Chapter Summaries

Tai Yu assessed the Initial Awakening Society’s motives and chose not to respond to its new contact channel. He then examined the experimental zone’s progress and explained why its more stable Rule Environment helped the rescue efforts.

• Tai Yu concluded that the Initial Awakening Society had abandoned Bai Jiao while trying to guide power from the Place of Slumber and the Sin Dream Kingdom outward, though he remained wary of a possible trap.
• Tai Yu decided to postpone the Society’s ritual until he returned to You Chong Star and continued monitoring the experiment instead.
• Officer Gong Zhou’s team had rescued two aberrants after five days, though one was badly damaged and two people had died during the rescue operations.
• Lieutenant Kurong visited the experimental zone in a wheelchair and asked Tai Yu why its Primal Paradigm projection was more stable than the Reinforcement Blessing Zone’s.
• Tai Yu explained that the earlier zone’s distortions merely counterbalanced the outside rules and kept people in an unhealthy state, prompting Kurong to remark that the old method amounted to waiting to die.

Tai Yu explained that the experiment aimed to harmonize two different Rule Environments and revealed that he would handle the work himself. He left for the Isolation Zone to advance toward becoming a Celestial, while Kulon called Sheng Wu to stop him.

• Tai Yu told Kulon that the experiment needed to gradually adjust the Rule Environments rather than restore an old standard.
• Kulon realized Officer Gong Zhou could only support the harmonization, since his long exposure to the old Rule Environment prevented him from doing it precisely.
• Tai Yu said he would harmonize the Rule Environments himself and explained that he had begun cultivating the Spine World Scape only three weeks earlier.
• Tai Yu pushed Kulon out of the experimental area and headed toward the Isolation Zone to advance.
• Kulon called Sheng Wu and shouted that Tai Yu was about to become a Celestial.

Tai Yu explained how his research into Rule Differences would support his experiment and why becoming a Celestial required joining a divine system through Faith Current. He asked Sheng Wu to help him apply, leaving the experiment ready to begin.

• Tai Yu considered how Rule Differences across networks and zones could inform his experiment and chose Spine World Scape as a suitable cover.
• Tai Yu reasoned that becoming a Celestial meant moving from the Subsidiary Network to the Main Network and confronting its rules and dangerous undercurrents.
• Sheng Wu called Tai Yu and asked whether he had applied for Faith Current.
• Tai Yu admitted he had not, then asked Sheng Wu to help him apply using the same process Sheng Wu had followed.
• The gazes on both sides of the Spirit-Channeling Demon Eye focused on Tai Yu.

Tai Yu completed the preparation to transfer from the Subsidiary Network to the Main Network, then entered the Military Hospital’s Isolation Zone to cultivate with the Old Blessing Zone residents as cover. He left Sheng Wu’s application unanswered and continued his cultivation plans.

• Tai Yu explained how his cultivation had prepared him to enter the Main Network and compared its Sky Ladder with the Heavenly Abyss-Hanguang system’s.
• Tai Yu entered the Isolation Zone and saw that two private-room occupants had been replaced as the aberrants rapidly deteriorated.
• Tai Yu visited the Old Blessing Zone, where residents eagerly asked him to choose them for the new zone.
• Tai Yu told the residents he was using them as cover for personal cultivation, and they enthusiastically offered to help.
• Sheng Wu called again about Tai Yu’s application, but Tai Yu pretended the underground signal was bad and hung up.

Sheng Wu and Kulon challenged the rejection of Tai Yu’s application to become a Celestial, while Tai Yu bypassed the stalled process and reached toward the Abyss Zone. The Great Existence gave Tai Yu a view of the ancient network beneath the Abyssal Spirit Net as the system’s dark currents moved to tear him apart.

