Recaps

Hao Ren and the household searched for Roll after she failed to return, while Doudou accidentally teleported into his face in her sleep. Roll eventually came home transformed into a cat-eared girl, leaving everyone baffled when she spoke her first human words and demanded food.

• Doudou teleported in her sleep and accidentally struck Hao Ren in the chin.
• Vivian said her search for Roll had found only intermittent traces of blood energy and no clear trail.
• A noise upstairs led Vivian to find a soot-covered stranger with cat ears and a tail, whom she subdued with an electric shock.
• Hao Ren recognized the stranger as Roll after she curled up on a cushion and meowed.
• Roll woke, looked at Hao Ren, and asked where the food was.

Hao Ren discovered that his cat Roll had transformed into a cat girl, though she remained focused on food and called him her poop-scooper. After noticing signs that Roll had been growing more intelligent for months, the group questioned her about the change, but she could not explain it.

• Roll transformed into a cat girl and demanded food and water from Hao Ren, whom she called her poop-scooper.
• Lily and the others tried to talk with Roll, but she ignored them while eating and behaving like a cat.
• Izax recalled finding Roll reading newspapers, and Hao Ren connected this with her recent interest in television, conversations, and household objects.
• Vivian suggested that Roll had been becoming enlightened since around the New Year, while Hao Ren wondered how to communicate with her.
• Nangong May cleaned Roll and taught her to walk upright before Hao Ren asked about her transformation.
• Roll said she did not know how she had changed and described herself as a big cat, adding that everyone else had become smaller.

Hao Ren brought the newly transformed Roll and Nangong Sanba to meet Raven 12345, and discovered that Roll still acted like a cat. They found Raven at Starwatch Peak, where she revealed she had been trying to remember where she had sent a star she created.

• Hao Ren and the others saw that Roll still demanded dried fish and obeyed Dodo, while Lily was no longer afraid of her.
• Hao Ren decided to take Roll and Nangong Sanba to see Raven 12345, and they teleported to her mansion after breakfast.
• An Arcane Servant told Hao Ren that Raven 12345 was at Starwatch Peak and led the visitors there.
• Hao Ren, Nangong Sanba, and Roll found Raven 12345 on a floating mountain overlooking the universe.
• Raven 12345 said she had created a star three hundred years earlier and could not remember where she had sent it.

Hao Ren learned that Roll had transformed after eating a golden apple and asked Raven 12345 to explain the change. He also arranged for Nangong Sanba to join his team and showed Raven 12345 a sample of the Primordial Seed’s source blood.

• Raven 12345 examined Roll and traced her transformation to the golden apple Hao Ren had fed her around New Year.
• Raven 12345 explained that the golden apple had awakened Roll’s intelligence and catalyzed her into a new life form, though she still needed to learn human habits.
• Hao Ren asked whether the golden apples had affected Lily’s behavior, and Raven 12345 said Lily’s habits were normal for her species.
• Hao Ren asked Raven 12345 to approve Nangong Sanba as an assistant, and she agreed he could join despite his half-breed background.
• Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 a metal tube containing the Primordial Seed’s living component, its source blood.

Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 Origin Blood, a Life Progenitor tissue sample, and the complete data of the destroyed Tanagrus civilization. Raven 12345 delivered Tanagrus’s data to the Third Sample Repository, while noticing that the universe’s frontier regions were increasingly unstable.

• Hao Ren gave Raven 12345 Origin Blood and a Life Progenitor tissue sample for study and backup.
• Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 the complete data of the Tanagrus civilization, which the Firstborn had destroyed.
• Raven 12345 said the Empire would preserve Tanagrus’s data so the civilization would not be forgotten.
• Raven 12345 detected cracks and disorder at the universe’s frontier, then suppressed the disturbance.
• Raven 12345 took the Tanagrus data to her void node and told Fina it was for the Third Sample Repository.
• Fina learned that another civilization had perished when Raven 12345 confirmed that the data was a tombstone.

Hao Ren took Cat Girl, whom he called “Roll,” onto a commercial street to buy her clothes and teach her about the human world, but her instinctive behavior repeatedly caused trouble. After she nearly ate from a trash can, he gave up on the outing and hurried to take her home.

