Chapter Summaries

Ronan left the Third Processing Center after reviewing its automated production line and returned to the mothership hospital to help Professor Lan Zhu while investigating Dream Net and the First Awareness Society. He learned about the Society’s extremist beliefs and complicated supporters, and the discussion ended with colleagues bringing up Bo Ran.

• Ronan reviewed the production-line process with Sergeant Major Chaku, greeted Lieutenant Meng Xin, and returned to the mothership hospital.
• While organizing materials with Doctor Xiang Chai and other colleagues, Ronan asked about Dream Net and the Materialization Imprint Plate.
• Doctor Xiang Chai and his colleagues explained that the First Awareness Society was an illegal organization that sought to connect with the Dream Divine Abomination and had attacked the Rong Family.
• Ronan learned that the Society attracted varied supporters, while his colleagues thought active-duty military members were unlikely to join it.
• Professor Lan Zhu arrived to collect materials, and the conversation turned to the highly educated extremist Bo Ran.

Ronan learned more about Bo Ran’s radical research and the First Awareness Society while speaking with Professor Lan Zhu. Lan Zhu privately explained that he had opposed Ronan’s Fantasy Configuration Service Demon Scroll project because of what he had seen happen to Fantasy School inheritors, leaving Ronan asking about their fates.

• Ronan learned that Bo Ran had been a gifted Golden Cell researcher who joined the First Awareness Society to pursue research on the Dream Divine Abomination and later disappeared after being arrested and infected.
• Professor Lan Zhu warned the medical officers to watch for people showing First Awareness Society sympathizer tendencies, then asked Ronan about the Tactical Intelligence Division’s progress.
• Lan Zhu led Ronan to his lounge for a private conversation, where Ronan removed his armor and the two discussed his age and the project.
• Lan Zhu revealed that he had opposed the Fantasy Configuration Service Demon Scroll project because he knew of Fantasy School inheritances and the fates of their inheritors.
• Ronan asked Lan Zhu what had happened to those inheritors.

Professor Lan Zhu explained why the Fantasy School was dangerous and difficult to trust in the Evil Poison environment, while Ronan described how he had developed safely and discussed the First Awareness Society. After Professor Lan Zhu checked Ronan’s records, Ronan wondered why the Sky Abyss Mirror System had altered his identity and memories without giving him a more seamless place in the world.

• Professor Lan Zhu warned Ronan that outward spiritual perception and strict material requirements made Fantasy School cultivation and applications hazardous in an Evil Poison environment.
• Ronan attributed his progress to Ceremonial Ancient Script and the Inner Universe Simulator, though he could not reveal all the factors behind his abilities.
• Professor Lan Zhu said Ronan’s battlefield operations remained difficult to trust and noted that many Fantasy School inheritors had ties to the Dream Net or the First Awareness Society.
• Ronan asked whether Professor Lan Zhu had suspected him of belonging to the First Awareness Society, and Professor Lan Zhu said the concern had already been ruled out.
• Professor Lan Zhu checked the Database and found records of Ronan’s Earthling people arriving near the end of the last millennium.
• Ronan wondered why the Sky Abyss Mirror System had altered records and memories instead of giving him an identity that fit his situation naturally.

Ronan learned that the Service Demon Scroll project would be delayed while the Forward Committee assessed personnel and possible rotations, and worried that frontline engineering units might be left without replacements. He agreed to help survey the Sky Carrier’s personnel, while a new doubt about Liang Lu’s trust in him began to take shape.

• Professor Lan Zhu told Ronan that the Command Sequence’s mental state was worse than expected and that the Service Demon Scroll project might be delayed until personnel reviews and rotations were settled.
• Ronan questioned whether frontline engineering units would receive replacements, and Lan Zhu said the Forward Committee would have to allocate resources.
• Lan Zhu proposed surveying the Sky Carrier’s five or six thousand permanent personnel using questionnaires and existing records, and Ronan agreed to start with key departments and make observations across the carrier.
• Lan Zhu contacted Colonel Fang Shu to arrange for Ronan to focus on personnel profiling, while Ronan suspected that officials remained cautious about his credentials and trustworthiness.
• Ronan wondered whether Liang Lu could have believed that an Earth-born person might solve a problem Liang Lu had failed to resolve himself.

