Chapter Summaries

Lan Mu, disguised as the Demon Sword Special Envoy, battled Zero Twenty-Four and discovered that the Expositor’s strange defenses could be bypassed by trapping him with spatial powers. Zero Twenty-Four reshaped Shadow Island into an icy domain and called for another opponent, but a fiery giant hand burst through the glacier in response.

• Zero Twenty-Four learned that the Blue White Society had Special Envoys and fought Lan Mu, who was disguised as Demon Sword.
• Lan Mu’s magic and sword strikes failed to overcome Zero Twenty-Four’s human shield and undead defenses, but Lan Mu used his Space Ring to remove the shield.
• Zero Twenty-Four escaped the Space Ring by raising an icy throne and transforming Shadow Island into a range of frozen peaks.
• Zero Twenty-Four waited for Gabriel, then shouted, “Who else!”
• A gigantic fiery hand burst through the ice, melted the glaciers, and answered Zero Twenty-Four’s challenge.

Lan Mu, transformed into Flame Demon Seven Jia She, battled Zero Twenty-Four, whose Helm of Domination unleashed a devastating blizzard. After Zero Twenty-Four froze Lan Mu and collapsed, a black-robed undead Special Envoy appeared and challenged his claim to the title of Lich King.

• Lan Mu transformed into Flame Demon Seven Jia She and attacked Zero Twenty-Four with a flaming spear as magma countered the ice.
• Zero Twenty-Four intensified his blizzard, forcing Jinx, the pets, vampires, and humans to flee the battlefield.
• Zero Twenty-Four explained that he wanted Gabriel to kill him before the Helm of Domination fully corrupted him.
• Zero Twenty-Four froze Lan Mu inside a massive iceberg with his strongest attack, then collapsed beneath the throne as the helm urged him to claim more power.
• A black-robed undead Special Envoy approached Zero Twenty-Four, called the Helm of Domination suited to a lich, and declared that Zero Twenty-Four could control neither the helm nor the title of Lich King.

Lan Mu defeated Zero Twenty-Four and claimed the Helm of Domination, discovering that his immense soul let him resist its control. He found he could remove it by changing from his lich form into a human, leaving him able to use its power without being permanently bound.

• Zero Twenty-Four warned the lich Special Envoy that the helm would erase an undead wearer's consciousness, but Lan Mu killed him and seized it.
• Lan Mu put on the helm, and his Spiritual Power formed a suit of armor while its power melted the ice across Shadow Island.
• Lan Mu found that the helm shielded his mind and let him wield darkness and frost, though using its power gradually eroded his control.
• Lan Mu told Bai Ze his immense soul strength slowed the helm's influence, then discovered he could not remove it while in lich form.
• Lan Mu changed into his human form and removed the helm, and Bai Ze realized he could alternate between using it as a lich and escaping it as a human.

After the Blue White Society defeated the EUCB, Hiyori Nation faced imminent destruction and began evacuating its population. Lan Mu learned that China planned to accept millions of refugees and realized the country was preparing to enter the interstellar age.

• The Blue White Society captured two EUCB Expositors, told them the EUCB had been dissolved, and assigned them to Pacific No. 1 Base as D-class personnel.
• Hiyori Nation’s government collapsed as officials fled and the imperial family dissolved the government and organized a mass migration.
• China and Russia agreed to temporarily accept refugees as Hiyori Nation faced catastrophic earthquakes and sinking, while China prepared for a tsunami using Qianlong’s Dragon Bone.
• Bai Ze told Lan Mu that the Blue White Society and its foundations had rescued several million vulnerable refugees from Hiyori Nation.
• Lan Mu realized China’s acceptance of ordinary refugees might be connected to its imminent entry into the interstellar age.

Lan Mu watched as Hiyori Nation sank, while Tang Xiaohai contained the disaster’s waves and pollution. After revealing that he was a Blue White Society Special Envoy, Lan Mu recruited Tang Xiaohai and asked him to help take peaceful control of CANC’s Underwater Great Prison.

• Lan Mu learned that China planned to accept Hiyori Nation’s population in exchange for benefits, including priority access to scientists and technical personnel.
• Hiyori Nation sank as a worldwide livestream showed military forces removing hazardous waste and Tang Xiaohai contained the tsunamis and pollution.
• Lan Mu approached Tang Xiaohai in his new dragon form and told him he was a Blue White Society Special Envoy.
• Tang Xiaohai explained his fears about the Blue White Society, and Lan Mu assured him that intelligent Contained Objects could join the Society.
• Lan Mu required Tang Xiaohai to join the Blue White Society and asked him to help take peaceful control of CANC’s Underwater Great Prison.

