Chapter Summaries

After surgery, Lilith discovered that the God-Eater Beasts were experimenting on Ancients to create a mutant capable of controlling them, while Mu You investigated two relics in Order City. The chapter ended with the wildman waking and recovering all his memories, including his name, identity, and homeland.

• Lilith subdued the red God-Eater Beast and searched its memories, discovering that the God-Eater Beasts were holding Ancients as experimental subjects to create a mutant that could control them.
• The Herbalist told Mu You that the Shadow Fluffball had found a rib belonging to the Shadow God, and Mu You agreed to save it for a future divine authority merge.
• The Herbalist showed Mu You a damaged Voidwalker armor, and they used the Mechanical Heart to recover the Mechanic's message about seeking a way to protect the God Race in the Primordial Land.
• The wildman suddenly woke up, recognized the Night Watchman, and said that he remembered his name, identity, homeland, and past.

Mu You learned that the Mechanic had vanished during the God-Eater Beast crisis and began gathering materials to repair the Voidwalker, but the wildman's recovered memories revealed a quicker route to Jie Forest. After entering through a hidden Space Vortex, Mu You encountered Jie Forest's sentinels, who refused to move the stones blocking the passage, leaving him to seek the Tribal Chief himself.

• The Lamp Genie recalled that the Mechanic had disappeared after the God-Eater Beast crisis began, while Ava confirmed that the Voidwalker could be repaired if Mu You gathered replacement materials.
• The Night Watchman reported that the wildman had regained his memories, and the wildman recalled entering a Space Vortex near Dawn City that had transported him from Jie Forest.
• Mu You followed the wildman to the vortex and used Bat Form to squeeze through a gap in the boulders blocking its far side, arriving in Jie Forest despite the suppression of his divine powers and the Fool Game.
• Two wildmen confronted Mu You, then let him pass after he showed them the Paper Crane, but they refused to move the boulders or report his request to the Tribal Chief.
• Mu You gave up on persuading the sentinels and decided he would have to find the Tribal Chief himself.

Mu You entered Jie Forest alone to find the Wildmen’s chief, but his gear and energy were weakened by the forest, forcing him to rely on his own strength. After fighting a mutated Hammerhead Rhino, he discovered that creatures there left behind blue butterflies and collectible biological molts that caused their corpses to disappear.

• Two Wildmen refused to escort Mu You to their tribe, but one gave him a carved stone to show his mother, Sescia, if he could not find the chief.
• Mu You learned that Jie Forest had seven inhabited layers and a forbidden sacred lake at its center, then crossed into the forest with Ava and transferred his equipment there.
• Mu You found an old Soul-Guiding Lamp and observed the forest’s strange creatures, including an Egg Beast that hatched into a blue butterfly after falling to its death.
• A mutated Hammerhead Rhino pursued Mu You, but he crippled it with God-Slayer and killed it after a lengthy fight.
• A blue butterfly emerged from the rhino’s corpse, and Mu You rewound time to collect its High-Quality Biological Molt, causing the corpse to shrivel into dust.

Mu You discovered that Insect Molts reduced his maximum energy while granting physical attributes and Divinity System Resistance, and learned that Jie Forest rejected outsiders carrying too much Divinity. After consuming his stockpile of Insect Molts, he crossed the forest’s hostile perimeter without provoking a riot and continued deeper into Jie Forest.

• Mu You tested an Insect Molt, losing one point of maximum energy while gaining a Restricted Attribute Point and Divinity System Resistance, and found that 1,000 Divinity Crystals restored the lost energy.
• Mu You tested more Insect Molts and learned that each maximum energy point granted rewards only once, while stronger creatures produced higher-quality molts.
• Mu You was killed twice when Poisonous Insects and Beasts rioted at the same point in Jie Forest, then used the Pocket Watch to confirm that retreating stopped the attacks.
• Ava helped Mu You recover a recording from Mechanic’s robot head, revealing that Jie Forest’s consciousness rejected outsiders with excessive Divinity energy and that Insect Molts helped them enter.
• Mu You consumed his gathered Insect Molts, reducing his maximum energy by 46 points and gaining 46 Restricted Attribute Points and 4.6% Divinity System Resistance.
• Mu You crossed the perimeter without provoking the forest’s creatures and continued deeper into Jie Forest.

