Chapter Summaries

Su Ze gave Vermilion Bird a Mythical Grade Word Spirit Technique and then reunited with Chi Zhiyuan, showing her how his upgraded Advent Talent could rebuild the Great Yan Dynasty on Parallel Blue Star. The chapter ended with Chi Zhiyuan recognizing that the recreated city matched her Qingyun Sect at its third time node.

• Su Ze handed Vermilion Bird a work badge containing a Mythical Grade Word Spirit Technique and left her to handle minor troubles herself.
• Vermilion Bird sensed a Shoggoth commotion outside and realized Su Ze expected her to deal with such monsters in the future.
• Su Ze teased Chi Zhiyuan at company headquarters, kissed her, and then agreed to move the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Su Ze used his upgraded Advent Talent to recreate the Great Yan Dynasty's capital on Parallel Blue Star and teleport its survivors there.
• Chi Zhiyuan recognized that the recreated city was modeled exactly on her Qingyun Sect at the third time node.

Su Ze recreated the Qingyun Sect for Chi Zhiyuan, and the two resumed their romance after she admitted she liked winning over the one she loved. Several days later, life continued in Avalon as Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan’s teasing relationship drew comments from the others, until the Simulator began showing Su Ze new content.

• Su Ze showed Chi Zhiyuan his recreation of the Qingyun Sect, and she explained that her renewed memories had made her uneasy about whether the past had changed.
• Chi Zhiyuan agreed to continue what they had left unfinished, negotiated a fifteen-day promise that Su Ze would not flirt with Bai Fu, and tore open his collar.
• Several days later, Qin Yushi discussed dream strategies with Su Ze while Chen Keqing comforted an embarrassed Chi Zhiyuan in the kitchen.
• Su Ze left Chi Zhiyuan’s room feeling refreshed and returned to find Bai Fu preparing afternoon tea.
• Bai Fu teased Su Ze about his time with Chi Zhiyuan, but he focused on the Simulator as it displayed new content.

Su Ze explained to Bai Fu that a novelist named Zhang Murphy had unknowingly caused a seven-day time loop on a Parallel Blue Star through his unfinished horror novel. He revealed that the Calamity Starry Sky was a prison whose cataclysm would end only when a true Deity was born, then left Bai Fu asking what he planned to do with the novelist’s anomalous power.

• Su Ze ended a simulation that followed events on the Parallel Blue Star through Day Twenty-Two and revealed the cataclysm’s origin and the ancient god’s conspiracy.
• Su Ze told Bai Fu that the Calamity Starry Sky was a gigantic prison and that its cataclysm would end only when a true Deity was born.
• Su Ze explained that Zhang Murphy’s unfinished novel had caused the entire planet to loop through seven days.
• Su Ze said Zhang Murphy’s reality-altering power could create beings up to a True God’s incarnation, but that the novelist would lose it if he became aware of it.
• Bai Fu asked Su Ze what he planned to do with Zhang Murphy’s anomalous power.

Su Ze took Bai Fu to a time-looping Parallel Blue Star to show her Wilbur, whose Yog-Sothoth bloodline held the clue to the Apocalyptic Cataclysm. They then visited Zhang Murphy, the impoverished novelist whose story Su Ze hoped to fund, and Su Ze introduced himself at Zhang’s door.

• Su Ze explained that he planned to invest in Zhang Murphy’s Fourteen Days of Shock and hoped its monsters might yield a new Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze brought Bai Fu to Parallel Blue Star and explained that its time was fixed in a continuous loop.
• Su Ze showed Bai Fu Wilbur, a monster carrying the bloodline of Yog-Sothoth, and said Yog-Sothoth could reveal the secret of the Apocalyptic Cataclysm.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu went to Zhang Murphy’s apartment, while Bai Fu learned from Chen Keqing that Chi Zhiyuan had forbidden Su Ze from flirting with her for fifteen days.
• Su Ze knocked on Zhang Murphy’s door and asked to discuss his work, Fourteen Days of Shock.

