Chapter Summaries

Li Aoz used his new Moonstring Bishop abilities to prepare for the next stage of his advancement, then returned to Valley Peak Village and mourned those killed in the destruction. He uncovered a suitcase buried beneath the blacksmith shop.

• Li Aoz reviewed his Moonstring Bishop abilities and concluded that his Iota-rank body made him powerful enough to confront the Entropy Lord after his next advancement.
• Li Aoz studied the Stellar Descent Art schools, then learned the passive skill Sleepless Heart to strengthen his mental resistance.
• Li Aoz returned to burning Valley Peak Village and saw the bodies and ruins left by the battle.
• Li Aoz scanned Bo Lena's grandfather's corpse, shaped a white flower from a glass shard, and placed it before the burned estate.
• Li Aoz overturned the rubble at the blacksmith shop and dug up a suitcase buried beneath it.

Li Aoz studied the High Table Knights’ records and planned to gather their masks and seek an alliance with the King to confront the Void Overlord. A strange visitor revealed himself as Caramel Snail, also called Jiao Ziniu or Jio Zeiou, and claimed that he and Li Aoz were the same god.

• Li Aoz examined the blacksmith’s box and learned that he had two masks, with seven more needed to open the road to the King.
• Li Aoz read the High Table Knights’ records, identified their territories and the upcoming Kingdom Council, and planned how to acquire the remaining masks.
• Li Aoz decided he needed to persuade the King to help fight the Void Overlord, while avoiding unnecessary harm to the Knights.
• A green-armored stranger appeared and addressed Li Aoz through divine power resonance, insisting they had met before.
• Li Aoz recognized the stranger as Caramel Snail, who called himself Jiao Ziniu or Jio Zeiou and said they were the same god.

Li Aoz met Jio Zeiou, who claimed to be the same god as Caramel Snail and an old friend of Lioz. After Aura of Goodwill took effect, Jio Zeiou revealed that Lioz had confronted the Three Great Destroyers, leaving Li Aoz stunned and fishing for more information.

• Li Aoz studied Jio Zeiou and wondered how he was connected to Caramel Snail and Lioz.
• Jio Zeiou approached Li Aoz and complained that he had shown no mercy during their last encounter.
• Li Aoz imitated Lioz’s manner and said there was no such thing as hitting too hard when striking at society.
• Aura of Goodwill took effect, and Jio Zeiou praised Lioz for rising from the Cannon Fodder Gods and confronting the Three Great Destroyers.
• Li Aoz recited that the Three Great Destroyers were fixed laws of cognitive universes, prompting Jio Zeiou to agree.

Jio Zeiou explained how Lioz had resisted the Annihilators and probed Li Aoz about society and source soil. Their conversation confirmed Li Aoz’s suspicions that Star Abyss was a real universe, not a game, and he realized it was likely the last surviving universe besides the Earth Universe.

• Jio Zeiou described the Annihilators as nearly impossible to destroy and credited Lioz with holding them back for a billion years.
• Jio Zeiou recounted how Lioz reorganized the gods through a Military Merit system, the Pantheon, and society, then asked whether Lioz knew how societies were created.
• Jio Zeiou used a Lie Detection Spell while discussing source soil, and Li Aoz truthfully revealed that he did not know what it was.
• Jio Zeiou discussed his revival, the Nether Abyss, and the possibility that returned gods could enter Star Abyss only through mortal hosts.
• Li Aoz connected Jio Zeiou’s account to Lioz’s suspicions and concluded that Star Abyss was real and was likely the last universe besides the Earth Universe.

Li Aoz pieced together clues about his identity and learned that Jio Zeiou had been sent to find a Star Abyss “seed” with a Version 14.0 system. The clues pointed toward Li Aoz himself, and Jio Zeiou asked him to keep the discovery secret.

• Li Aoz considered why the Star Abyss had sent Descenders into the conflict and questioned whether his memories and identity as Li Si were genuine.
• Li Aoz connected Li Mingji’s disappearance, the portal to the Void, and Lioz’s intervention in his soul, but could not explain how he had obtained a Version 14.0 system.
• Jio Zeiou revealed that he had a Star Abyss mission to find the “seed” placed in the Abyssal Layers and work with Li Aoz against the King.
• Jio Zeiou explained that the seed had a system more than a dozen versions ahead and had played through later versions on a Timeline guided by the Star Abyss.
• Jio Zeiou said the seed’s system was Version 14.0 and that he had chosen Li Aoz’s Overlord Class, leading Li Aoz to suspect the seed was himself.
• Jio Zeiou asked Li Aoz to keep the seed’s identity secret.

