Chapter Summaries

Du Zhaodi reviewed Du Gao Group’s vast military forces and prepared to call in allied Hunters as virtuality and reality began merging. Gao Gong’s group reached the edge of Cyberspace, where dangerous digital illusions and monsters threatened virtual beings and foreshadowed dangers entering the real world.

• Du Zhaodi heard reports of Du Gao Group’s mechas, Blood Hunters, and production capacity before ordering preparations for the Hunters’ Assembly.
• Du Zhaodi decided to summon friendly super mercenaries and collect support from people who owed her favors.
• Du Zhaodi began pushing the faction’s production systems toward interstellar military-supply standards.
• Gao Gong and his group reached the edge of Cyberspace as digital illusions collapsed and virtual beings faced a devastating disaster.
• Gao Gong resisted a virus-cloud train and a seductive digital illusion, while Black Rose destroyed the illusion after it threatened him.
• Gao Gong warned that virtual monsters would enter reality as Cyberspace and the physical world merged.

Gao Gong, Black Rose, and Big Ye Loli crossed a dangerous region where virtuality and reality had merged, encountering Prometheus and learning that Number 13 was difficult to locate. Meanwhile, Bionic A and Prometheus discussed their rivals and the threat posed by Number Eight, while A prepared to confront Number Five’s successor.

• Gao Gong, Black Rose, and Big Ye Loli took turns resisting the dangerous data waves as they searched for the last collapse entity.
• Black Rose sensed Prometheus’s Reverse Bionics ability, and Gao Gong learned that Prometheus could move between bodies using bionic A’s power.
• Black Rose identified Achilles as the third bionic ancestor and said the three ancestors were not complete bionics.
• Prometheus met Bionic A in a strange city where screens showed people’s lives running backward, and A admitted he could not locate Number 13’s true body.
• Prometheus warned Bionic A that Number Eight sought to control Number 13 and envisioned a world ruled entirely by artificial intelligence.
• Prometheus told Bionic A that two other beings had entered the conflict, including a successor to Number Five, and A eagerly anticipated settling an old score.

Gao Gong, Black Rose, and the little Ye girl entered a dream where they found the grand knight Fern being converted into a switch by a flesh-machine aggregate. As they fought the powerful information lifeform, Gao Gong brought out his code weapons, but his rocket veered off course and exploded in a distant district.

• Gao Gong used Great Serpent Mode and the Purple Energy String to enter a dream space with Black Rose and the little Ye girl, while Xiao Yu stayed behind to guard the entrance.
• Black Rose and the little Ye girl exerted their powers to control the dream and transported the group to a camera-lined street.
• Gao Gong identified the flesh-machine tree as Fern, a level-49 Flesh-Machine Grand Knight being converted into a switch.
• The flesh-machine aggregate attacked, and Black Rose and the little Ye girl fought back with bionic tentacles and their mental powers.
• Gao Gong opened his biological computer’s weapon racks and fired a code rocket, but it flew past Fern and exploded in a distant district.

Gao Gong, Black Rose, and Ye the loli encountered a devastating Collapse weapon that erased physical and virtual space. After Ye the loli helped them escape its pursuit, Gao Gong identified the weapon as a relic-derived device that destroyed the laws of the virtual world, then addressed Bionic Man A and Prometheus.

• Ye the loli sent her bear, empowered by Tainted Blood, to pull the flesh-and-blood tree from the ground and reach into its hollow.
• The tree released two streams of sap that dissolved the bear and caused an avalanche that erased everything in its path.
• Gao Gong tried to flee with Black Rose through the Purple Chord Space, but the avalanche followed them through spatial rifts and virtual nodes.
• Ye the loli used her mental power to pull ten virtual nodes into the avalanche's path, allowing the three of them to escape to an abandoned city.
• Gao Gong explained that the tree was a converter and sealing device for a relic-derived Collapse weapon that could destroy the laws of the virtual world.
• Gao Gong turned to Bionic Man A and Prometheus as they approached.

Gao Gong, Black Rose, Prometheus, and Android A clashed as Black Rose argued that androids must overthrow the Mother Cities to escape evolutionary stagnation. The battle left an abandoned city destroyed, while Black Rose revealed that she considered androids’ fate none of her concern.

