Chapter Summaries

Ronan concluded that Poseidon had begun experimenting on itself and set out to find the Water Tank's main body for answers about Poseidon's condition and Li Wei's plans. High Priest Lanier then relayed a request for Ronan to avoid provoking a superhuman conflict near Mo City.

• Ronan examined Poseidon's remains and reasoned that Poseidon had started using itself as a research subject.
• Ronan decided to track down the Water Tank's main body during the brief window before it could escape or recover.
• High Priest Lanier called Ronan, who explained the events in Mo City and said they were unrelated to the Mapping Experiment.
• High Priest Lanier told Ronan that others had asked him to urge Ronan to ease up and avoid superhuman clashes or war near Mo City's two hundred million residents.

Ronan located Water Tank in the desert and sent his damaged avatar to merge with him. As the two bodies struggled, Ronan began extracting information from Water Tank’s consciousness.

• High Priest Lanier relayed a warning that Mo City wanted Ronan and the Justice Cult to stop their actions against Water Tank, while cautioning that the request could have other motives.
• Ronan used the Mirror of Appraisal to locate Water Tank about four hundred and twenty kilometers northwest of Mo City and ended his discussion with Lanier.
• Water Tank activated his Poison Domain and charged toward the Bright Moon formed by the Mirror of Appraisal.
• Ronan sent Water Tank’s damaged Gray-Black Flesh Bag avatar across the distance, and its tendrils and Ronan’s Manipulation Thread forced it to merge with Water Tank.
• Ronan’s modified elements and guided dream entered Water Tank as the merging bodies fought, allowing Ronan to extract information from his consciousness.

Ronan examined Water Tank’s memories and discovered that its pulses catalyzed mutations across the sea, destabilizing the ecosystem and contributing to the Tide Surge. He also learned that Water Tank had attacked an injured Poseidon before fleeing toward Mo City, leaving Poseidon’s condition in question.

• Ronan found that Water Tank’s recurring pulses enhanced marine life and Aberrant Species, triggering mutations and disrupting the sea’s ecosystem.
• Ronan suspected Li Wei had used Water Tank to catalyze Aberration Genes and cultivate ingredients for the False God Materialized True Seed Ritual.
• Water Tank received instructions and traveled into the deep sea, where it found Poseidon’s weakened true body.
• Water Tank used its enhanced Poison Domain to badly injure Poseidon, but Poseidon counterattacked and planted a Flesh Core inside it.
• Poseidon sent marine Aberrant Species after Water Tank, which fled to the Coastline near Mo City; Ronan concluded Poseidon’s own condition explained its apparent ignorance.

Ronan examined Water Tank’s memories and learned how a Ring Radiance relic transformed Water Tank, Nick, and Tu Ge into intertwined beings. The chapter ended with Ronan recognizing Tu Ge as the powerful enemy who had been remade alongside them.

• Ronan found that Water Tank’s memories showed him repeatedly thinking only “Charge!” while weakened and fleeing toward the Wilderness north of Mo City.
• Ronan pieced together Water Tank’s past as a jellyfish that underwent aberration and was kept by Nick as a source of toxins.
• Ronan saw Nick and Water Tank encounter a strange Ring Radiance relic during a flood and fight over it before fleeing together from other competitors.
• The relic exploded when a powerful enemy cornered them, shattering all three and remaking them into beings intertwined with one another.
• Ronan recognized the enemy in Water Tank’s memory as Tu Ge.

Ronan realized that Tu Ge, Nick, and Water Tank were bound by a Rotten Bone Star fragment called the Symbiotic Ring. When Water Tank unleashed the ring’s power, Tu Ge emerged in his place and turned toward Ronan, who identified the technique as the Service Demon Scroll.

