Chapter Summaries

Ronan explained how stability could support mental cultivation and introduced Configuration as a method for keeping domains controlled amid the chaotic Mental Layer. As he began demonstrating a new structure, he used the gathered audience’s power to project it into visible crimson strokes, leaving the conference room watching a form shaped by their collective Mental Layer.

• Ghost Eye’s teasing disrupted the Lan Xiang Guan broadcast, and Dan Yi nearly smashed her tablet before Ghost Eye calmed the crew and resumed the show.
• Ghost Eye explained that the spiritual world was too chaotic to observe without distortion, so he could neither confirm nor deny Ronan’s theory outright.
• Ronan described the Mental Layer as a turbid current and argued that imagination and stability helped sustain a controllable domain.
• Ronan introduced Configuration as a way to cultivate by stabilizing domains, recommending the Babel Tower for Body Cultivators and the Water Condensation Ring for the Mental Side.
• Ghost Eye told Dan Yi that accepted theories emerged through debate and power, and said Ronan’s theory would need time to gain recognition.
• At the War Maiden’s request, Ronan used Soul Power to draw a crimson ring-like structure, using the gathered Ability Users’ life force to make it visible.

Ronan demonstrated a crude-looking blood-red ring assembled from repeated Arc Wedge Structures, explaining how it might borrow stabilizing components from Babel Tower. He revealed that the structure could scale exponentially, leaving the audience stunned by how quickly he produced increasingly complex versions.

• Ronan explained that the ring needed a stable foundational structure and presented a comparison showing a 92.4% overlap between Babel Tower’s and the Water Condensation Ring’s Arc Wedge Structures.
• Ronan began assembling a simple ring by repeating and arranging the Arc Wedge Structure, while attendees and online viewers questioned whether it had any effect.
• After completing the basic version, Ronan showed the Awakened how to increase the number of groups exponentially.
• Ronan produced a ring with sixteen groups, then another with sixty-four groups and 128 Arc Wedge Structures, astonishing the audience.

Ronan continued teaching Ability Users to build and verify Arc Wedge configurations, then adapted the lesson for Body Cultivators by setting up a simulated practice space on the Spirit Wave Network. The chapter ended with Ouyang Chen ordering Port 724 to collect data and build a model named SVIP09, code-named Blood Intent Ring.

• Ronan formed a fifth blood ring and explained that students should check whether their configurations had collapsed, while allowing them ten more minutes to practice the basic four-group structure.
• Ronan explained that the Arc Wedge Structure came from the Void Brain System User Manual and that more advanced configuration design and Machine Cores were beyond his current abilities.
• Body Cultivators, including Xue Lei, asked Ronan how to train when their Mental Layer strength was difficult to reshape.
• He Yueyin suggested using Six Ears and the Spirit Wave Network, so Ronan created a public-space template for Ability Users to practice simulated configurations.
• Ouyang Chen ordered Port 724 to collect data and model the template as SVIP09, code-named Blood Intent Ring.

Gao Meng and Ouyang Chen monitored the Spirit Wave Network’s test of Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring, whose conversion rate rose while its interference rate stayed near zero. During the experiment, Ronan examined the Mental Layer as a system of Curtains and nodes, recognizing himself as an unusually complex node and President Ouyang as the only other stable one nearby.

• Gao Meng praised the Cage Theory for explaining the Three Belts phenomenon while excluding the Abyssal Extreme Region, and Ouyang Chen considered forming a project team around it.
• Staff reported that the Blood Intent Ring’s conversion rate was rising without detectable interference, so Gao Meng approved broader access as more attendees joined the model.
• Ouyang Chen activated a warning protocol and ordered a directional survey of Abyss Zone signals toward the circular conference room.
• Ronan switched between ways of viewing his spiritual world and saw the Blood Intent Ring as a simple node formed by three intersecting Curtains.
• Ronan recognized that his own node was vastly more complex and identified President Ouyang as the only other stable node nearby.
• Ronan returned his attention to the experiment when his wristband timer sounded and concluded that the lecture and test had succeeded.

As the Blood Intent Ring’s construction neared completion, Ghost Eye disrupted the broadcast by provoking REE and Zhang Yingying into a wager. Ronan recognized that Ghost Eye’s antics were disturbing the group consciousness Configuration and challenged him directly to redirect the attention.

• Zhang Yingying and REE’s supporters traded insults until REE lost his composure on the live broadcast.
• Ghost Eye entered War Maiden’s Live Stream Room and proposed a wager involving humiliating photos, prompting Zhang Yingying to agree and REE to refuse.
• REE criticized the Blood Intent Ring and Ronan’s theories, insisting that he would not gamble while his teacher was involved.
• Ghost Eye redirected the proposed wager toward photos of Ronan, provoking laughter across the merged broadcast and conference venue.
• Ronan noticed Ghost Eye’s antics were disrupting the group consciousness Configuration and challenged Senior Ghost Eye to bet against him.

