Chapter Summaries

He Ao engraved a Control Array into the Eye of Truth Stone Slab, gained its power, and learned its costs and limitations. After the system triggered a Super Advanced Mission, his Hao Yi avatar negotiated a larger role in Dawn following Second Brother’s death.

• He Ao used the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant to study the Eye of Truth Stone Slab and engraved a Control Array despite the contamination overwhelming his body.
• The stone slab shattered into orange-gray light and formed a connection with He Ao, giving him the ability to perceive and physically deconstruct matter while threatening to damage his body.
• He Ao concluded that the Eye of Truth could help him fight angels and god projections, but its power required Hyperthymesia and imposed severe physical strain.
• The system announced that He Ao had triggered a Super Advanced Mission, showing advancement progress of 5/25.
• In Alano, Noding brought He Ao’s Hao Yi avatar a call from Old Man, who reported Second Brother’s death and offered him half of West Land.
• He Ao negotiated payment at 1.7 times the previous price in gold bars, and Noding confirmed that he had become Dawn’s second-in-command.

He Ao began his new role in Jordan by reviewing reports and heading to Enke City to investigate disappearances linked to calls from the dead. Meanwhile, Lin Chichi visited Hao Yi in Newland City State for an interview, and He Ao read the case file as his car traveled north.

• Yan Yue briefed He Ao on disappearances in Enke City and Lin Chichi's planned investigation of Jordan's tripartite administration.
• He Ao signed autographs for two new employees, asked Yan Yue to help them adjust to Jordan, and agreed to have the local departments cooperate with Lin Chichi.
• Yan Yue asked He Ao for an autograph and admitted her decision to come to Jordan had not been entirely impulsive.
• Lin Chichi visited Hao Yi with tea and Small Steamed Buns, then began interviewing him.
• He Ao traveled by car from Eren City to Enke City and reviewed the disappearance case file.

Lin Chichi finished interviewing He Ao and left for her next assignment, while He Ao accepted her friend request. In Enke City, He Ao arrived to investigate a series of disappearances and murders, then caught a fat bandit spying on him.

• Lin Chichi told He Ao she was heading to Core Island and then Jodan to research the Three-Party Co-Governance demonstration zone.
• Lin Chichi confided to Song Xiao that He Ao made her feel safe and reminded her of her late father, the first man who had walked with her beneath the moon.
• He Ao accepted Lin Chichi’s friend request and exchanged messages with her before watching her sedan disappear.
• In Enke City, a fat bandit and a skinny bandit planned to provoke a supernatural incident and ambush reinforcements, dismissing He Ao as a publicity stunt.
• Jamie greeted He Ao at his hotel and warned him that people had been disappearing and being murdered in Enke City.
• He Ao told Jamie he could handle the C-class incident alone and pulled a fat bandit out of the darkness by the neck.

Jamie was trapped in a deadly phone-call phenomenon until He Ao rescued him, killed the C-class attacker behind the illusion, and arranged a cleanup. Afterward, He Ao noticed that a far larger threat was rising over Enke City as a gigantic scarlet eyeball appeared at sunrise.

• Jamie was swallowed by darkness and pursued through the hotel by spreading blood and shrieking phones.
• Jamie escaped into an elevator, where a blood-red figure answered the call and moved to kill him.
• He Ao tore through the figure, rescued Jamie through a rift, and killed the overcoat-wearing attacker who had created the deceptive hidden area.
• He Ao identified the blood-pool remains as a Human Skin Puppet and recovered a Transcendent Item that had distorted people's perceptions.
• He Ao told Jamie to contact the Research Institute and military police, and the cleanup continued until nearly dawn.
• He Ao saw a gigantic scarlet eyeball rising over Enke City as phone ringtones echoed through the silent city.

He Ao investigated Lin Chichi’s sudden disappearance and discovered that a blood sun had appeared over a vast area, while phone calls seemed to threaten anyone who answered them. As he helped people avoid the calls, he suspected the Eye of Truth had warned him of the danger and sensed an unseen eye watching the world.

• He Ao found that Lin Chichi had vanished from the departure hall, and his mark showed she was alive but cut off by a barrier powerful enough to suggest an A-rank Angel.
• Song Xiao received a call from her dead grandfather, and He Ao stopped her from answering before the blood sun appeared over the hall.
• He Ao ordered Song Xiao to warn people through the Research Institute software, then swiftly silenced the ringing phones and sent her to alert others.
• He Ao crossed from the blood-red ocean into normal daylight and learned from Li Cheng that the phenomenon covered Mote City, northern Jodan, and possibly more than half of the Ika Republic.
• He Ao questioned whether the Eye of Truth had instinctively led him to Lin Chichi, then saw an untraceable eye embedded in an inverted triangle above Enke City.

