Chapter Summaries

After defeating the God Corpse of Omen and dismantling the Boundary Bridge, Yu Sheng and his companions searched the ruined temple for remaining dangers and clues. Eileen recalled fragments of her past, and the group found a shattered golden-haired doll beside the ashes.

• Yu Sheng emerged with Eileen and found Huli, the surviving mass-produced dolls, Luna, and the wounded Baili Qing waiting on the platform.
• Yu Sheng confirmed that the final fragment of the Omen Goddess had died and the Boundary Bridge had been dismantled, while warning that the truth behind it remained unresolved.
• Baili Qing transformed into a human form, though her dragon horns and scales remained, and Yu Sheng sent the damaged dolls back to the valley.
• The group searched the temple ruins while Eileen recalled fragments of worshippers dancing and offering her food in the past.
• Huli spotted wreckage near the black ash, and Yu Sheng found a shattered golden-haired doll that Eileen recognized as herself.

Yu Sheng and his companions found Eileen’s shattered original body and collected its pieces, while Eileen recovered a flat-bottomed pan and celebrated. Yu Sheng then touched the inactive Ancient Mechanism, causing it to disintegrate and its red dust to be absorbed by him.

• Yu Sheng found Eileen’s shattered blonde doll body, and the group gathered its fragments for possible repair.
• Luna discovered a flat-bottomed pan, which Eileen recognized as hers and happily claimed.
• The group stored the collected fragments in Huli’s tail before Yu Sheng approached the inactive Ancient Mechanism.
• Yu Sheng touched the mechanism and sensed the Boundary Bridge as a blueprint preserved in his mind.
• The Ancient Mechanism and its surrounding pillars disintegrated, and Yu Sheng absorbed the resulting red dust.

After the Boundary Bridge incident, Yu Sheng and the others witnessed the Black Star appear above the temple ruins and debated whether Yuan Hao’s account of entering it was true. As the group left, Yu Sheng stayed behind to bring the collapsing space fragment back to the valley, dying as it began to transform.

• Yu Sheng admitted to Eileen that he had eaten the Boundary Bridge’s control mechanism, while Luna recorded the exchange and Baili Qing’s dragon features began to fade.
• A vortex opened above the ruins and revealed the Black Star, prompting Yu Sheng to conclude that the temple Yuan Hao had seen inside it was only a projection.
• Eileen recognized the name Kong Daman but could not recover the memory, and the Black Star vanished before Yu Sheng could connect with it.
• Baili Qing promised that the Special Operations Bureau would investigate reports of the Black Star, and Yu Sheng opened a door home for the others.
• Eileen worried the temple fragment would disappear without the Boundary Bridge, so Yu Sheng sent the others home and stayed to weld the fragment into the valley.
• Yu Sheng died, and the temple’s space fragment began collapsing and reassembling as it sailed toward the valley.

After the crisis ended, Little Red Riding Hood and the others returned to Fairy Tale Town and began reviewing their supplies and battle injuries. Their celebration was interrupted when a breach opened in the sky, revealing an ancient mountain realm that Xiao Xiao recognized as a local specialty brought back by Big Brother.

• The city’s defenses settled and its residents began returning to normal as the returning fighters withdrew to their bases.
• Little Red Riding Hood checked supplies and injuries, noting that several companions had conserved medicine and that the squads needed to improve their coordination.
• Bone Gnawing Immortal pushed Xiao Xiao on a swing and told her about her murdered daughter and the villain she had eaten.
• Xiao Xiao spotted a breach in the sky that revealed ruins atop a mountain floating in chaos.
• Xiao Xiao announced that Big Brother had brought back a local specialty, this time an entire mountain.

Yu Sheng installed a connection to the Ominous Omen Temple atop Rapunzel’s tower, then thanked and blood-granted the evil cultivators who had helped dismantle the Boundary Bridge. He was left watching Luo, the captured Black Dot warlord, while the Special Operations Bureau dealt with Boundary City’s aftermath.

• Yu Sheng connected the Ominous Omen Temple to the valley at the top of Rapunzel’s tower, and Rapunzel and King joked about its ominous appearance.
• Yu Sheng praised Mo Ran, Elder Ku Ting, Blood Young Master, and Bone Gnawing Immortal for their work on the weapons used to dismantle the Boundary Bridge.
• Yu Sheng gave the three evil cultivators his blood so they could continue developing the equipment and travel between the temple and the valley.
• Yu Sheng noticed Bone Gnawing Immortal’s bloodied teeth after she removed her iron mask, and she admitted that they hurt.
• Yu Sheng found Luo surrounded by children and red-eyed puppets, then told her the Special Operations Bureau had asked him to keep her under watch while it handled Boundary City’s recovery.

