Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi used the Star-Dream Crystal and Ouroboros Ring to pull his Notebook across Layers from the Campus into the Principal's Office. When he came to his senses, he found that Tian Bufan and Mao Feiyang had expanded the office into an enormous birdcage.

• Tian Bufan explained that the Black Liquid, the Little Girl, the Divine Artisan, Amon, and the Designer were connected to Lin Yi and his companions' past.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi to shift his Notebook across Layers so Kuai Kuai could use the Star-Dream Crystal to reach the Library and obtain The Law-Establisher's Words.
• Lin Yi sat in the Principal's chair and entered a hazy, tipsy state as the Codex's glow, the Star-Dream Crystal's mist, and the lamp's stardust surrounded him.
• Lin Yi reached through the Star-Dream Crystal and drew his Notebook from the Campus into the Principal's Office, with the Ouroboros Ring appearing on his ghostly hand.
• Lin Yi noticed that Tian Bufan and Mao Feiyang had expanded the Principal's Office into an enormous birdcage.

Lin Yi discovered that the Principal’s Office was the Star Prison, a hub showing anomalous sites and Dark Zones around the world, and realized its many Gymnasium views focused on Boss. Tian Bufan identified Boss as one of the First Apostles but warned that, once her memories returned, she might not side with them.

• Lin Yi examined the Star Prison’s images and noticed its eight Gymnasium views repeatedly showed Boss, leading him to suspect the Principal was monitoring her because of her hidden past.
• Lin Yi approached Tian Bufan and Mao Feiyang, who were watching a view of Boss, and asked about the office, the side job, and her identity.
• Tian Bufan explained that the Star Prison could oversee anomalous sites worldwide and that their side job involved observing other Dark Zones.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that his memories were real but still tied to a normal timeline, and that they would surface fully soon.
• Tian Bufan said Boss was likely one of the First Apostles, though he did not know her rank or her connection to the Law-Crafting Master.
• Tian Bufan warned that Boss might not be on their side when she recovered all her memories.

Lin Yi learned that Boss might be a First Apostle and that Tian Bufan was preparing to release Difa, then began a dangerous Will Leap to summon the missing Principal. The chapter left Lin Yi and Tian Bufan traveling through the Gray Fog toward an unknown Layer, with Mao Feiyang alone in the Principal’s Office and puzzling over Boss and Difa’s relationship.

• Tian Bufan explained that Boss might belong to Difa’s faction and that the Principal had established the Campus partly to contain her and guide her toward humanity.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that the side jobs included observing other places through the Principal’s Office and preparing to release Difa, then asked him to summon the Principal and send a Star-Dream Crystal to Kuai Kuai.
• Tian Bufan explained how Lin Yi could use a Layer image to establish an Anchor Point and call the Principal, while warning that they might have to activate a Self-Destruct Anchor Point if something was wrong.
• Lin Yi entered a barely visible Layer image in the Star Prison, and Tian Bufan followed him through the Dream Boundary while Mao Feiyang stayed behind with Boss’s image and the Bronze Key.
• Lin Yi’s Consciousness Body traveled through the Gray Fog in the Unknown Land, and Tian Bufan told him that the longer their leap continued, the farther they were from the Layer containing Black Moon Outpost.

Tian Bufan explained the truth behind the Black Moon Cataclysm and warned Lin Yi that Boss might be an Anchor Point for the lost Supreme Heaven. He left Lin Yi facing the possibility that Supreme Heaven could return as a god.

• Lin Yi and Tian Bufan connected Boss’s black crescent moon and Supreme Crown to the three First Apostles, and Tian Bufan suggested Boss was Supreme Heaven’s Anchor Point.
• Tian Bufan described Supreme Heaven’s plan to contaminate the world, the conflict with Difa and Holy Sun, and how their battle led to the Black Moon Cataclysm and the High-Rank Alien Angel’s creation.
• Tian Bufan revealed that Wei Liang had been close to Difa and that the Principal entered the Gray Fog Sea after rejecting Wei Liang’s account of the Cataclysm.
• Tian Bufan said the Principal might have become an Anchor Point for Supreme Heaven after responding to his Call, while Boss had already become another Anchor Point.
• Tian Bufan warned that Supreme Heaven might have recovered and grown powerful enough to return as an Angel with absolute dominion—a god.

