Chapter Summaries

Qiao Wenxi and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] discussed how emotional extremes opened access to the Demon Realm, then planned to establish a stronghold near [Soren Xingjia]. Qiao Wenxi also worried that her spawn point might be near the dangerous Rainbow Badge Jinli Dao Lord again.

• Qiao Wenxi explained that intense emotional fluctuations could break the barrier to the [Demon Realm], and that watching porn had helped drive the development of recording Spells, the internet, and electrical energy.
• Qiao Wenxi asked what attribute [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] had reached after restarting cultivation, and he said he could reach 22 if his [Molting Sea-Octopuses] received enough resources.
• Qiao Wenxi outlined their plan to complete the Ritual, eliminate native Survivors around [Soren Xingjia], and make the Ritual base their first permanent stronghold.
• Qiao Wenxi described the four major schools of [Deep Sea Survival] and explained why she followed the solitary Deep Sea Lone-Walker School.
• Qiao Wenxi warned that her spawn point might be near Jinli Dao Lord again, and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] discussed the threat posed by Rainbow Badges.

[Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] and Qiao Wenxi surveyed the island before an immense eye appeared and vanished, then [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] was confronted by the Jinli Dao Lord's soul and a concealed Dark Domain. He resisted the attack with the [Touch of Ethereal], while Qiao Wenxi escaped into the Deep Dream and stopped responding.

• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] released his Vassals to search the island, and Qiao Wenxi rode a giant Titan Fish with him to the ritual base.
• Qiao Wenxi and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] saw a world-sized eye appear across the sky and disappear, and they suspected a Survivor had used it to detect the island.
• The [Molting Sea-Octopus Queen] warned [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] about black fire, and he saw a figure emerge from flames before the surrounding Magic Seals exploded.
• Bubble returned with information that helped [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] resist Heartfire, revealing the Jinli Dao Lord's frail soul holding cards within the Dark Domain.
• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] used the [Touch of Ethereal] to evade the Dark Domain, while Qiao Wenxi abandoned her body and escaped into a Deep Dream.
• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] asked Qiao Wenxi to attach a Dreamscape Anchor to him, but got no response as Bubble revealed the Dark Domain on [Soren Xingjia] had been concealed.

Xiao Xiao Luo trapped [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] in a distant Dark Domain and attacked him with a powerful spell, but he escaped the blast using the Royal Authority Treasure. As [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] summoned his Deep Sea Soul Spirit and shattered Xiao Xiao Luo's domain, Xiao Xiao Luo charged straight at his Holy Sword.

• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] used Titan Fish Vassals to carve out a safe path through the Dark Domain and tried to flee [Soren Xingjia].
• Xiao Xiao Luo formed a Ten Thousand Laws Domain and unleashed a tenth-circle Forbidden Spell at [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero].
• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] used the Royal Authority Treasure to summon a torrent of weapons that wore away the spell, then fled.
• Xiao Xiao Luo pursued him, and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] decided to finish the Clone after suspecting Qiao Wenxi had met with disaster.
• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] summoned his Deep Sea Soul Spirit, which shattered the Ten Thousand Laws Domain, then drew the Royal Authority Holy Sword as Xiao Xiao Luo charged into its edge.

Xiao Xiao Luo struck [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] with golden lightning and a hidden flame, but dozens of copies appeared as the Dark Domain receded. Nuclear bombardment briefly halted the Dark Domain before a blood-red rift released a streak of demonic fog and it surged back; Qiao Wenxi awoke trapped in an unknown liminal dream, unable to reach her Dream World or escape.

• Xiao Xiao Luo's golden lightning shattered the Deep Sea behemoth's phantom and damaged [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero], then Xiao Xiao Luo burned his true origin with a magnificent-colored flame before he struck Xiao Xiao Luo down.
• The Dark Domain receded, but dozens of identical Xiao Xiao Luos emerged from it.
• Soren Xingjia's Magitech Nuclear Bombs halted the Dark Domain's spread, giving the command center hope that the bombardment was working.
• A blood-red rift opened in the Dark Domain and released scarlet demonic fog; afterward, the Dark Domain expanded again faster and more violently than before.
• An observer woke from a dream and spoke of a fire that could never be extinguished, while Qiao Wenxi found herself trapped in an unfamiliar liminal dream, unable to summon her Dreamscape or escape.

