Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao learned how the Dragon Binding Rope had escaped Luofu Cave and hunted gods for Flame of Faith before it came under his control. When Messenger of the Gods arrived to apologize for Mystic Arts Country’s failures, the Dragon Binding Rope recognized him as the god it had captured before.

• Lu Yao examined the Dragon Binding Rope and discovered that its Divine Restraint Dragon Seal could immobilize dragons, gods, and other flesh-and-blood beings.
• The Dragon Binding Rope recounted how it escaped Luofu Cave, controlled Li Qing, captured a god in the Twin Snake Merchant Republic, and later wandered through the Resurrection Kingdom seeking Flame of Faith.
• Lu Yao tested the Dragon Binding Rope’s seal on animals and found that it could hold them for about a minute, with longer duration possible by investing more Flame of Faith.
• Messenger of the Gods arrived at Lu Yao’s Temple with Mystic Star Raven and Seven Seas Demon to apologize for Mystic Arts Country’s poor governance.
• Lu Yao displayed the Dragon Binding Rope to the three gods, and the rope identified Messenger as the god it had captured before.

Lu Yao accepted Messenger’s apology and sent Mystic Star Raven to the Resurrection Kingdom, then refused to annex the weakened Wrigglers. After reviewing a century of growth across his worlds, he received word that Ju God had completed the Sun-Forging Bay Stepper.

• Messenger explained Star Raven’s role in the Mystic Arts Country and sent him to the Resurrection Kingdom to replace Martyr.
• Messenger revealed that Seven Seas Demon had betrayed him, then returned to his side after Lu Yao attacked the Wrigglers; Lu Yao refused Messenger’s offer to annex their territory.
• Mao Cao reported the Resurrection Kingdom’s growth, including its infrastructure, population, industries, and partnership with the Twin Serpent Merchant Republic.
• Lu Yao reviewed achievements in Sand City, the Mist Country, and Blood Hill, including a gene activation potion, Immortality City, and progress toward the Flying Boat Plan.
• Ju God prayed to Lu Yao and announced that he had completed the Sun-Forging Bay Stepper, a Wonder prototype that could evaluate evolution and connect with outside abilities and items.

Lu Yao learned how Ju God’s biological Stepper had advanced research and enabled new applications across his worlds, then converted it into a Wonder. Seeing how much the worlds had developed during his absence, Lu Yao decided to give everyone a Blessing.

• Ju explained that the Sun-Forging Bay Stepper used Tricolor Worms, Shell Cockroaches, and Shell Skeletons to perform calculations, and that portable Step-Movers could collect data in other worlds.
• Lu Yao discovered that the Stepping Machine had helped develop the Wind Element and Sand Element, supported the creation of Qian Yuan Mountain’s Medicine Pot, and calculated the Carbon People’s growth and Lamp Tribe conversion.
• Slaimod reported that Sand City was testing a Wind Element crystal channel for flying transport and using the Sand Element to improve construction, grinding, glassmaking, and filtration.
• Lu Yao reviewed the Medicine Pot’s development and pharmaceutical benefits, then converted the Sun-Forging Bay Stepper into a Wonder.
• Lu Yao reflected on how the worlds had matured during his absence and decided to prepare a Blessing to show that God was still with everyone.

Lu Yao blessed the Yao Tribe with tomatoes, but the Scholars' experiments turned them into a Tomato Giant that produced sweet or sour tomatoes depending on its mood. The chapter ended with Lu Yao receiving a trade request from the White Ridge Tribe for a Phase Dissolution Cannon.

• Lu Yao bought premium tomatoes and granted them to the Yao City Temple as a Blessing called [Red Tomato].
• Yao Tribe Scholars debated the tomato's significance and decided to plant it for study.
• The Scholars' use of nutrients, potions, and elements mutated the Red Tomato into a Tomato Giant that produced Happy Tomatoes when cheerful and Sour Tomatoes when upset.
• The Yao Tribe celebrated the Tomato Giant as a new addition to their civilization, while Lu Yao wondered whether its Happy Tomatoes tasted sweet.
• The White Ridge Tribe offered to exchange a Phase Dissolution Cannon for Animal Husbandry, surprising Lu Yao.

