Chapter Summaries

Long Qi and his companions discussed the open letter and Yuan Wuwei warned that powerful figures might try to test Ronan’s limits. As their Flying Shuttle entered the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s Activation Zone, Long Qi witnessed the Monarch’s blessings streaking toward Lake City and its Satellite Cities.

• Long Qi dismissed the open letter as unlike Ronan’s style, while Yuan Wuwei speculated about its author and the people drawn to the Dreamscape Game.
• Yuan Wuwei argued that the True Transmission system might offer a new path to awakening and warned that established Transcendental Species could fear being left behind.
• Yuan Wuwei accused powerful figures of wanting to stress-test the Dream World and suggested they might confront Ronan in the wilderness to gauge his strength.
• Long Qi cautioned Yuan Wuwei against voicing a possible plot to take down Ronan, but Yuan Wuwei said people were bound to probe the mysterious Deity.
• The Flying Shuttle entered the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s Activation Zone, where Long Qi saw multicolored energy threads spread across the mountains, mostly toward Lake City and its Satellite Cities.

Mora and the others discussed Hundred Peaks Monarch, the Association’s factions, and the nature of the Dream World as they approached the Supply Point’s function hall. There, a group of masked people from the Hun Dun Order greeted Constance and Mora, and Long Qi recognized the leader’s familiar voice.

• Mora and the others left the helipad amid the restless howls of Aberrant Species and the sound of Hundred Peaks Monarch’s Root System whipping through the air.
• Yuan Wuwei discussed underground caves, the Mist Labyrinth, and the Thunder Pool Experiment Field with Constance, while Mora urged Constance to join the faction she and Luo Yuan were building.
• Mora warned Yuan Wuwei not to assume he had Li Wei’s protection, and Yuan Wuwei mused about living and dying repeatedly in the Dream World.
• Constance explained that living beings could reveal the structure of time-space, prompting Long Qi to connect her words to Super Configuration Theory.
• Mora led the group into the function hall, where masked people rose and bowed; their leader greeted Constance and Mora, and Long Qi recognized his voice.

Long Qi and his companions met Deng Chun and learned that cult members entered the Dreamscape Game wearing masks they could not remove. A system warning revealed they had entered an experimental zone and were targeted by Magnetized Puppet Hun Dun, which took control of Deng Chun and his companions and arranged them into a formation before they roared.

• Long Qi recognized Deng Chun as the manager of Eagle Head Yard, and Deng Chun explained that blessed cult members entered the Dreamscape Game wearing unremovable masks.
• Yuan Wuwei pressed Deng Chun about his cult’s connection to the Dreamscape, while Long Qi tried to smooth over the exchange.
• A system message warned Long Qi and the others that they were in an experimental zone and had been targeted by Magnetized Puppet Hun Dun.
• Mora noticed an extra person among Deng Chun’s group, and Deng Chun became unable to move as the puppet took control of him and his four companions.
• Deng Chun and the others staggered into a V-shaped formation around the bronze-masked Hun Dun, then raised their arms and roared.

After waking from a chaotic Dream Game experience, Deng Chun struggled to recover his memories and contacted Lao Yao, whose new status left him bitter. A summons brought Deng Chun to the Deng Family’s old residence, where he was ordered to report his Dream Game experience and stay awake.

• Deng Chun woke from the Dream Game confused, remembered that events after meeting Long Qi’s group and two Extraordinary Species had become hazy, and was disturbed by the sight of the mountains outside Eagle Head Yard.
• Deng Chun spoke with Lao Yao, whose renewed health and powerful new position made Deng Chun resentful, and he needled Lao Yao about the Awareness Assembly and Cao Kai.
• Deng Chun received an encrypted order to bring the mask to the old residence, while Lao Yao ended their strained conversation and returned home.
• Deng Chun traveled to the Deng Family’s old residence, handed over the mask, and was escorted to a Quiet Room without seeing Deng Yunwei.
• Deng Chun received instructions to record his Dream Game experience in detail through thought-conversion mode, upload it, and avoid both voice and sleep.

Deng Chun pieced together evidence from blurry Dreamscape Game images and realized Hundred Peaks Monarch might be a living entity that needed the Faithful’s support. He marked a masked Magnetized Puppet as Hundred Peaks Monarch, leaving his handlers with a provocative clue.

• Deng Chun described what he remembered of the Dreamscape Game, then received images to arrange by sequence.
• Deng Chun identified the Human Character Array, an extra Magnetized Puppet, and its plain metal mask as key clues.
• Deng Chun recalled a system notification saying Hundred Peaks Monarch needed the Faithful’s support and concluded that it might be a biological entity.
• Deng Chun connected the Dreamscape Game and the puppet to the political conflict between Ronan’s Spokesperson and Lake City’s interest group, led by Gao Wenfu and Deng Yunwei.
• Deng Chun circled the masked puppet with a divine-looking halo and wrote, “Hundred Peaks Monarch.”