Su Ze paid Zhang Murphy to finish Fourteen Days of Shock within fourteen days and add a flaw to its mastermind, then left with Bai Fu. Three days later, Zhang Murphy had written nothing and headed to the red-light district while Su Ze watched from afar.

• Su Ze asked Zhang Murphy to complete Fourteen Days of Shock and add a fatal flaw to its mastermind, then gave him an envelope of money.
• Su Ze offered Zhang Murphy one million for the rights, with the balance due after he finished the novel to Su Ze’s satisfaction within fourteen days.
• After leaving Zhang Murphy’s apartment, Su Ze asked Bai Fu to stop holding his arm because he had promised Chi Zhiyuan to avoid ambiguity with her for fifteen days.
• Bai Fu invited Su Ze back to her room to give him a reward.
• Three days later, Zhang Murphy had written nothing, deposited most of Su Ze’s money, and gone to the red-light district.
• Su Ze watched Zhang Murphy from a mountaintop mansion and lamented that he was procrastinating.

Su Ze relaxed with Bai Fu while observing Zhang Murphy and explaining the stalled outline of his novel. After reading news about Wilbur’s family, Su Ze revealed that Wilbur would soon seek the Necronomicon and that he and Bai Fu might meet Yog-Sothoth, though the question they could ask it was predetermined.

• Su Ze watched Zhang Murphy through his domain perspective while Chen Keqing and the others played in the pool.
• Bai Fu asked Su Ze to guess how much of Zhang Murphy’s novel he had written, and Su Ze correctly answered that he had not written a word.
• Su Ze described Zhang Murphy’s planned story about a working man, a widow, a detective, and a mysterious mastermind, explaining that Zhang was still procrastinating over its ending.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu read a newspaper report linking Wilbur’s family to stolen cattle and a foul stench in a nearby village.
• Su Ze told Bai Fu that outside pressure would soon drive Wilbur to steal the Necronomicon from Miskatonic University, opening the way for them to meet Yog-Sothoth.
• Su Ze revealed that Bai Fu might ask Yog-Sothoth one question, but his simulations showed that only one predetermined answer was available and other people could not see the god.

Su Ze simulated hunting a Mythical Grade Wolf Grandma for divinity, then flirted with Chen Keqing about Zhu Que. On Parallel Blue Star, Zhu Que waited for Su Ze at the Antarctic research station, where Lillian and Jiang He arrived before him.

• Su Ze learned that he would encounter and execute Wolf Grandma in a simulation, gaining a trace of divinity, and retained the simulation.
• Chen Keqing teased Su Ze about Chi Zhiyuan asking whether he was interested in Zhu Que and about his relationship with Bai Fu.
• Su Ze carried Chen Keqing to the sofa after she playfully offered to let him pursue Zhu Que.
• Zhu Que waited at the Antarctic research station for Su Ze, who was expected to discuss a new discovery and the Violet Family's relocation.
• Lillian and Jiang He entered the lounge and found Zhu Que waiting for Su Ze.
• Zhu Que offered to get drinks while Jiang He remarked that Su Ze was late.

Vermilion Bird waited with Lillian and Jiang He, using a card game and casual questions to learn about them and Su Ze. Jiang He and Lillian teased Vermilion Bird about her interest in Su Ze before he arrived with Chen Keqing, who awkwardly hid her wet wipe.

• Vermilion Bird returned with hot drinks and joined Jiang He and Lillian while they waited for Su Ze.
• Jiang He taught Vermilion Bird Fight the Landlord, and Vermilion Bird used their game to ask Lillian about her past and plans.
• Jiang He told Vermilion Bird how Su Ze had rescued her and joked that he wanted her body.
• Vermilion Bird apologized for her reaction to Jiang He, and Jiang He and Lillian teased her about wanting to sleep with Su Ze.
• Su Ze arrived with Chen Keqing, who had been holding a wet wipe and silently tucked it away after noticing the others.

