Recaps

Liu Guang confronted “Mother” about the beings who resurrected him, and she explained that the Spiritwood affair was a deal among powerful factions. She revealed that Liu Guang would gain the Mother Goddess Elves as the deal’s white glove, while the factional stalemate and its compromises continued.

• Liu Guang told “Mother” that he suspected powerful beings had brought him back to life and asked her to reveal who they were.
• “Mother” said the matter was more complicated than Liu Guang understood and warned that fear of the unknown was shaping his response.
• “Mother” explained that the Spiritwood affair was a setup for a deal among multiple parties, with her preserving her love and losing her children while Liu Guang gained the Mother Goddess Elves.
• Liu Guang understood that he was positioned to reap benefits, and “Mother” clarified that his backer would bear losses even though Liu Guang himself would not.
• “Mother” described how Order, Chaos, and Neutral factions competed to win humanity’s allegiance while repeatedly compromising to preserve the stalemate.
• “Mother” said the Seventh Universe was rotten at its roots, but she admired those trying to repair it and was willing to support them through actions outside the rules.

Liu Guang reconsidered “Mother’s” account of the contest over humanity and concluded that the competing factions were trying to acquire humanity to counter madness. He realized he was being maneuvered as a pawn, but that the script still left room to influence its outcome, and that “Mother” had arranged his meeting with Morningstar through Serin.

• “Mother” told Liu Guang that humanity’s first script was meant to go smoothly, while later scripts might not, and said that Spiritwood’s knowledge of the script would not matter to the final result.
• Liu Guang weighed “Mother’s” explanation against the Pasture theory and Lu Xiao’s claim that humans were targeted for their form, deciding the accounts could both fit a contest to acquire humanity.
• Liu Guang reasoned that the destroyed civilization Lu Xiao had witnessed might have been divided among the contest’s participants, giving them humanity as a way to offset madness.
• Liu Guang recalled that he had acted as a White Glove twice, including when Morningstar tried to recruit him, and concluded that the risks of choosing a side were now manageable.
• Liu Guang recognized that “Mother” had sent him to the Woll Galaxy and taken Serin’s identity to create an opportunity for him to meet Morningstar.

Liu Guang learned that Mother created the Zerg and Mother God Elves, then had to choose what future he wanted for Liu Ni. He acknowledged her as his child and wished for her happiness, learning that Mother had planned for Liu Ni to become the next Empress of the Mother God Elves but would set that plan aside.

• Liu Guang asked Mother whether she was a Zerg, and she explained that she had created the Zerg and Mother God Elves and given them different Authorities to prevent conflict.
• Mother asked Liu Guang how he felt about Liu Ni, saying his attitude would determine her future.
• Liu Guang remembered Chief Bai naming the newborn girl Liu Ni and acknowledged her as his child, admitting he wanted her to live happily.
• Liu Ni appeared beside Mother and called Liu Guang Dad as she wept.
• Mother revealed that Liu Ni had been meant to become the next Empress of the Mother God Elves and that she had another plan if Liu Guang rejected her.
• Mother told Liu Ni that her father wanted her to be happy, leaving Liu Guang to regret that his choice might have ended her promising future.

Spiritwood consumed the Spring Day and confronted Mad Tiger, but Morningstar appeared and revealed that the transaction’s plot had another target. Morningstar reflected on how Serin had arranged events and admitted she had lied to Liu Guang about the Life Poison.

• Liu Guang decided against persuading Liu Ni further, and Mother vanished after making him her white glove.
• Spiritwood turned everyone else in the Independent Space into green lights, then swallowed the Spring Day and revealed his true appearance.
• Mad Tiger confronted Spiritwood and said the Star Chasers were unlikely to intervene because they were besieging the First Planet.
• Spiritwood summoned Whisperer's Cognition, and Morningstar appeared amid the distorted lines.
• Mad Tiger realized that he was the true target of the plot and questioned whether the transaction had been manipulated.
• Morningstar recalled that Serin had arranged the events and admitted she had lied to Liu Guang about the Life Poison.

