Chapter Summaries

Ronan considered how to exploit his cooperation with Madam Harold to investigate the Blood Soul Temple, then sent the Demon Rune to approach her in Xia City. Madam Harold sensed an unseen presence and concluded that Xia City was not a place she could easily leave.

• He Yueyin suggested that Ronan ask Mister Bai to examine Fei Jin after her disturbing experience, and Ronan told her Madam Harold had arrived in Xia City.
• Ronan warned He Yueyin that Madam Harold might tell Tian Bang about their cooperation, and he weighed whether to enter the Blood Soul Temple as a consultant or invade it directly.
• Ronan sent the Demon Rune from the Cloud Top World into Xia City to approach Madam Harold.
• Madam Harold comforted Yin Le, then became alarmed when scattered thoughts resurfaced and sensed that an invisible demon might be lingering nearby.
• Madam Harold told Yin Le that Xia City was not a place to stay for long, but admitted that leaving was not simple.

Ronan watched the Demon Rune reactivate Yin Le’s Shepherd Mark, turning her into a channel between its Blood Soul Temple and the Blood Flame Order’s temple in the Abyss Zone. The connection exposed the Order’s members and positions to Ronan, who discovered Madam Harold was at the lowest level.

• Ronan noticed the Demon Rune focus on Yin Le and expel her dormant Shepherd Mark from the Blood Soul Temple.
• Yin Le’s restored connection to the mark opened a passage, and power from the Demon Rune’s temple began transforming her aura.
• The Demon Rune’s power flowed through Yin Le into the Blood Flame Order’s Blood Soul Temple in the Abyss Zone.
• Ronan received a detailed list of the Order’s members, locations, and condition through the temple’s network.
• Ronan checked Madam Harold’s position and found her on the lowest level.

Ronan probed Madam Harold’s consciousness in the Abyss Zone Blood Soul Temple and discovered her emotions were a blazing, chaotic force that overwhelmed his rational mind. After He Yueyin showed him the investigation results for Li Yiwei, Ronan identified the uterine anomaly as an Aberrant Species collector, then noticed something unusual in his drawing.

• Ronan found that Madam Harold’s presence strengthened the smelting power around the Blood Soul Temple’s core, preventing the Demon Rune’s Bloodlight River from approaching.
• Ronan used Pure Observation to study Madam Harold and found her consciousness consumed by extreme emotions, including fear, desire, and despair.
• Ronan realized rational observation could not reveal the emotional heat he sought, so he tried to expose himself to Madam Harold’s emotions and was nearly overwhelmed by them.
• He Yueyin brought Ronan the investigation results for Li Yiwei, and Ronan explained that the uterine anomaly was an Aberrant Species collector.
• Ronan drew a diagram of the Parasitic Aberration’s collection process inside Li Yiwei, then noticed that the drawing seemed to contain another element.

Ronan and He Yueyin discussed the Parasitic Aberration, the threat posed by thousands of potential infected people, and the need to keep working through the crisis. As they paused to watch the rooftop revelers, Ronan admitted that his curiosity about their carefree state was actually jealousy, just as a spotlight caught him and He Yueyin together.

• Ronan explained that the Parasitic Aberration needed samples from infected people, while He Yueyin considered the twenty-two rooftop demons and the larger danger of ten thousand potential infected.
• Ronan suggested making the threat public, but He Yueyin said the number could crush fence-sitters and told him to report any changes while others handled the political response.
• The Scrambled Code Dial displayed a Hunting Leaderboard, and He Yueyin arranged to question the unconscious Li Yiwei through Mister Bai's Dream Entry Method.
• Ronan tried to make small talk with He Yueyin, and they watched Ability Users move to restrain the remaining seed players as the rooftop revelry continued.
• He Yueyin said Ronan envied the revelers' freedom, and Ronan corrected himself that he was jealous just as a blinding spotlight fell on them.

Ronan reacted to the rooftop crowd’s demands by plunging them into darkness and using his powers to control their senses and silence them. As the crowd’s fear and anger swirled around him, he felt a new, playful impulse awaken and began exploring how to stir their emotions.

• Ronan told He Yueyin he could not understand the rooftop crowd’s enjoyment, and she suggested he might relax while also explaining his guilt and self-torment.
• Fed up with the crowd’s vulgar taunts, Ronan unleashed his emotions, disrupted the rooftop lights, and plunged the gathering into darkness.
• Ronan watched the crowd’s anxiety grow and sensed the Demon Rune responding eagerly to their emotions as if they were ingredients.
• Ronan used Soul Power to stop everyone from speaking and breathing, then threatened them and introduced himself as someone who was not good at joking.
• Ronan focused on the crowd’s turbulent emotions as they gathered into a burning vortex in the Mental Layer.

