Chapter Summaries

Tao Yu rode the Engraved Insect-infused Alien Dragon with Rin Tohsaka, Illya, Sakura Matou, Shirou Emiya, and the others from Pandora Planet to the New Frontier camp, where its arrival drew widespread attention. Andy Klein greeted Tao Yu as an equal, updated him on the teleportation device and signs of Reincarnators, and Tao Yu then flew toward the Zombie World base.

• Tao Yu opened Pandora's world barrier and led the Alien Dragon and its passengers across the boundary to the grasslands.
• The Alien Dragon flew over the crowded temporary camp, astonishing the pioneers and making them envy its size and flying ability.
• Andy Klein flew over to greet Tao Yu and treated him as an equal because of his growing status and shares.
• Andy Klein told Tao Yu that the teleportation device had been installed and warned him that signs of Reincarnators had been detected.
• Tao Yu asked Andy Klein to look out for his younger brother, then flew with the group toward the Zombie World base.

Xinwen arrived at New Frontier Base through the transmission device and considered training in internal energy, while Tao Yu returned with several Chosen Ones and found Boundary Breakers competing for access to the base’s martial arts instructors. Sun Shiyu appeared as Shaman tried to approach Tao Yu, leaving their exchange unresolved.

• Xinwen teleported to New Frontier Base, discussed his plans with Cheng Yu, and declined the offer to open a martial arts school in a prefectural capital.
• Cheng Yu granted landing permission to Eight-Armed Vajra Tao Yu, whose arrival drew the attention of Xinwen and other powerful newcomers.
• Tao Yu arrived with several Chosen Ones, and Zhu Yuyan greeted him and reported that Boundary Breakers had sought private collaborations with Song Que and True Master Zhang.
• Tao Yu told Zhu Yuyan to maintain the usual teaching quotas, then rejected Shaman's request for special access to instructors, citing Sun Shiyu's decision.
• Sun Shiyu confronted Shaman as he tried to smooth over the refusal and invite Tao Yu to work with him.

Tao Yu discussed Middle-earth, the Reincarnators, and his plans with Sun Shiyu, then checked on Dada Company and prepared to travel. After deifying Dao Heart Seed Demon a second time, he gained a greatly strengthened mana supply and grew confident that his Inherent Domain could let him defeat powerful opponents.

• Zhu Yuyan greeted Sun Shiyu and left with the others while Sun Shiyu took Tao Yu aside to talk and train.
• Sun Shiyu told Tao Yu that Reincarnators had appeared in the Middle-earth fragment beyond Rainforest 01, and they agreed to monitor it without expanding there yet.
• Tao Yu asked Sun Shiyu for an advance on his dividends to fund his plans, and she offered him the money without collateral.
• Tao Yu inspected Dada Company's Love Flower farm with Qimen, discussed security, and arranged to leave Kisame and Yao's squads with the company.
• Tao Yu departed on the Alien Dragon with the ninja squads and Scathach, relying on his newly deified mana and empowered Inherent Domain.

Tao Shi crossed the Gobi Desert in Middle-earth and teamed up with Feng Xing, Noel, and two Outer City pioneers as they traveled north along the coast. The group settled by the shore, where warning sensors detected armed, hungry figures approaching their camp at night.

• Tao Shi set out toward the signal across the Gobi Desert, carrying extensive equipment and rationing his water.
• Tao Shi heard Feng Xing and another pioneer discussing a team-up on the public channel, then sent Tao Yu a repeated longwave-radio update before approaching them.
• Tao Shi joined Feng Xing and the mechanically augmented Noel, and the group traveled with two Outer City pioneers to the coast.
• At dusk, Tao Shi sent Tao Yu another update while Feng Xing and Noel agreed to guard him during their journey north along the coast.
• Noel's warning sensors detected several armored, armed figures creeping toward the campfire at night.

Tao Shi and his companions encountered four Reincarnators, who threatened them and seized their equipment after forcing them to surrender. The Reincarnators learned Tao Shi’s shields came from his brother, but before they could press him further, a Fell Beast carrying many Ringwraiths appeared overhead.

• Tao Shi and Noel killed a group of Orc soldiers, and the party examined the bodies and warned that more enemies might be nearby.
• After Noel’s probes were destroyed, four Reincarnators confronted the party and ordered them to retrieve their mines and help search for someone.
• The Reincarnators confiscated the party’s radio and belongings; when Tao Shi hesitated to hand over his watch, the burly Reincarnator struck him and took it.
• The Sharingan-wielding leader used an illusion to question Tao Shi about his Hollzman Shields, and Tao Shi revealed that his brother had given them to him.
• A Fell Beast carrying many Ringwraiths descended from the clouds, and the Reincarnator leader ordered his group to prepare to attack.

