Chapter Summaries

Li Tianming presented Quan Taibin’s God-Deceiving Technology to the Safe Zone’s leaders as his own, and they planned how to use it without revealing its true capability. They decided to train defenses across all War Readiness Zones and considered breaking the Safe Zone’s blast-resistant glass to draw in more gods.

• Quan Taibin told Li Tianming to keep his name out of the research, and Li promised to take credit for the technology himself.
• Li Tianming explained the technology to Gu Weirong, Olof, and Chu Zhongxiong, who were astonished by its potential.
• Gu Weirong warned that revealing the technology could let wavering people leak the Safe Zone’s trump card to the Invaders.
• Chu Zhongxiong proposed training every War Readiness Zone to fight alongside the gods without disclosing the technology’s ability to gather them.
• Li Tianming pointed out that the Safe Zone might not have enough gods to distribute among the zones, and Olof suggested shattering the blast-resistant glass to draw in gods from beyond River Ridge.

Gu Weirong announced that the Safe Zone would use gods to suppress the Invaders, leaving War Readiness Zone 1’s blast-resistant glass open to attract them. While Qin Siyang questioned whether the plan could work, Tuo He'an and a hidden observer discussed the Eighth Domain’s worsening prospects.

• Gu Weirong told the Safe Zone to train alongside gods and keep War Readiness Zone 1’s blast-resistant glass open to draw them in.
• The Defense Forces and Safe Zone residents raised their fists and echoed Gu Weirong’s pledge to live and die with the Safe Zone.
• Qin Siyang worried that traitors might reveal the strategy to the Invaders and wondered whether Professor Quan’s research could provide a stronger weapon.
• Tuo Heyan and Tuo He'an reasoned that the Eighth Domain was using gods against the Invaders, but feared its Domain Master could still die before adapting to his new abilities.
• A hidden figure judged the Eighth Domain’s tactic ineffective, predicted William’s next attack would destroy it, and decided there was no need to intervene.

Qin Siyang waited in hiding as a first-level alert announced a full-scale invasion by roughly a hundred thousand troops. As the Safe Zone prepared to fight, Chu Zhongxiong burst into the conference room gravely wounded, and Yu Renjie warned that a traitor had tried to kill him to advance in the Domain Sequence.

• Qin Siyang heard the first-level alert and realized the enemy had arrived.
• Patrols reported three invading forces, and Wei Rulai estimated that about a hundred thousand troops were advancing on the Safe Zone.
• Gu Weirong ordered Kav to broadcast the invasion, and Kav reassured residents that the Safe Zone could hold its defenses.
• Chu Zhongxiong crashed through the conference room door, badly wounded, and collapsed unconscious.
• Yu Renjie identified a betrayal and said someone had attacked Chu Zhongxiong to break through in the Domain Sequence.
• Gu Weirong ordered Chu Zhongxiong saved, and Zhao Longfei said he would summon Zuo You.

A Tier Five barrier trapped the Safe Zone’s leaders in the Conference Room after Chu Zhongxiong was attacked, and the group concluded there was a mole among them. As Li Tianming moved Chu to safety and Olof and Old Johnny went to break the barrier, Zhu Haifeng challenged the hidden mole to act while the strongest fighters were away.

• Kav discovered that all signals had stopped, and Olof identified a Tier Five barrier sealing the building and declared there was a mole.
• Old Johnny argued that the mole had to be someone in the Conference Room, and the leaders activated their defensive artifacts while suspecting one another.
• Gu Weirong urged the group to save Chu Zhongxiong, and Li Tianming used medicine to keep him alive despite a powerful curse on his wounds.
• Li Tianming carried Chu Zhongxiong away to a secure location while Gu Weirong ordered the others to break the barrier and restore communications.
• Olof asked Old Johnny to help him destroy the barrier, and Zhu Haifeng told the remaining mole that this was the last chance to break through to the domain sequence.

