Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao followed the Yao Tribe’s operation on Mikes Continent, approved the refugees’ asylum, and punished Chi Lian for allowing the Yao Clan to become involved in the local war. The Satellite Group discovered that Mikes’s unusual world-wide signal structure enhanced and transformed abilities, revealing why so many powers were fighting over the continent.

• Nefeli reported that San Huan’s Satellite Group captured Mars, drove back the angels, rescued Adogen, and requested instructions about fourteen Mikes refugees led by Chen Wu.
• Electric Vibration Star explained that the Mikes People could communicate with incomplete and undead signals, and Lu Yao agreed to shelter them.
• Lu Yao transferred Chi Lian to guard Tian Zun Star and Mars for one hundred years, leaving Nefeli in charge of Continent Island.
• White Knight brought Lu Yao a Mikes Monument Tower, and Chen Wu recounted Mikes’s history of Tablet People, Rebel People, Tomb Keepers, and warring factions.
• The Satellite Group identified Mikes’s world-wide [Evolutionary Signal], which enhanced and transformed abilities and explained the continent’s importance to the competing powers.

After rescuing Adogen, Lu Yao withdrew from the Ancient Battlefield and told Rome it could reclaim Mars. Back in the Yao Clan, Star Vision's growing fame prompted the Subordinate Gods to request satellites for their worlds, and Lu Yao sent Double Tail to recruit more Electric Vibration Stars.

• Lu Yao arranged a meeting with Song Shiyi, confirmed he would not station troops in the Ancient Battlefield, and let Rome take Mars for treatment.
• The Messenger of the Gods tried to persuade Lu Yao to keep searching the battlefield, but Lu Yao reaffirmed the Yao Clan's withdrawal.
• Star Vision rose to first place in the Yao Clan's real-time reputation rankings, prompting the Subordinate Gods to petition for satellite support across their worlds.
• Tyrant, Slaimod, Mao Cao, Ju, Yanjui, Ghost God, and Chi Lian each presented reasons their domains or projects needed satellites.
• Double Tail asked Lu Yao for permission to return to the Silver Plain and recruit Electric Vibration Stars, and Lu Yao approved.

Double Tail returned from Silver Plain with a recruited Electric Vibration Star and described how Dark Star String armor improved its flight and signal abilities. The newcomer, named Tuohai, explained the Low-Frequency Zone’s crowded signal bands and its many powerful inhabitants, leaving Lu Yao interested in recruiting more Low Frequency Stars.

• Double Tail returned with an Electric Vibration Star that had been knocked into hibernation after refusing to undergo modification, and the Subordinate Gods repaired it and fitted it with a Dark Star shell.
• Double Tail explained that Dark Star String reduced collision damage and signal interference, then described how it had found candidates by testing their movement through signals.
• Double Tail recounted winning a race against a Low Frequency Star, which agreed to join after losing and was later awakened by Dark Star Lord.
• Lu Yao named the newcomer Tuohai, who explained that Low Frequency Stars lived in a vast upper zone, guarded scarce signal bands, and could observe the High-Frequency Zone below.
• Tuohai described the Light Zone above as an impassable barrier that reflected strange signals, and urged Lu Yao to recruit more Low Frequency Stars.
• Lu Yao transformed Tuohai into a Subordinate God so he could assess its claims and potential.

At Song Shiyi’s home, she told Lu Yao that her memories were returning and proposed that humans were created with an instinctive purpose to build, making them another kind of Spirit People. Lu Yao connected her theory to the ancient humans’ origins in the Border Zone and wondered whether humanity had come to Earth with hidden intentions.

• Lu Yao and Isabelle visited Song Shiyi, who explained that the Enforcement Bureau had called for Star Lord Lian Zhen’s support and that Wei Yingxue would arrive later.
• Song Shiyi recalled her unhappy childhood as a performer and described how she had been valued for her appearance rather than her dancing or singing.
• Song Shiyi used an Apostle’s water-related ability to create a fish-therapy pool, then told Lu Yao that her Old God's Curse seemed to weaken around him and Isabelle as her memories returned.
• Lu Yao shared what he had learned about the Tablet People, and Song Shiyi recorded his account before arguing that humans were inherently driven to construct buildings.
• Song Shiyi said humans were another kind of Spirit People whose existence centered on building, and Lu Yao linked her theory to the Void Universe Ancient Humans and the Border Zone.

