Chapter Summaries

Tai Yu began the second imprinting using water mist across the Boundary region, with Myriad Transformations Deep Blue serving only as the core processor and simulator. As the mist spread, Priest Yan Chen felt as though the cloak of the fallen Abyssal Sea True God had brushed past.

• Priest Yan Chen continued guiding Yuan Ju in cultivation and handling affairs before the War Council began.
• Tai Yu announced that the priests had found no obvious flaws in the system’s permissions and that the second imprinting would use water mist instead of releasing Myriad Transformations Deep Blue.
• Gong Zhicheng accepted the plan after Tai Yu explained how the water mist would strengthen perception and feed information into the existing model.
• Tai Yu showed the fog spreading across the Boundary region, and Priest Farul asked Badar to open a window so they could feel the damp breeze.
• Priest Yan Chen sighed and said the breeze felt like the cloak of a True God had brushed past, referring to the fallen Abyssal Sea True God.

Yuan Ju watched Priest Yan Chen’s remarks about the Water Condensing Ring draw scrutiny, while Tai Yu deflected questions about the structure’s origins. Tai Yu then proposed a stopgap plan using the mist to target the Stone Soul, leaving Gong Zhicheng suspecting the priests’ technical discussion had been staged to prepare the military force.

• Yuan Ju worried that Priest Yan Chen’s comments about the fallen Abyssal Sea True God could be judged as favoritism, but Priest Kui Rong redirected the discussion to the Water Condensing Ring.
• Priest Farul challenged Tai Yu about the Ring’s origins, and Tai Yu claimed he remembered the structure but not where he had learned it.
• Priest Kui Rong suggested the Ring’s focus on water resembled the work of a Divine Kingdom, prompting speculation about links between the Heavenly Abyss–Hanguang system and the Abyssal Sea True God.
• Huai An asked Tai Yu when the second Imprint results would be ready, and Tai Yu said the prebattle briefing would proceed despite the ongoing analysis.
• Tai Yu explained that the priests would continue pursuing the Imprint plan while adding a stopgap measure that used the mist’s Divine Cloak-like texture against the Stone Soul.
• Gong Zhicheng suspected that the priests’ earlier discussion of the Water Condensing Ring had been staged to prepare the Specialized Military Force for Tai Yu’s plan.

Tai Yu explained a probe-style investigation that would use the Mist Cloak to disturb the Abyssal Spirit Net and locate Stone Soul. The priests confirmed they could analyze the system’s feedback, and the team prepared for calculations and a brief on-site search.

• Tai Yu explained how the team would create directed fluctuations in the Abyssal Spirit Net instead of pursuing prolonged underground tracking.
• Priest Kui Rong, Priest Kannan, Priest Farul, and Priest Yan Chen confirmed their roles in detecting and analyzing the probe’s feedback.
• Tai Yu assigned the team to monitor Stone Soul’s suspected location and distinguish several Stimulus Sources he would release.
• Tai Yu said the specialized subterranean exploration vehicle was ready and outlined a short on-site positioning attempt followed by immediate withdrawal if it failed.
• Yuan Ju realized how the Heavenly Abyss Witch Priests’ methods might have helped the Tian Yuan Empire overcome the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms.

Tai Yu revealed that the team had detected anomalous traces of powerful activity near the Boundary and linked the investigation to the Initial Awakening Society. He ordered the Specialized Military Force to prepare for a broad search across You Chong Star as part of the Probe plan.

• Zhan Chen estimated that analyzing the Mist Cloak would take at least fifty hours, and Tai Yu told the Specialized Military Force to remain alert while the work continued.
• Tai Yu disclosed that the team had found traces of Celestial-level power use that might exceed the Special Task Force's known capabilities, while warning that the readings could be phantoms or false signals.
• Tai Yu identified the Initial Awakening Society as a major suspect in the Stone Soul's unnatural entry into You Chong Star and acknowledged his own past connections to the group.
• Tai Yu said he and the priests had added anomalous traces and illegal-organization characteristics to the perception model so the Mist Cloak could detect and locate similar targets.
• Tai Yu ordered Gong Zhicheng, Bodyguard Si, and Huai An to lead Action Groups and seize anomalous targets, with support from the priests, local forces, and Red Silicon Guard.
• Tai Yu said the search would expand as needed and that he hoped it would cover all of You Chong Star.

