Chapter Summaries

A military convoy camped in the Wilderness while its members discussed Long Qi and Raven’s livestream and shared stories about their lives. An alert announced that someone was approaching the camp, and Cat’s Eye recognized the newcomers as more annoying than Long Qi.

• Zeng Xiao and Jin Ying discussed the camp’s costly mosquito-killing defenses and the dangers of Aberrant Species.
• Jin Ying replayed Long Qi’s livestream, where he explained Aberrant Nests and the threat of Reverse Fusion.
• Fris joined Cat’s Eye, Jin Ying, and Zeng Xiao, and they talked about Long Qi and Raven’s Wilderness livestreams.
• Lang Zhihe asked Zeng Xiao about his daughter Cen Ran, who was recovering at home and following her favorite stars.
• An alarm alerted the camp to someone approaching, and Cat’s Eye said the newcomers were more annoying than Long Qi.

The military camp received a visit from Li Taisheng and Baze of the Justice Cult, and Li Taisheng greeted Cat's Eye before proposing an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the Observation Group. The chapter ended with Li Taisheng asking Baze to become his exclusive Sacrifice Knight and probing what Cat's Eye had sensed during the Logic Boundary incident.

• Jin Ying watched Li Taisheng and Baze enter the camp and learned that Li Taisheng was a High Priest who recognized Cat's Eye.
• Li Taisheng greeted Cat's Eye and asked her to convey his regards to Mister Luo, while Cat's Eye denied that they were familiar.
• Colonel Meng Tu recalled being assigned to mediate the conflict between Fris and Lang Zhihe as Professor Ding Zhiying asked the new arrivals not to disturb the insect corpses.
• Li Taisheng offered the Observation Group information about aberrant species in exchange for sharing intelligence, and Professor Ding supported the proposal.
• Li Taisheng returned to his group's camp and asked Baze to become his exclusive Sacrifice Knight, then discussed Cat's Eye's perception during the Logic Boundary incident.

Li Taisheng connected with the Justice Cult’s Human-Faced Spider imitation, the Dream Weaver, and returned to camp with Baze. He activated its dream-weaving ability to gather information, beginning with Baze as his first target.

• Li Taisheng connected to the Dream Weaver, a sophisticated imitation of a Human-Faced Spider created by the Justice Cult.
• Li Taisheng and Baze returned to their camp, where Li Taisheng reflected on Baze’s mysterious survival and rapidly growing strength.
• Li Taisheng ordered Baze to take the latter half of the night watch, and Baze agreed.
• Li Taisheng entered his tent and used High Priest Lanier’s blessing to activate the Dream Weaver’s ability.
• The Dream Weaver searched the Mental Ocean for clues by gathering living beings’ conscious and unconscious observations, and Li Taisheng chose Baze as its first target.

Li Taisheng guided the Dream Weaver through the Mental Ocean to build a dream map of the Wilderness, using High Priest Lanier’s template while trying not to overthink or become lost in the dream. As he observed Cat’s Eye’s image and prepared to investigate her recent change in personality, a blurry shadow appeared where she was looking.

• Li Taisheng watched Baze for signs of hidden information but found only the same focused thoughts as before.
• Li Taisheng sent the Dream Weaver toward the Military Vehicle Encampment and let High Priest Lanier’s template shape the gathered information into a map of the surrounding Wilderness.
• Li Taisheng observed the map filling with terrain, Aberrant Species, and the encampment’s people, while he reminded himself to watch rather than analyze.
• Li Taisheng noticed Cat’s Eye’s vivid image and inferred that her personality had changed noticeably in the recent past.
• Cat’s Eye stared in a particular direction on the Dream Map, and a blurry shadow appeared at the point where she was looking.

Li Taisheng used the Dream Weaver to gather information from the Military Vehicle Encampment and saw Ronan’s image appear on the Dream Map. After a violent disturbance to the south disrupted the map, Baze warned of a high-level battle, and Li Taisheng sensed the Abyss Zone barrier shaking as he looked up at rapidly moving clouds.

• Li Taisheng recognized Ronan in the Dream Map and feared the image might draw the real Ronan’s attention.
• Li Taisheng continued gathering information, reasoning that the Justice Cult had deliberately used Ronan as potential bait in its search for the Gate of Truth.
• Ronan’s image dispersed into clouds over the Wilderness, leaving Li Taisheng uneasy until the Dream Template’s warning jolted him out of his thoughts.
• Li Taisheng ordered the Dream Weaver to patrol automatically, but intense emotional information spread across the map’s southern edge and its clouds rushed southward.
• Li Taisheng severed his connection to the Dream Weaver as Baze entered and reported an abnormality that might be an extremely intense, high-level battle to the south.
• Li Taisheng sensed the Abyss Zone barrier shaking and looked up to see thick clouds racing across the night sky.

