Chapter Summaries

Ronan studied how Ceremonial Ancient Script could help him understand the cosmos and considered why Earth was absent from the Sky Abyss Empire’s star charts. He resolved to investigate the connection between Earth Local Time-Space and the Han Guang Star System, then received a call from Mora about materials she had sent.

• Ronan reasoned that Earth and the Sky Abyss Empire might lie beyond each other’s observable ranges, but that their faster-than-light contact had already irreversibly affected Earth Local Time-Space.
• Ronan used the Inner Universe Simulator to view Earth and the Moon, then enlarged the detailed but lifeless projection of the Han Guang Star System.
• Ronan decided to pursue a major project restoring the links between the Han Guang Star System and Earth Local Time-Space by studying both regions and their histories.
• Mora called Ronan and asked him to review the outline she had sent; Ronan told her to follow her own ideas and ended the call.

Ronan examined the materials Mora had sent and then used the Inner Universe Simulator to reconsider Earth’s surrounding planar structures. He concluded that understanding the Deep Blue World could clarify its possible connection to Ancient Gods and the wider time-space links involving Earth and the Han Guang Star System.

• Ronan opened Mora’s materials and recognized their recycled layout, Master Xiu’s photograph, and the pointed headings as an attempt to entice him into investigating the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan shifted the simulator’s focus to the planar structures around Earth and compared the Cloud Top World, the Mist Labyrinth, and the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan reasoned that the Deep Blue World might possess a Godly Body connected to Ancient Gods, drawing on Li Wei’s Advanced Formula and control of the world.
• Ronan reconsidered the Sky Abyss Spirit Network and the distant connection between Earth and the Han Guang Star System through the perspective of Ancient Gods.
• Ronan concluded that learning the nature of the Deep Blue World and its possible divinity would help explain its relationship with the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison and Earth’s surrounding time-space.

Ronan reviewed the messages and proposals accumulating around him, then noticed a problem with his physical training before receiving Mora’s final data on Master Xiu and the Deep Blue World. The chapter ended with the revelation that the Deep Blue World’s Stone Shell Sun was actually a high-energy radiation mine.

• Ronan read through his messages and considered how cooperation proposals could help move his plans forward.
• Ronan ordered the Experiment Field’s test subjects to hunt and collect while Hunters spread out from the cargo ship.
• Ronan’s warm-up revealed that he could no longer sense the flaws in his body as clearly as he once had, and he recognized he had reached a threshold.
• Mora sent Ronan the completed data set, which expanded on Xiu Shenyu’s experiments and described the Deep Blue World as an endless sea.
• Ronan learned that laboratories orbited a gigantic Stone Shell Sun in the Deep Blue World, a dangerous place known as a high-energy radiation mine.

Ronan reviewed Mora’s account of the Deep Blue World’s trapped miners and recognized a scene from his own Psychic Map, which brought the Soul Order back to mind. He then discussed the Experiment Field and the resource demands of his global project with Mora, inviting her to visit.

• Ronan read Mora’s account of the Deep Blue World’s miners and saw a photograph of a Modified Human tearing away a burning arm to survive.
• Ronan recognized a similar image in an old Psychic Map and remembered that he had drawn it after encountering a miner associated with the Soul Order.
• Ronan paused his call with Mora to speak with Lanier of the Justice Cult about launching the Experiment Field.
• Mora questioned whether Earth’s resources could support Ronan’s global project, and Ronan said it needed priorities, reserves, and exploration of resources such as the Deep Blue World.
• Mora asked to visit the Experiment Field, and Ronan welcomed her and anyone else who wanted to come.

Li Taisheng observed the growing strain around the sinkhole project and discovered Mountain Lord and Yuan Wuwei using reconnaissance satellites to watch Ronan. The chapter ended with Mountain Lord asking whether Lanier’s sect was collaborating with Ronan on a project.