Ronan turned Ghost Eye Che Yi’s joke into a challenge over the fourteen people who failed the Blood Intent Ring, then agreed to continue betting after Che Yi demanded Extraordinary Species-level stakes. The chapter ended with Ronan asking whether something Che Yi wore would qualify.

• Ghost Eye Che Yi joked with Ronan about changing the bet, provoking laughter and teasing in the conference hall.
• Ronan named fourteen attendees who had failed the Blood Intent Ring and blamed their failures on Che Yi’s joke.
• Ronan challenged Che Yi to bet on the conjecture he had yet to confirm, and Che Yi accepted with an added condition.
• Che Yi insisted the stakes had to be at the Extraordinary Species level and joked that his selfie qualified.
• Ronan asked whether something Che Yi wore would count as an Extraordinary Species-level stake.

Ronan retrieved Jin Tong’s God Binding Hoop and used its image to provoke Ghost Eye into accepting a bet, while the image’s broadcast sent shockwaves through the audience and drew the attention of powerful Extraordinary Species. He refocused his students with the stakes of the wager, as War Maiden’s search revealed the Abyss Zone Practical Effect Verification Standard.

• Ronan had Morun III retrieve the God Binding Hoop from a subway locker and take it to the Gear Building of Zhi Xing Institute.
• Ghost Eye accepted Ronan’s bet after seeing the image, but Ronan reminded him that the wager concerned a photo, not the real object.
• The image of Jin Tong’s Iron Hoop spread through the livestream and online, shocking viewers and causing widespread agitation.
• Ronan detected several Extraordinary Species probing his location through the mental layer, including Ghost Eye, the Martial Emperor, and President Ouyang.
• Ronan resumed teaching and warned his students that they would share the consequences of losing the bet, then War Maiden found the Abyss Zone Practical Effect Verification Standard in the association Database.

As the major circles speculated about the implications of the Abyss Zone, Ronan resumed his lecture and demonstrated the Water Condensation Ring. His demonstration drew Thought Power from the audience, and the Spirit Wave Network detected a Signal Source in Internal Block A1.

• At Deep Blue Base, Wang Jue asked about Abyssal Extreme Region research, and Jeff described its effects and the Inner World's use of the Abyss Zone.
• Ronan asked the audience about learning the Water Condensation Ring and promised to demonstrate its construction several times.
• Ronan began drawing the Water Condensation Ring, explaining how its underlying principles differed from what the audience saw.
• Ronan's vivid demonstration gathered streams of Thought Power from the attendees.
• The Spirit Wave Network Maintenance Center sounded an alarm and reported a Signal Source detection of 0.021 standard units in Internal Block A1.

Ronan guided nearly fifteen hundred people through repeated demonstrations of the Water Condensation Ring, fusing it with the Blood Intent Ring until the model became a stable support field and showed signs of an Abyss Zone presence. The chapter ended with Ghost Eye forming an eerie hand seal on a cruise ship, plunging the Lan Xiang Guan studio into terror.

• Gao Meng questioned the Spirit Wave Network's low Abyss Zone reading while Ouyang Chen focused on Ronan's demonstration.
• Ronan repeated and explained the Water Condensation Ring's trajectory as the participants' consciousnesses followed his guidance and the two ring structures connected.
• The War Maiden described the experience to viewers as being guided by a parent's hand, while Ronan began a third demonstration that shrank the model to a scale fit for construction.
• The conference room filled with real vapor as Ouyang Chen integrated the SVIP06 Dripping Water Sword model with the ring configuration, raising the conversion ratio to 94% and the interference rate to 10%.
• Ghost Eye formed a twisted hand seal in the Lan Xiang Guan studio, terrifying Dan Yi and leaving the cruise ship silent as a Ghost Domain.

Ronan completed the Blood Intent Ring’s force field, drawing more than fourteen hundred people into a collective structure called the Fortress as Ghost Eye’s power approached Xia City. The Fortress came alive, and the War Maiden felt its energy surge as Ronan commanded it to activate.

• Ghost Eye exerted his power across the Abyss Zone, and the system measured a force of 10.5 standard units.
• Ouyang Chen ordered the SVIP09 Model offline, explaining that the Blood Intent Ring could now operate without the Spirit Wave Network.
• Ronan completed his demonstration, bringing 1,469 of the 1,477 people in the venue into the Blood Intent Ring and asking He Yueyin to handle the eight who had failed to join.
• The Blood Intent Ring formed a stable collective consciousness and was identified in the Brain of Emptiness System as the Fortress.
• The War Maiden felt the Fortress’s energy rise as its systems activated, and Ronan commanded, “Space Fortress, activate!”

