Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and his companions arrived at Io, where they reunited with Eva and saw how the ark residents had begun building a life on the ocean. Eva demonstrated her growing ability to communicate and learn, and Katerina presented her with gifts from the Sirens on Earth.

• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform emerged from curvature travel and approached Io, an ocean-covered planet that reminded Jean Lucas of the Sirens’ homeland.
• Hao Ren and his companions spotted floating steel cities surrounded by piers, sea farms, and boats, showing that Lawrence’s residents had started gathering resources from the ocean.
• Eva rose from the sea to greet the descending ship, and Katerina and the Sirens created a hardened water surface for the visitors to stand on.
• Katerina greeted Eva, whose attempts at speech revealed that she had begun learning verbal communication from the ark residents.
• Hao Ren established a Mind Link with Eva and shared several Earth languages, which she learned quickly.
• Katerina gave Eva gifts collected by the Sirens on Earth, including seashells, plant-woven jewelry, ocean-floor ore, gems, and parts from the Bismarck’s steering engine.

Hao Ren visited the Sirens and learned that Eva was helping the Ark immigrants adapt to life on the ocean planet. He then saw how Lawrence had begun rebuilding the Floating City Cluster and educating its people, before hearing that Eva wanted to give him something.

• Katerina showed Eva Earth objects she considered seafood, and Eva happily told Hao Ren that the Ark immigrants had started venturing into the water by boat.
• Hao Ren and his companions visited the Floating City Cluster and saw its residents repairing buildings, restoring machinery, and rebuilding their society.
• Lawrence explained that he had established a school to train teachers and planned to educate the younger generation, while investigations began into the other immigrant starships.
• Lawrence described using religious symbols to guide the immigrants, including water to represent Eva, and noted that their lease on the planet lasted two hundred years.
• Nangong May told Hao Ren that Katerina had sent word that Eva was looking for him with something to give him.

Eva gave Hao Ren a massive, self-luminous crystal that resembled the sacred material of the Starry Sky People’s ship Asuman. Hao Ren traced its fall to Aeolus centuries earlier and planned to take it to Asuman for examination.

• Katerina and Shaqila told Hao Ren that Eva wanted to give him a gift, and Eva raised a huge crystal from the sea.
• Lily recognized the crystal as resembling Asuman’s shell, and Eva said it had fallen from the sky into the ocean.
• Hao Ren checked Eva’s memories through their Mind Link and learned that the crystal had fallen roughly three to six hundred years ago, during the previous Eva’s dormant period.
• Hao Ren learned that the drone fleet had no record of an unidentified object, since the crystal had sunk into a deep ocean trench near the equator.
• Hao Ren decided to take the crystal to Asuman for examination because a force capable of damaging a Starry Sky People spaceship could be immensely powerful.

Hao Ren brought Eva’s crystal gift to Asuman, who confirmed it was a fragment created by the Starry Sky People and began analyzing its lingering psychic code. Asuman’s account of how his people built soul-based starships and fought the Lord of Madness left Hao Ren awaiting the fragment’s analysis and the possibility of contacting surviving Starry Sky People.

• Eva gave Hao Ren a holy white crystal, and he decided to take it to Asuman for identification while Nangong May and Aio stayed behind to look after the tourists.
• Hao Ren brought the crystal to the Asuman at the Crystal Core Research Station, where Asuman confirmed it was an artifact of the Starry Sky People and possibly part of a starship.
• Asuman explained that the Starry Sky People used their psychic power as a framework to build ships and other objects from matter and energy drawn from stars.
• Asuman said the crystal contained a unique fragment of its creator’s psychic code, but restoring its information could take at least a dozen days.
• Asuman recounted how the Starry Sky People had followed the Creation Goddess into battle, draining stars to build their forces, including the star-forged Sun Throne, which fell to the Lord of Madness.
• Asuman asked Hao Ren to leave the crystal for analysis and entered dormancy to adjust its soul frequency, promising that the results might help contact surviving members of its race.

Hao Ren returned the supernatural travelers and brought ten volunteers to meet Raven 12345, whose villa exploded during an apparent crisis-prevention project. Raven examined Lorisa and remarked that they shared the same hair color.

