Chapter Summaries

Wei Su Yi explained that Willow was under Lady Fire’s control and clarified that the intelligence about her lobbying people was misleading. She told Little Fear that his God Descent Ritual was tied to Pitfall Fire Hell’s planned Blood Sacrifice, with Wei Su Yi serving as the offering’s Fire Seed.

• Lady Fire explained how her control over Willow distorted the maid’s perceptions and thoughts, and Wei Su Yi offered Little Fear access to observe them.
• Little Fear agreed to examine Willow’s thought patterns later, then asked Wei Su Yi about the claim that she had helped Luande lobby people.
• Wei Su Yi denied helping Luande and explained that the Boundary Curtain region used Tian Yuan Empire sympathizers as propaganda against the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe.
• Wei Su Yi said Lady Fire had reason to interfere with the Game Scenario, then began explaining the background of Little Fear’s role as a God Descent Container.
• Wei Su Yi revealed that the God Descent Ritual was a prelude to Pitfall Fire Hell’s high-level Blood Sacrifice and that Wei Su Yi was the offering’s Fire Seed for the Blood Prison King.

Wei Su Yi explained that Pitfall Fire Hell had made her the trigger for a massive Blood Sacrifice and admitted she had influenced Little Fear's mission assignment. She revealed that she was cultivating him as a strong ally to help her escape the role, and the chapter ended as their foreheads touched and the seed in his Form and Spirit Framework trembled.

• Wei Su Yi explained that Pitfall Fire Hell had arranged for her to be sent to the Blood Sacrifice site, and that she had influenced the real life competitive game to make herself a mission target.
• Wei Su Yi said Pitfall Fire Hell had chosen her as the Blood Sacrifice's trigger because her fame and ability to stir human hearts could generate Negative Emotions.
• Little Fear asked about Wei Su Yi's plans, and she said she wanted to cultivate a strong ally rather than search for one.
• Wei Su Yi estimated that the Blood Sacrifice would begin around Week 80 or later, while Little Fear's Divine Descent ritual was scheduled for around Week 60.
• Wei Su Yi drew Little Fear close until their foreheads touched, and the seed within his Form and Spirit Framework trembled.

Little Fear learned that the seed inside his Form and Spirit Framework was an Externalized Fire Seed, a tool that could cultivate power but also control and contaminate him. Wei Su Yi explained its role in their potential Covenant and in disguising his identity, then promised him more materials as he prepared to join her team.

• Little Fear identified the seed as a Fire Seed of Pitfall Fire Hell and understood how Externalized Fire Seeds could be used to control cultivators.
• Wei Su Yi said Little Fear’s resistance was promising, but he would need to control the seed and learn how others could interfere with it.
• Wei Su Yi explained that a Covenant would let them share life force and balance their forms and spirits through the Fire Seed.
• Wei Su Yi told Little Fear to study Willow and the Covenant’s applications before they established their link.
• Wei Su Yi said Little Fear would need the Fire Seed to deceive the Abyssal Spirit Net and other systems when he joined her team, and promised to send him detailed materials.

Wei Su Yi explained why Pitfall Fire Hell’s leaders had allowed Little Fear to leave as the Blood Sacrifice preparations began. As their Flying Shuttle headed toward the city, she suggested that Zong Ju and Spati might be uncertain about the sacrifice’s consequences and therefore open to manipulation.

• Little Fear boarded Wei Su Yi’s Flying Shuttle after she abruptly announced that their mission had begun.
• Wei Su Yi warned that Little Fear’s restraint around Willow could make Willow, Zong Ju, and Spati question their assumptions about him.
• Wei Su Yi explained that Pitfall Fire Hell needed an independent identity connected vaguely to her, and someone useful to accompany her.
• Little Fear realized Lady Fire could perform the God Descent Ritual without him, making his role costly redundancy rather than a necessity.
• Wei Su Yi said Zong Ju and Spati might not truly want the Blood Sacrifice to succeed because it could devastate their star system, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation.

Wei Su Yi explained why she had signed with Sandbox Entertainment and revealed that a game’s main storyline concerned whether Luande would survive the year. She described an unresolved wager over the transfer of fleet authority in the Red Silicon Star System, leaving Little Fear questioning whether the supposed game was truly a game.

• Wei Su Yi’s words slightly accelerated the Fire Seed’s growth, and Little Fear wondered how information had affected it.
• Wei Su Yi explained that she had signed a lifetime contract with Sandbox Entertainment for protection, since the company was controlled by the Ruin and Fall Priest branch of the Myriad Gods Hall.
• Wei Su Yi revealed that the game’s main storyline was a wager over whether Luande could retire safely and survive until the end of the year.
• Wei Su Yi said the first phase involved transferring fleet authority in the Red Silicon Star System, where Luande and his guard fleet were stationed.
• Wei Su Yi explained that Zhongkai had gone over as the chosen successor, but the transfer-of-authority main quest remained unfinished, prompting Little Fear to challenge her claim that this was not a game.