Morningstar realized she had unknowingly delivered an antidote for the Whisperer's Cognition, while Spiritwood revealed why he had delayed attacking Mad Tiger. Spiritwood and Morningstar struck Mad Tiger, exposing his true form as a giant transparent worm, just as a destructive palm descended upon it.

• Morningstar recalled that Serin had instructed her to give Liu Guang an antidote, which she had passed on as part of a plan involving Spiritwood.
• Spiritwood told Mad Tiger that his stand-in had appeared on the Seventh Planet by deliberate arrangement and admitted he had been waiting for him.
• Spiritwood accused Mad Tiger of excluding him and using him as a bargaining chip, while Mad Tiger warned that killing him could upset the balance between the factions.
• Spiritwood suggested Mad Tiger had already betrayed his faction, stunning him, then attacked; Morningstar joined in with an aura of life.
• Spiritwood's punch tore open Mad Tiger's chest, revealing a skeleton covered in transparent worms that were harmed by the life aura.
• Mad Tiger's true body emerged as a huge transparent worm, and a destructive palm wrapped in distortions of space descended toward it.

Morningstar watched Spiritwood and Mad Tiger battle inside the isolated space while another Mad Tiger remained outside with Lu Xiao’s group amid Dark Tide’s collapse. As Whisperer’s Cognition neared its end, Morningstar considered retreating, and the two transparent worms continued struggling without biting each other.

• A stand-in Mad Tiger smashed the worm-like Mad Tiger, but the latter survived by entering a transparent worm form and coiling around Spiritwood.
• Spiritwood’s body became an amalgamation of worms that began devouring one another, while Mad Tiger tried to stop them.
• Another massive hand crushed Spiritwood and Mad Tiger down to molecular size.
• Outside, Mad Tiger stood silently beside Lu Xiao’s group as Dark Tide fell into chaos after its higher-ups disappeared.
• On the battlefield, the two enormous transparent worms struggled without attacking with their mouthparts, and Morningstar began considering retreating as Whisperer’s Cognition wore off.

The Black Domain Battlefield’s rules warped, causing Mad Tiger and Spiritwood to become swarms of worms that invaded Morningstar and fought inside her body. Mad Tiger pulled her out, then fled when her body transformed, while Lu Xiao stopped Old Feis from entering a subspace filled with twisted, shrieking forms.

• The battlefield’s rules warped, and Mad Tiger abandoned Spiritwood to charge into Morningstar, breaking into worms that burrowed into her body.
• Spiritwood followed, sending his own worms into Morningstar, where the two swarms began devouring each other and her flesh.
• Mad Tiger opened a rift in space and pulled Morningstar out, but threw her away after sensing something alarming as her body expanded into a huge ball of flesh.
• Lu Xiao warned Old Feis not to enter subspace, and Old Feis stopped after glimpsing twisted forms filling it.

Lu Xiao entered Morningstar's consciousness space to deal with the two Neutral Lifeforms inside her, after the Omniscient Mirror promised he would succeed. He found two enormous worms fighting and Morningstar's consciousness seemingly immobilized, but he could not figure out how to reach her.

• Old Feis returned from Subspace trembling and said he had seen something he should not have.
• The Omniscient Mirror told Lu Xiao to enter Morningstar and kill the two Neutral Lifeforms within her, assuring him he would succeed.
• Calamity created a hole in Morningstar's body with a Self-Developed Black Hole, and Lu Xiao rushed inside before the wound healed.
• Lu Xiao found himself in Morningstar's vast consciousness space, where two gigantic worms fought beneath a golden star containing Morningstar's enlarged figure.
• Lu Xiao tried to fly toward Morningstar's consciousness but made no progress, then watched tiny worms pour from one of the creatures before turning his attention back to finding a way to reach her.

Lu Xiao reached Morningstar’s Consciousness Entity after a white worm carried him through the battle between two giant worms and past a rain of falling worms. Morningstar told him that Mad Tiger was trying to devour her consciousness and asked him to merge part of his consciousness with hers to gain access to her Consciousness Space.