As William’s army advanced on the Eighth Domain, Zhu Haifeng investigated who had attacked Chu Zhongxiong by testing the remaining conference-room officials with a Lie Detector. Everyone passed, leaving Zhu Haifeng to conclude that the real culprit could still be concealed and that the worst-case scenario had occurred.

• William delayed an assault because an insider had promised to seize War Readiness Zone 1 and lead the Eighth Domain’s leaders to surrender.
• Gu Weirong led the civilian staff out of the conference room, leaving Zhu Haifeng, Zhao Longfei, Han Shuo, Xie Nanyun, and Fan Baoluo behind.
• Zhu Haifeng argued that the mole had to be one of the five remaining officials, rather than Chu Zhongxiong or Gu Weirong.
• Zhu Haifeng used the Lie Detector to test himself, Zhao Longfei, Fan Baoluo, Han Shuo, and Xie Nanyun, and each passed.
• Xie Nanyun again suggested that Chu Zhongxiong or Gu Weirong might be behind the incident, and Zhu Haifeng said the worst-case scenario had happened.

Zhu Haifeng, Zhao Longfei, Fan Baoluo, Xie Nanyun, and Han Shuo confronted the consequences of Xie Nanyun and Han Shuo secretly contacting the Invaders. Xie Nanyun said he had defected to protect his family, while Han Shuo revealed he had done so to reunite with his son and argued that the domain was only a dream.

• Fan Baoluo and Han Shuo explained that the Lie Detector had exposed Xie Nanyun and Han Shuo as moles, and Xie Nanyun revealed that both he and Han Shuo had contacted William.
• Xie Nanyun said Chu Zhongxiong caught him contacting William, so he attacked, but Chu Zhongxiong survived because of his new Origin Sequence skills.
• Zhao Longfei condemned Xie Nanyun for betraying the Safe Zone, and Xie Nanyun said he had acted to protect his family after losing faith that the Safe Zone could defeat the Invaders.
• Han Shuo revealed that he had discovered his son among the Invaders and defected to reunite with him after more than a decade apart.
• Han Shuo argued that the domain was a dream rather than a real world, so he saw no reason to follow high moral standards.

Han Shuo and Xie Nanyun explained why they had turned against the Safe Zone before Zhu Haifeng initiated a fight among the five men. The others shut down their Spatial Artifacts to escape a spatial collapse, only to discover they had been drawn into Zhu Haifeng's artifact, where Xie Nanyun launched the battle.

• Han Shuo and Xie Nanyun admitted they had sided with the Invaders on impulse, and Han Shuo explained that he had not told Qian Wendao about his favor with An Youlu because he saw no need to.
• Zhu Haifeng announced that they should begin, and all five men activated Spatial Artifacts at once, causing overlapping spaces to destabilize.
• Zhu Haifeng warned that the spatial interference could crush them, and the Lie Detector confirmed his claim, so the other men shut down their artifacts.
• The five men appeared inside Zhu Haifeng's Spatial Artifact, and Zhao Longfei realized Zhu had kept his own artifact active after everyone else disabled theirs.
• Xie Nanyun transformed into spreading black totems and declared that they would fight until only those who survived could break through to the domain sequence.

Large Gods gathered outside the Safe Zone to await the outcome of the First Domain’s invasion of the Eighth Domain, hoping to learn whether a [Miracle Worker] would appear. Meanwhile, Olof and Old Johnny broke the barrier sealing the United Government Building, and Olof suspected Zhong Dingming had made it.

• Niu Douchong questioned the gathered Large Gods, who said they had come to watch the invasion’s outcome and hoped to return home soon.
• Li Qinghui challenged the gods’ certainty that the Eighth Domain would lose, and a giant ape said they might support its candidate if a [Miracle Worker] existed.
• Olof used Lei Xiaoting’s directions to guide Old Johnny’s attacks on weak points in the barrier.
• Old Johnny and Olof struck more than a dozen points until the barrier around the United Government Building shattered.
• Olof identified Zhong Dingming as the likely maker of the Tier Five Barrier.