After the Boundary Bridge disaster, Yu Sheng told Luo that her damaged space station had become part of him and was being repaired, then left her to rest in Fairy Tale Town. Back home, he found Eileen alone on the roof, quietly watching the evening sky and smiling as she remembered the changing seasons.

• Yu Sheng arranged for Luo to stay in town and explained that he had assimilated her space station, which was now in the Feather Star Domain for repairs.
• Luo listened to the Mermaid sing and watched a comforting message appear across the clouds before Yu Sheng left her at her temporary residence.
• Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, promised Huli two cases of advertised snacks, and went upstairs looking for Eileen.
• Yu Sheng found Eileen on the roof, where she watched the changing sky and imagined winter arriving in Boundary City.
• Eileen remembered stories about the seasons and smiled while hugging her frying pan.

Yu Sheng and Eileen arranged for Marin to try professionally repairing Eileen’s recovered original body. At the Special Operations Bureau, Yu Sheng discovered Baili Xue was secretly impersonating her sister Baili Qing while the real Baili Qing stayed home because she could not hide her horns.

• Eileen climbed back into the attic through a ventilation window, got stuck, and told Yu Sheng she had recovered her original body from Huli’s tail.
• Yu Sheng proposed asking Marin to use Alice’s Cabin’s professional equipment to repair Eileen’s body instead of relying on crude alchemy.
• Yu Sheng took Eileen and Huli to the Special Operations Bureau cafeteria, where Huli eagerly devoured the food while he called Marin.
• Marin agreed to try repairing Eileen’s ancient body and arranged for Marys to pick them up.
• Baili Xue appeared disguised as Baili Qing and told Yu Sheng she was secretly handling her sister’s work because Baili Qing’s horns were stuck and could not be concealed.

Yu Sheng and Baili Xue checked that Eileen showed no lingering pollution from the Omen Goddess, while Baili Qing learned that Yu Sheng’s blood-bestowal had affected both her and her hallucination. Baili Qing tried to sleep but could not get comfortable with her dragon horns, and an unfamiliar notification from the Otherworld Inn Database appeared on her phone.

• Baili Xue visited Yu Sheng and Eileen, confirmed Eileen showed no signs of pollution, and told Yu Sheng that Maris was waiting at Special Operations Bureau headquarters.
• After Baili Xue left, Huli teased Yu Sheng about how much Baili Xue had looked at him.
• Baili Qing asked Baili Xue about the blood-bestowal ritual, and Baili Xue admitted she was Baili Qing’s hallucination and that Yu Sheng’s blood could affect hallucinations.
• Baili Qing went to bed early, but her dragon horns made it difficult to lie down or sleep.
• Baili Qing unlocked her phone and saw a notification from the Otherworld Inn Database.

Yu Sheng and the others traveled from Boundary City through its deserted outskirts and a spacetime jump point to the floating island where the Alice Embassy stood. They arrived at the mansion and were greeted by the Alice envoy Malin.

• Marys drove Yu Sheng, Huli, Luna, and the excited Eileen through the Otherworld shortcut and the abandoned outer district of Boundary City.
• Marys explained that the deserted district concealed a monitored society of nonhuman entities, while Eileen listened to her stories about Alice dolls frightening outsiders for fun.
• The group crossed the isolation belt into the wilderness beyond the city, where Yu Sheng saw Special Operations Bureau outposts, unstable roads, and resettlement settlements.
• Marys drove toward a spacetime jump point, and the car crossed into a region of floating islands to reach the Alice Embassy.
• Yu Sheng and the others got out at the mansion, where the Alice envoy Malin welcomed them.

Yu Sheng and his companions brought Eileen’s shattered original vessel to Miss Marlene’s mansion, where Marlene repaired it using nanomachines. Eileen’s restored body remained unresponsive when she tried to transfer her consciousness into it.

• Yu Sheng and his companions saw that the mansion’s roof had been damaged when it collided with a neighboring castle during an emergency evasion.
• Miss Marlene led the group to the Doll Printing Room and examined the fragments of Eileen’s original vessel.
• Miss Marlene said she could reconstruct the vessel and that restoring it would help Eileen recover her Alice Key and reconnect to the Garden Network.
• Miss Marlene and Maris used the printing device and nanomachines to rebuild Eileen’s body, including its missing structures and Alice Key.
• Eileen tried to transfer her consciousness into the restored vessel, but it did not respond.

