Chapter Summaries

After learning that Yi ShiJia may have leaked information about the Hyperspace Probe, Zan Ti confronted him over the loss of his chance to transfer into the Regular Army. Yi ShiJia ordered the soldiers to let Zan Ti approach.

• Zan Ti's roommate told him that news reports suggested Yi ShiJia had sold information about the Hyperspace Probe, and Zan Ti recalled that an exploration vessel had crossed over soon after he submitted his report.
• Zan Ti went to his Work Area and read the screenshots, finding that the original post had been shut down and its creator punished.
• When Yi ShiJia passed through on an inspection, Zan Ti's team leader scolded him for standing idle and reminded him that he had failed the exam.
• Zan Ti shoved the team leader aside, chased Yi ShiJia's group, and shouted accusations as soldiers seized him.
• Yi ShiJia stopped and told the soldiers to let Zan Ti come over.

Zan Ti attacked Yi ShiJia after being sentenced to confinement, but Black Capsule identified him as a Tianyuan dependent suffering a mental breakdown and executed him. Yi ShiJia and Sheng Wu then discussed the Seventh Category Fluctuation and each other’s hidden motives, with Sheng Wu insisting Yi ShiJia call him superior.

• Zan Ti confronted Yi ShiJia over the Exploration Team and the military merit he believed he had earned, and Yi ShiJia sentenced him to ten days of confinement.
• Zan Ti broke free and punched at Yi ShiJia, but Black Capsule incapacitated him and executed him under the Sky Abyss Remnants Disposal Act after identifying him as a Tianyuan dependent with a mental breakdown.
• Yi ShiJia reported Zan Ti’s death to Sheng Wu and proposed arranging medical examinations for the ship.
• Sheng Wu reviewed the incident record, questioned which behavioral guidelines Black Capsule had used, and warned Yi ShiJia not to cross the line.
• Sheng Wu challenged Yi ShiJia over sending a small Exploration Team to investigate a Seventh Category Fluctuation, and Yi ShiJia questioned why Sheng Wu had come to You-1337.
• Sheng Wu explained that Star Alliance policy had forced him off the front lines and stripped him of his military merits, then told Yi ShiJia to call him superior.

Yi ShiJia confronted Sheng Wu about the people manipulating them and revealed that they suspected a new Isolated Star System had been found nearby. Still lingering aboard the engineering ship, Ronan connected the discussion of God Breaker and Extreme Domain disturbances to Earth and wondered whether the discovery was related to it.

• Yi ShiJia told Sheng Wu that someone had been manipulating them both and that he wanted to clarify their positions.
• Sheng Wu realized Yi ShiJia suspected him of links to an organization connected to the Sky Abyss remnants, and Yi ShiJia identified that organization as God Breaker.
• Sheng Wu said he would maintain the status quo and urged Yi ShiJia to consult his superior before discussing anything further.
• Yi ShiJia revealed that they had solid reason to believe a new Isolated Star System had been discovered and said Sheng Wu's presence had prompted them to raise the stakes.
• Ronan recalled that his consciousness had remained aboard the ship after Zan Ti's death and wondered whether the Isolated Star System and related disturbances were connected to Earth.

Ronan explored the star region as a ghostlike consciousness, investigating the unfinished Star Gate and searching for clues to the Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins. Worn out, he returned to the engineering ship and watched its people, especially Sheng Wu and Yi ShiJia, for signs of the Dream Divine Abomination’s influence.

• Ronan decided not to attach himself to Sheng Wu or Yi ShiJia, suspecting their unusual qualities could alert The Other Side, and considered whether the Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins had drawn his consciousness to the region.
• Ronan discovered he could roam tens or hundreds of millions of kilometers, finding the engineering ship and an unfinished Star Gate amid unstable gravitational and time-space disturbances.
• Ronan approached the Star Gate but retreated when its structure began tearing and distorting his consciousness, concluding that the explorers must have had concrete evidence or benefits to risk crossing it.
• Ronan speculated that Sheng Wu had come for the Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins and that Lu Ande might know something about them.
• Ronan returned to the engineering ship as his strength ran out and observed the workers’ emotions and schemes, focusing on Sheng Wu and Yi ShiJia.

