Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng and his companions reached the laboratory and found a black rift surrounded by human cocoons, which he identified as the source of the space station’s spacetime disruptions. When the cocoons broke open and attacked him, he summoned reinforcements to fight them.

• Yu Sheng, Eileen, and Luo crossed distorted corridors where overlapping scenes of spacetime revealed glimpses of the Special Operations Bureau and a spiderlike presence.
• They entered the laboratory and found the soldiers and researchers sealed in cocoons around a black rift where the Zolda Black Stone had been.
• Yu Sheng sent Eileen and Luo to safety, then approached the rift, causing the prayers and shadows to fall still.
• The cocoons burst open and their mudlike occupants charged Yu Sheng, who called for Eileen to summon reinforcements.
• Mass-produced dolls, an elegant swordswoman, a silver-white figure, and Fox Girl arrived, and Yu Sheng ordered them to attack.

Yu Sheng and his companions fought the endlessly resurrecting Black Dot employees inside the laboratory, discovering that the enemies were drawn to Luo. With Luo drawing their fire and Luna protecting him, Yu Sheng charged toward the void at the hall’s center, where Luna hurled him forward.

• The mutated Black Dot security forces attacked Yu Sheng’s group, while Huli and Luo fought back with foxfire and psychic blasts.
• Yu Sheng realized the enemies felt empty through his blood connection, and Luna warned that they could not kill them all as the shadows kept reviving them from cocoons.
• The enemies increasingly focused their attacks on Luo, so Eileen and the mass-produced dolls swarmed her and carried her around the hall to draw their fire.
• Yu Sheng charged toward the central void, and Luna shielded him from incoming attacks before launching him forward.

After Luna hurled Yu Sheng into the Great Void, the shadow creatures in the hall melted away, and Yu Sheng searched the chaos for a way forward. He found cracks showing other places and encountered a recording of Eileen explaining that she had fused with the Outer God Omen.

• Luna threw Yu Sheng into the Great Void, and the shadow creatures and cocoons in the hall melted away.
• Luo joined Eileen, Huli, Luna, and the Mass-produced Eileens as they discussed Yu Sheng’s condition and the remaining cracks in the hall.
• Yu Sheng walked through the chaos while Eileen reported that the hall was quiet but still covered in shadows and webs.
• Yu Sheng found a crack showing the room at the end of the second-floor corridor of No. 66 Wutong Road, but it vanished when he touched it.
• Yu Sheng found another crack showing a ruined hall and a serving of rice topped with braised chicken, then saw his blood vanish when he tried to send it through.
• Yu Sheng discovered a crack leading to a dark space with a toy bear, which identified itself as Eileen and played a recording about fusing with Omen to preserve data and stabilize the Outer God.

Yu Sheng heard Eileen’s final mission log and watched the bear release the shadow within it, which introduced itself as Omen. The rifts then closed, but a vast space station appeared over Boundary City, and Baili Qing learned that the Crossroads was visible from it.

• Little Bear played Eileen’s final mission log, explaining that she had merged with the damaged Omen to contain the contamination and preserve special data.
• Little Bear tore open its stomach and released viscous shadows that flowed toward Yu Sheng before it greeted him as Omen.
• The spatial rifts in the Special Operations Bureau closed, and Song Cheng began organizing cleanup and processing the Argraidean soldiers.
• Baili Xue warned Baili Qing that ominous shadows covered the Crossroads, while Luo reported that half the space station had become transparent and its structure was malfunctioning.
• Baili Qing and Baili Xue saw a colossal disk-shaped space station looming over Boundary City, and Luo reported that he could see the Crossroads.

Black Stone Station overlapped with The Crossroads, and the Boundary Bridge began connecting the two realms as a Dark Tower descended through the station. Baili Qing ordered emergency defenses and the experimental Spirit Fox system to contain the spreading shadows while Yu Sheng remained missing.

• Black Stone Station appeared above Boundary City, triggering widespread panic and anomalies that Council Tower’s Requiem system temporarily suppressed.
• Baili Qing learned that the station was overlapping with The Crossroads rather than falling, as a Dark Tower pierced its Core Area and began extending toward the city.
• Luo reported that Yu Sheng had been thrown into a hole by a subordinate and had not returned; Baili Qing identified the descending structure as the Boundary Bridge.
• The tower’s spreading rifts released corrosive shadows that seeped through the city’s shield, so Baili Qing ordered district evacuations, mobile teams, and the Spirit Fox system into action.
• The Spirit Fox system flipped a threatened district into mist, where the Deep Dive Unit prepared to fight the invading shadows.

Yu Sheng encountered an ancient outer god, who recounted how its civilization tried to survive a universe slowly collapsing over 6,660 years. After discovering the Boundless Sea sanctuary and calculating how to recreate a world, the civilization learned there was not enough mass in its universe.