• Lu Xiao called for Morningstar, drawing the attention of the two fighting giant worms, then tried to stay unnoticed.
• A pale white worm appeared behind Lu Xiao, let him climb onto its back, and carried him toward the golden light.
• The worm took Lu Xiao through the entangled giant worms as countless other worms fell from above, then brought him to Morningstar’s celestial body.
• Lu Xiao found Morningstar curled up and unresponsive, then reached her forehead with a wisp of his consciousness.
• Morningstar responded weakly and said Mad Tiger was trying to devour her consciousness while Spiritwood was stopping him.
• Morningstar asked Lu Xiao to merge part of his consciousness with hers to gain access to the Consciousness Space, and Lu Xiao hesitated because he doubted a portion would be enough.

Lu Xiao merged his consciousness with Morningstar’s and learned that Spiritwood and the real Mad Tiger were invading her Consciousness Space after devouring her flesh and blood. He took control of Morningstar’s enormous body and attacked the two worms, but one infected him with tiny parasites before he hurled it away and struck it with a newly created star.

• Lu Xiao decided to merge his entire consciousness with Morningstar’s, accepting the risk of being trapped so he could experience a World God’s power.
• Lu Xiao absorbed Morningstar’s memories and learned that Mother was involved, Spiritwood was trying to stop the possession, and the two giant worms were Spiritwood and the real Mad Tiger.
• Lu Xiao took control of Morningstar’s body, learned to move it, and declared that both worms had to die.
• Lu Xiao rushed into the battle, seized the two worms, and pulled them apart.
• One worm bit Lu Xiao and injected tiny worms into his Consciousness Entity, so he tore it off, hurled it away, and threw a golden star at it.

Lu Xiao responded to the parasites invading his consciousness by sending Little Morningstars to devour them, risking a catastrophic backlash. Morningstar regained control and separated the stolen divinity, while Spiritwood used it to pursue the fleeing Mad Tiger as she altered the laws of the consciousness space.

• Lu Xiao's bitten arm mutated into a worm, so he made the worm bite it and unleashed Little Morningstars inside his consciousness to destroy the invading parasites.
• The Little Morningstars devoured Spiritwood's and Mad Tiger's consciousness entities, terrifying Spiritwood and making Mad Tiger consider fleeing.
• Spiritwood warned that plundering his divinity could draw his original universe's merciless inhabitants to them.
• Morningstar recovered from her weakness, reclaimed control of her consciousness, and separated the divinity Lu Xiao had stolen.
• Morningstar urged Spiritwood to blow himself up, and he took the two masses of light and charged at Mad Tiger as Mad Tiger tried to escape.
• Morningstar changed the consciousness space's laws, making fast and slow trade definitions and impeding Mad Tiger's flight.

Lu Xiao and Morningstar tried to stop Spiritwood from self-destructing inside her Consciousness Space, while Mad Tiger sought a way to survive. Mad Tiger proposed that Spiritwood die immediately after fusing with the two masses of divinity, but Spiritwood still threatened to destroy them all.

• Morningstar folded the Consciousness Space to bring Spiritwood and Mad Tiger closer, but pulled them apart again after realizing Spiritwood believed she had accepted her own death.
• Mad Tiger asked Spiritwood whether They had decided he was a traitor, and Lu Xiao relayed that Mad Tiger could no longer prove his innocence except by dying.
• Mad Tiger admitted he wanted to live and proposed that Spiritwood perish just after fusing with the two masses of divinity, preventing the universe from being located.
• Spiritwood rejected the plan and threatened to self-destruct with Mad Tiger, arguing that Morningstar might survive because of who stood behind her.
• Mad Tiger warned that resurrecting a World God was unrealistic, and Morningstar realized that the collapse of her Consciousness Space would likely kill her.

