Chapter Summaries

Long Qi struggled to survive as Mountain Lord crushed his wrist, and his blood awakened a power that affected them both. Ronan intervened, leaving Long Qi alive but badly injured as he watched his severed arm fly through the air with Mountain Lord’s.

• Mountain Lord clamped Long Qi’s wrist in his rigid, abnormal left hand while his right hand held that arm, leaving Long Qi in excruciating pain.
• Long Qi noticed Mountain Lord was sweating and struggling, while his left arm remained cold, rigid, and marked with patterns linked to the Justice Cult.
• Long Qi called for Ronan as Mountain Lord’s grip crushed his wrist, and a shard of Long Qi’s broken bone pierced Mountain Lord’s palm.
• Long Qi’s heart began beating at an extraordinary rate, and his blood flowed through the bone shard into Mountain Lord, leaving Long Qi near death.
• Ronan’s intervention shook Long Qi back to awareness, and he saw two severed arms still linked together flying through the air.
• Long Qi recognized the grayish-white severed arm, with fragments of his exoskeleton still attached, as his own.

Long Qi and the Mountain Lord lost their arms during the battle between Joker and Raven, and a strange red chrysalis absorbed the severed limbs before Joker claimed it. Raven admitted she had triggered the blood-draining field to sever the Mountain Lord’s arm, while Joker swallowed the chrysalis, which the Mountain Lord identified as the Skull Demon King’s chrysalis.

• Long Qi watched a tiny red chrysalis devour the flesh, bone, and blood from his and the Mountain Lord’s severed arms, then fly into the clash between Joker and Raven.
• Joker and Raven stopped fighting, and Long Qi recognized Raven as she held the chrysalis.
• Raven apologized to Long Qi and explained that she had triggered the blood-draining field so she could sever the Mountain Lord’s arm.
• Raven told Long Qi to take the Mountain Lord away, while Joker asked what the chrysalis meant to the Mountain Lord.
• Joker swallowed the chrysalis, and the Mountain Lord told Long Qi it was the Skull Demon King’s chrysalis.

Long Qi escaped with the weakened Mountain Lord while Raven remained to face Joker, who had swallowed the Skull Demon King's chrysalis. As they fled, Mountain Lord explained how Li Wei had used the developing Skull Demon King egg to restore his power, and Long Qi realized it might now be reborn inside Joker.

• Joker swallowed the Skull Demon King's chrysalis while Long Qi questioned what it was.
• Mountain Lord dragged Long Qi into the damaged shuttle, and Long Qi took off after Raven signaled them to go.
• Long Qi saw Raven still confronting Joker as the demonic Root System shadows atop Three Peaks Top began to recede.
• Mountain Lord admitted the Skull Demon King had reduced him to total collapse and explained that Li Wei had implanted its egg in his arm.
• Mountain Lord described how Joker built his Extraordinary foundation from Aberration Gene fragments, prompting Long Qi to question the egg's development.
• Long Qi realized the Skull Demon King egg had absorbed both his and Mountain Lord's essence and blood before Joker swallowed it, and wondered whether it would be reborn.

Long Qi exposed the Skull Demon King’s chrysalis and warned Lake City as Hundred Peaks Monarch began empowering it. Joker then transformed and vanished in a sudden attack, leaving Long Qi’s shuttle destroyed and his fate uncertain.

• Long Qi accused the authorities of risking Lake City’s population and broadcast the Skull Demon King’s return to the Live Stream Room.
• Deng Chun told Long Qi that Hundred Peaks Monarch’s Blocks were unifying in their empowerment of the chrysalis inside Joker, and that Lake City had declared a Black Flood emergency.
• Long Qi asked what Li Wei hoped to achieve, and Joker answered by questioning the purpose of the world and their existence.
• Raven nodded in response to Joker, who laughed and unfurled translucent wings from his back and ribs.
• Joker disappeared in a blur, and a metallic clash followed by an explosion tore apart Long Qi’s shuttle.

Long Qi survived his fall after Ink caught him and helped redirect his descent, but the Vampiric Domain left him near death. As his consciousness faded, a battlefield support system activated strong intervention and summoned a temporary operator.

