Chapter Summaries

Jia Xiu secured the Association’s support for a Magic-Energy Computer project and began assembling a large team. As the Association arranged researchers and discussed the resources needed for another-plane development, the chairman identified a group of unusually daring miners as possible candidates.

• The chairman offered funding for several hundred project members, and Jia Xiu planned to recruit students while Margaret volunteered to help with hiring.
• Jia Xiu named Mia, the gel-material team, Master Dain, and a team of fairies researching magic power generation as potential collaborators.
• Jia Xiu asked for Druid researchers to study the Quaternary Insects and miners willing to work without magical equipment in another plane.
• Jia Xiu explained that rune stones and Quaternary Insects in the other plane were connected to the computer project, and the chairman described the Association’s policy of minimizing contact with intelligent species there.
• After hearing about the mining requirements, the chairman’s assistant suggested a group of exceptionally crazy miners, whom Jia Xiu would meet.

Jia Xiu met a Dwarf-led mining team and explained the dangers of extracting rune stones in another plane. The team eagerly accepted the commission, excited by the depleted mana, deep mines, and unknown creatures they would face.

• Jia Xiu learned that the mining team pursued difficult challenges and had earned unusual titles after encountering a dragon hoard, freeing enslaved Drow, and disrupting a cult ritual while mining.
• Jia Xiu entered the team’s meeting room and met its Dwarf leader, who immediately asked whether they could mine in another plane.
• Jia Xiu showed the team a rune stone needed for an important computing device, but the Dwarf leader focused on the chance to mine beyond their plane.
• Jia Xiu explained that mana rapidly drained in the plane, shallow veins were likely exhausted, and a large insect swarm and other unknown species might be underground.
• The mining team celebrated the hazards and accepted the commission, eager to begin the challenging work.

Jia Xiu sent the Dwarf-led mining team to survey an abandoned runestone mine, where they quickly found ore and began assessing the deeper deposit. Meanwhile, he planned the Magic-Energy Computer and the students found an abandoned Element Detection Pointer that could provide its input method.

• Jia Xiu gave the mining team magic-power limits, and they prepared a survey plan before setting out for the Vampire descendants’ plane.
• Jia Xiu warned the team about magic power breaking down on the plane, and the Dwarf leader explained that the Myconid would survive but move very slowly.
• The team surveyed Karaga City-State’s abandoned mine, reinforced its tunnels, and found runestone fragments that suggested a deeper vein.
• Jia Xiu outlined the Magic-Energy Computer’s missing components and considered using paper tape for input while struggling to solve the register problem.
• The newly recruited students found an abandoned Element Detection Pointer that could detect four elemental states, giving Jia Xiu’s project a workable input method.

Jia Xiu outlined the magic-powered computer project and assigned its teams, while a shy pixie offered a possible solution for fast magic-intensity detection. The first meeting ended with most members preparing to study, but the miners reported finding what looked like human tissue in an ore vein.

• Jia Xiu explained the computer's quaternary logic and introduced the planned modules, including the magic supply hub, timing core, input unit, computing array, and storage system.
• The pixie revealed that Fairy secret arts might detect magic intensity quickly enough for registers, and Jia Xiu arranged tests after the meeting.
• Master Dain volunteered to develop the projection output, and Jia Xiu told the team to study the fundamentals and submit circuit designs for review.
• Jia Xiu contacted the miners through Justina, and the Dwarf leader reported that their drilling had uncovered what seemed to be human tissue.

Jia Xiu and his companions investigated fresh, humanoid tissue found deep in a mine and discovered it was part of a vast, nearly dead mass of tumors and tentacles. At the center of the cavern system, Elizabeth recognized the fused figure as Tatiana, the Primordial Vampire they had been searching for.

• Jia Xiu questioned the Dwarf boss about the mine’s reduced mana loss and examined the strange, fresh tissue extracted from deep underground.
• Jia Xiu, Elizabeth, and Gillianis found that the tissue was humanoid and barely alive, though ultraviolet light made it smoke without turning it to ash.
• Jia Xiu ordered the Dwarves to blast through the rock wall, revealing caverns filled with Rune Stones and motionless tumors and tentacles.
• Jia Xiu and his companions followed the passages toward their convergence and found a huge mass of tissue fused with the outline of a humanoid body.
• Elizabeth recognized the fused figure as Tatiana, the Primordial Vampire they had been searching for.

Jia Xiu and his companions awakened Tatiana, an ancient Vampire fused with an immense mass of tissue, by offering her blood. Tatiana could not remove Bubu’s mark, but she began explaining that she had transformed herself to turn an insect swarm into rune stones and create a safe zone.

