Recaps

Hao Ren realized that Sulun's severe time distortion meant the God-Slaying War had ended there only ten hours earlier, and he used the Giant Turtle Rock Platform's Void Engine to restore normal time. The ship arrived above Sulun, where the final battle had ended just ten hours ago.

• Nolan determined that time on Sulun had slowed so much that one hour there equaled about a thousand years outside.
• Hao Ren concluded that the God-Slaying War's final battle had ended on Sulun only ten hours earlier and that remnants of the traitor's army might still be there.
• The Data Terminal explained that the Void Engine could make the ship immune to temporal distortion, though doing so would reset time in the area.
• Hao Ren ordered Nolan to activate the Void Engine and stop thrust when the Data Terminal gave the signal.
• Nolan cut the Void Engine at the signal, restoring normal time around Sulun, and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform arrived above the planet.

Hao Ren and the crew reached the devastated Planet Sulun, where they discovered that a battle was still underway despite the distress signal likely having been sent thousands of years earlier. As the Giant Turtle Rock Platform approached the fighting, three Apostate aircraft emerged from the ruins.

• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform entered Sulun’s atmosphere and found the planet almost entirely melted and destroyed.
• Muru explained that the Apostates had overwhelmed Sulun’s defenses and that the equatorial trench had been carved by a Gravitational Tide Weapon.
• The crew realized the distress signal could have been sent thousands of years earlier in the main universe, and Muru feared its sender was dead.
• Lily spotted flashes of combat among the ruins, and Nolan detected signs of life and an ongoing battle.
• Hao Ren armed the ship and headed for the fighting, where Muru identified three approaching Pale White Aircraft as Apostate craft.

Hao Ren and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform destroyed three renegade aircraft over Sulun and then entered the ruined Guardian Giant city. The crew found no signs of other enemies, and Nolan identified the largest building as the aircrafts’ point of origin.

• Muru became furious when he saw the renegades’ gray-white aircraft, and Hao Ren ordered the Giant Turtle Rock Platform to attack them.
• The enemy aircraft damaged the ship’s shield with chaotic spheres, but Hao Ren and Nolan recalibrated the weapons and destroyed all three craft.
• Nolan reported minor damage as the ship approached the city, while Muru warned that the renegades’ starships and Gate of Chaos were greater threats.
• Nolan detected no other enemy energy sources or signs of survivors inside the devastated city.
• Hao Ren asked where the aircraft had taken off, and Nolan pointed to the area near the city’s largest building.

Hao Ren and his companions explored the ruined Sulun Holy Land, where they found a giant guardian who had died defending an anti-aircraft gun and the wreckage of an ungrateful son fighter she had brought down. Muru explained how the ungrateful sons used stolen Divine Runes to resist the guardians’ powers, and the group began examining the fallen fighter.

• Hao Ren saw that Sulun’s ruined central temple had once served as a weapon, and he spotted anti-aircraft guns and a body nearby.
• Hao Ren, Muru, Lily, and Izax left the ship to investigate while Elizabeth stayed behind to guard it.
• The group found a dead female giant beside an anti-aircraft gun, which fired a final bolt of lightning when her hand slipped onto its control.
• Izax discovered a crashed ungrateful son fighter, and Muru recognized that the giant warrior had shot it down before she died.
• Hao Ren and Lily examined the fighter wreckage, and Muru identified the markings on its armor as Divine Runes that protected the ungrateful sons from supernatural attacks.

Hao Ren examined a dead Secondborn pilot and learned more about the race’s genetic modifications and stolen powers. Muru sensed a living Guardian at the temple, where Hao Ren and the others found him fighting an overwhelming force of Secondborn attackers.

• Hao Ren and Lily recovered the dead Secondborn pilot from the wreckage, and Muru angrily tossed the corpse aside.
• Hao Ren and the Data Terminal examined the Secondborn, finding a heavily modified human-like body with powerful abilities but no divinity.
• Muru sensed a living fellow Guardian near the temple and rushed toward the rear entrance with Hao Ren, Lily, and Izax following.
• Lily transformed into her husky form, carried Hao Ren around the temple, and raced with the others toward explosions and flashes of lightning.
• Hao Ren and his companions found a wounded Guardian defending the temple against more than a dozen Secondborn attackers.

Hao Ren, Lily, Muru, and Izax joined the Guardian Giants in battle against the Prodigal Sons and quickly routed the rebel squad. Their commander then invoked the Promised Land and vanished inside a blinding white light.

