Chapter Summaries

Wei He joined Olga’s forces in battle against Knosus after the Ugly Duckling came under attack, and he quickly proved his strength in combat. Yuan Dixi secretly manipulated the battlefield to steal military merit and left Wei He exposed to three Knosus Ghosts.

• Wei He was assigned to a squad with Longhubo, Katri, and Beilu, and the group coordinated with fifty Illumination body frames each.
• After Knosus forces attacked the Ugly Duckling, Wei He led Olga 71st Squad into battle and destroyed many enemy frames.
• Wei He fought a Knosus Ghost and nearly killed it, but an unexplained force field let it escape before a black shadow destroyed it.
• Wei He charged a Knosus long-range Fission frame, but the force field again disrupted his finishing strike, and the black shadow killed the enemy instead.
• Yuan Dixi secretly manipulated combatants to steer kills toward Red Worm forces, then pulled her frames back and left Wei He exposed to three Knosus Ghosts.

The Red Worm Galaxy diverted its fighters toward the Knosus mothership, leaving Herudan’s Olga Galaxy squads exposed to attack. Wei He fought off Knosus Fissions, killed Lucien after using Star Abyss contamination to make the Heart of Myriad Woods validate his report, and then retreated as the wider battle continued.

• The Red Worm Galaxy charged toward the Knosus mothership, and Herudan accused Dilanka of abandoning the Olga Galaxy squads while Saintain tried to send support.
• Knosus Ascenders unleashed Shadow Kill against Saintain and the others as exposed Fission body frames, including Wei He’s, came under heavy fire.
• Wei He used his gravity field and close-combat skills to destroy two Ghost Body Frames and pursue a third, but a red-and-black body frame stole his kill.
• Wei He killed Lucien and reported suspected Star Abyss contamination; the Heart of Myriad Woods validated the review after toxin on the destroyed Ghost Body Frame transferred to Lucien’s body frame.
• Wei He fought off two more Ghost Body Frames, killed them in close combat, and retreated after drawing the attention of Knosus experts.

Wei He confronted Yuan Dixi and the Red Worm Galaxy’s fighters after suspecting they had interfered with him, then marked Yuan Dixi with a hidden poisoned thread before retreating. After the battle, he counted heavy losses among his squad and resolved to deal with the Red Worm Galaxy himself, considering how he could contaminate and devour his enemies.

• Wei He accused the Red Worm Galaxy’s firing formation of hiding Star Abyss toxin carriers and challenged Yuan Dixi, but a High-level Fission intervened and ended the confrontation.
• Wei He secretly attached a poisoned High Spirit Energy trigger to Yuan Dixi before returning to his squad.
• Knosus retreated after the encounter, and Wei He found that only twenty-five of his fifty Illumination squad members had survived; Sean had lost an arm and Beilu had fallen.
• Longhubo warned Wei He that his impulsive actions had risked his life, while Wei He doubted the Imperial system would punish the Red Worm Galaxy.
• Wei He realized he could contaminate humans before devouring them and considered using this method against the Red Worm Galaxy.

A vast black vortex sensed that someone had restarted the Life Process and ordered its will to find and protect the Rebooter. Meanwhile, Wei He and Katri’s forces gathered at Star Gate 7622, where a Knossoss attack launched the Seventh Legion into battle and gave Wei He a chance to act against the Red Worm Galaxy.

• The black vortex detected the restarted Life Process, declared that a part of itself was missing, and sent black particles to find and protect the Rebooter.
• A colossal Knossoss dragon unit appeared on the battlefield between the Lyra and Shengyun River Systems, destroyed more than a thousand Penza carrier ships, and charged into their formation.
• Katri told Wei He that the Seventh Legion was assembling at Star Gate 7622 before a Knossoss fleet suddenly attacked the warship cluster.
• Wei He and Katri alerted their squads and moved toward the colony armor storage as spacecraft carrying Olga Squad 71 launched toward the enemy.
• Wei He reflected on the cost of civil war and monitored the squad members’ psychic energy while preparing to act against the Red Worm Galaxy during the fighting.

Wei He hunted Fission body frames during the battle, using poison and contamination to eliminate Red Worm Galaxy fighters and devour an enemy’s psychic power. After gaining two hundred Psychic Ears, he turned his attention to his next target.

• Wei He launched from his spacecraft and killed several Fission body frames, including a Ghost Body Frame and a Knosus body frame.
• Yuan Dixi and the spear-wielding Red Worm Galaxy fighter became entangled with enemies while Wei He’s poison contaminated Yuan Dixi.
• Yuan Dixi self-destructed after contamination took hold, and the blast disrupted the nearby Knosus fighter; Wei He’s poison then wounded the spear-wielding fighter.
• Wei He killed a battleaxe-wielding Fission body frame, contaminated its pilot, and devoured the remaining psychic power.
• Wei He gained roughly two hundred Psychic Ears and set his sights on another target.

Three formally dressed strangers discussed a mission to find and protect the lifeform that had restarted the Life Process. On the battlefield, Wei He survived Dilanka’s attack and fought off a Knosus expert, but Knosus destroyed the Star Gate and the Ugly Duckling was lost.

