Chapter Summaries

Bo You discovered that Qin Yiguan and his allies had taken the Ring Research Institute’s needed materials across different eras, while the institute’s neglected condition and dwindling supplies caused it to deteriorate. Bo You collapsed after repeated reports of empty landings, and the staff said his body needed to be replaced.

• Bo You learned from the Jiajing Emperor that a scholar and a monk had taken the Nine Dragons Golden Elixir he sought.
• Jiang Yizhou told Qin Yiguan that he had gathered and sealed the requested materials, and Qin Yiguan said he would collect everything on the list before the Ring Research Institute could.
• Bo You heard that the institute was badly worn from time travel and nearly out of supplies.
• Bo You received repeated reports that the materials at their landings had already been taken, including a report that the only resin found had gone to the sewage system.
• Bo You coughed up blood and collapsed, and medical staff said his cancer had spread and his body needed to be replaced.

Qin Yiguan traveled back to the Republican era and met six-year-old Fu Bo You, the future director of the Ring Research Institute. Twenty-two years later, the elderly Bo You discovered that his childhood home held no trace of his life and wondered how his past had been changed without erasing his memories.

• Qin Yiguan arrived with Jiang Yizhou and Shitian at the place where the torbernite had been hidden, while Liu Quan C and Liu Shuan Q got stuck in the vortex.
• Qin Yiguan approached a boy playing by a puddle and learned that he was Fu Bo You.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that the updated institute list identified Fu Bo You as its future director, and he decided to act twenty-two years before Fu Bo You joined the institute.
• Qin Yiguan hypnotized Fu Bo You's parents and took the six-year-old through a blue vortex, convincing them that a secret government organization would train him.
• Twenty-two years later, elderly Bo You woke in his wheelchair at his parents' house, found no trace of his life there, and feared that someone had changed his past.

Bo You hid the Ring Research Institute’s weakening emblem and his failing health while investigating a suspected traitor and the institute’s hidden engine. He entered the engine chamber and revealed a bound young man he identified as Qin Yiguan.

• Gu Wu proposed killing a younger Qin Yiguan, but Bo You insisted Qin was not responsible and forbade Gu Wu from targeting him.
• A level 2 employee brought in the institute’s plaque, revealing a fading gap in its blue ring emblem that alarmed Bo You.
• The medical department head suggested the institute might have a founder or leader above its level 10 director, Bo You.
• After the others left, Bo You concealed his panic, suspected a traitor, and entered the secret corridor leading to the institute’s engine.
• Bo You reached the engine chamber, where laser lines restrained a young man, and greeted him as Qin Yiguan.

Bo You revealed that the cloned Qin Yiguan had been guiding the original Qin Yiguan through time to collect the Ring Research Institute’s repair materials, which Bo You had secretly planned to obtain. Qin Yiguan and Jiang Yizhou stored another haul in Zhao Kuangyin’s palace and set out to find the final, exceptionally difficult material.

• Bo You explained that he had cloned Qin Yiguan and modified the clone with time-related abilities taken from Song Miao, Lu Guang, and Jiang Yizhou.
• Bo You revealed that Qin Yiguan had collected the Ring Research Institute’s materials across repeated journeys and hidden them in Zhao Kuangyin’s imperial palace.
• Jiang Yizhou and Qin Yiguan sealed another warehouse of materials beneath the palace.
• Qin Yiguan checked Song Miao’s list and found that only one material remained.
• Jiang Yizhou and Qin Yiguan decided to travel together to obtain the final material, which might be collectible only by Qin Yiguan.

Bo You revealed how a time-traveling Qin Yiguan clone sustained the Ring Research Institute's repeated material-gathering cycles, though unexpected changes troubled him. Jiang Yizhou led Qin Yiguan and Shitian toward the source of the acoustic levitation equipment the institute needed.

• Bo You recalled creating a time-traveling Qin Yiguan clone to place the Ring Research Institute in gaps in time and enable repeated material collection.
• Bo You worried about leaked information and his missing six-year-old self before reassuring himself that his final trump card could reverse any failure.
• Jiang Yizhou took Qin Yiguan and Shitian past the Great Pyramid of Khufu and into Jarl's office in Sweden in 1940.
• Jiang Yizhou played footage of Tibetan monks levitating stones with musical instruments and identified acoustic levitation as the secret behind pyramid construction.
• Qin Yiguan identified acoustic levitation equipment as the institute's hardest material to obtain and questioned how Jiang Yizhou knew only he could obtain it.
• Jiang Yizhou traced the institute's equipment to Edward's megalithic estate in Florida, and Qin Yiguan stepped into a blue vortex to continue the search.