Qin Siyang suspected a mole in the United Government had triggered a deadly struggle inside War Readiness Zone One, even as Gu Weirong reassured the Safe Zone that its signal was restored. Outside the Safe Zone, William dismissed the chance of meaningful resistance and ordered an all-out attack.

• After the livestream screens went black, Qin Siyang suspected a leader had betrayed the United Government and feared the command center might fall before the mole reached the domain sequence.
• Gu Weirong appeared on the restored broadcast and said the signal problem was under control, while Qin Siyang noticed that no domain-sequence expert had appeared and concluded the fight inside headquarters was still unresolved.
• William learned that the Safe Zone's livestream had resumed and dismissed the suspected collaborators as ineffective.
• William told Margaret that the Eighth Domain's Domain Masters, Qian Wendao and Qin Siyang, were both dead, leaving the Safe Zone unable to mount further trouble.
• William ordered his forces to advance at full speed and launch an all-out attack on the natives of the Eighth Domain.

After Chu Zhongxiong was gravely wounded and five officials vanished into a Spatial Artifact, Li Tianming explained that Zhu Haifeng had prepared a safe return destination, easing fears about the mole. The group then learned that more than a hundred thousand invading troops had entered the Safe Zone and split up to attack over a hundred War Readiness Zones.

• Yu Renjie reported that Zhu Haifeng, Fan Baoluo, Zhao Longfei, Xie Nanyun, and Han Shuo had disappeared into a Spatial Artifact after Zhu Haifeng exposed the suspected mole and started a fight.
• Olof found a metal Badge, and Li Tianming identified it as a Directional Teleportation Medium he had made for Zhu Haifeng, which would send the survivors to a wasteland if the Badge’s holder died.
• Li Tianming and Gu Weirong said they trusted Zhu Haifeng, and Olof concluded that an old colleague of Chu Zhongxiong’s was likely the mole.
• Yu Renjie reported that enemy forces totaling over a hundred thousand had entered the Safe Zone and split into formations of about a thousand troops to advance on different War Readiness Zones.
• Chu Baxing recognized that the invaders intended to attack more than a hundred War Readiness Zones at once.

The Invaders withstood the War Readiness Zones’ coordinated attacks and pressed their advance, leaving the Safe Zone’s leaders with few options. In Sigma District, Qin Siyang watched the enemy formations and waited for a chance to break through to the domain sequence.

• The Invaders’ thousand-person formations endured combined attacks from 137 War Readiness Zones behind protective barriers and continued advancing unscathed.
• Old Johnny, Olof, and Li Tianming assessed the Invaders as exceptionally powerful, while Gu Weirong and the other leaders feared a blitzkrieg and concluded that Wei Rulai’s troops could not provide meaningful support.
• Gu Weirong proposed coordinating attacks with the gods once the enemy came closer and held out hope that Zhu Haifeng could reach the domain sequence.
• Thirty thousand Invaders crossed the Great River into Sigma District, where the Flower Basket woman led the formations against thirty interconnected War Readiness Zones.
• Qin Siyang saw no opening to attack the tightly coordinated Invaders and resolved to wait for a chance to reach the domain sequence, fearing the civilians’ deaths if he failed.

Invaders broke through the defenses of the War Readiness Zones, leaving the Defense Force and the Safe Zone’s population facing imminent defeat. Gu Weirong activated a hidden countermeasure, and signs of sandworm movement appeared across more than a hundred zones as small native Gods poured into the Safe Zone.

• The Invaders’ Thousand-Person Formations used their Silver Bracers to pierce the Defensive Shields, and the Gods released from the War Readiness Zones were quickly killed.
• Alan and Sima Ji mocked the defenders’ preparations as the Invaders broke their formations into Assault Squads and rushed through the shield breaches.
• Soldiers and civilians across the 137 War Readiness Zones watched in despair as the defense lines collapsed.
• Gu Weirong ordered the countermeasure activated, triggering violent tremors and signs of sandworm movement at breaches across more than a hundred zones.
• William and Margaret saw thousands of small native Gods swarm into the Safe Zone, and William suspected they were Sandworm Servants.

