Chapter Summaries

Hanxing celebrated completing his first mission with the Stellaron Hunters after shopping with them, while Caelus and his companions discussed the Hunters and their failed attempt to seal the Stellaron. The gathering ended with Hanxing and Firefly sharing a tender moment, and Hanxing secretly brought Cocolia back to life and imprisoned her.

• Kafka and Firefly picked out clothes, and Hanxing paid for them after Kafka realized she had forgotten to exchange her money.
• Caelus woke in the Underworld clinic, learned about the Stellaron Hunters, and worried that the crew had failed to seal the Stellaron.
• Hanxing bought cakes with Firefly and the others, then returned to his room and used Star Eyes to restore Cocolia before trapping her with Prison of Fiery Eyes: Forbidden Thrust.
• Hanxing brought the cake to a celebration for completing his first mission, where he and Firefly shared a sweet moment as Kafka and Silver Wolf teased them.
• Kafka revealed that the black cat was Elio, and the group later retired for the night as the Astral Express and the Stellaron Hunters' spaceship shone above Belobog.

Hanxing and Firefly returned to the spaceship to make good on their promise to spar with Silver Wolf in her game. Their strongest attacks crashed the computer, leaving Silver Wolf lamenting the damage.

• Caelus told Hanxing and Firefly that March 7th would represent the Astral Express Crew at the Wardance and offered them another spot; Hanxing agreed to compete.
• Hanxing and Firefly were pulled back to the spaceship, where Silver Wolf reminded them they had promised to spar with her.
• Hanxing, Firefly, and Silver Wolf entered a pixelated game space and transformed to fight.
• Silver Wolf created a second account to battle Hanxing and Firefly, but they held their ground against her attacks.
• Hanxing and Firefly joined their strongest attacks against Silver Wolf's light wave, and the collision crashed the computer.

Hanxing and Firefly attempted to travel to Edo Star to obtain a Stellaron, but Hanxing’s blade lost its power and sent them to the wrong destination. They discovered they were on Fansha Star, leaving them stranded in Wind Erosion Town.

• Hanxing and Firefly met Kafka, who told them their mission was to obtain a Stellaron on Edo Star and that Blade was imprisoned on the Xianzhou Luofu.
• Hanxing opened a spatial portal with Firefly, but Silver Wolf and Kafka soon lost contact with them and suspected their location was wrong.
• Hanxing and Firefly landed in a vast desert, where his blade’s red glow had vanished and he could no longer open a portal.
• Firefly activated her armor, carried Hanxing through the sky, and brought him to Wind Erosion Town.
• A man tried to take advantage of Firefly, so she revealed her armor and killed him after learning they were on Fansha Star, not Edo Star.

Hanxing and Firefly fought off soldiers from the Kangbu Revolutionary Army before learning about Fansha Star’s curse and its conflict between Order and Harmony. After Yan Bai revealed knowledge of the Aeons, Hanxing and Firefly suspected he was a visitor from beyond the world as he returned to headquarters.

• Hanxing and Firefly fought the Kangbu Revolutionary Army soldiers, then stopped when Yan Bai ordered a ceasefire.
• Yan Bai identified the pair as outsiders and explained that Fansha Star’s curse prevented followers of paths other than Order and Harmony from arising and blocked contact with the outside world.
• Hanxing explained that the Aeons of Order, Trailblaze, and Beauty had fallen, and Yan Bai learned that Xipe had absorbed Ena.
• Yan Bai sent Hanxing and Firefly to headquarters with Han Chuan while the army continued its effort to take Wind Erosion Town.
• Han Chuan explained the conflict between the North Wind Government and the Kangbu Revolutionary Army, and Firefly asked about a Stellaron.
• Hanxing and Firefly suspected Yan Bai was also an outsider after noticing that he knew about Destruction, and they heard him return to headquarters.

Yan Bai explained how he knew about the Path of Destruction, then invited Hanxing and Firefly to tour the Kangbu Revolutionary Army’s newly captured Wind Erosion Town. Meanwhile, Kafka appeared aboard the Astral Express and asked the crew to change their destination to the Luofu.

• Hanxing questioned Yan Bai about how he knew of Destruction, and Yan Bai said his Harmony blessing let him see other people’s Paths but that he knew nothing about Destruction.
• Yan Bai reported that the army had taken Wind Erosion Town with little resistance and identified Night Return Port as its next target.
• Yan Bai showed Hanxing and Firefly Wind Erosion Town, where the army was dividing land among civilians, and offered to pay for their lodging.
• Kafka interrupted a meeting aboard the Astral Express and asked the crew to change their destination.
• Himeko rejected Kafka’s request and demanded that she hand Hanxing over, but Kafka said the Stellaron Hunters would not betray him and did not know where he was.
• Kafka asked the crew whether they had heard of the Luofu.

