Chapter Summaries

Su Luo completed the Exploration Quest at the top of the Tower and claimed the Power of All Beings, while his companions gained freedom or ascended to Godhood. The Eternal Night Court fell asleep as the group followed a road of light toward the real world.

• Su Luo opened the door behind the Architect despite knowing the Desolation Plague would destroy the Eternal Night Court, and agreed to take the Four-Colored Puppets to the Tower’s top.
• Su Luo climbed the dark staircase, touched the golden light, and completed the Exploration Quest, obtaining the Purple Skill Power of All Beings.
• Iron Guard reached the golden light, broke free of the demon’s contract, seized the demon’s power, and burned the staircase to ash.
• Observer ascended to Godhood, Jingjing transformed her weapons, and Machine Fortress recovered his memories and regained his freedom from the Eternal Night Court.
• The Tower collapsed into sleep, and Su Luo led Observer, Iron Guard, Jingjing, and Machine Fortress along a road of light toward the real world.
• Iron Guard stopped as memories of the Eternal Night Court appeared around the group.

Iron Guard, Jingjing, Machine Fortress, and Observer confronted memories of their pasts before Su Luo welcomed them to the Land of Darkness. Later, Su Luo reviewed the gains from the Eternal Night Court quest and began testing his new power, while Iron Guard told him that his Black Flame was powerful but insubstantial.

• Iron Guard remembered that he had made a pact with a demon at the cost of his people and realized the sin he had been fighting was his own.
• Jingjing revealed that her clan had perished in the Desolation Plague and had waited ten thousand years for her to return.
• Machine Fortress recalled that he had replaced himself with the tower to escape the Desolation Plague, while Observer wondered what the Gods had thought when they died.
• Su Luo welcomed the Four-Colored Puppets to the Land of Darkness and later organized the rewards and discoveries from the Eternal Night Court Exploration Quest.
• Su Luo went to his experimental planet and found Iron Guard watching the Black Flame; Iron Guard praised its purity but said it showed none of Su Luo’s growth or experiences.

Su Luo met with Iron Guard, Jingjing, and Observer in his Dream World, discussing their powers and their plans to enter reality. He discovered that Observer was a level 8 Lord, the strongest monster quality he had encountered.

• Su Luo examined Iron Guard, agreed to exchange Heartfire research for Demon Flame and experimental data, and offered to let him restore his attributes in reality, but Iron Guard chose to stay and cultivate.
• Su Luo met Jingjing at the planet’s summit, and she asked to return to reality; he agreed to place her in the Land of Darkness and keep a sample of her.
• Su Luo found Observer in his computation zone, where she had gone to seek energy and observe the calculations.
• Su Luo appraised Observer and learned that she was a level 8 Lord with powers including Prophecy and Twilight Domain.

Su Luo returned from the Dream World, reviewed Xiao Luo’s work, and continued his research while sending Jingjing and Observer into reality to gather energy. He then examined reports from his Soul Servants as they explored the vast Exploration Quest battlefield.

• Su Luo asked about raising the Dream World’s energy level, then hung the Blood Moon above the Knowledge Starry Sky.
• Su Luo returned to his body, reviewed Xiao Luo’s laboratory work, and questioned Nanmen Shi about the Flamefire Legacy.
• Su Luo told Nanmen Shi to continue gathering data on his new flame-transformation ability.
• Su Luo brought Jingjing and Observer into reality and opened the Mana Pool for them; Observer absorbed its energy while Jingjing struggled to adjust.
• Su Luo inspected the soul crystal controlling 912 Soul Servants and reviewed their reports from the Exploration Quest battlefield.

Su Luo assessed the Observer and Jingjing after they absorbed mana, then let Jingjing leave to explore the Land of Darkness. He reviewed the District War updates and learned that a silver-badge survivor had cleared a Trait Dungeon, leaving the unofficial ranking unsettled by a new contender.

• Su Luo checked the Observer’s level and attributes, and saw that Jingjing had also recovered to level 9.
• Jingjing said she wanted to explore the Land of Darkness, and Su Luo gave her a communicator, locator, and supplies before she left.
• Su Luo began using [Power of All Beings] while the District War System announced new rules, including separate teams for survivors with gold badges or above.
• Su Luo read gold-badge messages reporting that a silver-badge survivor had cleared a Trait Dungeon, despite silver badges previously failing to clear one.
• Survivors speculated that the silver-badge contender could become a high-ranking top, prompting debate over the unofficial ranking.

