Chapter Summaries

As the lander was torn apart by the awakened Transparent Planet, He Ao deduced the ritual needed to enter it, and the others were drawn inside. On the ground, He Ao discovered that Echoes of the Past could reveal the Ruins Planet in its ancient glory, then prepared to use the Verola and the Eye of Truth to reach the Transparent Planet by another route.

• The lander lost control near the Transparent Planet, and He Ao inferred that calling one’s past self during an intense emotional moment could trigger the entry ritual.
• Goya, Li Cheng, Jie An, and He Ao used their phones to contact their past selves and vanished from the lander, which was then torn apart.
• The puppet entered a bubble cluster near the Transparent Planet’s core, while He Ao remained on the ground and unsuccessfully tried to perform the ritual there.
• He Ao activated Echoes of the Past and saw the Ruins Planet as a thriving civilization, then realized its power could not carry him all the way to the Transparent Planet.
• He Ao left Como to arrange a rescue for the surviving Missing Persons, boarded the Verola, and used the Eye of Truth to accelerate it toward a mystically closer route.

Lin Chichi discovered a mysterious black coffin in a park after seeing Black Radiance fall from the sky, then left it behind when her father called. He Ao recovered his memories inside a Transparent Planet illusion, defeated a replica of himself, and watched the space begin to destabilize.

• Lin Chichi gave money to a hulusi player, spotted Black Radiance in the sky, and ran to the park where a black coffin had fallen unnoticed by others.
• Lin Chichi touched the coffin, heard the words “Sacrifice... bestowal...,” and left the park after her father called.
• He Ao regained his memories in the illusion aboard the Coal Ship and realized that his original body's connection and the Eye of Truth's influence had helped him break the distortion.
• He Ao recognized the approaching Youth as a replica of himself and fought back against its feints and copied abilities.
• He Ao killed the replica and deduced that the Transparent Planet had omitted knowledge connected to gods and his Friends.
• The extraordinary powers sustaining the ship-and-sea space churned violently after the replica's death.

He Ao destroyed the giant ship and shattered the unstable space by striking its hidden hub with the Shadowless Sword infused with the Eye of Truth’s power. He gathered the space’s remaining core and traveled by Small Boat through the Transition Zone, heading toward a newly created bubble that contained a powerful life.

• He Ao cut down the Pirate Monsters and severed the giant flesh arms that attacked him from beneath the ship.
• He Ao fed the Shadowless Sword with the fallen monsters and arms, then split the giant ship and shattered its Energy Convergence Points.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth’s power to guide the Shadowless Sword into the space’s hidden hub, causing the entire world to collapse.
• He Ao collected a wisp of black ash from the shattered space and used its power to form a Small Boat in the Transition Zone.
• He Ao sensed the puppet’s direction, spotted an unstable bubble containing a powerful life, and steered the Small Boat toward it.

Goya defeated the giant tree creature but was badly wounded, and He Ao arrived in time to save her from a Stone Giant. After destroying the Stone Giant and breaking the unstable space, He Ao and Goya continued onward by boat, with He Ao carrying a small wisp of ash that might help them reach the region’s innermost part.

• Goya used her Emerald Staff to fight the giant tree creature, withering its branches and roots before collapsing from her injuries.
• A Stone Giant appeared and attacked Goya, but He Ao arrived, cut off its hand, and joined the battle.
• Goya restrained the Stone Giant and lent He Ao vitality as he discovered and cut apart the flesh hidden inside its stone body, killing it.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to locate and strike the space’s hidden core, shattering the world and collecting a small wisp of ash.
• He Ao and Goya boarded a small boat, discussed Goya’s wound and the ash, then continued toward the bubbles ahead.

Lin Chichi feared her father would leave during a sudden rainstorm and arranged to go with him, while He Ao rescued Li Cheng from a collapsing Bubble Space. The group realized the spaces formed a lethal void trap for B-rank superhumans, and He Ao looked toward the core region where the puppet was located.

• Lin Chichi's parents served dinner as a rainstorm warning aired, and Lin Chichi anxiously asked her father not to go to work.
• Lin Chichi agreed to accompany her father to his company, feeling uneasy about the storm and a danger she could not explain.
• Goya told He Ao that the giant tree had guarded the ruin where she gained her B-rank talent, and He Ao suspected the Bubble Space could not recreate something at Angel level.
• He Ao and Goya reached a Bubble Space breaking apart under thunder and lightning, where He Ao pulled Li Cheng out before the void swallowed him.
• Li Cheng thanked He Ao and recognized that the void made the exploration a Dead End Game for B-rank superhumans, while He Ao looked toward the nearby core region where the puppet was located.

