Recaps

Hao Ren led the Sirens back to Aio and uncovered the truth of their civilization’s destruction, then helped them reconnect with their lost history. The journey ended with new questions about the giant pilots, the escaped brain monster, and the Creation Goddess as the Dream Plane grew more dangerous.

• Hao Ren found the Sirens’ star charts at Nathatone, learned their homeland was Aio, and left a bomb to guard the Great Vortex.
• Hao Ren brought the Siren Queen, Shaqila, and Soma to the Dream Plane, then returned with his companions to investigate Aio.
• Hao Ren found the wrecked Siren ark Zalazane and learned that artillery had destroyed it, then discovered the ruined capital of Ivhaduran beneath Aio’s stormy seas.
• Hao Ren collapsed the portals at Aio and Nathatone, awakening Eva, whose rampage trapped the group beneath the ice.
• Hao Ren connected Eva to living Sirens and showed her that their civilization had survived elsewhere, allowing her to calm the storm and restore Aio’s waters.
• Hao Ren discovered that giant pilots aboard the attacking warships had developed brain-monster mutations, but the contained Giant Brain escaped during Eva’s rampage.
• Hao Ren gave the Sirens their history and a teleportation gate, while the Siren Queen agreed to rebuild Nathatone rather than return to Aio immediately.
• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that the giants had been created by the Creation Goddess and that her origins might lie in either the Xiling or Star Domain Pantheon.

Hao Ren investigated a wrath spirit’s memories and followed them to a wandering ark, where Nangong May and Nangong Sanba reunited with their parents. He uncovered the ark’s history and its artificial city, then left it traveling toward a destination where its creators’ world might be revived.

• Hao Ren traveled to Santu Su IV, where inspector Galadriel showed him a wrath spirit trapped inside an ancient fusion generator and helped him analyze its disordered memories.
• Hao Ren and the Data Terminal traced the spirit’s memories to a dead star and found a heavily modified planet moving through space on enormous engines.
• Hao Ren’s group searched the planet’s abandoned cities and discovered that its automated shelter concealed a simulated society maintained by the Ark Mainframe.
• Nangong May and Nangong Sanba found their parents, Nangong Wudi and Elsa, living alone in the shelter city after a century of separation.
• Hao Ren led the group past the city’s mechanical defenses and descended to the Ark Mainframe, which revealed that the Firstborn had destroyed the Creators after the sun was detonated.
• Hao Ren shared information about the Time-Space Administration Bureau with the Ark Mainframe, then departed with the ark’s records as the simulated city shut down.
• Hao Ren explained that Planet Ark would continue toward a destination where its creators’ world might be revived, then scattered the planet’s moss into Io’s sea for Eva to care for.

Hao Ren’s investigation of the Ark database and a failed attempt to summon Vivian uncover a new fragment of her power. He then joins Becky and Ofra to find the Return Sect beneath the Holy Mountain, where the group discovers its hidden facility and transformed followers.

• Hao Ren learned from the Ark database that intelligent beings had killed the Creation Goddess, then reported his findings to Raven 12345.
• Lily’s attempt to perform a ritual from Vivian’s ancient book summoned a red-haired evil spirit that attacked the group under red moonlight.
• Vivian destroyed the spirit on Mars, and she and Hao Ren later suspected it had been a sealed fragment of her power after she gained a new destructive ability.
• Becky asked Hao Ren for help after locating the Return Sect’s headquarters, and he brought Elsa and Nangong Wudi to meet her and Ofra.
• Ofra led Hao Ren’s group to Hodius above the Holy Mountain, where they joined Uruk and used protective crystals to approach the Return Sect’s hidden territory.
• Hao Ren realized the brain monster’s psychic interference had concealed a valley from the Werewolves, and the group found an ancient obelisk before stitched monsters attacked.
• Hao Ren and the others disabled the monsters’ underground launch passages with electromagnetic pulse bombs and entered the facility, where they found dead stitched creatures and learned that the living ones had been transformed while conscious.

Hao Ren stopped the Guardian’s warship and learned that the Primal Guardians believed mortal races had betrayed and killed the Creation Goddess. As he investigated whether the Goddess could still be alive, Raven 12345 revealed Vivian’s hidden ties to the Dream Plane and kept the full truth from her.

• Hao Ren’s group found the brain monster’s repaired warship beneath the Sacred Mountain, then escaped as it rose and the mountain collapsed.
• Hao Ren stopped the warship in space with the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, crippled it, and found the Pope’s soul and a surviving Guardian aboard.
• The Guardian told Hao Ren that mortal races had conspired against the Creation Goddess, and that the Guardians had activated the Seeds of Life before the Great Collapse.
• Hao Ren shared the account with Horleta’s leaders, then received the Pope’s final message urging him to find and awaken the Goddess, who might still be asleep.
• Hao Ren attempted the Church’s source-blood ritual, but his body absorbed the blood without letting him hear the Goddess’s voice.
• Raven 12345 challenged the Guardian’s account of mortal betrayal and suggested the Goddess’s distress call might not have reached every civilization.
• Raven 12345 identified Hao Ren’s sample as dead source blood and revealed that Vivian had unusual ties to both source blood and the Goddess of the Dream Plane.
• Raven 12345 withheld her knowledge from Vivian, then checked more than twenty sleeping Vivians in crystal containers and found one container empty.