Recaps

Raven 12345 explained that the God-Slaying Longsword came from the Dream Plane before it collided with the Outer World fifty million years ago. She left Hao Ren with a key question about why the Creation Goddess had not dodged the sword that killed her.

• Raven 12345 examined the God-Slaying Longsword and determined that it was forged from a fragment of the Dream Plane from before an ancient upheaval.
• Raven 12345 revealed that the Dream Plane had collided with the Outer World fifty million years ago, nearly merging with it and changing both worlds.
• Raven 12345 explained that the Creation Goddess’s death ten thousand years ago triggered the Dream Plane’s Great Extinction and weakened the Wall of Reality.
• Raven 12345 said the sword could seriously injure a true god but depended on its wielder to strike effectively.
• Hao Ren recalled that the Creation Goddess had not resisted, and Raven 12345 questioned why she had failed to dodge a mortal assassin’s slow attack.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 investigated the God-slaying Sword and discovered that its corrupting power had mostly faded, leaving behind a faint mental whisper. Raven 12345 gave the sword to Hao Ren, who found that he could hold it safely.

• Hao Ren wondered why the Creation Goddess had allowed herself to be killed, and Raven 12345 said the sword remained their best clue.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 concluded that an existence comparable to the Creation Goddess had forged the sword and used its whisper to influence the God Slayers.
• Raven 12345 handed the sword to Hao Ren, who detected a faint, harmless-to-him intent muttering in his mind.
• Raven 12345 explained that the sword's bloodlust and corrupting influence had been added later and had mostly dissipated.
• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren the indestructible sword was his to keep.

Raven 12345 gave Hao Ren the Godslaying Sword and blessed it so it could not harm him or his allies, hoping its lingering connection to the Creation Goddess would lead him to the Founding Star. She then announced that Hao Ren’s year-end bonus had arrived and prepared to show him what it was.

• Raven 12345 explained that the Godslaying Sword’s connection to the Creation Goddess could help Hao Ren find the Founding Star, and insisted he carry it.
• Raven 12345 kept a fragment of the sword for research and blessed the blade to protect Hao Ren and his allies.
• Raven 12345 strengthened the sword’s blessing by biting its edge, while preserving its whispers in case they could help locate the Founding Star.
• Hao Ren stored the sword in his personal dimension, and Raven 12345 told him his year-end bonus had arrived.
• Raven 12345 produced the bonus, leaving Hao Ren utterly dumbfounded.

Hao Ren reported his discoveries to Raven 12345, who continued investigating the universes and learned that the Rift Nebula’s rifts had stopped expanding after Hao Ren entered the Dream Plane. Back home, Hao Ren found Vivian trying to bathe Roll and gave Vivian his year-end bonus: a set of kitchenware.

• Hao Ren spent the day briefing Raven 12345 about the Godslaying Sword, Korperus, the Creation Goddess, Earth’s Supernatural Races, and Vivian and Lily, then received advice and his year-end bonus.
• Raven 12345 studied a model of two interacting universes and examined a fragment of the Godslaying Sword.
• A tiny Raven God reported that the Rift Nebula’s rifts had stopped expanding, and Raven 12345 connected the change to Hao Ren’s first entry into the Dream Plane.
• Hao Ren returned home and caught Roll as she tried to flee from Vivian, who wanted to give her a bath.
• After Vivian and Nangong May bathed Roll, Hao Ren gave Vivian his bonus, an extensive set of pots, dishes, and utensils.

Hao Ren and his family examined the God-Slaying Sword after Raven 12345 returned it, speculating that the stars visible on its blade might exist inside a world fragment. They made no real discoveries, and the chapter ended with Roll running naked from the bathroom before Nangong May dragged her back to get dressed.

• Vivian happily accepted divine-metal kitchenware while Hao Ren complained that the higher-ups had sent pots and pans instead of weapons.
• Hao Ren showed everyone the God-Slaying Sword and explained that it had lost most of its power and received a divine restriction from Raven 12345.
• Hao Ren and the others discussed whether the sword's world-fragment interior might contain a space of its own, and Hao Ren observed that its blade showed what looked like stationary stars.
• The family gave up studying the sword as Lily got hungry and Elizabeth pulled her father away, leaving Hao Ren and Vivian by the coffee table.
• Roll ran out of the bathroom shouting that she was alive again, but Nangong May knocked her down with water and dragged her back to put on clothes.