After witnessing an unfinished Star Gate, Ronan recorded its space-time configurations and planned experiments involving Ancient Gods. He then went out with Raven to meet Luo Yuan at the site of a future Black Sun Blood Sacrifice, suspecting Luo Yuan was testing him.

• Ronan told Raven about his experience at the Star Gate Construction Site, and they judged that the Exploration Team might be heading toward them.
• Ronan spent two hours recording the Star Gate’s space-time configurations and considered using experimental subjects to study its connections to an Ancient God's Corpse.
• Ronan reviewed the delayed financial meeting documents, and Zhang Yingying told him the meeting had been moved to Tuesday morning.
• Ronan asked Old Jin to pick him up and drove with Raven to a Subway Station in North City District.
• Old Jin reported that Luo Yuan had agreed to meet in East 824 District at the site of the next large-scale Black Sun Blood Sacrifice, and Ronan wondered if Luo Yuan was testing him.

Ronan connected Luo Yuan to the Black Sun Sect and learned about the cloning experiments being used to treat Jin Buhuan’s injuries. He met Bai Xinyan at a closed subway station, where she showed him spacetime structure data from the incident.

• Ronan concluded that Luo Yuan was linked to the Black Sun Sect and that his Plane Crossbow was likely hidden in the Mist Labyrinth.
• Jin Buhuan told Ronan that Luo Yuan’s two proposed treatments involved Machine Core modification or an extraordinary clone body, and described the clone trials’ limited duration and power.
• Ronan asked Jin Buhuan for a hair with its follicle and ordered him to gather materials so Ronan could compare his own plan with Luo Yuan’s.
• Ronan and Raven met Bai Xinyan at the subway station, where she apologized to Raven for the Two-Thousandths Miss incident.
• Bai Xinyan presented the requested spacetime structure data in a projection device, and Ronan saw that its interface used Tian Yuan Common Language.

Ronan examined Li Wei’s project data and questioned Bai Xinyan about Wang Yu’s motives and fate. At the Space-Time Bite Point, Raven phased into a wall while Ronan considered what message Wang Yu’s fate should send, and Bai Xinyan said the world most urgently needed direction and confidence.

• Ronan studied the Earth Model’s stored data and recognized its format as resembling materials used by the Sky Abyss Empire’s Weaving Bureau.
• Ronan asked Bai Xinyan why Li Wei had shared core data, and she said research could not be done in isolation.
• Ronan questioned Bai Xinyan about Wang Yu’s wish to join the Cross-Border Experiment and asked her to assess whether he should live or die.
• Ronan, Bai Xinyan, and Raven reached the Space-Time Bite Point, where Ronan said he could reconstruct the incident using Li Wei’s data, Spirit Wave Network records, and his own memories.
• Ronan sent Raven through a wall and asked what Li Wei lacked; Bai Xinyan said she could not know.
• Bai Xinyan said Wang Yu’s fate would matter as a signal from Ronan to the world, and identified direction and confidence as the most urgent message.

Ronan and Bai Xinyan discussed how to remove Li Wei’s influence from Earth, and Bai revealed that Wang Yu had once suspected Raven was one of his kind. At Zhi Xing Institute, Tian Si and Zhong Man learned that Sea Fishing King had asked Zi Ran Mian Er about her Breathing Method and given her a striking photo of Raven.

