Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren traveled to the divine realm after Earth fell into spatiotemporal chaos and learned from Raven 12345 that Vivian’s sudden disappearance had triggered the crisis. Raven revealed that Vivian was the crucial Evil Spirit behind the resonance that briefly made her complete and caused fragments of history to replace Earth’s reality.

• Raven 12345 contacted Hao Ren and summoned him and everyone at his house to the divine realm.
• Hao Ren found the divine realm caught in violent storms and met Galadriel, who said the Sovereign Hub had cut off the Empire data network after a burst of divine power appeared on Earth.
• Hao Ren told Raven 12345 that Vivian had disappeared, and Raven explained that Vivian had briefly become complete, causing her stored history to spill into the real world.
• Raven 12345 explained that the Evil Spirits were remnants of negative force that resonated and tried to recombine into an inverted divine clone.
• Raven 12345 revealed that the overlooked root of the Evil Spirit resonance was Vivian Ansesta.

Raven 12345 revealed that Vivian was the original divine avatar and an upper-level Evil Spirit whose awakening caused Earth’s space-time disorder. She told Hao Ren that Vivian remained scattered across the real world and prepared to send him into the Distortion Point to find her.

• Lily objected when Raven 12345 identified Vivian as an Evil Spirit, but Raven explained that Vivian represented poverty and occasionally went berserk.
• Raven 12345 explained that the Creation Goddess’s avatar had always combined divine power with corruption, and that its splitting let the corruptive power dominate.
• Hao Ren demanded to know where Vivian was and how to bring her back, suspecting Raven 12345 of hiding her.
• Raven 12345 said Vivian was present throughout Earth as disordered space-time fragments, and that her contact with the divine Evil Spirit of Ertos had triggered her awakening and the real world’s fall into a dream.
• Raven 12345 said she had prepared a way to send Hao Ren to the deepest part of the Distortion Point and offered to show him the gate first.

Raven 12345 showed Hao Ren the vortex gate she had built to send him into the isolated space-time fragments where Vivian was trapped. After confirming that the real Earth was safely contained, Hao Ren learned that he had preparations to make before entering the vortex.

• Raven 12345 led Hao Ren and his companions through the tower to a platform in a vast realm of symbols and formulas.
• Raven 12345 explained that she had turned her Evil Spirit research system into a gate leading to the contaminated space-time fragments where Vivian was.
• Raven 12345 revealed that the real Earth had been frozen and safely contained with the Moon, while Mirror Earths and a sandbox system protected the universe from the contamination.
• Hao Ren asked how he would find and rescue Vivian, and Raven 12345 said they needed to prepare and consult others first.
• An Arcane Servant arrived on the platform with Heiserana, Hassu, and several familiar faces.

Hao Ren learned that Vivian’s uncontrolled power had drawn Earth into distorted versions of her memories, and Raven 12345 explained that he must travel alone through Mirror Two Earth to help Vivian recover her sense of self. Heiserana and Hesperis were assigned to guide him, and Heiserana offered her first advice for dealing with Vivian: feed her and bury her under money.

• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren that other people who noticed the anomaly had been frozen or rescued, then brought the unaffected survivors together.
• Hao Ren explained Vivian’s disappearance to Heiserana and the others and promised to bring Vivian back without letting her be unfairly blamed.
• Raven 12345 said Hao Ren must retrace Mirror Two Earth’s shattered history and find Vivian at the point when she first descended upon Earth.
• Raven 12345 explained that each recovered Vivian would help restore space-time and that Hao Ren would need guidance from people who knew Vivian’s past.
• Hesperis and Heiserana agreed to support Hao Ren, and Heiserana advised him to treat a conscious Vivian to a meal or bury her under money.

Hao Ren learned how dangerous Vivian’s poverty curse had been and received advice for surviving the different eras of the past. He entered Vivian’s distorted spacetime to find her, while Raven 12345 and the others stayed behind.