Mister Bai discovered that Ronan was trapped in a powerful dream that was disrupting the room and putting pressure on his Xing Hai structure. He and He Yueyin sought a safe way to wake him, and He Yueyin asked whether sound could be injected into the dream as guidance.

• Zhang Yingying led Mister Bai to the room where Ronan was sleeping, and Mister Bai noticed that the room felt unnaturally oppressive.
• Mister Bai examined an interference field map and concluded that Ronan's Soul Power had formed a dream capable of pulling in people who were not fully alert.
• Mister Bai probed the dream and found Ronan's mind caught in intense, rapid activity that felt like a high-pressure whirlpool.
• Mister Bai examined Ronan and found unstable breathing, elevated surface temperature, abnormal muscle tension, and pressure on his Xing Hai structure.
• He Yueyin called The Other Side for advice, then asked Mister Bai whether he could accurately inject sound into Ronan's dream.

Mister Bai and Master Xiu coordinated a treatment that used rhythmic sound to reach Ronan amid his chaotic mental state. Ronan recovered a sense of his body and the rules governing his existence, then confronted the Demon Rune and realized his understanding of it might have been wrong.

• Mister Bai consulted with Master Xiu and began their joint treatment by transmitting a mantra through He Yueyin's wristband.
• Mister Bai's Dream Entry Method carried the sound into Ronan's mind, where he was overwhelmed by chaotic sensations and colors.
• The mantra's rhythm helped Ronan reconnect with his body and the Nine Orifices Six Roots technique, leading him to recognize the coupling of the Body Wheel and God Wheel.
• Ronan manifested Dark Heavy Chains and stabilized his Rule Domain while binding the Demon Rune.
• Ronan saw that the Demon Rune did not resist the chains despite radiating scorching energy, and he began to question his assumptions about it.

Ronan’s contact with the Demon Rune’s power revealed that it reflected a far greater force from the Abyss of distant Spacetime, and the resulting storm battered his consciousness. The Dark Black Chains contained most of the force, but the energy began spreading into the Polar Domain.

• Ronan realized the Demon Rune’s heat was a storm of emotions and desires, and the External Neuron reacted to the energy flowing through the Dark Black Chains.
• Ronan entered the Virtual Brain interface and merged with the dancing god-man structure, gaining a clearer view of its eight runic structures and the Demon Rune.
• Ronan perceived the Demon Rune as a shadow cast by an immense, erupting sun in the Abyss of distant Spacetime, and the revelation opened a channel to its power.
• The storm overwhelmed the Virtual Brain’s stars, but the Dark Black Chains held firm and acted as a one-way valve that protected Ronan’s core consciousness.
• Ronan recognized that his vulnerability to emotions and desires had let the storm leak through, then saw the Polar Domain light up as the force spread there instead of into the physical world.

An Extreme Domain Light event prompted warnings against entering the Abyss Zone, and Ronan awoke as He Yueyin and the others reacted to the crisis. At an emergency meeting, Deep Blue’s Extraordinary Species reported that the Extreme Domain had abruptly gone dark, as though covered by a curtain.

• Mister Bai confirmed that Ronan was leaving the REM Period as Ouyang Chen warned that intensifying Extreme Domain light could spread to the Abyss Zone and ordered its activities suspended.
• He Yueyin issued a notice restricting Abyss Zone activity, then saw Ronan awaken with blood-red cracks in his pupils.
• Ouyang Chen discussed the blood-colored moon and the earlier Extreme Domain Light event with Old You while preparing for a briefing.
• Wang Yu convened an emergency Deep Blue meeting where Extraordinary Species confirmed the Extreme Domain Light had reached locations across the Deep Blue World.
• The Extraordinary Species reported that the Extreme Domain had suddenly gone dark, as if the entire region had been covered by a curtain.

Ronan rushed to An Hai Sanatorium as his grandfather lay critically ill, then learned that his Master was also being brought there. Meanwhile, Wu Zhao and Driver Jin left the sanatorium, and Sheng Wu’s office received data about an anomaly that prompted Yi ShiJia to arrange an expedition.

• At Shang Ding Building, He Yueyin reported that Ronan had gone to the hospital with Mister Bai, while Ouyang Chen began briefing the gathered powerhouses on the Extreme Domain.
• Ronan arrived at An Hai Sanatorium and was stopped by Xue Lei’s call reporting that his Master’s old injuries had flared up and he was being sent there.
• Wu Zhao left the sanatorium with Driver Jin and said Luo Yuandao might not survive if he used his cloak again, while hoping Ronan could become a shield.
• Zan Ti reported a Category 7 Fluctuation Anomaly to Sheng Wu, who instructed him to apply for a reconnaissance probe and mocked the delay involved.
• Yi ShiJia reported that investigating the anomaly would require a large team, then began arranging a hyperspace expedition.