Wei Su Yi explained how the Real Life Arena Game would turn Luande’s retirement into a public spectacle and described her role as an air valve for public opinion. She and Little Fear arranged his covert entry into her team, leaving him to disappear into the crowd under a new identity.

• Wei Su Yi told Little Fear that framing Luande’s removal as a game could attract attention and make his retirement inevitable, while his fate remained the game’s main suspense.
• Wei Su Yi said her public identity would regulate attention around the game and clarified that she and Luande only appeared to be allies.
• Little Fear learned that Pitfall Fire Hell had planted a longtime undercover operative in Sandbox Entertainment as Wei Su Yi’s driver.
• Wei Su Yi told Little Fear to join her team as a staff member and explained that he would pilot her private spacecraft with Nemesis’s help.
• Wei Su Yi gave Little Fear a Metal Bean communicator, and he boarded the public landing platform in a staff uniform before disappearing into the crowd.

"Little Fear" and Lao Pu exchanged identities in a secluded restroom inside the media building, using Pitfall Fire Hell’s methods to copy their appearances and simulate the required authority identifiers. The transformed Lao Pu left to escape under a new identity, while "Little Fear" remained as the real Lao Pu, Ronan’s Rebirth Body.

• "Little Fear" and Nemesis coordinated their approach to the media building and avoided its surveillance.
• "Little Fear" met undercover agent Lao Pu in a secluded restroom and linked their Fire Seeds to exchange information and memories.
• "Little Fear" and Lao Pu exchanged faces and physiques through Pitfall Fire Hell’s body-altering methods.
• Lao Pu tore out a piece of flesh, which "Little Fear" used to deepen his bodily simulation and match Lao Pu’s communicator.
• Lao Pu left the restroom under "Little Fear’s" identity, while "Little Fear" remained as the real Lao Pu, Ronan’s Rebirth Body.

Posing as Lao Pu, the protagonist returned to the shuttle after passing another security check and discovered a tracker planted beneath it. He alerted Nemesis to inform Wei Su Yi and watched as Fei Ang departed for the City of Eternal Darkness, leaving him and Fei Sai to guard the team.

• Lao Pu reached the VIP parking lot and learned from Nemesis that he had earned fifty points toward the full score of one hundred.
• Lao Pu returned to the shuttle, where Zhi Chuan told him the interview event was nearly over and directed him toward Passage Three.
• Lao Pu asked Nemesis to scan the vehicle, and Nemesis found a tracker embedded in its undercarriage.
• Lao Pu told Nemesis not to touch the tracker and to inform Wei Su Yi while continuing to monitor it.
• Fei Ang told Lao Pu that he was going ahead to the City of Eternal Darkness and ordered him and Fei Sai to keep watch.

Ronan, inhabiting driver Lao Pu, joined Wei Su Yi’s stand-in and her entourage aboard the luxury airship Flowing Scenery, reflecting on the need to preserve a definite sense of self amid his shifting identities. As the airship prepared to leave for City of Eternal Darkness, he chose not to retrieve a locator because he lacked an identity that could justify the action.

• Lao Pu drove Wei Su Yi’s stand-in, Hametz, Fei Sai, Po Man, and Teng Zhi from Passage Three toward the Flowing Scenery.
• Hametz told Lao Pu they were heading to Fa Lan Avenue in District Three of City of Eternal Darkness and needed to arrive before seven.
• The shuttle car docked with the Flowing Scenery, and Wei Su Yi’s stand-in and the others went aboard.
• Lao Pu checked the airship’s supplies and equipment, while Nemesis explained the engines, stabilization systems, and controls.
• Nemesis asked Lao Pu to retrieve the locator, but Lao Pu refused because he had no suitable identity logic to support the action.

Wei Su Yi prepared to meet Kailanlisa in the City of Eternal Darkness while Lao Pu discovered a remotely controlled device aboard the Flowing Scenery. The airship reached the city, where Nemesis warned that the Abyssal Spirit Net could make Lao Pu’s remaining test points difficult to earn.

• Hametz arranged Wei Su Yi’s makeup for her private meeting with Kailanlisa, whose lover Peiham had recently died after publicly insulting Wei Su Yi.
• Nemesis told Lao Pu that a remotely controlled Cybernetics device had activated and was trying to enter the equipment bay, and Lao Pu chose to wait and see what happened.
• Lao Pu guided the Flowing Scenery through traffic control and toward the City of Eternal Darkness while Nemesis assisted with the procedures.
• The airship arrived above the City of Eternal Darkness, where Nemesis entered standby mode and warned Lao Pu that the Abyssal Spirit Net was unusually stringent.