Ronan questioned whether Liang Lu could truly have expected an unprepared Earth native to inherit his mission and defeat Li Wei and Tu Ge, and wondered what precautions Liang Lu had taken. After joining a brief call with Li Chuang, Ronan was assigned work in the Forward Committee Third Bureau and remained uncertain about the path ahead.

• Ronan considered how unlikely it was that Liang Lu had expected him to grow strong enough to defeat Li Wei and Tu Ge, given Earth's dangers and the narrow chain of chance that had enabled his cultivation.
• Ronan questioned whether Liang Lu had intended to create a Deity through the External Neuron, since he believed Demon Rune was the true source of his power.
• Professor Lan Zhou invited Ronan to join a call, where Li Chuang conveyed the bureau leadership's trust and assigned work to Ronan and Professor Lan Zhou.
• Ronan reflected on whether Liang Lu had trusted an Earth native and what safeguards he might have put in place, then wondered what he should do in Test Spacetime.

Ronan drove the crew assessment project forward by sketching the Chang Ying Sky Carrier’s departments and matching its personnel, while using relentless work to quiet his doubts about Liang Lu’s plan. He remained uncertain about the Testing Time-Space’s main storyline and the war’s direction, but kept refining his sketches, including separate versions of the Tactical Intelligence Division’s Work Area with and without Field Officer Hong Shuang.

• Ronan spent ten hours touring the Chang Ying Sky Carrier, sketching its work areas and helping Professor Lan Zhu’s team match crew members to their records.
• Doctor Xiang Chai joked that Ronan would make a dedicated spy, while the crew discussed Chun Great Lord’s approved personnel rotation and conservative strategy.
• Ronan reflected on his doubts about Liang Lu’s plan, the purpose of the Testing Time-Space, and how little influence he had over the wider war.
• Ronan told Doctor Xiang Chai that rotating frontline personnel was necessary and that Chun Great Lord’s caution was understandable given the enemy’s strength.
• After Doctor Xiang Chai praised Field Officer Hong Shuang’s presence in a sketch, Ronan proposed combining drawings made with and without her to represent the Tactical Intelligence Division’s staff more fairly.

Ronan used sketches and operational data to begin reconstructing the Chang Ying’s crew and work areas as a one-to-one model in the Inner Universe Simulator, creating portrait cards for Tactical Intelligence Division personnel. He sought authorization to continue the analysis and was summoned, along with Doctor Xiang Chai, to join Professor Lan Zhu.

• Ronan explained that he would assess crew competence by combining sketches with work data and hoped to reproduce the Chang Ying and its personnel in the Inner Universe Simulator.
• Snail generated a real-time view of the Tactical Intelligence Division, and Ronan turned the gathered information into portrait cards, including one of Field Officer Hong Shuang.
• Ronan asked Doctor Xiang Chai about Field Officer Su Heng and learned Su Heng was still working on repairs and monitoring at the Information Equipment Division.
• Doctor Xiang Chai advised Ronan to contact Professor Lan Zhu for access and authorization, and Professor Lan Zhu invited Ronan and Xiang Chai to come over for a joint consultation.

Ronan and Doctor Xiang Chai traveled to the upper decks to meet Professor Lan Zhu, passing through a tense transfer platform and a recently breached area. Professor Lan Zhu redirected them to the fourth deck and explained that Field Officer Su Heng had taken an Alertness Agent whose effects exceeded expectations.

• Ronan and Doctor Xiang Chai went to the upper decks after Professor Lan Zhu summoned them, with four internal security officers escorting them.
• Xiang Chai noticed Ronan’s projected card showing Field Officer Su Heng and learned Ronan was seeking annual assessment figures from the Information Equipment Division.
• Lieutenant Hong Kai escorted the group toward the upper deck and warned them that the area ahead had been breached by Karmic Poison Living Entities.
• Ronan and the others passed a badly damaged battlefield before Professor Lan Zhu contacted them and told them to wait for a rendezvous on the fourth deck.
• Professor Lan Zhu said Field Officer Su Heng had injected an Alertness Agent, whose effect had been beyond expectations.

