Chapter Summaries

The refugees on New--Blue Star blamed their dizziness on a harmless stellar phenomenon, unaware that the Cosmic Elder Council was secretly using it to steal their memories. The theft had sixteen hours left, and the Council’s crew had already deceived everyone who investigated.

• Refugees on New--Blue Star developed dizziness, and experts told them it was caused by a temporary Plasma High Ray Reaction from the star overhead.
• The experts assured the refugees that the radiation was harmless and would pass within a week, so the people continued their work.
• A technician aboard a Cosmic Elder Council spacecraft reported that the Memory Theft would be complete in sixteen hours.
• The Commander ordered the technician to keep the operation secret and prevent the refugees from discovering the truth.
• The technician said the Council had hypnotized investigators and supplied false intelligence, while local experts unknowingly reinforced the deception.

The Cosmic Elders debated whether the increasingly convoluted reports about Reincarnators and transmigrators were genuine, while deciding to investigate Parallel Time and Space. On Blue Star, Hope City’s residents heard Luo Yao condemn the human elites who had fled into space, and Orsaga gave a bettor a Worldline from a draw to eat.

• The Cosmic Elders considered the nested transmigration reports and agreed to wait for more evidence while intensifying their research into Parallel Time and Space.
• Hope City, protected by Nuwa and led by Luo Yao, sheltered millions amid Blue Star’s dangerous conditions.
• Luo Yao praised Nuwa in his speech and called the human elites who had fled into space traitors, vowing that the enmity would endure through generations.
• A bettor asked Orsaga when they could start eating, and Orsaga handed him a Worldline where the game had ended in a draw.

Orsaga learned that Nuwa and several other powerful figures were colleagues of the Jade Emperor, but he remained unconcerned about attracting their attention. Meanwhile, Hope City’s lord stirred the crowd against the Fugitives to redirect the residents’ anger, despite privately believing their escape had been justified.

• Orsaga asked the Jade Emperor whether Nuwa belonged to his faction, and the Jade Emperor described her and several other powerful beings as his colleagues.
• The Jade Emperor warned Orsaga that using information about those colleagues in his game might attract their attention, but Orsaga was not intimidated.
• The Jade Emperor envied Orsaga’s independence, while Orsaga reflected on how powerful beings under OAA could suffer bizarre defeats and misfortunes.
• In Hope City, the city lord’s speech whipped the crowd into denouncing the Fugitives.
• The city lord privately acknowledged that the Fugitives had been right to flee and that his speech was meant to redirect the residents’ anger away from the nearby demons, monsters, and ghosts.

Luo Yao weighed Hope City’s limited prospects and chose to invest in improving future generations through a long-term cultivation plan. He then agreed to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for Empress Nuwa’s temple, which would also test whether faith and incense had practical benefits.

• Luo Yao judged that most of Hope City’s residents were too fearful and weak to pursue revenge, so he placed greater hope in the next generation.
• He noted that spiritual energy had improved ordinary people’s health and physical strength, though they remained far weaker than beings from the Primordial World.
• Luo Yao planned to teach simple cultivation techniques and improve human aptitude over generations through a Hundred-Year Plan spanning up to two hundred years.
• Luo Yao’s deputy told him the preparations for Empress Nuwa’s temple were nearly complete and asked whether he would attend the groundbreaking ceremony.
• Luo Yao agreed to attend and ordered the temple to be built as a major project, hoping it would help test the power of incense and faith.

A new batch of Players arrived in the Primordial World’s seasonal selection, and the arrival of the God of Refined Gold Fajia spread a terrifying aura across Blue Star and the Solar System. Nuwa recognized that Fajia had forcibly gathered information from nearby mechanical devices, while Luo Yao feared the powerful newcomer might destroy them.

• Luo Yao worried that the new Players might include powerful, ill-tempered beings who would kill people or destroy Blue Star.
• Pillars of light appeared across the Novice Villages as the Primordial World’s selected Players arrived.
• Fajia appeared in a pillar of light, and his immense aura spread across Blue Star and the Solar System before quickly withdrawing.
• Luo Yao feared Fajia’s arrival might kill him and other nearby lifeforms, but he survived.
• Fajia sent purple halos across the region and gathered information from mechanical devices on Blue Star, the moon, and nearby areas, which Nuwa recognized.

