Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and Vim traveled to Rainbow Light Island’s wreckage to search for Hilda’s lingering soul. They found her near the remains of the observation tower, and Hao Ren realized they had arrived in time to save her.

• Vim arranged a secret shuttle trip to the space junkyard, where he explained the dangers of the ruined industrial islands and the purpose of the Corona Stations.
• Hao Ren, Vim, Vivian, and Lily reached the wreckage of Rainbow Light Island and put on emergency suits to explore it in space.
• Vivian and Lily briefly tested their ability to survive without their suits, then Hao Ren made them use propulsion belts to move through the wreckage.
• Hao Ren led the group and Hilda’s medical pod to the remains of the observation tower, where Raven 12345’s power revealed Hilda’s weak, wandering soul.
• Hao Ren drifted toward Hilda’s soul and said they had made it in time.

Hao Ren and his companions revived Hilda by gathering her soul fragments and restoring her consciousness. Hilda woke in a spirit body while her original body remained in the medical pod, and Raven 12345 explained that she had become a Living Holy Spirit.

• Hilda's remnant soul regained vitality and was drawn into the medical pod, prompting Hao Ren to rush her back to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• The medical pod completed Hilda's soul fusion, and she woke as Wiem and the others gathered around her.
• Hao Ren and his companions explained that Hilda had died and been revived, and she accepted what had happened.
• Lily noticed Hilda's original body still lying in the medical pod, while Hilda stood nearby in a translucent spirit body.
• Hao Ren contacted Raven 12345, who said Hilda had become an immortal Living Holy Spirit.

Hilda returned as a powerful, immortal Living Holy Spirit, leaving her soulless former body in an awkward limbo. As the Erem elves prepared for the Great Migration, a kingdom-wide announcement told them to ready themselves for unprecedented news from their Queen.

• Raven 12345 explained that Hilda had become a Living Holy Spirit after her two souls merged, and Hilda confirmed that her new body felt normal.
• Hilda and the others debated what to do with her living, soulless former body, then stored it in a medical pod aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Hilda returned to her palace and hurried to the Elder Spire to lead the postponed meeting about the Great Migration of Erem.
• Vam announced a special mobilization across the Erem island chain, instructing citizens to prepare records and keep communication open ahead of the migration.
• The announcement reassured the elves that the mobilization was not prompted by disaster and declared that Erem was about to welcome the dawn.

Hilda announced that the Erem Kingdom would migrate to a resource-rich new world in three days, after the Elder Council and royal cabinet approved the plan. As preparations began, Wim reported that the Utopia Organization and dissident groups were making a move.

• Hilda told the Erem people that the spacetime accelerator had sent her to a new world, where powerful beings had helped her return.
• Hilda announced that an alien transport fleet would escort the Erem race to a planet lent to them, with the migration beginning in three days.
• The Erem government began organizing supplies, personnel, medical teams, and life-support systems for the migration.
• Hao Ren and Vivian spoke with Hilda about her announcement and the risks of alien diseases.
• Wim rushed in and warned Hilda that the Utopia Organization and dissident groups were making a move.

Hao Ren and Hilda organized the Erem Elves’ Great Migration while dissenters questioned the plan and the kingdom prepared to leave in just three days. The immigrant fleet arrived, but its captains’ enormous ship advertisements made the historic first contact less dignified than Hilda’s ministers had expected; loading operations then began.

• Wim reported that the Utopia Organization and other dissenters were calling the Great Migration a scam, and Hilda assigned Felton to handle them rather than order mass arrests.
• Hilda’s government inventoried supplies, organized migration groups, and prepared communication equipment and administrators during the three-day mobilization.
• Hao Ren contacted Ship 883’s captain, who said the fleet was assembling smoothly and would arrive on the day the migration began.
• The fleet appeared above the island chain, and the first ships broadcast advertisements across the city, including Ship 883’s glowing slogans on all four sides.
• Hilda’s ministers coordinated guidance codes, transport gates, and loading as the captains arrived at the Isle of the Rising Sun and handed out advertisements.

