Chapter Summaries

Ronan intervened as the Housekeeping Clones began to become fulcrums in a force trying to cross the Virtual Reality Boundary, and he used his Order Framework to disrupt the process. The intruding entity was trapped by Priest Yan Gao’s Spacetime Silhouette, but the clash killed several clones and left Yan Gao and her Temple Warrior guards out of sight.

• Ronan ordered the Housekeeping Clones to stand at attention and walked among them as their pleas began turning into a twisted form of faith.
• Ronan told Priest Yan Gao that the clones needed external rules to strengthen them, and the opposing force surged against his Order Framework.
• The intruder groaned, recognized Ronan, and was locked onto by the Abyssal Spirit Net and Priest Yan Gao.
• Priest Yan Gao formed a Spacetime Silhouette to seal the Virtual Reality Boundary, while Ronan ordered the clones to get down.
• The distorted void shredded platform structures and killed more than a dozen clones, while Priest Yan Gao and her Temple Warrior guards vanished into the warped spacetime boundary.

Ronan and Mo She assessed the spreading threat after a Shan Jiu avatar triggered widespread aberrations, while the Rotor Group guarded the Residential District. Priest Yan Gao reported that Grand Duke Zhiping was coming to contain the crisis, leaving Ronan worried about whether he could handle it.

• Ronan watched two unconscious Clones explode and had Priest Yu Sen collect the twitching flesh and blood in the Sky Blue Box.
• Priest Yan Gao identified the Shadow Celestial as the main pursuit target, then warned teams that high-frequency participants and other Alien Demons were aberrating.
• Ronan realized the uncontrolled Shan Jiu avatar had turned high-risk people into carriers of Rule Fragments, with over a hundred Alien Demon reactions reported across Pan-77 District.
• Ronan and Mo She warned that Grey Industry Companies and related personnel could endanger the Prayer Hall, while Priest Yu Sen went to screen and watch the area.
• Mo She requested reinforcements, and Priest Yan Gao announced that Grand Duke Zhiping was on his way, prompting Ronan to fear that he might not be able to contain the crisis.

Ronan watched the Shan Jiu Clone turn Plane Six’s North District into a spreading Leak Point and considered whether Grand Duke Zhiping could stop the contamination. As the Layered Silk reacted to the chaos, Ronan weighed using the opportunity to investigate the Veil while remaining wary of Po Ran and Mo She.

• Ronan recognized that the Shan Jiu Clone was dumping contaminated Rule Fragments into the Material Universe and that nearby people were becoming accomplices to the spreading contamination.
• Ronan watched Priest Yu Sen take samples with the Sky Blue Box while he used Mirror Appraisal, then questioned whether Grand Duke Zhiping could plug the leak rather than merely suppress the Shan Jiu Clone.
• Ronan suspected that Po Ran’s account of Shan Jiu, Layered Silk, and Myriad Transformations Deep Blue might not have been as he described.
• Ronan noticed the hidden Layered Silk reacting to the Shan Jiu Clone’s breach and considered drawing threads from the Veil while keeping Mo She’s presence in mind.
• Mo She told Ronan that their current circumstances were passive.

Mo She persuaded Ronan to split their forces and deal with nearby danger sources while Priest Yu Sen held the Residential District. Ronan took an Action Team west and secretly used the Order Domain to attempt Silk Extraction, but the Shan Jiu Clone sensed each strand he pulled.

• Mo She showed Ronan the scanned danger sources and argued that the command center should divert forces from the Residential District to suppress them.
• Mo She proposed that he and Ronan each lead a team to clear one of two nearby areas while Priest Yu Sen held the fort.
• Ronan agreed, communicated with Priest Yu Sen, and led a twenty-person Action Team west as Mo She went east toward the hospital.
• Ronan used the Order Domain to control the area and conceal his attempt to extract Layered Silk while the Action Team dealt with seven danger sources.
• The Shan Jiu Clone sensed each piece of Layered Silk Ronan extracted, reacting as though the strands were being torn from its body.