Qiao Wenxi explored an endless office in a dream and discovered that its paper was real, revealing the dream’s unusual depth and danger. As the faceless workers’ systems began to malfunction, she watched the chaos escalate until a black figure carrying a saber appeared.

• Qiao Wenxi opened a yellow door and found a vast hall where faceless beings endlessly produced documents at identical workstations.
• Qiao Wenxi rode a conveyor belt through the unchanging office, then used her Talent on a document and discovered that the paper was real physical matter.
• Qiao Wenxi realized Jinli Dao Lord’s dream had depth, noticed black spots on her consciousness-shaped hand, and recalled the curse and warning associated with Dreamscape Depth.
• Qiao Wenxi spotted a Faceless Man whose workstation malfunctioned, causing nearby workers and the conveyor belt to fail as the pipes writhed and some workers broke free.
• A pitch-black figure holding a long saber dropped from a gap between the pipes.

Qiao Wenxi was carried from the office into a bizarre amusement park, where the Faceless Ones’ strange process of consuming colored balls began to transform her. The carousel stole some of her memories until her Epic item restored her, but the Dreamscape Manager watched her from the dome.

• Dao Master Jinli's consciousness Clone slaughtered the Faceless Ones in the office, and Qiao Wenxi continued onward in a cardboard box on the conveyor belt.
• Qiao Wenxi fell through a vast facility into an amusement park, where boxes became colored balls and Faceless Ones swallowed them to acquire patches of color.
• Black spots spread across Qiao Wenxi as she grew to the Faceless Ones’ size and rode the carousel, whose music immersed her in false joy and a dream.
• Qiao Wenxi’s Epic item destroyed the carousel and restored her soul and body after she realized the illusion had stolen some of her memories.
• Qiao Wenxi saw a scarlet mist pursued by knife-wielding Faceless Ones, then looked up and found countless golden pupils watching from the dome.

Yun Xiaoxiao recognized the powerful red dragon Adele as Dieyi while keeping her occupied until Su Luo returned. Su Luo surveyed the world with the Dreamscape Weaver’s Crown, captured two Survivors, and learned that the Fire Domain was safe for the moment.

• Adele browsed Yun Xiaoxiao’s entertainment database, then revealed that she was a Twelfth Ring legendary spellweaver and a pure-blooded red dragon.
• Yun Xiaoxiao recognized Adele’s childhood name as Dieyi, and Adele questioned whether Yun Xiaoxiao’s master belonged to a prophetic Demon God’s lineage.
• At Su Luo’s prompting, Yun Xiaoxiao distracted Dieyi with games while they waited for him to return.
• Su Luo projected a giant Dreamscape eye to survey the world and locate the Survivors’ island.
• Su Luo sent a Flamefire Legacy Xiao Xiao Luo to capture [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone’s Zero], then confined the Survivor in a trial Dreamscape ecosystem under Observer’s watch.
• Su Luo redirected Qiao Wenxi into his Dreamscape, then read Yun Xiaoxiao’s messages and stopped worrying when he learned Dieyi was there.

Su Luo sealed off Soren Xingjia and began devouring its resources with the Annihilation Dark Domain while sparing its people. He considered shifting those unable to support the Demon Network Plan into Dreamscape, then turned his attention to Dieyi and the world’s powerful figures as the chapter outlined the world’s floating lands and Demon Realm.

• Su Luo failed to find Two Principles Daojun, then sealed Soren Xingjia off from outside communication and spread the Annihilation Dark Domain across it.
• The Dark Domain consumed the island’s structures and resources while leaving its living beings unharmed.
• Xiao Luo reported that Soren Xingjia held 137 million people, including 110 million who could connect to the Demon Realm and just over 1.2 million with the potential to sustain their own class panels.
• Su Luo considered an elimination plan for those below the third circle, then proposed sending them to Dreamscape while taking responsibility for the consequences in reality.
• As forces in Soren Starshackle City-State resisted the Dark Domain, Su Luo chose to look for Dieyi and investigate the powerful figures of the world.
• The chapter described the world’s floating lands, major factions, and the spiritual Demon Realm, whose strongest beings were the Demon Gods.