The Flowing Scenery descended into the City of Eternal Darkness, where Lao Pu’s team narrowly avoided a hovercraft collision during docking. The crash revived public accusations surrounding Peiham’s death, while the police began investigating the incident.

• Lao Pu judged that the Flowing Scenery’s disguise had fooled the Abyssal Spirit Net as the airship entered the city.
• The Flowing Scenery reached Fa Lan Avenue and began docking at an aerial berth.
• A hovercraft breached the Authority Wall, and its rider threw an object at the airship before Fei Suo intervened and splattered the rider with paint.
• Hu Wa Li nearly switched to manual control, but Lao Pu stopped him and corrected the airship after it swayed and struck the hovercraft.
• The rider was rescued and claimed to be a Peiham fan declaring war on Wei Su Yi, while online posts renewed accusations that Wei Su Yi had hired someone to kill Peiham.

After a sabotage incident aboard Wei Su Yi’s vessel, her team tried to manage the police investigation and growing internal suspicions. A second death and the police’s suspicion of Evil Cult influence tied the crisis back to Peiham’s death and Sen Lang Normal University.

• Hametz arranged for Lao Pu to stay behind with her while Po Man and Coach Suo took Wei Su Yi away, but Wei Su Yi’s double insisted on remaining and called Kailanlisa to her Private Deck.
• At seven o’clock, Kailanlisa and the City of Eternal Darkness police arrived, and investigators found a Cybernetics interference device in the vessel’s equipment compartment.
• The team gathered to discuss how the device had been brought aboard and whether they had a mole, but Po Man announced that the injured extremist fan had died in a separate hospital attack.
• As reports linked the attacker to Wei Su Yi’s fans, the police returned with an official who said the suspect showed signs of Evil Cult influence and brought up the Pitfall Fire Hell and Sen Lang Normal University.

Sen Lang led a police investigation into the team for possible Evil Cult contamination, while Ronan altered Lao Pu’s outward memories and identity to hide his connection to Pitfall Fire Hell. Ronan then decided to investigate the people behind the incident through Gideon and Sen Lang.

• Sen Lang explained that Evil Cult cases required contamination checks and had officers question the team members individually.
• Sen Lang also met with Wei Su Yi and Kailanlisa, secured their cooperation, and arranged targeted Abyssal Spirit Net inspections focused on the Fire Seed.
• Lao Pu worried that the investigation posed a serious threat to both his disguised self and the genuine Lao Pu.
• Ronan rebuilt Lao Pu’s temporary role from his memories, concealing his Pitfall Fire Hell affiliation and making the Fire Seed appear dormant.
• Ronan concluded that the incident’s organizers had used resources within City of Eternal Darkness and decided to seek answers from Gideon and Sen Lang.

Sen Lang considered the political struggle over Great Lord Luande's Honorary Retirement and sensed that the case surrounding it had drawn in genuine Evil Cult elements. His warning revived his concerns about the unsolved Giant Skull Case, in which a Luande officer had died in a Cult Ritual.

• Sen Lang left the City of Eternal Darkness ahead of Wei Su Yi's team and rested during the journey, exhausted by his work and the city's harsh Rule Environment.
• Sen Lang concluded that unnamed human actors had inflated the incident into a political "main quest" tied to Luande's Honorary Retirement.
• Sen Lang weighed the competing political factions and the wider tensions among the Dawn, Ruin and Fall, and Great Thoroughfare Systems.
• Sen Lang recalled that Great Monarch Yu Chuang supported Luande's Honorary Retirement, while Wei Su Yi's association with Ruin and Fall System entertainment made her involvement politically charged.
• Sen Lang felt a warning from his Spirit-Touching Tubes that Evil Cult elements were present among the people and events he had encountered.
• Sen Lang connected the warning to the unsolved Giant Skull Case, where a field-grade officer under Great Lord Luande had died in a Cult Ritual.

Sen Lang accepted an invitation from the Fei Family to lecture on defending against evil cult contamination, then met Fei Yu and saw that the class was largely a pretext connected to the competitive game Real Life. The chapter left Fei Yu focused on the game as his main source of enjoyment and purpose.

• Callahan asked Sen Lang to lecture for the Fei Family on defending against contamination by evil cult elements.
• Sen Lang considered the Fei Family's standing among Boundary Curtain's powerful houses and agreed to the invitation.
• Sen Lang met Fei Yu in Plane Six and realized most of the assembled class was there to make up the numbers.
• Sen Lang recognized that Fei Yu's interest in the lecture was tied to Real Life, the game that gave him enjoyment and a sense of value.