Lan Mu and Tang Xiaohai reached the Deep Sea Great Prison, where the facility attacked them and its defenses triggered a massive whirlpool. Lan Mu broke inside as Warden Lan Che ordered the staff to surrender if he reached the lowest level, leaving the prison’s dangerous Contained Objects under constant supervision.

• Zhuo Yue told Lan Mu and Tang Xiaohai that CANC had fabricated the Bermuda disappearances and used signal interference to drive ships away.
• Lan Mu and Tang Xiaohai descended to the Underwater Great Prison, a vast structure built inside a hidden trench beneath the Bermuda sea.
• The prison’s weapons fired torpedoes at Lan Mu, and its rotating structure created a whirlpool that threatened the research vessel while Storm Fortresses moved to intercept it.
• Lan Mu left Tang Xiaohai to handle the defenses, broke into a ring, and used his powers to bypass the prison’s internal valves.
• Lan Che gathered the prison’s staff and instructed them to surrender rather than risk a Containment Failure if Lan Mu reached the thousandth level.
• The chapter described the dangerous γ-173 statue and Ω-682, whose containment required constant observation and resource-intensive suppression.

Lan Mu took control of the Deep Sea Great Prison, where Director Lan Che chose surrender to prevent a battle from causing Containment Failure. Lan Che offered to defect with his staff if Lan Mu entered the Red Sea and survived, leaving Lan Mu facing the prison’s dangerous book-shaped Contained Object.

• Lan Mu defeated the guards on the 108th level, took control of the prison’s intelligent system, and reviewed its intelligence while avoiding damage to the containment measures.
• Lan Che announced that he would surrender, explaining that protecting humanity mattered more than defending CANC and that fighting could trigger Containment Failure.
• Lan Mu agreed to let the Blue White Society take over the prison, with some management staff remaining and all combat personnel leaving.
• Lan Che offered for the staff to join the Blue White Society, but asked Lan Mu to prove his strength by entering the Red Sea and surviving.
• Lan Mu recognized the Red Sea as a book-shaped Contained Object whose world was a deadly red desert, previously explored at the cost of more than two hundred lives.

Lan Mu entered the Red Sea Contained Object and discovered a dangerous desert on another world. After surviving an attack by giant scorpions, he found a human settlement with a culture resembling Ancient Egypt and approached its people to learn their language.

• Lan Mu entered the Red Sea through the pale yellow sheet and told Zhuo Yue and the others to wait for him.
• Lan Mu found himself in a red desert with an atmosphere containing far more oxygen than Earth's, then stored part of the sheet and marked his location with a bloodied Void Cloud.
• A giant scorpion attacked Lan Mu, and he killed it before flying above a swarm of scorpions that fired corrosive venom.
• Lan Mu flew away from the desert and found a village of humans whose appearance and architecture reminded him of Ancient Egypt.
• The villagers greeted Lan Mu without fear, and he transformed into an Asari before descending to approach them.

Lan Mu learned that the Narmer Dynasty’s gods had ruled a vast, advanced Egypt for three thousand years and survived the Apep disaster and a world-ending flood. He concluded that the God Race planned to abandon Earth ahead of another apocalypse and decided to seek out Scorpion King Narmer.

• Lan Mu quickly learned the Great Egyptians’ language and heard that the Narmer Dynasty had once ruled a territory spanning Africa, Asia, and Europe.
• The farmers described Egypt’s gods and their advanced armor, and Lan Mu suspected the so-called God Race were technological rulers.
• Lan Mu learned that the Divine War unleashed Apep, which the gods destroyed at great cost.
• The farmers recounted a forty-four-day rain and a century of flood-control efforts, after which King Narmer declared the Great Flood over and named the human Menes as his successor.
• Lan Mu connected the disasters to the Apocalypse Pyramid, concluded that the God Race intended to leave Earth, and set out to meet Narmer in the capital.

Lan Mu reached the Egyptian capital as Narmer prepared to leave and learned that the gods feared the mysterious pyramids. Narmer departed for the heavens, leaving Menes to rule as Pharaoh and a possible path for humanity to find the gods again.

• Lan Mu learned that Narmer and the other gods had withdrawn from ruling Egypt, while Menes resisted becoming the next king.
• The people mistook Lan Mu for a god who might inherit the throne, and he flew to the divine palace to meet Narmer and Menes.
• Narmer showed Menes a blueprint of the Doom Pyramid and explained that the strange structure had helped convince the gods to leave.
• Menes promised to become Pharaoh, guard Egypt, and uncover the pyramid's secret so the gods could return.
• Narmer told Menes to seek the Sun Boat's former docking place west of the desert if calamity threatened, then flew into the heavens as Lan Mu followed.

