Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren guided Yggdrasil through a seven-day journey from Chadnell Star to the Rift Nebula, where they found Purgatory Planet developing under the care of its native tribes and the ancient spirits of the Solar Dynasty. The chapter ended with Galadriel watching the planet thrive and remarking that Hao Ren did more than blow things up.

• Hao Ren used the Guiding Astrolabe and Data Terminal to plot Yggdrasil's route to the Rift Nebula.
• Yggdrasil shut down its energy channels around Chadnell Star and began its seven-day migration, while Little Black's plea for another sip was broadcast across the Chadnell civilization circle.
• Yggdrasil reached the Rift Nebula, and Little White and Little Black viewed the immense rift between the two worlds.
• Hao Ren connected to his monitoring equipment and learned that Purgatory Planet's tribes were building settlements, farming, and learning ancient writing.
• The ancient spirits of the Solar Dynasty led the planet's restoration, and Galadriel watched the thriving world below and told Hao Ren that he did not only blow things up.

Bania settled into the New Holy City, where she studied ancient knowledge and prayed for snacks until Vivian appeared with a bag of them. Hao Ren then told Gragon and the other spirits that they were going to Soul Suppressing City and would bring Purgatory Planet a neighbor.

• Bania studied with the ancestral spirits and prayed at dusk before the Pillar of Eternity for shrimp crackers and dried tofu.
• Vivian appeared and gave Bania snacks, while Hao Ren remarked that she seemed more airheaded than before.
• Bania started to alert the chieftains, but Vivian told her to call Gragon and the other ancestral spirits instead.
• Gragon and the Solar Dynasty spirits gathered before Vivian and bowed to her.
• Hao Ren said they would visit Soul Suppressing City and bring the planet a neighbor, as Yggdrasil prepared to overlap with Purgatory Planet.

Little Black appeared above Purgatory Planet as she prepared to connect Yggdrasil with the world, alarming people on both Purgatory Planet and Midgard until their leaders explained the spectacle. At Soul Suppressing City, Hao Ren asked Little White to examine the Firstborn Toka as his suspicions grew that an ancient evil force had caused the Guardians' madness.

• Little Black's arrival created the illusion of a vast upside-down continent and a starry sky above Purgatory Planet, prompting panic among the inhabitants.
• The ancient holy spirits reassured Purgatory Planet's people that the Goddess was connecting their world with Yggdrasil, while the Steam Council quelled unrest among the Twilight remnants on Midgard with a similar explanation.
• Hao Ren and his team entered Soul Suppressing City with Gragon and reached the Throat of Toka, where neural pulse controllers kept the Firstborn stable and helped reshape the planet's ecosystem.
• Little White said she accepted the destruction of her maddened brethren because they had threatened the ecosystem and their mother would not have wanted them to slaughter one another.
• Hao Ren asked Little White to identify differences between a mad Firstborn and an ordinary one as he considered evidence that an ancient evil force had orchestrated the Guardians' transformations.

Hao Ren and Little White found signs that corruption had helped drive the Guardians mad, and Hao Ren planned to study two living berserk Firstborns by reopening a gateway to the Dream Plane. Meanwhile, the Nine Kingdoms docked with Purgatory Planet, and a gateway began forming in the Rift Nebula.

• Little White examined Toka and found traces of suspected corruption in nerve ganglia containing degraded source blood.
• Hao Ren concluded that the mastermind had amplified the Guardians' negative feelings, and he proposed studying two living berserk Firstborns held at his space station.
• Hao Ren told Little White he would reopen a gateway in the Rift Nebula, allowing the Outer World and Dream Plane to overlap there.
• After three days of docking, the Nine Kingdoms and Purgatory Planet settled into orbit above each other, linked by Yggdrasil's Sky Tower.
• As Yggdrasil and Toka began building the New World, a gateway started taking shape at the heart of the Rift Nebula.

Hao Ren and the two veteran Examiners began constructing a gate at the Great Rift, deploying ships and machinery to stabilize and monitor it. After Hao Ren launched Raven 12345’s crystal core into the Rift, it vanished without any apparent effect, leaving the gate’s construction uncertain.

• Anthony and Galadriel brought their Examiner flagships to the Rift Nebula to support Hao Ren’s gate project.
• Hao Ren explained that the gate would need a core and twenty-one control bolts, and Galadriel warned them to keep reckless adventurers away from the site.
• The three ships anchored around the Great Rift and deployed construction units, while Yggdrasil was assigned a major role in monitoring the future gate.
• Hao Ren moved Raven 12345’s crystal core toward the information annihilation point in the Great Rift.
• The crystal disappeared into the chaos without reacting, and Hao Ren admitted that it seemed to have fallen straight through.

