Chapter Summaries

Ronan explained the Lawcraft Design Laboratory to Zhang Yingying and advised her on her conflicting cultivation paths, while she committed to pursuing a higher level before considering a dangerous stripping procedure. He then entered the Mist Hall and studied the Electric Light Text of the Lord of Zhanhe, certain that it covered only a limited span of material.

• Ronan told Zhang Yingying that the new Laboratory focused on Lawcraft design and that he was trying to obtain experimental data from LCRF.
• Ronan advised Zhang Yingying to refine her Configuration training and discussed how White Rainbow and Dumb Sand might conflict with her Form and Spirit Framework.
• Zhang Yingying said she would pursue Fantasy Configuration and the Blood Intent Ring Fortress, then chose Raven to perform a possible future stripping procedure.
• Ronan entered the Mist Hall in the Abyss Zone and took his seat on its central platform.
• Ronan examined the Electric Light Text of the Lord of Zhanhe and concluded that it described only a limited stretch of content.

Ronan studied Lord of Zhanhe’s account of Magnetic Light Mica and assembled its history, structure, and cultivation framework within the Dream Theater. After immersing himself in its evolution, he turned his attention to the unstable Shadow Louse.

• Ronan recognized Magnetic Light Mica as a bridge between the Ancient Gods’ experiments, the New Gods’ path, and Genetic Species’ evolution.
• Ronan combined classic Fantasy School models, Lord of Zhanhe’s analysis, his own research, and his cultivation experience into a framework for Magnetic Light Mica.
• Ronan used Visualization Spacetime to observe Magnetic Light Mica’s origins and evolution, confirming that its information framework could be incorporated into the Dream World.
• Ronan continued cultivating while the Dream World and real world intertwined, then emerged from Visualization Spacetime and examined the Shadow Louse.
• Ronan touched the Shadow Louse and found its structure vague and dangerously unstable, like a shattered object on the verge of collapse.

Ronan studied obscure passages about the Magnetic Light Mica’s Boundary Gate and realized his assumptions about Outer Domain Species might be wrong. He considered using the Magnetic Light Mica and Shadow Louse to breach the Deep Blue World and pressure Li Wei, then reconsidered what the Ancient Gods’ research into spacetime had actually concerned.

• Ronan used Visualization Spacetime to revisit the Magnetic Light Mica Chapter and found its account of the Boundary Gate difficult to understand.
• Ronan connected the Boundary Gate’s obscure technical terms to the Ancient Gods’ paths of Spirit Roaming and Nirvana and the War of All Gods.
• Ronan considered combining the Magnetic Light Mica’s Boundary Gate with the Shadow Louse’s power to attack the Deep Blue World and force Li Wei into a decisive battle.
• Ronan observed the Inner Earth, Fog Maze, and Deep Blue World from his Pseudo-Ancient God perspective and noted that the Deep Blue World was sealed like a giant egg.
• Ronan wondered what the Ancient Gods would have done with the spacetime structure, then realized he might have understood their research backward.

Ronan used Magnetic Light Mica to create a Visualization Spacetime of the Inner Earth and discovered the cycle that trapped Ancient Gods who tried to escape the Local Universe as Outer Domain Species. He realized Lord of Zhanhe’s treatise revealed the failed attempts of Overlimit Masters and suspected Liang Lu had collected other works by Lord of Zhanhe.

• Ronan reoriented his analysis of Magnetic Light Mica, treating the Inner Earth as the Local Universe and the Deep Blue World as Outer Domain Spacetime.
• Ronan imitated Lord of Zhanhe’s Ritual Ancient Script and successfully formed a Visualization Spacetime of Earth, with Li Wei as its axial target.
• Ronan reread the Magnetic Light Mica Treatise and opened a Visualization Spacetime showing an Ancient God abandoning the Local Universe’s order before returning as an Outer Domain Species.
• Ronan concluded the treatise depicted a cycle of failed escape and rebirth, then wondered whether Liang Lu had collected more of Lord of Zhanhe’s writings.

