Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao learned that Black Wall was Black Matter and helped the Yao Clan prepare to explore the Silver Plain safely. Evidence from echoes and a Feathered One’s molt suggested that the Silver Plain connected to the Time Stop Zone, leaving Lu Yao wondering whether Feathered Ones became the stars in its sky.

• The Three-Flower Cat and Mao Cao reported that Polished Element assimilated metal under pressure from the sky, while Black Wall deep underground could suppress its effects.
• Lu Yao had Joseph identify Black Wall as Black Matter, and Joseph said such matter was normally confined to the Time Stop Zone.
• The Yao Clan developed Lone Element protective suits and Polished Roses, allowing its people to enter the Silver Plain and begin creating a Safe Zone.
• The Dark Star Lord heard echoes within large quantities of Polished Element and deciphered calls for help from beings that had fallen from the sky.
• The Blood Knight returned with an Electric Vibration Star fossil and a Feathered One’s Feather Molt, which Joseph identified as having been left behind.
• Lu Yao concluded that the Silver Plain might connect to the depths of the Time Stop Zone and wondered whether Feathered Ones became stars above it.

Joseph deciphered Harvest Marquis’s Feather Molt, helping Lu Yao conclude that the Boundary Wall connected to multiple universes, while Zhou Qiang told him about a strange, Lin Jie-like zombie in his girlfriend’s apartment. The chapter ended with Three-Flower Cat reporting that Sekhmet had revived the fossil of Electric Vibration Star.

• Joseph read Harvest Marquis’s memories, including his elastic vertical rib dam, his flight from the Monarchs, and his escape from the Boundary Wall into the Silver Plain.
• Lu Yao concluded that the Boundary Wall linked multiple universes and asked Joseph to continue deciphering the Feather Molt.
• Zhou Qiang told Lu Yao that a stiff-moving, frost-covered double of Lin Jie had emerged from a freezer and cleaned her apartment.
• Zhou Qiang asked Lu Yao to visit the apartment with him the next day to identify the zombie, and Lu Yao agreed.
• Three-Flower Cat told Lu Yao that Sekhmet had revived the fossil of Electric Vibration Star.

Lu Yao learned how the fallen Electric Vibration Stars lived and worked with the Dark Star Lord and Ju to protect San Huan from the Void’s information turbulence. After San Huan was transformed into a Star Lord and offered a Godhead, it asked to become Lu Yao’s Subordinate God.

• Sekhmet told Lu Yao that San Huan had revived but could survive only inside the Sun Temple, where the four suns recharged it.
• The Dark Star Lord connected with San Huan and translated its account of how Electric Vibration Stars flashed between coordinates, exhausted themselves, and sank into the Silver Plain.
• The Dark Star Lord explained that Electric Vibration Stars were immensely powerful but vulnerable to the Void’s overwhelming information, and proposed shielding San Huan with a specially constructed dark star.
• Lu Yao ordered the plan carried out while Ju used Sun-Forging Bay to calculate the necessary modifications.
• The Dark Star Lord and Ju completed San Huan’s transformation into a Star Lord, and Lu Yao anchored it and bestowed a Godhead.
• San Huan offered to become Lu Yao’s Subordinate God, and Lu Yao received the prompt to accept its vassalage.

Lu Yao trained San Huan into a high-speed scout and sent it to guide Travelers through the Border Zone. Two more Electric Vibration Stars arrived, but their hostility made Lu Yao reject them and bury them back in the Silver Plain.

• Lu Yao inspected San Huan's stats, while Ju explained that its speed and information-gathering talents required protection from the void.
• Ju trained San Huan to fly at high speeds, survey nearby space, and produce a map of worlds, hazards, and turbulence around Sun-Forging Bay.
• Lu Yao sent San Huan to the Border Zone to provide navigation and danger-avoidance courses for the Travelers.
• Blood Knight brought Lu Yao two newly excavated Electric Vibration Stars, which Lu Yao named A-Xing and Alpha after they were rescued and given dark-star shells.
• A-Xing and Alpha fought repeatedly, so Lu Yao used the Wishing Star to knock them unconscious and had Blood Knight return them to the Silver Plain.