Su Luo registered for the District War, packed his equipment, and prepared to bring the Observer and Yun Xiaoxiao with him. In another zone, Layton and Binluk discussed identifying unstable survivors before the event, and Layton revealed that he had earned a Purple Skill.

• Su Luo saw discussion about Jabari’s rapid Trait Dungeon clear and wondered how he had grown strong enough in only six days.
• Su Luo registered for the District War as a one-person team and received the Purple Skill [Storage Conversion] for completing an Exploration Quest.
• Su Luo packed the Mana Pool’s core and components and invited the Observer and Yun Xiaoxiao to accompany him; Yun Xiaoxiao agreed.
• Binluk showed Layton a list of survivors suspected of mental instability and proposed screening them before the District War.
• Layton agreed to ask Zone 76 how it handled the problem and revealed that he had completed an Exploration Quest and earned a Purple attribute-type skill.

Layton prepared to strengthen his Sanctuary and items while Yun Xiaoxiao wandered around the district. Su Luo entered a Civilization Development District War, examined its rules and panel, and discovered that several familiar powerful Survivors—including Han Song and Kundina Orlando—had been assigned to his group.

• Layton asked Binluk to report on Yun Xiaoxiao, then ordered him to monitor team assignments for the District War and gather resources for upgrades.
• The District War began with a ten-day Civilization Development format, anchored time, Civilization Points, and rules forbidding Survivors from attacking one another.
• Su Luo arrived in a vast white room with nine Sanctuaries and a central stone table, then studied the temporary Civilization Development panel.
• Han Song, Kundina Orlando, Yashan, Guan Ziyang, and a cartoon-like woman resembling Dora emerged from the Sanctuaries and joined Su Luo in the room.

The Survivors introduced themselves and began planning for a District War centered on civilization development rather than direct combat. Su Luo studied the Civilization Achievement Tree and prepared his Sanctuary, but discovered that its Mana Pool could not collect energy from light.

• Su Luo and the other Survivors introduced themselves, including Qing Yunnan, Han Song, Naideng Beiximo, Fog, Food, and Dora.
• Qing Yunnan said the District War would focus on civilization development, and the Survivors discussed their experience and willingness to cooperate.
• Su Luo opened the Civilization Achievement Tree and examined its technological branches, noting that his mastered technologies covered only a limited part of the tree.
• Su Luo went to his empty plot and activated his auxiliary Mana Pool, switching it to Solar Mode because the area had no mana and Yuncang Civilization lacked a small nuclear fusion device.
• The Mana Pool's energy field failed to absorb the surrounding light.

Su Luo examined how [Power of All Beings] could generate tangible Power of Faith in a world whose rules did not allow it. He could not explain how the Observer’s former civilization had discovered the same power, leaving the origins of that civilization and the Land of Darkness unresolved.

• Su Luo failed to replenish energy, connected the Mana Pool to himself, and used the Something-from-Nothing Machine to supply it.
• Su Luo called out the Observer and confirmed she could enter his Dream World despite lacking a survivor account.
• Su Luo examined his skill list and discovered the system had split [Source Essence Circulation Technique] into Inner Circulation and Outer Circulation.
• Su Luo reasoned that [Power of All Beings] enabled faith directed at him to produce real power by changing the world’s rules.
• Su Luo asked the Observer how her previous civilization had used the Power of Faith, and she said she did not know.
• Su Luo wondered whether the Observer’s civilization had come to the Land of Darkness from another world and considered investigating its origins after reaching level 10.

Su Luo entered the civilization development phase of the District War and explored Origin Star under 3,600-fold time acceleration. He chose a fertile delta on the Cangyuan Continent as his starting location and prepared to select a Child of Civilization.

• Su Luo used the preparation time to study the Unknown Atlas and its newly unlocked Martial Dao text.
• The District War began, and the system explained that Su Luo could project his consciousness into his civilization and guide its development with Civilization Points.
• Su Luo examined the Planet Model and Acceleration Pool before projecting his consciousness into Origin Star.
• Su Luo adjusted to the accelerated flow of time and reviewed Origin Star’s geography, climate, and resources.
• Su Luo chose the Long River delta on the eastern coast of the Cangyuan Continent and marked the location on the Planet Model.
• Su Luo returned to the Pure White Space and began choosing a Child of Civilization.

Mu Ri recognized that his tribe was vulnerable to rising river waters and wanted to find a more organized people, but he could barely communicate his thoughts. After joining a hunting party, he received a Civilization Development System, while Su Luo selected him as the Child of Civilization and prepared to oversee his progress.

