Chapter Summaries

Ronan verified that Pitfall Fire Hell operatives were pursuing Wei Su Yi and coordinated with the Fang Piercer and Myriad Gods Hall to eliminate one of them. After the crackdown began, Wei Su Yi pointed out that abandoned Pitfall Fire Hell infrastructure on Lingbi Star could become a cultivation resource, prompting Ronan to confront his damaged connection to the cult.

• Ronan confirmed a suspicious target’s connection to Pitfall Fire Hell and contacted Guan Duo about leaving Lingbi Star sooner.
• Guan Duo reported the situation to Captain Mashben and Priest Hayden, who arranged for Myriad Gods Hall to act against the cultists.
• Priest Hayden told Ronan that the target had been killed and warned that Pitfall Fire Hell could still track them.
• Ronan and Wei Su Yi discussed the ongoing crackdown and the possibility of claiming the cult’s abandoned infrastructure modules.
• Wei Su Yi suggested Ronan use the modules for cultivation, indirectly exposing his damaged Pitfall Fire Hell foundation.

Ronan discussed the Dream Net and his possible cultivation paths with Wei Su Yi, who warned him to plan for the limits and politics of becoming a Great Monarch. The conversation ended with her urging caution as he considered the costs of trying to balance opposing goals.

• Ronan told Wei Su Yi he wanted to explore the Dream Net, and she warned him against overusing Backpack's ability and getting involved with the Abyssal Spirit Net.
• Wei Su Yi advised Ronan to learn more from Lan Su about the Dream Net and the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe, whose members viewed her with either closeness or suspicion.
• Wei Su Yi explained that becoming a symbol required society to remember and distill what a person represented, and she said she had considered the Faith path but still had doubts.
• Ronan said his current path counted as True Transmission, and Wei Su Yi warned that the King of Corrupted Blood had filled his Great Monarch positions, which could complicate Ronan's future enfeoffment.
• Wei Su Yi described the limited Great Monarch positions across the systems and said Ronan would eventually have to choose between being light and heavy, and between control and transcendence.

Tai Yu examined the antique Square-Circle Instrument Qing Wu sent to fulfill their wager and discussed its history with Yi Ya. While chatting about the Qiankong Star System, Tai Yu heard that Lan Su had been conducting astronomical observations there and might never return home, then resolved to warn Yi Ya about the risks of revealing information.

• Yi Ya gave Tai Yu the Square-Circle Instrument that Qing Wu had sent to fulfill their wager.
• Tai Yu tested the instrument, identified evidence of careful repairs and long-term maintenance, and thanked Qing Wu by message.
• Tai Yu noticed Yi Ya had become less courteous toward him since he became a Great Monarch and steered their conversation toward the Qiankong Star System.
• Yi Ya discussed the Return Journey concert and explained that researchers studied the Qiankong Star System and its view of Han Guang Main Star, known there as the Demon Star.
• Yi Ya mentioned that Lan Su had observed the stars in the Qiankong Star System for years and might never return home, and Tai Yu decided to warn her about inadvertently exposing information.

Tai Yu experimented with Myriad Transformations Deep Blue while waiting for potential enemies to approach, but the Initial Awakening Society and other factions remained quiet. Great Monarch Zhi Ping finally contacted him, and Tai Yu put off meeting while asking him to investigate the Society and find a suitable geothermal planet for his Underground Satellite Detection Network; Zhi Ping suggested a rogue planet.

• Tai Yu tested Myriad Transformations Deep Blue in Mirror Spacetime and waited for factions such as the Initial Awakening Society and the God Breaking Organization to make a move, but they held back.
• Great Monarch Zhi Ping called Tai Yu and asked to meet, but Tai Yu said he was entering hyperspace and delayed their meeting until his cultivation was complete.
• Zhi Ping explained that Great Monarchs of their background needed one another’s help and invited Tai Yu to contact him at his ancestral holding on Gouchen Star.
• Tai Yu asked Zhi Ping to investigate the Initial Awakening Society and identify an abandoned planet with abundant geothermal heat in the Silver Screen Star System.
• Tai Yu planned to recreate his Underground Satellite Detection Network, and Zhi Ping cautiously suggested that he consider a rogue planet.