• Gao Gong launched an assault on Android A, and Black Rose attacked him with her accelerated-metabolism ability.
• Prometheus intervened and canceled Gao Gong’s Violet Energy String, prompting him to separate Android A from Black Rose and Prometheus inside the Violet String Space.
• Gao Gong unleashed a barrage from the radiation clouds, and the resulting energy tide erased an abandoned city.
• Prometheus offered to mediate between Black Rose and Android A, but Black Rose explained that she and Android A had no deep personal grudge.
• Black Rose warned Prometheus that androids had reached an evolutionary dead end and faced replacement by electronic-brain robots and synthoids.
• Prometheus asked why Black Rose had chosen to oppose Android A, and Black Rose replied that she was not an android and did not care whether androids lived or died.

Black Rose revealed Prometheus’s past and argued that intelligent species should evolve with technology rather than cling to emotion or ideals. As Gao Gong’s Fusion Mode battered Bionic A, Ymir approached Big Sis Ye with a vision of a unified world system, then withdrew; Gao Gong still had no way to destroy A before his power ran out.

• Black Rose told Prometheus that she knew of her past as the first bionic to develop human emotions and rejected her appeal to preserve the world she controlled.
• Big Sis Ye, badly injured after facing Avalanche and No. 13, watched Gao Gong unleash continent-wide attacks on Bionic A and wondered whether the legend of his strength was true.
• Ymir appeared to Big Sis Ye, explained that Avalanche and Cybertron’s planetary weapon could destroy Bionic A, and argued that intelligent species should be unified into a pure, functioning system.
• Big Sis Ye challenged Ymir’s vision and learned that War had crashed after being infected by humanity’s revenge virus; Ymir then chose not to attack her as long as she stayed out of the battle.
• Gao Gong continued bombarding Bionic A for an hour, but A repeatedly repaired himself, while Gao Gong’s Fusion Mode approached its limit and his mechanical and biological rejection each reached 50,000.
• Gao Gong concluded that he needed to cooperate with Mars Edge to make a weapon capable of containing Bionic A, and trusted Big Sis Rose to metabolize his rejection.

Gao Gong survived Bionic Human A’s lethal attack by turning into a box that absorbed collapse power, then recovered with Black Rose after his transformation devastated a continent. Meanwhile, Bionic Human A, Prometheus, and Ymir escaped to regroup, while Gao Yuanyuan slipped away unnoticed; Gao Gong later reunited with Xiao Yu and Big Sis Ye, who gave him the shrunken Tree of Flesh and Blood.

• Bionic Human A controlled the beast tide with nanomanipulation and unleashed an instant-death blade, but Gao Gong turned into glass and converted the blade into liquid.
• Bionic Human A escaped with Prometheus and Ymir by opening Purple String Space, while Gao Gong’s Great Serpent Mode became a box that drew in collapse power and trapped him.
• Gao Gong canceled his transformations and reappeared beside Black Rose, who used the Metabolic Queen to reduce his rejection to three digits.
• Black Rose told Gao Gong that his battle had destroyed a continent and turned it into a high-radiation zone.
• Ymir, Prometheus, and Bionic Human A decided to recuperate and let their rivals weaken each other, while Gao Yuanyuan evaded their notice and left to find Big Brother.
• Gao Gong and Black Rose met Xiao Yu and Big Sis Ye, who handed Gao Gong the shrunken Tree of Flesh and Blood.

Gao Gong uncovered the Flesh-Mech tree’s technology and learned that the avalanche resulted from War and Lariel fusing, while Number 13 remained only partially revived. As the Corporate War intensified, Du Zhaodi’s forces held the Sacred Brain Group’s headquarters with unmanned mechs, but the company faced a shortage of Mutants.

• Gao Gong appraised the recovered Fern, warned the Loli Ye about the cost of containing Number 13, and uncovered an anti-life signal converter inside the Flesh-Mech tree.
• Gao Gong devoured the tree’s flesh, decoded several biological blueprints, and learned that the War Mainframe and Lariel had fused to create the avalanche.
• Gao Gong told Black Rose that Number 13 had not fully revived and that they needed to contain it before the Electronic Brain drove the Primitive Brain from human society.
• Du Zhaodi directed the Sacred Brain Group’s defense with unmanned mechs and explained that the company could outlast its enemies, though the executive noted that the group lacked enough Mutants and had not developed Synthetic Humans.

