Chapter Summaries

Lu Yao learned that Zila was an ancient Earth Core person who had escaped a catastrophic impact and become stranded in the Void Universe. He offered to help Zila return to Earth, and Zila agreed, revealing that he had saved 132 million Gear Teeth.

• Lu Yao questioned Zila’s claim to be from Earth, and Tuohai explained that the Signal Layer translated different world names into familiar terms.
• Zila described how Earthlings grew up in the Earth Core and Outer Core, then recounted how a smaller Earth struck his world and caused a devastating freeze.
• Zila explained that he had escaped into the Void Universe through dimensional descent, survived alone on a Ruined Vein island, and was later pulled into Calamity Ground when the island collapsed.
• Lu Yao revealed that he was Lord Yao and offered to help Zila return to Earth, prompting Zila to ask how Earthlings had changed.
• Zila accepted Lu Yao’s offer and promised him his savings of about 132 million Gear Teeth.

Lu Yao brought Zila back from the Calamity Ground, where the iron man used his savings to obtain a Polycystic Complex and strengthen his abilities. After arriving on Earth, Zila saw how much the world had changed and explored the street in a cardboard disguise.

• Zila told Lu Yao how he had saved Gear Teeth over many work cycles and been cheated by Cogworkers who promised to help him find Earth.
• Zila shrank his body, exchanged Gear Teeth for a dormant Polycystic Complex, and prepared to return with Lu Yao.
• Lu Yao said goodbye to Naruto, then returned to Earth and appointed Zila as an apostle with Magnetism Mystery LV99.
• Zila gave his remaining Gear Teeth to improve Magnetism Mystery and obtain Longevity Nirvana for Satellite Takuumi to reward Yao Tribe Cogworkers.
• Lu Yao brought Zila to his room, disguised him in a cardboard shell, and took him outside, where Zila saw toy-car racers, an ostrich, and street dancers.

Lu Yao brought Zila to the surface, where Zila confronted the loss of its Earth Core People and recognized the moon as a result of the ancient impact. Back home, Zila revealed that the Magnetism Party was active in Calamity Ground, while Lu Yao decided to request more satellites from Blood Knight.

• Lu Yao took Zila away from the crowded streets after its magnetic effects disrupted nearby electronics, then explained that the trash Zila collected was not valuable or alive.
• Zila realized it could no longer detect any Earth Core People and accepted that its old home had vanished; Lu Yao told it that the Yao clan was its home now.
• Zila recognized the moon as an object formed by the ancient impact that had transformed Earth's core.
• After returning home, Zila told Lu Yao about the secretive Black Magnet People of the Magnetism Party, who entered Calamity Ground to seek traits for their Pocket Universe.
• Lu Yao reviewed the Yao clan's limited personnel and decided to ask Blood Knight for more satellites.

Lu Yao recruited two Electric Vibration Stars, Acute Angle and Blue Lake, after learning that Blue Lake might be connected to the missing Harvest Marquis. Blue Lake demonstrated powerful signal-copying and transportation abilities, and an examination with the Four Rules Star Body revealed that it was the Behemoth that had arrived with Harvest Marquis.

• The Blood Knight brought Lu Yao two promising Fallen Stars from the Silver Plain and explained that Blue Lake might be the missing Harvest Marquis.
• Lu Yao made both Electric Vibration Stars Subordinate Gods, renamed [∠∠] Acute Angle, and sent it to replace White Knight at the Time Stop Zone.
• Blue Lake demonstrated that it could create indistinguishable Signal Body duplicates and produce up to nine copies.
• Blue Lake used its Super Signal Body ability to capture a Void Eye and store it temporarily inside itself, then White Knight replenished its energy.
• White Knight and Blue Lake connected to the Four Rules Star Body, which revealed that Blue Lake was the Behemoth that had come with Harvest Marquis, not Harvest Marquis itself.