Lu Yao learned more about the Silver Plain and expanded the Winged People Association’s operations in the Abyss by recruiting Green Cloaks and supplying deity corpses. The chapter ended with Lu Yao going to sleep before his planned meeting with Zhou Qiang.

• Joseph deciphered Harvest Marquis’s Feather Molt, learning that Harvest Marquis died in the Silver Plain after a meteor shower and had seen a silver worm dragging away fallen stars.
• Lu Yao warned Mao Cao’s survey station about the silver worm, while Hisoka reported that San Huan’s navigation had led the Yao Clan Civilization to the Synapse Civilization and its Water Sprout food source.
• Joseph told Lu Yao that Amer’s Blood Oath prevented the Curse Decree from controlling most Abyss Curse Worms, so Lu Yao approved a recruitment agreement between the Winged People Association and Green Arrow’s Green Cloaks.
• The Green Cloaks joined Joseph in the Abyss, where Malik had cleared the eighth floor and piled up Curse Worm corpses.
• Lu Yao arranged for Menes to send four incomplete deity corpses to the Abyss, giving the Curse Worms food and supporting the Winged People Association’s development.
• Lu Yao went to sleep, planning to meet Zhou Qiang the next day to identify a zombie woman who worked as a cleaner.

Lu Yao and Zhou Qiang investigated the strange figure in Lin Jie's apartment and discovered that Lin Jie was a committee researcher using a developing prop. Wei Yingxue arrived, identified Lu Yao as a powerful Voyager, and warned that his movements caused dangerous Spatial Distortion.

• Lu Yao and Zhou Qiang entered Lin Jie's apartment after Isabelle confirmed that the apparent zombie was inside, and they watched her clean silently while wearing earphones.
• Lu Yao suggested that Lin Jie had let Zhou Qiang discover the strange figure to test whether he could accept her unusual work and family, and Zhou Qiang accepted the explanation.
• Lin Jie turned transparent when Lu Yao and Zhou Qiang approached, so Lu Yao ordered Isabelle to tackle her, revealing her to Zhou Qiang.
• Zhou Qiang received a message from Lin Jie warning him that Lu Yao was extremely dangerous, just as Wei Yingxue arrived and rendered Zhou Qiang unconscious.
• Wei Yingxue explained that Lin Jie was an assistant researcher using a silicone-doll prop and told Lu Yao that his presence caused Spatial Distortion and burdened the committee with repairs.

Lu Yao learned that his power registered at an extraordinary Class 29 intensity and that the Border Zone had formed from the spatial collapse caused by the Spirit King’s death. Wei Yingxue asked him to find Star Lord Lucun in Hell, and they discussed the committee’s work at the funeral home as Lin Jie returned to meet Lu Yao’s friend.

• Wei Yingxue showed Lu Yao his Class 29 reading and explained that his living, orderly state prevented his power from causing a chaotic overlap zone.
• Wei Yingxue revealed that the Spirit King’s death created the Border Zone when its vast spatial hub collapsed and released the spaces it had connected.
• Wei Yingxue asked Lu Yao to find Star Lord Lucun, who had become a Demon God in Hell, and Lu Yao agreed to ask a friend to make inquiries.
• Wei Yingxue explained that the logistics department used the funeral home grounds to test special equipment and that Lin Jie had been developing a humanoid tool.
• Wei Yingxue said Lin Jie was returning so she and Lu Yao’s friend could discuss whether their relationship could work.

Lu Yao met Lin Jie and Zhou Qiang at a grilled fish restaurant, where Lin Jie explained the lifelike silicone AI doll she had used to test him, and the couple agreed to meet her parents at New Year's. Over dinner with Wei Yingxue and Song Shiyi, Lu Yao learned that a war had erupted at the battlefield ruins over a sealed world, with Christian Mythology confronting a five-mythology bloc.