• Bai Xinyan listed the traditional power blocs, Ability User organizations, and Li Wei’s planted agents as people who would need to be handled to make Earth clean.
• Ronan said he lacked the time to keep dealing with Li Wei’s people, then asked Bai Xinyan to explain her ex-fiancé Wang Yu.
• Bai Xinyan told Ronan that Wang Yu had once believed Raven was one of his kind.
• At Zhi Xing Institute, Tian Si asked Zhong Man to investigate Sea Fishing King through the administrator channel.
• Zi Ran Mian Er said Sea Fishing King had asked about her Breathing Method and sent her a clear photo of Raven at Three Peaks Top.

Ronan used the newly compiled intelligence on Wang Yu to begin constructing a representation of him from the overlapping spatiotemporal realms and learned more about Wang Yu’s origins and Bai Xinyan’s reflections on the Martial Emperor. The chapter ended as Bai Xinyan anticipated Ronan’s unspoken question about Zhang Yingying.

• Bai Xinyan sent Ronan intelligence on Wang Yu, and the Xia City Branch’s financial meeting concluded with the Martial Emperor approving projects and warning that Li Wei could obstruct them.
• The Martial Emperor raised the New Plane’s exposure with Ouyang Chen, but Ronan left before they could discuss the matter further.
• Ronan moved to a quiet conference room and combined the Earth Model, Logic Boundary information, and Wang Yu’s records to create a spatiotemporal canvas and draw Wang Yu’s face.
• Bai Xinyan arrived and discussed Wang Yu’s origins as a possible reincarnation of a god, along with her own connection to the Adamantine King’s Rule Shards.
• Bai Xinyan described how the Martial Emperor’s assignments made people confront their own discomfort, then recognized Ronan’s unspoken question about Zhang Yingying.

Ronan discussed Wang Yu’s possible role in the New Plane experiment with Bai Xinyan, then met Blood Demon and Wan Liuhua, who brought him a Covenant Book. Ronan began using the book on Wang Yu, while promising that broader New Plane intelligence would soon be shared.

• Ronan told Bai Xinyan that Wang Yu would need to accept the consequences of joining the Cross-Border Experiment, and explained that the competing routes to the New Plane left Wang Yu choosing between him and Li Wei.
• Bai Xinyan warned Ronan that Wang Yu was weighing the offers from Ronan and Li Wei and might commit to Li Wei if Ronan demanded too much.
• Blood Demon arrived with Wan Liuhua and delivered another Covenant Book to Ronan.
• Wan Liuhua said she had come to Xia City to discuss the New Plane and hoped a successful effort would help her regain her freedom from her contract.
• Ronan told Wan Liuhua and Blood Demon that he would soon share New Plane intelligence, then cut a piece from the Covenant Book and threw it toward Wang Yu’s ghostly face.

Ronan used the Covenant Book to make an experimental wanted-order image of Wang Yu and discussed its limits with the Blood Demon and Wan Liuhua. As they talked about the New Plane and Wan Liuhua’s past connections, Ronan revealed that Tu Ge shared a Symbiotic Chain with Nick and Water Tank.

• Ronan created a ghostly image of Wang Yu in the Covenant Book, explaining that it was only a reminder for himself and could not bind Wang Yu.
• Ronan discussed the Covenant Book’s properties with the Blood Demon and Wan Liuhua, then said he would explain the New Plane at the Peak Conference after the first experiments.
• The Blood Demon tried to persuade Ronan to have the Martial Emperor explain the New Plane at the Starry Sky Club, but Ronan said the branch was already arranging a simplified briefing.
• Wan Liuhua asked to visit Xiu Shenyu, and Ronan messaged He Yueyin for permission while asking Wan Liuhua about Li Wei and Tu Ge.
• Wan Liuhua said Tu Ge had been quiet and unserious when they fought, and Ronan told her Tu Ge shared a Symbiotic Chain with Nick and Water Tank.

Ronan reviewed Raven’s findings from the North City Subway Station and asked her to bring the Earth Model and Seismograph to Dean Wan for study. He later agreed to consider Yuan Wuwei for a second batch of the Cross-Border Experiment, then formed a card depicting the ghost version of Wang Yu as the Drunkard shouted from Inner Earth’s Local Time-Space.