Li Aoz realized he was Lioz and pieced together how Lioz had taken the Star Abyss seed meant for Li Mingji. He decided to build his own narrative and take control of the planet, then recruited Jio Zeiou to help gather the remaining High Table Knights at the Fermi Institute.

• Li Aoz concluded that Li Mingji was Li Si and that he himself was Lioz, the one who had seized the Star Abyss seed.
• Li Aoz decided he needed to build his own narrative to oppose the Star Abyss and the Hidden Society, and planned to turn the players to his side.
• Li Aoz asked Jio Zeiou to help subdue the remaining High Table Knights and take control of the planet, and Jio Zeiou agreed.
• Li Aoz and Jio Zeiou discussed gathering the four remaining High Table Knights at the Fermi Institute to seize the masks held by Poet Chen Wenjing.
• Li Aoz stared at Jio Zeiou and asked whether he had found a reason to bring the High Table Knights together, leaving Jio Zeiou to realize Li Aoz expected him to come up with one.

Melissa and Merchant Mashanat learned that an unfamiliar, rapidly growing religious movement worshipping Jio Zeiou had spread through the Kingdom as High Table Knights fell. As the church recruited followers through charity, outreach, and emotional events, Jio Zeiou sensed faith flooding toward him and wondered how Li Aoz had made it happen.

• Melissa received White Crow Evans’s letter and told Merchant Mashanat that Garden and Dancer had been defeated, leaving only four High Table Knights besides the contained Poet and the dead Warrior.
• Merchant Mashanat read that an organized religious force had attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and worshipped Jio Zeiou, God of Falsehood Destruction.
• An elderly church member recruited townspeople with food and gifts, guiding them from signing their names toward questionnaires, events, and other activities.
• Young recruiters promoted the church’s advancement system, while a speaker at a school parent-student meeting distributed Jio Zeiou’s teachings among emotional lessons about gratitude and family.
• Jio Zeiou felt an enormous flow of faith despite having no established base or church, then asked the meditating Li Aoz how he had caused it.

Li Aoz built the God of Falsehood Destruction Church around Jio Zeiou, using its faith, culture, and recruitment network to gather power on Dragon Satellite. With millions of believers and a vast following, they prepared to rebel against the Kingdom Council under the slogan “Break the Falsehood.”

• Li Aoz decided to draw the remaining High Table Knights and the Fermi Institute into a confrontation by becoming their common enemy.
• Li Aoz founded the God of Falsehood Destruction Church, placing Jio Zeiou at its center and establishing its doctrine, symbols, hymns, and customs.
• Li Aoz expanded the church through promotional partnerships and a recruitment-and-payment system that made believers keep recruiting and working.
• Within two months, Jio Zeiou gained twenty million substantive believers, over eight hundred thousand core members, and nearly one hundred million people under the church’s influence.
• Li Aoz and Jio Zeiou agreed that their next step was an armed rebellion, and Li Aoz named its slogan “Break the Falsehood.”

Li Aoz engineered disasters across the kingdom so the God of Falsehood Destruction Church could provide relief and rapidly gain influence. After Jio Zeiou condemned the deaths, Li Aoz left to cause another disaster, while Jio Zeiou concluded that he was truly Lioz himself.

• A locust swarm devastated Nusfar Province, and White Crow Evans found that the calamity had scratched his Iota-rank body despite detecting no trace of the Void.
• The church distributed food in Nusfar and provided boats, rescued survivors, and created safe settlements across provinces hit by floods, cold, and contaminated water.
• Li Aoz explained to Jio Zeiou that the church used collected personal data and prepared resources to deliver relief quickly and win the people's support.
• Jio Zeiou accused Li Aoz of sacrificing countless lives by causing the disasters, but Li Aoz insisted that the method was efficient and that mortals could not condemn gods.
• Li Aoz crossed the Timeline to bring calamity to another province, and Jio Zeiou decided that Li Aoz was genuinely Lioz himself.

Jio Zeiou concluded that Li Aoz was Lioz rather than Star Abyss’s missing Seed, though he remained wary and decided to watch him. After Li Aoz caused a catastrophic flood, he used his powers to send the dead into peaceful other-dimensional worlds, telling their angry souls to hate him for his unilateral decision.

• Jio Zeiou recalled Lioz’s past and decided that Li Aoz’s ruthless efficiency proved he was Lioz, not the Seed.
• Jio Zeiou reasoned that the Seed was still somewhere on Dragon Satellite and resolved to observe Lioz’s next actions.
• Li Aoz entered the marshland where his Aura Missile had caused a flood that killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
• Li Aoz used True Sight Missiles and his Bishop’s Legion Soul talent to locate the victims’ bodies and souls and open passages to other-dimensional worlds.
• When the angry souls condemned him, Li Aoz explained that he had chosen safe worlds where they could reincarnate with their memories and abilities, and told them to hate him.