Su Ze relocated the Violet Family to its new home and told Vermilion Bird that the Mi Go had created a flawed Deity named Gadamond. He urged the team to continue their investigation, confident they could kill Gadamond if they found it, while Chen Keqing and the others welcomed Vermilion Bird.

• Chen Keqing joined Su Ze, Jiang He, Lillian, and Vermilion Bird, and Su Ze moved the Violet Family’s people, buildings, and land to its new location.
• Su Ze told Vermilion Bird that the Mi Go had created a half-finished Deity called Gadamond during a war with the Elder Ones.
• Su Ze explained that the Elder Ones had fought other mythical races on Blue Star and that the fate of those races remained unknown.
• Jiang He asked whether Gadamond might still be watching humanity, and Su Ze said the team should continue investigating and kill it if they found it.
• Chen Keqing chatted with Jiang He and welcomed Vermilion Bird to visit, while Lillian and Jiang He teased Vermilion Bird about the principal wife’s friendliness.

Su Ze reviewed a simulation in which Vermilion Bird blocked a Deity’s attack, then learned Chen Keqing had arranged for Bai Fu to sleep with him the next day. On Day 172, Su Ze and Bai Fu were at Miskatonic University as a newspaper reported that important library documents had been stolen.

• Su Ze read the twenty-day simulation and noted that Vermilion Bird had repelled a Deity’s ambush involving a shining Oblique Octahedron.
• Chen Keqing told Su Ze that she had spoken with Bai Fu and arranged for Bai Fu to sleep with him the following day.
• Chen Keqing admitted she still felt jealous but comforted herself by thinking of herself as the primary wife.
• On Day 172, Su Ze closed the window and drew the curtain in Miskatonic University’s board office while Bai Fu read news of a library burglary and missing documents.

Su Ze discussed Wilbur’s planned summoning of Yog-Sothoth with Bai Fu, then met Zhang Murphy to collect his manuscript and encouraged him to keep writing. The chapter ended with Zhang reading a newspaper report about the Necronomicon on his way home.

• Bai Fu asked Su Ze whether the missing document was a fragment of the Necronomicon, and he explained that he could not give Wilbur its hymn without disrupting events.
• Su Ze told Bai Fu that Wilbur would attempt to summon Yog-Sothoth in about fourteen hours, then went with her into the lounge.
• Zhang Murphy brought Su Ze two-thirds of his commissioned manuscript, and Su Ze praised his progress without reading it.
• Su Ze told Zhang Murphy to read the newspaper report about Wilbur, and Zhang left feeling newly confident about his writing.
• Zhang Murphy bought a newspaper, read it in the car, and silently memorized the name Necronomicon.

Su Ze and Bai Fu arrived to question Yog-Sothoth after Wilbur summoned Him, and learned that the Ancient God Hall was created by a fallen deity seeking to revive himself. The chapter ended with the revelation that the deity would awaken in the final survivor and fight for control, either reviving or being annihilated.

• At dinner, Bai Fu said she wanted to ask whether Su Ze could successfully become a god, while Su Ze said Yog-Sothoth could not control his future.
• In Wilbur's village, crowds searched for him after newspaper reports exposed his monstrous body, while Wilbur recited a hymn atop a hill.
• When the stars aligned, Wilbur's hymn opened a door and unleashed a terrifying storm that killed some of the people searching the village.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu arrived at the center of the storm, where Yog-Sothoth offered to answer one question, and Su Ze asked for the secrets of the Ancient God Hall.
• Yog-Sothoth showed Su Ze and Bai Fu a vision of a fallen deity who created the Apocalyptic Cataclysm, Parallel Blue Stars, and the Ancient God Hall as part of a plan to revive himself.
• The vision revealed that the deity would awaken in the final survivor and fight for control, reviving if he won or being annihilated if he lost.

Yog-Sothoth revealed Bai Fu’s past as a powerful demigod who rebelled against the god that had granted her cursed authority. After the visions ended, Bai Fu reunited with Su Ze and wondered why Yog-Sothoth seemed to have appeared specifically for him.

