Chapter Summaries

Tai Yu descended onto Gouchen Star as several Great Monarchs stirred the atmosphere to test and welcome him. He answered with a Water Vapor Cloak that established a foothold in the planet’s weather, then encountered a dark giant creature approaching through the storm clouds.

• Tai Yu studied Gouchen Star’s tangled Manors, Authority Walls, and Boundary Curtain passages as he descended toward the planet.
• Several Great Monarchs interfered with the atmosphere, turning his chosen landing area into a chaotic sandstorm.
• Tai Yu unfurled a Water Vapor Cloak that transformed the storm into vast clouds and heavy rain, planting a foothold in the atmosphere.
• A framework from the Abyssal Spirit Net contacted Tai Yu’s Water Vapor Cloak, revealing a dark giant creature approaching through the storm clouds.

Tai Yu inspected the Yu Family’s artificial Fantasy Species, a Giant Whale powered by Illusory Nightmare System Power, and rode it into Mirror Spacetime. The journey carried him beyond the Processing Plant and the Abyssal Spirit Net’s tight control, deeper into shattered spacetime.

• The Yu Family’s Giant Whale arrived, and Tai Yu recognized its Fantasy Configuration and the Illusory Nightmare architecture within it.
• Tai Yu used the Boundary Curtain to illuminate the Giant Whale’s structure and boarded it.
• Yu Qu introduced himself as the Family Head’s great-grandson and invited Tai Yu to try the vehicle.
• Tai Yu guided the Giant Whale through Mirror Spacetime, where it collided with faults and sustained damage that its Fantasy Configuration continually repaired.
• Tai Yu and the Giant Whale traveled beyond the Processing Plant and into a region where the Abyssal Spirit Net’s influence had weakened.

Tai Yu and Yu Qu arrived at the Void Track Field, where the Kongyuan Yu Family had spent millennia restoring its ancestral planet and had recently launched a project to reshape it through the public Dreamscape. Yu Qu asked Tai Yu to advise them on the project, leaving Tai Yu to consider the unusual site and its purpose.

• Tai Yu confirmed that one of the lords who had greeted him on Gouchen Star was following the Giant Whale, but the ship kept its distance.
• The Giant Whale carried Tai Yu and Yu Qu to a pair of enormous artificial structures near a violently unstable planet, then headed toward the planet as they disembarked.
• Yu Qu explained that the planet had once been the seventh planet of Yu Nest, had been shattered in battles during the Tian Yuan Empire's collapse, and was now being restored as the Kongyuan Yu Family's ancestral land.
• Yu Qu described the family's effort to restore the planet as a long-term lesson for its younger generations about the limits of their power.
• Yu Qu told Tai Yu that the Void Track Field project used sleeping Clones to search the public Dreamscape for plans that could be made real, and asked him to offer advice.

Tai Yu and Yu Qu discussed the Nightfall Crowd and the Sealed Lord Family before Great Monarch Suo Che joined them on the way to the Void Track Field. There, Tai Yu met Great Monarch Yu Chuang and other guests, whose extravagant gathering involved potent purple smoke.

• Tai Yu advised Yu Qu not to give the Initial Awakening Society an opening and discussed how the Nightfall Crowd and Sealed Lord Family allowed flexible cultivation and allegiance.
• Great Monarch Suo Che approached Tai Yu, asked how much he knew about the Boundary Curtain region and Wyatt, and identified Wyatt as one of the Ultimate Dark Ones.
• Yu Qu led Tai Yu and Great Monarch Suo Che down to the Void Track Field, where clones sustained the illusory nightmare system power around the Yu Clan Ancestral Land.
• Tai Yu met Great Monarch Yu Chuang and the other guests in a small, lavish room filled with potent purple smoke.
• Great Monarch Suo Che settled in and casually drew more purple smoke from a box beside his chair.

Tai Yu examined the Void-Head smoke in Great Monarch Yu Chuang’s Smoking Room and recognized it as an Abyssal Creation connected to the Kong Calamity. He learned it should not be taken beyond the Boundary Zone, then began meeting the powerful guests gathered there.