• Priest Kik explained that Tai Yu’s application had been rejected because he lacked Faith Current, had no military record, and was out on bail, but Sheng Wu told him the matter was beyond his authority to judge.
• Sheng Wu and Kulon left the Prayer Hall after Sheng Wu realized an abnormal fluctuation had appeared in the Abyssal Spirit Net system.
• Tai Yu ignored the Spirit-Channeling Demon Eye and reached toward the Abyss Zone, but the dense pressure there blocked him from entering.
• Tai Yu held himself outside the system with his Self Logic while the Divine Cloak’s dark currents tried to entangle and destroy him.
• The Great Existence granted Tai Yu a view of the ancient High-Dimensional Communication Network whose ruins formed the backbone of the Abyssal Spirit Net.

Tai Yu used the River of Time to reach Great Lord Luande’s rule system and considered how to advance within it without becoming trapped by its structure. He began shaping his entry into the system around the experimental project he had been assigned, ending by voicing “Datong.”

• Tai Yu followed the River of Time and used Luande’s Great Monarch Void as a sheltered point of contact in the Abyss Zone.
• Tai Yu decided to avoid advancing too slowly or taking on the system’s central burdens, aiming instead to develop peripheral fields within Luande’s system.
• Tai Yu resolved to keep pursuing the experimental project despite its departure from his original intentions.
• Tai Yu’s fallen-leaf presence spun apart, gathered matter from the riverbank, formed a pattern, and voiced “Datong.”

Tai Yu used Great Comprehension to analyze the aberrants and transmit an optimized Standard Array, while seeking recognition from Great Lord Luande’s system of rules. Their competing Great Comprehensions connected and expanded his reach across Star Ring City, leaving Tai Yu responsible for surveying more than seventy thousand retired soldiers.

• Tai Yu activated Great Comprehension across the Military Hospital, gathering information on 5,422 people and transmitting corrected Standard Array rules to selected experiment participants and Great Lord Luande’s system.
• Great Lord Luande responded with his own Great Comprehension, connecting with Tai Yu’s and expanding the flow of information beyond the hospital.
• Tai Yu counted 76,695 people across Star Ring City’s other military hospitals and the broader network of veterans tied to the system.
• Tai Yu restrained his urge to correct everyone’s Standard Array and decided to begin by compiling statistics on the retired soldiers.
• A Spirit-Channeling Demon Eye glared at Tai Yu.

Tai Yu tested the Spine World Scape and used system information to study the spacetime around Star Ring City, causing disturbances in the Old Blessing Zone. He left the zone as the vibrations stopped, while veteran Old Sheng recognized signs of a hidden Spine World Scape.

• Tai Yu assessed his strengthened power and fragile Form and Spirit Framework, then decided to study the local spacetime using the Spine World Scape.
• Tai Yu drew on information from the systems of Great Lord Luande and the Lord of Dawn to survey Star Ring City, You Chong Star, and the Red Silicon Star System, disturbing the void and marking unfriendly locations.
• Tai Yu adjusted his interference in the Old Blessing Zone, startling its occupants before telling them to rest and leaving to continue his survey.
• The Old Blessing Zone shook more violently as Tai Yu walked out, then settled after he left.
• Old Sheng examined the entrance and concluded that the disturbances resembled a hidden Spine World Scape without forward or Reverse Blessing.

Tai Yu left the Isolation Zone and built a vast Spine Boundary Honeycomb across the Military Hospital, mapping its many overlapping Rule Differences to support experiments that could help the old soldiers. As his work intensified and attracted attention from powerful Celestials, he began to suspect that the Aberrants’ condition had a cause beyond the surrounding Rule Environment.

