Chapter Summaries

Su Ze spoke with Jing Yue about her recovered memories before Chen Keqing interrupted their intimate moment. He then began a simulation in which he encountered the deadly Demigod Grade anomaly King's Dirge and failed to stop it before it ended.

• Jing Yue told Su Ze that the Ancient God Hall had returned memories from her childhood and described her life before becoming a Demigod.
• Su Ze hugged and kissed Jing Yue, but Chen Keqing arrived and pulled Jing Yue away for a private talk.
• Su Ze began a new Old Days Simulator run on Year of the Apocalypse, Day 153, after noticing a new Contained Object.
• Qi Xiaoye identified King's Dirge as a Demigod Grade anomaly that infected people with memories of a play and could drive them to suicide or violence.
• Su Ze investigated for seven days but could not find a way to stop the anomaly, which ended with victims dead or mentally broken and Su Ze missing a chance to obtain a Demigod Authority.

Su Ze investigated King's Dirge and realized he needed to travel back in time to reach its true stage, while using Qi Xiaoye's ability to destroy the Unscientific Cockroaches. He later enlisted Dr. Gales to help him enter an infected person's consciousness, where he stopped the king from falling into corruption and earned the king's Demigod Authority.

• Su Ze concluded that King's Dirge's true stage lay over a thousand years in the past and decided to keep simulating until he found a solution.
• Su Ze took Qi Xiaoye to destroy the Unscientific Cockroach swarm and glimpsed a distant evil god while absorbing the cockroach queen's wisp of divinity.
• On Day 153, Su Ze contacted Dr. Gales and obtained the Elder Ones' spatial technology to combine with the Great Yith Race's incantation.
• Two days later, Dr. Gales used the technology on a black box, allowing Su Ze to reach King's Dirge's true stage through an infected person's consciousness.
• Su Ze stopped the king from falling into corruption, and the king bestowed his Demigod Authority upon him.

Su Ze used the simulator to learn that the Ancient God Hall had ordered Jing Yue to kill him, while also planning to work with Dr. Gales and obtain Demigod Authority through time travel. After Nan Xi and Jiang He returned from their dream trials, Su Ze summoned Jiang He to company headquarters.

• Su Ze simulated the coming days and learned that he would cooperate with Dr. Gales, receive a Time Device, and discover the Ancient God Hall's order for Jing Yue to kill him.
• Nan Xi returned from her dream trial, and Bai Fu teased her about wanting to summon Su Ze before explaining that Su Ze had selected three Parallel Blue Stars for the Star Alliance to contact or conquer.
• Nan Xi declined a celebration party, offered to help with the Star Alliance's plans, and went to bathe after Bai Fu left.
• Jiang He returned from a Transcendent dream as a High Transcendent, and Su Ze summoned her to company headquarters before she could take a bath.

Su Ze questioned Jiang He about the Ancient God Hall’s bargains with demigods and concluded that the calamity might be designed to leave only one survivor with a chance at godhood. After sending Jiang He back to the Violet Family, he went with Jing Yue to Nan Xi and Bai Fu’s mansion, where Nan Xi kept Su Ze occupied for hours.

• Su Ze asked Jiang He what memories she had gained after advancing, and she recalled that the Ancient God Hall had made deals with demigods to recruit them.
• Jiang He suggested the Ancient God Hall used uncertain promises to split demigods into opposing factions and make them fight.
• Su Ze speculated that the Destruction Faction expected everyone but the last survivor to die, leaving that person a chance to become a god.
• Su Ze dismissed Jiang He, who asked him to send her back to the Violet Family.
• Nan Xi called for Su Ze, and he went with Jing Yue to Nan Xi and Bai Fu’s mansion, where Jing Yue spent four hours watching dramas while Nan Xi kept Su Ze occupied.

Wendy discovered that the Red Blade she had stolen from the Mechanical Church could make her kill people in her dreams, and she was blamed for the deaths when it vanished again. Meanwhile, Jing Yue returned to Suzhou City and learned that Su Ze and Nan Xi had left her waiting for nothing.

• Jing Yue waited more than ten hours for Nan Xi and Su Ze, then learned they had already left the bathroom long ago.
• Wendy recalled stealing a rust-covered Red Blade from the Mechanical Church and losing it after returning to the Supernatural Alliance base.
• Wendy dreamed that the Red Blade controlled her and made her kill more than a dozen people.
• Wendy found the same people dead in their rooms and realized the Red Blade had used her to kill them from afar.
• Wendy returned to her room to dispose of the blade, but it had vanished again, and her superior accused her of the murders.
• Jing Yue returned to Suzhou City and learned that Chen Keqing had questioned Nan Xi before Su Ze spent time with her.