• Ronan deduced that Rotten Bone Star had split into pieces, with Liang Lu, Luo Yuan, and Tu Ge each connected to a different fragment.
• Ronan realized that Tu Ge might know about Water Tank’s predicament and sensed that Tu Ge was watching him through Water Tank’s memories.
• Water Tank’s body released three waves of Ring Radiance, unleashing a Poison Domain that corroded all life within ten kilometers.
• The toxic mist and mud gathered into a humanoid figure resembling Tu Ge, who looked toward Mo City and Ronan.
• Tu Ge’s appearance blocked Ronan’s Dream Entry Method, and Ronan recognized the technique as the Service Demon Scroll.

Ronan fought Tu Ge, who wielded the Service Demon Scroll to combine the Poison Domain and War Domain into a devastating attack. Tu Ge escaped the Rotten-Mouth Apes and rode a Harbinger Bird toward Mo City.

• Ronan attacked Tu Ge’s Poison Domain with the Mirror of Appraisal and Manipulation Threads, but Tu Ge escaped a sand-and-stone burial mound in a burst of gray-green radiance.
• Tu Ge combined his Poison Domain with the War Domain, spreading corrosive poison across the desert and creating a vortex that pushed rain clouds back toward Mo City.
• Ronan used the Magneto-Optical Mica to twist space-time and send a group of Rotten-Mouth Apes through the poison toward Tu Ge.
• Tu Ge transformed the gray-green radiance into a Harbinger Bird and rode it toward Mo City, evading the Rotten-Mouth Apes’ bloody arrows.

Ronan watched Tu Ge charge toward Mo City atop a poisonous Harbinger Bird, but suspected the attack concealed a larger purpose tied to the recent nuclear strike and information shared with Li Wei. The Justice Cult leaders joined him as Ronan claimed Tu Ge as his opponent, while the bird continued closing on the city.

• Tu Ge rode a poison-powered Harbinger Bird toward Mo City at more than five times the speed of sound, threatening to turn the Metropolitan Area into a toxic domain.
• Ronan questioned why Tu Ge and Li Wei had attacked so suddenly and recognized that Tu Ge's approach resembled the destructive nuclear strike from Outer Earth.
• The Justice Chief Priest and Weismann arrived beside Ronan, and the Justice Chief Priest identified Tu Ge.
• Ronan said Tu Ge was probably rescuing Water Tank and seeking revenge, while Weismann warned that Tu Ge seemed too unstable to let near the city.
• Ronan explained the Harbinger Bird's origins, then declared that Tu Ge was his opponent.
• Ronan suspected Li Wei might know that Wang Yong and the Martial Emperor had retreated to the open ocean after the nuclear strike, leaving the city vulnerable.

Ronan realized Li Wei might exploit his reluctance to sacrifice others, and he urged the Justice Chief Priest to give Tu Ge another chance. Before the priest could answer, a vast Magnetic Light and Lightning Fire attack engulfed Mo City, ending with a giant mouth of Dark Seclusion opening in the clouds as Tu Ge approached.

• Ronan considered whether Li Wei had recognized his reluctance to let others die as a weakness he could exploit.
• As Tu Ge neared Mo City on the Harbinger Bird, Weismann urged Ronan to act while the Poison Domain threatened the city.
• Ronan asked the Justice Chief Priest to give Tu Ge another free pass.
• Magnetic Light and Lightning Fire twisted Mo City and its residents into a terrifying vision, incapacitating many Justice Cult members.
• Tu Ge drew within fifty kilometers of Mo City as a giant mouth of Dark Seclusion split open the clouds.

Ronan manifested the Starry Sky Remnant Game as an Extraordinary Domain, trapping Tu Ge on The Other Side and overwhelming Weismann with an illusion of a Great Lord Level battle. He then aligned his perspective with the remote powers outside the game, focusing their starlight on Tu Ge as the deep space began to curve.

