Chapter Summaries

Ronan observed the Tranquil Underworld Bureau’s harsh screening interviews as he and its personnel discussed how emotional pressure could expose or worsen Nightmare Seed infections. Field Officer Bei Ou acknowledged that the method could harm resilient people, while Ronan’s feasibility test moved into specific planning.

• Doctor Xiang Chai discussed Great Monarch family scandals and the First Awareness Society with Ronan and Professor Lan Zhu, who advised focusing on their assigned work and the Nightmare Seed.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen contacted Ronan to discuss arrangements for the feasibility test.
• Ronan observed the Tranquil Underworld Bureau conduct aggressive interviews, with Field Officer Wang Zhen questioning suspected personnel while Professor Lan Zhu watched.
• Field Officer Shi Fan explained that the Dream Eater used emotional fluctuations to screen suspected targets and could stimulate Nightmare Seed growth and mutation.
• Field Officer Bei Ou admitted that emotional treatment could worsen some infected people’s condition and leave them more vulnerable to future infection.

Ronan observed the Tranquil Underworld Bureau’s screening procedures and proposed a trial for investigating Karmic Poison Contamination across both personnel and their work environments. He chose the Dream Net as the starting point and sought a way to experience it, ending by asking Field Officer Wang Zhen about a suitable infected person in custody.

• Field Officer Bei Ou and Field Officer Shi Fan explained the Bureau’s screening methods as Doctor Xiang Chai criticized their repeated questioning of Field Officer Huo Fa.
• Ronan questioned the Bureau’s focus on individuals and its contamination-removal methods, then proposed a small-scale integrated personnel-and-environment trial.
• Ronan built a miniature Chang Ying model, used the Dream Weaver as a sensory medium to demonstrate scouting, and requested access to the Bureau’s personnel records.
• Ronan selected the Dream Net as the trial’s focus and claimed his Inner Universe Simulator’s Sky Abyss Spirit Network Support System could help him understand it.
• Ronan demonstrated that the support system could not parse external time-space data and asked Field Officer Wang Zhen whether an infected person in custody could help him experience the Dream Net.

Ronan examined the Dream Net victims in the Isolation Zone and compared their Life Sketches to investigate what had happened to them. His reconstruction revealed evidence of vanished framework structures, prompting Field Officer Wang Zhen to invite him to talk outside.

• Ronan learned that two field officers and eight lieutenants from the Forward Committee Third Bureau were severely infected and being treated in Life Support Capsules.
• Ronan displayed eight Character Cards and Life Sketches, then selected Hu Wei to compare his current condition with an earlier record.
• Ronan reconstructed Hu Wei's bodily energy circulation and the surrounding influences, including his Innate Furnace and Karmic Poison Contamination.
• Ronan briefly manifested a blurry image resembling the Service Light Divine Bird, while several observers noticed empty spaces in the ward.
• Ronan and Field Officer Wang Zhen questioned each other about the vanished framework structures and Demon Runes, then agreed to talk outside.

Ronan questioned Field Officer Wang Zhen about the Dream Eater and the Dream Net, then learned that the Jingming Agency’s records described Earth as a world devastated by Aberration Infection, Ancient God Remains, and exploitative Star Alliance merchants. As Wang Zhen invited him to join the agency and explained how dream rules could replace reality, Field Officer Huo Fa fell ill and the corridor around Ronan began to blur.

• Ronan asked Wang Zhen about the Dream Eater’s Lawcraft, the Dream Net, and whether she could demonstrate its appearance; she explained that the process irreversibly devoured the manifested danger but promised he could observe similar cases in the future.
• Ronan told Wang Zhen Wu Zhao’s explanation of how knots were arranged in the Abyssal Spirit Net, and Wang Zhen asked about Wu Zhao’s role in Earth’s history.
• Wang Zhen invited Ronan to join the Jingming Agency and described records claiming Earth’s population had suffered severe infection, exploitation, and genetic damage.
• Ronan asked about Earth’s missing population Lawcraft design resources, and Wang Zhen said Earth’s people had experienced Rule Layer distortions and replacements linked to Ancient God Remains and forbidden experiments.
• Wang Zhen explained that the Lord of Illusory Nightmares could replace the rules of the True Universe with dream rules, and Ronan connected the danger to Field Officer Hu Wei.
• Field Officer Bei Ou reported that Field Officer Huo Fa had fallen ill, and Ronan and Wang Zhen ran toward the Eight Departments as a thin mist made the corridor and its occupants appear indistinct.

