Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao learned that the [Aberrant Double Fissure] was distorting Wasteland No. 7 and restoring fragmented Wish Spirits, but he declined to join the investigation. After deploying more [Civilization Colossus] Colossus Totems, he reached a distant world marked on the [Pathfinder] Star Chart.

• Lu Yao discovered that his work phone had run out of battery and called Song Shiyi after charging it.
• Song Shiyi told Lu Yao that the [Whistleblower] had lost his qualifications as a God player and that Jia Xiaokai and Lin Zecheng had lost their related memories and been handed over to the relevant departments.
• Song Shiyi described the [Aberrant Double Fissure], two pillar-like objects whose movements connected Wasteland No. 7's Grid Worlds and restored fragmented Wish Spirits.
• Lu Yao recognized the phenomenon as the [Shadow of the Transcendent] and refused Song Shiyi's invitation to investigate, warning her to avoid the rain.
• Lu Yao deployed another batch of [Civilization Colossus] Colossus Totems and reached the distant world marked in green on the [Pathfinder] Star Chart.

Lu Yao investigated a crown-shaped cluster of worlds whose Ripple Body confused nearby inhabitants and made them carve matching symbols into the ground. He uncovered the Ripple Valleys sustaining its synchronization, then destroyed the cluster until Sui Zhu and Bi found and subdued the Ripple Body.

• Marshal of the Long Cavalry warned Lu Yao that nearby worlds moved in synchronization and that the Long Cavalry Army suffered recurring confusion and memory loss.
• Lu Yao landed on a world with Huang Jia and Isabelle, and Isabelle dug a spire crown symbol while under the Ripple Body's influence.
• Lu Yao discovered that Ripple Valleys created synchronization channels and that destroying them severed the Ripple Body's connections.
• Sui Zhu and Bi found a sealed Wind Ring Valley, which Lu Yao identified as the prototype for the artificial Ripple Valleys.
• Lu Yao fired the Vortex Cannon at the crown-shaped world cluster until only one world remained, and Sui Zhu and Bi subdued the Ripple Body.

After capturing the Ripple Body, Lu Yao learned how it had originated and entrusted its study to Ju and the Stepping Machine. Their simulations revealed a way to use it for cross-world signal transmission, and Lu Yao began planning a network of Ripple Valley base stations.

• Lu Yao examined the Ripple Body's card and discovered it was an Anomalous Object that spread and synchronized with nearby life-forms.
• Lu Yao traced the Ripple Body's origin to Wind Ring Valley, where the extinct Nippur People had built a Wonder around the Enlil Totem, and found Xu Xiake's travelogue about the site.
• Lu Yao asked his Subordinate Gods how to handle the Ripple Body, then assigned it to Ju for analysis after hearing proposals from the others.
• Ju reported that the upgraded Stepping Machine had identified the Ripple Body's connection to Light and Wind Elements and proposed using crystal structures and the Heart-Binding Nation to send basic commands through it.
• Lu Yao realized Ripple Valleys could form a cross-world signal network and began planning where to place its base stations.

Guang Yan oversaw the Mist Harbor Stepping Machine and Ripple Body experiments, then discovered that a Mist Beast had been catching the Ripple Body because it mistook it for food. The chapter left Guang Yan with an explanation for the experiments’ brief, unexplained disconnections.

• Guang Yan installed the Stepping Machine in Mist Harbor and began collecting local data while Meilebu continued construction of Ripple Valley.
• Guang Yan reflected on how he had escaped the Resurrection Kingdom, been imprisoned, and joined Ju God’s calculator program before becoming the person in charge of Mist Harbor’s experiments.
• Guang Yan led repeated Ripple Body tests and noticed that its connection sometimes disappeared briefly, though the other regions experienced the same interruptions.
• Guang Yan suspected the Mist Beasts and asked Ju God to clear them from the area, but comparison tests showed that their presence alone did not stop the Ripple Body.
• A Black Hand emerged from Guang Yan’s shadow, ate his Liquid Demonic Energy, and explained that it had caught and swallowed the flickering Ripple Body but could not digest it.
• Guang Yan realized that the Mist Beast’s attempts to eat the Ripple Body had caused its temporary disappearances.

Guang Yan and Carbon Hand discovered that Carbon Hand’s Abnormal Interference let him accompany Ripple Bodies as they jumped between worlds, opening a new way to gather information. Years later, Guang Yan recounted their work to young engineers in Salt City, honoring Carbon Hand and encouraging them to pursue their own discoveries.