Hao Ren and Hilda oversaw the start of the elves’ Great Migration as the transport captains began moving passengers and supplies. After explaining how she had isolated the dissenters on Darklight Island, Hilda heard 883 offer a way to move them, and Hao Ren met the unusual plant captain Kepler.

• Hilda said Erem’s departments were handling the migration while she and Wim watched the operation proceed.
• 883 and the other captains landed at the Royal District platform, greeted Hao Ren and Hilda, and eagerly advertised their services to the ministers.
• Hilda explained that she had concentrated the elves who opposed the Great Migration on Darklight Island, where they could no longer disrupt the evacuation.
• 883 offered to move the dissenters without violence and asked Kepler whether the field generators on its three ships were charged.
• Hao Ren noticed Kepler, a plant-like captain with mechanical limbs, drinking water from a basin and complaining about the air and nearby smoking.

Hao Ren and Hilda joined the first migration convoy, while Kepler offered to deal with the Erem Elves who refused to leave Darklight Island. The Wood Elves solved the standoff by transporting the entire island, residents and all, to the new world.

• Hilda left Vym in charge of the Erem island chain and set out for the new planet with Hao Ren and the advance group.
• Hao Ren brought Hilda, 883, and several captains aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform as it joined the migration convoy.
• The group found the Utopia Organization still urging Darklight Island's residents to reject the migration and distrust the aliens.
• Kepler sent three Wood Elf ships to surround Darklight Island with a force field.
• The Wood Elf ships vanished with Darklight Island inside the field, relocating the holdouts without making them leave their homes.

Hilda chose to preserve the Erem Elves’ Ecological Domes as the fleet began moving their people and supplies to a new home. The immigrant fleet reached the World Gate, where over a hundred million Elves and their cargo were left waiting for the slow law-adaptability conversion.

• Hilda insisted that the fleet preserve the Ecological Domes, and 883 ordered force-field barges to tow them away from Erem.
• Hao Ren and Hilda left Erem aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with a first group of Elves.
• Hilda visited the crowded cargo bays, reassured the Elves, and explained that their new home had a real sky.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform reached the World Gate and joined the immigrant fleet waiting to cross.
• The Data Terminal explained that the World Gate had to convert the enormous population and cargo to the new universe’s laws, leaving Hao Ren to watch the progress bar crawl.

Hao Ren brought the Erem immigrants to Doudou Planet, where they began settling into their new home despite being overwhelmed by the open sky. Hilda proposed naming their new coastal capital after Hao Ren, but he objected.

• Hao Ren led the immigrant fleet through the World Gate and set its destination to Doudou Planet.
• The fleet arrived above the habitable planet, and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform landed on the beach with the Erem floating islands in orbit.
• Lily announced the end of the voyage over the ship’s broadcast system and called herself its first mate.
• After the Data Terminal confirmed the planet’s environment was compatible, Hao Ren and Hilda encouraged the elves to leave the ship.
• The elves were stunned and frightened by the vast sky, then began singing, blessing the land, and setting up camp.
• Hilda proposed building Erem’s new capital by the sea and naming it after Hao Ren, who protested.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves establish their first campsite on their new planet as they prepared for the arrival of the rest of their people. The settlers celebrated their first taste of nature, and Hao Ren set out to ask the queen for the planet’s official name.

• Hilda directed the settlers to set up reactors, communications, and temporary shelters before nightfall.
• Hao Ren sent Autonomous Mechanical Units to help the elves, while soldiers built defenses against wild animals.
• Hao Ren stopped Izax from offering to reshape the land with destructive magic.
• Vivian and Lily returned from the forest with wild fruits, which delighted the elves.
• The Data Terminal reminded Hao Ren to ask the queen to choose an official name for the planet, and he hurried off to speak with her.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves settle on their new planet, which Hilda named Erem, as floating islands descended to become their new homes. The arrival of Raven 12345’s giant product manual revealed that the planet had been manufactured, leaving Hao Ren to explain the unexpected display as after-sales service.

