Chapter Summaries

Ronan identified Brother Qiang and Aka Ge as fugitives and Soul Order members who used Lava Island, a mysterious structure linked to the Sanctuary. When Lava Island vanished into a Demi-Plane, Ronan chose to investigate despite the risk of exposing himself.

• Ronan concluded that Aka Ge and Brother Qiang were fugitives from the Deep Blue World and members of the Soul Order, while Lava Island remained a mystery even to them.
• Brother Qiang connected his Sanctuary framework to the Heat Dissipation Wall, which absorbed his body into Lava Island.
• Ronan recognized the wall's framework as Sanctuary Version 57 and reasoned that it acted as a key allowing Brother Qiang to interact with Lava Island.
• Lava Island retreated into a Veil that Ronan identified as a Demi-Plane, leaving him to choose between investigating and staying hidden.
• Ronan sent the Long-Tailed Lizard toward the vanished structure to investigate rather than preserve his concealment.

Ronan used New Wildfire’s Giant Lizard Combat Form to activate Great Comprehension and analyze the space-time structure around Lava Island. The search revealed the stable shadow of a Demi-Plane hidden within the boiling magma.

• The Long-Tailed Lizard detected a faint trace of distorted space-time where Lava Island had vanished, but found no further signs while searching the rock strata.
• New Wildfire unfolded from the Long-Tailed Lizard into his enormous Giant Lizard Combat Form.
• Ronan guided New Wildfire through repeated recitations of a Ceremonial Ancient Script passage until Great Comprehension activated in his Form and Spirit Framework.
• Great Comprehension drew in surrounding information and caused the nearby rock strata to collapse into a vast, boiling pool of lava.
• The Giant Lizard analyzed the region’s space-time and located stable tangent lines enclosing a hidden shadow where life’s Sound and Light flickered.

Ronan used “great comprehension” and “Peerless Divine Power” to probe the sealed demi-plane and found Brother Qiang intertwined with Lava Island, apparently being digested by it. While trying to reach Brother Qiang through dreams, Ronan reflected on how his abilities might connect to ancient gods and the history of cultivation; the chapter ended when a strange luminous mist appeared behind the Giant Lizard.

• Ronan combined “great comprehension” with “Peerless Divine Power” to locate Brother Qiang inside the demi-plane and sketch his life structure.
• Ronan concluded that Brother Qiang was too deeply intertwined with Lava Island and might collapse before the demi-plane itself suffered damage.
• Ronan considered provoking Brother Qiang or entering his dreams, while hoping the Reclamation Corps would arrive and help break the stalemate, but they did not come.
• Ronan restarted “great comprehension” and began using the “Dream Entry Method” to connect with Brother Qiang through the demi-plane.
• Ronan theorized that his abilities and “magnetic light mica” might share roots in ancient gods’ perception and reflected on his own unlikely path.
• Ronan sensed luminous mist behind the Giant Lizard and identified it as “Mirror Appraisal.”

Ronan’s Mirror of Appraisal projected across the barrier to Outer Earth and fused with his understanding, improving his analysis of the Demi-Plane and his connection to Brother Qiang. The enhanced dream-entry attempt stirred Hong Qiang’s memories, but he remained asleep as a nightmare began to form.

• Ronan recognized the distorted projection as the Mirror of Appraisal and realized it had crossed from Inner Earth to Outer Earth.
• The Mirror of Appraisal integrated with Ronan’s methods and knowledge, increasing the speed and feedback of his analysis of the Demi-Plane.
• Ronan used Great Comprehension and related powers to map Outer Earth and strengthen his attempts to enter Brother Qiang’s dreams.
• The Mirror of Appraisal’s stimulation intensified Brother Qiang’s brain activity and revealed how closely he had merged with the Demi-Plane.
• A memory bubble showed Hong Qiang being urged to wake and lay bricks for the Sanctuary before it burst.

Ronan viewed Hong Qiang’s memories and dreams, following his discovery of the Sanctuary from a desperate survival tool to a collective refuge. Hong Qiang escaped into the Sanctuary with his companions and, convinced it could save others, entered a deeper meditative state of fusion with it.