• Elizabeth recognized the humanoid figure embedded in the tumors as resembling the ancient form of Tatiana, and Jia Xiu reasoned that the mass might have grown from her body.
• Gillianis said the tissue appeared alive but could not move, so Jia Xiu agreed to try stimulating it with his blood.
• Elizabeth brought Jia Xiu’s venous blood to Tatiana, who awakened and recognized Elizabeth after hearing her name.
• Jia Xiu installed a language spell and asked Tatiana to remove Bubu’s mark and explain her condition, but Tatiana said she could no longer use Blood Clan Magic.
• Tatiana asked about her Vampire descendants, and Jia Xiu described their survival before she revealed that she had transformed herself to convert an insect swarm into rune stones and establish a safe zone.

Jia Xiu learned how Tatiana fused herself with an insect nest to turn Quaternary Insects into rune stones and questioned her about the Vampire descendants and the sudden spread of the insects. After revealing that the Blood Clan on the continent had found a way to redirect their blood craving, he asked Tatiana to cooperate with experiments on her body.

• Jia Xiu learned that Quaternary Insects became rune stones after dying and that Tatiana had used a potion to fuse herself with an insect nest and accelerate the process.
• Tatiana asked Jia Xiu to save her Vampire descendants, and he explained that the Association governed how indigenous inhabitants of other planes could be handled.
• Tatiana revealed that she had moved the Blood Clan to the plane to escape eventual human extermination and had hoped to become its sole god.
• Tatiana said the magic-disrupting insects had appeared suddenly after an earthquake, leading Jia Xiu to suspect they might have been deliberately created or released.
• Jia Xiu told Tatiana that the Blood Clan on the continent had redirected its craving for blood and could live without hunting humans.
• Tatiana agreed to cooperate with Jia Xiu's research, and he asked to cut off a small piece of her body tissue.

Jia Xiu tested Tatiana’s tissue and discovered it might be useful for making golems, leading him to consider using a golem as a compiler for Magic-Energy Computers. He asked Margaret whether she could make golems, leaving the new idea awaiting a practical test.

• Jia Xiu submitted a proposal to the Adventurer Association to relocate the Vampire descendants to the Tentacle Monster’s plane and develop its land.
• Jia Xiu tested Tatiana’s tissue and found that it transmitted magic power too slowly for computer circuits, though it could carry a large amount.
• Margaret judged the tissue to be a promising construct material because it was malleable and could hold magic and engraved spells.
• Margaret explained that golems were constructs with an essence and simple intelligence, unlike constructs that only followed preset magical instructions.
• Jia Xiu proposed using a golem to convert meaningful programs into executable code for Magic-Energy Computers.
• Jia Xiu asked Margaret whether she was good at making golems.

Jia Xiu and Margaret began testing whether golems made from Tatiana's tissue could convert code into magical encoding, buying essences and shaping twenty small experimental golems. The work left them debating the ethics of using Tatiana's material, until Margaret pointed out that Blood Clan limbs could regrow and be mass-produced.

• Jia Xiu asked Margaret whether they needed more tissue from the Vampire flesh mountain, but she said their existing supply was enough for a small golem.
• Margaret explained that she could make a forearm-sized golem and insisted that her practical designs reflected personal choice, not poor shaping skills.
• Jia Xiu and Margaret visited the Stanley Consortium's shop, where Jia Xiu bought every available essence to test their mathematical ability and memory for instructions.
• Back at the laboratory, Margaret used all their Tatiana tissue to mold twenty small golems for experiments.
• Margaret worried that using human tissue for golems was perverted, and Jia Xiu argued that Tatiana's material was temporary and would eventually be replaced with a mass-produced substitute.
• Margaret said Blood Clan limbs could regrow after being cut off, shocking Jia Xiu.

Jia Xiu tested whether golems could translate assembly-language programs into quaternary code, uncovering both errors and a promising error-detection ability. After planning further work with the Stanley Consortium and Master Dain, he received a message from the Association requesting a detailed discussion of the Vampire clan’s cross-plane migration.

• Jia Xiu taught twenty golems his assembly vocabulary and coding rules, then had them translate a simple addition program onto long paper strips.
• Jia Xiu and his helpers checked all twenty outputs and found that only three golems had produced error-free code.
• Jia Xiu gave the three successful golems a more complex program, and their differing reactions revealed a mistake in his own code.
• Jia Xiu stopped the golems, corrected the mismatched indicator, and realized that one golem’s abnormal magic fluctuations could signal a program error.
• Jia Xiu planned to discuss the unusual golem’s soul essence with the Stanley Consortium and to work with Master Dain on connecting golems to circuit nodes.
• Jia Xiu received a letter from the Association calling for a detailed discussion about the Vampire clan’s cross-plane migration.

Jia Xiu met with the Planar Faction First-Contact Affairs Department to plan the relocation and integration of the Blood Clan. After learning that the Association wanted someone to guide them in the Mother of Sacred Blood’s name, Jia Xiu volunteered himself.

