Chapter Summaries

Hai Landong warned Caroline that someone could evade the Guilt-Death Mechanism and SkyNet, threatening the Ixdar People with destruction from within. In Viriya, Xia Ni Ming watched a killer massacre zoo visitors and realized the attacker had broken through the Guilt-Death Mechanism.

• Hai Landong explained how Adam's genetic collapse and Fenba's control of the Gene Lock revealed the dangers of unleashing human potential.
• Hai Landong warned Caroline that a person could lack or bypass the Guilt-Death Mechanism and deceive SkyNet, then said he was fleeing the coming disaster.
• Xia Ni Ming described Ixdar technology to the forum and befriended Du Xue, who visited him at the zoo and taught him the Ixdar People's language.
• A bloodied young man attacked zoo visitors, and the arriving guard squad failed to stop him from killing Midaer and the other guards.
• Xia Ni Ming recognized the attacker's immunity to the Guilt-Death Mechanism and shouted for Du Xue to run.

Xia Ni Ming and Du Xue faced a mass slaughter by a lawless attacker who called himself Adam II, while Miliweina confronted him and sent Du Xue to protect the Dynamic Key. As Xia Ni Ming and Du Xue raced to destroy the institute’s Mechanical Computers, he drew courage from people outside who urged them to resist and save the Ixdar People.

• Du Xue fled the zoo, but Xia Ni Ming stayed behind as the attacker slaughtered people and unlocked his cage by hacking the institute’s systems.
• The attacker read Du Xue’s records, threatened to kill her and Xia Ni Ming, and began attacking them when Du Xue returned.
• Du Xue brought Miliweina, who identified the attacker’s plan to use the institute’s Mechanical Computers to crack the Dynamic Key and control the Ixdar People.
• Miliweina gave Du Xue the Dynamic Key and stayed to fight Adam II while Du Xue and Xia Ni Ming hurried to destroy the computers.
• Xia Ni Ming told people outside about the crisis, and their encouragement strengthened his resolve to delay the attacker and help save the Ixdar People.

Miliweina confronted the Murder Demon and kept fighting after he mortally wounded her, while Du Xue attempted to carry out their plan to destroy the Mechanical Computers and escape. The Dynamic Key then offered Du Xue the chance to inherit its authority, revealing that Miliweina had died.

• The Murder Demon revealed his Sixth-Order strength and fatally wounded Miliweina, who rose again by unleashing the potential of her Gene Lock.
• Miliweina dodged the Murder Demon's attack and held him back, trusting Du Xue to create a miracle.
• Du Xue and the Balloon Fish planned to use the Dynamic Key to lift Du Xue's restrictions, destroy the Mechanical Computers, and escape through the sealed gates.
• The Dynamic Key refused to transfer authority while Miliweina remained alive, so Du Xue continued toward the Mechanical Computers.
• After several dozen minutes, the Dynamic Key prompted Du Xue to inherit it, and she realized Miliweina had died.

Caroline and Hai Landong discussed the crisis facing the Ixdar People and debated whether their Guilt-Death Mechanism was essential to civilization. They wagered their civilizations’ accumulated wisdom on which would perish first, with Xu Zhi agreeing to witness the bet as the crisis continued.

• Caroline told Hai Landong she believed the Ixdar People could overcome the assassination crisis and that she would not remove the Guilt-Death Mechanism.
• Xu Zhi appeared before Caroline and Hai Landong and asked how they viewed the Ixdar People’s predicament.
• Caroline argued that Guilt-Death allowed the Ixdar People to trust one another and link their minds for rapid scientific progress, while also preventing their power from destroying society.
• Hai Landong acknowledged the mechanism’s benefits but challenged Caroline to compete over which civilization would endure.
• Caroline and Hai Landong wagered that the first civilization to perish would give the other all its crystallized wisdom, and Xu Zhi agreed to remember their bet.

After the Great President’s death, Du Xue and Xia Ni Ming tried to secure the Dynamic Key and alert the Central Research Institute, while the Murder Demon raced to seize it. The Murder Demon discovered Du Xue’s body was only a decoy, then caught up with Xia Ni Ming as he fled through the sky with the key.

