Recaps

The Twilight survivors completed their weeklong relocation from Twilight City, while the Steam Council preserved the city's knowledge and supplies for their new settlement. Hao Ren then activated Mimir's ship beneath the abandoned city, destroying Twilight City as the ship rose from the ruins.

• Anthony helped move Odin to safety for rest and a medical examination as the Twilight Barrier was shut down and the survivors began their migration.
• A Twilight Guard commander disguised as a citizen stepped through the city gates onto the grass, encouraging the crowd to follow him outside.
• The Steam Council and Galadriel's young dragons dismantled and transported the city's people, machinery, and Steam Brain to a wilderness camp chosen by Vivian.
• After nearly a week, the survivors settled at the camp, and Hao Ren and his companions prepared to activate the repaired starship beneath the empty city.
• Hao Ren ordered the ship activated, causing Twilight City to collapse and explode as Mimir's ship ascended from the ruins.
• Galadriel and Anthony took a selfie with Hao Ren in front of the exploding city and posted captions calling him “Explosion Ren.”

Hao Ren and his companions boarded the recovered Black Starship, where Little White said the vessel and Mimir were essential to the Creation Goddess’s grand plan. Behind the ship’s sealed Isolation Door, they discovered a vast chamber containing preserved remains of many different species.

• The Black Starship rose from the ruins of Twilight City and landed safely in a wilderness Yggdrasil had prepared.
• Hao Ren asked Mimir to confirm the ship’s identity, and Mimir recognized it but could not remember how to control it.
• Little White agreed to explain the Creation Goddess’s plan and led Hao Ren and the others inside the ship.
• Hao Ren’s group rode on Lily in her giant hound form as they explored the ship and found that its facilities seemed designed for a single passenger.
• The group reached the Central Control Room, where Little White used special authorization to open the Isolation Door.
• Hao Ren and his companions saw blood-red fibers and crystal containers holding remains of werewolves, vampires, humans, and other species.

Hao Ren and his companions explored the Guardian spacecraft’s specimen archive, where Little White revealed it was the ritual hall of the Ultimate Pardon. At its core, they found the Creation Goddess’s divine blood and learned that the rebellion ten thousand years ago aimed to erase not only the Goddess but also her influence on the universe.

• Hao Ren and his companions examined the spacecraft’s biological and silicon-based specimen archives, and a preserved Kryptonian was destroyed by murky material.
• Little White identified the archive as the ritual hall of the Ultimate Pardon, where the Goddess’s created races received comfort and the guilty received pardon.
• Hao Ren found a specimen of the God Slayer’s rebellious child and questioned why it had been included in the sacred ritual hall.
• Vivian sensed the Creation Goddess’s divine blood in a crystal at the archive’s core.
• Little White explained that the rebellion’s true goal was to erase the Goddess’s influence, and Galadriel described how that would alter the universe’s laws and leave it vulnerable.

Little White explained that the Ancient One engineered the God-Slaying Incident to make the Creation Goddess doubt herself, while she instead forgave her creations through the Ultimate Pardon. Hao Ren learned that the Ancient One may have sabotaged the pardon, and Little White revealed that a crucial part of its plan had already been destroyed.

• Little White explained that the Ancient One used the God Slayers to make the Creation Goddess's own creations attack her and undermine her divine legacy.
• Izax said the Goddess never wavered and used her final strength to forgive every culprit, while Little White described how she sent some creations through the Wall of Reality to preserve the Ultimate Pardon.
• Hao Ren and the others realized that innate hostility and the dwindling races in the Outer World threatened the pardon, and Little White suspected the Ancient One had caused the original sin behind it.
• Hao Ren noted that those who knew the truth had been silenced or had their memories erased, while Izax credited him with lifting innate hostility and preserving some of the kindling.
• Little White said the Ultimate Pardon remained underway but warned that one of its most important links had been destroyed long ago.

Little White revealed that Vivian was the missing guide in Ultimate Pardon, but her lost memories and fragmented power left her unable to provide the secret commands needed to continue the plan. Hao Ren set aside the mystery for later and began discussing the future of Twilight civilization, proposing a new home for its people.

• Little White explained that Ultimate Pardon required a missing guide, whose memories held the instructions for returning to the divine kingdom and awakening the Goddess.
• Hao Ren and his companions identified Vivian as the guide, but Little White doubted it until Hao Ren described her recurring slumber, fragmented incarnations, and lost memories.
• Little White concluded that Vivian’s condition, like the troubles affecting him and Mimir, had been caused by interference with their missions.
• Little White warned that Vivian’s secret commands might be among her corrupted incarnations of power, and Hao Ren postponed investigating them until later.
• Hao Ren, Galadriel, and Anthony discussed registering Twilight civilization separately and agreed that the Nine Kingdoms were unsuitable as its permanent home.
• Hao Ren said he had thought of a suitable place for Twilight civilization, where he was preparing to begin a major project.