• Yu Sheng drifted through visions of a spider-marked city and temple, where the people announced that they had built a sun and preserved ashes.
• The ancient outer god told Yu Sheng that its universe had collapsed over 6,660 years and that its civilization had known of the apocalypse from its beginning.
• Yu Sheng connected the civilization’s calculations to the Creator Equation, and the outer god explained that its people had sought to understand creation to overcome destruction.
• The outer god said its people had observed the remains of destroyed universes and later discovered the Boundless Sea, a sanctuary created among accumulated ashes.
• The outer god described how its civilization prepared a colossal engine and solved the Creator Equation, only to conclude that there was not enough mass in the universe.

Yu Sheng discovered that the Omen Goddess had preserved a memory of her homeland, then was pulled into a black tower while holding the Cubic Core. Meanwhile, Luo and the others disabled Black Stone Space Station’s self-destruct backup, though the Boundary Bridge’s erosion continued.

• Yu Sheng realized the temple scene was a recorded echo and inferred that the Omen Goddess had traded herself to preserve a memory of her homeland.
• The collapsing vision revealed a black tower and a black star, and Zolda Black Stone crumbled in Yu Sheng’s hand until only the Cubic Core remained.
• The Cubic Core dragged Yu Sheng through the mist and deposited him on a platform inside the tower.
• Luo led Huli, Luna, Eileen, and the others through Black Stone Space Station as its gravity and atmosphere systems failed.
• Luna tore open a jammed hatch, and Luo dismantled the station’s final backup self-destruct mechanism to protect Boundary City’s shield.

While dismantling the space station’s self-destruct devices, Eileen glimpsed Yu Sheng and insisted that the group find him in the laboratory. Huli charged through the station with Eileen in tow, only to smash into a wall that would not budge.

• Luo explained that she pursued dangerous research because she was curious about the world and its unknown history.
• Eileen briefly saw visions of herself in a temple and recognized Yu Sheng before saying he was nearby.
• After finishing the station’s self-destruct devices, Eileen decided to search for Yu Sheng, and the mass-produced dolls shoved Luo through a temporary spatial gate.
• Eileen, Huli, and Luna set off toward the laboratory, but Huli could not find the route through the damaged station.
• Huli used foxfire to smash through the station’s walls and charged headfirst into the laboratory’s unyielding black wall.

As the Boundary Bridge breached The Crossroads and shadows invaded Boundary City, Eileen, Huli, and Luna opened the tower and pursued Yu Sheng. Baili Qing left command to enter the tower, while the fairy-tale fighters defended Old Town and received a doll and an unfamiliar stranger through a strange door.

• Huli struck the Boundary Bridge and got a bump, while Eileen revealed that her black threads could open an entrance into the tower; she and Huli followed the scent of Yu Sheng, and Luna went with them.
• The Boundary Bridge breached The Crossroads' shield, while the Spirit Fox System struggled to contain the spreading shadows and Baili Qing directed the city's defenses with Baili Xue's help.
• Baili Xue urged Baili Qing to consider Dome Shatter, but Baili Qing instead left the command hall and secretly headed for the tower, leaving Baili Xue to impersonate her.
• Little Red Riding Hood coordinated the fairy-tale fighters as they defended Old Town and rescued people during the invasion.
• A strange door appeared in Fairy Tale Town's plaza, dropped a dizzy-looking doll and an unfamiliar stranger, then vanished.

Luo woke in Fairy Tale Town, where Little Red Riding Hood learned she was a captured Black Dot warlord who was helping Yu Sheng. With monsters overrunning the old city, Little Red Riding Hood took Luo along to fight, and Luo reluctantly agreed to defend the team’s rear.

• Luo woke in Fairy Tale Town and mistook the Inn’s strange base and its children for a dangerous hideout.
• Eileen identified Luo as a captured Black Dot warlord, prompting Little Red Riding Hood and Long Hair to treat her cautiously until Luo insisted she was a scientist and had fought alongside them.
• Cinderella reported that a tower had torn through the city’s shields and monsters had trapped Spirit Realm Detectives on Tai'an Road, while Belle had been rescued by Dorothy’s assault unit.
• Little Red Riding Hood assigned the team to fight the monsters and dragged Luo along, saying she could not be trusted out of sight and should help clean up the Black Dot Group’s mess.
• Luo entered the fog-shrouded old city, saw swarms of monsters, and abandoned her plan to run, promising to defend the team’s rear.

As contamination spread through The Crossroads, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, her Thunder Titans, and Snake Princess fought the monsters overrunning the city. At Yu Sheng’s dwelling, Mo Ran and her guests arrived with weapons from Shouji and were received by the formidable gatekeeper Uncle Yun.