• Xia Ni Ming urged Du Xue to act despite her grief, and Du Xue discovered the Dynamic Key was only half of a key and could not quickly change the Guilt-Death permissions.
• Xia Ni Ming and Du Xue reached the Central Research Institute, where scientists destroyed the Mechanical Computer, restored communications, and called for Mikaelqi’s help.
• The Murder Demon broke into the institute and attacked a Vacuum Mecha, only to find Du Xue’s body in hibernation with her brain core missing and a taunting message left behind.
• Xia Ni Ming escaped through a window by filling himself with hydrogen and carrying Du Xue’s frozen body and the Dynamic Key beneath him.
• The Murder Demon spotted Xia Ni Ming in the sky and pursued him, furious that the Balloon Fish had foiled his plans.

Murder Demon’s pursuit of Du Xue and Xia Ni Ming was halted by the Ixdar People’s Guilt-Death Mechanism and Mikaelqi, but Murder Demon awakened through sheer determination and killed Mikaelqi. As Murder Demon died, he unleashed a virus that infected Mechanical City Viriya, leaving Xia Ni Ming to flee amid the city’s collapse.

• Murder Demon evaded capture nets by exploiting the Guilt-Death Mechanism, while the Ixdar People repeatedly collapsed after trying to restrain him.
• Mikaelqi confronted Murder Demon and delayed him by provoking repeated collisions and blocking his path, even as the law’s punishment injured Mikaelqi.
• Murder Demon awakened through determination, transformed into a monstrous form, and stabbed Mikaelqi until Mikaelqi fell, then killed him with a final slash.
• Murder Demon’s body collapsed, but he released a virus that infected connected Mechanical Armor and spread through the Ixdar People by bites.
• Xia Ni Ming watched the infected crowd overrun Mechanical City Viriya as survivors fled by spacecraft and vehicles.

A targeted virus devastated the Ixdar People’s Mechanical City Viriya, forcing Xia Ni Ming to flee with Du Xue’s brain core while Caroline watched the crisis unfold from the Hai Lan Great Domain. Xu Zhi set out to inspect the disaster as Hai Landong offered to accompany him and considered using the Ixdar People’s collapse to secure an alliance with Caroline.

• Infected Ixdar People attacked Viriya, and Xia Ni Ming escaped by hot-air balloon with Du Xue’s brain core, seeking shelter and a body for her.
• Caroline told the Sea Race leaders that the Ixdar People might recover, then left a battered milk tea cup with Xu Zhi before returning to help her subordinates.
• Hai Landong explained that the Sea Race’s spoken language and individual brain firewalls protected them from a civilization-wide virus, and admitted he planned to inherit Ixdar knowledge if the Ixdar People fell.
• Hai Landong proposed marrying Caroline to form an alliance between their races, while Xu Zhi silently considered the strange identity of the ruler occupying her husband’s body.
• Xu Zhi decided to visit the Ixdar city to inspect the unprecedented disaster, and Hai Landong asked to go with him.

Xu Zhi and Hai Landong investigated the zombie virus spreading through the ruined Ixdar cities, while Xu Zhi warned that its mutations might lead to new intelligence. After rescuing a starving survivor, they learned that powerful atavistic infectees called Lickers had appeared in nearby cities.

• Hai Landong shielded Xu Zhi from zombies as Xu analyzed their brains and discovered the virus had already reached a dangerous third generation.
• Xu Zhi explained that the virus was evolving through human brain computation and might eventually develop intelligence of its own.
• As they traveled through the ruins, Hai Landong wondered whether Xu had once observed and studied the origins of magical beasts and humans.
• Xu Zhi rescued a starving girl from a high-rise and gave her food and water.
• The girl told Xu Zhi and Hai Landong that survivors had reported powerful, atavistic infected called Lickers in several cities near Mechanical City Viriya.

