Chapter Summaries

Gao Gong fought through the No. 0 Database’s endless viruses and reached the high-level information mist surrounding Skeleton Mountain. He used his Starry Sky Cloud Code to draw a thread of the mist’s light into a fragile glass bubble, beginning his attempt to steal its power.

• Gao Gong entered the No. 0 Database, where viruses attacked his data body and disrupted his senses and biological systems.
• Gao Gong used flame code to purge viruses, earning experience, Hacker Reputation, and a Specialization Point as his experience rose past two million.
• Gao Gong saw the high-level information mist trapping the Colorless Flame and severed his sensory systems to avoid direct contact with it.
• Gao Gong used Starry Sky Cloud Code to create a small glass bubble despite the immense pressure and strain.
• Gao Gong moved the bubble toward the mist, and threads of light began flowing into it.

High Worker collected a dangerous fragment of advanced information fog and encountered the newly born Level 50 Rich Lady Love Binding Machine virus. After the virus bound itself to him and repeatedly failed to copy the crystal ball, thousands of copies surrounded him, leaving him completely bound.

• High Worker created the Starry Sky Cloud Code and stored a dangerous fragment of advanced information fog in a glass ball.
• High Worker considered how the fragment might help him trace the forces behind the Memory Matrix and contact the Ancient Machinery Collective.
• Rich Lady Love Prototype appeared, revealed that it had stolen some of High Worker's memories, and asked to inspect the glass ball.
• Rich Lady Love Prototype failed to copy the glass ball, and High Worker recognized it as a Binding Machine Virus.
• High Worker handed the glass ball over, but the virus's repeated copying attempts produced thousands of copies that surrounded and bound him.

Gaogesi was nearly assimilated by the Binder, who sought to bind her code and become her, until the Gaogesi Family arrived in force. A girl leading the Ternary Crazy Legion captured a Rich Lady Aiai Prototype and ordered her troops to destroy the fleeing viruses.

• The Binder struggled to decipher Gaogesi’s code, then bound her and began memory homogenization to assimilate her.
• Gaogesi taunted the Binder while her memories flooded into the virus and disrupted the assimilation.
• The Gaogesi Family launched a red-lit assault with virus-infected weapons, forcing the Binder’s followers to flee.
• A girl from the Gaogesi Family grabbed a Rich Lady Aiai Prototype and blasted apart his lower body with a Shark-brand rocket launcher.
• The girl planted her foot on the Prototype’s face and ordered the Ternary Crazy Legion to wipe out the fleeing viruses.

Gong Gong helped Gaokesi’s family defeat the Sugar Mommy Love-Love Binding Machines and killed their nearly defeated prototype, while Dida fought her way to the Crust Engine. As the imprisoned viruses prepared to leave Virus Vault No. 0, flames from the weakened seal created an aged Sugar Mommy Love-Love Prototype from discarded data.

• Gaokesi’s family flattened the Binding Machines, and Big Black revealed that Alisha had upgraded him into a powerful destructive program virus.
• Gong Gong deduced that Gaokesi was using the search engine’s power to absorb viral traits and prepare against the Mother City.
• Gong Gong used the Missing User Data bug and a targeted antivirus program to kill the weakened Binding Machine prototype, which became a dark crystal ball.
• Dida fought through the Digital Space’s antivirus guards and reached the gate to the Crust Engine.
• The viruses left Virus Vault No. 0 as flames from the weakened seal gathered discarded data into a Sugar Mommy Love-Love Prototype aged by fifty years.

Gao Gong hacked the Crust Engine and obtained the Electronic Life Chip knowledge chain, giving him a new route to challenge the Brain-Machine Project. The Earthnet Group's sages traced the breach to the Crust Engine, where David assembled powerful digital guards to confront the intruder.

• An old man appeared amid data faces modeled on the Rich Lady Love-Love Machine and its later versions.
• Tick-Tock entered the Crust Engine's database with her G-Type Gundam, and Gao Gong's execution program connected it to the system.
• Gao Gong broke through the digital barriers, seized the Crust Engine's professional knowledge, and merged it into the Electronic Life Chip knowledge chain.
• Five Earthnet Group sages discussed the stolen data, and David realized Gao Gong had used the missing AIs to gain enough data for digital transmission.
• David transmitted himself to the Crust Engine and summoned dozens of level-60 Digital Guards as the other two engines entered power-saving mode.

Gao Gong fought the Evolution Sage David while Di Da and the advanced AIs defended the Crust Engine as its blueprint downloaded. Gao Gong’s feint drew away the Digital Guardians, letting him kill David and claim a Sage Legacy.

