Chapter Summaries

Wine Cup and Milk Dragon found Na and Mud Duke inside an unfinished building in Cloud Harbor City, where the companions reunited and compared their experiences. Na reported that passersby hurried past the building, and Mud Duke sensed that it reeked of blood.

• Wine Cup and Milk Dragon met in the abandoned building and discovered they had both appeared inside it.
• Angel and Water Clone discussed Gleipnir’s theory that the Wonderland Authority had placed Wine Cup’s group in Cloud Harbor City after Coleman's group revealed it on the Mini Map.
• Wine Cup and Milk Dragon searched the building and found Na and Mud Duke on the first floor.
• Na said she had seen three passersby speed up and avoid looking at the building.
• Mud Duke sensed that something was wrong with the building and that it reeked of blood.

Mud Duke sensed a lingering smell of blood and the dead inside the building, prompting the group to debate whether to investigate or seek out Edward. Wine Cup suddenly fainted from her alcohol-related heart addiction, and as her companions rushed to find help, Angel asked what problem Na might have.

• Mud Duke sensed blood and the cries of the dead embedded in the building, and Na confirmed the sensation by synchronizing with his perception.
• Milk Dragon suggested leaving the building, while Mud Duke wanted to investigate the blood scent and Na proposed finding a Cloud Whale Station and seeking Edward to draw the God-Worshipping Sect's attention.
• Wine Cup began swaying while the group discussed their next move, then fainted, and Milk Dragon, Mud Duke, and Na carried her outside to find help.
• The Water Clone and Luigi explained to Angel that Wine Cup's heart addiction came from needing alcohol in her cup, though she never drank it herself.
• Angel asked whether the other quasi-Time Doppelgängers had problems, and Luigi joked that Na might be a masochist before Angel asked what was wrong with Na.

Na and her companions met the injured blond youth Kaia, who offered to lead them to free alcohol and hide them from the Ritual Nobles. Kaia brought them to a concealed underground shelter, where Mud Duke shrank to fit inside.

• Na collected Kaia’s pheromones, then agreed to answer his questions in exchange for directions to free alcohol.
• Kaia asked whether Na and her companions worshipped a god, then offered to take them to his home before they were discovered or marked by Nightmoon.
• Mud Duke approved following Kaia, and the group traveled through alleys while Kaia explained that they carried a blood-child aura from the Blood Sacrifice Building.
• Kaia led the group to a hidden entrance beneath a trash can and revealed that his home lay underground.
• When Kaia worried Mud Duke would not fit through the entrance, Mud Duke shrank his body.

Kaia sheltered Na’s group in his hidden home and warned them that lingering Bloodspawn aura could form a mark that would draw the Bloodletting Sect. Winecup recovered after drinking Kaia’s rare alcohol, and the group suspected that Kaia’s secrets might connect them to the Bloodletting Sect and Edward.

• Kaia showed Na and the others his cramped underground home and explained that the sea of clouds below Cloud Harbor City was guarded by a surveillance ritual.
• Kaia warned that Bloodspawn aura could form a Bloodspawn Mark within a day, but Na insisted that saving Winecup with alcohol came first.
• Kaia retrieved his remaining bottle of fine alcohol from outside his home and gave it to Milk Dragon to revive Winecup.
• Milk Dragon poured the alcohol into Winecup’s Cuphead, and she woke up as the bottle emptied.
• Winecup and Milk Dragon discussed Kaia’s wealth, hidden past, and possible role as their tribulation, while the livestream audience learned what had happened.
• Milk Dragon suggested that Kaia might be tied to the Bloodletting Sect and could help them reach Edward.

Kaia asked Wine Cup and her companions to deliver a letter to his teacher in the God-Slaying Bureau in exchange for purifying their bloodseed aura. Wine Cup refused because they were outsiders who could not approach official organizations, and she revealed that they wanted to keep the aura as Kaia warned them of the dangers.

• Wine Cup thanked Kaia for awakening her with his wine, and Kaia showed the group his free purification ritual array.
• Kaia asked them to deliver a letter to his teacher, explaining that his family had been killed, his teacher had disappeared, and he had repeatedly tried to reach him through the Blood Sacrifice Building.
• Wine Cup questioned Kaia's fixation on that approach, while Na suggested his teacher might have been involved in his family's destruction; Kaia rejected the idea but said it would make him more determined to confront him.
• Wine Cup told Kaia they could not deliver the letter because they were outsiders who had entered Cloud Harbor City by questionable means and could not approach official organizations.
• Kaia offered to purify them anyway, but Wine Cup refused and said the bloodseed aura was useful to them; Kaia warned that it could attract the Bloodletting Sect and other evil-god followers.