Lan Mu learned that the world he had explored was a virtual historical simulation created by the Cloud Years Book, an intelligent device left by the Amun Civilization. He discovered that the aliens had engineered ancient Egyptian civilization and left a wormhole to an Ocean Planet, where Menes had taken fifty thousand people.

• Lan Mu pursued Narmer into space and learned that Narmer was the Cloud Years Book, a simulation device containing historical events.
• The Cloud Years Book explained that visitors experienced the simulation as reality and could die there, though some people had survived and escaped.
• The Cloud Years Book revealed that the Amun Civilization had gathered peoples and cultural achievements in the Nile River Basin to build a civilization they expected to unify Earth and eventually reach space.
• The Cloud Years Book said the pyramids had warned the aliens to leave Earth after their interference triggered two apocalypses.
• Lan Mu learned that the Amun Civilization had left a wormhole leading to a habitable Ocean Planet, and that Menes had taken fifty thousand people there thousands of years earlier.

Lan Mu learned from the Cloud Years Book how the Amun Civilization had shaped ancient Egypt and influenced early civilizations around the world, including China. The book explained that the Amun had ruled to protect and study humanity rather than control its development, but Lan Mu remained cautious about their account.

• Lan Mu learned that the Amun Civilization had relocated and combined peoples to create ancient Egypt, then ruled through the Mythological Era before departing after the Great Flood.
• Lan Mu traced Egyptian expeditions eastward, which the book connected to the spread of civilization in India and China, the Yinglong legend, Great Yu, and the founding of Xia.
• Lan Mu learned that Menes and his followers had left Earth through a wormhole and settled on Sea Star, where their descendants eventually forgot their origins.
• Lan Mu asked the Cloud Years Book why the Amun had ruled Earth, and it said they had enjoyed helping and studying primitive life while avoiding direct technological control.
• Lan Mu considered whether the Amun's behavior challenged the Dark Forest rule but remained wary of accepting their one-sided explanation.

Lan Mu learned from the Cloud Years Book why the Amun people had fled Earth and considered the planet unnaturally old and mysterious. Their discussion of intelligent life and civilization led him to realize why the Galactic Core Civilization had called the insectoids enemies of all civilizations.

• Lan Mu reflected on Earth's ancient mysteries, including the Doom Pyramid, which had baffled the Amun people and contributed to their decision to leave.
• The Cloud Years Book explained that Earth's 4.6-billion-year age was unusually old for a planet that had produced intelligent life so late.
• The Cloud Years Book proposed that humanity might not be Earth's first intelligent race, since an earlier race could have vanished without leaving evidence or civilization.
• The Cloud Years Book suggested that physical weakness might help drive intelligent species to build civilization and overcome nature.
• Lan Mu connected this idea to the Galactic Core Civilization's warning that the insectoids were the enemy of all civilizations, recognizing that they were a powerful, unified race outside the usual path of civilization.

Lan Mu questioned the Cloud Years Book about the Doom Pyramid and the Amun Civilization’s fear of what created it. He learned that the book held no technology or universal rules to offer, leaving his questions about the universe unanswered.

• The Cloud Years Book described two possible origins for the Doom Pyramid: a super-civilization had left it on Earth, or an ancient Earth civilization had created it to reset the planet.
• The Cloud Years Book explained that the pyramid’s impossible properties had defeated 17,942 hypotheses and convinced the Amun Civilization that Earth was too dangerous to remain near.
• Lan Mu considered whether a hidden being might be observing him and criticized the Amun Civilization for being too afraid to investigate Earth.
• Lan Mu asked whether the Cloud Years Book could provide Stellar Jump or wormhole construction technology, but it said it contained no technical data.
• Lan Mu asked about other civilizations and shared rules in the universe, and the Cloud Years Book said no one would establish anything so boring.

Lan Mu learned why advanced civilizations avoided contact with emerging spacefaring worlds, then left Cloud Years Book and took it into his custody. After comparing the prison’s Doom Pyramid with its counterpart in a parallel world, he planned to use a summoned object to identify other parallel Earths.

• Lan Mu asked Cloud Years Book how the Amun people would have treated Earth if they had found it as an emerging spacefaring civilization, and it explained they would have copied Earth’s information and left to avoid contact.
• Lan Mu concluded that the lawless universe offered little reason for mature civilizations to communicate, while primitive civilizations could be treated as toys.
• Lan Mu explored Cloud Years Book’s world, found its boundary beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and returned to the Deep Sea Great Prison with the book.
• Lan Mu took Cloud Years Book into his ring, left Zhuo Yue to handle the site, and examined the Doom Pyramid at the bottom of the prison.
• Lan Mu wondered how to test whether a summoned world was a parallel Earth and decided that figurines might serve as a distinctive Earth object.