Tai Yu leased a rogue planet and used the Boundary Curtain to connect it to the lives around it, shaping it into a new instrument of power. The planet began spinning within the Boundary Curtain, with its direction—and whether it would shift toward the Material Universe or Mirror Spacetime—left uncertain.

• Grand Duke Zhiping told Tai Yu that rogue planets in the Boundary Curtain region could be registered or leased, and Tai Yu decided to pursue one.
• Tai Yu asked Priest Kang Feng of the Sky Patrol System to find a suitable nearby rogue planet and sought Mo Jia’s help with the necessary funding.
• Tai Yu completed the paperwork and leased a rogue planet from the Silver Screen Star System for twenty years.
• Tai Yu deployed ten thousand Grease Ball units and formed an Underground Constellation inside the icy planet, completing its geothermal energy array.
• Tai Yu used the Boundary Curtain to link the rogue planet with the Transition Layers of nearby living beings, causing it to spin within the Boundary Curtain between the Material Universe and Mirror Spacetime.

Tai Yu rapidly expanded his Underground Constellation system to four rogue planets, using them to strengthen his influence in the Boundary Curtain region. He resisted Grand Duke Zhiping’s call to return and continued observing a planet near Screen District 8-8995 for suspicious activity.

• Tai Yu connected Shi Fan’s production line with Mo Jia’s family to equip rogue planets, and four planets received Underground Constellation systems before Week 51 ended.
• Tai Yu judged that the planets did not need to be gathered into a single system and continued traveling between them in a Fast Ship, treating the expansion as part of his cultivation.
• On the ninth day of Week 51, Grand Duke Zhiping called Tai Yu and warned that he was expanding too quickly.
• Tai Yu explained that the planets served as relay stations and that his funding came from borrowed money, while he declined Zhiping’s invitation to return and rest.
• Tai Yu used a modified planet near Screen District 8-8995 to map the surrounding Life Starry Sky and watch for suspicious targets.

Tai Yu tracked the Oddity behind the faith-power incident while the Great Thoroughfare System searched across the Boundary Curtain. When High Priest Cen Fu proposed synchronizing their progress, Tai Yu agreed and suggested coordinating their actions as well.

• Tai Yu reasoned that his authority over the Illusory Nightmare Domain and his Four Linked Stars gave him grounds to pursue the Oddity without waiting for the Great Thoroughfare System.
• Tai Yu concluded that the Oddity was likely below Great Monarch level and confined to the area around Screen Sector Eight-8995, making it possible to track through his planted eyes.
• Tai Yu analyzed the flow of illegal faith power and used the Boundary Curtain's connection to local living beings to trace the Echo from his Four Linked Stars.
• High Priest Cen Fu messaged Tai Yu and proposed synchronizing their progress.
• Tai Yu accepted and asked Cen Fu to coordinate their specific actions to avoid interfering with each other.

Seven-Five, a Clone priest on an industrial mining planet, was taken away as his lifespan ended, while the records of him and earlier priests were seized. Across the Boundary Curtain, High Priest Cen Fu and Tai Yu linked the Clone cult to a wider scheme and recognized that the case had become more complicated.

• Seven-Five reflected on his limited understanding as a priest and sought someone who could inherit his accumulated knowledge and confusion.
• During a prayer gathering, Seven-Five sensed a heavy shadow behind the Curtain and recorded the disturbance in priestly symbols.
• A scanner-wielding official revoked Seven-Five's life-support armor permissions and ordered him taken away, while his stone records were collected.
• Seven-Five tried to pray to the being behind the Curtain but died as his expected lifespan ran out.
• High Priest Cen Fu told Tai Yu that investigators had caught around a hundred priests and found domestic-use Clones illegally mixed with industrial Clones.
• Cen Fu connected the Clone cult to a similar Evil Cult case on Plane Six and warned Tai Yu that the matter had become more complicated.

Tai Yu considered how the Initial Awakening Society and the Boundary Curtain might connect the Silver Screen Star System case to the Plane Six Evil Cult investigation, and why the Great Thoroughfare System had invited him to get involved. He exchanged information with High Priest Cen Fu and discussed Clone governance, but the Divine-Human Relationship left the broader questions unresolved.

