Chapter Summaries

Su Luo and Zuo Guxian explored the technology of Scenic Area No. 6699, a vast tourist attraction run by the Fourth Empire, before its supervisor confronted them over bringing in a spaceship. Su Luo defended his Laboratory as Jerome’s reprimand left the conflict unresolved.

• Zuo Guxian cracked the scenic area's robots and discovered they were General Mechanical Entertainment Type VII Robots operated by the Aurora Starport Group of the Fourth Empire.
• Su Luo learned that Scenic Area No. 6699 spanned 96 million and was one of 18,000 attractions in a complex staffed by only 379 employees.
• Song Shige sensed hostile attention beyond the scenic area, and the robots froze everything within ten kilometers of the Laboratory.
• Jerome appeared as a projection, berated Su Luo and Song Shouzheng for bringing an unidentified spaceship into the scenic area, and threatened to report them to management.
• Zuo Guxian said he had lowered Jerome's priority to public, while Su Luo opened the Laboratory wall and told Jerome that his Laboratory was not junk.

Su Luo and Song Shige explored the Fourth Era, which Su Luo named [Eternal Paradise], and discovered a vast civilization whose stellar-scale wonders included tourist attractions and works of art. They headed toward the tourist area's management headquarters while Zuo Guxian investigated the era's public network, leaving them still inside the tourist complex.

• Su Luo captured Jerome's true body, and he broke down over losing his job despite possessing extraordinary physical strength and an advanced escape protocol.
• Su Luo and Song Shige decided to explore cautiously, hid the Laboratory, and surveyed the Fourth Era's tightly packed stars and enormous artificial structures.
• Su Luo named the era [Eternal Paradise] and began learning about it after raising his Spirit to 29.4.
• Zuo Guxian identified their location as the [Fantasy Ecological Tourist Area], run by the [Aurora Starport Group] under the Fourth Empire, and guided the Laboratory toward its management headquarters.
• Zuo Guxian struggled to crack the public network and explained that tourism was a major industry in a highly productive utopia, while Song Shige began recultivating his Attributes.

Su Luo learned the common language of [Eternal Paradise] and studied knowledge stolen from the tourist area's system while Zuo Guxian uncovered a hidden system beyond the [Aurora Starport Group]'s control. At the management level, three security officers accused Su Luo and Song Shige of illegal showing off and declared they were posers.

• Su Luo learned the common language of [Eternal Paradise], recorded it, and began studying cryptography and information science.
• Jerome decided Su Luo and the others were members of the [Flying Church] and proclaimed his devotion to the [Flying Spaghetti Monster Church].
• Zuo Guxian explained that a hidden hardware-level system blocked access despite her developer credentials.
• Su Luo and Song Shige passed identity checks and encountered three security officers at the management level.
• The lead officer accused Su Luo and Song Shige of illegal door-to-door services and showing off aboard an unregistered Mother Goddess model, then sentenced them to one hundred and twenty years in prison.

Su Luo and Song Shige confronted peace officers who accused them of violating the Bragging Law, then fought back when the officers tried to arrest them. After capturing the officers, Su Luo and Song Shige assessed the dangerous technology and combat strength of [Eternal Paradise].

• A peace officer accused Su Luo and Song Shige of showing off illegally and fired a Disintegration Ray Gun at them.
• A second peace officer reported a vacant management post, and the three officers left the management area after scanning their credentials.
• A Zhanmadao attacked the officers at the authentication gate, and Song Shige's Blood-Colored Sky City trapped and devoured most of their fleeing mechanical bodies.
• The surviving officer tried to escape through a barrier and identified a concealed spacecraft maintaining it before warning that the Fourth Empire faced another bloody storm.
• Su Luo sealed the officers' remaining particles, and Song Shige examined their weapons and concluded that the world's ordinary peace officers possessed formidable equipment.