Hao Ren arranged for the Twilight survivors to settle on Purgatory Planet in Rift Nebula, where they began building a new home alongside the Sun People. After visiting the settlement, he told the weakened Odin that the Nine Kingdoms would have a place on his planet and invited him to visit Asgard first.

• Hao Ren chose Purgatory Planet in Rift Nebula as the Twilight survivors’ new home and explained how Yggdrasil could help them adapt to its environment.
• Galadriel and Anthony agreed the planet was suitable and offered help with the settlement.
• The Twilight survivors began constructing a new settlement, aided by young dragons carrying building materials.
• Hao Ren found Odin freed from the Iron Throne and looking over the construction site.
• Hao Ren told Odin the Nine Kingdoms could live on his planet and invited him to visit Asgard, where a Valkyrie still guarded it.

Odin returned to Asgard, reunited with the mad Valkyrie, and gave her orders to help rebuild the Nine Kingdoms. He abdicated and first named Vivian as the new master, then reconsidered and pointed to Hao Ren instead.

• Odin returned to Asgard and reflected on leaving it to protect the people of Twilight City in Midgard.
• Hao Ren and the others found the Valkyrie in Valhalla, where she recognized Odin and awaited his orders.
• Odin told the Valkyrie that Ragnarok had ended and praised her for preserving the spirit army and holding Valhalla's defensive line.
• Odin gave the Valkyrie his ring and ordered her to repair the spirits, send half to Midgard, and use the rest to clear Asgard's ruins.
• Odin abdicated and named Vivian as his successor, but after Lily questioned her suitability, he pointed to Hao Ren instead.

Hao Ren accepted Odin’s offer to become the new master of the Nine Kingdoms and inherited the Key Stone, which controlled the Rainbow Bridge and Aesir systems. Discovering that many underground facilities had survived Ragnarok, he began planning to use the Nine Kingdoms’ infrastructure to accelerate construction of the Gate of the Present World.

• Hao Ren discussed Odin’s offer to entrust him with the Nine Kingdoms and agreed to accept the responsibility.
• Odin removed his eyepatch and gave Hao Ren the Key Stone, transferring control of the Nine Kingdoms and knowledge of their ancient systems.
• Hao Ren learned that the Rainbow Bridge could be repaired with spare parts and that factories beneath the continents had survived Ragnarok.
• Little White explained that Yggdrasil’s tightened roots had protected many underground facilities, though Svartalfheim had been destroyed.
• Hao Ren surveyed the surviving Aesir and Vanir facilities and decided they could help speed up construction of the Gate of the Present World.

Hao Ren oversaw Asgard’s reconstruction while deciding to leave the Twilight civilization’s leadership to its own people and take charge of the heroic spirits. After learning Yggdrasil was ready to travel, he returned to Nidhogg’s Lair and found that Little White and Little Black had transformed it into a Temple of Life.

• Hao Ren deployed Autonomous Mechanical Units across the Nine Kingdoms and Midgard to investigate ruins, aid survivors, and rebuild Asgard.
• Hao Ren told Galadriel he would let the Steam Council lead the Twilight people while he supervised Asgard’s reconstruction and commanded the heroic spirit legion.
• Hao Ren ordered the Valkyrie to continue her duties and protect Asgard’s Control Center and archive while he was away.
• Lily told Hao Ren that Yggdrasil had stored enough energy to travel, and Hao Ren decided to visit the Rift Nebula and check on Purgatory Planet.
• Hao Ren and Galadriel arrived at Nidhogg’s Lair and saw that Little White and Little Black had transformed it into a Temple of Life.

Hao Ren and his companions explored Yggdrasil’s newly transformed territory in Nibelungen and met Little White in a humanlike form. The chapter ended with Little White dragging out a ravenous Little Black, who had been gorging on energy beside the Chadnell Star.

• Hao Ren and his companions saw that Nidhogg’s Lair had become a lush Temple of Life filled with palaces modeled after the Creation Goddess’s temples.
• A vine guided the group to the temple’s main hall, where Hao Ren found a magical device called the Guiding Astrolabe.
• Little White appeared as a white-haired girl and explained that Firstborn could adopt forms suited to communicating with other beings.
• Little White went to fetch Little Black, who cursed as she was dragged out of a vine and begged to return for another puff of energy.
• Izax realized that Little Black had been absorbing energy beside the Chadnell Star, and Little Black admitted she had been hungry for two thousand years.

