Recaps

Hao Ren and Izax stopped the floating island’s runaway engine, but the explosion killed Angdon and damaged the city. Vivian revived Angdon with her blood, and Hao Ren left for Hilda’s spire while the Data Terminal stayed behind to help restore power.

• Hao Ren and Izax destroyed the runaway engine, ending the island’s uncontrolled spin, and Hao Ren recovered Angdon’s body from the wreckage.
• Angdon’s wife and daughter mourned him, and his wife asked for their ration allocation to be reduced by one person.
• Vivian used a blood ritual to revive Angdon, whose body began moving and whose eyes opened.
• Vivian explained that the people she revived were mostly ordinary and that her conversion worked only about one time in five.
• Vim arrived to escort Hao Ren and his companions to Hilda at the Royal District spire, while the Data Terminal stayed behind to help set up backup power.
• Hao Ren’s group flew across the badly damaged city toward the spire as Erem civilians returned to repair their homes and infrastructure.

After the Isle of the Rising Sun disaster, Hilda and Hao Ren surveyed the orderly rescue effort and discussed the help the Erem Elves might need. A scan of the World of Prayer revealed tampering and no information on Lord Cadilong, and Hilda explained the virtual world's history before Hao Ren learned how its experiments had once caused catastrophic explosions.

• Hilda and Hao Ren surveyed the damaged city as rescue work continued, and Hilda recalled how survivors of an earlier floating-island disaster had prepared her people for crises.
• Hao Ren asked what price Hilda would pay for help, and she offered everything the Erem Elves had left if he could give them a better life and a real sky.
• An elf reported that a preliminary scan of the World of Prayer had found no information on Lord Cadilong, and Hilda ordered auxiliary storage units sealed and upload applicants investigated.
• Hilda told Hao Ren that the World of Prayer was a virtual environment originally built for scientific research and later used to house the souls of the dead.
• Hilda explained that experiments with faster-than-light engines in the World of Prayer had caused explosions in reality that destroyed two floating islands and ended the project’s early enthusiasm.

Hilda explained how the Erem Elves used the World of Prayer to preserve resources and why she opposed letting everyone abandon reality, while the Utopia Organization pushed for mass escape into the virtual world. After learning that Cadilong had disappeared while investigating the group, Hao Ren prepared to look into the crisis.

• Hilda explained that the World of Prayer had become a virtual refuge for elderly, sick, disabled, and unproductive elves, whose bodies were broken down for resources.
• Hilda said she and others remained in the real world because someone had to preserve hope and keep working to save their homeland.
• Hilda described the Utopia Organization as a group seeking to upload all Erem Elves and said it had become more active after the temporal accelerator explosion.
• Hilda told Hao Ren that the Utopia Organization had seized control of the main storage unit and hidden its supporters inside the World of Prayer, where Cadilong had disappeared while investigating.
• The Data Terminal returned after restoring backup power and reported that engineering ships were repairing the damaged floating island.
• Hao Ren told Hilda he would investigate and urged her to restore order in society.

Hao Ren decided to relocate the Erem Elves from their failing floating islands to a suitable planet rather than provide technology or supplies. He realized Doudou Planet might work and learned he could use his rights as its first-priority investigator to settle them there.

• Hao Ren returned to the VIP room and said the elves’ floating islands were too dangerous to live on.
• Hao Ren proposed relocating the Erem Elves because supplies and advanced blueprints would not solve their underlying problem.
• The Data Terminal listed the requirements for a suitable planet and warned that moving an entire species to another universe was heavily regulated.
• Hao Ren suggested Doudou Planet, and the Data Terminal explained that emergency circumstances could justify the relocation if it harmed no other civilization.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that his survey made him Doudou Planet’s first-priority investigator, and Hao Ren realized the elves could help him manage it as tenants.

Hao Ren arranged for the Erem Elves to relocate to his universe and found a private transport company willing to move their billion people. The captain of Ship 883 agreed to take their abandoned floating islands and equipment as payment, pending the elves’ approval.