• Lin Jie told Zhou Qiang that her apparent double was a silicone doll powered by an experimental AI, and he agreed to meet her parents at New Year's.
• Wei Yingxue told Lu Yao that Song Shiyi was twenty-one and would lose the Moon God title at twenty-three, while the old gods would persist as long as people remembered and inherited them.
• Song Shiyi arrived and reported that fighting at the battlefield ruins had destroyed twelve Divine Kingdoms and killed more than eight million.
• Song Shiyi explained that rival forces were fighting over a sealed world containing Tablet People descendants, ancient ruins, and a sleeping Immortal-Class Void Spirit.
• Michael and three other Angels led Christian Mythology against a bloc of Roman Mythology, Wuyou Township, Greek Mythology, Celtic Mythology, and Persian Mythology after declaring that a Christ had been born in the world.
• Wei Yingxue explained that most Border Zone Star Lords had dissociated or fallen into muddled sleep, leaving the Angels free to throw their weight around.

Yao Yuan Shou worried that the Yao Clan Civilization no longer needed it while Luka was away, but Luka returned and revealed a plan to use domesticated Star Worms to mine Electric Vibration Stars. Yao Yuan Shou accepted a role monitoring the creatures and disclosed that its real profession was Door Opener, essentially a thief who entered spatial passages and cracks.

• Yao Yuan Shou feared that the expanding Yao Clan station and its own mining operations meant the Yao Clan Civilization planned to abandon it.
• On the tenth day after Luka left, Yao Yuan Shou found Luka testing a Skate Board and learned that he had been ordered to rest before helping the station use the new equipment.
• Luka took Yao Yuan Shou to see a Star Worm, a symbiote of Electric Vibration Stars that the Yao Clan had captured and domesticated with water and Magic Bottles.
• Luka explained that Star Worms could locate and mine underground Electric Vibration Stars, and that Yao Yuan Shou would help monitor them and support their work.
• Yao Yuan Shou told Luka that its traveler identity was a cover and that its true profession was Door Opener, a thief skilled at entering spatial passages, tunnels, and cracks.

Yao Yuan Shou joined the Yao Clan Civilization and shared what he knew about the ancient dignitary’s burrow and the Star Worms’ evolution. He warned Number Six against threatening the Yao Clan, then wondered what Lord Yao was doing beyond the passage.

• Yao Yuan Shou told Luka that an ancient dignitary’s sealed Life Sanctuary might have been a long-term base in the Silver Plain, and Luka invited him to join the Yao Clan Civilization.
• Six days later, Yao Yuan Shou and Luka received Number Six, a trained Star Worm, at the research station.
• Number Six explained that it preferred living underground and that Star Worms could grow into a new life-form by combining Electric Vibration Stars.
• Yao Yuan Shou told Luka that Star Worms represented an evolutionary path and urged him to report the discovery to Lord Yao.
• Yao Yuan Shou warned Number Six against harming the Yao Clan, and Number Six said it only wanted a place to survive.
• Number Six described Lord Yao as a powerful, eccentric ruler who fed on disasters, and Yao Yuan Shou wondered what disaster he was eating.

Lu Yao investigated Star Worms on the Silver Plain, rewarded Luka with godhood, and helped Star Lord Lian Zhen locate Star Lord Lucun. After finishing his work and returning home for leave, he faced his mother’s surprise introduction to a potential girlfriend.

• Luka explained that Star Worms were linked collectives of Fallen Stars that stored energy and could work for the Yao Clan Civilization in exchange for Magic Bottles, while Blood Knight reported their weaknesses.
• Lu Yao ordered the research station to prioritize safety, then granted Luka a Godhead for his work with Yao Yuan Shou and the Star Worms.
• Lu Yao paid for information claiming Star Lord Lucun was imprisoned by Belfinger, then offered a higher bounty for Lucun’s Demon God Emblem and obtained it.
• Lu Yao summoned Star Lord Lucun, learned that the Initial Lord had turned him into a demon and trapped him in Hell, then arranged for Isabelle to deliver his emblem to Star Lord Lian Zhen.
• Lu Yao finished his work, took compensatory leave, and returned home, where his mother immediately offered to introduce him to a pretty girl.

Roy, a cursed Minstrel Elf who could barely sleep or get drunk, worked with Rita at her Long Night Bar while searching for the person who cursed him. Rita’s new liquor gave him vivid, intimate visions, and the chapter ended with Mr. Jin recognizing Roy’s curse and leaving behind a scorched mark.