• Tai Yu suspected the Housekeeping Clones had been trained by the Initial Awakening Society and that the Silver Screen Star System case might connect to the Plane Six Evil Cult case.
• Tai Yu reasoned that High Priest Cen Fu had involved him to disrupt the investigation and complicate the plans of the Dawn System.
• Tai Yu listened to High Priest Cen Fu and shared general trends from his monitoring and analysis.
• The Great Thoroughfare System shared details of the Plane Six Evil Cult and Leak Point cases with Tai Yu.
• Tai Yu and High Priest Cen Fu discussed the history, governance, and ethics of Clones and the competing approaches of the God Systems.
• Tai Yu concluded that the debate ultimately concerned the Divine-Human Relationship, leaving no detached way to resolve it.

Tai Yu pressed High Priest Cen Fu to address the Initial Awakening Society’s control of the Clones and the Illusory Nightmare Domain’s authority, arguing that the Myriad Gods Hall should act beyond its usual caution. Cen Fu remained noncommittal, and Tai Yu offered to make a move himself.

• Tai Yu told High Priest Cen Fu that the Initial Awakening Society had used the Clones to interfere with the Boundary Curtain and proposed raising the issue beyond individual Leak Points.
• Tai Yu claimed the Illusory Nightmare Domain’s authority was divided among the three Dominator Systems, the Initial Awakening Society, and himself, and said Great Lord Luande’s share could be counted under his control.
• Tai Yu proposed expelling the Initial Awakening Society from the struggle over the Illusory Nightmare Domain, while Cen Fu listened without committing.
• Tai Yu asked whether the Great Thoroughfare System would intervene in the Clone dispute between the Dawn and Fallen Death systems or help resolve their grievances.
• Tai Yu concluded that the Myriad Gods Hall was unwilling to disrupt the status quo and asked to try making a move himself.

Tai Yu positioned himself as the person willing to break the deadlock over the Clone Evil Cult investigation, while High Priest Cen Fu declined to support him. As Tai Yu’s involvement drew attention and warnings about Dawn System politics, Grand Duke Zhiping urged him to pursue a Great Monarch position rather than remain free and unaffiliated.

• Tai Yu argued that the Boundary Curtain Major Region needed someone to make a decision about the Clone issue, while High Priest Cen Fu reserved judgment and could not stop him without force.
• Tai Yu’s call for change spread, and Yu Chuang, Qiao Mian, Chao Yongdao, and Great Monarch Suo Che contacted him about the investigation and its surrounding rumors.
• Grand Duke Zhiping told Tai Yu that some Dawn System members resented his role in the special task force and viewed him as keeping his distance from their system.
• Grand Duke Zhiping warned that Tai Yu’s actions threatened others’ interests because each Highness had only a limited number of Great Monarch positions to grant.
• Tai Yu said the Nightfall King’s positions were already full and that he preferred his current freedom, but Grand Duke Zhiping urged him to seek an opening under another Highness and cited Luande as a warning.

Tai Yu learned that the Night Terrace Mu Family resented his growing prominence because it threatened their plans for Mu Kuo’s investiture and state lord position. After Great Monarch Zhiping warned him about the family’s ties to the Illusory Nightmare Domain, Tai Yu asked Zhiping to procure materials and conduct an experiment on Plane Six.

• Great Monarch Zhiping warned Tai Yu that investiture brought important authority and standing, and that the Night Terrace Mu Family saw Tai Yu as a threat to Mu Kuo’s advancement.
• Great Monarch Zhiping explained that the Mu Family had pushed for Mu Kuo’s investiture, but had proposed that he compete for a state lord position through External Migration and Nation Building instead.
• Tai Yu learned that the Mu Family’s Night Terrace Vision and Spirit-Annihilation Vision had roots in the Lord of Illusory Nightmares’ priestly system.
• Tai Yu thanked Great Monarch Zhiping for the warning and asked him to procure materials and conduct an experiment on Plane Six.

Grand Duke Zhiping and Great Monarch Ma Ge investigated Tai Yu’s unusual request for ritual materials and Evil Cultist prayers, then arranged for the prayers to begin in Dreamscapes. As the Boundary Curtain’s fluctuations changed, Tai Yu asked whether Zhiping had the materials with him.