The chapter explained how the Demon Realm threatened powerful beings and recounted the dispute over the origins of Demon Gods. In the Weaving Fog Corridor, a mysterious Black Flame Anchor arrived and listened as experts discussed a terrifying apparition and a prophecy about a newborn God.

• The chapter described how the Demon Realm’s Corrosion could drive long-lived experts into God-Corpse Transformation.
• A grand sage of the Astral Scholar Society argued that Demon Gods were incarnations of rules shaped by living beings’ belief systems, prompting a dispute with the Church.
• The Soren Starshackle City-State’s sage Anchor visited the Weaving Fog Corridor and then departed.
• A new Anchor shaped like a cluster of black flames appeared and listened to experts discuss a frightening apparition and recent deaths.
• An expert cited a grand prophet’s warning about a newborn God, and another mocked the prophet before revealing that she usually did not wear underwear.

The Black Flame visited the Weaving Fog Corridor, where Scholar’s new theory and practical method for leaping through Demon Realm space rapidly drew attention. The discovery promised to transform travel and warfare, while a second treatise provoked united opposition from major powers.

• A Blank World Anchor argued that Blanking could have prevented the current disasters, but other Anchors criticized the faction for weakening civilization and targeting the weak.
• The Black Flame listened to the argument and visited the Weaving Fog Corridor’s academic hall, where scholars could openly discuss and publish theories.
• Over the following half day, Scholar’s theory, [Theoretical Derivation and Practice of Demon Realm Spatial Leap], spread across the hall and topped three pinned rankings.
• A top expert used Scholar’s method to complete a one-kilometer spatial leap, raising expectations that transportation, warfare, and world order would change.
• Scholar’s second treatise proposed that the world and its Mana had been designed by another, prompting united opposition from the Seven-Nation Federation, the Church, the Natural Mage Alliance, the Elf Dynasty, and the Astral Scholar Society.

Su Luo confronted Red Dragon Dieyi in the Demon Realm and defeated her after she revealed her immense red dragon form. He demanded that she work for him and hand over her body-storage technology, leaving her alive through the current age in exchange.

• Red Dragon Dieyi reflected on her childhood ambition to give every living being a class, then mistook Su Luo for someone she could court with copper coins.
• Su Luo demonstrated his power by drawing the Dark Domain of Soren Xingjia around himself, and Dieyi challenged him with her red dragon bloodline.
• Dieyi transformed into a thousand-meter-long red dragon and attacked Su Luo, but he battered her into submission within ten minutes.
• Dieyi returned to human form and begged Su Luo to stop, offering to let him ride her.
• Su Luo demanded that Dieyi work for him so he would keep her alive through the age, and that she give him her body-storage technology.

Su Luo discovered that Dieyi’s dragon transformation relied on teleportation to Dragon Valley, then sent her and Yun Xiaoxiao to establish the Demon Network on Aurelian. He turned his attention to the mysterious Notherland and began testing the indestructible Mao Stone Notherland had left behind.

• Su Luo determined that Dieyi stored her sleeping true body in Dragon Valley and sent a powerful talent through their Heartfire contract, which Su Luo’s defenses destroyed.
• Dieyi explained that her clan’s shared talent could kill nearby creatures by exhausting their essence, and Su Luo sent her to Aurelian with Yun Xiaoxiao to build the Demon Network.
• Su Luo dismissed Yun Xiaoxiao and her printed legion, then handed Demon Network matters to Xiao Luo and resumed dealing with unresolved problems.
• Su Luo recalled that Notherland had addressed him by name and vanished despite being unable to leave Soren Xingjia, then examined the Mao Stone Notherland had given him.
• Su Luo found that the ordinary-looking Mao Stone could absorb energy but could not be destroyed, so he began feeding it energy in the Dark Domain.