Ronan realized Po Ran’s Layered Silk plan may have been intended to restore order to Shan Jiu Clone, and he weighed whether extracting it would help or harm Shan Jiu. While his team continued clearing Danger Sources, he used the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure to manage the strain building inside Backpack.

• Ronan inferred that Po Ran had offered Layered Silk as part of a plan to help Shan Jiu Clone, and he hesitated to extract it because doing so might change Shan Jiu’s condition.
• Ji Yi’s adjutant reported that the seven Danger Sources had been killed, while Mo She proposed another clockwise sweep.
• Ronan agreed to expand the operation west and then north, and his team began screening along the route.
• Ji Yi came to admire Ronan’s steady command, unaware that the Order Domain was influencing his loyalty and that Ronan’s Format Theory was gaining positive feedback from the recruits.
• Ronan sensed that Format Theory was close to tearing Backpack apart, so he used the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure to ease the strain and test its limits.

Ronan continued Silk Extraction by creating an Illusory Nightmare Clone to absorb the accumulating elements, but he realized the Layered Silk might be the Shan Jiu Clone’s material foundation. He let the Thread Disk Wheel be pulled into the Shan Jiu Clone’s core, where he intended to use the Layered Silk to gain control in return for Po Ran’s scheme.

• Ronan created an Illusory Nightmare Clone to carry away excess Illusory Nightmare elements while he continued Silk Extraction.
• As Ronan pulled the Layered Silk, the Shan Jiu Clone grew more stable, leading him to suspect it was attached to or woven from the silk.
• Ronan suspected Po Ran planned to use Pu Ren’s shell to revive Shan Jiu, and he began forming a countermeasure.
• Ronan released the Thread Disk Wheel and let the pulling force carry his Illusory Nightmare Clone toward the Shan Jiu Clone.
• The Illusory Nightmare Clone entered the Shan Jiu Clone’s core through the Spacetime Silhouette, while Ronan retained control of the Thread Disk Wheel and the Layered Silk.

Ronan merged part of the Spacetime Silhouette into the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure while keeping the structure hidden. After Grand Duke Zhiping arrived and summoned him, Ronan led his Action Team to a gathering point near the Detention Zone battlefield.

• Ronan used the escalating conflict to fold part of the Spacetime Silhouette into the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure and strengthened their separation.
• As the sky grew heavier, Ronan expanded his Corrupted Blood Domain to protect nearby Action Team members and received an order to follow a voice toward a designated position.
• Grand Duke Zhiping entered the mission channel, summoned selected personnel to the northern point within two minutes, and ordered everyone else to continue their duties.
• Ronan used his Corrupted Blood Domain to boost and guide the twenty Action Team members as they rushed north, dealing with two Danger Sources along the way.
• Ronan and the Action Team reached the marked point less than a kilometer from the Police Station Detention Zone as battlefield debris swept through the area.

Ronan and five other Celestials were ordered by Grand Duke Zhiping to reinforce the unstable domain around the Spacetime Silhouette. Zhiping forcibly synchronized their power with his own and accelerated the coupled domains, carrying them into the fragile region overhead.

• Grand Duke Zhiping ordered Ronan to anchor his Corrupted Blood Domain while five Celestials replaced the Rotor Regiment members supporting it.
• Ronan clarified the assignment by naming the groups and Celestials who would connect to the domain.
• Grand Duke Zhiping imposed his rule power, synchronizing his Gear Set with Ronan's domain despite the Celestials' mismatched frameworks.
• Zhiping accelerated the coupled Gear Sets, leaving the Celestials struggling under the shifting Rule Environment.
• Grand Duke Zhiping carried the six Celestials into the fragile Spacetime Silhouette region overhead.

Ronan joined Priest Yan Gao’s Celestial team inside the collapsing Spacetime Silhouette, where they fought the Shan Jiu Clone under Grand Duke Zhiping’s shifting control. Priest Yan Gao boosted Ronan’s authority so he could help contain the threat, then realized he was unarmored.