Tao Yu used his Inherent Domain to trap four Reincarnators who had attacked Tao Shi, interrogated them, and killed three. He returned with the surviving woman and their equipment, then continued testing whether an Alien could host a Sharingan before setting off for the moon.

• Tao Yu arrived on the Alien Dragon, drove the four Reincarnators away from Tao Shi, and surrounded them with Kisame and Kaguya Yao's ninja squads.
• Tao Yu opened his Inherent Domain and dragged the Reincarnators inside, where their chakra and movement were suppressed by black mud.
• Tao Yu questioned the Sharingan-wielding Reincarnator about the Ninja World and the Main God's missions, then asked the group about powerful Reincarnators and the Real World.
• Tao Yu reappeared with the Mai Shiranui cosplayer and several items; the other three Reincarnators were gone, and the team leader was left with a Facehugger attached to his face.
• Tao Yu returned the Wish Power items and tested an Alien with a Sharingan, but the Alien did not develop one, so he headed for the moon.

Tao Yu traveled to Pandora and boarded a Harkonnen ship to reach the suborbital zone, where he planned to investigate the strange events near the moon. He left the ship with a shadow link as an escape route and prepared to infiltrate the area alone.

• Tao Yu returned Tao Shi to the New Frontier base, told Kisame and the others to guide him, and left Little Black in their care.
• Tao Yu flew the Alien Dragon to Pandora, reasoning that Kaguya remained sealed and the Giant Reincarnation Eye was the main danger.
• Tao Yu reached the RDA outpost, where Sully told him the Harkonnen family had agreed to lend him a ship in exchange for information.
• Tao Yu met the Harkonnen soldiers at a fissure between Pandora and the desert, then boarded their autonomous lander without a spacesuit.
• Tao Yu kept part of his shadow outside the ship as an escape route before setting off for the suborbital zone.

Tao Yu traveled beyond the moon and entered a vast, unfamiliar world, where a crimson presence on the moon nearly overwhelmed him. He arrived in a foggy city under severe restrictions and decided to explore despite the danger and costly return route.

• Tao Yu heard whispers in orbit and learned that a faint voice from the moon repeated pleas to be saved and not saved.
• Tao Yu used wish power and the World Will's protection to travel toward the moon, where he saw a crimson nest and sensed a deadly presence.
• Tao Yu passed beyond the moon and through a barrier into an immense world, then arrived in a foggy, old-fashioned city.
• Tao Yu found that the city's rules severely suppressed his body and abilities, while using outside power risked attracting a higher being.
• Tao Yu learned that returning by the same route would cost a million wish power and chose to stay, adapt, and look for local knowledge and new clothes.

Tao Yu explored Backlund’s East Borough, learned about the city from an information broker, and obtained a false identity so he could settle in. He left with a lead to follow Xio and a warning that ordinary people who investigate supernatural matters might meet with misfortune.

• Tao Yu failed to find anything worth stealing in the East Borough and learned that he was in Backlund, the capital of the Loen Kingdom.
• Tao Yu met Xio at a tavern, overheard her ask Williams about a wealthy noblewoman, and secretly placed a tracking trace on her.
• Tao Yu asked Williams for information and paid him with gold nuggets, then received the identity of Falko Sosi, a Tingen native who had died without family.
• Williams offered to help Tao Yu find lodging but refused payment for supernatural information and warned him not to investigate it as an ordinary person.
• Tao Yu accepted Williams’s warning and planned to use the tracking trace to follow Xio.

Tao Yu tracked Xio to her home and paid her and Fors for information about Beyonders, learning that people gained and advanced their abilities through dangerous potions. He discovered a Chinese-language diary entry attributed to Emperor Roselle, suggesting the emperor had come from another world, and the chapter ended with Tao Yu reading it.

• Tao Yu exchanged gold for Gold Pounds, followed the scent he had left on Xio, and found her apartment.
• Tao Yu introduced himself as the independent Beyonder Falko Sosi and offered Xio and Fors money in exchange for information.
• Fors explained that Beyonder abilities came from potions and that advancing through Sequences could cause madness or death.
• Xio offered to take Tao Yu to a Beyonder gathering in exchange for payment.
• Tao Yu spotted a sheet written in Chinese among Fors's manuscripts, and Fors identified it as a note from Emperor Roselle.
• Tao Yu read the diary entry, which described a new year and complained that the world had no oil.

Tao Yu learned more about Emperor Roselle and prepared to attend a Beyonder gathering with Fors and Xio. At the gathering, he sensed the dangerous host, Mr. A, and wondered whether the world’s potion-based powers could lead him to godhood.

