Chapter Summaries

Ronan learned from the Martial Emperor that the Meditative True God's Divine Power still followed the Nether Divine Kingdom System and that its spreading network was likely seeking remains or rule frameworks in Outer Earth. He considered luring its agents into a trap, while the Martial Emperor warned that any survivor could expose him to the Central Star Region; she ended by asking whether he still planned to meet her in person on Outer Earth.

• The Martial Emperor explained that the Meditative True God had trapped itself in an Ancient Gods-style path and that its Divine Power still operated under the Nether Divine Kingdom System.
• Ronan connected being Lost in the Extreme Domain with Pitfall, and the Martial Emperor doubted the Meditative True God had been powerful enough to experience it.
• The Martial Emperor deduced that the straw network’s two branches pointed toward Outer Earth and might be searching for remains of the Meditative True God or its affiliated gods.
• Ronan and the Martial Emperor considered how the network might eventually lead toward the Deep Blue World and linked the setup to Year 67.
• Ronan considered luring the Reclamation Corps’ forces into a fight, and the Martial Emperor warned that even one escaping survivor could make the Central Star Region target him.
• The Martial Emperor asked whether Ronan still planned to meet her in person on Outer Earth and kept her identity there secret.

Ronan investigated the Two-Winged Spread network and discovered that the Meditation Divine Kingdom System could interact with the Altar Spiderweb, prompting changes to the Mirror of Appraisal. After assessing the aftermath in Xi City, he sought Bai Hao’s support for a Peak Conference and outlined its agenda.

• Ronan rejected the Martial Emperor’s suggestion to withdraw and asked him to teach him how to manage the trial’s pace.
• Ronan concluded that the Meditation Divine Kingdom System could contact the Altar Spiderweb and updated the Mirror of Appraisal’s base text.
• The Mirror of Appraisal adjusted its Logic Boundary and digested more information from the Starry Sky Remnant Game, revealing Ceremonial Ancient Script fragments and faint gravitational connections.
• Ronan observed that the collapsed Meditation Demon Shadow Puppet had eliminated Xi City’s most conspicuous deeply infected people and recorded the method for the Global Census of Aberration Infection.
• Ronan asked Bai Hao to support calling a Peak Conference, and Bai Hao agreed as Ronan presented proposed agenda items on the census and controlling aberration loss of control.

Ronan proposed using orderly resource competition and basic cultivation education to slow the spread of aberration, while preparing a Peak Conference to address Earth's upheavals and explore the New Plane and Deep Blue World. After securing signatures from the Extraordinary Species, he weighed the Balance of Truth against the Cloak app as tools for his next move.

• Ronan explained to Liu Jia that Earth's High-Energy Environment was accelerating aberration and proposed adding Basic Inner Cultivation and Truth Communion to General Education.
• Ronan told Bai Hao that increased solar energy use could support cultivation and described the Anxia Line and possible Pingjin Line as measures for controlling the Wilderness and improving resource use.
• Ronan proposed a Peak Conference on the New Plane and Deep Blue World, and persuaded Bai Hao and Liu Jia to co-sign the request.
• Ronan collected signatures from the Extraordinary Species, including Bat Master, while monitoring the straw network and helping the Martial Emperor clear Abyss Zone Monitoring equipment around the sea.
• The Reclamation Corps moved monitoring equipment to a low-orbit emergency space station, leaving the waters with reduced coverage for the planned experiment.
• Ronan considered using the Cloak app instead of the Balance of Truth, but realized he would need to make more progress in What is Prepared after keeping its contamination-cleanup mission stalled.

Ronan compared the Cloak app’s cost to move Magneto-Optical Mica to Outer Earth with the Balance of Truth’s Blood Sacrifice, then investigated the cost of transferring himself. The app priced moving the mica at 1,500 Credit Points but transferring Ronan at 20,000, leaving him puzzling over the symbolic image’s connection to a Law Deployment Plan.