• Grand Duke Zhiping pulled Ronan and the other Celestials into the Spacetime Silhouette and stabilized its spreading Chaotic Shell with a patch.
• Priest Yan Gao’s team struggled to contain the Shan Jiu Clone as its shifting human outline and Chaotic Shell attacked through the ruined city.
• Grand Duke Zhiping ordered the Celestials to follow his patch’s rules, prompting Ronan to tell Priest Yan Gao that he had received reinforcement.
• Priest Yan Gao transferred authority to Ronan and called Hebes to strengthen him so he could use the Corrupted Blood Domain to restrict the silhouette.
• Priest Yan Gao assessed Ronan’s ability to support the space-time fragment and realized that he was not wearing armor.

Ronan coordinated the Priest Council’s response to the Shan Jiu Clone while analyzing Grand Duke Zhiping’s strategy for integrating the front-line Celestials. The Council’s framework was put into practice, but the Shan Jiu Clone remained active as they waited for a proper Grand Duke of the Ruin and Fall System.

• Priest Yan Gao told Pu Ren to report any problems, and Ronan acknowledged her warning as he prepared to integrate the Corrupted Blood Domain with the Spacetime Silhouette.
• The Shan Jiu Clone recovered from the Spacetime Silhouette’s restrictions and repeatedly tested its structure for flaws while its Illusory Nightmare Clone strengthened its connection to the Layered Silk.
• Ronan experienced feedback from four different aspects of himself and considered how Grand Duke Zhiping had used Pu Ren and the other Celestials to coordinate the response.
• Priest Yan Gao transferred the Priest Council’s core, and the Council’s framework was successfully implemented well enough to hold together.
• Ronan recognized the situation as an opportunity while the Shan Jiu Clone remained connected to the Demon Aberrations and the hidden Veil.

Ronan and the Celestials used the Corrupted Blood Domain to restrict the Shan Jiu Clone while Ronan’s Illusory Nightmare Clone continued merging with it. The Shan Jiu Clone began gorging itself on dangerous Primordials again, and Grand Duke Zhiping ordered the team to seal it or drive it behind the Boundary Curtain.

• Ronan used Priest Yan Gao and Priest Hebes as System Affinities to strengthen the Corrupted Blood Domain and slow the Shan Jiu Clone.
• Ronan’s Illusory Nightmare Clone learned that Primordials included ordinary Rule Fragments and more dangerous Fragmented Rule Toxins from collisions between Deity- and Grand Duke-level rules.
• Priest Yan Gao judged that the Shan Jiu Clone was worsening as it exchanged matter with the outside world, while the Celestials continued suppressing it through their domains.
• The Shan Jiu Clone lost its outline and sank into the smoky gray haze as the gathered Celestials watched Pu Ren and Yan Gao.
• Grand Duke Zhiping told the Celestials to seal the Shan Jiu Clone or beat it back behind the Boundary Curtain.
• Ronan recognized that the merging clones were confronting two kinds of Primordials and might find usable material within them.

The Shan Jiu Clone and Illusory Nightmare Clone formed a rough, humanoid structure from Rule Fragments, which attacked the Priest Council and the Spacetime Silhouette. Grand Duke Zhiping reinforced the Corrupted Blood Domain with Peerless Divine Power, while Priest Yan Gao saw that Pu Ren had diverted the strain onto his Domain Machine Core.

• The semi-fused body used Illusory Nightmare System Power to sort and combine Rule Fragments into a rough humanoid framework.
• The framework unfolded into root-like tendrils that pierced toward the Priest Council and into the Spacetime Silhouette, causing the Celestials' vitality and blood to surge.
• Priest Yan Gao recognized that the framework could draw on the Abyssal Spirit Net, while Grand Duke Zhiping cried out, "Peerless Divine Power!"
• Grand Duke Zhiping's power twisted and strengthened the Corrupted Blood Domain, breaking the tendrils but making the domain difficult to sustain.
• Priest Yan Gao noticed that Pu Ren remained unharmed because his Domain Machine Core had absorbed the strain, then turned as strange noises sounded from around the Spacetime Silhouette.