• Heiserana and Hesperis explained that Vivian’s curse caused anyone who grew close to her to suffer ruinous poverty, and Raven 12345 said Hao Ren was protected by his divine system.
• Hesperis advised Hao Ren how to disguise himself and survive in eras ranging from the Middle Ages to ancient Greece and the savage early age.
• Hesperis warned Hao Ren that the Mythical Era was governed by violence and enslavement, and Hao Ren said he would use force if reason failed.
• Hassu prepared to explain how to deal with Demon Hunters, and Raven 12345 told Hao Ren to leave the Data Terminal behind while keeping his personal storage items.
• Hao Ren stepped into the black-and-red vortex to search for Vivian, and Raven 12345 suggested that the others play mahjong while they waited.

Hao Ren arrived alone on a snow-covered stretch of Mirror Two Earth and tried to locate Vivian’s forgotten Siberian resting place. After fighting off a wolf pack in the forest, he saw a silver-haired girl who looked like Lily charging toward him.

• Hao Ren discovered that the sandbox had severed his communications and that he would have to explore Mirror Two Earth alone.
• His probes lost contact near a pine forest, so Hao Ren used Vivian’s journal and the surrounding landscape to conclude that he had landed in Siberia.
• Hao Ren entered the forest to search for Vivian’s slumbering ground, but found no people who could give him directions.
• A Siberian Wolf pack surrounded and attacked Hao Ren, but his Rigid Shield and fists defeated the wolves.
• A silver-haired, golden-eyed girl in leather clothing charged toward Hao Ren, who recognized her as Lily.

Hao Ren encountered a younger Lily in the Siberian forest and fought her after she mistook him for a threat to her wolf pack. Once he stopped her by grabbing her tail, they made peace, and Lily proposed becoming sworn brothers.

• Hao Ren recognized the wolf-eared girl charging out of the woods as Lily, but she accused him of hurting her wolf pack and attacked him.
• Hao Ren used Rigid Shield to withstand Lily’s blows and realized he had met her in the past, before she entered human society.
• Lily grew excited by their fight and kept attacking, while Hao Ren used his experience training with the Lily he knew to anticipate her moves.
• Hao Ren grabbed Lily’s tail during a fight, making her stop and complain that he had fought dirty.
• Hao Ren explained that the fight had been a misunderstanding, and Lily asked him to become sworn brothers.

Hao Ren treated Lily’s injured Wolf pack and learned that she had wandered north into Siberia while trying to reach a human city. After correcting her direction, he asked Lily to help him find someone.

• Hao Ren and two Autonomous Mechanical Units treated the injured wolves while Lily eagerly chatted with him.
• Lily explained that she had left her village after her adoptive parents died and planned to become an eating-performance artist in a southern city.
• Hao Ren realized Lily had traveled from the Three Northeastern Provinces to Siberia in the wrong direction and told her to turn around.
• Lily thanked Hao Ren and insisted they become sworn siblings, then told him she had been named Lily by her adoptive parents and had once used the surname Liu.
• Hao Ren asked Lily to help him find someone.

Hao Ren followed Lily to her remote cabin, where she fed him and shared stories about her life in the wilderness. He asked her to help locate Vivian, and Lily agreed to search based on the clues he provided.

• Lily led Hao Ren to her cabin in the Siberian forest and explained that her wolves had been stealing objects from travelers for her collection.
• Lily prepared meat porridge and roasted salmon, and Hao Ren gave her latiao from his personal storage space.
• Lily asked Hao Ren to summon figures from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but their conversation wandered before returning to his request.
• Hao Ren described the sleeping nonhuman woman he was searching for and considered how the distorted spacetime might have altered history.
• Lily asked about Hao Ren's friend and her sleep, and Hao Ren offered to let Lily smell something the woman had used.

Hao Ren enlisted Lily to track Vivian by scent, and Lily led him to a mysterious valley in Siberia where unnatural signs suggested Vivian might be sleeping. The Wolf pack balked at the valley’s edge, so Hao Ren and Lily prepared to investigate it alone.

• Hao Ren gave Lily Vivian’s phone to memorize her scent, and Lily agreed to help search for Vivian the next day.
• Hao Ren spent the night at Lily’s cabin, then learned that her Wolf pack had found a barren valley marked by strange weather and mysterious sounds.
• Hao Ren, Lily, and the Wolf pack crossed the pine forest and reached the valley, where the plants were dying and animal sounds had vanished.
• Lily sent the frightened Wolf pack back and continued toward Death Valley with Hao Ren.

