Chapter Summaries

Yin Le arrived at Ronan’s studio and found him cultivating while asleep, his Psychic Maps distorting the air around him. Ronan called the experience a game and walked back through the city in his wheelchair, sensing the Soul Cape’s distant struggle with a True God in the Abyss Zone as low-stakes play.

• Yin Le entered Ronan’s workroom and saw that he had fallen asleep at his workbench beside two overlapping Psychic Maps.
• Ronan’s chair disintegrated as Yin Le called out, and he woke floating effortlessly in midair.
• Ronan said his instruments needed recalibrating and that he could not ride in a car, so Yin Le followed him as he controlled his wheelchair toward home.
• Ronan sensed heat and other distant sensations through the Soul Cape and treated its conflict with a True God in the Abyss Zone like a virtual game.

Ronan and Yin Le walked toward the Yacht Wharf as Ronan considered how to keep the True God and the Pope from locating him while preserving the misunderstanding about his whereabouts. He retrieved the crystal ball containing the Devil Fish and began adjusting a Configuration, while Yin Le warned him that surveillance was nearby.

• Yin Le pushed Ronan's wheelchair as they walked, and he asked how she had handled cheaters at Frost River Reality.
• Ronan explained to himself that he had advantages in information and bandwidth, but needed to prevent the True God and the Pope from finding his real location and endangering Yin Le and the others.
• Ronan decided to maintain the existing misunderstanding about his location and carefully devise another deception.
• Ronan asked Yin Le for the crystal ball containing the Devil Fish, and she warned him not to take it out because many surveillance teams were watching.
• Ronan searched Yin Le's handbag, grasped the crystal ball, and used the Devil Fish's real-time information to adjust his Configuration.

Captain Jimmy investigated Mister Mo and the couple connected to Shouxiong while the operation remained stalled over Bai Xinyan’s disappearance. Snake Tongue monitored the operation team, then followed Ronan’s instructions as he returned to the yacht and prepared to take it into North Mountain Lake.

• Captain Jimmy ordered surveillance records pulled and built a case that Mister Mo and the Blood Flame Order were connected to the Soul Order remnants.
• Snake Tongue detected Captain Jimmy’s team strengthening its mental defenses and worried that he had stumbled onto the truth.
• Yin Le called Snake Tongue with urgent instructions, and Ronan took over to give further orders.
• Snake Tongue prepared raw materials for Ronan’s experiments while the yacht crew readied the vessel.
• Ronan returned to the dock, and the yacht prepared to carry him into North Mountain Lake.

Ronan used the yacht’s storage area to construct a reinforced exoskeleton and explain his Layered Interference Technology to Snake Tongue. He began calibrating the design, while Snake Tongue wondered why he called time-space Configuration his strongest type.

• Ronan boarded the yacht and entered the storage area, where he spread mist around himself and the prepared materials.
• Snake Tongue recognized the mist as connected to the Mist Labyrinth and reflected on the danger and secrets she had encountered there.
• Ronan formed a dark-red exoskeleton framework and a layer of muscle-like membrane, then revised the design after changing his approach.
• Ronan asked Yin Le to retrieve more exoskeleton components and RAC Model leads, and told Snake Tongue she would help install and calibrate them.
• Ronan showed Snake Tongue a simplified three-layer Configuration and explained how Layered Interference Technology used auxiliary frameworks to imitate perfection.

Ronan used the Exoskeleton and RAC Conductors to merge himself into the Great Gear Set of heaven and earth, concealing the apparatus and his presence. He tested whether the result interacted with the Veil of Silence, but nothing happened, so the experiment remained incomplete.

• Ronan explained to Snake Tongue how the Exoskeleton would couple with the Great Gear Set of heaven and earth.
• Yin Le brought the RAC Conductors, and Snake Tongue installed more than thirty of them in the Exoskeleton under Ronan's direction.
• The smoke and Exoskeleton faded from view as Ronan completed the merging process, leaving him standing alone in the storage area.
• Ronan removed the Veil of Silence and tossed it into the air to test for an interaction, but it produced no effect.
• Snake Tongue saluted Ronan and praised his divine skill.

Ronan tested a newly constructed Gear Set and discussed its unfinished Soul Core design just as news arrived of an airship hijacking 1,500 kilometers away. He left the yacht to confront the True God and the Pope, while Yin Le and Snake Tongue remained behind to guard the base.

• Ronan demonstrated that his Gear Set could fit into the world's Great Gear Set and form a void interlayer, but its linkage with the Veil of Silence remained incomplete.
• Yin Le received news of a localized strong-light phenomenon and suspected Amaterasu Order activity near a hijacked airship in the Pacific.
• Snake Tongue warned Ronan that Captain Jimmy might act rashly and that Ban City needed countermeasures while Ronan dealt with the distant incident.
• Yin Le offered to contact Di City and Boss, and suggested Ronan leave the yacht to avoid contact with them.
• Ronan said he would leave and go greet the True God and the Pope, then passed through the cabin wall and disappeared.