Hao Ren lost the crystal core in the Great Rift after it vanished into the Dream Plane, and Raven 12345 discovered that divine interference—possibly from the Creation Goddess's legacy—had stopped it from opening the gate. The core could not be contacted, leaving Hao Ren and Raven 12345 without a way to retrieve it.

• Hao Ren and the inspectors reviewed their surveillance data and confirmed that the crystal core had vanished into the Dream Plane after the rift trembled.
• Hao Ren reported the loss to Raven 12345, who came to the Rift Nebula and mourned the missing core.
• Raven 12345 examined the records and concluded that something on the other side of the rift had interfered with the core, possibly through divine power linked to the Creation Goddess's legacy.
• Raven 12345 explained that the core disabled its information systems after deployment, preventing them from restoring contact or locating it.
• Lily questioned the core's design and was struck by heavenly punishment, while Vivian called her a stupid mutt.

After the crystal core was lost in the Great Rift, Hao Ren learned it could not be replaced and prepared to search for it in the Dream Plane. With the gate project suspended, he took the retired Odin from Midgard back to Earth, leaving the Nine Kingdoms in Little White’s care.

• Raven 12345 explained that the lost core had been carved from a unique crystal formed during an ancient collapse of the Wall of Reality, so it could not be remade.
• Hao Ren and the inspectors concluded that he would have to trace the core in the Dream Plane using the brief aura waveform Anthony had intercepted, while Galadriel and Anthony left construction units to build the gate framework.
• Lily suggested setting up an interception net in case Hao Ren threw the core back through the gate, and Hao Ren rejected the idea.
• Hao Ren and Vivian decided to take the exhausted Odin from Midgard to Earth, while Odin accepted that the Twilight survivors could rebuild without him.
• Hao Ren and Odin watched Wendell and Hope lead explorers toward the Black Forest, then Hao Ren asked Little White to manage the ecology of Purgatory and the Nine Kingdoms before they departed.

Hao Ren returned to Earth with Odin and Mimir's Skull and visited the Shadow Council in Athens, where old acquaintances reunited amid the newly established order. He left Odin and Hela to talk and asked Hesperis whether any remnants of the Olympus divine system remained.

• Hao Ren brought Odin and Mimir's Skull to Athens and met Heiserana at her skyscraper.
• Heiserana described the Shadow Council's struggles and told Hao Ren that Bai Huo had queued overnight for a limited-edition game.
• Hesperis and Hela arrived, and Hela froze when she saw Odin.
• Odin greeted Hela, and Hao Ren left them to talk before asking Hesperis about remnants of the Olympus divine system.

Hao Ren sought Olympus relics for clues about why members of the family had made statues of Vivian, and Hesperis agreed to search while pointing him toward the Demon Hunters’ library. After saying goodbye to Odin and Hela, Hao Ren and Vivian left, with the ancient mystery still unresolved.

• Hao Ren asked Hesperis about Olympus relics, and she said the surviving records were scarce but agreed to contact other sanctuaries and gather what remained.
• Hesperis suggested searching the Demon Hunters’ library, so Hao Ren asked Bai Huo to look for records about the Olympus family.
• Hao Ren and Vivian theorized that the statues had been made by Olympus members who hoped idol worship would atone for their family’s sins or avert an apocalypse.
• Odin and Hela awkwardly faced each other until Hao Ren prepared to leave, and Odin entrusted the Nine Kingdoms’ people to his care.
• Heiserana clung to Vivian as she was leaving, but Vivian sent her flying with lightning and hurried out with Hao Ren.

After returning home, Hao Ren searched the Dream Plane for the missing crystal core and processed a flood of reports from his far-reaching monitoring network. Roll felt neglected while he worked, but Hao Ren eventually let her rub her head against his hand, cheering her up.

• Hao Ren returned home with his companions, and Roll checked his pockets for snacks after mistaking him for a stranger or a ghost.
• May and Nangong Sanba told Hao Ren that Roll had talked about avenging him, dividing up his belongings, and wandering the world if he died.
• Hao Ren sent Anthony's recording of the Great Rift opening to the drone swarm in the Dream Plane to search for the missing crystal core.
• Hao Ren compiled a report on his journey and handled incoming data from his many monitoring networks and facilities.
• Roll tried to get Hao Ren's attention while he read reports, then pressed her head against his leg when he spoke to her.
• Hao Ren let his hand rest on Roll's head, and she shook her head against it until her melancholy passed.