Kafka told the Astral Express crew that a Stellaron crisis had erupted on the Xianzhou Luofu and asked them to rescue Blade, stop the crisis, and clear the Stellaron Hunters’ names. On Fansha Star, Yan Bai, Hanxing, and Firefly checked into an inn, where Hanxing and Firefly shared a room with one big bed and considered going out to explore.

• Kafka warned Welt, Himeko, and March 7th that the Xianzhou Luofu faced a Stellaron crisis and said the Cloud Knights had captured Blade.
• Kafka asked the Astral Express crew to go to the Luofu, claiming that half the ship’s residents would die if they stayed away.
• Yan Bai explained to Firefly and Hanxing why Fansha Star’s places were named after sand and described its groundwater and efforts to plant trees.
• Hanxing and Yan Bai found the inn’s rooms too expensive, so Hanxing and Firefly agreed to share a room with one big bed.
• Hanxing and Firefly entered room 0206, and Hanxing suggested they go out and look around.

An official in Hanshuo City learned that Wind Erosion Town had fallen and noted a missing soldier as a new variable. Meanwhile, Hanxing and Firefly struggled to afford dinner, then returned to their inn, where Firefly got drunk and pulled Hanxing down beside her.

• A North Wind Government official learned that Wind Erosion Town had fallen and heard that a soldier had disappeared amid unusually high temperatures.
• Hanxing asked Firefly how they would afford food, and Yan Bai explained local customs before lending them his sixty-eight Cloud Amber Coins.
• Hanxing took Firefly to a restaurant, where they ate red-braised pork and rice and brought two bottles of liquor back to the inn.
• Firefly gulped down a bottle of liquor, while Hanxing finished his own and sent her to bathe before covering her with a blanket.
• Firefly asked Hanxing why she had drunk so much, then pulled him down onto the bed.

Hanxing and Firefly were summoned to the command post, where Lie Feng tested their claim that they were visitors from beyond the stars before accepting them. Hanxing and Firefly agreed to join the planned assault on Night Return Port and waited with Yan Bai for the general offensive.

• Firefly told Hanxing he had to take responsibility for what happened between them the previous night.
• Han Chuan summoned Hanxing and Firefly to meet Political Commissar Yan Bai and regimental commander Lie Feng.
• Lie Feng questioned Hanxing, then accepted his and Firefly's claim after hearing that Firefly followed the Path of Destruction.
• Lie Feng announced that his regiment would cooperate with the 135th Regiment to attack Night Return Port and seize the government that night.
• Hanxing and Firefly agreed to join the battle, traveled to the assembly point, and received instructions from Yan Bai to follow Han Chuan's personal guard squad when the attack began.

Hanxing and Firefly helped the Kangbu Revolutionary Army capture Night Return Port by breaking through the government forces and seizing a regimental commander. Lie Feng’s troops raised their flag over the city government, and Yan Bai noted that restoring production would be difficult.

• The Kangbu Revolutionary Army advanced toward Night Return Port as its division commander ordered his forces to retreat while resisting according to plan.
• Hanxing and Firefly attacked the enemy positions, and Hanxing captured a regimental commander after overcoming the guards and resisting the Pathstrider’s power of Order.
• Han Chuan used the captured commander’s telephone to issue a false retreat order, easing pressure on the front line.
• Firefly joined Hanxing and Han Chuan, and Yan Bai told them to rest until the war was over.
• Lie Feng led his troops in capturing the city government and raising the Kangbu Revolutionary Army’s flag over the building.
• Yan Bai saw the flag and remarked that restarting production would be troublesome.

Hanxing and Firefly agreed to help Yan Bai break the curse trapping Fansha Star, and they set out with his troops for Shuofeng City. As the soldiers rested during the journey, Firefly asked Hanxing how he would face the Stellaron Hunters, and he said he would let things take their course.

• Yan Bai explained that people from Fansha Star dissolved if they tried to leave for the stars, and Hanxing proposed that defeating the North Wind Government’s president might lift the curse.
• Hanxing and Firefly agreed to help break the curse, then Yan Bai received orders to attack Shuofeng City.
• Yan Bai invited Hanxing and Firefly to travel with him and the soldiers by truck toward Shuofeng City.
• A soldier recognized Hanxing for taking out a regiment’s command post, and Hanxing revealed that Firefly had piloted the mech that led the charge.
• As the exhausted soldiers slept, Firefly asked Hanxing how he would face the Stellaron Hunters, and he said he would let things take their course.
• Firefly kissed Hanxing and told him she loved him.