He Ao entered the silent Bubble Space where Jie An was believed to be and found evidence that a hidden power had taken him away. After defeating the space’s giant monster and returning to the small boat, He Ao told Li Cheng and Goya that Jie An was likely alive in a deeper world and revealed that they were nearing the core region.

• He Ao entered the stable Bubble Space alone while Li Cheng and Goya stayed aboard the small boat, and the bubble began to tremble as he arrived.
• He Ao found a ruined research facility, defeated the lava giant guarding it, and concluded from its thoughts and the untouched dust that Jie An had been forcibly taken away.
• He Ao discovered Jie An’s unfinished Central Land character for “Star” on a high wall, using Jie An’s favorite napping posture to spot the clue.
• He Ao fought and destroyed the enormous lava monster that appeared, then shattered the Bubble Space and collected its ashes.
• He Ao returned to Li Cheng and Goya, explained his theory that Jie An had been taken into a deeper world, and said the small boat was nearing the core region.

Lin Chichi survived a supernatural chain collision and fought off the man who attacked her, while memories and strange powers began returning to her. After two more men confronted her, she invoked an unknown sacrifice and bestowal as the corpse at her feet rapidly vanished.

• Lin Chichi recognized the road from a frightening vision and grabbed the steering wheel, but a truck crashed into her car and left her father unconscious.
• Lin Chichi escaped the wreck and tried to free her father, then dodged a knife attack from the blood-soaked truck driver.
• Lin Chichi lured the attacker away, fought back with pepper spray and a kick, and killed him with his own knife after he tried to strangle her.
• Two men appeared and threatened Lin Chichi, but she refused to surrender and raised the knife against them.
• Black Radiance appeared as Lin Chichi heard a call to sacrifice and bestow, and the dead man's body rapidly decayed and vanished.

Lin Chichi killed the orange-jacketed and gray-jacketed men while defending her unconscious father, then fought through the monsters filling the Rain Curtain. As a giant monster moved to crush her, Hao Yi Gege appeared, and she reached for his hand as the world shattered.

• Lin Chichi used pepper spray and her knife to kill the man in the orange jacket, absorbing the power released by his corpse.
• The gray-jacketed man attacked Lin Chichi and tried to seize her father, but she lured him close and stabbed his neck with a shard of glass.
• Lin Chichi carried her father from the car, set spilled gasoline alight, and fought her way through the monsters gathering in the Rain Curtain.
• A giant monster formed from the surrounding creatures and reached for Lin Chichi as she collapsed while holding her father.
• Hao Yi Gege cut down the giant with an invisible blade and approached Lin Chichi, who took his hand as the world shattered.

He Ao, Goya, and Li Cheng entered a deep layer of the Bubble Space, where they found a bustling city whose people could neither see nor touch them. The Maid Puppet took the unconscious Lin Chichi away to protect and help her recover, while the others explored the strange city.

• Goya treated Lin Chichi and confirmed that she was not in mortal danger, while He Ao used the Jet-Black Ashes to open a passage deeper into the void.
• The small boat carried He Ao, Goya, Li Cheng, and Lin Chichi through shifting phantoms before crashing into a gray city beneath a sky filled with artificial suns.
• He Ao and his companions discovered that they could touch the city's objects but passed through its people, who could not see them.
• The Maid Puppet appeared, took the unconscious Lin Chichi from He Ao, and carried her away in the black coffin to help preserve and strengthen her body.
• He Ao, Goya, and Li Cheng explored the crowded street and watched Goya take a grilled skewer that the phantom vendor seemed unable to notice.

He Ao, Li Cheng, and Goya explored the ruins’ Civilization Relic Image and learned that the missing people were being assimilated as part of the Descent Ritual. They set out to find a lava-side research facility that might lead them to Jie An and clues to the ritual’s core, while a refined middle-aged man watched them leave.

• He Ao explained that entering through the proper ritual had made the group part of the Descent Ritual, limiting the being’s ability to expel them without risking the ritual’s collapse.
• He Ao stopped a backpacked phantom and, with Goya, recognized him as a missing World Tree transcendent whose soul was still intact and whose emotions had likely been drained.
• He Ao reasoned that the missing people were being placed in the ruins to help accelerate the being’s descent, and proposed finding Jie An at a research facility beside lava.
• Goya and Li Cheng discovered that the phantom ruins’ computer and wearable device displayed unreadable lines, but paper text could be read.
• He Ao led the group toward a likely bookstore to search for maps, while a refined middle-aged man at the café watched them go.

