Recaps

Lia led Hao Ren and his companions through the Black Forest to investigate a ruin while they fought off Magic Power-corrupted Demon Devourers. The ruins’ golden, streamlined architecture reminded Hao Ren of the spaceships of the God-slaying race.

• Lia explained the origins and dangers of Demon Devourers while she, Lily, and Elizabeth defeated the monsters with unconventional attacks.
• Hao Ren’s companions cleared the Demon Devourers that ambushed the group, leaving Lia bewildered by their fighting styles.
• Lia used an enchanted map and a magical rune to locate the ruin, guiding the group deeper into the forest.
• Vivian and Hao Ren recognized the ruins as unfamiliar but strangely familiar, and Hao Ren ruled out the Creation Goddess’s architectural style.
• Hao Ren identified the ruin’s golden patterns and streamlined design as matching the spaceships of the God-slaying race.

Hao Ren and Vivian recognized the ruins as God Slayer architecture, but Lia explained that they belonged to the unclassified Annu Ruins Group, leaving their connection to the God Slayers uncertain. The group prepared to enter the stable interior and search for the ruins’ core.

• Hao Ren and Vivian identified the gold-covered ruins as God Slayer structures and wondered whether La Rian had been the God Slayers’ homeworld.
• Vivian suggested the ruins might have been a nearby stronghold instead, since Muru had never said the God Slayers’ homeworld was near the Founding Star.
• Lia explained that the Annu Ruins Group included ancient sites that could not be dated or linked to known civilizations, and described a theory that visitors from beyond the stars had created them.
• Nangong Sanba asked Lia about other Annu ruins, and she named the Black Pyramid, the Moon Temple, and the Giant statue group.
• Lia confirmed the dome’s interior was stable and led the group toward its opening to find the core.

Hao Ren and Lia led the group through the buried Hall of the God Slayers, where they found evidence that its owners had left peacefully long before the God-slaying moment. Their search for an active energy core in the Side Palace stopped at a rift Lia identified as the true Great Pit, whose darkness devoured anything with magical or living energy.

• Lia used a magic carpet to carry the group down the deep shaft, and they heard a distant rumble that she said came from the Great Pit.
• Lia opened the locked gate at the shaft’s base, and Hao Ren’s group explored the orderly underground temple and concluded it had been calmly abandoned before the God-slaying moment.
• Lia traced the underground magic flow to an active energy core in the Side Palace, so the group headed there through the palace.
• The group found a hundred-meter rift separating the main structure from the Side Palace, and Lia stopped Vivian from flying across.
• Lia threw a magic-infused stone into the rift, where a surge of darkness made it vanish, and she warned that the Great Pit devoured anything magical or alive that entered its reach.
• Hao Ren proposed camping nearby and finding another route around the rift, while Lia worried that the others planned to kill her and inherit her tower.

Hao Ren investigated La Rian’s unusual species and considered whether the planet was a physical repository created by the Creation Goddess. He then reached the Great Pit and tested whether it would devour a probe.

• The group stayed overnight in the Underground Palace, and Hao Ren later woke before the others and explored its corridors.
• Nolan reported that La Rian contained many species resembling those from the Dream Plane, though several had changed names and forms.
• Hao Ren suspected La Rian might be a species repository or a counterfeit world connected to the destruction of an older La Rian.
• Hao Ren reached the Great Pit, where Vivian joined him and warned him against jumping in.
• Hao Ren tossed a probe into the Great Pit to see whether it would devour an object without life or magical energy.

Hao Ren and Vivian investigated why probes vanished inside the Great Rift, then watched the little weakling fall in and return unharmed. Hao Ren discovered that approaching the rift’s boundary caused dangerous hallucinations and began making his arm disappear, leaving the little weakling’s immunity unexplained.

• Hao Ren and Vivian sent a probe slowly into the Great Rift and saw it vanish after crossing the dark boundary, though its final images hinted at a vast space containing floating objects.
• The little weakling appeared on Vivian’s head, dodged their attempts to catch her, and plunged into the rift.
• Hao Ren prepared to send an Autonomous Mechanical Unit after the little weakling, but she flew back out unharmed and returned to Vivian.
• Hao Ren extended his hand toward the rift and suffered intense dizziness, hallucinations, and loss of sensation as his arm began to turn transparent.
• Vivian warned Hao Ren to pull back, and his arm gradually returned to normal while he wondered why the little weakling had been unaffected.