Li Tianming and Gu Weirong used a thousand trusted Qin Character Legion soldiers to lure gods into the invaders’ ranks, turning the battle chaotic and inflicting heavy losses. As the invaders began to flee, Sima Ji rallied them to charge the Safe Zone’s defense lines.

• Li Tianming, Gu Weirong, Chu Zhongxiong, and Olof planned to use Quan Taibin’s technique to draw gods into battle with the invaders.
• Gu Weirong proposed recruiting the Qin Character Legion, and Edward and the three Wang brothers selected a thousand trustworthy soldiers for the secret mission.
• Li Tianming trained the soldiers to disguise objects as bait for gods, and they infiltrated the War Readiness Zones with supply convoys.
• After Gu Weirong gave the order, the soldiers lured gods toward the scattered invaders, while blast-resistant glass kept the gods from entering the War Readiness Zones.
• The invaders lost formation under the gods’ assault, and Safe Zone forces attacked them as some invaders fled or sacrificed their companions to escape.
• William and Margaret could not coordinate the scattered forces, so Sima Ji urged the invaders to charge the defense lines and led the attack.

Sima Ji rallied the wavering invaders and personally led a devastating charge through a breach in the Safe Zone's defenses. Both sides were trapped in a desperate fight across more than a hundred War Readiness Zones, where the invaders and defenders began slaughtering one another.

• In the Sigma District, Qin Siyang realized Sima Ji's overwhelming strength had steadied the invading force and concluded that they had to eliminate him.
• William and Margaret discussed the threat posed by the Eighth Domain and watched the battles, hoping to end the assault quickly.
• Sima Ji urged the invaders to stay close, then used ice and wind to shatter a shield, freeze thousands of Defense Army soldiers, and break through a War Readiness Zone.
• Sima Ji's attack inspired the invaders across the battlefield, while native gods descended to help the defenders repel them.
• A red-armored invader transformed into a lava giant and killed more than a hundred soldiers before the Defense Army trapped and killed him with coordinated attacks.
• Invaders continued charging into the breaches as defenders held their lines, turning the boundaries of more than a hundred War Readiness Zones into brutal battlefields.

Wei Rulai teleported the Mobile Fortress Unit to reinforce War Readiness Zone 925, where their combined firepower helped the defenders annihilate the invaders. The victory proved that the Safe Zone’s people could overcome the enemy by fighting together, and Qin Siyang saw it as confirmation that those who had sacrificed themselves had been on the right path.

• Gu Weirong approved Wei Rulai’s request to deploy the Mobile Fortress Unit to the battlefield.
• Wei Rulai teleported more than a hundred thousand soldiers to War Readiness Zone 925 and ordered them to bombard the invaders.
• The Mobile Fortress Unit’s attack and the zone’s defenders trapped and killed the thousand-strong invader force.
• The victory spread through live broadcasts, and people across the Safe Zone erupted in cheers.
• Qin Siyang joined the celebration and felt that the victory validated Gu Weiyang, Qian Wendao, Qi Tian, and everyone who had fought for their ideals.

After splitting the Mobile Defense Fortress troops to reinforce two War Readiness Zones, Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan were ambushed by elite domain sequence ability users led by William and Margaret. As they considered retreating, Gu Weirong told them to hold on because two people were coming to help.

• Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan split their troops and teleported to War Readiness Zones 323 and 407 to reinforce the defenders.
• William and Margaret divided the Royal Guard and set out to stop the Mobile Fortress Units.
• Wei Rulai's troops and Yan Bunan's troops turned the battles around with their supporting fire.
• William's elite force of five hundred domain sequence ability users struck Wei Rulai's troops, while Margaret's force pinned down Yan Bunan.
• Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan discussed retreating as their forces came under attack, but Gu Weirong told them to hold on because two people were coming to help.

Gu Weirong informed the commanders that Zhu Haifeng and Zhao Longfei had killed the moles and broken through to the domain sequence, and were coming to reinforce them. Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan prepared their forces to hold out and exploit the reinforcements, while wondering whether one domain sequence user could change the battle.