Li Taisheng and the military learned that Ronan’s Xia City Branch had destroyed the A-class Aberrant Nest Algae Island in the delta using the Blood Intent Ring Fortress. As the delta stirred in response, Meng Tu announced that a second test near Huai City would force the team to change its plans and withdraw researchers.

• Li Taisheng saw a fast-moving cloud and sensed a huge battle about three hundred kilometers away, then joined Meng Tu and the others at the military encampment.
• Meng Tu confirmed that Xia City’s Branch was testing the Blood Intent Ring Fortress in the delta, while Cat’s Eye learned that Ronan had led an Astral Projection group there.
• Fris described the delta’s contaminated terrain and dangerous Aberrant Nests, including radiation-resistant threats.
• Meng Tu explained that the Branch had destroyed Algae Island with a new weapon to open a shipping route, provoking a restless response across the delta.
• Meng Tu said the second test would take place about ninety kilometers southwest, near Huai City’s Satellite City and the Poison Swamp Zone, so the team would suspend its plans and withdraw researchers.

Meng Tu’s team watched a mist-borne Cloud Fortress attack the Poison Swamp Zone, while Li Taisheng inferred that it was channeling and shaping Abyss Turbulence through water vapor. The experiment continued as Meng Tu ordered Fris to receive an airdrop from Xia City, and Li Taisheng was left dizzy after being called back to attention.

• Ding Zhiying asked when the team would withdraw, and Meng Tu kept everyone on standby while scout drones assessed the situation.
• Li Taisheng watched the drone feed and identified the mist formation as a Cloud Fortress whose structure resembled Blood Intent Ring Fortress.
• The drone encountered the Poisonous Miasma Jet Streams near the Poison Swamp Zone, and the Cloud Fortress launched waves of unstable mist troops and equipment into the polluted area.
• Li Taisheng concluded that the platform was using water vapor to channel and shape Abyss Turbulence against the Poison Swamp Zone.
• Meng Tu ordered Fris to take two squads to receive and protect equipment, supplies, and maintenance personnel airdropped by Xia City, while Lady Cat's Eye coordinated the operation.

Li Taisheng joined Meng Tu’s force despite his depleted Soul Power, then fell asleep while considering Ronan’s ambitions and the Blood Intent Ring Fortress experiment. He woke from a frightening dream in which the Dream Weaver had entered his consciousness, and learned that Ha City had passed the Temporary Census Act and Ronan had appeared on camera.

• Meng Tu asked Li Taisheng to move with the main force, and Li agreed while planning to gather information through the Dream Map.
• Li Taisheng left the encampment, told Baze to keep watch, and went to rest in his vehicle with Liu Chengzai assisting.
• As he drifted off, Li Taisheng considered Ronan’s experiment, influence, and possible ambitions toward the Great Golden Triangle and beyond.
• Li Taisheng realized the Dream Weaver had infiltrated his dream and forced it out by visualizing the Balance of Truth, glimpsing a detached gaze within the creature’s Extreme Domain.
• Li Taisheng woke in terror and learned from Liu Chengzai that the Blood Intent Ring Fortress was advancing south and that Ha City had passed the Temporary Census Act, with Ronan appearing on camera.

Li Taisheng watched public footage of Ronan and struggled with the chilling connection between Ronan’s eyes and his own dream, while the church and military teams continued their mission. As the camp relaxed after a successful operation, disagreement over the Blood Intent Ring Fortress’s role stirred tension among the Deep Blue Walkers.

• Li Taisheng reviewed news and forum footage of Ha City’s Temporary Census Act and a cooperation ceremony, where Ronan appeared briefly beside Yabolun.
• Li Taisheng recognized Ronan’s indifferent eyes from his dream and decided not to contact High Priest Lanier, knowing his experiences were already being recorded through the Dream Template.
• Liu Chengzai told Li Taisheng that the two Deep Blue Walker Squads had returned from their operation.
• Li Taisheng joined Meng Tu and the others, learned the experiment was proceeding smoothly, and helped discuss the Observation Group’s route.
• Jin Ying praised the Blood Intent Ring Fortress’s mechanical forces, but another operation participant criticized the experiment as self-serving, leaving the group tense.

Burners argued over the risks of outdated Third Generation Cores and the taboo around a sensitive figure, while Long Qi’s live stream discussed the wilderness and recent policy shifts. The stream ended on hurried wingbeats coming from the nearby forest.