• The Prodigal Sons attacked the temple’s Guardian Giant, but Hao Ren and Lily arrived with Muru, who rallied the guardian and struck the rebels.
• Hao Ren fired psionic shots and threw graviton bombs as the rebels split their forces between the temple guardian and the newcomers.
• Izax burned one attacker alive while Hao Ren and giant-form Lily fought in sync and defeated the remaining Prodigal Sons.
• The rebels were wiped out, leaving their commander alone, and Hao Ren ordered the group to capture him alive.
• The commander raised his weapon, shouted that the Promised Land would descend, and was engulfed in blinding white light.

Hao Ren’s group defeated the rebels at Sulun’s Gate, but their commander self-destructed before he could be captured. Lily accidentally provided a surviving rebel soldier for questioning, while Muru explained to the Temple Guard that ten thousand years had passed since Planet Sulun fell.

• The rebel commander exploded after Hao Ren ordered his companions to capture him alive, leaving no recognizable remains.
• Hao Ren discovered that Lily had chewed a rebel soldier and spat him out alive, so he knocked the soldier unconscious and secured him in a crystal container.
• Hao Ren praised Lily and told her not to change back until the Autonomous Mechanical Unit could clean the scraps from her teeth.
• The injured Temple Guard mistook Hao Ren and his companions for rebels until Muru disarmed him and explained they were allies.
• Muru told the Temple Guard that Sulun’s Gate had been trapped in a temporal distortion, and Izax confirmed that Planet Sulun had fallen ten thousand years earlier.

Hao Ren and Muru told the rescued Guardian Lemendusa that ten thousand years had passed and that the universe had changed, while explaining their search for the Creation Goddess and surviving Guardians. Lemendusa learned that the God-slaying War had ended with the Founding Star’s disappearance, but gained hope that Mother might still be alive as they entered the temple.

• Lemendusa accepted Muru’s account of the ten-thousand-year gap and thanked Hao Ren’s group for rescuing him, while remaining wary of the strangers.
• Lemendusa revealed that Siv guarded the Sacred Treasury and that another companion had died at the anti-aircraft array; he then opened the temple’s Great Gate for the group.
• As he led them inside, Lemendusa introduced himself to Izax and asked Muru how the God-slaying War had ended.
• Muru explained that the Founding Star had vanished and the wretches had been erased, while Hao Ren told Lemendusa that the Creation Goddess might still be alive and that they were searching for her and other Guardians.
• Muru guessed that the Dark Domain had shielded the wretches on Sulun’s Gate from the universe’s extermination curse, allowing them to survive temporarily.

Hao Ren and his companions reached the temple’s deepest hall, where they met the wounded Guardian Siv and learned that Lemendusa and Siv were the last survivors of the temple guard. Lemendusa revealed that the temple held a relic sought by the rebels: a component of the mysterious Creation Engine, and the Guardians agreed to show it to Hao Ren.

• Lemendusa led Hao Ren, Lily, Muru, and Izax to a hall where the wounded Siv guarded a Green Crystal.
• Muru and Lemendusa explained the temporal-spatial turbulence and the battle’s history to Siv while Hao Ren sent Autonomous Mechanical Units to clean debris from Lily’s teeth.
• Siv told Hao Ren that no other Guardians remained on the planet, and Lemendusa explained that the last temple guard had stayed behind after the others went to defend Founding Star.
• Hao Ren asked why Lemendusa had remained at the temple, and Lemendusa revealed that it housed a relic the rebels had come to seize.
• Siv explained that the relic was a component of the Creation Engine, a mysterious project their mother had built across hundreds of planets, and Lemendusa and Siv agreed to let Hao Ren inspect it.

Hao Ren and the Guardians uncovered a golden component of the Creation Engine, a mysterious device the Goddess had built to restore balance to the universe. After agreeing to take the relic and let Lemendusa accompany him, Hao Ren turned the group’s attention to finding clues about the Dark Domain.

• Siv and Lemendusa activated the platform’s security mechanisms and raised the golden disk from its vault.
• Hao Ren was overwhelmed by visions when he looked at the disk, and the Data Terminal identified it as a highly connected God-made Object.
• Lemendusa explained that the disk was one small component of the unfinished Creation Engine, which the Goddess said could restore balance and change the universe’s trajectory.
• Hao Ren speculated that the rebellious children in the God-slaying War might have sought control of the Creation Engine, while Lily suggested taking the disk back to study it and focusing on the Dark Domain.
• Muru persuaded Lemendusa to let Hao Ren take the disk, provided Lemendusa could accompany him and learn his intentions; Hao Ren agreed and stored the relic in his personal space.
• Hao Ren proposed discussing the Dark Domain next.