• Gu Weirong told the meeting that Zhu Haifeng and Zhao Longfei had killed Han Shuo and Xie Nanyun, broken through to the domain sequence, and were heading to reinforce Yan Bunan.
• Yan Bunan questioned whether Zhu Haifeng and Zhao Longfei might be the real moles, but accepted Gu Weirong's reasoning that they would more likely attack the command room if they were traitors.
• Wei Rulai asked Gu Weirong to keep news of the breakthroughs secret so the reinforcements could catch the enemy off guard.
• Wei Rulai shifted his troops into a defensive formation that trapped the invaders inside an iron ring, while Yan Bunan readied an apparent offensive without giving the order to attack.
• William ordered his forces to intensify their advance against Wei Rulai, and Margaret ordered her troops to charge Yan Bunan's army.
• Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan stayed to await the reinforcements, staking everything on the chance that a domain sequence user could turn the battle.

Five hundred Domain Sequence invaders attacked Wei Rulai and Yan Bunan’s forces, but surprise strikes by hidden Domain Sequence users and Yan Bunan’s counterattack trapped Margaret’s troops and disrupted William’s advance. The Safe Zone celebrated the reversal while Sima Ji and Alan watched, with Sima Ji refusing to advise Margaret as the battle continued.

• Five hundred Domain Sequence invaders assaulted the defensive fortresses, forcing Wei Rulai’s troops to fight desperately while Yan Bunan’s forces retreated.
• Hidden attackers wounded invaders striking Wei Rulai’s fortress, then killed several of Margaret’s troops from behind.
• Yan Bunan’s troops suddenly teleported forward and attacked Margaret’s divided force with close-range group skills, trapping her between their assault and the hidden assassin.
• The Safe Zone watched William and Margaret falter in the livestream and erupted in cheers, while Sima Ji and Alan learned of their trouble.
• Alan asked Sima Ji to advise Margaret, but Sima Ji refused, saying she needed to learn her own worth.

Zhu Haifeng and Zhao Longfei’s breakthroughs failed to give the Safe Zone a decisive advantage, while Qin Siyang realized the Sigma District’s enemy formations had no openings. He chose to remain hidden and wait for a chance to break through as the [Domain Master], accepting that faking his death had been the best choice he could make.

• Zhu Haifeng told Wei Rulai that local domain sequence ability users had no suppressive advantage over the invaders and explained why Zhao Longfei’s attack had slowed.
• Qin Siyang observed that the Sigma District’s invaders remained linked by the old woman’s support ability, leaving his forces unable to inflict casualties.
• Qin Siyang concluded that two moles had emerged among the Safe Zone’s senior leadership and that his own breakthrough was still essential to changing the battle.
• Qin Siyang considered using the Capsule Pod to reach the Main Safe Zone but decided the risk of being detected and hunted was too great.
• Qin Siyang regretted faking his death, then reminded himself that he could not have foreseen the moles or the breakthroughs and resolved to trust his past choice.

Zhu Haifeng and Wei Rulai faced William’s forces as the battle stalled under the Invaders’ domain sequence formation and growing resistance across the Eighth Domain. William ordered another assault, while Wei Rulai and Zhu Haifeng prepared to sacrifice ground to preserve the Mobile Fortress Unit.

• Zhu Haifeng rejected William’s attempt to question the United Government’s authority and argued that the Invaders could not outlast the Eighth Domain’s defenders.
• William reviewed the stalled offensives led by Sima Ji and Alan and Granny Hua, then realized the invasion risked becoming a costly quagmire.
• William ordered his five-hundred-person formation to attack Wei Rulai’s Mobile Fortress Unit again.
• Wei Rulai and Zhu Haifeng discussed holding the line, knowing they might have to teleport the Mobile Fortress Unit away and abandon the War Readiness Zone.
• Zhu Haifeng recalled Chao Ding’s words that war could end but struggle never stopped, and Wei Rulai agreed that their conflict was a struggle to the death.