Hao Ren and Lily crossed Death Valley and found the hidden cave where Vivian was slumbering. They discovered Vivian’s protective blood runes, and Hao Ren prepared to use his Magic Immunity to decipher them.

• Hao Ren and Lily entered Death Valley, where a mysterious force drained vitality and the remains of dead animals showed signs of poisoning and boiling blood.
• Hao Ren gave Lily a life-support collar to protect her from Vivian’s sleeping powers.
• Lily followed Vivian’s scent to a concealed cave in the valley’s cliffside, and Hao Ren entered with her.
• Hao Ren and Lily found no visible sign of Vivian inside the cavern, but Hao Ren concluded that her seal was loosening and recognized her Rune of Leta.
• Hao Ren placed his hand on Vivian’s blood runes, confident that his Magic Immunity could counter them.

Hao Ren and Lily reached Vivian’s hidden sleeping place and broke the runes guarding it, only to trigger a violent awakening. They fled the exploding cavern and waited at the valley entrance for Vivian to calm down.

• Hao Ren erased the Rune of Leta, destroying the cavern’s magical defenses and revealing a stone chamber with a coffin.
• Hao Ren approached the coffin to wake Vivian while Lily mistook him for a tomb raider.
• Vivian’s coffin shook violently, then its lid flew off as a black storm erupted from within.
• Hao Ren dragged Lily out of the cavern as the blast hurled them through rocks and ice.
• A powerful eruption destroyed the cavern and part of the mountainside, so Hao Ren and Lily retreated to the valley entrance to wait for Vivian to wake fully.

Hao Ren and Lily found Vivian after her explosive awakening in the Siberian valley, but she did not recognize Hao Ren and remained wary of Lily as a Werewolf. After hunger overcame her hostility, Vivian ate with them, leaving Hao Ren to begin rebuilding their relationship through food and further tests.

• Hao Ren and Lily entered the devastated valley and found Vivian confused about the era and unable to recognize Hao Ren.
• Vivian mistook Lily for an enemy Werewolf and prepared to attack, but collapsed from hunger before the fight began.
• Lily hunted with her Wolf pack while Hao Ren gathered supplies, and they cooked a meal for Vivian.
• Vivian ate ravenously, learned Lily had no connection to the Werewolf families she had fought, and thanked Hao Ren for the food.
• Hao Ren realized Vivian had not recovered her memories and decided to build trust with her and continue testing ways to stimulate her memories.

Hao Ren and Lily took the newly awakened, amnesiac Vivian back to Lily’s cabin, where Hao Ren realized a keepsake from their shared home might restore her memories. When he showed Vivian his own copy of her weathered house key, she began to remember and asked what had happened.

• Vivian explained that she had no memory of her past and planned to find a human settlement, while Hao Ren told her she had been fighting someone in Siberia before she fell asleep.
• Hao Ren invited Vivian to rest at Lily’s cabin, and Lily agreed to host them as they prepared for a journey south.
• At the cabin, Vivian showed Hao Ren a strange, weathered key she had carried when she woke up.
• Hao Ren recognized it as the key to his home and showed Vivian an identical one from his storage space.
• Seeing the matching keys, Vivian’s memories began to return, and she asked Hao Ren how she had gotten there and what had happened.

Hao Ren awakened Vivian in the hunter’s cabin and learned that her scattered powers were fighting in a deeper battlefield. After Vivian vanished, Hao Ren prepared to continue through the distorted past, awakening her in each era and sending her power to aid the battle.

• Hao Ren explained to Vivian that her sleep had caused her Evil Spirits to resonate and distort Earth’s spacetime.
• Vivian said she had suspected she was the source of the contamination and vowed to resist the force inside her.
• Vivian began fading from the dream and told Hao Ren to awaken her across the eras, beware the Evil Spirits, and seek the past Heiserana’s trust.
• Vivian disappeared, leaving Hao Ren with the knowledge that each awakened version of her would send power to the battle in the deepest spacetime.
• Hao Ren headed for the cabin door, and Lily suddenly asked why she was there.