Lu Yao discovered that Behemoths could connect with Electric Vibration Stars to create new satellites, and Jimmy successfully became the first Yao Clan satellite. Jimmy later reported that Tuohai had contacted the Magnetism Party, revealing a dangerous Magnetic Sea world where its people lived aboard magnetic sailboats.

• White Knight explained how it used the Four Rules Star Body to uncover Blue Lake's Signal Layer and reconstruct Blue Lake's history, including its fusion with a Fallen Star.
• White Knight said it could safely transform ordinary Yao Clan members into Electric Vibration Stars, and Lu Yao chose Jimmy to attempt the process.
• White Knight and Blue Lake fused Jimmy with a Fallen Star, and Jimmy awoke successfully as an Electric Vibration Star.
• Lu Yao ordered Jimmy to contact King Wuji, test the Polycystic Complex, and speak with Tuohai at the Calamity Ground.
• Jimmy reported that Tuohai had contacted the Magnetism Party, whose members traveled the storm-filled Magnetic Sea aboard Magnetic Field Sailboats while seeking Boundary Walls and trading for abilities.

Eugene was chosen to enter the Calamity Ground with Damon, where they spent nineteen years making Disaster Bodies. After hearing that the Yao Clan was recruiting Cogworkers, Eugene decided to investigate their offer.

• Labule VII selected Eugene and Damon to enter the Calamity Ground through a newly surfaced Boundary Wall, explaining that young magnetic people could bring needed change.
• Eugene arrived in the Calamity Ground and, nineteen years later, finished his daily Disaster Body work while Damon continued working relentlessly.
• Eugene overheard Portrey crew members discussing how the Yao Clan had defended Cogworkers against One-Eyed's group and was recruiting people with promises of better rewards and rest.
• Eugene doubted that the Yao Clan's offer could be as profitable as claimed and decided to investigate it himself.

Eugene joined Yao Clan Town, rose from an ordinary Cogworker to an advanced designer, and helped create powerful Disaster Bodies. The first LV6, a dancing Fairy Dancer called Female Demon, transformed life in the town, and Eugene became determined to create one himself.

• Eugene visited Yao Clan Town and learned from Kasko that the Yao Clan was recruiting advanced Cogworkers to produce high-level Disaster Bodies.
• Eugene applied to join the Yao Clan, said goodbye to Damon, and was accepted by Satellite Takuumi into the ordinary Cogworker group.
• After three years, Eugene advanced to the design group; over the next seven years he produced several Level 4 Disaster Bodies and one LV5, while Damon continued making Level 1s.
• In Eugene’s fifteenth year, Ji Zi created the town’s first LV6, a Fairy Dancer-shaped Disaster Body that charmed the surrounding Cogworkers into dancing.
• The Female Demon later flew away, and new female fairy Disaster Bodies appeared; Eugene grew fascinated with them and resolved to create one himself.

Eugene discovered that intense personal interests could awaken a Multi-legged Pump, then used it to create the LV6 Disaster Body Ghost Ship. After sharing his discovery with Tuohai, Eugene agreed to travel to the Yao Clan World to meet Lord Yao.

• Ji Zi described how his fascination with female fairies helped him create the Female Demon and earn Gear Teeth from its hunts.
• Eugene theorized that excitement about a person's deepest interests, rather than mere recording, caused the Multi-legged Pump to transform.
• A year and a half later, Eugene's Multi-legged Pump metamorphosed, and he forged it into an LV6 vessel that he named the Ghost Ship.
• Eugene explained his theory to Tuohai and received a five-million-Gear-Teeth reward for sharing his experience.
• Tuohai offered to recommend Eugene for a trip to the Yao Clan World to meet Lord Yao, and Eugene eagerly accepted.

Eugene learned about Lord Yao and the Yao Tribe before meeting Lord Yao in the Resurrection Kingdom. Lord Yao invited him to become a deity and sent him back to the Magnetic Sea to collect Magnet Monsters, leaving Eugene eager to return to the Labule with gifts.