Hao Ren used the little weakling’s resistance to the Great Pit to send a probe into its depths, then lured her back with meat and recovered its footage. The recordings revealed drifting ruins, cities, landmasses, and other fragments, while Hao Ren noticed that their scale seemed wrong.

• Hao Ren theorized that the Great Pit was a manifestation of the Lord of Madness’s power and that the little weakling could resist its devouring force.
• Hao Ren and Vivian attached a recording probe to the little weakling and sent her into the Great Pit, then discussed strange ruins and inconsistencies in reports about the pit.
• When the little weakling did not return, Hao Ren used a fishing rod baited with meat to lure her out of the darkness.
• Hao Ren recovered the probe and the Data Terminal decoded footage showing fragments, cities, plains, and other structures drifting inside the Great Pit.
• Hao Ren watched the footage with Vivian and concluded that the scale of the objects was wrong.

Hao Ren and Vivian discovered that the Great Pit was an anomalous alternate space, but a continent-wide cataclysm interrupted their investigation. After learning that flaming humanoid monsters were emerging from huge rifts and moving toward cities, Hao Ren led the group to the surface as the disaster spread toward the Black Forest.

• Hao Ren noticed that fragments inside the Great Pit had wildly distorted sizes, and Vivian proposed digging a Vertical Shaft to test how the entrances were distributed.
• A tremendous boom and shaking struck the Underground Palace, so Hao Ren and Vivian rushed back to the main hall and regrouped with their companions.
• Nolan reported that rifts hundreds of kilometers long and numerous smaller cracks had opened across La Rian, releasing tens of thousands of unknown flaming humanoids.
• Hao Ren led the group out of the Underground Palace while the rift's flames ignited the edge of the Black Forest and warning signals rose from Longfeng Ridge.
• Nolan warned Hao Ren that the monsters were surging toward cities across the plains.

Hao Ren’s team faced a planetary disaster as Great Rifts opened across La Rian and flame-covered creatures attacked settlements. Their escape and reinforcement plans failed, so they headed back toward White Maple City and ended the chapter confronting monsters at the forest’s edge.

• Hao Ren suspected the Great Rifts might be connected to the Great Pit, but focused on stopping the flame people from attacking settlements.
• Hao Ren ordered Nolan to send autonomous machines and armed drones to help defend the locals while keeping the ship’s covert operation in place.
• Hao Ren told Nolan to broadcast a brief beacon message requesting ground forces, but the beacon received no response.
• The Data Terminal discovered its Spatial Teleportation was locked, while Nolan reported that La Rian’s cities had activated defensive barriers and local garrisons were fighting back.
• Nangong Sanba found their horses dead beside a new rift, and Lia tightened her grip on her staff as flame-covered creatures approached Hao Ren’s group.

Hao Ren and his group fought through the Flame Monsters and crossed the shattered, burning plains toward White Maple City aboard Lily’s armored transformation. The chapter left them charging through the monster hordes with the city ahead.

• Hao Ren’s group escaped the Black Forest and found the plains split by vast rifts, wildfires, and hordes of Flame Monsters.
• Hao Ren stopped Lia from fighting the encroaching monsters and told Lily to transform by eating spicy strips.
• Lily transformed into a five-meter-tall armored husky and her weapons destroyed the Flame Monsters charging at the group.
• Hao Ren opened a passenger cockpit in Lily’s armor, and the group climbed aboard to head for White Maple City.
• Hao Ren guided Lily through the armor’s navigation controls as they charged through the monster-filled plains, and he told her to turn off the turn signal that was drawing enemies toward them.

Hao Ren and his companions raced back to White Maple City on Lily’s armored wolf form while he investigated the strange rifts and suspected that observation was changing reality. They reached the besieged city, where Lily cleared monsters on the way in and nearly crashed into the wall.

• Lily charged across the monster-infested plains at high speed, while Hao Ren studied geological scans showing that the rifts had no natural cause.
• Hao Ren told Vivian that expanding the radar’s scan range caused previously observed areas to change, then asked her to help with a plan involving the Dark Domain.
• Hao Ren and the others saw that White Maple City was under siege, but its defenders were holding behind the barrier with support from armed drones and mechanical units.
• The city guards spotted Lily charging toward them and struggled to decide whether to attack the armed giant wolf.
• Lily blasted monsters aside as she approached, then tumbled and crawled to slow down before slamming into the city wall.

Lily and the others entered White Maple City after repelling an attack, then hurried to Lia’s mage tower to investigate the Great Pit. Hao Ren discovered that written accounts of the Great Pit had changed, leaving him to conclude that the setting had changed.