Ronan investigated the Shadow Mist deployment and realized the Tranquil Underworld Bureau was trying to uncover a hidden network of Dream Net infections. He joined Field Officer Wang Zhen in the Information Equipment Division office to investigate, activating his Biochemical Reactor as they entered the dense mist.

• Field Officer Yunbo explained how Shadow Mist revealed spirit entities and supported Dream Eaters, while Ronan connected it to the Mental Side and Dream Net contamination.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen told Ronan that infected personnel could be replaced by Dream Net rules, and that reinfection might drain their energy to empower Nightmare Seeds in others.
• Ronan realized the Bureau was using exposed infections to search for a hidden network that could silently erode people’s cultivation and spread across the Sky Abyss Empire.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen invited Ronan to investigate the Information Equipment Division office, and he followed her into the dense Shadow Mist with the Dream Weaver.
• Ronan activated his Biochemical Reactor and backup energy cells as he entered the office area.

Ronan entered the contaminated office area with Field Officer Wang Zhen to observe how the Tranquil Underworld Bureau handled the Karmic Poison Contamination and its hidden Root System. Field Officer Huo Fa offered to cooperate, and Wang Zhen told Ronan to begin.

• Ronan discussed his experience with the Abyss Zone and Extreme Domain as Field Officer Wang Zhen explained how the Dream Net could organize the Abyss Zone into a rule-based state.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen warned Ronan that the Nightmare Seed could leave a person under the Dream Divine Abomination's direction, then agreed to let him use Mental Side methods under her commands.
• Ronan and Field Officer Wang Zhen entered the Shadow Mist-filled office area and approached Field Officer Huo Fa, who remained in the command seat amid strange fluctuations and apparent figures in the mist.
• Field Officer Huo Fa offered to cooperate rather than be handled like Hu Wei and said he wanted to learn who else the Dream Net connected to.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen rejected the label of infected persons, then told Ronan to begin.

Ronan extended his senses into the Abyss Zone while Field Officer Wang Zhen and Field Officer Huo Fa fought through the Shadow Mist. He observed the Abyssal Spirit Net and Divine Cloaks, and the chapter ended as Huo Fa drew Skipped Stitches into his Temporary Configuration.

• Ronan used his Soul Power to observe the contest between Field Officer Wang Zhen and Field Officer Huo Fa through the Shadow Mist.
• Ronan shifted into Pure Observation and found that Evil Poison could still contaminate perceptions that followed rules.
• Ronan and the Dream Weaver reached the Abyss Zone ahead of Huo Fa and saw the ancient trunks of the Abyssal Spirit Net and the interwoven Divine Cloaks.
• The Divine Cloaks and their Skipped Stitches caught and hindered the Dream Weaver, while Ronan resisted most of their pull in Absolute Observation.
• Field Officer Huo Fa reached the Abyss Zone and drew several Skipped Stitches into his Temporary Configuration.

Ronan watched Field Officer Wang Zhen defeat Field Officer Huo Fa after Huo Fa borrowed power from an illusionary Abyss Zone. The aftermath left Ronan suspecting that the Dream Divine Abomination’s contamination spread through the Abyss Zone and the wider time-space structure.

• Field Officer Wang Zhen used the Chang Ying’s Xuan Crystal Array and the Shadow Mist to expose and destroy Huo Fa’s temporary configuration, leaving him gravely injured.
• Ronan withdrew his mental senses and explained that the Abyss Zone was an illusion because its Sky Abyss Spirit Network showed the same fragment repeating instead of real-time information flow.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen, Professor Lan Zhu, and Doctor Xiang Chai treated Huo Fa and transferred him to a mobile Life Support Pod while the Tranquil Underworld Bureau handled the Shadow Mist.
• Yun Bo explained that Eunuch Lord’s Dream Net filtered out the All Heavens Divine Kingdom and Dream Divine Abomination, and Ronan concluded that Huo Fa had relied on templates rather than understanding the network himself.
• Ronan warned that triggered infections like Huo Fa’s could awaken hidden Nightmare Seeds or cause new infections through the Abyss Zone, which could reach people even when the Dream Net was disconnected.