Qin Yiguan and Jiang Yizhou visited Edward's Megalithic Manor to investigate the stone gate and uncover the acoustic levitation technology hidden within it, but Qin Yiguan found no clues. When the Boundless One appeared, Qin Yiguan followed its trail and entered a world formed from sound waves, where the words “Sound Universe” appeared.

• Qin Yiguan and Jiang Yizhou examined Edward's enormous stone gate, but Qin Yiguan initially decided to leave because the Ring Research Institute had failed to discover its secrets.
• Jiang Yizhou urged Qin Yiguan to try again, and Qin Yiguan used his abilities to inspect the gate and its ordinary-looking bearing, finding nothing unusual.
• Taotie Gala told Qin Yiguan that someone had mailed him a gift and sent a picture of a crystal ball depicting a woman being pressed into a lake; Qin Yiguan hid his reaction and returned his attention to the gate.
• The Boundless One appeared before the gate, and Qin Yiguan followed the silhouettes it left behind as the manor's surroundings dissolved into blue sound-wave outlines.
• Qin Yiguan found himself in a world reconstructed from sound waves, where the words “Sound Universe” appeared and identified it as a parallel universe coexisting with reality.

Qin Yiguan entered the Boundless One’s universe of sound and found the hidden material the Ring Research Institute needed by opening a massive stone door. After the materials were assembled beneath the Song Dynasty palace, the Institute suddenly crashed into Bianjing.

• The Boundless One revealed itself as a sound-formed figure resembling Qin Yiguan and guided him through the sound universe.
• Qin Yiguan used tapping and his heightened perception to align two sound waves, open the stone door, and recover two tiny black specks.
• Jiang Yizhou identified the specks as the material sought by the Ring Research Institute and stored them in a wooden box.
• Qin Yiguan and Jiang Yizhou brought the gathered materials to the underground ice chamber beneath the Song Dynasty palace.
• A white building crashed from the sky into Bianjing, shaking the palace and startling the guards.

Qin Yiguan, Jiang Yizhou, and Shitian confronted Bo You after the Ring Research Institute arrived in the Song Dynasty. Bo You revealed that he had come to kill Qin Yiguan and had prepared a clone for the task.

• The Ring Research Institute emerged behind a blue plasma shield, and Bo You greeted Qin Yiguan as a former field-team employee.
• Shitian denied that any of Bo You’s employees were present, while Jiang Yizhou crossed over to stand beside Bo You.
• Bo You said he planned to kill Qin Yiguan while continuing to exploit the repeating past to collect materials.
• Bo You explained that he had noticed changes in Qin Yiguan’s actions and intended to stop his cycle of time.
• Bo You revealed that the Ring Research Institute had created two successful clones of Qin Yiguan and implanted a mental illness in one to kill him.

Bo You triggered Shitian’s Slaughterer Higher Self to attack Qin Yiguan, but Qin exposed Jiang Yizhou’s betrayal and used Timeline Convergence to escape the killing blow. The materials were gone, and Bo You was left demanding to know what Qin had done.

• Bo You revealed that Shitian’s mental disorder could be triggered and commanded him to kill Qin Yiguan.
• Shitian’s Slaughterer Higher Self appeared and attacked Qin, while Qin’s Victim shattered and his Guardian struggled to block the cleaver.
• Bo You’s researchers opened the ice chamber, but found that all the materials were missing.
• Qin accused Jiang Yizhou of failing his tests and explained that his eagerness to collect the materials had exposed him.
• Qin activated Timeline Convergence, causing the Slaughterer to disappear and leaving Qin unharmed.
• Bo You checked himself, the researchers, and the Ring Research Institute, found them unchanged, and demanded to know what Qin had done.

Qin Yiguan explained how Moment-of Time let him alter events before the Gemini Superbrain’s delayed timelines converged. After freeing Jiang Yizhou from the Ring Research Institute’s control, he confronted Bo You, who fled back into the institute.

• Qin Yiguan said he had discovered a delay between cause and effect when Lu Guang died, and used Moment-of Time to change events before timelines converged.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that Shitian had torn out his own eardrums so he could not be used by Bo You or hear his commands.
• Bo You ordered his people to retreat into the institute, but Jiang Yizhou refused to flee and declared he would no longer be controlled.
• Qin Yiguan recalled visiting Jiang Yizhou twelve hours earlier and learning he wanted to see the woman he loved again, while a collar restricted his ability.
• The timelines converged, giving Jiang Yizhou new memories and freeing him from his restraints; Bo You escaped into the Ring Research Institute.

