Chapter Summaries

Tai Yu, Sheng Wu, Yi Ya, and Tu Qian discussed the Star Gate and the political motives behind the offer of development rights in the Isolated Star System. Sheng Wu revealed that God Breaker may have prepared something beyond the gate and recalled seeing Meng Yuan with Xi Corporation’s Expedition Team.

• Tai Yu and Sheng Wu analyzed how the Initial Awakening Society’s offer was meant to keep Tai Yu and Great Lord Luande tied down while exploiting Luande’s refusal to retire.
• Yi Ya and Tu Qian joined the discussion, and Sheng Wu confirmed that the Isolated Star System beyond the You-1337 Star Gate could reveal Class Seven Waves.
• Sheng Wu said the Great Monarch had considered moving forces into the vast system, while Tu Qian warned that doing so would give their enemies grounds to act against them.
• Yi Ya asked whether Master Fan had left information, and Sheng Wu said he had found none; Yi Ya and Tu Qian explained that Fan’s whereabouts were unknown and Meng Yuan’s condition had worsened.
• Sheng Wu shared Ise Jia’s judgment that God Breaker had made arrangements beyond the Star Gate and recalled seeing Meng Yuan when Xi Corporation’s Expedition Team passed through.

Yi Ya, Tu Qian, and Sheng Wu discussed God Breaker’s tangled affiliations and the four factions connected to the Han Guang Star System. They assessed the Expedition Team’s progress and considered whether Chang Yi Zhen could help them reach the destination ahead of it.

• Sheng Wu explained that he had once seen someone he suspected was Meng Yuan in an Expedition Team, but he could not tell whether she had revealed herself deliberately or was connected to God Breaker.
• Yi Ya described Meng Yuan’s severe mental illness and explained that her connection to Master Fan Liang Lu did not make her loyalties clear.
• Yi Ya outlined the four factions: Luande’s side, Chang Yi Zhen’s faction, God Breaker, and the local Han Guang faction, whose members sometimes worked as mercenaries or joined God Breaker.
• Sheng Wu estimated that the Expedition Team had traveled ten of the twenty-one grids in forty-eight weeks, and Yi Ya inferred that they might still beat it by setting out later and moving faster.
• Yi Ya proposed Chang Yi Zhen as a possible Great Monarch to help them, then warned that once the Cloak of All Gods spread, the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms could reach the destination in less than two weeks.

Tai Yu and the others discussed the shortage of powerful figures, the Inner Universe Ruins, and the murky organization God Breaker. Yi Ya suggested that forces behind the Boundary Curtain might be trying to keep Tai Yu in the Red Silicon Star System, and Tai Yu confirmed he intended to strike back at them.

• Yi Ya questioned whether Sheng Wu had deliberately triggered the hidden danger in the Inner Universe Ruins, but Sheng Wu stayed silent and Tai Yu changed the subject.
• Sheng Wu offered to send Tai Yu information about formidable figures, while he and Yi Ya explained that God Breaker was mysterious and advised Tai Yu to keep his distance.
• Tai Yu reasoned that God Breaker's opposition to the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms and its presence in the Shadow Domain could leave it vulnerable to the Six Heavens God Calamity's influence.
• Yi Ya suggested that people behind the Boundary Curtain might be trying to hold Tai Yu back, and Tai Yu said he planned to hit back at them.

Tai Yu discussed discrimination against the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe and the dangers of the Boundary Curtain, then considered how Illusory Nightmare System Power could imitate or infiltrate the complex social networks of higher interstellar civilization. He left the subject’s practical details to the Great Existence, wondering if they might become clear after he slept.

• Yi Ya told Tai Yu that Boundary Curtain politicians used discrimination against the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe to shift blame and suppress threats.
• Tai Yu thanked Sheng Wu for the personnel files and said he wanted to clarify Great Lord Luande’s position before deciding whether to advance or retreat.
• Sheng Wu advised Tai Yu not to rush toward the Boundary Curtain or Star Gate, while maintaining a sense of urgency on the surface.
• During Joint Reading, Tai Yu contemplated how lives adapted to fractured spacetime and how Illusory Nightmare System Power could briefly mend imperfections.
• Tai Yu compared his openly abnormal node with Bifur’s covert Firewall Nephew and credited his vivid understanding of the personnel files to gifts from the Great Existence.
• Tai Yu set aside questions about the technique’s details and wondered whether he would understand them after a night’s sleep.

Sen Lang investigated Xingsheng laboratory as part of the Giant Skull Case and sensed a strange spiritual presence that no one else could detect. After finding suspicious records about director Gideon, he planned to report the anomaly to his superior and undergo a routine inspection.