• The Data Terminal explained why relocating the Erem Elves to Hao Ren’s universe fit the Empire’s Civilization Preservation principles.
• Hao Ren contacted the captain of Ship 883 and asked him to transport the Erem Elves and their belongings.
• After hearing about the elves’ situation, the captain agreed to take their floating islands and equipment as payment for the journey.
• The captain offered to send a force-field barge so the elves could preserve a few islands as mementos, and Hao Ren said he would confirm their agreement first.
• Hao Ren and the captain finalized the plan for the Erem Elves’ Great Migration.

Hao Ren reported his plan to relocate the Erem Elves to Raven 12345, who approved it as a localized operation. While the group rested, Lily transformed and tried to help clear debris, and Hao Ren was left to deal with the commotion as Raven contacted him.

• Hao Ren compiled a report about relocating the Erem Elves and asked Lily to proofread it before sending it to Raven 12345.
• Raven 12345 initially replied that she was still reading the report, so Hao Ren and the others took time to rest.
• Lily grew bored, took spicy strips, and secretly transformed into a giant husky to help clear debris outside the Royal District.
• The elves stopped Lily at the barrier, and Vivian went to keep an eye on her and bring her clothes.
• Raven 12345 contacted Hao Ren, approved the relocation plan, and noted that Data Terminal had helped him exploit the regulations.

Raven 12345 advised Hao Ren on the dangers of moving the Erem, and he later proposed relocating their entire civilization to a resource-rich planet. The chapter ended with Hilda and Vim stunned by Hao Ren’s offer of a suitable world and a fleet to transport ten billion people.

• Raven 12345 gave Hao Ren more than a hundred precautions for the Erem’s Great Migration, including quarantine, heliosis, and rebuilding agriculture.
• Raven 12345 questioned Hao Ren’s unusual household expense claims, then agreed to reimburse them.
• Hao Ren, Izax, Lily, and Vivian helped the locals clear debris before resting overnight.
• Hao Ren told Hilda and Vim that the Erem could leave their world and establish a new settlement, despite the risks and hardship.
• Hao Ren offered to provide a suitable planet and a transport fleet capable of carrying ten billion immigrants, leaving Hilda and Vim astonished.

Hao Ren offered the Erem Elves a planet and arranged transport for their billion survivors, with the migration paid for using their floating islands and equipment. Hilda accepted the plan and began preparing to announce the good news, but then collapsed over the table.

• Hao Ren explained that the Erem Elves could settle on a leased planet and later gain permanent rights after developing faster-than-light travel, while paying for transport with their equipment and floating islands.
• The Data Terminal explained that the Erem Elves' recycling and ecological technology made their equipment valuable in interstellar secondhand markets.
• Hilda accepted Hao Ren's migration plan and asked Vimu to alert the Elder Council and prepare a royal announcement calling the news good.
• Vimu left to carry out Hilda's orders, though he questioned whether Hao Ren's offer was real.
• Hilda relaxed after discussing the solved crisis, then collapsed over the table without a sound.

Hilda collapsed after returning home, and a medical scan revealed that she had died in the Rainbow Light Island explosion and had been carried onward by the last fragments of her soul. Her lingering obsession had kept her unaware of her death until she finally felt at peace, and Raven 12345's voice reached Hao Ren as Hilda's soul rested.

• Hilda collapsed, and Vivian revived her body's tissues, but the Data Terminal found no brain activity or signs of intelligence.
• Hao Ren took Hilda to the ship's medical pod with Izax while Vivian stayed behind to conceal her condition from the elves.
• The medical scan diagnosed Hilda as soul-dead and dated her soul's deterioration to twenty or thirty days earlier.
• The Data Terminal explained that Hilda had died in the Rainbow Light Island explosion and that fragments of her soul had sustained her lingering obsession with returning home.
• Hilda's body was revealed to be at peace, and Raven 12345's voice suddenly sounded in Hao Ren's head.