Fajia gathered information from Blue Star’s surviving machines and discovered that the Primordial World had appeared in humanity’s stories and game discussions. Unsure whether the information was true and unable to erase it safely, Fajia left Blue Star to establish a base for the God of Refined Gold.

• Nuwa recognized that Fajia’s information-gathering abilities were exceptionally powerful on technological Blue Star.
• Fajia sorted the retrieved data and found humanity’s old discussions and fictional settings about the Primordial World.
• Fajia questioned whether its own origins came from human literature, then packaged the information to share with its kin later.
• Fajia considered destroying Blue Star to conceal the information but abandoned the plan because it could not eliminate every Hong Huang Player or reach those inside Novice Villages.
• Fajia left Blue Star for deep space to build a base as ordered by the Mechanical Supreme.

Fajia transformed Mars into a metallized stronghold for the God of Refined Gold, unleashing power so immense that beings across the galaxy took notice. Luohu accepted the upheaval and decided to treat Fajia and his followers as recruits who could help oversee the Solar System.

• Fajia chose Mars as the main base for the God of Refined Gold's race in the Real World.
• Fajia spread purple lightning across Mars, reshaping its surface, awakening its core and magnetic field, and accelerating its rotation.
• Fajia metallized Mars and caused metal spires and buildings to grow across the planet.
• The transformation's power drew attention from beings across the Solar System and beyond, including Luohu.
• Luohu judged Fajia's strength worthy of recognition and relinquished his dictatorship over the Solar System, intending to recruit the group.

After years of uneasy calm following the Two-World Fusion, Fuxi used the River Diagram and Luo Shu to divine the Solar System’s future. He found that powerful enemies would soon target the Hong Huang Players, while Nuwa remained unsurprised by the threat.

• Several years after the Two-World Fusion, strange and powerful Demon Race and Devil Race creatures appeared near the Solar System, causing scattered attacks and unrest.
• Fuxi performed a divination with the River Diagram and Luo Shu, using his golden blood to activate a painting and send his consciousness into the mysteries of time.
• Nuwa waited calmly while Fuxi’s consciousness was drawn away, confident that he would not be harmed.
• After recovering, Fuxi told Nuwa that more than half of the futures he had seen involved many powerful enemies targeting the Hong Huang Players.
• Nuwa said she had expected enemies to come because the beings behind the scenes had revealed information about the Hong Huang Players during the Two-World Fusion.

Nuwa explained why the Hong Huang Players’ violent behavior could draw powerful civilizations’ attention, but said she was not worried because she could leave the Real World. She rejected Fuxi’s proposal to seek allies based on the Hong Huang settings, warning that their path had diverged into unknown territory.

• The chapter described how Hong Huang Players followed the Primordial World’s survival-of-the-fittest rules and gained a reputation for fighting and killing.
• Nuwa remained calm about the possibility of powerful forces investigating the Players, since she could withdraw from the Real World if necessary.
• Fuxi suggested that Nuwa and he recruit allies among old acquaintances to develop the world’s resources.
• Nuwa rejected Fuxi’s proposal and recalled feeling a concealed danger and oppressive discordance when she met Hongjun.
• Nuwa told Fuxi that the Hong Huang settings could serve only as a reference because Metaphysics Hong Huang had placed them on an unpredictable path.

Nuwa reflected on how races chosen in Metaphysics Hong Huang could alter people’s bodies and minds, and worried about Fuxi making a careless choice. Hongjun’s repulsive transformation was revealed to stem from his choice of the Tzeentch Demon Army, whose powers had affected him more deeply than he expected.

• Nuwa recalled a fire elemental spirit who chose the water elemental race and became a magma-venting being covered in obsidian.
• Nuwa remembered how Blue Star Players’ unusual race choices had led some to become deranged, and felt fortunate about her own choice.
• Nuwa warned Fuxi to take character creation seriously before he entered the Real World.
• Hongjun chose the Tzeentch Demon Army for its Cunning Wisdom ability, hoping to improve his comprehension and sense conspiracies.
• Hongjun planned to destroy the foreign power if it went wrong, but underestimated the race’s influence and overestimated his own will.