• After a slurry accident cost Hong Qiang an arm and disfigured his face, he credited the Sanctuary with helping him survive and learned he had talent for it.
• In classes, Hong Qiang was taught that the Sanctuary was a tool built through daily practice and collective strength, while each person carried one within themselves.
• During a failed mission, Hong Qiang’s group scattered under pursuit, leaving him Lost and doubting whether he could rely on his own Sanctuary.
• After enemies split Hong Qiang into a miner and a hound, the two constructed a Sanctuary together; when they fought and one devoured the other, the real Hong Qiang was reborn.
• Guided by distant whispers, Hong Qiang built a Sanctuary wall with his companions and led them through it, helping them escape their pursuers into a magma-filled refuge.
• Hong Qiang prayed to the Sanctuary and resolved to strengthen it to save others before slipping into a deeper meditative state of fusion with it.

Ronan studied Hong Qiang’s memories and realized the Lava Island could provide a way into the Demi-Plane, possibly linked to the True Soul Order’s past routes between regions. He used the Mirror of Appraisal to guide New Wildfire into the Lava Island, where it connected with the Sanctuary and vanished inside.

• Ronan pieced together Hong Qiang’s history and learned that he had discovered a route from the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone to a safer region of the Outer Earth.
• Ronan connected Hong Qiang’s route and the Sanctuary to the True Soul Order’s earlier efforts to travel between the Thirteenth District and the Inner Earth.
• Ronan decided to test whether New Wildfire could enter the Lava Island by internalizing the Sanctuary’s structure.
• Ronan used dream-memory weaving to make Hong Qiang bring the Lava Island out of the Demi-Plane’s shadow.
• New Wildfire pressed against the Heat Dissipation Wall, connected to the Lava Island, and was pulled inside as the island retreated into the Demi-Plane.

Ronan explored Lava Island in the Giant Lizard form, discovered that it gathered prayers and broadcasts from both Inner and Outer Earth, and found an interface connected to the Time-Space Expressway. He could not use the displacement function without contributing to Joint Construction, so he selected that option instead.

• Ronan scanned Lava Island and saw Hong Qiang meditating while machinery shifted around the Giant Lizard.
• Ronan identified prayers and the Pseudo-Soul Order's broadcast among the voices reaching Lava Island, raising questions about how Inner and Outer Earth were connected.
• Ronan searched for a way to access the Time-Space Expressway and found an interface with Joint Construction, Time-Space Displacement, and Charging Maintenance options.
• Ronan selected Time-Space Displacement, but the interface said his contribution to Joint Construction was insufficient.
• Ronan directed New Wildfire's intent toward Joint Construction.

Ronan used New Wildfire to explore Lava Island’s Joint Construction system, uncovering a question bank that could reveal the island’s needs and earn travel privileges. After supplying solutions for its energy-storage problems, he offered Giant Lizard’s components and began altering New Wildfire’s motives so it would accept the sacrifice, leaving the possibility of deeper cooperation open.

• Ronan examined Joint Construction’s material contribution and design-correction options, then recognized that its seemingly endless technical questions resembled the Vagrant Exchanges’ External Question Bank.
• Using New Wildfire’s Cybernetics expertise, Ronan answered questions to raise his contribution and unlocked round-trip Time-Space Displacement after completing enough of them.
• Ronan inspected Lava Island’s energy reserves and inferred that its main needs included efficient energy storage and rapid charging.
• Ronan supplied solutions to energy-related questions, then selected Provide materials and let Lava Island scan Giant Lizard’s components.
• As Lava Island began pulling at Giant Lizard’s parts, Ronan used the Dream Divine Abomination’s methods to instill New Wildfire with a motive that could overcome its reluctance to sacrifice itself.

Ronan guided New Wildfire into integrating with Lava Island and preparing to test Time-Space Displacement, hoping the resulting disturbance would force the Reclamation Corps to act. After Lava Island displaced into the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone, an Abyss Zone Storm destabilized its Demi-Plane as explosive energy attacks struck from all directions.