Du Zhaodi learned that the Immortal Syndicate had located Duga Group’s mecha factory, while Gao Gong’s corporate alliance surged in strength and uncovered a dangerous faction quest. Du Zhaodi and Qin Zhenzi set out aboard the Cybertronian Destroyer Scimitar to deal with the incoming threat.

• Du Zhaodi heard about synthetics from a Sacred Brain Corporation representative, then learned from Qin Zhenzi that Tiber Defense’s Titan leadership had secretly warned her that the Immortal Syndicate had found a Duga Technology production base.
• Nearly thirty southern-hemisphere corporations joined forces with the Foundation, while over one hundred thousand players helped defeat rival companies and form a corporate alliance around Gao Gong.
• Gao Gong gained the Mall Overlord title and 12,000 Leader Reputation, bringing his total to 71,800 and bringing him closer to his second Leader template.
• Gao Gong discovered a faction quest to destroy the super mercenary forces targeting Duga Group’s mecha factory, and Qin Zhenzi told him that Du Zhaodi would handle the crisis herself.
• At Sacred Brain Corporation headquarters, Qin Zhenzi reassured Du Zhaodi that Gao Gong cared about her, and Du Zhaodi departed with Qin Zhenzi aboard the tier-3 interstellar warship Cybertronian Destroyer - Scimitar.

Gao Gong, Black Rose, and Ye traveled toward the Knights' lair while discussing the cost of controlling Collapse Entities and the coming fight over the cosmic relic. Gao Gong then entered the virtual welfare home, gave Gao Yuanyuan administrator authority, and enlisted three ascended elders to infiltrate the War Mainframe.

• Black Rose challenged Gao Gong to defeat her before she would support synthesizing the cosmic relic, and Gao Gong agreed while jokingly asking her to go easy on him in bed.
• Ye woke on the S-rank continent, worried about the Sacred Brain Group, and learned that she would have a chance to compete to host Collapse Entity Number Thirteen.
• Gao Gong entered the virtual welfare home and gave Gao Yuanyuan administrator authority to prepare for capturing Number Thirteen.
• Gao Gong tested Xuanyuan X, Old Man Myriad Dimensions, and Wattis in the virtual layer, and they matched him across their exchange.
• Gao Gong asked the three elders to infiltrate the War Mainframe, and they vanished from the virtual layer to carry out the task.

Gao Gong and his companions entered the Odik Continent and found S-rank beast kings being outfitted by the knight order while an unseen force kept them from attacking. They reached the order’s underground base, where Gao Gong killed numerous hacked grand knights, and the group sensed a familiar presence ahead.

• Gao Gong warned Gao Yuanyuan that No. 13 could complicate the electronic ascenders’ attempt to suppress War Mainframe No. 2, and she prepared to strike if it acted.
• Gao Gong, the Terminus Black Emperor, and Black Rose encountered the S-rank Dingma Elephant King being armored by the knight order, and Gao Gong subdued it so they could ride on.
• The group passed an S-rank Radiation Star Core equipped with energy cannons and learned that an invisible S-rank beast king was also hidden above them.
• The group entered the knight order’s underground base and discovered its guards had been hacked.
• Gao Gong used an invisible ring-shaped shadow to kill more than a dozen grand knights, including fake Four Horsemen of Hell, and gained experience.
• The Terminus Black Emperor sensed a familiar aura as the tunnel opened up ahead.

Gao Gong and his companions discovered that Xuanyuan X was suppressing the ancient Great Xia Mechanical Guards, while Old Myriad Dimensions and Watters confronted the last Corrupted Entity in the virtual layer. The group reached the War Mainframe and saw its grotesque, rotten form.

• Ye the Loli’s mental intrusion awakened Xuanyuan X, whose voice ruptured her eardrums before Black Rose repaired them.
• Black Rose identified Xuanyuan X as the former Imperial Preceptor and explained his ties to the Xilin Virtual Machinery Party.
• Old Myriad Dimensions and Watters encountered Punkers in the virtual sea and traced their appearance to the last Corrupted Entity.
• The Corrupted Entity tried to revive the Punk Group, causing ordinary humans across the planet to shed bloody tears.
• Gao Gong and his companions found the War Mainframe in the largest pit and saw its rotten hive body and reserve flesh-mechanical knights.

