Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Ilis, Emma, Dora, and roughly three thousand Players return to the Six-Winged Angel after recovering Su Yi’s body. Their allies remain at the front, where the fighting is worsening.
• Over nine days, the group has converted about a tenth of the ship, freeing that section from the Bone Demons’ suppression field. They still cannot access the Bridge or activate the engines and weapons. The Bone Demon Mother Entity and its dangerous mutated minions remain sealed in Cargo Hold Four; the Orc Warlord Dragonspine and Skoko have escaped.
• When the former Bishops challenge Ilis’s authority, Emma and Dora destroy Twin Spirit and threaten the rest. Ilis restrains them, insisting that surrendered enemies should be treated as prisoners, and has the survivors escorted away.
• Ilis, Emma, Dora, and ten Hacker Analysts restore Su Yi’s soul. He uses Binary Magic to overwrite the Mechanical Father Program, reclaiming his body and installing a program that lets him use the Myriad-Sword Machine God far more effectively.
• Su Yi reunites with Emma and Dora, thanks the Human Alliance Pioneers for their help, and promises them meaningful support. He then contacts the ship’s Ship Spirit, luring it with news of his connection to the Golden Saint King.
• The Ship Spirit, a small golden dragon named Little Yellow Dragon, accepts Su Yi’s account and recognizes him as a worthy new master. It explains that the Main Control AI must be restarted on the Bridge and that the A.T.S. Array cannot be bypassed with code techniques.
• With the Safiro descendants’ key, Su Yi and Ilis open the A.T.S. barriers and reach the Bridge. Su Yi activates the Main Control AI, restoring the Ship Spirit and claiming the Six-Winged Angel as their own.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi returns stronger than before, regaining his soul, body, Binary Magic, and control of the mechanical abilities once used against him. He shifts quickly from recovery to taking command of the ship.
• Ilis remains composed amid the crisis, protecting the prisoners from the sisters’ anger while firmly asserting leadership. Her joy at Su Yi’s return is evident despite her restraint, and she shares his excitement at gaining a powerful home and weapon.
• Emma and Dora reveal the depth of their grief and loyalty through their fierce reaction to the Bishops and their emotional reunion with Su Yi.
• The Human Alliance Pioneers are publicly recognized by Su Yi for their courage and sacrifice, strengthening their alliance and morale.
• Bishop Thousand Eyes and the other Mechanical Father followers see Su Yi reclaim the very power they believed their god controlled. Their faith collapses, leaving them stunned and spiritually adrift.
• Little Yellow Dragon moves from a furious, suspicious guardian to an eager ally once convinced Su Yi has regained his body. Its return to the Bridge marks the Ship Spirit’s homecoming.

Significant themes

• Recovery and self-determination: Su Yi defeats the control imposed on him and takes ownership of his body again.
• Faith and disillusionment: The Mechanical Father’s failure shatters the cultists’ certainty, while Su Yi’s survival overturns their worldview.
• Loyalty and reciprocity: The Pioneers’ sacrifices are repaid with Su Yi’s gratitude and promise of lasting friendship.
• Power tempered by restraint: Though Emma and Dora want vengeance, Ilis insists on limits and humane treatment for surrendered enemies.
• A shift in the balance of power: Control of a Tribulation-Class ship gives Su Yi’s faction a formidable new base and a chance to challenge the forces threatening them.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi meets Little Yellow Dragon, the Six-Winged Angel’s ancient Ship Spirit. The ship is heavily damaged and partly infested, but Little Yellow Dragon can control about 40% of its systems. With five thousand trained helpers, it could be made combat-ready in three days rather than two months.
• Little Yellow Dragon binds Su Yi as the ship’s master. Quinn’s sacrifice left the ship with a sacred aura that strengthens its crew; Su Yi receives a major boost to his attributes and recovery.
• While Ilis and Little Yellow Dragon begin restoring the ship, Su Yi recruits workers. The Evil God has persuaded the shattered clergy and mechanical scholars to transfer their faith to Su Yi. Su Yi accepts their service, removes their mental restraints, and assigns them to help ready the ship.
• An enemy assault suddenly intensifies. Demons of Desire attack the defenders with coordinated precision, breaking the first line and inflicting heavy casualties. A strike force attempts to reach their commander, Desire Sister Laya, but her traps kill many players and transform their corpses into physically immune monsters.
• With the strike force in danger, Su Yi arrives through a Void Abyss Rift in the Myriad-Sword Machine God. His flame-imbued sword formation destroys the monsters, prompting the players to celebrate his arrival.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi becomes master of the Six-Winged Angel and establishes himself as a leader who offers former enemies a second chance. He also frees Bishop Thousand Eyes and the other scholars from the Great Sages’ control.
• Little Yellow Dragon quickly bonds with Su Yi, calling him “Brother,” and accepts the mechanical scholars as crew despite his distrust of them.
• The Evil God demonstrates his skill at persuasion by turning the scholars’ broken faith into devotion to Su Yi. Su Yi recognizes his efforts and treats him as a valued ally.
• Bishop Thousand Eyes and the scholars move from religious disillusionment to fervent loyalty. Having their Thought Locks and Computational Limiters removed gives them both freedom and expanded intellectual capacity.
• Ilis stays behind to assist with the ship’s restoration.
• The frontline leaders and players fight bravely but suffer severe losses; their desperate plan to kill Laya fails when her traps exploit their abilities.

Significant themes

• Faith and leadership: People whose beliefs collapse seek a new source of meaning; the Evil God redirects their devotion toward Su Yi.
• Freedom and potential: Removing the scholars’ restraints symbolizes Su Yi’s opposition to systems that suppress talent to protect authority.
• Cooperation and redemption: Former adversaries are given a chance to serve and make amends.
• Sacrifice and resilience: The defenders endure enormous losses, while Su Yi’s arrival offers a sudden reversal of fortune.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi returns in the Myriad-Sword Machine God’s silver-gray body, placing himself between the surviving Players and Laya. He thanks the Players for their sacrifices and tells them to stand back.
• Laya tries to seduce Su Yi, and her supernatural allure nearly overwhelms the Players. Girlfriend breaks the spell with a psychic shout. Iron Root urges the Rune Scribes to use their planned last-resort technique.
• Su Yi provokes Laya by revealing intimate knowledge of her past, enraging her into attacking. He counters her tentacles, psychic-draining abilities, and Desire Dragon’s breath with the Machine God’s protocols.
• Su Yi’s Iron Mist and twenty thousand flying swords combine in Magnetic Sword Execution. The attack tears through Laya’s golden armor and obliterates her.
• Before Su Yi can recover, Copper Tomb emerges from a Void Abyss Rift with Laya’s remnant soul. Su Yi is trapped in Copper Tomb’s hand and cannot use his overloaded Machine God’s skills.
• Iron Root activates the Myriad Spirits Rune Array, sacrificing Players to channel enormous amounts of pure Psychic Energy into Emma and Dora. The sisters use this power to force Copper Tomb’s hand open and rescue Su Yi.

