Chapter Summaries

Li Luo followed Fatty through the Creation God Sea as it searched for an exit by traveling between God Sacrifice Places. They entered a lively but dangerous transparent aquatic world, where brutal hunts unfolded around them.

• Fatty used a God Pointing Needle to guide Li Luo away from relying on the map and explained that they had to search different God Sacrifice Places for the exit.
• Fatty transformed into a Building Block Turtle and carried Li Luo across the mirror-like surface, smashing through Glass Creatures and a transparent coral reef.
• They arrived at another God Sacrifice Place filled with transparent seaweed, fish, and predators, and Fatty warned Li Luo that the unfamiliar ecosystem was dangerous.
• Li Luo watched Glass Sharks hunt fish and saw other creatures brutally kill and devour one another across the transparent world.

Li Luo and Fatty entered a Reef Colosseum where Slaughter’s killing intent drove Glass Creatures to attack and devour one another. Mo Ling repeatedly hid inside the Cube to escape the hostility, causing it to gather around the Cube until the creatures fled and a terrifying presence began to form.

• Li Luo and Fatty watched Glass Creatures devour one another, and Fatty identified Slaughter as the race whose killing intent was affecting them.
• Li Luo and Fatty traveled to a mirror-like Reef Colosseum, where the Glass Creatures fought more violently and a school of fish devoured a jellyfish before turning on one another.
• Li Luo and Fatty found that they felt no killing intent, while Mo Ling sensed hostility toward the Cube and repeatedly withdrew his vision inside it to escape its effects.
• The hostility accumulated around the Cube until the fighting creatures fled and a terrifying presence began to gather.

Mo Ling entered a volcanic land in the body of a sponge-like creature and discovered that his hostility perception could warn him about both environmental hazards and living attackers. After adapting to the dangers and changing into a flying insect, he encountered a red lizard whose powerful attack threatened to crush him.

• Mo Ling emerged from the Cube in a volcanic landscape and sensed a precise warning about an erupting rock, so he moved before it struck.
• Mo Ling dodged a flying insect's attack, lured it into a fake sponge hole, and crushed it.
• Mo Ling absorbed the insect and gained the ability to reshape his sponge body into its form.
• Mo Ling learned to sort hostility warnings by how soon attacks would land and navigated the volcanic hazards.
• Mo Ling stopped near a red lizard and sensed an exceptionally powerful constricting attack that would crush him in ten seconds.

Mo Ling mastered his Hostility Perception while being swallowed by a Red Lizard, then expanded into a sponge and consumed it. After discovering that the hostility warnings could predict whether his choices would succeed, he encountered a giant bird that viewed him as prey.

• Mo Ling recognized the Red Lizard’s hostility, but its tongue caught him and began dragging him toward its mouth.
• Mo Ling calmed himself, focused on the hostility, and sensed its timing with increasing precision.
• Mo Ling expanded inside the Red Lizard’s mouth, drained its moisture, and consumed its body.
• Mo Ling emerged disguised as a yellow Sponge Lizard and realized Hostility Perception could predict the outcomes of his choices.
• A giant bird spotted Mo Ling and fixed him with a hostile stare.

Mo Ling rescued a Sponge Crab from a turtle and taught it how to recover by transforming back into a sponge. After learning that the strongest kin gathered around Heaven God Volcano, he flew there to investigate.

• Mo Ling killed the turtle that had nearly defeated the Sponge Crab and approached the frightened crab.
• Mo Ling showed the crab how transforming into a sponge could restore its injuries, and the crab healed its broken claw.
• Mo Ling advised the crab to control its hostility rather than let it drive its actions.
• The Sponge Crab told Mo Ling that the strongest kin fought near Heaven God Volcano and gathered inside its lava-filled crater.
• Mo Ling said goodbye to the crab and flew toward Heaven God Volcano.

Mo Ling traveled up Heaven God Volcano, where he encountered violent creatures and learned from a gorilla of his kind how to combine different forms. He left the gorilla alive and flew onward in a chimera-like body that grew more coordinated and faster.

