Recaps

Hao Ren and Vivian treated Lily’s shedding tail with Vivian’s hair-growth remedy, which seemed to work until Lily used the entire supply. The Data Terminal then announced that the wrecked spaceship’s owners had been found and would arrive at Kuiper Station within a couple of days.

• Vivian persuaded Lily to let her and Hao Ren apply her hair-growth remedy to Lily’s tail and wrap it in gauze.
• Lily spent the afternoon brooding over her wrapped tail, then discovered the dried ointment had made it look worse.
• After washing off the ointment, Lily spotted a small patch of new fur and excitedly used the rest of Vivian’s remedy on her tail.
• Lily’s tail swelled under the layers of gauze, but she happily went to her room to write while Vivian advised her to unwrap it if it became too hot.
• The Data Terminal informed Hao Ren that the owners of the wrecked spaceship had been identified and their delegation would reach Kuiper Station within a day or two.

Hao Ren learned that the Kabala United Kingdom had claimed the wrecked spaceship and began planning its recovery from the Dream Plane. He then told Becky that she could no longer live there long-term and would have to make Earth her home, leaving her to process the news alone.

• Hao Ren learned that the Kabala United Kingdom was a federation of pioneering merchant consortia and had provided documents proving its claim to the wrecked spaceship.
• Hao Ren, Izax, and the Data Terminal discussed how to bring the ship and its engineering team out of the Dream Plane safely.
• Lily joked that she was having a beauty treatment for her bandaged tail, then pounced on Hao Ren after he teased her.
• Becky asked whether she could go home, prompting Hao Ren to tell her that she had become an Earthling and could not stay in the Dream Plane long-term.
• Becky listened to Hao Ren's explanation, then asked to be left alone for a while.

Becky adjusted to the limits on her trips home, and the household returned to its usual chaotic routine. The morning ended with Lily discovering that Vivian’s hair-growth potion had left her with an enormous tail that was still growing.

• Hao Ren explained the hibernation pod’s time limits, and Becky accepted that she would have to spend most of her time on Earth.
• Vivian and Becky prepared fish while the household tried to keep Doudou from seeing it.
• Hao Ren noticed Lily had not gotten up and found her with a huge, fluffy tail caused by Vivian’s hair-growth potion.
• Vivian warned that Lily’s tail might grow two or three more times and asked Hao Ren whether he wanted a scarf.

Hao Ren went to Kuiper Station to meet representatives of the Kabala United Kingdom and discuss an engineering rescue project. On the way, Lulu explained the Campbell explorers’ customs, including their unusual farewell blessing: “I hope you die as far away as possible.”

• Hao Ren and Vivian trimmed Lily’s overgrown tail, and Lily considered saving her fur to make a pillow.
• Nangong May asked why Lily’s fur was white, and Hao Ren’s joke about her mother running out of ink provoked Lily to bite him.
• Lily’s tail began growing wildly again, but she happily fetched tools to have it trimmed once more.
• The Data Terminal received word that representatives of the Kabala United Kingdom had arrived at Kuiper Station, so Hao Ren went there alone.
• Lulu told Hao Ren that the Campbell explorers prized distant exploration and used “I hope you die as far away as possible” as a sincere farewell blessing.

Hao Ren met with Kabala and the other little green people to plan a safe recovery of their crashed spaceship from the Dream Plane. As the meeting ended, he realized that four ascetics had appeared in one of the little green people's territories and were protecting a sacred pearl.

• Hao Ren arrived at Kuiper Station's central tower and met Kabala and the delegation from the Kabala United Kingdom.
• Kabala confirmed that the wreck shown in Hao Ren's information disks was their missing spaceship, Star of Heaven No. 4 Ship.
• Hao Ren explained a restricted salvage plan for retrieving the ship from the unstable Dream Plane, and the Data Terminal warned the delegation not to explore further.
• Kabala and his Chief Minister discussed the plan while the other delegates talked about four strange humans who had appeared in a crater and guarded a sacred pearl.
• Hao Ren recognized the four humans as ascetics after overhearing the delegates' conversation.

Hao Ren learned that the Holy Church Orb and four ascetics had arrived safely on a planet in the Kabala United Kingdom, and arranged to retrieve them. He returned home and told Becky to accompany him to the Space Station the next day.