Hongjun meditated on Neptune, using the Tzeentch Demon Army’s abilities alongside the Creation Jade Disk to gain profound insights despite the growing corruption. He sensed a disturbance from Blue Star, then wondered what Luohu had gained as a player aligned with the Khorne Demon Army.

• Hongjun sensed a disturbance coming from the direction of Blue Star, though Nuwa had concealed herself.
• Hongjun reflected that the Tzeentch Demon Army’s abilities had deepened his understanding of the Dao when combined with the Creation Jade Disk, but had also intensified their Negative Influences.
• Hongjun let the blue halo fade from the Creation Jade Disk and thought that fully corrupting it would let him grasp all its information and become a Saint.
• Hongjun put away the Creation Jade Disk and wondered what powers other top-tier races possessed.
• Hongjun thought of Luohu, his old rival and another Hong Huang Player, and wondered what he had gained from the Khorne Demon Army.

A vast fleet assembled at the Milky Way’s northern edge and began an FTL journey toward the Solar System, intent on conquering it and eliminating its natives. Sensing the approaching outsiders, Luohu started back toward the Solar System but decided to wait and see how its defenders fared.

• The Commander gathered the fleet around the battleship Victory Glory and ordered it to prepare for a seizure mission in the Solar System.
• The Commander told the fleet to study the intelligence about the players, then ordered it to set sail through wormholes.
• About thirty days later, Luohu sensed a large force approaching the Solar System and began traveling back.
• Luohu decided not to hurry, hoping to see how strong the Solar System’s inhabitants were and briefly considering whether to attack them from behind.
• Luohu cast aside his scheming impulse as the Khorne bloodline pushed him toward direct combat; the chapter also described how the Slaanesh and Tzeentch bloodlines affected Nick Morten and Hongjun.

A technologically advanced fleet attacked the Solar System, where a vast defensive formation blocked its first shot and revealed itself. As Qi Refiners and the fleet clashed, a Bagua Diagram summoned demon hordes and a corrupted mechanical arm began turning warships against their allies.

• Commander ordered the fleet to charge a secondary cannon and fire at Jupiter, but the Solar System’s hidden formation blocked the beam and became visible.
• Residents saw the revealed barrier, while high-level Qi Refiners attacked the invading fleet with Samadhi True Fire.
• The fleet fired on the Qi Refiners, and Victory Glory began charging its immense main cannon.
• A translucent Bagua Diagram opened a spatial passage and sent hordes of demons and monsters into the fleet’s path to absorb fire.
• A black-radiant mechanical arm struck toward Victory Glory as murky light spread, freezing lower-level ships and causing their weapons and interiors to mutate.

The Commander coordinated countermeasures against warships seized by the God of Refined Gold and fired the Main Ship’s cannon at the approaching mechanical arm. The blast destroyed the arm and badly damaged the Solar System’s formation, forcing powerful beings to intervene, while the Commander noted that the strongest experts, including Hongjun, still had not acted.

• The Commander ordered the fleet to record data from compromised warships, destroy those fully out of control, and combine friendly AIs’ computing power to help reclaim ships locked in data battles.
• The Commander fired the Main Ship’s charged cannon at the approaching mechanical arm, and the beam overwhelmed and erased it.
• The cannon’s remaining force struck the formation surrounding the Solar System, shaking it and shattering runes that held it together.
• An elegant Daoist, a towering warrior, a humanoid Mechanical Life, and other powerful beings appeared and separately blocked attacks, attacked the fleets, or tried to repair the formation.
• The Commander reviewed the reconnaissance data and noted that top-tier beings such as Hongjun still showed no intention of acting.

The Commander escalated the attack against the Primordial World’s defenders, ordering the Main Ship to prepare a dangerous special weapon after its cannon fire failed to make progress. The Green Ping Sword appeared and the flames from Weapon Bay 1 broke through the Solar System’s defenses, but its wielder raised a stronger formation to stop them.