• Grand Duke Zhiping consulted Great Monarch Ma Ge about Tai Yu’s request for prayer rituals and a list of divine-power-bearing materials.
• Great Monarch Ma Ge recognized the materials as ritual samples and advised Zhiping to prepare them while withholding assumptions about Tai Yu’s plan.
• Grand Duke Zhiping prepared the materials and contacted Tai Yu, who asked for the Evil Cultist prayers to begin immediately.
• Grand Duke Zhiping followed Ma Ge’s instruction and had the Housekeeping Clones enter Dreamscapes for collective prayer rituals.
• Great Monarch Ma Ge detected unusual fluctuations in the Boundary Curtain, and Tai Yu asked Zhiping whether he had the procured materials with him.

Tai Yu used Fantasy Configuration to conduct a Magnetic Light Mica experiment from at least a thousand light-years away, sending electric flashes through Plane Six and the Boundary Curtain. Grand Duke Zhiping realized what Tai Yu had done and suspected the major systems and Myriad Gods Hall would pursue him.

• Tai Yu told Grand Duke Zhiping to arrange materials near the sleeping Housekeeping Clones, then revealed he was by the Silver Screen Star System, at least a thousand light-years away.
• Grand Duke Zhiping set out the materials in Plane Six despite warning Tai Yu not to act recklessly, while Great Monarch Ma Ge remained silent.
• Electric flashes crossed the Mental Layer, Plane Six's Rule Environment, and the Boundary Curtain, opening the containers and absorbing the materials inside.
• Great Monarch Ma Ge identified the phenomenon as Soul Magnetization, and Grand Duke Zhiping connected it to Magnetic Light Mica and Tai Yu's Fantasy Configuration expertise.
• Grand Duke Zhiping realized Tai Yu had cultivated a Fantasy Species capable of receiving Faith Power and concluded Tai Yu would face pressure from the Ruin and Fall System, the Great Thoroughfare System, the Dawn System, and Myriad Gods Hall.

Tai Yu discussed the uncontrolled Clone Faith Power in the Ping Eighth District-8995 star system with High Priest Cen Fu and proposed using Fantasy Species to channel it. Cen Fu challenged Tai Yu for experimenting without reporting it, while Tai Yu admitted his attempts had not produced a functioning result.

• Tai Yu crossed the Boundary Curtain into Mirror Spacetime and met High Priest Cen Fu under the watch of the Rainbow Light Serpent.
• Tai Yu explained that chaotic Clone Faith Power could keep affecting the Boundary Curtain and proposed diverting or channeling it while the Myriad Gods Hall investigated its source.
• Tai Yu argued that the Myriad Gods Hall had ways to collect Faith Power but would need to follow complicated procedures to direct it toward a suitable Deity.
• Tai Yu revealed that he had designed and tested a plan using Fantasy Species as vessels for Faith Power.
• High Priest Cen Fu objected that the Fantasy Species research was sensitive and demanded to know where Tai Yu had reported it.
• Tai Yu said his experiments had not produced anything substantial, describing failed attempts to form Magnetic Light Mica and transport corresponding objects across a thousand light-years.

Tai Yu defended his Fantasy Species project to High Priest Cen Fu, framing it as a way to track faith power and locate the Initial Awakening Society. He left Cen Fu with nearly twenty investigation sites and a pledge to uncover the people behind the scenes before the Work Season.

• Tai Yu argued that the Fantasy Species was only a means to observe faith power and would be handled according to regulations if it ceased to be useful.
• High Priest Cen Fu questioned Tai Yu about the Red Silicon Star System, and Tai Yu asked for the same trust and room to act in the Boundary Curtain region.
• Tai Yu said his earlier work had focused on Segmentation and Fantasy Mimicry, drawing on Magnetic Light Mica as a reference.
• Tai Yu showed Cen Fu nearly twenty preliminary locations where faith power interference was evident and suggested investigating them.
• Tai Yu proposed expanding the project to include the faith of clones across the Boundary Curtain region and pledged to find leads on the hidden actors before the Work Season.

Tai Yu and High Priest Cen Fu discussed the search for the Initial Awakening Society and the dating of a faith-power-impregnated corpse. Their findings linked the corpse, its armor, and the faith-power impregnation to different periods, raising a dispute over how far back the investigation should reach.