• Jia Xiu met the department’s elderly director and assistant, who explained that they had been waiting centuries for another assignment.
• The director said the Blood Clan numbered roughly forty to sixty thousand and faced extinction or civilizational collapse within about two hundred years.
• The department proposed relocating the Blood Clan in batches, starting with young people and mixing refugees from different regions and city-states.
• The Association planned to monitor the relocated Blood Clan, educate them, and adapt their bloodlust if necessary so they could eventually aid the fight against the Devil Race.
• The director proposed using faith in the Mother of Sacred Blood to guide the Blood Clan, and Jia Xiu volunteered to take on that role.

Jia Xiu volunteered to manage the religious operation among the Blood Clan descendants and learned he could claim land in the newly discovered planes. He then brought Justina and Elizabeth to meet Tatiana so Justina could take over the identity of Mother of Sacred Blood.

• Jia Xiu persuaded the old Elf minister to let him stage Mother of Sacred Blood’s return and lead the Blood Clan descendants’ migration.
• The minister explained that Jia Xiu could claim between one and ten percent of the planes, though the amount depended on their size and resources.
• Jia Xiu asked whether the Association had contacted a plane that used quaternary magic, and the assistant vaguely recalled a group of slaves who recorded magic with numbers.
• Jia Xiu returned to the Blood Clan plane with Elizabeth and Justina, who had agreed to meet Tatiana and take on the role of Mother of Sacred Blood.
• Justina protested that impersonating a false god would be humiliating, but Jia Xiu asked whether she wanted tens of thousands of believers, and she followed him into the mine.

Jia Xiu explained the plan to rescue the Blood Clan by moving them through the Mainland Plane, with Justina taking on the identity of the Mother of Sacred Blood to win their cooperation. The group prepared her appearance and a way to deliver messages, but still needed a method to reach the Blood Clan refugees scattered outside the city-states.

• Jia Xiu told Tatiana that the Blood Clan could be saved and outlined the plan to transfer them through the Mainland Plane.
• Jia Xiu proposed that Justina impersonate the Mother of Sacred Blood so the Blood Clan would trust and cooperate with the operation.
• Tatiana described the Mother of Sacred Blood's traditional appearance, and Elizabeth used illusion magic to recreate it on Justina.
• Tatiana explained that she had sent messages to her priests using blood bats, and Elizabeth volunteered to use bats again.
• Jia Xiu asked how to notify the Blood Clan refugees outside the city-states, and Tatiana said she had never contacted all her children at once.

Jia Xiu and Elizabeth prepared a sky-wide divine oracle to summon the Blood Clan to Karaga City-State for a planned migration to the Tentacle Monster Plane. The Blood Clan saw the oracle and began gathering, though its formal wording left many confused about the details.

• Jia Xiu arranged rune stones, illusion scrolls, and magic-power crystals to broadcast the oracle across the Blood Clan's territory.
• Jia Xiu planned to gather Blood Clan members in Karaga City-State, select up to five thousand volunteers for the first teleportation, and link their faith in the Mother of Sacred Blood to Justina through a Holy Light Pantheon ritual.
• Blood Clan volunteers from the Continental Plane agreed to help the migrants adapt to the Tentacle Monster Plane, and Jia Xiu offered loan reductions to volunteers still paying off conversion costs.
• Jia Xiu and Elizabeth tested the long local-language oracle, which instructed Blood Clan settlements to cooperate with divine envoys and reach Karaga City-State within a week.
• Blood Clan members across the region saw the red words in the sky, and an elderly scholar read the oracle aloud as the crowd tried to understand it.
• The oracle enlarged its final instruction to repeat that everyone must reach Karaga City-State within a week, leaving the Blood Clan debating why the earlier text had been so long.

Jia Xiu and Justina began moving the Blood Clan to a new homeland under the guise of the Mother of Sacred Blood, while a skeptical scholar’s uncanny perception caught Jia Xiu’s attention. The migration proceeded through the planar gates, and Bubu reported gaining Tatiana’s memories just as Jia Xiu realized Tatiana had died.

• Jia Xiu decided to bring the Blood Clan scholar with the unusually strong perception on the first migration and find him a teacher in the new homeland.
• Jia Xiu and Elizabeth prepared the spectacle as Justina confirmed she was ready and the Space Maintenance Department stood by to open the transit gates.
• Justina appeared as the Mother of Sacred Blood, convincing the gathered Blood Clan and guiding them toward the gates to their new homeland.
• The Space Maintenance Department opened the gates and began sending the Blood Clan through, after its staff greeted them with an ominous blessing that made them nervous.
• Bubu told Jia Xiu that casting spells had become easier and that she had remembered spells and rune knowledge, leading Jia Xiu to realize Tatiana had died.
• Jia Xiu sent Bubu to study Fairy Runes in his laboratory and told her he would test her when he returned.