Character developments

• Su Yi returns with extraordinary power and shows both gratitude toward the Players and confidence in his new body. His victory, however, leaves him temporarily vulnerable.
• The Players remain devoted to Su Yi, but demonstrate how Laya’s allure can exploit their weaknesses. Their willingness to sacrifice themselves also becomes crucial to the rescue.
• Iron Root takes command in the crisis and puts his Rune Scribe plan into action, showing initiative and resolve.
• Emma and Dora, the Twin Pure Spirit Goddesses, reveal a dramatic surge in power when supplied with the Players’ psychic energy.
• Laya shifts from composed seduction to fury, then terror as Su Yi’s attack overwhelms her. Her remnant survives long enough to summon Copper Tomb.
• Copper Tomb exploits Su Yi’s exhaustion, confirming that even a decisive victory does not end the danger.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and reciprocity: Su Yi returns to protect the Players who risked everything for him.
• Sacrifice and collective strength: The Players’ lives fuel the power that saves Su Yi, extending the chapter’s focus on the cost of survival.
• Power and vulnerability: Su Yi’s spectacular attack depends on pushing his body beyond safe limits, leaving him exposed afterward.
• Deception and dirty tactics: Laya’s mental manipulation and Copper Tomb’s opportunistic ambush contrast with the Players’ open loyalty.
• Hope amid catastrophe: The Players’ faith in Su Yi—and their willingness to act together—keeps the battle from ending with his capture.

Key plot points and events

• Emma and Dora use the Myriad Spirits Rune Array to amplify their power enough to repel one of Copper Tomb’s hands and save Su Yi. Copper Tomb escapes into the Void Abyss with the gravely wounded Laya.
• The Desire Demons’ forces suddenly lose coordination, suggesting their commander has been killed or badly injured. Amethyst orders a counterattack, and the exhausted defenders—led by Players including Leto and Steel Foot—break the enemy assault and drive the survivors into flight.
• The Radiant Light Saint finds Su Yi among the surviving Pioneers and greets him warmly. Su Yi keeps his return secret so he can help Maria and avoid disrupting Chairman Black Oak’s plans against the Divine Fire Faction.
• Commissioner Tor Smith tries to use the front’s supply crisis to force Nasr out as chief of general staff. Malai refuses to yield, while Amethyst also declines to support Smith. Smith then coordinates with Winster Starlink and the Circuit Archbishop to begin attacks on supply ships.
• Black Oak’s network assigns Slaughter Blade and Gwent Card Master to disrupt the raids. On the passenger ship The Trust, Players are already armed and ready when Shadow Legion forces emerge through Void Abyss Rifts. They kill Mad Cow, then Gwent and Steel Bone attack his fleet. Gwent quickly seizes its bridge and communications.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi remains pragmatic and self-effacing: he conceals his return and lets the Radiant Light Saint take public credit.
• The Radiant Light Saint proves friendly and enthusiastic, greeting Su Yi like a long-lost brother; his boast about having 241 wives adds comic relief.
• Nasr faces pressure from both battlefield losses and political interference, but Malai forcefully backs her and refuses to let Smith dictate command.
• Smith shifts from bureaucratic pressure to covert violence when his attempt to remove Nasr fails.
• The Players show resilience and loyalty, turning near-despair into a decisive counterattack and preparing for the ambush aboard The Trust.

Significant themes

• Turning points through leadership and coordination: the Desire Demons’ collapse shows how vulnerable a force becomes when its command structure fails.
• Politics and logistics as weapons: Smith uses supply dependence to pursue influence, while his opponents plan attacks on the very shipments sustaining the front.
• Preparedness and initiative: the Players’ readiness aboard The Trust transforms an intended massacre into a trap.
• Sacrifice, loyalty, and morale: defenders keep fighting despite devastating losses, and successful comrades’ actions renew hope.
• Comic camaraderie amid crisis: the reunion between Su Yi and the Radiant Light Saint lightens the tone without obscuring the war’s stakes.

Key plot points and events

• The Gwent Card Master and Steel Bone finish seizing Mad Cow’s fleet, while Iron Pillar continues sailing. The takeover earns the group a substantial reward and a much better ship.
• Gear Valve’s collaborators turn a supposedly safe Divine Fire Faction supply convoy against its own crew. Slaughter Blade and Shadow Warriors attack, allowing the Players to capture ships and personnel rather than lose them. Over ten days, this operation protects the supply flow and captures hundreds of thousands of Divine Fire personnel.
• At the front, Maria and the Sword of Judgment hold off renewed Orc and Radiant assaults. With help from Enzo’s limited-range teleportation network, Maria uses her Order Authority to cleanse enemy corruption and restore breached sections of the line.
• Su Yi, back from the dead, has spent the previous ten days helping Maria. When the supply operation is ready, he leaves to confront the crisis at General Command.
• Commissioner Smith tries to force personnel changes by withholding supplies, claiming the Shadow Legion has destroyed thousands of ships and caused enormous losses. Malai, Nasr, and the commanders resist, but wait for the signal rather than expose the secret plan.
• Mountain Dog enters the conference room and knocks Smith down. Emma and Dora restrain Smith’s armed allies with Psychic Energy. Su Yi arrives, to the relief of the assembled officers, and accuses Smith of colluding with the Holy Body Cult and Shadow Legion.
• Smith threatens to divert the logistics fleet, but the ships arrive intact, bringing supplies and over ten million reinforcements. The Holy Body Cult has surrendered; Bishop Thousand Eyes and Alton confirm they are ready to support the coming battle. Su Yi orders preparations to end the war.
• On Tama Star, Winster and Mork demand an explanation from Circuit. Circuit reveals he has switched sides to Black Oak and Gheros, and that the supplies have reached the front.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi returns to active command, reunites with Maria, and reveals the scale of his counteroperation. His appearance restores the front-line officers’ morale and authority.
• Maria is shown as both a formidable battlefield purifier and a devoted partner. She briefly asks Su Yi to stay, but accepts his departure once he explains that the time to act has come.
• Commissioner Smith is exposed as arrogant and self-serving. His attempt to control the front through shortages collapses when the intact fleet arrives.
• Mountain Dog, Emma, and Dora act decisively to neutralize Smith and his allies. Malai and Nasr remain cautious, prioritizing the safety of the officers even amid the confrontation.
• Circuit’s defection reveals that the opposition’s supply plan has been undermined from within; Winster and Mork are left stunned.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and divided loyalties: Smith’s collusion and Circuit’s defection show that the conflict is as political as it is military.
• Deception and strategic reversal: The apparent loss of supply ships conceals a successful operation that turns enemy forces and assets to the protagonists’ advantage.
• Leadership and morale: Su Yi’s return and the arrival of supplies revive a beleaguered front and unite its commanders.
• Cooperation under pressure: Maria, Enzo, the Players, and former enemies work together to hold the line and prepare for a decisive counterattack.

Plot points and events

• Circuit reveals that the Human Alliance’s extermination orders were real: a Champion Centurion destroyed two planets in the Fierce Dragon Star Sector, killing 16 billion people in just one hour. He urges Winster Starlink and Mork Saron to surrender, but they blame him and refuse.
• Flame Purgatory arrives at Winster’s headquarters with Song Jianghai, a Human Alliance Pioneer who had been working undercover as a medical supervisor. Flame Purgatory overwhelms Winster’s attack and prevents his escape through a Void Abyss Rift. Winster is killed by Flame Purgatory’s level-80 Void Abyss form.
• The Ash Envoy and the Ashen Holy Sword Squad seize Mork Saron’s flagship, the Splendid Planet. With help from Winter, who takes control of its systems, the Envoy condemns Mork for conspiring with the Shadow Legion and Holy Body Cult and plotting to sacrifice the sector to the Void Abyss. He burns Mork to ash.
• At company headquarters, Black Oak confronts the board. She binds fourteen members and announces that their families and factions will be purged, supplying 14.2 billion lives to the Goddess’s Soul Furnace.