• Great Monarch Suo Che discussed the impurities in the Void-Head smoke as Tai Yu examined its effects and identified it as an Abyssal Creation.
• Tai Yu connected Void-Head to the sixth Void and the Kong Calamity, then considered how the smoke might benefit the recovering Format Theory Clone.
• Tai Yu asked whether he could take the smoke elsewhere, and Great Monarch Suo Che warned him not to bring it to the other side or the Boundary Zone.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang said Abyssal Creations should remain in the Abyss and formally welcomed Tai Yu to the Boundary Curtain.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang introduced Lady Qiao Mian as a devout member of the Rebirth Sect.

Mister Tai Yu met several Great Monarchs in the Smoking Room, where Yu Chuang questioned his lack of Faith Diversion and asked whether he would join the Architect Faction. Tai Yu said he was considering it, and Yu Chuang pressed him on how his proposed correction and salvation of the Old People of Tianyuan would work.

• Great Monarch Yu Chuang introduced Lady Qiao Mian and Fan Lunnuo to Mister Tai Yu, while Great Monarch Suo Che was also present.
• Yu Chuang revealed that Tai Yu had not undergone Faith Diversion, surprising Suo Che.
• Yu Chuang asked whether Tai Yu wanted to transfer into the Architect Faction or wait to be recruited by the Lord of Dawn as Great Lord Luande had.
• Tai Yu said he agreed with some of the Architect Faction's concepts and was considering joining it.
• Yu Chuang asked whether Tai Yu's plan to correct and save the Old People of Tianyuan would rely on the Tian Yuan System or pure architecture.

Tai Yu challenged the Great Monarchs’ understanding of the Tian Yuan System and described his True Transmission as the history carried by a River of Time. He left them watching that river flow through the Purple Smoke as he questioned why anyone should cling to its old forms.

• Great Monarch Yu Chuang warned Tai Yu that refusing to clarify his position could force the Great Monarchs to kill him and seek the Nightfall King’s forgiveness.
• Tai Yu asked what the Tian Yuan System meant to Yu Chuang and Great Monarch Suo Che, then wrote Abyssal Sky Overlord, Lord of Zhanhe, and Tian Yuan Empire in Ritual Ancient Script.
• Tai Yu argued that the system’s disputed name depended on whether Tian Yuan referred to Abyssal Sky Overlord or Tian Yuan Empire, and asked what relationship Abyssal Sky Overlord and Lord of Zhanhe had shared.
• Tai Yu explained that his True Transmission had conveyed history—the River of Time—rather than specific skills or knowledge, and the Great Monarchs listened closely.
• Tai Yu formed the names of Abyssal Sky Overlord and Lord of Zhanhe into a flowing river in the Purple Smoke, then asked why anyone should cling to old forms.

Tai Yu displayed a River of Time in the Smoking Room, impressing the Great Monarchs and prompting Qiao Mian to recognize his historical research abilities. Qiao Mian arranged to speak with him later, while Tai Yu planned to seek her guidance on several historical subjects.

• Mirror Appraisal drew in the projected River of Time and gathered Purple Smoke as Suo Che filled the Smoking Room with more smoke.
• Qiao Mian examined Mirror Appraisal and asked whether it contained a permanent Visualization Spacetime and what Ritual Ancient Script text constrained it.
• Yu Chuang discussed Qiao Mian’s former prospects as a historian and remarked on Tai Yu’s remarkable origins in the Han Guang Star System.
• Qiao Mian inferred that Tai Yu had reached Verifying the Origin and Testing the Truth, and the Great Monarchs accepted the implication after witnessing his River of Time.
• Qiao Mian arranged to discuss something with Tai Yu later, and Tai Yu said he hoped to seek her guidance on historical subjects.

Tai Yu used his historical research and plans for the Old People of Tianyuan to seek authority within the Abyssal Spirit Net, while presenting his ideas as support for the Kongyuan Yu Family's Tian Yuan System theory. The conversation ended with Tai Yu clarifying Xi Corporation's involvement in research on You Chong Star.