Cat's Eye woke from a disturbing dream and watched Ronan's friends fail to find him after the Fortress Project malfunctioned. In Di City, Yin Le sensed a woman struggling in the Deep Water Zone as the sea boiled nearby.

• Cat's Eye woke at three in the morning, checked Six Ears, and found messages about the Fortress Project Team being trapped while Ronan was missing.
• Cat's Eye told the group that Ronan had recently been staying at Gear, but the search for him ended without success as the team and Xia City powerhouses solved the problem themselves.
• Yin Le sensed the Blood Flame Order's growing power and reflected on Ronan's role in transforming its Abyss Zone catalysts.
• Yin Le saw the sea boil near the shore and sensed a woman struggling in the Deep Water Zone.

Ronan oversaw Madam Harold’s grueling spinal nerve enhancement and learned that she used the Blood Soul Temple as a furnace to temper a powerful inner “blade.” Yin Le reported leads on Snake Tongue’s abandoned body in Ban City, and Ronan postponed the search operation while he handled other matters.

• Madam Harold endured the boiling seawater and torment of her enhancement until Yin Le brought her ashore, where she immediately asked about Mister Luo.
• Ronan examined Madam Harold’s progress and explained that her nerve enhancement had advanced quickly, though her physical strength remained too weak to control the power she had honed.
• Ronan realized Madam Harold treated the Blood Soul Temple as a furnace for refining her own creation rather than as a system to control.
• Yin Le reported three likely locations for Snake Tongue’s abandoned body in Ban City and offered to lead the search.
• Madam Harold warned Yin Le about Snake Tongue’s traps and the need for a secure transfer plan, while Ronan said he would keep watch.
• Ronan delayed the Ban City operation until the day after tomorrow and asked whether the Blood Flame Order could handle the trouble caused by the New Plane in Di City.

Ronan developed Luo's Core by using the waters around the Deep Blue World as a vast, concealed sensing and processing system while monitoring the factions searching for the New Plane. He then entered the Cloud Top World to observe Gong Qi and found Snake Tongue nearing collapse after 180 days of confinement and depletion.

• Madam Harold and Yin Le told Ronan about the extensive search for the New Plane, and Ronan said he would return to Xia City and notify them about practice and the Ban City operation.
• Ronan secretly crossed the South Pacific and used his conceptual core to turn the surrounding sea into a hidden network for sensing, processing, and influencing activity.
• After months of observation and testing, Ronan refined Luo's Core, the basis of his control within the Void Brain system and Configuration thinking.
• Ronan confirmed the search area was normal and traveled into the Cloud Top World to find Gong Qi, who had been exploring with Snake Tongue.
• Snake Tongue reflected on her 180 days trapped in the Cloud Top World and feared her weakened Soul Body and failing life support left her no hope of returning.

Ronan monitored Gong Qi’s study of the Extreme Domain Light while preparing to travel from his wilderness base to Spring City for a surgery patient’s visit. After sending Raven back to school, he rode alone into the wilderness, savoring his freedom as he headed toward the city.

• Ronan observed Gong Qi adapting his Solidified Configuration to the changing Abyss Zone and probing the Extreme Domain Light for a way to break the deadlock.
• Ronan prepared an off-road motorcycle and exoskeleton at his Forward Base, then persuaded Raven to return to Xia City rather than accompany him.
• Ronan loaded his equipment, took a commemorative photo, and set off toward Spring City on April 22.
• Ronan rode across the dangerous wilderness alone, reflecting on his family’s history there and letting out a howl as he savored his freedom.

A lone motorcyclist drew the hunting team led by Brother Bao into a Chrysanthemum Killer Bug attack, then killed the monster and borrowed Brother Bao’s clothes before riding away. The shaken survivors were left to deal with the creature as Brother Bao’s lackey mistook him for the motorcyclist.

• Brother Bao’s hunting team spotted a lone off-road motorcycle approaching a Chrysanthemum Killer Bug’s underground river hunting ground.
• The Chrysanthemum Killer Bug ambushed the motorcycle, and Brother Bao ordered his team to retreat and warned them to avoid its tendrils and poisonous mist.
• The bug pursued the team at impossible speed, and after their lead vehicle overturned, Brother Bao helped rescue the injured and restart it.
• The Chrysanthemum Killer Bug crashed in front of Brother Bao’s vehicle, where the motorcyclist had killed it and left it looking half-roasted.
• The armored motorcyclist asked Brother Bao for his jacket, trousers, and sunglasses, then told him to handle the bug and rode away.
• Brother Bao’s lackey called and asked why he was riding a motorcycle, and Brother Bao angrily denied it.

