Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and the others returned from Andre Ancient Castle, where Vivian gave Igor instructions and her phone number. Back home, Hao Ren began introducing Nangong Sanba to the team, then went looking for Big Beard and discovered his low-carbon lifestyle class had transformed the neighborhood’s housewives.

• Hao Ren told Igor that Becky had gone home to visit her family, and Vivian instructed Igor to watch the Underground Palace and gave him her phone number.
• The group returned home, and Hao Ren offered Nangong Sanba a place with the Time-Space Administration Bureau, leaving Nangong May to explain the team’s work.
• Hao Ren learned that Big Beard was teaching a popular class on health preservation and an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
• Hao Ren found Big Beard lecturing beneath a poplar tree while the neighborhood’s housewives listened closely.
• The supermarket owner told Hao Ren that his wife’s devotion to the class had left him eating plain food for five days.

Hao Ren tried to rein in Big Beard and the other ascetics, who had embraced wildly unconventional adventures around the world. He returned home only to find Elizabeth had blown up a mechanical device, leaving him exasperated with the eccentrics around him.

• Hao Ren found Big Beard giving health lectures to local elderly women and urged him to stop attracting attention.
• Big Beard said he and the other three masters planned to remain in the human world to travel and learn, describing one who had become a tribal chief in Africa, one searching beneath Antarctic ice, and one spreading the Goddess's gospel in India.
• Hao Ren told Big Beard about the stable passage to the Dream Plane and asked about using source blood to contact the Goddess; Big Beard doubted Hao Ren could succeed without devout faith.
• A loud explosion sent Hao Ren around the house, where he found Elizabeth sitting in a blast crater beside scattered mechanical parts.
• Elizabeth said the explosion was thrilling and explained that Dad had told her she had to finish elementary school before conquering the world.

Hao Ren returned home to find Elizabeth dismantling discarded appliances, while Nangong Sanba struggled to accept that Hao Ren was a divine official. The Nangong siblings remained worried about their missing parents after the investigation of the Vengeful spirits yielded no clues.

• Elizabeth greeted Hao Ren covered in grime and explained that she learned to use appliances by taking them apart first.
• Izax described how demons disciplined their children, and Hao Ren worried that Elizabeth had been subjected to harsh treatment.
• Nangong Sanba asked whether Hao Ren’s stories were true, and Hao Ren confirmed he was a divine official and offered to take him to meet the Goddess.
• Elizabeth rejected Hao Ren’s math workbook and chose to study The Art of Rule instead.
• Vivian comforted Nangong May as the group acknowledged that the Vengeful spirits and the barren planet had revealed nothing about the siblings’ missing parents.

The Nangong siblings learned that a surviving fragment of the Wrath Spirit might preserve all its memories, and Hao Ren arranged for Giant Turtle Rock Platform to develop equipment to read it. As they waited, Lily noticed that Roll the cat was missing, raising suspicions about its recent behavior.

• The Nangong siblings despaired of finding their parents after Dodo shattered the Wrath Spirit, but Hao Ren revealed that he had kept a fragment in the apple crate.
• The Data Terminal explained that the fragment retained the Wrath Spirit's complete information and could be recharged for analysis.
• Hao Ren approved a new research project, and Giant Turtle Rock Platform began designing equipment to read the fragment while the group waited for its fabrication.
• Hao Ren jokingly rewarded the Data Terminal with a cheap sticker, which horrified it until he showed it the sticker's price.
• Lily came downstairs asking where Roll was, and Hao Ren began to suspect something was strange about the cat's recent behavior.

Hao Ren and his companions searched for Roll after he failed to come home, then learned that the cat had beaten up a powerful stray dog while behaving strangely. Vivian sent her bats to look for Roll, while Nangong Sanba began training Dou Dou in her Demon Hunter abilities.

• Hao Ren and the others searched the house for Roll, and Lily summoned her canine followers to help find him.
• Lily reported that Roll had beaten Dou Bao on South Street, chased him half a street, and had glowing red eyes while searching for something.
• Lily dismissed the dogs after Prince Reinhardt’s report that Roll had run into the wilderness, and Vivian sent her bats to track the scent of blood.
• Hao Ren asked Nangong Sanba to keep teaching Dou Dou how to use her Demon Hunter powers.
• Nangong Sanba tried to teach Dou Dou to gather mental power with a hand crossbow, but she snapped its string and launched herself across the coffee table.