• Old Sheng learned that Tai Yu had gone toward the Private Rooms, where a tremor shook the building, and guards confirmed that Tai Yu had left the Isolation Zone.
• Tai Yu spread the Spine World Scape through the Military Hospital and shaped it into a Honeycomb of cells accommodating the different Rule Environments.
• Tai Yu designed the Honeycomb to give the dissolving old soldiers a controlled environment for reconstruction and experiments, while planning to proceed cautiously alongside Gong Zhou’s team.
• As Tai Yu detected more Rule Differences, he questioned whether the Aberrants’ symptoms came from the outside world or from the Aberrants themselves.
• Tai Yu’s growing work generated noise that drew probing divine will from nearby Celestials, while Field Officer Sheng Wu’s power shielded the Military Hospital.
• Tai Yu shifted part of his dense construction into the Abyss Zone, affecting the Noise Source he had noticed when he first arrived in Star Ring City.

Tai Yu used Great Comprehension and the Main Network to identify Chief Priest Sao, who inspected the Military Hospital and Tai Yu’s Spine Boundary Honeycomb. After Sao’s scrutiny passed without violence, Tai Yu and Sheng Wu discussed how to protect the thousands of people in the hospital from the complications caused by the Great Lord’s arrivals.

• Tai Yu recognized the Noise Source as Chief Priest Sao of the Blazing Flame Sect and realized Sao had noticed him as well.
• Chief Priest Sao inspected the Mutated Sky Abyss framework and exposed the Spine Boundary Honeycomb to his gaze.
• Tai Yu recited a passage from the Great Light Inscription, and Sao’s inspection ended without harming the Honeycomb.
• Lieutenant Kule confronted Tai Yu for shouting, and Tai Yu said he was thanking the Lord of Dawn and the God of Blazing Flames.
• Sheng Wu asked Tai Yu what he had done and warned that the Myriad Gods Hall would not let him exploit a loophole.
• Tai Yu and Sheng Wu discussed alternatives for accommodating the people in the Military Hospital, including a Demi-Plane and admitting arrivals in batches.

After becoming a Celestial, Tai Yu went to register at the Military Hospital’s Prayer Hall and learned that his approval was blocked by unresolved suspicions involving the Boundary Training Ground and Vajello. He was given a thirty-week observation period to capture Vajello, and left the hall calling the Heavenly Human Guild to clarify whether his bail money would be returned.

• Sheng Wu congratulated Tai Yu, told him to register with Myriad Gods Hall and the Heavenly Human Guild, and warned that officials were still discussing his identity.
• Tai Yu visited the Military Hospital’s Prayer Hall, where Priest Kik explained that unresolved smuggling and illegal immigration cases linked to Vajello complicated his registration.
• Priest Kik told Tai Yu that Myriad Gods Hall and the Heavenly Human Guild had assigned him a Mandatory Mission to capture Vajello within thirty weeks, or face renewed accusations and restricted access to the Abyssal Spirit Net.
• Tai Yu asked about the mission’s scope, legal protections, and whether it replaced his bail, then pressed Priest Kik to confirm if his thirteen-million loan-funded bail payment could be refunded.
• Tai Yu searched for the Heavenly Human Guild’s contact information and called them as he left the Prayer Hall.

Tai Yu met with the Heavenly Human Guild, then returned to the Military Hospital to investigate the Spine Boundary Honeycomb and learn about its patients. After Vice Director Yuxi joined him and Officer Sheng Wu, they began discussing the hospital’s personnel and the Honeycomb’s Rule Environment.

• Mr. Bang Qi explained the guild’s observation period and Mandatory Mission to Tai Yu, then invited him to an Appreciation Banquet.
• Tai Yu declined to register for now and returned to the Military Hospital to inspect the Spine Boundary Honeycomb.
• Officer Sheng Wu told Tai Yu that the higher-ups were discussing his identity and reminded him of the Great Monarch’s responsibilities for the hospital.
• Tai Yu asked why Vice Director Yuxi had not been replaced, and Sheng Wu explained that the Great Lord had requested an outside expert.
• Yuxi arrived and shared her knowledge of the Rule Environment and the hospital’s retired soldiers while Tai Yu and Sheng Wu recorded her information.

