Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu tested Ailan Rainbowlight’s feelings about revenge and argued that Aide had been willing to sacrifice himself for her. The group reached Oumia Bosen’s abandoned outpost, where he opened the door and accused Ailan of betraying them after spotting Stiller.

• Ailan admitted she might not prioritize revenge over what she believed was right, while Lin Yu insisted revenge would take precedence if she had a real chance.
• Lin Yu suggested Aide had been grateful to Ailan and prepared to sacrifice himself, though Ailan resisted discussing him further.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot led Lin Yu, Ailan, and the summoned creatures through the pipe network to the snowy surface, where Ailan took the lead toward the outpost.
• The group found the apparently abandoned outpost, whose lights showed someone was inside, and Ailan kicked open its main door.
• Oumia Bosen opened the door, recognized Stiller as a Truth Company dog, and accused Ailan of betraying them.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and her companions sought cooperation with Oumia Bosen, but he refused and accused her of wanting to exploit the Creator. She accepted his refusal and explained that she had only asked to meet the Creator to confirm whether he truly existed.

• Oumia Bosen welcomed Ailan Rainbowlight and the others with tea, then complained about hosting former Truth Company members and a Royal Noble.
• Oumia Bosen rejected Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s request to cooperate, saying he considered her group enemies and would not let her meet the Creator.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot calmly accepted Oumia Bosen’s refusal, surprising him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot said she had wanted to meet the Creator only to confirm whether he really existed.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot questioned whether the Creator truly existed, prompting Oumia Bosen and Ailan Rainbowlight to defend their claims while Stiller and Lin Yu challenged their evidence. The discussion ended with Nightless Sky Fire Apricot clarifying that she questioned whether the Creator had ever been a real individual at all.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked whether the Creator really existed, and Ailan Rainbowlight angrily accused her of questioning Oumia Bosen.
• Stiller revealed an identification code proving he was an artificial life created by the Truth Company and Divine Power Group, while Lin Yu argued that the Creator was not the city's only genius.
• Oumia Bosen admitted that he alone could communicate directly with the Creator, but said others had seen the Creator's alchemical creations and offered to show their traces.
• Oumia Bosen argued that the Creator's ability to produce remarkable alchemy cheaply, using local materials and little equipment, distinguished him from wealthy alchemy researchers.
• Lin Yu recognized that Oumia Bosen's description resembled Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who silently told him it did not describe her.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot clarified that she was not asking whether the Creator existed now, but whether he had ever been a real individual.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot explained why she doubted the Creator was a single person, arguing that Supreme Evolution’s many advanced, unrelated technologies and business achievements exceeded what one individual could accomplish alone. She left Oumia Bosen and Ailan Rainbowlight with the theory that the Creator was a group, organization, or figurehead, even if commoner geniuses had led the work.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot clarified that she questioned whether the Creator was one person, not whether the Creator had existed at all.
• Oumia Bosen offered to show Nightless Sky Fire Apricot the Creator’s Alchemical Creations, but she said she did not need to see them yet.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed that she had investigated Supreme Evolution’s history and had been gathering information and technology since the previous night.
• Oumia Bosen said he had sensed that another force was watching Supreme Evolution after the assassinations of Dark Rock and Aide.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that the Creator’s diverse Alchemy expertise and business achievements required more time and knowledge than one person could possess, and proposed that the Creator represented a group or organization.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that the Creator’s accomplishments were too extensive for one person and suspected he was a team or had another extraordinary explanation. Oumia Bosen remained convinced the Creator was a genuine commoner-born genius, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot sought an introduction so she could judge him herself.

• Ailan Rainbowlight was shocked when Nightless Sky Fire Apricot suggested the Creator might be an organization rather than one person.
• Oumia Bosen defended the Creator, saying his conversations and detailed knowledge of his projects proved his genius was real.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that the Creator’s alchemy and research into the deity domain would have required more time and ability than one person could possess.
• Oumia Bosen insisted the Creator had been a commoner-born alchemical genius, then questioned his own words.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Oumia Bosen to introduce her to the Creator so she could verify her suspicions through personal contact.
• Oumia Bosen realized she had been provoking him to arrange a meeting and doubted the Creator’s charisma would change her drive to advance.

Nightless Sky Fire Apricot threatened Oumia Bosen and Ailan Rainbowlight, but Oumia chose to fight rather than yield. Lin Yu revealed Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s identity and summoned Dongming Shuliu and the Truth Company Armed Pioneer Team, who arrived to surround the Outpost.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot threatened Oumia Bosen by revealing that his mother and sister’s security had been weakened, then used Supreme Alchemy to disable Ailan Rainbowlight’s concealed gun.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot challenged Oumia Bosen and Ailan Rainbowlight to choose between loyalty to the Creator and affection for their blood relatives.
• Oumia Bosen rejected both choices and activated the Alchemy Components throughout his body to fight Nightless Sky Fire Apricot.
• Lin Yu told Oumia Bosen that the woman before him was Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, the future Chosen of Wisdom, and warned him that Nightless Sky Huo Ming might be nearby.
• Lin Yu gave the signal, and Dongming Shuliu arrived with the Truth Company Armed Pioneer Team as combat vehicles surrounded the Outpost.