• Hao Ren disguised Roll with a hat, hidden tail, and backpack as he walked her and Nangong Sanba along the commercial street.
• Roll rushed to a grilled-fish stall and ate a hot fish offered by the vendor, burning her tongue and prompting Hao Ren and Nangong Sanba to apologize and pay for more fish.
• Hao Ren scolded Roll, but Nangong Sanba explained that she used “Cat Litter Shovel” without understanding it as an insult, and Roll asked Hao Ren for dried fish.
• Hao Ren gave Roll cooled grilled fish, and she cautiously tasted it before eating.
• Roll wandered to a trash can and examined whether her head would fit inside, while a sanitation worker watched in confusion.
• Roll told Hao Ren that her tied tail made her wobble, and Hao Ren decided to hurry home.

After the golden apple turned Roll into a catgirl, Hao Ren struggled to teach her human habits and considered changing her name. The household settled on continuing to call her Roll, who still responded only to her old name.

• Hao Ren brought Roll home after repeatedly stopping her from behaving like a cat during their outing.
• Hao Ren told Vivian and Lily that the golden apple had caused Roll's transformation and warned them not to feed golden apples to small animals.
• Roll demanded toys, food, and a cat bed while watching television, and Lily prepared food for her out of habit.
• Vivian pointed out that Roll needed a more normal name, so Hao Ren and Vivian tried to explain why her name should change.
• Hao Ren called Roll several proposed names, but she ignored them and responded when he called her Roll, so Vivian suggested keeping the old name.

Hao Ren and his household struggled to teach the newly sentient Cat Girl how to live like a human, while dinner highlighted the family’s unusual routines. The chapter ended with Vivian examining the wooden box Paul had given her, sensing it was important despite being unable to remember why.

• Hao Ren’s household spent the day trying to teach Cat Girl new habits, but she kept behaving like a cat and eventually retreated to the roof.
• At dinner, Elizabeth described her appliance-repair ambitions, Cat Girl insisted on eating from her familiar bowl, and Doudou chewed through Nangong Sanba’s talisman cards and chopsticks.
• Hao Ren told Cat Girl to sleep in Nangong May’s room and promised to prepare her own room, but she curled up on a mat instead of following his instructions.
• Lily claimed she would guide Cat Girl as a newly sentient senior and approached her while Hao Ren went to find Vivian.
• Hao Ren found Vivian in the basement holding the wooden box Paul had given her, which she believed was important despite being unable to remember its significance.

Hao Ren and Vivian uncovered a hidden compartment in an old wooden box and found Vivian’s blood-written records of her past awakenings. As Vivian deciphered entries spanning ancient eras, she recalled encounters with early humans and gods, but the reason she kept the diary remained unknown.

• Hao Ren carefully dismantled the wooden box and discovered a hollow bottom panel.
• Vivian retrieved a strange cloth and a small blood-red crystal from the compartment.
• Vivian recognized the cloth as material from the Egyptian divine system and identified the writing as her own blood-written notes.
• Vivian read that she had repeatedly copied records and entrusted them to servants or museums because manuscripts kept disappearing while she slept.
• Vivian deciphered entries describing her awakenings after the Ice Age, meetings with Amon and Osiris, and later encounters with Zeus and Hera.
• Hao Ren wondered why Vivian had recorded her awakenings, but she could not remember and continued reading.

Vivian and Hao Ren read her forgotten manuscript, which recorded thousands of years of awakenings and uncontrollable sleeps preceded by inexplicable fury and battles with unknown enemies. The chapter left them questioning what caused her missing memories and whether the same pattern had preceded her latest sleep three hundred years ago.

• Vivian read her ancient records of sleeping and awakening across thousands of years, including encounters with early human civilizations and ancient gods.
• Hao Ren noticed that Vivian's uncontrollable sleeps were repeatedly preceded by fury and battles against enemies she could not remember.
• Vivian explained that she had forgotten the manuscript and many of its events during her most recent sleep, after fighting the angry spirits.
• Hao Ren suggested that Vivian might still be weakened from that uncontrollable sleep, though she said she felt energetic.
• Vivian and Hao Ren recognized that her episodes of overwhelming drowsiness followed a recurring pattern of mania, arguments, and fighting unknown enemies.
• Hao Ren asked whether Vivian remembered experiencing that pattern before her sleep three hundred years earlier.