Lu Xiao and Morningstar tried to persuade Spiritwood not to destroy himself by offering him another way to escape being used as a locator. Lu Xiao also promised that humanity would take Spiritwood and Mad Tiger in, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Lu Xiao reasoned that Spiritwood was acting out of desperation after losing a power struggle and decided to offer him a chance to survive.
• Morningstar told Spiritwood he could survive as a Consciousness Entity, but Spiritwood argued that this would still let Them locate the Universe.
• Morningstar gave Lu Xiao control after he criticized her attempt to persuade Spiritwood.
• Lu Xiao suggested that Spiritwood return Mad Tiger's Divinity, then die openly by another means so They would believe he was dead.
• Lu Xiao offered to take Spiritwood and Mad Tiger in, first claiming to speak for the Minotaur Tribe and then formally promising on humanity's behalf.

Lu Xiao persuaded Spiritwood and Mad Tiger to join his side, and Morningstar expelled Spiritwood’s divinity-free core consciousness from her mind. Morningstar then turned to decide what to do with Mad Tiger, who had devoured her body and remained on uneasy terms with her.

• Mad Tiger persuaded the hesitant Spiritwood to accept Lu Xiao’s offer, and Spiritwood swallowed both balls of divinity to begin fusing with them.
• Mad Tiger approached Lu Xiao, while Lu Xiao considered how the two former world gods could help humanity.
• Morningstar regained control and, with Spiritwood’s cooperation, expelled him from her consciousness space after he left behind his core consciousness.
• Spiritwood’s core consciousness attached itself to Morningstar, who promised Lu Xiao would help him once they were outside.
• Morningstar turned to Mad Tiger and struggled with how to handle him, since he had devoured her body and she resented him.

Lu Xiao emerged from the enormous ball of flesh covered in transparent worms, while Calamity and Old Feis feared that he had been contaminated. His familiar gesture of brushing back his hair left them even more convinced that he had become someone else.

• Mad Tiger worried that he might be used as a bargaining chip but planned to survive and eventually rise to become a Great Old One.
• The ball of flesh expelled a mass of transparent worms, and their shrieks caused the Dark Star Clan leader to mutate.
• Old Feis tore open the shrunken flesh and found Lu Xiao wrapped in worms.
• Lu Xiao opened his eyes, coughed worms out of his mouth, and climbed free.
• Calamity and Old Feis recoiled from Lu Xiao, fearing he had been contaminated, as he ordered them to make room.

As Spiritwood annihilated his own divinity, he attached his core consciousness to Lu Xiao’s and revealed how he had become a bargaining chip in a plot to eliminate Mad Tiger. Lu Xiao learned that both “Lightline” and “Mother” had pushed Spiritwood toward the same goal, leaving him to consider the forces behind the scheme.

• Calamity prepared to seize the possible Lu Xiao and flee, but Spiritwood began destroying his own divinity while Lu Xiao remained unaffected by the shrieks.
• Spiritwood attached his core consciousness to Lu Xiao’s and rapidly recounted how he discovered he was being watched, then learned from “Lightline” that he had become a bargaining chip.
• Spiritwood explained that he had deliberately shown the Star Chasers’ Intelligence Organization selected information and planned to honor his deal by taking Mad Tiger down with him.
• Spiritwood said he had grown disgusted with the Neutral Faction and wanted to remove Mad Tiger, a neutral lifeform who had infiltrated the Chaos Faction, as an act of atonement.
• Spiritwood revealed that Morningstar had found him on “Mother’s” divine oracle and shared information about the plot against him, with “Mother” also seeking Mad Tiger’s death.
• Lu Xiao wondered whether other neutral lifeforms had infiltrated rival factions and noted that “Mother” and Morningstar had played a part in Spiritwood’s fate.

Lu Xiao watched Spiritwood annihilate his divinity while learning how Spiritwood’s species evolved through soul technology and why some of them fled their universe. Spiritwood rejected Lu Xiao’s suggestion that other beings could imitate their evolutionary method, leaving Lu Xiao to clarify what he meant.

• Lu Xiao stopped Calamity from carrying him away and watched Spiritwood begin silently annihilating his divinity.
• Spiritwood told Lu Xiao that his ancestors transformed their species into many-worm bodies and developed soul technology by attaching other beings’ souls to their own.
• Spiritwood explained that his people fled their universe because they feared its limited resources would eventually lead stronger members to prey on weaker ones.
• Spiritwood said some members of his species still used soul technology, while others studied combining it with this universe’s way of mastering rules.
• Lu Xiao asked whether other beings could imitate their evolutionary path, and Spiritwood said they could not without the technology to transform their bodies.