Lin Yu explained that he had arranged for Nightless Sky Yong Shang to contact Nightless Sky Huo Ming, drawing her forces into the operation to lure out the Creator. He revealed that Yong Shang’s alchemical research could help Huo Ming complete the Alchemy Hand Ritual, leaving Nightless Sky Fire Apricot astonished by her uncle’s expertise.

• Lin Yu said he had captured Oumia Bosen and Ailan Rainbowlight conspicuously to make the Creator reveal himself or attack.
• Lin Yu revealed that Nightless Sky Yong Shang had contacted Nightless Sky Huo Ming and explained Yong Shang’s importance in the Nightless Sky succession struggle.
• Dongming Shuliu worried that she had nearly offended Yong Shang, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot reassured her that he was legally dead.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot deduced that Huo Ming had committed substantial resources because she was betting on Lin Yu and protecting her allies.
• Lin Yu explained that Huo Ming chiefly wanted help with the Alchemy Hand Ritual and showed Nightless Sky Fire Apricot a notebook Yong Shang had given him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot examined the notebook as Lin Yu suggested Yong Shang’s research could let Huo Ming complete the ritual.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot considered whether Supreme Evolution’s Creator had been a Player from a previous version, then planned to investigate traces in the Great Wilderness with Nightless Sky Huo Ming. Meanwhile, Good Night reunited with the injured Order members after Xiao Nian rescued him from the Divine Power Group building.

• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot discussed the Hand of Alchemy ritual and why it could not make Nightless Sky Huo Ming an alchemy genius.
• Lin Yu proposed that Supreme Evolution’s Creator might have been a Player from a previous version, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot agreed the theory explained several mysteries.
• Lin Yu showed Nightless Sky Fire Apricot Fu Luo’s deductions linking the murder case, the Creator, and supernatural technologies from outside the Barren Realm.
• Lin Yu planned to investigate the Great Wilderness with Nightless Sky Huo Ming while his companions finished investigating the City That Never Sleeps.
• Xiao Nian rescued Good Night from beneath the Divine Power Group building and brought him to the injured Order members, where he felt relieved that he had escaped without injuries.

Loquat Candy and the Order members compared their encounters with mysterious puppets during the communications blackout, revealing that Yin Lan, Paper Kite, and Ren Gu had each been badly hurt by their own decisions. Ren Gu suspected the puppets used supernatural technology from another world, while Good Night ended the discussion by saying his opponent had been a person who called himself the Creator.

• Xiao Nian explained that the Order members had faced different troubles during the communications blackout, and Loquat Candy recounted how Yin Lan was injured after chasing a puppet into Divine Power Tower.
• Yin Lan described being deceived by a puppet and triggering a Security Department alert, while Xiao Nian suggested its operator had used an Alchemy Detection Interference Device.
• Loquat Candy revealed that Paper Kite had followed a puppet's claims and evidence, then attacked Eris Mercury and Qiu Xinli; Yin Lan broke both arms saving him.
• Ren Gu explained that he had imposed a rule stopping Alchemy Energy within 150 meters, draining his own energy and disabling thousands of alchemical creations, but the puppet still escaped.
• Ren Gu and Xiao Nian questioned whether the puppets' operator was a native Alchemy expert, and Good Night said his encounter had been with a person who called himself the Creator.

Good Night’s account was confirmed when Xiao Nian examined the Creator’s storage device and found a complete archive of Supreme Evolution’s corporate technology, though it did not reveal the core of Authority. As the group debated recovering and investigating further, Lin Yu sent a message ordering them to gather and travel to Truth Company’s main base in the Great Wilderness.

• Paper Kite and Loquat Candy questioned Good Night’s story, but Xiao Nian judged that he had not hallucinated or had his mind interfered with.
• Xiao Nian examined the storage device and confirmed its archive was genuine and unusually complete, while explaining that it did not contain the Creator’s private Authority research.
• Xiao Nian concluded that the Creator’s Authority technology existed and that the group might derive useful technology from the archive and their God Creation Project materials.
• Yin Lan secured the storage device, and Xiao Nian planned to ask the Solence Family to investigate the Creator while the injured group recuperated.
• Yin Lan and Good Night proposed continuing investigations, but Xiao Nian and Ren Gu rejected splitting up, suspecting Paper Kite would seek out Eris Mercury.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s hacked recording played Lin Yu’s message directing the group to gather and travel to Truth Company’s main base in the Great Wilderness.