Hao Ren and the household searched for Roll after she failed to return, while Doudou accidentally teleported into his face in her sleep. Roll eventually came home transformed into a cat-eared girl, leaving everyone baffled when she spoke her first human words and demanded food.

• Doudou teleported in her sleep and accidentally struck Hao Ren in the chin.
• Vivian said her search for Roll had found only intermittent traces of blood energy and no clear trail.
• A noise upstairs led Vivian to find a soot-covered stranger with cat ears and a tail, whom she subdued with an electric shock.
• Hao Ren recognized the stranger as Roll after she curled up on a cushion and meowed.
• Roll woke, looked at Hao Ren, and asked where the food was.

Hao Ren discovered that his cat Roll had transformed into a cat girl, though she remained focused on food and called him her poop-scooper. After noticing signs that Roll had been growing more intelligent for months, the group questioned her about the change, but she could not explain it.

• Roll transformed into a cat girl and demanded food and water from Hao Ren, whom she called her poop-scooper.
• Lily and the others tried to talk with Roll, but she ignored them while eating and behaving like a cat.
• Izax recalled finding Roll reading newspapers, and Hao Ren connected this with her recent interest in television, conversations, and household objects.
• Vivian suggested that Roll had been becoming enlightened since around the New Year, while Hao Ren wondered how to communicate with her.
• Nangong May cleaned Roll and taught her to walk upright before Hao Ren asked about her transformation.
• Roll said she did not know how she had changed and described herself as a big cat, adding that everyone else had become smaller.

Hao Ren brought the newly transformed Roll and Nangong Sanba to meet Raven 12345, and discovered that Roll still acted like a cat. They found Raven at Starwatch Peak, where she revealed she had been trying to remember where she had sent a star she created.

• Hao Ren and the others saw that Roll still demanded dried fish and obeyed Dodo, while Lily was no longer afraid of her.
• Hao Ren decided to take Roll and Nangong Sanba to see Raven 12345, and they teleported to her mansion after breakfast.
• An Arcane Servant told Hao Ren that Raven 12345 was at Starwatch Peak and led the visitors there.
• Hao Ren, Nangong Sanba, and Roll found Raven 12345 on a floating mountain overlooking the universe.
• Raven 12345 said she had created a star three hundred years earlier and could not remember where she had sent it.

Hao Ren learned that Roll had transformed after eating a golden apple and asked Raven 12345 to explain the change. He also arranged for Nangong Sanba to join his team and showed Raven 12345 a sample of the Primordial Seed’s source blood.

• Raven 12345 examined Roll and traced her transformation to the golden apple Hao Ren had fed her around New Year.
• Raven 12345 explained that the golden apple had awakened Roll’s intelligence and catalyzed her into a new life form, though she still needed to learn human habits.
• Hao Ren asked whether the golden apples had affected Lily’s behavior, and Raven 12345 said Lily’s habits were normal for her species.
• Hao Ren asked Raven 12345 to approve Nangong Sanba as an assistant, and she agreed he could join despite his half-breed background.
• Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 a metal tube containing the Primordial Seed’s living component, its source blood.

Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 Origin Blood, a Life Progenitor tissue sample, and the complete data of the destroyed Tanagrus civilization. Raven 12345 delivered Tanagrus’s data to the Third Sample Repository, while noticing that the universe’s frontier regions were increasingly unstable.

• Hao Ren gave Raven 12345 Origin Blood and a Life Progenitor tissue sample for study and backup.
• Hao Ren handed Raven 12345 the complete data of the Tanagrus civilization, which the Firstborn had destroyed.
• Raven 12345 said the Empire would preserve Tanagrus’s data so the civilization would not be forgotten.
• Raven 12345 detected cracks and disorder at the universe’s frontier, then suppressed the disturbance.
• Raven 12345 took the Tanagrus data to her void node and told Fina it was for the Third Sample Repository.
• Fina learned that another civilization had perished when Raven 12345 confirmed that the data was a tombstone.

Hao Ren took Cat Girl, whom he called “Roll,” onto a commercial street to buy her clothes and teach her about the human world, but her instinctive behavior repeatedly caused trouble. After she nearly ate from a trash can, he gave up on the outing and hurried to take her home.