• Mo Ling observed volcanic creatures feeding and hunting among the lava and ash on Heaven God Volcano.
• Mo Ling subdued a gorilla-like member of his kind with bat wings and asked how it had obtained them.
• The gorilla demonstrated how to split its sponge body into parts and attach one creature’s form to another.
• Mo Ling and the gorilla agreed not to kill each other this time, then the gorilla ran off toward the mountain.
• Mo Ling reshaped himself with a lizard’s head, goat horns, an ape’s torso, an insect carapace, and bird wings, and his flying speed increased as the parts joined together.

Mo Ling reached the center of Heaven God Volcano and watched a balloon-like sponge creature defeat a giant pangolin by turning the lava against it. The balloon explained that hostility, not physical strength, was the key to their abilities, and left the defeated pangolin trapped and begging for death.

• Mo Ling crossed the volcanic clouds and descended into Heaven God Volcano's lava-filled crater.
• Mo Ling found a spiked, rock-armored pangolin fighting a balloon-like sponge creature at the center of the lava lake.
• The pangolin attacked with its spikes and body, but the balloon evaded its strikes and criticized its simplistic use of hostility.
• The balloon triggered a lava eruption that swept the pangolin into molten rock, which cooled around its body and trapped it.
• The balloon told the pangolin that it had chosen the wrong path by pursuing physical strength instead of using hostility.
• The pangolin begged the balloon to kill it, but the balloon refused, saying it was not worthy.

Mo Ling visited the center of Heaven God Volcano and learned from the balloon that mimicry was only a tool, while hostility was the true source of power. After the balloon subjected him to the world's hostility, Mo Ling perceived and removed the Lines of Hostility controlling him, leaving the balloon buried beneath falling rocks.

• The balloon spared the pangolin, which escaped the volcano on a pillar of magma, and then questioned Mo Ling about why he had come.
• Mo Ling told the balloon he wanted to understand its strength, and it explained that mimicry helped creatures sense the world while omnipresent hostility made them powerful.
• The balloon surrounded Mo Ling with dangers from the volcano and the world, overwhelming his hostility perception and immobilizing his body.
• Mo Ling realized that Lines of Hostility connected the dangers to him, then pulled the threads from his body and redirected the attacks toward the balloon.
• Rocks and magma buried the balloon beneath the Stone Pile, and it congratulated Mo Ling for transcending.

The balloon explained to Mo Ling how it learned to perceive and redirect hostility by persuading waves to attack other creatures. When lava threatened it during the Eruption Period, it redirected the flow toward its Crab Brothers and Seashell Brothers, then faced a renewed eruption with the waves as its only remaining allies.

• The balloon told Mo Ling that it had learned to see the Lines of Hostility after walking through them.
• The balloon discovered it could persuade waves to redirect their hostility, and it used this ability to send them toward other creatures and bring food to the shore.
• When the Eruption Period began, the balloon persuaded lava to attack its Crab Brothers and then its Seashell Brothers.
• The lava flowed into the sea and bypassed the balloon, but further eruptions threatened it after its brothers were gone.
• The balloon asked the Sea Wave Brothers to go fight the volcano.

Balloon’s encouragement drove Sea Wave Brother to unleash a tsunami against the volcano, devastating the Volcanic Plain and killing countless creatures. Balloon tried to undo the hostility and save survivors, but the battle ended with both the seawater and volcano destroyed, leaving Balloon in despair above the ruined crater.

• Sea Wave Brother gathered strength and raised a tsunami that swept Balloon toward the volcano.
• The tsunami flooded the Volcanic Plain and crater, extinguishing lava as the volcano’s heat evaporated the seawater.
• Balloon realized its encouragement had triggered the disaster and saw hostility binding the volcano, Sea Wave Brother, and the creatures together.
• Balloon begged Sea Wave Brother to stop and struggled to untangle the creatures, rescuing some survivors while the battle continued.
• The seawater evaporated and the volcano cooled completely; both sides perished, and Balloon drifted above the ruins clutching broken threads.

Balloon showed Mo Ling how Lines of Hostility revealed the source and details of future threats. Following a thread from the magma to the sea, Balloon discovered that the magma would face destruction in the ocean thousands of years later.