• Joker cut the shuttle apart, and Long Qi fell while the Vampiric Domain drained his Qi, Blood, and vitality.
• Ink grabbed Long Qi's shoulder armor and redirected his fall toward the Supply Point office building.
• Long Qi used a weak burst of Format Fire to strike the wall and survive his landing, while Ink also reached the ground safely.
• Long Qi drifted in and out of consciousness as he wondered about Mountain Lord and listened to the distant battle.
• A battlefield support system confirmed Long Qi was near death and defective, then activated life-support mode and requested a temporary operator.
• A sharp, bright female voice answered that she had just had a drink and questioned whether the intervention was appropriate.

Long Qi regained consciousness in a shared Public Consciousness Space while Cat's Eye, Yin Le, and Snake Tongue tried to use a Manipulation Thread to stabilize his badly injured body. He learned to connect with his body and perceive the Supply Point through Ink's vision, but the women still lacked clear instructions for the procedure.

• Long Qi's heart restarted after Cat's Eye used a Manipulation Thread, bringing intense pain and sensation back to his injured body.
• Cat's Eye, Yin Le, and Snake Tongue discussed the thread and their relationship to the Faith system while Long Qi urged them to focus on saving him.
• Cat's Eye jolted Long Qi, helping him open his eyes in the Public Consciousness Space and perceive his body at the Long Tail River Supply Point through what seemed to be Ink's perspective.
• Yin Le reassured Long Qi, and Cat's Eye taught him how to bring up the relevant perception layer while warning him to avoid the Magneto-Optical Mica.
• The Gentle Female Voice advised them to consult doctrine about the Segmenter, and Cat's Eye suggested trying another thread.

Long Qi endured a dangerous Segmentation procedure while Cat's Eye and the others tried to support him and locate Raven's battle with Joker. He expected to wait for Boss Ronan's Strong Intervention Plan, but Cat's Eye revealed that a plan had already been generated by linking the Magneto-Optical Mica with the Blood Intent Ring Fortress.

• Long Qi recalled Boss Ronan's earlier Segmentation demonstrations, and Auntie Kui provided the operation records for reference.
• Cat's Eye contacted Yingying, who began mobilizing the Blood Intent Ring Fortress to remotely sense Lake City.
• Operator Number One used the Magneto-Optical Mica's Manipulation Threads to Segment Long Qi, whose severe injuries were kept barely survivable in Life Support Mode.
• Yin Le said Raven and Joker were fighting too quickly for the group to locate them, while Mountain Lord had ejected himself beneath a nearby cliff without opening his parachute.
• Cat's Eye presented intervention options generated after Auntie Kui linked the Magneto-Optical Mica to the Blood Intent Ring Fortress, and Long Qi realized the plan was not necessarily Boss Ronan's.

Long Qi chose a Machine Core replacement plan from a sprawling list of increasingly extreme interventions, while worrying that Ronan’s system was not strong enough to counter Li Wei’s. The chapter ended as Raven and Joker resumed their battle near Three Peaks Top, with Joker’s severed Mosquito Wing dissolving into a swarm of Flying Mosquitoes.

• Long Qi reviewed the intervention plans, rejected the more extreme options, and chose to remove his current Machine Core while retaining an interface for a replacement.
• Cat's Eye submitted Long Qi's choice, and Long Qi learned that Dean Wan might provide the specially made Machine Core.
• Long Qi worried that Ronan’s allies and resources could not match Li Wei’s deep network, and wondered where Blood Demon and Lieutenant General Joseph were.
• Raven appeared badly wounded but blocked Joker from advancing toward Three Peaks Top, while Joker bore fresh penetrating wounds and a broken Mosquito Wing.
• Joker charged Raven again, and the broken half-wing disintegrated into Flying Mosquitoes that scattered into the surrounding vegetation.

Long Qi watched Joker and Raven remain locked in battle while the blood-sucking mosquito threat spread through the wilderness, and agreed to let Zhang Yingying use Blood Intent Ring Fortress to trace the mosquitoes’ origins. As the procedure expanded Long Qi’s perception, he saw the battlefield overlaid with Gray Substance and colorful Star Pellets clustered around Joker.