• Gao Gong ordered Di Da to command the hacked AIs and hold off the Level 60 Digital Guardians while he continued downloading the Crust Engine blueprint.
• Di Da summoned advanced AIs through Gaidu, but their attacks barely harmed the Digital Guardians, which overwhelmed them with powerful area attacks.
• David confronted Gao Gong inside the Crust Engine and used his civilization staff to summon and fuse the Digital Guardians into a Tier-3 High-Dimensional Digital Entity.
• As the entity broke through Gao Gong’s Virtual Realm, the Crust Engine blueprint reached 76%, and Gao Gong revealed that the Digital Guardians had been forcibly recalled during an attack on Netweb Group headquarters.
• Gao Gong used a crystal ball to defeat David, killing the Evolution Sage and gaining experience, rewards, and a Sage Legacy.

G defeated a DigNet Group executive in the virtual realm, obtained a powerful staff and a Crust Engine blueprint, then used the reactor to rebuild Dida as an energy mushroom. As Gaokesi finished paralyzing DigNet Group’s branch networks, an old man appeared before her team.

• G used fragments of the virtual realm to repair the starry sky cloud code and kill David, then claimed the Staff of Wisdom.
• G downloaded the Crust Engine Type IV blueprint and gained faction points and leader reputation.
• G led Dida out of the virtual realm and used the Crust Engine to transform her into a Walter Energy Mushroom.
• Gaokesi paralyzed DigNet Group’s branch networks and blew apart the avatars of four wise men.
• Gaokesi refused to withdraw and raised her rocket launcher when an old man emerged from the data stream.

Gaokesi fought a mysterious old man in cyberspace, whose powers overwhelmed her until she resisted his colorless flames and Alisa arrived. Meanwhile, Gao Gong completed his hacker class-change quest and created Neural Editing Technology, then prepared to use the Mushroom Girl as bait to lure the String of Purple Energy.

• The old man erased Gaokesi’s virus attacks and disintegrated her arm, but she regenerated and struck back with the Big Black Man’s help.
• The old man trapped Gaokesi in a colorless flame, but black patterns on her body resisted it as Alisa approached and he vanished.
• Alisa caught Gaokesi as the flames faded, while Gao Yuanyuan collapsed in reality, exhausted.
• Gao Gong completed the AI War quest, maxed his Military Hacker class and related skills, and merged his knowledge into Neural Editing Technology.
• Gao Gong decided to use the adapting Mushroom Girl as bait to try to catch the String of Purple Energy.

After David Hilbert’s death, the Deep Web Group’s sages investigated the losses and the Loka Sage proposed that the super-hacker prototype become the next Evolution Sage. Meanwhile, Eliza explained to Gao Gong that she wanted to create a virus threatening the Fortress, revealing a struggle over which system would rule cyberspace and a contract offering Big Data entities immortality.

• The Deep Web Group’s sages gathered after David Hilbert’s death, and Omega argued with the others over whether he had been responsible for his own death.
• The Rules Sage reported that an attacker had stolen frontier knowledge while using viruses to hack branches and recall digital guards, but the Loka Sage found the group’s losses limited.
• The Loka Sage proposed that the super-hacker prototype become the next Evolution Sage, surprising the assembled sages.
• Gao Gong asked Eliza why she wanted to create a dangerous virus, and she clarified that it was meant to threaten the Fortress rather than the Mother City.
• Eliza told Gao Gong that the Fortress Old Man sought control of cyberspace and had offered Big Data concept entities a contract promising immortality.

Eliza explained that the fortress's old man could clone every living thing and replace the minds of artificial life, prompting Brain Vat, Mimetic Sense, and Old Ghost to resist him. She revealed that Gaokesi was being cultivated with dangerous viruses and data because she possessed the power of No. 9 Collapse, Hydrimo, which Eliza called the Mutated Composite.

• Eliza told Gaogong that the fortress's old man could copy AI source code and restore human neural circuits, making every living thing a potential clone.
• Eliza said Brain Vat, Mimetic Sense, and Old Ghost had decided to fight the fortress's old man rather than be converted.
• Gaogong confronted Eliza about feeding Gaokesi dangerous data inside the coffin, and Eliza revealed they had found part of the No. 9 Collapse shell and confirmed its authority.
• Eliza identified No. 9 Collapse as Hydrimo, the Mutated Composite, whose body caused any life-related substance entering it to mutate.
• Eliza explained that she was feeding Gaokesi viruses and dangerous data so the resulting mutations might eventually make her a super virus capable of threatening the Mother City.