Yuan Ju learned that he would join the special task force’s field operations, then Tai Yu invited him to participate in experiments investigating deformation among disabled veterans. The chapter left Yuan Ju unsure whether to accept, with Tai Yu giving him until the mission ended to decide.

• Tai Yu assigned Acolyte Priests to support Specialized Military Force members using the Water Condensing Ring, and Yuan Ju was among those selected.
• Priest Yan Chen kept Yuan Ju behind to explain field-operation precautions, leaving him at the Office Building until dawn.
• Yuan Ju overheard Lu Yang report to Tai Yu about preparations for a ritual and was unsettled by their conversation.
• Tai Yu praised Yuan Ju’s progress with the Water Condensing Ring and discussed the Fin Ear Tribe’s lingering genetic advantages.
• Tai Yu invited Yuan Ju to join his deformation research team or provide genetic samples, and told him to consult Priest Yan Chen or Shan Long High Priest before deciding.

Yuan Ju joined the third Action Group’s search in Tuoyuan City, where they caught only a few leftover members of the Secret Mine Sect. Field Officer Lu Yang then ordered the group to remain on standby and go to another location, leaving Badar and Yuan Ju to ask local police deputy chief Chuan Hao for help.

• Yuan Ju joined Field Officer Lu Yang and Badar’s Action Group as it searched Tuoyuan City for members of the suspected Initial Awakening Society.
• The group caught several peripheral members of the Secret Mine Sect who had gathered to imitate the sect’s secret ritual.
• Lu Yang ordered the group to stay in Tuoyuan City and go to an address he provided, while leaving the captured members and their belongings in the vehicles.
• Badar and Yuan Ju consulted deputy chief Chuan Hao, whom they found watching news footage about the Red Silicon Star System governor meeting an inspection delegation.

Badar and Yuan Ju brought captured Secret Mine Sect members to the sect’s former ritual site, where Lu Yang ordered them to recreate its ritual. Lu Yang explained that the task force wanted to test the Mist Cloak’s sensitivity and see whether the entity Tai Yu had contacted would respond.

• Badar asked Chuan Hao about the address Lu Yang had provided, and Chuan Hao revealed that the villa had hosted the Secret Mine Sect’s large-scale ritual after Bai Jiao’s death.
• Badar and Yuan Ju reviewed evidence that the ritual had been presented as Instructor Bai Jiao’s first ritual after his resurrection under a new identity.
• Lu Yang ordered Badar to take the captured cultists and a box of materials inside and recreate the ritual within an hour.
• Badar followed the order after contacting Priest Kui Rong, while Yuan Ju asked Lu Yang why the task force wanted the ritual recreated.
• Lu Yang said the ritual could test the Mist Cloak’s sensitivity and potentially draw a response from an entity Tai Yu had contacted, then led the group to the underground altar.

Lu Yang oversaw the Secret Mine Sect’s Orange Flame ritual, while Tai Yu and four Formal Priests analyzed its apparent power channel and discussed the evil thing’s link to the Initial Awakening Society. The chapter ended with the priests turning their attention to Tai Yu after he smiled at their discussion.

• Lu Yang had Badar and Yuan Ju arrange secret mine offerings in the ritual trenches, then tossed a pendant into the altar to ignite the Orange Flame.
• The peripheral cultists chanted in gratitude as heat gathered around the small flame, while experts judged that the ritual had triggered a power channel without connecting to a higher power.
• Priest Yan Chen suggested using the channel to examine fate tracks and trace the evil thing behind the Secret Mine Sect.
• Priest Kui Rong argued that the ritual’s success likely depended on Officer Tai Yu’s pendant, and Priest Farul said the evil thing was connected to the Initial Awakening Society.
• Tai Yu smiled as the priests looked toward him.

Tai Yu questioned the priests about the failed ritual response in Tuoyuan City and whether the force behind the Secret Mine Sect was truly an evil god. The priests concluded that the matter fell outside the special task force’s jurisdiction.