• Cha Zheng complained to Fris that Burners risked being discarded, and Lang Zhihe stopped them from discussing sensitive figures during a mission.
• Jin Ying told Cat's Eye she disliked the idea of replacing weak flesh with soaring machines, then perked up when Zeng Xiao announced Raven’s stream had updated.
• Long Qi reported that frightened beasts had forced his group to move camp and gave viewers their approximate location near Shu City and Full City.
• Long Qi discussed the differences between New World and Old World policies toward Wilderness Vagrants and the fallout from the Ha Xi Declaration.
• Long Qi wondered why Raven had not appeared on the stream before hurried flapping sounds came from the nearby forest.

Long Qi’s wilderness livestream turned into a battle when a flock of birds attacked him, apparently under the control of the mobile Aberrant Nest he and Raven had been tracking. After Long Qi fought off the assault, Raven reappeared in the forest.

• Long Qi gave viewers an update on the search for a mobile Aberrant Nest suspected of having undergone Reverse Fusion while he waited anxiously for Raven to respond.
• Long Qi spotted Ink circling overhead, and the livestream view shook as a flock of birds charged through the forest.
• Long Qi dodged the exploding birds and used trees for cover while the flock’s attacks damaged the woods around him.
• Long Qi followed Ink’s warning, struck an invisible target, and revealed a twitching creature as it fell to the ground.
• Raven appeared beneath a tree ahead of Long Qi.

Long Qi identified the bird that had attacked him as a Ghost Intestine and suspected it had been drained of blood by a Winged Bloodbat. As Raven exposed the bird’s still-active blood vessels and nerves, the livestream revealed evidence that the suspected virus transmission chain was at work.

• Long Qi killed the attacking Ghost Intestine, and the birds’ mass assault stopped.
• Long Qi explained the Ghost Intestine’s camouflage and judged it to be a host within an Aberrant Nest rather than the nest itself.
• Raven noticed the corpse had lost unusually little blood, and Long Qi found his Inner Armor damaged but himself unharmed.
• Long Qi connected the drained corpse to Winged Bloodbats, which Three Gates Security had identified as a suspected link in the Aberrant virus transmission chain.
• While Long Qi explained the bloodsuckers, Raven cut away the bird’s damaged chest and abdomen, exposing faintly twitching blood vessels and nerves.

Long Qi and Raven investigated a Ghost Intestine bird and discovered signs of a recently infected Superior Host nearby. As the bird’s remains reanimated, Ink knocked a hidden winged creature from a tree, leaving its identity and condition unclear.

• Raven told Long Qi that the Ghost Intestine bird’s activity did not match, then showed him fresh-looking bloodstains and corrosive marks on its back.
• Long Qi suspected a Superior Host had recently fed on and infected the bird, and he used detection equipment to locate suspicious, infected targets near a tree.
• Raven dropped the bird’s carcass, but its nerves and blood vessels propped it up as the scattered flesh began wriggling toward it and trying to reassemble.
• Raven said Ink heard something in the distance, and the enormous Crow suddenly dove through the branches.
• Ink knocked a curled winged creature from the tree, and it fell beside the Ghost Intestine bird’s remains, twitching and struggling.

Raven and Long Qi discovered Fire God Ants emerging from a Winged Bloodbat, while experts at the nearby Military Vehicle Encampment recognized the ants as an unexpected and important find. The chapter ended with at least five ants crawling from the bloodbat’s ear as it weakened.

• Raven spotted an abnormality in the Winged Bloodbat’s ear, and Ink pinned the struggling creature down.
• A tiny red Fire God Ant crawled from the bloodbat’s ear and climbed onto Ink’s claw before crawling back toward its host.
• Chen Qiang identified the ant as a Fire God Ant, and Professor Ding Zhiying ordered Lang Zhihe to turn around after hearing the discovery.
• Long Qi focused on the bloodbat as more Fire God Ants emerged from its ear, with at least five crawling out while the bloodbat continued to twitch.

Long Qi and Raven considered the Fire God Ants and the interference affecting the local Aberrant Nest, then received an offer to join a well-funded research expedition. The livestream went dark after Long Qi questioned whether ZM could air the project, while Zhong Man learned that a global event was seeking Resonators who could synchronize with Raven.

• Long Qi and Raven discussed whether the Fire God Ants were connected to the Aberrant Nest they had been tracking and whether to keep following the trail.
• Cat's Eye offered Raven and Long Qi a partnership with a research team studying Fire God Ants, a tunnel hypothesis, and possible Tunnel Creatures, backed by six Deep Blue Walker Squads.
• Long Qi questioned whether ZM could dare to air a sensitive project involving military cooperation, and the livestream screen went black.
• Du Qiong told Zhong Man that ZM was under pressure and asked her to help pass along a message to influential people.
• Du Qiong brought Zhong Man to a store advertising a global event to find Resonators who could synchronize with Raven.