• Mu Ri noticed the river rising and tried to warn his mother, but she dismissed his gestures and sounds.
• Mu Ri realized the tribe lacked a shared way to express ideas and decided to seek a tribe he had heard could organize its people.
• Mu Ri's mother approved his departure after counting the thirteen beast teeth that marked his age, and he left with the hunting party despite his companion calling after him.
• That night, Mu Ri discovered a Civilization Development System that assigned him the quest to unify nearby tribes and granted him knowledge and skills in advance.
• Mu Ri sat up, lost consciousness, and fell from the tree; the hunting party leader put him back in a tree for safety.
• Su Luo selected Mu Ri as the Child of Civilization, spent 168 Civilization Points on interference, and told Yun Xiaoxiao that Mu Ri was a promising choice.

Su Luo and the other survivors placed their game pieces across Origin Star’s continents, then he tested how the [Acceleration Pool] could speed up civilization’s development. After Han Song connected his Sanctuary’s engine to the pool, Su Luo realized the survivors could use Survival Coins to supply energy and called everyone to discuss time acceleration.

• Su Luo, Han Song, and the other survivors placed game pieces across the Cangyuan, Yunmeng, and Emberland Continents, while Dora placed none.
• Su Luo tested the [Acceleration Pool] and learned that raising its time flow rate consumed energy or Civilization Points for all of Origin Star.
• Su Luo found that his [Something-from-Nothing Machine] could supply the pool with energy through the Mana Pool.
• Han Song connected his Sanctuary’s engine to the [Acceleration Pool] and explained that survivors could recharge their energy systems with Survival Coins.
• Su Luo recognized that most survivors present could now help accelerate time and called them together to discuss energy and time acceleration.

Survivors used the Inheritance Designation function to send information and resources to the District War, allowing them to fund a time acceleration of 5,400 times. As the chosen primitives struggled to build civilizations, Su Luo approached Kundina about renewing their cooperation, while Mu Ri prepared to gather knowledge from other tribes.

• A team on Battlefield No. 35252 killed a controlled madman after filling his Sanctuary with slips of paper, activating Inheritance Designation and sending a message about funding energy buildings to his heir.
• Survivors outside the District War learned about the inheritance function and began sending Survival Coins to participants, causing Han Song, Kundina, and Guan Ziyang to receive large sums.
• The Survivors agreed to maintain time acceleration at 5,400 times normal, and Su Luo asked Kundina whether she still wanted to cooperate.
• Mu Ri used traps, weapons, assigned roles, and hand signals to win the hunting party's trust and become its leader.
• Mu Ri proposed staying longer at another tribe so he could learn and gather skills from different tribes.

Mu Ri’s plans for organizing his tribe were interrupted when a continent-wide forest fire erupted, the first special event on Origin Star. Meanwhile, Su Luo arranged for Kundina to raise his spell skills and checked on the other participants, leaving the fire to slow Mu Ri’s development while he kept watch.

• Mu Ri rejected a tribesman’s demand to go hunting the next day as he considered how to give his people a new pursuit.
• A vast forest fire spread across the mountains and toward the horizon, triggering the special event Blazing Fire Burns the Domain.
• Su Luo confirmed that Mu Ri was safe, then arranged for Kundina to raise his blue spell skills to level forty so he could record them.
• Su Luo observed Han Song struggling to communicate with his priestess, while Kundina, Guan Ziyang, Qing Yunnan, and Beiximo steadily guided their tribes.
• Su Luo visited Yashan on the Emberland Continent and saw the intelligent, ostracized mutant human chosen as Yashan’s Child of Civilization.

Su Luo watched Mu Ri’s tribe benefit from the burning forest while developing symbols, then questioned the newly awakened Machine Fortress about dreams and the Tower. Machine Fortress revealed how dream depth could be increased, why civilizations fled into dreams, and that Su Luo’s light might have come from a lost teleportation technology.

• Mu Ri led his hunters along the burning forest, gathered abundant prey, and taught his tribe symbols he had created for common things.
• Su Luo absorbed the contents of a book on underwater industrial modification in the Dream Library before Machine Fortress awakened.
• Su Luo asked Machine Fortress how to expand a dream’s depth, and Machine Fortress explained that fusing other people’s Dream Worlds into one’s own increased it.
• Machine Fortress said the real world was far more terrifying than the Dream World and that this danger had driven civilizations to hide in dreams.
• Machine Fortress identified Su Luo’s light as possibly related to a lost technology called Energy-Body Light-Speed Spatial Teleportation Technology Based on Dream Characteristics.