Lin Yi learned that the Night Watchmen’s true purpose was to guide the First Apostles home, though Liangzi had warned that they might have become corrupted and that their return could bring humanity’s destruction. He and Tian Bufan reached the Gray Fog Sea, where Lin Yi began using Kuai Kuai’s red-painted streetlamp poles to build an Anchor Point.

• Tian Bufan explained that the Night Watchmen had long answered calls from the Gray Fog Sea to summon the First Apostles, and that Liangzi believed the Apostles might have turned against humanity.
• Lin Yi and Tian Bufan arrived in the Gray Fog Sea, where Lin Yi emerged in a ghostlike form protected by the Star-Dream Crystal and retained a route back to the Principal’s Office through Star Prison.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that Kuai Kuai had sent red-painted streetlamp poles through the Layers to serve as materials for building an Anchor Point.
• Lin Yi descended toward the sea surface and used his Perception Tentacles to reach beneath it, where powerful singing repeatedly shattered them.
• Lin Yi’s Perception Tentacles grew resilient enough to pull a corroded streetlamp pole from the sea, revealing the red-painted label “Black Moon Outpost-023.”

Lin Yi built and activated an anchor point matrix from Streetlamp Poles on the Gray Fog Sea, discovering how the Campus map governed its transformations. The matrix formed a radar to search for the Principal, but Tian Bufan told him to call the Principal by the name Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life.

• Tian Bufan explained that anchor points connected layers and showed Lin Yi how the Campus map revealed their blueprint.
• Lin Yi arranged the Streetlamp Poles on the Gray Fog Sea according to the Campus map, forming an anchor point matrix.
• Lin Yi folded the matrix and realized its transformations depended on the Gray Fog Sea's waves and a reverse-logic version of the Campus map.
• Lin Yi used the matrix to form a radar and called for the Principal, but Tian Bufan told him to use the name Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life.

Lin Yi and Tian Bufan traced the Principal’s signal to Guixu, the Gray Fog Sea’s gathering place for lost First Apostles, and uncovered why the Night Watchmen’s efforts to summon them could endanger reality. When Lin Yi finally reached the Principal, the Principal said he had found the answer but could no longer return, and ordered them to abandon the summoning.

• Lin Yi called for the Principal through the anchor point matrix while Tian Bufan defended it from dolphin-shaped night-walking creatures in the Gray Fog Sea.
• The matrix led Lin Yi to Guixu, where Tian Bufan explained that lost First Apostles gathered there and might have succumbed, making them a threat to reality.
• Tian Bufan explained how transcendent gravity could let powerful beings sense one another, and why the Night Watchmen’s directive to guide the First Apostles home could become dangerous.
• Lin Yi and Tian Bufan moved farther from Guixu’s boundary and resumed calling the Principal, who eventually appeared amid its black fog.
• The Principal said he had found the answer, could no longer return, and repeatedly instructed Lin Yi and Tian Bufan to abandon the summoning.

The Principal revealed that he could not return because he was staying in Guixu to erase coordinates branded on him, but a First Apostle awakened and attacked Lin Yi. Tian Bufan took control of Lin Yi’s will-form and tried to escape the Mist-Speaker’s grasp, while the black mist overwhelmed Lin Yi with the ancestors’ rite and their anguished prayers.

• The Principal said he would remain in Guixu to erase the coordinates on his body and urged Lin Yi to leave, but an awakened First Apostle took hold of him.
• Lin Yi fled as black mist surged from Guixu and dragged his will-form toward it, so Tian Bufan took control and used the Notebook’s pages and Humanoid Sculptures to clear a path.
• Tian Bufan recognized the mist’s conscious controller as the Mist-Speaker, who attacked Lin Yi and declared that he would be trapped within Guixu.
• The Mist-Speaker accused Tian Bufan of abandoning the ancestors and argued that sacrifice was the only way to save a few, while Tian Bufan challenged his convictions.
• The Mist-Speaker’s ancient sacrificial song and the ancestors’ prayers seeped into Lin Yi’s will-form, filling it with distorted faces and overwhelming pain.