• Ronan lowered New Wildfire’s perception of risk, and New Wildfire let Lava Island dismantle parts of his Giant Lizard Form while infiltrating its systems through the remaining components.
• New Wildfire and Lava Island completed their basic integration, giving both sides access to the energy-storage core and expanded mechanical control.
• Ronan used Great Comprehension and selected Time-Space Displacement, causing Lava Island to vanish from its previous location.
• Lava Island arrived in a deep, hot region that Ronan suspected was the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone, but an Abyss Zone Storm churned the surrounding lava and destabilized its Demi-Plane.
• A dangerous energy cluster struck Lava Island’s Heat Dissipation Wall, and further clusters converged from all directions to bombard it.

Ronan took control of Lava Island and used its systems to withstand an artillery trap, then discovered that the island had brought him to a chaotic zone connecting several regions. He left the chapter ready to cooperate with Lava Island’s hidden mastermind again.

• The bombardment pushed Lava Island’s structure to its limit, so Ronan sought greater authority through Tacit Understanding with it.
• Lava Island opened its core and structural control to New Wildfire, allowing Ronan to stabilize the island and reshape its defenses.
• New Wildfire created Lava Giants from surrounding rock and magma, and they destroyed the crude artillery formations.
• Ronan detected the real ambushers attempting to control the Abyss Turbulence and recognized their equipment as resembling a new Apocalypse Laboratory design.
• Ronan concluded that Lava Island had brought him to a Three-No-Care Zone that could be called the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone or the Thirteenth District, and he considered making future deals with its hidden mastermind.

Ronan ordered New Wildfire to capture survivors while he studied the space-time patterns he had discovered. New Wildfire overwhelmed Wang Yong’s Deep Blue forces and swallowed him, though the fate of the captured Walkers remained unclear.

• Ronan ordered New Wildfire to capture survivors and retreat while he focused on studying the space-time structures.
• New Wildfire spread a Lava Plasma Hell domain that disrupted the Deep Blue Walkers’ tactics and forced them to consolidate their Formatted Space.
• Ronan recognized the force directing the Walkers as Wang Yong, an Extraordinary Species he had previously fought aboard the Emerald Light.
• New Wildfire used exploding Lava Giants and a surging magma current to break the Walkers’ defensive domain and imprison more than forty of them.
• Wang Yong tore free of his Lava Giant prison and leaped upward, but Lava Island swallowed him.

Ronan and New Wildfire captured Wang Yong after discovering his body was likely a primitive clone used for Uploader technology, but Li Wei arrived and suppressed Lava Plasma Hell with the Pale Demon Eye. Ronan and New Wildfire escaped through a prepared space-time passage, only for Li Wei's eye to appear inside Lava Island and confront them again.

• New Wildfire discovered that Wang Yong's life glow had fled his body and inferred that he used primitive Uploader technology combined with cloning.
• New Wildfire redistributed Wang Yong's life force among the imprisoned Deep Blue Walkers, then dragged Wang Yong's weakened life glow back into his clone body and severed its connection to the soul.
• Li Wei appeared as the Pale Demon Eye and sealed the Abyss Zone, collapsing the Lava Giant prisons and leaving the Deep Blue Walkers in the magma.
• Ronan and New Wildfire withdrew Lava Island into the void through their prepared space-time passage.
• Ronan hid the Mirror of Appraisal's light after Great Comprehension warned of an intrusion, but Li Wei's Pale Demon Eye opened a crack in Lava Island's ceiling and looked down at New Wildfire.

Ronan used New Wildfire to destroy Wang Yong’s beacon and considered what Li Wei and the Reclamation Corps might know about each other. After Lava Island returned to Outer Earth, Ronan kept its wartime authority so he could reshape it, revive Wang Yong’s clone body, and question him, while wondering why the Reclamation Corps had not reacted.