• Raven reported that the Subway Station retained traces of the Great Lord Rule Imprint and might have involved both the Deep Blue World and the Mist Labyrinth, with Outer Earth also a possibility.
• Ronan gave Raven the Earth Model and Seismograph and asked her to help Dean Wan combine their ideas and exchange insights.
• Ronan examined the What is Prepared interface while his Credit Points remained at 1,100 and he continued to need points for the Outer Earth transfer.
• Yuan Wuwei called Ronan to ask why he had not been chosen for the first Cross-Border Experiment, and Ronan said he could be considered for the second batch if he recorded his information and signed a contract.
• Yuan Wuwei said he sensed obvious disturbances around the planet, and Ronan said he would keep an eye on them.
• Ronan formed a black card depicting the ghost version of Wang Yu while the Drunkard from Inner Earth’s Local Time-Space shouted in his Brain Palace.

Ronan used his connection with Local Time-Space to search for Wang Yu’s traces across the Three Cats Under the Cape structure while pursuing experiments to map and influence it. After shifting his consciousness to Outer Earth, he began reviewing the information there, prioritizing the three people in the Cross-Border Experiment.

• Ronan explained that he had negotiated limited rule authority with Local Time-Space and maintained communication with Drunkard to keep their unstable time-space in balance.
• Ronan gave Drunkard Wang Yu’s Wanted Circular, using Wang Yu’s extraordinary origin as a medium to stimulate Local Time-Space and help track his traces.
• Ronan combined Liang Lu’s imprinting method and the Amaterasu Order’s dyeing method to mark Wang Yu’s traces, especially those in Deep Blue World’s Thirteenth District.
• Ronan prepared a separate experiment to use Magneto-Optical Mica to magnetize the collective consciousness of the Nibbling Void Bacteria.
• After dinner, Ronan transferred his consciousness to Outer Earth and began sorting through its information, making the three participants in the Cross-Border Experiment his first priority.

Ronan used Lava Island to activate its Time-Space Displacement function, carrying it through the barrier between Inner and Outer Earth. He confirmed that the island had arrived in the Thirteenth District.

• Wen Huilan and Child continued traveling through the South Asian archipelagoes, while Yu Yong struggled to adapt in the Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone.
• Ronan reviewed Snake Tongue’s report on the Black Sun Order and entered Lava Island using New Wildfire’s Long-Tailed Lizard form.
• Ronan prepared Lava Island’s contribution and energy reserves, then transformed New Wildfire into his Giant Lizard Combat Form.
• Ronan selected Time-Space Displacement, sending Lava Island onto the Time-Space Expressway and across the Space-Time Barrier.
• Ronan used Great Comprehension and the Soul Cape to survey his destination and confirmed that Lava Island had reached the Thirteenth District.

Mora emerged from her Life Support Capsule, learned about her mission to the dangerous Thirteenth District, and prepared to go with Shausedo and a support team. Before departing, she noticed signs that Mentor Li Wei’s experiment had advanced, though the strange baby’s cry left her puzzled.

• Mora found Wang Wang and Tu Ge in damaged Life Support Capsules and received mission information from Amber.
• Mora refused the Thirteenth District mission at first, then learned that Shausedo, a defense team, and Combat Puppets would support her.
• Mora heard a baby crying before a tremor shook the laboratory, and she suspected Li Wei’s experiment had progressed.
• Mora met Shausedo, her former employer, and the two prepared their armor and equipment for the mission.
• Mora inspected all ten Combat Puppets and approved them for the expedition.

Mora and Shausedo led their team down to the Stone Shell Sun’s Core Mining Area, where deadly conditions and failing machinery threatened them before the mission began. After entering the dream state and waking near the inner circle, the team found that one guard was trapped in rock and their supply vehicle was missing.

