Recaps

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 prepared to move Purgatory into the Outer World, while Vivian announced to the Wind Tribe that the Emerald Era was ending and the Solar Era would return. The tribe was left awaiting further instructions as messengers were selected to spread her message.

• Raven 12345 explained why Purgatory should be moved into the Outer World and sent Hao Ren technical instructions for the operation.
• Hao Ren ordered the Data Terminal to bring the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and load the instructions into its main computer.
• Nangong May discovered she could split into many miniature copies, briefly turning the dawn gathering into chaos.
• Vivian told the Wind Tribe’s leaders that the Emerald Era had ended and their world would soon enter the Solar Era again.
• Hao Ren instructed the tribe to relay Vivian’s message, cancel the newborn incense ceremony, and wait calmly for further orders.

Hao Ren organized messengers and teleportation gates to contact the planet’s scattered tribes before its coming upheaval. After the messengers departed, Nolan arrived in the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, and Hao Ren took Vivian and others aboard to survey the Cloudtop.

• Hao Ren used probes to locate more than thirty settlements and prepared teleportation gates and communicators for the tribal messengers.
• Gai Ze'er brought the messengers, including Bania, and Hao Ren assigned them destinations and taught them how to use the communicators.
• The messengers departed through the gates, and Nolan arrived aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Nolan told Hao Ren she had adapted to her body and had raced a neutron star in the Andromeda Galaxy.
• Heiserana mistook the ship's grandeur for a reason to warn Vivian about Hao Ren, and Vivian threw her aside.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, Heiserana, and others boarded the ship and set off to survey the Cloudtop as the tribespeople worshiped them from below.

Hao Ren and his group planned to remove Purgatory Planet’s poisonous upper crust by hiring Fialli United Mining to excavate it and sell the valuable petrified material. After Nolan took over piloting, Data Terminal refused to leave the control console’s slot.

• Heiserana toured Giant Turtle Rock Platform’s bridge and asked Hao Ren whether he came from Mars or Zhiyuan Star.
• Hao Ren’s group discussed how to remove Purgatory Planet’s hazardous crust without destroying the shelter beneath it.
• Data Terminal proposed hiring Fialli United Mining to excavate the crust and isolate the planet’s gravity to keep debris from falling.
• Hao Ren offered the company free mining rights in exchange for safe, efficient work and agreed to authenticate the petrified material’s historical value.
• Nolan said she had visited Erem and asked why Data Terminal was still plugged into her while she piloted the ship.
• Data Terminal refused to leave its slot, declaring it would fight anyone who tried to remove it.

Hao Ren and his companions watched Raven 12345 move Purgatory Planet from its isolated spatial fragment into the Outer World and set it in motion with a colossal whip kick. With the planet now orbiting a new sun, Hao Ren outlined his plans for its recovery, and Raven 12345 left the follow-up work to him.

• Giant Turtle Rock Platform reached Purgatory Planet's low orbit, and unmanned craft mapped the planet as Hao Ren waited for Raven 12345 to open the gate.
• Raven 12345 connected Purgatory Planet's spatial fragment to the Outer World, revealing the surrounding stars and a nearby sun.
• Raven 12345 froze the planet's state with a protective field, then kicked it into motion around the new sun.
• Hao Ren and the vampires stared in shock at the Goddess's First Push, and Hao Ren asked the vampires to pretend they had not seen it.
• Raven 12345 added protection to shield the planet from the sun's heat, then heard Hao Ren's plans to restore its ecosystem and manage its crust.
• Raven 12345 declined to reshape the planet herself because Hao Ren already had follow-up plans.

Raven 12345 showed Hao Ren the Rift Nebula and explained that it was a stabilized wound in the Wall of Reality, where the Dream Plane and Outer World had once erased an entire galaxy. She revealed that the region was a Compatibility Zone suited to the Purgatory Planet, though Hao Ren would need to guide its development as a refugee planet in the distant future.