He Ao used the Eye of Truth to probe the blood sun, forcing the giant eye to withdraw its power temporarily, and learned more about the Eye of Truth’s nature and possible connection to other High-Level Existences. Meanwhile, in Mote City, Li Cheng showed Hao Yi and the others evidence of a vast transparent sphere above the Ika Republic.

• He Ao’s probing gaze made the giant eye dim the blood sun and withdraw its projected power, though he realized the respite would not last.
• He Ao concluded that the Eye of Truth was highly independent, that its influence and contamination grew with synchronization, and that he could potentially borrow power from an existence beyond time and space.
• He Ao obtained the words “Former Days?” from the giant eye and suspected the Eye of Truth involved powers beyond Truth alone.
• Li Cheng showed Hao Yi photographs revealing a transparent sphere about one thousand kilometers wide above the Ika Republic, detected through its refraction of starlight.
• Jodel recognized that the sphere’s size matched the dwarf planet ruin.

He Ao explained that the Transparent Planet was causing the Blood Sun and could affect a vast region of West Land, putting hundreds of millions at risk. He proposed sending B-rank fighters to intercept it, and Jie An and Kaven volunteered as the meeting turned toward action.

• He Ao and Li Cheng explained that the Transparent Planet acted like a lens, making sunlight appear blood-red within its umbra.
• He Ao warned that the planet's extraordinary influence might extend across a penumbra more than a thousand kilometers wide, potentially affecting seven hundred million people.
• He Ao said the Blood Sun was an invasion and urged the group to fight outside their homeland before the threat grew irreversible.
• The sky darkened as the Blood Sun disappeared, and He Ao revealed that he had already clashed with it and proposed reaching the Transparent Planet by spacecraft.
• Jie An volunteered to join the interception, refused Jodel because his combat ability was insufficient, and Kaven arrived to say he would go to the World Tree.

He Ao helped form a four-person B-rank team to reach the Transparent Planet and negotiated broad authority to lead the investigation into the blood sun. As the Call from the Dead incidents began increasing again, he set out for Mote City with Jamie while sending the puppet in a coffin toward space.

• He Ao reviewed the lunar exploration equipment and confirmed that Goya would join Li Cheng, Jie An, and Hao Yi on the mission to the Transparent Planet.
• Jie An recommended He Ao to lead the investigation team, and He Ao accepted only after Jodel granted him command authority, control over World Tree personnel, and access to its databases.
• Jamie told He Ao that Call from the Dead incidents were increasing, so He Ao prepared to fly to Mote City and allowed Jamie to accompany him.
• He Ao took the Verola above the Newland City State and launched the coffin carrying the puppet toward space.
• The puppet emerged from the coffin, spotted its target, and returned inside as the coffin sped deeper into space.

He Ao and Li Cheng prepared to travel to the Transparent Planet while a launch team finalized their mission plan. In the Ika Republic, He Ao took control of World Tree’s headquarters by killing Seth and a challenger, then warned the crowd not to obstruct the Blood Sun investigation or evacuation.

• A researcher explained that the lander would enter orbit around the Transparent Planet, attempt a descent, and return to Earth, while He Ao learned the launch would be ready in about three hours.
• He Ao recognized Orator, who was helping the researchers, and reviewed his space team’s roles with Li Cheng as Jie An slept and Goya prayed.
• He Ao arrived at World Tree’s Ika Republic headquarters with Jamie and found Seth and his supporters blocking the entrance and disputing his authority.
• After a young swordsman challenged him, He Ao called Seth out and killed him with one kick when Seth attacked with a dagger.
• A second swordsman tried to ambush He Ao, but He Ao killed him, silenced the crowd, and warned that anyone obstructing the Blood Sun investigation or evacuation would die.
• He Ao entered the headquarters as the statue behind him collapsed, and the trembling crowd followed.

He Ao reorganized the World Tree’s Mote City headquarters to gather intelligence on disappearances and evacuation plans while preparing a parallel mission to the Transparent Planet. He Ao’s team prepared to launch into space, and he arranged to bring phones that might be connected to the Blood Sun’s power.