Ronan and the others waited on the Fourth Deck while he used cards to map the surrounding area as battle raged across the damaged decks. When Professor Lan Zhu’s group arrived, another breach opened and an armored fighter was already beating a flying Extraterritorial Species at the edge of the floor.

• Doctor Xiang Chai warned that personality changes among users of Alertness Agents could signal dangerous nervous-system alterations, possibly affecting the commander.
• Ronan assembled a real-time card-based map of personnel, equipment, and functional zones across the surrounding decks.
• Professor Lan Zhu’s convoy arrived and began inspecting and repairing damage near the Fourth Deck breach.
• A sudden blast threw Doctor Xiang Chai and the others out of danger, while Ronan used repulsive force to slide safely across the floor.
• A new breach opened overhead, and an armored giant repeatedly punched a flying Extraterritorial Species until it was mangled against the jagged floor edge.

Ronan secured Instructor Su Heng’s authorization to access technical data while continuing to build a model of the people and conditions around him. As Su Heng coordinated repairs to preserve the Sky Carrier’s transmission light tracks, Ronan studied the commander’s real-time damage map.

• Field Officer Sheng Yu arrived after defeating an Extraterritorial Species and exchanged barbed greetings with Instructor Su Heng.
• Ronan showed Su Heng Field Officer Fang Shu’s approved slip and obtained authorization to access the requested data.
• Ronan resumed cutting cards while tracking Su Heng, and Doctor Xiang Chai questioned his focus on the task.
• Su Heng ordered his subordinates to prioritize repairs to the Third Floor C1 exit and the Sky Carrier’s light-track transmission system.
• Su Heng displayed an authorized real-time map of damage across the upper four decks, and Ronan moved closer to study it.

Ronan’s low-fidelity mapping revealed that Field Officer Su Heng had been contaminated by an illusion connected to the Dream Net. Field Officer Sheng Yu knocked Su Heng down, but when he destroyed the armor around Su Heng’s head, everyone discovered it was empty.

• Field Officer Su Heng organized the defense and planned to repair launch areas C and D while leading a team to maintain the Mobile Blessing.
• Ronan volunteered to control a Fire Seed and displayed a live mapping whose lifelike projections drew everyone’s attention.
• Field Officer Su Heng mentioned connecting to the Dream Net, and his projection in Ronan’s mapping turned to stare directly at him.
• Doctor Xiang Chai recognized the signs of Karmic Poison Contamination and ignited his Fire Seed as Field Officer Sheng Yu erupted in white flames.
• Field Officer Sheng Yu struck Field Officer Su Heng and his adjutant, while Ronan shoved the adjutant and urged Sheng Yu to remove Su Heng’s helmet.
• Field Officer Sheng Yu shattered Su Heng’s helmet and armor, revealing that there was nothing inside the headgear.

Field Officer Su Heng vanished amid a Dream Divine Abomination’s dream, but Professor Lan Zhu’s Ceremonial Ancient Script severance shout and the shipborne Xuan Crystal Array’s blessing halted the spread. Su Heng reappeared charred and collapsed, while Doctor Xiang Chai realized Ronan had confirmed the Dream Divine Abomination’s existence—and that everyone present was now caught up in serious trouble.

• Field Officer Su Heng disappeared as Karmic Poison Contamination overwhelmed the area, and Doctor Xiang Chai identified the crisis as Karmic Dream Interaction.
• Field Officer Sheng Yu’s Fire Seed and assault team’s domain power steadied Doctor Xiang Chai, while the Xuan Crystal Array’s blessing reached the deck and Ronan gathered his Segmenters.
• Professor Lan Zhu shouted a Ceremonial Ancient Script character for “sever,” disrupting everyone’s ability to extend thoughts about the Dream Net, Karmic Poison Contamination, and the Dream Divine Abomination.
• Ronan spotted Field Officer Su Heng, charred and unstable at the edge of the blessing light, before Su Heng collapsed while demanding that the Dream Net be restored.
• Doctor Xiang Chai told Ronan he had become the first person on the Asteroid Battlefield to verify the Dream Divine Abomination’s existence and warned that the witnesses were in serious trouble.

Doctor Xiang Chai explained how the Dream Divine Abomination could spread Karmic Dream seeds through thought and turn dreams into reality. Ronan learned that the carrier’s personnel would be screened and decontaminated at the Main Base, where Chun Great Lord was stationed.