Yu Sheng and the others revived Eileen in her original blonde doll body, but it repeatedly fell apart because its joints would not hold together. Eileen asked Yu Sheng to try improvised alchemy, and Luna suddenly stabbed him in the arm as he prepared.

• Yu Sheng suggested bringing Eileen’s oil painting to the platform, and the group propped it beside her blonde shell with a crate of canned peaches.
• Eileen, Yu Sheng, Huli, and Luna improvised a revival ritual with candles, oil, spices, and a bow, and the shell awakened successfully.
• Eileen opened her eyes, recognized Yu Sheng by poking his nostril, and found that her original body was stiff and cracking.
• Luna caught Eileen as the body came apart at its joints, but Eileen’s head and limbs remained animated and she blamed Marlene’s nanomachines for not being sticky.
• Eileen asked Yu Sheng to try improvised alchemy, and Luna charged forward and stabbed him in the arm.

Yu Sheng repaired Eileen’s shattered body with an improvised alchemical mixture, restoring her to a lively, human-sized form. After Eileen began adjusting to walking again, Marlene proposed examining her condition, checking the Alice Key, and reconnecting her to the Garden Network.

• Marlene and Marys watched as Yu Sheng used blood, clay, and other materials to repair Eileen’s limbs, while Eileen’s detached parts kept moving and talking.
• Yu Sheng restored Eileen’s limbs and face, then reattached her head to her body.
• Eileen regained control of her body, fell while taking her first step, and then practiced walking until she adjusted to her new height and movement.
• Eileen compared her height with Huli and Luna, then realized she was still the shortest person in the household.
• Marlene recommended checking Eileen’s stability, confirming whether the Alice Key had been reconstructed, and reconnecting her to the Garden Network; Eileen eagerly agreed.

Marin began a postoperative examination of Eileen with Maris as the analysis host, but the examination took an unexpected turn when Yu Sheng revealed he had plastered over Eileen's Panflow port. After Eileen connected by holding the data cable in her mouth and the examination began, Marin later learned that Maris had detected an abnormality in Eileen's mental-operation efficiency.

• Marin prepared to examine Eileen and explained that Maris needed to serve as the analysis host because Eileen had been disconnected from the Garden Network for too long.
• Marin discovered that Eileen's Panflow port was missing, and Yu Sheng admitted he had plastered over it; Eileen and her smaller body pounced on him in anger.
• Eileen connected to Maris's examination system by putting the data cable in her mouth, and Marin began the examination after confirming the connection worked.
• Yu Sheng, Huli, and Marin waited in the next room while Marin told Yu Sheng about the Alice dolls' activities across the universe and their mission to address supernatural problems.
• Marin received word from Maris that something was wrong with Eileen: her mental operations were functioning with abnormal efficiency.

Marlene discovered that a vast, ancient Anomaly data structure had been sealed inside Eileen’s mind for at least 3,700 years, possibly since her attempted fusion with the Omen Goddess. Although it appeared harmless, Marlene warned against altering it, and Yu Sheng learned that restoring Eileen’s original body to her doll network might ease the mental strain.

• Marlene showed Yu Sheng the red, unparseable data structure inside Eileen’s mind and explained that it was slowing her mental processing.
• Yu Sheng recalled Eileen’s final log describing a huge, harmless set of special data she had asked to preserve before fusing with the Omen Goddess.
• Marlene concluded that the data had likely been deliberately constructed and cautioned everyone not to tamper with it because it might be connected to Eileen’s altered mental structure and the Omen Goddess.
• Marlene explained that integrating Eileen’s original body into her distributed doll network could improve its efficiency and reduce the relative burden of the Anomaly data.
• Yu Sheng remembered that Eileen had felt sharper after gaining more mass-produced bodies and wondered whether the additional bodies had increased her computing power.

Yu Sheng and Marlin discussed Eileen’s mysterious Anomaly data and agreed to keep investigating while telling her the truth. As Eileen left the examination platform, she suddenly shrank to about 66.6 centimeters, leaving everyone baffled.

• Yu Sheng learned that making mass-produced bodies seemed to ease Eileen’s mental pressure, while Marlin said the Anomaly data was sealed and Marys would add another safety barrier before Eileen connected to the Garden Network.
• Marlin promised to keep analyzing the data and seek help through the Garden Network, and Yu Sheng decided Eileen should be told about the mystery.
• Yu Sheng, Marlin, Huli, and Luna returned to the Doll Printing Room, where Eileen eagerly told Yu Sheng about her tour of the Garden Network.
• As Eileen stepped down from the platform to join Yu Sheng, her body rapidly shrank until she was about 66.6 centimeters tall.
• Eileen clung to Yu Sheng’s leg in alarm, and Yu Sheng and the others were left unable to explain the sudden change.

