Recaps

Huang Ji and Mo Qiong met in the Absolute Universe to begin a three-round game of hide-and-seek, whose outcome would decide whether Mo Qiong had to compromise. Lin Xiqiu recorded the rules as absolute information, and the chapter ended with the allies realizing they could join either side and that cheating might be their only way to help Huang Ji.

• Huang Ji met Mo Qiong across an expanding sun while their companions gathered nearby, and Lin Xiqiu asked whether they wanted to add rules to their hide-and-seek game.
• Gou Ye proposed recording the rules as absolute information so everyone could see them and tamper with them, and Lin Xiqiu wrote them into the interface.
• Ni Guang and Lin Li realized that eligible outsiders could join either camp and would have to follow the rules, while Lin Xiqiu explained that Huang Ji needed to win the first round to have a chance at victory.
• Lin Xiqiu said the contest would have three rounds, with each round lasting an hour by his perception, and that Huang Ji and Mo Qiong were expected to follow the agreed rules.
• Rui Ji questioned Lin Xiqiu's role as referee, and he revealed that he was on Huang Ji's team as a member of Ziwei.

Huang Ji and Mo Qiong began their Hide-and-Seek duel, while Lin Xiqiu and Ziwei tried to help Huang Ji overcome Gou Ye’s interference. Gou Ye outmatched Lin Xiqiu and produced a terrifying divine sword, leaving Lin Li to insist that they fight despite the apparent certainty of defeat.

• Lin Xiqiu explained that he could add rules to the duel but could not change Huang Ji and Mo Qiong’s original rules, then declared Mo Qiong the hider for the first round.
• Mo Qiong used a reset effect to keep Huang Ji from approaching or touching him, while Gou Ye stopped Ziwei from joining the hunters and eliminated Brando.
• Lin Xiqiu joined the hunt and fought Gou Ye, who used Absolute Destructive Power and Best Metal to overpower him and expose his lack of combat planning.
• Lin Xiqiu linked his memories with Ziwei so Ni Guang and Shi Ge Mu could coordinate their efforts against Gou Ye.
• Gou Ye drew a Supreme Divine Sword from the Blue White Boundary, terrifying Ni Guang and the others, while Lin Xiqiu insisted it was only a Show-off Sword that could not harm anyone.
• Lin Li joined the mind link and declared that Ziwei had to keep fighting even if the sword made defeat seem certain.

Lin Li and Lin Xiqiu struck Gou Ye’s Supreme Divine Sword, letting Huang Ji destroy the Absolute Universe and add a rule that enabled him to catch Mo Qiong. Huang Ji nevertheless lost the first round because Mo Qiong’s True Absolute Hit concealed his connection to the information he had created, leaving Huang Ji unable to catch him; Mo Qiong then declared he had no right to give Huang Ji a chance.

• Lin Li merged with Lin Xiqiu and charged the Supreme Divine Sword, whose recoil destroyed the Absolute Universe while leaving its living beings alive in the Absolute Genesis Landmass.
• Lin Li added a Hide-and-Seek rule allowing the pursuer to catch a hider by touching the hider’s incarnation, remains, fusion body, or exclusive information.
• Huang Ji used the new rule and Mo Qiong’s connection to Severing the Heavens to catch him, and the one-hour countdown began.
• Huang Ji declared that he had lost the first round after discovering that Mo Qiong’s True Absolute Hit made the information Mo Qiong created count as unrelated to him.
• Lin Xiqiu despaired at the prospect of Mo Qiong winning the next round, while Mo Qiong said he had no right to give Huang Ji a chance.

Huang Ji began the second round of Hide-and-Seek by using Mo Qiong’s Absolute Hit to reach an unknown domain, where he could transcend before Mo Qiong caught up. Lin Xiqiu realized that Huang Ji’s apparent route to victory was limited by the rules, leaving the others considering whether to change them.

• Huang Ji restored the Absolute Universe, then crashed into Mo Qiong and used his Absolute Hit to launch himself into an unknown domain.
• Lin Xiqiu and Lin Li realized Huang Ji could use the hiding minute to transcend across narrative layers and evade Mo Qiong during the pursuit.
• Gou Ye explained that Huang Ji had accepted Lin Xiqiu’s choice of who sought first because an unforeseen choice from the referee could have created an Information Singularity Point.
• Lin Li suggested Huang Ji might carry an advantage into the third round, but Gou Ye explained that Huang Ji would have to return before Mo Qiong and remain still while the next round began.
• The group realized Huang Ji could at most narrowly win the second round under the current rules, and they considered changing them.