• Mora and Shausedo descended toward the Stone Shell Sun, where Shausedo watched miners and an excavator fall into a deadly current vortex.
• Mora warned the team to bind their consciousnesses to the collective neural network, and Shausedo declined medication before entering the dream state.
• Shausedo woke in a scorching underground cavern and crushed the skull of a modified Fugitive’s skeleton beneath his protective suit.
• Mora identified their location as close to the inner circle and called the team to account for its scattered members and equipment.
• The team found one guard embedded in rock and the supply vehicle missing, leaving them with a 12% manpower loss.

Mora led the team through the shifting, hazardous Thirteenth District after they abandoned their missing vehicle and killed the man fused into a wall. As they drilled toward a beacon near the inner ring, Shausedo sensed the place might be alive and heard its structure twisting like flesh and bone.

• Mora ordered the team to leave the fused man and missing supply vehicle behind and continue onward.
• Shausedo asked Mora about the Thirteenth District, his dangerous experience entering the dream, and Ronan’s interest in the place.
• Mora explained that the district had no stable directions and behaved like a rotating maze of spatial cells.
• Mora’s team used the Tunneling Vehicle to melt through rock strata and followed the molten streams toward a beacon near the inner ring.
• Shausedo sensed the district’s structure creaking and realized the sticky sounds resembled flesh and bone twisting together.

Shausedo and Mora discussed the dangers and layout of the Thirteenth District as their team continued tunneling through the rock. The team made preliminary progress, while the district’s strange local creations remained a threat.

• Shausedo tried to suppress his fear of the living entities Mora mentioned and asked how the team navigated the Thirteenth District.
• Mora explained that beacons marked explored areas, while harsher conditions and the absence of beacons suggested the Inner Ring.
• Mora speculated that the Thirteenth District might be an abnormal passage connecting to Earth, and Shausedo considered the idea plausible.
• Mora described local creations that could transform flesh, rock, and mechanical debris, and explained that capturing them intact earned a reward from Mentor Li Wei.
• The Tunneling Vehicle bored through the rock and achieved a preliminary result.

Mora and Shausedo investigated a vast cavern ahead of the Tunneling Vehicle and discovered a dangerous Tube Jellyfish-like creature spread throughout the lava. The team prepared to cross the creature’s territory, while Mora found that the Database’s information about it was restricted by an Authority Lock.

• Mora showed Shausedo how to use the beacon, and they noticed clear traces of Luo Yuan in the Thirteenth District.
• The Tunneling Vehicle reached a seventy-meter drop into an open cavern, so Mora halted progress and sent scouts to investigate.
• Shausedo used psychic perception and a Soul Attachment Clone to explore the cavern, finding a large entity hidden in the lava and warning Mora to recall the scouts.
• Shausedo sketched the creature, and Mora identified it as resembling a group of mutated Tube Jellyfish.
• Mora chose to proceed toward the next beacon rather than detour, then found that the Database’s details about the creature were locked behind an Authority Lock.

Mora and Shausedo led their group past the Aberrant Tube Jellyfish’s nest and continued through the hazardous fissures without their Tunneling Vehicle. After learning that the creature was a self-cloning colony, Shausedo used Soul Hosting to take control of a Combat Puppet and began exploring its unusual perceptions.

• Mora shared Li Wei’s research on the Aberrant Tube Jellyfish and warned the group to travel lightly and avoid provoking it.
• Shausedo and Mora tested the route with a Combat Puppet, then left the Tunneling Vehicle behind and guided the twenty-two survivors through the hollow.
• Mora read that the Water-Quenching Body formed a vast colony through self-cloning and linked this to Luo Yuan’s reason for coming there.
• The group proceeded through dangerous fissures, relying on their protection and Combat Puppets to break through rock and shield them from lava eruptions.
• Mora explained that the Combat Puppets were failures from the Bloodline Project and offered Shausedo a chance to try Soul Hosting one.
• After Mora unlocked a Combat Puppet’s control center, Shausedo successfully Soul Hosted it and experienced the world through its perception.