• Tai Yu refused President Shi Wo’s request to return for an investigation, saying he would visit Great Lord Zhong Kai before he left.
• Priest Yan Chen warned Tai Yu about Great Lord Zhong Kai’s severe temper, while Tai Yu asked whether enfeoffed Great Monarchs differed from those who claimed the void for themselves.
• Tai Yu discussed the Stimulus Source operation in Tuoyuan City with the four priests and asked whether minor flaws would stop a god from blessing a worshipper.
• Priest Kui Rong said the Yin Lord Evil God would probably respond to a ritual, and Priest Farul suggested the entity might have sensed danger and avoided the ritual.
• Priest Kannan said the Yin Lord Evil God and Outer Domain Species belonged to different domains, and Priest Yan Chen agreed that the matter was outside the special task force’s scope.

Tai Yu persuaded the priests to prioritize gathering and analyzing information about the Yin Lord Evil God and the Initial Awakening Society, while insisting the task force should address the enemy’s hidden system as a whole. He left the meeting by separating Great Lord Zhong Kai’s dispute over the Myriad Transformations Deep Blue from official task force business, though the priests remained doubtful.

• Kannan, Yan Chen, and Kui Rong argued that the possible Yin Lord Evil God required reporting through higher authorities rather than being handled by the task force alone.
• Tai Yu agreed to strengthen the collection of traces related to Rule Embedding, the Channel of Effect, and the Yin Lord Evil God.
• Kui Rong offered to seek an extension of the task force’s mission to help Tai Yu contend with Great Lord Zhong Kai, but Tai Yu declined.
• Tai Yu described the Initial Awakening Society’s infiltration and related incidents as a hidden system that required a systemic response.
• Tai Yu ordered the priests to prepare for heavier information intake at the Central Hub when he activated the Mist Cloak, then ended the meeting.
• Tai Yu said Great Lord Zhong Kai’s dispute over the Myriad Transformations Deep Blue would be personal rather than task force business, leaving the priests pessimistic.

Tai Yu expanded the Mist Cloak across You Chong Star, accelerating the priests’ work while assessing whether it could withstand a system-level confrontation. He concluded that the Initial Awakening Society was observing him through a nearby hidden fulcrum, likely connected to the Dimension Training Ground, but left identifying the observer for later.

• Tai Yu spread the Mist Cloak across You Chong Star, forcing the four priests at the Central Hub to process information at more than ten times the previous rate.
• Tai Yu questioned whether the Mist Cloak was powerful enough to confront the Initial Awakening Society across the larger system.
• Tai Yu studied the Spirit-Channeling Demon Eye and reasoned that its Black and White Right Eye depended on living beings and a nearby Transition Layer to observe him.
• Tai Yu inferred that an Extraordinary Fulcrum within the Boundary was helping the Black and White Right Eye track him through the Blank Zone.
• Tai Yu suspected one or more of the four Formal Priests at the Dimension Training Ground’s Office Building, but decided that identifying the individual was less important than understanding the wider system war.

Tai Yu used Great Comprehension to expand his perception across You Chong Star and map the Abyssal Spirit Net and the Initial Awakening Society’s hidden dark web. He identified the dark web’s closeness to living beings and its reach into the Transition Layer.

• Tai Yu decided to activate Great Comprehension again while the Mist Cloak covered You Chong Star, and he warned Priest Kui Rong to prepare for stronger information intake.
• Tai Yu recited the Ritual Ancient Script passage and used the True Script Technique to activate Great Comprehension throughout the Boundary region.
• Tai Yu drew on the perceptions of the living beings in the region to reconstruct their world and perceive the Abyssal Spirit Net as a vast network of strands and Ancient God communication frameworks.
• Tai Yu found a blurry spider shadow within the chaotic dark domain and used it to identify the Initial Awakening Society’s hidden dark web.
• Tai Yu realized the dark web was closely connected to living beings and extended into the Transition Layer, which Great Comprehension could efficiently reach.

Tai Yu used Great Comprehension to trace the Initial Awakening Society’s hidden system and sketch the enormous entity behind it. He then widened his perception to the surrounding star system, where he sensed the dying Red Silicon Main Star beset by invading species.