• Hao Ren disguised Roll with a hat, hidden tail, and backpack as he walked her and Nangong Sanba along the commercial street.
• Roll rushed to a grilled-fish stall and ate a hot fish offered by the vendor, burning her tongue and prompting Hao Ren and Nangong Sanba to apologize and pay for more fish.
• Hao Ren scolded Roll, but Nangong Sanba explained that she used “Cat Litter Shovel” without understanding it as an insult, and Roll asked Hao Ren for dried fish.
• Hao Ren gave Roll cooled grilled fish, and she cautiously tasted it before eating.
• Roll wandered to a trash can and examined whether her head would fit inside, while a sanitation worker watched in confusion.
• Roll told Hao Ren that her tied tail made her wobble, and Hao Ren decided to hurry home.

After the golden apple turned Roll into a catgirl, Hao Ren struggled to teach her human habits and considered changing her name. The household settled on continuing to call her Roll, who still responded only to her old name.

• Hao Ren brought Roll home after repeatedly stopping her from behaving like a cat during their outing.
• Hao Ren told Vivian and Lily that the golden apple had caused Roll's transformation and warned them not to feed golden apples to small animals.
• Roll demanded toys, food, and a cat bed while watching television, and Lily prepared food for her out of habit.
• Vivian pointed out that Roll needed a more normal name, so Hao Ren and Vivian tried to explain why her name should change.
• Hao Ren called Roll several proposed names, but she ignored them and responded when he called her Roll, so Vivian suggested keeping the old name.

Hao Ren and his household struggled to teach the newly sentient Cat Girl how to live like a human, while dinner highlighted the family’s unusual routines. The chapter ended with Vivian examining the wooden box Paul had given her, sensing it was important despite being unable to remember why.

• Hao Ren’s household spent the day trying to teach Cat Girl new habits, but she kept behaving like a cat and eventually retreated to the roof.
• At dinner, Elizabeth described her appliance-repair ambitions, Cat Girl insisted on eating from her familiar bowl, and Doudou chewed through Nangong Sanba’s talisman cards and chopsticks.
• Hao Ren told Cat Girl to sleep in Nangong May’s room and promised to prepare her own room, but she curled up on a mat instead of following his instructions.
• Lily claimed she would guide Cat Girl as a newly sentient senior and approached her while Hao Ren went to find Vivian.
• Hao Ren found Vivian in the basement holding the wooden box Paul had given her, which she believed was important despite being unable to remember its significance.

Hao Ren and Vivian uncovered a hidden compartment in an old wooden box and found Vivian’s blood-written records of her past awakenings. As Vivian deciphered entries spanning ancient eras, she recalled encounters with early humans and gods, but the reason she kept the diary remained unknown.

• Hao Ren carefully dismantled the wooden box and discovered a hollow bottom panel.
• Vivian retrieved a strange cloth and a small blood-red crystal from the compartment.
• Vivian recognized the cloth as material from the Egyptian divine system and identified the writing as her own blood-written notes.
• Vivian read that she had repeatedly copied records and entrusted them to servants or museums because manuscripts kept disappearing while she slept.
• Vivian deciphered entries describing her awakenings after the Ice Age, meetings with Amon and Osiris, and later encounters with Zeus and Hera.
• Hao Ren wondered why Vivian had recorded her awakenings, but she could not remember and continued reading.

Vivian and Hao Ren read her forgotten manuscript, which recorded thousands of years of awakenings and uncontrollable sleeps preceded by inexplicable fury and battles with unknown enemies. The chapter left them questioning what caused her missing memories and whether the same pattern had preceded her latest sleep three hundred years ago.

• Vivian read her ancient records of sleeping and awakening across thousands of years, including encounters with early human civilizations and ancient gods.
• Hao Ren noticed that Vivian's uncontrollable sleeps were repeatedly preceded by fury and battles against enemies she could not remember.
• Vivian explained that she had forgotten the manuscript and many of its events during her most recent sleep, after fighting the angry spirits.
• Hao Ren suggested that Vivian might still be weakened from that uncontrollable sleep, though she said she felt energetic.
• Vivian and Hao Ren recognized that her episodes of overwhelming drowsiness followed a recurring pattern of mania, arguments, and fighting unknown enemies.
• Hao Ren asked whether Vivian remembered experiencing that pattern before her sleep three hundred years earlier.

Hao Ren and Vivian reviewed her involuntary deep sleeps and concluded that they followed a pattern of agitation, battles, and memory loss after she recovered her strength, but they could not explain the cause. They agreed to watch for warning signs, and Hao Ren ended the chapter by preparing to report the findings to Raven 12345.

