Recaps

Zhang Ming sold two rare abilities for 9,800 merit points, exchanged them for the ultimate version of diamond, and used a soul sub-entity to access the memories in a Blue Crystal Person’s last wish. The memories revealed the Blue Crystal People’s prosperous civilization and ended with an elderly leader declaring that diamond alone could not ensure their survival in the Demon God's Sea.

• Zhang Ming sold [Rot Enthusiast] for 8,400 merit points and learned that [Feces Lover] required a visit to the Elders' Meeting Room for its price assessment.
• Zhang Ming spent 8,000 merit points to exchange for the ultimate version of diamond and learned that studying and cultivating it required enormous time and resources.
• Zhang Ming left the High Tower for the Black-Awning Boat, then sent a soul sub-entity into a diamond-shaped crystal to access its memories.
• Zhang Ming received a flood of memories and saw an elderly Blue Crystal Person describe the civilization's supernatural development based on last wishes.
• The elderly leader told the Blue Crystal People’s assembled leaders that diamond remained insufficient to guarantee their survival in the Demon God's Sea.

Zhang Ming witnessed Sage Yao propose the Pillar of Heaven, a plan to combine a billion Blue Crystal People’s last wishes and kill the unhatched Space-Time Worm. After Yao gave his life to begin the project, Zhang Ming returned from death and reflected on the civilization’s tragic fate.

• Yao explained that the Blue Crystal Civilization needed to become stronger before its sinking continent forced it to become Homeless.
• Yao proposed hunting the unhatched Space-Time Worm with the Pillar of Heaven, powered by the last wishes of a billion people.
• Gu warned Yao that the thousand-year project could fail and bring the Demon God’s wrath upon their race.
• Yao persuaded the Blue Crystal People to begin the plan and sacrificed himself to make his last wish the Pillar of Heaven’s foundation stone.
• Zhang Ming returned to reality after his lightning ability rescued him from the delusion void and hoped some Blue Crystal People had escaped extinction.

Zhang Ming received a Drifting Bottle carrying Wang Fumin’s news about his physical breakthrough, the struggles of the new supernatural agency, and his troubled daughter. Wang Fumin’s questions about unifying humanity led Zhang Ming to compare Earth’s dilemma with the Blue Crystal People’s failed plan, leaving him convinced that Earth would soon have to choose its path.

• Zhang Ming woke refreshed, cooked a monster meat sandwich, and worried that his limited growing area would not provide more rice or wheat.
• A Drifting Bottle arrived with letters and a foldable USB Drive, and Zhang Ming began reading Wang Fumin’s letter.
• Wang Fumin reported that he had passed the first stage of the human limit and described how factional conflicts were obstructing the Supernatural Anomaly Investigation Department.
• Wang Fumin recounted Qin Yiwei’s question about whether unifying the world justified generations of struggle, mass deaths, and the destruction of cultures.
• Wang Fumin told Zhang Ming that his daughter was struggling at school and that he might resign to raise her.
• Zhang Ming considered how the Blue Crystal People’s sacrifices resembled Earth’s predicament and concluded that Earth would soon need to choose a direction.

Zhang Ming read letters from Earth about political unification, his family, and scientific research while drifting through the Demon God's Sea. He set aside humanity’s political disputes and planned to review the research at his own pace.

• Zhang Ming wrote to Wang Fumin that a unified human government might be necessary, but he could not take responsibility for political power himself.
• Zhang Ming watched a video of his three-year-old niece and felt both happiness for her and sorrow over his lost youth and first love.
• Stone Mama teased Zhang Ming about his forgotten first-love girlfriend, then repeatedly demanded to know her name until Zhang Ming kicked it into the sea.
• Li Xianfeng warned Zhang Ming that Qin Yiwei might possess an unusual ability and argued against rushing human unification, fearing it would destabilize Earth.
• Zhang Ming decided not to intervene in the disagreement between Wang Fumin and Li Xianfeng, and he began skimming the scientific papers and greeting letters on the USB drive.

Zhang Ming read letters from powerful figures and news about how the Human Breathing Technique was changing Earth, including the return of aging sports stars and a proposed pension policy tied to children’s contributions. He then wrote to his friends and family from the Demon God's Sea, describing his life and a playful meeting with orcas.