Lu Xiao and Calamity escaped with Morningstar after Spiritwood was nearly annihilated, then Lu Xiao recounted his journey into Morningstar’s consciousness. Liu Guang reasoned that Spiritwood had been chosen as a bargaining chip because his presence in the Neutral Faction threatened someone’s interests, though the full reason remained unknown.

• Lu Xiao asked Spiritwood whether beings in the universe might evolve like Mad Tiger, but Spiritwood said it probably was not possible.
• Lu Xiao, Calamity, and Old Feis grabbed Morningstar’s flesh and skin and fled before the Star Chasers or a Dark Star Clan High-Level Life could arrive.
• At the Hotel, Liu Guang concluded that Morningstar was a mature World God and listened as Lu Xiao recounted his experience inside her consciousness.
• Lu Xiao eventually told Liu Guang about Spiritwood, Mad Tiger, and the trade, prompting Liu Guang to explain that Spiritwood’s continued presence in the Neutral Faction must have opposed someone’s interests.
• Liu Guang reasoned that Spiritwood had been chosen jointly by interested parties as an unusually valuable bargaining chip, but he did not know the specifics.

Lu Xiao and the others discussed why Spiritwood might threaten the forces behind Dark Tide, while Lu Xiao kept Spiritwood’s survival secret. After the Star Chasers investigated Dark Tide’s fall, they questioned Lu Xiao, Calamity, and Liu Guang, who passed the initial questioning.

• Liu Guang reasoned that Spiritwood’s importance likely concerned his identity or origins rather than his combat strength, but the group could not determine what made him a threat.
• Lu Xiao kept Spiritwood’s survival secret because revealing it could alert the people behind the plot.
• Lu Xiao, Calamity, and Liu Guang went outside and learned that the Star Chasers had restored order after Dark Tide fell and arrested escaped goods.
• The Star Chasers found evidence of a battle involving four World Gods in Dark Tide’s contracted space and traced the customers who had left during the incident.
• Two Star Chasers questioned Lu Xiao and Calamity, and later questioned Liu Guang; all three handled the initial questions without revealing anything.

Lu Xiao and his companions prepared a consistent story and an escape plan while the Star Chasers investigated the chaos at Dark Tide, which Liu Guang suspected was linked to the plundering of their headquarters. As they waited for Luolin's warship, Lu Xiao explained that merging consciousness with Morningstar had left him with an enormous store of her memories, and Liu Guang began considering what to do with that information.

• Lu Xiao and his companions agreed on a shared account for further questioning and planned to flee aboard Luolin's warship if the Star Chasers discovered their involvement.
• Liu Guang concluded that the Star Chasers were connecting Dark Tide's chaos to the raid on their headquarters and warned that staying in the galaxy could expose them.
• Old Feis refused to take the group into subspace because he feared the distorted figures he had seen, so they waited for Luolin to return.
• Morningstar remained motionless because Mad Tiger had eaten her body and both their consciousnesses were trapped in her Consciousness Space; Lu Xiao had no intention of entering it again.
• Lu Xiao explained that merging consciousness with Morningstar had left him with many of her memories and strange impulses, while concealing Spiritwood from Liu Guang and Liu Ni.
• After hearing Lu Xiao's account, Liu Guang immediately formed an idea.

Liu Guang reconsidered his plans for the Star Chasers and decided to wait until he knew more, while Lu Xiao asked Liu Ni about her time on Mother Goddess Star. Liu Ni revealed that Mother had offered her two paths to become an empress, leaving Lu Xiao to wonder if she was Mother’s sole Chosen One.