• Eugene asked Mayor Vander about Lord Yao and learned that Lord Yao valued generosity and enjoyed stories from unfamiliar worlds.
• Zila escorted Eugene to meet Lord Yao, who asked him to explain life in the Magnetic Sea and how Magnet People and Magnetic Field Sailboats survived.
• Eugene described the origins and life cycle of Magnet People, the different crews aboard the Labule, and the dangers posed by Magnet Monsters.
• Lord Yao asked Eugene to become a deity of the Yao Tribe and tasked him with returning to the Magnetic Sea as a satellite to bring back Magnet Monsters for researchers.
• Eugene accepted the mission and began planning to bring the Labule gifts such as a Fairy Village, Omnipotence Stones, grease, and metals.

Lu Yao explored the Magnetic Sea and recruited Eugene, a magnetic person whose expertise could advance Yao Tribe Magnetics. Eugene became a Yao clan God and returned with five magnetic monsters, including a talking Cobalt Magnet King.

• Philes explained that the Yao Tribe could develop Magnetics through practical experiments and declined Lu Yao's offer of a Godhead so it could continue leading frontline research.
• Zila described the Magnetic Sea and urged Lu Yao to bring magnetic people into the Yao Tribe, so Lu Yao asked Jimmy to invite Eugene from the Calamity Ground.
• Eugene arrived and demonstrated Magnetic Field Surfing; it explained magnetic people's ship-centered lives and described Magnet Monsters and the hazards of the Magnetic Sea.
• Lu Yao made Eugene a Subordinate God of the Yao clan and ordered it to bring back magnetic monsters.
• Eugene returned with five monsters, including a Magnet King that introduced itself as the Cobalt Magnet King and accused its captors of kidnapping it.

Lu Yao learned the Cobalt Magnet King’s account of the Magnetic Sea and agreed to fund his attempt to reclaim his territory in exchange for research access and magnet people immigrants. After a few years of study in the Yao Clan Civilization, the king abruptly claimed that restoring his nation no longer mattered and that the Yao Clan needed him more.

• The Cobalt Magnet King demanded an honorable duel, but the Four Rules Star Body copied its magnetic powers and defeated him with ease.
• Eugene explained that Magnetic Field Sailboats carried magnet people fleeing the magnet kings, who forced them into exhausting labor, while the Cobalt Magnet King defended his subjects but had lost ground through poor military development.
• The Cobalt Magnet King asked Lu Yao to help restore his territory and promised its resources and civilians; Lu Yao agreed on the condition that the king undergo experiments and provide magnet people immigrants.
• Lu Yao sent Eugene and Zila to study and recharge the Cobalt Magnet King and his Magnet Monsters.
• Several years later, Lu Yao found the Cobalt Magnet King enjoying life near Airship Ring Road, and the king said he had changed his mind about restoring his nation and wanted to serve the Yao Clan instead.

Lu Yao sent Cobalt Magnet King and its soldiers to the Magnetic Sea as a disguised salvage fleet, while research showed magnetic traits could work across worlds. The fleet returned with magnetic fragments and 51 rescued refugees, bringing the Yao Clan new resources and possibilities for surveying the Silver Plain.

• Philes and Zila explained that recreating Magnetic Field Sailboats required high-quality magnets, so Lu Yao ordered Cobalt Magnet King to salvage magnetic fragments in the Magnetic Sea while disguised as a sailboat.
• Lu Yao researched magnetic bodies and learned from the Spirit Duke Tablet that they were widespread but grew slowly and were drawn to strong magnetic fields.
• Philes said magnetic field sails might work in other worlds, and Zila tested his magnetic traits on the Silver Plain and confirmed he could use magnetic force there.
• Zila reported that magnetic fields were strong in the Silver Plain's sky but weak underground, and that magnetic field sails could help search for Fallen Stars.
• Cobalt Magnet King returned to the Resurrection Kingdom with five transformed ships full of magnetic fragments and 51 refugees rescued from the Magnetic Sea.

The Cobalt Magnet King recalled how it built Magnetic Light Island before the Plundering Era’s Magnet Kings destroyed its territory and drove it into exile. Now, while gathering magnetic bodies for Lord Yao, it rescued refugees and encountered the Samarium Magnet King, but Eugene stepped in to handle the threat.