• Hao Ren declined to ask Raven 12345 to settle the Purgatory Planet for him, and she praised his growth before inviting him to see the Rift Nebula.
• Raven 12345 gave Hao Ren an enhanced view of the nebula and explained that a tremor in the Wall of Reality 2,600 years earlier had torn open a rift 7.7 light-years wide.
• Raven 12345 said the rift had connected the real world to the Dream Plane, erased a galaxy and its civilizations, and left a dangerous region where matter was continually created and destroyed.
• Raven 12345 explained that the Sovereign Hub had stabilized the region as a Compatibility Zone where the laws of the two universes could coexist.
• Hao Ren understood that Raven 12345 had placed the Purgatory Planet in the zone because it could accommodate its Dream Plane fragments, and she guaranteed the planet's safety.
• Raven 12345 said the Purgatory Planet would be registered as a refugee planet and told Hao Ren to remind her in ten or twenty thousand years to help guide its development.

Hao Ren learned from Raven 12345 how the Rift Galaxy had been erased by a collision between universes, then returned to Purgatory Planet to begin its recovery. After setting up automated construction facilities, he and his crew left the planet, which would begin its next stage in half a month.

• Raven 12345 explained the Rift Galaxy's destruction and warned Hao Ren that the universe was more fragile than he had thought.
• Raven 12345 kicked Hao Ren back to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, where Nolan pried him off its Antenna Tower.
• Hao Ren checked Purgatory Planet's new orbit, and the Data Terminal explained that they needed to control the Firstborn before beginning the planet's restoration.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform returned to Dorashir, where four mini-factories began setting up construction facilities in the lower crust.
• Vivian contacted the indigenous tribes, and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform left Purgatory Planet.

After returning home from Purgatory, Hao Ren discovered that Doudou had shed her scales as she grew, and Elsa reassured him that it was normal. Vivian invited Heiserana to stay a few more days, leaving Heiserana unexpectedly grateful to Hao Ren.

• Hao Ren and the others returned home, where Vivian relaxed at the sight of the familiar house and Heiserana worried that Vivian was treating it as home.
• Hao Ren found Roll watching television and learned that Doudou had grown and shed her scales three days earlier.
• Elsa explained that Doudou's shedding was a normal transition from infancy to childhood, and Hao Ren relaxed after checking that she was healthy.
• Vivian told Heiserana she could stay a few more days before returning to manage her family and face the Demon Hunters.
• Heiserana thanked Hao Ren by calling him “Second Dad,” and Hao Ren slid beneath the coffee table with Doudou.

Hao Ren handled his work while the Data Terminal unveiled a holographic form to compete with Nolan for the battleship mainframe. The chapter left him checking on Dodo after Elizabeth reported that she could not stop spinning in the water.

• Heiserana delighted in becoming closer to Vivian, while Hao Ren left Vivian to discipline her and returned to work.
• Hao Ren and Izax chatted about Purgatory Planet until the Data Terminal appeared as a blonde hologram and announced its plan to take Nolan’s mainframe position.
• Lily grabbed the Data Terminal’s physical casing, making its holographic body sway, while Elizabeth watched in astonishment.
• Elizabeth told Hao Ren that Dodo had complained of stomach discomfort and was spinning uncontrollably in her basin.
• Hao Ren rushed to check on Dodo, who leaped from the water and cheerfully asked him to swim.

Hao Ren discovered that Doudou had laid a tiny egg, though medical tests showed she was healthy. Raven 12345 asked him to bring Doudou and Vivian to see her, leaving the egg’s care and meaning unresolved.

• Hao Ren and Nangong May examined Doudou after she complained of a bloated stomach and swam awkwardly, but they could not identify a problem.
• Doudou’s discomfort suddenly vanished, and she revealed that she had laid a tiny white egg.
• Hao Ren’s family debated whether the early, small egg was normal, while medical tests confirmed Doudou was healthy.
• Izax suggested asking the Goddess, and Raven 12345 contacted Hao Ren before he could call her.
• Raven 12345 asked Hao Ren to bring Doudou and Vivian to see her.

Hao Ren brought Dodo and Vivian to meet Raven 12345, who confirmed Dodo was healthy and preserved her test egg as a pendant. Raven then showed Hao Ren and Vivian a warehouse containing more than twenty sleeping red-haired versions of Vivian, leaving Vivian stunned and horrified.

• Hao Ren and Vivian brought Dodo's egg to Raven 12345, who examined Dodo and found that her egg-laying was a normal developmental self-check.
• Raven 12345 encased Dodo's egg in a pendant with a tracking function and hung it around Dodo's neck.
• Raven 12345 took Hao Ren and Vivian to a special warehouse and opened storage slots containing crystal hibernation containers.
• Hao Ren and Vivian saw more than twenty sleeping red-haired versions of Vivian, and Raven 12345 said most of the split bodies should be there.