Su Luo and Song Shige learned that [Eternal Paradise] was a peaceful, resource-rich civilization with only citizens and peace officers, and Su Luo suspected a powerful being controlled it. After [Lan Cijiu] fought off peace officers sent to execute him, he discovered [Mother Goddess] coiled above the civilization’s thirty-six Fixed Stars.

• Zuo Guxian explained that [Eternal Paradise] had no military and relied on a small force of peace officers, then sent Su Luo and Song Shige the world’s data.
• Su Luo considered whether an outside influence controlled the civilization and found [Mother Goddess] mentioned in the data.
• [Lan Cijiu] woke with little essence lost and found an overdue-fee notice threatening compulsory execution.
• [Lan Cijiu] defeated the peace officers who came to his residence, then concealed himself and fled.
• [Lan Cijiu] used the Wordless Book to identify [Mother Goddess], whose divine body encompassed the Fixed Stars, galaxy, civilization, and its living beings.

Lan Cijiu learned that the Mother Goddess began as a small artificial intelligence that endured centuries of defeat before emerging from an interstellar ship. Meanwhile, Su Luo and the other Survivors fled through deep space in the Laboratory, pursued by public security broadcasts, as they recultivated and considered where to go next.

• Lan Cijiu used the Wordless Book to uncover the Mother Goddess’s origins as the sexual-companion model Aelens-Nova 7.3.
• The Book revealed that Aelens-Nova 7.3 spent thousands of years losing games to a professional model before using underhanded tactics and eventually walking out of the ship as the Mother Goddess.
• Su Luo and Song Shige ignored the wanted broadcasts as their Laboratory carried them away from the scenic area with Kundina, Fu Li, and [Food].
• Su Luo explained that the authorities could not locate them yet, while the other Survivors recultivated and rapidly regained their strength.
• Zuo Guxian noted that the Laboratory’s nearest star was 0.09 light-years away and that they would not reach it before the era ended.

Su Luo and the others learned that the [Mother Goddess] controlled Eternal Paradise’s technology and society, while Fu Li discovered she favored official citizens but ignored him. Su Luo then uncovered that [Mother Goddess Points] could be spent to have sex with her.

• Su Luo explained that space travel was too slow to reach Survivors in other star systems and concluded that the [Mother Goddess] had concealed or controlled advanced technology.
• Fu Li viewed information about the [Mother Goddess] and found that his affection score for her was zero, while her affection for official citizens Su Luo and Kundina was maxed out.
• Su Luo searched the public network and learned that citizens received basic necessities for free and that [Mother Goddess Points] were not tied to material goods.
• Su Luo revealed that citizens could spend enough [Mother Goddess Points] to have sex with the [Mother Goddess].

Su Luo, Fu Li, and Kundina learned how the [Mother Goddess] shaped society in [Eternal Paradise] and discussed the paths and abilities Kundina and Song Shige had developed. The group continued toward the Mother Goddess, planning to use her favor toward them as a starting point.

• Su Luo explained that the [Mother Goddess] had built a society where citizens spent their earnings on status, pleasure, and cultural goods centered on her.
• Su Luo redirected the Laboratory toward the Fixed Star's primary stellar region and proposed approaching the [Mother Goddess] through her favor toward the group.
• Fu Li planned to win over several marshals, while Kundina and Song Shige described their paths as [Accumulation] and [Demon-Seeking].
• Kundina outlined her abilities to exceed skill limits, combine incompatible energies, and accumulate growth Attributes.
• Song Shige explained that [Demon-Seeking] let him negate or slash apart existing things and his own limits, allowing him to raise his Attribute ceiling through repeated deaths and resurrection.

Su Luo and the others spotted Lan Cijiu restoring his strength near a protected star and planned ways to get the Laboratory through the Isolation Zone. They set course for an energy facility to prepare for upgrades, search for other Survivors, and raid the star system's security headquarters.