Hao Ren and Vivian reviewed her involuntary deep sleeps and concluded that they followed a pattern of agitation, battles, and memory loss after she recovered her strength, but they could not explain the cause. They agreed to watch for warning signs, and Hao Ren ended the chapter by preparing to report the findings to Raven 12345.

• Vivian told Hao Ren she could not remember the circumstances around giving Paul the box or the Resonance Stones, and Hao Ren summarized the recurring pattern behind her involuntary sleeps.
• Hao Ren suspected Vivian’s involuntary sleep might be triggered when her strength returned to its peak, and Vivian agreed they should watch for signs of agitation.
• Hao Ren and Vivian compared her memories with the manuscript and confirmed that she forgot details connected to the negative emotions before sleep, but they made no further progress.
• Vivian said the blood-colored Crystalline Body had been condensed from her blood about three hundred years earlier, then pocketed it.
• Hao Ren gave Vivian a sample of source blood to study with Blood Magic, then returned to his room and called over the Data Terminal to write a report to Raven 12345.

Hao Ren dreamed of a woman wandering through human history, then woke to find Roll playfully attacking him. Raven 12345 sent Vivian a talisman to stabilize her mind and suppress her uncontrollable sleep, leaving her hopeful that it would help.

• Hao Ren dreamed of the Others’ history on Earth and a solitary woman who appeared throughout the ages.
• Roll pounced on Hao Ren and wrestled with him until Lily burst in and joked that he had been overpowered by a cat.
• Hao Ren dragged Roll and Lily into the living room and scolded them, though Roll ignored his lecture.
• Raven 12345’s Arcane Servant delivered Hao Ren a feather-shaped talisman designed to calm mental disruptions.
• Vivian put on the talisman after Hao Ren explained that it might prevent her from falling into uncontrollable sleep.

Hao Ren and Vivian investigated the mysterious scenes in Vivian’s manuscripts, while a charm from Raven 12345 temporarily suppressed Vivian’s narcolepsy. The household found no answers, and Roll’s newly discovered ability to flush the toilet left her convinced Hao Ren was about to die.

• Hao Ren gave Vivian Raven 12345’s protective charm, which seemed to suppress her narcolepsy, though Vivian still worried about its unknown cause.
• Hao Ren and Vivian showed their manuscripts to Izax and Nangong Sanba, who noted that the creatures depicted were absent from Demon Hunter records.
• May exposed Nangong Sanba’s real reason for visiting his father’s study, and Izax hurried Elizabeth away before she learned about the book.
• Vivian put the manuscripts aside and said they could investigate later, since the charm had bought them time.
• Roll cried and clung to Hao Ren after realizing she could use and flush the toilet, fearing that this meant he would die because she no longer needed him to change her litter.

Roll became distressed after deciding Hao Ren would die because she no longer needed him to scoop her litter, but he reassured her and helped her choose a new name for him: “Big Big Cat.” The group then traveled to Kuiper Station to see organs grown from cells taken from the Sacred Coffin.

• Roll concluded that Hao Ren had no reason to live if she no longer needed litter, and she clung to him in tears.
• Hao Ren explained that scooping litter was only a small part of his life and reassured Roll that he was not going to die or abandon her.
• Roll accepted Hao Ren’s suggestion to call him “Big Cat,” then decided he should be “Big Big Cat” because he was good at foraging.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the cultivation tanks had produced some organs, prompting Elizabeth and the others to join him on the spaceship.
• After breakfast, the group teleported to Kuiper Station and saw strange organs moving in crystal containers, grown from cells taken from the Sacred Coffin.

Hao Ren and the others studied cultivated tissues grown from the Sacred Coffin’s primordial cells, learning that they were defective brain tissue with a scavenging mechanism. The Data Terminal produced devices to keep the Firstborn asleep and pheromones to prevent it from eating living organisms, leaving the team with new safeguards for their work on Horleta.

• The Data Terminal reported that the cultivated tissues could not develop further and were likely defective neural tissue from the Primordial Seed’s brain.
• Hao Ren watched as the red tissue consumed dead plant matter but spared a living plant, and the Data Terminal theorized that the Primordial Seed and early Firstborn scavenged to recycle dead organisms.
• The Data Terminal explained that the Firstborn’s scavenging mechanism had later gone out of control and that it had developed weapons to destroy the Secondborn.
• The Data Terminal gave Hao Ren an Inhibitory Signal Emitter to keep the Firstborn on Horleta asleep and Interfering Pheromone to stop it from devouring living organisms.