Lu Yao obtained the White Ridge Tribe’s Phase Dissolution Cannon technology, but the Yao Clan could not reproduce it, so he redirected Cloud Temple toward their world to seek help. He discovered that the nearby Vortex World was nearing a catastrophic eruption and raced to reach the endangered tribe, just as Song Shiyi invited him out for milk tea.

• Lu Yao marked Broken Egg World as a valuable green-dot world and confirmed the White Ridge Tribe’s trade of the Phase Dissolution Cannon.
• Lu Yao found that Philes and other Yao Clan researchers repeatedly failed to build a working cannon because they lacked the necessary scientific foundations.
• Lu Yao redirected Cloud Temple toward Broken Egg World, hoping to find the White Ridge Tribe and get instruction.
• Lu Yao learned from the committee database that the nearby Vortex World could erupt violently and destroy everything around it, including Broken Egg World.
• Lu Yao accelerated Cloud Temple toward the endangered world, then received a milk-tea invitation from Song Shiyi on his work phone.

Bai Zhi searched the barren mountains for food while trapped in a dying world, recalling how the Bloody Vortex had separated him from the White Ridge Tribe and killed his two fellow Hunters. He traded his only available ability to a Colossus Totem and gained Animal Husbandry, leaving him hopeful that he could finally produce food.

• Bai Zhi searched the dry mountains for prey as storms failed to bring rain and meteorites struck the land.
• Bai Zhi spotted Scalding Rats sheltering beneath a Colossus Totem and recognized its Astrology, Irrigation, and Animal Husbandry abilities.
• Bai Zhi recalled how the Bloody Vortex trapped his hunting party, destroyed the world’s food supply, and drove the three Hunters into a duel in which he was the sole survivor.
• Bai Zhi decided he could trade only his Phase Dissolution Cannon, since his other abilities were tribal techniques or talents he could not share.
• The Colossus Totem accepted the trade and gave Bai Zhi Animal Husbandry, filling him with hope for a future beyond hunger.

Bai Zhi used the Yao Tribe’s Animal Husbandry methods to rebuild his food supply, but the Bloody Vortex’s Fire Mist began destroying his world. He escaped into the void and was rescued by the Yao Tribe, where he agreed to share knowledge of his Phase Dissolution Cannon.

• Bai Zhi improved the water supply and livestock feed, growing the Wild Sea Cattle from 31 to 161 and the Scalding Rats to nearly ten thousand.
• The Bloody Vortex opened a crack in the sky and sent Fire Rain across the world, so Bai Zhi shielded the pasture and fired his Phase Dissolution Cannon at the Fire Mist.
• As the Fire Mist began to recede, Bai Zhi realized the world had been drawn into the orbit of a white Vortex World and escaped through the boundary.
• Bai Zhi entered a nearby Grit World, where Isabelle told him that Lord Yao had rescued him and explained that the Yao Tribe had sensed him through the Colossus Totem.
• Bai Zhi learned he might be the last survivor of the White Ridge Tribe and agreed to teach the Yao Tribe about his Phase Dissolution Cannon.

Lu Yao rescued the White Ridge Tribe’s world from the expanding Red Void by using Sun-Forging Bay’s World Pot, then welcomed Bai Zhi into the Yao Tribe. He settled the Phase Cicada in Cloud Temple and considered testing whether Taisui could withstand or consume the Red Void.

• Lu Yao used Sun-Forging Bay’s Interference Mist Sea to push back the Red Void while Ju and Cloud Temple extracted the White Ridge Tribe’s world.
• Lu Yao discovered Bai Zhi, a Phase Cicada, and sent Isabelle to meet and recruit it.
• Bai Zhi explained that the White Ridge Tribe hunted worlds for food and demonstrated how its Phase Dissolution Cannon broke matter into elements.
• Bai Zhi asked to return to its former world to tend its livestock, but Isabelle refused, and Lu Yao settled it in Cloud Temple instead.
• Lu Yao watched the Red Void continue to expand and considered sending Taisui to test its effects.

