Chapter Summaries

Ronan used Ritual Ancient Script and the Inner Universe Simulator to model the God War, the spread of Evil Poison, and the formation of the Fog Maze, connecting Earth Local Time-Space with the Han Guang Star System. He identified how his family’s secrets might link these events, but still could not access his father’s locked lessons, and turned to developing his new line of thought.

• Ronan copied the Han Guang Star System in the Simulator and used contrasting versions to model the changes caused by the God War and Karmic Poison Contamination.
• Ronan reasoned that the war had both doomed the Han Guang Star System to the Calamity Era and created a structural link, like a Star Gate, between it and Earth Local Time-Space.
• Ronan used the Simulator to trace the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison’s formation and the Fog Maze’s origins, concluding that the Human-Faced Spider’s transformations could be understood through those forces.
• Ronan treated Liang Lu, Li Wei, and Tu Ge’s arrival on Earth as part of the link between Earth and Hanguang, while identifying his family’s Dark Black Chains and Format Theory as another unresolved black box.
• Ronan failed to bypass the access level set by his father for the External Neuron’s lessons, and he waited for a higher-level test download while planning to investigate his new approach further.

Ronan refined his Ceremonial Ancient Script account of space-time history, using the Inner Universe Simulator to correct errors and stabilize the structures he described. Raven examined his work and said she was missing from it, then clarified that she meant herself as she spoke an unfamiliar syllable.

• Ronan reviewed his Ceremonial Ancient Script account and considered how further study might help him open one of the Black Boxes.
• Ronan noticed that the Dark Heavy Chains and the Human-Faced Spider seemed to combine traits associated with Lord of Zhanhe and the Six Heavens God Calamity.
• Ronan used the Sequence Analysis Module and historical texts to revise his account, while his simulated space-time structures repeatedly collapsed and improved.
• After nearly a day of revisions, Ronan showed his work to Raven and explained that it left out many details, including the Mist Labyrinth and the Ancient God's Body.
• Raven said she was not in Ronan's account, then clarified that she meant herself by speaking an unfamiliar syllable.

Ronan revised his Ritual Ancient Script essay by using the Overrun Divine Script character “I” to imagine the event from an Ancient God’s perspective. His Visualization Spacetime grew stronger and more coherent, revealing the power of True Contemplation, but the revised scene exceeded the Inner Universe Simulator’s current capabilities.

• Raven suggested that Ronan’s essay needed an Ancient God’s first-person perspective, prompting him to reconsider his use of the Overrun Divine Script character “I.”
• Ronan examined his Little Essay with Raven, then rewrote it as an Ancient God describing events across the Han Guang Star System and Earth Local Time-Space.
• Ronan’s new perspective expanded the essay and helped him connect historical details, divine powers, Star Gates, and other elements into a fuller account.
• The character “I” strengthened and expanded Ronan’s Visualization Spacetime, linking it with the Great Sun Chains and structures resembling Earth Local Time-Space, the Fog Maze, and the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan recognized the resulting practice as True Contemplation, but the Inner Universe Simulator destabilized when part of his revised text exceeded Brain in a Vat mode’s simulation capacity.

Ronan learned that the Contemplation Time-Space’s data overflow required him to use Space-Time Silhouette mode or painstakingly reduce errors, and he decided to pursue both simulation modes. He sought funding for a New-Type Logic Boundary project and asked the Martial Emperor to help establish a stable financing channel.

• Auntie Kui explained that the new Contemplation Time-Space version and Ronan’s reconstruction of the Han Guang Star System had caused data overflow, and outlined the risks of Space-Time Silhouette mode.
• Ronan decided to keep using Brain in a Vat mode while also exploring Space-Time Silhouette mode, which could turn selected space-time nodes into Logic Boundaries.
• After reviewing the technical manual, Ronan realized Space-Time Silhouette mode could display only a tiny slice of the simulated space-time, with the rest remaining as a virtual background.
• Ronan contacted several people, then called the Martial Emperor to thank him for supporting the processing center in Xia City and raise the New-Type Logic Boundary project.
• The Martial Emperor said Ouyang had already put the project funding into his own budget, and Ronan asked about a stable funding channel for future Inner Universe capabilities.
• The Martial Emperor offered to assemble a group and find financiers to support Ronan’s experiments with the Inner Universe’s prerequisite capabilities.