Lin Yu persuaded Dongming Shuliu that inviting Arase Nian could help Nightless Sky Huo Ming forge cooperation with the Universal Chamber of Commerce. He revealed that Arase Nian had recently saved Jo Solence and met Jin Solence, but Nightless Sky Fire Apricot then admitted she had attacked them herself.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot questioned Lin Yu's decision to bring Arase Nian to meet Nightless Sky Huo Ming, given the rivalry between Truth Company and the Universal Chamber of Commerce.
• Dongming Shuliu argued that Huo Ming might accept the visit because Lin Yu had helped her, while Lin Yu assured her Arase Nian would cooperate and would not create trouble.
• Lin Yu explained that welcoming Arase Nian could give Huo Ming a chance to break the ice with the Universal Chamber of Commerce and gain influence by stabilizing the Great Wilderness.
• Lin Yu disclosed that Arase Nian had recently saved Jo Solence again, met Jin Solence, and could now represent both of them to some extent.
• Dongming Shuliu questioned whether Lin Yu's information was reliable, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot claimed she had been the one who attacked Jo Solence and Arase Nian in the Universal building.

Nightless Sky Huo Ming welcomed Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu to Truth Company's Great Wilderness base with a lavish ceremony. The sisters reunited and Huo Ming invited them to a celebratory banquet, grateful that Fire Apricot had brought her Oumia Bosen.

• Dongming Shuliu praised Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu for their role in attacking Jo Solence and drawing attention to Supreme Evolution.
• Dongming Shuliu explained that Nightless Sky Huo Ming had prepared a grand welcome for them as their convoy approached Truth Company's main base.
• Truth Company's weapons fired into the sky, then fireworks displaying the company's logo and the Nightless Sky Family crest revealed that the apparent emergency was a welcoming celebration.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot recognized the Great Wilderness people's ritual dance as a performance staged for the nobles' tastes and greeted Nightless Sky Huo Ming.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming embraced her sister, explained that the performers acted in Great Wilderness films for her extra income, and invited Fire Apricot and Lin Yu to a celebratory banquet.

At a celebratory banquet, Nightless Sky Huo Ming explained that completing the Hand of Alchemy ritual had fulfilled a lifelong pursuit tied to her resentment at being sent to the Great Wilderness. She revealed that her alchemy energy affinity had been virtually zero, leaving Lin Yu surprised and questioning how this could be explained genetically.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming toasted Lin Yu and thanked him for helping her complete the Hand of Alchemy ritual.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked why Huo Ming cared so much about a ritual whose benefits seemed limited in the Great Wilderness.
• Huo Ming explained that alchemical talent could affect a royal noble's standing and that she had once resented being sent away without it.
• Huo Ming revealed that her alchemy energy affinity had been zero and that the ritual had raised her from being unable to use alchemy to stronger than an ordinary person.
• Lin Yu congratulated Huo Ming, then questioned how her lack of alchemical talent could be explained genetically.

Nightless Sky Huo Ming revealed that her alchemical affinity was absolutely zero, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu suspected there was a deeper explanation. The chapter ended with Huo Ming taking them to find Nightless Sky Yong Shang because the mystery might threaten the Nightless Sky Family or the City That Never Sleeps.

• Nightless Sky Huo Ming confirmed that she had been born with zero alchemical affinity despite her mother’s exceptional talent.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot recalled that Huo Ming had a different biological father from the other siblings and questioned why Huo Ming’s inheritance had produced no affinity.
• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot suspected that Huo Ming’s ability to conceal her condition pointed to a deeper secret.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming said Nightless Sky Yong Shang was in the database, and Lin Yu asked her to take them to him immediately.
• Nightless Sky Huo Ming led Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot away, while Lin Yu warned that the secret could endanger the family or the city.

Lin Yu questioned Nightless Sky Yong Shang about why he had abandoned revenge against Yong Lian and how she had hidden her strength within the Nightless Sky Family. Yong Shang explained that she had concealed even her exceptional alchemical affinity, leaving Lin Yu intrigued by her past.

• Nightless Sky Yong Shang admitted that he had once considered acting against Yong Lian but became afraid after seeing how much she had accomplished.
• Yong Shang said he believed Yong Lian had disguised nearly all her abilities and was formidable in research, combat, politics, and ruthlessness.
• Lin Yu asked why Yong Lian had been looked down on despite her talent, and Yong Shang described their paranoid father’s practice of forcing the heirs to compete.
• Yong Shang revealed that Yong Lian had been regarded as having extremely low alchemical affinity, though he believed she had concealed her naturally exceptional affinity.

Nightless Sky Yong Shang revealed that Nightless Sky Yong Lian likely arranged the former Family Head’s death and explained the hidden weakness behind the Nightless Sky Family’s God of Wisdom. The mystery of Yong Lian’s alchemy talent remained unresolved as the group considered her unknown mother and possible inherited traits.