Ronan infiltrated Cixin Hospital in Spring City to reach Ren Qi’s scheduled uterine fibroid surgery, while two B-Rank Ability Users guarded the procedure. After the removed tissue was sealed and handed to Mr. Lu, he carried it away toward the waiting shuttlecraft.

• Ronan used the External Neuron to evade surveillance and connect with the offline reactor and Jin Tong Spirit Light Seed systems as he traveled to Cixin Hospital.
• Ronan mapped the hospital and identified Mr. Lan, a powerful scouting-type Ability User, and Mr. Lu, a powerful Body Cultivator, guarding Ren Qi’s operation.
• Ronan monitored the two guards and adjusted his plan while the automated surgery began in Operating Room 4.
• Mr. Lan watched the procedure and reported its progress to Mr. Lu, who waited disguised as a doctor by the conveyor belt.
• Mr. Lu received the sealed metal box containing the removed tissue, secured it in an explosion-proof case, and left the Surgery Area.

Mr. Lan and Mr. Lu escorted a sealed metal case to the shuttle’s Isolation Zone, but a man in a leather jacket disrupted the inspection and the case’s contents vanished. Mr. Lan spotted the man escaping across the rooftop, only for the man to shatter his Mental Side sensing network from more than four hundred meters away.

• Mr. Lan and Mr. Lu placed the metal case in the shuttle’s Isolation Zone and began its final inspection.
• A hospital contact reported that a man in a leather jacket had entered Operating Room 4, and Mr. Lan watched him disable the surveillance feed.
• The Isolation Zone alarmed that its conditions were not met, so Lan Xiang demanded that the case be opened; Li Wei appeared and opened it remotely.
• A pale hand reached from the darkness and took the pulsing tumor from the sealed Isolation Zone, prompting Lan Xiang to warn his partner that it was a trap.
• Lan Xiang sensed the man fleeing on an off-road motorcycle across the adjacent rooftop, but the man mimed a gunshot and destroyed Lan Xiang’s sensing network.

Wu Zunliang and his research team were delayed on their journey to Spring City and found a chance to investigate a Chrysanthemum Killer Bug corpse. Its wounds resembled those left by an Officer X-2 Model robot, giving Meng Tu a new lead as Tang Yi studied the remains.

• Wu Zunliang and Tang Yi discussed Tang Yi’s proposed presentation topic while the team’s results were prepared for investors.
• Meng Tu told the researchers that flight and ground transport had been restricted after a suspected robbery and arrests, delaying their departure.
• The convoy encountered a tense confrontation involving a group carrying a Chrysanthemum Killer Bug corpse, and Meng Tu intervened.
• Meng Tu recognized wounds on the corpse that resembled those associated with the Officer X-2 Model robot that had entered the Volcanic Zone.
• Wu Zunliang agreed to help investigate the bug’s cause of death, and Tang Yi examined its remains as Meng Tu arranged for samples to be collected.

Meng Tu attended the Cixin Hospital robbery briefing, where investigators linked the suspect to Spring City and focused their questions on Quantum Corporation. As the meeting turned against the company, a vast darkness suddenly swallowed part of the city’s lights.

• Meng Tu reunited with Lieutenant Colonel Chen and met Chou Wei, then discussed the research team’s work on converging ecosystems and a possible migrating New Plane.
• The briefing traced the suspect’s route into Spring City, linked his armor and weapon to an earlier X-2 Type Robot, and described his likely build and accomplices.
• Meng Tu and Chou Wei observed that the robbery had drawn attention to Quantum Corporation, whose representatives faced questions about Ren Qi and the removed Uterine Fibroid.
• Lieutenant Colonel Chen said Quantum Corporation had summoned a private spacecraft that was circling Spring City, angering local military and political leaders.
• Meng Tu looked through the conference room window and saw darkness surge upward, swallowing the lights across part of Spring City.

Ronan connected his External Neuron to the Biochemical Reactor and used Jin Tong's Spirit Light Seed to rebuild its core as a Furnace. After drawing power from the city's energy grid, he ignited the Fire Seed, but the chapter ended as the newly reconstructed furnace began its next stage.

• Ronan analyzed the Biochemical Reactor and used his External Neuron to override Li Wei's Conditional Format Lock.
• He injected Jin Tong's Spirit Light Seed into the reactor and accepted the system's Universal Deployment Method.
• The reactor absorbed the seed's Database and formed a Furnace configuration that Ronan recognized as a way to produce higher-tier life substrates.
• Ronan supplied the damaged reactor with energy from his own reserves, then tapped the Energy Center's transmission system when his strength began to fail.
• The core furnace body was reconstructed and the Fire Seed ignited.