• Vivian told Hao Ren she could not remember the circumstances around giving Paul the box or the Resonance Stones, and Hao Ren summarized the recurring pattern behind her involuntary sleeps.
• Hao Ren suspected Vivian’s involuntary sleep might be triggered when her strength returned to its peak, and Vivian agreed they should watch for signs of agitation.
• Hao Ren and Vivian compared her memories with the manuscript and confirmed that she forgot details connected to the negative emotions before sleep, but they made no further progress.
• Vivian said the blood-colored Crystalline Body had been condensed from her blood about three hundred years earlier, then pocketed it.
• Hao Ren gave Vivian a sample of source blood to study with Blood Magic, then returned to his room and called over the Data Terminal to write a report to Raven 12345.

Hao Ren dreamed of a woman wandering through human history, then woke to find Roll playfully attacking him. Raven 12345 sent Vivian a talisman to stabilize her mind and suppress her uncontrollable sleep, leaving her hopeful that it would help.

• Hao Ren dreamed of the Others’ history on Earth and a solitary woman who appeared throughout the ages.
• Roll pounced on Hao Ren and wrestled with him until Lily burst in and joked that he had been overpowered by a cat.
• Hao Ren dragged Roll and Lily into the living room and scolded them, though Roll ignored his lecture.
• Raven 12345’s Arcane Servant delivered Hao Ren a feather-shaped talisman designed to calm mental disruptions.
• Vivian put on the talisman after Hao Ren explained that it might prevent her from falling into uncontrollable sleep.

Hao Ren and Vivian investigated the mysterious scenes in Vivian’s manuscripts, while a charm from Raven 12345 temporarily suppressed Vivian’s narcolepsy. The household found no answers, and Roll’s newly discovered ability to flush the toilet left her convinced Hao Ren was about to die.

• Hao Ren gave Vivian Raven 12345’s protective charm, which seemed to suppress her narcolepsy, though Vivian still worried about its unknown cause.
• Hao Ren and Vivian showed their manuscripts to Izax and Nangong Sanba, who noted that the creatures depicted were absent from Demon Hunter records.
• May exposed Nangong Sanba’s real reason for visiting his father’s study, and Izax hurried Elizabeth away before she learned about the book.
• Vivian put the manuscripts aside and said they could investigate later, since the charm had bought them time.
• Roll cried and clung to Hao Ren after realizing she could use and flush the toilet, fearing that this meant he would die because she no longer needed him to change her litter.

Roll became distressed after deciding Hao Ren would die because she no longer needed him to scoop her litter, but he reassured her and helped her choose a new name for him: “Big Big Cat.” The group then traveled to Kuiper Station to see organs grown from cells taken from the Sacred Coffin.

• Roll concluded that Hao Ren had no reason to live if she no longer needed litter, and she clung to him in tears.
• Hao Ren explained that scooping litter was only a small part of his life and reassured Roll that he was not going to die or abandon her.
• Roll accepted Hao Ren’s suggestion to call him “Big Cat,” then decided he should be “Big Big Cat” because he was good at foraging.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the cultivation tanks had produced some organs, prompting Elizabeth and the others to join him on the spaceship.
• After breakfast, the group teleported to Kuiper Station and saw strange organs moving in crystal containers, grown from cells taken from the Sacred Coffin.

Hao Ren and the others studied cultivated tissues grown from the Sacred Coffin’s primordial cells, learning that they were defective brain tissue with a scavenging mechanism. The Data Terminal produced devices to keep the Firstborn asleep and pheromones to prevent it from eating living organisms, leaving the team with new safeguards for their work on Horleta.

• The Data Terminal reported that the cultivated tissues could not develop further and were likely defective neural tissue from the Primordial Seed’s brain.
• Hao Ren watched as the red tissue consumed dead plant matter but spared a living plant, and the Data Terminal theorized that the Primordial Seed and early Firstborn scavenged to recycle dead organisms.
• The Data Terminal explained that the Firstborn’s scavenging mechanism had later gone out of control and that it had developed weapons to destroy the Secondborn.
• The Data Terminal gave Hao Ren an Inhibitory Signal Emitter to keep the Firstborn on Horleta asleep and Interfering Pheromone to stop it from devouring living organisms.