Chapter Summaries

Sun Jiayi investigated Ronan’s persona after sensing his unusual reaction to her, while He Donglou tried to recruit Ronan into a family partnership to produce Blood Intent Ring equipment. Ronan rejected the idea of merely having a private laboratory, saying he needed a complete production system.

• Sun Jiayi visited Ronan’s private room, read the reactions of Ronan, He Donglou, and Xi Wei, then left after exchanging pleasantries.
• Bamboo Pole warned Sun Jiayi to know when to stop, and she created a folder called Persona from her collected intelligence on Ronan.
• Ronan told He Donglou that the Feast’s tattoo task called for something beyond simply tattooing a woman’s skin.
• He Donglou praised Ronan’s reputation and asked whether he planned to mass-produce the Test Subjects used to coordinate Blood Intent Rings.
• He Donglou proposed that his family partner with Ronan and argued that a private laboratory would make his research more efficient.
• Ronan replied that he needed a complete production system, not a laboratory.

After bringing Clara safely to Bai Yu, Ronan discussed He Donglou’s proposal to commercialize Brick with He Yueyin and learned that Lan Lin had been ruled out as a renewed source of the Aberrant Species infection. He suspected the authorities might be using Lan Lin as bait.

• Ronan dropped Clara and Bai Yu at Bai Yu’s home, warning Bai Yu to be careful and arrange medical checkups.
• Ronan recalled rejecting He Donglou’s proposal to license and manufacture Brick, his flawed imitation Machine Core device.
• Ronan called He Yueyin, who said refusing He Donglou would not affect the He family’s position and agreed Ronan should keep refining Brick.
• He Yueyin told Ronan that Lan Lin had been harmlessly processed after the City Hall Square incident and was unlikely to spread the virus again.
• Ronan compared Lan Lin’s treatment with Ji Qiong’s arrest and wondered whether the authorities were using Lan Lin as bait.

Ronan warned Mo Ya that Aberration carriers had been identified in her company and urged her to stay cautious and get examined. Mo Ya then raised concerns about Raven’s limited memories and lack of academic foundation, leaving Ronan unsure whether Raven could build a normal life in society.

• Ronan returned home and watched Raven and Mo Ya finish a guitar performance with the family.
• Mo Ya invited Raven to perform with her over the weekend, and Ronan later visited Mo Ya in her room.
• Ronan told Mo Ya that Ji Qiong was a confirmed Aberration carrier and that Lan Lin was a suspected case under surveillance.
• Ronan warned Mo Ya to be careful around Electric Fairy, reduce her activities, and get examined at the address he sent her.
• Mo Ya asked whether Ronan had considered how Raven could keep up with seventh-grade coursework with only three or four years of memories.
• Mo Ya questioned whether Raven could become a complete member of society, and Ronan admitted he could not picture her future clearly.

Ronan struggled with how to help Raven find a life of her own, then set those worries aside to answer the Abyss Zone’s call and spar with Ghost Eye. He left hundreds of Xia City Ability Users inside his fortress to share in the dangerous training.

• Ronan considered Mo Ya’s suggestion that Raven pursue music and worried about the responsibility of shaping her future.
• Ronan found Raven playing her Practice Zither beneath Ink’s wings, but her expression and music gave him no insight into her thoughts or desires.
• A call from the Abyss Zone interrupted Ronan, and he told Raven to finish her practice before she faded into the night.
• Ronan entered the Abyss Zone and faced Ghost Eye, who had stayed near Xia City to spar with him and study the Cage Theory.
• Ronan built a Blood Intent Ring Configuration fortress and gathered more than five hundred Ability Users inside it.
• Ronan launched the first attack at Ghost Eye, turning their fight into a training opportunity for the Ability Users in the fortress.

After Xia City's Ability Users kept the fortress running through the night, Madam Harold and Yin Le visited the shipyard to inspect White Bone Hill, a strange skeletal structure linked to Jin Tong's disappearance. There they encountered Ghost Eye, who said he felt a blade-like killing intent at the back of his neck.

• The Ability Users continued running the fortress until exhaustion forced most of them offline, and one posted about staying up all night.
• Madam Harold and Yin Le reviewed surveillance footage while traveling through Xia City, but found no useful leads on their target.
• Madam Harold and Yin Le reached the military shipyard and examined White Bone Hill, which had appeared where Jin Tong disappeared or died.
• Yin Le arranged a later call with Tian Jiang Entertainment about a possible acquisition while Madam Harold went around the hill.
• Yin Le greeted Ghost Eye when he appeared on the dock, and Madam Harold asked why he had come to the shipyard.
• Ghost Eye said he felt a cold, blade-like sensation at the back of his neck and hinted that someone was taking their sparring drills seriously.