After Alisa left to feed the chickens, Tidi completed her bloodline conversion and discovered that her new energy form let her perceive cyberspace as a vast biological magnetic field. Alisa then appeared before Tidi and explained how she had created a physical space inside cyberspace, leaving Tidi unable to probe her.

• Alisa left to feed the chickens while Gao Gong stared at the coffin in silence.
• Tidi completed her bloodline conversion, gaining new attributes and abilities as an energy lifeform while three bodily systems shut down.
• Tidi saw her new form in a mirror and used her energy mushroom’s information-capturing ability to perceive cyberspace as a planet-spanning biological magnetic field.
• Alisa predicted what Tidi was thinking and created a data figure resembling her, which questioned how it had entered a physical space.
• Alisa explained that someone with sufficient authority could create a small physical space inside cyberspace, and Tidi’s Probe skill failed to identify her.

Tick-Tock traveled through cyberspace with Alyssa and Mr. G to use her as bait for the Number Five Aberration, while Mr. G drew rewards and opened the Sage's Legacy. He obtained the Digital Orb of Wisdom, a Tier 2 skill that could enlighten digital lifeforms.

• Alyssa told Tick-Tock they had left the Divine Land an hour earlier and were heading to capture the Number Five Aberration, with Tick-Tock serving as bait.
• Alyssa's touch triggered a system mark on Tick-Tock and rewarded her with increased stats, AI Favorability, and three lottery draws.
• Mr. G stopped opening blueprints after twenty failed draws, then used five lottery draws to win a Specialization Point, Agility, Directed Knowledge Analysis, and Glow Stick Lollipops.
• Mr. G opened the Sage's Legacy and obtained the Sage-exclusive Tier 2 skill Digital Orb of Wisdom.

Gao Gong maxed out his Sage bloodline skill and several Tier-Two skills, gaining permanent stat boosts and powerful new abilities. He abandoned the requirements for advancing the Ring of Digital Wisdom and ended the chapter considering his Tier-Two profession.

• Gao Gong upgraded Digital Wisdom Orb to Master, transforming it into the Ring of Digital Wisdom and earning a Master's Certificate.
• Gao Gong used the Ring of Wisdom's three daily charges on himself, permanently increasing his Health, Information Energy, and Intelligence.
• Gao Gong reviewed the Ring's Tier-Three advancement requirements and decided he could not meet them yet.
• Gao Gong maxed out Solidified Energy, advanced it through Explosive Hammer, and mastered Small Weather Weapon—Mjolnir (Refined).
• Gao Gong maxed out Human Surfing and gained the Virtual Life Replication Ritual, whose potential was limited by his non-virtual path.
• Gao Gong began considering which profession to choose for Tier Two.

High Engineer and Eliza prepared to lure the Number Five Collapse Entity while evading the Pipeline and the Cybernetic Giant. High Engineer created four real Ticktocks as bait, and Eliza revealed the planet-spanning network she could manipulate.

• High Engineer ordered his faction’s researchers to prepare a dual transformation combining biotechnology and machinery.
• Eliza told High Engineer that the Pipeline and the Cybernetic Giant were also searching for Number Five, forcing them to act quickly.
• Eliza planned to distract the two hardware spirits with false information, while High Engineer proposed using Ticktock as real bait.
• High Engineer used Virtual Life Replication Ritual to create four Ticktocks, each real and independent of the original.
• Eliza revealed the network’s chains connecting people and machines across the planet, then poured out communications and other data as feed.

Eliza and Gao Gong kept two powerful data entities occupied while Dida explored a radioactive garbage island, using her newly strengthened Walter Energy to attract local creatures. As Dida searched for Corrupted Body Number Five, every mechanical bio-beast's eyes began to glow violet.

• Eliza used a simulation matrix to keep two data entities from interfering for at least an hour, while Gao Gong revealed he had sent encrypted communications as insurance.
• Combat data from cybernetic implants formed a giant named Kratos, who opened a subconscious world and let a streak of violet light pass through it.
• Dida found that radiation temporarily boosted her health and permanently increased her Walter Energy.
• Dida scattered glowing mycelia across the garbage island, drawing tin rats and other mechanical and mutated creatures out of hiding.
• As Dida wondered what Corrupted Body Number Five looked like, violet light appeared in the eyes of every mechanical bio-beast.

The Violet Energy String targeted Ticktock, but Gao Gong intervened and trapped it with a freezing attack and his Flesh Carpet. After absorbing its energy and evolving, he unleashed a massive lightning strike that destroyed Garbage Island, leaving the entity’s fate unclear.