Hao Ren and Vivian learned that Raven 12345 had collected many of Vivian’s splits and suspected Vivian might be connected to the Creation Goddess’s lost creation database. The chapter left them wondering whether Vivian’s splits posed a danger after she had swallowed one on Purgatory Planet.

• Hao Ren saw more than twenty hibernating Vivian splits, and Raven 12345 admitted she had been collecting them.
• Raven 12345 explained that Vivian was likely a key element cast into the Outer World by the Creation Goddess before her death, possibly to repair or restart the Creation Goddess’s database in Founding Star.
• Raven 12345 warned that Vivian might contain a self-aware system, though she had seen no sign of a second soul and Vivian wore the protective amulet.
• Raven 12345 said Vivian produced a split each time she fell asleep and that her first split may have triggered a chain reaction.
• Hao Ren remembered that Vivian had swallowed the split on Purgatory Planet and worried about what effect it might have.

Raven 12345 explained her theory that Vivian’s unstable soul expelled negative traits as split-off selves, but warned that investigating the source could be dangerous. She reassured Vivian that a protective mechanism had kept her safe and said she would seek a safe solution before Vivian split again.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren and Vivian that Vivian’s split-off selves represented negative traits such as anger, fear, rot, plague, and decline.
• Vivian recalled briefly confusing her ancient Purgatory Planet memories with her present life after absorbing split-off selves.
• Raven 12345 theorized that Vivian’s unstable soul generated negative forces and expelled them as evil spirits.
• Hao Ren asked where those negative forces came from, and Raven 12345 said their source might lie in Vivian’s earliest memories but could be dangerous to investigate.
• Raven 12345 reassured Vivian that an internal detoxification mechanism had protected her and promised to find a safe solution before her next split.
• Raven 12345 said Demon God Vivian had left no remains of her own and revealed that she had searched the world for the other split-off selves, once digging up Vivian while she slept.

Hao Ren learned that Vivian’s split forms might preserve memories from the time she lost her own, and that absorbing the Primal Split had begun synchronizing them. After the household settled back into its routine and Heiserana’s group departed, Hao Ren received word that Fialli United Mining’s excavation team was coming to Purgatory Planet.

• Hao Ren asked Raven 12345 whether Vivian’s condition was about to change, and she explained that the split forms might contain memories capable of filling Vivian’s gaps.
• Raven 12345 said the split forms’ mental worlds had begun integrating after Vivian absorbed the Primal Split, and she warned Hao Ren to watch for other fragments while keeping Vivian safe.
• Hao Ren and Vivian returned home with Dou Dou, and he told the family that her egg-laying was normal and would not happen again before adulthood.
• The Heiserana trio left after staying with Hao Ren’s household for more than ten days, with Vivian promising they could visit again.
• Hao Ren received a communication from an AI on Purgatory Planet saying the basic engineering was complete and Fialli United Mining’s excavation team was coming.

Hao Ren returned to Purgatory Planet with Vivian and Lily to inspect its stable condition and meet United Mining's representatives. After reviewing their plan and fleet, he approved the work and told them to begin polishing the planet.

• Hao Ren arrived at Purgatory Planet and confirmed through the monitoring equipment that its operating conditions remained stable.
• Nolan invited United Mining's fleet into the planet's airspace, and Hao Ren examined the enormous mining ships.
• Hao Ren learned that United Mining's representative was Farsight Kriddan, who presented the company's excavation plan and promised to pull the planet's crust into space using gravity-control ships.
• The Data Terminal approved the plan, and Farsight explained that the fleet was an advance team sent to begin work quickly.
• Hao Ren accepted the plan and ordered United Mining to polish Purgatory Planet.

Hao Ren oversaw the Fialli mining fleet’s excavation of Purgatory Planet and witnessed the new control facility built over Dorashir. He met Gezer, Bania, and Gragon there, then ordered Gragon to gather the ancient spirits’ leaders.