Tai Yu and Sheng Wu continued inspecting the Military Hospital and discussed the Spine Boundary Honeycomb, the Archaist Faction, and Myriad Transformations Deep Blue. Sheng Wu revealed that Tai Yu had been appointed the frontline troops’ representative to local authorities and given posts in the Red Silicon Star System Retired Soldiers Administration.

• After Vice President Yu Xi left, Tai Yu and Sheng Wu continued their hospital rounds and used their notes to map the Spine Boundary Honeycomb and prepare patient data for virtual simulations.
• Tai Yu asked Sheng Wu about Mother God Company, and their discussion turned to the Ancient Gods and the weakened Archaist Faction.
• Sheng Wu explained that the Abyssal Sea True God had wanted to join the Archaist Faction and that Myriad Transformations Deep Blue was his attempt to emulate the Abyssal Spirit Net.
• Tai Yu entered a moment of synchronized thought as he considered Myriad Transformations Deep Blue and Deep Blue World.
• Sheng Wu showed Tai Yu an invitation to an Appreciation Banquet and told him he had been appointed the frontline troops’ representative, Technical Director, and Deputy Director of the Military Retirement Preferential Treatment Department.

Tai Yu learned that Great Lord Luande had appointed him Military Representative and placed him above Sheng Wu, a role he had not intended to take on. As calls about registration and his new posts piled up, Tai Yu gathered information and called Ming Fan to ask why the Black Inspector had lost control of the case.

• Sheng Wu explained Tai Yu’s duties as a Military Representative and his concurrent post overseeing Military Hospitals, and said the appointment had been properly approved by the Wartime Command.
• Tai Yu questioned why he had been appointed over Sheng Wu and learned that his salary and allowances would come from the Great Lord’s Guard Bureau 1 Executive Office.
• Sheng Wu warned that the Myriad Gods Hall and Heavenly Human Guild would contact Tai Yu to complete his registration, while Tai Yu said he cared only about the bail money.
• Priest Kik, the Heavenly Human Guild, and Bohan from the Retired Soldier Administration Bureau contacted Tai Yu about his registration and new position.
• After gathering information from several sides, Tai Yu called Ming Fan and demanded to know whether the Black Inspector had let the Myriad Gods Hall take authority over the case.

After advancing to Celestial, Tai Yu argued that the Black Inspector should take control of the Vajello investigation and invited Ming Fan to attend an Appreciation Banquet with him to approach two targets. Ming Fan agreed to cooperate, and Tai Yu went to meet Priest Kik at the Military Hospital Prayer Hall.

• Tai Yu learned that Ming Fan and the Black Inspector had traded the Vajello lead to Priest Farul to secure Tai Yu's chance at bail.
• Tai Yu told Ming Fan he had advanced to Celestial and argued that the Black Inspector should seize control of the Vajello investigation through his Mandatory Mission.
• Tai Yu asked Ming Fan to join him at the Appreciation Banquet to make close contact with Tabler and Bifur, and she later messaged that she would cooperate.
• Tai Yu returned to the Military Hospital Prayer Hall and met Priest Kik, a low-profile believer of the King of Flowing Light.

Tai Yu challenged Priest Kik over his bail, registration, and authority for the Vajello Mandatory Mission, while Ran Ming attended a lengthy Appreciation Banquet and discussed the absent new Military Representative and stalled Meridian Worm project. Tai Yu left after Priest Kik agreed to report his demands, and Ran Ming learned Lu Yang had been unable to make the Ji Xiu Laboratory speed up the project.

• Tai Yu refused to register for Mandatory Missions and demanded authority over the resources pursuing Vajello, arguing that the investigators had mishandled the case.
• Priest Kik said Tai Yu’s Military Representative role gave him no such authority and agreed to report Tai Yu’s requests to his superiors.
• At the Day 4, Week 34 Appreciation Banquet, Ran Ming overheard guests complain about the Red Silicon Star System’s agreements and the prolonged war.
• Ran Ming wondered why the newly appointed Military Representative had not arrived and avoided investigating the registration arrangements behind the appointment.
• Lu Yang pulled Ran Ming aside to ask about the absent colleague, then said the Ji Xiu Laboratory had delayed the Meridian Worm project despite his repeated pressure.