• Lily climbed over White Maple City’s wall with her teammates aboard, then shook them off after landing.
• Hao Ren announced that the group had come to help defend the city and said they needed to reach Lia’s mage tower.
• Lia vouched for the group to a Guard Officer, and Hao Ren explained that they wanted to look up information.
• The group entered Lia’s library and found a popular book describing the Great Pit as a void filled with floating fragments.
• Lily and Nangong Sanba noticed that the books’ descriptions had changed, and Hao Ren told Vivian that the setting had changed.

Hao Ren revealed that La Rian was a dream layered over the shattered Founding Star, then awakened the world by having Vivian summon the red moon. After the dream dissolved, the group saw another ruined planet, leading Hao Ren to suspect that La Rian had not been entirely a dream.

• Hao Ren explained that the world’s setting had changed and asked Vivian to begin.
• Vivian summoned the red moon, causing the world’s inhabitants to stop and stare at it.
• Hao Ren confronted Lia, who dissolved into light as La Rian disappeared and revealed the shattered Founding Star.
• Hao Ren explained that the group had been living in a dream and suggested the Creation Goddess or Destruction Goddess had created it.
• Nolan began scanning the ruins for divine power while Hao Ren’s group searched for the Creation Goddess.
• Lily spotted another shattered planet, and Hao Ren concluded that La Rian might not have been entirely a dream.

Hao Ren and his companions found the Creation Goddess sleeping amid the ruins of the Founding Star in the Dark Domain and woke her. He explained how he had realized that La Rian was her dream, leaving the Goddess curious about the little weakling who had never entered it.

• Hao Ren and his companions followed Nolan's signal across the shattered Founding Star and found the Creation Goddess asleep on a small patch of grass.
• Hao Ren spoke to the Goddess, and she opened her eyes and asked how he had discovered that La Rian was a dream.
• Hao Ren described clues in La Rian, including its unusual ecosystem, unexplained ruins, and the Great Pit's resemblance to the Subconscious Layer.
• Hao Ren released the little weakling and explained that her chaotic nature made her incompatible with the ordered dream, so she had remained in the real Dark Domain.
• Hao Ren said that seeing the little weakling move freely through the Great Pit had convinced him that La Rian was a dream.

Hao Ren and his companions awakened the Creation Goddess from the La Rian dream, and she learned how her plans had failed and what had happened in the Dream Plane. The Goddess accepted Vivian’s independent identity and asked Hao Ren to explain the outside world, while the group began to realize that La Rian’s dream had briefly assimilated them.

• Hao Ren explained that his experience with nightmares and the little weakling had helped him recognize La Rian as a dream.
• The Creation Goddess recognized the traces of power in Vivian and accepted that Vivian had grown beyond the identity and mission she had planned.
• Hao Ren told the Goddess that the Throne of the End had been flawed and that Vivian had rejected it after losing her memories in another universe.
• Hao Ren described the Dream Plane’s decline, the corrupted beings and ruined worlds, and his group’s efforts to deal with the disasters.
• The Goddess revealed that Lia had been one of her incarnations and that the dream’s safeguards had centered on her; Hao Ren then warned the group that the dream’s assimilation had taken effect once.

Hao Ren discovered that the group’s Resurrection Marks had been consumed when La Rian’s dreamscape assimilated them, while Nolan resisted assimilation because her Void Engine lay beyond the dreamscape’s understanding. Creation Goddess revealed that La Rian had once been a real planet in a small universe beyond the boundary of the world, which the Founding Star’s explosion destroyed.

• Hao Ren explained that the Resurrection Marks had shielded the group from La Rian’s assimilation, and Doudou’s mark had been consumed despite her time in his causality-isolating storage space.
• Creation Goddess said Nolan escaped assimilation because the dreamscape could not account for her Void Engine.
• Hao Ren asked whether La Rian had an origin, and Creation Goddess pointed out the real planet visible in the ruins beyond the world’s boundary.
• Creation Goddess revealed that La Rian had once existed in a small universe where she landed after the Founding Star exploded.
• Creation Goddess said she had held back the Founding Star’s shockwave for about two hundred years before it destroyed that universe and La Rian, after which she fell asleep and La Rian became one of her dreams.

The Creation Goddess told Hao Ren how the God-slaying War had sent La Rian into the Dark Domain, where it was destroyed, and how her dream later restored it in reality. As she recalled the purpose behind her dream, a terrifying will descended upon the trembling ruins of the divine kingdom.