Hao Ren and the others investigated the Dark Domain and learned that a flash had appeared near Sulun as it returned to the main universe. They suspected something powerful was still active near the Founding Star, possibly the Creation Engine or the Creation Goddess, but the Dark Domain’s current state remained unknown.

• Hao Ren searched Sulun for surviving rebels, while Lemendusa explained that most forces had left for the Founding Star and described the battle as he remembered it.
• Muru recounted how the Founding Star’s explosion erased the stars and left a vast region of space completely dark.
• Siv and Lemendusa described what they saw during the explosion and recalled a flash that marked Sulun’s return to the main universe.
• Lemendusa pointed out a sky-wide fissure, which Muru identified as the Oblique Nebula’s fracture belt and linked to part of Sulun’s Gate returning from the Dark Domain.
• Hao Ren, Izax, and Lily speculated that the flash came from the Founding Star and might have been caused by the Creation Engine or the Creation Goddess.

Hao Ren and Lily waited on devastated Sulun while Nolan completed a planetary scan, finding no survivors or salvage. Nolan then discovered an intact, drifting spaceship, and Hao Ren brought the Guardians aboard Giant Turtle Rock Platform to investigate it.

• Hao Ren reflected on Sulun’s destruction as Lily told him Siv’s condition had stabilized and they discussed her inability to speak in Husky form.
• Nolan reported that the planet’s battlefields and cities had been obliterated, with no surviving traces of other bastards or Guardians.
• Nolan detected an intact, out-of-control spaceship drifting between Sulun and the sun.
• Hao Ren gathered Izax and the Guardian Giants aboard Giant Turtle Rock Platform and headed for the ship.
• Nolan found no life signs or response from the vessel, and Hao Ren saw an imposing golden warship that appeared to have been built by the bastards.

Hao Ren and his companions investigated an apparently abandoned rebel command ship and boarded it after identifying its design. The ship’s hull repaired itself behind them, while its basic systems remained active and its main computer appeared to be offline.

• Muru identified the Golden Spaceship as a rebel command ship modified from a warship, and Lemendusa explained its role in the rebel fleet.
• Hao Ren, Izax, and Lily prepared to board while Elizabeth stayed behind, and Muru warned Hao Ren that the ship could be a trap.
• Nolan brought Giant Turtle Rock Platform to an airlock, and work drones cut through the ship’s armor without provoking a response.
• Hao Ren, Izax, and Lily rushed through the breach before the ship’s automatic Damage Control System sealed it with self-repairing Liquid Metal.
• The Data Terminal suggested that the ship’s main computer had crashed, and Izax hoped it was completely dead.

Hao Ren and his companions explored an intact, abandoned warship and found evidence that its crew had evacuated suddenly under orders. They reached the ship’s control center, where Izax blasted open the gate.

• Hao Ren, Izax, Lily, and the Data Terminal explored the lavish, lifeless warship and found no signs of damage or fighting.
• Hao Ren opened a Rest Room hatch and found untouched food and a holographic projection, while Izax concluded the crew had left under orders.
• The group searched the ship’s rooms and found discarded belongings, running equipment, and other signs of an emergency evacuation.
• The Data Terminal located the control center behind a huge crystal gate and confirmed it had only a simple access system.
• Izax hurled a ball of Hell Lava at the gate, startling Lily and causing a thunderous explosion.

Hao Ren and his companions entered the warship’s Control Center, where they found a dead Renegade officer and used the Data Terminal to recover surveillance footage. The recording showed the crew at work during a battle before a mass of liquid appeared in the hall.

• Hao Ren entered the Control Center and learned from the Data Terminal that the Main Core Unit was frozen in a failed restart loop.
• Hao Ren tested one of the ship’s unusual light-string controls, and Lily found a long-dead Renegade commander between the consoles.
• The Data Terminal examined the corpse and found signs of both extreme terror and severe blood loss, with some organs apparently cooked by the man’s own blood.
• Hao Ren suggested checking the surveillance system, and the Data Terminal revived nearby equipment and retrieved footage from the ship’s cameras.
• The footage showed the Control Center crew working during a battle, then revealed a mass of liquid suddenly appearing in the hall.

Hao Ren and the others watched a recording of a red thought-form appearing aboard Flagship Three and frightening the crew into abandoning ship. The entity copied Vivian’s appearance, and Hao Ren realized the footage showed Vivian’s birth, leaving the group with evidence of her origin.