• Ronan spent 100 Credit Points to ask the Cloak app about moving Magneto-Optical Mica to Outer Earth and received an appraisal of 1,500 points.
• Ronan answered questions in What is Prepared, earned 1,200 Credit Points, and hit a bottleneck as questions in his specialties ran out.
• Ronan spent another 100 Credit Points to ask the Cloak app about transferring himself to Outer Earth.
• The app depicted Ronan between two planets as a Regular Tetrahedron’s inscribed and circumscribed spheres, then appraised the transfer at 20,000 Credit Points.
• Ronan compared the image with the appraisal for a Law Deployment Plan and began considering what the symbols meant.

Ronan tried to earn enough Credit Points to transfer Magneto-Optical Mica, but the Cloak app closed his Credit Rating interface when he reached Sky Ladder Third Order. The app then began erasing the Credit Reserve option as well, leaving Ronan unable to access either feature.

• Ronan decided to test the Cloak app by transferring Magneto-Optical Mica first, but he was 400 Credit Points short.
• Ronan kept solving problems while Liu Jia left for the Justice Cult headquarters in E City to represent the exploratory experiment team.
• After several more hours of grinding, Ronan discovered that the Credit Rating interface would no longer open.
• The Cloak app displayed a notice that Credit Rating had reached Sky Ladder Third Order and its interface was permanently closed.
• Ronan watched as the app erased both the Credit Rating and Credit Reserve options.

Ronan activated the "What is Prepared" interface and combined two contemplation graphics into a complex, incomplete configuration. As he traced it, his own cultivation frameworks began filling and altering its gaps, leaving him with a configuration that seemed to stabilize.

• Ronan selected "What is Prepared" again and found a dark interface whose background resembled the Credit Reserve help forum.
• Ronan drew the Shelter Version 57 and Format Theory contemplation graphics when they appeared as prompts.
• The two graphics merged into a complex, incomplete configuration combining their structures and other unfamiliar elements.
• Ronan traced the configuration with his mind and recognized similarities to his Prison Building self-portrait and Sky Abyss Empire Inner Cultivation methods.
• Ronan's Dark Heavy Chains, Demon Rune, and Great Sun Chains framework reacted, projecting the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison's structure onto the interface and altering the configuration.
• Ronan realized the configuration's principles stayed stable as his thoughts filled its gaps, and the graphic gradually settled.

Ronan studied Old Man Luo Zhongheng’s unfinished Contemplation Graphic and received the What is Prepared interface’s cryptic instruction to press forward without hesitation. The interface fractured into shifting shards that exposed the confused pleas of countless beings, and Ronan found he could trace its patterns to reveal their despair at the limits of mortal life.

• Ronan examined the Contemplation Graphic, identified its Self, Social, and Heaven and Earth Formats, and corrected parts of its Space-Time Configuration and Ceremonial Ancient Script.
• Ronan received the message, “Once What is Prepared exists, press forward without hesitation,” before the graphic vanished and left shifting fissures and mirror-like fragments on the Dark Seclusion interface.
• Ronan heard distress, confusion, and pleas rising from the fragments and realized they reflected the tangled thoughts and desires of vast numbers of living beings.
• Ronan traced a Configuration pattern onto a dim shard, causing it to reveal the Dream Divine Abomination portion and then display a verse about the universe’s vastness and the futility of fulfilling living beings’ wishes.

Ronan discovered that the new “What is Prepared” interface projected real people’s problems through the Tattered Divine Cloak, while warning that its use increased contamination from the Dream God Abomination. He tested the interface on Zan Ti, a student anxious about an exam and desperate to transfer into the Regular Army.

• Ronan saw that the Broken Mirror Shards displayed real people and learned that the What is Prepared interface was a projection of the Divine Cloak, re-woven by the Gatekeeper Lord.
• Ronan realized that using the Tattered Divine Cloak could accelerate contamination, and considered how it might offer responses to people whose problems appeared in its mirror shards.
• Ronan chose not to respond to Death Witch and instead focused on a distressed boy whose information the shard revealed in detail.
• The boy’s roommate urged him to practice on the simulation system and joked that he could curse the examiner into being sick.
• The boy, Zan Ti, complained that he wanted to transfer into the Regular Army but could only qualify as a technical soldier under the current requirements.