• Luo watched shadow monsters attack as Little Red Riding Hood’s wolves and Snow White’s seven Thunder Titans charged into battle.
• A Thunder Titan repeatedly swung Snake Princess into the monsters, while she shouted that Uncle Yun had gone to receive the weapons delivered by people from Shouji.
• Little Red Riding Hood stopped Luo from hiding in the teleportation gate’s guard booth and insisted that she was a dangerous extremist.
• Mo Ran brought Elder Ku Ting, Blood Young Master, and Bone Gnawing Immortal into the Nexus Pyramid to deliver the weapons and warned them to behave at Yu Sheng’s dwelling.
• The three visitors learned that the adults were fighting outside and that children and a gatekeeper were the only ones present, then saw Uncle Yun arrive carrying an itch-scratcher that alarmed them.

Mo Ran delivered Yu Sheng’s blood-based weapons and diffusion device to Yun Qingzi, who took them into the chaotic battle in Boundary City. As Yun Qingzi transformed to defend the city, Baili Qing became a crystal-scaled dragon and charged toward the Shattered Tower.

• Mo Ran showed Yun Qingzi the Blood Needle Gauntlet, blood grenades, and diffusion device, and Yun Qingzi ordered the grenades distributed to the fighters and the device set up outside the gate.
• Mo Ran brought Elder Ku Ting, the Blood Young Master, Bone Gnawing Immortal, and trusted experts to help monitor the unstable device and join the battle.
• Yun Qingzi led the group through the gate into Boundary City, where fighters, demons, aircraft, and magical creatures clashed in the fog.
• Luo and Little Red Riding Hood saw Yun Qingzi cast aside his back scratcher and transform into a hundred-meter Dharma form to guard the city.
• Baili Xue told Baili Qing that the battle lines had stabilized and the contaminated area was shrinking, and Baili Qing transformed into a crystal-scaled dragon and flew toward the Shattered Tower.

Yu Sheng reunited with Eileen, Fox Girl, and Luna inside the Shattered Tower and learned that the Crossroads was under attack. Following his instinct, he sent Eileen ahead with a fragment of the Omen Goddess’s limb, and the tower’s broken spacetime began to reorganize, ending at a vast rift that blocked their path.

• Yu Sheng encountered a mental echo of Eileen beside a faint bonfire and realized she had been communicating with the Boundary Bridge.
• The spider-limb fragment connected Eileen to Yu Sheng, allowing her to summon Fox Girl and Luna to his platform.
• Eileen told Yu Sheng that the Crossroads was under attack, with the Boundary Bridge piercing the Great Shield and fighting spreading across the city.
• Yu Sheng gave Eileen the spider-limb fragment and told her to follow her instincts through the tower because she had traveled the path before.
• As Eileen led the group onward, the tower’s spacetime began reorganizing around her steps, until she reached a huge rift blocking the way ahead.

Yu Sheng and his companions crossed the World Bridge to the ruined mountaintop where the Omen Goddess had departed, and discovered that her corpse was rotting into the corruption spreading through the worlds. The corpse’s remains rejected them and sent waves of corrupted memories and creatures against the group, whose battle had only begun.

• Huli tested the rift with a fox tail, which returned safely, and Yu Sheng led the group through the World Bridge.
• Yu Sheng recognized the destination as the ruined temple from his visions and explained that the bridge connected to wherever it had last opened.
• A barrier fell away, revealing the Omen Goddess’s blackened remains, and Yu Sheng realized their decay had produced the shadows infecting other places.
• Yu Sheng sensed that the ruins were rejecting the group as shadows spread from the corpse and attacked.
• Huli’s foxfire drones and Luna fought off the first wave, but the fragments flowed back to the corpse and began to reform.

Yu Sheng realized that the boundary bridge was a second Dark Angel, still operating and trying to revive the Omen Goddess. He rode Huli’s tails toward the mechanism hidden inside the Othergod’s corpse to find a way to shut it down.

• Yu Sheng found that the Zolda Black Stone’s core grew warm as his blood revealed information about the Omen Goddess and the boundary bridge.
• Huli’s Fox Carrot Missiles cracked the Othergod’s remains, exposing an enormous Ancient Mechanism inside.
• Yu Sheng concluded that the boundary bridge was a living Dark Angel that had kept trying to restore the Omen Goddess after she merged with Eileen.
• Yu Sheng decided to reach the mechanism and attempt to shut it down while Eileen, Huli, Luna, and the dolls defended the platform.
• Huli sent Yu Sheng toward the corpse on her tails, guarded by White Cut and Salt Baked, while the battle continued around the platform.

Yu Sheng crossed the temple ruins under attack from the shadows and the god corpse’s black lightning, until a pure-white dragon arrived and rescued him. The dragon carried him toward the high platform, where her frantic attempts to adjust her landing left Yu Sheng sensing that something was wrong.