• The Cobalt Magnet King built up Magnetic Light Island, rescued trapped civilians, and defended its territory from disasters and rival Magnet Kings.
• Pirates and Magnet Kings who grew stronger by devouring civilians drove the Cobalt Magnet King from its island and forced it to wander until it became Lord Yao’s subordinate.
• The Cobalt Magnet King returned to the Magnetic Sea with four soldiers to collect magnetic bodies for Lord Yao and received permission from Lord Eugene to rescue refugees.
• The refugees mistook the Cobalt Magnet King’s fleet for a new kind of helpful Magnetic Field Sailboat, leaving it relieved but saddened by how civilians now viewed Magnet Kings.
• The Samarium Magnet King approached with a formation of magnetic monsters, and Eugene told the Cobalt Magnet King that he would handle them.

Cobalt Magnet King and Eugene’s fleet collected magnetite while repelling attacks and surviving a powerful Magnetic Sea Storm. After the successful mining trip, Cobalt Magnet King planned to expand the fleet and change the Magnetic Sea’s Plundering Era.

• Cobalt Magnet King let Eugene redirect the Samarium Magnet King’s army, then allowed refugees to help collect magnetite from the fleet.
• Cobalt Magnet King and Eugene detected a powerful storm approaching, and Cobalt Magnet King chose to face it by linking their magnetic fields.
• Cobalt Magnet King unfolded Eugene’s magnetic field to meet the storm, and Eugene absorbed its energy, opening a safe passage through it.
• A Magnetic Field Sailboat that witnessed the fleet’s success asked to sail with them, and Cobalt Magnet King withdrew into the Calamity Ground after mining was complete.
• Eugene revealed that he had once been a Magnet Person aboard a Magnetic Field Sailboat, and Cobalt Magnet King proposed expanding the fleet to transform the Magnetic Sea.

Lu Yao approved a Magnetic Sea Fleet led by Eugene and the Cobalt Magnet King, and Eugene gained new magnetic abilities to share with the other satellites. Philes unveiled a practical Magnetic Ship designed for exploration and travel across boundaries, and the fleet set sail again.

• The Cobalt Magnet King explained that magnetic-body commoners were skilled miners and craftsmen, and Lu Yao approved rescuing refugees during future mining trips.
• The Cobalt Magnet King proposed expanding the mining fleet, and Lu Yao assigned him and Eugene to form the Magnetic Sea Fleet with Eugene in command, then made the Cobalt Magnet King an Apostle.
• Eugene reported discovering magnetic Signal Structures and offered to share magnetic-body, magnetic-field conversion, and magnetic-storm abilities with the other Electric Vibration Stars.
• Philes presented a newly built Magnetic Ship equipped with magnetic-field sails, a magnetic storm device, and a magnetic probe, explaining that its plans could support production in other regions.
• Eugene and the Cobalt Magnet King led the Magnetic Sea Fleet back out to sea.

Lu Yao agreed to represent the committee on a paid trip to Thailand, then heard the Messenger of the Gods describe how Law Demons had seized the Void Mirror and driven the other factions from the Ancient Battlefield. He declined to get involved, and before beginning his long vacation, approved a test deployment of the Polycystic Complex with Nature Lady and Epitaph Spirit aboard.

• Lu Yao accepted Song Shiyi’s offer to travel to Thailand and represent the Sleeping Dragon Talent Program in an exchange concerning the Rootless Lamp.
• The Messenger of the Gods told Lu Yao that more than a hundred mature Law Demons had taken over the Void Mirror, blocked its passages, and threatened the Border Zone.
• The Messenger asked Lu Yao to use the Four Rules Star Body against the Law Demons, but Lu Yao refused to intervene.
• The Messenger reported that Rome and other factions had withdrawn from the Ancient Battlefield, leaving it under Heaven’s control.
• King Wuji and Jimmy completed testing the Polycystic Complex and proposed deploying it into the Sea of Breathing Soil for exploration.
• Lu Yao assigned Nature Lady and Epitaph Spirit to operate inside the Complex, then logged off for his vacation.