• Tai Yu explained how changes along the River of Time could transform the Old People of Tianyuan's inherited divine practice into a new form.
• Tai Yu said he planned to use configuration and the Old People of Tianyuan as a medium for handling historical changes, and requested greater authority within the Abyssal Spirit Net.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang mentioned Shan Long High Priest, and Tai Yu said he had avoided going beyond the Star Gate into the sensitive Red Silicon Star System.
• Tai Yu told Great Monarch Suo Che that he had not met Luande and was considering using his method to address distortions caused by Luande's Abyss Zone Power Framework.
• Tai Yu denied that he had traded You Chong Star to Xi Corporation and explained that Xi Corporation was supporting research into the constellation framework embedded in the star's crust.

Tai Yu pressed the Boundary Curtain region’s leaders about the plans surrounding Great Lord Luande and learned how the Dawn System and the Ruin and Fall System viewed his future. The discussion turned to the upcoming Supreme Council session and the Council of Gods, where Luande’s fate could remain unresolved until circumstances changed.

• Tai Yu asked Lady Qiao Mian and Great Monarch Yu Chuang what the Boundary Curtain region and the Allied Nations planned to do about Luande.
• Lady Qiao Mian said Luande’s return from the front lines would be the least bad choice, while Tai Yu understood that the Dawn System wanted him to step down without dying immediately.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang explained that the Ruin and Fall System was gambling on Luande leading his fleet through the Star Gate and establishing the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe fleet in the Arc Island Star System.
• Yu Chuang said Tai Yu’s arrival could make Supreme Council and Senate resolutions harder to reach, and outlined how the next working season might allow the sides to communicate and pursue their goals.
• Tai Yu asked how the Council of Gods would decide Luande’s fate under the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe Disposal Law, and Great Monarch Fan Lunnuo said the Council usually waited for a turning point rather than forcing a decision.

Tai Yu met Fan Lunnuo, who offered the Cloud Wing King's Council of Gods vote in exchange for finding an unusual, non-native species for the king's amusement. The conversation also revealed that Fan Lunnuo had sought a special Ore now held by the Myriad Gods Hall, while Great Monarch Yu Chuang steered the discussion toward Tai Yu and the Initial Awakening Society.

• Fan Lunnuo offered Tai Yu the Cloud Wing King's vote if Tai Yu found an interesting species that was not naturally occurring in the Local Universe.
• Fan Lunnuo exchanged contact information with Tai Yu, then asked Great Monarch Yu Chuang to help obtain an item from the Ruin and Fall System.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang explained that the item had passed through a Leak Point to Plane Six, where it had been classified and registered by the Myriad Gods Hall.
• Tai Yu suspected the item was the special Ore linked to Great Monarch Banna and considered that it might relate to the Cloud Wing King's amusement.
• Great Monarch Yu Chuang shifted the discussion to Plane Six's Pressure Relief efforts and the Initial Awakening Society, prompting Tai Yu to suspect he was being provoked into exposing himself.

Tai Yu discussed the Initial Awakening Society and the political difficulties surrounding Luande’s people, then offered Yu Qu advice on improving Rock Flow and its Dreamscape network. The chapter ended with Yu Qu asking how to adjust the proposed Fantasy Configuration.

• Tai Yu compared the limited information Yu Chuang and Qiao Mian shared about the Initial Awakening Society with what he knew, while they discussed the precarious position of Luande’s people in the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms System.
• Tai Yu said farewell to Yu Chuang and returned with Yu Qu aboard Rock Flow, guiding the giant whale around the Void Track Field.
• Tai Yu apologized for his earlier flippant advice and noted that the tens of thousands of Clones stationed at the Void Track Field posed a challenge for connecting their Dreamscapes.
• Tai Yu advised Yu Qu to use Fantasy Species and a Fantasy Configuration rather than the sensitive path of Faith, explaining that Rock Flow lacked a strong connection to its material foundations and Mirror Spacetime.
• Yu Qu asked Tai Yu how the Fantasy Configuration should be adjusted.

Tai Yu traveled back toward Gouchen Star with Yu Qu aboard Rock Flow, using the dangerous Boundary Zone to study its spacetime structure while discussing a project tied to Plane Six. Great Monarch Suo Che joined them, and Tai Yu learned that Shi Fan was in trouble over a missing descendant of the Zuo Family.