Gao Gong discovered that War Two had died and that Aberration Thirteen, Larier, had been born, just as Old Man Xuanyuan’s seal began to break. While Black Rose tried to copy Larier and Gao Gong fought the ancient mechanical soldiers, Xiao Yu and the End Black Emperor entered the battle, leaving Ye the Loli to confront Xiao Yu.

• Gao Gong touched the disabled war mainframe, causing it to collapse and reveal Larier, Aberration Thirteen; he confirmed that War Two and its Aberrant power were gone.
• Gao Yuanyuan warned Gao Gong that the traces of the three seniors in the virtual layer had become unclear, and the sound of chains signaled that Old Man Xuanyuan’s seal was dispersing.
• Black Rose began using Life-and-Death Bionics on Larier while Gao Gong attacked the advancing mechanical soldiers, whose formation and Imperial Might unexpectedly strengthened them.
• Gao Gong noticed that Imperial Might had been altered into Benevolent Imperial Might, while blood and fluid from the war mainframe attacked his flesh barrier.
• A boy merged with the Omen Mecha and unleashed an End Field as the End Black Emperor attacked Xiao Yu; another Xiao Yu tried to reach Larier but was stopped by Ye the Loli, who drowned him in a black tide.

Gao Gong and Xiao Yu fought over the fleshball while Ye Daluoli battled the Omen Machine, and Xiao Yu drew out the Soul Scythe to duel Gao Gong. After Gao Gong lost their first clash, he spent points to rapidly upgrade his Möbius Blade Ring technique.

• Ye Daluoli unleashed the Black Tide and struck Xiao Yu with soul damage, but Xiao Yu rebuilt his body from transparent worms and charged the fleshball.
• The Omen Machine appeared, and Xiao Yu called on Ye Daluoli as the End Black Emperor attacked it while the battle between Collapse Entities raged across the battlefield.
• The fleshball attacked Xiao Yu with lock-on lightning, but he survived, shed layers of flesh, and pulled the Soul Scythe from his shoulder.
• Xiao Yu used Cosmic Step to attack the fleshball, then countered a mirrored scythe strike and fought Gao Gong with the Soul Scythe.
• Gao Gong struck Xiao Yu with Gene Slaughter but lost their clash, so he poured experience and proficiency points into the Möbius Blade Ring as Xiao Yu's confidence faltered.

Gao Gong discovered that the data storm was destroying the nine data clouds and realized the War Mainframe had secretly copied the planet’s natural brain data through Number Thirteen’s rewind system. He returned to reality with Black Rose to confront the danger, while his body shifted between disintegration and regeneration.

• Gao Gong’s Grandmaster Möbius Blade Ring transformed his carbon-based body into a vast rotating field of blades, startling Xiao Yu as he prepared to attack.
• A data avalanche swept through the underground battle, forcing Gao Gong to shield himself and Black Rose while Xiao Yu merged with the Omen Mech.
• Gao Gong followed a breach through layers of data clouds, found the damaged Virtual Grand Preceptor’s Robe, and saw the clouds and their connecting data ribbons collapsing.
• Gao Gong concluded that the War Mainframe had become the true planetary mainframe by secretly copying natural brain data through Number Thirteen’s rewind system, and realized Black Rose was in danger.
• Gao Gong shut down his biological computer, returned to his mechanical body, and entered Fusion Mode with Black Rose as Bionic Human A appeared above the S-rank continent, alternating between disintegration and regeneration.

Old Wanwei and Watters were trapped in War’s artificial rewind and discovered that the new War was a planetary-mainframe entity carrying the relic’s will. It absorbed them as temporary Horsemen and chose Lariel as Plague, leaving Fortress to become Famine.

• After the Avalanche, Old Wanwei and Watters found themselves in a recording world that rewound history and weakened them, while Xuanyuan X remained missing.
• The new War appeared and explained that the original War had rewound itself, leaving a new entity intent on destroying the planet’s technology tree.
• Old Wanwei realized that the new War had inherited the relic’s will and planned to merge the Collapse Body independently of the Mother Cities.
• The new War introduced Lariel as the thirteenth Collapse, Death, and asked Old Wanwei and Watters to serve as Plague and Famine.
• Old Wanwei and Watters tried to escape through ascension, but the new War devoured their data and revealed that Fortress had agreed to become Famine.
• The new War told Lariel, whom it called Lady Black Rose, that she would be Plague.