Hao Ren learned that Hilda had died before entering the Dream Plane and had persisted as an obsession-driven remnant. Raven 12345 revealed a way to restore her soul, and Hao Ren prepared to take Wim to the ruins of Rainbow Light Island to find the missing fragments.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that Hilda’s soul had been torn apart and that the other fragments should remain among the space-time accelerator wreckage.
• Raven 12345 explained that she had left power in Hilda’s body to keep her soul nearby long enough for the fragments to be reunited.
• Hao Ren summoned Vivian and asked her to bring Wim aboard the ship alone.
• Hao Ren explained Hilda’s condition and Raven 12345’s plan to Wim, who struggled to process the news.
• Wim agreed to take Hao Ren and the others to the ruins of Rainbow Light Island immediately.

Hao Ren and Vim traveled to Rainbow Light Island’s wreckage to search for Hilda’s lingering soul. They found her near the remains of the observation tower, and Hao Ren realized they had arrived in time to save her.

• Vim arranged a secret shuttle trip to the space junkyard, where he explained the dangers of the ruined industrial islands and the purpose of the Corona Stations.
• Hao Ren, Vim, Vivian, and Lily reached the wreckage of Rainbow Light Island and put on emergency suits to explore it in space.
• Vivian and Lily briefly tested their ability to survive without their suits, then Hao Ren made them use propulsion belts to move through the wreckage.
• Hao Ren led the group and Hilda’s medical pod to the remains of the observation tower, where Raven 12345’s power revealed Hilda’s weak, wandering soul.
• Hao Ren drifted toward Hilda’s soul and said they had made it in time.

Hao Ren and his companions revived Hilda by gathering her soul fragments and restoring her consciousness. Hilda woke in a spirit body while her original body remained in the medical pod, and Raven 12345 explained that she had become a Living Holy Spirit.

• Hilda's remnant soul regained vitality and was drawn into the medical pod, prompting Hao Ren to rush her back to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• The medical pod completed Hilda's soul fusion, and she woke as Wiem and the others gathered around her.
• Hao Ren and his companions explained that Hilda had died and been revived, and she accepted what had happened.
• Lily noticed Hilda's original body still lying in the medical pod, while Hilda stood nearby in a translucent spirit body.
• Hao Ren contacted Raven 12345, who said Hilda had become an immortal Living Holy Spirit.

Hilda returned as a powerful, immortal Living Holy Spirit, leaving her soulless former body in an awkward limbo. As the Erem elves prepared for the Great Migration, a kingdom-wide announcement told them to ready themselves for unprecedented news from their Queen.

• Raven 12345 explained that Hilda had become a Living Holy Spirit after her two souls merged, and Hilda confirmed that her new body felt normal.
• Hilda and the others debated what to do with her living, soulless former body, then stored it in a medical pod aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Hilda returned to her palace and hurried to the Elder Spire to lead the postponed meeting about the Great Migration of Erem.
• Vam announced a special mobilization across the Erem island chain, instructing citizens to prepare records and keep communication open ahead of the migration.
• The announcement reassured the elves that the mobilization was not prompted by disaster and declared that Erem was about to welcome the dawn.

Hilda announced that the Erem Kingdom would migrate to a resource-rich new world in three days, after the Elder Council and royal cabinet approved the plan. As preparations began, Wim reported that the Utopia Organization and dissident groups were making a move.

• Hilda told the Erem people that the spacetime accelerator had sent her to a new world, where powerful beings had helped her return.
• Hilda announced that an alien transport fleet would escort the Erem race to a planet lent to them, with the migration beginning in three days.
• The Erem government began organizing supplies, personnel, medical teams, and life-support systems for the migration.
• Hao Ren and Vivian spoke with Hilda about her announcement and the risks of alien diseases.
• Wim rushed in and warned Hilda that the Utopia Organization and dissident groups were making a move.

Hao Ren and Hilda organized the Erem Elves’ Great Migration while dissenters questioned the plan and the kingdom prepared to leave in just three days. The immigrant fleet arrived, but its captains’ enormous ship advertisements made the historic first contact less dignified than Hilda’s ministers had expected; loading operations then began.

• Wim reported that the Utopia Organization and other dissenters were calling the Great Migration a scam, and Hilda assigned Felton to handle them rather than order mass arrests.
• Hilda’s government inventoried supplies, organized migration groups, and prepared communication equipment and administrators during the three-day mobilization.
• Hao Ren contacted Ship 883’s captain, who said the fleet was assembling smoothly and would arrive on the day the migration began.
• The fleet appeared above the island chain, and the first ships broadcast advertisements across the city, including Ship 883’s glowing slogans on all four sides.
• Hilda’s ministers coordinated guidance codes, transport gates, and loading as the captains arrived at the Isle of the Rising Sun and handed out advertisements.