Xu Zhi studied the Ixdar People’s unstable Gene Locks while traveling through the ruins with Hai Landong and Zhao Shirou. He left Zhao Shirou with Hai Landong, who decided to bring the talented young woman along and keep her affection for Xu Zhi in mind.

• Xu Zhi examined a zombie’s Gene Lock and used his Alchemy Table to study how the Ixdar People’s mutations were causing genetic damage.
• Zhao Shirou asked Xu Zhi and Hai Landong to take her with them after her parents died, and Xu Zhi agreed to let her follow.
• Hai Landong discovered that Zhao Shirou had beaten seven Fourth-Order zombies to death despite having little combat experience and lamented that she wanted to become a housewife instead of cultivating her talent.
• Three days later, Xu Zhi examined a Licker and concluded that its unstable, painful mutation would be eliminated unless a more optimized creature could control its awakening.
• Xu Zhi left without Zhao Shirou, so Hai Landong took her along and privately told Xu Zhi he would keep her affection for him in mind.

Xu Zhi observed that the Ixdar People’s apocalypse could create new deities, while forum users reacted to the ruined sci-fi world and debated how to survive and salvage its technology. Xia Ni Ming explained that he and Du Xue had stayed behind, then got mocked by the players for wanting to marry her.

• Xu Zhi noted that the extinction disaster had released energy that could help powerful Ixdar People break through and become deities.
• Players on the Spore Evolution forum shared images of the ruins and discussed scavenging technology, but Xia Ni Ming explained that the network was gone and Caroline had taken away the leading scientists.
• Xia Ni Ming said that he and Du Xue had remained behind to save survivors, and he asked for help finding a Bloodline Fusion Potion and building a Doomsday Shelter.
• Xia Ni Ming announced that he planned to take human form and marry Du Xue, prompting players to tease him about whose child it was and call him a toad pursuing swan meat.

Xia Ni Ming helped a survivor team defeat a fourth-order Licker while Du Xue managed the camp’s limited skills and searched for a mechanic. The chapter ended when a zombie contacted Xia Ni Ming over the walkie-talkie and asked to talk.

• Research institutes began analyzing species data and planning to keep Xia Ni Ming alive so they could study Demonic Energy Machinery and search for survivors with useful expertise.
• Du Xue reviewed the camp’s professions, considered assigning Mizar Medical Expertise, and worried about finding a mechanic as the disaster and Zombie Tides worsened.
• Xia Ni Ming directed a team through a coordinated fight and helped them kill a fourth-order Licker without losses.
• A hoarse voice came through Du Xue’s walkie-talkie and told Xia Ni Ming, “Mysterious creature... we should talk,” revealing that a zombie had contacted him.

Xia Ni Ming met Sakura, an intelligent zombie who sought to protect humans while demanding authority over them. After forcing Du Xue to add her to the Ixdar People’s civic laws, Sakura took the Dynamic Key, and online observers proposed that Xia Ni Ming try to win her over.

• Sakura summoned Xia Ni Ming and explained that intelligent zombies were emerging in the Viriya Core Area, divided between Slaughter and Animal Husbandry factions, while she belonged to a Human Affinity faction.
• Sakura brought Xia Ni Ming to Du Xue and demanded that the survivor leader use the Dynamic Key to make her a citizen under the Ixdar People’s Guilt-Death Mechanism.
• Du Xue transformed into a Licker and attacked Sakura, who revealed her Tyrant form; Du Xue stopped fighting after realizing she could not win.
• Du Xue changed the Dynamic Key’s settings, incorporating Sakura into the survivor camp’s civic laws, and Sakura took the key to prevent Du Xue from changing it again.
• Online users suggested that Xia Ni Ming date Sakura, and he agreed to begin the plan with their help.

Over eighty years of the Great Cataclysm, Sakura built the largest survivor camp and rose from a Quasi-Emperor to the Sakura Empress, while the Corpse Race and Sea Race struggled to find a path to godhood. After the Ixdar survivors lost hope when Caroline and her researchers were found dead, Sakura became the first god and declared that the Sea Race must submit to her Sacred Sakura Dynasty.