• Balloon questioned whether its race’s beliefs about hostility and glorious death had been shaped by its power, and Mo Ling explained how worldview influenced behavior.
• Balloon led Mo Ling into the Volcanic Lake, where Mo Ling learned to avoid the magma by pulling away the Lines of Hostility.
• Balloon showed Mo Ling the nearly invisible threads in the magma and explained how their direction, tightness, and thickness conveyed information about hostility.
• Balloon followed a thread from the volcano to the coast and identified the sea as the source of the hostility.
• Balloon explained that an eruption in three thousand years would send magma into the sea, where waves would crush it into powder five hundred years later.

Mo Ling followed the balloon through the web of hostility and learned that living things could change its threads, easing his fear that fate was fixed. They traced a thread from a mass of seawater to the sun and flew into space, where the sun was bound by countless hostilities from other objects and events.

• Mo Ling was shaken by a thread connecting a sea current and a mass of magma that were destined to meet in 3,500 years, but the balloon reassured him that the threads would not change unless deliberately disturbed.
• The balloon explained that living creatures could create and alter hostility threads, making the world resilient, and then led Mo Ling underwater to follow a distant thread.
• Mo Ling and the balloon found a mass of seawater in a trench and followed the thread of hostility surrounding it toward the sun.
• The balloon carried Mo Ling through the sky and into space, where they saw the sun wrapped in countless threads of hostility from meteorites and other stars across different times.

The balloon took Mo Ling through the destruction of stars and into a black hole, where they found a knot of hostility with no beginning or end. The balloon revealed that this anomaly had long tormented it, and Mo Ling’s ability to see it made the balloon feel less alone.

• The balloon showed Mo Ling a star more than ten times larger than the sun and explained that it would destroy the sun, but hostility still surrounded it.
• The balloon brought Mo Ling to a black hole, whose immense hostility frightened him.
• The balloon led Mo Ling into the black hole, where they saw trapped images of the past being ejected as light.
• Near the black hole’s core, Mo Ling and the balloon found a ball of tangled threads with no beginning or end.
• The balloon told Mo Ling that the thread-ball was the source of its confusion and admitted it had feared the Lines of Hostility were only a delusion.
• Mo Ling’s ability to see the threads reassured the balloon that it was not alone.

Mo Ling explained that the world was a simulated culture dish created by the Creation God Sea, and that the tangled hostility thread marked the world’s destruction when its god appeared. The balloon calmly accepted the revelation and said it knew a simple way to make a god appear.

• The balloon explained that the thread held source-less, target-less hostility so intense it could destroy a world, and Mo Ling realized it might be a countdown to the world’s end.
• Mo Ling concluded that the world would destroy itself after the god it was simulating appeared.
• Mo Ling told the balloon the truth about the Creation God Sea and how it had created the world to simulate a god’s birth.
• The balloon accepted the revelation calmly, saying that each new truth expanded its understanding of reality.
• The balloon asked whether Mo Ling had come to find a god, and Mo Ling said he would be willing if doing so let him leave.
• The balloon claimed it knew a simple way to make a god appear.

Balloon thickened a ball of thread to bring the world’s destruction forward, but the hostility’s arrival caused no immediate devastation. Balloon then pulled Mo Ling away from the hostile threads, and Mo Ling felt himself become weightless as Balloon told him he was the master of hostility.

• Balloon thickened and braided the thread into a coil that would bring the hostility down in three minutes.
• The coil snapped apart, and strands of hostility appeared across the barren universe before vanishing without visibly destroying anything.
• Balloon explained that the world’s destruction would take a long time and said the god was already descending.
• Balloon said their wish was largely fulfilled and urged Mo Ling to look beyond what was before his eyes to sense the real world’s hostility.
• Balloon pulled Mo Ling free of the hostile threads as they tore apart his sponge body, then told him not to let the hostility control him.
• Balloon’s voice annihilated the maggot-like hostility inside Mo Ling, leaving him weightless amid warm smoke and dust.