Eight months after the Relay Station began merging with the Deformed Planet, Ronan watched a violent disturbance in the mist and tested a new opponent against the Blood Prison King. Apolon entered a spatial fault to fight the puppet, hoping to sharpen himself through a prolonged battle.

• Ronan and Apolon observed a dark fissure tear through the mist and shatter the faces representing former gods.
• A burst of bloodlight erased the fissure, set the wasteland ablaze, and left one figure turned to ash while the Blood Prison King hovered unharmed.
• Ronan explained that battles between Shadow Louse and the Blood Prison King had become one-turn contests, and Apolon suggested the fights lacked vitality and guidance.
• Ronan asked Apolon to fight the Blood Prison King while he sought another way to guide Shadow Louse.
• Apolon dragged the Blood Prison King puppet into a spatial fault, treating the dangerous fight as a chance to improve himself.

Ronan planned to use the Shadow Louse in the Fog Maze to trace the connections between spacetime regions. Meanwhile, Tai Yu researched Outer Domain Species and prepared to collect Xin Rui’s body data, while the question of where he would go next remained unresolved.

• Ronan decided that experiments with the Shadow Louse in the Fog Maze could help reveal its connections to the Thirteenth District and the Deep Blue World.
• Tai Yu reviewed his research into Outer Domain Species, the Ancient Gods, and the New Gods while considering why the Spine Boundary Honeycomb could not be simplified further.
• Yi Ya delivered materials to Tai Yu, and they discussed how her traits resembled Cell No. 175 and might correspond to an Outer Domain Species.
• Xin Rui arrived at the Military Hospital to have her body data collected, and Tai Yu asked Yi Ya to stay and assist.
• Yi Ya asked whether Tai Yu had chosen between going beyond the Star Gate and the Boundary Curtain region, but he gave no decision.

Tai Yu discussed Xin Rui’s information gathering and learned that she planned to go to the Boundary Curtain despite her mother’s reservations. Xin Rui asked him to support her decision and tell her if he heard news of her father, who may have joined Xi Corporation’s Expedition Team beyond the Star Gate.

• Tai Yu explained that Xin Rui’s basic and combat assessments would come from a match in his Myriad Transformations Deep Blue, while spiritual resonance would be assessed as she walked among the Deformed Infected and Deformed Crowd.
• After Yi Ya left, Xin Rui told Tai Yu that her mother, Lady Ming Fan, did not want her to go to the Boundary Curtain and might agree if Tai Yu went too.
• Tai Yu and Xin Rui discussed Priest Yuan Shu’s training and the unresolved political situation surrounding Great Lord Luande’s Honorary Retirement and Field Officer Lu Yang’s death.
• Xin Rui revealed that her father might still be alive, though he was not her biological father and his relationship with Lady Ming Fan had been tied to a mission.
• Xin Rui told Tai Yu she had decided to go to the Boundary Curtain and asked him to pass along any news of her father, who might have joined Xi Corporation’s Expedition Team and gone beyond the Star Gate.

Tai Yu learned that Xin Rui had information about a possible impostor connected to the Expedition Team, while Yise Xin used the team’s coordinate recalibration to synchronize his clan’s Bloodline Landscape. After a routine meeting, Yise Xin received word that a trusted subordinate aboard the ship had died.

• Tai Yu discussed Xin Rui’s secret and agreed to watch for the man’s disguised identity, while considering how many factions had planted agents among the Expedition Team.
• The Juyuan flying ship reached the midpoint of its hyperspace journey, where the crew prepared to receive updates and recalibrate coordinates.
• Yise Xin used the noise from the Expedition Team’s recalibration to synchronize information for his clan’s Bloodline Landscape.
• Yise Xin worried about problems involving Yise Hui and the unreliable newcomer Yihua, then left the routine meeting.
• Yuan Meng glanced back at Yise Xin as they crossed paths, making him wary of her.
• Yise Xin received a message that one of his trusted subordinates aboard the ship had died.