• Sakura gathered survivors at Noni City, protected them from the Zombie Tide, and helped humanity rebuild as she rose to the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• As high-level zombies formed survivor camps and sheltered Ixdar People, betrayal and conflict reshaped the wasteland, while Hai Landong later united the Sea Race and demanded tribute from the zombie powers.
• Hai Landong deduced that a Space Ring might enable godhood and sought the Super Ancient God, but the Ixdar laboratory was found destroyed, with Caroline and every scientist dead.
• The Corpse Race Heavenly Emperors speculated that Sakura might have destroyed Caroline's final hope, while Hai Landong mourned their lost wager and farewell.
• Sakura established a vast camp, advanced cultivation among the Corpse Race, and devised her own path to godhood.
• In Year Eighty, Sakura became the world's first god and proclaimed that the Sea Race must submit to her Sacred Sakura Dynasty.

The Sakura Great Emperor consolidated her rule, took the Heavenly Emperors’ godhood energy, and built a flourishing zombie society. As Hai Landong neared death and tried to claim the Ixdar civilization through an old wager with Xu Zhi, the Sakura Great Emperor arrived, and Xu Zhi declared that Hai Landong had lost.

• The Sakura Great Emperor forced the attending Heavenly Emperors to surrender their twelve portions of godhood energy, reaching the Middle God realm.
• The Sakura Great Emperor established a feudal system that protected intelligent zombies, ordered the Ixdar People to live within the Wall of "Viriya," and oversaw the zombie population’s growth.
• Hai Landong, nearing death in Ocean King City, told Zhao Shirou that he still hoped to fulfill his wager with Xu Zhi and obtain the Ixdar civilization’s technology.
• Xu Zhi visited Hai Landong and said he had come to fulfill their wager, but told him that he had not won.
• The Sakura Great Emperor arrived at Hai Landong’s bedside, shocking him.

Sakura revealed how she had become a zombie to save the Ixdar People, then annihilated the Sea Race and reached the realm of a High God. A century later, Xu Zhi and Zhao Shirou walked among the ruined lands as he offered to tell her the story of the Ixdar civilization.

• Sakura told Hai Landong that she had turned herself into a zombie and eaten 1,731 scientists to preserve the Ixdar People.
• Sakura declared that the Sea Race’s wisdom belonged to her and swept a devastating wave across the ocean, infecting and killing all 1.1 billion Sea Race members, including Hai Landong.
• The Corpse Race discovered the Sea Race’s corpses, while the Sakura Great Emperor returned to her throne and was recognized as a High God.
• In Year 12 of the Sacred Sakura Dynasty, the Sea Race perished, and Xu Zhi and Zhao Shirou later walked through the ruined lands and discussed Caroline’s actions.
• Xu Zhi offered to tell Zhao Shirou the story of the ancient Ixdar civilization’s rise and fall.

Xu Zhi explained to Zhao Shirou the three fatal weaknesses that doomed the Ixdar People's civilization and revealed Caroline's final plan to preserve the God Race. The plan sought a form of eternal life through the dead God Race living on in memories and dreams, leaving Zhao Shirou to realize its paradoxical name: Death God Eternal Life.

• Xu Zhi recounted how the Ixdar People built a powerful civilization restrained by the Guilt-Death Mechanism.
• Xu Zhi identified three flaws: genetic defects could create a Murder Demon, a corrupt Swordholder could betray the civilization, and the Ixdar People could not become gods without destroying their social order.
• Xu Zhi told Zhao Shirou that Caroline devised the Civilization Eternal Plan, also called the God Race Eternal Life Plan, after concluding that the civilization's destruction was inevitable.
• Zhao Shirou suggested that the dead could endure through people's memories, and Xu Zhi said a dead God Race might attain eternal life in that way.
• Zhao Shirou realized that the God Race Eternal Life Plan was Death God Eternal Life.