• The Giant Lizard killed Wang Yong’s current body, weakening the Pale Demon Eye’s connection to Lava Island.
• Ronan reasoned that Li Wei and the Reclamation Corps likely had a tacit understanding, then studied the Three-No-Care Zone’s overlapping space-times and considered ways to investigate them.
• The Pale Demon Eye withdrew as Lava Island completed its passage through the Time-Space Expressway and returned to a Demi-Plane beneath East 725 District.
• Ronan found that New Wildfire still held wartime authority over Lava Island and decided to keep it while rebuilding the island and its Demi-Plane.
• Ronan planned to restore Wang Yong in a new shell and obtain intelligence from him, while questioning the Reclamation Corps’ continued silence.

Ronan pondered why the Reclamation Corps had not responded to the upheaval in the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone while New Wildfire restored Wang Yong’s damaged body so Ronan could search his memories. Wang Yong’s recollections revealed that the Three-No-Care Zone had no reliably mapped entrance and could be reached through dreams or hallucinations.

• Ronan considered whether the Reclamation Corps’ apparent inaction reflected a problem, deliberate strategy, or the Zone’s own isolating effects.
• New Wildfire rebuilt Wang Yong’s brain in a mechanical Container and reconnected it to his failing body, allowing Ronan to enter his memories.
• Ronan discovered that Wang Yong’s life had been shaped by his obedient identity as a bodyguard, a role designed by Li Wei for Old Elers.
• Ronan stopped probing Wang Yong’s personal doubts and searched his memories for information about the Three-No-Care Zone.
• Wang Yong’s memories showed that the Thirteenth District had no entrance guaranteed to lead inside, and that dreams and hallucinations could draw people into it.

Ronan searched Wang Yong’s memories for information about Li Wei, the Thirteenth District, and the Justice Cult’s experiments, uncovering links between Xia City and the Gate of Rebirth. He began reconstructing a bizarre creation from the Thirteenth District using Wang Yong’s research data.

• Ronan examined Wang Yong’s memories of Li Wei and identified the icy force Li Wei used to locate a beacon and bypass spatial rules.
• Ronan used the Mirror of Appraisal to reconstruct a projection of Li Wei, but set aside the attempt because it lacked a suitable carrier and might reveal his location.
• Ronan learned that flesh-and-lava monstrosities had appeared in the Three-No-Care Zone only in the past two or three years and were being studied by Li Wei’s Apocalypse Laboratory in cooperation with High Priest Lanier.
• Ronan deduced that Xia City was likely connected to both the Gate of Rebirth and the Thirteenth District, and reconsidered the Justice Cult’s motives in An Weng’s experiment.
• Ronan discovered that the Human-Faced Spider originated in the Thirteenth District and had become the basis of the failed Xia City experiment that produced the Demon Rune.
• Ronan used Wang Yong’s research data to reconstruct the profile of another Thirteenth District creature and prepared to build it from flesh and lava.

Ronan and New Wildfire tested whether they could recreate the Patchwork Monster, but the experiment instead led Ronan to suspect that the Cloud Top World was connected to the Thirteenth District. He set aside an impulsive trip there and focused on uncovering how Lava Island could reach the Thirteenth District, while the reconstruction continued.

• New Wildfire used Wang Yong's blood and lava to form a Patchwork Monster Model, and Ronan concluded that it did not share the Demon Rune's nature.
• Ronan used the Mirror of Appraisal to reverse-trace the model, reducing it to a blood-red, stem-cell-like structure that reminded him of the Rotten-Mouth Ape he had restored in the Cloud Top World.
• Ronan connected the Cloud Top World's red glow, Rotten-Mouth Apes, and the Demon Rune to the Thirteenth District, but questioned whether the Cloud Top World was truly the crucial link.
• Ronan restrained his urge to investigate the Cloud Top World and chose to use the clues from Outer Earth to study how Lava Island could reach the Thirteenth District.
• New Wildfire continued dismantling and rebuilding Lava Island, while Ronan and Hong Qiang helped it analyze problems; Hong Qiang remained unconscious in the Mechanical Jungle as prayers grew clearer.

Ronan investigated how dreams and faith could locate places across space-time and tested whether they could lead to Cloud Top World. His experiment with Hong Qiang failed to move Lava Island, but Snake Tongue then entered a dream of Cloud Top World under another will’s guidance.