Eileen’s newly restored body shrank to its familiar 66.6-centimeter height after two hours, but an examination showed it was functioning exceptionally well. When the group returned home, the seal’s picture frame disintegrated, leaving Eileen feeling lighter, while Marlene remained puzzled by what she had witnessed.

• Eileen cried after her restored body shrank, and Yu Sheng suspected it had run out of energy after being active.
• Marlene and Maris examined Eileen again and found that her body had no errors and unusually high operating efficiency.
• Eileen asked Yu Sheng to carry her home, and her black-haired counterpart’s picture frame crumbled into ashes when she jumped down.
• Yu Sheng theorized that Eileen’s activated original shell had caused the picture frame serving as her seal to disintegrate, and Eileen said she felt good and lighter.
• Yu Sheng and the others returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, while Marlene tried putting a data cable in her mouth to see whether it produced a signal.

Yu Sheng let Eileen’s five tiny bodies sleep in the master bedroom and agreed to investigate why the newest one had shrunk the next day. Meanwhile, Mo Ran arrived at the damaged Black Stone Station to meet Argraidean Star Scholars who would help repair it.

• Yu Sheng agreed to let four Eileen bodies sleep in boxes and one in his bed, then carried the dolls upstairs when they swarmed onto him.
• Eileen asked Yu Sheng to look into her shrunken body and said she planned to enter the Garden Network with Maris’s guidance.
• At Black Stone Station above Shouji, engineering teams began sealing the enormous breach through the station’s Core Area.
• Mo Ran arrived at the station and learned that technical experts from the Argraidean Star Domain had arrived.
• Mo Ran met the Argraidean Elves, whom she had invited to help repair Black Stone Station.

Mo Ran guided Argraidean Star Scholars through the badly damaged Black Stone Station, where Yu Sheng’s Star Guardian ability was making the station heal like a living body. After the scholars agreed to investigate its systems and the traces left by the World Bridge, Yu Sheng turned his attention to a strange iridescence spreading through his consciousness.

• Mo Ran showed the Star Scholars how Black Stone Station was repairing itself, startling them with its living metal, waving cables, and other signs that the station was alive.
• Mo Ran explained that Yu Sheng’s Star Guardian had taken over the station and that she needed the scholars to repair its systems and study changes left by its fusion with the World Bridge.
• The Star Scholars learned that Black Stone Station had become part of Yu Sheng’s body, then agreed to help investigate it as a rare research opportunity.
• Yu Sheng withdrew his attention from the station after it entered a stable self-healing process and considered Luo, Baili Qing, and the Black Dot scientist.
• Yu Sheng’s attention stopped in his dream when he saw a strange iridescence spreading through his consciousness.

Yu Sheng discovered that the Boundary Bridge was regrowing as rifts among the Star Proliferation Body crystal tree in the Soul Wilderness. Through one rift, he glimpsed a ghost ship sailing across a sea of illusory flames among the stars.

• Yu Sheng saw iridescent rifts and branching structures in his dream and realized they were connected to the Boundary Bridge.
• Yu Sheng found Luna praying in the Grand Cathedral, and she led him to the rapidly growing crystal tree.
• Yu Sheng spotted spatial-temporal rifts among the crystal tree’s branches and explained that the Boundary Bridge was growing anew after he devoured its blueprint and control mechanism.
• Yu Sheng touched the tree and connected with it, seeing the rifts and crystal branches form a vast structure in his consciousness.
• Yu Sheng peered through a rift and saw a ghost ship sailing through space amid illusory dark-green flames.

Yu Sheng returned from a strange vision of the Crystal Tree’s space-time rifts and woke to find Eileen had shorted the electricity while trying to charge herself. As he cleaned her soot-covered body, Eileen discovered she could detach and reassemble all her limbs using glowing golden threads, leaving Yu Sheng intent on investigating her new ability.

• Yu Sheng told Luna to monitor the Crystal Tree’s growth and its space-time rifts after experiencing a vision that seemed to reach the edge of the universe.
• Yu Sheng woke to a tripped circuit breaker and found Eileen soot-blackened after she tried to charge herself at an electrical outlet.
• Yu Sheng dragged Eileen to the bathroom to wash her, where she removed her head and then detached her arms and legs.
• Yu Sheng checked that Eileen’s detached parts were undamaged, and Eileen showed that she could reassemble herself.
• Eileen revealed that glowing golden threads had appeared and could guide her body back together, prompting Yu Sheng to consider studying her original body.