• Guang Yan learned that Carbon Hand retained Abnormal Interference from his Carbon People body, making him uniquely able to catch Ripple Bodies.
• Ju God made Carbon Hand a Prophet and promoted Guang Yan to Hero after their discovery was verified.
• Guang Yan grew frustrated when Heart-Binding Nation failed to produce a cipher for converting Ripple Body frequencies into information.
• Carbon Hand revealed that he could ride Ripple Bodies through different worlds and observe connected life forms without being affected by synchronization.
• Guang Yan addressed young engineers at Salt City’s Engineering College, praised Carbon Hand, and urged the audience to believe in their own potential.

Lu Yao bought the Wind God Fan Wheel and placed it in Wind Ring Valley, where it produced Wind Mothers that enabled long-distance communication. Ju then revealed that Sun-Forging Bay had achieved stable control of the Ripple Body, giving the Yao Clan a way to gather information from nearby worlds.

• Lu Yao abandoned his initial plan to build Ripple Valleys across many worlds after finding the construction costs and jump routes too difficult to manage.
• Lu Yao bought the Wind God Fan Wheel, placed it in Wind Ring Valley, and produced a Wind Mother from Omnipotence Stones and stored wind power.
• Philes tested the Wind Mother's long-distance calling ability, while Ju recognized its value for communication and wind-energy research.
• Ju told Lu Yao that Guang Yan and Carbon Hand had made the Ripple Body controllable, and Lu Yao watched them demonstrate synchronization between distant Calculators.
• Ju explained that the Ripple Body and Ripple Valleys could function as a radio system for gathering information from nearby civilized worlds, then requested permission to use the Wind God Fan Wheel for further research.

Lu Yao inspected Sand City's new wind-powered transport and sand-casting construction after Slaimod asked him to consider giving the city access to the Wind God Fan Wheel. He also reviewed the Resurrection Kingdom's latest military and entertainment inventions, ending with the Dragon Race presenting its popular Paper Folding Dragon as a symbol of peace.

• Slaimod showed Lu Yao Sand City's mature Wind Speed Public Road, enamel craft, and Sand Casting Houses, then asked to compete with Ju for the Wind God Fan Wheel; Lu Yao told him to negotiate with Ju if necessary.
• Mao Cao reported the Arcane Research Institute's new Bone Wyverns, Camel Cannon Dragon, Fairy Palace, and widely popular Paper Folding Dragon to Lu Yao.
• Lu Yao inspected the three Bone Wyvern models and the Camel Cannon Dragon, while Mao Cao explained that Expulsion Beasts now tested unfamiliar energy sources.
• Lu Yao learned that the Fairy Palace offered customizable entertainment and that Paper Folding Dragons had become a best-selling toy across many worlds.
• In an interview with Laura, Pasha and Asi said the Dragon Race created Paper Folding Dragons to share its love of peace, and posed for photos with their fans.

Lu Yao reviewed the Resurrection Kingdom’s plans and the Yao Clan homeland’s latest advances, including new rose varieties, medicines, and an airship ring road. The chapter ended with Tyrant reporting that Yao Kingdom researchers had discovered the Shen Element and linked it to the nature of gods.

• Mao Cao reported plans to strengthen the Resurrection Kingdom’s military, provide police support in Dog City, and sell Fairy Palace abroad; he also asked whether Dog City should pay for three Divine Bodies in Godhead or Flame of Faith.
• Lu Yao visited the Yao Clan homeland and learned that Pinkman’s Eastern Rose Academy had developed Glimmering Golden Roses that could aid imaging and improve tool calibration.
• Lu Yao inspected the Temple Society’s Blood Replenishing Pill and Hemostatic Paste, two new practical Magic Potions.
• Lu Yao saw Fahai expanding the Airship Ring Road around Cloud Temple and converted it into a Wonder.
• Tyrant reported that Yao Kingdom researchers had identified the Shen Element, which they believed represented God and enabled Miracles and the Flame of Faith.

Zhizhi and six travelers were abducted during a guided trip through Mystic Arts Country, though Zhizhi had secretly arranged the kidnapping with the Red and White Society to extort ransom. When the captors instead began a sacrificial ritual that filled their sealed hut with smoke and heat, Sharipa told the group to wait for the summoned monsters so he could try to talk to them.