• Li Taisheng noted that sinkhole noise, the variety-show crew, and rising tensions had lowered the exploration team's morale.
• Li Taisheng saw a Burner soldier complain about Songkan and the program crew as their vehicles left camp.
• Li Taisheng found Mountain Lord, Yuan Wuwei, and the Deep Blue Walker commanders gathered near the command tent.
• Li Taisheng entered the tent and recognized Ronan in a reconnaissance-satellite feed from a cargo ship.
• Mountain Lord invited Li Taisheng to watch the satellite livestream and asked whether Lanier's sect was collaborating with Ronan.

Mountain Lord, Li Taisheng, Yuan Wuwei, and Tu Ge monitored Ronan and discussed intelligence about the New Plane and a major project. A rippling distortion appeared above the cargo ship, and Quan Minhe emerged, confirming that the transfer project had begun.

• Mountain Lord showed Li Taisheng a transcript of Mora's recent conversation with The Other Side, which discussed the Deep Blue World and a ten-billion project.
• Mountain Lord, Yuan Wuwei, and Tu Ge debated the New Plane and the project's political pitch while watching Ronan through satellite imagery.
• Yuan Wuwei noticed the satellite image blur as ripples and fleeting silhouettes appeared in the void above the cargo ship.
• Quan Minhe emerged from the distortion, landed on the deck, and surveyed the area while communicating with command personnel.
• Ronan judged the successful transfer an opportunity to study the Deep Blue World from the Wilderness land.

Ronan studied the Deep Blue World because its entanglement with Earth’s Local Time-Space could threaten his spatial-temporal abilities and leave gaps in his understanding. While Quan Minhe cautiously surveyed the Thunder Pool Experiment Field, Ronan reexamined an old fused Psychic Map and recognized that its tangled elements needed to be separated.

• Ronan assessed the Deep Blue World as a dangerous, sealed component of Local Time-Space that Li Wei might exploit to disrupt his spatial-temporal transfers.
• Ronan reviewed his two-stage movement abilities, which relied on his own transit points and Magneto-Optical Mica, and considered intelligence gathering, infiltration, and armed reconnaissance as ways to study the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan regarded the Thunder Pool Experiment Field project as a potential opportunity to investigate the Deep Blue World, though the Justice Cult had sent only Quan Minhe for its initial visit.
• Quan Minhe carefully surveyed the Thunder Pool Experiment Field’s foredeck and used auxiliary equipment to model it while Ronan chose not to interrupt him.
• Ronan studied the Psychic Maps he had made in Ban City, recalled how one depicted Gong Qi, Luo Yuan, and Li Wei while another drew on a dead Miner’s memories, and judged their fused structure too cluttered.

Ronan used the Justice Cult’s simultaneous deployments from Ji City and Los Angeles to study how long-distance displacement affected Earth Local Time-Space and the Deep Blue World. As the experiment neared its end, the External Neuron detected new information and a violent interference entered the time-space structure.

• Ronan continued segmenting his Psychic Map, using Ceremonial Ancient Script and Tian Yuan Common Language to separate useful clues from unnecessary associations.
• Quan Minhe inspected the Thunder Pool Experiment Field, and the Justice Cult told Ronan that its second batch of experimental personnel was ready to depart.
• Ronan and High Priest Lanier agreed to begin the experiment, sending personnel from Ji City and Los Angeles into the Thunder Pool Experiment Field.
• The arrivals streaked through the sky like a meteor shower, giving Ronan new evidence that he used to revise his Psychic Map and Inner Universe Simulator.
• The External Neuron flagged valid external information as a scorching source of interference entered the time-space structure, and Lanier cursed, “That damn boar...”

Geng Huai charged at Ronan’s cargo ship to test the Experiment Field, but Ronan trapped him inside a fragile-looking Space Fault. Geng Huai began forcing his way through it, leaving the Soap Bubble-like boundary twisting violently above the river.