• Hilda chose to name the new planet Erem so her people would remember their homeland.
• Hao Ren told Hilda that Vem’s second group of refugees was on its way and that 883 would provide synthesizers and construction materials.
• Eleven space floating islands descended toward the ocean, where the Erem Elves planned to anchor and transform them into stable homes.
• Hilda identified the captured leader of the Utopia Organization and assigned him and his followers detention, questioning, and useful work instead of execution.
• A huge product manual appeared across the sky, and Hao Ren recognized it as Raven 12345’s after-sales service for the manufactured planet.

Hao Ren helped the Erem Elves complete their Great Migration to Raven 12345’s planet, where her embarrassing broadcast also provided vital information about the new world. After the settlement took shape and Vim arrived with the frozen World of Prayer servers, Hao Ren departed, leaving the elves a way to contact him.

• Raven 12345’s planetary instructions and resource data appeared across the sky, and the Erem Elves recorded the information for their survival.
• Hao Ren, Lily, Izax, and Vivian helped the immigrants establish a settlement, with Vivian devising treatments for diseases on the new planet.
• The Autonomous Mechanical Unit swarm helped transform the beach camp into the City of Stars as the Erem Elves established settlements across the planet.
• Vim arrived with the final immigrants and the frozen World of Prayer servers, while he and Hilda discussed the elves who had entered it, including Cadilong.
• Hao Ren left an Autonomous Mechanical Unit behind for communication and departed aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Vim asked Hilda whether she had forgotten her own body again, and Hilda fell silent.

After returning from New Erem Star, Hao Ren and the others came home to Earth, where they discovered Hilda had left her body in their care and found Nangong May’s unusual instructions for looking after Doudou. The chapter left Hao Ren bewildered by the latest mystery surrounding his sleeping daughter.

• Izax reminded Hao Ren and Vivian that Hilda’s body was still in the medical bay, and Hilda told them to keep it or bury it until further notice.
• Hao Ren and the others returned to Earth, and he reflected on how precious familiar home comforts were after seeing the hardships on Erem.
• Lily rushed into the house and checked that no other dog had invaded her territory, while Roll welcomed her in her aloof manner.
• Hao Ren found Nangong May’s note saying she and Becky were out and that Doudou was in the electric rice cooker.
• Hao Ren found instructions for heating and caring for Doudou, including warnings about her eating playing cards and playing in the snow.

Hao Ren returned home and learned that Doudou had caught a cold after playing in the snow, while the household had developed several strange new routines. He also reunited with Becky, who had adapted to life on Earth and looked completely transformed.

• Hao Ren found Doudou waking in a rice cooker and learned she had been warmed there according to a note.
• Doudou excitedly leaped into Hao Ren's clothes, then sneezed and showed that she had a cold.
• Roll brought Doudou cardboard to eat, revealing that he had become obedient to her.
• Nangong May explained that Doudou had frozen herself playing in the snow and that Raven 12345 had prescribed her warming treatment.
• Nangong May took Doudou to the kitchen to continue the treatment, while Becky greeted Hao Ren in her new Earth-style clothes.

Becky and Nangong May told Hao Ren about their time on Earth, including appearing on a local talent show, while Dodo received a steaming treatment for her cold. After hearing Hao Ren’s account of the Great Migration, Becky asked when he would send her home.

• Hao Ren saw how much Becky had changed since arriving on Earth, and Becky explained that she had earned prize money with Nangong May by entering a variety show.
• Nangong May brought Dodo out of the kitchen after completing the creature’s Isatis-root steaming treatment, and everyone passed Dodo around.
• Becky described performing chest-smashing stunts on Citizen Talent before Nangong May persuaded her to switch to carving flowers into tofu skin with a longsword.
• Vivian and Lily discussed possible acts for the show, but Hao Ren stopped them and asked Becky and Nangong May whether they had caused trouble.
• Hao Ren recounted his recent experiences, including the Erem Elf and the Great Migration, and Becky praised him before asking when he would send her home.