Character developments and interactions

• Circuit abandons the conspirators and warns them of the scale of the threat, though his motives are partly driven by resentment and a desire not to face the terrifying news alone.
• Song Jianghai’s quiet, unassuming cover is exposed. He explains that Winster treated him and others as tools, unlike their “Godfather,” and proves his loyalty to the Human Alliance.
• Flame Purgatory demonstrates overwhelming power and treats Song with respect, explaining that his displayed Void Abyss form is his true form.
• The Ash Envoy and Winter cooperate effectively, combining military force and technical skill; they express mutual admiration.
• Black Oak shifts from restraint to ruthless action, punishing the board factions she considers internal threats.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and accountability: The conspirators are judged for betraying their company, allies, humanity, and the Goddess.
• Power and survival: The Human Alliance’s elite forces and the Company’s strongest figures make resistance appear futile.
• Underestimation and deception: Song’s ordinary appearance concealed his true allegiance, while the executives underestimated both their enemies and the danger of their schemes.
• Purging corruption: The chapter frames internal consolidation as necessary for survival, while the proposed mass execution makes that “housecleaning” brutally severe.

Plot points and events

• Black Oak launches a purge of the Black Sun Group’s corrupt board factions, beginning by killing board member Little Laidi Xino. When he argues that the company needs his family’s power and the Goddess’s approval, Black Oak reveals that the families were never true partners: their wealth and safety depended on the company’s protection.
• Black Oak withdraws the Divine Trees’ protection from the Xino family’s planets. The Ember Trees unleash Cinderfolk, while Void Abyss Rifts open and cultists invade. The catastrophe demonstrates how vulnerable the planets are without the company’s shielding.
• Black Oak declares that the Goddess requires 14.2 billion souls for the Furnace and kills Xino. The seven board members spared from the initial binding submit and pledge loyalty; Black Oak tells them to retire as the company prepares to replace the old leadership.
• Players receive a mission to evacuate civilians, earning two Void Abyss Coins per person. Despite earlier resentment toward the Ten Pioneers, many join in for the rewards. The mission also positions the Players and company forces to appear as rescuers after the traitors and cultists are defeated.
• Over fifteen days, the company eradicates the fourteen targeted factions, killing 14.2 billion family members and more than 40 billion resisting guards. It absorbs over 520 billion private troops, many of whom surrender after learning of their employers’ crimes.
• The company replaces all twenty-one former board members and ends inherited lifetime board seats. Department heads and other leaders join the new board, including Su Yi. His appointment is accepted as fitting because of his role on the northwestern frontier and the Holy Body Cult’s surrender.
• At the first meeting of the new board, Black Oak announces plans for a final assault on the Desire Demon Legion, followed by an advance into the Divine Fire Xisi Corridor.

Character developments and interactions

• Black Oak shifts from ruthless executioner to composed chairperson. She uses the planetary disasters to expose the old board’s dependence on the company, then reshapes the leadership and turns to the next military campaign.
• Little Laidi Xino goes from confident defiance to panic and pleading once his family’s worlds lose their protection; Black Oak crushes his soul without granting mercy.
• The surviving board members recognize that their status rested on the Goddess and company’s protection, not their own power. The seven spared members immediately kneel and offer their factions’ resources.
• The Players move from suspicion of the Ten Pioneers to practical cooperation when the evacuation rewards are announced. Their participation helps civilians and advances the company’s political narrative.
• Su Yi gains formal authority through a board seat, reflecting the importance the company assigns to his military achievements and influence.

Significant themes

• Protection mistaken for entitlement: The old elites confuse the security provided by the Divine Trees with an inherent right to rule.
• Power, dependence, and political control: Black Oak demonstrates that the company can dismantle rival factions simply by withdrawing protection.
• Violence as governance: The purge is presented as both punishment and a means of consolidating a more unified company.
• Pragmatism and incentives: Players’ loyalties prove flexible, shifting with opportunities and rewards.
• Unity over internal division: The new leadership accepts a more religious, potentially extreme character because it considers infighting more dangerous than ideological excess.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Chairman Black Oak announces a new company board after removing its former members. Su Yi is appointed one of five special directors, alongside the company’s other active Saints. The special seats are intended to supervise department-head directors and restrain factional power.
• Su Yi reports that the Northwestern front is ready: it has 21 million company soldiers, 11 million Human Alliance Pioneers, his Void Abyssal Legion, and the partially restored Six-Winged Angel. His plan is to use the ship to gain air superiority, then have the Legion and Pioneers strike the Desire Demons’ command structure and break their formation.
• Asked about the Void Abyss Divine General Copper Tomb, Su Yi promises he will not intervene once the enemy forces are defeated, though he withholds the explanation.
• After the meeting, Yellow Book asks Su Yi to bring him to the Primordial Empire someday. In return, he warns Su Yi to prepare before dealing with the Mechanical Father: rather than let him become fodder for the Void Abyss, Su Yi may be able to use him as part of a larger plan. Yellow Book also identifies the Heat Death Research Institute and the Wall Watchers as organizations to watch, revealing that the troublesome Shadow Puppet Sanctum was merely the Wall Watchers’ pawn.
• Winter tells Su Yi that Madman’s body died, but his soul is trapped in a strange mist and cannot respawn. Su Yi recognizes the mist as a likely site where a god fell, with fragments of a powerful Soul Authority trapping the souls there. He advises Madman to head north and investigate the divine remains, warning that the danger could also become a chance to strengthen his soul.
• Su Yi and Winter discuss expanding her computing capacity across several planets. He promises to upgrade her and praises her indispensable help during his capture.
• The chapter closes as Su Yi gathers his allies and formally launches Operation Thunder Hammer, the decisive assault against the Desire Catastrophe and its forces.

Character developments

• Su Yi takes on greater political responsibility as a special director while continuing to lead the front. He shows confidence as a strategist, insight into divine phenomena, and commitment to the people fighting beside him.
• Yellow Book reveals knowledge of deeper conspiracies and gives Su Yi a cryptic warning about the Mechanical Father and powerful hidden organizations, while keeping his own identity and motives obscure.
• Winter is established as a trusted and highly capable partner. She is emotionally affected by Su Yi’s gratitude and warmth, though she quickly hides her feelings by turning the conversation to Madman.
• Madman faces an unprecedented threat to the game’s respawn system: his soul is trapped even though his body has died. Su Yi reframes the crisis as a potentially valuable opportunity, while emphasizing caution.
• Zhenshan, recovered from surgery, has returned to combat duty. Though permanently limited in some fine tasks, powered armor makes him an even more formidable battlefield fighter.

Significant themes

• Unity across difference: Su Yi’s coalition spans worlds, eras, and organizations, but shares a common purpose.
• Sacrifice and resistance: The coming attack is presented as the culmination of costly losses and hard-fought defense.
• Power and hidden conspiracies: Yellow Book’s warning suggests that the visible conflict is only part of a larger struggle involving secret organizations and cosmic forces.
• Knowledge amid uncertainty: Su Yi’s understanding of divine authority turns Madman’s frightening predicament into a possible path to growth.
• Trust and emotional connection: Su Yi relies on Winter’s competence and openly values her, deepening their personal bond.