Ronan asked the Martial Emperor for long-term funding to maintain the Space-Time Silhouette, but she argued that he was confusing the small project with the broader Centennial Sequence. She urged him to see himself as an investor who could turn his knowledge and unique channels into resources, leaving him with a new perspective but still wanting money.

• Ronan explained why the Space-Time Silhouette needed long-term support and detailed hosting, calibration, and safety requirements.
• The Martial Emperor suggested that Ronan had projected the Centennial Sequence's resource needs onto the Space-Time Silhouette.
• Ronan reflected on his efforts to build influence and secure startup resources for the Centennial Sequence, then asked whether confusing the projects could cause problems.
• The Martial Emperor explained that Ronan was an investor whose knowledge and access could create value, and cited his technical exchange with Ouyang as an investment.
• Ronan protested that he only wanted money, but the Martial Emperor insisted that he should stop thinking in terms of fundraising and recognize himself as an investor.

Her Majesty advised Ronan to define himself as an investor who offered technology, direction, and opportunities to people rather than simply seeking funding. Ronan asked her to connect his project with the Space Army, and she realized he had been developing a deep-space environment for the Spacetime Silhouette version of Logic Boundary.

• Her Majesty explained that Ronan needed to establish himself as the investor so future investees would not gain power over him through expectations of capital.
• She described Ronan’s unusual investment role as providing technology and direction, and suggested he invest in people as well as projects.
• Her Majesty identified Ronan’s Magnetized Puppet work as a promising project and said LRCF would likely seek its technical approach.
• Ronan told Her Majesty that he wanted her to introduce his project to the military, especially the Space Army, after discussing it with Joseph.
• Her Majesty suggested Ronan ask Yue Yin for help, then accepted his reasons for targeting the Space Army.
• Her Majesty asked whether Ronan had set the Spacetime Silhouette version of Logic Boundary in deep space.

Ronan sent the Martial Emperor his Deep Space Contemplation text, which contained his understanding of the Fog Maze and the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison, hoping to test what she knew and provoke a response from Li Wei. The Martial Emperor recognized Ronan's talent in Truth Communion but warned that his abilities made him a target and advised him not to stand out.

• The Martial Emperor explained that the Space Army needed a reliable Deep Space Training Environment and questioned Ronan's reasons for building one.
• Ronan told the Martial Emperor that his Spacetime Silhouette came from Deep Space Contemplation and asked her to examine his work.
• Ronan sent her the Ritual Ancient Script text despite its sensitive information, intending to test the Martial Emperor and potentially draw Li Wei out of the Deep Blue World.
• After a long silence, the Martial Emperor praised Ronan's gift for Truth Communion and said he had been born at the wrong time.
• The Martial Emperor advised Ronan not to make himself a target because he might not be able to escape.

Ronan realized the Martial Emperor saw him and Li Wei as protection against the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms, and he confronted her about her motives and candor. After they discussed revising his spacetime framework, Ronan asked whether Li Wei’s work on the False God Materialized True Seed Formula connected to the Deep Blue World being an Ancient God's Body.

• The Martial Emperor warned Ronan to prepare to flee because the Myriad Heavens Gods would eventually target the traces he had left in the Mental Ocean.
• Ronan revised his Ritual Ancient Script account of the grand spacetime event, and the Martial Emperor praised his optimism while admitting she expected him and Li Wei to help protect her.
• Ronan told the Martial Emperor that he feared being used as a target, and she explained why she had not been candid about her expectations before and asked him to work with her.
• The Martial Emperor pointed out that one of the Six Heavens God Calamity might be in Earth Local Time-Space and could sense it if the Tattered Divine Cloak failed.
• Ronan asked whether the Martial Emperor knew of the False God Materialized True Seed Formula and whether they had discussed the Deep Blue World as an Ancient God's Body, then revealed Li Wei had made substantial progress gathering the formula's elements.