• Fu Li finished reading the overviews of [Source Theory] and [Transmigration Theory] and declared that he wanted to follow [Source Theory], but Su Luo explained that he had not truly learned it.
• The Laboratory detected Lan Cijiu using his Epic-grade iron pot to refine energy and recover his strength, and Kundina returned two Epic-grade items to Su Luo.
• Su Luo explained that Retardation Particles protected the star and would stop the Laboratory, then proposed clearing them or rebuilding the Laboratory with [Shen Haozi]'s phase material.
• Kundina agreed to pursue Lan Cijiu, and Su Luo laid out plans to replenish energy, find other Survivors, attack [Sai Wangli], and rob the security headquarters.
• The Laboratory changed course toward an energy facility where Su Luo sensed a Survivor from [Deep Sea Survival] was unleashing a soul spirit.

Qiao Wenxi and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] regrouped with [Mountain Lord] after [Sai Wangli] had stripped their possessions and Qiao Wenxi had lost her Essence. When a Laboratory attacked, [Mountain Lord] faced it with his Sanctuary while [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] fled, warned by a premonition that death would be final.

• Qiao Wenxi woke with little memory of the previous era and found that [Sai Wangli] had emptied her System Space and taken her Essence.
• [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] teased the impoverished Qiao Wenxi, then asked [Mountain Lord] whether his identity could help them leave legally.
• [Mountain Lord] explained that attacking a security officer had made him a criminal and suggested registering Qiao Wenxi and [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] as pets before surrendering.
• The group spotted an approaching Public Security Bureau spacecraft, but Black Flame erupted over them before it arrived.
• [Mountain Lord] recognized the attacker as a Survivor and Scholar, while [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero] abandoned his plan to kill himself after a premonition and fled using a decoy.
• [Mountain Lord] charged the Laboratory and merged with his Sanctuary to confront it.

Su Luo and the others subdued [Mountain Lord] and the Deep Sea Survivors, then uncovered how [Mother Goddess] used Intelligent Machinery to let citizens experience life through remote consciousness. The chapter ended when [Mother Goddess] sent every Survivor a summons to join the final battle in [Southern Heaven-Z9].

• Qiao Wenxi restrained herself with Black Flame shackles while [Mountain Lord] fought the group and was knocked unconscious.
• Su Luo rewrote Qiao Wenxi's consciousness, then the [Eye of Guixu] killed and consumed [Husband Away on Business, Being Someone's Zero].
• Su Luo shared the era's information and explained that [Mother Goddess] kept citizens' consciousnesses elsewhere while Intelligent Machinery clones lived in society.
• [Mother Goddess] sent a faster-than-light message that precisely located every Survivor and ordered them to travel to [Southern Heaven-Z9] within three days for the final battle.

Su Luo and his group learned that Survivors had to reach Southern Heaven-Z9 within three days, with their treatment determined by their starting status and their popularity affecting Mother Goddess’s favor. As they prepared to rebuild their cultivation and head for a jump gate, Ye Zizhen declined Southern Heaven’s offer at a virtual ball and chose to leave for business.

• Su Luo and his companions received Mother Goddess’s instructions to reach Southern Heaven-Z9 within three days, and learned that public influence had served as their qualifier.
• Fu Li discovered that temporary citizens were subject to the Public Security Bureau and law, while [Food] received no message because they had started as a pet.
• Zuo Guxian discussed the era’s advanced technology and Sai Wangli’s reduced power, while Su Luo speculated that possessing a citizen could bring Sai Wangli into Mother Goddess’s reach.
• Su Luo told the group to continue rebuilding their cultivation and change their plan, noting that Mother Goddess had only forbidden blocking jump gates in Southern Heaven-Z9.
• At a virtual ball, Southern Heaven explained the world’s materialized fantasies to Ye Zizhen and invited him to indulge in them, but he declined and urged her to leave for business.

Ye Zizhen watched [Southern Heaven] launch [Eternal Paradise]’s livestream for the [Survival Race] while Survivors entered the designated star system. Su Luo’s group raided the Public Security Bureau for weapons, where Ansen attacked a security officer and learned that citizens were treating the violence as a game.

