Chapter Summaries

Ronan observed Bai Jiao’s attempt to repair and control the Clumsy Spider by cleansing its original Order Framework with power from a Yin Lord Evil God. The Clumsy Spider adapted to the process and the Central Star Region’s currents of desire, while its distinctive nature began to fade.

• Half-Face met with Bai Jiao about his life-prolonging operation, then ordered others to watch Bai Jiao and locate his ritual.
• Attention and malice directed at Bai Jiao brought Spider Silk to the Clumsy Spider, and Ronan inferred that Bai Jiao was trying to repair and control it.
• Bai Jiao tested the Clumsy Spider and used a hidden channel to pour in external power, attempting to cleanse it into blank base material.
• The Clumsy Spider accepted the process in exchange for a share of its benefits and began adapting to the currents of desire around it.
• Ronan observed that the Clumsy Spider’s Sense of Alienness was fading as it learned to imitate and accommodate its environment.

Ronan questioned the Martial Emperor about signs of Li Wei’s False God ritual, but she warned that the Six Heavens God Calamity could exploit subtle emotions and cautioned him against recklessness. Meanwhile, Old Bai Jiao advanced his work with the Clumsy Spider, and Half-Face’s investigation exposed a handsome young man tied to the operation as he prepared for another ritual.

• Ronan asked the Martial Emperor whether she had found preset structures for Li Wei’s False God ritual, and she warned him that the Six Heavens God Calamity might already be influencing their emotions.
• Ronan watched Old Bai Jiao feed his Qi and Blood vitality into the Clumsy Spider, with much of the power lost during the process.
• Half-Face’s side shifted its attention to a crucial link, bringing a handsome young man connected to Old Bai Jiao into the Altar Spiderweb.
• Old Bai Jiao’s subordinate gave the young man a Clumsy Spider and asked to observe his next ritual, and the young man agreed if they paid an admission fee.
• The young man returned to his residence and examined the Clumsy Spider, which had taken the form of a patterned pendant.

Tai Yu, a dishonest star coach who recruited victims for Old Bai Jiao, was targeted as a vessel by the faction he served. After his pendant triggered a loss of control during class, he was taken to the hospital where Old Bai Jiao planned to carry out the final ritual.

• Tai Yu used the Clumsy Spider pendant, won ten Virtual Reality arena matches, and drew information about his life and scams to Earth Local Time-Space.
• Tai Yu taught an Advanced Class while three observers from Old Bai Jiao’s faction watched, then used the pendant to help adjust his students’ cultivation.
• Old Bai Jiao’s power overwhelmed Tai Yu through the pendant, and the students from The Other Side pinned him down as he collapsed.
• Tai Yu was rushed to Tuoyuan City’s professional martial cultivation hospital, where Old Bai Jiao had arranged the final ritual to use him as a vessel.

Old Bai Jiao attempted to transfer his consciousness and power into Tai Yu, burning his own body to complete the Personality Imprint. The transfer appeared to succeed, but Ronan and Half-Face’s influence had trapped Bai Jiao in a deceptive dream, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Old Bai Jiao prepared to escape his aging body by imprinting his vitality, Qi and Blood, and consciousness onto Tai Yu.
• Old Bai Jiao burned his body in a private hospital ward and received a response from the Great Existence, turning the flames orange-yellow.
• Old Bai Jiao’s fire entered Tai Yu through the pendant on his chest, and Tai Yu struggled before falling into an apparent sleep.
• The Tattered God Cape revealed that Old Bai Jiao was also caught in a dream that seemed real, though neither Bai Jiao nor the Yin Lord Evil God noticed.
• Clumsy Spider waited as Half-Face delayed the wager’s conclusion, while Ronan studied the Nightmare technique behind Bai Jiao and Tai Yu’s condition.

After recovering from his collapse, Tai Yu found his teaching career in danger and suspected his standing at the gym depended on Old Bai Jiao. As an air-raid warning sent him into a shelter, he stopped to listen to a pair of street musicians.

• Tai Yu left the hospital after two days and learned that rumors about his cultivation were damaging his reputation at the gym.
• Master Le told Tai Yu to continue recovering, leading him to suspect that Old Bai Jiao had been central to his position.
• Tai Yu wandered Tuoyuan City and reflected on the dangers facing planetary residents and the protection offered by Star Ring City.
• An air-raid siren warned of a meteor fragment impact, and Tai Yu followed the crowd into an underground civil defense passage.
• Tai Yu stopped to listen as a woman sang while her large-built partner played the harmonica.

Tai Yu listened to Yi Ya sing “Night Crow” in a civil defense passage and met her and Tu Qian, who revealed they were Sky Abyss Remnants. Still dazed from the Inner Energy Transfer Mishap, he then spoke with Shi Hong, who asked to keep Boss Bai’s old channels open, and Tai Yu agreed to meet Chao Hui.

