Chapter Summaries

Li Aoz learned that the identities and bodies he had inhabited were all part of himself and that Piarinus, the Source Abyss Celestial Lord, had planted a mental suggestion to steer his fate. After Atamasha Pivot gave him an imitation Truth Drug to manage the pressure, Li Aoz resolved to strengthen himself and resist Piarinus’s plans.

• Li Aoz asked Atamasha Pivot about the presence in his consciousness, and she explained that his identities, including Lioz and Li Si, were all him and that removing the influence could kill him.
• Atamasha gave Li Aoz an imitation of Xia Er Guiniya’s Truth Drug, explaining that it could ease the pressure but could not cure him.
• Atamasha identified Piarinus, the Source Abyss Celestial Lord, as the one who planted the mental suggestion and said he wanted Li Aoz to pursue the Overlord Class path.
• Li Aoz decided to strengthen his mental resistance by advancing to Bishop and refused to let Piarinus dictate his fate.
• Li Aoz swallowed the imitation Truth Drug and gained the Subconscious Instinct status, which activated some instincts in combat without affecting his basic judgment.

Granny Atamasha told Li Aoz that Lioz and Li Aoz were one and the same, then sent him back to prepare for the day's operation. Li Aoz suspected the Qiqiao Network and Star Abyss concealed a deeper connection, but he set the mystery aside and headed for the Starport with Flana.

• Granny Atamasha insisted that Lioz was Li Aoz and urged him to focus on what he ought to do before sending him back to his bed.
• Li Aoz wondered whether the Qiqiao Network's early cognitive-filter failures let game knowledge affect reality, and found forum posts describing game knowledge working outside Star Abyss.
• Li Aoz decided to watch for more clues when the open beta began, then set out to strengthen himself and advance to bishop.
• Flana told Li Aoz that she had loaded her Assault Pod onto the Private Plane and would reach him in 160 seconds if trouble arose.
• Li Aoz boarded the plane, while Flana daydreamed about their future together and wondered if she might have to give him money.

Li Aoz arrived on Kalanzi to seek Liu E, a former Life Commune researcher, and met the guard assigned to protect her. After the guard tested his knowledge of the commune, Li Aoz began explaining its research into life and immortality, leaving their conversation unfinished.

• Flana piloted the Private Plane around pirate zones and brought Li Aoz to Kalanzi, where he met Olavier's contact.
• The contact shared information about Liu E and her mysterious guard, while Li Aoz defended the Life Commune against local suspicions.
• Li Aoz received an email from Grina Vortex, checked his newly awakened racial talents, and set out across a sunflower field toward Liu E's farm.
• At the farm, the old man recognized Li Aoz as a Mutant on the Overlord Class path and brought him inside.
• The old man asked what Li Aoz knew about the Life Commune, and Li Aoz described its research into Aoneng, genes, information entropy, and extending life.

Li Aoz visited Liu E to learn about Aoneng, and she explained that it was authority granting access to the Star Abyss’s rules. After warning that Sequence Aura could make him a natural disaster and a puppet of the Source Abyss Celestial Lord, Liu E learned that Li Aoz possessed two Sequence-class Aoneng.

• The old man Zhuo led Li Aoz into an underground laboratory and recalled how the Commune had sought to let mortals stand as equals with gods.
• Liu E appeared, stopped Li Aoz with a blade, and used a neural link to inspect his abilities.
• Liu E discovered Li Aoz had multiple high-energy gene pairings and Sequence Aura, then restrained him for examination.
• Liu E explained that Aoneng was information-based authority that granted access to the Star Abyss’s rules and traced Sequence Auras to the Ten Original Auras.
• Liu E warned that Sequence Aura could destroy Li Aoz’s will and leave him a puppet of the Source Abyss Celestial Lord when he ascended to godhood.
• Li Aoz told Liu E that he possessed two Sequence-class Aoneng, not just the Gravity Aura she had noticed.

Li Aoz learned that his Gravity Aura would eventually consume him and turn him into a black hole, while Liu E offered the Echoer Path as his only alternative to house arrest. He chose the path, and Liu E began preparing to isolate his head.

• Liu E explained that Li Aoz's Gravity Aura would collapse his brain and body unless he advanced along a new Path.
• Liu E demonstrated how she preserved her own head inside a gravity-distorted spacetime prison and told Li Aoz that he would need to do the same.
• Zhu used his overwhelming pressure to block Li Aoz from escaping, and Li Aoz secretly bought a damage-immunity wine and Dragon Blood Amber.
• Li Aoz chose the Echoer Path, and Liu E activated the machine, restrained him, and injected him with an anesthetic.