Song Shiyi explained that modern humans descended from Void Universe Ancient Humans deployed by the Hongyi Civilization, and that the Simulator was part of a plan to reconnect them with their origins. After sharing intelligence with the committee, Lu Yao learned why the Hongyi built Wonders and reported a dangerous figure who sought to merge with the Old Ruler.

• Song Shiyi explained that Void Universe Ancient Humans were a main ethnic group of the Hongyi Civilization, and that Ceres and Pallas helped establish human populations and Wonder-building across the Void Universe.
• Song Shiyi said generations of adaptation in the Real Universe produced stable Earth Ancient Humans, and that finding the Tablet People could verify the theory.
• Song Shiyi explained that the Simulator was meant to help modern humans return to the Hongyi source, while the Spirit Realm's influence had changed their original instincts.
• Song Shiyi told Lu Yao that Wonders connected to form zodiacal stars, which the Zodiacal Orbit continually expanded and replenished.
• Song Shiyi revealed that the committee had shared its intelligence as a gesture of goodwill, and Lu Yao told her about Mikes Continent's Life Energy power and the dangerous Demon General Qing and Pot Maiden.

Tuohai analyzed the Mikes Continent’s Evolutionary Signal and identified it as a naturally formed leverage signal, then developed a more efficient Leverage Symbol for the Yao Clan Civilization. The chapter ended with Sixteen Lang bringing a living sea urchin out of the Sea of Breathing Soil, revealing a new life-form.

• Lu Yao reflected on Song Shiyi’s revelations about the Void Universe Ancient Humans and the Mountain Hermit as he left the gathering.
• Tuohai reported that the Evolutionary Signal amplified both strength and decline, compressing the lifespans of life on Mikes Continent.
• Tuohai and his collaborators reduced the signal to 26 effective Signal Groups and created the Leverage Symbol, which could make Step-Movers calculate up to 70 times faster.
• Tuohai reconsidered which Electric Vibration Stars would adapt best to the Yao Clan Civilization and asked to teach the High Frequency Stars; Lu Yao approved.
• Sixteen Lang found a black, spine-covered sea urchin in the Sea of Breathing Soil, and Lu Yao recognized it as a newly discovered life-form.

Lu Yao learned that the sea urchin-like Spiny Bodies contained unusual contents, including a Parole Stamp from Spirit Cage Mythology. He used the stamp to begin granting the Demons temporary parole from Hell, starting with Terence.

• Sixteen Lang delivered three Spiny Bodies and asked Lu Yao to create a world where it could build graves for the dead it carried.
• Lu Yao gave Sixteen Lang the Tomb World, where it began making cat-shaped graves and recording the deceased's lives.
• Tuohai examined the Spiny Bodies, and Lu Yao identified them as Boundary Wall objects called Spiny Bodies before having Tuohai open them.
• Tuohai found an unknown creature inside one Spiny Body and a Parole Stamp inside another, while the first was empty.
• Lu Yao summoned Kali, Crosell, Xiu, Terence, and Chesia, paid each Demon 50 million Flame of Faith, and offered them a chance to use the Parole Stamp.
• Lu Yao summoned a Worker Spirit and stamped Terence, granting him the Parole Labor trait and temporary release from Hell.

Terence returned from Hell to Continent Island and was invited by Nefeli to portray God Bo in the Yao Clan’s historical series, Crystal Empire. The series became a major hit, giving Terence powerful feedback and a new path toward replacing the False Star.

• Terence struggled to find a place in the secular world after returning from Hell, where he had worked for Lady Kali to earn shelter and protection.
• Nefeli invited Terence to play God Bo in Crystal Empire, a series about the Fifth Fearless Empire’s war against the Kingdom of Wuji, and explained her hopes for the project.
• Terence accepted the role under the alias Lawrence, and filming took three years as he coached the performers to portray their characters sincerely.
• Crystal Empire’s coverage rose from 11.3 percent at its premiere to 65.3 percent for its finale, when God Bo died.
• The series gave Terence enormous feedback through Prosperity of Falsehood, and he realized the Yao Clan’s satellites could replace the False Star as he pursued the Lord of False Narration.