Hao Ren planned to remove Horleta’s two immature Firstborns and study them at a base in the Dream Plane, while the group learned that equipment for analyzing the Wrathful Spirit was ready. The chapter ended as the Data Terminal instructed them to pour the Wrathful Spirit into the prototype machine.

• The Data Terminal explained that Interfering Pheromone could disrupt a Firstborn’s judgment and potentially paralyze it, though its effects had not been tested on a living Firstborn.
• Hao Ren said he planned to extract Horleta’s two immature Firstborns intact and move them to a research base in the Dream Plane, and the Data Terminal warned against taking them to the Outer World.
• Hao Ren said he would report his plans to Raven and visit New Erem, exciting Little Elizabeth with the prospect of returning to the Demon King's City.
• The Data Terminal announced that a prototype for analyzing the Wrathful Spirit was ready, and the Nangong siblings eagerly asked to see it.
• The Data Terminal showed the group the machine and told them to pour the Wrathful Spirit into its central pit, leaving Hao Ren baffled by the instruction.

Hao Ren and the others used the device to analyze the captured wrath spirit, but the lab needed several days to develop a way to decode its memories. Back home, Hao Ren found Cat Girl waiting with a mouse she had caught for him.

• Hao Ren released the wrath spirit into the device, which charged and restrained it while the Data Terminal and analysis computer examined its information.
• The Data Terminal explained that the wrath spirit had instincts but no real thoughts, and that its memories might still reveal information about Nangong May's parents.
• The initial scan found no usable decoding rules, and the analysis computer could not estimate how long it would take to build new ones.
• Hao Ren instructed the Giant Turtle Rock Platform to continue analyzing the wrath spirit and begin producing Interfering Pheromone aimed at the Firstborn.
• Hao Ren returned home, found Cat Girl safely waiting, and learned that she had caught a mouse for him to eat.

Hao Ren discussed building a research station in the Dream Plane with Raven 12345, then learned that an old storage device held an astronomical log recorded just before the Firstborn's Calamity. The log's contents remained unknown as the chapter ended.

• Roll caught a live mouse and tried to give it to Hao Ren, who persuaded her to throw it away.
• Hao Ren asked Raven 12345 about building a Space Station in the Dream Plane, and she approved the plan and promised support and full reimbursement.
• Hao Ren returned to find Lily and Vivian examining a crystal storage device recovered from an observatory on Planet Tanagrus.
• The Data Terminal revealed that the device's final astronomical log had been recorded on the eve of the Firstborn's Calamity.

Hao Ren investigated an ancient observatory log describing Arcana First Star’s apparent supernova shortly before the Firstborn’s Calamity on Planet Tanagrus. After learning the star defied normal astronomical laws, he heard that the Radiant Church’s ancient texts contained a similar account.

• The Data Terminal translated an observatory diary that recorded Arcana First Star flaring and swelling shortly before the Firstborn’s first tentacle appeared on Tanagrus.
• Hao Ren accessed the Tanagrus database through the Third Sample Repository and found that Arcana First Star had baffled astronomers for millennia because its nature and distance could not be measured.
• Hao Ren concluded that the star’s supernatural qualities might connect it to the Firstborn’s Calamity and described his findings to Lily and Vivian.
• Big Beard returned with roasted rabbit, heard Hao Ren’s account, and said the Radiant Church’s ancient texts recorded a similar event.

Hao Ren connected the red supernova legends from Horleta and Tanagrus to the Creation Goddess and named the mysterious celestial body the Red Nova. After preparations were completed to confront the Firstborn, he set out for New Erem with his companions, and Roll joined them for the trip.

• Big Beard told Hao Ren the Horleta legend of the Manula Disaster Star, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal linked it to the red supernova recorded on Tanagrus.
• Hao Ren considered whether the Red Nova was connected to the Creation Goddess, but he lacked enough observations to determine its location.
• Hao Ren named the celestial body the Red Nova, and the Data Terminal added it to their list of targets to investigate.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform reported that the Firstborn hypnotic pheromone and Sacred Coffin replica were ready, so Hao Ren prepared to return to New Erem with Elizabeth, Izax, Lily, and the Nangong siblings.
• Roll rushed into the basement as Hao Ren prepared to activate the portal, mistook his business trip for an outing, and asked him to take her along.