• The Fialli ships tore open Purgatory Planet’s clouds, and Hao Ren signed documents certifying the planet’s fossils as valuable minerals.
• Hao Ren and his companions descended through the clouds as the Fialli began excavating the planet’s crust without disturbing the world below.
• Nolan piloted Giant Turtle Rock Platform to the control facility built over Dorashir, whose ancient structures had been replaced by alloy towers to control the Firstborn.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily disembarked and met Gezer, Bania, and Gragon, who were freed from the Lullaby ritual by the completed facility.
• Vivian asked whether the ancient spirits were still present, and Gragon confirmed they were waiting for her command.
• Vivian told Gragon to gather all the ancient spirits’ primary leaders.

Hao Ren and Vivian confirmed that Soul Suppressing City had taken control of the Firstborn and prepared the planet’s ecosystem for the return of sunlight. The ancient spirits chose to remain and guide their descendants, as the crust opened and the first sunlight marked the New Solar Calendar.

• The city AI reported that Soul Suppressing City had taken over nearly all control of the Firstborn and outlined how it would adapt the planet to sunlight.
• Hao Ren ordered the city AI to prepare for the Fialli opening the crust and explained that the Firstborn would help the ecosystem survive the transition.
• Pandong told Vivian that the ancient spirits wanted to stay and teach their descendants, and Vivian offered them Soul Suppressing City as their Hall of Heroic Spirits.
• Gragon welcomed Bania and promised that the ancient spirits would guide the solar people toward a flourishing future.
• The Pillar Giant Tree’s stone dome was lifted away, sunlight reached the land for the first time in ten thousand years, and the New Solar Calendar began.

Hao Ren watched the Purgatory Planet begin its rebirth, then discovered that Examiners across the universe knew him by titles tied to the destruction and ruins that followed his missions. He began wondering why the Goddess had entrusted him with the Dream Plane, but Lily brushed off the question and asked him to brush her fur.

• Hao Ren watched the Giant Turtle Rock Platform leave Soul Suppressing City and saw the Fialli dismantling the planet’s petrified crust as the New Solar Dynasty prepared to revive its civilization.
• Hao Ren posted a probe image of the planet’s rebirth on the Examiners’ public channel and found dozens of Examiners asking whether anything had exploded.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that he had earned titles such as “Wherever you go, things explode” and “Grave-Digging Professional.”
• Vivian asked why the Goddess had given Hao Ren responsibility for the Dream Plane, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal agreed that the assignment was unusual.
• Lily suggested that Hao Ren ask the Goddess, then dismissed his concern and handed him a brush to groom her shedding fur.

Muru watched Planet Tanagrus recover as Zhuom rebuilt its society around the restored ecosystem. During his daily meditation at a Tanan observatory, he heard a signal from deep in the universe.

• Muru saw new plants and animals thriving around Alamanda and the Fountain of Origin, where Zhuom's source blood was restoring life.
• Muru watched Ulanov emerge from a source-blood pond, regain his intelligence at a broadcast tower, and begin registration in a settlement.
• Muru accepted the Zhuom as hardworking Secondborn and continued guarding the planet while their settlements grew.
• Muru meditated at a ruined Tanan observatory near the North Pole and heard a signal from the depths of the universe.

Hao Ren traveled to Tanagrus after Muru reported hearing a signal from another guardian. The signal came from Sulun's Gate, a galaxy that Muru had seen destroyed and dragged into the Dark Domain, and it was a plea for help.

• Roll accidentally ate nearly half a bottle of Hao Ren's sleeping pills and slept through the day.
• Muru contacted Hao Ren and said he had heard a voice he believed belonged to another guardian.
• Hao Ren, Izax, Elizabeth, and Doudou traveled to Golden City Alamanda to meet Muru.
• Muru told Hao Ren that the recorded signal carried the mark of Sulun's Gate, which had fallen during the God-Slaying War.
• Muru said the signal was a plea for help.

Muru told Hao Ren that a genuine distress signal from Sulun's Gate suggested the Dark Domain had connected to the main universe again, and the Space Station main unit began analyzing its coordinates. Hao Ren visited a new Zhuom settlement, where the residents recognized him as their Planet Lord, before someone unexpectedly called out to him and Nolan.