Su Luo reviewed the captured Survivors from Soren Xingjia, including Qiao Wenxi and a man revealed as a vessel for a Forbidden Existence, and left their treatment to Observer. He then focused on building the Demon Network Core to gather and manage Silk Mana for his plans and battles.

• Qiao Wenxi’s Optimization Talent had grown powerful enough to make her a top-tier Survivor, and her Epic Burning Feather Phoenix Skirt granted resurrection, combat enhancements, death foresight, and immortality.
• Su Luo and Observer struggled to remove the Phoenix Skirt anchored to Qiao Wenxi’s consciousness, so they kept her in the Deep Dream and put her Talent to work.
• The scarlet power inside Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero broke through the Dark Domain, but Su Luo captured the incomplete Forbidden Existence within him.
• Su Luo noted that Forbidden Existences controlled many powerful Survivors in Deep Sea Survival, unlike the more transparent and stable Darkness Survival world.
• Su Luo continued constructing the Demon Network Core, which would collect, convert, store, and supply Silk Mana for his experiments and battles.

Su Luo planned to fund a massive ring accelerator by continuing the Demon Network and extracting energy from the major factions, hoping to break the fundamental structure of Silk Mana. In the Demon Realm, Wu Guang remarked on the Scholar’s conspicuous presence in the Weaving Fog Corridor, which had already become known across the world.

• Su Luo reviewed how the world’s powerful factions exploited low-ranking cultivators as Meat Pigs and how Mana underpinned the global Radiant Crystal currency.
• Su Luo calculated that the Demon Network produced twelve thousand Radiant Crystals of energy each day and set aside his reserves as startup capital.
• Su Luo planned a ten-thousand-kilometer ring accelerator in the Vacuum Domain to test whether extreme energy could break Silk Mana apart.
• Su Luo decided he needed to siphon energy from other factions and seek technology investment in the Weaving Fog Corridor.
• Wu Guang said the Scholar was flashy and noted that news of his distinctive methods and Anchor had spread throughout the world in half a day.

Wu Guang sent Jianfeng into the Demon Realm to seize authority from one of its seven Demon God factions while he coordinated plans from the mortal world. Meanwhile, Ansen and Mu Hongyuan knelt among pilgrims at the Church’s main cathedral, where Ansen complained about the wait and realized Mu Hongyuan had caught him again.

• Wu Guang told Jianfeng to enter the Demon Realm and take control of a Demon God faction, while Wu Guang stayed behind to coordinate their plans.
• Jianfeng slaughtered the approaching creatures and headed deeper into the Demon Realm, and Wu Guang said Jianfeng was not alone before sighing about how he called them Evil Gods.
• The narration described the Church’s ancient main cathedral on Harmonia and the millions of pilgrims gathered before it.
• Ansen complained to Mu Hongyuan about kneeling, and a believer warned them to keep quiet in the sacred hall.
• Ansen realized he had been born near Mu Hongyuan again and was back in Mu Hongyuan’s palm.

Ansen and Mu Hongyuan were exposed as heretics in the Church’s sacred plaza and attacked by a Holy Hall Knight. After fighting back, they drew the attention of more Knights and a Twelfth-Ring expert, but Ansen insisted they were going into the Holy Hall.

• Ansen explained to Mu Hongyuan why believers used the pronoun “they” for their gods, then she asked what ending he had written for their Fairy Tale.
• A Holy Hall Knight revealed that he had monitored their mental conversation and declared them Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons who would be executed.
• Mu Hongyuan vanished as the Knight struck Ansen, killing many believers in the plaza and sending their souls toward the Divine Kingdom.
• Ansen’s purple insect cursed the Knight while Mu Hongyuan attacked from behind and twisted off his head.
• Dozens of Holy Hall Knights and a Twelfth-Ring expert focused on them, and Mu Hongyuan vanished again as Ansen insisted they should enter the Holy Hall.

Ansen and Mu Hongyuan rushed into the cathedral just as the Divine Kingdom collapsed onto Harmonia, sweeping them into the falling ruins. In Aurelian, Yun Xiaoxiao and Red Dragon Dieyi realized they had delayed laying the Demon Network and decided to seek energy by borrowing money.