• Tao Yu read a diary entry about a transmigrator who had gained power, begun a sanitation campaign, and planned to join a secret organization.
• Fors told Tao Yu that a Beyonder gathering would take place in five days and that Xio could bring him if her friend did not join them.
• Tao Yu studied the world, rented a house on Minsk Street, learned about Roselle’s achievements, and used Fors’s guidance to conceal his Mental Immunity within his Spirit Body.
• Fors and Xio brought Tao Yu, Audrey, and Viscount Graylent to the gathering, where Audrey felt that Tao Yu was analyzing her.
• Xio knocked in the agreed pattern, and Tao Yu sensed danger from the host, Mr. A, whom Fors described as a powerful Beyonder whose challengers had disappeared.
• Tao Yu considered whether Sequence One could become a true god and wondered if he could obtain a potion at the gathering.

Tao Yu attended a Beyonder gathering, bought the Sequence 9 Assassin formula and ingredients, and copied pages from Emperor Roselle’s Diary. After drinking the Potion and Deifying the resulting Assassin profession, he discovered a cloaked woman had been watching him and emerged from the shadows.

• Tao Yu bid for Emperor Roselle’s Diary pages but let Audrey buy them, then copied them and learned about Pathway advancement, high-Sequence Beyonders, and Roselle’s encounters with a mysterious organization.
• Tao Yu bought the Assassin Potion formula and ingredients from a hooded seller at Mr. A’s gathering, then paid Xio for bringing him there.
• Tao Yu sensed the seller following him after the gathering and returned home to prepare and drink the Assassin Potion.
• Tao Yu gained the Assassin profession, resisted the Potion’s effects, and spent five hundred thousand Wish Power to Deify it, reducing its loss of power in other worlds.
• Tao Yu pretended to collapse after drinking the Potion, but a cloaked woman stepped out of the shadows and remarked on how quickly he had adapted.

Tao Yu finished digesting the Assassin Potion and sought information about the Assassin Pathway and the organization trying to recruit him. After learning that the Gnosticism Society and Demoness Sect might be involved, he weighed his options and decided to return home for money before pursuing the Pathway further.

• An unnamed Assassin tried to recruit Tao Yu, and he realized that he had finished digesting his potion through his previous assassinations.
• Tao Yu hired Fors to collect Emperor Roselle's diary pages and pass along any information she heard about the Assassin Pathway.
• Fors recommended that Tao Yu consult Isengard Stanton, and Tao Yu visited the detective in Hildston District.
• Isengard told Tao Yu that the Gnosticism Society and Demoness Sect might be connected to the Assassin Pathway and suggested seeking protection from an orthodox church.
• Tao Yu considered the risks of joining different factions and left for the subway station, planning to return home for money before pursuing the Pathway.

Tao Yu returned from the Mysterious World and arranged for the Myriad Goods Merchant Association to reproduce Gold Pounds and texts so he could prepare for another visit. After learning about the provincial capital’s New Frontier and rebuffing attempts to buy the Internal Energy System outright, he was approached by Fente of the Dicalon Family about a partnership.

• Tao Yu told the rich heiress he had promised to teach Talia the Cihang Sword Canon and warned that communication from the Mysterious World would be limited.
• Tao Yu asked Chu Fa to arrange high-quality reproductions of Gold Pounds and Loenese texts through the Myriad Goods Merchant Association.
• Tao Yu told Chu Fa to reject one-time offers for martial arts manuals while remaining open to partnerships, and asked for information about the provincial capital’s New Frontier.
• Tao Yu learned that the provincial capital had nearly been overrun by goblins before stabilizing its New Frontier, whose development lagged behind Starfall City’s.
• Fente of the Dicalon Family came to meet Tao Yu and proposed discussing a partnership involving Tao Yu’s internal energy techniques.

Tao Yu refused Vern Dicalon’s offer to teach at the dojo and used his strength to make Vern back down, earning thirty thousand Willpower as an apology. After Vern left, Talia returned so Tao Yu could help her circulate her internal energy, though his instructions left her confused.

• Tao Yu rejected Vern Dicalon’s offer to teach, saying he was busy and had no interest in working during his rest time.
• Vern threatened Tao Yu with the dangers of the provincial capital and released his domain, but Tao Yu shattered it and wounded him with a swift attack.
• Vern apologized by giving Chu Fa a Willpower card worth thirty thousand and left, considering how the Dicalon Family might learn the Internal Energy System.
• Tao Yu accepted the payment and explained that he had only meant to warn Vern away from further trouble.
• Talia returned after handling arrangements at the RDA base, and Tao Yu told her he would guide her true energy through a massage after she lay down.