Ran Ming and Lu Yang discussed the complicated hierarchy among military representatives and sought help obtaining Meridian Worms for the ailing Sheng Wu. At the banquet, Ran Ming found Ming Fan cornered by Tabler and learned that Tai Yu had failed to meet her.

• Ran Ming and Lu Yang discussed Leto, Ke Haike, and the influence different military representatives held in the Red Silicon Star System.
• Ran Ming spotted Ming Fan speaking with Tabler and dragged Lu Yang over to greet them.
• Ming Fan said Tai Yu had broken his appointment and smiled ruefully about attending without a male companion.
• Tabler asked about Tai Yu, and Ran Ming explained that Tai Yu had become a Celestial after teaching their daughters.
• Ran Ming asked Tabler for help obtaining Meridian Worms for Sheng Wu, but Tabler said Leto was in charge and asked how ill Sheng Wu was.

Tai Yu arrived at the cocktail party, confirmed his registration as a Military Representative, and learned that Star Ring City Police Commissioner Bai Tiancong was nearby. Tabler offered to take him to the Reception Room, while Ran Ming tried to slow him down, but Tai Yu insisted they go.

• Tabler praised Sheng Wu and disparaged Zhuo Da while Ran Ming struggled to respond.
• Tai Yu arrived and greeted Tabler, then linked arms with Ming Fan.
• Tai Yu told Ming Fan that the guild had returned his 13 million in bail money and that he had signed his registration papers with Bang Qi.
• Ran Ming told Tai Yu that Bai Tiancong had attended the meeting and was likely in the Reception Room.
• Tabler offered to take Tai Yu to the Reception Room, and Ran Ming tried to stop them by suggesting he meet other Military Representatives first.
• Tai Yu spotted Lu Yang and told Tabler they should go to the Reception Room and return quickly.

Tabler escorted Tai Yu and Ming Fan toward the Reception Room, but Tai Yu stopped to greet Yu Xi and her husband, Lan Zhen, at the cocktail party entrance. Tabler introduced Tai Yu to nearby police personnel and highlighted his past case, leaving the group unsettled as they prepared to enter the Reception Room.

• Tabler led Tai Yu and Ming Fan across the cocktail party venue while Ran Ming was left behind.
• Tai Yu stopped to greet Deputy Director Yu Xi, who recognized Ming Fan as Xin Rui’s mother.
• Tai Yu told Yu Xi and Lan Zhen about meeting their daughter Lan Qiao during a Deep Blue World team battle.
• Tabler introduced Tai Yu to the nearby police personnel and said he wanted to see Commissioner Bai Tiancong.
• Tai Yu confirmed he was the person from the Island Branch Bureau and added, “Thirteen million,” prompting the police personnel to react uneasily.

Tai Yu brought Tabler to the Reception Room by humiliating him in front of Special Operations personnel, while Mr. Bang Qi smoothed over the confrontation. Tai Yu entered with Bang Qi, gaining access to Star Ring City’s highest circle as Ming Fan stayed behind to speak with Yu Xi and Ran Ming.

• Tai Yu left the cocktail party with Ming Fan and Tabler to go to the Reception Room, while Lan Zhen hesitated to speak with Yu Xi.
• Tabler suspected Tai Yu was deliberately provoking him and tried to slip past the Special Operations personnel at the Reception Room entrance.
• Tai Yu seized Tabler by the nape and presented him for a face scan, leaving Tabler and the onlookers stunned.
• Mr. Bang Qi intervened, advised Tai Yu to mind the occasion, and secured the Special Operations personnel’s approval to open the Reception Room.
• Tai Yu asked Ming Fan to speak with Yu Xi and Ran Ming, then entered the Reception Room alongside Bang Qi.