Hao Ren and Hilda oversaw the start of the elves’ Great Migration as the transport captains began moving passengers and supplies. After explaining how she had isolated the dissenters on Darklight Island, Hilda heard 883 offer a way to move them, and Hao Ren met the unusual plant captain Kepler.

• Hilda said Erem’s departments were handling the migration while she and Wim watched the operation proceed.
• 883 and the other captains landed at the Royal District platform, greeted Hao Ren and Hilda, and eagerly advertised their services to the ministers.
• Hilda explained that she had concentrated the elves who opposed the Great Migration on Darklight Island, where they could no longer disrupt the evacuation.
• 883 offered to move the dissenters without violence and asked Kepler whether the field generators on its three ships were charged.
• Hao Ren noticed Kepler, a plant-like captain with mechanical limbs, drinking water from a basin and complaining about the air and nearby smoking.

Hao Ren and Hilda joined the first migration convoy, while Kepler offered to deal with the Erem Elves who refused to leave Darklight Island. The Wood Elves solved the standoff by transporting the entire island, residents and all, to the new world.

• Hilda left Vym in charge of the Erem island chain and set out for the new planet with Hao Ren and the advance group.
• Hao Ren brought Hilda, 883, and several captains aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform as it joined the migration convoy.
• The group found the Utopia Organization still urging Darklight Island's residents to reject the migration and distrust the aliens.
• Kepler sent three Wood Elf ships to surround Darklight Island with a force field.
• The Wood Elf ships vanished with Darklight Island inside the field, relocating the holdouts without making them leave their homes.

Hilda chose to preserve the Erem Elves’ Ecological Domes as the fleet began moving their people and supplies to a new home. The immigrant fleet reached the World Gate, where over a hundred million Elves and their cargo were left waiting for the slow law-adaptability conversion.

• Hilda insisted that the fleet preserve the Ecological Domes, and 883 ordered force-field barges to tow them away from Erem.
• Hao Ren and Hilda left Erem aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with a first group of Elves.
• Hilda visited the crowded cargo bays, reassured the Elves, and explained that their new home had a real sky.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform reached the World Gate and joined the immigrant fleet waiting to cross.
• The Data Terminal explained that the World Gate had to convert the enormous population and cargo to the new universe’s laws, leaving Hao Ren to watch the progress bar crawl.

Hao Ren brought the Erem immigrants to Doudou Planet, where they began settling into their new home despite being overwhelmed by the open sky. Hilda proposed naming their new coastal capital after Hao Ren, but he objected.

• Hao Ren led the immigrant fleet through the World Gate and set its destination to Doudou Planet.
• The fleet arrived above the habitable planet, and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform landed on the beach with the Erem floating islands in orbit.
• Lily announced the end of the voyage over the ship’s broadcast system and called herself its first mate.
• After the Data Terminal confirmed the planet’s environment was compatible, Hao Ren and Hilda encouraged the elves to leave the ship.
• The elves were stunned and frightened by the vast sky, then began singing, blessing the land, and setting up camp.
• Hilda proposed building Erem’s new capital by the sea and naming it after Hao Ren, who protested.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves establish their first campsite on their new planet as they prepared for the arrival of the rest of their people. The settlers celebrated their first taste of nature, and Hao Ren set out to ask the queen for the planet’s official name.

• Hilda directed the settlers to set up reactors, communications, and temporary shelters before nightfall.
• Hao Ren sent Autonomous Mechanical Units to help the elves, while soldiers built defenses against wild animals.
• Hao Ren stopped Izax from offering to reshape the land with destructive magic.
• Vivian and Lily returned from the forest with wild fruits, which delighted the elves.
• The Data Terminal reminded Hao Ren to ask the queen to choose an official name for the planet, and he hurried off to speak with her.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves settle on their new planet, which Hilda named Erem, as floating islands descended to become their new homes. The arrival of Raven 12345’s giant product manual revealed that the planet had been manufactured, leaving Hao Ren to explain the unexpected display as after-sales service.