Zan Ti used a self-curse to prepare for his military exam, then prayed to the God of Dawn and received a boost from the Dream God Abomination’s corruption. Ronan watched through the What is Prepared interface before traveling to E City for the Cross-Boundary experiment, where Weismann greeted him.

• Zan Ti activated blood-red markings that drew out his potential at the cost of a long period of weakness, then prayed at the Myriad Gods Hall for the God of Dawn’s favor.
• The Dawn emblem glowed, while Ronan realized that Zan Ti’s renewed confidence came from the Tattered Divine Cloak and the Sin Dream Seed’s corruption.
• Ronan concluded that the What is Prepared interface was introducing a task sequence and withdrew when observing Zan Ti began to weaken him.
• Ronan left Tin City, said goodbye to Bat Master and Bai Hao, and traveled to E City for the Cross-Boundary experiment.
• Weismann came to greet Ronan, who remarked that he had expected High Priest Lanier instead.

Ronan arrived at the Justice Cult headquarters to prepare Child, Wen Huilan, and Deputy Yu for a cross-space Replacement experiment. The first Replacement began in the cult’s Sacred Space, where the Balance of Truth formed a doorway for Child, but the framework remained incomplete.

• Ronan and Weismann traveled by rotorcraft to the Justice Cult headquarters, where Lady Adelaide greeted them and led them to the gathered participants.
• Ronan greeted Child, Deputy Yu, and Wen Huilan, then explained that they would observe and test communication in the New Plane while prioritizing their survival.
• Ronan arranged for Child to go first, Wen Huilan second, and Deputy Yu last, with Deputy Yu keeping his distance because his unusual physique might attract attention.
• The group entered the Justice Cult’s sealed Sacred Space, where Ronan described the Replacement target and the Justice Chief Priest activated the Balance of Truth.
• The Balance of Truth began forming a doorway, but it lacked enough material to become fully solid, and Child looked to Ronan and the Justice Chief Priest.

Ronan entered the semi-void gateway to decipher two transposition options and discovered that the Balance of Truth was connected to the Rebirth Divine Artifact. He explained the options to the Justice Chief Priest, who agreed to proceed with directly sending personnel to the New Plane.

• Child entered the gateway, stalled during transposition, and returned after reproducing two options written in Ceremonial Ancient Script.
• Ronan translated the options and entered the gateway himself to examine their details, where the Rebirth Divine Artifact appeared on his Void Brain map.
• Ronan explained that One Thought Rebirth required decades of reincarnation in the New Plane, while the second option offered some control over where transposed personnel arrived.
• The Justice Chief Priest agreed to choose the second option, and Child entered the gateway again as the framework began to fade.
• The Justice Chief Priest asked Ronan whether Ceremonial Ancient Script could be learned, and Ronan offered to prepare materials.

Ronan used Wang Yong’s body to receive Child and Wen Huilan after they crossed from the Inner Earth to the Outer Earth, then helped them escape across the sea as the monitoring network and nuclear strikes targeted their arrival point. He stayed behind to block the bombs and buy them time to reach land.

• Ronan detected a Gray Substance rift over the sea and watched Child emerge from it.
• Ronan told Child the crossing had succeeded and warned him to dive deep if a nuclear bomb struck.
• Wen Huilan arrived, and Ronan gave her and Child positioning devices and directed them toward an island two hundred kilometers southeast.
• Child and Wen Huilan set off by fishing boat while Ronan remained to face the incoming nuclear strikes.
• A roughly two-hundred-kiloton bomb detonated over the sea, and Ronan escaped the blast through the hot vapor.