The Martial Emperor and Ronan discussed Li Wei’s False God plan and its potential connection to the Six Heavens God Calamity, then agreed to investigate it together. The Martial Emperor directed Ronan to study his Ceremonial Ancient Script and search the Sky Abyss Empire Database for records from the Weaving Bureau.

• Ronan asked why the Martial Emperor seemed neither surprised nor very worried about Li Wei’s plan, and the Martial Emperor explained the dangers he was assessing.
• The Martial Emperor identified questions about Li Wei’s progress, possible backing from the Six Heavens God Calamity, and the risk of exposing Earth Local Time-Space.
• The Martial Emperor told Ronan to study his Ceremonial Ancient Script for insights through Contemplation Time-Space, and Ronan agreed to work with him.
• The Martial Emperor pointed Ronan toward the Weaving Bureau, whose records could explain the Sky Abyss Spirit Network’s history and changes.

Ronan searched for the Weaving Bureau and found historical Sky Abyss Spirit Network survey materials that could help him study Ceremonial Ancient Script and calibrate Contemplation Time-Space. After the Martial Emperor warned that studying the Sky Abyss Spirit Network and Inner Universe could interfere with each other, Ronan reconstructed her passage on communication with Raven’s help, ending as Raven recited the first line aloud.

• Ronan searched the databases for the Weaving Bureau and learned that post-Calamity Era survey results were classified, then opened older materials.
• Ronan found the survey documents useful for studying the Sky Abyss Spirit Network and its technical language.
• The Martial Emperor warned Ronan that studying the Sky Abyss Spirit Network alongside the Inner Universe could create dangerous interference, then ended their call.
• Ronan asked Raven to help reconstruct the Martial Emperor’s passage about communication between Ancient Gods and Genetic Species.
• Raven drew Ceremonial Ancient Script forms while Ronan worked with Auntie Kui and the Inner Universe Simulator to rebuild the passage.
• Ronan finished refining the passage and recited it aloud as Raven began, “Candor is one of the principles of communication...”

Ronan and Raven recited the Martial Emperor’s account, and Ronan used their differences to construct a powerful Contemplation Time-Space about the Ancient Gods, Genetic Species, and the Sky Abyss Spirit Network. Afterward, Raven gave him an unexplained answer about her recent activities, leaving Ronan thinking about the code C2834 and its links to Deep Blue World, Li Wei, and Tu Ge.

• Ronan noticed that Raven had revised the Martial Emperor’s words into a more formal Ceremonial Ancient Script version and asked her to recite it again.
• Ronan followed his own reconstruction while Raven recited, forming a Contemplation Time-Space that showed Ancient Gods communicating through spiritual light and later creating the Sky Abyss Spirit Network.
• Ronan watched Genetic Species struggle to reach the Ancient Gods through the network, and he felt the loneliness and irreversibility of their fates in the River of Time.
• Ronan withdrew from the vision shaken, recognized Raven’s version as a premium Ceremonial Ancient Script text, and praised her work.
• Ronan asked Raven why she seemed to have lost weight and whether she had gone to the Radiation Zone, but she denied it and gave no explanation.
• Ronan wondered about Raven’s age and thought again of the code C2834 and its connections to Deep Blue World, Li Wei, and Tu Ge.

Ronan weighed the many traps Li Wei had left across Earth and decided he needed intelligence about the Deep Blue World to chart his own course. He sent Raven to watch the Great Golden Triangle, then asked the Martial Emperor to obtain information from Bai Xinyan about Apocalypse Laboratory’s Bloodline Project and Raven’s C2834 designation.