After the infection cleanup, Ronan asked to revisit the Abyss Zone and proposed restarting the Harbinger Bird version of the Service Demon Scroll with the Tranquil Underworld Bureau’s support. Wang Zhen agreed to his requests for data and access aboard the Chang Ying, while Ronan resolved to pursue a way to map Nightmare Seed infections.

• The Tranquil Underworld Bureau efficiently cleared the Shadow Mist and contained the infected Field Officer Huo Fa, while Ronan discussed the incident with Wang Zhen and Yun Bo.
• Ronan asked Wang Zhen for permission to enter the Abyss Zone again under high-concentration Shadow Mist, and she said the request needed internal discussion.
• Ronan explained that Great Comprehension had let him faintly perceive the Ancient God's high-dimensional communication and told Wang Zhen he wanted to restart the Harbinger Bird version of the Service Demon Scroll.
• Wang Zhen readily agreed to help Ronan expand the project and its related designs, startling Yun Bo.
• Ronan asked Wang Zhen to request a comprehensive Chang Ying inspection, detailed operational data, and access to the Command Sequence's worksite from Li Chuang, and she agreed.
• Ronan told Yun Bo that the Tranquil Underworld Bureau wanted an integrated response to the Abyss Zone and Karmic Poison Contamination, then said he would try to create a distribution map of Nightmare Seed infected individuals.

Ronan used his authority from the Tranquil Underworld Bureau and the Forward Committee Third Bureau to inspect the Chang Ying and expand his work on modeling infected environments. He continued building a comprehensive mental picture of the ship and battlefield, preparing to develop the Harbinger Bird while testing the limits of his methods.

• Ronan visited Doctor Xiang Chai and learned that people aboard the Chang Ying had nicknamed him Overseer Luo after his disruptive Shadow Mist drills.
• Yun Bo complained that the expanding project and Ronan's data-processing abilities were overwhelming, while Ronan explained that the work could eventually include the ground battlefield, the asteroid, and surrounding star systems.
• Ronan said he kept making rounds because the Chang Ying and the ground battlefield formed a changing whole whose Life Sketch he had not yet fully grasped.
• Lieutenant Hong Kai and Lieutenant Long Bao followed Ronan as bodyguards and monitored what sensitive information he accessed.
• Ronan recognized that the drills and Dream Weaver were strengthening how people perceived him, helping him control the overall situation and prepare to form the Harbinger Bird.

Ronan used the Han Guang Main Star’s evolution to compare the present Han Guang Star System with a much later version and concluded that their time-space difference could be far smaller than he had assumed. The calculation left him facing the possibility that the two versions were separated by only days.

• Ronan reconsidered why Chun Great Lord had singled him out, questioning whether the Rule Difference between Earth and the Han Guang Star System explained the Dream Divine Abomination’s weakness.
• Ronan compared time-space data from the Chang Ying with the External Neuron Database and found that the Han Guang Star System had changed substantially over time.
• Ronan went with Hong Kai and Long Bao to the Fourth Deck, where he studied the Red Wheel Rift and Han Guang Main Star through a breach in the bulkhead.
• Ronan used the Han Guang Main Star’s evolution model to estimate that its current state was about 1266 ± 1000 years later than the Two Star Gate Battle data.
• Ronan considered that the time between Liang Lu’s final data collection and the current state might be less than a thousand years, or even only days.

Ronan sought ways to understand the evolution of time-space, then used a rare chance to observe the battlefield outside the Chang Ying. After spotting suspected living corpses, he asked about their handling and how Karmic Poison Living Entities were directed.

• Ronan considered combining existing time-space models, historical data, and Great Comprehension to investigate the River of Time’s final stretch.
• Ronan leapt through a fissure onto the Chang Ying’s third deck, prompting Hong Kai and Long Bao to follow him as automated defenses identified them.
• Ronan recognized signs of a recent battle and learned from Hong Kai that The Other Side had used local materials to deploy contaminated armored targets.
• Ronan asked Long Bao how suspected living corpses were disposed of and observed one without touching it.
• Ronan contacted Field Officer Wang Zhen for permission to investigate the bodies and asked Long Bao who directed Karmic Poison Living Entities at specific battlefield locations.