• Tai Yu urged High Priest Cen Fu to involve the Architecture Priests in modeling the faith-power interaction network near the Screen Eight Zone-8995 star system.
• Tai Yu complained that three thousand cubic meters of Myriad Transformations Deep Blue could not support his Great Monarch calculations and projects.
• High Priest Cen Fu reported that the corpse's armor dated to the early New Century, while the corpse belonged to a Celestial powerhouse who disappeared in Year 99271 of the Covenant Era.
• High Priest Cen Fu said the corpse was impregnated with faith power around Year 99700 ± 100 of the Covenant Era and proposed that the mismatch between corpse, armor, and impregnation might have recurred across an even longer period.
• Tai Yu argued that the Initial Awakening Society had controlled the missing Outlier, while High Priest Cen Fu pressed the historical value of studying Evil Cult inheritance and transformation.

Tai Yu and High Priest Cen Fu reached a practical compromise over the Myriad Gods Hall’s interference with his research: Tai Yu agreed to join the Historical Advisory Group’s Relic Open Week in exchange for access to an Abyssal Sky Overlord experimental site. The chapter left Tai Yu and the group preparing to explore the newly opened relic, Abyssal Rule No. 11.

• High Priest Cen Fu ordered the suspension of collecting and guiding primordial faith power, while allowing continued intervention around the Screen District Eight-8995 star system as a control group.
• Cen Fu invited Tai Yu to join the Relic Open Week and described the opportunity to study an old experimental site arranged by the Abyssal Sky Overlord.
• Tai Yu reviewed the details of Abyssal Rule No. 11, a collapsed Spacetime labyrinth that contained surviving Outer Domain Species samples and simulated Rule Environments.
• Tai Yu accepted the invitation, contacted Chao Yongdao, and returned to the Main Star System before Day 1 of Week 52 ended.
• Chao Yongdao, Qiao Mian, and Tai Yu joined the Historical Advisory Group, and the Myriad Gods Hall opened Abyssal Rule No. 11 from Day 2 of Week 52 until Day 1 of Week 53.

Tai Yu visited the decaying Abyssal Rule-11 ruins with the Historical Advisory Group and learned about the value of their historical Spacetime framework. Chao Yongdao repeatedly steered the visit toward projects and obligations for Tai Yu, ending with concerns about the Coiling Demon remains and Liang Lu's Inner Universe Ruins.

• Great Monarch Qiao Mian explained how the Abyssal Rule-11 ruins preserved fragments of history and regretted the loss of their framework for integrating historical Spacetime environments.
• Chao Yongdao and Qiao Mian discussed Great Monarch Banna's injury and the possibility that similar Exhibition Halls could help researchers restore the ruins.
• Tai Yu recognized that Chao Yongdao was using the visit to involve him in the Covenant Patch project, but agreed to participate.
• Tai Yu showed Qing Wu the Square-Circle Instrument, and Chao Yongdao discussed its potential value based on its previous owners.
• Chao Yongdao raised the slow disposal of the Coiling Demon remains at the You-1337 Star Gate and Liang Lu's Inner Universe Ruins, mentioning that the Boundary Curtain district might send help.

Tai Yu toured the Abyssal Sky Overlord’s testing grounds and became fascinated by a frozen Lighthouse specimen, whose strange relationship to the River of Time and its possible surviving connection left him with questions.

• Chao Yongdao told Tai Yu that Chang Yi Zhen had been nominated to handle the situation involving the You-1337 Star Gate and Evil Poison, prompting Tai Yu to wonder whether Chang Yi Zhen had influenced the nomination.
• Tai Yu spotted a Lighthouse specimen and explained to Qing Wu that he had never seen one before because the species had no fixed form and usually hid among other Outer Domain Species.
• Tai Yu studied the elaborate display and remarked to Great Monarch Qiao Mian that the site had been a testing ground for experiments, not merely an exhibition hall.
• Tai Yu completed a circuit of the ruins with the group, then returned to the Lighthouse and felt that observing it was like stepping beyond the River of Time.
• Tai Yu wondered whether the Lighthouse was an extension of an Outer Domain demonic god, whether it had once been a being that failed at Transcendence, and whether it remained alive or connected to its source.