• Sen Lang visited Xingsheng laboratory to investigate whether it had received corpse materials connected to the Giant Skull Case.
• Sen Lang sensed something abnormal about Gideon, whose apparent health and clear conscience seemed inconsistent with his records and circumstances.
• As Sen Lang left the laboratory, he heard a sharp infant's cry through his Spirit-Touching Tubes, but none of his fellow officers or Gideon reacted.
• Sen Lang considered whether his spiritual perception had improved or whether he was unusually compatible with an abnormal presence, and he reported the scene visit to Callahan.
• Sen Lang reviewed Xingsheng's investors and Gideon's prior records, then decided to follow procedure and seek prayers and inspection from the priests at Police Headquarters.

Sen Lang kept the infant-crying lead from Xingsheng Laboratory from becoming his case and continued his work investigating evil cults. During a visit to an old ritual site, his Spirit-Touching Tubes reacted to a preserved head among the evidence, and he recognized its face.

• Sen Lang completed his reports and prayers, but the infant-crying sound at Xingsheng Laboratory did not return to him as a formal case.
• Sen Lang continued overseeing cases and balancing the interests of the Myriad Gods Hall and the police while investigating evil cults.
• Sen Lang traveled to a large-scale sacrifice site at Priest Yumin’s request and listened to reports about the evidence and the remains found in more than five pits.
• Sen Lang’s Spirit-Touching Tubes warmed when he spotted a decayed head among the retained evidence, and he recognized the face.

Sen Lang investigated an Evil Cult’s Thousand-Person Pits and noticed that a preserved victim’s head resembled Gideon, a Xingsheng Laboratory supervisor he had met recently. The genetic evidence suggested a connection to cloning, leaving Sen Lang troubled by the possibility that his inexplicable impulse to investigate had uncovered something dangerous.

• Sen Lang questioned the Silver Screen Star System investigators about whether they had identified the victims in the Thousand-Person Pits.
• Priest Yumin explained that the Evil Cult had deliberately destroyed information about its sacrifices, and Sen Lang urged investigators to make the evidence records precise.
• Sen Lang compared the lookalike head’s genetic results with Gideon’s personnel file and found differences at several gene loci.
• Sen Lang considered how widespread illegal human cloning and modification had become, along with the Star Alliance’s uneven enforcement of restrictions.
• Sen Lang stopped himself from pursuing his dangerous thoughts and worried that the impulse leading him to the case had targeted something significant.

Sen Lang helped Priest Changxia create a suspect profile for the Giant Skull Case, then returned to the Boundary Curtain Main Star System and considered skipping the Police Station to rest at home. Meanwhile, Dimon arrived beyond the Cloak of All Gods and became a minor celebrity among the reserve officers because of his past encounter with Tai Yu.

• Priest Changxia asked Sen Lang to prepare a preliminary profile of the Giant Skull Case perpetrator to ease pressure from the Red Silicon Star System, and Sen Lang agreed.
• Sen Lang completed the profile during hyperspace travel, sent it to Priest Changxia, and fell asleep from exhaustion before reaching the Boundary Curtain Main Star System.
• After arriving, Sen Lang felt unusually relaxed and considered going home to rest instead of reporting to the Police Station.
• Dimon passed through the unfinished You-1337 Star Gate after fifteen weeks of training and arrived in starry space untouched by the Cloak of All Gods.
• Dimon’s earlier stories about meeting Tai Yu on You Chong Star made him a minor star among the reserve officers and improved his standing with his superiors.

Dimon settled into his work at the Star Gate Infrastructure Management Office while Yise Xin and Yise Hui dealt with worries about the expedition and chaos on Earth. The chapter left the expedition nearing its halfway point and Earth’s Reclamation Corps struggling to contain Celestial powerhouses.

• Dimon began his new job on You-1337 and noticed that Yihua had adapted well to the office staff.
• Yise Xin received a faint sign from the Bloodline Landscape that activity had resumed at the rear and considered updating information between the front line and the rear.
• Yise Xin found Yuan Meng leaving a room with blood at the corner of her mouth and discovered a naked man struggling on the floor inside.
• Yise Hui counted the expedition’s remaining travel time and noted that prolonged Hyperspace Navigation had caused twenty temporary losses.
• Yise Hui reflected that Celestial powerhouses emerging from the Pacific had disrupted the Reclamation Corps’ control of Earth, while the Trio Council remained relatively calm.

The Reclamation Corps observed Outer Earth as information flowing between the two Earths unsettled people on both worlds. Ronan and Raven faced an uncertain future, while Ronan’s thrown piece of reef streaked into the sky.