• Tai Yu was captivated by Yi Ya’s performance of “Night Crow” and struggled to collect himself afterward.
• Tai Yu spoke with Yi Ya and Tu Qian, learned they were Sky Abyss Remnants, and introduced himself as a martial arts coach at Le Guo Fitness Center.
• Tai Yu left the buskers and headed through the civil defense passage toward the hospital, still humming the song.
• Shi Hong introduced himself as someone who worked under Boss Bai and said he and Chao Hui wanted to preserve their old channels with Tai Yu.
• Tai Yu agreed to have Chao Hui come talk to him.

Old Bai Jiao completed the Orange Flame ritual using Tai Yu’s body while his followers continued manipulating Tai Yu’s life and consciousness. After Tai Yu was hospitalized again, Half-Face investigated his abnormal behavior and questioned whether he might be a Sky Abyss Remnant.

• Old Bai Jiao told Chao Hui to disrupt Tai Yu’s routine, provide him with sources to use the pendant, and investigate the two Han Guang Mercenaries.
• Old Bai Jiao completed the Orange Flame ritual, which used a Yin Lord Evil God’s power to imitate a Secret Mine Landscape.
• Old Bai Jiao hid his consciousness inside Tai Yu’s shell consciousness after the ritual succeeded.
• Tai Yu was admitted to the hospital again and fell asleep under observation.
• Half-Face analyzed Tai Yu’s dream erosion, his encounter with the Han Guang Mercenaries, and the possibility that Tai Yu was a Sky Abyss Remnant.

Half-Face and his companion discussed how the Awakened might have influenced Old Bai Jiao and how Bai Jiao was pressuring Tai Yu. After losing his fitness center classes, Tai Yu went job hunting to protect his path toward Interstellar Citizen status and ran into Yi Ya and Tu Qian, who needed help repairing an old combat exoskeleton.

• Half-Face suggested that the Awakened's consciousness might have influenced Old Bai Jiao, and his companion cautioned him against seeking clear answers.
• Half-Face learned that Tai Yu had been discharged again and that Le Guo Fitness Center had canceled his classes, leaving him with only base pay and a clearance review.
• Tai Yu searched Tuoyuan City's job market for work related to his martial arts qualifications, then remembered he could seek work through the Fighters' Guild.
• Tai Yu ran into Yi Ya and Tu Qian, who explained that their Fighting Bird Seventeen exoskeleton had broken and needed mechanical repairs.
• Yi Ya explained that Fighting Bird models became mentally controlled from the fifth generation onward, and asked Tai Yu whether he had learned about the older models from the Covenant or Star Road.

Tai Yu helped Han Guang Mercenaries Yi Ya and Tu Qian find a possible way to repair their equipment through a military technician connected to Dagang Intelligent Machine Repair Center. After arranging the introduction, they went to eat, where Tai Yu asked about the Han Guang Star System and the Calamity Era.

• Tai Yu discussed the Virtual Reality games Covenant World and Star Road with Yi Ya and Tu Qian, then asked why their equipment remained unrepaired.
• Yi Ya and Tu Qian explained that repair shops in Tuoyuan City lacked the parts and equipment they needed, and that they had lost their Contribution Points after being expelled from Star Ring City.
• Tai Yu offered to ask around and learned that Dagang Intelligent Machine Repair Center sometimes brought in military repair technicians from Star Ring City for difficult cases.
• Yi Ya and Tu Qian supplied names of repair technicians they knew, and Tai Yu found that Mr. Madaruvir knew them all and could help arrange a request.
• Yi Ya offered to treat Tai Yu to a meal, and he said he wanted to hear about the Han Guang Star System and the Calamity Era.

Chao Hui and Old Bai Jiao investigated the two Han Guang Mercenaries and linked them to a suspected Phantom Spirit incident, while Half-Face and his masked companion planned to exploit Old Bai Jiao’s doubts. Tai Yu later met Yi Ya and Tu Qian at the Dagang Intelligent Machine Repair Center, where Pusuo asked him to help his son prepare for an upcoming physical-skills test.

• Chao Hui reported that the two mercenaries had recently arrived from the front lines and were respected among Han Guang Mercenaries, leading Old Bai Jiao to suspect their strength and question why they kept meeting Tai Yu.
• Old Bai Jiao connected the mercenaries’ activity near Tuoyuan City with a suspected Phantom Spirit incident and ordered Chao Hui to find Half-Face.
• Old Bai Jiao’s search failed to locate Half-Face, who watched the operation with his metal-masked companion and agreed to keep drawing Old Bai Jiao and Tai Yu into a half-awake state.
• Tai Yu woke with a severe headache and joined Yi Ya and Tu Qian on a visit to the Dagang Intelligent Machine Repair Center.
• Pusuo welcomed the group and privately asked Tai Yu to help his son improve his physical skills before the next round of random testing.