• Hao Ren returned the Earth Otherworlders to the Kuiper Space Station, where they reunited with their families and shared the items they had brought back.
• Hao Ren took Lorisa, five pure-blooded Ancient Species, and four pure-blooded Demon Hunters through a portal to Raven 12345's divine realm.
• As Hao Ren welcomed the volunteers, Raven 12345's villa exploded behind him, and she appeared in a pillar of light beside a vast energy vortex.
• Raven 12345 called the explosion an energy leak from a crisis-prevention project and asked which volunteer was Lorisa.
• Raven 12345 examined Lorisa with a powerful gaze, then remarked that Lorisa's hair was the same color as hers.

Hao Ren brought ten Dream Plane volunteers to Raven 12345’s White Tower laboratory for an experiment. Raven transformed them into invisible, nonphysical forms, and she studied the results with growing interest.

• Raven 12345 opened a portal to her White Tower laboratory and led Hao Ren and the volunteers inside.
• Hao Ren and the volunteers toured the tower’s vast, maze-like laboratories, where Bai Huo saw a star through a crimson door.
• Raven brought the group to a special observation room and explained that she would transform the volunteers’ forms of existence.
• Raven transformed all ten participants, including Lorisa, into dispersing clouds of dust.
• Raven began examining the experiment’s results and remarked that they were interesting.

Raven 12345 used the White Tower’s Deity simulator to uncover how the Demon Hunters were tied to the God-slaying War. She revealed that their divine cells secretly redirected the Creation Goddess’s distress signals through Planet Horleta, and concluded that the mastermind had arranged this before the war began.

• Raven 12345 explained that the White Tower could recreate the Creation Goddess’s existence and let her study the Demon Hunters’ reactions to her divine power.
• Raven 12345 found that the Demon Hunters’ divine cells shared the Creation Goddess’s signature, and Hao Ren connected this to the power used to create them.
• Raven 12345 concluded that the Demon Hunters’ first-generation cells had impersonated the Goddess’s divine power and replaced communication nodes, causing her distress signals to disappear.
• Raven 12345 identified Planet Horleta as the hidden interception station that blocked the Creation Goddess’s messages during the God-slaying War.
• Raven 12345 inferred that the mastermind had arranged the interception before the war because it believed Mortal faith and responses could affect the divine kingdom.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 traced the Demon Hunters’ role in sabotaging the Creation Goddess’s information network to a hidden mastermind who had operated openly beside her on the Founding Star. They suspected the mastermind survived in the Dark Domain, then turned to the divine power oscillation network, whose data Raven found deliberately altered.

• Raven 12345 reasoned that the mastermind had deep knowledge of the Creation Goddess and the Firstborn network, and likely had high-level access to tamper with it.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 concluded that the mastermind had been active openly on the Founding Star, where Muru and the other Guardians might know more about it.
• Hao Ren judged that the mastermind had fallen into the Dark Domain with the Founding Star and was probably still alive, so Raven warned him to prepare for the worst.
• Hao Ren gave Raven 12345 the collected data on the divine power oscillation network after she expressed interest in it.
• Raven 12345 noticed that the network data’s transmission and multiplication procedures seemed incomplete, and suspected someone had hidden or removed part of them.

Raven 12345 and Hao Ren discussed the incomplete divine-power oscillation network and its unknown purpose before the volunteers returned from their higher-dimensional examination. The volunteers gained limited divine abilities, and after everyone else went home, Lorisa stayed with Hao Ren to tour the other world.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that the divine-power oscillation network lacked a command source or operating system and might have been built for an unknown purpose.
• The ten volunteers returned to the hall, and Lorisa and Hassu described their strange higher-dimensional experiences.
• Hassu summoned pure holy light after the examination, and Raven 12345 explained that the volunteers had received a safe, limited infusion of divine power.
• Hao Ren sent Bai Huo and the Demon Hunters back to Colperth and returned the Ancient Species volunteers to the Dream Plane.
• Lorisa stayed with Hao Ren to tour the other world, bringing the Sunset Homecoming Group and its projects to an end.

Hao Ren brought Lorisa to his home in the South Suburbs, where she used an illusion spell to make herself look less conspicuous on Earth. Lily’s chaotic welcome left Lorisa looking forward to her stay.

• Hao Ren explained to Lorisa that she would spend her remaining nine days on Earth at his home and see the local customs.
• Lorisa changed her ankle-length white hair to black hair, shortened it, and concealed her pointed ears with an illusion spell.
• Hao Ren brought Lorisa to his isolated house, which she called the Pope’s Palace.
• Lily burst through the front door and sent Hao Ren flying before noticing Lorisa.
• Hao Ren introduced Lorisa to Lily, then told Lily to fix the security door and fetch Elizabeth to learn the illusion spell.