• The Creation Goddess explained that the God-slaying War was her plan, but the divine kingdom’s explosion sent her and its ruins into a dying spacetime, where La Rian was destroyed and the energy became the Dark Domain.
• The Creation Goddess said she had watched La Rian’s civilization during her long slumber and created its dreamscape from her regret over the planet’s destruction.
• Hao Ren showed the Creation Goddess probe images of a living La Rian, including White Maple City, and explained that her dream had restored the planet in reality.
• The Creation Goddess began recording how her dreamscape affected reality, then started remembering why she had created the dream.
• The Creation Goddess remembered the dream’s purpose, and the ruins of the divine kingdom shook as a terrifying will descended.

The Creation Goddess remembered that she had created La Rian’s Dream to seal another version of herself, the Destruction Goddess, who had survived the divine kingdom’s fall. The Destruction Goddess emerged from a cocoon and attacked Hao Ren, but Raven 12345’s blessing shielded him as reinforcements began arriving through spatial rifts.

• The Creation Goddess recalled that she had bound her surviving counterpart inside a dream and sealed her away by splitting off her memories.
• Energy from the ruins gathered into a cocoon, which soon hatched the pale Destruction Goddess.
• Hao Ren prepared to fight, but the Creation Goddess warned that she could not defeat her counterpart after their long sleep.
• The Destruction Goddess sent a space-deleting ripple at Hao Ren, but Raven 12345’s blessing protected him with the Rigid Shield.
• Hao Ren pointed to the chaotic void as countless spatial rifts opened and two massive armies entered.

Hao Ren and the Creation Goddess led the Guardian Legion and drone forces in a massive assault on the Destruction Goddess, but she survived and created mirror copies of their forces. The battle spread across the ruins as everyone faced an equal copy, leaving the allies locked in combat on the ground and in space.

• Nolan activated the beacon, bringing the Guardian Legion and drone fleets into the Dark Domain, where the awakened Creation Goddess took the World-Breaking Blade and ordered them to attack the Destruction Goddess.
• The Creation Goddess and Hao Ren ordered maximum firepower, but the Destruction Goddess compressed the bombardment and unleashed an energy storm that destroyed ships and blasted the Creation Goddess away.
• The Destruction Goddess created mirror copies of the Guardian warships and drones, turning the one-sided barrage into an evenly matched exchange of fire.
• The Destruction Goddess made mirror copies of Hao Ren's companions, and the group began fighting their counterparts as the Creation Goddess shielded the continent.

Hao Ren realized the Destruction Goddess was weakening as she spent power maintaining her mirrors and attacking him. He struck her with a chain-wrapped Bible that drained her strength, but she counterattacked as he swung it again.

• Hao Ren noticed that neither he nor Doudou had a mirror, then the Destruction Goddess began attacking him directly.
• Hao Ren endured the Destruction Goddess’s repeated attacks and realized her power was diminishing.
• Hao Ren concluded that creating the mirrors had weakened the Destruction Goddess and that she could not destroy everyone at once.
• Hao Ren predicted where the Destruction Goddess would appear and smacked her with his chain-wrapped Bible, sending her flying and further weakening her.
• The enraged Destruction Goddess sent a pale storm toward Hao Ren, who swung the Bible at her again.

Hao Ren fought the Destruction Goddess while collecting data on her combat patterns, then faced her ultimate attack, the “end of the world.” Doudou survived the attack unharmed, leaving the weakened goddess exposed as the Guardian Fleet and drones opened fire.

• Hao Ren used the Bible chained to a meteor hammer to battle the Destruction Goddess and confirm that her power had weakened.
• The Destruction Goddess reclaimed the power she had released to the Mirror Army and unleashed her “end of the world” attack on Hao Ren.
• Doudou escaped Hao Ren’s pocket dimension and intercepted the attack, then bounced up unharmed and spat at the Destruction Goddess.
• Hao Ren realized the Destruction Goddess’s ultimate attack had failed and ordered all units to fire at her.
• The Guardian Fleet and drone forces unleashed their firepower on the weakened Destruction Goddess.

Hao Ren and his allies survived a prolonged bombardment of the Destruction Goddess, but the Creation Goddess revealed that the Lord of Madness had reclaimed the badly wounded enemy into its Abyss cage. The group learned that Doudou’s resistance to the Destruction Goddess’s causal attack had caused a dangerous backlash, potentially carrying an explosive surprise into the Lord of Madness’s lair.

• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Izax watched the bombardment end and found the Destruction Goddess missing from the battlefield.
• The Creation Goddess confirmed that the Destruction Goddess had been dragged into the Abyss cage by the Lord of Madness, which reclaimed her as an extension of itself.
• The Creation Goddess explained that the bombardment had permanently weakened the Destruction Goddess and that the Abyss cage would keep her sealed away for a long time.
• The Creation Goddess asked how Doudou had blocked the Destruction Goddess’s end-of-the-world attack, and Hao Ren explained that Doudou’s world had already been destroyed and her existence was anchored to the Xiling Pantheon.
• The Creation Goddess revealed that the failed attack had caused the Destruction Goddess’s divine power to surge without an outlet, and Hao Ren realized the resulting living bomb had been taken back to the Lord of Madness.

After the Creation Goddess returned, she reunited with Salamander and learned that life still existed on La Rian. At an emergency meeting, the group assessed the Abyss cage and the threat posed by Lord of Madness, and the Goddess warned that his reunion with her evil duplicate would give him a clever brain.

• Aier brought Salamander and the Guardian Giants to meet the awakened Creation Goddess, who acknowledged her responsibility for the corruption of the Amantir legion.
• The Creation Goddess asked whether La Rian had survived the battle, and Salamander confirmed that the planet had not been harmed.
• The Creation Goddess chose to prioritize the Dream Plane crisis and joined an emergency meeting aboard Aier with Hao Ren, Salamander, Loken, Asuman, and other allies.
• Asuman reported that communication with the Abyss cage had failed, though the seal remained intact and the sentinel system seemed to be holding.
• Hao Ren said the Destruction Goddess's collision with their reactive armor would cause an energy burst that weakened Lord of Madness.
• The Creation Goddess warned that Lord of Madness's reunion with her evil duplicate would bring a major crisis because he would soon gain a clever brain.

Hao Ren warned that the Destruction Goddess’s union with the Lord of Madness could give it the ability to think, then began preparing for the coming war. He offered Lia a way to strengthen her power, and the chapter ended with him revealing a box of textbooks and exercise books.

• The Creation Goddess explained that the Destruction Goddess could give the Lord of Madness the ability to think, alarming Hao Ren and the others.
• Hao Ren argued against the Creation Goddess’s sacrificial plan and promised to help restore and strengthen her power.
• Hao Ren revised the war preparations, redirecting drone production toward combat and expanding Annihilation Spear research, Abyss monitoring, and defenses around the dark region.
• After the meeting, the Creation Goddess asked Hao Ren to call her Lia and requested to see his plan for increasing her power.
• Hao Ren opened a box filled with textbooks and exercise books and declared that knowledge was power.

Hao Ren gave Lia textbooks to strengthen her powers, then revealed that she had come from a drop of the Dark Valkyrie’s divine blood. Lia accepted the news happily, but Hao Ren said she could not meet her mother until the Dream Plane crisis eased and the expedition allowed it.

• Hao Ren presented Lia with divine textbooks and exercise books, and she was astonished by the knowledge inside them.
• Hao Ren explained that the books came from other pantheons and that Lia’s isolation had left her without proper education.
• Hao Ren told Lia she had been born when a drop of the Dark Valkyrie’s blood gave rise to a god.
• Lia accepted her unusual origins without resentment and became excited to learn that her mother was powerful.
• Hao Ren explained that the Dark Valkyrie cared about Lia but could not meet her while commanding an expedition and while the Dream Plane remained unstable.
• Lia returned her attention to the textbooks and asked whether knowledge was power, and Hao Ren affirmed that it was.

Hao Ren told Lia to study so she could strengthen herself for the coming war, then asked where she had hidden the Creation Engine. Lia revealed that it was concealed within the Sulun Galaxy and reconstructed it in space, leaving its core for Hao Ren to inherit.

• Hao Ren gave Lia a demanding study plan, and she agreed to study after he threatened her with the Meteor Hammer Bible.
• Hao Ren asked Lia where she had hidden the Creation Engine, and she said it was not in the Dark Domain.
• Lia revealed that the Creation Engine was concealed within the Sulun Galaxy itself and asked Hao Ren to project the galaxy's monitoring data.
• Lia combined and inverted images of the Sulun Galaxy's stars and orbits, revealing the Creation Engine's blueprint and summoning its core into space.
• Lia explained that the galaxy's appearance in the material world had been a signal for Vivian to retrieve the engine, then told Hao Ren the core belonged to him.