Hao Ren guided Yggdrasil through a seven-day journey from Chadnell Star to the Rift Nebula, where they found Purgatory Planet developing under the care of its native tribes and the ancient spirits of the Solar Dynasty. The chapter ended with Galadriel watching the planet thrive and remarking that Hao Ren did more than blow things up.

• Hao Ren used the Guiding Astrolabe and Data Terminal to plot Yggdrasil's route to the Rift Nebula.
• Yggdrasil shut down its energy channels around Chadnell Star and began its seven-day migration, while Little Black's plea for another sip was broadcast across the Chadnell civilization circle.
• Yggdrasil reached the Rift Nebula, and Little White and Little Black viewed the immense rift between the two worlds.
• Hao Ren connected to his monitoring equipment and learned that Purgatory Planet's tribes were building settlements, farming, and learning ancient writing.
• The ancient spirits of the Solar Dynasty led the planet's restoration, and Galadriel watched the thriving world below and told Hao Ren that he did not only blow things up.

Bania settled into the New Holy City, where she studied ancient knowledge and prayed for snacks until Vivian appeared with a bag of them. Hao Ren then told Gragon and the other spirits that they were going to Soul Suppressing City and would bring Purgatory Planet a neighbor.

• Bania studied with the ancestral spirits and prayed at dusk before the Pillar of Eternity for shrimp crackers and dried tofu.
• Vivian appeared and gave Bania snacks, while Hao Ren remarked that she seemed more airheaded than before.
• Bania started to alert the chieftains, but Vivian told her to call Gragon and the other ancestral spirits instead.
• Gragon and the Solar Dynasty spirits gathered before Vivian and bowed to her.
• Hao Ren said they would visit Soul Suppressing City and bring the planet a neighbor, as Yggdrasil prepared to overlap with Purgatory Planet.

Little Black appeared above Purgatory Planet as she prepared to connect Yggdrasil with the world, alarming people on both Purgatory Planet and Midgard until their leaders explained the spectacle. At Soul Suppressing City, Hao Ren asked Little White to examine the Firstborn Toka as his suspicions grew that an ancient evil force had caused the Guardians' madness.

• Little Black's arrival created the illusion of a vast upside-down continent and a starry sky above Purgatory Planet, prompting panic among the inhabitants.
• The ancient holy spirits reassured Purgatory Planet's people that the Goddess was connecting their world with Yggdrasil, while the Steam Council quelled unrest among the Twilight remnants on Midgard with a similar explanation.
• Hao Ren and his team entered Soul Suppressing City with Gragon and reached the Throat of Toka, where neural pulse controllers kept the Firstborn stable and helped reshape the planet's ecosystem.
• Little White said she accepted the destruction of her maddened brethren because they had threatened the ecosystem and their mother would not have wanted them to slaughter one another.
• Hao Ren asked Little White to identify differences between a mad Firstborn and an ordinary one as he considered evidence that an ancient evil force had orchestrated the Guardians' transformations.

Hao Ren and Little White found signs that corruption had helped drive the Guardians mad, and Hao Ren planned to study two living berserk Firstborns by reopening a gateway to the Dream Plane. Meanwhile, the Nine Kingdoms docked with Purgatory Planet, and a gateway began forming in the Rift Nebula.

• Little White examined Toka and found traces of suspected corruption in nerve ganglia containing degraded source blood.
• Hao Ren concluded that the mastermind had amplified the Guardians' negative feelings, and he proposed studying two living berserk Firstborns held at his space station.
• Hao Ren told Little White he would reopen a gateway in the Rift Nebula, allowing the Outer World and Dream Plane to overlap there.
• After three days of docking, the Nine Kingdoms and Purgatory Planet settled into orbit above each other, linked by Yggdrasil's Sky Tower.
• As Yggdrasil and Toka began building the New World, a gateway started taking shape at the heart of the Rift Nebula.

Hao Ren and the two veteran Examiners began constructing a gate at the Great Rift, deploying ships and machinery to stabilize and monitor it. After Hao Ren launched Raven 12345’s crystal core into the Rift, it vanished without any apparent effect, leaving the gate’s construction uncertain.