Lorisa visited Hao Ren’s home and discovered that the Pope’s Palace was a noisy household full of monsters rather than a solemn church. After sharing dinner with everyone, she spoke with Hao Ren about her inherited memories and the Creation Goddess’s church during the age of the Magic Empire.

• Lily repaired the steel security door after slamming into it, while Hao Ren brought Lorisa into the house disguised as a human.
• Lorisa revealed her elven form and met Hao Ren’s household, where he suggested she teach the little demon girl transformation magic.
• Lorisa watched the household’s lively banter and admitted that the home was warmer and less formal than she had expected.
• Vivian served dinner, and Lorisa enjoyed the meal alongside Hao Ren and the others.
• After the household fought over the television, Lorisa told Hao Ren that her inherited memories made it difficult to let go of solemn church traditions.
• Hao Ren asked Lorisa how the Creation Goddess’s church operated during the age of the Magic Empire and how it communicated with the Goddess.

Hao Ren asked Lorisa about the Creation Goddess and the ancient Goddess Sect on Horleta, learning how its followers communicated with the divine. Lorisa revealed that before the God-slaying War, their ritual visions became distorted and repeatedly showed a blood-red moon, leaving Hao Ren startled by the discovery.

• Hao Ren asked Lorisa about the Goddess Sect’s influence and structure on Horleta ten thousand years earlier, and she explained its bishops, Magic Emperors, and pope.
• Hao Ren asked how Horleta’s people communicated with the Creation Goddess, and Lorisa described prayers, dream revelations, and rituals that brought visions to worshipers.
• Lorisa described visions of radiant figures, crystalline bodies, palaces, red oceans, and starry skies; Hao Ren theorized that they came through the Firstborn Mind Network from the Founding Star.
• Lorisa said that visions before the God-slaying War became dark and distorted, and that the Goddess’s image vanished.
• Lorisa told Hao Ren that a blood-red moon appeared repeatedly in the visions and confirmed that she had seen it herself and knew it was not the Founding Star.

Hao Ren learned from Lorisa that the red moon in the Creation Goddess’s visions differed from Founding Star and matched the moon Vivian summoned. He questioned Vivian about it the next morning and decided he wanted to investigate the red moon firsthand.

• Lorisa described the red moon as a solid-looking object above a dark, desolate land, unlike the sacred, peaceful Founding Star.
• Hao Ren asked Lorisa about religious life in the Ancient Magic Empire and the Creation Goddess’s final oracles, then let her stay in the spare room.
• The household gathered for breakfast, where Lily explained she planned to counsel a homeless dog from her Army of Dogs.
• Hao Ren asked Vivian about the red moon, and she admitted she did not know what it was and could not reach it, even by sending bats toward it.
• Hao Ren proposed that the red moon might exist beyond ordinary spacetime or far beyond the planet, and said he wanted to study it firsthand.

Hao Ren and Vivian planned to investigate whether her red moon matched the phenomenon witnessed by the Goddess’s priestesses before the God-slaying War. Vivian began preparing the ritual materials, leaving Hao Ren to discover that most of them were ordinary market ingredients.

• Lily eagerly supported Hao Ren’s plan and said she wanted to inspect the red moon that had killed her in a previous life.
• Hao Ren told Vivian that priestesses had seen a similar red moon before the God-slaying War, and Vivian agreed to investigate after preparing for seven or eight days.
• Hao Ren proposed using the space stations and laboratories on Erem as a quiet testing ground, and the group finalized the Red Moon Exploration Plan.
• Vivian started gathering ritual materials to strengthen her mind and soul, and Hao Ren offered to collect the items on her list.
• Vivian explained that many magical ingredients were ordinary plants and animals, then added laundry detergent to Hao Ren’s shopping errands.

Hao Ren, Lily, and Lorisa went shopping for Vivian and talked about their past lives and Lorisa’s unusual age. They returned home with Vivian’s supplies, where the household’s usual bickering resumed.

• Hao Ren took Lily and Lorisa shopping, and Lorisa compared Earth’s population with the Magic Empire’s former population.
• Lily told Lorisa about her past as the Demon Hunter Leader, while Lorisa described life as a clone of the Elf Queen.
• Hao Ren learned that Lorisa considered herself a year and a half old because she had spent ten thousand years in stopped time.
• Hao Ren, Lily, and Lorisa spent half a day buying everything on Vivian’s list and carried the bags home.
• Vivian sent bats to haul the groceries to the kitchen, and Lily asked whether they could instead put the food in her room.

