dragon King while struggling to contain the conflict between the Sea God and Asura God divine seats.
• The Sun Moon Empire proposed opening the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition to the major sects, hoping to draw hidden Masters and Servants into Mingdu, and the other empires agreed.
• Lu Jingming chose not to inspect the Holy Grail's hidden records and celebrated his eighteenth birthday.

On his first day of adulthood, Lu Jingming intended to consummate his relationship with Zhang Lexuan, but Yae Miko provoked him at the hot spring and became his first partner instead. With Raiden Makoto holding Yae Miko in place, Lu Jingming seized the opportunity, and the chapter ended with them together in the spring.

• Lu Jingming considered which of his companions to choose for his first time and settled on Zhang Lexuan.
• Yae Miko joined Lu Jingming in the hot spring and teased him with increasingly intimate advances.
• Lu Jingming tried to catch Yae Miko, but she slipped free and taunted him.
• Lu Jingming called for Raiden Makoto, who used her divine pressure to immobilize Yae Miko.
• Lu Jingming pulled Yae Miko into his embrace, and they became intimate while Raiden Makoto and the Great Ci Tree King lost their view of the outside world.

Lu Jingming spent his birthday night with Yae Miko, while Liu Ying and Castorice arrived too late to act on their feelings. The next morning, he watched over an exhausted Miko as she slept.

• Yae Miko cooperated with Lu Jingming in the hot spring, while Liu Ying listened outside and finally flew away to vent her frustration on a mountain.
• Castorice arrived at the hot spring pool, regretted her hesitation, and quietly left without interrupting them.
• Jing Xi observed Liu Ying and Castorice's departures, and Zhigeniao joined her beneath the meteor shower as the night passed.
• Lu Jingming took Yae Miko to her room, where they spent the rest of the night together until she begged him to stop.
• The next morning, Lu Jingming tucked Yae Miko's arm beneath the blanket and reflected on her work at Yae Publishing House and the light novels she had encouraged people to write.

Yae Publishing House flourished, while Lu Jingming cared for Yae Miko after their night together and considered how to find private time with Zhang Lexuan. Zhang Lexuan’s Servant, Kritias—who preferred to be called Caesar—arrived with a draft legal code for Haiyuan City.

• Yae Publishing House became the Star Luo Empire’s most prestigious novel publisher, and Castorice rose to fame as its flagship author despite refusing to write endings.
• Lu Jingming left Yae Miko resting and accepted medicinal cuisine from Zhang Lexuan, feeling awkward about having changed his plans on his birthday.
• Lu Jingming noticed Zhang Lexuan’s Command Spell and worried that her Servant’s habit of staying with her at night would make private time together difficult.
• Kritias appeared and told Zhang Lexuan that she had finished drafting Haiyuan City’s legal code, warning her that it needed revisions for their world.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Caesar for helping with the laws, and the chapter revealed that Kritias was a law demigoddess and Empress of Okhema who preferred the name Caesar.

Kritias and Zhang Lexuan continued strengthening their partnership while Lu Jingming considered the shifting balance of the Holy Grail War. Ju Zi’s powerful Servant had made her Xu Tianran’s wary ally, and Lu Jingming anticipated a dangerous confrontation in Mingdu.

• Kritias regarded Zhang Lexuan as a key piece on her chessboard, and the two left together after discussing their growing partnership.
• Lu Jingming reviewed intelligence from Ju Zi, who had risen to power in the Sun Moon Empire’s military with help from her exceptionally powerful Servant.
• Xu Tianran shifted from trusting Ju Zi as a subordinate to treating her as a wary but valuable collaborator, while likely relying on a powerful Servant of his own.
• Ju Zi secretly sent Lu Jingming an encrypted plea for help, frightened by the Servant she had summoned.
• Lu Jingming speculated that Xu Tianran and Huo Yuhao might also have powerful Servants and anticipated the coming battle in Mingdu with excitement.

After reaching Soul Sage and Condensing Soul Core, Lu Jingming fed Yae Miko while wondering about the vast Negative Energy behind the summoned Servants. Meanwhile, The Great Black Tower helped six fused God Realms escape a black hole, and their arrival forced the Douluo Gods to halt their battle with the Golden Dragon King and Ma Hongjun.

• Lu Jingming reflected on the power of his soul rings and the mysterious abundance of Negative Energy, then decided to leave the investigation to The Great Black Tower and Möbius.
• Yae Miko enjoyed Lu Jingming feeding her porridge and privately imagined provoking the other girls who wanted him.
• The Great Black Tower gathered scarce Chaos Power after the six fused God Realms escaped the black hole, while the realms sustained heavy damage.
• The Goddess of Life detected the six God Realms entering the Douluo star system and alerted the God of Destruction and the other battling Gods.
• The God of Destruction, Rong Nianbing, and the Gods of Evil and Goodness stopped fighting, leaving Tang San to be beaten back by the Golden Dragon King and Ma Hongjun.
• The six God Kings thanked The Great Black Tower, who told them they could take control of the star system while she examined the Chaos Power.

After Lady Black Tower granted the six God Realms temporary control of the star system, the six God Kings prepared to clash with the Douluo God Realm to gather energy and restore their damaged realms. Immortal Emperor Hailong reached the battlefield first and attacked Tang San.