• Muru confirmed that he had received a genuine guardian signal from Sulun's Gate, though its source coordinates were unfamiliar and difficult to decode.
• Hao Ren sent Muru's recording to the Crystal Core Research Station for analysis and then agreed to visit a nearby Zhuom settlement.
• Hao Ren, Lily, Elizabeth, and the others toured the growing town and saw its mixture of primitive infrastructure and industrial supplies.
• Hao Ren summoned Nolan's hologram so she could see the Zhuom people, but she said she did not feel connected to them as an AI.
• The Zhuom residents recognized Hao Ren as their Planet Lord and explained through their actions that they had accepted his authority while rebuilding their society.
• A nearby voice unexpectedly called out to Hao Ren and then Nolan.

Hao Ren reunited with Ulanov, who described how the awakened Zhuom people were rebuilding their society on a new planet. Their conversation turned to the Zhuom’s faith in the Creation Goddess before a commotion interrupted them.

• Hao Ren and Nolan recognized Ulanov, who had recently awakened and was adjusting to life among the Zhuom.
• Ulanov explained that he expected to help build a water mill and prepare food stores before winter.
• Ulanov said the Zhuom had learned what happened to their planet and remembered praying to the Creation Goddess before entering the ark.
• Ulanov described how AI factories supplied basic necessities while the Zhuom rebuilt production and limited how many people awakened from the blood pool.
• A commotion in the central square interrupted Hao Ren and Ulanov’s conversation.

Hao Ren and his companions investigated why a blood pool had stopped reviving the dead, only to discover that the source blood recoiled from Doudou. The pool returned to normal after Hao Ren fished her out and put her away, leaving him to wonder why the source blood feared and revered her.

• Doudou emerged from Hao Ren's chest and watched the preparations for a revival at the plaza's blood pool.
• The source blood's revival process abruptly stopped, though checks showed that the signal tower and information chain were functioning normally.
• Hao Ren noticed that the source blood shifted away from him, then Doudou jumped into the pool and caused it to retreat until the pool was empty.
• Hao Ren used a fishing net to lift Doudou out, and the source blood flowed back together and resumed its activity.
• Hao Ren concluded that the source blood feared or revered Doudou.

Hao Ren and the others discovered that Doudou’s attention caused the Origin Blood to lose activity, but they could not explain the connection. They set the mystery aside to ask Raven 12345 later, then discussed the Zhuom people’s reliance on the blood pool and why they could not yet settle in Alamanda’s ruins.

• Hao Ren tested Doudou near the Origin Blood and found that it retreated when she focused on it, while its activity returned when she looked away.
• Muru recalled that the Origin Blood had also lost activity when Doudou was present during an earlier test of Zhuom’s control over it.
• Hao Ren decided to ask Raven 12345 about Doudou’s unexplained effect after the mission.
• Ulanov reassured Hao Ren that the person delayed during birth had safely received his soul after a half-hour wait.
• Ulanov and a Zhuom man explained that the people could not move to Alamanda because they depended on the blood pool, signal tower, and nearby supplies.
• Hao Ren concluded that the Zhuom people would eventually move toward the city ruins once they had gathered supplies and learned to cultivate the wilderness.

After confirming that the Zhuom people were rebuilding their society, Hao Ren left with Muru and the others to investigate a signal from another Guardian. Their destination, a celestial system that had not existed when the drones last checked, had apparently appeared within the past three days.

• Hao Ren decided not to interfere further with the Zhuom people’s recovery, and Ulanov said goodbye to him and Nolan.
• The Crystal Core Research Station identified the signal’s source 12.6 billion light-years away, but the target did not respond.
• Muru joined Hao Ren’s group despite the cramped ship, and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform departed for the signal’s source.
• Hao Ren and the Data Terminal discovered that the destination lay within the probe drones’ patrol range and had appeared sometime in the past three days.

Hao Ren and his crew reached the distorted nebula around Sulun's Gate, which had appeared in a region that had been empty days earlier. As they approached Sulun, Nolan detected an abnormal flow of time centered on the planet, leaving the cause of the spatial and temporal distortions unresolved.

• Hao Ren examined the warped nebula and learned from the Data Terminal that space itself had been distorted, though no black hole was present.
• Hao Ren asked Muru to identify Sulun's Gate, and Muru recognized Sulun as the fortress planet where the signal originated.
• Hao Ren compared the nebula with a drone recording from several days earlier and found that Sulun's Gate had appeared in previously empty space.
• Nolan slowed the Giant Turtle Rock Platform near the rupture belt after detecting a spatiotemporal anomaly ahead.
• Nolan reported that time flowed progressively slower closer to Sulun, where the distortion was strongest.