• Hao Ren watched the red liquid appear in Flagship Three’s Control Center and kill an officer who attacked it.
• The ship’s captain ordered the crew to evacuate after the liquid was identified as a high-concentration thought-form.
• The red liquid imitated the woman who appeared in a holographic communication, taking on a form resembling Vivian.
• The entity opened a Spatial Teleportation portal and left the hall, ending the recording.
• Lily called Vivian and told her she had seen how Vivian was born, prompting Vivian to hang up.
• Hao Ren concluded that the recording showed Vivian’s birth and confirmed they had found evidence.

Hao Ren learned that Vivian had been created from the Goddess’s Source Blood and worked out how her journey through distorted time connected to the events of the God-slaying War. He returned to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with Lemendusa and Siv, planning to take the golden warship to Tanagrus, but the ship’s damaged control system left it unable to move under its own power.

• Hao Ren concluded that Vivian was a unique life-form created from Source Blood, and that she had imitated the appearance of a rebel commander before later adopting the form of the Vampires she encountered on Earth.
• Hao Ren told Muru and Lemendusa that Vivian was alive but had lost her memories, and Lemendusa accepted that meeting her would not reveal the Goddess’s plans.
• Hao Ren used the rebel commander’s death and the distorted passage of time to reconstruct Vivian’s route from Sulun’s Gate through Purgatory Planet to Earth.
• Hao Ren had the Data Terminal copy the golden warship’s data, then returned to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with Lily and Izax and invited Lemendusa and Siv to travel with him to Tanagrus.
• The Data Terminal failed to restart the warship’s damaged mainframe, and Nolan said she could not tow the enormous ship.

Hao Ren left the damaged golden battleship under automated repair and assigned the drone swarm to explore the Oblique Nebula and reconstruct its lost civilizations. After establishing a small station on Planet Sulun, he prepared to return to the Crystal Core Research Station with the captured rebel prisoner.

• Hao Ren deployed repair units on the golden battleship, and the Data Terminal rewrote its main computer before accidentally crashing the ship while testing its systems.
• The Data Terminal celebrated its chance to become the battleship’s main computer, but Hao Ren stuffed it into his personal storage space after it began proposing names for the ship.
• Hao Ren ordered the drone swarm to build a hive in Sulun’s Gate, explore the galaxy, and focus on reconstructing the civilizations that had once existed there.
• Hao Ren established construction units and a spacetime beacon on the ruined Planet Sulun as the basis for a small station.
• Hao Ren finished his arrangements and announced that the group would return to the Crystal Core Research Station, where they would place Lily’s captured rebel prisoner in custody.

Hao Ren brought Lemendusa and Siv to the Crystal Core Research Station, where they reunited with Zhuom and learned about his plans to restore the Creation Goddess’s Guardians and revive the worlds. Lemendusa was impressed by Hao Ren’s resolve, and Muru believed the two Guardians would soon find a place on Tanagrus.

• Zhuom chatted with the station AI and greeted Hao Ren’s group when the Giant Turtle Rock Platform arrived at the station.
• Hao Ren asked the station AI to prepare a special containment facility for the explosive prisoner he had brought back.
• Lemendusa and Siv admired the Crystal Core Research Station and the view of Tanagrus, while Hao Ren mistakenly took their awe as praise for his work benefits.
• Hao Ren introduced Lemendusa and Siv to Zhuom and explained his plans to reunite the Guardians, restore ecosystems, find the Goddess, and resolve ecological disasters.
• Lemendusa questioned Hao Ren’s ambitious undertaking but began to believe in it after seeing the station, the restored planet, and Muru and Zhuom living there.

Hao Ren imprisoned the captured rebel in the Crystal Core Research Station and tried to provoke him into revealing information. The prisoner refused to cooperate, so Hao Ren planned to study his mind and weaken his defenses over time.

• Hao Ren had the Autonomous Mechanical Units place the rebel prisoner in a secured isolation cell and remove his restraints.
• The prisoner woke, recognized that he had been captured, and grew furious as Hao Ren anticipated and interrupted his threats.
• When the prisoner shouted “The Promised Land” and tried to self-destruct, the prison’s defenses stopped him, and Hao Ren explained that the cell prevented escape or suicide.
• Hao Ren arranged for the Data Terminal to play music for the prisoner, then left the isolation zone with Izax and Lily after the prisoner refused to answer questions.
• Hao Ren told Izax that the prison was meant to wear down the prisoner while the surveillance system analyzed his mental characteristics for a future attempt to enter his mind.