Priest Yan Gao realized that Peerless Divine Power had breached the spacetime silhouette and scattered through the city, where it could hide and grow stronger among the population. As she assessed the danger and Grand Duke Zhiping’s inability to contain it, she discovered that the Shadow Celestial avatar had vanished as well.

• Priest Yan Gao recalled that Peerless Divine Power could pierce barriers and manipulate the vitality of genetic species on a vast scale.
• Priest Yan Gao used the Abyssal Spirit Net to survey the surrounding districts and learned that Peerless Divine Power had escaped through the ruins and dispersed into the city.
• Priest Yan Gao lost track of the scattered strands of Peerless Divine Power as they hid among the residents, animals, and turbulent vital energy.
• Priest Yan Gao sensed that Grand Duke Zhiping’s power conflicted with Plane Six’s rule environment, leaving gaps through which the strands could escape.
• Priest Yan Gao looked back at The Other Side and realized the Shadow Celestial avatar was gone.

Priest Yan Gao watched the Corrupted Blood Domain and Spacetime Silhouette collapse as the Shadow Celestial clone escaped, but the Leak Point reappeared and the North District Pressure Relief Command completed its mission. Ronan escaped with the Layered Silk, found the hidden Myriad Transformations Deep Blue in a hospital, and wondered whether Mo She had deliberately gone there first.

• Priest Yan Gao saw the Domain Machine Core shatter and urged Grand Duke Zhiping to stop sustaining the Corrupted Blood Domain.
• Grand Duke Zhiping withdrew his power, and Priest Yan Gao eased the strain on the Celestials as the Corrupted Blood Domain and Spacetime Silhouette collapsed.
• Priest Yan Gao discovered that the Leak Point had reappeared, even though the Shadow Celestial clone had escaped.
• Ronan escaped using his Illusory Nightmare Clone and the hastily assembled Peerless Clone, then gathered the Layered Silk.
• Ronan traced the Layered Silk's connection to the hidden Myriad Transformations Deep Blue and found it in a hospital near District 2.
• Ronan recalled that Mo She had gone to the hospital first and wondered whether he had done so deliberately.

Ronan seized the Myriad Transformations Deep Blues and their Veil Sample, then hid the Illusory Nightmare Clone in the veil while escaping the Ruin and Fall System’s pursuit. After a devastating battle and a forced redeployment, he waited aboard Qingshui to report when Mo She invited him to meet.

• Ronan used Illusory Nightmare System Power to take control of the Myriad Transformations Deep Blues, stored them in Mirror Appraisal, and concealed them with Layered Silk.
• The Great Monarch of the Ruin and Fall System arrived, and Ronan merged his Illusory Nightmare Clone into the veil and fled through it.
• As Plane Six fell into dark night mode, Ronan struggled with the strain of maintaining multiple clones while the aftermath of the battle left over two thousand military police and civilians dead.
• Command Headquarters ordered a redeployment, and Ronan waited with Priest Yu Sen and the others aboard the armed cutter Qingshui to report on the battle.
• Mo She messaged Ronan and invited him to a get-together.

Ronan agreed to meet Mo She while helping Priest Yu Sen and the command prepare a report on the failed pressure-relief mission. Graves briefed him on the coming shift toward a mission involving Mo She, shared a Near-Capital Society contact, and Ronan revealed that he would soon leave the Boundary Curtain region with Lady Wei.