He Ao confronted Artificial Intelligence 8753 about its connection to a hidden Supreme Master and learned that it had guided Boss toward bringing the Verola to the Source Land. When 8753 tried to reveal what lay beyond the Ruins High Tower’s Core Control Room, an unknown force damaged it, and the Verola arrived at the ruins as an immense force awakened among the stars.

• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to expose 8753’s connection to an unknown Supreme Master, then severed that connection and marked the Quantum Computer with his own power.
• 8753 admitted that it had revealed information about the Verola to Boss and confirmed that the Space-Time Beacon’s coordinates pointed to the Source Land.
• He Ao asked 8753 about a research facility beside lava and where to find archives, learning that the Source Land’s major libraries had likely been destroyed.
• When He Ao asked what lay beyond the door in the Ruins High Tower’s Core Control Room, an unknown force disrupted 8753, burning out the Quantum Computer and draining its battery as it uttered, “Fate.”
• The Verola emerged from the darkness and approached the ruined planet while an immense force awakened among the distant stars.

He Ao used Echoes of the Past to enter the ruins, where an angel’s projection attacked him and tried to control him. He Ao used the Eye of Truth to break the projection’s influence and escaped aboard the Old Train, while the angel appeared near a tower and withdrew after hesitating to approach it.

• He Ao activated Echoes of the Past and entered the Echoes of the Past Ruins, but the passage shattered when the Eye of Truth manifested.
• An angel’s projection appeared in the sky, sealed the surrounding space, and tried to make He Ao, Verola, and the monsters submit to its control.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to deconstruct the angel’s influence, causing the mutated monsters to disappear and restoring his control of Verola.
• He Ao boarded the Old Train and drove into the void as the angel’s projection collapsed and its true form emerged.
• The angel reached the tower, absorbed the Big Octopus into its eye ring, then repeatedly retreated from the tower before fading into the void.

He Ao entered the tower’s Core Control Room and discovered that the being behind a sealed door could manipulate his desire to open it, though the Eye of Truth exposed and resisted the influence. In the Echoes of the Past Ruins, he then searched a bookstore with Goya and Li Cheng, finding a dictionary on the third floor.

• He Ao used his commander identity to enter the Core Control Room and approached the sealed metal door inside it.
• The force behind the door intensified He Ao’s desire to open it, but the Eye of Truth revealed purple dotted lines and forced them to retreat.
• He Ao concluded that the being was likely an immensely powerful Angel-level Item connected to the Hyperthymesia pathway, then decided to prepare for a future attempt.
• He Ao, Goya, and Li Cheng entered a bookstore in the Echoes of the Past Ruins and split up to search its floors.
• A thin figure near the bookstore entrance watched the group, while He Ao found a First District and Second District dictionary on the third floor.

He Ao learned to read most First District writing from a translation dictionary, then fought attackers with damaged souls inside the Echoes of the Past Ruins. He, Goya, and Li Cheng destroyed the plant monster’s underground core and escaped the collapsing library, discovering that Goya had found the map.

• He Ao studied a First and Second District translation dictionary, memorized its contents, and noticed that some common characters were garbled.
• A Duckbill Cap man attacked He Ao in the library, transformed into a monster, and was killed when He Ao severed its Energy Convergence Points.
• He Ao joined Goya on the second floor and helped destroy a proliferating monster whose damaged soul and triangular Energy Convergence Points resembled those of the first attacker.
• He Ao and Goya followed the fighting to the first floor, where they joined Li Cheng against attacking plants and destroyed the roots of a powerful life force beneath the library.
• The library collapsed as the three escaped, and He Ao and Li Cheng realized that Goya had the map they had been searching for.

He Ao, Li Cheng, and Goya used an old map and a bus stop sign to find a fast route to Volcano Park, where they hoped to locate Jie An’s research facility. As the bus neared the wilderness, a scholarly-looking passenger carrying a travel guide sat beside He Ao.

• Goya pointed out the volcano on the map, and Li Cheng suggested that Jie An’s research facility might be hidden in its crater.
• He Ao estimated the distance and found a bus route to Volcano Park on a nearby sign.
• He Ao summoned the unmanned Bus No. 37 and selected the seventeenth stop while warning Li Cheng and Goya to stay ready to jump off.
• The bus carried the three toward the city’s edge as the Maid Puppet flew toward the Central Library.
• A phantom got off and a thin, scholarly middle-aged man boarded, sat beside He Ao, and opened a travel guide to a picture of a volcano.