• Goblin Ball tried to recruit Roy to entertain wealthy nobles, but Roy refused and continued drinking at Rita’s bar.
• Roy recalled how an unsigned letter announced a curse that kept him from sleeping, made him resistant to medicine and alcohol, and brought misfortune to women he encountered.
• Roy explained that Rita’s protection from the curse had led him to stay at her bar and taste her new liquors.
• Rita served Roy her crimson liquor, Long Night, which made him dizzy and triggered a vision of her touching his chin while claiming he had sought her out.
• Mr. Jin drank Long Night, fell asleep, and later told Roy that the liquor gave him dreams and that Roy was cursed.
• Mr. Jin left the bar, and Roy saw a black scorch mark where he had been lying.

At Long Night Bar, Roy learned that his level 99 Old God's Curse could be removed only at the dangerous Silver Plain, though doing so would cost him his Elf abilities and long life. A visit from Chesia revealed that Ishtar had cursed him, and Roy decided to seek a way to end the curse.

• Mr. Jin returned to Long Night Bar and told Roy that his tree farm was thriving under a new chief.
• Master Jue identified Roy's affliction as a level 99 Old God's Curse and explained that removing it required a God, immense Power of Faith, and a Godhead.
• Master Jue told Roy that the Silver Plain could erase the curse, but Roy would also lose his Elf abilities and long life there.
• A woman in a black dress named Chesia entered the bar, and her presence provoked customers into a violent frenzy until she left.
• Chesia identified Ishtar, the Mistress of Heaven, as the one who cursed Roy, and Roy decided to eliminate the curse.

Roy partnered with the Electric Vibration Star White Knight, and they became close friends while working at the Survey Station. After Roy’s curse returned when he left the Silver Plain, White Knight went after the culprit and came back with Ishtar captive.

• Roy was selected as a Star Guardian candidate and formed a partnership with the Electric Vibration Star White Knight, while Corruptor Yandumas paired with Double Tail.
• Roy and White Knight became brothers, and the Blood Knight sent them to the Sun God Temple for a break; Sekhmet healed White Knight and confirmed that Roy’s curse had been dispelled on the Silver Plain.
• After Roy returned to the Resurrection Kingdom, the Old God’s Curse returned, and White Knight flew off to confront the one responsible.
• Roy waited for White Knight, then told Rita what had happened at Long Night Bar.
• White Knight returned with Ishtar captive, while Rita recognized her as Varuni and Dark Star ordered Ishtar to be quiet.

Roy confronted Ishtar over the curse she had placed on him, but her insistence that he love her led him into marriage instead. Ishtar later left to fight in Hell’s great war, and Roy returned to the Silver Plain with their daughter Eileen, whose future would reshape its history.

• White Knight tracked Ishtar through the curse and shocked her until Roy demanded she lift it.
• Ishtar refused to remove the curse unless Roy said he loved her, then insisted they marry after he complied.
• Roy and Ishtar became partners, the curse vanished, and they had a daughter named Eileen.
• Ishtar joined the Demon Association but later left to fight in Hell’s great war, entrusting Eileen to Roy.
• Roy traveled with Eileen and White Knight, then returned with Eileen to the Silver Plain.

Lu Yao returned to the Yao Clan World and learned how the Electric Vibration Stars White Knight and Double Tail had advanced the Star Guardian program. After appointing them as Subordinate Gods, he heard that Hell had erupted into an unprecedented war and prepared to meet with Kali.

• Lu Yao learned that Roy had married Ishtar and that they had a daughter, Eileen, after White Knight tracked Ishtar through the Old God's Curse and brought her out of Hell.
• Mao Cao explained that Yandumas and Double Tail had developed a method for synchronized flight and remote observation, which they documented for the Star Guardian program.
• Lu Yao summoned White Knight and Double Tail, granted them Godhead, and told Nivd to assign them according to their circumstances and choices.
• White Knight chose to train against the signal storms in the Yao Clan World, while Double Tail chose to explore and record signals across both worlds.
• Mao Cao reported that Kali urgently wanted to meet Lu Yao because a large-scale battle in Hell had caused heavy casualties among Demon Gods and Black Angels.

