Chapter Summaries

Bo Lena fled her transformed former friends through the ruin, and Xi Wen rescued her before Yi Fu Li killed Xi Wen. Jia Si Lin intervened, but Bo Lena escaped again and hid in a graveyard, where an unseen voice told her the events were not her fault.

• Bo Lena escaped Du Lin, Jessie, and Lisi, while a youth who emerged from a wall tried to take her Essence Elixir before a stone pillar killed him.
• Xi Wen rescued Bo Lena, explained that the ruin was affecting everyone’s moods and behavior, and used her new power to protect and treat her.
• Yi Fu Li killed Xi Wen and prepared to claim Bo Lena’s Essence Elixir, but Jia Si Lin froze time and crushed Yi Fu Li with gravity.
• Jia Si Lin defeated a winged youth who attacked him, then discovered Bo Lena had escaped.
• Bo Lena hid among the ruin’s graves and silently mourned Xi Wen, asking God what she had done wrong before an unseen voice reassured her that it was not her fault.

Narta revealed that the ruins were an artificial laboratory and that the powers came from experiments, but Du Lin killed him before he could save Bo Lena. Bo Lena discovered she had an ability, killed Du Lin by stabbing herself, and drank his blood as an unknown impulse took hold.

• Narta told Bo Lena that the graveyard was an illusion hiding a laboratory, and that the institute had implanted abilities in them.
• Du Lin appeared, killed Narta, and threatened Bo Lena.
• Du Lin struck Bo Lena, but she recovered without wounds and revealed she had an ability.
• Bo Lena stabbed herself, causing an invisible blade to tear open Du Lin's chest and kill him.
• Bo Lena drank Du Lin's blood as an unknown impulse drove her forward.

A five-year-old log recounted how the Institute studied Authority from the body of V-780, Lioz, after the Void stripped away his attributes and soul. With help from En Si, the Institute built a hidden research base and devised a plan to lure villagers into experiments; the log ended as that plan was about to begin.

• The log explained that V-780, Lioz, had been taken by the Kingdom Council, and the Institute recovered his lifeless body but not his soul or life.
• The Institute discovered that Lioz’s body contained Authority, a power that needed a human host rather than functioning as an energy source.
• After Void attacks threatened the research, En Si, also called N4, offered a safe site in the Abysist Dynasty’s underground tombs in exchange for access to the experiments and an end to the search for Lioz’s soul.
• The Institute established a concealed base, equipped it with surveillance and a Recognition Filter, and sought new experimental subjects after the Kingdom reduced its supply of prisoners.
• The Institute planned to use Lioz’s scattered attributes and an artificial amnesiac handsome man to gather local young people, implant them with Void Filters, and test Authority genes.

The blacksmith stumbled into the research institute and was captured by its scientists, who selected him to receive Lioz's Memory. After the memory fused with him, they discovered the Sever Life gene was damaged and decided to send him into the arena for Jia Si Lin to kill.

• Jia Si Lin used his gravity authority to demonstrate powers related to space-time, while the arena's test subjects fought for the scientists' data.
• The blacksmith emerged from the elevator carrying a box and his work hammer, and security guards searched him as scientists watched the arena.
• The scientists recorded Bo Xis's elimination and, recognizing the blacksmith's ability to bypass the disguise, chose him as a test subject for the unused Memory gene.
• Researchers forced a color-shifting substance containing Lioz's Memory down the blacksmith's throat and confirmed that it had fused with him.
• The researchers found that the blacksmith's Sever Life gene had been damaged and decided to put him in the arena for Jia Si Lin to kill so they could recover the memory.

The blacksmith fought Jessie and Lisi, defeating their demons and killing the twins as he absorbed their luminous remnants. He revealed that five years of Void corruption and life at the bottom had strengthened him, then reclaimed his identity as Lioz Dominate.

• Lisi attacked the blacksmith with Gomorrah, but he struck her back and left her gravely injured.
• Jessie summoned Sodom, and the blacksmith dodged its sword before smashing the angel with his hammer.
• Jessie recognized the blacksmith’s strength as that of a High Table knight and summoned a blood-enhanced Sodom for another attack.
• The blacksmith knocked Sodom aside and hurled his hammer into it, killing the angel and Jessie while the hammer melted in the blast.
• The twins’ bodies decayed, and their luminous remnants seeped into the blacksmith as he declared himself Lioz Dominate.

The blacksmith who had taken the name Lioz struggled with whether to reclaim Li Aoz’s soul and Charisma or preserve his own identity. Jia Si Lin attacked him with gravity, but Bo Lena intervened and spared him after exposing his role in the deaths of the others.