Tao Yu helped Talia learn the basics of the Cihang Sword Canon, then prepared to return to an independent world after receiving a large batch of custom Gold Pounds. When White Star City's Security Team accused him of involvement in Fengte Dicalon's death, Tao Yu used his Inherent Domain to force them to acknowledge he was innocent, though a powerful observer's attention left him wary of the turmoil around him.

• Tao Yu trained Talia for five days, helping her master the basics of the Cihang Sword Canon and improve her true energy.
• Chufa delivered more than eight million custom-made ten-Gold Pound notes, and Tao Yu inspected them before preparing to study with Scathach.
• A powerful being watched Tao Yu as White Star City's Security Team arrived and demanded that he come in for questioning.
• Tao Yu learned from Shidi that Fengte Dicalon had been killed, denied responsibility, and refused to go with the Security Team without evidence.
• Tao Yu unleashed his Inherent Domain, erased one of Shidi's arms with a sword strike, and forced Shidi to admit the case had nothing to do with him.
• The Security Team withdrew, and Tao Yu returned to meditation after the powerful observer's gaze disappeared.

At the Tarot Club, Audrey told Mr. Fool about a diary collector and received pages to pass along discreetly, while Tao Yu returned to Backlund and asked his handler Eve for the Sequence 8 potion. Eve gave him the Instigator formula and its main ingredients, leaving Tao Yu to gather two supplementary ingredients.

• Alger asked Mr. Fool to have his Blessed assist Audrey in her search for Qilingus, and Audrey agreed to look for the pirate in Backlund.
• Audrey mentioned a diary collector she had met at Mr. A's gathering, and Mr. Fool gave her diary pages to pass to him discreetly.
• Tao Yu returned to his rented house, checked that no one had entered, and went to the Breeze Ballroom to find Eve.
• Eve was dancing at the ballroom when Tao Yu arrived, then met him backstage and questioned his claim that he had digested the Assassin Potion.
• Tao Yu explained that his past work as a killer had helped him digest the potion and showed Eve his Gold Pounds.
• Eve gave Tao Yu the Instigator Potion formula, its main ingredients, and a Vocal Cord of the Demon Honey; he still needed Blue Mandragora Juice and Water Fern Powder.

Tao Yu joined Xio and Fors in investigating pirate general Qilingus, recruited Isengard to help locate him, and obtained new pages from Emperor Roselle's diary. Reading a strange honorific name in the diary drew Tao Yu's spirituality toward a mysterious space above the gray fog.

• Xio brought Tao Yu to Fors's home and offered him a dangerous job with Emperor Roselle's diary as payment.
• Tao Yu suggested hiring Isengard to investigate Qilingus, and Isengard inferred that the pirate might be near the Tussock River in Cherwood Borough.
• Isengard agreed to help with the investigation and said he could obtain Tao Yu's missing auxiliary Beyonder materials.
• Xio went to question gang members while Tao Yu got new diary pages from Fors and took them home to read.
• Tao Yu read a strange honorific name at the bottom of a diary page, sensed that he was being watched, and was pulled toward a mysterious space above the gray fog.

Tao Yu met Mr. Fool in the gray fog and joined his gathering as Mr. Fate, then advanced to Sequence 8 as an Instigator. He discovered that provoking Eve into a spar helped digest his Potion and reconsidered the mission she had brought him to earn Mr. A’s trust.

• Tao Yu spoke with Mr. Fool, learned he could attend a gathering every Monday, and chose the Tarot name Mr. Fate.
• Tao Yu returned to his body and decided Mr. Fool could serve as a powerful backer, though he remained cautious about trusting him.
• Tao Yu obtained supplementary ingredients from Isengard, drank the Sequence 8 Potion, and gained the Instigator trait of seeming trustworthy and guiding others’ emotions.
• Tao Yu instigated Eve into sparring and sensed that the encounter helped digest his Potion.
• Tao Yu remembered Eve’s mission to keep attending Mr. A’s gathering and earn his trust, and wondered why she had not gone herself.

Tao Yu pressed Eve to sell him the Sequence Seven potion formula, but she told him to wait until he had digested the Instigator potion. He joined Xio and Fors to follow a lead to an informant in the East Borough, where he recognized Qilingus watching them and sensed deadly danger.

• Tao Yu asked Eve to sell him the Sequence Seven formula and ingredients with Gold Pounds, but she refused until he finished digesting his Instigator potion.
• Xio arrived with news from an informant, and Tao Yu agreed to accompany her and Fors to investigate.
• Xio, Fors, and Tao Yu traveled to Darkholm's home in the East Borough to meet the informant about their target.
• Tao Yu sensed blood and danger inside Darkholm's unlocked home, pulled Xio away, and spotted Qilingus watching them across the street.
• Tao Yu recognized Qilingus as Vice Admiral Hurricane and focused on the dangerous Creeping Hunger glove on his left hand.