• Hao Ren learned that four humans and the Holy Church Orb had appeared near a mine after a spatial teleportation accident and were staying at an accommodation center.
• Hao Ren told the Campbell representatives that the matter involved classified information and asked to meet the humans and take them away.
• Hao Ren delayed the Dream Plane trip, arranged to meet Kabala and the others the next day, and explained that he needed to recover the orb and rescue the ascetics first.
• The Data Terminal speculated that a mapping deviation or the orb’s properties had sent the group to a planet near the Campbell Civilization Circle.
• Hao Ren returned home, found Lily recovered from her illness, and told Becky to come with him to the Space Station the next day.

Hao Ren told Becky that he had found the Holy Church Orb on the Campbell people's planet, and he brought his companions to retrieve it. The group arrived in the Campbell Nebula, where Taram proudly introduced their home galaxy and its explorers’ custom of dying throughout it.

• Hao Ren told Becky that the Holy Church Orb and the four surviving ascetics were on the little green people's planet, and Becky mourned that she could not enjoy the title and house she hoped to earn.
• Hao Ren agreed to take Becky and the others to retrieve the orb, and the group prepared for the trip while Hesperis stayed behind to help with Athens Refuge’s reconstruction.
• Hao Ren and his companions traveled to Kuiper Station, met with Kabala and Taram, then boarded the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with Taram and his attendants.
• Hao Ren sent the Giant Turtle Rock Platform at full speed to the Campbell Nebula, two million light-years from the Milky Way.
• Taram introduced the Campbell Nebula as his homeland and said its explorers had died throughout the galaxy.

Hao Ren and his delegation reached a planet in the Kabala United Kingdom, where the Campbell people welcomed them and guided them toward the Observation Facility. They arrived at the facility that housed the Holy Church Orb and the four ascetics.

• Taram showed Hao Ren the Campbell Nebula’s immense light clusters and explained that the Campbell people had failed to study their interiors.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform traveled through the nebula and received a hostile welcome message from the Kabala United Kingdom.
• Hao Ren and the others landed on the vassal-state planet, where Lily eagerly greeted the crowd of Campbell people.
• Taram introduced Hao Ren to the planet’s officials and the person in charge of the Observation Facility.
• Izax could not fit inside the Campbell vehicle, so Hao Ren brought out the Bei Dou Xing and drove the delegation to the Observation Facility.

Hao Ren visited the four ascetic monks held at the Campbell Observation Facility and explained that they had been transported to another world. The monks began to trust him, but one questioned who he really was, and Hao Ren called himself a “traffic cop.”

• Hao Ren, Becky, and Taram went to the Observation Facility, where Taram explained that the four monks had repeatedly tried to escape.
• Hao Ren and his companions found the four ascetic monks meditating in the ecological garden and asked Taram to wait outside.
• The monks mistook Hao Ren and Becky for fellow believers from the Kingdom of Horleta and asked where they had come from.
• Hao Ren told the monks they had been transported from their church and described the Dream Plane, the Outer World, and the distance between worlds.
• One monk questioned Hao Ren’s identity, and Hao Ren answered that he was a “traffic cop.”

Hao Ren explained the two worlds and their fragile connection to the four ascetics, who accepted that their Goddess’s authority might not extend beyond their own land. After learning they could only remain in the Outer World for ten days, they agreed to return the orb to the Goddess’s Shelter, while Hao Ren asked to inspect it.

• Hao Ren explained the Wall of Reality, the Dream Plane, and his role in regulating passages between worlds to the four ascetics.
• The bearded ascetic accepted that the Goddess’s glory ended in their land and agreed to help retrieve the dead from the Blood Lake.
• The older female ascetic asked Becky how she had arrived, and Becky explained that a failed spell had brought her to this world.
• Hao Ren warned the ascetics that people could travel between the worlds only one way and could stay in the Outer World for about ten days.
• The bearded ascetic agreed that returning the Holy Church Orb to the Goddess’s Shelter mattered more than remaining in the Outer World.
• Hao Ren asked to examine the Holy Church Orb, and the bearded ascetic reacted warily.

Hao Ren examined the Holy Church Orb and discovered that its patterns and size matched a missing component of the Origin Holy Artifact. He arranged for a copy of the artifact to be made and took the four ascetics aboard his ship, which left the planet for the Trans-dimensional State.