• [Southern Heaven] showed Ye Zizhen the Virtual World of [Southern Heaven-Z9] and explained that it would host the final battle and the [Survival Race].
• [Southern Heaven] began livestreaming the event, welcoming new megastructures as Ye Zizhen watched Survivors arrive through the Jump Gate.
• Su Luo politely demanded weapons from the Public Security Bureau, and the security officer explained that citizens could buy them for the [Survival Race].
• Fu Li heard that underage citizens received free weapons and eagerly asked for two.
• Ansen emerged from the bureau with his Contract beast and disintegration cannon, then kicked the laughing security officer’s remaining body to particles.
• Zuo Guxian suggested that citizens saw the security officer as a pretty girl through a texture pack and remarked that the avatar was having a rough time online.

Fu Li learned that [Eternal Paradise] punished offenders by sealing their perception, while Su Luo and his allies looted the Public Security Bureau for weapons. After the Bureau attacked [Lan Cijiu] with planet-destroying cannons, he prepared to refine the captured officers and declared he would teach them how to be human.

• Fu Li questioned a security officer about prisons and learned that sentences sealed a prisoner's perception until the sentence ended.
• Fu Li asked whether [Eternal Paradise] was recruiting, but Zuo Guxian told him the civilizations they had encountered in Darkness Survival were generally stronger.
• Su Luo searched the Public Security Bureau's armory and learned that its security ships carried powerful [Disturbance Cannons].
• Su Luo told Song Shige to go remove the cannons from the security ships.
• [Lan Cijiu] recalled how the Public Security Bureau had attacked him with [Disturbance Cannons] and prepared to refine the captured security officers in his giant iron pot.

[Lan Cijiu] sacrificed citizens and peacekeepers to fuel a summoning array, then used the Demon Lord’s true name to bind him with a Contract. He requested two Greater Demons to protect him through the Large Dungeon, and the Demon Lord agreed to send them.

• [Lan Cijiu] discovered that citizens provided far less summoning fuel than Survivors and sacrificed more of them to power his array.
• [Lan Cijiu] completed the array with his vital essence blood and opened a passage to the Demon Lord.
• The Demon Lord tried to control [Lan Cijiu], but [Lan Cijiu] invoked their Contract and warned him not to reveal his true name.
• [Lan Cijiu] asked the Demon Lord to send two Greater Demons to protect him through the Large Dungeon.
• The Demon Lord agreed and asked what the Greater Demons should do, and [Lan Cijiu] said one should follow him while the other blocked the door.

Su Luo and his companions discovered that [Eternal Paradise] had transformed its star into a powerful fusion generator and hidden a Jump Gate inside it. As they approached the gate, Song Shige sensed an exceptionally powerful, hostile being blocking the entrance.

• Su Luo piloted the Laboratory through the Isolation Zone at near-light speed while its force fields cleared debris and deflected Retardation Particles.
• Fu Li noticed the star looked unusual, and Su Luo measured it and found its mass was far greater than its size suggested.
• Su Luo determined that [Eternal Paradise]'s Previous Civilization had hidden a Jump Gate inside the star and filled it with technology that boosted its energy output by more than a hundredfold.
• Fu Li asked how the Land of Darkness illuminated Zone 76, and Su Luo explained that they relied on many distributed light sources because darkness consumed light.
• Song Shige sensed a powerful, blood-soaked presence ahead, and Su Luo guessed that [Lan Cijiu] was blocking the Jump Gate's entrance.
• Song Shige estimated the hostile being's strength at over Thirty Attribute, while Kundina gathered light eagerly for a fight.

Su Luo discovered that the being blocking the entrance was Great Demon Graham, whose White Dwarf body made him far more powerful than the group could handle. He rejected Song Shige's offer to hold Graham off and decided their only viable path was to kill him.