Kaia tried to stop Wine Cup and the others from leaving because the Bloodspawn Mark could expose them to deadly danger, but Mud Duke proposed cooperating with him instead. After hearing Mud Duke’s story about searching for Coleman and Ice Woman, Kaia agreed to protect their bodies and help draw the God-Slaying Bureau to him, though he still opposed using the Bloodspawn Mark to attract the God-Worshipping Sect.

• Kaia warned Wine Cup and the others that the Bloodspawn Mark would make Instrument nobles see them as threats, then blocked the door to keep them from leaving.
• Mud Duke suggested that Kaia could watch over their bodies while they entered the factory Secret Grounds, and offered to help him contact the God-Slaying Bureau.
• Mud Duke told Kaia a partly fabricated story about searching for Coleman and Ice Woman, and Kaia was moved to tears by their friendship.
• Kaia vowed to help find Coleman and Ice Woman, while Mud Duke proposed that they aid each other without becoming deeply involved in one another’s stories.
• Kaia agreed to cooperate, but objected to using the Bloodspawn Mark to lure the God-Worshipping Sect; Wine Cup explained that they could not wait because Coleman and Ice Woman’s bodies were at risk.

Kaia and the others sought a way to find the God-Worshipping Sect, while Angel reasoned that Mud Duke’s group might benefit from embracing the misfortune of Bloodspawn Marks. Angel then prepared to mix a Groundcloth Potion before refining Dong Liz’s hat, leaving the search at the dump ongoing.

• Kaia argued that Bloodspawn Marks were a dangerous and unreliable way to draw out the God-Worshipping Sect, so the group agreed to purify most of their aura and search old newspapers for suspected strongholds.
• Mud Duke kept his Bloodspawn aura and stayed behind in Kaia’s container home while Milk Dragon, Wine Cup, Na, and Kaia went to the dump.
• Angel explained to Luigi and Water Clone that the challengers’ bad luck might make Bloodspawn Marks the best way to encounter the God-Worshipping Sect, and Water Clone shared the reasoning on the forum.
• Angel returned to Geometric Space, meditated, and began preparing materials to mix the Groundcloth Potion for Dong Liz’s hat.

Angel finished refining a flawed Groundcloth Potion and watched as Kaia and the others used old newspapers to trace the God-Worshipping Sect’s Silent Operations across Cloud Harbor City. Their geographic profile pointed toward Bloodsucking Town and Dreambeast Town, leaving the group to consider why those towns might matter.

• Angel completed a flawed Groundcloth Potion, which could expand the hat’s energy surface enough for his needs.
• Kaia and the others selected five Passion News reports about the God-Worshipping Sect’s Silent Operations and decided to map their locations.
• Kaia returned from the Carved Sea Library and drew a map showing Cloud Harbor City’s vast layout and its surrounding towns.
• Na marked three likely activity zones between the five Silent Operation sites, and Kaia identified them as parts of Bloodsucking Town and Dreambeast Town.
• Kaia explained that Bloodsucking Town was known for its leech sacrificial offerings, which could replace living sacrifices, and still housed the Instrument World’s largest leech-offering manufacturer.

Kaia explained how Dream Beasts shaped life in Cloud Harbor City and gave the others Purple Chirp eggs to protect them from moonlight. On the way back, the group learned Coleman and Ice Woman were being treated in the Watcher's Tower in Late-Sleep Town, and Kaia asked what high-ranking existence had rescued them.

• Kaia described Dreambeast Town's Dream Beasts and agreed that the God-Worshipping Sect's base was likely in either Bloodsucker Town or Dreambeast Town.
• As moonlight emerged, Kaia gave the others Purple Chirp eggs and demonstrated how to inhale their vapor to resist the Nightmoon Mark.
• Milk Dragon tested an egg under the moonlight, confirmed it protected him, and estimated its mist core would last about eleven hours of continuous exposure.
• Wine Cup and Na used their eggs, and Kaia explained that Purple Chirp eggs were inexpensive and offered them as a companion's kindness.
• Wine Cup and the others told Kaia that Coleman and Ice Woman had been rescued and taken to a White Tower for treatment.
• Kaia identified the White Tower as the Watcher's Tower in Late-Sleep Town, then asked what the group meant by an existence of high standing.

Kaia explained how the Fate-Bond Grand Ritual could detect unconventional contact and realized Wine Cup’s description of a high-order existence might identify someone he knew. When the group returned to Kaia’s home, they found Mud Duke missing, then discovered he had hidden outside in the freezing sea of clouds while strangers searched the container and stole Kaia’s lucky sacrificial offering.