Ronan tested his homemade Space-Time Bubble beneath North Mountain Lake while projecting his consciousness to a distant seabed to refine a remote-login character. As sunlight exposed the Dark Seclusion world, he realized he had been discovered.

• Ronan rode his Space-Time Bubble through the Local Time-Space Structure beneath North Mountain Lake, adjusting its Exoskeleton as pressure strained it.
• Ronan brought the Devil Fish into the bubble, increasing the strain on its damaged supporting framework.
• Ronan projected his consciousness fifteen hundred kilometers away through the Soul Cape to begin adjusting a remote login in the ocean.
• Ronan refined his Configuration design by using environmental feedback to remove flawed or redundant elements.
• Ronan ignored the passage of time until sunlight pierced the seawater and illuminated the Dark Seclusion world, prompting him to say he had been discovered.

Ronan tested a newly designed game character projected through his Space-Time Bubble and used its movements to evade the true god’s search beneath the Pacific Ocean. He left the seafloor for the night sky above the sea, still immersed in the projection as the true god’s attacks narrowly missed.

• Ronan’s new character slipped through the true god’s scan and avoided a mental attack that wiped out more than a hundred thousand nearby creatures.
• Ronan assessed that his Configuration design and Soul Cape transmission worked, while the true god’s attempts to locate him remained out of focus.
• The true god sent a message praising Ronan, then grew irritated when Ronan did not respond and redirected his force toward the Pacific Ocean.
• Ronan guided the Space-Time Bubble through the ocean’s Local Time-Space, discarding unnecessary details while keeping the true god from locking onto him.
• Ronan moved the projection from the seafloor to the night sky above the sea, evaded the true god’s lightning-like strike, and became fully immersed in the new character.

Ronan evaded the True God by shifting through water molecules and space-time configurations while maintaining the fragile balance between his Soul Power and physical Xing Hai. As the True God’s attack grew increasingly destructive, Ronan focused on the drifting Intercontinental Airship, where the True God and the Pope had set their trap.

• Ronan moved through water and vapor using the Soul Cape while keeping his God Wheel and Body Wheel in balance.
• Ronan reflected that abandoning his physical Xing Hai would undermine his long-term cultivation, despite the freedom it seemed to offer.
• Ronan’s advances in configuration design let him use water molecules and space-time structures to temporarily replace some functions of his physical Xing Hai.
• The True God stopped trying to converse with Ronan and filled the sea and sky with lethal attacks while the Fusang Divine Tree projection drained nearby life.
• Ronan dodged the True God’s expanding domain and locked onto the slowing, drifting Intercontinental Airship, where the True God and the Pope awaited him.

Yuchuan Yingjie and the others waited aboard the airship as the True God tried to locate Ronan, while Bai Xinyan connected Ronan’s appearances to water manipulation. The Pope identified the face they were confronting as Ronan’s rationality.

• Yuchuan Yingjie woke from being Soul Hosted and watched the Pope’s nearly lifeless puppet maintain control over the first-class cabin.
• Bai Xinyan reported that the True God had caught Ronan’s position again, and the airship’s windows showed growing scorch marks as the search continued.
• Yuchuan Yingjie considered calling Takemoto Shigeru, but Bai Xinyan and Beiye Hayato warned that Ronan’s water manipulation might be affecting the water in his bottle.
• Yuchuan Yingjie returned the bottle to Bai Xinyan and asked what she had concluded about Ronan.
• Bai Xinyan asked which of the three fundamental faces in the Persona dossier they were facing, and the Pope answered that it was rationality.

Yuchuan Yingjie watched Bai Xinyan and the Pope try to use the airship passengers to detect Ronan’s methods, but Ronan’s power exceeded their expectations. The Pope’s puppet died as his consciousness shifted into a Tree Nest framework formed from the passengers, leaving Yuchuan able to glimpse the battle where the True God still failed to catch Ronan.

• Bai Xinyan followed the Pope puppet’s instructions to expand the Mental Ocean Mimicry Scenery across the airship and explained that it was meant to capture traces of Ronan’s methods.
• The Pope said Ronan’s ability to evade and counterattack was beyond expectations, then identified his methods as extremely pure.
• As the Pope puppet reached its limit, the Pope moved his consciousness into a Tree Nest framework formed from the life magnetic fields of everyone in first class, including Yuchuan Yingjie.
• The Pope explained that Ronan bypassed the manipulation of human emotions and desires to work directly with Space-Time Configuration, making his interference difficult to capture.
• Yuchuan’s new connection to the Mental Domain let him glimpse the battlefield, where the True God’s attacks continued to strike empty air as Ronan remained embedded in the void.