Lu Yao tested whether Taisui would attack Red Void, then helped Bai Zhi reconnect with surviving Phase Cicadas. He intercepted the Long Cavalry Army and captured its commander, the Marshal of the Long Cavalry.

• Lu Yao repeatedly lured Taisui toward Red Void, but the two disasters avoided each other, so he abandoned the attempt to make them fight.
• Lu Yao watched the Yao Tribe feed Bai Zhi and learned that the Phase Cicadas depended on cooperation with farmers and herders to overcome their hunger.
• After being fed, Bai Zhi used the Sun Whistle and learned that Star Twelve was alive but fleeing the Fearless faction, whose Gods had besieged the tribe.
• Lu Yao redirected Cloud Temple to receive Star Twelve and let the pursuing Long Cavalry Army enter range of the Vortex Cannon.
• Lu Yao destroyed the Long Cavalry Army's Divine Kingdom with a volley of Grit Cannons and used the Dragon Binding Rope to capture the Marshal of the Long Cavalry.

Lu Yao recruited the defeated Marshal of the Long Cavalry as a Subordinate God after testing his skill at piloting a modified Grit World. The Marshal revealed The Fearless’s weaknesses and the location of the White Ridge Tribe, prompting Lu Yao to prepare to seize the Phase Cicadas.

• Lu Yao examined the captured Marshal of the Long Cavalry and learned he was a mercenary bound by a Blue Bridge Treaty to The Fearless.
• The Marshal explained that The Fearless had hired him to track Star Twelve and capture the White Ridge Tribe’s Phase Cicadas, while Isabelle and Lu Yao verified his account of Blue Bridge’s treaty system.
• Lu Yao tested the Marshal by giving him a Grit World to modify and pilot; impressed by his swift, controlled voyage, Lu Yao recruited him as his fourth Subordinate God.
• The Marshal described The Fearless’s reliance on a poorly disciplined force and said the White Ridge Tribe was being held intact while The Fearless negotiated with buyers.
• The Marshal revealed the marked route to the White Ridge Tribe, and Lu Yao decided to take the Phase Cicadas for himself.

Lu Yao rescued the White Ridge Tribe from The Fearless’s blockade after learning about Marshal of the Long Cavalry’s origins and the tribe’s plight. The seven enemy Gods fled, and Lu Yao set course for a distant world in the Crawling Zone.

• Marshal of the Long Cavalry told Lu Yao that the Lantern Pumpkin race came from the Celtic Mythology Civilization Tree and sought outside opportunities because it offered few paths to advancement.
• Isabelle reported that Star Twelve had revealed the White Ridge Tribe was resisting The Fearless’s seven Gods, who had sealed the tribe’s world beneath the Three-Month Torch.
• Lu Yao found the tribe’s world surrounded by seven Divine Kingdoms and sent Cloud Temple toward it.
• The seven Gods tried to flee with the tribe’s world, but scattered when Taisui approached, and Lu Yao captured the world and took it into the Ring of Worlds.
• Lu Yao turned toward a distant green-dot world in the Crawling Zone and checked on the White Ridge Tribe.

Star Twelve and Bai Zhi settled into life in the Yao Tribe, where plentiful food eased their hunger and helped the White Ridge Tribe prepare to join. Five years later, the tribe moved to the Cloud Temple, while Star Twelve became a trainee Apostle and Bai Zhi joined the Flying Boat Plan.

• Bai Zhi reassured Star Twelve that Lord Yao and the Yao Tribe had no need to scheme against them, then ordered cattle and Dark Descendant Earthworms for a meal.
• After eating, Star Twelve grew calmer, learned about the Yao Tribe, and became close friends with Bai Zhi; it also secured Sand City's promise to shelter wandering White Ridge Tribe members who could work.
• Five years later, Fu arrived with seventeen clansmen and announced that the White Ridge Tribe would merge into the Yao Tribe and settle in the Cloud Temple.
• The White Ridge Tribe began helping the Yao Tribe research the Phase Dissolution Cannon and Phase Navigation, while Star Twelve departed to serve the Marshal of the Long Cavalry as a trainee Apostle.
• Fu told Star Twelve that he had escaped slavery under the Obsidian Butterfly Goddess, and Bai Zhi announced that he would assist Lord Fahai's Flying Boat Plan.