• The blacksmith examined his Void-corrupted status and reflected on how Li Aoz’s memories and habits had shaped him.
• The blacksmith wrestled with whether recovering Li Aoz’s soul and Charisma would erase his own life as Lioz.
• Jia Si Lin arrived and claimed his gravity could overpower the blacksmith, then froze space and time around him.
• The blacksmith kicked Jia Si Lin away before his gravity attack could land.
• Bo Lena seized Jia Si Lin, accused him of causing the others’ deaths, and said her eyes had revealed the truth about him.
• Bo Lena released Jia Si Lin and left him alive, declaring that she would not harm babies.

The blacksmith killed Jia Si Lin and transformed into a handsome, empowered form bearing Lioz’s memories and abilities, while questioning whether he should return them to Bo Lena. After bringing her the gardening nails, he shielded her from a white-coated woman who appeared from the cavern.

• Jia Si Lin attacked Bo Lena with a meteor, but the blacksmith seized and killed him.
• Jia Si Lin’s remains merged into the blacksmith, restoring his Charm and granting him Void Grace and the ability to use Aoneng again.
• The blacksmith realized Bo Lena was the real Lioz, but questioned whether he should give back the identity and memories he had gained.
• The blacksmith gave Bo Lena the gardening nails and told her to return home, while she vowed to report the Fermi Institute’s abuse of people as test subjects.
• A gray-haired woman in a white lab coat appeared and challenged Bo Lena’s ability to return to the village, and the blacksmith stepped in front of her.

N4 confronted Li Aoz and Bo Lena, admitting her role in the events that caused Bo Lena’s friends to die and arguing that she had saved them from the Void. Bo Lena rejected N4’s offer to settle the debt and demanded that N4 help her destroy the Fermi Institute.

• N4 greeted Li Aoz and revealed that she had dealt with the Fermi Institute personnel who might have come after them.
• Li Aoz explained to Bo Lena that N4 was a bio-shell used by biochemical engineers, and accused N4 of helping cause the battle royale that forced Bo Lena’s friends to kill one another.
• N4 said she had saved Li Aoz and Bo Lena from becoming Void puppets and proposed that they wipe the slate clean.
• Bo Lena acknowledged N4’s help but refused to accept that one debt canceled another; Li Aoz backed her and warned N4 not to refuse her demands.
• Bo Lena asked N4 to return her friends’ bodies, but N4 said she could not; Bo Lena then asked N4 to take them safely back to the village.
• Bo Lena demanded that N4 tell her how to completely destroy the Fermi Institute, leaving N4 stunned.

The blacksmith helped Bo Lena escape the graveyard and heard her vow to destroy the Fermi Institute, while N4 suggested seeking the King's help. He tried to dissuade Bo Lena from pursuing revenge, but she remained determined to act.

• N4 gave the blacksmith a Glow Stick to guide him and Bo Lena out of the graveyard, then accepted Bo Lena's request to help destroy the Fermi Institute.
• Bo Lena explained that the Fermi Institute was bound to the Kingdom Council by mutual interests, and N4 advised her to meet the King in the Royal Capital.
• The blacksmith rejected the plan to approach the King and claimed he wanted to abandon grand ambitions and live quietly as a blacksmith.
• The blacksmith urged Bo Lena to leave the conflict behind and pursue a happy life, but she insisted she could overcome the obstacles and punish the Fermi Institute.

Jio Zeiou entered Dragon Satellite using a restricted test account and considered the Star Abyss’s hidden purpose in sending players into the shallow Star Abyss. After finding that the planet was where Li Aoz disappeared, he decided to search for Lioz.

• Jio Zeiou used Delusion-Breaking authority to restore a forest damaged by lightning and examined the limitations of his test account.
• Jio Zeiou reflected on Lai Anding’s explanation that Star Abyss was a strategic plan using players to fight the Star Abyss’s enemies, and questioned why the Star Abyss seemed to conceal its motives.
• Jio Zeiou wondered whether the Star Abyss distrusted later-generation Deified Persons or the Sixth Layer Star Abyss, and questioned why Lai Anding and the Star Abyss seemed afraid of Lioz.
• Jio Zeiou found that his test account’s forum access was permanently banned and that most system functions were unusable, leaving its quests and map available.
• Jio Zeiou saw that his current planet was Dragon Satellite, recognized it as the place where Li Aoz disappeared, and set out to find Lioz.

Jio Zeiou encountered a powerful native on Dragon Satellite and attacked her, while the blacksmith and Bo Lena questioned N4 about the Fermi Institute and learned how she reached Azure Planet. N4 revealed that the portal she used was in Li Aoz's former home, leaving the blacksmith stunned by their connection.