Hao Ren and the others discussed why Becky could not safely return to the Dream Plane, where her original body had been destroyed. The Data Terminal warned that forcing her return could damage the unstable Wall of Reality, but suggested they might use an existing loophole.

• Becky told Hao Ren she wanted to return home after finishing her time away, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal made an excuse for why she had to wait.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, Nangong May, and the Data Terminal discussed the danger of explaining to Becky that her Dream Plane body had been annihilated.
• The Data Terminal said forcing Becky into the Dream Plane could tear a hole in the unstable Wall of Reality and threaten the real world.
• The Data Terminal explained that living people affect the Wall through their expanding information, unlike inert objects that can remain in the Dream Plane.
• The Data Terminal proposed finding an existing loophole as a possible way to send Becky back safely.

Hao Ren and the others searched for a safe way to return Becky to the Dream Plane while trying to distract her from asking to go home. After a strange dinner featuring Becky's questionable cooking, their quiet days ended when Vivian remembered the bats she had released before leaving.

• The Data Terminal explained that old breaches in the Wall of Reality might still connect the Dream Plane and the Outer World, though finding one would be difficult.
• Hao Ren planned to investigate the Day of Return, search records and legends for breach clues, and asked Nangong May to keep Becky entertained with television appearances.
• Hao Ren returned to dinner, where Becky served roasted meat she had prepared using Doudou in place of fish broth, unsettling everyone at the table.
• The family enjoyed the rest of the meal and then spent several peaceful days without incident.
• On the third day, Vivian remembered that she had released a swarm of bats before leaving.

Vivian reconnected with an old friend who warned her that the Bloodkin had become entangled in the Day of Return and that a clash with the Demon Hunters would be dangerous. Vivian decided to travel to Europe with her friends to meet Hesperis.

• Hao Ren asked Vivian about her bat couriers, and Vivian explained that her summoned bats could think and act independently while retaining a link to her.
• Vivian contacted the bats and learned that most had found their targets, then resumed cooking while greeting her old friends.
• Nangong May brought Dodo to the kitchen for her cold treatment, and Vivian warmed her in a pot with sesame oil.
• Vivian spoke through a bat avatar with Hesperis, who said Heiserana, the Lucas family, and the Eben family had sought her out about the Day of Return.
• Hesperis warned Vivian that the Demon Hunters remained formidable and that the Bloodkin were in danger if conflict broke out.
• Vivian told Hesperis she would come to Europe with her friends, and they wished each other safety.

Vivian reconnected with several old acquaintances and learned that supernatural groups were preparing for the Day of Return, including investigating ruins and recruiting ancient beings. She told Hao Ren that a Bloodkin family had discovered an important ruin on the Hellenic Peninsula, and they considered going to investigate it.

• Vivian served breakfast, but she accidentally cooked Doudou in the vegetable soup while distracted by a conversation.
• Vivian told Hao Ren that news of the Day of Return had spread through supernatural society and that some groups were seeking help beyond their own races.
• Vivian explained that several families were recruiting ancient survivors, including two of her acquaintances who had agreed to emerge from hiding.
• Vivian revealed that a Bloodkin family had found an important ruin on the Hellenic Peninsula and suggested that she and Hao Ren investigate it.

Hao Ren and his companions traveled to Athens to investigate a Bloodkin report of primal power in a hidden Greek temple realm, which might be connected to the Dream Plane. In Athens, Vivian planned to introduce them to an ancient acquaintance and warned them about troublesome local Bloodkin families; Hao Ren also remembered that he had brought Dodo along.

• Vivian told Hao Ren that a Bloodkin family had found a relic opening a hidden realm in Greece, where primal power might have survived.
• Hao Ren decided the group should investigate, and they arranged visas and tickets before flying to Athens.
• The group got lost in Athens and reached their hotel at dusk; Lily fell asleep in the lobby, while Becky went sightseeing with Nangong May.
• Vivian told Hao Ren and Izax that she would introduce them to an ancient acquaintance the next day and warned them to be cautious around local Bloodkin.
• Hao Ren sensed a signal from his storage space and realized he had brought Dodo with them.