Liu E guided Li Aoz through sensing gravity as a wave, allowing him to hear signals across the universe and even echoes from the Star Abyss. He awakened as a Gamma-rank Astral Echoer, then considered how expanding the Echoer Path could grant him vast attribute gains.

• Liu E cut off Li Aoz's senses and instructed him to feel gravity and the reverberations of his Aoneng.
• Li Aoz sensed gravity as a wave and heard transmissions from across the universe, including a voice from the Star Abyss.
• Li Aoz regained his senses and completed his class change to Astral Echoer, advancing to Gamma-rank.
• Li Aoz checked his new talents and skills, including the ability to communicate across the Star Abyss, manipulate space-time ripples, and create a private time-space layer.
• Li Aoz realized that guiding more people on Azure Planet onto the Echoer Path could grant him attribute points, and considered expanding the path to other planets.

Li Aoz remained under Liu E's protective detention while he uncovered the tragedy that had driven her students away and the Life Commune's dissolution. Liu E explained the Commune's plan to create a Supreme Aura capable of granting immortality and equality, and revealed that Morphedria's agent, Lioz, the God of Reality, had already tested it.

• Liu E kept Li Aoz shackled in a monitored glass room and contacted her former students for help, but most rejected her over the Calamity God incident.
• Li Aoz used Super Sensory Thinking to infer that the Commune's project had caused a devastating accident and that its fallout had dissolved the organization.
• Liu E argued that Narrative-level Civilizations monopolized the Pathways and that inherited privilege made the system unfair to ordinary people.
• Liu E described the Commune's plan to combine the ten foremost Sequence Auras into a Supreme Aura that could grant immortality and reshape the universe without erasing independent consciousness.
• Liu E told Li Aoz that Morphedria's agent, Lioz, the God of Reality, had already verified that the Supreme Aura was safe.

Liu E showed Li Aoz evidence of the devastation Societies had caused and explained that Lioz had destroyed at least forty-two of them using the highest specification of Creator authority. Li Aoz challenged her assumptions, suggesting that Lioz may have died under the endless attacks and that Narrative-level Civilization had survived since the primordial era.

• Li Aoz read Life Commune reports describing Societies that had devastated fleets, star clusters, and entire civilizations, and gained the Broadened Horizons status.
• Liu E revealed that Lioz had destroyed at least forty-two Societies, showing Li Aoz a fossilized Society as evidence.
• Liu E explained that Lioz possessed the highest specification of Creator authority, which the Commune believed could suppress Societies.
• Liu E rejected Li Aoz's confidence in Narrative-level Civilization and criticized its perceived importance.
• Li Aoz asked whether Lioz had eventually died fighting endless waves of Societies and pointed out that Narrative-level Civilization had endured since the primordial era.

Li Aoz manipulated Liu E into attacking him so he could steal her research data and escape the farm, then summoned Flana’s Assault Pod for extraction. The chapter ended with Zhuo intercepting Flana as she tried to flee and striking at her pod with Blade Rend.

• Li Aoz argued that Narrative-level Civilizations needed society to prevent wars and warned Liu E that destroying the Paths could destroy civilization as well.
• Liu E stabbed Li Aoz with her Echo Blade, but he concealed her communicator and hacked it while she searched for medical equipment.
• Li Aoz used an Amber Dragon to lure Zhuo away, stole Liu E’s records and Gene Code, recovered his equipment, and escaped into the forest.
• Li Aoz contacted Flana and arranged an orbital deployment to help him escape Kalanzi, but Zhuo returned after killing the dragon and confronted her.
• Flana tried to flee in the Assault Pod, and Zhuo used Blade Rend to split the sky and strike toward it.

Li Aoz escaped Kalanzi and fought Liu E in space, using gravity, linked damage, and biological powers to survive her stronger attacks. The battle remained unresolved as Sequence 77: Bane suddenly crippled Liu E.

• Flana returned to the Space Station after a massive disturbance over Kalanzi and could no longer contact Li Aoz.
• Li Aoz escaped into space, while Liu E pursued him and the surrounding Starports shut down amid their Gravity Waves.
• Li Aoz completed his Class Path transfer to Astral Echoer and reviewed the Overlord Class paths available to him.
• Liu E pierced Li Aoz and nearly emptied his health, but he linked their lives, recovered, and countered with transferred flames and other attacks.
• Liu E used an intense Collapse Sphere to destroy an abandoned Space Station, while Li Aoz regenerated and continued evading her.
• Li Aoz cast Sequence 77: Bane, and Liu E abruptly suffered biological power loss and began drifting helplessly.