Yuchuan Yingjie observed the pursuit through the Pope’s Tree Nest and gained a clearer understanding of the True God’s method, while the Pope recognized his talent and invited him to train at the Amaterasu Divine Court. The airship’s shadow was suddenly rocked by an impact, and Bai Xinyan announced that the pursuers had finally collided.

• Yuchuan Yingjie reasoned that the True God’s pursuit was like a trawl net closing around Ronan as they neared Ban City.
• The Pope praised Yuchuan Yingjie’s ability to observe and analyze, then explained that Ronan was in a low-consumption state within the void interlayer.
• Yuchuan Yingjie grew overwhelmed by the information, and Bai Xinyan urged him to clear his mind and handed him water.
• The Pope invited Yuchuan Yingjie to cultivate at the Amaterasu Divine Court when they returned to Ban City.
• An impact shook the Tree Nest across the Material and Mental Layers, and Bai Xinyan said the pursuers had finally collided.

Yuchuan Yingjie observed Ronan and the true god’s clash through the airship’s cloud-filled surroundings until the strain made him collapse, disrupting the Tree Nest and destroying the Pope’s puppet. Bai Xinyan and Beiye Hayato then spotted Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring Fortress ahead, just as a blinding attack descended toward it.

• Yuchuan Yingjie recognized that the expanding storm clouds and their effects came from Ronan and the true god’s clash, and he watched Ronan defend himself by manipulating moisture.
• Yuchuan Yingjie collapsed from the strain of analyzing the battle, shaking the Tree Nest’s structure and exposing its occupants to damaging light and heat.
• The Pope restored the Tree Nest, but the disruption burned away the puppet’s remaining vital blood and left it a dried corpse.
• Bai Xinyan stepped past the fallen puppet and went to the Observation Deck, where Beiye Hayato joined her.
• Bai Xinyan and Beiye Hayato identified the cloud-built fortification ahead as Ronan’s Blood Intent Ring Fortress.
• A dazzling light plunged toward the fortress, and the moisture-rich cloud mass appeared to ignite.

Bai Xinyan, Beiye Hayato, and the Pope unleashed a massive attack against the Cloud Pass Fortress, destroying much of it but failing to reach Ronan himself. The Pope concluded that Ronan possessed an ability that had to be taken seriously, then the unstable Tree Nest collapsed.

• The Tree Nest drew on Beiye Hayato and the others' Soul Power as the Fusang Divine Tree Great Divine Treasure struck the Cloud Pass Fortress twice with the Sun Wheel.
• Beiye Hayato perceived the giant tree and Sun Wheel through the void, then suffered severe spiritual pain as the attack hit the fortress.
• The Sun Wheel's final strike tore a kilometer-wide gap through the fortress and left the surrounding cloud masses riddled with holes.
• Bai Xinyan and Beiye Hayato recovered as the Pope explained that the attack had shattered Ronan's framework but had not reached his actual existence.
• The Pope said the strike confirmed Ronan had an ability that demanded serious attention, and the Tree Nest structure collapsed.

After the Tree Nest collapsed, Beiye Hayato and Bai Xinyan dealt with the airship’s aftermath while fearing Professor Ronan’s response. Ronan reviewed how True God and the Pope had struck him, then recognized that the Altar Spiderweb had spread through nearly all the airship’s passengers and was becoming exceptionally well hidden.

• The Tree Nest collapsed, and Beiye Hayato received a flood of communications as the airship’s first-class cabin returned to reality.
• Bai Xinyan reassured Beiye Hayato, completed work in the Virtual Work Area, and urged him to focus on their duties rather than trouble in Ban City.
• Beiye Hayato began handling the aftermath, including the dazed bodyguards and the unconscious Yuchuan Yingjie and Shanbei Xia Hui, while outside inquiries repeatedly mentioned Ronan.
• Ronan reviewed how True God and the Pope used the Sun Wheel to collapse his Space-Time Bubble, forcing him to reassemble and exposing part of his capabilities.
• Ronan examined information the Altar Spiderweb had gathered through Yuchuan Yingjie and the others, then realized it connected nearly all passengers aboard the airship and had become difficult to detect.

Captain Jimmy’s team attended a tactical seminar on the battle between Ronan and True God, then received an assignment to assist the Amaterasu Order in Ban City. Bai Xinyan’s name appeared in Jimmy’s mission message just as she and Yuchuan Yingjie returned to Ban City Airport aboard the airship.