Character interactions

• Su Yi earns the board’s approval by presenting a clear military plan, while Lady Midnight presses him about Copper Tomb and receives only a guarded assurance.
• Yellow Book and Su Yi exchange favors and warnings: Su Yi agrees to help him revisit the Primordial Empire, and Yellow Book offers strategic advice in return.
• Winter seeks Su Yi’s help for Madman; his calm explanation relieves her anxiety and reinforces her faith in him.
• Su Yi thanks Winter for her support during his capture, prompting her flustered reaction.
• At the joint command room, commanders, Pioneers, Saints, and Su Yi’s trusted companions confirm their readiness before Su Yi rallies them for the final offensive.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• On Su Yi’s order, the company launches a massive offensive against the allied demons, Orcs, and Radiants. Its new Orbital Missiles—guided with technology from the Holy Body Cult—pierce enemy defenses and annihilate more than ten million demons, scattering their formation.
• The company fleet follows with a full assault. Although its regular troops are initially outmatched, Players arrive and divide the battlefield, meeting the enemy races on more even terms.
• The company’s forces attack the enemy command center. Laya, Dragonspine, and Kokos repel an initial strike, but the Goddess of White Frost’s ships disrupt Laya’s Desire Trap and enable Su Yi’s team to reach the leaders.
• Alton challenges Orc Warlord Dragonspine to a duel and matches him in strength. Zhenshan, a Human Emperor Heavenly Soldier, takes on two Desire Sisters and drives them onto the defensive.
• Rijia teleports Mota into the enemy’s elite guard formation. Mota’s life-force-based mist overwhelms the Desire Mist, mutating the guards and turning the tide of that skirmish.

Character developments

• Laya has recovered from Su Yi’s earlier attack and remains confident in her master, but the company’s rapid technological advances and counters to her powers unsettle her.
• Alton steps forward as a powerful front-line fighter, taking on Dragonspine directly to avenge the attack on Su Yi.
• Rijia and Mota reveal the effectiveness of their teamwork: Rijia transports Mota into danger, where Mota’s unusual abilities neutralize the enemy’s elite troops.
• Zhenshan demonstrates the overwhelming strength of his Purple Cloud Type Two armor, impressing the Players and giving them hope that they might one day reach comparable power.
• The Players turn past humiliation and experience fighting the enemy races into motivation and tactical advantage.

Significant themes

• Technology and adaptation: The company’s rapid industrial and scientific progress overturns the enemies’ expectations.
• Teamwork and specialization: Victory depends on coordinated forces—from fleets and Players to the focused combinations of Rijia and Mota.
• Power and possibility: The elite fighters’ strength inspires the Players to imagine achieving similar abilities.
• Reversal and disruption: The company repeatedly counters enemy strengths, including the missile jamming field, Laya’s Desire Trap, and the Desire Mist.

Character interactions

• Dragonspine taunts Laya about her earlier defeat, provoking her anger and exposing tension among the allied leaders.
• Alton and Dragonspine exchange challenges before beginning a direct, evenly matched duel.
• Su Yi faces Laya again, while Zhenshan intervenes to protect him and confronts the Desire Sisters as former servants of the Human Emperor.
• Rijia and Mota coordinate their attack, with Rijia delivering Mota into the enemy formation and Mota calling on the Players to follow up.

Plot points and events

• Rumors that the Human Emperor’s Saint Mark had resurfaced in the Cassini Star System spread through the Second Empire. Once the rumor was confirmed—and Copper Tomb’s absence became known—the Empire rapidly assembled a huge expedition: hundreds of millions of troops, five Heavenly Soldier regiments, and powerful carriers.
• The Void Abyss forces in Cassini, led by Crown Prince Casalis, realized they could not withstand the assault. Their enemies were also massing nearby, leaving them with little prospect of reinforcement. Casalis urgently contacted Copper Tomb.
• In the Storm Nom Sector, the Desire Demons had been defeated, and reconstruction began. The Human Emperor’s Radiance inspired the locals, while Kilman and Nine Blades recognized that the Saint Mark crisis had mobilized the Empire far faster than ordinary bureaucracy could.
• On the Northwest Front, Su Yi’s forces had split and surrounded the enemy coalition. The Players and allied commanders were steadily overwhelming the Desire Demons and their allies.
• Copper Tomb intervened, unleashing a catastrophic Void Abyss energy tide and striking Zhenshan so hard that most of his armor was destroyed. But the ancient Tribulation-Class flagship, the Six-Winged Angel, arrived and used its sacred power to suppress the Void Abyss rules, dispersing the tide and rallying the defenders.
• Su Yi revealed that Copper Tomb’s more urgent concern was Cassini. After Casalis’s message confirmed the imperial expedition, Copper Tomb withdrew with Laya and the wounded Desire Sisters rather than risk being delayed or weakened further. Cocos also fled; Alton and Dragonspine were left fighting.
• Su Yi ordered his forces to Planet Two to search for information Copper Tomb might have left behind.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi demonstrates strategic confidence as well as battlefield strength: he anticipates the Six-Winged Angel’s impact, exposes Copper Tomb’s competing priorities, and promptly redirects his forces after the withdrawal.
• Copper Tomb remains overwhelmingly powerful, but his intervention is constrained by the cost of using his remaining strength far from Cassini. His inability to secure victory forces him to retreat, and he leaves Su Yi with a threat.
• Kilman and Nine Blades see the expedition as both a military opportunity and a way to identify loyal imperial officers and soldiers.
• Casalis shifts from disbelief to alarm as the imperial mobilization closes in, then alerts his father.
• The Players and allied forces fight with confidence even in the face of Copper Tomb’s apocalyptic attack, trusting their preparations and rallying behind the Six-Winged Angel.
• Laya insists that Copper Tomb guarantees victory, but Su Yi counters that their dependence on him is precisely their weakness.

Significant themes

• Faith as a force for political change: Religious belief turns a slow, corrupt bureaucracy into a rapidly mobilized imperial power.
• Power and its limits: Copper Tomb’s destructive strength cannot overcome strategic obligations, distance, and the cost of using power.
• Rule suppression versus brute force: The Six-Winged Angel defeats the Void Abyss tide by attacking the rules sustaining it, not merely meeting its physical force head-on.
• Hope and resolve: The defenders continue fighting against overwhelming odds, encouraged by their faith, the flagship’s arrival, and their belief in Su Yi’s plans.

Chapter Summary

Plot and key events

• Copper Tomb’s departure with Laya shattered the Desire Demons’ front line. Cocos ordered the Radiants to retreat, sacrificing about a fifth of his troops to cover their escape. The Great Wu Territory forces and Human Alliance Pioneers encircled the disorganized Orcs and pursued the retreating enemies, securing a decisive victory.
• As the Desire Palace vanished and the Void Abyss’s hold on Planet 2 weakened, Copper Tomb abandoned two captives: Qingshan, a badly mutilated Human Emperor Heavenly Soldier, and a Sprite he had considered training. He left them behind rather than risk complications during his return through the Void Abyss.
• Su Yi and his team arrived after Copper Tomb had gone. They found the planet drained and ruined, with evidence of the Desire Demons’ enormous sacrifices. Su Yi’s Ember Divine Flame mercifully burned away people reduced to living husks by desire.
• Zhenshan recognized Qingshan and was horrified by his condition. Su Yi could not heal him, but Mota discovered that Qingshan’s body responded to the Loving Father’s Life Authority. After Su Yi’s team purified Copper Tomb’s Pleasure power, Mota and Rijia began restoring him. Their limited energy restored Qingshan’s hearing first; the group then placed him and the Sprite in recovery pods.
• Su Yi and Amethyst searched the ruins for Copper Tomb’s technology. Amethyst uncovered evidence of rapidly fabricated materials and novel uses of Psychic Energy to alter space.
• On the Radiants’ planet, Cocos evacuated most of his people but had to abandon many Insect Eggs. He hoped they would later hatch and infiltrate the enemy. Great Wu Territory ordered the eggs quarantined, but the Players were quickly distracted by valuable shed cocoons. Veteran Soul Scholar, meanwhile, deciphered murals linking the Bone Demons, Orcs, and Radiants to the Soulless and to a figure called the Father God.
• Lu Xu reclaimed the occupied planets, but only three of twelve remained suitable for rebuilding; the others had been stripped of resources and were collapsing. The victors spent the following week pursuing stragglers, treating the wounded, securing planets, and sorting loot.
• Su Yi’s next goal is to claim the Portable Resurrection Pod reward. Before doing so, he brings Molly aboard the ship to investigate the dangerous Bone Demons that can self-destruct. She eagerly accepts the task of discovering how they do it.