• Ronan considered how Li Wei’s influence, Earth’s aberrated environment, and the Pseudo-Soul Order could obstruct efforts to challenge him.
• Ronan asked Raven to monitor Lake City and Huai City while he focused on developing his plans and experiments, and Raven eagerly accepted.
• Ronan called the Martial Emperor in the early morning and asked her to pass a message to Bai Xinyan requesting intelligence about the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan explained that he wanted to learn about the Bloodline Project and the origin of Raven’s C2834 designation, which he had first heard Bai Xinyan mention.

Ronan explained that he was building a Large Model of the major space-time event and wanted to investigate the Deep Blue World from multiple perspectives. The Martial Emperor warned that choosing Raven and C2834 as his first breakthrough would lead him into an obstacle, then revealed that Raven was central to the Bloodline Project.

• The Martial Emperor sent Ronan her Deep Blue World intelligence and cautioned him against getting too close to Bai Xinyan and Peony.
• Ronan told the Martial Emperor he would focus on refining his large-scale event model and combine information from different sources to study the Deep Blue World.
• Ronan said he wanted a focused starting point for his investigation and chose C2834 because Raven was with him.
• The Martial Emperor explained that C2834 came from the Apocalypse Laboratory's Bloodline Project, which had the highest priority under Li Wei.
• The Martial Emperor stated that Raven was at the core of the Bloodline Project, and Ronan demanded to know what made her say so.

Ronan questioned the Martial Emperor about Raven’s origins and Li Wei’s intentions, while the Martial Emperor warned him against probing too directly. The conversation ended with Ronan asking whether the Martial Emperor had witnessed Raven’s power when Gong Qi was killed.

• The Martial Emperor theorized that Raven had been engineered as a genetic test subject, initially treated as a defective product, and awakened after Ronan intervened.
• The Martial Emperor admitted that he had arranged the “Two-Thousandths Miss” incident to test Raven’s importance and warned Ronan that Li Wei had powerful countermeasures.
• Ronan asked about Tu Ge, and the Martial Emperor identified him as Li Wei’s fellow countryman with a clear mark of the Tianyuan lineage, cautioning that acting through him could trigger a trap.
• The Martial Emperor explained that Raven’s life-and-death ability suggested a bloodline tied to families associated with Ancient Gods and New Gods, and Ronan considered exploiting the fallen Sky Abyss Empire through Li Wei and Tu Ge.
• The Martial Emperor warned that Li Wei and Tu Ge’s activities would be a deadly taboo if exposed, even though they could operate more openly on Earth.
• Ronan asked whether the Martial Emperor had witnessed Raven’s abilities when Jin Tong and Gong Qi were killed, and the Martial Emperor reacted to his question about the Fire God Ant Cave.

Ronan asked the Martial Emperor to share what she knew about the Central Star Region so he could investigate Raven without triggering Li Wei’s defenses. The Martial Emperor acknowledged his request but had not yet agreed to provide the information.

• Ronan and the Martial Emperor discussed their hidden investments in Madam Harold and the Martial Emperor’s former interest in the Blood Prison King and the Mist Labyrinth.
• The Martial Emperor explained that the Mist Labyrinth’s core might contain the Lord of Zhanhe and the Six Heavens God Calamity, and said Ronan had a special channel for receiving information from it.
• Ronan described how he could use a Large Model to piece together clues about Raven, while the Martial Emperor warned that probing Li Wei’s project could expose him and endanger his Younger Sister.
• Ronan asked the Martial Emperor for bloodline records and other knowledge about the Central Star Region, arguing that it could help him uncover Raven’s secret without alerting Li Wei and Tu Ge.

Ronan asked the Martial Emperor for help researching the Abyssal Spirit Net and the Tattered Divine Cloak, but she gave him a title to search instead. He rediscovered a famous Tian Yuan Empire historical novel whose stories of ancient wars seemed partly plausible, though the chapter left its claims uncertain.

• The Martial Emperor accused Ronan of maneuvering her and warned him not to rely on her to do his research.
• She told Ronan to search for a title and ended the call before he could press her further.
• Ronan searched the External Neuron Database and found Heavenly Abyss History of Ten Thousand Nations, a novel he had saved earlier as a study resource.
• Auntie Kui summarized the novel’s sweeping account of the wars and powers that shaped the Tian Yuan Empire’s history.
• Ronan read passages about Mei, the Six Heavens God Calamity, and the War of All Gods, finding some claims dubious but others possibly consistent with what he knew.