Su Ze and Qi Xiaoye investigated Wendy’s Time Stop ability and the Red Blade before Su Ze and Jing Yue traveled to a polluted parallel Blue Star. There, Star Ring Company confronted the Mechanical Church over technology from the Elder Ones, and Dr. Gales asked whether they intended to seize it.

• Qi Xiaoye explained that Wendy’s Time Stop came from another Contained Object and weakened if Wendy believed her actions were immoral.
• Su Ze discussed the Red Blade and concluded that it likely controlled people and made them attack others in their dreams.
• Su Ze and Jing Yue arrived on a heavily polluted parallel Blue Star, where Chi Zhiyuan and Star Ring Company’s forces had met the Mechanical Church’s expedition team.
• Dr. Gales left his team and approached Chi Zhiyuan after the Mechanical Church’s members debated how to respond.
• Chi Zhiyuan told Dr. Gales that Star Ring Company wanted to discuss the Elder Ones’ technology, and Dr. Gales asked whether they had come to seize it.

Chi Zhiyuan negotiated a cooperation with Dr. Gales to combine his spatial technology with the Time Travel incantation and stop a dangerous stage play from spreading. After exchanging the incantation and blueprint, Dr. Gales left, privately wondering whether Su Ze would execute him afterward.

• Chi Zhiyuan offered Dr. Gales a partnership, explaining that Star Ring Company needed his newly deciphered spatial technology to contain a dangerous stage play.
• Dr. Gales agreed to cooperate, then asked Chi Zhiyuan whether she considered herself human; she answered that they were all human.
• Su Ze gave Dr. Gales the Time Travel incantation and cautioned him against spreading or casually using it.
• Dr. Gales handed Su Ze a blueprint for the spatial technology and said he would create a finished Time Device in roughly three days.
• Dr. Gales left without reporting the deal to the Mechanical Church, privately wondering whether Su Ze would execute him after the work was done.

Su Ze sent Chi Zhiyuan to destroy Wendy’s Red Blade and recruit her to Star Ring Company, while he teased Tao Yaoyao with a false deadline for copying Elder Ones technology. Chi Zhiyuan broke the blade in Wendy’s dream, and Wendy woke after her spaceship crashed, wondering whether she could change jobs.

• Su Ze told Chi Zhiyuan to meet Wendy, destroy her Mythical Grade Red Blade, and see whether she wanted to join Star Ring Company.
• Su Ze gave Tao Yaoyao spatial technology blueprints and pretended she had to reproduce them within twenty-four hours, then teased her about the punishment for failing.
• Wendy boarded a spaceship to a Parallel Blue Star after her superior reprimanded her and sent her away to lie low.
• The Red Blade drew Wendy into a dream where she attacked her fellow passengers, but Chi Zhiyuan caught the blade and snapped it in half.
• Wendy woke unharmed near the wreckage of the crashed spaceship and wondered whether she could leave the Supernatural Alliance and join Star Ring Company.

Su Ze and Jing Yue visited the Violet Family to investigate the spread of King's Dirge, which could infect people through scam messages or even by hearing information about the play. Lillian realized she might be at risk after questioning an infected servant, and Su Ze advised her to avoid intense internet use for a few days.

• Su Ze took Tao Yaoyao and Qing Shuang to the laboratory, then brought Jing Yue to the Violet Family castle.
• Jing Yue saw warnings about King's Dirge and learned from Lillian that a castle servant had become infected after clicking a mysterious message on her communication device.
• Su Ze explained that people could also become infected by hearing about the play, and that learning more about it increased the risk.
• Lillian realized she might be infected because she had questioned the servant about the play, and Su Ze advised her to be cautious and limit her internet use.

Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan discussed reports of King's Dirge infections before heading to meet Dr. Gales. Meanwhile, Dr. Gales learned that Wendy had joined Star Ring Company and suspected her powers came from an anomalous creature.

• Su Ze visited the Violet Family to warn Lillian against investigating King's Dirge further.
• Wendy left the Supernatural Alliance after defeating its enforcement team, and Chi Zhiyuan brought her to Star Ring Company.
• Chi Zhiyuan reported King's Dirge cases to Su Ze and Jing Yue, noting that advance warnings had prevented reported victims from being infected so far.
• Su Ze asked Chi Zhiyuan about Yith's Time Travel incantation, then invited her to meet Dr. Gales.
• Dr. Gales heard that Wendy had joined Star Ring Company and recalled sensing that her powers came from an anomalous creature.
• An email from Kukes University appeared on Dr. Gales's VR computer.

Dr. Gales ignored Dr. Yucuriri’s offer to help him escape Su Ze’s surveillance and agreed to create a Spatial Box for Su Ze. Su Ze’s simulation showed that Yucuriri’s conspiracy would soon surface, bringing him the chance to obtain two Demigod Authorities before the Great Fog arrived.