Character developments and interactions

• Cocos proves pragmatic and strategic: he withdraws to protect the Radiants’ long-term revival, yet turns the abandoned eggs into a potential future infiltration weapon.
• Copper Tomb shows deliberate cruelty toward Qingshan, mutilating him to prevent both escape and recovery. His decision to leave the Sprite reflects his caution about the risks of Void Abyss transit.
• Qingshan survives despite his devastating injuries and responds emotionally when he learns Su Yi is present. Zhenshan recognizes him, comforts him, and urgently seeks help.
• Su Yi’s group works cooperatively: Su Yi purifies Copper Tomb’s lingering power, Emma and Dora remove its marks, and Mota and Rijia attempt the difficult restoration.
• Amethyst is excited by the technical discoveries, while Rijia demonstrates impressive mobility and initiative by reaching the captives first.
• Great Wu Territory tries to restrain the Players and secure the Insect Eggs, but their enthusiasm for loot quickly pulls them elsewhere.
• Molly is thrilled to join Su Yi’s ship and takes on the investigation with characteristic enthusiasm and scientific curiosity.

Significant themes

• Victory at a cost: The enemy retreats, but the war leaves heavy casualties and widespread planetary devastation.
• Cruelty, survival, and compassion: Copper Tomb’s abuse contrasts with the rescuers’ efforts to preserve and heal Qingshan.
• Discovery amid destruction: The ruined planets yield important clues about Void Abyss technology and the origins or connections of several enemy races.
• War’s lingering threats: Abandoned eggs, scattered troops, and self-destructing Bone Demons show that winning the battle does not end the danger.

Key events

• Su Yi meets with Amethyst, who agrees to build a 200-ship Tribulation-Class fleet around the Six-Winged Angel. The fleet will rely heavily on automation and unified control by the Ship Spirit Little Yellow Dragon and Winter, using Su Yi’s Binary Magic interfaces.
• Mota stabilizes Qingshan, though he remains blind and without limbs. The mysterious elf continues to resist Copper Tomb by sealing off his mind.
• Molly discovers that the Bone Demons’ explosive bodies are deliberate modifications, not natural evolution. She also explains how their eggs use hereditary glands and psychic fields to assess souls, incubate compatible ones, and channel others’ remains to the Mother Entity.
• Su Yi decides to negotiate with the Mother Entity rather than kill her. He offers to free her from her creators’ genetic controls and help her gain a mobile body in exchange for assisting with the rebirth of special human warriors.
• The Mother Entity accepts. Su Yi names her White Bone Lady, and they sign a protocol barring her and her offspring from attacking intelligent beings without his permission, while promising them protection.
• Su Yi and Molly spend five days removing her killing logic and tracking code. Freed from her compulsion to kill, White Bone Lady begins helping with experiments and recruiting Players.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi shows strategic ambition: he sees the Bone Demons as potential allies and a means of creating warriors whose souls can move between regenerating bodies. He also presents himself as a leader capable of guiding the universe toward a better future.
• White Bone Lady shifts from captive weapon to willing collaborator. Her long-standing desire for freedom—and her recognition of her own individuality—make Su Yi’s offer persuasive. She also demonstrates extensive knowledge of the Second Empire and its intolerance toward those who use enemy technology.
• Molly proves crucial as researcher and negotiator, uncovering the Bone Demons’ biology and assuring White Bone Lady that Su Yi can alter her genetic programming.
• Amethyst commits her research department and substantial company resources to Su Yi’s fleet project. Little Yellow Dragon endorses the fleet’s automated-control plan.
• Qingshan remains physically devastated and emotionally withdrawn, while the elf continues to withstand mental torment in isolation.

Significant themes

• Freedom and self-determination: White Bone Lady’s struggle against her creators’ programming echoes Su Yi’s past resistance to those who tried to control him.
• Technology, morality, and loyalty: The chapter questions whether using an enemy’s technology makes someone a traitor, especially within the rigid Human Emperor system.
• Cooperation over destruction: Su Yi turns a dangerous enemy into a partner by recognizing her interests and offering a future beyond captivity.
• Ambition and transformation: The fleet and the proposed regenerative warriors show Su Yi pursuing power through both advanced technology and unconventional alliances.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi and Molly decode the Bone Demons’ carefully engineered genetic code, locating the Hereditary Gland and Wireless Receiver Organ. They use these to develop a way for Players’ souls to enter prepared eggs after death and revive in newly grown bodies.
• Su Yi plans to make the Six-Winged Angel a mobile respawn point. Players will eventually revive aboard the ship instead of waking far away on Diamond Star and spending days or longer traveling back to battle.
• Winter tells Su Yi about a dangerous sealed object taken from the Holy Body Cult. It may be able to override his authority and control the Mist Horn. She is bringing it to him for investigation.
• Su Yi asks Winter to assign ten Pioneer Players to a confidential test. He implants them with experimental devices, binds the devices to their souls, and kills them so their souls can enter eggs produced by White Bone Lady.
• After ten hours in incubation chambers, all ten Players emerge in regenerated bodies. Molly’s tests confirm that their souls, physical abilities, and levels are intact. The experiment succeeds.
• Su Yi explains that ten-hour revival consumes 500 times the energy of the standard ten-day process. The Six-Winged Angel will normally offer ten-day revival, with rapid incubation reserved for crucial moments or key personnel.

Character development and interactions

• Su Yi combines technical skill with consideration for others: he asks Winter to manage the test assignment to avoid disputes over confidentiality, and he limits the revival system according to its energy costs.
• Molly is intensely focused on the research and testing. After the Players revive, she firmly organizes them for examination and confirms the results.
• White Bone Lady is astonished by Su Yi and Molly’s command of Soulless technology. Producing human-compatible eggs costs her far more energy than making ordinary Bone Demons, and seeing them hatch stirs mixed emotions. Su Yi reassures her that power and technology can be used for good.
• Winter trusts Su Yi with the dangerous sealed object and is touched by his thoughtful handling of the mission.
• The ten Players, led by Iron Pillar, eagerly volunteer to die for the test. Their amazement turns to overwhelming joy when they learn they can revive aboard the Six-Winged Angel. They express their gratitude to Su Yi with tears in their eyes.