Hanxing and the army took the presidential palace, but the missing president’s warning that he was among them preceded a suspected nuclear strike. The blast left Hanxing unconscious and devastated the forces in the city.

• Hanxing got carsick during the truck journey, and he used Star Eyes to recover before joining the assembly point.
• At dawn, the assembled armies launched their assault and captured the ruined city, raising a red flag over the presidential palace.
• Yan Bai received a report that the president was missing and had left a note saying, “I’m right among you!”
• The army spotted a lone bomber suspected of carrying a nuclear weapon, but it dropped a bomb despite the anti-aircraft fire.
• Firefly summoned Sam and shielded him as the blast swept through; Hanxing was knocked unconscious, and a soldier blamed him for coming to the wrong place.

Hanxing fought Basha after learning he had arranged the nuclear strike that nearly killed Hanxing and Firefly. Basha overwhelmed them, but as Hanxing fell, he declared that the fight was only beginning.

• Hanxing woke and used Star Eyes to heal Firefly, discovering that she had taken terrible injuries protecting him.
• Firefly lost consciousness after telling Hanxing she loved him, and Hanxing swore revenge on the president responsible for the attack.
• Han Chuan appeared, revealed himself as Basha, and admitted he had prepared the nuclear bomb for Hanxing and Firefly.
• Basha easily repelled Hanxing’s attacks and pierced Sam and Firefly with his scepter, leaving Firefly near death.
• Hanxing used Star Eyes’ final revival chance on Firefly, then summoned the Giant of Light-Slay Evil and attacked Basha.
• Basha destroyed Hanxing’s arrow and pierced the giant and Hanxing’s heart, but Hanxing smiled and said it was only the beginning.

Hanxing returned from a vision granted by Xipe with knowledge of his past and new power, then defeated Basha after Basha fused with a Stellaron. A giant hand struck Hanxing after Basha invoked Ena to seal his power, but Hanxing healed and remained standing.

• Yan Bai arrived and revealed that he had become an Emanator, while Firefly joined him against Basha.
• Hanxing recovered and blocked Basha’s strike, then wounded him with golden-streaked sword qi.
• Basha fused a Stellaron into his body, pierced Hanxing with a sword, and left him falling into a sea of stars.
• Xipe appeared to Hanxing and told him of his past before sending him back to reality.
• Hanxing learned that Yan Bai had fused with him alongside the residents of Fansha Star, then took Cocolia’s Stellaron and used it to slay Basha.
• Basha invoked Ena to seal Hanxing’s power before turning to dust, and a giant hand struck Hanxing as he healed himself.

Hanxing recovered his memories and learned that Basha had killed everyone on Fansha Star, whose wills had merged into the Blade of Ending and helped draw Harmony’s attention. He and Firefly planned to rebuild the dead in the universe within the blade, then prepared to leave the ruined planet.

• Hanxing repaired the Stellaron, stored it in a spatial portal, and told Firefly he had regained his memories but had no universe to return to.
• Firefly explained that Basha had drained the planet’s divine power, killing Yan Bai and everyone on Fansha Star, whose wills merged into Hanxing’s blade.
• Hanxing explained that the Blade of Ending contained a universe and proposed rebuilding the dead there so they could live in peace.
• Hanxing told Firefly that Harmony had blessed his eyes and that the Eye of Time was partly awakened, allowing basic spatial manipulation.
• Hanxing drew in the remaining souls, opened a spatial passage, and prepared to return with Firefly.

Hanxing returned to the Stellaron Hunters’ ship with Firefly, who agreed to keep her restored memories secret, and learned that their next mission would take them to Penacony, where the script predicted Firefly would experience three deaths. After Hanxing recounted how he had killed the Throne of Order and taken its Stellaron, Blade said he would take Hanxing and Firefly on the mission.

• Hanxing asked Firefly to hide that her memories had returned, and she promised to keep it secret.
• Hanxing and Firefly returned to the Stellaron Hunters’ ship and learned Kafka and Blade were coming back from the Xianzhou.
• Silver Wolf told Hanxing and Firefly that Elio’s next script sent them to Penacony and foretold that Firefly would experience three deaths.
• Kafka returned, and Hanxing explained that he had killed the Throne of Order on Fansha Star and taken its Stellaron.
• Blade arrived and said he would take Hanxing and Firefly to Penacony for the mission.

