Chapter Summaries

As the Astral Realm defenders faced annihilation, Bole urged the Genesis Engine to begin reshaping the plane, while Sister Cement hoped Murphy’s promised trump card would arrive. The reserve manpower suddenly surged to infinity, revealing that Murphy had sent an endless stream of foreign heroes into the war and turned the battle in their favor.

• Bole told Hathor and Palanno that the Astral Realm’s revival had reached sixty percent and urged them to evacuate, but they refused to abandon the Astral Seed’s defense.
• Bole returned to the Genesis Engine and asked Rose to begin reshaping the Astral Realm, while Sister Cement argued that they should wait for Murphy’s trump card.
• Rose warned that the reserve manpower was nearly exhausted and said she would start reshaping the Astral Realm if the numbers reached zero.
• Old Qin and General He fought at Eagle Canyon as Old Qin’s reserve manpower count plunged to 17, then suddenly soared to infinity.
• Old Qin realized Murphy’s trump card had arrived, and Sister Cement ordered the sentinels to evacuate the Astral Realm while foreign heroes took over the battlefield.

Cat Brother and the other players returned to the Astral Realm with unrestricted respawns, buying time for the Astral Tree to remake their world. As Chaos retreated and the reshaping began, Old Ma and Uncle Yincha unveiled a devastating weapon in the material world.

• Cat Brother respawned beneath the Astral Tree and joined players who charged into battle to cover the Astral Army’s evacuation.
• The Goddess of Wealth promised to return the players’ lost equipment after victory, and Meow Brother led the Big Bird Squad into the fighting.
• Cat Brother and Sister Pomegranate encountered Niu Haicheng at the respawn point, while Old Niu chased him through the area with a mechanical battle spear.
• The players held back Chaos until its great daemons retreated, and the Astral Tree’s creation energy began reshaping the realm as Old Ao, Ze, Old Su, Avalon, and Kulkan gave their life force to its rebirth.
• Old Ma and Uncle Yincha detonated a powerful weapon in a Chaos-corrupted valley on Greeny Island, and Prince William considered what this new power might mean for his kingship.

Murphy awoke aboard the Omega after the war and learned that his victories had earned him the chance to inherit the Creator’s authority, though the role came with a final trial and the burden of guarding the Lightless Sea. At the end of the passage, he faced Original Sin inhabiting Mairiding’s body.

• Murphy woke from his long sleep and learned that the Astral Realm was being revived and that his Pathfinder power had advanced.
• Captain Lingke told Murphy that he had outlasted the other candidates and was the only one who had chosen to remain and guard his cosmos.
• Lingke explained that the Lightless Sea held the dangerous memories of the cosmos and would become Murphy’s divine realm and responsibility.
• Murphy learned that his final trial was to face Original Sin, which could not be defeated with weapons.
• Murphy met the Faded Mairiding, whose body housed Original Sin, and confronted the entity at the end of the passage.

Murphy confronted Original Sin in the passage to the Creator, arguing that the past should be remembered rather than erased and offering to preserve its history. Original Sin let him pass, and Murphy entered the light carrying a mysterious crystal as Rinko and Eulsha prepared for the Omega to sail toward the future.

• Murphy questioned why Original Sin recruited extremists instead of revealing the truth about the past to ordinary people.
• Murphy argued that remembering the great extinction and its mistakes could prevent history from repeating, then asked Original Sin to make peace.
• Original Sin revealed that part of the vampires' homeworld was incorporated into the Star of the End, but Murphy refused to abandon his argument.
• After striking Murphy, Original Sin chose not to attack again and warned that he would return if future generations repeated the same mistakes.
• Murphy picked up a crystal containing black smoke, opened the door, and entered the light, where he apparently greeted the Creator with a shattered bottle.
• Rinko arrived with Eulsha and told her to clean the passage before the Omega set sail toward the future.

Murphy met with the Creator, learned how the Shadow Brotherhood had created the linked worlds and what responsibilities awaited him, then chose to return to his own universe as its guardian. He left with a new mission to find the End and hoped Triss was waiting for him at home.