The Principal sacrificed himself to send Lin Yi out of Guixu, warning him to keep the Time Compass away from Boss and destroy the Notebook’s Original Body. Lin Yi escaped the Gray Fog Sea, while the Mist-Speaker reshaped the trapped Principal into a Proto-Type Ashes Apostle and planned to use him to find Lin Yi.

• The Principal opened a path through the black fog and hurled Lin Yi’s will-body out of Guixu, sealing the Mist-Speaker inside.
• The Principal warned Lin Yi that Guixu’s Lost Ones pursued a distorted mission, told him to find and protect the Time Compass, and ordered him to destroy the Notebook’s Original Body so the Principal could not return.
• In the Gray Fog Sea, Lin Yi struggled to stabilize his contaminated will-body as black fog spread and buried Black Moon Apostles stirred within the reefs.
• Lin Yi stabilized in the glass-shard form of a Proto-Type Ashes Apostle, found the Anchor Point, and shifted away before the Black Moon Apostles emerged.
• The Mist-Speaker infused the trapped Principal with Lin Yi’s fragments and black fog, transforming him into a Proto-Type Ashes Apostle who could help track Lin Yi.

Lin Yi returned from Guixu with Tian Bufan, learned that they had left the Principal a hidden route back, and set off toward the Principal’s Office to begin the real plan. A gray fog intercepted Lin Yi before he could arrive, leaving him lost and alone as a strange recording began.

• The Principal, transformed into a Proto-Type Ashes Apostle, left Guixu against his will and urged Unit 01 to find the Compass and destroy the Notebook.
• Lin Yi returned to the anchor point platform, where Tian Bufan explained that the Notebook had left the Principal a hidden route back through a time-linked anchor.
• Lin Yi returned to his normal will-form, dismantled the anchor points, and followed the Star Track coordinates toward the Principal’s Office while Tian Bufan left a section of the Butcher’s Spinal Bone behind.
• A gray-fog vortex intercepted Lin Yi just before he reached the Principal’s Office, while Mao Feiyang collapsed in pain and saw only a gray world.
• Lin Yi lost contact with Tian Bufan and drifted through gray fog and darkness until a crackling recording began with someone addressing Red Star.

Lin Yi heard recordings revealing his connection to the Navigator, the Red Star, and an ancient plan to deceive the Root, then returned from the Gray Fog Sea with Tian Bufan. Tian Bufan explained that their attempts to penetrate time had failed before and that time’s contamination constrained their operation.

• Lin Yi heard a recording in his own voice describing the Navigator’s drift from the Red Star and a possible search for a habitable world, then glimpsed Wei Liang and the First Apostles around an operating table.
• Lin Yi heard Holy Sun tell Wei Liang and the Little Girl that he would use Deceiving Heaven, sacrifice himself, and merge his Origin into an experiment to hide from the Root and the Angel.
• Tian Bufan revealed Black Moon Outpost and brought Lin Yi back to the Principal’s Office, where Lin Yi’s Notebook re-formed thinner than before.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang that the Principal remained trapped in the Gray Fog Sea, though the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles they had encountered had been the Principal returned through time.
• Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi and his companions had previously become lost trying to penetrate time, and that their seven-day limit came from their ability to endure time’s contamination.

Lin Yi learned that his group’s true mission was to free allies and tear away the parts of the Time Dimension burned by the Root, even if time itself was damaged. In the Principal’s Office, Mao Feiyang found the Principal’s Rules and a message for a successor, but Lin Yi hoped the Principal would return so he would not have to inherit the role.

• Mao Feiyang put away the Notebook, and Tian Bufan explained how it passed between the Principal and Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life as part of their overt mission.
• Tian Bufan revealed that the Root’s ashes would burn the world and the Time Dimension, and that their real mission was to free Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life, Difa, and the First Apostles before tearing away the damaged pages of time.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that their group had been born from the Holy Sun’s death, and warned that they might disappear or be forgotten once the timeline was overwritten.
• Mao Feiyang stored the Star-Dream Crystal in a World Tree-like mark on his wrist so he could give it to Kuai Kuai later, then prepared to leave the Principal’s Office.
• Mao Feiyang found a hidden drawer containing the Principal’s Rules and a note saying its reader could inherit the Principal’s identity; Lin Yi wondered whether he would become Principal in another timeline.
• Tian Bufan insisted that the Principal would return from the Gray Fog Sea, and Lin Yi chose not to consider inheriting the position.