Mu You entered the second layer of Jie Forest, learned survival tips from a survey team's message, and struggled against the stronger suppression there. He killed a Moon Lion with the Qilin Arm and discovered that the well it guarded contained Moonlight Slurry and a signal-emitting bluestone.

• Mu You crossed into the second layer, ate Insect Molts, and found Hohenlohe Cummings's message and survival guide beneath a Soul-Guiding Lamp.
• Mu You learned that teleportation did not work in Jie Forest, then narrowly defeated a Tentacled Lizard Crocodile and disguised himself with Paper-Roll Flower juice.
• Ava detected a signal from a clearing, where Mu You found a well guarded by a Moon Lion.
• Mu You rewound time and killed the Moon Lion with the Wind Burial Cannon fired from the Qilin Arm.
• Mu You saw the Moon Lion's butterfly enter the well, discovered blue butterflies and a signal-emitting bluestone inside, and learned that the water was corrosive Moonlight Slurry.

Mu You obtained a moonstone that powered the Mechanical Heart, activated the Black Angel, and heard the Mechanic’s account of how Jie Forest had inspired his work and guided him toward its depths. After reaching the third layer, Mu You found a warning from the Fool Ancestor about deadly forest calamities and learned that the expedition team had been nearly wiped out.

• Mu You used the Qilin Arm to retrieve a moonstone from the Moon Well and connected it to the Mechanical Heart, enabling him to activate the Black Angel despite its suppressed ranged weapons and flight.
• The moonstone played the Mechanic’s recording, revealing that Jie Forest had inspired his inventions and was directing him deeper into the forest, where he had left modified armor parts for others to find.
• Mu You tempered the Qilin Arm and Resurrection Stone with Moon Well water, took three of the six moonstones, and left three behind as seeds.
• With the Black Angel’s help, Mu You crossed the second layer and entered the third, where suppression exceeded 90 percent and more of the armor’s components failed.
• Mu You found Hohenlohe Cummings’s message stating that Squad 128 had been reduced to three survivors and had lost its supplies and ability to make Soul-Guiding Lamps.
• Mu You learned that the Blade Wind and Time Rain calamities had devastated the team, killing members caught outside shelter.

Mu You survived the Blade Wind by taking shelter in a hollow Jie Tree, then followed a moving signal to a giant snail carrying small animals through the storm. Inside the snail, he found the Mechanic’s moonstone recording and learned about buried combat mecha, while realizing the snail sheltered animals as they helped carry its eggs to safety.

• Mu You’s character was caught in the Blade Wind and carved a hollow in a withered Jie Tree to shelter from the crystal shards.
• Ava detected a moving signal three thousand meters away, and Mu You left the tree to pursue it through the storm.
• Mu You found a giant snail sheltering small animals in its body and followed them into its abdominal cavity.
• Mu You cut open a big-mouthed duck and recovered a moonstone containing a recording from the Mechanic about lightweight armor and three combat mecha buried beneath a moon well.
• Mu You watched the snail release eggs as the Blade Wind wounded it and inferred that the sheltered animals would carry the eggs away, continuing a symbiotic cycle.

Mu You discovered that the Rain of Time accelerated his faith conversion and grew his Time Seed, then investigated how it affected Jie Forest’s creatures. He concluded that Time Butterflies carried creatures’ lives and memories through a repeating cycle, while he continued soaking in the rain to cultivate his Divine Authority.

• After the Blade Wind ended, Mu You watched the giant snail die, kept its shell for shelter, and saw the small animals expose their eggs to the rain.
• Mu You stepped into the Rain of Time and spent fifty-five years of Lifespan to convert his eight-star Divinity into Order Faith, while his Time Seed grew from 0.3% to 0.4%.
• Mu You used the Eternal Spinning Top and confirmed that it worked inside Jie Forest, leading him to conclude that Time Divine Authority connected the Divinity system with the Primordial World’s rules.
• Mu You asked the Night Watchman to transfer ten thousand years of Lifespan and continued standing in the rain to grow his Time Seed.
• Mu You saw the snail eggs hatch and observed the rain accelerate the growth of nearby creatures and plants.
• Mu You deduced that Time Butterflies carried creatures’ memories through a cycle of birth, aging, death, and transformation into rain.

