Chapter Summaries

Ronan built a Format Theory framework within Pitfall Fire Hell, using its fire seeds to gather soul power while avoiding notice from its leaders. Kang Ji then told him that Zhuo Da was pursuing Ninth Rank Celestial advancement and pointed Ronan toward subcontracted missions and the Celestial exchange platforms.

• Ronan constructed a Great Production Line within Pitfall Fire Hell on Plane Six, drawing on its fire seeds while limiting the framework to avoid attracting attention from Zong Ju and Spati.
• Ronan used Willow as an entry point into Pitfall Fire Hell’s fire-seed system and rapidly advanced the Flesh Avatar’s Format Theory framework.
• Kang Ji told Ronan that Zhuo Da had accepted numerous Heavenly Human Guild missions to earn Celestial Advancement Points for his advancement assessment.
• Kang Ji explained that Zhuo Da would likely subcontract some missions and suggested Ronan consider them as a way to earn rewards.
• Ronan asked whether his Network Transfer had been confirmed, and Kang Ji said legal procedures remained and advised him to stay in the City of Eternal Darkness.
• Kang Ji sent Ronan links to Celestial exchange platforms, and Ronan thanked her.

Ronan visited Opportunity Cultivation Hall to collect an item Wei Su Yi had arranged for him, but the recommended Inspiration Chamber experience subtly guided his thoughts and triggered an abnormal response. When Ronan confronted the staff, Xiao Di hinted that his resistance would make the coming delivery difficult to conceal.

• Ronan chose Opportunity Cultivation Hall over the restricted Near-Capital Society and learned that Wei Su Yi's item was waiting at the transfer center warehouse.
• Ronan called Wei Su Yi, who told him to remain at the cultivation hall and collect the item there.
• Ronan accepted Xiao Di's recommendation to try the Inspiration Chamber while the item was delivered.
• Ronan noticed that the chamber was guiding his thoughts and formed a stable, viscous domain state without fully interacting with the surrounding Rule Environment.
• Ronan told Xiao Di to replace the service and the clerk, and Xiao Di warned that Ronan's resistance would make the delivery difficult to cover up.

Ronan discovered that the Inspiration Chamber was part of a dream designed around his Corrupted Blood Domain and broke the illusion. He seized the clone Xiao Di and learned that an attempted delivery through a temporary channel had failed.

• Ronan realized his perceptions of the Ancient God Framework and Superfluous Thing had been blurred, and suspected the Initial Awakening Society had trapped him in a dream.
• Ronan identified flaws in the illusion and reasoned that his Superfluous Thing could not be imitated by the dream.
• Ronan followed the corridor and kicked open the room where Xiao Di was hiding, binding him with the Corrupted Blood Domain.
• Ronan shattered the dream, contacted Wei Su Yi, and saw that the temporary channel had closed and the item delivery had failed.
• Ronan told Wei Su Yi the goods had not arrived because he refused to be used as an unwitting freight channel.

Ronan investigated the failed goods transfer after someone from the Initial Awakening Society trapped him in a dream, then rode through the City of Eternal Darkness while waiting for Wei Su Yi and the Celestial Assessment results. In a detached state, he may have reached the Polar Domain, though he remained uncertain because the environment was more complicated than Earth Spacetime.

• Wei Su Yi told Ronan she would contact the relevant parties and advised him to avoid hurting anyone if possible.
• Ronan questioned the person using Clone "Xiao Di," accepted their guarded apology, and left without learning their identity.
• Ronan assessed the dream operator as a powerful, autonomous Initial Awakening Society figure and walked nearby to observe the group’s response.
• Ronan found the group relying mainly on equipment for surveillance, then boarded a maglev bus and waited as he had no urgent destination.
• Ronan used his Superfluous Thing perspective to inspect his frameworks and the surrounding spacetime, and suspected he had naturally reached the Polar Domain.

Ronan entered the Polar Domain and found that his presence there was slowly being corroded by an unexplained poison. He observed the domain’s scattered presences and suspected its toxicity came from accumulated wills, conflict, and the Han Guang God War.

• Ronan sensed numerous indistinct presences in the Polar Domain and wondered whether they belonged to the Myriad Heavens Gods and powerful Great Monarchs.
• Ronan remained in Pure Observation mode, but felt his presence weakening and withering as if a toxin were consuming it.
• Ronan recalled the poisoned Polar Domain in the Han Guang Star System and reviewed the Martial Emperor’s account of the Polar Domain as a dangerous void and a potential pitfall even for ancient gods.
• Ronan judged that the Polar Domain’s danger could constrain the Great Almighties and give him time to adapt, so he focused on enduring the corrosion.
• Ronan conjectured that accumulated wills, delusions, and backlash from ancient and new gods—and battles fought in the Polar Domain during the Han Guang God War—had made it toxic.