Lin Li and the Ziwei group failed to change the game rules after Mo Qiong’s transcendence made the Absolute Universe and its rules untouchable. Gou Ye explained that Mo Qiong’s True Absolute Hit could follow Huang Ji through narrative layers, leaving the group to wait for Huang Ji’s move while he remained on the run.

• Lin Li used the Supreme Sword Qi’s attack to try to expel Gou Ye and the others from the Absolute Universe, but the universe survived because Mo Qiong had raised its setting depth.
• Lin Xiqiu and Lin Li realized Mo Qiong’s transcendence had made the Absolute Universe and its rules impossible to alter, so their plan to delay the second round had failed.
• Luo Yan told the group to monitor information across the universes and wait for Huang Ji, while warning that directly raising their power could expose him to Mo Qiong.
• Gou Ye explained that Mo Qiong could use relationships and information tied to Huang Ji as footholds for Absolute Hit, even without understanding or investigating Huang Ji’s current state.
• Lin Xiqiu and Luo Yan concluded that Mo Qiong could keep shooting through locks and narrative layers to pursue Huang Ji, while Huang Ji could only stall as he searched for a way forward.

Luo Yan used the author's power to banish Gou Ye to the Natural World, then chose to kill him in order to force Mo Qiong to return and give Huang Ji a chance to win. The chapter ended with Luo Yan attacking Gou Ye as Lin Li chose not to stop him.

• Luo Yan used Moxing Cangyue's supreme interface depth to send Gou Ye into the Huang Ji Universe, where Gou Ye became trapped under Severing the Heavens.
• Lin Xiqiu explained that Huang Ji's influence had shaped the author's actions and the group's ideas, prompting the Ziwei Crowd to wonder whether anyone could become an Information Singularity Point.
• Rui Ji asked whether Luo Yan was a Singularity Point, but Luo Yan said he had acted on a hint from Huang Ji and admitted his plan was a gamble.
• Luo Yan decided to kill Gou Ye so that Mo Qiong would be forced to return and save him, potentially allowing the others to change the rules.
• Luo Yan launched an attack to erase Gou Ye, and Lin Li let him proceed as Luo Yan declared that he wanted Huang Ji to win.

Luo Yan chose to kill Gou Ye, prompting Mo Qiong to abandon the rules of their game and return the conflict to a real battle. Mo Qiong saved the Blue White Society, found Huang Ji’s hidden information through Lin Li, and declared that Huang Ji must attain True Information Omniscience to truly surpass him.

• Ruo Shui and the Blue White Society’s other powerful members arrived, and Lin Li confirmed that he remained Supreme One despite the invading rules.
• Luo Yan ordered Lin Li to kill the Blue White Society members, and Lin Li empowered Luo Yan to obliterate them.
• Mo Qiong appeared, stopped Luo Yan’s attack, and revealed himself as an omnipotent Heavenly Ghost who would ignore the game’s rules to protect his companions.
• Mo Qiong declared the game over and used Absolute Hit to find Huang Ji’s hidden partnership information inside Lin Li.
• Mo Qiong said Huang Ji could truly win only by reaching True Information Omniscience, leaving the two of them on course for a real struggle.

An Lu Ban’s travelogue trapped the apparent Mo Qiong while the Ziwei group struggled to determine whether Huang Ji or Mo Qiong had gained control of the conflict. Lin Li’s allies stopped him from acting on Huang Ji’s instructions, leaving Huang Ji isolated as they rejected the possibility that he was truly speaking.

• Lin Li noticed that the group had regained their traits, and An Lu Ban explained that Huang Ji had incorporated their dimensions into his travelogue.
• Ni Guang and Lin Xiqiu suspected that the Mo Qiong before them was an arrow, while Huang Ji confirmed that a higher-layer version of Mo Qiong had suppressed him.
• Mo Qiong claimed that the figure before them was his true body, and An Lu Ban abandoned the book rather than risk challenging Mo Qiong’s hidden safeguards.
• Lin Li seized the book and tried to edit its information, but Ni Guang and the others stopped him and concluded that Mo Qiong had manipulated them into doubting Huang Ji.
• Lin Li admitted that a consciousness claiming to be Huang Ji had asked to control his body, and Mo Qiong told the group that they had failed Huang Ji.
• Lin Li realized that his allies’ rejection had prevented Huang Ji from acting, leaving Huang Ji in the same complete isolation as during the Void Terror.

Lin Li struggled to decide whether to trust Huang Ji’s voice, which urged him to kill Mo Qiong as Huang Ji’s final path to victory. Faced with Huang Ji’s apparent choice to abandon his principles for omniscience, Lin Li rejected the golden destiny and asked him to go home.