Sen Lang heard Fei Yu’s claims that the Yilan Family and Huo Family had brought Evil Cult elements to Plane Six, while refusing to disclose investigative details or promise to publicize the information. On his way back to Police Headquarters, Sen Lang connected Gideon and the Abyss Cult’s activity to the Giant Skull Case and decided to investigate the newly perceived link further.

• Fei Yu questioned Sen Lang about Pitfall Fire Hell and Wei Su Yi, but Sen Lang withheld information about the active investigation.
• Fei Yu told Sen Lang that Peiham’s extreme fans had issued death threats and suggested the Yilan Family and Huo Family had drawn Evil Cult elements to Plane Six.
• Sen Lang recognized Gideon as someone connected to his earlier investigation of the Giant Skull Case and considered how the case might relate to the Abyss Cult.
• On his journey back to Police Headquarters, Sen Lang reread his old Giant Skull Case killer profile and realized Gideon offered a possible connection to Pitfall Fire Hell.
• Sen Lang decided to use that connection as a reference point and investigate further.

Sen Lang reconsidered the Giant Skull Case and used his inspiration to connect its order-oriented ritual to Pitfall Fire Hell through Gideon and Xingsheng Laboratory. He suspected a hidden master-servant relationship, possibly involving a newly corrupted Outer Domain Species, and decided to report his reasoning to his superiors and the Myriad Gods Hall.

• Sen Lang reviewed the Giant Skull Case and recalled how the ritual site’s corpses and body parts had been sorted and assembled with an extreme sense of order.
• Sen Lang contrasted the ritual with Pitfall Fire Hell and concluded that the two Evil Cults’ differing styles suggested an important point of contact through Gideon.
• Sen Lang judged Xingsheng Laboratory to be more suspicious than Gideon and considered whether the order-oriented cult was subordinate to a hidden, more powerful force.
• Sen Lang’s Spirit-Touching Tubes began to twitch as he imagined that the hidden force might be a newly arrived Outer Domain Species.
• Sen Lang decided to write down his inspirational reasoning and report the possible change in the Abyss’s power structure to his superiors and the Myriad Gods Hall.

Ronan used Sen Lang’s Heart Lake to send a distorted probe toward the Myriad Gods Hall while Lao Pu’s team faced mounting public hostility over the Flowing Scenery incident. At the police station, Ronan investigated old rumors about Wei Su Yi and ended the chapter watching Zhi Chuan thoughtfully.

• Ronan used Sen Lang’s cognition to make a reflection of himself clearer and send information toward the Myriad Gods Hall.
• Lao Pu and Huwali went to the Third District Police Substation to assist with the Flowing Scenery investigation, while Zhi Chuan drove them.
• Zhi Chuan complained that the team had no sympathetic support amid the public backlash, and Ronan considered Sandbox Entertainment’s treatment of Wei Su Yi.
• While waiting for Huwali, Lao Pu searched online accusations about Wei Su Yi and found historical traces of her songs and career.
• Zhi Chuan returned after shopping and offered Lao Pu a rest in the car, while Ronan watched him thoughtfully.

Ronan detected a spreading influence tied to the Yilan Family’s attempt to target Wei Su Yi, but its purpose remained unclear. After the City of Eternal Darkness lifted its obstructions, Wei Su Yi’s team left for an early break, while Lao Pu was tasked with inspecting the Flowing Scenery.

• Ronan noticed that Zhi Chuan’s Form and Spirit Framework had been altered and was healing around the new influence.
• Zhi Chuan’s drowsiness worsened on the drive back as a virus-like Dyeing Agent spread from him to Huwali and Lao Pu.
• The Dyeing Agent spread through the ship and appeared to use faith power to trace or mark its targets, possibly including Wei Su Yi.
• The Yilan Family’s apparent success coincided with the sudden removal of the team’s obstructions in the City of Eternal Darkness.
• Lady Hametz announced the team’s departure and an early, staggered vacation, while assigning Lao Pu to remain on call and inspect the Flowing Scenery.

Ronan, disguised as Lao Pu, accompanied Wei Su Yi’s team to Phonetic City and delivered the Flowing Scenery to a shipyard while tracking the lingering Dyeing Agent contamination. The chapter left him under surveillance by an unknown party, with the Dyeing Agent on him seeming to be pulled by an unseen force.

• Ronan had Lao Pu agree to stay focused on the Flowing Scenery’s overhaul, and Nemesis arranged for Wei Su Yi to meet him once she could get away.
• The team returned to Phonetic City, where the Dyeing Agent had spread to Wei Su Yi’s double and the others, though its contagiousness was fading.
• Ronan delivered the Flowing Scenery to a Sky-Air Shipyard and sent its personnel away, leaving him time to inspect the ship and surrounding facilities.
• Nemesis warned Ronan that someone outside the factory was monitoring him, and the remaining Dyeing Agent on his body seemed to be tugged by an unknown force.