Mu You crossed into the Jie Forest’s Fourth Layer, where the environment nearly nullified his divine powers and crippled the Black Angel. A poisonous vine trapped him, but two children rescued him, and he awoke in a stone house with a pair of Fools who wondered how far the Fools outside had advanced.

• Mu You realized Time Rain and Blade Wind helped renew the Jie Forest’s ecosystem, but his Time Seed stopped growing at 10.3%.
• After failing to find the third layer’s Moon Well or Mechanic’s relics, Mu You entered the Fourth Layer and found his divine powers and the Black Angel severely suppressed.
• A stationary enhanced Pulse Signal led Mu You toward Mechanic’s possible relics, but living vines trapped the Black Angel and injected him with poison.
• A child speaking Star Spirit Language found Mu You, and a man and woman treated him while he remained unconscious.
• Mu You awoke in a stone house beside two pale-blue children and met two Fools, one of whom held the Black Angel’s head and asked whether the Fools outside had developed so far.

Mu You met Hohenlohe Cummings, Lisha Kay, and their children in Jie Forest, learned how the couple had survived there for thirteen hundred years, and discovered that the Moon Festival offered a brief, safer route to the Wildmen. Cummings explained that survival depended on accepting humanity’s weakness, while Mu You remained intent on reaching the Wildmen quickly to warn them about Parasitic Beasts.

• Mu You reassured Cummings and Lisha that the Fools outside had survived, and the couple accepted that he was the Successor of Order rather than a parasite host.
• Cummings explained that each year the Moon Festival made Jie Forest’s creatures less aggressive, allowing travelers to reach the Wildmen’s tribe and trade for supplies and information.
• Cummings recounted how he and Lisha had used Moon Butterfly guidance and salvaged Mechanical Battle Armor components to escape the third layer, then settled in Jie Forest after believing the Fools had been wiped out.
• Cummings introduced Milei and Mina, explaining that the children were born as native creatures of Jie Forest and grew only when exposed to Time Rain.
• Cummings described Moon Lake and Moon Butterflies as central to Jie Forest’s ecology, and suggested that Moon Butterflies had enabled him and Lisha to have children there.
• Cummings told Mu You that humans could survive in Jie Forest by abandoning their pride, recognizing their weakness, and adapting to life at the bottom of the food chain.

Mu You learned the Fourth Layer’s survival rules from Cummings’s family, assembled a makeshift suit of armor, and received their Jie Forest survival manual before setting out for the Fifth Layer. There, his enhanced attributes and armor helped him pass the first threat, but half an hour into exploring, he encountered a danger that ended his confidence.

• Mu You followed Cummings’s family for three days, learning how they hunted Antlered Hippos through observation and teamwork.
• Mu You assembled a powerful makeshift armor suit from the Mechanic’s components and promised to give it to Milei after his business was done.
• Cummings gave Mu You the family’s Jie Forest survival manual, and he learned that they planned to remain in the forest because it was their home.
• Mu You left the family, crossed the Fourth Layer in his armor, and entered the Fifth Layer, where game text and item transfers were heavily delayed.
• Mu You ate Insect Molts, increased his attributes, and continued exploring after the local creatures lost interest in him.
• Half an hour into the Fifth Layer, Mu You’s confidence vanished when he encountered a danger his armor might not withstand.

Mu You survived a clash with a Spiky White-Haired Boar after the Wind Qilin appeared and carried him to its nest, apparently mistaking his Qilin Arm for a sign that he was one of its young. He reluctantly accepted the mother qilin’s nourishing milk as it repeatedly increased his constitution.