After two crew members died in horrific, inexplicable ways aboard the Juyuan, Xi Fu and Gu Qiao struggled to decide whether the deaths were accidents or murder. The chapter ended with the leaders considering an emergency exit from Hyperspace and an internal investigation, but questioning whether it would actually uncover the culprit.

• Xi Fu and Gu Qiao inspected the first victim, concluded the death was likely caused by a taboo in Hyperspace, and recorded it as a permanent personnel reduction.
• Xi Fu ordered the Expedition Team to hold meetings and remain vigilant, while Yise Xin urged his confidants to stay steady after losing a trusted subordinate.
• Several days later, a second man, a second-rank Celestial and Xi Corporation subordinate, died horribly during a simulated sparring match in a nutrient pod.
• Xi Fu and Gu Qiao sealed the scene, but at least twenty witnesses had already seen the death, and morale aboard the Juyuan declined.
• Xi Fu, Gu Qiao, and other leaders met to discuss the deaths and considered leaving Hyperspace to investigate, but questioned whether an internal search could find the murderer.

After the team decided to treat the deaths as Hyperspace accidents and continue onward, another fatal incident spread fear and suspicion aboard the Juyuan. Exhausted, Yise Xin returned to his room and found his Bloodline Landscape manifesting without his control, with a shattered, frozen eyeball staring at him.

• Xi Fu and Gu Qiao led the Expedition Team to agree to continue through Hyperspace while treating the deaths as accidents and tightening their vigilance.
• Yise Xin connected the second victim's death to the Coiling Demon and Evil Poison but decided against sending a warning that might expose him or further damage morale.
• Eight hours after the meeting, a patient on the temporary reduction list went mad and tried to sabotage the vessel, and Xi Fu killed him.
• Rumors that the incidents were a planned hunt spread aboard the Juyuan, while a proposal to put the crew into life-support pods collapsed amid suspicion of the leadership.
• Yise Xin returned to his room to rest, then saw his Bloodline Landscape appear on its own and a shattered, frozen eyeball stare at him.

Yise Xin’s Bloodline Landscape activated and gave him a transcendent view of the Juyuan’s Spiritual Light, where he saw a shadow feeding on the Expedition Team’s fear and Qi and Blood Energy. He suspected the murderer had made a pact with a Divine Sin, but could not identify the shadow.

• Yise Xin saw his Bloodline Landscape’s Shattered Eyeball crack as the demonic shadow behind it broke free.
• Yise Xin’s vision expanded into hyperspace, revealing the Juyuan’s Light Cocoon, its sensing Light Threads, and nearby Scarred Rifts.
• Yise Xin spotted a shadow within the Light Cocoon absorbing a substance he associated with the Expedition Team’s distress.
• Yise Xin reasoned that the shadow was exploiting the team’s Negative Emotions and Qi and Blood Energy, much like a being tied to a Divine Sin.
• Yise Xin realized that he too was feeding the shadow and wondered who the murderer was.

Yise Xin discovered that the Shattered Eyeball and its demonic shadow could connect with his Form and Spirit Framework, helping him cultivate in the Light Cocoon, and wondered whether further observation could reveal the murderer. At a meeting about the Deep Blue World Memory Regression Project, Ronan remarked that cultivation had been bringing him many images of eyes.

• Yise Xin reasoned that the complex operation aboard the ship likely involved powerful figures such as Xi Fu and Gu Qiao, then resolved to fight rather than succumb to fear.
• Yise Xin steadied himself by embracing his greed and used his Bloodline power to slow the Shattered Eyeball's retraction.
• The Shattered Eyeball and demonic shadow formed stronger Qi Mechanism connections with Yise Xin, filtering disturbances and strengthening his Qi and Blood circulation.
• Ronan, He Yueyin, Octopus, Mister Bai, Xue Lei, Yuan Wuwei, and Wanta's director gathered for the monthly project meeting at the An Hai Recuperation Center.
• Ronan sighed and told Octopus that his cultivation had been producing many images related to eyes.