After passing his Celestial Assessment, Ronan registered as a Heavenly Human and encountered Priest Jirosi, who summoned him to a mandatory Ruin and Fall collective ritual. The ritual was scheduled for Day 1 of Week 50, and Jirosi asked Ronan whether that timing posed a problem.

• Ronan sensed that the new self he had formed in the Polar Domain was declining but rising in level, confirming that his current path was temporarily correct.
• Kang Ji informed Ronan that he had passed his Celestial Assessment, and Colonel Mang You and Wei Su Yi also received the news.
• Ronan traveled to the Heavenly Human Guild, completed his registration and permission upgrades, and felt the heavy responsibilities that came with his new status.
• Priest Jirosi greeted Ronan and explained that newly advanced Celestials had to attend a collective ritual to pledge loyalty and undergo scrutiny for Shadow Domain infiltration.
• Jirosi set the ritual for Day 1 of Week 50, and Ronan's reaction prompted him to ask whether the timing caused a problem.

Ronan discussed the upcoming collective ritual with Jirosi, who suggested a mission that would let him perform a solo ritual and asked him to spy on Wei Su Yi. Ronan reported that a delivery for Wei Su Yi had failed and agreed to monitor the situation, then asked what mission would earn Myriad Gods Hall's recognition.

• Ronan told Jirosi that Wei Su Yi's concert might complicate his attendance at the collective ritual, and Jirosi explained that she was unlikely to leave the Boundary Curtain district.
• Jirosi advised Ronan to take an important mission whose schedule overlapped with the ritual so he could apply for a solo ritual, and said he needed to prove his strength and stance.
• Jirosi asked Ronan to report on Wei Su Yi's recent activities, and Ronan described her distant conversation with Shi Fan about Luande and materials for a new vessel.
• Ronan told Jirosi that Wei Su Yi had sent him to retrieve goods for Shi Fan, but the goods had not arrived from the Transfer Center.
• Jirosi told Ronan to watch the delivery situation and contact him about any changes, and Ronan asked which mission would earn Myriad Gods Hall's recognition.

After advancing to the heavenly human stage, Ronan asked Kang Ji to find him short-term missions so he could adapt to his new abilities and permissions. He discussed Priest Jirosi and replacement goods with Wei Su Yi, then reviewed the limited missions Kang Ji could find.

• Jirosi left after speaking with Ronan, and Kang Ji continued assisting him with reception work.
• Ronan asked Kang Ji to search official channels and subcontracting platforms for solo missions he could finish within two or three weeks.
• Ronan told Wei Su Yi about his conversation with Jirosi and the planned collective ritual on Day 1 of Week 50.
• Wei Su Yi said the goods would be replaced, gave Ronan's contact information to the suppliers, and advised him to practice with heavenly human-level missions without testing his limits.
• Ronan wondered why the Ruin and Fall Priests seemed wary of Wei Su Yi, while Kang Ji struggled to find suitable missions among the Guild's mostly military deployments.

Ronan chose a Celestial-stage sparring mission with Huang Tao, a veteran Rotor Mercenary Group fighter seeking to recover his condition, despite Kang Ji’s warning about his temper and harsh scoring. The mission was actually a subjective screening arranged by Priest Jirosi, and Ronan arrived at the cultivation venue to meet Huang Tao.

• Kang Ji filtered short-term training work for Ronan, who selected a sparring mission with Huang Tao of the Rotor Mercenary Group.
• Kang Ji warned Ronan that Huang Tao was injured, volatile, and known for treating previous sparring partners harshly, but Ronan accepted the mission.
• Ronan asked Kang Ji about the Near-Capital Society, and she relayed her brother Kang Feng’s advice to keep his distance from its troublesome members.
• Ronan accepted the mission Priest Jirosi had chosen as a stepping stone and prepared his equipment before meeting Huang Tao.
• Ronan observed that Huang Tao was extremely thin but powerful, and inferred that his recovery depended heavily on the surrounding Rule Environment.

Ronan completed a trial spar with Huang Tao and arranged future training sessions at the Rotor Regiment. While learning about Zhipan State and its ruling grand duke, Ronan sensed the Abyssal Spirit Net connected to him grow slightly heavier.