Ouyang Chen and Gao Meng observed Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring rise rapidly in the Abyss Zone as Ghost Eye and other powerful figures watched. The Ring reached the verification threshold, while Ronan led more than a thousand people into the Abyss Zone’s storm to build it further.

• Ouyang Chen explained that the wager tested whether Ronan’s creation could exist and exert influence in the Abyss Zone, not whether it could meet a particular time limit.
• Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring surged from 0.027DG past 0.7, reaching the standard’s approximate threshold in under half a minute.
• Gao Meng entered the Abyss Zone and sensed that Martial Emperor, Tian Bang, Mountain Lord, and Star Witch were also watching.
• Ouyang Chen identified Ronan’s work as the construction of a new landmark, and he watched the Ring’s rules stabilize as it grew.
• Ronan activated the Space Fortress, carrying more than a thousand people from the Turbid Spiritual Stream into the Abyss Zone’s storm.

Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring force field withstood Ghost Eye’s assault in the Abyss Zone, while Ronan and He Yueyin discussed the confrontation. The wager remained unresolved, and the online spectators struggled to understand what was happening.

• The Blood Intent Ring’s Root System drew energy from the Abyss Zone and strengthened its foothold as 1,469 people supported the fortress’s operation.
• Ghost Eye arrived and launched a powerful attack that battered the force field and tried to invade the group’s consciousness space.
• Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring Configuration held firm, while Ghost Eye’s power weakened across the distance and failed to breach its defenses.
• He Yueyin returned to Ronan, checked his condition, and confirmed with Ouyang Chen that the situation was relatively stable.
• Ronan and He Yueyin discussed how close the Abyss Zone felt, as online spectators complained that they could not follow the wager.

While Ronan kept Ghost Eye engaged in the Abyss Zone, he used the clash to study how supernatural abilities shaped their environments and tested his Soul Cape and Deep Sea Landscape over the Pacific. His experiments led him to reaffirm “I” as his fundamental point of reference, and he began to perceive a wondrous curvature in the world.

• REE withdrew from the livestream under the pretext of closing his window, then realized Sprinkler Man had spread the mist gauze beyond the conference hall to buffer Ghost Eye’s attack.
• Ronan recognized similarities between Ghost Eye’s remote strike, President Ouyang’s Logic Boundary, and Luo Yuan’s Plane Crossbow, and continued sparring to learn from Ghost Eye.
• Ronan divided his attention between the Xia City confrontation and experiments with his powers over the Pacific Ocean.
• As he sensed Earth’s varied landscapes and weather, Ronan questioned his perspective and reaffirmed “I” as the origin of his coordinate system.
• Ronan perceived a curvature in the world as hurricanes, rain, Abyss Zone turbulence, and Marine Aberrant Species swept toward a chain of islands.

REE grew concerned that Gong Qi’s prolonged seclusion might hide a serious setback, so he left his livestream and drove to Gong Qi’s secret location. On the way, he watched Ronan’s broadcast and learned that Hurricane “Guara” threatened his route with a possible Tide Surge and dangerous Aberrant Species.

• REE rebuffed Yuan Fei’s warning that the General Association was considering easing relations with Xia City and told him to focus on cultivation.
• REE recalled that Gong Qi had been in seclusion for over a month after trying to locate Snake Tongue’s Real Body, and wondered if Gong Qi had fallen into a trap.
• REE decided the recent events involving Ronan made the situation urgent, shut down his livestream, and drove toward Gong Qi’s secluded location.
• During the drive, REE watched Ronan on the Xia City broadcast and felt a sudden chill when Ronan looked toward the camera.
• The Smart Butler reported that Hurricane “Guara” was expected to bring a possible C-Rank Tide Surge and Aberrant Species near REE’s route, prompting him to fear what might be in the storm.

Ronan expanded his perception across space-time, discovered that his consciousness could cross into Cloud Top World, and identified Gong Qi trapped there. The resulting surge of information caused Ronan to briefly lose control, forcing Ghost Eye to end their confrontation while REE continued toward Gong Qi’s secluded island.

• Ronan perceived space-time as interacting bubbles and detected an Extraordinary Species near Xia City, which he identified as Gong Qi in Cloud Top World.
• Ronan realized his consciousness had crossed the Space-Time Barrier into Cloud Top World and began examining Gong Qi and the world through his Soul Cape.
• The influx of information overwhelmed Ronan and triggered his Meltdown Mechanism, briefly disrupting his response and threatening the Blood Intent Ring force field.
• Ghost Eye noticed the protection fluctuate, withdrew, and ended the confrontation, while Dan Yi remained too rigid to continue hosting.
• REE drove through a concealed undersea tunnel toward the uninhabited islands where Gong Qi cultivated, then continued on foot because the area had no roads and was a no-fly zone.