Lu Yao traveled to Bangkok with Song Shiyi and Isabelle for committee meetings about the Void Eye, where he met researcher Yang Jian and discussed ways to capture one. Yang Jian traded him five Rain Vehicles for Lu Yao’s monthly Five-Colored Stone quota, giving him a way to help the Yao Tribe develop barren worlds.

• Song Shiyi drove Lu Yao and Isabelle to the airport, and the three flew to Bangkok, where Anan welcomed them and took them to a hotel.
• Anan brought Lu Yao, Song Shiyi, and Isabelle to Golden Mountain Temple, where Song Shiyi introduced them to Zheng Tong and Yang Jian.
• Lu Yao discussed Void Eye capture with Yang Jian, who explained that Five-Colored Stone could help repair its broken structure and asked to trade for some.
• Lu Yao gave Yang Jian his monthly Five-Colored Stone quota, and Yang Jian offered him five Rain Vehicles in return.
• Lu Yao learned that the Rain Vehicles could produce rain and gradually create a rainy season, making them useful for the Yao Tribe’s barren worlds.

Lu Yao and his companions attended a meeting about the Fish Pond smuggling network and then explored Bangkok while Song Shiyi explained Thailand’s damaged system for restraining Deity Candidates. The day ended with an unknown child delivering a warning: “Don’t turn on the light.”

• Luang Por Suchat briefed the committee on the four Fish Pond masters and said the operation would focus on finding Ketu Star Lord’s Fish Pond using the Rootless Lamp.
• Lu Yao, Song Shiyi, and Isabelle skipped the official luncheon and toured Bangkok’s street food stalls.
• Song Shiyi explained how Thailand’s three guardian temples had once restrained Deity Candidates but had been damaged in the accident three years earlier.
• A child handed Lu Yao a note reading “BUYAOKAIDENG,” and Lu Yao translated it as “Don’t turn on the light.”

Lu Yao investigated the mysterious notes by using Concorde’s Impatiens ability to control a nearby Flying Head God. He brought her to his room and confronted her, leaving her frightened and begging for mercy.

• Lu Yao played Honor of Kings with Isabelle, who focused on hunting enemies while he farmed and pushed lanes.
• A stranger left Lu Yao another note asking him to meet on the hotel’s top floor, so he called Song Shiyi and switched rooms with her.
• After a second note arrived in the middle of the night, Lu Yao used Concorde’s Warning Scan to locate a Flying Head Sorcerer near the hotel and a powerful God at a nearby villa.
• Lu Yao activated Impatiens and seized control of the God, Nong Lan, then discovered she was a Flying Head God with a drone beneath her head.
• Lu Yao controlled Nong Lan into his room, released his hold on her, and watched her panic and plead for mercy.

Lu Yao learned that opening the Rootless Lamp would trigger a bloody change of leadership at [Dhritarashtra]'s Fish Pond, so Nong Lan asked him to prevent the deaths of innocent people. After hearing her story and learning Fish Pond was concealed by the [Obscuring Banner], Lu Yao decided to take action against it.

• Nong Lan explained that opening the Rootless Lamp would spark attacks between the fish and Fishermen at [Dhritarashtra]'s Fish Pond, with innocent people likely to die as well.
• Nong Lan told Lu Yao that she had once been a fish under [Asura King], escaped during a previous change of masters, and had since lived quietly with her husband Sampao.
• Song Shiyi arrived, and Nong Lan revealed that she had come to Lu Yao because Sampao hoped she could prevent another tragedy like the gymnasium deaths.
• Nong Lan explained that she used blood to find overlapping zones where she could avoid mutation, and that she had learned about the Fish Pond anomaly through blood as well.
• Nong Lan warned Lu Yao that Fish Pond possessed the [Obscuring Banner], which hid it from outside detection, and Lu Yao resolved to deal with the threat.