• Big Beard reluctantly let Hao Ren examine the Holy Church Orb while insisting that it remain in his sight.
• Vivian recognized that the orb matched a hole in the Origin Holy Artifact, and the Data Terminal confirmed a complete exterior match.
• Hao Ren told Big Beard that the orb might fit a device found in a desert, and Big Beard agreed to study it with him while keeping the orb close.
• Hao Ren asked the Data Terminal to make a copy of the Origin Holy Artifact as the group left the ecological park and said goodbye to Taram and the little green people.
• The group boarded the spaceship, and Hao Ren activated automatic navigation and entered the Trans-dimensional State.

Hao Ren tested a replica of the Origin Holy Artifact with the Holy Church Orb, and the artifact began operating as a synthesis device. As the machine processed its first batch of materials, Doudou sneaked into a loading port.

• The four ascetics meditated aboard the ship, and Big Beard explained that they had no names and identified one another through a secret network.
• Vivian knitted with yarn made from Lily’s fur, while Lily panicked at the prospect of growing more fur.
• At Kuiper Station, Hao Ren revealed a replica of the Origin Holy Artifact and Big Beard placed the Holy Church Orb into its cavity.
• The artifact powered up, passed its self-check, and began processing raw materials while the Data Terminal checked its database.
• Doudou sniffed an open loading port, decided its contents looked delicious, and jumped inside.

Hao Ren and the others activated the Origin Holy Artifact, only to discover Doudou had entered its synthesis tank and emerged with a new ability. The artifact’s final records revealed that its intended creation was a Demon Hunter, leaving them to wonder how Doudou’s transformation was connected.

• The ascetics decided to cooperate with Hao Ren’s group because they believed the Goddess approved of their work.
• The Data Terminal discovered Doudou inside the Origin Holy Artifact’s synthesis tank, and Hao Ren shut the device down as the others waited for the reaction to stop.
• Doudou emerged unharmed, but her burps caused her to teleport around the room and crash into Hao Ren and Izax.
• The Data Terminal retrieved the artifact’s final records, and Vivian recognized the intended synthesized creature as a Demon Hunter.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the Origin Holy Artifact created the first Demon Hunters in the Dream Plane, giving them a clearer account of how the Demon Hunters and Others reached Earth. With many questions still unresolved, Hao Ren decided to set out for the Dream Plane immediately.

• The Data Terminal identified the Origin Holy Artifact’s product as a Sixth Generation Enhanced Lifeform—the first-generation Demon Hunter.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Nangong May considered whether the Others or Sirens had built the artifact before Hao Ren realized it came from the Dream Plane.
• Izax pieced together that Dream Plane inhabitants created the artifact and Demon Hunters, and that an apocalypse later scattered them and other inhabitants onto Earth.
• Lily suggested that the Demon Hunters might have rebelled against their creators, while the four ascetics warned Hao Ren not to insult their god.
• Hao Ren ordered the Origin Holy Artifact and Holy Church Orb packed for the ascetics, then decided to leave for the Dream Plane; Nangong May urged the group to check on the burping child.

Hao Ren and his companions examined Doudou after the Origin Holy Artifact gave her Demon Hunter abilities, discovering that hiccups triggered her teleportation but that she was otherwise healthy. They stopped the hiccups for now, and Hao Ren prepared to leave for the Dream Plane.

• Hao Ren brought Doudou to the medical ward, where the group found that her hiccups triggered teleportation and obstacles prevented her from passing through solid objects.
• The Data Terminal examined Doudou and found that she was healthy, though the Origin Holy Artifact had caused benign mutations and granted her a Demon Hunter teleportation ability.
• The Data Terminal predicted that Doudou might develop other Demon Hunter traits, but Hao Ren realized no one present could teach her to control them.
• Nangong May said her brother, Nangong Sanba, could not be reached until he settled somewhere, so the Data Terminal proposed startling Doudou to stop her hiccups.
• The Data Terminal played the Dance of Fate, startling Doudou until she stopped hiccupping, and Hao Ren lectured her to hiccup only somewhere safe.
• With Doudou out of danger, Hao Ren set out for the Dream Plane.

Hao Ren and his companions waited at Kuiper Station for specialized equipment that would let them enter the Dream Plane, while keeping watch over Doudou after her strange new abilities appeared. After the equipment arrived, they prepared to bring a large group into the other world, where Becky and the others finally returned to Beinz Blood Lake.