• Kaia described the Fate-Bond Grand Ritual, and Wine Cup said the high-order existence had a six-pointed-star outline and felt like staring at the moon.
• Kaia suspected he knew the existence’s identity but insisted the group return to his home before he answered.
• Kaia found signs that strangers had entered his hidden home, and the group discovered Mud Duke was missing.
• Kaia and the others heard knocking behind the tapestry and brought Mud Duke inside, where Kaia warmed him with a constant-temperature ritual array.
• Mud Duke explained that he had hidden outside when strangers searched the container, and Kaia revealed they had stolen a sacrificial offering.
• Kaia said the stolen offering was an ordinary crystallized four-leaf clover that his teacher had chosen for him as a blessing.

After Kaia’s four-leaf clover sacrificial relic was stolen, he and the others left his home for safety and traveled to Morandi Town. In its abandoned old district, Kaia revealed his guess that the mysterious high-ranking being was a descendant of the Creator God.

• Kaia said the stolen four-leaf clover relic had been a gift from his teacher, but Mud Duke and Wine Cup argued that its theft seemed deliberate.
• Na advised Kaia to move and investigate secretly, so he packed his ritual supplies and chose his unpublicized residence in Morandi Town.
• Mud Duke refused to have the blood child’s aura purified, and the group traveled by a secluded route to Morandi Town.
• Kaia explained that a Silent Operation three years earlier had left thousands of residents as living dead and emptied the old district.
• Kaia said the nine-pointed star represented the Creator God and guessed that the hexagram-shaped being was one of the Creator God’s descendants.

Kaia led Wine Cup and the others to his hidden basement home in Morandi Town and explained his survival strategies. Mud Duke suddenly developed a Bloodspawn Mark, whose flashing signal alerted the Bloodletting Sect's Flesh Mother to the Blood God's will and drew the sect's attention toward Morandi Town.

• Angel and the others concluded that Six-Pointed Star was likely a descendant of the Creator, while Wine Cup's group chose to avoid him and focus on the Chocolate Factory.
• Kaia led Wine Cup, Na, Milk Dragon, and Mud Duke through a low opening behind a dumpster to a sealed building, then explained that its former resident had been the God-Worshipping Sect's high priest.
• Kaia revealed that his underground homes followed his teacher's survival advice, including living near the Cloud Harbor Defense Line so he could summon the Enforcement Corps in danger.
• A Bloodspawn Mark rapidly formed on Mud Duke's brow, far sooner than Kaia expected, and began flashing like a signal.
• The Flesh Mother received a blood-red light, declared that the Blood God's will had descended, and her believers turned toward Morandi Town.

Kaia realized Mud Duke’s unusually fast-forming Bloodspawn Mark was summoning the Bloodletting Sect and refused to let him face them alone. The group chose to head to Bloodsucker Town, hoping to draw both heretical sects into conflict.

• Kaia explained that Mud Duke’s unique race had caused the Bloodspawn Mark to form early and signal the Bloodletting Sect to come for him immediately.
• Mud Duke offered to leave alone and use his emergency recall ability if necessary, but Kaia insisted on finding a way to save him.
• Kaia proposed leading the Bloodletting Sect toward a possible God-Worshipping Sect stronghold in Bloodsucker Town or Dreambeast Town, with local forces as a fallback.
• Mud Duke and the others agreed to take the risk together, while warning Kaia to stay back because they could teleport away before death and he could not.
• Na chose Bloodsucker Town, following her intuition that the worst outcome—being pursued by both sects—might serve their plan.

Angel arrived at the Dream Crystal Plain to register for Sandbox Wonderland and discovered that the challengers included powerful figures with formidable Wonderland items. After learning that Nawat’s black panther was a Spectral Illusion Leopard, Angel reconsidered how easily he could win the challenge.

• Kaia led the group toward Bloodsucker Town while Angel and the others discussed how bad luck might bring them into contact with the God-Worshipping Sect.
• Angel left the livestream and arrived at the Dream Crystal Plain, where a crowd had gathered ahead of Sandbox Wonderland’s opening.
• A Changhuo Clan member used a Vine Messenger Trumpet Flower to provoke Nettle and a Glorystone Clan participant, but Nawat’s Spectral Illusion Leopard rescued him and Nawat ordered him to accept punishment.
• Angel concealed himself and inspected Nawat’s black panther, identifying it as a Wonderland pet with Keen Perception and powerful shadow, illusion, and energy-biting abilities.
• Angel saw Wonderland information around many challengers and realized he had underestimated the competition.

As the registration countdown for Sandbox Wonderland approached its end, Angel and the Dream Mirror Organization gathered on the Crystal Plains while challengers and factions from across the region arrived. Angel decided that Laplace and Luno would stay out, and he left Gray Porcelain’s participation undecided until they saw the rules.