• Hilda chose to name the new planet Erem so her people would remember their homeland.
• Hao Ren told Hilda that Vem’s second group of refugees was on its way and that 883 would provide synthesizers and construction materials.
• Eleven space floating islands descended toward the ocean, where the Erem Elves planned to anchor and transform them into stable homes.
• Hilda identified the captured leader of the Utopia Organization and assigned him and his followers detention, questioning, and useful work instead of execution.
• A huge product manual appeared across the sky, and Hao Ren recognized it as Raven 12345’s after-sales service for the manufactured planet.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves complete their Great Migration to Raven 12345’s planet, where her embarrassing broadcast also provided vital information about the new world. After the settlement took shape and Vim arrived with the frozen World of Prayer servers, Hao Ren departed, leaving the elves a way to contact him.

• Raven 12345’s planetary instructions and resource data appeared across the sky, and the Erem Elves recorded the information for their survival.
• Hao Ren, Lily, Izax, and Vivian helped the immigrants establish a settlement, with Vivian devising treatments for diseases on the new planet.
• The Autonomous Mechanical Unit swarm helped transform the beach camp into the City of Stars as the Erem Elves established settlements across the planet.
• Vim arrived with the final immigrants and the frozen World of Prayer servers, while he and Hilda discussed the elves who had entered it, including Cadilong.
• Hao Ren left an Autonomous Mechanical Unit behind for communication and departed aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Vim asked Hilda whether she had forgotten her own body again, and Hilda fell silent.

After returning from New Erem Star, Hao Ren and the others came home to Earth, where they discovered Hilda had left her body in their care and found Nangong May’s unusual instructions for looking after Doudou. The chapter left Hao Ren bewildered by the latest mystery surrounding his sleeping daughter.

• Izax reminded Hao Ren and Vivian that Hilda’s body was still in the medical bay, and Hilda told them to keep it or bury it until further notice.
• Hao Ren and the others returned to Earth, and he reflected on how precious familiar home comforts were after seeing the hardships on Erem.
• Lily rushed into the house and checked that no other dog had invaded her territory, while Roll welcomed her in her aloof manner.
• Hao Ren found Nangong May’s note saying she and Becky were out and that Doudou was in the electric rice cooker.
• Hao Ren found instructions for heating and caring for Doudou, including warnings about her eating playing cards and playing in the snow.

Hao Ren returned home and learned that Doudou had caught a cold after playing in the snow, while the household had developed several strange new routines. He also reunited with Becky, who had adapted to life on Earth and looked completely transformed.

• Hao Ren found Doudou waking in a rice cooker and learned she had been warmed there according to a note.
• Doudou excitedly leaped into Hao Ren's clothes, then sneezed and showed that she had a cold.
• Roll brought Doudou cardboard to eat, revealing that he had become obedient to her.
• Nangong May explained that Doudou had frozen herself playing in the snow and that Raven 12345 had prescribed her warming treatment.
• Nangong May took Doudou to the kitchen to continue the treatment, while Becky greeted Hao Ren in her new Earth-style clothes.

Becky and Nangong May told Hao Ren about their time on Earth, including appearing on a local talent show, while Dodo received a steaming treatment for her cold. After hearing Hao Ren’s account of the Great Migration, Becky asked when he would send her home.

• Hao Ren saw how much Becky had changed since arriving on Earth, and Becky explained that she had earned prize money with Nangong May by entering a variety show.
• Nangong May brought Dodo out of the kitchen after completing the creature’s Isatis-root steaming treatment, and everyone passed Dodo around.
• Becky described performing chest-smashing stunts on Citizen Talent before Nangong May persuaded her to switch to carving flowers into tofu skin with a longsword.
• Vivian and Lily discussed possible acts for the show, but Hao Ren stopped them and asked Becky and Nangong May whether they had caused trouble.
• Hao Ren recounted his recent experiences, including the Erem Elf and the Great Migration, and Becky praised him before asking when he would send her home.