• Hao Ren spent the days at Kuiper Station watching Doudou, who showed no further teleportation problems after her earlier accident.
• A cargo ship escorted by the Fialli Consortium delivered ten Dream Plane conversion cubes to Kuiper Station, and Hao Ren accepted the shipment.
• Hao Ren gathered his companions, the four ascetic monks, and the little green people to prepare for their first large-scale trip into the Dream Plane.
• Hao Ren began explaining how to use the hibernation pods, while Lily rushed excitedly toward a cube and Vivian urged him to hurry.
• Becky and the others materialized beside Beinz Blood Lake and lamented that they could now return home only by dreaming.

Hao Ren returned to the Dream Plane with the group and prepared to retrieve the stranded spaceship from the blood lake. As the operation began, Big Beard and the other ascetics revealed that they believed the outsiders might hold the key to opening the Divine Cave.

• Hao Ren confirmed the group had returned safely to the Dream Plane, then released Kabala and the other little green people, who excitedly planted flags along the shore until Lily herded them back.
• Big Beard admitted that the ascetics had only half-believed Hao Ren and asked him to return the Holy Church Orb and the Origin Holy Artifact; Hao Ren agreed to hand over the copied artifact later.
• Hao Ren arranged for the little green people and Nangong May to retrieve their spaceship from the blood lake while avoiding damage to the holy site, and Big Beard warned them not to alarm the guards.
• Vivian agreed that the ascetics seemed unusually easygoing, so Hao Ren told the Data Terminal to monitor the lake and cut off the Dream Plane connection if anything went wrong.
• After Hao Ren's group entered the lake, a young priest questioned whether they should be allowed into the Holy Lake, and Big Beard said the Goddess had accepted their power and they might possess the key to the Divine Cave.

Hao Ren and his companions excavated the alien spaceship from the Blood Lake and used beacons to transfer it to Kuiper Station. After the ship vanished, the lake water rushed into the hollow and a strange, bell-like sound echoed through the water and nearby forest.

• Hao Ren, Nangong May, Dou Dou, and the others found the sunken ship with Kabala’s workers at the center of the Blood Lake.
• The Campbell engineers excavated the spaceship while Nangong May calmed the disturbed lake currents.
• Lily detected a strange smell in the water, but Nangong May sensed no harmful substances.
• The workers attached transfer beacons to the hull, and Hao Ren told Kabala they would be received at Kuiper Station.
• The ship and the little green people vanished from the lake, leaving a hollow that filled with water and produced a strange sound heard by Big Beard and the others on shore.

After sending the Campbell people’s spaceship away, Hao Ren and his companions returned to the lakeside outpost, where they found it wrecked and apparently deserted. Big Beard feared that heretics had attacked the holy ground, while Hao Ren suspected the Stone Giants had advanced toward the lake.

• The group reached shore after the spaceship’s departure, and Hao Ren told the ascetic monks that the Campbell people had left and the disturbance had caused no serious problems.
• Vivian asked the four ascetics to vouch for the group and testify about the Holy Church Orb, and Big Beard agreed to honor their promise.
• Becky celebrated the prospect of a reward and knighthood, while Nangong May reminded her that she could only stay in this world for fifteen days at a time.
• Izax noticed the lakeside outpost was dark and damaged, and Lily detected a faint smell of blood from several days earlier.
• Big Beard and the others ran into the camp, where they found collapsed walls and buildings as if a giant had trampled them.
• Hao Ren wondered whether the Stone Giants had breached Leighton Town’s defenses, while Big Beard asked if heretics had attacked the holy ground.

Hao Ren and his companions searched a destroyed outpost near Leighton Town and discovered a magically formed tunnel beneath it. They emerged under the stars, only to hear heavy footsteps approaching from the Twisted Woods.

• Becky told Big Beard about the Stone Giant and the chaos caused by the missing Holy Church Orb, while Hao Ren questioned whether the Orb had revived the monsters.
• Hao Ren decided to search the ruined outpost, and Lily noticed that the bloodied camp had no bodies before digging into a hidden tunnel.
• Lily fell through the tunnel entrance, and the group followed her into a smooth passage that Big Beard identified as magically carved.
• Hao Ren led the group down the tunnel toward a breeze, but they found no clues and crawled back to the surface through rubble.
• Heavy footsteps sounded from the Twisted Woods after Lily wished for monsters, and Vivian blamed her for jinxing them.

Hao Ren and the others fought off a horde of Stone Giants surrounding them near the Blood Lake. Hao Ren discovered he could defeat them by trapping them in his portable space until they lost their vitality, but as the group prepared to head for Leighton Town, human voices came from the woods.