• Huang Ji told Lin Li that killing Mo Qiong with the book was their last chance and urged him to take control of Lin Li’s body.
• Mo Qiong warned that he would kill Huang Ji if Huang Ji took that step, while Lin Xiqiu realized Huang Ji might be choosing to become demonic.
• Lin Li prepared to erase Mo Qiong, but Huang Ji said his aim was to become the True Omniscient Informant and explained that his principles had been a persona he planned to let collapse.
• Lin Li remembered Huang Ji’s warning never to trust a version of him who compromised with the world, and his anguish shook the universe as Rui Ji tried to comfort him.
• Lin Li gave up on the golden destiny and asked Huang Ji to go home.

Mo Qiong erased Huang Ji after Lin Li chose not to trust him, but Huang Ji’s death transformed him into Information Origin Awareness and he returned as a doctor. Lin Li was reunited with his big brother, and the author announced the story was complete.

• Mo Qiong tore apart the book and erased Huang Ji’s information after Lin Li chose to trust the more perfect Huang Ji.
• Lin Li grieved as Mo Qiong explained that Huang Ji’s death had changed the universe and revealed his true nature as Information Origin Awareness.
• Lin Li revived the Wall-Breaking Legion but could not find Huang Ji, until Huang Ji suddenly appeared alive before him.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li he had returned because his humanity could not let him leave Lin Li suffering in guilt.
• The author apologized and announced that the whole book was complete.

The author thanked readers, apologized for the novel’s unreliable updates, and explained his interpretation of Huang Ji’s ending and Golden Destiny. He announced plans to rest, prepare side stories, and release a new book on July 15.

• The author thanked readers, editors, Luo Yanrui Jun, and his operations officer, and apologized for the novel’s delayed updates.
• The author discussed the novel’s weaknesses in pacing, characterization, and immersion, and explained that Huang Ji’s return to Information Origin Awareness did not necessarily create Golden Destiny.
• The author said Huang Ji’s life and choices made Golden Destiny possible, and that he preferred to believe Huang Ji truly returned to life.
• The author outlined several possible projects, favoring a story about the early Blue White Society, and said the new book was planned for July 15.
• The author planned to rest, build a backlog, publish setting notes and side stories, and write about the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Chinese civilization.

The author reconsidered his fictional claim that Kunlun was an ancient name for Earth and presented scholarly interpretations of Kunlun as a man-made Bright Hall associated with ancestral rites. He proposed that Kunlun may have been a western people’s homeland, possibly near Mount Tai, and ended by warning readers not to mistake his novel’s speculative ideas for history.

• The author rejected his earlier claim that Kunlun meant Earth and explained that ancient references to the four seas described a limited worldview rather than the whole planet.
• The author argued that the Kunlun Ruins described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were a constructed Bright Hall, where ancestors were honored alongside the heavenly Emperor.
• The author suggested that Kunlun was also the name of an ancient people or kingdom and that its Bright Hall marked their ancestral homeland.
• The author used descriptions of the Yellow River, Red Water, Black Water, and shifting sands to argue that Kunlun may have been near Mount Tai in Shandong, while acknowledging the Loess Plateau as another possibility.
• The author speculated that the Zhou People descended from Kunlun people who migrated west, and that the Queen Mother of the West may have been their ancestress Jiang Yuan.
• The author concluded that aliens and prehistoric civilizations were fictional devices in his novels, not claims about Chinese history.

The narrator argued that Chinese civilization arose from many cultures rather than from either a Central Plains or Liangzhu-centered origin, using archaeological finds and ancient texts to challenge claims that Liangzhu conquered the north or that Da Yu came from Liangzhu. The chapter left the origins of civilization as an open, still-developing archaeological picture, with many regions contributing to Huaxia.

• The narrator praised Liangzhu Civilization while rejecting online claims that it conquered the north and founded the Yu Dynasty.
• The narrator disputed arguments locating Da Yu and the Yu Dynasty in Liangzhu, citing the broader context of the Book of Documents and uncertainty in later written traditions.
• The narrator described how Liangzhu, Yangshao, Dawenkou, Hongshan, and other cultures contributed distinct elements to the Longshan Era and later Huaxia civilization.
• The narrator explained how ancient beliefs and cultural symbols, including dragons, the fenghuang, and Shangdi, changed through cultural exchange and translation.
• The narrator traced climate changes and archaeological discoveries across several regions, arguing that Liangzhu was one pioneer among multiple origins of civilization.
• The narrator pointed to the largely unexplored Nanzuo, Shimao, and Taosi sites as places that could reshape current understanding of Chinese civilization.