• Anthony and Galadriel brought their Examiner flagships to the Rift Nebula to support Hao Ren’s gate project.
• Hao Ren explained that the gate would need a core and twenty-one control bolts, and Galadriel warned them to keep reckless adventurers away from the site.
• The three ships anchored around the Great Rift and deployed construction units, while Yggdrasil was assigned a major role in monitoring the future gate.
• Hao Ren moved Raven 12345’s crystal core toward the information annihilation point in the Great Rift.
• The crystal disappeared into the chaos without reacting, and Hao Ren admitted that it seemed to have fallen straight through.

Hao Ren lost the crystal core in the Great Rift after it vanished into the Dream Plane, and Raven 12345 discovered that divine interference—possibly from the Creation Goddess's legacy—had stopped it from opening the gate. The core could not be contacted, leaving Hao Ren and Raven 12345 without a way to retrieve it.

• Hao Ren and the inspectors reviewed their surveillance data and confirmed that the crystal core had vanished into the Dream Plane after the rift trembled.
• Hao Ren reported the loss to Raven 12345, who came to the Rift Nebula and mourned the missing core.
• Raven 12345 examined the records and concluded that something on the other side of the rift had interfered with the core, possibly through divine power linked to the Creation Goddess's legacy.
• Raven 12345 explained that the core disabled its information systems after deployment, preventing them from restoring contact or locating it.
• Lily questioned the core's design and was struck by heavenly punishment, while Vivian called her a stupid mutt.

After the crystal core was lost in the Great Rift, Hao Ren learned it could not be replaced and prepared to search for it in the Dream Plane. With the gate project suspended, he took the retired Odin from Midgard back to Earth, leaving the Nine Kingdoms in Little White’s care.

• Raven 12345 explained that the lost core had been carved from a unique crystal formed during an ancient collapse of the Wall of Reality, so it could not be remade.
• Hao Ren and the inspectors concluded that he would have to trace the core in the Dream Plane using the brief aura waveform Anthony had intercepted, while Galadriel and Anthony left construction units to build the gate framework.
• Lily suggested setting up an interception net in case Hao Ren threw the core back through the gate, and Hao Ren rejected the idea.
• Hao Ren and Vivian decided to take the exhausted Odin from Midgard to Earth, while Odin accepted that the Twilight survivors could rebuild without him.
• Hao Ren and Odin watched Wendell and Hope lead explorers toward the Black Forest, then Hao Ren asked Little White to manage the ecology of Purgatory and the Nine Kingdoms before they departed.

Hao Ren returned to Earth with Odin and Mimir's Skull and visited the Shadow Council in Athens, where old acquaintances reunited amid the newly established order. He left Odin and Hela to talk and asked Hesperis whether any remnants of the Olympus divine system remained.

• Hao Ren brought Odin and Mimir's Skull to Athens and met Heiserana at her skyscraper.
• Heiserana described the Shadow Council's struggles and told Hao Ren that Bai Huo had queued overnight for a limited-edition game.
• Hesperis and Hela arrived, and Hela froze when she saw Odin.
• Odin greeted Hela, and Hao Ren left them to talk before asking Hesperis about remnants of the Olympus divine system.

Hao Ren sought Olympus relics for clues about why members of the family had made statues of Vivian, and Hesperis agreed to search while pointing him toward the Demon Hunters’ library. After saying goodbye to Odin and Hela, Hao Ren and Vivian left, with the ancient mystery still unresolved.

• Hao Ren asked Hesperis about Olympus relics, and she said the surviving records were scarce but agreed to contact other sanctuaries and gather what remained.
• Hesperis suggested searching the Demon Hunters’ library, so Hao Ren asked Bai Huo to look for records about the Olympus family.
• Hao Ren and Vivian theorized that the statues had been made by Olympus members who hoped idol worship would atone for their family’s sins or avert an apocalypse.
• Odin and Hela awkwardly faced each other until Hao Ren prepared to leave, and Odin entrusted the Nine Kingdoms’ people to his care.
• Heiserana clung to Vivian as she was leaving, but Vivian sent her flying with lightning and hurried out with Hao Ren.

After returning home, Hao Ren searched the Dream Plane for the missing crystal core and processed a flood of reports from his far-reaching monitoring network. Roll felt neglected while he worked, but Hao Ren eventually let her rub her head against his hand, cheering her up.

• Hao Ren returned home with his companions, and Roll checked his pockets for snacks after mistaking him for a stranger or a ghost.
• May and Nangong Sanba told Hao Ren that Roll had talked about avenging him, dividing up his belongings, and wandering the world if he died.
• Hao Ren sent Anthony's recording of the Great Rift opening to the drone swarm in the Dream Plane to search for the missing crystal core.
• Hao Ren compiled a report on his journey and handled incoming data from his many monitoring networks and facilities.
• Roll tried to get Hao Ren's attention while he read reports, then pressed her head against his leg when he spoke to her.
• Hao Ren let his hand rest on Roll's head, and she shook her head against it until her melancholy passed.