• Long Qi assessed Raven and Joker’s competing goals and concluded Joker had the advantage, with Hundred Peaks Monarch effectively supporting him.
• Yin Le and Snake Tongue reassured Long Qi that the Skull Demon King was not necessarily stronger than the Blood Prison King and could still be tracked while its mosquito avatars remained connected to the main body.
• Cat's Eye proposed that Zhang Yingying use remote sensing from Blood Intent Ring Fortress to recreate the earlier Segmentation scene, and Long Qi agreed despite the risk of losing control.
• Blood Intent Ring Fortress deployed Manipulation Threads through Long Qi and his surroundings, temporarily making him feel shapeless before restoring a heavier, more detailed perception.
• Long Qi perceived Gray Substance across the Long Tail River Supply Point and saw Star Pellets, fragments of Aberration Genes, densely distributed around the battlefield and circling Joker.

Long Qi watched Joker’s bloody Star Pellet drive apart his other Aberration Gene fragments while the mosquito swarm spread through the Hundred Peaks Monarch Mountain Area. As Joker targeted the Manipulation Thread and a new Gray Substance network appeared, Long Qi recognized a densely woven point near Joker that might be Mountain Lord.

• Long Qi observed Joker’s bloody Star Pellet expelling and scattering other fragments, which infected the Hundred Peaks Monarch blocks as the mosquito swarm hunted nearby creatures.
• Long Qi warned that the mosquitoes could quickly multiply into a Hurricane Mosquito Pillar, but Cat’s Eye pointed out that he was among the closest targets.
• Joker noticed Long Qi’s Manipulation Thread and the defenses behind it, then shifted his gaze toward the sky above the Supply Point.
• Long Qi and Cat’s Eye noticed a structured Gray Substance network on the Segmentation interface, with Joker strongly connected to it and Raven barely affected.
• Long Qi identified a densely woven point near Joker in the network and suspected it represented Mountain Lord.

Long Qi watched the Perception Chain Network reveal Mountain Lord’s weakened state as Joker and the other Extraordinary Species’ mosquito plague threw the battlefield into chaos. Cat’s Eye reminded him that a true catastrophe would show signs on the scale of the Abyss Zone or Extreme Domain, leaving the conflict’s central fighters apparently still holding back or waiting.

• Ink shifted its view to show Mountain Lord, who had survived the shuttle’s destruction but lay barely conscious far from the battlefield.
• Long Qi realized the Perception Chain Network conveyed clear information about strength and movement, and that its users had also been given tools to intervene in the Real World.
• Hundred Peaks Monarch’s influence and Joker’s signal caused aberrant mosquitoes to multiply and spread, while fleeing creatures triggered the Long Tail River Supply Point’s defenses and worsened the chaos.
• Joker absorbed blood and smoke from creatures caught in his fight with Raven, then laughed and triggered the collapse and dispersal of the mosquito pillars.
• Long Qi worried that bitten creatures carrying mosquito eggs would spread the plague, but Cat’s Eye told him the situation had not yet reached the scale of a true catastrophe.
• Long Qi understood that the Abyss Zone and Extreme Domain would show signs when a major threat fully emerged, while the fighters at the center still seemed to be holding back or waiting.

Long Qi and the others debated the danger of the aberrant mosquito swarm as it spread, then watched it close in on the weakened Mountain Lord. Just as Zhang Yingying prepared to intervene with Manipulation Threads, the mountain beside him split open and Fire God Ants emerged.

• Long Qi and Cat's Eye discussed whether Joker was a player or a piece in the Chess Path involving Luo and Li.
• The aberrant mosquito swarm continued to grow as Raven blocked Joker from reaching Three Peaks Top.
• Long Qi asked Cat's Eye to help Mountain Lord, and Cat's Eye connected Zhang Yingying through the Blood Intent Ring Fortress.
• Zhang Yingying sent Manipulation Threads toward Mountain Lord, but paused after noticing his unusually stable aura and its regular effect on the Gray Substance network.
• Long Qi told Zhang Yingying to proceed, but the mountain beside Mountain Lord split open as the Gray Substance concentration rose and Fire God Ants appeared.