Deng Chun tried to use his insight into the threat posed by Hundred Peaks Monarch to win a place as an agent in his family’s response, but the Deng Family dismissed him without a meeting. He returned home furious, then received a call from Wen Huilan telling him to go to Los Angeles with his father.

• Deng Chun reasoned that the God on Earth was drawing Hundred Peaks Monarch’s power away from the Hundun Cult, threatening Lake City’s established interests.
• Deng Chun planned to urge Gao Wenfu and Deng Yunwei to stage reforms, accommodate new elites, and appoint him as one of their agents.
• A staff member told Deng Chun the task was over and that he could leave the Deng Family’s old residence.
• Deng Chun accepted a ride from his companion and went to his city apartment, where he struck the window in anger over his lack of standing.
• Wen Huilan called Deng Chun and told him to go to Los Angeles with Deng Yunwei.

Deng Chun boarded his father’s private airship for a trip to Los Angeles amid rumors about Deng Yunwei’s health and travel plans. After noticing an ambulance aboard, he learned that Bai Xinyan, the physician overseeing the trip, intended to examine him too.

• Deng Chun fielded calls about Deng Yunwei’s rumored journey and realized information about the trip was spreading widely.
• Sha Sheng called Deng Chun to ask about their confiscated masks and shared rumors that Deng Yunwei was traveling for medical treatment.
• Deng Chun arrived at Lake City Airport and was driven directly aboard his father’s Armed Airship, where he noticed an ambulance and an assembling bodyguard unit.
• A staff member told Deng Chun that Deng Yunwei wanted to see him at twenty hundred, leaving him uneasy about the sudden opportunity to accompany his father.
• Bai Xinyan registered Deng Chun, confirmed his identity, and asked to take a blood test.

Deng Chun learned that Deng Yunwei had been invited to Los Angeles by the centenarian Jeff Elers for a business inspection and medical treatment. He met his brother Deng Kuang and found his father in a heavily equipped medical ward, where Deng Yunwei invited him to speak.

• Bai Xinyan took a blood sample from Deng Chun and explained that Deng Yunwei was traveling to Los Angeles at Jeff Elers's invitation for business and medical services.
• Deng Chun realized the airship carried many other people and suspected that he was only one of several numbered Deng family attendants.
• Staff escorted Deng Chun to Deng Yunwei's quarters, where he exchanged brief greetings with his brother Deng Kuang.
• Deng Chun saw Deng Yunwei surrounded by medical equipment behind a transparent barrier, and Deng Yunwei told him to say what was on his mind.

Deng Chun presented his strategy for Lake City to his weakened father, Deng Yunwei, then realized Gao Wenfu had already begun sacrificing the Deng Family to preserve his own power. After hearing Deng Yunwei’s lesson about the difference between ordinary people and Transcendental Species, Deng Chun returned to his room questioning whether he could ever become more than a pawn.

• Deng Chun told Deng Yunwei that Lake City should avoid confrontation and adapt while protecting its core interests.
• Deng Chun realized Gao Wenfu had arranged for Deng Yunwei to leave Lake City, effectively stepping the Deng Family aside, and Deng Yunwei confirmed his insight.
• Deng Yunwei warned Deng Chun not to view the world from the perspective of the powerful and urged him to recognize his own position.
• Deng Chun encountered Deng Zhun outside the Sterile Area, then returned to his room and reflected on the power of Transcendental Species.
• Deng Chun briefly slept aboard the airship headed for Los Angeles and woke to a call from Deng Kuang.

Deng Chun attended a gathering of the Deng Family’s younger members aboard Sky Manor, where they exchanged rumors about Lake City, Bai Xinyan, and the Emerald Light Incident. Deng Zhun’s account of Old Elers using experimental subjects as blood donors left Deng Chun uneasy about the young people around him.

• Deng Chun accepted Deng Kuang’s invitation and went to a Roof Garden gathering with the Deng Family’s younger descendants.
• Deng Chun observed that the attendees’ cheerful manners concealed uncertainty about the old man’s condition and the crisis in Lake City.
• Deng Lian and Deng Zhun shared rumors linking Bai Xinyan to Wang Yu and to the person causing upheaval in Lake City.
• Deng Wei explained that Clay Laboratory’s Emerald Light demonstration involved research on converting Aberration Infected.
• Deng Zhun said Old Elers had taken experimental subjects from three groups to serve as blood donors, and that his classmate was saved after the operation was stopped.
• Deng Chun felt uneasy as he looked around at the young people gathered around him.