After waking from strange dreams of the Firstborn, Hao Ren wondered whether they were premonitions, but the Godslayer Sword seemed unrelated. He went outside with Little Merman and met Lily, and the night ended with Vivian returning from a walk.

• Hao Ren awoke from repeated dreams of the Firstborn on Horleta, Tanagrus, and Drom, then checked the Godslayer Sword and found it had not caused them.
• Little Merman woke up and insisted that Hao Ren take her outside to look at the stars.
• Hao Ren found Lily outside, where she said she had dreamed of memories from her previous life as the First Saint.
• Hao Ren and Lily discussed their past lives, the Demon Hunters’ misfortunes, and who had suffered the most while Little Merman occasionally joined in.
• Vivian returned from her walk and asked Hao Ren and Lily why they were outside in the middle of the night.

Hao Ren told Vivian about his recurring dreams of a maddened Firstborn, and she agreed they were suspicious while praising how much he had grown. Vivian and Lily bickered as they went inside to make soup, leaving Hao Ren and Doudou beneath the moonlight before they returned home.

• Vivian returned outside and asked Hao Ren why he and Lily were awake, and Hao Ren described his strange dreams of the Firstborn.
• Vivian reasoned that the recurring appearance of a maddened Firstborn was suspicious, while Hao Ren explained the precautions he had taken against possible danger.
• Vivian praised Hao Ren for becoming more capable and composed, and Lily objected when Vivian teased her.
• Hao Ren reflected on Vivian and Lily's tragic history and their renewed rivalry, and Lily quietly shared his sense of fate's influence.
• Vivian and Lily went inside while arguing, and Hao Ren comforted the cold Doudou before heading home.

Hao Ren analyzed the Gungnir fragment and learned that the other fragments still existed but were somewhere beyond Earth. He requisitioned Kuiper Station’s enormous antenna to scan the Solar System and began searching for where Odin had died.

• Hao Ren brought Izax and Vivian to the Kuiper Station laboratory to examine the Gungnir fragment.
• The Data Terminal reported that the fragment’s material came from an unknown civilization and that the other Gungnir fragments remained detectable beyond Earth.
• Hao Ren asked the old Station Chief to use Kuiper Station’s powerful antenna for a Solar System-wide scan, and the Station Chief agreed.
• Kuiper Station opened its giant antenna, and Hao Ren connected the Gungnir analysis console to it.
• Hao Ren activated the antenna to search for where Odin had died.

Hao Ren used Kuiper Station’s antenna to locate the entrance to Asgard near Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and traveled there with Vivian, Izax, and Nolan. The Giant Turtle Rock Platform reached the abnormal spatial signal, and Nolan prepared to open a passage.

• Hao Ren and Vivian watched Kuiper Station’s antenna scan the Solar System while the Data Terminal searched for the Gungnir fragment’s signal.
• A starship captain spread an exaggerated story about Hao Ren, frightening two mercenaries into leaving Kuiper Station.
• The Data Terminal detected the matching signal near Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, and Hao Ren ordered Nolan to depart.
• Nolan brought the Giant Turtle Rock Platform to Jupiter, where the crew found the abnormal spatial signal near the upper atmosphere.
• Nolan planned to use the Gungnir fragment and the ship’s curvature generator to open a door, while Hao Ren joked about lock-picking.

Hao Ren and his companions opened a gateway to the Nine Kingdoms, but a powerful force inside the dimension severed the connection before they could explore it. The Nine Kingdoms vanished from the area, leaving Hao Ren to return to Kuiper Station and search for another way to find it.

• Hao Ren, Nolan, and the Data Terminal used Gungnir's fragments and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform's antenna to open a gateway near Jupiter.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Izax saw the Nine Kingdoms, including vast floating continents and enormous green vines.
• Silver runes appeared on the vines, and the gateway collapsed as Nolan lost the connection.
• Nolan reported that an active force inside the dimension had severed the link, and Hao Ren identified the vines as Firstborn tentacles with unfamiliar abilities.
• Nolan searched the surrounding space but could no longer detect the Nine Kingdoms, so Hao Ren ordered the ship back to Kuiper Station to try the antenna again.

After Yggdrasil fled the Solar System with the Nine Kingdoms, Hao Ren planned to enlist other Inspectors to search for it. Back home, Nangong May suggested using Mimir, who had lived beside Yggdrasil, as a negotiation expert.