• Wildfire warned that the Reclamation Corps could not fundamentally change the situation without targeting and driving back visitors from Inner Earth, so the Corps chose to observe for eight months.
• Ronan proposed using clones to attend school, then teased Mo Ya about her suitors, prompting her to throw a teacup at him.
• Ronan and Raven stood by the sea as Zhang Yingying and He Yueyin’s concerns reflected growing unease about information leaking between Inner and Outer Earth.
• The chapter described figures and institutions across several worlds as auxiliary lines needed to address problems beyond their control.
• Ronan snapped off a corner of a reef and hurled it into the sky, where it shot through the clouds with a sonic boom.

Ronan attended an emergency Xia City Branch meeting about public anxiety over the mirror-image relationship between Inner Earth and Outer Earth, which no one could yet explain. The meeting ended with reports of rising cult activity invoking dreams, reality, and Ronan himself.

• Ronan arrived at the Starry Sky Club and claimed Mo Ya had thrown a teacup at him, with Raven backing up his account.
• Zhang Yingying explained that speculation about whether Inner Earth or Outer Earth was the mirror image had spread widely and frightened the public.
• Ronan said people should prepare for the worst and actively seek the truth, while presenting the Martial Emperor as one of the first people to discover Outer Earth.
• Zhang Yingying reported that social media debate was drowning out important information about the Reclamation Corps and the Central Star Zone.
• Bamboo Pole reported a sharp rise in cults focused on dreams, truth and falsehood, and randomness, with many claiming to worship Ronan or calling him a divine incarnation.

Ronan discussed how to guide people amid the rise of Evil Cults and proposed holding a meeting of the Transcendental Species in the Dream World. He left the group considering the Dream World’s upcoming expansion as a way to connect the people of the Inner and Outer Earth.

• Zhang Yingying challenged Ronan over Evil Cults using his name, and Ronan explained that he had dealt with the worst cases but favored guiding people rather than suppressing information.
• Ouyang Chen proposed a meeting to unify views, and Ronan suggested holding it in the Dream World instead of using the central council’s usual method.
• Ronan said there were 101 Transcendental Species, citing Master Hong and Bazer as recent breakthroughs.
• Zhang Yingying asked whether Ronan was accelerating the Physical Aspect Transcendental Species around her, and Ronan warned that advancing at this stage might not be beneficial.
• Ronan admitted he had a selfish motive for proposing the Dream World meeting: he planned to connect twelve billion people from the Inner and Outer Earth through the game within a year.

Ronan discussed plans for a Summit Conference with the Martial Emperor and explained why Earth’s people needed to prepare for the Central Star Zone’s expansion. He concluded that Earth could be exposed, but its deepest secrets had to remain concealed.

• After the meeting, Ronan called Romanus to learn the basic procedures for the Summit Conference.
• Ronan told the Martial Emperor he would send an invitation in advance, then forcibly bring participants into the game while taking care not to endanger them during combat.
• Ronan explained that Earth’s people lacked time to understand the threat, and that widespread disclosure could cause panic before they could resist the Central Star Zone or the Cloak of All Gods.
• Ronan argued that Earth might have to endure colonial rule and seek long-term survival, since its valuable resources could attract either assimilation or exploitation.
• Ronan identified the Deep Blue World, Fog Maze, and other hidden powers as reasons Earth Spacetime would draw the universe’s strongest factions into conflict.
• Ronan concluded that Earth could be exposed, but its deepest secrets could not be fully revealed.

Ronan discussed how to conceal Earth Spacetime’s secrets while pursuing authority over the Fog Maze and Deep Blue World. The Martial Emperor warned that his strategy risked repeating the fate of the Lord of Illusory Nightmares, but Ronan accepted the danger.

• Ronan told the Martial Emperor he wanted to stage a vast illusion to delay the gods’ discovery of Earth Spacetime’s secret.
• Ronan explained that he had allowed Tu Ge to return because the Reclamation Corps already knew too much, and he wanted Tai Yu to investigate Chang Yi Zhen in the Central Star Zone.
• The Martial Emperor observed that Ronan’s strategy still placed the pressure on himself, and he admitted he was also seeking the greatest personal benefit.
• The Martial Emperor explained that Ronan’s Illusory Nightmare Domain needed information to flow, while the Reclamation Corps and Li Wei wanted Earth’s framework to become more real and credible.
• The Martial Emperor warned Ronan that using the Illusory Nightmare Domain and its Dream Theater was playing with fire, as the Lord of Illusory Nightmares might have died for the same reason.
• Ronan accepted the danger, and the Martial Emperor encouraged him to keep going.

After the Martial Emperor left, Ronan discussed the Straw Network with Raven and assessed the threat it posed to Cloud Top World. He decided not to sever it yet, instead considering how to let it believe it had infiltrated so they could exchange information.