• Dr. Gales read Dr. Yucuriri’s anonymous email warning him about Su Ze and chose to ignore its offer.
• Su Ze met Dr. Gales and Chi Zhiyuan, acknowledged monitoring Dr. Gales, and said he wanted to try the Spatial Box Dr. Gales was creating.
• Dr. Gales agreed to produce the spatial device as soon as possible after Su Ze reassured him about his safety.
• Su Ze reviewed a simulation in which Jing Yue nearly fell victim to King’s Dirge, Chi Zhiyuan was swept into the river of time, and Dr. Yucuriri’s plan ended with his death and Su Ze gaining a Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze concluded that the enemy in hiding had emerged and that he could obtain two Demigod Authorities in the coming days before the Great Fog arrived.

Luo Ning'er asked Jing Yue about Su Ze's private life while continuing to learn about the modern world, and Su Ze returned with Chi Zhiyuan after discussing the Time Device. That evening, Su Ze agreed to bring his family to Yan Jiaojiao's engagement banquet, and Chen Keqing began preparing Jing Yue for it.

• Luo Ning'er asked Jing Yue for help using a communicator and explained that she was studying modern knowledge at her own pace.
• Luo Ning'er questioned Jing Yue about whether she or her master had shared a bed with Su Ze, prompting Jing Yue to suspect she wanted to become his consort.
• Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan discussed how Dr. Gales had to craft the Time Device, and Su Ze teased Chi Zhiyuan by asking her to call him hubby.
• Qing Shuang told Chen Keqing that Professor Yan had visited Tao Yaoyao and that Su Ze had agreed to bring everyone to Yan Jiaojiao's engagement banquet.
• Su Ze and Tao Yaoyao returned, and Chen Keqing took Jing Yue aside to help dress her for the banquet.

Jing Yue was drawn into a terrifying performance by King's Dirge, where its emotions nearly drove her to attack those around her. Su Ze broke the illusion, and she realized she was safe at home in Avalon, lying beside him during family movie time.

• Chen Keqing dressed Jing Yue in revealing clothes before Su Ze led everyone to Yan Jiaojiao's engagement banquet.
• Jing Yue was suddenly trapped in a dark theater and suspected she had been infected by King's Dirge.
• Jing Yue watched a performance that made her experience a king's despair and rage, and the emotions nearly overwhelmed her.
• Su Ze held Jing Yue and broke the theater illusion before its influence could make her attack anyone.
• Jing Yue recovered at home in Avalon and remembered that the group had attended the engagement banquet before returning to watch a movie.

Su Ze and Jing Yue watched a movie together before discussing how King's Dirge had affected her and the memories Ancient God Hall had restored. Jing Yue recalled her connection to a Goddess and learned that Ancient God Hall had considered using her to assassinate Su Ze, while Chen Keqing kept teasing them through their link.

• Su Ze and Jing Yue delayed discussing King's Dirge while they watched the movie, and Jing Yue asked him for enduring promises.
• Jing Yue described how King's Dirge stirred powerful emotions that ended in despair and hostility, causing infected people to attack those around them.
• Su Ze admitted he had foreseen the situation but had been unsure whether Jing Yue had encountered King's Dirge or Ancient God Hall had interfered.
• Jing Yue recovered memories of serving a Goddess who was devoured by a stronger Deity, then leaving the Starry Sky after the Goddess's other followers abandoned Her.
• Jing Yue and Su Ze concluded that Ancient God Hall had tested whether she would assassinate him and steal his power, but had stopped when it sensed she would not.
• Chen Keqing revealed she had continued listening to their conversation and teased Su Ze and Jing Yue.

Su Ze spent the evening at home before using the Simulator, which revealed Dr. Gales’s connection to the Supreme Deity known as the Shattered God and a future crisis involving Dr. Yucuriri. After considering the new information, Su Ze prepared to meet Dr. Gales.

• Nan Xi and Qin Yushi plotted to help Bai Fu, and Nan Xi said she would return to the Star Alliance to assist her.
• Su Ze started a new simulation after the Simulator’s cooldown ended.
• The simulation revealed that Dr. Gales had a connection to the Shattered God, though she could not directly use the Deity’s extraordinary power.
• The simulation showed Dr. Yucuriri activating the Gate of Another World, causing millions to vanish before Su Ze executed her and obtained a Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze considered why Dr. Gales alone could create the Time Device, then set out to meet her.

Su Ze used Dr. Gales’s Time Device to travel to the scene of the king’s tragedy, where he freed the king from the Deity’s puppet strings and obtained a glowing theatrical script embodying Demigod Authority. Back in Avalon, Jing Yue shared fragments of her memories and her desire to challenge the supreme Deity, while Su Ze promised to help her and the others settle their scores.