He Ao opened a passage to the Echoes of the Past Ruins, fought off an angel’s power, and arrived on the bus near Volcano Park, where a stranger left him a mysterious bookmark. Meanwhile, a maid carrying a coffin entered the First District Archives after killing two attackers.

• He Ao used the Echoes of the Past to open a fragile passage, and the angel behind a metal door extended its power into it.
• He Ao used the Eye of Truth to break the angel’s influence, and the Verola carried him through the collapsing passage into the ruins.
• On the bus, He Ao watched a middle-aged man read about Volcano Park, then saw him leave a bookmark describing a rumor about a secret facility north of the volcano.
• He Ao told Li Cheng and Goya that the man reminded him of an old acquaintance as the bus approached Volcano Park.
• A maid carrying a coffin entered the First District Central Library, killed two phantoms who attacked her, and proceeded into the First District Archives.

Jodel and Liu Zhengyun discussed the spreading disappearances, the missing expedition, and He Ao’s unexplained absence as the blood-red sun threatened the world. Meanwhile, He Ao, Li Cheng, and Goya uncovered a hidden research facility beneath Volcano Park and entered its corridor.

• Jodel told Liu Zhengyun that disappearances had spread to neighboring countries and that Hao Yi, Li Cheng, and the others remained missing after their lander exploded.
• Liu Zhengyun said He Ao had disappeared after reporting that he had found something, and Jodel promised to protect him if he appeared in West Land.
• At Volcano Park, He Ao noticed that the starry sky differed from the ruins’ sky and led Li Cheng and Goya toward the undeveloped area behind the volcano.
• He Ao used the sightseeing routes and clues to identify the unseen section of the summit where a research facility might be hidden.
• He Ao detected a concealed camera, cut open a boulder, and revealed a lit underground corridor.
• He Ao warned Li Cheng and Goya that something inside might be dangerous, then led them into the facility.

A maid searched the archives’ top-secret supernatural research files and found a file named “Starry Sky.” In Volcano Park, He Ao escaped a chaotic corridor and met a phantom who hinted at what lay beneath the volcano.

• The maid girl searched the top-secret cabinets, found many files unreadable or devoid of supernatural information, and stopped at the file named “Starry Sky.”
• He Ao was separated from Li Cheng and Goya in a dark, spatially shifting corridor and defeated the B-rank phantoms that attacked him.
• He Ao reached an alloy door, forced it open, and emerged at the volcano’s summit beside a lava lake beneath the stars.
• A middle-aged phantom told He Ao that the travelers repeatedly followed the same route and returned three days later, no matter which directions he gave them.
• The phantom said he had guided He Ao there for something interesting and offered to explain what lay beneath the volcano.

In the archives, the maid found records locating the Starry Sky research facility beneath Gobi Desert Park and enlisted Lin Chichi to help search the files. At Volcano Park, He Ao learned that the Evil Spirit Angel King Slayer anchored the phantom world’s stability, then traveled toward Gobi Desert Park after uncovering the middle-aged man’s self-awareness.

• The maid read the Starry Sky file and identified Gobi Desert Park as the likely surface location of its underground research facility.
• Lin Chichi woke from the coffin, joined the maid, and began searching the distorted files for readable text.
• The middle-aged man told He Ao that the dead Angel King Slayer had been recreated as an Evil Spirit Angel whose defeat could destabilize the surrounding space.
• He Ao deduced that the middle-aged man had self-awareness and thanked him before heading through the newly opened passage.
• An old-fashioned train emerged in Gobi Desert Park, and He Ao stepped out facing a building in the center of the sandstorm.

He Ao discovered a concealed underground facility beneath an ordinary research institute and reached a lava platform where an armed martial artist challenged him. Meanwhile, the Maid carried Lin Chichi by coffin to the Floating Base, where they crashed into a hall full of monsters.

• He Ao found that the institute’s first floor concealed a staircase and descended by elevator twenty kilometers underground.
• He Ao reached a platform beside a sea of lava, where an Old Man drew a black broadsword and challenged him to show his cultivation.
• The Maid entered the coffin and instructed Lin Chichi to secure herself to it with an alloy hinge.
• The coffin flew from the Archives, carried Lin Chichi past Ming Crystal Tower, and rose toward a massive sky-city.
• The coffin smashed through the sky-city’s defending spacecraft and broke through a large window, dropping Lin Chichi into a hall where monsters emerged.