After returning from Sulun's Gate, Hao Ren tried to explain to Vivian what he had discovered about her origins. He left the explanation at the point where everyone confirmed that Vivian had first existed as a liquid.

• Hao Ren said goodbye to Lemendusa, Siv, Muru, and Zorm before returning to Earth with his companions.
• Lily and Vivian chased Roll around the living room after Vivian caught her making soup with a mouse, cat food, and fish bones in a new pot.
• Hao Ren stopped the chaos and told Vivian that the trip to Sulun's Gate had revealed something related to her.
• Lily blurted out that Vivian had been a liquid, and Hao Ren and Izax confirmed it as Vivian stared at them in disbelief.

Hao Ren showed Vivian evidence that the Creation Goddess had created her from source blood, explaining her borrowed appearance and Vampire-like abilities. Vivian worried that her forgotten purpose and dormant power might return uncontrollably, while Hao Ren planned to consult Lemendusa; he then left to see the Goddess because Dodo had crashed the source blood.

• Hao Ren played the golden battleship's surveillance records and explained how the Creation Goddess created Vivian from source blood.
• Hao Ren and Lily concluded that Vivian had copied her appearance and Vampire abilities from creatures she encountered, while Lily joked about her own mistaken belief that she was a Werewolf.
• Vivian realized her original source-blood abilities might still be dormant and feared that her power could return alongside the madness that preceded her slumbers.
• Vivian worried she had forgotten the purpose the Creation Goddess gave her, and Hao Ren promised to take her to meet Lemendusa in the Dream Plane.
• Izax advised Vivian to study her blood-based powers to improve her control, and Elizabeth recited a line from Lily's notebook.
• Hao Ren left to visit the Goddess and revealed that Dodo had crashed the source blood.

Hao Ren and Vivian visited Raven 12345 after Doudou resonated with the Source Blood. Raven revealed that Doudou embodied the last remnants of life from a dead universe, explaining why the Source Blood revered her.

• Hao Ren told Vivian and the Nangong siblings how Doudou had affected Tanagrus's Source Blood, then he and Vivian went through the gate to meet Raven 12345.
• Hao Ren and Vivian arrived at an unfamiliar lakeside divine realm and followed the Arcane Servant to Raven 12345.
• Raven 12345 explained that the strange landscape was reconstructed from fragments of memories belonging to Vivian's split bodies, though she had recovered only fleeting scenes.
• Hao Ren described Doudou's resonance with the Source Blood, and Raven 12345 said the reaction did not surprise her.
• Raven 12345 explained that Doudou was the final descendant of life from a dead universe, carrying all the life information left behind, so the Source Blood revered her much as it revered the Creation Goddess.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 discussed Doudou’s symbolic importance as the last remnant of her universe’s life system, then examined Vivian’s origins and forgotten mission. They left with the possibility that the Creation Goddess had sent Vivian to make contact with the rebels.

• Raven 12345 explained that Doudou represented the entirety of her extinct universe’s life system, which made Source Blood instinctively revere her.
• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that Doudou’s special nature gave her no new powers and would not change her ordinary life.
• Hao Ren recounted Vivian’s creation and origins at Sulun’s Gate, including evidence that the Creation Goddess understood the Wall of Reality and the Outer World.
• Vivian said she believed the Creation Goddess had created her for a mission but that she had forgotten its most important part.
• Raven 12345 questioned why Vivian first appeared aboard a rebel ship and suggested her mission might have involved negotiating with the rebels.
• Hao Ren wondered whether Vivian had instead been intended as a weapon, but Raven 12345 said the rebels seemed capable of dealing with her at a cost.

Hao Ren brought the golden disc, a component of the Creation Engine, to Raven 12345 for analysis while Vivian remained restless about recovering her memories. The disc revealed scattered images of the past, and Raven suspected the Creation Engine was connected to the Wall of Reality.

• Vivian asked whether absorbing the evil spirits could restore her memories, but Raven 12345 and Hao Ren warned her that it was dangerous.
• Hao Ren showed Raven 12345 the golden disc he had obtained from Lemendusa at Sulun's Gate.
• Raven 12345 analyzed the disc on a crystal platform, whose base displayed old complaints about her stolen blade.
• The disc projected fragmented scenes, including the destruction of Sulun's Gate and a rebel ship carrying armored soldiers.
• Raven 12345 explained that the disc gathered fragments of nearby events and said the Creation Engine might be related to the Wall of Reality.