Jia Xiu tried to teach Bubu fairy magic research, but discovered Bubu could instinctively cast spells he had only glanced at. Bubu’s version of the magic-power detection spell proved extraordinarily fast, so Jia Xiu took him to the project team for testing.

• Jia Xiu returned to the Mainland Plane after confirming Bubu had recovered and the Blood Clan migration did not require him.
• Jia Xiu found Bubu unable to read the technical terms in the fairy-magic studies, but Bubu revealed he had learned several spells by trying them instinctively.
• Bubu demonstrated his modified magic-power detection spell, which detected Jia Xiu’s magic almost instantly, even under a Super Slowdown Spell.
• Jia Xiu took Bubu to the project team to test the spell’s speed, accuracy, compatibility, and potential integration into the Magic-Energy Computer.

Jia Xiu brought Bubu to the gel research team’s laboratory to test magic-string detection and discuss a new way to build the Magic-Energy Computer. After Bubu revealed that Jia Xiu might be able to learn Fairy Runes by obtaining permission from the Supreme Fairy, Jia Xiu pressed it about what else it had forgotten to tell him.

• Jia Xiu visited the castle laboratory with Bubu, where Master Dain described etching computational structures directly into a single piece of gel.
• The gel team reported that interference between miniaturized enchantments caused unpredictable results, but Jia Xiu treated the problem as a promising step toward feasibility and kept the team focused on its original design for now.
• Jia Xiu and the team tested Bubu’s magic detection through a thin gel tube and found it was about twenty percent faster than the Pixie method.
• Bubu said it could not adjust the spell’s modified sections individually, then told Jia Xiu that humans might learn Fairy Runes by obtaining permission from the Supreme Fairy.
• Jia Xiu asked whether Bubu knew of other powers he could gain permission to use, and Bubu said it did not know.

Jia Xiu investigated whether a Supreme Fairy could grant him the ability to use Fairy Runes, then met the Fairy team at a welcome banquet. He discovered that the burly Fairy named Oberon was now a god, and Oberon grew solemn when Jia Xiu asked how he could learn Fairy Runes.

• Jia Xiu found Warlock records describing theories about how Sect Masters granted abilities, including the possibility of downloading a complete spell library.
• Jia Xiu questioned Bubu about her claim that a Supreme Fairy could grant Fairy Rune magic, and Bubu said the knowledge had suddenly appeared in her head.
• Jia Xiu realized the Fairy team was arriving that day and arranged a welcome banquet where the guests played games.
• Jia Xiu played mahjong with a tree spirit, a hag, and a burly Fairy named Oberon, who won a hand and revealed that he barely counted as a god.
• Jia Xiu asked Oberon how he could learn Fairy Runes, and Oberon frowned and asked why he wanted to know.

Jia Xiu asked Oberon how he could personally use Fairy Runes, and learned that becoming a fairy demigod or claiming part of a fairy god’s divine authority might grant him that ability. He left the conversation considering the possibility of taking power from an evil god.

• Jia Xiu summoned Justina when Oberon’s sudden seriousness made him fear a fight, but Oberon instead pulled him aside to discuss fairy magic.
• Oberon explained that he hoped to connect fairies with other races by promoting their magic, and asked Jia Xiu to help create a Fairy Runes textbook.
• Jia Xiu clarified that he wanted to use Fairy Runes himself, but Oberon suggested having a child with a fairy before revealing that becoming a fairy demigod could work.
• Jia Xiu rejected the child proposal and learned that seizing part of another fairy god’s divine authority could also let him use Fairy Runes.
• Oberon said he supported Jia Xiu taking divine authority from evil gods, leaving Jia Xiu intrigued by the possibility.

Jia Xiu agreed to help Oberon and the fairy gods strip part of the God of Pain’s divine authority in exchange for a chance to master Fairy Runes. He remained wary of the fairies’ hidden motives, but trusted the Sect Master’s dismissive response and committed to the plan after reviewing its countermeasure ritual.

• Jia Xiu and Justina questioned Oberon’s proposal and learned that the fairies intended to target the God of Pain, an evil god who had once been a fairy.
• Oberon explained that the God of Pain had turned extreme pain and pleasure into a faith, drawing many fairies into deadly rituals before escaping to a remote plane.
• Oberon revealed the fairies’ plan to have Jia Xiu worship the God of Pain until she granted him a blessing, then use a countermeasure ritual to transfer part of her divine authority to him.
• Jia Xiu demanded to inspect the ritual and confronted Oberon about the fairies investigating and recruiting him for their plan.
• After the Sect Master dismissed the danger, Jia Xiu agreed to participate, while Oberon admitted that the fairies had an additional purpose he could not disclose.