Ronan warned the group that eye-related phenomena could signal powerful beings, including gods and their Proxies, before the meeting turned to Master Xiu’s virtual training. The project had made some progress, but its risks and slow results still threatened to outpace Master Xiu’s declining condition.

• Ronan listed examples of eye-related powers and symbols, then cautioned that such phenomena could point to beings with high perception and authority, including gods, False Gods, and their Proxies.
• Octopus wondered whether Li Wei might be a Proxy, but Ronan said Li Wei seemed more likely to be pursuing ascension as a Divine Sin False God.
• Ronan discouraged Yuan Wuwei from expecting an easy life in the colonies, and he and Yuan teased Octopus about his poor assessment results.
• He Yueyin arrived, and the meeting began with plans to use Xiu Shenyu’s Deep Blue World memories as material for a new dungeon.
• Octopus reported that Master Xiu’s condition and Dream World participation had improved, but puppet compatibility remained poor and training still risked harming his body and recovery.
• Octopus concluded that Master Xiu’s progress was too slow to counter his worsening condition, while consulted Physical Aspect Transcendental Species remained cautious.

Ronan reviewed Director Xiu’s progress and the plans to customize a Machine Core for him, then checked on his grandfather, Luo Yuandao. He Yueyin told Ronan that her uncle He Bozheng had undergone Human Body Modification, and Ronan suspected Luo Yuan had fulfilled an agreement through the Straw Network.

• Ronan asked about Director Xiu’s cooperation and training, then said the project could continue because Director Xiu no longer urgently wanted to die.
• Ronan discussed preparations for Director Xiu’s customized Machine Core with President Wanta.
• Ronan observed his grandfather, Luo Yuandao, whose physical condition had recovered somewhat but whose brain damage still caused cognitive and emotional problems.
• He Yueyin told Ronan that her uncle He Bozheng’s liver mass had disappeared and his health had improved, suggesting he had undergone Human Body Modification.
• Ronan said Luo Yuan was the likely source of He Bozheng’s modification and explained that he was observing the Straw Network’s role in it.

Ronan warned He Yueyin about Governor He’s role in the coming changes, then went to inspect the Straw Network’s approach to the Cloud Top World. He confirmed the boundary remained intact and used the telescope mechanism at Zhixing College to view the Cloud Top World without opening a gateway.

• Ronan told He Yueyin that Governor He could pursue benefits but needed to understand the limits and consequences, and she agreed to speak with him.
• Ronan shifted with He Yueyin to the He Family Old Residence and suggested that Governor He move out without disrupting the lives of He Chong and the younger generation.
• Ronan followed the Straw Network’s invisible tube to Xia City’s network center and confirmed it had not breached the Cloud Top World’s Spacetime Barrier.
• Ronan called Lady Shuqing Luo about Luo Yuandao’s request for notebooks, then contacted Mister Bai and Brother Octopus to gather more information.
• Ronan went to Zhixing College and activated the telescope mechanism, viewing the Cloud Top World while keeping its gateway closed.

Ronan used the telescope to locate the archive point in the Karmic Poison Sea, then entered the contaminated spacetime with his Real Body to continue investigating. He began reconstructing the information hidden there, focusing on the history of the Two Star Gate Campaign.

• Ronan used the telescope and the Eyes of All Gods to inspect Cloud Top World and locate the archive point through the evil poison contamination.
• He observed how the Illusory Nightmare Domain buffered the Karmic Poison Sea while Sun Wheel Absolute Prison broke down its filth and held it back from the boundary.
• After confirming the archive point was stable, Ronan left North Shore Gear and appeared in the contaminated spacetime with his Real Body.
• Ronan used Mirror Appraisal and Abyssal Illumination to filter and organize lead-gray information from the Karmic Poison Sea.
• Ronan focused his reconstruction on the Mirror Area of the Sky Abyss Mirror System and the historical events of the Two Star Gate Campaign.