• Hao Ren learned that Yggdrasil had deliberately escaped the Solar System, leaving Kuiper Station unable to track it.
• The Data Terminal estimated Yggdrasil could have made one long jump and mapped a likely search region within the Milky Way.
• Hao Ren decided to coordinate with Inspectors in the affected regions instead of asking the Goddess for help.
• Hao Ren returned home and told his companions that Yggdrasil had run away, startling Lily.
• Nangong Sanba warned that Yggdrasil might flee again, and Nangong May suggested asking Mimir to help reassure it.

Hao Ren contacted Mimir to ask about communicating with Yggdrasil after the World Tree fled from his group. Mimir agreed to help find it and revealed that it seemed much more alert than he remembered.

• Hao Ren learned that Mimir had become chairman of the newly established Shadow Council, with support from the Heiserana Family and Hela.
• Hao Ren asked Mimir whether he knew how to communicate with Yggdrasil, and Mimir explained that he had heard the World Tree's voice since he became conscious.
• Hao Ren told Mimir that his group had located the Asgard region through a fragment of Gungnir and that Yggdrasil had fled when they approached.
• Mimir said Yggdrasil had survived the great explosion and explained that the Demon Hunters' weapon had severed the Nine Kingdoms from the main material plane without fundamentally harming it.
• Mimir agreed to help Hao Ren search for Yggdrasil, while noting that he could not leave the Shadow Council for long.
• Mimir recalled that Yggdrasil had once seemed sluggish and muddled, but he thought it had become more alert after hearing how quickly it had fled.

Hao Ren concluded that the end of the Original Sin of Divine Blood had restored Yggdrasil’s mind, and he launched a galaxy-wide search for the missing Nine Kingdoms. His urgent broadcast drew a flood of jokes from fellow Auditors before Raven 12345 muted the channel.

• Hao Ren theorized that Yggdrasil had been semiconscious during the Mythical Era because the Original Sin of Divine Blood had damaged its thoughts and memories.
• Hao Ren realized that purifying the source of the Original Sin had awakened Yggdrasil, which fled when the group appeared.
• Hao Ren sent an assistance request to the Milky Way’s Auditors and civilization circles, asking them to search for the abnormal space and avoid approaching Yggdrasil.
• Auditors reacted to Hao Ren’s broadcast with jokes about his reputation for causing explosions, and Hao Ren silently joined their channel.
• Singer Tunala called for help after noticing Hao Ren in the channel, and Raven 12345 muted the channel and Tunala.

Hao Ren learned how inspectors coordinated their work and mobilized a galaxy-wide search for the missing Yggdrasil. While speaking with Galazhor, he learned that the Wall of Reality had caused dangerous weak points elsewhere, but that those weak points had become more stable since he took over the Dream Plane.

• Hao Ren reflected on the inspectors’ jurisdictions and their division of responsibility with the gods.
• Hao Ren sent a mobilization order that activated search efforts across the Milky Way for the missing Yggdrasil.
• Hao Ren asked Galazhor to use Suha Satellite Station’s detection system to help with the search.
• Galazhor explained that the weakening Wall of Reality had created unstable spatial jump points in her jurisdiction and caused some explorers to disappear.
• Galazhor told Hao Ren that the Wall of Reality’s weak points had grown more stable during the nearly three years since he took over the Dream Plane, and Hao Ren was surprised.

Galadriel showed Hao Ren that the Wall of Reality had stopped fluctuating over the past two or three years, and speculated that his presence might be responsible. After their discussion, Hao Ren tried to rest but ended up wrestling with Roll over her ink-drawn whiskers while Lily misread the scene.

• Galadriel shared centuries of observations showing that the Wall of Reality had become turbulent a few hundred years ago.
• Galadriel sent Hao Ren recent data showing that rifts and anomalous spatial points had stopped changing since he took office.
• Hao Ren and Galadriel discussed the Dream Plane, and she promised to notify him if she found any trace of Yggdrasil.
• Hao Ren wondered why Raven 12345 had not told him the Wall of Reality had stabilized, and the Data Terminal suggested she had her reasons.
• Roll showed Hao Ren the whiskers she had drawn on her face, and he tried to scrub them off as she protested.
• Lily woke up, saw Hao Ren holding Roll down, and shouted that the landlord was assaulting a cat.