Mountain Lord used a prepared opening to enter the Fog Maze with the Fire God Ant, while Raven held Joker back and identified the danger in the altered structure of his fragments. The chapter ended with Joker’s expression suddenly returning to normal as he asked Raven whether she would keep struggling.

• Grey miasma and blood mist concealed Mountain Lord and carried him through a spacetime fissure into the Fog Maze with the Fire God Ant.
• Long Qi and the others recognized signs of Mountain Lord’s preparations with the Justice Cult, while Zhang Yingying considered intervening but the group let him go.
• Raven wounded Joker, recovered from his attack, and continued observing him as he discussed Mountain Lord’s plans and the forces shaping Earth.
• Long Qi spotted Lao Yao approaching Three Peaks in a low-flying shuttle, and the group tried to contact him and turn him back.
• Raven noticed that Joker had changed the arrangement of his fragments and explained how the altered structure threatened him.
• Joker’s uncontrolled grin vanished, and he calmly asked Raven whether she still intended to struggle.

Joker’s body dispersed into mosquitoes, but his blood-moon Celestial System collapsed into spreading blood light that engulfed the mountain region, leaving the nature and control of the Three-in-One system uncertain. As Long Qi recovered, Lao Yao arrived and struck the ground with his altered right arm, apparently responding to the mosquito threat.

• Joker shed his inhuman traits, questioned Raven, and then dispersed into countless mosquitoes as his five seconds ran out.
• Zhang Yingying tried to track Joker through the blood moon, but the Celestial System collapsed and blood-red light spread across the mountains, marking living things and reaching Three Peaks Top.
• Long Qi and Yin Le concluded that Joker’s plan was to occupy Three Peaks Top and the Blocks under Hundred Peaks Monarch’s control, while Raven and both groups could not determine who controlled the Three-in-One system.
• Cat's Eye said she had completed the second task in the Strong Intervention Plan and told Long Qi to focus on their immediate work while they awaited Dean Wan’s Machine Core.
• Lao Yao arrived by shuttle, and Long Qi recovered enough to warn him about the mosquitoes; Lao Yao lunged over and slammed his glowing, altered right fist into the ground.

Long Qi recovered enough to leave the office building as Hundred Peaks Monarch’s power repelled the aberrant mosquitoes, while chaos erupted around Three Peaks Top. Raven asked Lao Yao to take her to the underground cave to determine a direction, and Fris warned Long Qi that something had happened after Joker split into mosquitoes.

• Lao Yao’s arm triggered spirit waves empowered by Hundred Peaks Monarch, which disoriented the attacking aberrant mosquitoes and helped Long Qi stand.
• Long Qi saw the root systems around Three Peaks Top become tangled and break through the earth, shaking the mountain and the nearby office building.
• Lao Yao suspected that Hundun had awakened and was competing with the Skull Demon King for offerings and nourishment.
• Raven landed beside Long Qi and Lao Yao, then asked Lao Yao to accompany her to the underground cave so she could use his arm to determine a direction.
• Long Qi agreed to go with Raven, while Fris told him that something had happened after Joker split into mosquitoes.

Long Qi, Raven, and their allies prepared to strike Joker while he remained scattered as mosquitoes, with Raven heading toward the heart of Three Peaks. The chapter left Raven advancing through the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s dangerous aerial currents as Zhang Yingying prepared the Interference Cannon and Long Qi wondered what Raven’s public display signified.

• Long Qi used his livestream to urge Lake City and Grand Executive Officer Gao Wenfu to take action against the threat of an Aberration Mosquito Plague.
• Raven told Zhang Yingying to prepare the remote Interference Cannon to eliminate Joker once the area had been evacuated, and she drew a target map of Three Peaks in the air.
• Raven, Long Qi, and Lao Yao departed in the Flying Shuttle for the central basin of the U-shaped Mountain Range, while Zhang Yingying arranged rescues and a Safe Zone.
• As the Flying Shuttle encountered violent currents above Three Peaks, Raven walked through them unharmed, opening a path through the turbulence and Root-Tendril Demon Shadows.
• Long Qi watched Raven approach the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s heart and considered whether her livestreamed advance was a defiant answer to Li Wei’s show of power.