Zhao Shirou realized that the Ixdar People’s Death God Eternal Life plan had turned Caroline’s brain into a virtual world where the civilization could survive after death. Xu Zhi recognized it as a new path to godhood with the potential to sustain an entire civilization, and the chapter ended with him considering it a form of “Raise All Humanity.”

• Zhao Shirou concluded that the Ixdar People had secretly developed a path to godhood by turning a brain into a realistic Online Game World.
• Zhao Shirou deduced that Caroline had absorbed the research institute’s 1,731 elites and Hai Landong’s billions of Sea Race members into the world within her mind.
• Zhao Shirou explained that the dead lived on as inhabitants of Caroline’s virtual world while their energy strengthened her as a god.
• Xu Zhi agreed that the plan preserved the Ixdar civilization in Caroline’s memories and marveled at its blend of technology and the supernatural.
• Xu Zhi compared Caroline’s path to a Creator’s path and considered naming it “Raise All Humanity.”

Xu Zhi observed the Ixdar People’s virtual eternal-life world, where Caroline explained to Hai Landong how the Ixdar People had preserved their civilization inside Sakura’s mind. As Hai Landong confronted the strange path to godhood, Xu Zhi sensed that another Zerg Hero had been born.

• Xu Zhi reflected on the Ixdar People’s rise and destruction and considered how advanced civilizations might survive by creating virtual worlds.
• Caroline and the Ixdar scientists transferred over a billion Sea Race citizens into a simulated world within Sakura’s brain.
• Caroline showed Hai Landong that the world followed molecular rules and used Qualia Energy, while explaining that its inhabitants could pursue power and godhood.
• Caroline told Hai Landong that he was a memory within her mind and described the Ixdar People’s vision of worlds and civilizations existing as parts of a god’s dreams.
• Xu Zhi sensed a new Zerg Hero being born while he ate dinner.

Caroline’s corpse race spread a virus that destroyed every other civilization, leaving Sakura as the last remnant of the old world. After guiding the corpse race toward reproduction, Sakura witnessed the birth of two infant apes and realized she might be reenacting the origin of humanity beneath the Super Ancient God.

• Caroline established laws for the corpse race and ordered an investigation into a new virus that could infect other species.
• Sakura exterminated the dragon tribes and other races as the virus spread, and by Year Twenty-Three all life had become infected or undead.
• Sakura killed the Ixdar People who remained inside the walls, while Du Xue and the balloon escaped with the last group of survivors.
• Sakura told the corpse race’s leaders that the Ixdar People had solved their reproduction problem, then waited for the first births.
• Sakura watched a woman give birth to two infant apes and recognized the scene as a repetition of humanity’s ancient origin.
• Sakura wondered whether she was another Super Ancient God and whether civilization was trapped in a cycle of repeating its mistakes.

The Sakura Empress searched for the Super Ancient God while guiding the Zombie Race toward a stable civilization by transforming mindless zombies into beasts they could eat. After recreating the scene behind the beasts’ origin and understanding the cycle of civilization, she preserved the Ixdar People’s story, while humanity began rebuilding through agriculture and animal husbandry.

• The Sakura Empress wandered the land for years, waiting to meet the Super Ancient God and pondering the mysterious origins of humans and magical beasts.
• As the Zombie Race’s population grew through natural reproduction, its Heavenly Emperors proposed altering ordinary zombies’ appearances so intelligent zombies could eat them without viewing them as kin, and Sakura approved the project.
• The Phenotype Skin Modification Virus spread, transforming Walking Corpses into furry, scaled, or feathered beasts, and Sakura helped make ordinary zombies reproduce as well.
• Sakura raised a litter of black-furred boars with bells and feeding bowls, recognized the scene as the origin of magical beasts, and understood that civilizations and their glory moved in cycles.
• Sakura wrote The God's Yesterday beneath the Ixdar People’s tale, hung the black mural in a hut, and remembered the God of Death as immortal so long as someone remembered him.
• In the forty-first year of the Sacred Sakura Dynasty, surviving humanity began reproducing again, raising surviving magical beasts, and restoring the ecosystem through agriculture and animal husbandry.