Li Aoz used Calamities to unleash a chain of misfortunes on Liu E, then fought her over who should decide the choices of the young. Their battle continued across asteroids, with neither gaining a clear advantage.

• Li Aoz explained how Calamities manipulated the threads connecting everything and used it to trigger radiation damage, a leaking poison fog, and a meteorite strike against Liu E.
• Liu E questioned whether Li Aoz controlled probability, then declared that the young should not bear the burden of the two authorities.
• Li Aoz summoned Jannia and rejected Liu E's claim to define the choices of the young.
• Li Aoz and Liu E traded blows after simultaneous space-time jumps, and Li Aoz used muscle memory to block one of her attacks.
• The two fought across an asteroid field, adapting their tactics and conserving Mana as they continued their close combat.

Li Aoz fought Liu E and learned why the commune had disbanded, then revealed that he was Lioz. Both Echoers transformed into monarch-like forms, and Li Aoz ended the chapter ready to finish their battle.

• Li Aoz drove Liu E to retreat and recognized that her health was nearly depleted.
• Liu E explained that she sought a natural death and challenged Li Aoz to demonstrate his understanding of echo, Aoneng, and fate.
• Li Aoz asked about the Calamity God, and Liu E described the tragedy surrounding the commune's attempt to obtain Supreme Aura.
• Li Aoz revealed that his name was Lioz, and Liu E accepted that the legendary hero's achievements lived on through him.
• Liu E and Li Aoz activated their Dictator forms and transformed into monarch-like armored figures.
• Li Aoz emerged as the azure Dictator and declared that he was ready to end the battle.

Li Aoz defeated Liu E in a fierce battle, then asked her for the Echoer Path advancement method so he could help Mutants master gravity and expand the Overlord Class path. Liu E gave him the information carrier, and they ended on teasing terms.

• Li Aoz gained the upper hand with his swordsmanship and Elemental Architecture, then imprisoned Liu E with powerful Gravity Fields.
• Liu E escaped by removing the warped space-time and resumed their fight, which ended with her crashing into a barren plain.
• Liu E criticized Li Aoz’s battle performance, and he admitted he had only vocational secondary school education.
• Li Aoz explained that gravity was one of four Aoneng obtainable through fixed channels and asked Liu E for the Echoer Path advancement method.
• Liu E agreed for the sake of the original Lioz and gave Li Aoz the information carrier.
• Liu E teased Li Aoz about burning her crops and luring Zhuo away, while he joked that they could have talked instead of fighting.

After escaping the aftermath of his battle with Liu E, Li Aoz explained media hype and immigration to Flana and offered to teach her his Run Studies Compendium. The chapter then ended with an author’s note about revising earlier chapters to make the setting clearer for new readers.

• Li Aoz returned to the Private Plane and told Flana to flee while news reports covered his victory over Liu E.
• Flana marveled at Li Aoz’s strength, and he explained how notoriety and manufactured traffic could make a person famous and profitable.
• Li Aoz told Flana he planned to immigrate to the Heroes Empire, and she eagerly asked how she could join him there.
• Li Aoz offered to teach Flana his Run Studies Compendium for three thousand Ammonium Gold, but interrupted himself and signaled for silence.
• The author explained plans to revise earlier chapters to clarify the path setting and reduce confusion for new readers.

Li Aoz sensed several Society invasions, including one threatening White Candle Star, where he planned to build a hub for his players. He chose to finish a side quest before returning, and prepared to send a gravity-wave signal to Azure Planet through a Nethermark Heavy Industries antenna.

• Li Aoz used his Echoer abilities to detect Societies devouring or infiltrating several civilizations, including White Candle Star.
• Li Aoz explained the Marauder, Infiltrator, and Parasite types of Societies to Flana and suspected Mash Gergang was targeting White Candle Star.
• Li Aoz redirected the spacecraft toward the Vanlenkov Autonomous State, intending to complete his side quest and return to White Candle Star as a Delta-rank.
• Li Aoz decided to abandon university and protect White Candle Star, which he viewed as a valuable hub for his players.
• Li Aoz planned to send a gravity-wave signal to Azure Planet using an antenna owned by Nethermark Heavy Industries.

N4 faced the approaching end of her life as her consciousness deteriorated beyond the reach of current technology. A patterned Gravity Wave signal arrived at Alborin Tower, ending with an unexpected birthday message addressed to her.