• He Ao learned that Como handled communications and extraordinary records, then appointed him in charge of Mote City.
• He Ao tasked Jamie with organizing the branch heads and collecting six months of disappearance intelligence and city evacuation plans.
• Jamie assigned leadership roles to marginalized World Tree members and rallied the staff to protect their families and homes from the Blood Sun.
• He Ao and Como searched the Archives for disappearance reports while He Ao weighed the limited time before the Blood Sun’s revival.
• At the launch base, He Ao asked to take six phones into space, explaining that phones might serve as a medium for the Blood Sun’s incoming calls.

He Ao and his companions launched in a lander and entered orbit, while He Ao’s main body investigated a growing series of disappearances in the Ika Republic. The chapter ended with Jamie reporting a Mote City ghost story tied to the missing persons: calling your own phone number at 1:15 a.m. could connect you to a deceased relative.

• He Ao, Li Cheng, Jie An, and Goya took off in the lander and watched the planet from orbit as they began their day-long journey to the Transparent Planet.
• Orator told the group that the launch had gone smoothly, and Jie An urged Li Cheng to trust the person they had left behind on the ground.
• In Mote City, He Ao questioned Como about months of missing-person cases and learned that Seth had ignored the reports while building a vineyard.
• He Ao reviewed the case files and concluded that World Tree’s Ika Republic organization had handled the disappearances carelessly.
• Jamie brought He Ao records from the branches and military police, including a Mote City lead that some missing people had mentioned a telephone ghost story before vanishing.
• Jamie explained that the story instructed people to call their own number at 1:15 a.m. to hear the voice of a deceased relative.

He Ao investigated a weird tale linked to the Blood Sun and traced its earliest posts to missing people, with Mote City emerging as a possible point of concern. He visited the home of Missing Person Number Nine, where the Eye of Truth revealed faint traces of radiance in the bedroom.

• He Ao reviewed the military police files and ordered Como to arrange a visit to the best-preserved scene in Mote City.
• Yan Yue reported that the tale had spread outward from the Ika Republic, its effective range overlapped with the Blood Sun, and most original posters had disappeared.
• He Ao found that several of the earliest posts came from Mote City and asked Yan Yue to send him the relevant addresses.
• He Ao flew to Mote City and met the military police captain, who took him to Missing Person Number Nine's apartment.
• He Ao examined the missing man's bedroom and saw faint traces of radiance through the Eye of Truth.

He Ao investigated the home of a missing boy and found evidence that the boy had spread the Weird Tale earlier than the surviving records showed, possibly under the influence of a Transcendent power. He left with the Military Police Captain, who agreed to join him as Mote City remained at the center of the mystery.

• He Ao examined faint green traces in the missing boy’s room and learned that the boy’s computer held an earlier, deleted version of the Weird Tale post.
• He Ao inferred that someone had concealed the tale’s earliest origins and that Mote City might be where it began.
• The boy’s mother recalled that he had been distracted before disappearing, while his Little Girl said he had acted like a different person and had threatened her.
• The Little Girl asked He Ao whether the warm sun would rise again, and he promised they would try to make it happen.
• He Ao invited the Military Police Captain to join him, and the captain followed him toward the helicopter.

He Ao traced the Weird Tales disappearances to a misleading clue around World Tree headquarters and concluded that the mastermind was likely watching the organization from Seth's estate. He called himself from the estate, where the mastermind might be hiding beyond the surface world.

• He Ao mapped the missing posters' activity areas and found that seven lay along Bus Line 031 near World Tree Ika Headquarters.
• He Ao sent Como to arrange a search near the headquarters, then took a helicopter out of Mote City to a place that could monitor World Tree.
• A cloaked figure told Followers that the Blood Sun had descended and ordered them to pledge loyalty to its coming glory.
• He Ao and Como went to Seth Winery, where He Ao explained that Bus Line 031 was both a real clue and a deliberate attempt to make investigators believe the mastermind had left.
• At the deepest part of the estate, He Ao suggested the mastermind might be outside the surface world and called his own phone number.

The Mote Mountain Twin Eagles ambushed the convoy but were killed by its prepared Transcendent guards. In orbit, He Ao studied a strange space connected to the urban legend, destroyed its bloodied gate, and entered the castle beyond it.