The Night Watchers discussed the worsening breach inside the Abyss cage and the spread of an unfamiliar, rapidly expanding drone civilization. As the guards continued sealing the innermost cell, the drone swarm activated a new nest and ordered further expansion toward the universe’s depths.

• S-26 reported that most lights of life had gone out and that the force imprisoned in the Abyss cage was trying more often to break through its outer wall.
• W-17 and the Night Watchers discussed the expanding, disciplined entities, which were becoming militarized and directing their vanguard toward the cage.
• The Night Watchers rejected interception for now, prioritizing the cage’s defenses against the force threatening to break through.
• W-17 told S-26 that the innermost cell was occupied by the force, while N-66 and the final defense outposts continued sealing it.
• A new unmanned drone nest activated, and the swarm’s collective consciousness ordered its expansion into the depths of the universe.

Hao Ren met Raven 12345 to discuss his report on the Origin Ark, the Ultimate Pardon, and the Ancient Fiend. Raven explained why the Ultimate Pardon could weaken a god and theorized about the Fiend’s nature and prison, but she left its location unknown.

• Hao Ren arrived at Raven 12345’s unusually tidy home and discovered she had cleaned up and fixed a holy-smile expression to prepare for an inspection.
• Raven 12345 reminded Hao Ren not to neglect the crystal core and questioned him about the incidents described in his report.
• Hao Ren asked whether the Ultimate Pardon could weaken a god, and Raven 12345 said its credibility was over eighty percent because a god’s beliefs could affect reality and authority.
• Raven 12345 said the Ancient Fiend might be a formless, willful power that could contaminate minds, and she wondered how a non-god mastermind knew so much about gods.
• Raven 12345 suggested the Creation Goddess might have hidden the Ancient Fiend because even learning of its existence could help it escape, then described the likely features of its prison.

Hao Ren visited Raven 12345 and tried bizarre divine-realm fruit, including one called Emperor’s Astonishment that overwhelmed his senses. After he left with the remaining fruit, Raven 12345 revealed to Raven 23333 that she had given it to him for lasting mental protection against the Dream Plane’s corrosive influence.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren about her inspection by a tiny Raven God and offered him unusual fruit from the divine realm.
• Hao Ren ate Emperor’s Astonishment, endured ten minutes of overwhelming sensations, and learned that its name came from the Emperor’s astonished reaction to its taste.
• After Raven 12345 assured him the fruit was safe, Hao Ren packed the remaining bunch to take home, and she ordered him to leave.
• Raven 23333 appeared after Hao Ren departed, and Raven 12345 explained that the fruit’s blessing was meant to strengthen his resistance to mental corrosion from the Dream Plane.
• Raven 12345 and Raven 23333 discussed the fruit’s strange flavor and its renamed title, which Raven 12345 said concealed its embarrassing original name.

Hao Ren returned home and used Emperor's Astonishment to prank his companions with divine-realm fruits, then shared the remaining treasures with them. He suspected the strange food had improved him, but his attempt to pass off a plastic fruit plate as a divine artifact was rejected by Roll.

• Hao Ren came home to find Roll and Lily chasing a laser pointer and wrecking the living room.
• Hao Ren fed Roll and Lily Emperor's Astonishment, then waited as its effects took hold.
• Vivian, Izax, Elizabeth, Nangong Wudi, Elsa, and Doudou were each tricked into tasting the fruit.
• Hao Ren shared the remaining divine-realm fruits with his companions, who ate them before going to the Nangong couple's restaurant for a meal.
• Hao Ren found a label identifying the fruit plate as a product of Erli Bridge Plastic Factory No. 5 and tried to give it to Roll, who refused.

Hao Ren reviewed the quiet state of the Dream Plane and ordered the drone swarm to push toward the mysterious Dark Boundary. The report ended when Lily called him to investigate a problem with Dodo.

• Hao Ren listened as the Data Terminal reported no new signals from the Crystal Core and stable conditions across the ecological reserves.
• The Data Terminal described progress on the Genesis Engine at Sulun's Gate and showed how far the drone swarm had expanded.
• Hao Ren learned that the swarm had reached the edge of a dark region with far fewer stars than expected and ordered it to continue forward.
• The Data Terminal reported that the swarm had found ruined planets and only primitive life reborn from source blood.
• Hao Ren connected the devastation to the Firstborn's destruction of the Creation Goddess's legacy, then Lily shouted that something was wrong with Dodo.