• Yu Sheng flew toward the Ancient Mechanism as the shadows noticed him and attacked with rising limbs and black rifts.
• White Cut, Salt Baked, and the Fox Tails fought off the shadows and shielded Yu Sheng while the high platform provided fire support.
• The god corpse unleashed a barrage of black lightning that destroyed the remaining Fox Tails and threatened Yu Sheng.
• A pure-white dragon arrived and used crystalline breath to suppress the god corpse’s rifts, but scarlet eyes appeared across its body and attacked Yu Sheng and the dragon.
• The dragon caught Yu Sheng on her back and escaped the worst of the danger, then hurried toward the high platform and repeatedly adjusted her landing.

Yu Sheng and his companions discovered that the white dragon who crashed beside the platform was Baili Qing, an ancient species from the Crossroads’ Classical Era. As the group fought the shadows spilling from the temple ruins, Yu Sheng gave Baili Qing his blood to help her resist the Omen Goddess’s mental contamination, and the connection took effect instantly.

• Yu Sheng leaped from the falling dragon and rode a celestial bird to safety as the dragon crashed beside the platform.
• Eileen, Huli, and Luna survived the impact, and Yu Sheng recognized the white dragon as Baili Qing by her voice.
• Baili Qing explained that she was an ancient species whose kind had survived the end of the Classical Era as fragments in the new world.
• Yu Sheng explained that the Omen Goddess’s remains and an Ancient Mechanism lay beneath the temple ruins, and that he needed to reach the mechanism to affect the Boundary Bridge.
• Baili Qing revealed that she carried anti-Omen Goddess crystals but could not approach the remains because of their mental contamination.
• Yu Sheng had Luna cut his arm and offered Baili Qing his blood; Baili Qing drank it, and the blood connection activated immediately.

Yu Sheng, Eileen, and Baili Qing charged through the shadow tide toward the Ancient Mechanism, with Baili Qing’s crystal breath disrupting the forming rifts and a vision shielding her from the corpse’s mental contamination. Yu Sheng and Eileen landed beside the World Bridge, where Yu Sheng approached its nearest pillar as crimson eyes opened around him.

• Yu Sheng agreed to let Eileen join the second charge, and Baili Qing flew him toward the divine corpse with Huli, White Cut, and Salt Baked providing cover.
• Baili Qing blasted the shadow tide with anti-Eileen crystals, disrupting the forming rifts as the group neared the divine corpse.
• The corpse’s crimson eyes attacked their minds, but a vision of a blonde female Knight punching Baili Qing in the nose brought the dragon back to reality.
• Baili Qing dove toward the Ancient Mechanism, and Yu Sheng jumped with Eileen through the opening Huli’s tail bombs had made.
• Yu Sheng landed beside the World Bridge and approached its nearest pillar as crimson eyes appeared across the surrounding remains.

Yu Sheng touched a pillar connected to the Boundary Bridge and entered a vast vision of its inner mechanisms, where a golden-haired doll pleaded with him not to destroy it. As the Bridge’s collapse slowed and blood spread across the Shattered Tower, Yu Sheng encountered the figure responsible for the plea.

• Yu Sheng approached the pillars as scarlet eyes watched him, then touched one and heard a warning to go to the ark and not look back.
• Yu Sheng was pulled into darkness, where a faint voice begged him not to destroy the Boundary Bridge.
• The Shattered Tower stopped growing above Boundary City, and the shadows dripping from the Boundary Bridge diminished.
• Rapunzel and Bone Gnawing Immortal watched the halted invasion as blood mist gathered over Old Town.
• Mo Ran saw blood-red cracks spread across the Shattered Tower, drawing blood mist upward, while Yun Qingzi recognized the process.
• Yu Sheng saw the Boundary Bridge’s immense mechanisms and met a golden-haired doll who apologized for breaking it and said she could not repair it.

Yu Sheng helped the little doll in the World Bridge understand death, allowing her to rest and wake as Eileen. The World Bridge vanished and The Crossroads began to recover, while Yu Sheng and Eileen planned to reunite with Huli and the others before going home.

• Yu Sheng realized the World Bridge and the Omen Goddess had been trapped in a cycle of trying to repair and awaken each other because neither understood death.
• Yu Sheng explained death to the petite doll, who smiled, fell asleep, and was surrounded by his spreading blood mist.
• The World Bridge disappeared from The Crossroads, the space-time rifts closed, and the damaged great shield began repairing itself.
• Song Cheng asked Baili Qing about Yu Sheng and the Angel Fallen, but Baili Qing said the situation remained uncertain and she could not contact Big Sister.
• Bone Gnawing Immortal saw the exhausted fairy tale members after the blood mist dissipated and decided she never wanted to return to The Crossroads.
• The doll awoke as Eileen, curled up in Yu Sheng's arms, and said she wanted to stay alive and go home with him.