Tai Yu agreed to assess Pudong’s martial arts foundation and create a training plan, using the consultation to build his professional standing. At the repair center, he discussed Pudong’s interest in Cybernetics and told him to ask Pusuo for Exoskeleton training armor.

• Tai Yu offered Pusuo a paid consultation and training plan for Pudong instead of immediate private lessons.
• Pudong arrived at the Dagang Intelligent Machine Repair Center while Yi Ya and Madaruvir argued over repairs to her Fighting Bird Seventeen Exoskeleton.
• Tai Yu asked Pudong whether he wanted to be a mechanic like Madaruvir or a combat mercenary like Yi Ya, and Pudong said he wanted to repair and operate equipment like Zhuoda.
• Tai Yu warned Pudong that Tuoyuan City lacked opportunities to train combat pilots and suggested Star Ring City as a path for further study.
• Tai Yu decided to add Exoskeleton training to Pudong’s foundation work and told him to ask Pusuo to prepare a set of training armor.

Tai Yu discussed Pudong’s interest in Cybernetic Modification and explained how his natural talent compared with Tu Qian’s and Yi Ya’s at the same age. The chapter left Pudong and Pusuo surprised, while Tu Qian agreed that the Tian Yuan Remnants’ path was growing narrower.

• Tu Qian left the repair room and told Tai Yu that Yi Ya’s standards for temporary repairs were unusually high.
• Tai Yu explained that he had Pudong put on Exoskeleton training armor to test his interest and show him the limits of external technology.
• Tu Qian and Pusuo warned that early reliance on equipment could cause Pudong to become Lost, while Tai Yu suggested that he had reached a bottleneck in body technique training.
• Tai Yu described the military training imposed on young people during the late Calamity Era and reflected on the cost of exposing children to external power too early.
• Tai Yu told Pudong that his talent exceeded Tu Qian’s and Yi Ya’s at the same age, and Tu Qian agreed that the Tian Yuan Remnants’ road was growing narrower.

Tai Yu diagnosed Pudong’s cultivation imbalance and showed him how his Exoskeleton Armor magnified his poor coordination. The discussion left Tu Qian and Tai Yu questioning the Star Alliance’s cultivation education and its unclear path toward Furnace Completion.

• Tu Qian criticized the Star Alliance for making students pay extra to study Inner Cultivation and Truth Communion techniques, while Pusuo said his combat-pilot tax exemptions let him afford them.
• Tai Yu explained that comprehensive cultivation methods could stall progress through recurring imbalances, then said Pudong’s armor magnified his own imbalance.
• Tai Yu struck at Pudong, whose exaggerated dodge and attempted aerial recovery ended with him crashing onto the floor.
• Tai Yu assessed Pudong’s strength and internal energy as good but his training as monotonous, and told him to practice stillness, breathing, and hand-eye coordination.
• Tu Qian and Tai Yu discussed how the Star Alliance lacked clear guidance toward Furnace Completion and questioned how many people could reach the Heaven-Man Landscape.

Tai Yu designed a physical training schedule for Pudong and proposed that Yi Ya let him experience Celestial-level meditation during her field test. Yi Ya agreed to prepare the sensors after suspecting Tai Yu was a Sky Abyss Remnant.

• Tai Yu drew up a training schedule for Pudong, combining meditation, breathing exercises, and hand-eye coordination practice.
• Pudong said he had tried Original Paradigm Meditation before but had not gotten good results.
• Yi Ya and Madaruvir argued over whether to test an application at the training ground.
• Tai Yu asked about the Fighting Bird's wingman mode and suggested that Pudong experience meditation resonance during Yi Ya's field test.
• Yi Ya agreed to use sensors for Pudong's meditation resonance and told Madaruvir to put them on.

Tai Yu helped Pudong prepare for a test with Yi Ya, whose flying Exoskeleton Armor exposed a Coordination Support System fault. After the repair dispute was settled, Madaruvir warned Yi Ya and Tu Qian that returning to Star Ring City might be difficult because of news about the Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins.

• Madaruvir fitted Pudong with sensors while preparing Yi Ya's test, and Tai Yu helped Pudong enter a clear meditative state.
• Yi Ya flew around the Training Ground with Pudong, and Tai Yu observed that they had synchronized.
• Yi Ya hit the wall when the Coordination Support System malfunctioned, and Madaruvir contained the fault while agreeing to further repairs at cost price.
• Yi Ya and Tu Qian settled the job, received their payment and evaluation, and prepared to continue their journey.
• Madaruvir warned Yi Ya and Tu Qian that returning to Star Ring City might be difficult because of news about the Liang Lu Inner Universe Ruins at the You-1337 Star Gate.