• Tai Yu told Yu Qu to develop his Plane Six project independently, while warning him not to imitate the Initial Awakening Society.
• Tai Yu had Rock Flow return slowly through the Boundary Zone so he could observe its spacetime faults, despite Yu Qu's concerns.
• Great Monarch Suo Che joined them and urged Tai Yu to hurry, but Tai Yu chose to continue observing the Boundary Zone.
• Tai Yu asked Suo Che about Old People of Tianyuan and said he wanted to visit Master Fan Shi Fan to fulfill Lu Yang's last wish.
• Yu Qu explained that Shi Fan might be difficult to meet because the Zuo Family of the Blazing Flame Divine Favor was investigating a missing direct descendant in her jurisdiction.

Tai Yu, Great Monarch Suo Che, and Yu Qu traveled through the Spacetime Faults to visit Shi Fan, who was reviewing the disappearance of a Zuo Family descendant in the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane. As they approached, Tai Yu displayed extraordinary skill navigating the turbulent spacetime.

• Great Monarch Suo Che explained that Shi Fan was making up for her crimes by repairing Spacetime Faults around Gouchen Star.
• Yu Qu completed the visitation procedures and learned that Shi Fan was investigating the disappearance of a Zuo Family descendant in the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane.
• Great Monarch Suo Che said evidence cleared Shi Fan of being present at the disappearance, while Wei Su Yi appeared to be involved and had left with her lover days earlier.
• Tai Yu admitted he might have known Shi Fan before, though he could not clearly remember her.
• Tai Yu used Rock Flow's Fantasy Configuration to find a smooth route through the chaotic spacetime and steer them toward the Demi-Plane.

Tai Yu investigated how the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane altered the Boundary Curtain and learned that Shi Fan had helped construct several similar sites with different factions. The discussion shifted to the Boundless Crowd’s role in migration and the possibility that Great Duke Paino’s expansion could reshape the balance of power in the Circumference Star System.

• Tai Yu probed the Gray Blue Eye’s spacetime and concluded that its Demi-Plane had substantially altered the Boundary Curtain.
• Tai Yu questioned whether the Boundary Curtain’s alienation was intentional, and Grand Duke Suo Che explained that Shi Fan had helped build six similar Demi-Planes on Gouchen Star as part of her sentence.
• Grand Duke Suo Che identified the Nightfall Crowd, Nightmare Attendants, and Boundless Crowd as partners in constructing Demi-Planes with the Dawn, Ruin and Fall, and Great Thoroughfare systems.
• Tai Yu connected Grand Duke Paino’s external migration to the Boundless Crowd and asked whether it might shift the balance of Dawn and Great Thoroughfare forces in the Circumference Star System.
• Grand Duke Suo Che said Paino’s migration did not necessarily threaten the Red Silicon Star System, but Tai Yu considered how the Illusory Nightmare Domain might draw the Lord of Boundless Realm’s attention there.

Yu Qu accompanied Great Monarch Suo Che and Tai Yu to investigate the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane, where a chaotic attraction structure and alarms revealed that something had gone wrong inside. The group breached several barriers and arrived in the demi-plane’s core region, leaving Yu Qu to establish contact with its management.

• Yu Qu considered the powerful Dominators’ interest in the Illusory Nightmare Domain and helped Great Monarch Suo Che shift the conversation to Zuo Can’s disappearance.
• Rock Flow approached the Gray Blue Eye and encountered a chaotic attraction structure affected by Spacetime Faults, Rule Fragments, and Fragmented Rule Toxins.
• Great Monarch Suo Che suspected the disruption was being displayed to them deliberately, while Tai Yu drove Rock Flow through the attraction structure and several barriers into the demi-plane.
• Yu Qu recognized the underground-like core region and handled the Abyssal Spirit Net’s authority warnings as alarms sounded and isolation doors malfunctioned.
• Great Monarch Suo Che objected to Tai Yu’s apology for their inaccurate landing, and Yu Qu prepared to contact the demi-plane’s management personnel.

Yu Qu, Tai Yu, and Great Monarch Suo Che entered the Gray Blue Eye demi-plane’s core to investigate alien demons that had breached containment during pressure relief. Tai Yu recognized Shi Fan’s voice in the facility, and their exchange raised questions about her vessels and supposed death.