Terence’s performance as God Bo brought unprecedented power to Prosperity of Falsehood, and Star Vision’s success earned him a False Star from God Yao. When Terence connected with it, he heard a call from the Truth Side, but Nefeli ordered him not to answer.

• Terence recalled how God Yao had defeated him and considered how difficult it would be to play the powerful, unpredictable god.
• Terence learned that Crystal Empire’s popularity was causing his strength to rise rapidly through Prosperity of Falsehood.
• Lawrence received birthday gifts from his students and audience, who praised his performance as God Bo.
• Nefeli told Terence that Star Vision would adapt more Yao Clan epics and reported Crystal Empire’s unprecedented success.
• Nefeli presented Terence with a False Star, and Terence merged with it, discovering that the Lord of False Narration’s source called to him from the Truth Side.
• Nefeli warned Terence not to answer the call, identifying it as the Zodiacal Orbit and citing Lord Yao’s divine decree.

Lu Yao learned that the Multi-legged Clam had died outside its native environment, while Star Vision’s success revealed new signal technologies that could reach other worlds through dreams. After rewarding Terence by buying False Stars, Lu Yao unknowingly funded Jupiter’s renewed campaign for Mikes Continent.

• Slaimod reported that the Multi-legged Clam had died from dehydration because it could not survive in normal air.
• Star Vision’s Crystal Empire drama became a Yao Clan specialty and began appearing in the dreams of people in other worlds through Big Bear’s signal experiments.
• Big Bear explained that White Knight and Tuohai were investigating ultra-low-frequency signals, while Big Bear pursued dream-borne ultra-high-frequency transmissions.
• Nefeli asked Lu Yao to reward Terence and suggested he might eventually join the Yao Clan civilization; Lu Yao instead bought two False Stars through Gulu’s Golden Gate.
• Jupiter sold a False Star for 4 billion Flames of Faith and told Juno and Minerva he would use the money to fund another attempt to seize Mikes Continent.

Lu Yao learned that the False Star was a dangerous recruitment device tied to Libra Pseudo-Di Star, warned Terence against answering its call, and alerted Song Shiyi to the possible return of a Libra Star Official. He then received news from Finn MacCool about a Duke’s hidden world and its promised sunrise.

• Lu Yao discovered that the False Star was a Star Stone used by Libra Pseudo-Di Star to recruit high-risk Star Gods, and learned from Spirit Duke that they often disappeared or died while investigating other Zodiacal stars.
• After Terence fused with the False Star, Nefeli reported that a Star Official was calling him from the Truth Side; Lu Yao warned Terence not to respond and explained the danger.
• Lu Yao traced the call to Libra’s First-class Star and suspected that its Star Official might have sent the signal that damaged the South Heaven Gate, so he reported the intelligence to Song Shiyi.
• Finn MacCool told Lu Yao that some mining-area monsters were neutral and that Purple Ore could activate markings left near them.
• Finn MacCool reported that a marking left by the Second-Class Duke Who Watches the Sun gave the address and incantation for a world containing a [Sunrise], and Lu Yao prepared to investigate.

Lu Yao learned that the Duke Who Watches the Sun had been secretly imprisoned and used an incantation to awaken Sunrise, a vast sunlike world created from an ancient Star Lord’s remains. Sunrise then appeared to follow Lu Yao’s viewpoint and approached the Cloud Temple, triggering a danger warning.

• Lu Yao asked Daisy, Salid, and Baroye about the Duke Who Watches the Sun, learning that Baroye had found conflicting accounts of the duke’s imprisonment.
• Lu Yao used the incantation, transforming the golden-sphere world and surrounding Red Void into the enormous stormlike Sunrise.
• A message from the Duke Who Watches the Sun explained that Sunrise was built from an ancient four-law Star Lord and was meant to bring light to the new world.
• Lu Yao saw Sunrise grow into a massive, brilliant sphere and prepared to send researchers to investigate it.
• The Simulator warned Lu Yao of an approaching danger, and he discovered that Sunrise had moved beside the Cloud Temple and seemed to follow his viewpoint.