Bai Jiao warned Chao Hui that the Han Guang information connected to Tai Yu might be part of a larger plan involving Half-Face and forces beyond their world. He decided their pendant could draw the Han Guang Mercenaries back into the affair, though their motives remained uncertain.

• Madaruvir told Yi Ya and Tu Qian that Grand Normal's Inner Universe had detached, but he knew little beyond rumors and warned them that Grand Normal was a wanted God Breaker member.
• Bai Jiao told Chao Hui that coincidences depended on underlying conditions, then compared Tai Yu and the information around him to primary and associated ore.
• Chao Hui realized that Tai Yu's Han Guang connections had already changed their plan by making him less dependent on the pendant.
• Bai Jiao warned that Tai Yu and their group might only be a springboard for Half-Face or others pursuing greater targets.
• Bai Jiao pointed to the pendant as a crucial link and reasoned that the Han Guang Mercenaries might care if it connected their lost spoils to the Han Guang Star System and Tianyuan Great Monarch.

Chao Hui and Bai Jiao planned to use Tai Yu to influence Yi Ya and Tu Qian, while Half-Face and his masked companion weighed the risks posed by Bai Jiao and Tai Yu’s unexpected behavior. Half-Face discovered that Liang Lu’s Inner Universe and the Coiling Demon were valuable intelligence, and his companion told him to maintain the connection for future benefits.

• Chao Hui worried that Yi Ya and Tu Qian would find him and Bai Jiao, but Bai Jiao explained that they could use Tai Yu to communicate with the mercenaries on their terms.
• Half-Face’s metal-masked companion praised Bai Jiao for recognizing his position and using the Han Guang Mercenaries as leverage.
• Half-Face argued that Yi Ya and Tu Qian would still distrust him because of Liang Lu’s Inner Universe, while his companion questioned where Tai Yu’s goodwill toward the mercenaries came from.
• Half-Face reflected on joining the First Awareness Society for protection and considered the setbacks to his mission to spread Nightmare to Bai Jiao.
• Half-Face raised the Coiling Demon in Liang Lu’s Inner Universe as important Karmic Poison intelligence, and his companion told him to preserve the connection because it could bring him benefits.

Half-Face feared that the Awakened One was affecting him, fled Tuoyuan City, and fell asleep despite his terror. Meanwhile, Clumsy Spider’s threads reached a mist-shrouded Corpse Jungle, where they joined countless tattered strands.

• Half-Face’s companion left to report and verify information, leaving Half-Face unsure how to handle the Han Guang Mercenaries and his other problems.
• Half-Face realized that his doubts and hesitation might let the Awakened One’s power seep into him, and he feared going to sleep.
• Half-Face fled to another hideout, abandoning his plans to advance within the First Awareness Society so he could stay alive.
• As Half-Face slept, Clumsy Spider sensed the Spider Silk connections among him, Tai Yu, and Old Bai Jiao growing smoother.
• Clumsy Spider followed a thread connected to Half-Face’s companion into a misty Corpse Jungle, where its silk blended among countless tattered strands.

Clumsy Spider revealed that Half-Face’s companion had been connected to the Place of Slumber, then the companion’s trip to Star Ring City turned into a trap when the Sky Abyss Spirit Network locked onto him. He fled the Red Silicon Guards as the hidden power inside him activated, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Clumsy Spider reflected the companion’s connection to the Place of Slumber and the phrase “Place of Slumber of the Awakened Ones, Nation of Sinful Dreams.”
• The companion cut off his connection to the Place of Slumber and boarded a shuttle from Tuoyuan City to Star Ring City.
• An alarm forced passengers off the shuttle, and the companion noticed a crew member redirecting a family whose authorization procedures had a problem.
• The companion found himself alone in the passageway and realized the Sky Abyss Spirit Network had locked onto him.
• Red Silicon Guards charged him, and he sprinted away as a hidden power inside his body activated.

Yi Ya and Tu Qian accepted a thirty-hour mission from the Pantheon to find an Illegal Organization target after a suspected contaminant died by suicide. Their lead to Half-Face vanished, while Chao Hui’s attempt to warn the cult was interrupted by an Extraterritorial Species alert in Tuoyuan City.

• Priest Farul told Yi Ya and Tu Qian that Feng Yan had shown contamination traits like their Phantom Spirit target, then killed himself before the Pantheon could investigate.
• Farul gave the mercenaries until next Monday to find a reportable Illegal Organization target, and Yi Ya and Tu Qian decided to pursue Half-Face using a black-market lead.
• Yi Ya and Tu Qian found Half-Face’s shop empty and learned that someone had driven him away.
• Chao Hui learned that the Han Guang Mercenaries had reached Half-Face and sent Shi Hong to contact Tai Yu and awaken Mentor Bai Jiao.
• Air raid sirens sounded as meteorite fragments approached Tuoyuan City, and Chao Hui saw an alert reporting an Extraterritorial Species incursion.