Star Twelve and the Long Cavalry Army began an expedition from Cloud Temple while Bai Zhi helped build a magnetic ring road for flying boats. Fu told Isabelle about the White Ridge Tribe’s progress and revealed that [Obsidian Butterfly Goddess] wielded the [Black Scepter], a relic capable of extinguishing suns.

• Star Twelve completed observations, then received the Marshal’s order to speed up the Long Cavalry Army’s preparations for its expedition.
• The Long Cavalry Army began moving out from its Grit World with Cloud Temple as its backing.
• Larry explained to Bai Zhi that magnetic world fragments would form a flight route and supply ring for flying boats around Cloud Temple.
• Fu told Isabelle that the White Ridge Tribe had adapted to its new home and that some members were working in Yao cities.
• Fu revealed that he had escaped from [Obsidian Butterfly Goddess] and described how the [Black Scepter] could drain suns and send them into the [Black Abyss].

Lu Yao investigated rumors of Old Gods and learned more about the mysterious Dark God and the possible successors who inherit that role. He then visited the Abyss, where White God reported that the seventh layer was full of treasure chests that resisted every attempt to open or move them.

• Members of the Old Gods Society shared supposed Old God sightings, which Lu Yao learned were caused by a flying boat and a miracle by Lady King Wuji.
• Isabelle told Lu Yao that Fu had reported a connection between the Dark God, the Obsidian Butterfly Goddess, and the Black Scepter.
• Song Shiyi explained that the Dark God was a dangerous Main God, possibly one of The Forgotten or a role passed between successors through competing legacies.
• Lu Yao arranged a dinner with Song Shiyi for the next night and planned to warn her about the Great Qin Empire.
• White God reported that Abyss explorers had used Omnipotence Stones to pass the Anomalous Objects on the sixth layer and had reached the seventh layer, where treasure chests could not be opened or moved.

Lu Yao opened the Dark Temple in the Abyss’s seventh layer and discovered the Sun Hunter title, which let its bearer hunt and destroy suns. He tested the temple’s connection to the Dark Treasure Chests and successfully opened one, revealing a golden light.

• Lu Yao inspected the sixth layer’s Anomalous Objects and learned it held 1,479 collectibles confined to separate zones by the Abyss’s rules.
• Marquis Sui's Pearl identified the Crowned Oracle inside the Riddle Black Stone, and Rock King Butterfly smashed the stone to retrieve it.
• Lu Yao used the Crowned Oracle to open the Dark Temple on the seventh layer.
• Lu Yao found the Sun Hunter title, whose Solar Eclipse ability could sever suns from their worlds and seal or destroy them.
• Lu Yao opened a nearby Dark Treasure Chest after entering the temple, and golden light spilled from it.

Lu Yao opened the Dark Treasure Chests, discovered that smashing Dark Cores yielded World Stones, and learned that higher-level chests required the [Sun Hunter] title. He appointed King Wuji to inherit the title and gain access to those collections.

• Lu Yao found the Mythological Wonder [Sun Clock Straddling the Mortal World] in a Dark Treasure Chest and equipped it.
• Lu Yao opened eight more chests and found Dark Cores, then had Butterfly smash one and discovered it yielded World Stones, Faith, and Divine Logic.
• Rock King Butterfly explained that [Lin Zhi Country] had been Nature Lady’s Divine Kingdom and that he had been stationed there before the dark disaster.
• Lu Yao opened all fourteen LV1 chests, collecting 771 World Stones, 1.97 million Flames of Faith, and one Divine Logic, but learned that higher-level chests required the [Sun Hunter] title.
• Lu Yao appointed King Wuji as the [Sun Hunter], granting her the title power left behind by the Dark God.