Bo You sought the Ring Research Institute’s hidden founder as the institute spiraled out of control. The founder’s office appeared, and Bo You was horrified to recognize the young man inside as he announced, “Timeline Convergence!”

• Bo You fled into the secret chamber’s dark corridor while Qin Yiguan stayed in the square.
• Bo You saw that the institute’s ring emblem had broken and begged the absent founder to help.
• Bo You cursed the founder and threw away the nameplate, causing its emblem to glow and repair itself.
• The founder’s office appeared, and Bo You retrieved the nameplate before crawling inside.
• The founder turned around, leaving Bo You speechless with horror, and declared, “Timeline Convergence!”

Qin Yiguan revealed how he used the Ring Research Institute’s materials, blueprints, and a younger Bo You to create a new institute and reshape its history. After the fourth Timeline Convergence, Bo You’s former researchers stood with Qin Yiguan, while the doctor he trusted was revealed to be Song Miao.

• Qin Yiguan brought a newly built Ring Research Institute out of a time-space vortex as Bo You’s original institute vanished.
• Qin Yiguan explained that he had used the gathered materials and Song Miao’s blueprints to build a replacement institute in 2122.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that he had raised Bo You’s six-year-old self into a scientific genius who managed the new institute and recruited its members.
• The fourth Timeline Convergence shifted the white-coated researchers to Qin Yiguan’s side, with their past hostility diminished.
• Bo You sought medicine from his doctor, but she removed a chip-embedded silver needle and revealed herself as Song Miao.

Song Miao revealed how she helped Qin Yiguan engineer the Research Institute’s timeline and expose Bo You’s past. Qin Yiguan then used Logic Fracture to make Bo You suffer a fatal illusion of suffocation and disclosed that the Institute’s time-traveling members had abandoned their real bodies for digital selves in the Metaverse.

• Song Miao explained that she disguised herself as Bo You’s physician, poisoned him, and helped Qin Yiguan’s replacement plan proceed.
• Bo You pretended that Timeline Convergence had reset him, but Qin Yiguan revealed he had used Logic Fracture on Bo You instead.
• Qin Yiguan imposed the memory and sensation of a worsening fire injury on Bo You, who began to suffocate and panic.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that the Institute’s original members were brain-dead in the real world and that their Metaverse selves were Digital Humans carrying implanted memories.
• Bo You collapsed and died while suffocating under Qin Yiguan’s imposed illusion.

Qin Yiguan freed the Boundless One, whose true body fused with him and unlocked new abilities, then set the Ring Research Institute on a course through history with Jiang Yizhou as its power engine. As Shitian left to explore the world, Qin Yiguan sent him a farewell message.

• Qin Yiguan released the Boundless One, who entered him and completed their fusion, granting the abilities Moment-of Time and Logic Fracture.
• Jiang Yizhou offered to power the Ring Research Institute and introduced Qin Yiguan to Su Xiu, a Digital Human modeled on his late lover.
• Jiang Yizhou revealed that he had once taught Qin Yiguan history at 053 High School in Mirage City.
• Qin Yiguan instructed the Digital Humans to explore history and told Jiang Yizhou to avoid disrupting established chains of cause and effect.
• Shitian chose to travel alone and said he would try to return the Slaughterer inside him to Qin Yiguan.
• Qin Yiguan used God's Abandoned to project a screen telling Shitian to go already.

Qin Yiguan used the Boundless One’s Consciousness Flashback to revisit the night his mother died and discovered that clones of his adoptive parents had drowned her. He returned to the memory to learn what happened to her body, but the chapter ended before he could read the stone marker.

• Dr. House reunited with his beloved after a visitor arrived at his clinic, completing the Virtual Ring Research Institute event and raising the Separation Rate by 12%.
• The Boundless One offered Qin Yiguan a Consciousness Flashback, and Qin chose to revisit the night his mother died.
• Inside his six-year-old self’s memory, Qin saw a man and woman identical to his adoptive parents drown his mother, revealing them as Bo You’s clones.
• The Boundless One’s body partially dissipated as Qin returned to the Metaverse, and Qin asked to revisit the memory to find out what happened to his mother’s body.
• Qin saw a man resembling his adoptive father bury his mother and raise a stone marker before his adoptive parents appeared and offered to take him home.

Qin Yiguan revisited the memory of his childhood and discovered that the people posing as his adoptive parents were cruel clones who had killed the real woman and tried to drug him. After he killed them, he remembered the unsolved case that led to his orphanage placement, while the Boundless One’s body continued to break apart; the Boundless One insisted they had to find an answer.