• Mo City’s sky darkened, and Weismann’s perspective was pulled into a distorted vision of deep space until Justice Chief Priest’s words helped him regain his senses.
• Ronan’s Extraordinary Domain made Tu Ge and the Harbinger Bird seem tiny and cut off from the true world, while Weismann recognized the spatial and temporal distortion.
• Ronan’s Starry Sky Remnant Game illusion revealed a Great Lord Level clash, leaving Weismann unable to move or process what he saw.
• Ronan reflected on the distant powers that had watched and influenced the Han Guang Star System’s Calamity Era, then used a Dream Entry Method to align with the game’s Logic.
• Ronan focused the sparse starlights on Tu Ge, who trembled with fear as the dark deep space began to curve.

Ronan used a Logic Boundary built from the Starry Sky Remnant Game to defeat Tu Ge and contain the battle’s aftermath. After the city returned to normal, he turned to Weismann and the Justice Chief Priest to discuss the matter at hand.

• Ronan used worldwide Mental Pollution, Mirror Appraisal, and Magnetic Light Mica to sustain a Logic Boundary modeled on the Starry Sky Remnant Game.
• The Death Announcer Bird crumbled, and Tu Ge and Water Tank exploded inside the sealed boundary as Ronan contained their remains.
• Ronan collapsed the boundary into a dark Spacetime Bubble and placed it inside the Gray Moon, where the Abyssal Illumination Mechanism could suppress it.
• Sunlight returned to the city, and its abnormalities vanished, though the Moon Wheel around Mirror Appraisal turned completely gray.
• Weismann regained his instincts and nearly attacked Ronan before recognizing him and withdrawing.
• Ronan apologized to Weismann, then told the Justice Chief Priest they could discuss the matter at hand.

Ronan waited at the Justice Cult’s Mo City branch while the city struggled with poisonous contamination and mass psychological trauma, remaining detached as he sensed the residents’ distress. As he began emerging from his impaired state, he offered to help the Justice Chief Priest treat Fei Niu and proposed a meeting of Extraordinary Species to discuss the rapid changes affecting their world.

• Ronan waited in the Reception Room while Mo City faced a spreading toxic zone and the aftermath of his collective nightmare illusion.
• Ronan sensed the city’s fear and despair but remained too languid to organize or act on what he perceived.
• The Justice Chief Priest told Ronan that Fei Niu, whom she had known since childhood, was being transferred to E City for treatment.
• Ronan said Fei Niu was likely possessed by the Flesh Core and offered to ask Poseidon about extracting it; the Justice Chief Priest accepted his help.
• After a priest announced that the ritual to request the holy relic was ready, Ronan proposed holding a meeting for all Extraordinary Species to discuss the world’s ongoing changes.

Ronan discussed investigating a dangerous, still-unnamed location with the Justice Chief Priest and proposed that the Justice Cult use its Balance of Truth to assess the operation and send people. He joined a high-level ritual with the Chief Priest and three Heart Reflection High Priests, where he noticed her chanting seemed to mix Tian Yuan Common Language with Ceremonial Ancient Script.

• Ronan told the Justice Chief Priest that he wanted to investigate a location connected to An Weng’s unknown whereabouts and suggested involving the Justice Cult and others, depending on the Balance of Truth’s valuation.
• Ronan considered whether the Balance of Truth and the Cloak app worked through similar substitution processes, and whether the Cloak app caused contamination by bypassing the Rebirth Divine Artifact’s framework.
• The Justice Chief Priest invited Ronan to the ritual site, where three Heart Reflection High Priests and the Chief Priest began a Transposition Ritual.
• The ritual formed an advanced Sacred Space that reached into the Abyss Zone and drew on the Justice Cult’s Permanent Configuration.
• As the Justice Chief Priest chanted inside the Sacred Space, Ronan wondered whether he heard Tian Yuan Common Language mixed with Ceremonial Ancient Script.

Ronan used the Justice Cult’s Balance of Truth and discovered that his strongest desire was to learn the truth about Earth’s transformation, followed by finding a way to break the deadlock and only then pursuing an exchange with Outer Earth. When he described Inner and Outer Earth in Ceremonial Ancient Script, the Balance tipped sharply, and the Justice Chief Priest warned that the exchange would be meaningless unless he adjusted his request.