Ronan used the Starry Sky Remnant Game to reconstruct the Two Star Gate Campaign from fragmented information, matching historical records with traces in the Karmic Poison Sea. His new understanding of Outer Domain Species and Magnetic Light Mica led him to suspect that an outside force had infiltrated the campaign, leaving him to question who had truly been controlling events.

• Ronan used the Starry Sky Remnant Game as a template to rebuild the Two Star Gate Campaign from distorted information and historical analyses.
• Ronan spent more than half a year constructing a blurred spacetime dungeon that outlined the campaign’s stars and Great Monarchs’ movements.
• Ronan revised the reconstruction to include the Outer Domain Species after studying Lord of Zhanhe’s Magnetic Light Mica Treatise.
• Ronan connected Magnetic Light Mica’s self-destruction and Realm Gate to the concept of Overrun and Bound, Fallen Alien Species.
• Ronan wondered whether an outside force had infiltrated the Two Star Gate Campaign and whether its players had been less detached than they seemed.

Ronan explained how refining the Fuzzy Starry Sky into a Mirror Starry Sky could let the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison reinforce it through the Crimson Wheel Rift. He and Raven returned to the task of decontamination, while Ronan committed to testing whether the mirror could help him uncover the Karmic Poison Sea and capture the Dream God Abomination's Real Body.

• Raven entered the Fuzzy Starry Sky and swept away the blood-red shadows threatening its Boundary, then told Ronan that his sister had called him to unpack Grandpa's sealed notes.
• Ronan warned Raven that entering the Karmic Poison Sea meant they would both need to decontaminate, and she admitted she had come because she was worried about him.
• Ronan said they needed to get closer to the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison's power to decontaminate efficiently and to maintain the Fuzzy Starry Sky when he was absent.
• Ronan used the Crimson Wheel Rift as a reference for the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison's location and described how he was turning the Fuzzy Starry Sky into a Mirror Starry Sky corresponding to the real Han Guang Star System.
• Ronan decided the Mirror Starry Sky was worth developing as a way to investigate the Karmic Poison Sea and potentially capture the Dream God Abomination's Real Body.

Ronan returned home with Raven to find his family waiting and the sealed notebooks left by his grandfather gathered for him. As Mo Ya voiced fears about growing social instability, Ronan offered a guarded view of the upheaval and began examining the notebooks’ significance.

• Ronan and Raven arrived home late, where Shuqing Luo and Mo Ya waited with Luo Yuandao’s sealed notebooks.
• Mo Ya described the growing unrest caused by new drugs, New Humans, and people struggling to adapt to the changing world, and asked Ronan whether a world war was coming.
• Ronan said world war was unlikely but destruction on that scale remained possible, while Mo Ya warned that even Grand Executive Officer He was likely watching his position.
• Ronan argued that people’s focus on improving their social standing could prevent society from rapidly collapsing, then denied that he had caused the situation deliberately.
• Ronan arranged Luo Yuandao’s notebooks in chronological order and reflected that the old man’s connection to the Tattered Divine Cloak made his records especially valuable.

Ronan reviewed an old notebook and developed his Misty Jungle, weighing which characters and materials could support his Dream Theater. His plans were interrupted when Bai Xinyan warned that Old Els might not survive, though the intelligence was unconfirmed.

• Ronan selected a notebook from around 2075 and spent the evening at home with his family.
• Ronan projected himself into the Misty Jungle and considered how to develop it for future Dream Theater battles.
• Ronan compared Bifur’s method of building a Misty Jungle with his own use of the Blood Prison King and Shadow Louse.
• Ronan considered using King of Firm Gold and Bai Xinyan as characters in his Misty Jungle.
• Bai Xinyan contacted Ronan and told him unconfirmed intelligence suggested Old Els might not make it.