• Mu You and Ava used two Wind Burial Cannon shots against the Spiky White-Haired Boar, badly injuring it but failing to kill it.
• As the enraged boar charged again, it spotted something behind Mu You and fled in terror.
• An adult Wind Qilin arrived, examined Mu You’s Qilin Arm, and carried his Battle Armor to its nest among four Wind Qilin cubs.
• The cubs swarmed Mu You until their mother returned and gathered them to nurse.
• When Mu You tried to escape, the mother qilin pulled him against her belly and fed him milk that increased his constitution.

Mu You drank qilin milk, greatly raised his constitution, and gained four wind talents before collecting scales from the Wind Qilin’s nest. He escaped at night, but the Wind Qilin let him go and gifted him hundreds of intact scales as he continued toward the Wildman Tribe.

• Mu You drank the Wind Qilin’s milk, raised his constitution, and gained the Wind Tamer and Wind Listener talents.
• Mu You searched the nest and collected more than seventy Qilin Scales before the Wind Qilin returned.
• Mu You drank more milk until his constitution reached its limit of 454, gaining Wind Rider and Wind Hider.
• Mu You collected over 220 scales in the nest and waited until night to escape without waking the other qilin.
• The Wind Qilin found Mu You outside the nest, gave him 274 intact Wind Qilin Scales, and watched him leave.

Mu You reached a Wildman tribe on the sixth floor of the Jie Forest and learned from the blacksmith Beard that the Tribal Chief would not heed his warning about the God-Eater Beasts without evidence. Beard explained the Ancients’ history and revealed that Mu You could earn an audience by collecting 1,000 Favor Tokens.

• Mu You entered the Wildman tribe after showing the guards his Paper Crane, but they could not arrange a meeting with the Tribal Chief.
• Mu You found Beard’s blacksmith shop and offered him a damaged Qilin scale in exchange for help.
• Mu You warned Beard that the God-Eater Beasts were researching how to parasitize Wildmen, but admitted he had no proof.
• Beard explained that the Tribal Chief followed the Ancient King’s rule against outside alliances and wars unless the Jie Forest was attacked.
• Beard told Mu You that friendly outsiders could earn an audience with the Tribal Chief by collecting 1,000 Favor Tokens, and said he could grant Mu You up to ten.

Mu You searched the wildman tribe for a way to meet the Tribal Chief, but found no trace of Muro’s mother, Sescia, and failed to earn favors through missions. While trying to sneak onto the Seventh Floor, he was guided by a distant archer’s arrows to a prison cell high in a giant Jie Tree, where the imprisoned master archer remained unseen.

• Mu You refused to trade more scales for favors, learned that Sescia was a common name but not among the tribe’s twelve herbalists, and went to the Stele Forest to search for records of Muro.
• Mu You found no record of Muro or Sescia and declined several missions before accepting Marcin’s offer to spar with twenty-three wildman children.
• The children defeated Mu You in all twenty-three matches, so he abandoned the search for favors and decided to sneak onto the Seventh Floor.
• Mu You reached the edge of the Sixth Floor and tried to cross into the Seventh Floor, but an unseen archer fired arrows into nearby stones to guide him away.
• Mu You followed the arrows for several kilometers to a clearing and discovered a prison-like structure high in a giant Jie Tree, where the last arrow had come from.

Mu You met the imprisoned archer Sky Wolf, accepted a mission to investigate the Desolation Crow’s territory, and learned where Muro’s mother lived. Sescia remembered Muro and revealed that the Mechanic had jumped into Moon Lake and died, leaving Mu You wondering what he had sought there.

• Sky Wolf told Mu You how his unauthorized expedition had led to the deaths of his 472 warriors in the Desolation Crow’s territory, then asked him to investigate what had happened.
• Mu You accepted Sky Wolf’s request and received a map marking the place where the Ancient Sentinels had encountered the Desolation Crow.
• Sky Wolf recognized Muro as his former tournament rival and told Mu You that Muro’s mother, Sescia, lived in an isolated house on the sixth floor.
• Mu You showed Sescia Muro’s carved stone, helping her remember her son and learn that he was still alive; she gave Mu You medicine that temporarily reduced his text delay.
• Sescia recounted how the Mechanic had sought something in Moon Lake and leaped into it during the Moon Festival, where he was corroded to death.