• Ronan reasoned that dreams could be a hidden condition for entering Thirteenth District and might also affect Cloud Top World.
• Giant Lizard used Mirror of Appraisal to give Hong Qiang a dream of ascending from Lava Island toward the Sun Wheel, but Hong Qiang fell asleep before reaching it.
• Giant Lizard confirmed that Lava Island had not moved, while Ronan concluded that faith-based positioning worked and chose not to risk contaminating Cloud Top World.
• Snake Tongue received a sudden command while driving and fell asleep after stopping in a secluded place.
• Snake Tongue dreamed that she had returned to Cloud Top World and looked down at its fiery expanse, remembering her failed explorations and pursuit by Rotten-Mouth Apes.

Snake Tongue followed Ronan’s bright beacon into the depths of the Cloud Top World, where she encountered cloud-demons, a thunderous presence, and a devastating Curse Sound. The experiment ended when she lost consciousness, and she awoke on Outer Earth badly injured as Ronan explained that the Curse Sound Slaughter’s afterimage had followed her back.

• Snake Tongue followed the bright beacon downward through the clouds as Rotten-Mouth Apes pursued her.
• Cloud-demons repeatedly surged toward Snake Tongue and dissolved in the beacon’s light, while larger forms such as armored vehicles and flying fortress-ships appeared in the clouds.
• A thunderous roar overwhelmed the cloud-demons, and the beacon’s light shielded Snake Tongue as she sensed complex, shifting characters within it.
• A sharp, speech-like shriek struck Snake Tongue with unbearable force, making her scream, explode apart, and lose consciousness.
• Snake Tongue awoke on Outer Earth slumped over the steering wheel, her skin split and bleeding, and Ronan explained that the injuries came from the Curse Sound Slaughter’s afterimage.
• The vehicle began moving under autonomous control as blood poured from Snake Tongue’s wounds.

Snake Tongue discovered that Ronan’s experiment had unleashed a contained aftershock of Curse Sound Slaughter, transforming the forest into a grotesque nightmare. Ronan identified the curse as probably the Dawn Blood Curse, and Snake Tongue began driving out while learning that its words referred to a gatekeeper.

• Snake Tongue found the forest twisted into a blood-soaked landscape of monstrous plants and creatures, and Ronan explained that Curse Sound power had leaked through her as a medium.
• Ronan guided Snake Tongue out of the localized cycle and advised her to heal before returning to study it; she planned to guard the area and conceal the incident from Director Tang if possible.
• Snake Tongue asked what curse had caused the disaster, and Ronan tentatively named it the Dawn Blood Curse, a demon god formed in an Evil Poison environment deep in the Starry Sky.
• Snake Tongue told Ronan she had heard a scream and meaningful words before passing out, and Ronan said he had heard them too.
• Snake Tongue drove through the forest along Ronan’s directions and asked what the words meant; Ronan explained they were probably an insult wishing death on a gatekeeper.

Ronan investigated the Cloud Top World’s overlap between dream and reality, using Snake Tongue’s experience and the Long-Tailed Lizard’s perspective to analyze its curse-filled woodland. He identified the power there as the Dawn Blood Curse and traced its thunderous script to Eunuch Lord’s original Draft of Twenty-Seven Intentions, while questions about when the Dream Divine Abomination reached Earth remained unresolved.

• Ronan returned to the bizarre woodland after ensuring Snake Tongue could safely reach the city district.
• Ronan used the Long-Tailed Lizard and Mirror of Appraisal to study the curse power and the Dream World imprint within the clouds.
• Ronan concluded that the Cloud Top World blurred the boundary between dream and reality and might connect to the Dream Divine Abomination’s domain.
• Ronan set aside his unsupported speculation about whether Liang Lu, the Martial Emperor, or Li Wei had brought the Dream Divine Abomination to Earth.
• Ronan analyzed the cloudborne battle and identified its sonic-killing script as the Dawn Blood Curse, formed from Eunuch Lord’s original Draft of Twenty-Seven Intentions.