• Doctor Xiang Chai told Ronan that Su Heng’s Karmic Dream Interaction had confirmed his infection and left him with severe damage, while the incident put the Sky Carrier and the campaign command on alert.
• Doctor Xiang Chai explained that ideas linked to the Dream Divine Abomination could spread Karmic Dream seeds, resonate, and twist reality, and Ronan worried that everyone who heard about the incident might be at risk.
• Professor Lan Zhu joined the discussion and said he would use Decayed Severance Intent through the broadcast to sever thought-links, though thorough cleansing required Discernment Intent as well.
• Ronan searched Snail’s Database and found that Twenty-Seven Intentions were widely studied in the Han Guang Star System as a response to Karmic Poison.
• Professor Lan Zhu told Ronan that he would escort Su Heng and Xiang Chai’s group to the Main Base for inspection and decontamination, and said Ronan’s role in discovering the Dream Divine Abomination had earned him a medal.

Ronan read about the disputed Twenty-Seven Intentions during the transport to the Main Base, where Professor Lan Zhu explained how he had learned Decayed Severance Intent. The transport arrived as Ronan realized Lan Zhu had been taught by Great Lord Zhan You.

• Professor Lan Zhu led Ronan and others away from the Chang Ying Sky Carrier under the pretext of escort duty so they could undergo testing and decontamination at the Main Base.
• Ronan spent the journey refining his Card Deck and reviewing the origins, disputes, and practical methods of the Twenty-Seven Intentions.
• Ronan told Professor Lan Zhu that many practical methods of the Twenty-Seven Intentions felt forced, and Lan Zhu advised him not to spend time on the disputed field yet.
• Ronan praised Lan Zhu's Decayed Severance Intent, and Lan Zhu said he had gained inspiration from broadcasts before receiving pointers from a Great Lord.
• Ronan recognized that Great Lord as Zhan You, the Great Monarch who guided the Ancestral Court Morning Exercise broadcasts, just as the transport reached the Main Base.

Ronan and Professor Lan Zhu discussed how Ceremonial Ancient Script could be used as a tool before the group entered the Main Base for decontamination. After questioning by the Tranquil Underworld Bureau, Ronan was cleared but ordered to remain in the Blessing Zone for thirty hours, where an officer continued to watch him.

• Professor Lan Zhu explained that Great Lord Zhan You had taught him to use Ceremonial Ancient Script as one tool for solving specific problems.
• Ronan and the others entered the Main Base and were sent through decontamination, questionnaires, and counseling procedures.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen questioned Ronan about whether a Nightmare Seed remained inside him, then granted him temporary access to the High-Level Authority Zone for thirty hours of examinations.
• Ronan asked whether he could review materials and continue his project during decontamination, and Wang Zhen told him to discuss it with Iron Block.
• Ronan encountered Field Officer Zhong He entering Wang Zhen's office, then left while a Tranquil Underworld Bureau officer followed him.

Ronan entered the High-Level Authority Zone for elimination and began working on Professor Lan Zhu’s Sky Carrier Card Deck while confined to an isolated room. After he reported growing itching and tugging sensations that intensified under the Xuan Crystal Array’s Blessing Power, the Tranquil Underworld Bureau could not determine the cause, and his elimination period was extended; the chapter ended with Field Officer Wang Zhen announcing that the commander wished to speak with him.

• Ronan was confined to a blank single room in the High-Level Authority Zone and was told that he needed to complete re-examination procedures before regaining limited permissions.
• Ronan used Auntie Kui’s External Neuron Database to work on the Sky Carrier Card Deck, but unresolved energy-transmission errors stopped his progress.
• Ronan tried to regulate his vital energy and noticed persistent itching and a faint tugging, twisting sensation.
• Ronan reported the symptoms, which worsened as the Xuan Crystal Array’s Blessing Power shifted toward him, and described his experiences to Field Officer Wang Zhen.
• Tranquil Underworld Bureau personnel and medical officers examined Ronan but could not identify the cause, so they kept him under observation and recommended extending his elimination period to ten days.
• After Ronan’s first day of elimination passed without his promised re-examination or restored permissions, Wang Zhen told him that the commander wished to speak with him.