• Murphy refused the Creator’s offer to join the Shadow Brotherhood and explained that he wanted to guard the universe he had built.
• The Creator explained that the Brotherhood rescued stranded countrymen, placed them in mirrored worlds, and made Transia part of a selection process for a guardian.
• The Creator told Murphy that Chaos had leaked into the other world and that Murphy, as the Entropy Converter’s owner, had to balance Order and Chaos.
• The Creator appointed Murphy director of the Shadow Kindergarten and advised him to find the End, the second point needed for the cosmic system’s sacred timeline.
• Murphy learned the Creator’s name was Mason, accepted a farewell gift from the Mason family, and returned toward home, hoping Triss had not dismantled the Crimson Dawn.

After thirty-seven days in the Lightless Sea, Murphy returned to the Scarlet Dawn and reunited with Triss and Adele, then returned to Transia as the world continued recovering from the astral war. He left Mirian to handle the news of his return quietly while he took over her work, and the chapter ended with the blood moon shining over the city.

• Triss recorded how the Lightless Sea was eroding memories and time, while the Scarlet Dawn suffered strange energy disturbances and lost contact with the outside world.
• Murphy reappeared in Triss's cabin, and she joyfully embraced him before Adele rushed in and welcomed him back.
• Murphy, Triss, and Adele discovered a bizarre potion among the gifts from the Creator's group, and Murphy stopped Adele and Triss from using it.
• Murphy returned to Transia, where Mirian handed him her unfinished work and went to rest while he began reading it.
• Murphy told Mirian not to announce his return, and Maxim took up guard outside the governor's office as Mirian left beneath the blood moon.

After returning from the Lightless Sea, Murphy planned to let the players search for him as a future quest while he and his companions stayed behind as observers. He opened the Creator’s completion chest, found a helmet for entering the other world, and prepared to launch Real Otherworld.

• Murphy told Triss that the player system could now run without him and proposed making the search for the missing Midnight King a future quest in the Abyssal Space.
• Murphy recalled that several members of the Shadow Brotherhood had attended Mason’s banquet, though he had not noticed them at the time, and said he would follow his own path rather than join their operations.
• Murphy, Triss, and Adele went to the Heart of the World to open the Creator’s completion chest, while Shani appeared from Murphy’s shadow and traded barbs with Triss.
• Adele told Murphy about Boss Huo and Shen Yu’s upcoming wedding and asked whether they could have a home together in the other world; Murphy agreed to try.
• Murphy opened the chest and found a vampire-style full-face helmet inscribed with a hymn to Lord Midnight.
• Murphy put on the helmet and announced the launch of Real Otherworld.

Murphy entered Blue Star through the Alpha Corporation’s VR system and traveled to the wedding celebration, where he reunited with his friends and promised that the next story would unfold across two worlds. He left them with fireworks overhead and declared that he would protect their world from future suffering.

• Murphy accepted his otherworldly template, created a character based on his own face, and logged into Blue Star as the CEO of Alpha Corporation.
• Murphy explored the city with Rose, then realized he had no money to pay their taxi fare and asked Giant Shark to cover it.
• Giant Shark recognized Murphy and brought him and Rose to the theme park where Boss Huo and Sister Shen Yu’s wedding guests were celebrating.
• Murphy reunited with Little Ashina, lifted her from her wheelchair, and promised that Femis would be waiting for her the next morning.
• Murphy promised his friends a new story across two worlds, summoned moonlight over the fireworks, and vowed to prevent disaster from returning.

The author announced that he would give up his high-output “tentacle monster” writing routine to rest and protect his health. He thanked readers for their support and said he would return with another book after recovering.

• The author described his back pain, irritated throat, and hopes that his health-check results would improve.
• The author said he had written 43 million characters over nearly nine years, averaging about fifteen thousand characters a day when not resting.
• The author decided to stop pursuing the “tentacle monster” title and adopt a more sustainable writing schedule.
• The author reflected that the book had flaws but had helped him explore a new direction beyond fanfiction.
• The author thanked readers and said he would meet them again in his next book after recovering.