• Lady Black Tower’s arrangement left the six God Realms free to contest the star system temporarily, with the expectation that they would later return its sovereignty.
• The Heavenly Emperor reported eight God King level energy signatures in the Douluo God Realm, and the six God Kings prepared to fight while Chang Gongwei urged them to avoid needless deaths.
• Mad God Lei Xiang charged toward the Douluo God Realm, followed by Immortal Emperor Hailong, while Heavenly Emperor Tian Hen opened a spatial passage for the others.
• Xuan Yue worried as Death God Adai entered the passage, and Mu Zimo and Tian Qin comforted her.
• Immortal Emperor Hailong arrived ahead of Lei Xiang and struck at Tang San with the Ruyi Jingu Bang as Tang San emerged from the temple ruins.

Tang San’s grief over Xiao Wu’s death sparked a battle among fourteen God Kings, while The Great Black Tower discovered that Negative Energy from a shattered black hole was flowing into Douluo Star and would empower Lu Jingming’s Holy Grail War. Unaware of the cause of the coming changes, Lu Jingming entered Zhang Lexuan’s bedchamber after arranging for Castorice to distract Kritias.

• Tang San attacked Immortal Emperor Hailong in a fury, while Death God Adai and the God of Destruction clashed with their super divine artifacts.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Oscar watched helplessly as the conflict escalated, and the Goddess of Life joined the fight.
• Fourteen God King-level fighters battled in space, drawing the attention of both God Realms and The Great Black Tower.
• The Great Black Tower realized that Negative Energy from the black hole was flowing toward Douluo Star and would be purified by the Holy Grail, potentially evolving the planet and empowering the summoned Servants.
• Lu Jingming remained unaware of the Negative Energy’s influence on his Holy Grail War and entered Zhang Lexuan’s bedchamber after asking Castorice to lure Kritias away.

Lu Jingming reunited with Zhang Lexuan, and the two prepared to spend the night together. After they bathed, Lu Jingming drew Zhang Lexuan onto the bed and began teasing her.

• Zhang Lexuan welcomed Lu Jingming and stopped him so she could bathe first.
• Zhang Lexuan bathed while humming a tune she had learned from Zhigeniao.
• Lu Jingming bathed in the water Zhang Lexuan had left in the tub.
• Zhang Lexuan waited on the bed in a bathrobe, and Lu Jingming pulled her into his embrace.
• Lu Jingming pinned Zhang Lexuan beneath him and began teasing her.

Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan spent the night together, and he judged her combat power to be five. Meanwhile, Castorice resolved to tell Lu Jingming how she felt, and Zhang Lexuan woke beside him the following morning.

• Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan's intimate encounter ended with Zhang Lexuan falling asleep, and Lu Jingming rated her combat power as five.
• Kritias beat Castorice at chess and questioned why she had helped Lu Jingming get close to Zhang Lexuan.
• Castorice reflected on her feelings for Lu Jingming and envied Yae Miko and Zhang Lexuan for being with him.
• Kritias advised Castorice to act decisively, and Castorice decided to confess her feelings to Lu Jingming.
• The next morning, Zhang Lexuan woke beside Lu Jingming as sunlight entered the room.

Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan woke after an exhausting night together, and Lu Jingming left her room after an additional intimate encounter. The chapter then described Saint Freya Academy’s facilities and growing reputation.

• Zhang Lexuan complained that Lu Jingming had been too rough, and he teased her before agreeing to let her rest for three days.
• Lu Jingming carried Zhang Lexuan to the bathroom and helped her wash as she worried that she had not satisfied him.
• Lu Jingming initiated another intimate encounter with Zhang Lexuan in the bathroom and left her room feeling refreshed.
• The chapter described Saint Freya Academy’s dormitories, cafeteria, training resources, and leisure areas as its reputation and enrollment grew.

Lu Jingming reflected on how his investments in student life and training had helped Saint Freya Academy rise to prominence. He watched Xing Jianya spar with Yulandaer and learned from Meng Hongchen that Xing Jianya was thriving, though her unusual training habits could be exhausting.

• Lu Jingming's generous improvements to Saint Freya Academy had helped make it one of the continent's top academies.
• Xing Jianya fought Yulandaer in a fierce sparring match, impressing Ji Juechen with her swordsmanship.
• Lu Jingming arrived at the training grounds and joined Meng Hongchen, who affectionately greeted him.
• Lu Jingming asked Meng Hongchen how Xing Jianya was doing, and Meng Hongchen said she was well but loved unusual training, including sparring with Yulandaer at full strength.

Lu Jingming watched Xing Jianya and Yulandeer fight while Gongzi Tartaglia asked Xiao Hongchen to arrange a battle with a strong opponent. Xiao Hongchen pointed Tartaglia toward Lu Jingming, and Tartaglia eagerly accepted, leaving Xiao Hongchen stung by his remark about their difference in strength.

• Lu Jingming watched Xing Jianya and Yulandeer battle, reflecting on their strength and close friendship.
• Gongzi Tartaglia asked Xiao Hongchen to arrange a fight with Xing Jianya, but Xiao Hongchen suggested that he challenge Lu Jingming instead.
• Tartaglia recognized Xiao Hongchen's attempt to provoke Lu Jingming but agreed to fight him anyway.
• Tartaglia praised Lu Jingming as a formidable opponent and said he was far stronger than Xiao Hongchen, angering Xiao Hongchen.