Ronan used the Soul Cape to divert a nuclear missile and expand his reach across Outer Earth, while the Reclamation Corps responded by disrupting the Abyss Zone. As the deadline for meeting in real life approached, he spoke with the Martial Emperor and wondered which cross-boundary option she had chosen.

• Ronan detonated a nuclear missile three thousand meters above the sea, then explained that his Water Condensation Ring and Altar Spiderweb let him intervene across much of Outer Earth, though he could not reach the space station in orbit.
• The Martial Emperor appeared beside Ronan and asked where he planned to go before their meeting deadline; he said he wanted to meet the Reclamation Corps face-to-face in space, but she refused to help.
• Ronan sent Deputy Yu to the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone in Inner Earth, where New Wildfire supported his Soul Cape.
• The Reclamation Corps stirred the Abyss Zone and pressured Ronan and the Martial Emperor, while Ronan entangled with them through the Soul Cape.
• Ronan told the Martial Emperor that Balance of Truth had offered two Ceremonial Ancient Script options for Cross-Boundary Replacement and asked which one she had used; she rubbed his head and told him to experiment again to find out.

Ronan questioned the Martial Emperor about the Lost Kingdom, Li Wei, and several people’s interest in crossing between worlds. She explained the sect’s Divine Kingdom connection and revealed that Wang Yu and Luo Yuan had their own ways of crossing over.

• Ronan told the Martial Emperor about the Lost Kingdom in East 725 District and the spirits that had crossed into Outer Earth through Faith Power Zones.
• The Martial Emperor said the Lost Kingdom had also held Return Rituals in her world and explained that its true purpose concerned a Divine Kingdom, not bloodline return.
• The Martial Emperor said Li Wei and the True God Pope sought something significant, and that Ronan’s investigation was on the right track.
• The Martial Emperor revealed that she had brought Wang Yu to Outer Earth and that he had asked to join the Cross-Border Experiment.
• The Martial Emperor said Luo Yuan was already familiar with crossing over through the Gate of Rebirth route and had started around 90 Year.

Ronan spoke with the Martial Emperor about Luo Yuan, the Reclamation Corps, and the brief Window Period in which he could strengthen his hold over Outer Earth. After the Martial Emperor vanished, Ronan reflected on the origins of the Demon Rune and Dark Heavy Chains and identified a rare clue about the latter from the recent experiment.

• Ronan asked the Martial Emperor to tell Luo Yuan to contact him during the Window Period, warning that he would not be so accommodating if they met later.
• The Martial Emperor said the Window Period would not last long, and Ronan admitted he could only focus on the immediate threat from the Reclamation Corps.
• The Martial Emperor ended their meeting and said Yingying would send Ronan the agenda while Old Jin would update him about Luo Yuan.
• Ronan watched the Soul Cape clash with the Abyss Zone Monitoring Network and explained to himself that the Altar Spiderweb was drawing power from Outer Earth's two billion inhabitants.
• Ronan reconsidered how the Demon Rune and Dark Heavy Chains had developed and converged, then recognized that the Balance of Truth experiment had revealed a rare clue related to Dark Heavy Chains.

Ronan tested another Replacement with the Justice Cult and selected “One Thought Rebirth, Harmonize with Ease,” which exposed the limits of the option and left him wondering where the Martial Emperor’s Inner Universe was. The Justice Chief Priest had also gained a basic understanding of Outer Earth, and their cooperation continued.

• Ronan and the Justice Chief Priest compared their impressions of Outer Earth, and she described it as impossible to distinguish illusion from reality.
• Ronan told the Justice Chief Priest he had already shared the information with President Ouyang and the Martial Emperor, then arranged another Replacement test with the cult.
• Ronan studied the Balance of Truth’s white chains before entering the void gateway and choosing “One Thought Rebirth, Harmonize with Ease.”
• A vast, unknowable presence seemed to inspect Ronan as the option’s text changed to “There is no realm where this cannot be done.”
• Ronan concluded that rebirth required a stable, self-contained void plane such as a Great Monarch’s Inner Universe, then wondered where the Martial Emperor’s Inner Universe was.