• Zhizhi woke bound in a sealed hut with Yu Liu, Shang Sheng, Yan Le, Hua Wanrong, Hua Zheng, and Sharipa, and explained that they had likely been attacked.
• Shang Sheng and Yan Le freed themselves and helped the others escape their ropes, but the group found the hut sealed and their valuables stolen.
• Sharipa coughed up blood, alarming Zhizhi, who feared that a hostage's death would bring the Detective Bureau after him.
• Zhizhi revealed that he had secretly cooperated with the Red and White Society to kidnap the travelers and demand ransom while avoiding serious harm.
• Smoke and heat filled the hut as an Old God Sacrificial Ritual began outside, and Sharipa identified it as a rite meant to awaken monsters in the darkness.
• Sharipa said he would speak to the awakened monsters to slow their attack, and Zhizhi urged everyone to stay calm and wait.

Zhizhi and the other captives faced Demon Bifrons during a sacrifice to the Extinction Incarnation, while Sharipa used his knowledge of divine power to bargain for their safety. Sharipa sacrificed himself in a blazing transformation that broke the ritual’s imprisonment, leaving Zhizhi to escort the survivors to Yao City and carry Sharipa’s findings to White Fortress.

• Hua Wanrong identified the sedative smoke, and Sharipa explained the Extinction Incarnation’s sacrifice and the monsters it summoned.
• Demon Bifrons appeared and threatened the captives, but Sharipa revealed his divine experiments and warned that his death could create traces visible to Lord Yao.
• Zhizhi offered Bifrons a way to claim the outsiders’ bodies, but Bifrons admitted that he was trapped by the ritual too.
• Sharipa chose to die to break the ritual and asked Zhizhi to record his findings and deliver them to Lord Philes of White Fortress.
• Sharipa’s body ignited into a powerful flame that shattered the darkness and freed the captives, while Bifrons shielded them from the blast.
• The masked believers fled, and Zhizhi checked that the other five survivors were safe before offering to take them back to Yao City.

Zhizhi was released from prison with Hua Zheng placed in his care, then reunited with Demon Bifrons and helped build an organization hunting the Extinction Incarnation’s rituals. Six years later, God Yao appeared during one of their ceremonies, and Bifrons recognized him.

• Rocky questioned Zhizhi about Sharipa’s death and the Shen Element, then offered him a pardon in exchange for keeping the secret and raising Hua Zheng.
• Rocky revealed that Hua Zheng was a Conqueror Purple Rose targeted by outside forces, and Zhizhi agreed to become his father.
• Philes gave Zhizhi Sharipa’s inheritance key, and Zhizhi collected the assets before returning to the Mystic Arts Country with Hua Zheng.
• Zhizhi reunited with Bifrons, who explained his plan to rescue and merge with the avatars summoned by the Extinction Incarnation’s rituals.
• Six years later, Zhizhi’s Streetlight Society summoned the Gate God’s silver key, but an uninvited man caused it to shatter and transported them to a white realm.
• Bifrons identified the visitor as Great God Yao and bowed to him.

Lu Yao learned how the Yao Clan discovered Shen Element and investigated the demon Bifrons’s connection to Zhizhi and the Streetlight Society. He captured Zhizhi and Bifrons in the Pearl Treasury Realm and prepared to question them.

• Philes explained that generations of Yao Clan scholars had researched Shen Element, which they finally captured after 1,127 years, though experiments had killed six researchers.
• Lu Yao asked Philes about Bifrons and learned that Zhizhi had founded the Streetlight Society, whose rituals could produce keys that revealed secrets, and that Bifrons appeared to aid Zhizhi’s activities.
• Philes revealed that Zhizhi had also been entrusted with raising a young Rose Envoy of Conqueror Purple Rose.
• Lu Yao traveled with Isabelle to observe a Streetlight Society ritual and saw Zhizhi receive a Silver Key from the two-headed stone statue.
• Lu Yao drew Demon Bifrons’s attention, then had Sui Zhu and Bi bring Zhizhi and Bifrons into the Pearl Treasury Realm, where he began questioning them.

Lu Yao questioned Bifrons, a Shadow Demon, and tested its Corpse Burning Lamp on the Whistleblower’s corpse. After learning that the Whistleblower had sought feathered Ascension through Xing Tian, Lu Yao recruited Bifrons as the Yao Clan’s Legal Demon and ordered it and Zhizhi to investigate demons and rival Gods’ faiths.