• Qin Yiguan asked the Boundless One to take him to his childhood home, where he saw memories of his adoptive father preparing an overdose of sleeping medication for him.
• The adoptive father admitted he and the woman were clones assigned to replace Qin Yiguan’s parents and keep him docile for the Ring Research Institute’s experiments.
• Qin Yiguan’s childhood self escaped the man’s attempt to force him to take the drug and stabbed him to death.
• The child confronted and killed the woman clone, then ate a strip of flesh from her wrist after Starvation Corpse urged him to.
• Qin Yiguan remembered how Officer Wang found him, sent him to an orphanage, and helped bring the Ring Research Institute’s experiments to an end.
• Qin Yiguan apologized to the Boundless One for losing control, and the Boundless One said there had to be an answer as another third of his body shattered.

Qin Yiguan reviewed the personalities and unanswered questions tied to his past, then left the Metaverse and visited his adoptive mother's grave. He found no remains in the grave and saw the same white fluff that had emerged from Boss Meng and Jiao Shensan's bodies, leaving the mystery of what happened to them unresolved.

• Qin Yiguan examined his Consciousness Matrix, catalogued nine personalities, and reserved places for three more, including the Lantern Bearer as Personality 12.
• Qin Yiguan questioned why his psychological disorders' development rates had stopped at 99% and what would happen if the Separation Rate reached 100%.
• Qin Yiguan left the Metaverse, woke in his bedroom, and reflected on his friends before traveling alone to the Ring Research Institute.
• Qin Yiguan found Xiao Ying's grave and dug into it, discovering there were no remains beneath the tombstone.
• Qin Yiguan saw white fluff rise from the soil and recognized it as the same substance that had spread from Boss Meng and Jiao Shensan after their physical bodies died.

Qin Yiguan traveled laterally through the Experimental Zone and encountered Jiu Zhengxuan, who had attacked the Shadow while investigating a private organization. Their meeting was interrupted by the Rebel Army, whose captain revealed that they were fighting the Gemini Metaverse and the Gemini Superbrain.

• Qin Yiguan boarded the Shadow and flew rightward from the Gemini Metaverse’s simulated history into the Experimental Zone.
• After tens of millions of kilometers, Qin Yiguan reached a vast glacier and spotted a young man in a snow cloak blocking the Shadow.
• The cloaked man used darkness and a beam of light against the Shadow, but Qin Yiguan summoned the black wardrobe and punched him, revealing him as Jiu Zhengxuan.
• Jiu Zhengxuan said he had mistaken the Shadow for a threat while investigating a private organization for the Youth Order Squad.
• Zuo Xiong and other young people arrived, and Zuo Xiong introduced himself as a captain in the Rebel Army fighting the Gemini Metaverse and the Gemini Superbrain.

Qin Yiguan exposed Jiu Zhengxuan’s identity to the Rebel Army and spun increasingly ridiculous stories about him while Jiu tried to investigate undercover. When they reached the Rebel Army base, Jiu warned Qin that the rebels were a blood-sacrificing cult, and they were greeted by a huge, frenzied crowd.

• Zuo Xiong invited Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan aboard a Rebel Army aircraft, then revealed that the Metaverse Government was preparing to destroy the rebels and had sent Jiu to investigate them.
• Qin Yiguan told the rebels that his companion was Jiu Zhengxuan, then claimed Jiu had molested him three times and was known as Bai Cai.
• Qin Yiguan told the rebels he was forty-eight and Jiu’s real uncle, while Jiu tried to keep his temper under control and maintain his cover.
• Jiu warned Qin that the Rebel Army was a cult that bewitched people and offered blood sacrifices.
• The aircraft landed at the Rebel Army base, where tens of thousands of young people with red marks on their foreheads chanted against the Metaverse and the Gemini Superbrain.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan arrived at the rebel base and learned that the Metaverse Government suspected the rebels of massacring thirteen cities with help from someone who could seal Reality Enhancements. Sun and Moon welcomed them as Jiu Zhengxuan pursued his secret mission to identify the sealer.

• Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan arrived at the crude rebel base, where Zuo Xiong introduced their leader, Sun and Moon.
• Qin Yiguan suspected Sun and Moon used a bewitching skill to recruit the rebels, but Zuo Xiong invited them to stay and learn the truth.
• Jiu Zhengxuan explained that thirteen cities had been massacred in under fifteen minutes and that the Metaverse Government suspected a rebel could seal all Reality Enhancements.
• Qin Yiguan realized the Metaverse Government wanted to capture the sealer's ability, while Jiu Zhengxuan revealed his mission was to identify the individual.
• Sun and Moon approached Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan and welcomed them as new friends.