• Tai Yu focused on the Spirit-Channeling Demon Eye and glimpsed a shapeless entity hidden within the Abyssal Spirit Net, powered by the Corpse Jungle.
• Tai Yu connected the entity to events on You Chong Star, including the failed ritual of the Secret Mine Sect and Stone Soul, and sensed that both shared a strange resonance with it.
• Tai Yu summarized the entity as a parasite that fed on the Abyssal Spirit Net while trying to escape it, with conflicting factions within.
• Tai Yu broadened Great Comprehension beyond the Initial Awakening Society and used the Mist Cloak and four priests as tools to process incoming information.
• Tai Yu surveyed the Red Silicon Star System and sensed that the aging Red Silicon Main Star faced both destructive Genetic Species and infiltrating Outer Domain Species.

Tai Yu expanded his perception from the Red Silicon Star System to the wider history and information carried by the Abyssal Spirit Net, then formed that understanding into a Light Sphere. He transferred it into the Spacetime Bubble, where it overwhelmed the borrowed Myriad Transformations Deep Blue and drew the priests into a lethal information storm.

• Tai Yu surveyed the Outer Domain Species threatening the Red Silicon Star System and noted its three Great Monarchs, including the newly arrived Great Lord Zhong Kai.
• Tai Yu widened his perception to the Circumference Star System and farther starfields, using the Abyssal Spirit Net to organize information about history, Genetic Species, and the gods.
• Tai Yu's Visualization Spacetime expanded as the Mist Cloak collapsed and reformed, and the accumulated information took shape as a Light Sphere.
• Tai Yu sent the Light Sphere into the meeting room's Spacetime Bubble, where it merged with the bubble and caused the 3,000 cubic meters of Myriad Transformations Deep Blue to boil and vaporize.
• Ling Ji burst out of the Deep Blue and smashed the conference table as the Spacetime Bubble pulled in the four priests and their acolytes, engulfing them in an information storm.

Tai Yu pushed Great Comprehension beyond receiving information and sent a powerful strike through the void, shaking the Abyssal Spirit Net and drawing attention from those connected to it. Near his limit, he returned his focus to You Chong Star and retrieved the sealed Spacetime Bubble from the ruined Office Building.

• Tai Yu used Great Comprehension to imitate an Ancient God's intent and send an invisible hammer blow through the void.
• The shockwave disturbed the local Abyssal Spirit Net, and Tai Yu sensed a faint resonance from the vast skeleton above the Abyss Zone.
• Those connected to the Main Network noticed the upheaval, but Great Lord Luande's continued silence and shelter kept them from determining Tai Yu's rank or position.
• Tai Yu's senses contracted toward You Chong Star as tremors spread across the planet and reached beneath its crust.
• Tai Yu drew the Spacetime Bubble out of the wrecked conference room and retrieved it before him.

Tai Yu endured the backlash of using Great Comprehension to analyze information and directed Priest Kui Rong to search for traces of Outer Domain Species and Stone Soul. Despite being gravely injured, he turned his vessel into a command headquarters and continued leading the task force, which had found residual traces of Stone Soul.

• Tai Yu warned Priest Kui Rong to use Abyssal Spirit Net fluctuations to investigate the strata and sent him information about a noisy signal he suspected came from Outer Domain Species.
• Tai Yu suggested that Void-Gnawing Fungus or other Outer Domain Species might be devouring and assimilating spacetime, and told Kui Rong to compare the evidence with Stone Soul.
• Tai Yu ended the call, summoned Field Officer Lu Yang and the others, and asked them to protect him as his condition worsened.
• Lu Yang and retired veterans used the War Domain of the Heavenly Abyss-Hanguang system to stabilize Tai Yu, who remained conscious but could no longer leave the War Domain.
• Tai Yu continued commanding the task force from the vessel, and when he learned they had found residual traces of Stone Soul, he praised their progress.

Tai Yu coordinated the search for Stone Soul and received Grease reconnaissance equipment from Zhe Rong while remaining trapped in his War Domain. He revealed that he was using information from across the ages to reconstruct and upgrade the War Domain, leaving those present uncertain about the scale of his work.