Madam Harold and Yin Le assessed White Bone Hill, then discussed Ronan’s possible plan to kill an Extraordinary Species and the Blood Flame Order’s precarious position in Di City. The chapter ended with news that a suspected new plane had been announced, raising the prospect that Di City would face exploration and conflict the cult could not withstand.

• Madam Harold and Ghost Eye exchanged a brief, apparently friendly conversation at the military base, while Yin Le examined White Bone Hill and recognized signs of a Blood Sacrifice.
• Madam Harold told Yin Le that Ronan had used Ghost Eye as a target dummy in an Abyss Zone drill, possibly to prepare to kill an Extraordinary Species of the Mental Side.
• Madam Harold ordered Yin Le to halt Tian Jiang Entertainment’s acquisition negotiations with Ming Tang Culture so the cult could use the company as a channel to approach Ronan.
• Madam Harold explained Ghost Eye’s personality and their strained friendship, then told Yin Le to focus on resolving affairs in Xia City and establishing the cult in Di City.
• Yin Le reported that the Ability Users Association and the Justice Cult had announced a suspected new plane, warning that Di City could face exploration and conflict that the Blood Flame Order lacked the resources to endure.

At the Xia City Branch, Xue Lei and Xie Junping celebrated the turmoil surrounding the leaked discovery of a New Plane while Jerry entertained the group. Xie Junping’s growing Soul Sense became apparent as he watched Qin Yikun and Xue Lei bring heavy precision-component boxes into the lobby, and a crow flew deeper into the jungle.

• Xue Lei and Xie Junping celebrated profiting from the Energy Sector turmoil caused by the leaked New Plane discovery, while Qin Yikun welcomed the temporary calm in Xia City.
• Cat's Eye sent Jerry, a clever young muskrat, to Raven, and the group joked about its unusual intelligence.
• Qin Yikun took Xue Lei upstairs to carry precision-component boxes, and Xie Junping followed after vomiting outside and noticing that his Soul Sense had improved.
• Xie Junping saw Qin Yikun and Xue Lei set down the heavy boxes, which contained components Teacher Luo was expected to ruin.
• A crow Xie Junping had sensed flew from the jungle edge and disappeared into the woods.

Xie Junping, Xue Lei, and Qin Yikun visited Ronan in Gear’s newly fortified laboratory and found him absorbed in building and testing equipment. Ronan equipped the Deep Blue Walker with Jin Tong’s headband and demonstrated a startling burst of speed, ending beside a wall without making a sound.

• Xie Junping, Xue Lei, and Qin Yikun hauled equipment through Gear’s strict security checks and learned that the Mystic Studies Society planned to hold an end-of-year event there.
• The three men found Ronan working alone with mechanical arms, and Xue Lei realized he had been at it for seven hours and had likely skipped classes.
• Ronan placed Jin Tong’s headband on his head, and the mechanical arms rapidly assembled the Deep Blue Walker around him.
• Ronan powered up the modified armor and dashed roughly forty meters across the room in about half a second, stopping against a wall without an audible impact.

Ronan demonstrated the exoskeleton’s electromagnetic movement and explained its limits, then prepared to spend the weekend testing equipment based on the Brain of Emptiness System. He left the Mystic Studies Society’s setup plans to Xie Junping while protecting key parts of the building, and continued working toward a goal beyond becoming a technician.

• Ronan used the exoskeleton’s electromagnetic field to move and brake sharply, impressing Xue Lei and Qin Yikun with its speed and control.
• Ronan acknowledged that Jin Tong’s model had inspired his Electromagnetic Direction ability, but said his current physical strength limited it to brief bursts and experimentation.
• After learning that equipment parts had arrived, Ronan decided to work through the weekend and told Xue Lei he would seal off the Fifth through Seventh Floors Underground while the Mystic Studies Society prepared its event.
• Xie Junping offered to manage the society’s setup and promised to protect the building areas Ronan identified as essential to his mother’s design.
• Ronan returned to the laboratory, studied the Brain of Emptiness System’s equipment guidance, and continued testing designs with the goal of becoming more than a technician.

Ronan completed and inspected six airdrop crates of custom combat equipment as he prepared to assassinate Gong Qi. He then extended his consciousness across Xia City and toward a far greater structure of spacetime.