• Ronan met Huang Tao on the training field, demonstrated his Chaos Cannon, and agreed to twice-weekly individual and team sparring sessions.
• Ronan accepted training files from Huang Tao and returned to the hotel to study the potential team members before choosing them the next day.
• Kang Ji told Ronan that Ji Yi, a veteran student at the training camp, could help him understand the candidates, and Ronan agreed to contact him.
• Kang Ji updated Ronan about tasks posted by Zhuo Da and explained Zhipan State's troubled history and Grand Duke Zhiping's neglect of its affairs.
• Kang Ji revealed that the grand duke's family followed the Lord of the Ultimate Dark, and Ronan sensed the Abyssal Spirit Net's weight increase slightly.

Ronan sensed Grand Duke Zhiping’s attention through the Abyssal Spirit Net, but the pressure remained vague and did not reveal Ronan’s location. After Zhiping’s presence faded, Ronan noticed that the rate of corrosion affecting him had changed.

• Ronan felt a force pass through the Abyssal Spirit Net and realized it came from above the Polar Domain.
• Kang Ji said Grand Duke Zhiping posted tasks in the Heavenly Human Guild and paid promptly, while Ronan asked her to look for other opportunities.
• Ronan wondered why Zhiping had sensed him despite his indirect remarks, then realized This Old Man had locked onto Zhiping in the Polar Domain.
• Ronan cautiously maintained a state of pure observation as Zhiping moved away and the pressure vanished.
• Ronan noticed that the speed of his corrosion had changed.

Ronan studied how his self was corroded in the Polar Domain and concluded that the effect came from the nearby Night Angler’s presence and changed with their distance. He inferred that the Divine Kingdoms’ overall structure mitigated these clashes within a limited area, but he was left wondering why the two Night Anglers could perceive each other only one way.

• Ronan noticed that his self’s corrosion changed as the big, well-fed fellow moved away.
• Ronan approached and withdrew from the other Night Angler, confirming that their distance corresponded to the corrosion’s rate and the flickering light in his nine palace grid.
• Ronan concluded that the corrosion came from the interaction and annihilation of the two presences’ rules in the Polar Domain.
• Ronan observed faint signs that the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms’ overall architecture mitigated these clashes within a limited range.
• Ronan questioned why the two Night Anglers had one-way perception of each other.

Ronan examined how his weakened self was being corroded in the Polar Domain and realized that the losses were nourishing his main body and avatars in the Material Universe. He still had no way to reverse the imbalance, but Format Theory and the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure continued to develop as the chapter ended with blurred matters becoming clearer.

• Ronan questioned why Grand Duke Zhiping had not noticed their repeated close contact and concluded that his position in the Polar Domain left him especially vulnerable.
• Ronan stopped testing his rules against Grand Duke Zhiping, but his self continued to weaken in a negative cycle of corrosion and instability.
• Ronan reasoned that he needed the Giant Structure to support him and would eventually have to prevail in conflicts among the self rules above the Polar Domain.
• Ronan discovered that residue from his corroding self flowed down the Giant Structure and strengthened his main body, avatars, and Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure on Plane Six.
• Ronan watched Format Theory tug at the balance between the Order World and the Shadow Domain, causing some previously blurry things to become clearer.

After silently invoking the Overrun Divine Script’s “I,” Ronan’s perception of the Polar Domain sharpened, revealing that Grand Duke Zhiping’s apparent strength was an inherited, hollow shell left by Grand Duke of Zhipan. Ronan realized he might consume pieces of it, but remained cautious of the Ruin and Fall System’s protections.

• Ronan silently recited “I,” causing his whole self across the Three Layers, One Zone, and One Domain to shake, though nothing seemed to change for anyone else.
• Ronan noticed that Grand Duke Zhiping appeared much closer and observed that his own perception of the Night Angler had improved.
• Ronan analyzed Grand Duke Zhiping’s apparent strength and concluded that his Polar Domain form was padded with illusory rules and fake muscles.
• Ronan suspected Grand Duke of Zhipan had left the fake muscles as a safeguard for his descendants, and that Grand Duke Zhiping had failed to master them.
• Ronan realized he could consume the fake muscles for nourishment but decided to take only a little while staying wary of the Ruin and Fall System’s protections.

Ronan used the Overrun Divine Script’s “I” character to strengthen his understanding of his Pseudo-Ancient God structure and the abilities of locking on and devouring, though he still struggled to endure corrosion and digest what he consumed. At the Rotor Regiment training camp, he selected a team for the upcoming battle drill against Huang Tao and insisted on replacing anyone who objected to his strict training.