Deng Chun suspected that his father, Deng Yunwei, was pursuing forbidden life-extending medical treatment connected to Old Elers, and feared the implications for the Deng family. He met Twentieth Brother Deng Wei aboard the airship, while arranging a briefing about the Inner World and the Dream Game.

• Deng Chun woke on his father’s airship and reviewed rumors about Old Elers’s longevity, focusing on forbidden medical technology.
• Deng Chun connected the medical team’s trip to Los Angeles and Gao Wenfu’s introduction to Deng Yunwei’s possible desire to extend his life.
• Deng Chun asked the Smart Butler for a briefing on world, Inner World, and Lake City news, including topics related to Luo—cough, that person.
• Deng Chun briefly considered escaping through the airship’s viewing wall but abandoned the idea after noticing its reinforced glass and guards.
• Deng Chun arrived at the terraced garden and found Twentieth Brother Deng Wei waiting beside another staff member.

Deng Chun and Deng Wei discussed Ban City’s visitors, current events, and the growing debate over true and false gods while waiting aboard the airship. Deng Wei then hinted that Deng Chun’s father had higher expectations for him, leaving Deng Chun torn between suspicion and hope.

• Deng Wei identified Yuchuan Yingjie as the Yugawa Family’s de facto leader and explained his ties to the Jade Appraisal Association and Wang Yu.
• Bai Xinyan greeted the airship’s passengers, while an impatient young man in casual clothes and Yuchuan Yingjie boarded with their entourages.
• Deng Chun and Deng Wei reviewed news about falling markets, the Dream Game, the Mist Labyrinth, and the Great Golden Triangle.
• Deng Wei showed Deng Chun a trending post criticizing Extraordinary Species and the claims of gods.
• Deng Wei revealed that he studied Aberration Infection in reptiles and suggested their father expected more from Deng Chun than from many other relatives.
• Deng Chun recalled his father’s frank conversation from the previous night and wondered whether he was truly valued differently.

Deng Wei told Deng Chun that Deng Yunwei planned to use descendants in a life-extending medical procedure, while assuring Deng Chun that he was not a candidate and had been brought aboard for his analytical skills. After Deng Chun returned to his room with his confiscated mask, the airship trembled and a sound passed through its barriers.

• Deng Wei explained that Deng Yunwei intended to use a medical plan from Mr. Old Elers and that some family members were destined to take part.
• Deng Wei told Deng Chun he was excluded from the plan and had been brought aboard for his insights into Dream Game and Hundred Peaks Monarch.
• Deng Chun asked who was part of the plan, but Deng Wei warned him not to seek trouble for himself.
• Deng Wei returned Deng Chun's White-Faced Civil Official Mask and sent him back to his room with Uniform 4 following him.
• Deng Chun brooded over the mask and his family's plans until the floor shook and a sound seemed to penetrate the airship's barriers.

Deng Chun discovered that Ban City was being struck by an abnormal surge of sunlight, apparently linked to the Amaterasu Cult’s Fusang Divine Tree Grand Treasury. He then found Ronan’s detailed forum explanation of New Gods and the spirit network that sustained them, while remaining confined aboard the airship.

• Deng Chun left his room but Uniform 4 ordered him to stay inside as the airship prepared to take off and intense light flooded the enclosed garden.
• Deng Chun searched Ban City news and found an Ability User Association forum post reporting that the Fusang Divine Tree Grand Treasury might have opened again.
• Deng Chun read forum speculation that the Amaterasu Cult’s True God had reacted to a post about distinguishing True Gods from False Gods.
• Deng Chun saw that Ronan had replied under his real name to the False God analysis thread, drawing a surge of attention from forum users.
• Deng Chun studied Ronan’s explanation that New Gods emerged from a spirit network rooted in the material universe and occupied key nodes within its rules.

Deng Chun read Ronan’s explanation of how Earth’s Deities were crude, tree-shaped imitations of Spirit Networks and how Hundred Peaks Monarch might develop into one. The discussion ended with Ronan revealing that he was not a Deity, but was filling certain functions and guiding people.

• Deng Chun read Ronan’s explanation that Earth had no true Spirit Network and that its existing Deities were simplified imitations.
• Ronan described the Amaterasu Cult’s system and explained how its followers and spirits were gathered under the Fusang Divine Tree Grand Treasury.
• Ronan explained that Hundred Peaks Monarch had a vast Area Network but lacked a core consciousness, and said it could become a Deity if the right intelligence emerged or occupied it.
• Ronan advised readers to observe how Earth’s Deity systems developed instead of rushing to distinguish true from false gods.
• Deng Chun found Ronan’s reply to the question “What kind of Deity are you?” and read that Ronan was not a Deity but was filling certain functions and guiding people.