• Yu Qu explained that alien demons formed from fragmented rule toxins and remains had damaged the core power zone, and Tai Yu and Great Monarch Suo Che discussed the dangers behind the Boundary Curtain.
• Tai Yu judged that the alien demons would be difficult to remove as the group followed the guides toward the core.
• Great Monarch Suo Che incinerated the alien demons that rushed through the final isolation door and spread his flames through the core to clear out others.
• An unseen woman challenged Great Monarch Suo Che to clean out the contained demons, and Tai Yu answered by criticizing the facility’s repair efforts and asking about Shi Fan’s presence.
• Shi Fan confirmed that her previous vessel had been destroyed and another was being made, while Tai Yu questioned her reported death and absence from the latter half of the Two Star Gate Campaign.

Tai Yu examined the damaged core power unit of the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane while Yu Qu speculated about who caused the failure and whether Tai Yu was involved. Tai Yu warned Yu Qu about the Illusory Nightmare Domain before meeting Priest Corbin, who revealed his connection to Xin Rui’s studies.

• Tai Yu entered the core area with Shi Fan and saw Zuo Qi among the investigation team.
• Yu Qu explained that the giant structure powered the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane by burning special fuel and absorbing selected Rule Fragments.
• Yu Qu wondered whether Shi Fan had deliberately caused the power unit’s failure and whether Tai Yu had a connection to the incident.
• Tai Yu warned Yu Qu that lively thoughts near the Illusory Nightmare Domain could entangle him in its confusion of truth and falsehood.
• Suo Che cautioned Yu Qu against pursuing advancement without caution, and Tai Yu pointed out a Nightfall Crowd priest in the investigation team.
• Priest Corbin introduced himself to Tai Yu and said he was responsible for Xin Rui’s Nomenclature and Morphology courses until Priest Yuan Shu returned.

Tai Yu took charge of the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane crisis and ordered its malfunctioning structure shut down for repairs, explaining that he and Suo Che could contain the risks. The Investigation Group and Shi Fan’s team prepared to follow his lead as he began organizing the cleanup.

• Tai Yu learned from Priest Corbin that Corbin had come to oversee the Investigation Group and the Nightfall Crowd’s interests in the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane.
• Corbin introduced You Fu, the Investigation Group’s head and a deputy commissioner in Gouchen Star’s police system.
• Tai Yu inspected the structure and ordered it shut down, cleaned, and restarted, arguing that continued operation was inefficient and dangerous.
• You Fu warned that shutting down the structure might disperse gathered Rule Fragments and Spacetime Faults, but Tai Yu explained that the greater risk lay in the mutated Boundary Curtain.
• Tai Yu told Yu Qu to report the plan while preliminary work began, then assigned the Blazing Flame Sect to the blockade and summoned Demi-Plane technicians and Shi Fan’s blueprints.

Tai Yu questioned the Zuo Family’s investigation team about Zuo Can’s disappearance and the missing surveillance footage, using their answers to challenge the accusations against Shi Fan. He ended by asking whether Shi Fan was truly all right, as the Jingming Agency had not contacted her in years.

• Tai Yu learned that the Zuo Family had formed an investigation team because Zuo Can disappeared after the conflict at the Gray Blue Eye Demi-Plane and Wei Su Yi fled with Pu Ren.
• You Fu told Tai Yu that Pu Ren’s rapid rise to the Celestial Domain had led the Zuo Family to suspect he had concealed his strength.
• Tai Yu questioned how the team knew Zuo Can had returned safely, and Yu Qu obtained the available footage showing Zuo Can and his companions slaughtering Clones before damaging the surveillance equipment.
• You Fu admitted that Zuo Can had always behaved cruelly, and Tai Yu suggested that Shi Fan might have intervened because she could not tolerate his actions.
• Tai Yu rebuked the team for dismissing the Clones’ deaths and questioned the coincidences surrounding Zuo Can’s death and the Demi-Plane malfunction.
• Tai Yu asked Shi Fan whether she was truly all right, noting that the Jingming Agency had not spoken with her in years.