• Ronan recognized Geng Huai as the Transcendental Species who had stealthily approached the cargo ship during the deployment.
• High Priest Lanier warned Ronan that Geng Huai was difficult to handle and influential in the military.
• Geng Huai reached the cargo ship and admitted that someone had asked him to test the Experiment Field’s value.
• Ronan raised a transparent membrane in Geng Huai’s path, and Geng Huai collided with it without reaching the ship.
• Geng Huai identified the barrier as a Space Fault and attacked it, making the Soap Bubble-like boundary twist and threaten to collapse.

Ronan used the Inner Universe Simulator to analyze the Psychic Map while keeping Geng Huai trapped in the Soap Bubble, then invited High Priest Lanier to help turn the project into a tactical board game. Lanier selected a scenario and monster, transforming the space around Geng Huai into a closed grassland battlefield as Ronan warned that the trapped boar would soon go mad.

• Ronan found that the Psychic Map's meaningful parts had been incorporated into the Inner Universe Simulator, but his attempts to capture his inspiration produced backend errors.
• Lanier took control of Quan Minhe's body and joined Ronan to observe the Soap Bubble holding Geng Huai.
• Ronan explained that the Soap Bubble was part of the project and that its spectacle could serve as a visitor passage and attract investment.
• Ronan created a game-selection interface and asked Lanier to choose a tactical board game scenario and monster.
• Lanier selected the default grassland scenario and an aberration, causing the Soap Bubble's interior to change into a closed grassland battlefield with the monster facing Geng Huai.

Lanier learned to operate Ronan’s War Chess Mode while Geng Huai smashed the Stitching Monsters placed inside his Time-Space Bubble. As the bubble began to buckle under Geng Huai’s force, Lanier discovered that the cargo ship was embedded in a vast framework of interlocking Time-Space Bubbles.

• Ronan explained that Lanier could deploy pre-made Stitching Monsters in War Chess Mode, where victory depended on whether the Time-Space Bubble survived.
• While Lanier asked questions, Geng Huai destroyed two Stitching Monsters almost instantly and accused Ronan of playing him.
• Geng Huai’s shockwaves battered the Time-Space Bubble, but their force dissipated before reaching the surrounding area.
• Lanier noticed that the experimental personnel aboard the cargo ship remained alive and active despite the ship’s silence.
• Lanier sensed that the cargo ship contained countless overlapping Time-Space Bubbles, revealing the extensive preparation behind Ronan’s setup.

Lanier studied Ronan’s elaborate Time-Space Bubble game and tried to understand its underlying theory, while his distraction let the simulated scenes collapse. Ronan then compressed Geng Huai’s bubble into a black pearl and hurled it away, leaving Lanier to wonder what would happen next.

• Lanier played Ronan’s Time-Space Bubble game, admired its construction, and asked about the theory behind it.
• Ronan explained that the game drew on Space-Time Configuration examples and Truth Communion visualization, which he called the Grand Coordinate System.
• Lanier became lost in thought, neglected the Stitching Monsters, and let the Time-Space Bubble scenes collapse until they were unavailable.
• Lanier declined to continue playing, but Ronan selected the Starry Sky scene and compressed Geng Huai’s bubble into a black pearl.
• Lanier warned Ronan that Geng Huai did not deserve death, and Ronan threw the bubble far away like a rising meteor.

Ronan used Magneto-Optical Mica to send Geng Huai’s unstable Time-Space Bubble through a forming Star Gate, while its magnetic and lightning forces disrupted Lanier and Quan Minhe. As the displacement revealed hidden details in Earth Local Time-Space, Ronan and the pale Demon Eye encountered each other’s gaze, and the chapter ended with Ronan’s railing breaking in his hands.