• Captain Jimmy raged over Bai Xinyan’s obstruction and ordered an intelligence clerk to turn his accusations into an official report.
• A high-priority notice summoned Jimmy’s action team to an immersive tactical seminar, where they studied footage of the Intercontinental Airship Defense War and Ronan’s battle with True God.
• After the seminar, Jimmy learned that his team would temporarily help the Amaterasu Order in Ban City, but the mission details did not say who their contact was.
• An instant message containing Bai Xinyan’s name reached Jimmy, worsening his mood as Mende realized she might be involved in the assignment.
• Bai Xinyan’s airship returned to Ban City Airport, and Yuchuan Yingjie feared that he and the airship were being delivered as bait to a demon.

After revealing his identity, Ronan dealt with messages from his friends while sensing the worldwide attention gathering around his name through the Altar Spiderweb. He used that vast web of emotional echoes to begin constructing a figure resembling himself, though some details remained unfinished.

• Ronan explained the incident to He Yueyin, Sister Cat's Eye, and other friends and acquaintances after the battle.
• Ronan sensed that the Altar Spiderweb now connected to more than ninety percent of the world's Awakened, with ordinary people's bubbles spanning an even broader area.
• Ronan recognized that the global attention surrounding his name was creating a constant information storm through the spiderweb.
• Ronan processed the incoming emotional echoes and used the Altar Spiderweb to form a three-dimensional figure that reflected himself, leaving some details to adjust.

Ronan refined the Mirror Image formed from hundreds of thousands of people’s impressions, using its distortions to clarify the limits and structure of his abilities. As the Veil of Silence absorbed those distortions and his own accumulated techniques, he found a strange model resembling the Blood Soul Temple.

• Ronan anchored the unstable Mirror Image with the core he had built from his theories and abilities, then used deduction to separate what he could and could not do.
• The distorted elements he expelled formed another Mirror Image, crossed into the Real World, and merged with the Veil of Silence.
• Ronan examined the masks and templates stored in the Veil, including designs derived from the Water Condensation Ring and the unfinished Cloud Pass.
• Ronan’s experiments intertwined the Mirror Image with his real self and transformed the surrounding Space-Time Bubble into shifting Smoke Mist.
• Ronan noticed a half-familiar model in the Veil that resembled a mountain altar and wondered if it was the Blood Soul Temple.

Snake Tongue and Yin Le witnessed a power linked to the Fusang Divine Tree spread across Ban City as the Amaterasu Order launched a citywide registration drive to find Ronan or another hidden presence. Captain Jimmy joined Bai Xinyan, Yuchuan Yingjie, and the Baiji Pope as they prepared to search the city, then pointed out that his Ability User neighbors had not registered.

• Snake Tongue and Yin Le watched strange power distort the dawn clouds over North Mountain Lake, and Snake Tongue identified it as a sealing or confinement method tied to the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Yin Le and Snake Tongue saw Captain Jimmy's aircraft take off and found a notice from the Ban City Branch ordering Ability Users to register and report their locations under the Amaterasu Order's projected Divine Kingdom.
• Yin Le and Snake Tongue worried that the registration drive would expose their identities and Ronan's false identity as Mister Mo.
• Captain Jimmy arrived at the Amaterasu Order's search operation, where Bai Xinyan told him and Yuchuan Yingjie that the Order had not yet found its target because strange spacetime interference was shielding it.
• The Baiji Pope ordered a wider search, and Bai Xinyan reported that more than 3,400 people had registered, including 700 Awakened or above, before setting a 1:30 p.m. deadline for further checks.
• Captain Jimmy asked whether his group had to register and told Bai Xinyan that several Ability Users he had been staying near had not reported in.

Yin Le and Snake Tongue connected with Cat's Eye through Ronan's spiritual domain and watched a vision of the Cloud Fortress and the Blood Soul Temple. The vision revealed a vast altar sustained by countless souls, with Ronan at its center, and ended as the three women joined a hymn of praise.

• Yin Le and Snake Tongue sensed a spiritual connection between them while hiding from the Amaterasu Order's sunlight interference in Ban City.
• Cat's Eye joined their mental exchange, introduced herself, and discussed Ronan's confusing arrangements and the crisis in Ban City.
• The three women watched the Cloud Fortress change and saw the Blood Soul Temple appear amid scenes of powerful creatures and strange forces fighting in the clouds.
• Snake Tongue, Yin Le, and Cat's Eye heard a low, rhythmic noise and discovered that their theater-like space was filled with countless smoky figures, soul flames, and chains.
• A colossal altar and its soul network came into view as Ronan trampled a Human-Faced Spider demon and stood at the center of a gigantic Cloak.
• Cat's Eye and the others joined the hymn, “My Heart is a Prison, My Heart is the Furnace; My Heart is the Mirror, My Heart is the Kingdom.”