Hanxing, Firefly, and Blade entered Penacony’s Synesthesia Dreamscape through an abandoned Dream Pool, where Silver Wolf explained the Charmony Festival and the search for the Watchmaker’s legacy. Hanxing and Firefly arrived in the Golden Hour, and Hanxing suggested they explore the bustling city.

• Blade led Hanxing and Firefly to an abandoned Dream Pool so they could enter Penacony’s dreamscape without an invitation.
• Hanxing and Firefly endured the Dream Pool’s crushing Memoria and visions of death before reaching the dream together.
• Silver Wolf explained that Penacony was divided into twelve hours and that they had arrived in the Golden Hour.
• Silver Wolf revealed that the Family’s invitation called for guests to find the Watchmaker’s legacy and answer why life slumbered.
• Firefly said their goal was to get the Astral Express to pursue the grand legacy, and Hanxing suggested looking around the city.

Hanxing took Firefly to Dream’s Edge and revealed that he was a copy named Yinchen, destined to become Eternal Finality and destroy the multiverse. Firefly shared the truth about Glamoth and her designation, AR26710, and the two embraced beneath the stars.

• Hanxing led Firefly through the streets, where she bought them Oak Cake Rolls and SoulGlad after he realized he had no money.
• Hanxing drank his SoulGlad quickly, became drunk, and asked Firefly to take him somewhere secluded and atmospheric.
• Hanxing brought Firefly to Dream’s Edge and confessed that he was a copy from another timeline named Yinchen, destined to become Eternal Finality.
• Firefly told Hanxing that Glamoth had been a republic whose Iron Cavalry was created to fight Propagation and later sent on a suicide mission against an Emanator.
• Firefly revealed her designation, AR26710, and said she was now simply Firefly before Hanxing pulled her into an embrace.

Hanxing and Firefly waited for Caelus in Golden Hour, then tried to draw the Astral Express into a conflict over the grand legacy. After evading Penacony’s guards and meeting Gallagher, Hanxing learned his disguise had made them look like invited guests from Fansha Star, which could help their plan.

• Hanxing and Firefly waited for Caelus, then planned to disguise their faction’s pursuit of the grand legacy as a fight over a Stellaron to involve the Astral Express.
• Penacony’s suited guards chased Hanxing and Firefly, so Hanxing escaped into his space and spoke with Yan Bai, the merged soul within the Blade of Ending.
• Yan Bai showed Hanxing that he could control the blade, and Hanxing used Harmony’s Tuning to take on Yan Bai’s appearance.
• Gallagher stopped the guards from pursuing Hanxing and Firefly and apologized, mistaking them for honored guests rather than criminals.
• Yan Bai explained that Basha had submitted Yan Bai’s information to Penacony, making Hanxing’s disguise identify him as a guest from Fansha Star.

Hanxing and Firefly entered a distorted dream after Sparkle put them to sleep, searching for clues about the legacy and the Watchmaker. They became trapped among looping rooms and strange creatures, and the chapter ended as an eye-covered monster appeared.

• Hanxing told Caelus that the legacy was a Stellaron, then put him into an illusion and left with Firefly.
• Hanxing and Firefly met Sparkle, who sent them into a strange dream with a wave of drowsiness.
• Hanxing and Firefly explored the distorted dream, where Hanxing suspected the Family was hiding something about the legacy and the Watchmaker.
• Hanxing and Firefly crossed dream puzzles and rooms, using Hanxing's teleportation to bypass obstacles.
• Hanxing and Firefly became trapped in looping corridors as televisions filled the area and an eye-covered monster appeared.

Hanxing and Firefly escaped a powerful monster with help from Black Swan, while Caelus was deceived by Sparkle. Hanxing woke injured in the Dream Pool, found Firefly still unconscious, and prepared to return to the dreamscape to find her.

• Caelus told Gallagher that Hanxing, a new Stellaron Hunter, had attacked him, and Gallagher promised to issue a wanted notice.
• Hanxing protected Firefly from a powerful monster, and Black Swan restrained it long enough for them to escape through a portal.
• Sparkle tricked Caelus with yin-yang fish and left him unconscious.
• Hanxing woke in the Dream Pool with injuries, but Firefly remained unconscious beside him.
• Hanxing used Star Eyes to heal himself and decided to reenter the dreamscape to search for Firefly.