• Stone Giants poured out of the Twisted Woods, and Hao Ren’s group fought them while the four ascetics learned to keep them airborne with gravity magic and attacks.
• Vivian spotted more than a hundred Stone Giants approaching, and Hao Ren realized the group could not destroy them quickly enough by fighting normally.
• Hao Ren stored Stone Giants in his portable space until they died, then dumped out heaps of black rocks after defeating more than a hundred of them.
• Lily collected some of the black stones, and the group prepared to cross the Twisted Woods for Leighton Town.
• Human voices sounded from the nearby woods before the group could set off.

Hao Ren and his companions met Church and Kingdom knights at the Sacred Lake after defeating a Stone Giant force. The knights revealed that Stone Giants had invaded the region, and Big Beard urgently asked whether the Sacred Lake had been harmed.

• Church and Kingdom knights surrounded Hao Ren's group at the lakeshore while searching for monsters they had been pursuing.
• Big Beard identified himself and the other three as Church ascetics, and the knight captain recognized them as the Holy Church Orb's four masters.
• Becky announced that Hao Ren's mercenary group had found the orb and brought back the four masters, while Big Beard credited Hao Ren with defeating the Stone Giants.
• The knight captain summoned reinforcements to escort the orb back to town and explained that Stone Giants had surged out of the Dragon Ridge Mountains and attacked the region's defenses.
• The knight captain said Leighton Town had been recaptured under Marshal Ofra, and Big Beard asked whether the monsters had damaged the Sacred Lake.

Hao Ren and his companions left the Sacred Lake with a force of Church and Kingdom Knights and returned the Orb to Leighton Town. They found the town badly damaged by the Stone Giants, and the Knight Captain announced the Orb’s return to the waiting soldiers.

• The Knight Captain told Big Beard that the Stone Giants had gathered around the Sacred Lake without attacking it, though Diocesan Chief Geldon had ordered the Knights to clear them out.
• Hao Ren and his companions agreed to withdraw to Leighton Town and rode through the Twisted Woods under Knight escort, while Becky excitedly imagined the rewards awaiting her.
• Hao Ren learned that the Church Knights were responsible for the area inside the Leighton defensive line, while Marshal Ofra’s Kingdom forces guarded the outer front.
• The group reached Leighton Town at dawn and saw shattered defenses, collapsed houses, and other signs of the Stone Giants’ attack.
• The Knight Captain explained that hundreds or thousands of Stone Giants had charged through the town before Marshal Ofra’s reinforcements and Diocesan Chief Geldon’s forces stopped them.
• When an officer asked what had happened, the Knight Captain ordered him to notify Diocesan Chief Geldon that the Holy Church Orb had returned.

Hao Ren and the four ascetics returned the Holy Church Orb to Leighton Town, where its arrival lifted the spirits of residents still recovering from the Stone Giants’ attack. At the church, Big Beard gave Geldon their agreed-upon account of their disappearance, and Geldon turned to hear Hao Ren’s story.

• A knight announced that the Holy Church Orb had returned, and Leighton Town rang its bells and gathered to welcome the group.
• The group rode through streets still damaged by the Stone Giants, then met Diocesan Chief Geldon outside the intact church.
• Big Beard and Geldon greeted each other, and Geldon thanked Hao Ren and his companions for recovering the orb and rescuing the ascetics.
• Inside the church, Big Beard told Geldon that an ancient alternate dimension had trapped the ascetics until Hao Ren’s group freed them.
• Geldon recognized the mercenary group’s unusual name, All the Good Names Are Taken by Dogs, and praised its leader before asking Hao Ren to tell his story.

Hao Ren’s group returned the Holy Church Orb and learned that a living mountain road was bringing monsters through the Dragon Ridge Mountains. Marshal Ofra proposed moving the orb to the capital and having the Kingdom Knights help clear the Sacred Lake, then privately met with Geldon to discuss the proposals.

• Geldon questioned Hao Ren’s group about rescuing the ascetics and heard their account of the monsters’ attacks and the mountain’s transformation.
• Geldon explained that a new, miasma-filled mountain road had crossed the defensive line and was bringing monsters toward the Sacred Lake.
• Marshal Ofra arrived, recognized Hao Ren’s group, and praised them for returning the orb.
• Big Beard said the orb’s usual storage place was unsafe, and Ofra proposed escorting it to the capital with elite forces from both orders.
• Ofra offered the Kingdom Knights’ help clearing the area around the Sacred Lake, and Geldon asked the guests to wait while he spoke privately with her.