• Ronan used the Brain of Emptiness System and Standard Bearer to diagnose and rebuild the Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One from Earth-tech components.
• Ronan divided his equipment and remote maintenance system into six airdrop crates and confirmed their contents.
• Ronan rested through meditation and woke with his strength and energy restored.
• Ronan inspected the torso-shaped module controlled by his God Binding Hoop and had the robots seal its crate.
• Ronan sat before the crates and projected his Soul Cape across Xia City and beyond, sensing a vast structure of spacetime.

Ronan used the Grand Coordinate System and Gear’s laws to teleport an airdrop crate from the North Shore Jungle to a distant volcanic region. The crate landed safely in someone’s hands, though Ronan realized his calculations had been thrown off by a Rotten-Mouth Ape.

• Ronan surveyed nearby domains and used Gear’s laws to open a cross-space passage toward the Cloud Top World and a nameless mountain region.
• Ronan formed the Grand Coordinate System, briefly freezing Gear, the Cloud Top World, and the mountain region as the airdrop crate vanished from beneath his hand.
• Ronan marked the crate’s destination and sent it through two Space-Time Barriers toward the volcanic mountains.
• A figure sprang from a fissure, caught the falling crate, and landed safely with it.
• Ronan complained that a Rotten-Mouth Ape had caused a twelve-meter error in his altitude correction.

Ronan sent the last supply crate to Morun’s Forward Base, then prepared to implant a core into Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One. The implantation began as Raven returned to school and Ronan’s consciousness entered the Simulation Pod.

• Ronan sent all six airdrop crates, then discussed school and Raven’s sense of isolation, reassuring her that they could grow and develop their personalities together.
• Ronan sent He Yueyin a message asking her to find an experienced psychology expert to help Raven.
• Ronan finished preparing the Experimental Zone and entered the fully enclosed Simulation Pod to link his consciousness to the Forward Base.
• At Morun’s Forward Base, maintenance robots finished repairing Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One, a modified Officer X-2 Model humanoid robot.
• Ronan commanded the God Binding Hoop to begin core mode implantation, and the seed imprint entered a metal block inside the robot’s helmet as its eyes lit up.

Ronan remotely controlled Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One through a Mental Link, tested its systems, and deployed it from the Forward Base into the volcanic region. After the combat machine killed an attacking scaled monster, it spotted a ring-shaped drone circling a nearby erupting volcano.

• Ronan linked his Soul Power to Number One, activated its systems, and tested its movements while the External Neuron handled adjustments.
• After roughly forty minutes of testing, Ronan deployed Number One through the Forward Base’s winding passage toward the surface.
• A scaled monster ambushed Number One, but its electromagnetic field threw the creature off course and an electric blast killed it.
• Number One emerged into the volcanic region, where Ronan surveyed the active craters and recalled the area’s history and Jin Buhuan’s disappearance.
• Ronan noticed a ring-shaped drone approaching and circling a nearby volcanic crater.

Ronan navigated the Volcanic Zone toward a Fire God Ant colony, while a research drone collected ants and then crashed. After Number One drew the colony’s infected creatures toward it, Ronan discovered a mechanical eagle was also scouting the area.

• Ronan avoided the ring-shaped drone as it collected several Fire God Ants from the crater and flew away.
• The drone suddenly malfunctioned and descended, but Ronan chose to ignore it and continue toward his target area.
• Ronan crossed into the frenzied region and Number One killed a Plague Hound, revealing Fire God Ants inside its body.
• Ronan learned the ant colony was in a changing-of-the-guard period and used Number One to draw the colony’s infected creatures toward them.
• Number One shot down an eagle circling two kilometers away and revealed that it was a mechanical scout.

Ronan’s combat machine fought through the Fire God Ants’ forces while military officers and researchers tried to identify it and arrange access to a Wilderness Laboratory. A sudden earthquake and volcanic activity revealed that the Nest was in trouble, as the Fire God Ant guards began retreating.

• Ronan guided Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One through the Aberrant Species, using Jin Tong’s Seed Imprint to help fend off a parasitized snake.
• Meng Tu discussed the unidentified X-2 combat machine with Major Guo and ordered him to send surveillance footage as soon as it was available.
• Meng Tu showed the footage to Professor Wu Zunliang and Professor Ding Zhiying, who argued over the machine’s fight and the disrupted ecological research.
• During a remote meeting, the liaison officer introduced Mr. Luo, who offered his company’s Wilderness Laboratory as a project site.
• An earthquake shook the conference room as volcanic activity was reported, and Professor Ding noticed that the Fire God Ant guards were retreating from their defensive line.
• Wu Zunliang concluded that the Nest had most likely encountered a problem.

Ronan drove Electromagnetic Vanguard Number One through the volcanic territory toward the Fire God Ants’ core, using its Electromagnetic Shield to survive lava and swarming guardians. As the machine neared its destination, Ronan traced a growing energy source and heard a chant rising from the Abyss Zone.