Significant themes

• Technology repurposed for good: Soulless genetic engineering, originally tied to biological weapons, becomes a means of helping beings with souls.
• Death and revival as a strategic advantage: Faster, nearby revival could transform combat and keep Players engaged across vast distances.
• Trust and belonging: The Players’ willingness to participate—and Winter’s confidence in Su Yi—reflects their loyalty and sense of shared purpose.
• Limits and trade-offs: The breakthrough is powerful, but its energy demands require practical choices about revival speed and who receives priority.

Plot points and events

• Ten players return to the battlefield for a third time after repeated deaths and long, frustrating journeys. Su Yi rewards them for helping with his project: each receives one fast revival with a ten-hour wait.
• Su Yi begins expanding and refitting his facilities, including a secure place for White Bone Lady. She asks for a female, flesh-and-blood body, and he promises to arrange one.
• A research effort involving five thousand researchers and more than twenty thousand engineering robots rapidly develops Su Yi’s integrated system. Winter arrives and helps overhaul network security and communications, freeing Ilis to pursue archaeology and exploration.
• The company calculates campaign rewards: about thirty-nine million active participants earned 2.7 trillion points, exceeding Su Yi’s original budget. Su Yi accepts the total, expecting the company to help cover the overage. Separate compensation is arranged for players who died avenging him.
• Su Yi’s Six-Winged Angel is restored enough to operate normally. He leads the return to Diamond Star, carrying millions of players and traveling far faster than ordinary ships.
• The players receive a spectacular welcome. Chairman Black Oak publicly praises Su Yi and the Human Alliance Pioneers, but leaves abruptly after learning the Molten Alliance has arrived.
• At the Imperial Palace, players see a vast rewards catalogue, including advanced cybernetic surgeries. Su Yi then announces a Mobile Hibernation Base aboard the Six-Winged Angel, allowing players to awaken directly near future battlefields instead of traveling from Diamond Star.

Character developments and interactions

• The returning players’ frustration at falling behind turns to excitement when Su Yi offers fast revival; they eagerly imagine using it to impress their peers.
• White Bone Lady accepts Su Yi’s plans for her and expresses a desire to become a flesh-and-blood woman, revealing a personal longing beneath her long-standing role as “Mother.”
• Winter’s arrival relieves Ilis of technical duties, letting her return to work she enjoys: exploring ruins and recording ancient knowledge.
• Maria, Emma, Dora, Mota, Rijia, and others handle the complex reward accounting, relying on Su Yi to decide how to manage the enormous total.
• Chairman Black Oak honors Su Yi and thanks the Pioneers, while Su Yi responds with formal loyalty to the Goddess and company. Her warning about the Molten Alliance introduces a new political concern.
• Players explore the Six-Winged Angel, celebrate together, and share the anticipation of receiving rewards; the final hibernation announcement brings them to a stunned, enthusiastic reaction.

Significant themes

• Player convenience and camaraderie: Fast revival and direct battlefield deployment address the frustration of long travel and separation from teammates.
• Recognition and loyalty: The company publicly rewards sacrifice, while Su Yi’s leadership and devotion are affirmed.
• Ambition and obligation: The campaign’s enormous rewards exceed the budget, but the company and its enemies may ultimately bear the cost.
• A new political threat: The Molten Alliance’s arrival hints that Su Yi’s victory will be followed by further power struggles.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Thousands of Players gather at the palace on Diamond Star to redeem rewards after the Northwest Border Defense War. Newbies excitedly weigh options such as cybernetic upgrades and class changes, while veterans speculate about a secret reward.
• Wheelchair and Big Watermelon arrive, but Wheelchair refuses to reveal what he helped Su Yi test. Su Yi then announces the surprise: the Six-Winged Angel will act as a mobile respawn base, initially supporting about six million Players. He promises that more bases and capacity will follow.
• Su Yi gives each Player who fought in the war one Portable Dormancy Egg; Players who entered dormancy while helping him seek revenge receive three. The egg stores a Player’s soul imprint and, if their body is destroyed, grows them a new body nearby in three to ten days. It lets Players revive closer to their missions instead of returning to a distant base.
• The rewards celebration becomes a five-day gathering of trading, mentoring, and cooperation. Xuanhuang Empire staff and volunteers distribute rewards, while its technology and medical teams help Players obtain promised body modifications.
• On Earth, Players who missed the war complain that the exclusive rewards are unfair and demand compensation. Some attack the developers and accuse the game of favoritism.
• The developers explain that Su Yi created the rewards independently, that the simulated universe develops according to its own logic, and that Players are free to form relationships with NPCs. They say outside intervention would damage the world model.
• Some critics accept the explanation, while others threaten to quit. Their boycott gains little support, and the loudest complainers become objects of ridicule.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi reveals himself as both a generous benefactor and a shrewd inventor: the eggs help the Players, but he also expects their popularity to make them a profitable product later.
• Wheelchair keeps the experiment secret even from Big Watermelon, building anticipation before Su Yi’s announcement. Big Watermelon’s teasing and exuberant reaction underline their close, conspicuous partnership.
• The veteran Players celebrate the rewards and help Newbies choose upgrades, find mentors, and make useful trades. White Stripe in the Waves, in particular, sees the eggs as a game-changing tool for his risky, far-flung explorations.
• Mota and Rijia reflect on how dramatically their lives have changed by following Su Yi. Officials and residents of the Xuanhuang Empire likewise show respect and warmth toward the Players.
• On the forums, rewarded Players defend their gains as compensation for sacrifice, while critics frame them as favoritism. The developers’ response backs the idea that the rewards came from in-world actions rather than an arbitrary update.

Significant themes

• Consequences and earned rewards: The chapter contrasts Players who risked themselves in the war with those who stayed away but later demand equal benefits.
• Technology and changing rules: The dormancy egg and mobile respawn base transform how safely and flexibly Players can operate.
• Community and mutual aid: The celebration brings veterans and Newbies together through advice, mentoring, and trade.
• Agency and emergent worlds: The developers present the universe as self-developing and allow Players’ relationships with its inhabitants to have real consequences.
• Loyalty, cynicism, and reward: Su Yi’s generosity inspires genuine devotion, while also serving his commercial ambitions.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Players mock Outlaw and Obsessive after they complain about missing rewards and demand a share. The two leave the group in anger, and the controversy quickly fades as most Players support the game officials’ response.
• Reward distribution on Diamond Star is nearly complete. The Ten Pioneers and other prominent groups recruit heavily, preparing to enter the Divine Fire Xisi Corridor.
• Su Yi plans to expand his forces by transferring the Mist Horn to the Six-Winged Angel, cloning parts of White Bone Lady into mindless resurrection units, and developing cheaper, steel-organic bodies for Players.
• Su Yi meets the defeated Circuit Grand Sage, who has been helping the Xuanhuang Empire acquire Holy Body Cult technology. The Grand Sage identifies a sealed relic as the Ether Sword Hilt.
• Su Yi reveals that the Supreme Venerable of the Grand Unity was an Ancient True God, not an evil god defeated by the Mechanical Father. After his death, his Divine Authority split into three Void Gods: Primordial Mechanism, the Steel Savior, and the Mechanical Father.
• This revelation shatters Bishop Thousand Eyes’ remaining faith in the Holy Body Cult’s account of history. Su Yi directs him to free the Mechanical Scholars from their cognitive and computational locks.
• Su Yi opens the Ether Sword Hilt’s case through Sacred Binary Magic. The Grand Sage warns that the hilt is linked to the Mist Horn; if joined carelessly, they could form part of the Supreme Venerable’s head and seize the minds and magnetic fields of everyone on the planet.
• Su Yi senses the hilt’s immense power and its attempt to tempt him into merging with it, but rejects the temptation with mockery.