• The Commander ordered the Main Ship to recharge its main cannon to half power and authorized the activation of Weapon Bay 1.
• The Main Ship’s second cannon blast was cleaved apart by the Green Ping Sword, which then cut through warships and shields in its path.
• Weapon Bay 1 released crimson flames that broke down matter and scattered its atoms, overwhelming the sword wielder’s cross-shaped slash and killing defenders.
• The Green Ping Sword’s wielder praised the attack, stepped back, and raised five colored banners to form a stronger barrier against the flames.

The Commander recognized the five banners shielding the Solar System as the Innate Five Directions Banner and ordered the fleet to test their defenses. As the banners withstood the assault, he sought to identify and cut off the Spiritual Qi powering the formation.

• The Commander identified the five banners as the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, Leaving Earth Flame Light Banner, Plain Colored Cloud Realm Banner, and Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner.
• The Commander ordered the Main Ship and surrounding warships to attack the formation and test its endurance.
• The five banners blocked nearly all the fleet’s planet-destroying attacks without suffering noticeable damage.
• The Commander questioned the usefulness of the fleet’s detection devices, which had found no suspicious targets nearby.
• The Commander ordered the intelligent AI to monitor energy flows and considered cutting off the Spiritual Qi sustaining the formation.

The Commander considered whether cutting off Spiritual Qi could weaken the Primordial World’s fighters in the Real World. Meanwhile, Taiqing, Shangqing, and Yuqing assessed their opponents and decided they had little reason to join a major battle.

• The Commander reasoned that abundant Spiritual Qi gave Primordial World beings an advantage in the Real World and considered temporarily cutting off its supply.
• A sword-wielding Daoist returned to Taiqing and Shangqing, reporting that the opponents’ demonstrated abilities were manageable but that they likely had hidden capabilities.
• Taiqing used his divination ability and warned that the opponents were far stronger than they had shown and would probably fight them in a major battle.
• Shangqing welcomed the prospect of testing the Real World’s combat methods and experts.
• Yuqing argued that the three brothers had already fulfilled their duty and should let others take the risks, since they had no faction or local ties.

Yuqing refused to join the wider battle after helping defend the Primordial World and Novice Village, while Taiqing suspected the Production Team would keep either side from winning outright. Taiqing wondered about the Production Team’s motives and the escaped first-generation players, unaware that Orsaga and his companions were simply passing time with a game of five-in-a-row.

• Yuqing chose not to fight further after using the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner to help block the external threats.
• Taiqing suspected the Production Team would prevent either the Primordial World or the Real World from deciding the conflict, and that key players or the Novice Village might be protected.
• Taiqing considered investigating the first-generation Metaphysics Hong Huang players who had fled during the Two-World Fusion, but kept the idea for a future task.
• Taiqing wondered what the Production Team hoped to accomplish by dragging two worlds into turmoil, and dismissed the possibility that they were merely playing a game.
• Orsaga and the others were actually bored and playing five-in-a-row, without any grand purpose behind their actions.

After the fleet failed to find a weakness in the Innate Five Directions Banner, the Commander ordered a retreat and launched a Standard Anti-Matter Galaxy Bomb at the Solar System. The bomb struck through a wormhole, and the chapter ended as a violent blast distorted space.

• The Commander halted the fleet's attacks after the defense analysis remained at zero percent and ordered the fleet to withdraw.
• Taiqing divined that the fleet was planning something else and warned that the matter was ominous.
• The fleet stopped 3.3 light-years away, and the Commander authorized a Standard Anti-Matter Galaxy Bomb attack on the Solar System.
• The bomb was accelerated near the speed of light and sent through a wormhole toward its target.
• The bomb detonated, destroying the gravitational field and severely distorting space.

The expeditionary force failed to breach the Solar System’s defenses, then suffered a devastating attack and fled. The Primordial World side won, but the battle exposed how ineffective its middle- and lower-tier combatants were.

• The Commander saw that the Standard Anti-Matter Galaxy Bomb had left the Solar System’s formation intact and ordered the fleet to retreat.
• A mysterious, faster-than-light disturbance folded space and wrecked ships and shields across the expeditionary force.
• The intelligent AI asked whether to counterattack, but the Commander ordered the fleet to keep retreating.
• The expeditionary force escaped the combat zone after taking heavy losses, with damaged warships exploding along the way.
• The Primordial World side recognized that its middle-tier fighters had contributed little and its lower-tier fighters had been unable to participate.