• Liu Guang weighed becoming a Postman against joining the Star Chasers and decided to wait until he had more information and could ensure his companions were clear of suspicion.
• Lu Xiao asked Liu Ni about her situation on Mother Goddess Star, and she explained how she had been confined to the palace before meeting Mother.
• Liu Ni said Mother had offered her the choice of succeeding to the Mother God Elves’ empress position or becoming empress of another, unspecified species.
• Lu Xiao concluded that Mother might be treating Liu Ni as her sole Chosen One.

Lu Xiao and the others revised their cover story and prepared for the Star Chasers’ next questioning, while Luolin returned to the sealed Black Market Galaxy with two Postmen on a mission to establish a Logistics Point on the Star Chasers’ territory. Their arrival on the Fifth Planet suggested that the Universe Logistics Company and the Star Chasers had reached an unexpected agreement.

• Lu Xiao remained puzzled by Mother’s motives toward Liu Ni, but Calamity advised him to stop trying to understand Her perspective.
• Liu Guang presented the group with a revised story and urged Calamity and Mr. Feis to reveal their identities as Chosen Ones if the Star Chasers used truth-forcing methods during the second questioning.
• Luolin hurried back to the Black Market Galaxy with a Star God Postman and an Old One Postman, both assigned to establish a Logistics Point on the Fifth Planet.
• Luolin realized the mission implied an agreement between the Universe Logistics Company and the Star Chasers, and suspected it could lead to Silicon-based Life returning to the Woll Galaxy.
• Luolin’s warship passed through the Star Chasers’ blockade and arrived above the Fifth Planet, where people noticed the conspicuous vessel.

Luolin told Liu Guang that Silicon-based Life was building a Logistics Point on the Fifth Planet, and the group suspected the move was tied to the recent Spiritwood Incident. Lu Xiao used the new passage to return to Earth, where Nellie told him her last-mile transport project was already improving people's economic circumstances.

• Luolin explained the Logistics Point plan to Liu Guang, who suspected Silicon-based Life was collecting its gains after the Spiritwood Incident.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang arrived as the Postmen finished assembling the Logistics Point and tested its new spatial transport passage.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang decided to send Morningstar to Mother Goddess Star, while Lu Xiao chose to go home first.
• Lu Xiao traveled through the Logistics Point to Chang'an City on Earth and met Nellie, who drove him from the station.
• Nellie told Lu Xiao that the Pivot Council's Commerce Department had taken over her project and that its trial phase was already improving people's finances.

Nellie drove Lu Xiao through the peaceful Present World, where he reflected on the sacrifices and choices behind different clans’ fortunes. His words left Nellie in tears, but she took comfort in believing that cooperating with humanity was helping her clan move toward a better future.

• Nellie explained that making money was her clan’s highest priority as she drove Lu Xiao through the changed Present World.
• Lu Xiao admired the peaceful streets and said he wished the scene could last forever, prompting Nellie to describe the hope she had seen among humanity.
• When Nellie admitted she envied humanity, Lu Xiao explained that prosperity was built through countless sacrifices and that envy could not create it.
• Lu Xiao recounted the Mother God Elves and an alien species that paid tribute for protection, saying that choices and effort both shaped a clan’s future.
• Nellie wiped away her tears and decided that cooperating with humanity had been the right choice for her clan.

Lu Xiao brought Spiritwood’s situation to the Doctor, who questioned Spiritwood about how his people had entered and settled in the universe. The Doctor concluded that they had found and paralyzed the World Will to force it to recognize them, much as Spiritwood now sought to become part of the universe by being reborn in another body.

• Nellie took Lu Xiao to the Doctor’s biological factory, where he saw rows of the Doctor’s Clones being produced for Starry Sky exploration.
• Lu Xiao told the Doctor he needed help and followed him into a sealed room made of special metal.
• Lu Xiao relayed the Doctor’s questions to Spiritwood, who explained that his people had arrived as refugees and initially sought to join the universe without provoking its native beings.
• Spiritwood admitted that his people had originally intended to take over the universe and form the Neutral Faction before the factions of order and chaos arose.
• The Doctor challenged Spiritwood’s account and concluded that his people had found and paralyzed the World Will to force its recognition, connecting this to Spiritwood’s current attempt to become part of the universe through rebirth.