Character developments

• Su Yi remains focused on strengthening his military and resurrection capabilities. He shows both strategic restraint—preserving the Grand Sage’s technical expertise—and confidence in resisting the artifact’s lure.
• The Circuit Grand Sage has lost his authority and ambitions. He accepts that he is now a disgraced researcher under Su Yi’s control, though he still hopes to learn what will become of the Ether Sword Hilt.
• Bishop Thousand Eyes moves from unquestioning belief to profound disillusionment after learning the Mechanical Father’s true origins. He continues to follow Su Yi and becomes an advocate for freeing the scholars.
• The Players largely reject the demands of Outlaw and Obsessive, while many are drawn to Diamond Star by its rewards and the prospect of space exploration.

Significant themes

• Truth versus manufactured history: The Holy Body Cult’s leaders distorted the past to control their followers, and the revelation overturns the scholars’ understanding of their faith.
• Power, temptation, and restraint: The Ether Sword Hilt offers Su Yi extraordinary power, but its attraction carries a catastrophic risk.
• Redemption through usefulness: Su Yi spares the Circuit Grand Sage not out of forgiveness, but because his scientific knowledge can still serve a purpose.
• Freedom versus control: The scholars’ cognitive locks and the Players’ new resurrection systems raise questions about who holds power over minds, bodies, and life.

Character interactions

• Players ridicule Outlaw and Obsessive, while God of Fun Above and others defend the rewarded Players; their mockery helps end the dispute.
• Su Yi questions the Circuit Grand Sage about the case and forces him to disclose the artifact’s identity and danger. The Grand Sage’s former subordinate, Thousand Eyes, watches without sympathy.
• Su Yi’s revelation places Thousand Eyes and the Grand Sage on opposite sides of a long-concealed truth. Thousand Eyes then leads the scholars away to receive freedom.
• Su Yi dismisses the Grand Sage’s political role but preserves him as a researcher, making clear that he will control the Holy Body Cult’s territory and technologies.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi rejects the Ether Sword Hilt’s attempt to tempt him, then studies its abilities with Binary Magic. He discovers it can disrupt technology through magnetic interference, amplify Divine Authority over vast distances, and create a quantum-entanglement link capable of enabling remote control.
• To avoid the dangerous possibility of the Hilt fusing with the Mist Horn, Su Yi plans to keep them apart while using the Hilt as a bridge to control the Mist Horn and its Divine Authority remotely.
• Su Yi takes the Circuit Grand Sage into space to test the Hilt. Its uncontrolled power overwhelms the ship’s electronics, distorts its structure, and nearly kills the Grand Sage by disrupting his body and thoughts.
• Su Yi suppresses and repairs the Hilt’s damaged power with Binary Magic, painstakingly reorganizing its chaotic functions over several hours. He then links it to his own program.
• The link opens a vision of the Void Abyss and the Goddess of Black Cinders. She tells Su Yi that he must revive the five other True Gods who fell in ancient times before the Void Abyss consumes their power. She directs him toward the Primordial Empire, where the Mother of Immortality is close to revival, and says her envoy will guide him.
• Back in the material universe, Su Yi discovers that the Hilt lets him control the Mist Horn’s Divine Authority remotely across an enormous distance. He successfully uses the Iron Authority and creates Metal-Boring Beetles without moving the Mist Horn.
• The Circuit Grand Sage, impressed and humbled, accepts Su Yi’s authority. Winter’s communication link returns, and Su Yi promises to reward her for her help.

Character developments

• Su Yi demonstrates greater mastery of Binary Magic, successfully taming an artifact tied to the fallen Supreme Venerable of the Grand Unity. He also gains a major strategic capability: remote use of the Mist Horn’s powers.
• The Circuit Grand Sage moves from hopeful observer to awestruck witness. Nearly killed by the Hilt, he is rescued by Su Yi and becomes convinced of Su Yi’s strength, making him more likely to serve willingly.
• Winter remains dependable during the communications blackout, following Su Yi’s instructions and waiting for his return.
• The Goddess of Black Cinders appears as a powerful guide, affirming Su Yi’s direction while revealing a larger mission involving the fallen True Gods.

Significant themes

• Power and control: The Ether Sword Hilt’s immense, chaotic force becomes useful only after Su Yi carefully understands and reorganizes it.
• Knowledge as mastery: Su Yi’s victory depends on analysis, technical skill, and patience rather than brute force.
• Trust and loyalty: Su Yi prefers capable allies who choose to serve rather than followers coerced into obedience.
• A larger cosmic purpose: The goddess’s warning reframes Su Yi’s ambitions as part of a struggle to prevent the Void Abyss from consuming the fallen gods’ power.

Character interactions

• Su Yi dismisses the Hilt’s attempt to tempt him, then treats the Circuit Grand Sage as both an audience and a potential ally by allowing him to witness the test.
• The Grand Sage’s near-death experience transforms his view of Su Yi, and Su Yi responds by offering him a role rather than killing or forcibly crushing him.
• The Goddess of Black Cinders gives Su Yi cryptic but decisive guidance, directing him toward the Primordial Empire.
• Su Yi thanks Winter for her assistance and promises her a substantial reward.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi uses the Ether Sword Hilt and several Divine Authorities to repair a wrecked Storm-class ship in half an hour, astonishing the Circuit Grand Sage.
• Su Yi explains that Divine Authority is practical control over the world’s rules, not an unreachable privilege. He wants to share such power with ordinary people and build a society with hope rather than despair. The Circuit Grand Sage is deeply moved.
• After returning to Diamond Star, Su Yi summons Winter to his private laboratory. The crate she recovered contained an Ancient Artifact that strengthened his control of the Steel and Soul Authorities.
• As Winter’s reward, Su Yi creates and implants a Portable Binary Magic Core in her body, along with emitters that let her use Binary Magic. With the Ether Sword Hilt providing a long-range link to his power, the device can work across an estimated radius of 500,000 light-years.
• Winter and Su Yi confess their affection through an intimate encounter. Afterward, Su Yi completes the implantation. Winter tests her new abilities, including summoning objects, restricting access, assembling modules, and casting other spells. Su Yi’s Faith Power covers much of the cost, making her far stronger and more resilient in combat.
• Su Yi shares plans for future player rewards, including anti-magic classes, physical enhancements, new abilities, cybernetic implants, custom companions, pets, and rapidly deployable hibernation bases.
• With Su Yi’s approval, Winter shares selected hints with the other Human Alliance Pioneers. The players respond with excitement and renewed determination to serve him.

Character developments

• Su Yi demonstrates both technical mastery and a political vision: he wants power to benefit ordinary people, not to establish another hierarchy. He also begins grooming Winter to help manage and motivate the players.
• Winter moves from nervous anticipation to trust, romantic closeness, and intense excitement about her new abilities. She becomes a confident messenger for Su Yi’s future plans.
• The Circuit Grand Sage has his assumptions challenged. He retains respect for mechanical life, but now sees Su Yi’s ideals and power as a possible new direction.
• The players become more enthusiastic about working for Su Yi after hearing that meaningful, exclusive rewards may be ahead.