Kuai Hongji waited outside Dormitory Room 1414 until 22:00, then used the card hidden in the Dormitory Building Rules to find the Dorm Supervisor’s Office. After forcing the office door open, he discovered that someone inside had removed its rules.

• Tian Bufan entered Dormitory Room 1414 while Kuai Hongji stayed outside to begin the dorm supervisor pathway.
• Kuai Hongji paced the corridor as impersonators and night-walking species gathered, and their attempts to approach him burst into flames.
• At 22:00, an impersonator dorm supervisor tried to lure Kuai Hongji away, but he seized it, burned off its arm, and ordered it to keep the creatures away from Room 1414.
• Kuai Hongji tore off the perforated section of the rules, read the card’s directions, and followed the corridor to the Dorm Supervisor’s Office.
• Kuai Hongji found an empty nail where the Dorm Supervisor’s Office Rules had hung, then heated the door handle until someone behind the door cried out and its obstruction vanished.
• Kuai Hongji opened the office door.

Kuai Hongji entered the Dorm Supervisor's Office, killed the bully who claimed to be the Dorm Supervisor Rules, and found the office rules and the Dorm Supervisor Rules. After learning how to claim the Dorm Supervisor identity, he ordered the burned-handed man to hang the rules sign back up.

• Kuai Hongji entered the office and demanded the Dorm Supervisor Rules and the number of entries in their appendix.
• When the bully attacked him, Kuai Hongji caught his fist, threw him down, and burned him to ashes, leaving a chain behind.
• Kuai Hongji found the Dorm Supervisor's Office Rules and the Dorm Supervisor Rules on the sofa and read their instructions for surviving in the office and becoming the Dorm Supervisor.
• Kuai Hongji checked the clock, which read 22:17, and ordered the burned-handed man to pick up the rules sign and hang it back up.

Kuai Hongji became Dorm Supervisor-14-X0230506094, survived the Kerosene Lamp’s test, and began patrolling the fourteenth floor under the appendix rules. At 23:03, the lamp brightened near Room 1423, where he found an open window and a huge mass of black, sticky matter trying to escape.

• Kuai Hongji took the Dorm Supervisor ID Badge, wrapped the Order Chains around his waist, and proved he could withstand the Kerosene Lamp’s radiance when the Grinning Angel burst into flames and retreated.
• Kuai Hongji read the Dorm Supervisor Rules appendix, then left the office carrying the lamp as the others remained behind in the fading light.
• Kuai Hongji returned to the corridor and inspected dorm rooms while the Fog thickened and the corridor twisted until he walked on its ceiling.
• At 23:03, Kuai Hongji entered Room 1423 after the lamp brightened and found its window open, three students pretending to sleep, and a massive black mass clinging overhead.
• Kuai Hongji watched the black mass crawl toward the window and brushed the Old Kerosene Lamp’s shade as it tried to escape.

Kuai Hongji survived the night-walking species’ assault, exchanged a glance with Night Watchman-03, and then used Tian Bufan’s contamination to forge a Spiked Club. He left the chapter armed and ready to go to the Art Building.

• Kuai Hongji burned away the filthy creatures and Angel Sculpture with the Old Kerosene Lamp, then looked through the window at the inverted Art Building and met Night Watchman-03’s gaze.
• Night Watchman-03 recognized a thin figure’s outline over Kuai Hongji and excitedly declared that the great ones had returned.
• Kuai Hongji shut the window, ignored his hostile reflection in the mirror, and inspected every dormitory room on his floor before entering Dormitory Room 1414 at midnight.
• Kuai Hongji watched Tian Bufan expel the fleshy eyeballs caused by contamination, then pierced them with a clothes pole and sealed their mist inside the damaged Vessel.
• Kuai Hongji poured the Vessel’s contents into the Old Kerosene Lamp and forged the clothes pole into a Spiked Club covered in mystical runes.

Kuai Hongji left the dormitory and rode the elevator toward the Principal's Office, where he encountered a fellow Dorm Supervisor and four Grinning Angels. He destroyed the Angels and recharged her Old Kerosene Lamp, leaving her astonished by his abilities.