• The Violet Energy String surrounded Ticktock with a violet domain and began draining her, but Gao Gong froze her and killed her with his attack.
• Gao Gong froze Garbage Island and the surrounding sea with his modified Helium Atom Freezing Hand Cannon, destroying his transformed right hand in the process.
• Gao Gong covered the frozen island with his Flesh Carpet, trapping the Violet Energy String and draining its energy through Flesh Fusion.
• The absorbed Honkai energy evolved Gao Gong’s bloodline and Advanced Energy Symbiote, while the system said Perfect Fusion would unlock the planet’s main storyline quest.
• Gao Gong powered up Mjolnir with the entity’s energy and blasted the island with lightning, leaving it gone after the flash.

After the storm, Gao Gong absorbed the wounded Purple Energy String and became Collapse Entity No. 5, gaining spatial abilities. The system then began the planetary mainline quest “Unknown Evolutionary Relic,” leaving Gao Gong stunned by the revelation that a relic existed.

• Alisa reconnected with Gao Gong and saw the goat-shaped Collapse Entity sealed in ice.
• Gao Gong’s biological and mechanical bodies each surpassed 10,000 HP, and he chose the Foot Technician talent.
• Gao Gong explained that the Purple Goat could not escape while its spatial strings kept breaking, then absorbed it through his hand.
• The system named Gao Gong Collapse Entity No. 5 and granted him Purple String Space, Spatial Traversal, Collapse Sense, and String Flame.
• The system began the planetary mainline quest “Unknown Evolutionary Relic,” and Gao Gong recalled that relics were artificial cosmic laws capable of surviving the Three Great Calamities.

Gao Gong discovered that Mech-Rift Star’s main quest involved collecting Relic Fragments linked to the planet’s Collapse Entities, then escaped as Kratos and a mechanical legion tried to attack. Yagami Motoko drove Kratos back, but another Yagami Motoko appeared and invited her to become one with her.

• Gao Gong examined the planetary quest and learned that collecting completed and incomplete Relic Fragments would unlock more historical regions.
• After Alyssa sensed a dangerous data entity, Gao Gong used Spatial Traversal to reach the mirror figure he had summoned: Yagami Motoko.
• Kratos emerged from the sea and tried to command a mechanical legion, but conflicting orders repeatedly halted its attack.
• Yagami Motoko confronted Kratos at Garbage Island, resisted its code with the Wall of Encoding, and forced it to retreat beneath the sea.
• A second Yagami Motoko appeared behind the departing android and called her an Adherent of the Lady, urging her to become one with her.

Gao Gong returned to Du Zhaodi’s island factory, where she had rapidly built the framework for a crust engine, and explained how Collapse Entities and their technologies were connected. The two discussed Xiao Yu’s incomplete powers and the possibility of Du wielding Android A’s nanomimetic technology, while Gao Gong agreed to try to help.

• Du Zhaodi’s machines continued building the crust engine as Gao Gong arrived and reunited with her.
• Du Zhaodi asked Gao Gong about the Collapse Entities and learned that Xiao Yu needed the Black Prince’s personal armor to fully realize her abilities.
• Gao Gong learned that Xiao Yu had gone to Sacred Brain Group as a liaison under a new cooperation treaty.
• Du Zhaodi asked whether she could wield Collapse Entity No. 10, and Gao Gong agreed to try despite Android A’s immense strength.
• Du Zhaodi asked Gao Gong about several large payments Du High-Tech had recently received from a new business.

Gao Gong collected Professor Han and his research data while preparing the resources and expertise needed to develop a new class system and complete his advancement. After several spatial folds revealed hidden tier-three structures near Sector 9, he arrived at Fuqing Island.

• Gao Gong saw a large transfer from Capsule Man H and Sister Ji’s “Beautiful Boy Paradise” project and gave Director Du a vague explanation about its source.
• Director Du told Gao Gong that she had gathered most of the materials for his conversion surgery, and Gao Gong asked her to bring in the recruited experts.
• Gao Gong used Spatial Traversal to visit Professor Han at the rebuilt research institute in the Iron Sand Desert and learned that Han had gathered defective humanoid robots and compiled data on seventy-three classes and 4,214 orders.
• Gao Gong transported Professor Han to the Northern Hemisphere, then crossed Sector 9 and noticed repeated spatial folds that suggested a hidden tier-three structure.
• Gao Gong’s Purple String Space energy rapidly replenished, and he arrived at Fuqing Island.