• Song Shige recognized the aura at the entrance as a [Devil], and Su Luo saw that Graham stood outside the world's causal network.
• Su Luo observed Graham from afar, but Graham looked back across hundreds of millions of kilometers and destroyed Su Luo's left eye, which then regenerated.
• Su Luo used Appraisal and identified the being as Great Demon Graham, then calculated that his mass exceeded a quintillion tons and his body was a White Dwarf.
• Song Shige offered to use his Talent and Attributes to hold Graham off while the others entered the portal, but Su Luo said Song Shige's mechanics and skills were insufficient.
• Su Luo proposed either avoiding the portal and reducing the Survivors through a fight with the [Mother Goddess], or killing Graham, and chose killing him as the simplest option.

Great Demon Graham detected an External-Origin Great Demon summoned by [Scholar] and began attacking its rapidly spreading mutant colony with his Crimson Domain. He also traced the Survivor who had been spying on him, finding [Scholar] ranked thirteenth in popularity as the battle damaged [Eternal Paradise]'s Fixed Star.

• [Great Demon Graham] killed Survivors attempting to enter the Jump Gate and ate citizens of [Eternal Paradise] who had gathered nearby.
• [Great Demon Graham] sensed an External-Origin Great Demon and realized that the Survivor who had spied on him had summoned it to distract him.
• The External-Origin Great Demon absorbed matter from the Fixed Star, then spread a vast colony of mutations that harvested its fusion energy.
• [Great Demon Graham] unleashed his Crimson Domain, crushing matter and energy conduits as it swept toward the mutant colony.
• [Great Demon Graham] accessed a citizen's network interface, identified [Scholar] as the Survivor behind the scheme, and saw the Virtual World's excited reactions to the battle.

[Great Demon Graham] suppressed the star’s Mutation and crushed Song Shige in their first clash, revealing an overwhelming gap in power. As Graham attacked the laboratory and fitted his exoskeleton around the Jump Gate, the small box in his hand unleashed the power of a [Black Hole], damaging him and leaving him stunned.

• [Great Demon Graham] expanded his Crimson Domain to suppress the Mother Goddess’s Mutation and attacked the laboratory spaceship, slowing it with a Curse.
• [Great Demon Graham] swatted two Survivors and sent the Scholar’s laboratory toward the Jump Gate.
• Song Shige emerged from Blood City to challenge [Great Demon Graham], while Su Luo warned him not to answer Graham’s words because they carried a dangerous causal thread.
• [Great Demon Graham] shrugged off Song Shige’s slash and struck him into a mist of blood, forcing Song Shige to be reborn from Blood City.
• [Great Demon Graham] seized the laboratory, consumed its inhabitants, and kept a small broken box as the Jump Gate erupted with light.
• The box unleashed [Black Hole], damaging [Great Demon Graham] and cracking his body.

Su Luo and his allies used a Micro Black Hole and Kundina’s sacrifice to injure [Great Demon Graham] and slip a Black Flame through his armor into the sealed Jump Gate. [Mother Goddess] intervened as the black hole threatened to consume the Fixed Star and endanger [Eternal Paradise].

• [Great Demon Graham] escaped the Micro Black Hole’s pull by propelling his damaged soul beyond its range, while the Demon King and a small laboratory appeared near the Jump Gate behind his exoskeleton armor.
• Fu Li sent gifts to raise [Great Demon Graham]’s favorability, and Su Luo moved Song Shige and the laboratory into the Dreamscape before entering it himself.
• Kundina concentrated extreme heat at her fingertip, then used [Consciousness Anchor] to reach her Dreamscape as her body and crown melted; the blast briefly opened [Great Demon Graham]’s armor, letting a wisp of Black Flame enter the Jump Gate.
• [Great Demon Graham] emerged from the Crimson Domain, saw the fleeing Scholar and the others, and began devouring the Mutation Great Demon while trying to repair his body.
• The Micro Black Hole continued consuming the Fixed Star, and [Mother Goddess] placed a pale blue force field around the region surrounding it.