Significant themes

• Power as a tool for shared progress: Su Yi rejects divine privilege and promises to distribute power rather than hoard it.
• Creation versus destruction: Repairing the ship proves that precise restoration can be as impressive as overwhelming force.
• Hope against despair: Su Yi seeks a flawed but hopeful world, rather than one trapped in endless chaos.
• Trust and loyalty: Winter’s reward represents both personal intimacy and Su Yi’s confidence in her.
• Motivation through anticipation: The promised rewards encourage the players, while Su Yi and Winter recognize the need to manage expectations carefully.

Character interactions

• Su Yi’s repair work prompts a revealing exchange with the Circuit Grand Sage about humanity’s limits and the possibility of sharing Divine Authority.
• Winter’s teasingly suggestive interpretation of Su Yi’s “thorough reward” contrasts with his practical plan to enhance her—though their relationship becomes romantic as well.
• Su Yi reassures Winter that she can rely on him, then equips her with powers that demonstrate his trust.
• Winter discusses how to reveal future plans without overpromising, then rallies the other players by presenting those plans as rumors and possibilities.

Key plot points and events

• Winter’s friends tease her about her relationship with Godfather. She confirms nothing outright, but demonstrates that he has given her powerful “Binary Magic” Divine Authority: she can affect living beings and summon objects. Her friends are impressed and jokingly declare her the strongest Player.
• Madman discovers a second ancient Bronze Gate inside the Fallen God Abyss, a strange “Inner World” formed within the remains of a dead Deity. The gate stands amid a vast field of gravestones made from compressed Psychic Energy and bears a single eye.
• Su Yi recognizes the site as part of the Void Emperor’s remains and suspects the gate is connected to the Emperor’s soul. He believes the Nightmare Pioneer is an embodiment of some of the Void Emperor’s laws.
• Su Yi sends the Six-Winged Angel toward the Fallen God Abyss. Madman builds up his Psychic Energy and strikes the gate’s eye, briefly opening it and emitting a wave.
• Using the Ether Sword Hilt, Su Yi detects and resonates with the gate’s wave. The overwhelming spiritual signal nearly shatters his sense of self, but his scattered selves reunite, and he awakens in the mist before the open gate.
• Su Yi encounters a fading fragment of the Void Emperor’s consciousness, which reveals that the Emperor lost because a Divine Authority divided him. His body is being torn apart by beings corrupted by the Void Abyss. The fragment also claims that Black Cinders was actually Black Ear, and that Black Ear’s tree helped spread Nightmare.

Character developments

• Winter gains exceptional authority through her bond with Godfather and embraces her new role as the group’s unofficial enforcer.
• Madman proves his resourcefulness by finding the gate and triggering its response, despite being trapped and physically reduced to a soul.
• Su Yi uses his knowledge of the future and powerful artifacts to reach the gate, but the encounter challenges his identity and reveals a major, unsettling truth about the Void Emperor’s history.

Character interactions

• Winter’s friends joke about her relationship with Godfather, then react with awe to her abilities.
• Winter relays Madman’s discovery to Su Yi and acts as their communications link.
• Su Yi directs Madman to test the gate while he prepares the Ether Sword Hilt; Madman’s signal enables Su Yi to connect with the gate across vast distances.
• Su Yi questions the Void Emperor’s dying fragment, who responds with cryptic revelations about the Emperor’s defeat and Black Ear’s role.

Significant themes

• Unity versus division: The Void Emperor’s fragment suggests that division led to his defeat, while Su Yi’s scattered selves reunite.
• The cost of power and knowledge: Contact with the gate exposes Su Yi to a vast, destabilizing torrent of spiritual information.
• History’s hidden truths: The revelations about Black Cinders/Black Ear and the spread of Nightmare overturn established assumptions.
• Loyalty and cooperation: Winter, Madman, and Su Yi combine their abilities and knowledge to uncover the ancient mystery.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi absorbs the ancient eye and Bronze Gate into his soul. The skeleton’s consciousness disappears, leaving him with a warning to “beware the World Wall” and the claim that merging is necessary to wield the Creator’s hammer.
• The absorption greatly strengthens Su Yi. His Dark Matter Eye advances, his level and Void Spirit Bandwidth rise, and his Divine Blood Boon becomes a Golden Saint Body. He also gains the ability to extract specific aspects of a slain target’s essence.
• Su Yi receives Mist’s Slumbering Land, an SSS-rank skill that connects him to a resting place for souls and can transfer large numbers of them. He realizes the Mist is dangerous: souls left there gradually lose themselves and become part of the place. If controlled, however, it could shelter billions by putting them into a low-fluctuation sleep.
• The Madman’s remaining consciousness is beyond recovery, so Su Yi ends his suffering. He expects to reward him when he is revived. Returning from the Mist takes ninety-three minutes and drains all of Su Yi’s Bandwidth, even with Faith Power covering nearly all the cost.
• Half a month later, Su Yi returns to Diamond Star. The Pioneer Outpost on the Northwest Front is complete, with Ma Li promoted to L65 to lead it.
• The Black Sun Group officially joins the Molten Alliance as its sixty-seventh star-sector diocese. In exchange for Alliance protection and continued independent operation, it must surrender one-tenth of its annual revenue and immediately commit one-tenth of its forces to the war against the Wildfolk. Black Oak explains that the Alliance’s overwhelming military and technological strength left little room to negotiate.
• Su Yi confirms that his expedition will depart in three days. The Six-Winged Angel will enter the Divine Fire Xisi Corridor first and use its Holy Force Field to open a route.
• Circuit proposes an emergency evacuation system against a surprise Extermination Decree. He would use Diamond Star’s Mist Horn network to gather residents’ souls into the Horn within half an hour. Su Yi approves, revealing that he has another way to shelter the souls, and assigns Dutch and Wen Qi to support the project.
• Ilis reports that she is ready to complete her advancement in the corridor. Su Yi declares the start of a new journey.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi becomes more capable and confident, but remains cautious about the skeleton’s claims. He weighs its account against his past-life memories and concludes that the Goddess of Black Cinders may have an uncertain identity, yet her opposition to the Dreamwalker is probably genuine. He sees himself as a flexible vanguard for the coming conflict.
• Black Oak has secured the best terms possible for the company, despite the cost. His exhaustion reflects the pressure of negotiating with a vastly stronger Alliance. Flame Purgatory thanks him and stresses the importance of keeping the company’s people united.
• Circuit reveals that his grief over destroyed planets has turned into a determination to protect others. He trusts Su Yi and presents a practical plan; Su Yi responds with confidence in his abilities and resources.
• Ilis has grown more capable through her exploration of the corridor and is ready to advance. Her familiar “Little brother” contrasts with the gravity of the expedition ahead.
• Emma and Winter support Su Yi during and after his return from the Mist, checking on his condition and asking how the operation went.

Significant themes

• Trust amid uncertainty: Su Yi must interpret conflicting accounts about the gods, the Dreamwalker, and the Goddess of Black Cinders without certainty.
• The cost of power: His new abilities are immense, but using the soul-link consumes extraordinary Bandwidth, and the Mist itself can erase the souls it is meant to shelter.
• Preparedness and preservation: Circuit’s proposal emphasizes that people—not buildings or technology—are the irreplaceable foundation of civilization.
• Political dependence and adaptation: The company’s merger with the Molten Alliance preserves its internal structure but forces it into costly obligations, setting the stage for future resistance or political change.
• A looming escalation: The Extermination Decree threat, the Wildfolk war, and the expedition into the Divine Fire Xisi Corridor all signal that the company’s period of peace is over.