After realizing he had missed Spring Festival while dealing with supernatural affairs, Hao Ren decided to buy something and celebrate belatedly with his household. He teleported to a city shopping mall and wondered whether Ryūsei and Zhao Xi still worked there.

• Vivian and Hao Ren scolded Roll and Lily after their antics led to a cat-and-dog fight.
• Nangong May eagerly dragged Roll to the washroom to clean her face while the others went about their business.
• Hao Ren left the quiet house for a walk and realized he had missed Spring Festival during his time in Corpies and Athens Sanctuary.
• Hao Ren decided to visit the city to buy something for a belated celebration and used Spatial Teleportation to reach a shopping mall.
• At the mall, Hao Ren recalled that Ryūsei and Zhao Xi might work there.

Hao Ren reunited with Ryūsei and learned that Zhao Xi had returned from the Spirit Realm Bell Tower in a near-catatonic state. The Data Terminal discovered a powerful presence inside Zhao Xi’s soul, leaving her condition unexplained.

• Hao Ren visited Zhao Xi’s former workplace and learned she had been absent for two months and her phone was disconnected.
• Ryūsei appeared at the shop, showed Hao Ren the scar from his regrown hand, and confirmed that Zhao Xi was alive.
• Ryūsei took Hao Ren to the apartment he rented across from Zhao Xi’s, where they found her staring blankly and barely responding.
• Ryūsei said Zhao Xi had been captured and taken into the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, and believed her condition was severe soul-detachment syndrome.
• The Data Terminal scanned Zhao Xi and said that something extremely powerful was inside her soul.

Hao Ren brought Zhao Xi to his home so the Data Terminal could use a medical pod to expose the foreign consciousness suppressing her soul. While they waited, Ryūsei joined Hao Ren’s household for dinner and witnessed Vivian’s magically radiant cooking.

• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that an unknown, powerful consciousness was entangled with Zhao Xi’s soul and might be suppressing her body.
• Hao Ren invited Ryūsei and Zhao Xi to his home, where the Data Terminal placed Zhao Xi in a medical pod to run a mental reconstruction program.
• Vivian welcomed Ryūsei and prepared dinner while Hao Ren and Ryūsei waited for the pod to finish monitoring Zhao Xi.
• Vivian’s enchanted wok made her many dishes glow with holy light, astonishing Ryūsei as Hao Ren tried to keep Lily and Doudou behaving at the table.

Hao Ren and his household tried to diagnose Zhao Xi’s spiritual parasite, but the examination awakened a powerful presence speaking through her. Zhao Xi recovered, and Hao Ren suspected that a fragment of the Creation Goddess’s thoughts had emerged.

• Hao Ren served a meal cooked with Vivian’s enchanted Star Gold Stone kitchenware while Ryūsei watched the household’s unusual antics.
• Hao Ren noticed that the hibernation pod had finished a cycle and led everyone to check Zhao Xi’s recorded soul fluctuations.
• The Data Terminal encountered a powerful will through its connection to the pod and crashed as Zhao Xi suddenly sat up.
• A voice speaking through Zhao Xi declared that she forgave her children, unleashing energy that wrecked the basement until Hao Ren shielded everyone.
• Zhao Xi regained consciousness, and Hao Ren told Vivian he believed a fragment of the Creation Goddess’s thoughts had appeared.

After a divine remnant in Zhao Xi spoke through her, Hao Ren and the others confirmed that the Creation Goddess’s power had survived in Korperus. Zhao Xi recovered and learned the war had ended, while Hao Ren wondered whether the Goddess’s final words carried a message beyond forgiveness.

• Vivian sent bats to clean the wrecked basement as Hao Ren and the others went upstairs to check on Zhao Xi.
• Hao Ren reassured Roll and found Zhao Xi awake but pale; Izax reported that the power was out across part of the street.
• Zhao Xi recalled being captured and taken to the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, and Hao Ren told her the Battle of Korperus had ended more than half a month earlier.
• Hao Ren theorized that the Godslayer Sword had suppressed a strand of the Creation Goddess’s thought until the saints’ ritual dispersed its power, leaving Zhao Xi as an accidental host.
• Hao Ren questioned why the Goddess’s words of forgiveness had survived, while Izax and the Data Terminal suggested they reflected her final wish and could not stop the divine punishment.