• Laplace explained that the Dream Mirror Organization had drawn attention from groups seeking a share of the Dream Crystal Plain, while Gabriel arrived with Gray Porcelain, who described being surrounded by strangers.
• Angel revealed that he had lowered his presence, and Laplace explained that Turing had located him by sensing the Fashion Magic Book.
• Yifuda told Angel that the Crystal-Eyed Race would not compete with the Dream Mirror Organization for control of Area 1, and Angel said he did not need them to back down.
• Angel told Luno not to enter Sandbox Wonderland and to focus on learning the language and summoning NPCs; Gray Porcelain offered to participate if it was not dangerous, so Angel postponed the decision.
• As the countdown neared its end, prominent factions gathered in the Central District, including Pipi Castle’s team led by Babaregon and a human group from the All Things House.

Sandbox Wonderland opened in Region 1 as a points-based Sixfold Platter, and Angel chose to study the six stages before entering. The stage list revealed that four came from Instances that had never appeared, while even the two familiar Instances had no guides.

• The registered challengers learned that Sixfold Platter had six freely ordered stages, with points awarded for perfect clears and special NPC approval.
• Turing asked Angel for permission to film and interview people about the competition, and Angel agreed.
• Angel decided to return to Text Manor with the others to plan their stage order before entering Sandbox Wonderland.
• Yifuda told Angel that Crystal-Eyed Race teams had entered to scout the stages and would share what they learned.
• Angel examined the six stages and discovered that four came from unseen Instances and none of the six had guides.

Jingta recounted how his team was instantly eliminated by Nereid, while Laplace and Rabbit Girl suggested the abandoned settlement might hold clues to defeating the dragon. Muda then described her Angel on Earth challenge, where her entire team died within five minutes.

• Jingta said his team entered the Nereid stage, searched an abandoned mining settlement, and then approached the dragon without finding any useful clues.
• Nereid killed Jingta with Hurricane Toss and eliminated his two teammates with Thunder Arrows, placing the whole team on cooldown.
• Jingta concluded that Nereid was impossible to defeat, but Laplace said the stage could be cleared and Rabbit Girl pointed out that the abandoned settlement might contain a clue.
• Angel considered Laplace's knowledge of Mist Island Dragon Tomb a reason to trust that Nereid could be defeated.
• Muda explained that her six-person team entered the Angel on Earth stage and all six members died within five minutes.

After Jingta and Muda reported their teams’ failures in the Angel on Earth stage, Angel and the others considered how Earthfall worked and why no one had seen an NPC. The group then chose which stage to challenge next, with Gray Porcelain favoring Nereid.

• Muda explained that Earthfall had pulled her team from the ninth floor underground and killed them, and she suspected the ground fungus spore threads had replaced the floors.
• Angel questioned whether the threads could have corroded the building so quickly, and the group proposed that flying or being carried might avoid Earthfall.
• Angel asked whether Jingta or Muda had seen an NPC, and both said they had not.
• Angel proposed that Sandbox Wonderland contained multiple copies of each stage, and Gray Porcelain guessed NPCs appeared in the copies where teams made the most progress.
• Laplace asked the group to pick a stage, and Gray Porcelain chose Nereid because Jingta’s team had died quickly without much pain.

Angel weighed the Nereid and Angel on Earth checkpoints, then Laplace revealed Nereid’s weaknesses and the location of its battle with Shi Zhen. The group learned that Nereid had occupied an elemental gemstone mine, though the chapter ended before they chose a checkpoint or learned why the mine mattered to their challenge.

• Gray Porcelain chose a checkpoint, and Laplace asked the others for their preferences.
• Angel compared the Nereid and Angel on Earth checkpoints and explained the information available for each.
• Laplace described Nereid as a poorly trained but exceptionally tough Elemental Rainbow Dragon that Shi Zhen had defeated.
• Laplace explained that Nereid’s battle with Shi Zhen had taken place near the Keye Mining Area, which Nereid occupied for its elemental gemstones.
• Laplace began explaining that elemental gemstones could be shattered to create elemental explosions.

Angel, Rabbit Girl, and Gray Porcelain entered the Nereid stage as the newly named Rabbit Hole team and began searching an abandoned mining settlement. Angel secretly activated his God's-eye view to locate elemental gems, but abruptly opened his eyes after seeing something astonishing.

• The Dream Mirror team chose the Nereid stage and Rabbit Girl formed the team, naming it Rabbit Hole.
• Rabbit Girl, Angel, and Gray Porcelain entered Nereid while Laplace and Gabriel remained outside.
• Ms. Gosha decided her team would challenge Golden Country instead of competing with Dream Mirror at Nereid.
• The Rabbit Hole team arrived at an abandoned miner settlement in Keye Mining Area and searched for tools, clues, and a map before hunting Nereid.
• Angel entered a hut and activated his God's-eye view to survey the mining area for elemental gems, then reacted with shock at what he saw.