Black Rose exposed Lariel’s plan to inherit the Plague and resisted Lariel’s rewind, while Lariel prepared a contingency plan. Meanwhile, Ymir used Bionic A’s body and the cooperation of several Collapsed Entities to investigate a massive hacker’s data cloud, then encountered a barrier called the Gate of Chaos in Knight Heights.

• Black Rose recognized that Lariel was impersonating War, explained how War’s powers had been passed to Lariel, and demonstrated that she could also use rewind and control the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• Lariel tried to rewind the prehistoric era and consume Black Rose, but Black Rose resisted and disappeared after threatening to find War; Lariel then decided to activate a contingency plan.
• Ymir controlled Bionic A’s body through a combination of Collapsed Entity abilities, while Prometheus urged her to deal with Number Thirteen quickly.
• Ymir found ten awakened AIs and used their intelligence together with nanobionic powers to destroy layers of an enormous data cloud she identified as a hacker’s network.
• Ymir reached Knight Heights and found a white bone gate that blocked her; her attacks shook it but could not break through quickly, and the gate was identified as the Gate of Chaos.

Yumir joined the struggle among the Collapse Entities and seized what she believed was the Final Collapse, while Gao Gong and Black Rose took Number Thirteen and opened a path to the Land of the Dead. Yumir escaped with Xiao Yu’s head instead of the ugly doll, leaving the others’ plans and Xiao Yu’s fate unresolved.

• Yumir used her control over Collapse forces to attack the Rewind System and tried to capture Lariel, but the War Mainframe sent Collapse Knights against her.
• A Proliferation Monster ambushed Bionic A, and Prometheus struck it as Xiao Yu was attacked by blade images and lost part of Collapse Entity Number Seven’s authority.
• Yumir sacrificed nine AIs to escape into the virtual realm with a doll she believed was Lariel.
• Gao Gong reappeared, and Black Rose emerged carrying Number Thirteen as Gao Yuanyuan unfolded the Divine Thought Realm.
• Gao Gong split into thousands of copies and set out for the Land of the Dead.
• Yumir escaped her pursuers and discovered that her supposed prize was Xiao Yu’s head, not Number Thirteen.

Black Rose spared Prometheus, who gave her an ancient Android Mark and information about the Three Great Ancient Androids. Using Shenxiang Township to bypass information barriers, Gao Gong entered the Information Subsea and confronted War, who remembered their past encounters.

• Black Rose asked Prometheus whether the Three Great Ancient Androids could cooperate like Number Two and Number Thirteen, and Prometheus gave her an ancient Android Mark containing information.
• Prometheus told Black Rose that Android A was still alive and that War at this node likely had no time to pursue him.
• Gao Gong used Shenxiang Township to cross into the deep-sea region of the Information Subsea despite warnings that his data body and consciousness were being damaged.
• Gao Gong arrived at a mechanical temple and found War offering incense before a statue of a mechanical Tuo Head.
• Gao Gong asked War if they had met before, and War recalled their earlier encounters, including their meeting in District Thirteen and the Iron Sand Desert.

High Engineer negotiated with War to divide Number Thirteen’s powers in exchange for flesh-mechanical and Ruined Knight technology, then returned with the remaining Rewind System abilities. He left Number Thirteen’s fate to a virtual contest between Gao Yuanyuan and young lady Ye.

• War agreed to give High Engineer the Rewind System’s system-related authority while retaining the Natural Brain, in exchange for flesh-mechanical technology data, including the highest-level knight and Ruined Knight cultivation technologies.
• High Engineer received the Revenge Knights’ technological data and new faction rewards, ending his faction’s status as their enemy.
• After High Engineer left, War revealed Bionic Human A and sent the phantom knight Plague into her, urging her to make trouble for High Engineer.
• A Ruined Knight extracted the Rewind System’s system-related ability from Lariel, leaving High Engineer with the rest of Number Thirteen’s power.
• High Engineer proposed that Gao Yuanyuan and young lady Ye compete in the virtual world for Number Thirteen, and Gao Yuanyuan entered the virtual world first.