• Dr. Gales gave Su Ze the Time Device and a poem that might help with his journey through time.
• Su Ze traveled to the theater scene and recited Dr. Gales’s poem to the king shrouded in black mist.
• The king broke the Deity’s puppet strings and handed Su Ze a radiant theatrical script containing Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze returned to Dr. Gales, thanked him, and went back to Avalon.
• Jing Yue told Su Ze about her fragmented memories of a Goddess nearing defeat and her wish to challenge the supreme Deity.
• Su Ze promised to help Jing Yue, Chi Zhiyuan, and Nan Xi settle their grudges before Jing Yue teasingly asked when he would win her heart.

Dr. Vermilion Bird returned from a transport plane to find her home attacked and her younger sister dead, while on the moon Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan discussed how Dr. Gales’s poem had helped contain King’s Dirge. The chapter leaves Vermilion Bird screaming in grief and Su Ze revealing an antiquated storybook.

• The transport plane carried Dr. Vermilion Bird to a devastated city as crew members whispered about the Supernatural Alliance and its rumored attack on the Imperial Palace.
• Dr. Vermilion Bird recalled her immortality, her extraordinary research abilities, and how Heart-Stitching Bear had saved her youngest sister after the Cataclysm damaged the girl’s heart and lungs.
• Dr. Vermilion Bird sensed blood near her home, rushed past the torn-apart bodies of people she knew, and found her younger sister dead.
• Dr. Vermilion Bird screamed in grief at her sister’s corpse.
• On the moon, Chi Zhiyuan and Su Ze discussed how smoothly they had stopped King’s Dirge with Dr. Gales’s poem.
• Su Ze produced an antiquated storybook when Chi Zhiyuan asked about their gains.

Su Ze showed Chi Zhiyuan a Demigod Authority, then revealed that Vermilion Bird had been murdered and revived after enemies attacked her. He waited for the moment of her greatest despair before making his entrance, and challenged Chi Zhiyuan to bet that Vermilion Bird would confess her love to him within a day.

• Su Ze offered Chi Zhiyuan the Demigod Authority, but said he intended to use it to develop a second max-level talent.
• Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan entered the consciousness space, where he showed her Dr. Zhu Que slitting her throat.
• Su Ze explained that a junior disciple had arranged the attack out of jealousy and revenge, while accomplices took the Heart-Stitching Bear and the Supernatural Alliance had indirectly enabled them.
• Su Ze waited to make a dramatic entrance until Vermilion Bird's despair peaked, even though she had already revived and was praying for help.
• Su Ze bet that Vermilion Bird would confess her love to him within twenty-four hours, offering Chi Zhiyuan a daily declaration of love if he won; Chi Zhiyuan refused to bet.

Vermilion Bird prayed for divine help after finding her sister and other Safe Zone survivors dead, and Su Ze appeared to revive them in exchange for her joining Star Ring Company. The next day, Vermilion Bird learned that Star Ring Company had arrived at the Imperial Palace and threatened the Supernatural Alliance.

• Vermilion Bird found her younger sister and many nearby survivors dead, then prayed for a god to reverse the tragedy or help her die.
• Su Ze appeared and offered to fulfill Vermilion Bird’s wish to revive the dead in exchange for her joining Star Ring Company.
• Su Ze used the energy of the Fallen Gift to revive the dead and controlled the witnesses with his Connection Talent before vanishing.
• Vermilion Bird comforted her revived sister and told her companions she would stay to investigate the attack and wait for Star Ring Company.
• The next day, Vermilion Bird heard that Star Ring Company had landed at the Imperial Palace and ordered the Supernatural Alliance to leave within ten hours.

Vermilion Bird joined Star Ring Company after meeting Chi Zhiyuan, while Su Ze watched the Golden Crow approach B-155 and prepared for the Supernatural Alliance to flee. On C-125, the Faceless Man discussed the Golden Crow’s destruction with Mystic Tortoise and hinted that Su Ze had stopped it near B-155.

• Vermilion Bird learned that Star Ring Company and the Supernatural Alliance were competing to claim her planet, and recalled Su Ze’s miraculous power.
• Chi Zhiyuan visited Vermilion Bird, introduced Star Ring Company, and brought her and her people into the company after she signed a contract.
• Vermilion Bird asked Chi Zhiyuan about Su Ze, and Chi Zhiyuan told her his identity was an unspeakable secret.
• Su Ze watched the Golden Crow approach B-155 and told Chi Zhiyuan that the Supernatural Alliance had about four hours to escape before it arrived.
• On C-125, Mystic Tortoise told the Faceless Man that Kukes University had surrendered the planet’s resources to the Star Alliance.
• The Faceless Man told Mystic Tortoise that the Golden Crow had burned several Blue Stars before a mysterious force stopped it near B-155, and Mystic Tortoise wondered if it was a demigod.