The Night Watchers discussed the worsening breach inside the Abyss cage and the spread of an unfamiliar, rapidly expanding drone civilization. As the guards continued sealing the innermost cell, the drone swarm activated a new nest and ordered further expansion toward the universe’s depths.

• S-26 reported that most lights of life had gone out and that the force imprisoned in the Abyss cage was trying more often to break through its outer wall.
• W-17 and the Night Watchers discussed the expanding, disciplined entities, which were becoming militarized and directing their vanguard toward the cage.
• The Night Watchers rejected interception for now, prioritizing the cage’s defenses against the force threatening to break through.
• W-17 told S-26 that the innermost cell was occupied by the force, while N-66 and the final defense outposts continued sealing it.
• A new unmanned drone nest activated, and the swarm’s collective consciousness ordered its expansion into the depths of the universe.

Hao Ren met Raven 12345 to discuss his report on the Origin Ark, the Ultimate Pardon, and the Ancient Fiend. Raven explained why the Ultimate Pardon could weaken a god and theorized about the Fiend’s nature and prison, but she left its location unknown.

• Hao Ren arrived at Raven 12345’s unusually tidy home and discovered she had cleaned up and fixed a holy-smile expression to prepare for an inspection.
• Raven 12345 reminded Hao Ren not to neglect the crystal core and questioned him about the incidents described in his report.
• Hao Ren asked whether the Ultimate Pardon could weaken a god, and Raven 12345 said its credibility was over eighty percent because a god’s beliefs could affect reality and authority.
• Raven 12345 said the Ancient Fiend might be a formless, willful power that could contaminate minds, and she wondered how a non-god mastermind knew so much about gods.
• Raven 12345 suggested the Creation Goddess might have hidden the Ancient Fiend because even learning of its existence could help it escape, then described the likely features of its prison.

Hao Ren visited Raven 12345 and tried bizarre divine-realm fruit, including one called Emperor’s Astonishment that overwhelmed his senses. After he left with the remaining fruit, Raven 12345 revealed to Raven 23333 that she had given it to him for lasting mental protection against the Dream Plane’s corrosive influence.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren about her inspection by a tiny Raven God and offered him unusual fruit from the divine realm.
• Hao Ren ate Emperor’s Astonishment, endured ten minutes of overwhelming sensations, and learned that its name came from the Emperor’s astonished reaction to its taste.
• After Raven 12345 assured him the fruit was safe, Hao Ren packed the remaining bunch to take home, and she ordered him to leave.
• Raven 23333 appeared after Hao Ren departed, and Raven 12345 explained that the fruit’s blessing was meant to strengthen his resistance to mental corrosion from the Dream Plane.
• Raven 12345 and Raven 23333 discussed the fruit’s strange flavor and its renamed title, which Raven 12345 said concealed its embarrassing original name.

Hao Ren returned home and used Emperor's Astonishment to prank his companions with divine-realm fruits, then shared the remaining treasures with them. He suspected the strange food had improved him, but his attempt to pass off a plastic fruit plate as a divine artifact was rejected by Roll.

• Hao Ren came home to find Roll and Lily chasing a laser pointer and wrecking the living room.
• Hao Ren fed Roll and Lily Emperor's Astonishment, then waited as its effects took hold.
• Vivian, Izax, Elizabeth, Nangong Wudi, Elsa, and Doudou were each tricked into tasting the fruit.
• Hao Ren shared the remaining divine-realm fruits with his companions, who ate them before going to the Nangong couple's restaurant for a meal.
• Hao Ren found a label identifying the fruit plate as a product of Erli Bridge Plastic Factory No. 5 and tried to give it to Roll, who refused.

Hao Ren reviewed the quiet state of the Dream Plane and ordered the drone swarm to push toward the mysterious Dark Boundary. The report ended when Lily called him to investigate a problem with Dodo.

• Hao Ren listened as the Data Terminal reported no new signals from the Crystal Core and stable conditions across the ecological reserves.
• The Data Terminal described progress on the Genesis Engine at Sulun's Gate and showed how far the drone swarm had expanded.
• Hao Ren learned that the swarm had reached the edge of a dark region with far fewer stars than expected and ordered it to continue forward.
• The Data Terminal reported that the swarm had found ruined planets and only primitive life reborn from source blood.
• Hao Ren connected the devastation to the Firstborn's destruction of the Creation Goddess's legacy, then Lily shouted that something was wrong with Dodo.