• Number One killed the Fire-Bellied Giant Lizard with an electrified spear and crossed the lava using its magnetic shield.
• Ronan sent Number One through a fissure passage he had opened to bypass the surface defenses and reach the volcano’s inner region.
• Columns of Fire God Ants and a cloud of winged ants attacked Number One as it advanced through the passage.
• Ronan intensified the Electromagnetic Shield, drawing on his Soul Power and using newly activated techniques from the Seed Imprint, God Binding Hoop, and Brain of Emptiness System.
• Number One endured attacks from underground guardians, losing its left arm’s shape and much of its chest armor as it traveled deeper.
• Ronan heard an increasingly clear chorus of “Blood” and “Fire” from the Abyss Zone as violent waves rose in both the void and the Material Layer.

Ronan guided Unit 1 into the Fire God Ants’ vast volcanic nest, where Morun’s energy transformations clashed with the colony’s collective power. Unit 1 was destroyed by a massive lava wave, leaving Ronan to observe the escalating struggle as its wreckage sank into the lava.

• Unit 1 reached a shattered rock wall and revealed a vast network of Ant Chambers and Ant Tunnels filled with Fire God Ants.
• Ronan identified the submerged lower levels as the nest’s heart, where the queen ant lived and the colony’s collective consciousness gathered.
• Ronan sent Unit 1 sliding down the collapsing rock wall toward the nest’s key area despite its failing propulsion and sensors.
• Ronan observed Morun’s grand chorus battling the Fire God Ant colony’s immense heat-driven energy system and drawing energy from the conflict.
• A towering lava wave swallowed Unit 1, shattered most of its body, and left its remaining wreckage sinking through the lava.
• Ronan prepared to observe the intensifying struggle between Morun and the Fire God Ant colony through his Closed System.

Ronan and Morun struggled to anchor themselves against the Fire God Ants’ collective consciousness as the ants’ attacks threatened to overwhelm Ronan. After the Demon Rune shattered the colony’s collective structure and began spreading toxic spores through it, the Demon Rune retreated into the Extreme Domain to seek another opportunity.

• Ronan watched short stone pillars rise beside the Fire God Ant nest’s heart and anchor the turbulent vortex, fixing Morun’s platform in place.
• Ronan endured the strain of the confrontation while the Fire God Ants repeatedly increased their power, damaging their own nest and collapsing its chambers.
• The destruction of the Ant Chambers disrupted the Fire God Ants’ energy cycle, making their collective consciousness hesitate and falter.
• The Demon Rune struck the weakened collective consciousness, shattered its structure, and spread toxic spores through its ruins.
• The Demon Rune fled deeper into the Extreme Domain, searching for another chance to attack.

Ronan used the Demon Rune to collapse the Fire God Ants’ collective consciousness, triggering a chaotic fragmentation and civil war across their nest. As the former queen tried to reclaim control, a blood-colored beam struck the nest’s heart and engulfed her, revealing the emerging outline of the Blood Soul Temple.

• The Demon Rune’s Venom Bomb disrupted pheromone communication throughout the Fire God Ant nest, scattering the ants into countless isolated groups.
• The scattered Fire God Ants formed temporary queens and primitive collective consciousnesses in nearby Ant Chambers, then began attacking one another.
• The ant civil war spread through the nest, while the young Fire God Ant Queen tried to gather strength and retake control of her kingdom.
• A blood-colored beam from the Extreme Domain struck the nest’s heart, disintegrating the queen, eggs, Worker Ants, and Soldier Ants.
• The distorted light and shadows formed the outline of the Blood Soul Temple.

Madam Harold told Yin Le that their investor had refused to meet them and warned her that the Blood Intent Ring’s abilities threatened the order’s foundations. She urged Yin Le to face the danger rather than grow numb as the surveillance target continued entering the Abyss Zone.

• Madam Harold told Yin Le that their investor had refused to meet them and questioned whether they had cut their losses or welcomed the outcome.
• Madam Harold instructed Yin Le, now the only Deputy High Priest, to focus on the order’s ritual procedures and asked about the surveillance target.
• Yin Le reported that the target had entered the Abyss Zone again, though there would be no drills for the next few days because Teacher Luo had gone into seclusion.
• Madam Harold explained that the Blood Intent Ring and Blood Soul Temple were both Configurations, but said she had once believed only Extraordinary Species and Orders could solidify them in the Abyss Zone.
• Madam Harold comforted Yin Le and urged her to face the dangerous edge of the abyss with the strength of the Blood Flame Will.