King Wuji continued her quiet work mining Omnipotence Stone while the Wuji People worried that she was being forgotten. God Yao granted her the title Sun Hunter, and she used its power to capture the sun of the Deep Mine world, leaving its people celebrating her new role.

• King Wuji’s people discussed her fading influence among the Yao Clan, while she accepted her quiet life and continued searching for Omnipotence Stone.
• God Yao bestowed the title Sun Hunter on King Wuji and summoned her to the Dark Temple on Abyss Layer Seven.
• King Wuji received the Solar Eclipse ability and returned to the Deep Mine world to test her new power.
• King Wuji enveloped the sun in black smoke and drew it into her title, plunging the world into darkness.
• King Wuji reassured her frightened people that she had captured the sun for the Yao Clan, and the Wuji People cheered her as Sun Hunter.

Lu Yao had King Wuji hunt and store suns, then opened a sealed LV99 Dark Treasure Chest and found the Sun Ship · Dusk and the imprisoned Black Bull Monul. The Sun Ship was captured and added to Lu Yao’s inventory, while Monul’s identity as a Voyager remained the chapter’s final revelation.

• Lu Yao chose King Wuji to receive the [Sun Hunter] title, and she captured a sun and opened LV2 Dark Treasure Chests that yielded Dark Cores.
• King Wuji explained that captured suns could be stored in Dark Treasure Chests, then sealed the Broken Sun inside one for safekeeping.
• Lu Yao had King Wuji attempt to open a hovering LV99 Dark Treasure Chest; after repeated failures, she finally opened it.
• The Sun Ship · Dusk emerged from the chest and fought King Wuji, so Lu Yao summoned White God, Isabelle, Giant Forrest, and Rock King to help capture it.
• Rock King smashed the Sun Ship free of its sun, and Lu Yao placed the battered Papyrus Boat in his item bar.
• The sun condensed into the imprisoned Black Bull Monul, whom Lu Yao recognized as a Voyager.

Lu Yao discovered that the Black Bull was Monul, the cursed Sun God Atum, and learned that feeding it suns would gradually lift its curse. He found that the Butterfly Goddess had already extracted many suns and sent King Wuji to hunt for more before dispatching Isabelle to meet Song Shiyi.

• Lu Yao identified the imprisoned Black Bull as Monul, the wild form of Atum, and found that it could not communicate with him.
• Lu Yao fed Monul a Broken Sun, raising its curse progress to 1/99 and improving its attitude; Monul also produced a Light Element concretion that Lu Yao gave to Philes.
• Lu Yao discovered 47 Broken Suns and 18 Dark Cores near the sealed passage to the eighth Abyss layer and traced the Broken Suns to the Butterfly Goddess's Black Scepter.
• Lu Yao ordered King Wuji to focus on hunting suns and used Cloud Temple to search nearby Grit Worlds for more.
• When his arranged meeting time arrived, Lu Yao sent Isabelle to meet Song Shiyi.

Song Shiyi learned about the Western Extreme Country excavation project and recruited Mary and Wei Yingxue to join it. She also told Mary that Gandharva had entered the Committee’s Detention Center to pass Ketu Star Lord’s message to Rahu Star Lord, leaving Mary baffled by the message’s simplicity.

• At dinner, Mary told Song Shiyi about meeting Manu in the Great Qin world, and Song Shiyi found the Western Extreme Country project in the Committee database.
• Song Shiyi called Teacher Zao, who invited her and Wei Yingxue to join the project and explained that Manu seemed connected to dragons or dragon-like beings.
• Song Shiyi explained the project’s connection to King Mu of Zhou and the ruins of the Western Extreme Country, and Mary agreed to join the next phase.
• Wei Yingxue also agreed to join, saying she planned to keep Star Lord Lian Zhen working properly.
• Mary asked about Gandharva’s pending punishment, and Song Shiyi explained that Gandharva had carried Ketu Star Lord’s message telling Rahu Star Lord to behave and seek leniency in detention.