Ronan used Sky Abyss History of All Nations at War and historical texts to investigate abilities resembling Raven’s and build a framework for Central Star Region history. His model of major time-space events merged with the Contemplation Time-Space constructed by Martial Emperor and Raven, which began testing and refining it.

• Ronan searched the book and related papers for the abilities of the Lord of Zhanhe and the other forty-four Founding Great Lords, hoping to find clues to Raven’s powers.
• Ronan recognized the history as a useful framework for major events and decided to supplement it with authentic information from Professional Historical Texts.
• Ronan used the book to map events such as the Obscurity War of the Gods, the War of the Gods, and the Founding of Tianyuan onto the River of Time, while considering how Earth Local Time-Space connected to the Central Star Region.
• Ronan’s major time-space event Contemplation Time-Space merged with the one constructed by Martial Emperor and Raven, removing the barrier between them.
• The merged Contemplation Time-Space examined Ronan’s unstable model, causing imagined elements to collapse while its established structural links continued to support it.

Ronan tried to stabilize the newly merged Contemplation Time-Space by studying history and tracing Raven’s connections, while considering how to use the Database more effectively. After asking Auntie Kui about test modes, he attempted an Offline Test and emerged red-faced and embarrassed.

• Ronan recognized that the merged Contemplation Time-Space was unstable and named it Romance as he considered how to correct it.
• Ronan planned to study the Sky Abyss History of All Nations at War and translate its historical information into Ceremonial Ancient Script to search for Raven’s origins and other clues.
• A system pop-up listed possible changes, and Ronan suspected his recent work on Romance and the Hanguang-Earth Great Space-Time Event framework might have altered his cognitive methods.
• Ronan asked Auntie Kui about the Sky Abyss Mirror System and learned he could try Offline and Interactive Tests separately, with cooldowns applying only to repeated tests of the same type.
• Ronan chose an Offline Test but soon rolled out of the scenario, red-faced and embarrassed.

Ronan failed an offline test as a major commanding a supply ship during the Second Star Gate Battle, exposing his lack of practical command experience despite his Configuration strengths. After reviewing the failure, he wondered whether he could advance under this testing system, then noticed the Interactive Test option.

• Ronan commanded a supply ship in the Red Wheel Rift campaign when an Extraterritorial Species ambush overwhelmed the battlefield.
• Ronan failed to reach an allied ship in time, lost a boarding repair team, and was stripped of command by the Great Monarch, ending the test.
• Ronan reviewed the test and concluded that its focus had shifted from his strengths to his overall capabilities, while his inflated rank had placed him in a role beyond his experience.
• Ronan identified his mishandling of the campaign-level War Domain as the direct cause of his first tactical failure and recognized that practical intuition could not be gained through memorization alone.
• Ronan questioned whether he could advance through future tests, then noticed the Interactive Test option on the Brain of Emptiness System interface.

Ronan entered the Sky Abyss Mirror System’s Interactive Test after its signal-strength check and arrived in the Mirror Image Zone. He woke in a damaged cabin wearing an Exoskeleton, where the realistic surroundings reminded him of the Relay Station on Vanguard 4th Planet.

• Ronan chose the Interactive Test despite uncertainty about whom he would interact with and trusted the External Neuron as he proceeded.
• Auntie Kui explained that she would assist him in the Mirror Image Zone and warned him to follow the mission line and his assigned identity.
• Ronan confirmed the test instructions, and the signal connection stabilized before the system transported him into the Mirror Image Zone.
• Ronan experienced his mind flowing across the connection, then reconstructed his new surroundings through sound and bodily sensations.
• Ronan opened his eyes in a cramped, damaged cabin and identified the realistic scene as resembling the Relay Station on Vanguard 4th Planet.