• Geng Huai struggled inside the Time-Space Bubble, unleashing a violent aura that tore apart the clouds and provoked purple-black lightning that dragged at Lanier’s perception.
• Lanier’s contact with the Magnetic Light and Lightning Fire disrupted his coordination with Quan Minhe, but the two regained harmony and Lanier memorized the experience.
• Ronan directed Magneto-Optical Mica to form an embryonic Star Gate and guide Geng Huai’s unstable Time-Space Bubble through Earth Local Time-Space.
• Ronan sensed something hidden behind layers of structure, and Magneto-Optical Mica intensified its Magneto-Light to probe the surrounding barriers.
• Ronan and the pale Demon Eye, which he recognized from the open sea outside Ha City, saw each other as Magneto-Light stirred the information within the eye.
• Ronan reflected on Li Wei’s curiosity and wariness toward Magneto-Optical Mica, then accidentally broke the rusted railing he was holding.

Lanier recognized that Ronan’s confrontation with the Deep Blue World had caused a new disturbance, while reports linked the South Atlantic anomaly and Geng Huai’s distress signal to the unfolding conflict. Ronan asked whether Li Wei might act irrationally when provoked, and the chapter ended with Tu Ge telling Mountain Lord not to be disappointed as the camp watched Ronan on satellite imagery.

• Lanier noticed signs that an Extraordinary Species-level clash had disturbed the Abyss Zone and Extreme Domain, and recognized traces of the event in Ronan’s eyes.
• Ronan asked Lanier whether Li Wei could handle being provoked and explained that he suspected Li Wei was using reason to do something dangerous.
• Lanier received reports of a suspected Deep Blue World gateway in the South Atlantic, a global magnetic storm, and a distress signal from Geng Huai.
• Ronan continued striking at the Deep Blue World’s connection to Earth, but the Pale Demon Eye stayed closed and the world returned to Dark Seclusion.
• At the survey camp, Yuan Wuwei and Mountain Lord reacted to the restored satellite signal while Tu Ge watched Ronan sitting on the ship’s aft superstructure.
• Tu Ge looked at Mountain Lord and told him not to be disappointed.

After an unusual eruption at the sinkhole, tensions grew as Mountain Lord lingered at its entrance and Li Taisheng learned that the cult’s senior members were to avoid the Abyss Zone. Yuan Wuwei decided to leave for the Thunder Pool Experiment Field, while Li Taisheng waited for Quan Minhe, whose arrival was teased at the end of the chapter.

• A high-energy Jet Stream erupted from the sinkhole, shaking the camp and damaging equipment, and Meng Tu reported that the team should investigate.
• Yuan Wuwei announced that he was going to the Thunder Pool Experiment Field and tried to persuade Songkan to come with him, but Songkan refused.
• Yuan Wuwei told Songkan that he suspected the sinkhole was an artificial distraction, and Mountain Lord overheard them before returning to watch the vitrified entrance.
• Li Taisheng learned that Secret Covenant High Priests and above were to avoid the Abyss Zone and accepted help from the incoming Quan Minhe with the Dream Template.
• While waiting for Quan Minhe, Li Taisheng, Liu Chengzai, and Baze discussed Raven’s absence; someone in the darkness asked whether they could ask her directly, and Li Taisheng recognized Minhe.

Li Taisheng met with High Priest Lanier, who had spoken with Professor Ronan aboard the cargo ship, and heard his interpretation of Ronan’s openness about the sinkhole and other research. Lanier urged Li Taisheng to look for clues in the sinkhole and pay particular attention to the Blood God Ant.

• Li Taisheng greeted High Priest Lanier through Quan Minhe, and Lanier confirmed that he had communicated with the person aboard the cargo ship.
• Lanier asked Baze about the siblings, then called him Professor Ronan’s lackey and said he would no longer be suited to stay in the Cult.
• Lanier said Baze could help with the sinkhole because Professor Ronan would not mind, and argued that Ronan was candid about what he was showing them.
• Lanier told Li Taisheng to look for additional clues in the sinkhole and the Blood God Ant, which he believed held special significance to Raven and Professor Ronan.
• Lanier concluded that Professor Ronan shared his research so others could work together, and advised Li Taisheng to visit the Thunder Pool Experiment Field if he had the chance.