Hao Ren visited the Erem Kingdom with his companions and asked Hilda to organize an excavation operation on Horleta. He revealed that the team needed to remove two buried plants, each over a hundred kilometers wide, leaving Hilda stunned by the scale of the task.

• Hao Ren and his companions arrived at Hilda's palace through the teleporter, and Roll hid behind him when she realized she could not return home.
• Nangong Sanba urged May to hit on Hao Ren, so May transformed into her water-snake form and swung him through the air.
• Hilda showed Hao Ren the Erem Kingdom's growing coastal city and described its improving relations with Demon King's City.
• Hao Ren asked Hilda to organize experts and equipment to excavate two harmful plants buried about a hundred kilometers beneath Horleta's surface.
• Hilda was shocked when Hao Ren explained that the plants were over a hundred and two hundred kilometers in diameter.

Hao Ren arranged for Hilda and the Erem Elves to prepare machinery to excavate a dead Firstborn, then boarded an airship with his companions for Demon King's City. During the flight, they spotted the enormous Firstborn spaceship unexpectedly rising toward the top of the atmosphere.

• Hilda questioned the safety of digging up a Firstborn, and Hao Ren assured her that Xiling technology could keep it suppressed.
• Hao Ren and Hilda arranged for the Erem Elves to gather personnel and construction machinery, with Hao Ren offering to transport the equipment through his portable space.
• Hilda invited Hao Ren's group to fly to Demon King's City aboard the Royal Airship, and Elizabeth admired the guardian-beast carvings at the Royal Spire.
• Hao Ren found Roll beside Vym after the cat had climbed onto a roof at the Heavy Industry Research Institute and could not get down.
• Hao Ren's group boarded the airship, and they saw the enormous spaceship rising toward the top of the atmosphere despite having been parked on the southern coastline.

Hao Ren and Izax investigated a lifelike illusion of the Demon King's City floating near the edge of the atmosphere. They traced the anomaly to a signal coming from the city’s Firstborn-powered power furnace.

• Hao Ren’s group spotted an unshielded, silent Demon King's City in the upper atmosphere and learned from the patrol craft that it was an illusion.
• Hao Ren and the others reached the real Demon King's City, where Lanina reported that the city had seemed normal and denied any illusion research.
• Hao Ren called Raven 12345, who ruled out a natural phenomenon and advised them to inspect the city for a device causing the projection.
• Izax led the group to the power furnace, where a Spirit race technician reported that its core had been emitting a signal for the past hour.
• Izax concluded that the Firstborn remains used in the furnace had been unsafe to use.

Hao Ren and the others discovered that the Firstborn Seed powering the Demon King's City was causing a phantom projection, so they shut down its reactor and stored the suspicious spheres for study. With the immediate danger resolved, the group resumed exploring and catching up before Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that his construction module had arrived.

• Elizabeth and the Data Terminal detected strange signals from the Firstborn Seed, and Izax ordered the city switched to its older reactor.
• Lanina and the technicians shut down the new power furnace, causing the phantom Demon King's City above the atmosphere to disappear.
• Hao Ren and the others suspected the Firstborn Seeds were dangerous, and he stored two Red Spheres for future study.
• Izax, Elizabeth, and Lanina caught up while Nangong May went swimming and Roll explored the city.
• Raven 12345 messaged Hao Ren that his construction module had arrived and told him to pick it up at Heaven's reception room.

Hao Ren gathered his companions and returned to Earth, then went to Raven 12345 to collect an architectural module for building a research station. The module had exploded, so Raven 12345 offered to send an avatar to construct a divine vessel for binding Horleta’s eldest son.

• Hao Ren gathered his companions, including Roll, and brought them back to Earth after promising Roll she could visit the other world if she stopped roaming the streets alone.
• Raven 12345 admitted that the architectural module she had been meant to give Hao Ren had exploded while she was tinkering with it.
• Raven 12345 created an avatar and offered to help Hao Ren build the research station using mysterious-system techniques.
• Raven 12345 explained that a vessel with divinity would be safer for binding Horleta’s eldest son, and admitted the explosion was still the main reason she was helping.