After his Inner Earth experiment ended, Ronan studied the Divine Kingdom and Inner Universe systems to understand the Rebirth Divine Artifact’s purpose and the qualifications it required. His new insights strengthened his constructed systems, but he still could not apply their progress to his Original Body because he had not broken through the Law Deployment Absolute Pass.

• Ronan told the Justice Chief Priest that he had been unable to use the Rebirth Divine Artifact, and she identified the matter as a Local Manifestation Trace.
• Ronan asked what the Martial Emperor was trying to teach them, but the Justice Chief Priest gave no answer, and the Inner Earth experiments temporarily ended.
• Ronan returned to Xia City and studied texts about Divine Kingdoms, myriad heavens, and the Inner Universes of Great Monarchs.
• Raven reasoned that the Rebirth Divine Artifact could let Great Monarchs observe and revise their cultivation from an outside perspective, and Ronan agreed that the artifact could help them advance.
• Ronan concluded that his study had improved the coherence of his Romance Visualization Spacetime and Starry Sky Remnant Game Logic Boundary, though the gains could not yet reach his Original Body.

Ronan sensed the locations of two missing Rotten Bone Star components and caused Liang Lu’s Dynamic Time-Space Map to update, revealing all three fragments. Raven said she would find the offensive fragment and Luo Yuan, while Ronan planned to test whether Luo Yuan would cooperate; the chapter ended as Ronan tapped the Rebirth Divine Artifact marker and a blinding light appeared.

• Ronan examined the Time-Space Bubble and sensed the approximate locations of Rotten Bone Star’s other two components in the Deep Blue World and the Mist Labyrinth.
• Ronan’s resonance with the components caused two new markers to appear on the Dynamic Time-Space Map, which he identified as the Energy Storage, Enhancement, and Offense fragments.
• Raven pointed to the Mist Labyrinth marker and said she would find the offensive fragment and Luo Yuan.
• Ronan told Raven that the Martial Emperor had arranged a meeting with Luo Yuan and said they would go together if he refused to cooperate.
• Ronan tapped the Rebirth Divine Artifact marker on the map, and a blinding light appeared.

Ronan discovered that the Rebirth Divine Artifact was inside the sun of Outer Earth and watched the Dynamic Time-Space Map expand into a vast star map. It revealed Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins and left Ronan suspecting that Liang Lu’s connection to the Dream Divine Abomination had enabled him to sense the distant location.

• Ronan saw the Dynamic Time-Space Map reveal the sun of Outer Earth as the location of the Rebirth Divine Artifact.
• Ronan watched the map transform into a rapidly expanding panorama of the starry sky.
• Raven pointed out a new marker, which Ronan and Raven identified as Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins.
• Ronan recognized the spacecraft near the marker as the scene shown in the Tattered God Cape app.
• Ronan theorized that the Dream Divine Abomination had polluted Liang Lu’s rule fragments and might have connected Liang Lu to Earth from across the stars.

Ronan used the Cape APP to observe Zan Ti after Zan Ti failed the practical assessment. Zan Ti learned that rumors blamed Director Yi for raising the exam’s difficulty because of Zan Ti’s report on the Seventh Category Fluctuation.

• Ronan fixed an unfamiliar Starry Sky in place through the Dynamic Time-Space Map, then entered the Cape APP to verify what had happened.
• Zan Ti failed to complete the practical examination and collapsed after removing his Powered Armor.
• Zan Ti encountered chief examiner Yi ShiJia outside the examination center, then wandered back to his dormitory and fell asleep.
• Zan Ti’s roommate warned him that Ban Tu and the other failed examinees were angry and might target him over a rumor.
• Zan Ti learned that the anonymous board accused Yi ShiJia of making the assessment harder to prevent him from passing, connecting the claim to Zan Ti’s report on the Seventh Category Fluctuation.