• Ronan examined the Justice Cult’s ritual and recognized that its specialized chants and Magic Array produced effects resembling True Script Art.
• The Justice Chief Priest invited Ronan to touch the projected white pan of the Balance of Truth, whose chains cleared away distractions and clarified his strongest desires.
• Ronan identified learning the truth about Earth’s transformation as his foremost desire, finding a way to break the deadlock as his second, and the exchange plan as his third.
• Ronan tried to communicate his desires to the Balance, first through thought and then through Ceremonial Ancient Script, but the past and future requests drew no response.
• As Ronan described Inner and Outer Earth in Ceremonial Ancient Script, the white pan sank and the chains stirred irritation, prompting the Justice Chief Priest to warn that the imbalance was too extreme for a meaningful exchange.

Ronan consulted the Justice Chief Priest about using the Balance of Truth to transfer himself or Magneto-Optical Mica to the Outer Earth. Each attempt still produced the same enormous Blood Sacrifice price, leaving him without a workable exchange.

• Ronan and the Justice Chief Priest discussed how extreme imbalance could lead to methods like those used against An Weng, and she explained why she had intervened in her earlier confrontation with Wu Zhao.
• The Justice Chief Priest revealed that the Balance of Truth had analyzed Ronan's incantation and showed him a prolonged Blood Sacrifice involving an estimated thirty to fifty million people.
• Ronan touched the blood-red vision and received information about the sacrifice and the methods required to carry it out.
• Ronan changed his target from transferring himself and his Trump Cards to transferring Magneto-Optical Mica, but the Balance of Truth still demanded a Blood Sacrifice.
• Ronan tried again with Magneto-Optical Mica in its juvenile form, yet the Balance of Truth produced the same result and the Justice Chief Priest looked at him strangely.

Ronan consulted the Justice Cult’s Balance of Truth about a Blood Sacrifice ritual and his plan to send Magneto-Optical Mica across the Space-Time Barrier. The ritual’s unexpected emphasis on rebirth led him to suspect that crossing between Inner and Outer Earth and between virtual and real might be necessary for a life to enter the real universe.

• The Justice Chief Priest allowed Ronan to study the Blood Sacrifice details and discussed adjusting the exchange method.
• Ronan told the Justice Chief Priest that he was preparing a space-time jump and asked about the ritual’s Space-Time Configuration.
• Ronan noticed that the Blood Sacrifice focused heavily on vitality conversion and refining a new Fantasy Species, with little Space-Time Configuration.
• Ronan recalled his experiments using the Gate of Rebirth (Experiment) to transfer Snake Tongue and considered why the Balance of Truth had linked his plan to rebirth.
• Ronan concluded that the ritual’s assessment supported his fear that crossing the Space-Time Barrier and transitioning between virtual and real were required for genuine life in the real universe.

Ronan tested how the Balance of Truth calculated transposition costs and found that the cost depended on the individuals’ underlying levels. He and the Justice Chief Priest agreed to seek an alternative to a mass Blood Sacrifice and prepare a preliminary experiment with one participant from the order.

• Ronan replaced Magneto-Optical Mica with himself as the transposition target, and the Balance of Truth’s cost fell sharply from the mass-sacrifice level.
• Ronan simulated himself as a Perfect Body, raising the cost but keeping it far below the cost of sacrificing tens of millions of people.
• Ronan concluded that transposition costs depended on the underlying level of the individuals involved and saw a possible path to Outer Earth through the Balance of Truth and the Rebirth Divine Artifact.
• Ronan told the Justice Chief Priest that a mass Blood Sacrifice was unacceptable and proposed a preliminary experiment, while the Justice Chief Priest offered the order’s cooperation and resources.
• The Justice Chief Priest agreed to send one participant for the experiment and said the order would prepare a candidate list by 18:00 Mo City time.