• The Bearded Man persuaded the Goatee Man to attack the convoy as a show of allegiance to their new allies.
• The convoy’s soldiers and Little Giant ambushed the brothers, killing the Bearded Man and mortally wounding the Goatee Man.
• Half an hour earlier, the convoy’s captain had briefed the combat team on the Twin Eagles and given them a Stealth Suit and Champion Javelin to counter the pair.
• In orbit, He Ao, Goya, and Jie An ate space food while He Ao noticed Mote City among the lights on the planet below.
• He Ao used Call from the Dead in Mote City and found himself in a vivid recreation of a summer night from his past, which shattered when he activated the Eye of Truth.
• He Ao explored the dark garden of an inner space, tore apart its blood-filled Iron Gate, and entered the castle.

He Ao fought through the castle’s supernatural darkness, reunited with Kavina and Como, and discovered prisoners held in its dungeon. He confronted the castle’s hunched leader, who defended an angel’s coming and a New World built through sacrifice, and the chapter ended with the leader threatening him.

• He Ao crossed the dark hall, killed several hidden attackers, and navigated a staircase that shifted beneath him.
• He Ao met Kavina, who had been transported into the castle with her green lantern, and they climbed a spiral staircase together.
• He Ao and Kavina found Como fighting hooded attackers and helped defeat them; the attackers decayed into skeletons.
• The trio discovered dungeon cells packed with abducted people, including workers who had built the manor and numerous missing persons.
• A hunched figure at a Stone Gate urged He Ao to join his promised New World, and He Ao challenged the figure’s claims about the angel and invited him to sacrifice himself instead.

He Ao led Kavina and Como through a swarm of Black Shadows and killed the hunched figure guarding the Stone Gate. He examined a mysterious mural on the gate and pushed it open, leaving the trio poised to enter.

• He Ao, Kavina, and Como advanced through the darkness, fighting off spiritual Black Shadows as He Ao protected Como from an attack.
• As the Black Shadows overwhelmed their formation, He Ao cleaved through their wall with the broadsword and charged the hunched figure.
• He Ao defeated the figure in close combat, cutting through its scythe and body as the Black Shadows collapsed.
• Kavina and Como checked on He Ao, who noticed markings on the Stone Gate behind the fallen figure.
• He Ao studied the mural showing worshippers becoming part of a book, memorized it, and pushed the Stone Gate open.

The lander crew chose to continue toward the Transparent Planet despite warnings that the Blood Sun and magnetic interference would peak by their arrival. Meanwhile, He Ao led Como and Kavina through a dark hall, where he cut down a stone giant, and reached a translucent statue resembling the castle.

• The Orator warned Li Cheng, Jie An, Goya, and Hao Yi that the Blood Sun would revive and magnetic interference could make landing fail, while He Ao remained unreachable on the ground.
• Hao Yi explained that the Transparent Planet was a reflection of a colossal entity drawing closer through a descent ritual, and said many missing people were likely still alive.
• Li Cheng, Jie An, Goya, and Hao Yi agreed to continue the landing, and Goya played a song inside the lander.
• He Ao led Como and Kavina through a dark domed hall, where strange stone structures appeared and a giant stone face loomed above them.
• As the stone structures fell apart, Como and Kavina realized He Ao had cut down the stone giant, and He Ao reached out to touch a translucent statue above a platform.

He Ao exposed Kavina’s betrayal in the castle and seized the green lantern’s core, uncovering memories of the Eye of Truth Stone Slab. Kavina prepared to fight him as Como struggled to understand what had happened.

• The lander detached and approached the Transparent Planet as He Ao and the others watched the blood-red starlight.
• He Ao touched the statue in the castle, and Kavina pretended to rush to his aid before revealing that she wanted his Angel-level Item.
• He Ao seized Kavina’s wrist, took the green lantern, and broke it, exposing its black-ash core.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to uncover his suppressed memories and explained how he had tested Kavina’s motives while playing along with her plan.
• Kavina realized He Ao had been acting along with her, while Como got up confused about why they had turned against each other.

He Ao defeated Kavina inside the collapsing castle after resisting her angelic power, and the black ash revealed its name as Echoes of the Past. He escaped with Como as nothingness consumed the space.

• The lander detected an unstable planetary surface and was struck by an electromagnetic storm, preventing the crew from using their phones to perform the urban-legend ritual.
• He Ao fought Kavina in the castle’s darkness, resisted her memory interference, and wounded her while protecting Como.
• Kavina unleashed the power of an angel, filling the hall with devouring black bubbles that threatened to consume He Ao.
• He Ao used Deconstruction to destroy the bubbles, then severed Kavina’s three Energy Convergence Points and killed her.
• Kavina’s castle and statue merged into the black ash, which He Ao recognized as Echoes of the Past, and he escaped with Como before nothingness consumed the space.