Ronan discussed whether the Red Wheel Six Demons shared perceptions and proposed that they reacted instinctively to signals from the wider battlefield. He suspected the Initial Awakening Society could provoke them with an excessive stimulus, and questioned whether its members were already on the Soul Ring No. 28758 Asteroid Battlefield.

• Lieutenant Long Bao said ordinary Evil-Poison Lifeforms might act as sensory tendrils for the Red Wheel Six Demons, though they were generally considered independent and instinct-driven.
• Ronan asked Professor Lan Zhu for research on integration and perception sharing, then suggested the Six Demons might target the Han Guang Star System’s spacetime and living populations as a whole.
• Ronan theorized that the Initial Awakening Society had triggered the Dawn Blood Curse by sending an excessive stimulus signal, provoking a reaction against Great Lord Rongchu.
• Ronan noted that the asteroid’s earlier arrival in the Inner Battlefield had not drawn a strong response, then questioned why the Coiling Demon, the Lighthouse, and the Dream God Abomination had arrived together.
• Ronan asked whether someone on the asteroid had sent an excessive stimulus signal and concluded that finding members of the Initial Awakening Society had become crucial.

Ronan discussed his theory about the First Awareness Society and battlefield signal stimulation with Professor Lan Zhu, who warned him that his growing Mental Side traits could make him a target. As Field Officer Bei Ou examined the suspected living corpses, he judged them to be ordinary Karmic Poison Living Entities rather than intelligent living corpses.

• Professor Lan Zhu explained that instantaneous battlefield stimulation required a Great Lord-level signal and urged Ronan to develop a concrete prevention target for his theory.
• Professor Lan Zhu reminded Ronan that his increasingly conspicuous traits could make him a highly stimulating target for Evil Poison.
• Ronan told Hong Kai and Long Bao that his First Awareness Society theory was only a conjecture and that other people could investigate it.
• Ronan reflected that Great Comprehension let him sense Evil Poison twisting living flesh and that using Mental Side abilities could turn him into a beacon for The Other Side.
• Field Officer Bei Ou arrived to inspect the suspected living corpses and told Ronan they were probably ordinary Karmic Poison Living Entities, not intelligent living corpses.

Ronan joined Field Officer Bei Ou’s patrol, learned why armored targets and Karmic Poison Living Entities were spreading, and used his Card Deck to model battlefield threats. The chapter ended with Bei Ou warning Ronan that simulating The Other Side was illegal and dangerous.

• Field Officer Bei Ou invited Ronan to join the patrol, and Ronan accepted so he could reach the outer deck safely.
• Bei Ou explained that the rise of armored targets stemmed from disrupted recovery of the dead, the decline of Extraterritorial Species reinforcements, and changes in the Evil Poison environment.
• Ronan observed armored targets across multiple areas and found that they mostly relied on battered armor and could not operate complex equipment.
• Ronan showed Bei Ou how he could incorporate the Tranquil Underworld Bureau and other groups into his Card Deck as parts of a whole.
• Ronan sampled and simulated Karmic Poison Living Entities and Extraterritorial Species, and Bei Ou warned him that simulating The Other Side was illegal and extremely dangerous.

Ronan was warned that Karmic Poison Living Entities and Extraterritorial Species were gathering along his route, raising suspicions that he had attracted their attention or become contaminated. As he withdrew with Field Officer Bei Ou’s unit toward the Fourth Deck, Great Comprehension let him detect a nearby tremor signal that suddenly disappeared.

• Field Officer Bei Ou suspected Ronan might be contaminated after learning he had simulated Karmic Poison Living Entities, and reported his concerns to Field Officer Wang Zhen.
• Field Officer Hong Shuang warned Ronan that Karmic Poison Living Entities and Extraterritorial Species were gathering near his route and might be tracking him.
• Ronan agreed to withdraw, and Field Officer Bei Ou ordered his team to abandon the half-processed Armored Targets and head for the lower decks.
• While withdrawing, Ronan recited an incantation to strengthen Great Comprehension and borrowed Field Officer Bei Ou’s Shadow Mist canisters.
• Field Officer Yunbo told Ronan to go to the Command Center, and Ronan detected a sharp tremor signal outside the Chang Ying before it abruptly vanished.