Lu Yao learned to control the newly arrived Star Lord Sun and discovered it carried the Sunlight Law. He deployed the law across the Void Universe, turning the Four Rules Star Body into a public sunrise decorated with a grinning face.

• Lu Yao summoned Ju, Dark Star Lord, and the Satellite Group to examine the Star Lord Sun, and Dark Star Lord explained that Lu Yao could steer it with his will.
• Lu Yao tested the control, named the entity the Four Rules Star Body, and learned that its gravity had trapped nearby worlds and Yao Clan Civilization in the region.
• Dark Star Lord created a projection satellite that eventually received a response from the Four Rules Star Body, revealing the Sunlight Law.
• Lu Yao learned the law could project the Four Rules Star Body into every world in the Void Universe, with different effects in different places.
• Lu Yao decorated the Four Rules Star Body with Dark Stars and deployed the Sunlight Law across the Void Universe.

Growth Heaven discovered that a Black Sun had appeared across worlds and learned that its prototype was a colossal star in the Yao Clan’s territory, likely created by Lord Yao. He visited the Yao Clan to investigate, but the Four Rules Star Body’s sinister grin and laughter left him unnerved.

• Growth Heaven saw a Black Sun appear over Jambudvipa and learned that the same phenomenon had appeared across many worlds and mythologies.
• Growth Heaven learned that Rome had identified the Black Sun’s prototype in the Crawling Zone and that Lord Yao had likely created it.
• Growth Heaven decided to visit Lord Yao in a personal capacity and establish contact with the Yao Clan.
• The Marshal of the Long Cavalry welcomed Growth Heaven and warned him that leaving the Four Rules Star Body’s territory would require guidance from the Void Fish clan.
• As Growth Heaven traveled toward the Yao Clan’s territory, the Four Rules Star Body formed a black grin and spoke with a hoarse laugh in his mind.

Growth Heaven attended a meeting in Sand City about the Four Rules Star Body, where Myriad Incarnations revealed that Lord Yao had stabilized it but could not explain its nature. After the other envoys left, Growth Heaven agreed to stay for ten years because the Star Body seemed to like him, and arranged an exchange between Jambudvipa and Sand City.

• Growth Heaven arrived in Sand City and met Mr. Smile, Wuji, and Zhao Zhenzhu before Myriad Incarnations briefed the envoys on the Four Rules Star Body.
• Myriad Incarnations said Lord Yao had stabilized the self-aware Star Body, whose projections had been intended as friendly greetings, and that Lord Yao was occupied with an even more powerful guest.
• Zhao Zhenzhu, Mr. Smile, Growth Heaven, and Wuji offered to convey their worlds’ goodwill and pursue friendship with the Four Rules Star Body.
• Slaimod asked Growth Heaven to remain for ten years because the Four Rules Star Body had shown a joyful attitude toward him, and Growth Heaven agreed to stay under Lord Yao’s protection.
• Growth Heaven contacted Sun Palace Celestial to report to Medicine Buddha and arranged for Jambudvipa and Sand City to exchange knowledge.

Growth Heaven watched Jambudvipa and Sand City exchange Buddhist and Yao Clan culture, reflecting on why his efforts to spread knowledge had destabilized his Buddhist Kingdom while Lord Yao’s approach differed. After ten years of exchange, Growth Heaven learned that the Four Rules Star Body wanted to borrow his Wisdom Sword, then received word that Lord Yao had summoned him.

• Monks from Jambudvipa arrived in Sand City, where Yao Clan Members adopted Buddhist clothing and prayer beads while the monks explored the Library and learned about Yao Clan culture.
• Growth Heaven recalled that his earlier campaign to spread education had led to unrest in Jambudvipa, and Slaimod explained Lord Yao’s approach of providing education and material security so people could govern themselves.
• The monks became engrossed in Star Vision programs and prayed for Growth Heaven to bring Star Vision to Jambudvipa, but Slaimod said only Lord Yao could authorize it.
• Over ten years, monks and Yao Clan Members traveled between Sand City and Jambudvipa, benefiting from each other’s different ways of life, while the Four Rules Star Body remained unexplained.
• Slaimod told Growth Heaven that the Four Rules Star Body wanted to borrow his Wisdom Sword to cut away its vexations, and Growth Heaven agreed.
• Slaimod returned with Lord Yao’s oracle summoning Growth Heaven, who prepared to go with him.