Kali told Lu Yao that Earth Kui had shifted the war in Hell against the Demon Gods, then asked him to send the White Knight to intervene. Lu Yao encouraged peace talks while keeping the Yao Clan’s commitment limited, and Ju later reported that Black Wall could block gods, faith, and signals.

• Kali described how the Black Angels had awakened Earth Kui, which was capturing Demon Gods and using them as a source of power while the two factions fought across Hell.
• Kali explained that the White Knight had rescued Ishtar and wounded Earth Kui, prompting Ishtar and Azazel to begin formal peace talks.
• Kali asked Lu Yao to send the White Knight back to deter Earth Kui, but Lu Yao said the satellite’s actions did not represent the Yao Clan Civilization.
• Lu Yao told Kali that the Yao Clan supported peace negotiations and might send satellites into Hell to survey conditions, and Kali left reassured.
• Ju told Lu Yao that Black Wall could immobilize Electric Vibration Stars and block signals, Godhead powers, and Power of Faith, making it a God-blocking material.

Ju demonstrated how Black Wall could be used in a God-Blocking Boundary Ring and a Boundary Ruler that reflected miracles and measured Void Eye. Lu Yao approved Ju’s request for more Black Wall to study Void Eye, then heard Chesia explain that Hell’s supposed strategic moves were largely the result of mutual suspicion and blunders.

• Ju showed Lu Yao the God-Blocking Boundary Ring, which prevented outside gods from observing or projecting their will into a world.
• Ju demonstrated the Boundary Ruler’s reflector, which turned away attacks, and explained that the tool could measure worlds and enter Void Eye without being destroyed.
• Ju asked Lu Yao for more Black Wall to study Void Eye and the Breathing Soil, and Lu Yao approved the request.
• Mao Cao’s prayer brought Chesia to Lu Yao, and she described how the Demon Gods and Black Angels were frightening each other with false displays of military action.
• Chesia revealed that Lucifer’s attempt to study the sealed Old Ruler had gone wrong, causing it to revive as Earth Kui, after which Lucifer claimed the incident was a successful secret strategy.

Chesia explained that the [Old Ruler] had damaged Lucifer’s mind, forcing him to rely on instinct to avoid mental contamination. Lu Yao learned that General Qing was Eastern King Duke in disguise and tried to capture him, but he escaped into an Earth Kui, leaving Lu Yao suspicious of his secrets.

• Chesia recounted how Lucifer’s bid to unify the Feathered One world led Michael and other Monarchs to attack him under orders from the [Old Ruler], who then impaired Lucifer’s ability to think.
• Chesia reported that the [Earth Kui] had caused 43 Demon Gods to go missing and 3 Black Angels to lose contact, while negotiations toward a ceasefire advanced around plans to hunt the creatures.
• Chesia identified General Qing as Da Meng, formerly of the Nightmare Midge clan, and Lu Yao recognized him as Eastern King Duke.
• Lu Yao sent White Knight and Double Tail to capture General Qing, but they found him hiding in the Sea of Breathing Soil before he fled into an Earth Kui.
• White Knight and Double Tail returned after losing track of General Qing deep underground, and Lu Yao decided to ask Supreme Pure Spirit Yuan Jun about his suspicious behavior.

Lu Yao learned from the Queen Mother of the West that the Eastern King Duke used Pot Maiden’s divination and a shared consciousness to evade danger. He approved opening the Abyss’s ninth level, where the expedition found a folded maze and a captive named Winnie.

• Lu Yao paid Chesia for information, then entered Yellow Springs to speak with the Queen Mother of the West.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Eastern King Duke and Pot Maiden had likely fused their consciousnesses, allowing Pot Maiden to predict danger and help him escape.
• The Queen Mother of the West advised Lu Yao to use the Five Severities Token cautiously, and Lu Yao returned to his computer.
• Haizhe, Malik, and the Winged People asked Lu Yao to open the Abyss’s ninth level, and he approved their request.
• Malik led the expedition into a maze of twisting passages, where Lu Yao spotted an antlered woman named Winnie chained to a stone pillar.