Ronan reviewed the Chang Ying’s records to understand why an undercurrent among the Karmic Poison Living Entities had formed in sync with his movements. The analysis showed that the entities had gathered into a dangerous Assault Cluster, but the cause of the connection remained unclear.

• Ronan entered the Forward Committee Third Bureau’s Command Center, where Officer Li Chuang authorized him to review the records and footage of the incident.
• Field Officer Yunbo told Ronan that the leadership was mainly focused on possible living corpses and changes in the Evil Poison environment, while Ronan’s situation was a lesser concern.
• Ronan learned that shipboard Artificial Intelligence Snail had escalated alerts after his movements coincided with an emerging undercurrent among the Karmic Poison Living Entities.
• Ronan persuaded Snail to copy the materials he was authorized to access, then reviewed the analysts’ abridged report.
• Ronan saw that the entities had tracked his movements and gathered into an Assault Cluster capable of threatening him and the people around him.

Ronan and the field officers analyzed surveillance footage of the Assault Cluster, searching for a possible living-corpse leader. They isolated a suspicious armored target marked by Netherfire and began tracing its movements, while Ronan asked Yun Bo for an update on a unit roster.

• Ronan proposed that a living corpse might have guided the Karmic Poison Living Entities, and Bei Ou said the bureau had never captured clear evidence of such a leader.
• Ronan used the Inner Universe Simulator and Auntie Kui to synchronize and filter the Chang Ying's surveillance recordings.
• Ronan detected a faint blue Netherfire on an armored target and had Snail reconstruct footage tracking it from the undercurrent's emergence until the Assault Cluster dispersed.
• Yun Bo ordered Snail to trace the creatures' movements around the armored target and compare how long they remained in the area.
• Ronan asked Yun Bo whether he had found the roster for the Mobile Fifth Company of the Seventh Battalion, Third Brigade.

Ronan investigated a suspicious armored figure in battlefield footage, and the comparison results suggested it might be a medical officer acting as a leader among the Karmic Poison Living Entities. He identified Doctor Tao Xian as a possibility because her Fire Seed contained a Harbinger Bird version of the Service Demon Scroll, while the officials agreed to track several suspected targets before drawing conclusions.

• Yun Bo explained that the dispersed Third Brigade personnel were still being accounted for, while Ronan asked him to arrange battlefield trajectory tracking of the suspicious target.
• Snail ranked the figures in the Assault Cluster footage, and Yun Bo and Field Officer Bei Ou judged the armored target highly suspicious because it remained active across most of the area while avoiding combat.
• Field Officer Wang Zhen and Professor Lan Zhu joined the discussion, and Ronan asked whether medical officers had become living corpses before.
• Ronan suggested the target could be Doctor Tao Xian, whose Fire Seed held a Harbinger Bird version of the Service Demon Scroll, prompting debate about contamination and its possible dangers.
• Professor Lan Zhu proposed tracking several suspected targets to observe changes in the Evil Poison environment, and Field Officer Wang Zhen accepted the plan.
• After the officials left, Yun Bo scolded Ronan for revealing a possible personal connection to the Tranquil Underworld Bureau, but Ronan insisted the problem needed to be solved.

Ronan reported his connection to the suspected living corpse and argued that Doctor Tao Xian may have been affected by the Rule Difference associated with the Harbinger Bird. Gong Shenmang heard his judgment, but the chapter ended before the higher command decided what to do with it.

• Yun Bo warned Ronan to follow military channels and told him that Doctor Tao Xian was missing after failing to withdraw from the front.
• Yun Bo arranged a dedicated call so Gong Shenmang could question Ronan about the Harbinger Bird, Mobile Fifth Company, and Tao Xian.
• Ronan recounted his actions in Mobile Fifth Company and answered Gong Shenmang's questions about the unit and its personnel.
• Gong Shenmang explained that Ronan could submit a judgment through proper channels, but its escalation depended on his superiors.
• Ronan said the suspected target was probably Doctor Tao Xian, that she had encountered the situation because of him, and that the Rule Difference might have drawn attention to her.