Hao Ren connected Zhao Xi’s possession by the Creation Goddess’s remnant thought to the godslaying sword’s causal entanglement, which he believed might have synchronized their encounters. He decided to question the sword about the Goddess’s final moments.

• Elizabeth repaired the transformer, and Vivian arranged for Ryūsei and Zhao Xi to stay in the living room while Zhao Xi recovered.
• Hao Ren went outside to consider why he had encountered Zhao Xi and the Goddess’s remnant thought at just the right time.
• Hao Ren showed Vivian the godslaying sword and explained that Zhao Xi had lost her mind almost exactly when he first encountered it.
• Hao Ren proposed that the sword’s information entanglement had linked his encounter with it to Zhao Xi’s contact with the Goddess’s thought.
• Hao Ren decided to speak with the godslaying sword to learn what it knew about the Creation Goddess’s final moments.

Hao Ren entered his mental world to listen to the Godslaying Sword’s whispers and try to communicate with it. He discovered that the sword could speak, but it had no knowledge of its identity or origins.

• Hao Ren told Vivian he suspected the Godslaying Sword carried a consciousness and decided to listen to its voice.
• Hao Ren used the sword to enter a deep meditative state while Vivian guarded him and kept Roll from disturbing him.
• Hao Ren found the sword’s immense, star-speckled black form in his mental world and heard fragments of thoughts echoing from it.
• Hao Ren touched the sword’s shell, and a voice answered him clearly, startling him into retreat.
• Hao Ren questioned the voice and learned that it did not know its name, where it was, who created it, or whether it knew the Creation Goddess.

Hao Ren questioned the newly awakened Godslayer Sword about its past and learned that the whispers heard by the Rebellious Children and Demon Hunters were echoes of their own minds, not the sword speaking. The sword recalled that the Creation Goddess remained calm as she died and said, “So it's come to this at last.”

• Hao Ren learned that the Godslayer Sword had only begun actively thinking that day, despite having possessed intelligence since its creation.
• The Godslayer Sword told Hao Ren it had been used by the Rebellious Children to kill the Creation Goddess but knew little about its makers or former wielders.
• The Godslayer Sword explained that the whispers were unconscious thoughts from within their listeners, amplified like echoes rather than spoken by the sword.
• Hao Ren confirmed that the earlier babbling he had heard could only have been echoes from his own mind.
• The Godslayer Sword recalled that the Creation Goddess was calm when she died and had seemed to expect the event.
• The Godslayer Sword told Hao Ren that the Creation Goddess said, “So it's come to this at last,” before its wielder struck.

Hao Ren discovered that the Godslayer’s apparent whispers came from its unusual mind, which formed through resonance with another consciousness. After establishing a Mind Link, he learned the sword stopped thinking when the connection ended.

• Hao Ren believed the Godslayer’s account and learned that its newly awakened mind had a jumble of memories but no clear understanding of them.
• Hao Ren discussed naming the Godslayer, but left it unnamed after it suggested “Echo Wall.”
• Hao Ren ended his deep dive after recording a beacon for future Mind Links, then startled Roll when he opened his eyes.
• Hao Ren reconnected with the Godslayer and explained to Vivian that its whispers were not coming from the sword itself.
• The Godslayer spoke into Vivian’s mind, and the Data Terminal explained that its intelligence arose through resonance with another consciousness.
• Hao Ren severed the Mind Link, and the Data Terminal said the Godslayer stopped thinking and continued only recording its surroundings.

Hao Ren tested the Godslayer Sword’s Echo Wall with Roll and Vivian, then learned his own divinity had blocked its effects. He and Vivian debated the Creation Goddess’s final words and concluded she may have influenced the Godslaying event, though they lacked evidence that she caused it.

• The Data Terminal explained that the Godslayer Sword’s intelligent mode amplified people’s inner thoughts and could drive mortals insane.
• Roll touched the sword and revealed a stream of thoughts about dried fish, grooming, and blaming Doudou for her mischief.
• Vivian touched the sword and heard repeated whispers calling her poor, while Hao Ren heard only jumbled fragments.
• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that his divinity had likely blocked the sword’s Echo Wall, easing his concern about his mental state.
• Vivian raised the Creation Goddess’s last words, and Hao Ren reasoned that she may have chosen death to accomplish something and had actively shaped events, though he rejected the idea that she was proven to be the mastermind.