• Jio Zeiou assessed Dragon Satellite's strongest native, then tore open space and punched her.
• The blacksmith, Bo Lena, and N4 waited out the Qualia Rain while N4 explained the Fermi Institute's Youth Learning Society, Security Department, High Tower, and Mobile Team.
• N4 said a High Tower team had brought her back from the Void Fallen Zone, prompting the blacksmith and Bo Lena to retreat warily.
• N4 explained that she had left Azure Planet through a portal in Bountiful Village after reaching Delta-rank.
• N4 gave the portal's exact location, and the blacksmith revealed that it had been his former home as Li Aoz.

Jio Zeiou defeated Christine Valda and restored the devastated landscape, then explained his contempt for humanity and its prayers to the gods. As he gathered information, he realized the Void had trapped the region in a Fixed Time Domain and suspected its King resembled people from the Azure Planet, especially Frostplate Citizens.

• Jio Zeiou discussed the Void's unique path and its power before dismissing Christine Valda's question about his identity by declaring himself divine.
• Christine Valda recounted humanity's lost homelands and accused the gods of abandoning people as the Void consumed their world.
• Jio Zeiou compared humanity to ants and argued that gods had no reason to answer mortal sacrifices, then described humans as parasites in the universe.
• Jio Zeiou left the mountain with a sphere of gathered information and realized the Void had made the area a Fixed Time Domain.
• Jio Zeiou wondered why the Void's King had such pale skin and noticed that his features resembled Azure Planet People, particularly Frostplate Citizens.

The blacksmith learned that Li Mingji, his estranged father, had disappeared around the time the portal activated, and N4 suggested the Void might have been involved. N4 left after warning that the blacksmith’s reclaimed body and the Fermi Institute could prevent his retirement, while he resolved to investigate her true identity and take Bo Lena and Nail home.

• N4 told the blacksmith that Li Mingji had disappeared two years before she went to Nethermark Humanity, and the blacksmith considered whether the Void had selected his father or used him to place the portal.
• N4 revealed that her current body was an implant equipment avatar and said she intended to pursue her own goals, while the blacksmith declared he was done with the journey and wanted a quiet life.
• N4 warned that the blacksmith’s Iota-rank body might have belonged to one of the High Table Nine Knights and that the Fermi Institute would not leave him alone; the blacksmith suspected she had manipulated events and decided to find and kill her true body.
• Bo Lena interrupted the tense exchange with roasted potatoes, and N4 warned her that Qualia Rain appeared when the Void was active and that the kingdom’s military searched for its source afterward.
• N4 left, and the blacksmith told Bo Lena to delay telling the other children’s parents about their deaths, inform her grandfather about the Fermi Institute, and leave the matter to the adults.

Bo Lena questioned Lioz about his bleak outlook as they crossed the flooded river and walked back toward the village. When she challenged him to die if nothing mattered, he recalled a promise to take a woman to see the moon, though she was dead.

• Bo Lena followed Lioz through the forest and crossed the flooded river on a bridge she made from fallen trees.
• Bo Lena asked why Lioz had given up on the world, and he described life and civilization as meaningless and destined for nothingness.
• Bo Lena asked why Lioz kept living if nothing mattered, and he froze as the expanding Fixed Time Domain threatened to absorb Dragon Satellite into the Void.
• Lioz remembered promising someone he would take her to see the moon, then told Bo Lena that the woman was dead.

Bo Lena comforted the blacksmith by urging him to see the moon before he returned to nothingness, but Gadun killed her and confronted the blacksmith. After Gadun mocked the blacksmith as powerless and attacked him, the blacksmith rose from the petroleum unharmed.

• The blacksmith told Bo Lena about a dying Sealed Object who had asked him to see the moon, and Bo Lena said his pain came from understanding too much and urged him to visit it.
• As the blacksmith tried to rise, a pale green vortex swallowed Bo Lena, whose body exploded and turned into sprouts before her blood rushed toward him.
• Garden Gadun emerged from the burning grassland, recognized the blacksmith as the High Table's first Chief, and mocked him for losing his name, mask, and power.
• Gadun flung the blacksmith hundreds of kilometers and slammed him into the ground, burying him deep in petroleum.
• When the petroleum churned, Gadun retreated in fear and insisted the blacksmith had been devoured by nothingness.
• The blacksmith burst from the crude oil and landed spotless on the ground.

Li Aoz accepted the blacksmith’s and Bo Lena’s wills, understood Qualia-Direction’s idealism, and received the Weak Interaction authority as the mountaintop was destroyed. The blacksmith’s life ended as his body and will moved toward rebirth, while Li Aoz gained a new class advancement opportunity.