• Kuai Hongji spoke with Tian Bufan, who confirmed they had found the Principal's Office, then set out with the Old Kerosene Lamp.
• Kuai Hongji rode the elevator to the 39th floor, where Dorm Supervisor-39-X0230109023 boarded with three Experience Students and asked where he was going.
• The elevator stopped at Teaching Building-C-1F, where four Grinning Angels approached through the flickering lights; the Female Dorm Supervisor stepped in front of Kuai Hongji to protect him.
• Kuai Hongji told the Female Dorm Supervisor to close her eyes, then used gray-black fog to turn the Grinning Angels into crumbling sculptures.
• Kuai Hongji collected the Angels' Feather Pupils and used their remains to recharge both his own Old Kerosene Lamp and the Female Dorm Supervisor's lamp.
• The Female Dorm Supervisor opened her eyes, discovered the Angels were gone and her lamp had brightened, and questioned Kuai Hongji, who told her to shut up.

Kuai Hongji retrieved Bai Fangshuo's Student ID from the Art Office and warned the art teachers to preserve their strength if an overwhelming invasion came. As he crossed the Stone Bridge, the High-Rank Alien Angel trapped the bridge in The Starry Night and forced him to reveal his true power.

• Kuai Hongji left the three lost Experience Students and the Female Dorm Supervisor in the elevator, then entered the Art Building's Watchtower by a hidden route.
• Kuai Hongji claimed to be a Dragon-rank investigator and collected Bai Fangshuo's Student ID from Teacher Bai in the Art Office.
• Kuai Hongji advised the art teachers to protect themselves rather than make pointless sacrifices, and said that his side would handle threats beyond their capabilities.
• The art teachers discussed Kuai Hongji's warning and worried that the Authorities' operation might fail again.
• Kuai Hongji crossed the Stone Bridge until the High-Rank Alien Angel attacked and dragged the bridge into The Starry Night.
• Kuai Hongji set down the Old Kerosene Lamp and began arranging Carved Marks of mysterious Star Charts to confront the High-Rank Alien Angel directly.

Kuai Hongji escaped the High-Rank Alien Angel by using four Feather Pupils to trigger Mingzhao, then entered the Art Building to prepare for the coming battle. In the Gallery, he learned that a shadowy figure had long prepared to take the Principal’s place and agreed to let him face the Principal’s authority, while a Little Girl watched from the shadows.

• The High-Rank Alien Angel captured Kuai Hongji and began draining his power, but Kuai Hongji’s Feather Pupils and Lightning-Inducing Matrix called down Mingzhao and drove it back into the Layers.
• Kuai Hongji emerged beside the Stone Bridge with the Old Kerosene Lamp and entered the Art Building, where he examined the World Tree Artwork and headed for the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor.
• Kuai Hongji inscribed Mystical Runes in the corridor, calming the Obsession Sculptures and telling them a great battle was coming.
• Kuai Hongji entered the Gallery and told a shadowy figure that the Principal would return, so the figure would not need to take his place.
• The figure said he had prepared for a long time and still wanted to face the Principal’s authority, even if it reduced him to ashes; Kuai Hongji respected his choice and left him to prepare.
• A Little Girl holding a music box watched Kuai Hongji and the figure from the Gallery’s shadows.

Kuai Hongji visited the Butcher in the Deep Well and obtained a piece of his spinal bone, then reached the Stargazing Platform and confronted the Fanatics about their origins. He revealed that they were the Corpse-Bone Collective, whose base lay in the Layer Rift beneath the Art Building, leaving the Veteran Art Students and Fanatics stunned.

• Kuai Hongji descended through the Stairwell into the Deep Well and spoke with the Butcher, who asked whether the time was nearly ripe for their plans.
• Kuai Hongji requested a section of the Butcher’s spinal bone, and the Butcher cursed him, threw him out, and struck him with the bone as he left.
• Kuai Hongji carried the spinal bone through the Covered Corridor and entered the hall before the Stargazing Platform, interrupting the standoff between the Veteran Art Students and Fanatical Leaders.
• A Fanatics Leader accused Kuai Hongji of destroying their campus matrix, and Kuai Hongji said their beliefs began from a mistaken premise.
• Kuai Hongji identified the Fanatics as the Corpse-Bone Collective, traced their path to the Grand Duke, and revealed that their base was in the Layer Rift beneath the Art Building.