• Bifrons explained that Shadow Demons infiltrated worlds through hosts to gather believers and information, and that its ritual for the Two-Faced Gate God converted the deity’s believers into demon followers.
• Bifrons used its Corpse Burning Lamp on the Whistleblower’s corpse and recovered incomplete memories revealing that the Whistleblower had summoned Xing Tian to pursue feathered Ascension.
• Lu Yao learned that some Gods sought to become Feathered Ones, then offered Bifrons a Flat Peach and recruited it to hunt other demons for the Yao Clan.
• Lu Yao named Bifrons the Mystic Arts Country’s only Legal Demon and forbade other Illegal Demons throughout the Yao Clan Civilization.
• Lu Yao gave Zhizhi an Apostle’s Mark and ordered it to work with Bifrons to address the Mystic Arts Country’s demon problem and gather intelligence about other Gods’ faiths.

Lu Yao learned that the Dragon Tooth Sword had fled to Magu Cave after the Servant Insect Race attacked a Fragmented World and targeted True Lord Yellow Dragon. He agreed to rescue Yellow Dragon’s remnant soul and organized the Resurrection Kingdom’s Dragon Hunting Army to confront the invaders.

• Crane Taoist introduced the wounded Dragon Tooth Sword, which described how True Lord Yellow Dragon had merged with a Fragmented World after a calamity.
• The Dragon Tooth Sword explained that the Servant Insect Race had enslaved locals, subdued novice gods, and driven it into hiding while pursuing True Lord Yellow Dragon.
• Lu Yao agreed to help, and the Dragon Tooth Sword offered to reveal the locations of Yellow Dragon’s Godhead and Flame of Faith in exchange for rescuing him.
• Crane Taoist described the Servant Insect Race’s armor beetles, warship bugs, star roaches, and experienced warriors to Lu Yao.
• Lu Yao invited Vadiye to advise the operation and decided that the Resurrection Kingdom would form the Dragon Hunting Army, supported by the Yao Tribe’s worlds.

Lu Yao learned about the Servant Insect Race and sent Mao Cao and the Dragon Hunting Army into a Fragmented World to destroy them. He traced the invaders to a nearby Grit World, discovered that Xenomorphs—not Stone Baboons—formed the core of their civilization, and aimed the Vortex Cannon at their base.

• Lu Yao researched the Servant Insect Race, learned about its hierarchy and Xenomorph-based weapons, and gathered more intelligence from Prince Walnut Vadiye.
• Lu Yao appointed Mao Cao to command the assault and equipped him with weapons, protective gear, and the Dianke Warrior.
• Dragon Tooth Sword established an Ultra-Long Range Portal, and the Dragon Hunting Army entered the Fragmented World to secure its surroundings and hunt the Servant Insect Race.
• Lu Yao fixed the Road Goddess's Crossroads signpost outside the Fragmented World and found a nearby Grit World sending Star Roaches toward it.
• Lu Yao observed the Servant Insect Race raising Xenomorphs and feeding them Stone Baboons, then concluded that the Xenomorphs were the civilization's true core.
• Lu Yao activated the Vortex Cannon and aimed it at the Grit World.

Xia 339 was captured while trying to escape the Bone Dragon Legion and questioned by Military Advisor Vadiye about the Servant Insect Race’s war and its relationship with Xenomorphs. Vadiye challenged Xia 339’s belief that the Legion was saving people, promising to reveal whether the insects had domesticated their supposed masters.

• Xia 339 watched the Bone Dragon Legion’s patrols and recalled how its forces had overwhelmed the Servant Insect Race, leaving him trapped behind enemy lines.
• Xia 339 killed a headless scout and tried to steal its Flying Sky Lamp, but the scout blasted him with a strange weapon and removed his Armor Beetle.
• Xia 339 woke without his Armor Beetle and answered Vadiye’s questions about the Servant Insect Race’s numbers, leadership, and campaign against the Deity.
• Vadiye questioned whether the Legion’s coercion and killings truly freed people, and Xia 339 defended them as necessary to break the Deity’s control.
• Vadiye argued that the Xenomorphs had altered the Servant warriors and exploited their civilians, then promised to show Xia 339 what slavery and salvation really meant.

After Vadiye freed 339 from his Armor Beetle’s addictive toxins, 339 learned that the Stone Baboons could live without becoming warriors and watched their resistance to the Yao Tribe fail. Years later, Vadiye offered him a chance to leave with the Yao Tribe, and 339 chose to join them and help study Xenomorphs.