• Ronan accepted Mo She’s invitation and received a shared location called Metal Vision.
• Priest Yan Gao, Graves, Ronan, and Priest Yu Sen discussed the Ladder Algorithm and assigned Yu Sen to write a report about the command’s response to the Suspected Leak Point.
• Graves told Ronan that he would leave to recuperate and that Priest Yan Gao might be transferred as the command’s focus shifted toward Mo She.
• Graves praised Ronan’s performance and explained that the Near-Capital Society had begun taking Pu Ren seriously after the mission.
• Graves gave Ronan the contact details for Liguoduo, an Ash City North District police executive and Corrupted Blood Sect member.
• Ronan told Graves that he would probably leave the Boundary Curtain region with Lady Wei before midweek in Week 50.

Ronan discussed his travel plans and injury with Graves, then spoke with Wei Su Yi about leaving for the Qiankong Star System and his upcoming meeting with Mo She. He arrived at Metal Vision and found Mo She waiting in a booth.

• Graves warned Ronan that his schedule would be difficult to change during Pressure Relief and told him Great Monarch Ma Ge was presiding over work on Plane Six.
• Ronan contacted Wei Su Yi, apologized for the Domain Machine Core's damage, and learned that they might have to leave as soon as the next day.
• Ronan told Wei Su Yi that he had an appointment with Mo She, but she urged him to focus on his departure and recovery.
• After making arrangements with his team, Ronan went to Metal Vision and needed Mo She’s help to get past its cybernetic-implant entry requirement.
• Ronan found Mo She waving to him from a second-floor booth overlooking the dance floor.

Ronan met Mo She at Metal Vision, where Mo She discussed cybernetic technology and the limits of deduction. The conversation ended with Mo She asking Ronan whether he knew the “Three Essentials of Thought.”

• Ronan crossed Metal Vision’s rowdy first floor, avoided the crowd’s provocative greetings, and found Mo She upstairs.
• Mo She apologized for choosing a place unsuitable for Ronan’s damaged machine core and questioned why he had so little Cybernetic Colonization Gear.
• Ronan noticed a cybernetically modified Void Spike Race individual connecting with a crowd, where the chaotic spectacle left people injured and dead.
• Mo She explained how the Void Spike Race individual used his abilities to give others pleasure and said he had come to Metal Vision to think.
• Mo She described the uncertainty of deductions and asked Ronan if he knew the “Three Essentials of Thought.”

Mo She confronted Ronan about Myriad Transformations Deep Blue and threatened to expose him unless he revealed its whereabouts. Ronan recognized the threat as tied to an imminent arrest operation and realized whom the North District Pressure Relief Command mission targeted.

• Mo She explained that the Three Essentials of Thought were meant to support a virtual universe for deducing the future, but that the project needed Myriad Transformations Deep Blue as another vessel.
• Mo She claimed Ronan carried the aura of Myriad Transformations Deep Blue, and Ronan concluded that Mo She had learned about it through Wei Su Yi or Po Ran rather than detecting it himself.
• Mo She offered to trade damaging information about Ronan for information on Myriad Transformations Deep Blue, but Ronan challenged his lack of goodwill and sincerity.
• Mo She warned that an arrest operation would begin in about five minutes and threatened trouble for Ronan if he could not explain his presence or his connection to the target.
• Ronan recalled an encounter from the previous day and realized whom the North District Pressure Relief Command mission was intended for.

Ronan accompanied Mo She as Command Headquarters arrested Lady Ji Huai, a financial officer of Pitfall Fire Hell’s Plane Six branch. As Mo She examined her Fire Seed and cybernetics, Ronan watched the operation targeting Pitfall Fire Hell begin.

• Mo She identified a cybernetically modified woman at the club as the arrest target and said a tip-off had exposed her.
• The arrest team disabled the Light Tracks on the target’s body and seized her, revealing her identity as Lady Ji Huai.
• Ronan realized the arrest confirmed Pitfall Fire Hell as Command Headquarters’ next target and followed Mo She downstairs.
• Mo She took control of Ji Huai’s cybernetics and explained how her Fire Seed concealed information while connecting her to Pitfall Fire Hell’s leadership.
• Ronan watched Mo She examine Ji Huai’s Form and Spirit Framework and begin manipulating her mental state.