Mo Ling learned how Slaughter became a battle-hungry sponge creature that traveled the Abyss seeking a stronger opponent. Slaughter demanded a fight from Mo Ling, and Balloon stepped forward to challenge it.

• Mo Ling sensed that Slaughter's hostility carried its wish for a satisfying battle against a stronger enemy.
• Slaughter's history revealed how it grew powerful by battling creatures on the Volcanic Plain and developing its sponge body.
• Slaughter fought a volcano, stopped its eruption, and left the Volcanic Plain to battle the world.
• After learning of the Creation God Sea, Slaughter came seeking a worthy opponent and challenged Mo Ling to fight.
• Balloon brushed aside Slaughter's strands of hostility and offered to fight it.

Mo Ling returned to his Cube Person form as Slaughter appeared in the arena and attacked the balloon. The balloon redirected Slaughter’s hostility but was overwhelmed by its relentless assault, leaving Mo Ling flying in to help.

• Mo Ling returned to his Cube Person form and lost the ability to see the Lines of Hostility as the balloon dispersed them with its Sponge Line.
• Slaughter formed a muscular humanoid body, insulted Mo Ling, the balloon, Li Luo, and Fatty, and challenged them to fight.
• The balloon faced Slaughter and redirected its hostility, avoiding its heavy punch and subsequent attacks.
• Slaughter tested the balloon with twisting vines, spikes, and miniature copies, forcing Mo Ling to retreat to Li Luo and Fatty.
• Li Luo gave Mo Ling the Purple Hand Rope, and Mo Ling flew toward the balloon as Slaughter’s increasingly fast attacks trapped it in a Certain Kill Situation.

Mo Ling discovered that the balloon had turned Slaughter’s hostility into a web that caused its fragments to destroy one another, defeating it. Slaughter then regenerated from the hostility left by a school of frenzied fish and challenged the balloon to fight again.

• Mo Ling used Little Purple to see the Lines of Hostility and realized the balloon had woven them into a net across the battlefield.
• The balloon redirected Slaughter’s hostility through the net, triggering chain reactions that made Slaughter’s sponge fragments attack and destroy one another.
• Slaughter praised the balloon’s use of hostility and let its remaining fragments perish, bringing the battle to an end.
• A school of fish arrived and slaughtered one another, leaving hostility that gathered into Slaughter’s reborn body.
• Slaughter acknowledged the balloon as an enemy and called for the battle to continue.

Mo Ling pursued Li Luo into the golden light beneath the shattered mirror and discovered it led to the Mirage Tower. There, he spotted a youth testing whether the pavilion and its sea-creature guests were real.

• Slaughter and the balloon continued fighting until Slaughter's blows cracked the mirrored ground apart.
• Li Luo fell into the golden light with the Lego Bird, and Mo Ling followed after losing sight of them.
• A wave of golden light carried Mo Ling through a tranquil sea threaded with strange Golden Threads.
• Mo Ling reached an intact glass surface and saw an antique pavilion filled with humanoid sea creatures in brocade robes.
• Mo Ling recognized the Mirage Tower and spotted a youth whose branch passed through a crab; the youth concluded that the scene was an illusion.

Mo Ling watched Shen Ping and the Immortals through the Mirage Tower’s mirror, where a Lobster-Head Immortal appeared to make a wish. The wish showed Shrimp Not Fall’s encounter with the knowledge-devouring Straw Creatures and ended with him vowing to stop them after they destroyed his clan.

• Mo Ling recognized Shen Ping and the Immortals in the mirror, then saw the mirror transform into a Blue Giant Olive that let him view the Mirage Tower clearly.
• A Lobster-Head Immortal formed an oval with its hands beneath the olive, and Shrimp Not Fall’s story appeared on its surface.
• Shrimp Not Fall confronted the Straw Creatures as they damaged the Coral Reef and learned that they absorbed knowledge and shared it with their entire race.
• Shrimp Not Fall drove the Straw Creatures away without killing them, but returned to find his home destroyed and most of his clan dead.
• A dying old lobster identified the Straw Creatures as Eternal Thirsters, and Shrimp Not Fall vowed to end their endless thirst for knowledge.