Vol. 17The Founding Star and La Rian

Hao Ren recovered the Amantir Crystal, entered the Dark Domain, and helped the Creation Goddess resist the Lord of Madness. Lia joined the Xiling Pantheon, and Hao Ren’s group returned to La Rian with royal envoys as they traveled into the Dragon Empire.

  • Hao Ren led a staged assault on Amantir, infiltrated the Control Center, and found surviving fairies hidden in the planet’s core.
  • Hao Ren destroyed the Dream-Weaving Brain, secured the Amantir Crystal, and escaped with his allies before the Control Center exploded.
  • Hao Ren planted a World Tree seed in the Throne of the End and led his group through a beacon into the Dark Domain.
  • Hao Ren and his companions joined Lia’s expedition from White Maple City toward ancient ruins near the Great Pit.
  • Hao Ren discovered that La Rian was a dream of the Creation Goddess and helped her defeat the Destruction Goddess before the Lord of Madness reclaimed her.
  • Lia revealed that the Creation Engine was hidden in the Sulun Galaxy and summoned its core into space.
  • Lia joined the Xiling Pantheon and warned Hao Ren that the Destruction Goddess could use nine stolen golden discs to build a Creation Engine.
  • Hao Ren’s group rescued Charlemagne and Aivena from pirate airships and traveled with them into the Dragon Empire.
Chapters 1601–1700 Read from Ch. 1601

Arc 65The Amantir Crystal

Hao Ren and his allies infiltrated Amantir to retrieve its crystal, uncovering surviving fairies and a Nightmare Lair tied to the planet’s corruption. They destroyed the Dream-Weaving Brain, escaped with the crystal, and prepared the Annihilation Spear as Amantir collapsed.

  • Hao Ren and Vivian learned that the Throne of the End contained the Creation Goddess’s plan to use the Creation Engine to annihilate her and the Lord of Madness, and Salamander explained that three crystals could reveal the Founding Star.
  • Hao Ren led his allies in a staged attack on Amantir, using Nakdal Fortress as a decoy so his team could slip through the planetary shield and infiltrate the Control Center.
  • Hao Ren’s team found the Corruptors’ brain monsters in the Equatorial Rift and met a fairy who had been hiding with thousands of companions inside Amantir’s core.
  • Hao Ren and the fairies devised a plan to save the fairies in the Data Terminal and reach the Amantir Crystal by collapsing three crystal pillars above the Nightmare Lair.
  • Hao Ren’s team entered the Nightmare Lair and attacked the Giant Brain, while its whispers and illusions threatened to overwhelm them.
  • Hao Ren used the Godslayer Sword and two Universe Shards to destroy the Dream-Weaving Brain, and Autonomous Mechanical Units secured the crystal as the lair collapsed.
  • Nolan rescued Hao Ren’s team from Amantir just before an explosive destroyed the Control Center, then revealed that the crystal-built Annihilation Spear was fully charged.
Chapters 1601–162525 summaries Read

Arc 66The Dark Domain Expedition

After destroying Amantir, Hao Ren prepared the World Tree Terminal and led his team into the Dark Domain to search for the Creation Goddess. Trapped in the world of La Rian, they joined mage Lia on an expedition toward the Great Pit and ancient ruins.

  • Hao Ren destroyed Amantir, then worked with Salamander to rebuild the hub and investigate the damaged Throne Network and surviving crystals.
  • Hao Ren visited Raven 12345, who explained the Creation Goddess’s plan and prepared a World Tree seed and beacon for a journey into her lost divine kingdom.
  • Hao Ren planted the seed in the Throne of the End, and the World Tree connected to the Throne Network and recorded resurrection points for his team.
  • Nolan brought the Giant Turtle Rock Platform through the beacon into the Dark Domain, where Hao Ren’s group discovered a populated world and descended into White Maple City.
  • Hao Ren’s group met the blacklisted mage Lia and accepted her commission to accompany her to ancient ruins near the Great Pit.
  • Hao Ren’s group studied local accounts of the Great Pit and saw the Shattered Heaven crossing the night sky, while Lia described it as their ancestors’ former homeland.
  • Lia led Hao Ren’s group out of White Maple City toward Longfeng Ridge, where they entered a forest and Hao Ren sensed something slowing his thoughts.
Chapters 1626–165025 summaries Read

Arc 67La Rian and the Creation Engine

Hao Ren uncovered that La Rian was a dream of the Creation Goddess and helped her defeat the Destruction Goddess before she was reclaimed by the Lord of Madness. As the allies prepared for the Dream Plane crisis, Lia began studying and revealed the Creation Engine hidden in the Sulun Galaxy.

  • Hao Ren and his companions explored the God Slayer ruins beneath La Rian, where they found the Great Pit and discovered that its rifts held distorted fragments of cities and landscapes.
  • New rifts opened across La Rian and released Flame Monsters, so Hao Ren sent machines to aid the defenders and rode with his companions to White Maple City aboard Lily’s armored form.
  • Hao Ren recognized that La Rian’s setting had changed, and Vivian’s red moon revealed the dream world and the shattered Founding Star beyond it.
  • Hao Ren found the Creation Goddess on the Founding Star and explained that La Rian was a dream built from the real planet’s destruction and the Goddess’s regret.
  • The Creation Goddess remembered that she had sealed her counterpart, and the Destruction Goddess emerged from a cocoon and attacked as the Guardian Legion entered the Dark Domain.
  • Hao Ren weakened the Destruction Goddess by enduring her attacks and striking her with his chained Bible, while Doudou blocked her ultimate attack and the Guardian forces bombarded her.
  • The Lord of Madness reclaimed the weakened Destruction Goddess into the Abyss cage, and the Creation Goddess joined Hao Ren’s allies in planning for the danger of the Lord of Madness gaining her counterpart’s intelligence.
  • Hao Ren began teaching the Creation Goddess, whom he called Lia, and she revealed that the Creation Engine was hidden in the Sulun Galaxy and summoned its core into space.
Chapters 1651–167525 summaries Read

Arc 68Lia’s Return and La Rian

Lia regained her resolve, joined the Xiling Pantheon, and warned Hao Ren that the Destruction Goddess could use stolen discs to build a Creation Engine. Hao Ren’s group entered La Rian, rescued the envoys Charlemagne and Aivena, and traveled with them into the Dragon Empire, where they learned about its elite knights and the mysterious Princess Constance Dragon.

  • Lia studied with Icedis’s guidance and decided she wanted to fight the Lord of Madness for those it had slaughtered.
  • Hao Ren and Raven 12345 investigated the Dark Domain and concluded that the Lord of Madness might spread between universes through collisions.
  • Lia warned Hao Ren that the Destruction Goddess had stolen nine golden discs and could use them to build a Creation Engine, then transferred her divine registry to the Xiling Pantheon for protection.
  • Hao Ren and his allies prepared for battle as the Night Watchers fought the Lord of Madness, and Lia opened a stable portal from La Rian to the Dark Domain.
  • Hao Ren’s group entered La Rian, destroyed three pirate airships attacking the White Pearl, and rescued its passengers, including Charlemagne and Aivena.
  • Charlemagne and Aivena revealed they were Issu royal envoys bound for the Dragon Empire, and they agreed to travel with Hao Ren’s group after the White Pearl’s route was exposed.
  • Hao Ren sent some survivors toward the Issu embassy while the disguised group crossed the Dragon Empire, where Aivena and Charlemagne explained the Black Sword Knights and Princess Constance Dragon’s mysterious origins.
Chapters 1676–170025 summaries Read
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