Doudou panicked after seeing Vivian apparently eaten, leading Hao Ren and the others to discover a tiny Evil Spirit clone hidden in a mouse hole. The miniature clone charged at Hao Ren but fell before reaching him.

• Doudou shouted that something had eaten Vivian, then cried in relief when Vivian appeared and claimed it had spat her out.
• Hao Ren and the others searched the living room and found a mouse hole that Vivian sensed was concealing something.
• Nangong May sent a strand of water into the hole, where something bit her and she pulled out a drenched, miniature Vivian.
• Hao Ren recognized the tiny figure's blood-red hair and eyes as signs that she was Vivian's Evil Spirit clone.
• The miniature Evil Spirit charged at Hao Ren, but fell flat on her face halfway there.

Hao Ren and the others captured a tiny Evil Spirit that had attacked Roll, and the Data Terminal discovered it had been born only hours earlier. The group realized Vivian had split again.

• The tiny Figurine Evil Spirit repeatedly tripped while charging, then Doudou knocked her toward Roll with a tail flick.
• Roll mistook the figurine for a mouse, but the Evil Spirit hit her ear with a burst of energy before Roll flung her into a wall and knocked her unconscious.
• Lily trapped the figurine in an enamel lunchbox, while Hao Ren checked Roll's minor injury.
• Vivian and the Data Terminal discussed the Evil Spirit's unusual concealment and Doudou's ability to sense her presence.
• The Data Terminal scanned the figurine and estimated she had been born only several to a dozen hours earlier, prompting Lily to say Vivian had split again.

Vivian split off a tiny, unusually weak Evil Spirit while sleeping, but the Goddess’s feather-shaped amulet had softened the effects. After realizing the amulet prevented a dangerous episode, Hao Ren decided to take the little Evil Spirit to Raven 12345.

• Hao Ren and the others discussed Vivian’s sudden split while the tiny Evil Spirit thrashed inside a lunchbox.
• Nangong May discovered that the rat hole led to the basement beneath Vivian’s usual sleeping place.
• Elizabeth opened the lunchbox, and the miniature Vivian attacked her with a Poison Blood Arrow before Elizabeth pinned her to the table.
• Vivian recalled feeling slightly weak that morning, while Lily joked that she had lost the memory of Vivian promising to make spareribs.
• Nangong Sanba suggested Vivian’s feather-shaped amulet had weakened the split, and Hao Ren confirmed it had activated during the night.
• Hao Ren reassured Vivian and took the tiny Evil Spirit to report the incident to Raven 12345.

Hao Ren brought the miniature Evil Spirit that split from Vivian to Raven 12345, who traced Vivian’s splitting and other symptoms to a latent factor in her soul. They concluded that her Evil Spirits were contamination being expelled through a damaging detoxification process, but the contamination’s nature and source remained unknown.

• Hao Ren took Vivian’s tiny Evil Spirit to Raven 12345, who rescued it after it flew into her bonfire.
• Raven 12345 examined the creature and agreed that Vivian’s protective talisman had weakened the split because it reacted to a pathological change in her soul.
• Hao Ren proposed that Vivian’s soul was expelling contamination, causing her slumber, memory loss, power loss, and Evil Spirit splits.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 concluded that complete failure of the detoxification could turn Vivian into an evil god, as had happened on Purgatory Planet.
• Raven 12345 warned that they could not safely remove the contamination without understanding the evil power behind it, so Hao Ren resolved to find its source in the Dream Plane.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 discovered that the newly encountered Evil Spirit could feel fear, despite being extraordinarily weak. Raven sent Hao Ren to take her back to Vivian for observation, then catalogued her blood sample as a new type of Evil Spirit.

• Raven 12345 tested the mini Evil Spirit against animals and found that she could barely defeat a cat and was helpless against a stray dog.
• Hao Ren and Raven noticed that the Evil Spirit trembled and retreated in fear, unlike the other Evil Spirits they had studied.
• Raven concluded that the amulet on Vivian might be causing the Evil Spirit's unusual traits and told Hao Ren to take her home to observe her.
• The Evil Spirit bit Hao Ren's finger, but he eventually restrained her while Raven collected a blood sample.
• Raven placed the sample in the Storage Room and designated the new Evil Spirit as "Weakling."