Alfen lost his family to disaster and the Void, then wandered until hunger and exhaustion brought him to a group of Jio Zeiou’s followers. After they rescued and treated him, the old man invited him to join their religion, leaving Alfen facing a choice.

• Alfen’s family was scattered and killed by floods, thugs, and Void Monsters, and he fled alone after his mother urged him to run.
• Alfen wandered through the wilderness for an unknown time, surviving on scraps until hunger drove him toward a crowd carrying a four-horned bull’s-head banner.
• Alfen collapsed near the crowd and later awoke in a hospital tent, cleaned, bandaged, and receiving glucose injections.
• An old follower explained that Jio Zeiou’s messengers had rescued Alfen and invited him to join them and spread the gospel.

An old man rallied refugees to reject the Kingdom Council and join Jio Zeiou’s faith, and Alfen’s anger toward the kingdom grew. After Alfen revealed the High Table Knights’ plan to capture Qualia-Direction, the old man left him a pure gold coin and departed for the High Tower.

• The old man told Alfen that his family could enter reincarnation if they followed Jio Zeiou’s teachings, then announced that his group would head north.
• The old man denounced the kingdom’s rulers and urged the refugees to take back their country in the name of Jio Zeiou.
• The refugees joined the old man in chanting against the kingdom, and Alfen’s dream of becoming a knight began to collapse as his resentment grew.
• Alfen told the old man that the High Table Knights planned to capture Qualia-Direction to control the Qualia Rain and commoners, and that Institute personnel were heading to the High Tower.
• The old man gave Alfen a pure gold coin and left, declaring that only gods could decide mortals’ fates.

Li Aoz used the moonlight and Jio Zeiou’s influence to ignite a church uprising against the Kingdom Council, then guided the rebels as they founded the Dragon Guard Empire. The empire rapidly expanded while preparing to face the void, with Li Aoz supplying its forces from the White Candle Star fleet.

• Li Aoz learned that the Fermi Institute and the council planned to move against Qualia-Direction, and resolved to honor his promise to protect the planet from the void.
• Li Aoz created a radiant crescent moon whose radioactive wind killed a knight, allowing a young believer to rally people under Jio Zeiou’s name and launch a rebellion.
• The rebellion grew into a church uprising, and the God of Falsehood Destruction Church’s forces battled the kingdom’s army as void monsters attacked from another direction.
• On March 7, Jio Zeiou’s forces captured Haisalan Province, and he denounced the Kingdom Council as an illegal regime.
• After the rebels took Kordan and Marinda Province, they founded the Dragon Guard Empire on April 6, and Li Aoz arranged for the White Candle Star fleet to supply and arm its forces.

Li Aoz and the Dragon Guard Empire advanced toward Haizhu Island Province, the Kingdom’s last stronghold, while Qualia-Direction remained missing and the Void spread without her rain. As the final battle began, Jio Zeiou faced the possibility of losing this replica body and his memories, and Li Aoz’s five-year wish approached its end.

• Li Aoz rescued Star Abyss travelers from Fermi Institutes and led the freed Path Deified Persons in attacks on the institutes.
• Li Aoz learned that Angelica Mirrid had been abducted by High Table knights and suspected that Qualia-Direction had been captured after Qualia Rain stopped.
• Jio Zeiou aided the Empire with distant miracles as the Void advanced and the Dragon Guard Empire conquered nearly all Kingdom territory.
• Li Aoz and Jio Zeiou reached the sea before Haizhu Island Province and discussed the coming battle, the missing seed, and Jio Zeiou’s expendable replica body.
• Li Aoz entered the Timeline, while Jio Zeiou sent the Empire’s fleet toward Hailanzhu Province for the final battle.

Sea Woman Melissa’s defense of Hailanzhu bought Li Aoz time to search the province, but he found it entirely devoid of life and no trace of the King or Fermi Institute. After Jio Zeiou defeated Melissa, she died by offering herself to the Void, leaving him without answers.

• Melissa warned Mashanat that preparations were nearly complete, despite her doubts about their cost.
• Melissa raised a storm that wrecked the Empire’s fleet and killed its soldiers as Li Aoz secretly landed on Hailanzhu.
• Li Aoz searched the province for the Fermi Institute’s High Tower and the King but found neither, then discovered that all life across the region was vanishing or already gone.
• Li Aoz spread Gravity Waves across the island but detected no living presence in response.
• Jio Zeiou defeated Melissa and tried to extract her mask, but she died by Void material infection before he could question her.