• Gadun challenged the figure claiming to be the Chief, and Li Aoz revealed himself as the sum of Bo Lena, Jia Si Lin, Xi Wen, Narta, Du Lin, and the blacksmith.
• Li Aoz recognized Qualia-Direction’s idealism and declared that he would turn their dreams into reality as Lioz.
• Green radiance engulfed and leveled the mountaintop, while Gadun noticed that the sky was brightening.
• Li Aoz received the High Table Chief Void True Body, reached the Iota-rank limit, and had his Astral Echoer class upgraded to Lv. 180.
• The blacksmith let go of his life, while Bo Lena’s bloodline and Li Aoz’s soul carried his will and body toward rebirth.
• Li Aoz obtained the Weak Interaction authority, gained the Child of the Morning Light status, and fulfilled the advancement requirements for Moonstring Bishop.

Li Aoz advanced from Astral Echoer to Moonstring Bishop, transforming into a Moon Zealot and sending a new Class Path’s signal across the abyss. The change drew attention from Echoers and powerful figures, while Li Aoz gained new abilities and a mission to expand his followers across dimensions.

• Li Aoz resisted Gadun’s Void Corrosion with his supreme bloodline and struck through Gadun’s layers of plant defenses.
• Li Aoz chose the Moonstring Bishop advancement while Gadun attacked him with a massive human-flesh vine.
• Li Aoz completed his transformation, and the resulting Gravity Waves carrying new Class Path information swept across the layer abyss.
• Liu E received calls from Echoers who suspected she had advanced their Class Path, and she identified Lord Lioz as the likely source.
• The philosopher beneath the Heroes Empire’s platinum throne recognized the new Overlord Class Path as a potential opportunity for the Empire.
• Li Aoz became a Moon Zealot and gained Bishop’s Legion Soul, Moonstring Anthem, and the Stellar Descent Art skill tree.

Li Aoz transformed into a moonlit God Samurai and battled Gadun, using radiation, Moonlight Followers, and timeline manipulation to overcome his attacks. The chapter ended as Li Aoz pulled the timeline he occupied toward the main-world timeline to strike Gadun from behind.

• Gadun endured the rising radiation until Li Aoz vanished and a brilliant crescent moon appeared overhead.
• Gadun resisted the moon’s charm with the Void Mask and challenged Li Aoz, who descended in transformed, armored form and offered him a chance to speak his last words.
• Li Aoz learned Meteor Impact and struck Gadun, filling his body with radiation while five Moonlight Followers attacked the same spot.
• Gadun sent vines crashing down on Li Aoz, but Li Aoz used gravity and the Weak Interaction to leap to a safer timeline.
• Li Aoz moved behind Gadun in another timeline, learned Meteor Shards, and began pulling that timeline toward the main-world timeline.

Li Aoz fought Gadun, using his Timeline returns and Aura Missiles before learning Shining Sword and annihilating the Void-corrupted High Table Knight. With the Void driven from Dragon Satellite, Li Aoz declared that his radiance would reach across the universe.

• Gadun fled Li Aoz's radioactive attack and used a mask to call upon the Great Void, transforming and spreading Void Energy across the land.
• Gadun repeatedly killed Li Aoz with his spine whip, but Li Aoz returned from successive Timelines and advanced with the Moonlight Followers.
• Li Aoz launched Bloodline, Darklight, and Death Link Missiles, countering Gadun's attacks and destroying the plants he summoned.
• Li Aoz learned Shining Sword and formed a blade of high-energy particles with Objective Resonance canceling its chant windup.
• Li Aoz's Shining Sword erased Gadun, the Void curtain, and the surrounding mountains, clearing the sky above Dragon Satellite.
• Li Aoz stood beneath the full moon and declared that his radiance would illuminate the universe.

Li Aoz examined Gadun's Void mask and assessed Dragon Satellite's dwindling chances against the Void, concluding he needed to meet the King by collecting all nine knights' masks. After reviewing his new Moonstring Bishop abilities, he recognized their potential to develop other-dimensional worlds and support civilization-building, leaving him to consider the purpose of the Enlightenment Mission.

• Li Aoz recovered Gadun's mask from the ashes and identified it as a valuable Void construct.
• Li Aoz judged that Dragon Satellite would eventually be swallowed by the Void and decided he needed to join forces with the King, whom he could meet by collecting all nine High Table Knights' masks.
• Li Aoz reviewed his status after investing five years' worth of saved experience and considered the strengths and limitations of his Iota-rank Moonstring Bishop abilities.
• Li Aoz concluded that Bishops could develop complete three-dimensional worlds and bring their resources back to support a civilization.
• Li Aoz recognized this as the purpose of the Enlightenment Mission.