• Yog-Sothoth showed Su Ze and Bai Fu details about the cataclysm and the Ancient God Hall’s contracts, then offered Bai Fu an answer to one question.
• The visions revealed that Bai Fu had once ruled a realm, destroyed a civilization for revenge, and accepted authority from a god who recruited her as a retainer.
• Bai Fu learned that her authority was cursed to erode her emotions and that she had allied with other demigods in a failed attempt to overthrow the god.
• The visions showed Chi Zhiyuan confronting Bai Fu before she fled into the cataclysm-stricken starry sky in search of a path to godhood.
• Yog-Sothoth vanished, and Bai Fu told Su Ze she was satisfied with what she had learned before embracing and kissing him.
• Bai Fu asked Su Ze why Yog-Sothoth had seemed to come for him even though Wilbur had summoned it.

Su Ze discussed Yog-Sothoth’s appearance and the Ancient God Hall’s secrets with Bai Fu and the others, while Zhang Murphy used a newspaper report to inspire his novel. On Parallel Blue Star, Mystic Tortoise encountered Su Ze and immediately begged for his life.

• Su Ze told Bai Fu that he could have banished Yog-Sothoth and suggested the Outer God might have appeared because it owed him.
• Zhang Murphy read a newspaper report about Wilbur and the Necronomicon, then decided to make Nyarlathotep the even more wicked force in his story.
• Bai Fu shared Nan Xi’s intelligence about the Ancient God Hall with Su Ze, Jing Yue, Chi Zhiyuan, and Nan Xi.
• Jing Yue recalled seeing another version of herself when she advanced to High Transcendent, while Chi Zhiyuan said Su Ze had already told her some of the intelligence.
• Nan Xi announced that she and the principal wife planned a family game for that night.
• On Parallel Blue Star, Mystic Tortoise entered a house, saw Su Ze, and dropped to his knees begging to be spared.

Su Ze used Father God's Listening to uncover Mystic Tortoise's secrets and killed him and the Veiled Society's new members. Two days later, Su Ze reviewed a simulation showing Nyarlathotep would attack him over his earlier use of Its power, leaving him to face the consequences of that karmic debt.

• Su Ze revealed that he knew Mystic Tortoise's connection to the Ancient God Hall and the Veiled Society.
• Su Ze killed three new Veiled Society members and then killed Mystic Tortoise, wondering whether the Demigod had another way to survive.
• Two days later, Su Ze and Bai Fu appeared in Miskatonic University's board chairman's office, where Bai Fu read the end of a novel mentioning Nyarlathotep.
• Su Ze reviewed a simulation in which Nyarlathotep nearly killed him, but Vermilion Bird used Deity power to save him.
• Su Ze concluded that Nyarlathotep's attack was retaliation for his earlier use of Its power to kill the novel's mastermind.

Su Ze simulated the appearance of the Divine Grace Tree, then prepared to claim Miskatonic University and intervened when the novel's events manifested in reality. He killed the hidden mastermind with Nyarlathotep's power and raised his Hyper-dimensional Link talent to Demigod Grade, though it still lacked enough divinity.

• Su Ze learned in the simulation that the Divine Grace Tree was a projection of a cosmic Deity, then killed its chosen Demigod kin and took its divinity and Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze retained the simulation's rewards and told Bai Fu that the real-world finale would arrive within hours.
• Su Ze received a contract to bring Miskatonic University's assets under the company's control as a precaution.
• When the novel's events manifested at a murder scene, Su Ze summoned Nyarlathotep using Zhang Murphy's incantation and destroyed the unseen mastermind.
• Su Ze devoured the mastermind's Demigod Authority, advancing Hyper-dimensional Link to Demigod Grade, but lacked enough divinity to support it.

After the novel’s reality-altering effects vanished, Su Ze discussed Zhang Murphy’s future and asked him to manage a foundation. Later, an old man abandoned his plan to attack the Containment Station after receiving kindness, but then heard a tempting voice from the Divine Grace Tree, which Qi Xiaoye recognized through his eyes.