Jio Zeiou discovered that he had been trapped in the void's Fixed Time Domain for 15,200 years and could no longer pursue the seed. After learning that Lioz had vanished from history, he realized Lioz had used him as a shield and escaped the trap.

• Jio Zeiou found the conquered cities and towns deserted, with all life apparently extinguished and no sign of the seed or Lioz.
• After six peaceful days of meditation, Jio Zeiou opened the palace doors to find a technologically advanced city, then witnessed a purple mushroom cloud and a transformed world.
• Two synths told Jio Zeiou that 15,200 years had passed since he liberated Hailanzhu Province and welcomed him to the Dragon Satellite Realm Federation.
• Jio Zeiou identified the place as the Fixed Time Domain and realized he was imprisoned in the Third Floor's Star Abyss, unable to trace the seed.
• The synths said their records contained no information about Lioz, High Table, or the Fermi Institute, and credited Jio Zeiou with unifying the planet.
• Jio Zeiou concluded that Lioz had used him as a shield and never entered the Fixed Time Domain, then accused him of tricking him again.

Li Aoz traced the vanished Hailanzhu Province to a Fixed Time Domain consumed by the Void, where the Empire’s forces had been trapped. As he approached the Void-corrupted castle alone, N4 appeared and greeted him.

• Li Aoz descended beneath the island and recalled records linking Fixed Time Domains to the sacrifice of Star Abyss land and lives for the Grand Narrative.
• Li Aoz passed through a purple barrier and found a castle engulfed in Void Coral, realizing Hailanzhu Province had lured the Empire’s armies into a Fixed Time Domain.
• Li Aoz concluded that Jio Zeiou and the legions would experience a vast span of time inside the domain while little time passed in the outside world.
• Li Aoz weighed the danger of entering the castle alone and wished the players were there to test the way ahead.
• N4 emerged from the Void Coral, greeted Li Aoz as an old friend, and prompted him to ask why she was not researching Void technology with the Fermi Institute.

Li Aoz learned from N4 how the Kingdom Council, the Fermi Institute, and the Void had shaped Dragon Satellite, including the truth behind its Kings and Qualia-Direction. He went to confront the King, insisting he would save the planet, and faced nine Iota-rank figures inside the castle.

• Li Aoz restrained N4 with radiation and gravity, then demanded to know what she knew about the Fermi Institute.
• N4 explained that the Kingdom Council had served the Void, that successive Kings were consumed as vessels, and that Qualia-Direction was imprisoned in the Coral Fortress.
• N4 revealed she had helped restore Li Aoz’s missing traits and warned him that the King and nine Iota-ranks could overwhelm him.
• Li Aoz rejected N4’s warnings and said he would kill the King to liberate Dragon Satellite from the Void.
• Li Aoz declared himself the moon that could save the planet, opened the castle doors, and faced nine Iota-rank figures emerging from the shadows.

Li Aoz confronted the High Table Knights at the boundary of the Void and learned that they had embraced the Void rather than resist it. When they blocked his attempt to reach the King, Li Aoz attacked Gadun with Atomic Decay.

• Li Aoz entered the vast hall and faced eight High Table Knights, including Gadun, who revealed that the knights’ mortal incarnations were only projections.
• The knights described their histories of suffering and explained why they had allied with the Void and accepted its power.
• Li Aoz said he had hoped to unite their strength against the nihilistic Grand Narrative, but the knights rejected resistance and threatened him when he tried to reach the King.
• Li Aoz moved through the intersection of Timelines, seized Gadun by the head, and unleashed Sequence Seven: Weak Force, using Atomic Decay.

Li Aoz overwhelmed the eight Void-defected High Table Knights by combining attacks across Timelines and increasing his power throughout combat. After he asked Layer Abyss to kill the surviving enemies, Qinlan Jiuge received its will and set out for Dragon Satellite.

• Li Aoz killed Gadun and attacked Dancer, using repeated strikes to drive her into the ground and destroy her with starlight.
• Li Aoz injured White Crow, disarmed the merchant, and began a relentless assault on Magic Eye while redirecting damage to the warrior and White Crow.
• Li Aoz's combat-driven Charm rose as he battered Magic Eye, then used immense gravity to drag the knights through Dragon Satellite and into space.
• Li Aoz ordered Layer Abyss to find someone to erase the surviving knights, promising to like whoever killed them.
• Qinlan Jiuge received Layer Abyss's will, secured approval from the Heroes Empire and the Philosopher King, and established a Timeline to Dragon Satellite.