• Vadiye used the Blood Elf Blood Exchange Technique to cure 339’s dependence on his Armor Beetle and explained how Xenomorphs manipulated the Stone Baboons’ minds and bodies.
• After half a year in captivity, 339 met other Stone Baboons, learned their history, and questioned why their people forced non-warriors into insect nests.
• 339 and the other Stone Baboons watched Elder Yi Dao’s Giant Moth fall to the Yao Tribe’s forces, and they learned that Yi Dao had died.
• Over eleven years, 339 helped build a peaceful village where nearly 400 Stone Baboons lived without merging with Xenomorphs.
• Vadiye told 339 that the Stone Baboons and Xenomorphs had mutually shaped one another, and that the people could choose their own futures as the Yao Tribe departed.
• 339 asked to join the Yao Tribe, accepted its rules and the possibility of becoming a test subject, and resolved to find a new way to live alongside Xenomorphs.

Lu Yao destroyed the Servant Insect Race forces, anchored the Fragmented World to the Tree of Sylvanus, and discovered the weakened soul of True Lord Yellow Dragon. After Lu Yao restored part of the soul with World Stones, it spoke cryptically and said he was not the one who had found it.

• Lu Yao blasted the Servant Insect Race's base with the Wasteland Bomb, then anchored the Fragmented World to the Tree of Sylvanus.
• Lu Yao surveyed the Yao Tribe's foothold and learned that the Stone Baboons had retired from the Servant Insect Race while Xenomorphs had served as their combat forms.
• The Yao Tribe's forces routed the Servant Insect Race, and Mao Cao reported that Elder Yi Dao and the Giant Moth had been killed, with 10,199 enemies dead and 788 captured.
• The Dragon Tooth Sword led Lu Yao to the Weakened Soul of True Lord Yellow Dragon, which he found hidden above a Stone Baboon settlement.
• Lu Yao fed the dragon soul 360 World Stones, restoring it to an Incomplete Soul of True Lord Yellow Dragon; it spoke of a stripped Godhead and told Lu Yao he was not the one who had found it.

Lu Yao learned from True Lord Yellow Dragon’s soul that the Divine Nexus’s Fu Gu Chan had triggered the Dragon Race’s extinction and that Taisui was the race’s living prototype. The soul left advice for future dragons before bursting into Flames of Faith, which Lu Yao collected.

• Lu Yao used Asi to translate True Lord Yellow Dragon’s explanation of the Heavenly Dao, the universe’s structure, and the dangers of the Truth Side.
• True Lord Yellow Dragon revealed that the Spirit King had linked the Dragon Race’s Spirit Foundations to Fu Gu Chan, whose premature cry caused the race’s sudden extinction.
• Asi explained that the Dragon Race could eventually revive through Dragonborn and mixed-blood descendants, but would need to find new worlds because the Dragon Lodging had become dangerous.
• True Lord Yellow Dragon identified Taisui as the Dragon Race’s living prototype and warned Lu Yao to stay away from it.
• True Lord Yellow Dragon described Ethereal Ascension and becoming a Demon God as possible ways to avoid Fu Gu Chan, then urged future dragons to help their successors.
• True Lord Yellow Dragon’s soul burst into Flames of Faith, and Lu Yao collected them.

After True Lord Yellow Dragon disappeared, Lu Yao used the Fragmented World to launch a plan for identifying and training promising Novice Gods. He also heard reports on the Stone Baboons and Xenomorphs, then received word that Bifrons wanted to organize useful Shadow Demons under his command.

• Lu Yao collected True Lord Yellow Dragon's remaining Flame of Faith and Godhead, while Crane Taoist and the Dragon Tooth Sword returned to Magu Cave.
• Lu Yao discussed preserving the Fragmented World with his Subordinate Gods and established the Yao Clan Selection Plan, assigning Slaimod's Gezhi to observe Novice Gods there.
• Lu Yao moved the Fragmented World to a safer area near Cloud Temple and left it drifting in the Crawling Zone.
• Three-Flower Cat reported that the Scholars had separated the Stone Baboons from the Xenomorphs, treated the baboons, and prepared to take willing ones to the Resurrection Kingdom.
• Apostle Zhizhi told Lu Yao that Bifrons wanted permission to organize several valuable Shadow Demons into a group that could monitor demons and Old God rituals.