Mu You learned that the Mechanic had created Crimson Sky Battle Armor and died trying to temper it in Moon Lake. After the Wildman Tribal Chief rejected his plea for an alliance, the Time Seed led Mu You toward the lake, where he detected a possible living signal before a Wildman official ambushed him and destroyed his Battle Armor.

• Mu You received another Mechanical Heart from Muro's mother and heard the Mechanic's recording explaining his plan to complete Crimson Sky in Moon Lake.
• Sescia escorted Mu You to the Seventh Floor's Council Hall, where the Tribal Chief refused to ally with outsiders against the God Race.
• The Time Seed pointed Mu You toward Moon Lake, and Ava detected strong signals coming from the lakebed, including a biological brain-wave signal.
• Mu You wondered whether the Mechanic might still be alive, then a Wildman official ambushed him, ejecting him from his Battle Armor and smashing it apart.

After discovering that parasitized Wildmen had coordinated to kill him, Mu You traced the God-Eater Beasts’ experiments to Sky Wolf’s captured First Squad and went in person to investigate the Jie Forest. He uncovered a sharp rise in missing Wildmen over the past three hundred years and realized the tribes might be deeply infiltrated by indistinguishable parasites.

• Two coordinated Wildmen attacked Mu You’s game character, killing him before he could reach the council hall.
• Lin Xue theorized that the God-Eater Beasts had completed parasitism outside the Jie Forest and returned their hosts to the tribes.
• Mu You repaired the Voidwalker, used Soul Search on the red jellyfish, and learned that the Wildmen in its memories belonged to Sky Wolf’s First Squad.
• Mu You concluded that the Desolation Crow had captured Sky Wolf’s 472 subordinates and handed them to the God-Eater Beasts for experiments.
• Mu You sent the Herbalist, the Night Watchman, and Linglong to investigate the Desolation Crow while he teleported to the Wildman tribe’s tablet grove.
• Mu You found that missing-person cases had surged three hundred years earlier and that many missing Wildmen later returned, suggesting extensive parasite infiltration.

Mu You uncovered evidence that God-Eater Beasts had infiltrated the wildmen and sought Sky Wolf’s help to expose them. After they captured a suspected host, he died before revealing the password used to identify higher-level Ancient hosts.

• Mu You concluded that the wildmen who had been absent from the tribe for more than half a month might be hosts, but trusted the Tribal Chief and Sky Wolf for different reasons.
• Mu You approached Sky Wolf’s prison, shared his findings about the Desolation Crow incident, and won Sky Wolf’s trust through the Wind Qilin’s aura on him.
• Sky Wolf escaped with Mu You after the jailers returned and revealed themselves as traitors; they evaded the search parties in the jungle.
• Mu You and Sky Wolf captured one of the jailers, whom Mu You recognized as the host who had killed his game character.
• Sky Wolf interrogated the captive with Heart-Eroding Grass leaves, and the man admitted that hosts used a password when they could not identify one another by speech.
• The captive began to reveal the password but died before he could finish.

Mu You and Sky Wolf discovered that parasitized wildmen were being used to contaminate Moon Lake through the living-sacrifice ritual, and set out to reach the Tribal Chief before the Moon Festival. Meanwhile, Sescia confronted an Elder over Mu You’s killing and warned the gathered Elders that some of them might have been replaced.

• Mu You repeatedly questioned a wildman, who died whenever he approached sensitive information, but revealed that the parasites intended to contaminate Moon Lake.
• Mu You and Sky Wolf realized that parasitized living sacrifices could carry parasite residue into Moon Lake’s depths when the Eye of the Moon opened during the festival.
• Mu You examined the wildman’s remains with Sky Wolf and identified the blue crystalline worms as a fragile parasite suited to infecting ordinary wildmen.
• Mu You decided they needed to stop the coming ritual and reach the un-parasitized Tribal Chief, so Sky Wolf led him toward the Seventh Floor.
• Sescia confronted the Elder who had killed Mu You and accused him of acting suspiciously, warning the Elders that some of them might have been replaced.