• The Martial Emperor left Ronan and Raven alone after testing Ronan’s ideas about the situation.
• Ronan showed Raven the Straw Network’s faint branches and asked how actively it was trying to infiltrate.
• Ronan traced the network to Lady Wan Kui’s work and considered its links to the Reclamation Corps, Chang Yi Zhen, and their plans for this spacetime.
• Raven asked whether they should cut off the network, and Ronan said they should leave it intact for now.
• Ronan proposed letting the network think it had infiltrated Cloud Top World so they could use the connection for information exchange.

Ronan planned to seize authority over the Illusory Nightmare Domain by absorbing the Dream God Abomination, and he concluded that he needed a Dream Theater to digest the resources involved. He began by opening the Cape APP to choose what to prioritize.

• Ronan decided that gaining control of the Tattered Divine Cloak and absorbing the Dream God Abomination were essential to his plan.
• He identified resources and obstacles across Earth Spacetime and the Central Star Zone, including the Initial Awakening Society, the Reclamation Corps, the Expedition Team, and Li Wei.
• Ronan considered adapting the Misty Jungle’s cultivation framework and using awakened beings and other resources within a Dream Theater.
• Tai Yu began experiments in Earth Spacetime after obtaining cultivation methods from Vajello, Biff, Lu Yang, and others.
• Ronan reviewed several structures that could serve as Dream Theater foundations, including the Relay Station, Dream World, Forward Base, and Cloud Top World.
• Ronan opened the Cape APP and navigated to the What is Sought interface.

Ronan reviewed how his changing path had made transferring himself and Magnetic Light Mica to Outer Earth cost nothing, but he chose to focus on a plan involving the Dream Theater. After Raven prepared a meeting notice, the Justice Chief Priest reported that the Balance of Truth was available, and Ronan decided to bring Raven along for an experiment.

• Ronan saw that transferring Magnetic Light Mica and himself to Outer Earth now cost zero, and he considered the risks of upsetting the balance between Inner and Outer Earth.
• Ronan told Raven to draft a meeting notice for the following Monday and suggested she serve as its contact person.
• Raven completed the notice, and Ronan waited to send it until he heard from the Justice Cult.
• At around two in the morning, the Justice Chief Priest told Ronan that the Balance of Truth was free.
• Ronan invited Raven to accompany him, explaining that he would handle anyone troublesome and might let her try the verification experiment.

Ronan brought Raven to the Justice Cult headquarters, where she helped arrange invitations to the next Summit Conference. After Ronan sent the notifications through Dreamscape, he entered the Square Chamber to continue his experiment, leaving Raven to handle the aftermath.

• Ronan and Raven traveled to the Justice Cult headquarters and met Weismann, who escorted them toward the Square Chamber.
• Raven noticed that only two Transcendental Species were stationed at the headquarters and warned Weismann to take care when sending notifications.
• Raven showed Weismann her drafted meeting notice, and he asked that notices for Justice Cult personnel be handled by the cult.
• Ronan agreed to Weismann’s request, then sent Dreamscape notifications about the Summit Conference to everyone else, except Chairman Ouyang and the Martial Emperor, who already knew.
• Ronan entered the Square Chamber to focus on his experiment while Raven dealt with the remaining arrangements.

Ronan and the Justice Chief Priest discussed the Justice Cult’s activities before testing an original-body transfer through the Balance of Truth. The transfer again required the option involving substitution, but Ronan began to suspect that the prerequisite of possessing a nation might have alternatives.

• Ronan updated the Justice Chief Priest on the Summit Conference and the Justice Cult’s Transcendental Species, including Child’s successful work in Outer Earth.
• Ronan and the Justice Chief Priest began their experiment, and she observed as he used the Ritual Ancient Script to request an original-body transfer from Inner Earth to Outer Earth.
• The Balance of Truth opened a gateway, and Ronan stepped through to undergo its first inspection.
• Ronan saw that the Balance of Truth offered two substitution options, but the rebirth option required the substituting person to possess a stable nation-like void plane.
• Ronan recalled that the Martial Emperor was the only known person in Inner and Outer Earth to meet that requirement, but he suspected his studies might reveal another solution.

Ronan’s composite Dream Theater passed the Rebirth Divine Artifact’s test as a nation, allowing him to access the method for One Thought Rebirth. As Mirror Appraisal traced the method’s origins, Ronan discovered it dated back to the Primitive Universe period.

• Ronan chose to test One Thought Rebirth using the Dream Theater and faced the Rebirth Divine Artifact’s inspection.
• The Dream Theater concealed Ronan’s connected Space-Time Architectures, and the Artifact accepted the composite construction as a nation.
• Ronan learned that the scattered lights represented available vessels in Outer Earth for One Thought Rebirth.
• Ronan studied the Ritual Ancient Script instructions for projecting a thought-clone, completing its rebirth, and reconciling it with the Original Body.
• Mirror Appraisal traced the rebirth method’s origins to the Primitive Universe period, when the Tearers and Autophages struggled.