• Ronan repeatedly recited the “I” character, gaining instincts about the relationship between “I” and “Non-Self” while remaining unsure how to use them safely.
• Ronan’s Mirror Appraisal continued analyzing Ancient God instincts as he went to the Rotor Regiment training camp to choose team members for the weekend drill against Huang Tao.
• Ronan chose Ji Yi, whom Kang Ji had recommended, as his assistant, and Ji Yi relayed complaints that Ronan’s corrections were disrupting the trainees’ practiced rhythms and lowering their results.
• Ronan said the trainees were still adjusting and told Ji Yi to replace anyone with serious objections because there was only one day to train.

Ronan used a strict training exercise to select obedient recruits and develop a Format Theory framework among the Rotor Mercenary Group students. As Ji Yi admired the results, someone arrived to praise Ronan’s insight.

• Ronan selected twenty compliant trainees and began practical combat exercises at the training ground outside the City of Eternal Darkness.
• Ronan used the team’s drills to strengthen a Format Theory framework that also provided limited support to his Flesh Avatar in Ash City.
• Ronan led the trainees through increasingly difficult drone targets, and their speed and accuracy improved.
• Ji Yi asked whether the Corrupted Blood Sect’s boosts were always so powerful, and Ronan explained how its rules and systems guided precise contributions.
• An unseen visitor praised Ronan’s insight and skill, and Ronan recognized that another person had arrived to perform.

Ronan continued training the twenty trainees while He Zhou recruited him into the Rotor Mercenary Group and explained the coming pressure release in the Boundary Curtain sector. The chapter ended with Huang Tao identifying the earlier spacetime fluctuation as a routine probe before the pressure release.

• He Zhou invited Ronan to join the understaffed Rotor Mercenary Group as a team commander, and Ronan said he would consider it.
• After training, He Zhou took Ronan and the recovering Huang Tao to dinner to discuss the recruitment and the coming pressure release.
• He Zhou explained that the pressure release periodically vented accumulated spacetime stress, while mercenaries were needed to find and control potential leak points.
• Ronan questioned He Zhou's vague explanation and wondered how ordinary people could interfere with spacetime on that scale.
• Huang Tao said the spacetime fluctuation Ronan had encountered was probably a routine probe before the pressure release.

He Zhou explained the pressure-release missions and the need to guard leak points, then brought Ronan to the Myriad Gods Hall for a classified screening and collective ceremony. The chapter ended with Ronan entering the dark, imposing headquarters beneath the City of Eternal Darkness.

• He Zhou told Ronan that pressure-release work involved guarding suspected leak points and dealing with Alien Demons and cult activity.
• He Zhou explained that manpower was tight because mercenaries were taking public-security missions in Zhipan State, while the Rotor Regiment had to cover Plane Six and three nearby leak points.
• He Zhou asked Ronan to help train the recruits and agreed to have him undergo the collective ceremony during the mission screening.
• Ronan briefly coordinated his schedule with Wei Su Yi, then He Zhou led him to the Myriad Gods Hall beneath the City of Eternal Darkness.
• Ronan arrived at the Myriad Gods Hall, a vast, dark structure that resembled a mausoleum and was closely watched by the Abyssal Spirit Net.

Ronan entered a side hall in the Myriad Gods Hall, where Ruin and Fall priests were altering a Spacetime Configuration. Jirosi told him that Priest Jiting would preside over a ritual involving Ronan and a second participant, an Uploader from the Thought Star Cluster.

• Ronan reflected on why Huang Tao could not advance to the fifth rank while his injuries and dependence on the Rule Environment persisted.
• He Zhou escorted Ronan to a side hall, where Jirosi met them and led Ronan inside.
• Ronan recognized that the priests working on the walls were altering a Spacetime Configuration whose overall architecture matched Plane Six.
• Jirosi told Ronan that Priest Jiting would preside over a ritual with two participants, including Ronan.
• Jirosi revealed that the other participant was a machinery intelligence expert and an Uploader from the Thought Star Cluster, leaving Ronan to wonder what the pairing signified.

Ronan and Mo She arrived at the Square Pool for their ritual, but High Priest Yuanhou unexpectedly came to preside over it instead of Priest Jiting. The ritual began with Yuanhou reciting the invocation, and Ronan and Mo She gave their prepared responses.

• Ronan and Mo She followed Priest Jirosi to the Square Pool and waited for the ritual to begin.
• High Priest Yuanhou arrived with Priest Jiting, and his overwhelming presence left Ronan and Mo She unable to move freely.
• Priest Jiting announced that High Priest Yuanhou would preside over the ritual, alarming Jirosi.
• Yuanhou identified Mo She and Pu Ren, recited the ritual invocation, and they answered with their offerings.