REE suspected that Ronan’s rapid rise was connected to hidden forces and used a livestream to spread that insinuation, then headed through the storm toward Gong Qi’s retreat. As REE neared his destination, an explosion sounded in the rain.

• REE learned that members of the Justice Cult were staying on Volcano Island and connected their presence to the conflict surrounding Ronan.
• REE restarted the livestream and questioned how Ronan had gained such strength in only a few months.
• REE pointed to the Justice Cult, Quantum Corporation, and the Xia City Branch conflicts as evidence that Ronan might be tied to a larger struggle over resources.
• REE ended the livestream, accepted that his accusations could damage his reputation, and charged into the storm toward Gong Qi’s retreat.
• REE crossed the rising seawater with Thought Power, and an explosion sounded as he neared Gong Qi’s location.

REE encountered strange distortions around headquarters, where the Justice Cult’s High Priest and President Abner discussed signs of a new plane. Ronan realized his coordinate-system experiment had caused the apparent anomalies, then ended his lesson as the attendees woke.

• REE saw clouds distort the space around him and sensed Gong Qi’s Thought Power, though the figure appeared and vanished like an illusion.
• The Justice Cult’s High Priest appeared in the rain, and President Abner proposed discussing confirmation and exploration of a possible plane.
• Ronan withdrew his consciousness to Xia City and recognized that his coordinate-system experiment had caused the anomalies, which had overlapped two Space-Time Bubbles around Gong Qi.
• Ronan watched the attendees in the circular conference room wake and ended the lesson.

Bamboo Pole met with Sun Jiayi, who asked him to arrange a public lecture by Mister Luo about the Blood Intent Ring for the Starry Sky Clubhouse. Their conversation was interrupted by Lan Lin’s confrontation with Clara, and the chapter ended with an unknown person protecting Clara and kicking Lan Lin into the restaurant’s glass door.

• Sun Jiayi asked Bamboo Pole to use his connection with Mister Luo to invite him to give a public lecture at the Starry Sky Clubhouse.
• Lan Lin approached Sun Jiayi and flirted with her, but she told him to focus on his service job and stop imagining things.
• Sun Jiayi told Lan Lin to catch up with Clara, his girlfriend and a member of the BHD Girl Group, and have a drink with her.
• Bamboo Pole watched Lan Lin catch Clara outside the restaurant and grab her arm.
• An unknown person pulled Clara protectively into their arms and kicked Lan Lin into the restaurant’s glass door.

Ronan stopped Clara from leaving after Lan Lin chased her, suspecting she might have been exposed to an Aberrant Species virus, and arranged for her to rest with Xi Wei while he sought an examination. As Ronan entered the restaurant with He Donglou, diners began recognizing and respectfully greeting him, leaving him confused by the attention.

• Lan Lin chased Clara outside the restaurant, and He Donglou kicked him down before Ronan recognized them.
• Ronan stopped Clara from leaving because he feared she might have been exposed to an Aberrant Species virus.
• Xi Wei arrived and offered to keep Clara company, while Sun Jiayi arranged a room where Clara could rest until Ronan finished his business.
• Ronan entered the restaurant with He Donglou and declined Bamboo Pole's invitation to join them.
• Several groups of diners greeted Ronan as Teacher Luo, and many others across the restaurant stood to acknowledge him.

At the Starry Sky Clubhouse restaurant, Ronan’s reputation grew as Ability Users recognized him as Teacher Luo, while Duan Hong sought a way to ease the pressure surrounding his Winter Solstice Duel with Xiu Shenyu. Sun Jiayi later entered Ronan’s private dining room and found him measuring Xi Wei’s arm, a scene that caught her completely off guard.

• More than twenty Ability Users stood and addressed Ronan as Teacher Luo, drawing attention from the restaurant’s guests.
• Sun Jiayi and Bamboo Pole discussed Lan Lin, then watched Duan Hong leave after someone urged him to preserve his status as a Martial Artist rather than become an invalid.
• Ju Ling followed Duan Hong downstairs, and Bamboo Pole and Sun Jiayi inferred that He Donglou had mediated between Duan Hong and Ronan ahead of the Winter Solstice Duel.
• Sun Jiayi waited for Xi Wei to arrive, then went upstairs to greet Ronan and the others.
• Sun Jiayi entered the private room and found Ronan holding Xi Wei’s wrist while measuring her arm as her shirt was partly disheveled.