Qing Yunnan guided his Child of Civilization and surveyed the other survivors’ progress during the District War before using his [Mirror Sovereign] Talent to copy the Scholar’s Talent. He discovered that [Learning Gains] improved concentration and learning returns, but it did not let him comprehend laws or other abstract concepts.

• Qing Yunnan checked that his Child of Civilization, Mu Ri, was close to reaching the five-hundred-person settlement milestone, then inspected Mu Ri’s much larger city and learned its metallurgical techniques to teach his own people.
• Qing Yunnan surveyed the other survivors’ progress and noted that Yashan’s tribe was also advancing rapidly under his guidance.
• Qing Yunnan assessed the survivors’ Talents and found that the Scholar’s Talent had the lowest copying cost, so he copied it into his remaining Talent slot.
• Qing Yunnan tested [Learning Gains] and learned that it improved concentration and guaranteed some return from studying knowledge, but did not grant broad comprehension of laws.
• Qing Yunnan considered copying Beiximo’s [Many-Spells Daoist] Talent, but decided its cost was too high.

Su Luo established the Suguang Civilization with the Scholar trait, and a meteor shower began as debris fell toward Origin Star. Mu Ri received new technologies and a quest to guide his people through the disaster, but the threat had not yet arrived.

• Su Luo chose the Scholar trait for Mu Ri's civilization and asked Yun Xiaoxiao to name it.
• Yun Xiaoxiao named the civilization Suguang, and Su Luo confirmed the choice.
• A global Meteor Shower event began as debris broke off Origin II and headed toward Origin Star.
• Su Luo warned Mu Ri, issued his delayed rewards, and gave the child of civilization a shield.
• Mu Ri received new technologies and a quest to reach 30,000 people within ten years while surviving the meteor shower.
• Mu Ri struggled through the flood of knowledge and wondered how his people could withstand falling rocks and fire.

After the meteor shower devastated the Suguang Civilization, Mu Ri turned the disaster into an opportunity to forge tools, then vowed to destroy everything that harmed humanity. The chapter left him declaring war on disasters, disease, and even death itself.

• The Survivors watched as Mu Ri halted the Suguang Civilization’s evacuation after his mother died, sending people to search for fallen metal and forge tools despite the casualties.
• Qing Yunnan explained that Mu Ri had traded lives for development by exploiting the primitive people’s lack of shared traditions and moral restraints.
• A month later, Mu Ri stood in Changhe City and reflected on his mother’s death and the suffering caused by disasters.
• Mu Ri envisioned monsters embodying disease, death, and destruction, and vowed to kill everything that harmed humanity.

Su Luo used the survivors’ suffering to establish faith in the Suguang Civilization, while Mu Ri built a powerful civilization around the story of the Book of Creation. Fifteen years after the Meteor Shower, Mu Ri met Pingyun’s leader, Nora, and learned that her people’s faith was not merely a tool to them.

• Su Luo unlocked achievements for the survivors’ choices and the rise of faith, and noticed that Mu Ri had become a human absolutist.
• Su Luo reshaped Mu Ri’s information panel into a metal book and helped spread a story that the world was a book granting humanity supreme rights.
• Fifteen years after the Meteor Shower, Nora prayed to God as the Suguang and Pingyun Civilizations met to establish diplomatic relations.
• Mu Ri questioned why Nora personally believed in God when faith could serve a ruler as a tool.
• A Pingyun official silently wondered how Mu Ri could doubt God’s existence.

Mu Ri sought a trade agreement with Nora’s Pingyun Civilization to secure raw materials and labor for the underpopulated Suguang Civilization. After learning about civilizations to the west, Su Luo instructed Han Song to accept trade only on terms that favored Pingyun and protected its domestic industries.

• Mu Ri proposed exchanging Suguang’s manufactured goods for Pingyun’s raw materials, and Nora delayed signing while she sought her God’s instructions.
• Nora agreed to let Mu Ri’s delegation wait up to three days and showed him a map with information about the Mirror Civilization and other western civilizations.
• Su Luo criticized Han Song for making Nora overly dependent on divine guidance, and Han Song admitted he had often been unable to communicate with her clearly.
• Su Luo told Han Song to raise the raw-material exchange rate and reduce the agreement’s annual trade quantities.
• Su Luo warned Han Song that excessive imports could destroy Pingyun’s local businesses and manufacturing skills, leaving the country unable to produce goods if trade ended.