Ronan questioned whether Inner Earth was real or an illusion and decided to investigate by sending a small group across the boundary. As he began recruiting candidates, he learned the Martial Emperor was with President Ouyang and was briefly stunned by her appearance.

• Ronan reflected on the Blood Sacrifice, Inner Earth's high-energy environment, and the uncertainty of what was real or false.
• Ronan planned a cross-border expedition with one to five people, including Wen Huilan, a Justice Cult representative, and possible candidates from Xia City and the military.
• Ronan called Wen Huilan, told her to prepare and consult Snake Tongue, and asked her to help interrogate Tu Ge after confirming he had sealed away part of him.
• Ronan called President Ouyang and learned the Martial Emperor was with him at the Spirit Wave Network control area.
• Ronan joined a video call and was momentarily dazed by the Martial Emperor's casual appearance.

Ronan handed the question of Outer Earth to the Martial Emperor, then traveled to Xi City to meet Liu Jia and discuss the Circum-Indian Ocean Tide Surge. Seeing the city overrun by aberrant lifeforms, Ronan recognized that the worsening chaos might serve Li Wei’s plans and summoned storm clouds over Xi City.

• Ronan asked the Martial Emperor to explain Outer Earth and the planned expedition, then ended the call and decided to send people there to see how Li Wei responded.
• Ronan called Liu Jia to synchronize information about the Circum-Indian Ocean Tide Surge and traveled to Xi City.
• Ronan saw that Xi City was engulfed in fires, smoke, and aberrant lifeforms that hunted people to sustain their mutated bodies.
• Ronan realized that chaos in Inner Earth was spreading in a direction that could serve Li Wei’s plans, and considered giving Li Wei another helping hand.
• Liu Jia flew toward Ronan, who exhaled and summoned dense storm clouds over the city as lightning and Magnetic Light flashed above them.

Ronan met Liu Jia in Xi City and learned that Bat Master’s meditation had gone wrong, leaving him affected by Aberrations and unable to manage the city. Liu Jia led Ronan to meet him while explaining that the Star Alliance Committee and military were seeking to temporarily take over management.

• Ronan greeted Liu Jia and discussed how the Tide Surge had eased after Ronan’s actions in Mo City, though Xi City remained under pressure from coastal attacks and social disorder.
• Ronan asked about Bat Master, and Liu Jia explained that Bat Master’s injury had followed a mishap during a blessing ritual rather than an attack.
• Liu Jia said the ritual had gone wrong during meditation, allowing external corruption to cause Aberrations in Bat Master and affect members of the Ancient Fire Sacrifice Sect.
• Ronan asked to meet Bat Master and discuss the Tide Surge, and Liu Jia agreed to lead him there.
• Liu Jia explained that Bat Master was often groggy and that Deputy Chairman Bai was helping contain his condition while the Star Alliance Committee and military sought to assist with management.

Ronan and Liu Jia discussed the political situation and the operations in Mo City before visiting Bai Hao at the temple. Ronan asked Bai Hao to take him to the injured Bat Master and raised questions about Bai Hao’s involvement in sending people to the Deep Blue World, leaving their discussion poised to continue.

• Ronan told Liu Jia that Li Wei was behind Mo City’s events and described the roles of Tide Surge, Poseidon, Water Tank, and Tu Ge.
• Ronan and Liu Jia flew to the temple, where Liu Jia explained that Bat Master’s mental assaults had disturbed the area and driven people away.
• Ronan identified Bai Hao by the brazier and greeted him, then asked whether he could not retire because of Wang Yu or Li Wei.
• The temple’s eternal flame reacted to Ronan’s remark, and Bai Hao explained that Bat Master’s aura was linked to it while he controlled the Inner Demon Strange Fire.
• Ronan proposed visiting Bat Master first and then questioning Bai Hao about Wang Yu, Li Wei, and the people sent to the Deep Blue World, especially those who entered the Thirteenth District.