Lorisa taught Doudou, Nangong Sanba, and Elizabeth magic while Hao Ren noticed Weakling behaving unusually. After Weakling startled Lorisa and was flung into Vivian, Vivian thought she heard someone calling her again, leaving Hao Ren concerned about both of their strange behavior.

• Lorisa examined Doudou’s holy flames and began teaching her mental-power formulas, while Nangong Sanba and Elizabeth joined the lesson.
• Hao Ren noticed Figurine Vivian climb onto the sofa behind Lorisa, and she suddenly fired an acidic energy arrow at her.
• Lorisa reflexively burst into holy flames and knocked Weakling away, sending her tumbling into Vivian.
• Hao Ren found Weakling unharmed but trembling and told Vivian that she had recently become quieter and seemed to understand speech.
• Vivian said she had repeatedly heard someone calling her, but she dismissed it as a mistake caused by lack of sleep.

Vivian returned to the Hao Family Mansion, took care of household chores, and went to sleep after hearing another inexplicable call of her name. While she slept, visions of ancient civilizations and worshippers surrounded her, leaving her to murmur that it was time to get up.

• Vivian returned to the mansion late at night, prepared rice and water for the morning, and tidied the living room before going to bed.
• Vivian heard another hallucination calling her name, but the amulet from Raven 12345 calmed her and she fell asleep.
• Visions of Vikings, Greek sailors, Persians, Qin soldiers, and ancient Egyptians appeared around Vivian's bed as scenes of history collided and collapsed.
• A group of primitive people worshipped Vivian as the Great King of Blood, Nightmare, and Death before the phantoms faded.
• Moonlight fell on Vivian, who turned over and murmured, "It's time to get up..."

Hao Ren and his family shared breakfast, and Vivian reported that the voices she had been hearing had stopped after a good night’s sleep. Heiserana arrived unexpectedly with news of something strange in one of her family’s territories, leaving Vivian poised to hear more.

• Hao Ren and Nangong May compared their chaotic historical dreams while Vivian said she had slept deeply and had not heard any voices that morning.
• Lorisa described how the Elf Queen’s inherited workaholic personality had clashed with her own during her time at the experimental base.
• The family hurriedly disguised their supernatural features when Lily noticed a visitor at the door.
• Heiserana arrived to see Vivian, startled to find Hao Ren answering, then hurried toward Vivian before stopping at the threat of a lightning ball.
• Heiserana admitted that something strange had appeared in one of her family’s territories and said she thought Vivian might be interested.

Heiserana told Hao Ren and Vivian about an unstable alternate space containing an ancient city built on a giant creature’s skull. Hao Ren and the others traveled to her mining site in southern Brazil to investigate, where Heiserana explained that she had started digging there while searching for the World Axis.

• Heiserana reported that an ancient city in a collapsing alternate space had been discovered on the skull of a gigantic creature.
• Heiserana said her family had protected the site and that symbols resembling cuneiform suggested the city came from ancient Mesopotamia.
• Hao Ren and his companions agreed to visit the site, while Nangong May and Nangong Sanba stayed behind to help their parents and care for Doudou and Weak Chicken.
• Hao Ren and the others teleported to Heiserana’s excavation site in southern Brazil, where they saw a long-running mining operation in a remote valley.
• Heiserana revealed that she had opened the mine while searching for the World Axis Hitler was supposedly seeking, but had learned too late that his expedition was in Tibet.

After a cavern beneath the Heiserana quarry led to an ancient city inside an alternate space, Hao Ren's group investigated the workers who had returned mentally and physically damaged. They prepared to treat the workers before entering the hazardous space themselves.

• Heiserana explained how two workers, Francisco and David, discovered a cavern after a quarry collapse and returned from the ancient city inside it in a deranged state.
• Heiserana's family sealed the mining site, and Hao Ren's group met the workers, the regional supervisor Pero, and two young vampire investigators.
• The young vampires reported that a pale-red field inside the alternate space weakened and injured them without any detectable attack.
• Vivian and Izax suspected the workers had suffered a curse or spiritual trauma, while David's muttering included words about fog, slaughter, and a monster.
• Hao Ren said his medical pod could treat Francisco and David, then planned to take the group into the alternate space.