Ronan learned that his discomfort inside the Xuan Crystal Array came from a Rule Difference between its rules and those of the Harbinger Bird. Chun Great Lord encouraged him to adapt to the Service Light Divine Bird’s rules, and Ronan began presenting his observations in Ceremonial Ancient Script.

• Field Officer Wang Zhen contacted Chun Great Lord, who confirmed Ronan was unharmed and explained that a minute Rule Difference caused his discomfort.
• Chun Great Lord connected Ronan’s discovery of the Dream Divine Abomination to differences between the Fantasy Configuration version of the Service Demon Scroll and the Service Light Divine Bird.
• Chun Great Lord suggested Ronan adjust his true body to the Service Light Divine Bird’s rule state, but Ronan admitted he did not know how.
• Chun Great Lord asked Ronan what he thought of the Service Light Divine Bird, and Ronan requested time to organize his thoughts.
• Ronan began chanting in Ceremonial Ancient Script, prompting Field Officer Wang Zhen to recognize the phrase “Demon Subduing Diagram Scroll” as he traced shapes in the air.

Ronan presented Chun Great Lord with his notes on the Demon Subduing Diagram Scroll, but Chun Great Lord’s response revealed the authentic pronunciation of the Overrun Divine Script’s “I” character and shook Ronan profoundly. Chun Great Lord declined to teach him a technique for bridging the Rule Difference, then advised him to study the Twenty-Seven Intentions as the conversation ended.

• Ronan wrote and displayed his Ceremonial Ancient Script notes on the Demon Subduing Diagram Scroll for Chun Great Lord and Field Officer Wang Zhen.
• Ronan watched his calligraphic work wear away under a conflict between his understanding of the scroll and the Xuan Crystal Array’s rules.
• Chun Great Lord spoke a syllable that violently shook Ronan’s body and consciousness, and Ronan realized it was the authentic pronunciation of the Overrun Divine Script’s “I” character.
• Chun Great Lord praised Ronan’s talent, advised him to focus on his professional studies, and said he would not teach him a technique for bridging the Rule Difference.
• Chun Great Lord told Ronan to study the Twenty-Seven Intentions, especially Category One, Item One, and reminded him that plans were never useful on the battlefield.

Imprisoned in the High-Level Authority Zone, Ronan struggled to recall Chun Great Lord’s “I”-syllable and uncovered a connection between it, his anger, and the Demon Rune. He resolved to use the revised syllable’s vibrations to investigate his power system, but his reflection was interrupted by Zhong He calling him.

• Ronan found that his body could not withstand actually pronouncing the “I”-syllable, and repeated visualization made his memory of it increasingly uncertain.
• After Iron Block restored his network access, Ronan replied to Professor Lan Zhu and Doctor Xiang Chai, then recognized his growing agitation as anger over his inability to control his progress and fate.
• Ronan’s anger activated the Demon Rune, triggering vibrations through his Mental Layer and Form and Spirit Framework that resembled the effects of Chun Great Lord’s utterance in reverse.
• Ronan realized that his visualization had produced a revised “I”-syllable linked to the Demon Rune, and decided to use it regularly to investigate the rune and other parts of his power system.
• A projected screen activated without Ronan’s consent, and Zhong He identified himself.

Field Officer Zhong He asked Ronan to develop a small batch of Zombie Ants for reconnaissance, and Ronan agreed to research the project while seeking a formal order. Zhong He then argued that Ronan’s work on contamination procedures had little left for him to contribute, leaving Ronan to consult Professor Lan Zhu before deciding.

• Ronan recognized Zhong He, who said he had used the Grease Ball reconnaissance device in the Asteroid Crust and Earth Core regions.
• Zhong He explained that the Grease Ball’s limited movement and deployment options prompted Field Officer Hong Shuang to ask Ronan about his Zombie Ant design.
• Ronan warned that the Zombie Ants were untested and not ready for mass production, but agreed to research a small custom order for three to five days.
• Ronan said he could not take on the project immediately because he was working with Professor Lan Zhu, and Zhong He countered that Ronan’s contamination procedure had already been widely implemented.
• Ronan said he needed to speak with Professor Lan Zhu and receive a formal order before proceeding.