• Nightless Sky Yong Shang said the former Family Head had called Nightless Sky Yong Lian “unrecyclable alchemical scrap” and suspected she had orchestrated his death after gaining control of family security.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang said six elders were killed or imprisoned during the coup, with their supposed deaths announced over the following half month.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang revealed that the Nightless Sky Family’s God of Wisdom was created from an authority obtained through the Gate of Boundary, and that its authority could consume a Chosen of God whose mind weakened.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot suggested that Nightless Sky Yong Lian might have improved her alchemy affinity through a forbidden ritual, but Nightless Sky Yong Shang rejected the idea because of her extraordinary achievements.
• Nightless Sky Yong Shang said he did not know who Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s mother was, though rumors described her as a servant or an Outer City commoner.

Lin Yu considered the risks behind Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s alchemy before Xiao Nian arrived with intelligence from her group’s infiltration of the Divine Power Group. She gave Lin Yu technical data on Supreme Evolution and revealed that a person calling himself the “Creator” had provided it to Good Night.

• Lin Yu concluded that Nightless Sky Yong Lian’s use of power from other worlds might be a dangerous, habitual practice tied to the City That Never Sleeps’ survival.
• Dongming Shuliu reported that Arase Nian had arrived seeking Lin Yu, and Nightless Sky Huo Ming allowed her into the archive room despite their strained relationship.
• Xiao Nian asked Lin Yu about the Director and Old Zheng, then accepted that the Director was safe after seeing Nightless Sky Yong Shang.
• Xiao Nian handed Lin Yu a storage device containing technical data on Supreme Evolution, obtained after her group infiltrated the Divine Power Group.
• Xiao Nian explained that the data was not taken from the Divine Power Group’s confidential database and that a person called the Creator had given it to Good Night.

Lin Yu and Xiao Nian connected the artificial-life project to the Dead City's wraiths and suspected another Player had helped erase the evidence. A puppet then arrived at the archive, put the base into a shared dream, and Lin Yu accused the supposed Creator of coming to silence the prisoners and of killing Aide Rainbow Light and Tennyson.

• Xiao Nian told Lin Yu that a puppet-controlling figure calling himself the Creator had given Good Night files, and Lin Yu said they needed to determine whether that figure was the same Creator in contact with Oumia Bosen.
• Lin Yu linked the artificial-life project's failed specimens to the wraiths of the Dead City and concluded that a Player other than the Secretary had helped Supreme Evolution dispose of them.
• Lin Yu identified the supernatural methods behind the puppets as witchcraft from the Black Marsh World and sensed its spiritual pressure near the archive entrance.
• A large puppet appeared, claimed Dongming Shuliu had fallen asleep, and revealed that everyone at the base was trapped in a dream it had woven.
• Lin Yu accused the puppet's supposed Creator of coming to silence Mr. Candle, Oumia Bosen, and Ailan Rainbowlight, and of killing Aide Rainbow Light and Tennyson.

Lin Yu exposed the puppet as Nightless Sky Yong Lian and explained how she had used Supreme Evolution, the killings, and the forged suspicions to advance her own plans. Yong Lian appeared in person, impressed that Lin Yu had uncovered two of her covert schemes.

• Lin Yu deduced that the puppet was the original Creator, based on missing Mist Island research and its use of mental techniques and Authority.
• The puppet put Xiao Nian, Nightless Sky Huo Ming, Nightless Sky Yong Shang, Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, and others to sleep, but Lin Yu and Old Zheng revealed they had caused the slumber themselves.
• Lin Yu explained that the Creator had framed Paris, eliminated Tennyson and his team, and planned to take credit for resolving Supreme Evolution's return to public attention.
• Lin Yu identified the Creator as Nightless Sky Yong Lian, also the Nightless Sky family head.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian entered the archive room and admitted Lin Yu had seen through two of her covert arrangements.

Lin Yu questioned Nightless Sky Yong Lian about the schemes behind his journey and learned how she gained her Alchemy Talent, created Nightless Sky Huo Ming, and founded Supreme Evolution. Yong Lian ended by revealing that she had personally played both herself and the Creator from the beginning.

• Lin Yu asked why Nightless Sky Yong Lian had orchestrated events in the Barren Realm and hidden her involvement from everyone but him.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian explained that she framed President Paris so Nightless Sky Huo Le could rescue him and earn his loyalty.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian admitted that she had exchanged the souls of her brothers and sisters for their Alchemy Talent, which she gained through the Abyss Demons and the Alchemy system.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian revealed that Nightless Sky Huo Ming had been created using artificial life technology as a potential successor, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was her naturally born Alchemy Genius child.
• Nightless Sky Yong Lian said she founded Supreme Evolution to conduct research under the Creator identity and revealed that she had played both the Creator and herself alone.