• Ansen’s Fairy Tale price took effect, and he and Mu Hongyuan charged into the cathedral despite the Holy Temple Knights trying to stop them.
• The Divine Kingdom broke apart and fell onto Harmonia, destroying the cathedral and causing catastrophic devastation across the floating continent.
• Ansen and Mu Hongyuan were pulled into the collapsing Divine Kingdom before they could escape.
• In Aurelian, Yun Xiaoxiao discovered that Red Dragon Dieyi had spent most of the day playing games instead of helping lay the Demon Network.
• Yun Xiaoxiao told Red Dragon Dieyi to use her status as the red dragon progenitor to borrow money from a bank so they could obtain energy for the Demon Network.

Yun Xiaoxiao and Red Dragon Dieyi went to seek Radiant Crystal energy, but the Scholar's secondary subconscious summoned them to transfer the surplus to the main body. At the financial city's Eternal Gilt Heaven's Gate, Dieyi learned the staggering size of her debt and that she would need to work for another eighteen thousand years to repay it.

• Red Dragon Dieyi admitted that she was deeply in debt after squandering her money on extravagant exploits and male escorts, so Yun Xiaoxiao planned to plunder energy from weakly defended cities.
• The Scholar's secondary subconscious ordered Yun Xiaoxiao and Red Dragon Dieyi to preserve enough Radiant Crystals to run the Demon Network and transfer the rest to the main body.
• A purple-robed figure appeared in Dieyi's dream to receive the Radiant Crystals, and the two set off for the Eternal Gilt Heaven's Gate.
• At the financial center, Red Dragon Dieyi and Yun Xiaoxiao learned that the Seven-Nation Federation would pay thirty billion Radiant Crystals for priority access to the Second-Edition Jump Technology.
• Red Dragon Dieyi asked to have her debt written off and learned that she owed the Liuxi Duchy 3.2 billion Radiant Crystals, requiring another eighteen thousand years of work to repay.

Su Luo secured vast Radiant Crystal bids in exchange for first purchase rights to Third-Edition Jump Technology, then used the resources to build a massive Ring Accelerator. After reviewing the Demon Network’s expansion and reports of upheaval across the world, he jumped through the Demon Realm toward an unknown destination.

• Su Luo agreed to waive the bidders’ debts in exchange for first purchase rights to Third-Edition Jump Technology, and Radiant Crystals poured into the VIP room as Dieyi devoured them.
• Representatives from the Blank Nation, Void Lord Alliance, Astral Scholar Society, and other factions offered billions of Radiant Crystals for jump technology.
• Su Luo used his Dark Domain, Silk Mana, and automated workers to construct a gigantic four-layer Ring Accelerator, completing its core convergence ring in just over half a day.
• Su Luo calculated that the Ring Accelerator required 370 billion Radiant Crystals, far more than the 130 billion he currently had.
• Su Luo checked the Demon Network’s expansion and read reports of upheaval involving the Blank Nation, Demon Realm, Scarlet Nation, and Ancient Elf Dynasty.
• Su Luo left Soren Xingjia by jumping through the Demon Realm.

Contemplative Pivot Scholar became obsessed with [Scholar]’s theories and set out to find him, drawing the attention of powerful factions. Cang Yue and Young Lord feared their identities and bargain would be exposed, so they decided to flee while discussing the strange events that had ended the previous era.

• Contemplative Pivot Scholar praised [Scholar]’s work on mana and, after Cang Yue warned that [Scholar] was too powerful to approach, resolved to seek him out.
• Contemplative Pivot Scholar denounced opponents of [Scholar]’s theories, and the [Nameless Blade Lord] followed him under the pretext of protecting him from the expanding [Black Calamity].
• Cang Yue and Young Lord realized that Contemplative Pivot Scholar’s departure could expose their deal and identities, so they agreed to run.
• Young Lord asked what had happened near the end of the previous era, and Cang Yue recalled flesh growing wildly from his body as something seemed to replace his concept and Survival Panel.