Zhong Man tried Heart Degree Yoga’s Raven-inspired stillness test and qualified for a free month of private tutoring, while learning that Raven and her guardians had authorized the event. After meeting fellow Raven fan Mora, Zhong Man heard that a major revelation had surfaced: the Star Alliance Committee had declassified Deep Blue data about a new world beneath the sea.

• Zhong Man questioned Heart Degree Yoga’s promotions but decided to try its free Master-Level Private Tutoring Experience Class after seeing Raven named as the breathing benchmark.
• The guide showed Zhong Man an authorization document signed by Raven, Luo Shuqing, Mo Haihang, and Ronan.
• Zhong Man followed Raven’s breathing in a virtual pod, entered stillness, and earned excellent instrument readings.
• Zhong Man met Mora, another Raven fan, after leaving the testing room.
• Du Qiong rushed away after discovering that a major event had occurred, and Zhong Man saw a trending report about the declassified Deep Blue data and a new world beneath the sea.

After the Star Alliance Committee released documents about the Deep Blue World, panic and information overload spread through society. Zhong Man sought refuge in Miss Raven's Demi-Plane, where users began linking Raven and her discoveries to the Deep Blue World, and fresh claims drew her back into the flood of news.

• On July 15, the Star Alliance Committee released documents about the Deep Blue World, triggering widespread panic and panic-buying.
• Zhong Man found the campus supermarket closed, saw shoppers crowding Cloud Capital Shuiyi, and heard her parents discuss emergency meeting points.
• Zhong Man turned to Miss Raven's Demi-Plane, where Deep Sea Worshipper discussed plane theory and the forum debated the Deep Blue World.
• Deep Sea Worshipper said he hoped the field's true pioneers would step forward and guide others.
• Users began linking Miss Raven's Fire God Ant and the livestream's tunnel to the Deep Blue World, while a news alert reported renewed protests over a million missing people.

Ronan and Blood Demon discussed Li Wei’s long-standing influence, Yabolun’s condition, and the public backlash over the Deep Blue World. As people increasingly treated the New Plane as Ronan’s promise, Ronan reflected on how that imagined hope could be more useful than a bleak reality.

• Blood Demon described Li Wei as unnervingly steady and recalled his role in the events surrounding the Deep Blue Project in 1990.
• Blood Demon explained that many Extraordinary Species viewed Li Wei as an ideal of longevity, while Ronan’s actions had shaken that image.
• Ronan said Yabolun had surpassed Blood Demon in realm and explained that they were using each other, with Yabolun seeking to oppose Li Wei and Covenant Lord.
• News of protests over a million workers who never returned from Deep Blue reached Ha City, and Ronan and Blood Demon speculated about who had exposed the story.
• Blood Demon asked Ronan about the New Plane, and Ronan admitted he did not know what it was like.
• Ronan considered how the New Plane had become a shared hope associated with him and weighed that dream against the grim reality of Deep Blue.

Snake Tongue endured another destructive Sun Chain inspection in Ronan’s experimental Battlefield Time-Space, reflecting on how it had been built from dream fragments and repeatedly rebuilt. As the battlefield remained unstable, Ronan ordered her to prepare for a collision.

• Snake Tongue watched the Sun Chain sweep across the battlefield, disintegrating some combatants while she survived its scrutiny.
• Snake Tongue considered how Ronan had constructed the Battlefield Time-Space from Mist Labyrinth fragments and repeatedly tested its ruins as a template for imprinting.
• Snake Tongue recalled that her own imprint had formed her body there and that Mister Yabolun kept trying, unsuccessfully, to enter and withstand the Sun Chains.
• Snake Tongue listened to a song playing deep within the ruins, recognized it from Raven’s livestream trailer, and found it ill-suited to the hollow slaughter around her.
• Ronan sent Snake Tongue a direct order to prepare for collision.

Snake Tongue recounted how collisions with the Mist Labyrinth’s massive remnants had repeatedly threatened and transformed Ronan’s Battlefield Time-Space. After the plane recovered from a destructive collision, Ronan ordered Snake Tongue and Grey-Grey’s forces to prepare as another collision began.

• Snake Tongue explained how Battlefield Time-Space absorbed ordinary sandstorms while battling the larger objects eroded by the Mist Labyrinth.
• A meteor collision brought black rain, giant plants, toxic fungal filaments, and aberrations that nearly destroyed Battlefield Time-Space.
• The cloud mass unleashed lightning and Fireball Bombs, and the plane twisted apart before returning to its earlier state with fungal filaments and aberrations left behind.
• Ronan ordered Snake Tongue to prepare for a collision, and the forces on the battlefield turned toward the chaotic boundary.
• A towering shadow struck Battlefield Time-Space, causing an earthquake and tears in its structure as the base announced that the collision was in progress.
• Combat machines assembled in the Base Ruins, linked by a domain of translucent flame, and a will transmitted the order to prepare to land and commence combat.