• Zhang Ming received letters offering him an honorary citizenship medal, an investment stake, and a lakeside estate, but he ignored the offers and did not reply.
• Zhang Ming read news about the Human Breathing Technique restoring the youth of sports stars and prompting famous athletes to return to competition.
• Zhang Ming learned from Lu Tuyu's letter that Great Xia was drafting a pension scheme that would direct part of children's contributions to their parents, amid debate over the falling birth rate.
• Zhang Ming wrote to his friends and family, saying he had met friendly orcas and played with them in the Demon God's Sea.

Zhang Ming sent warnings and research about the Blue Crystal Civilization to Earth, then spent a month organizing the Sage’s memories. He learned from Stone Mama that Demon Gods’ unique rules could help civilizations break through major limits, leaving him to consider why powerful races hunted them.

• Zhang Ming wrote letters warning Earth about the Blue Crystal People and the danger of revealing themselves to powerful beings in the Demon God’s Sea.
• Zhang Ming sent his sister a golden turtle and a note suggesting she might have another child, then released the Drifting Bottle.
• Zhang Ming spent a month sorting the Blue Crystal Sage’s memory fragments for clues to the Pillar of Heaven’s control system.
• Zhang Ming asked Stone Mama about other civilizations and their struggles to survive.
• Stone Mama explained that Demon Gods’ rules remained in their corpses after death and could strengthen a civilization or help it break through spiritual limits.

After studying Sage Yao’s memories, Zhang Ming pieced together how the Blue Crystal civilization had planned to use the Pillar of Heaven to combine billions of last wishes against the Space-Time Worm, though he still did not know why the plan failed. Exploring the High Tower under his Foreign Guest status, he found a shortcut to its upper levels through the sewage pipes.

• Zhang Ming concluded that the Pillar of Heaven was designed to combine ordinary Blue Crystal people's last wishes, using Sages' wishes as its core, into a force capable of killing the Space-Time Worm.
• Zhang Ming asked Stone Mama and Little White why the Blue Crystal people had failed, and they suggested that their combined wishes might have been too weak or that the people had fled.
• Zhang Ming and Stone Mama traveled by Black-Awning Boat to the High Tower, where Zhang Ming entered using his Foreign Guest status.
• Zhang Ming received the second installment of the diamond inheritance, bringing his progress to 2/300, then explored the rooms open to him.
• Zhang Ming used the layout from Sage Yao's memories to find a shortcut to the upper levels through the sewage pipes.

Zhang Ming crawled through the High Tower’s sewage pipes to reach a restroom near its summit, where he watched Red Moon begin to writhe and send moonlight into the room. As the moonlight advanced, he fled and left Stone Mama a warning to avoid it.

• Zhang Ming used Woodification to squeeze through the sewage pipe, while Stone Mama hauled his backpack behind him.
• After two hours of climbing, Zhang Ming emerged near the top of the Pillar of Heaven and saw Red Moon twisting into grotesque shapes.
• Zhang Ming sent Stone Mama outside with a phone to scout the central control level and record what it found.
• While Zhang Ming waited in the restroom, Red Moon formed dozens of human faces and its moonlight spread across the floor.
• Zhang Ming realized the moonlight was closing in, wrote Stone Mama a warning on his phone, and retreated without it.

Zhang Ming escaped the Red Moon’s deadly moonlight and reviewed Stone Mama’s footage of the High Tower, finding clues that complicated the mystery of the Blue Crystal People’s disappearance. Stone Mama then used Historical Regression to show the Pillar of Heaven’s completion celebration, where the Blue Crystal leaders confronted the approaching destruction of their homeland.

• Zhang Ming used the Invisibility Cloak and the Source of the World's Sanctuary to flee the Red Moon’s moonlight down the Sewage Passage.
• After Stone Mama returned from scouting, Zhang Ming collected his phone and retreated with Stone Mama to the Knowledge Trading Room.
• Zhang Ming watched Stone Mama’s footage and saw that the top floor’s Control Room and Archive Conference Room contained no skeletal remains, while the door to Nirvana remained shut.
• Stone Mama used Historical Regression to show the Blue Crystal People celebrating the completion of the Pillar of Heaven, which had trapped the Space-Time Worm at its summit.
• At a meeting on the tower’s top floor, more than a dozen Sages and hundreds of Wise Ones learned that the continent would sink completely in just over a hundred years.