Tang Xiaohai joined Lan Mu on Shadow Island as Lan Mu tested the Great Summoning Technique to locate a parallel Earth. After many failed attempts, Lan Mu summoned a Qin Terracotta Army soldier and identified its world as an Earth with five times Earth's energy level.

• Bai Ze assured Tang Xiaohai that his family would be safe away from Shadow Island, and Tang Xiaohai watched the island's buildings get repaired.
• Lan Mu's attempt to summon a figurine brought a damaged Gundam model to Shadow Island, which Bai Ze dealt with.
• Lan Mu summoned more than twenty unfamiliar figurines, then broadened the summoning conditions but still found nothing he recognized.
• Lan Mu used the Great Summoning Technique to summon a Qin Terracotta Army soldier and concluded that its world was a modern-era Earth.
• Lan Mu selected the fivefold-energy world as his target and remarked that Terracotta Army soldiers were Qin Shi Huang's figurines.

Lan Mu was summoned to a parallel version of Earth by a brilliant but stubbornly scientific young man. He disguised Summoning Magic as advanced alien technology and left the man convinced by his explanation.

• Lan Mu reviewed the worlds he had visited and observed China absorbing Hiyori immigrants by building new cities in the west, including First Tokyo City, Second Tokyo City, and Third Tokyo City.
• Lan Mu returned to Shadow Island and spent several days cleansing the negative emotions from souls he had collected in the Monster World.
• A summoning spell transported Lan Mu to a modern villa near New York, where his expanding mental scan overwhelmed him with information and revealed the limits of his ability to process it.
• Lan Mu recognized that the bespectacled young man had learned Summoning Magic in a day and asked whether this was Earth.
• The young man asked if Lan Mu was an alien and described the summoning as fantastical technology, so Lan Mu invented a story about Blue White Society technology and a drifting virtual world.
• Lan Mu explained Summoning Magic as trans-dimensional transmission technology, and the young man believed him.

Lan Mu tried to explain why this ordinary parallel Earth had an energy level five times higher than his own, and concluded that its fanatical worship of science might be responsible. He wondered whether the faith placed in deified scientists could create gods, but dismissed the possibility and remained uncertain about the world's energy.

• Lan Mu observed that the parallel Earth had little advanced technology or supernatural power despite its unusually high energy level.
• Lan Mu recognized that the Science Church dominated society and that people faced punishment for superstition or challenging established scientific laws.
• Lan Mu recalled how quantum physicists such as Bohr, Planck, and Heisenberg had been imprisoned for opposing classical physics before experiments established their theories.
• Lan Mu noticed that the Science Church had deified dead scientists and wondered if their accumulated worship explained the world's high energy.
• Lan Mu reasoned that scientific beliefs could not give faith creative power, dismissed the idea that scientists had become gods, and remained puzzled.

Lan Mu left Tobias with a tantalizing question about cosmic civilization, then transformed into a giant blue octahedron above the sea near New York. After its movements and defenses terrified onlookers, it flew out over the open ocean.

• Lan Mu told Tobias that pollution would keep his planet from entering the spacefaring stage, then departed without explaining the Law of Cosmic Civilization Survival.
• Tobias chased after Lan Mu and collapsed in despair when he could not get an answer.
• Lan Mu transformed in the sea, forcing seawater outward as a gigantic sapphire-blue octahedron rose into the air.
• The octahedron shifted through intricate shapes while onlookers mistook its abilities for advanced human technology.
• The octahedron repelled approaching helicopters and police, frightening the crowd, then flew away toward the open sea.

After transforming into the Fifth Apostle Remiel, Lan Mu discovered the power of his AT Field and flew away from New York to avoid fighting. The USA military pursued and attacked him near the Bermuda Triangle, and Lan Mu stopped to test his defenses.

• Lan Mu blasted an armed helicopter and a police officer away, then flew out to sea and realized he had become Remiel, an Apostle with a powerful AT Field.
• Lan Mu assessed his defenses, regeneration, and offensive abilities, concluding that few forces in this world could threaten him.
• The USA military mistook Lan Mu for an enemy technological weapon and pursued him with fighter jets and an Atlantic Fleet.
• As Lan Mu flew south off the eastern coast of the USA, the military intercepted him with shells, missiles, and fighter jets, none of which could harm him.
• Lan Mu's repulsive force flung approaching jets away, destroying several, and he stopped to test the limits of his AT Field.