• Su Ze returned to Miskatonic University and reassured Zhang Murphy about his published work, while considering the limits of Zhang Murphy’s reality-altering power.
• Su Ze offered Zhang Murphy the chance to manage a foundation he planned to establish.
• An elderly man blamed the authorities for his grandson’s death and watched the Suzhou City Containment Station branch while plotting revenge.
• Xu Pingfeng gave the old man pastries, and the old man abandoned his revenge against the authorities.
• The old man saw a broccoli-shaped tree appear on the horizon and heard a voice promising that it could grant wishes, even to bring the dead back.
• At Containment Station headquarters, Qi Xiaoye shared the old man’s vision with Su Ze, identified the tree as the Divine Grace Tree, and described what she could discern about it.

Su Ze reunited Vermilion Bird's research team to decipher a Mi Go record that could lead to Gadamond's resting place. After teasing Tao Yaoyao and helping smooth things over with Vermilion Bird, he ended the chapter by provoking Qing Shuang.

• Qi Xiaoye assessed the Divine Grace Tree before she and Su Ze spent an hour together in the sealed lounge, while Qing Shuang waited outside.
• Su Ze teleported Vermilion Bird's team to the headquarters laboratory, where Vermilion Bird explained that a Mi Go record held coordinates linked to White Space and Gadamond's resting place.
• Su Ze's comparison of Vermilion Bird's and Tao Yaoyao's abilities upset Tao Yaoyao, so he briefly took her away to comfort her.
• Vermilion Bird anxiously offered to follow orders, and Tao Yaoyao awkwardly asked her to call her Sister.
• Su Ze mocked Qing Shuang's abilities and suggested that people sometimes wanted something simple and light, prompting her to accuse him of making a move on her.

Su Ze brought Vermilion Bird to C-187 Parallel Blue Star, where rebels empowered by the Divine Grace Tree were overwhelming Kukes University’s forces. As Chi Zhiyuan considered Star Ring Company’s response, Su Ze took her and Vermilion Bird to the battlefield, where they saw an elderly scholar trying to save a cultural relic from the ruined palace.

• Su Ze arranged for Vermilion Bird to come under Tao Yaoyao’s command and become another pillar of the Containment Station.
• Su Ze took Vermilion Bird to C-187 Parallel Blue Star, where she reunited with her superior, Chi Zhiyuan.
• Chi Zhiyuan told Su Ze that a rebellion had begun, and he saw that the rebels had nearly destroyed Kukes University’s forces.
• Su Ze identified five rebels with Mythical Grade power, including three from other Blue Stars, and explained that the Divine Grace Tree had empowered them.
• Su Ze brought Chi Zhiyuan and Vermilion Bird to the frontline, where Chi Zhiyuan saw the ruined palace and Vermilion Bird spotted a scholar trying to save an ancient artifact.

Su Ze explained the Divine Grace Tree to Vermilion Bird after helping Chi Zhiyuan and the company's Special Task Force suppress the battlefield rebellion, then promised Vermilion Bird she could make one request if she deciphered Mi Go's spatial coordinates. Three days later, young Philip revealed to his father that he and others planned to overthrow the Containment Station, driven by a mysterious figure and their own desires.

• Su Ze sent the Guardian God's phantom to defeat five rebel Transcendents, while Chi Zhiyuan and the company's Special Task Force took control of the battlefield.
• Su Ze explained the Divine Grace Tree and Kukes University's weakening influence to Vermilion Bird.
• Vermilion Bird asked whether deciphering Mi Go's spatial coordinates would earn a reward, and Su Ze promised to grant one request.
• On Day 184 of the Year of the Apocalypse, Philip watched the Shen City Containment Station branch before returning to a Safe Zone, where Old Philip struck him for planning an attack.
• Young Philip told Old Philip that a mysterious figure had gathered powerful people to overthrow the Containment Station, and admitted they wanted personal pleasures rather than a better world.