Deng Chun watched Ronan answer questions about his acting godhood, extraterrestrial knowledge, and plans for the Dreamscape Game, then grew alarmed when Ronan revealed that people were already preparing to seize the Hundred Peaks Monarch. Deng Chun suspected the Amaterasu Cult was involved and feared his father’s visit to Ban City was connected, leaving him wondering what his father intended to do and what he was willing to sacrifice.

• Deng Chun followed Ronan’s Q&A as Ronan discussed his Spirit Network, his reluctance to become a Deity, possible extraterrestrial civilization, and the Dreamscape Game.
• Ronan told Blood Demon he preferred to cultivate someone from within to become a Deity and said others had spent years laying groundwork to seize the Hundred Peaks Monarch.
• Deng Chun recalled Mao Yan’s ties to the Amaterasu Cult and realized the cult might be preparing to take control of the Hundred Peaks Monarch.
• Deng Chun connected his father’s stop in Ban City to the possible plot and wondered whether his father and Gao Wenfu were cooperating with the Amaterasu Cult.

Deng Chun realized his father, Deng Yunwei, might be trying to seize Hundred Peaks Monarch's position and become a god, putting the airship's young passengers in danger. He used the Dream Game to seek help, but an ominous moan followed him into it.

• Deng Chun reasoned that Deng Yunwei might be working with the Amaterasu Order and others to fill the vacancy in Hundred Peaks Monarch's core Self and become a god.
• Deng Chun feared his father would use the airship's young passengers as resources, and he heard a hungry moan that seemed to come with chewing.
• Deng Chun tried to contact the God on Earth through the General Association's Internal Forum, but private messages were unavailable.
• Deng Chun entered the Dream Game and confirmed it through the messages on his wristband.
• Deng Chun left his room to find help, but a despairing moan sounded beside his ear.

Deng Chun navigated the uncanny Dreamscape aboard the airship, using the Smart Butler to find a route to his father. He met Bai Xinyan, who explained the game’s special scenario, and learned that Magnetized Puppet Hundun had marked him because of his blood relationship.

• Deng Chun endured sunlight and moaning that pierced the airship, then shouted for his father and tried to steady himself.
• Deng Chun asked the Smart Butler for routes off the airship and to his father, then followed the route toward the elevator to Deng Yunwei’s floor.
• Bai Xinyan arrived in the elevator and asked whether Deng Chun had dealt with his Magnetized Puppet.
• Bai Xinyan described the Dreamscape’s special scenario as a looping slice of Spacetime and speculated that the planetary simulation might soon collapse and restart.
• Deng Chun’s quest updated to warn that Magnetized Puppet Hundun had marked him because his blood relationship drew its attention to the Amaterasu Cult’s operation.

Deng Chun entered the Dream Game’s Core Layer to investigate the groans coming from Deng Yunwei’s room and discovered his father as a grotesque, jellyfish-like mass during surgery. A mysterious young man operating on Deng Yunwei exposed himself to Deng Chun before the scene dissolved beneath blinding sunlight.

• Bai Xinyan teamed up with Deng Chun, explained that Deng Yunwei was undergoing a functional prosthetic limb connection procedure, and sent Deng Chun alone up the elevator.
• Deng Chun reached Deng Yunwei’s room, used the Butler to obtain permission to open the Authority Door, and heard Deng Yunwei ask him to help calculate and sort resources.
• Deng Wei appeared and warned Deng Chun not to disturb their father’s surgery, while his body shriveled around tubes carrying dark golden fluid and tissue fluid.
• Deng Chun pulled back the isolation curtain and saw Deng Yunwei as a rotten-meat jellyfish connected to Deng Wei by a translucent tube.
• A casually dressed young man at the operating table kicked Deng Chun and complained about the disruption, then sunlight flooded the sealed airship and melted the young man’s face.

Deng Chun entered the Dream Game’s Core Layer to find his father, Deng Yunwei, and discovered a grotesque surgery involving Deng Wei and a flesh-like jellyfish. A young man operating on Deng Yunwei reacted to Deng Chun’s intrusion, and the blazing sunlight consumed the scene.

• Deng Chun teamed up with Bai Xinyan to ride the elevator to the Core Layer, but she left him to continue alone.
• Deng Chun used the Artificial Intelligence to get permission from Deng Yunwei to open the Authority Door to the emergency room.
• Deng Yunwei asked Deng Chun to help organize resources like Deng Wei had, while Deng Chun approached the Sterile Area.
• Deng Wei appeared and scolded Deng Chun for disturbing Deng Yunwei’s surgery, as Deng Chun saw his body connected to tubes and shrinking.
• Deng Chun pulled aside the isolation curtain and saw Deng Yunwei as a flesh-like jellyfish connected to numerous tubes, while a young man operated beside him.
• The young man rebuked Deng Chun, then overwhelming sunlight pierced the airship and consumed the scene.