• Tai Yu assessed Stone Soul’s movement and assigned Gong Zhicheng, Si Nuowan, and Huai An’s teams to deploy reconnaissance equipment while Lu Yang stayed to support him.
• Zhe Rong arrived with a batch of Grease metal spheres, which Tai Yu approved for the teams to use underground.
• Zhe Rong explained that the Grease spheres would seep through the crust to gather real-time intelligence, but their intended war-rule interface required an upgraded War Domain.
• Tai Yu said his injuries kept him inside the War Domain while he adapted and deduced a useful framework from information spanning many eras.
• Tai Yu considered recruiting retired veterans to help reconstruct his Form and Spirit Framework, prompting uneasy reactions from those present.
• Zhe Rong questioned whether Tai Yu’s deduction had caused major system-wide disturbances, and Tai Yu dismissed the concern before Zhe Rong left.

After receiving reports from the Specialized Military Force Action Groups, Tai Yu left the ship with Lu Yang to inspect the situation despite his apparent injuries. As Tai Yu’s information transmission crossed the Star Gate into distant space, he reflected that the exchange itself dissolved boundaries.

• Badar received and organized reports from three Specialized Military Force Action Groups while Tai Yu rested, then Tai Yu asked Field Officer Lu Yang about the Service Light Divine Bird and the Service Demon Scroll.
• Tai Yu rose and ordered the group to go outside, while Yuan Ju worried about his condition and contacted Priest Yan Chen for advice about Lu Yang.
• Yuan Ju learned that many powerful observers were watching the area, making it unlikely Lu Yang would attack Tai Yu despite his hostile thoughts.
• Badar projected Tai Yu and the others in the Projection Zone, where Yuan Ju saw Tai Yu and Lu Yang standing without equipment while the veterans used Exoskeleton Armor.
• Tai Yu sensed Yuan Ju’s hidden consciousness and chose not to expose it, while his earlier information transmission traveled through the Star Gate and into distant space.

Tai Yu used the Grease Balls’ information links and the effects of Great Comprehension to investigate the Red Silicon Star System’s hidden political currents and Chief Priest Seo’s probing of Great Lord Luande. He planned a more controlled boundary-breaking test, leaving Lu Yang alarmed by what Tai Yu meant to do next.

• Tai Yu reasoned that Chief Priest Seo was using him to test Deity’s response to Great Lord Luande’s movements and to gauge the limits of Tai Yu’s actions.
• By combining Great Comprehension with information interaction, Tai Yu drew on the reactions of Chief Priest Seo, Kui Rong, Dredmodon, Xi Chang, and others to understand the system’s power dynamics and his own room to act.
• Tai Yu noted that Deity had still not responded to his increasingly provocative actions, and decided to try another, more controllable boundary-breaking method.
• Tai Yu told Lu Yang that the Grease Balls had to interact with the War Domain’s Rule Environment to map information deep underground, and Lu Yang mistakenly thought they would have to descend into the strata.
• Tai Yu smiled and said there was no need to make it that troublesome, leaving Lu Yang wary of the enormous hassle he expected.

Tai Yu continued transforming his body to test Heavenly Abyss cultivation methods while Lu Yang questioned his recklessness. Tai Yu then formed a strange smoke-like structure that resembled Great Lord Luande’s Death Announcer Bird, leaving Lu Yang unsettled by its changing appearance and sounds.

• Lu Yang urged Tai Yu to slow down, pointing out that they lacked the people and circumstances needed to use the Demon Purging Scroll’s four methods effectively.
• Tai Yu said the enslaveable things were already prepared and continued violently rebuilding his body as Lu Yang suspected he was testing historical Heavenly Abyss cultivation methods on himself.
• Tai Yu asked Lu Yang, Officer Ping, and the retired veterans to describe Great Lord Luande’s Death Announcer Bird.
• Tai Yu revealed that the Light Sphere had become a murky, unstable smoke ball, and the group saw shapes dart through it that reminded them of the bird.
• Lu Yang heard a distant mechanical rumble and saw the smoke ball turn dull gray, covered in irregular patterns resembling rust or mold.