Mountain Lord and Yuan Wuwei discussed the Justice Cult’s plans for Mountain Lord’s replacement experiment and the unexplained Human-Faced Spider. Yuan Wuwei left after asking Mountain Lord to go with him, and Mountain Lord replied with a safe-journey sticker.

• Mountain Lord stood near the underground excavation site’s collapse point while workers kept their distance.
• Yuan Wuwei approached Mountain Lord and asked about the Justice Cult’s new Sacrifice Knight and the Replacement Plan.
• Yuan Wuwei explained that Lieutenant General Joseph had been investigating whether the Human-Faced Spider was a non-native Fantasy Species.
• Mountain Lord struck Yuan Wuwei’s shoulder when he teased him about the Sacrifice Knight, then avoided explaining what he hoped to gain from the experiment.
• Mountain Lord urged Yuan Wuwei to focus on research rather than imitate one of his teachers.
• Yuan Wuwei asked Mountain Lord again to leave with him, but Mountain Lord sent a safe-journey sticker instead.

Li Taisheng and High Priest Lanier discussed the cult’s warming relations with the person at the Experiment Field and the growing pressure on Mountain Lord and others as the world shifted toward conflict between two powers. Lanier expanded the Dream Map to gather information and explained that he had seen complex structures at the Experiment Field, though the details still needed to be compiled.

• Lanier’s group explored the underground cave and endured a high-energy Jet Stream before returning to camp, where Baze departed after fulfilling his duty as a Sacrifice Knight.
• Li Taisheng considered what Baze’s departure suggested about the cult’s relationship with the person at the Experiment Field, then entered the Dream Map with Lanier.
• Li Taisheng described the camp’s reactions and Mountain Lord’s tense state, and Lanier said that the conflict between two powers would force people to choose sides.
• Lanier expanded the Dream Map across the surrounding area and showed Li Taisheng images of the Thunder Pool Experiment Field and its complex spacetime structures.
• Lanier said he could not fully interpret what he had seen and that their team would gather information, adding that the person at the Experiment Field already knew about their efforts.

Ronan discussed the Mist Labyrinth and Thunder Pool Experiment Field with the Martial Emperor, who arrived in person after revealing she had hired Geng Huai to test the project. Her sudden transfer destabilized the field, and she questioned Ronan about his plans for the New Plane, whose urgency had faded as his power and influence grew.

• The Martial Emperor praised the materials Ronan had provided about the Mist Labyrinth but said the place did not suit her interests.
• Ronan pitched the Thunder Pool Experiment Field to the Martial Emperor, who revealed that Geng Huai had been her trial participant.
• The Martial Emperor transferred directly to Ronan’s Experiment Field, and her arrival disrupted its spatial structures, damaged parts of the field, and stirred nearby Aberrant Species.
• The Martial Emperor questioned whether Ronan intended the Experiment Field to receive guests and noted that it might frighten them away.
• The Martial Emperor asked whether anyone had recently confronted Ronan about the New Plane, prompting him to recognize that perceptive people might see through the story.

Ronan showed the Martial Emperor the Time-Space Bubble system, and she criticized its weak foundations while recognizing his diligent experimentation. She warned him that the rivalry with Li Wei was creating pressure and jealousy, then spoke of the burden of knowledge and told Ronan he needed a nest of his own, revealing that she was temporarily without a home.

• The Martial Emperor asked whether Ronan had considered the consequences of provoking Li Wei, and Ronan admitted that he had.
• Ronan showed the Martial Emperor the Time-Space Bubble scenarios, which she judged flashy and poorly grounded but approved as a draft for gathering data.
• The Martial Emperor toured the Cargo Hold with Ronan and praised his diligence while warning him that flaunting his wealth could provoke jealousy.
• The Martial Emperor explained that people were struggling to adjust to the pressure created by Ronan and Li Wei's rivalry, and urged Ronan to understand why the situation existed.
• The Martial Emperor told Ronan that knowledge had weight and that he needed a nest where he could settle; when he asked about her, she said she was temporarily without a home.