Hao Ren learned from Raven 12345 that Lily had entered the safe sandbox as a consciousness linked to its weakening distortion, potentially opening the way for other helpers. Raven warned that Lily and any future arrivals would be vulnerable inside the past, while Hao Ren himself could truly die there; after their connection ended, Lily returned to herself, unaware of what had happened.

• Lily appeared in the past after experiencing memories of her earlier adventures with Hao Ren and asked whether they were real.
• Raven 12345 took over Lily and explained that Hao Ren’s regressions had weakened the distortion, allowing Lily’s consciousness to enter the sandbox as a helper.
• Raven said other people might also enter if they met the right conditions, but warned that they would have reduced abilities and could suffer lasting harm if they died there.
• Raven reminded Hao Ren that he had entered with his true body and could die for real, and he insisted he would survive.
• Raven told Hao Ren that Lily was safe outside, then ended the connection; Lily returned to herself and asked why she had spaced out.

Hao Ren and Lily left the frozen hunter’s cabin and entered late medieval Europe during the Dark Era, where they planned to find Vivian while avoiding the Demon Hunters’ attention. They disguised themselves in local clothes and prepared to identify their location and the year, with a Demon Hunter’s silver sword at Hao Ren’s waist.

• Hao Ren explained that Raven 12345 had possessed Lily and that other acquaintances might join them as he retraced history, though they would retain only their historical-era strength.
• Lily recalled her wandering years in Siberia and the worn copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms she had carried after leaving her village.
• Hao Ren opened the cabin door and brought Lily into a late medieval European street, while the cabin remained embedded in the spacetime fragment as a base.
• Hao Ren and Lily hid in an alley and took local clothes from a clothesline to avoid drawing notice from the Demon Hunters and their informants.
• Hao Ren planned to gather information after dark and felt the 1315-model holy silver short sword at his waist.

Hao Ren and Lily traveled through a medieval French town while searching for Vivian’s slumbering ground, with Hao Ren posing as a Wanderer Hunter. Their plan was to investigate local supernatural reports, and the chapter ended when Lily sensed someone ahead who smelled of potions.

• Hao Ren used what he had learned about Demon Hunter forces to choose a Wanderer Hunter as his cover identity and equipped genuine hunter gear.
• Hao Ren and Lily crossed the dark, foul-smelling town streets while avoiding watchmen and searching for signs of Others.
• Hao Ren explained that they would investigate recent supernatural reports to find Vivian’s slumbering ground, keeping the hunter’s cabin as a fallback safe house.
• Lily argued that she could evade Demon Hunters if they encountered any, while Hao Ren doubted her reasoning.
• Lily stopped and told Hao Ren she smelled potions from someone up ahead.

During curfew, Hao Ren and Lily captured Ash Rat, a potion-using informant, and learned that witches had gathered in town after a powerful witch was captured. Hao Ren wondered whether the witches’ presence was connected to Vivian’s slumbering ground.

• Ash Rat hid in an alley during curfew and watched a man and woman walk openly through the streets.
• Lily swiftly subdued Ash Rat after he realized he had been spotted.
• Hao Ren questioned Ash Rat about his potion and whom he served.
• Ash Rat revealed that several witches, including one male witch, had recently gathered in town to rescue a supposedly powerful witch who had been captured.
• Hao Ren considered whether the captured witch and the gathered witches were connected to Vivian’s slumbering ground.

Hao Ren forced the Ash Rat to lead him and Lily to the witches’ contact point, while concealing who they were. The Ash Rat mistook them for Werewolves and hoped Madam Mary would spare him.

• Hao Ren threatened the Ash Rat until he agreed to take them to the contact point for Madam Mary.
• The Ash Rat explained that he had only watched for visitors and communicated with witchcraft puppets, without knowing the witches’ secrets or meeting them directly.
• Lily heard night-patrol soldiers approaching, so Hao Ren had the Ash Rat guide them through the city’s dark alleys toward the slums.
• The Ash Rat asked whom he was serving, and Hao Ren let Lily reveal her wolf ears and fangs to show they were not Witch Hunters.
• The Ash Rat believed Hao Ren and Lily were Werewolves and continued guiding them, hoping the witches would be less hostile to them.