• N4 dismissed Nethermark's business setbacks and learned that the Sulan Task Force had failed to steal elite knowledge from GTB, while Director Alkuko had run out of employees to deploy.
• N4 explained that repeated consciousness transfers had filled her mind with chaos and that she was beginning to forget a 239-year-old memory; she believed only GTB's elite biochemical knowledge might save her.
• N4 accepted that her death was approaching and watched the snow outside her office as her synthetic secretary withdrew.
• A Nethermark executive reported that Alborin Tower's Gravity Wave receiver had decoded a patterned signal from an extraterrestrial civilization.
• The signal's decoded message read, “Dear Ms. N4, happy birthday.”

N4 received a message from Li Aoz offering advanced knowledge in exchange for a deal, then ordered Nethermark Heavy Industries to publicly disclose its ties to Nethermark Humanity. The disclosure sparked protests and political alarm in Frostplate, and the company’s spokesperson admitted that its training had helped prepare Yelena Haston for the experiments.

• N4 learned that Li Aoz had contacted her and received a decrypted message confirming his identity and proposing a deal.
• N4 ordered the Frostplate branch to hold a press conference and fired Jim Zach after he urged her not to follow Li Aoz’s instructions.
• Nethermark Heavy Industries announced its financial and technical assistance to Nethermark Humanity, drawing protests and concern from Frostplate’s provisional government.
• Reporters questioned the company about Yelena Haston and the infant Mind Communication experiments, and its spokesperson confirmed that Yelena had received relevant training at Nethermark Heavy Industries.
• Nethermark Heavy Industries employees realized the admission could ruin their careers as the press conference continued.

N4 used fungal infection to stop Nethermark Heavy Industries' directors from impeaching her after the scandal around Nethermark Humanity brought public backlash and financial losses. Li Aoz completed the Main Quest with the White Wolf Ending, earning Legend Points and new quest privileges, while the story left him far from home and reflecting on the lasting cost of his actions.

• Reporters questioned Frostplate officials about the government's links to Nethermark Humanity and its experimental programs, while protests and investigations battered Nethermark Heavy Industries.
• Nethermark Heavy Industries' directors blamed N4 for exposing the company and demanded her impeachment as its stock and assets collapsed.
• N4 infected the directors with fungal spores, making them praise her and abandon the impeachment before she left to act on Li Aoz's instructions.
• N4 received a decoded message promising cutting-edge knowledge and looked toward the Malefic Calamity-covered sky, intending to give Li Aoz a gift.
• Li Aoz completed the Main Quest "Remember Them" with the White Wolf Ending, gaining three Legend Points, increased Azure Planet Favorability, and access to S-, SS-, and SSS-rank high-risk quests.

Li Aoz chose the White Obelisk as the reward for completing the quest to expose and eradicate Nethermark Humanity. Discovering it was an Ascension Platform from a Narrative-level Civilization, he recognized its power to strengthen his Path and guide followers toward godhood.

• Li Aoz reflected on his White Wolf Ending and the costs of his actions against Nethermark Humanity.
• Li Aoz planned to return Qiu Ran's Aoneng to her family and pursue Side Quests and extraordinary knowledge in the Vanlenkov Autonomous State.
• Li Aoz rejected the Biochemical Nest and Gene Extractor as his quest reward options and examined the White Obelisk's attributes.
• Li Aoz learned the White Obelisk could protect and empower followers, improve their society, and support his potential ascension to godhood.
• Li Aoz recognized the White Obelisk as an Ascension Platform from a Narrative-level Civilization.

Li Aoz chose to save Azure Planet and use the White Obelisk to pursue its independent development, while the early release of Star Abyss’s open beta gave him a chance to accelerate his plans. The chapter ended with him deploying his Path Building in Eerga City, Red Arrow Empire.

• Li Aoz decided to protect Azure Planet and pursue the slim hope that it could become an independent Narrative-level Civilization.
• Li Aoz realized he had only twenty-five years to reach Zeta-rank and join the fight against the Entropy Lord.
• Li Aoz discovered that Star Abyss’s open beta had arrived five years early, bringing a resurrection-system upgrade and a flood of new players in a week.
• Li Aoz suspected Dai Weilin had already taken power and considered how the players heading to Frostplate might affect his rule.
• Li Aoz reviewed the players’ starting-location choices and chose Eerga City, Red Arrow Empire, as the site for his Path Building.
• Li Aoz deployed the White Obelisk and established his Path landmark in Eerga City.