Lu Yao discovered that the Four Rules Star Body’s alarming appearance had frightened gods across many worlds, then learned it was hungry and needed Crimson Void. He also arranged cultural exchanges between Jambudvipa and Cloud Temple, while the chapter ended with Growth Heaven offering to share Jambudvipa’s local specialties.

• The Messenger of the Gods and visitors from several factions sought explanations after the Four Rules Star Body appeared across their worlds, and Lu Yao reassured them that it was harmless.
• Lu Yao met his father, walked with him to the station, and reflected on how both he and the Yao Clan had grown more mature.
• Slaimod reported that the Four Rules Star Body was drawn to Growth Heaven’s Wisdom Sword, which temporarily relieved its hunger-related anguish.
• Lu Yao tested Crimson Void on the Four Rules Star Body, which eagerly absorbed it and laughed in a manner taught by Mr. Ju.
• Growth Heaven asked to project Star Vision into Jambudvipa, and Lu Yao agreed to establish long-term exchanges with Cloud Temple.
• Growth Heaven offered to share Jambudvipa’s local specialties with the Yao Clan.

Lu Yao learned about Jambudvipa’s Buddhist Chanting Monks and Four Treasures Lucky Bags, then advised Growth Heaven to recruit professional administrators and expand in the Crawling Zone. The chapter ended when Dark Star Lord reported that the Four Rules Star Body had gone berserk and was destroying worlds.

• Growth Heaven showed Lu Yao a Buddhist Chanting Monk performing Buddhist rap and explained how the profession spread scriptures and improved public order.
• Growth Heaven described the Monk Qin and proposed broadcasting chanting performances on Star Vision.
• Growth Heaven introduced Four Treasures Lucky Bags and gave Lu Yao examples of the Worry-Free Tree Sap, Seven-Leaf Tree Leaf, and Sal Tree Bark.
• Growth Heaven asked Lu Yao how to transform Jambudvipa, and Lu Yao advised him to hire professional administrators and cultivate the Crawling Zone.
• Dark Star Lord reported that the Four Rules Star Body had gone berserk and was destroying worlds by accelerating their rotation.

Lu Yao let the Four Rules Star Body keep experimenting with Crimson Void while he handled diplomacy with Great Qin and Tianji Mythology. The chapter ended with the Four Rules Star Body creating a Void Mirror, suggesting its unusual experiments had produced a breakthrough.

• Lu Yao learned that the Four Rules Star Body had shattered 49 Grit Worlds while trying to imitate his method of obtaining Crimson Void, and he let it continue under supervision.
• Zhao Zhenzhu visited Lu Yao to propose formal relations and trade between Great Qin and the Yao Clan Civilization, explaining Great Qin’s plans to expand into the Crawling and Repulsion Zones.
• Lu Yao agreed to hand Great Qin’s trade negotiations to Tyrant, with Slaimod and Nature Lady serving as advisers, and Zhao Zhenzhu agreed to remain as an ambassador.
• Wuji told Lu Yao that Tianji Mythology had found a radio signal that might come from a stranded satellite, and the two sides agreed to trade Flying Boats and Elemental Magic Realms.
• The Dark Star Lord reported that the Four Rules Star Body had created a Void Mirror, leaving Lu Yao astonished.

Lu Yao learned that the Four Rules Star Body could create Void Mirrors that connected compatible worlds and refracted space. He planned to use separate Void Mirrors as a slingshot network for faster travel and decided to send Isabelle into one to investigate its interior.

• The Dark Star Lord explained how the Four Rules Star Body had dismantled a Grit World’s rules to create a Void Mirror.
• Lu Yao rewarded the Four Rules Star Body with six Red Voids, taught it how to obtain Red Void correctly, and ordered it not to harm worlds with life.
• The Four Rules Star Body demonstrated that Void Mirrors could combine worlds with compatible rule structures and refract objects through space.
• Lu Yao proposed relaying journeys through separate small Void Mirrors to form a Void Mirror Slingshot network.
• The Four Rules Star Body described the Void Mirror’s interior as a hidden space for storing objects and studying rules, and Lu Yao decided to send Isabelle inside.