Long Qi watched Raven’s operation in the Hundred Peaks Monarch region unfold as the Blood Intent Ring Fortress tested its Interference Cannon and prepared a direct strike at her position. Zhang Yingying fired the cannon through Raven, illuminating the Undersea Forest and revealing Raven unharmed amid the blaze.

• Long Qi and Lao Yao observed coordinated mountain tremors, gathering clouds, and lightning strikes as the Blood Intent Ring Fortress tested its firing parameters.
• Zhang Yingying explained that Raven’s plan used the Magneto-Optical Mica, Manipulation Thread, and Interference Bubble, while Long Qi recognized an opportunity to recruit Dream Game players.
• Zhang Yingying reported that the firing parameters were loaded, rescue targets were protected, and the final target coordinates were directly above Raven.
• Zhang Yingying initiated the Interference Cannon’s firing sequence and ordered the Blood Intent Ring Fortress to fire.
• The beam passed through Raven and illuminated the Undersea Forest, revealing its tangled Root Systems while Raven remained unharmed, prompting viewers to shout “Format Fire!”

Long Qi watched Raven command the storm as a colossal face began to emerge from the mountains, while the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s awakening coincided with signs of Hundun and other forces. The chapter ended as Sky Ridge collapsed and Grey Matter Miasma surged up, distorting the mountain entity’s face.

• Long Qi saw the Interference Cannon’s light fade as the Undersea Forest convulsed and formed a vast, indistinct face from roots, mountains, and aberrant flesh.
• Long Qi watched the face struggle against the mountain range and release enormous aberrant mosquito swarms, which appeared rejected by its unified pattern.
• A giant stirred in the clouds, but Raven stood firm as cloud armor and a cloak formed around her, and the storm seemed to come under her command.
• Lao Yao warned Long Qi that Sky Ridge had cracked open at the sinkhole, and the Wind Leaf Wheel disappeared amid collapsing mountains and rising dust.
• Grey Matter Miasma boiled up from the Undersea Forest, swallowing root-system shadows and distorting the Hundred Peaks Monarch’s emerging face.

Long Qi and Lao Yao were trapped in the Grey Matter Miasma as Raven unleashed a storm that exposed the Sensing Chain Network and its hidden targets. The chapter left Long Qi staring into a vast field of countless stars in the depths of the miasma, where the Harbinger Bird appeared and vanished.

• Long Qi realized the Grey Matter Miasma had surrounded the shuttle, and he and Lao Yao abandoned it as it lost altitude.
• Long Qi and Lao Yao drifted through the miasma while Raven held back the chaotic forces around Three Peaks Top.
• Raven pulled down the Cloud Qi Cape, and a huge fish emerged from the chaos carrying the exposed Sensing Chain Network.
• Long Qi saw three prominent nodes in the network, including Hundred Peaks Monarch and a vast mosquito pillar moving westward.
• Grey Matter Miasma erupted across the mountains, and Long Qi spotted countless stars deep within it as the Harbinger Bird flew through the strange starry field.

Long Qi witnessed Raven’s power clear a vast shaft through the Grey Matter Miasma and reveal countless Star Pellets linked to the Mist Labyrinth. After the starry vision vanished, the surrounding terrain and creatures continued sinking into the miasma, and Raven’s Cloud Armor Flame went out.

• Long Qi saw the approaching starry sky resolve into countless Star Pellets, which he understood as projections of mature Aberration Gene fragments within the Mist Labyrinth.
• The starry sky and the sound of Magneto-Optical Mica’s Segmentation disappeared, leaving a clear shaft through the Grey Matter Miasma beneath Raven.
• Long Qi and Lao Yao saw Root-Tendril Demon Shadows, dangerous wildlife, and an unstable cliff face around them, while their flying shuttle was gone.
• Long Qi observed Sky Ridge and the Hundred Peaks Monarch sinking into the Grey Matter Miasma, with the Hurricane Mosquito Pillar still trapped inside it.
• Long Qi looked up and saw Raven’s Cloud Armor Flame dim and then go out.