• Three strangers on an asteroid learned that the Life Process had restarted and agreed to find and protect the lifeform behind it until the rulers could harvest it.
• Dilanka avenged his daughter Yuan Dixi by killing a Knosus High-level Fission expert, then attacked Wei He in grief before Herudan and Saintain stopped him.
• Wei He withdrew from Dilanka, ambushed enemy colonies, and gained more than four hundred Spiritual Ears of psionic energy before a four-winged Knosus colony engaged him.
• The four-winged colony withdrew as the Knosus legion retreated, having destroyed the Star Gate and prevented the Penza Empire’s reinforcements from reaching the front.
• Herudan ordered everyone back to the mothership, but a Fission expert reported that their mothership had been destroyed, and Wei He saw that the Ugly Duckling was now wreckage.

After the fleet’s disastrous interception, Wei He and Longhubo considered the casualties and their uncertain path through an interference zone, while news revealed that the Seventh Legion had nearly been destroyed. Elsewhere, Barron ordered Star Abyss creatures to search for Wei He, and Wei He reached High-level Fission just as his fleet gathered to prepare for Star Abyss threats.

• Wei He and Longhubo counted the survivors after the Ugly Duckling was destroyed, finding that almost all of their unit had been killed.
• Longhubo told Wei He that Knosus’s Tyrant Dragon and Holy Infant Legion had crushed the Redstone Legion, leaving the Seventh Legion nearly destroyed.
• Longhubo warned Wei He not to use the psionic channel aboard the Soaring, while many fleet members considered using the interference zone to fake an accident and retreat.
• Barron ordered an enormous Star Abyss eye to have beast hordes find the human who restarted the Life Process, cultivate him, and capture him when he was nearly ripe.
• Wei He’s psionic energy passed 1,100 psionic ears, formally advancing him to High-level Fission.
• Katri told Wei He that the fleet had gathered to discuss countermeasures against Star Abyss dangers in the interference zone.

Trenchild led the damaged legion into an interference zone, where cosmic dust storms destroyed much of the fleet before Star Abyss creatures attacked the survivors. Wei He saved Longhubo from a Deep Crimson Terrifying Human, leaving them in the middle of the battle.

• Trenchild ordered the legion to keep their body frames ready as the fleet approached the interference zones, while Wei He concealed part of his Spirit Energy growth.
• The Flying entered the blue interference zone, where Spirit Energy communication failed and enormous tentacles of cosmic dust storms tore through the fleet.
• Wei He, Longhubo, and Katri escaped the storms aboard the damaged Flying, but only around five thousand legionnaires survived.
• Star Abyss creatures attacked the fleet as it emerged from the storms, and Longhubo led the body frames against a flock of two-headed giant birds.
• A nine-headed white bird identified as a Deep Crimson Terrifying Human endangered Longhubo, but Wei He struck her clear of its impact.

Wei He and the fleet fought the Deep Crimson Nine-Headed Bird, and a Stellar Cannon struck it down at immense cost. With Herudan dead and the fleet stranded, Wei He focused on the creature’s corpse as a chance to devour its remaining Star Abyss will and advance.

• Wei He, Longhubo, Katri, Dilanka, and other fighters charged the Nine-Headed Bird to buy time for the Stellar Cannon to deploy.
• The Nine-Headed Bird destroyed many combat suits with its attacks, but the cannon struck it with a predictive shot and set its body ablaze.
• Only five hundred of nearly four thousand combat suits returned, and Katri told Wei He that Herudan had sacrificed himself.
• Longhubo reported that Dilanka was badly injured but alive, while Belkin proposed gathering the surviving groups and seeking support from Ascenders.
• Wei He considered the dangers facing the stranded fleet and resolved to collect samples from the Nine-Headed Bird’s corpse to absorb its remaining will and pursue ascension.

Saint Gulian confronted First Prince Noxi over his quest to uncover the truth of the True Realm and the wars he had unleashed, while the Empire drifted beyond the Emperor’s control. Meanwhile, Wei He joined a collection team approaching the Nine-Headed Bird’s corpse, where his group began gathering samples under a strict time limit.

• First Prince Noxi told Saint Gulian that he sought answers about reality and the True Realm, and dismissed the casualties from his attacks on Pengsha and the Eastern Pole as meaningless if existence was false.
• Saint Gulian realized Noxi’s immense power and ability to perfect life through the Mother River had pushed the Empire beyond his control.
• After a fleet meeting left its captains divided between pressing onward and hiding to await news, Trenchild ordered his unit to collect materials and leave within twenty minutes.
• Wei He volunteered to lead a collection team toward the Nine-Headed Bird’s corpse, using his researcher status to gain approval.
• Wei He landed with the Radiants on a cooled patch of the corpse and ordered them to collect samples without exposing their colony armor to the flesh.

Wei He harvested the Nine-Headed Bird’s Deep Crimson life-structure data and nutrients, bringing him closer to completing the flesh-cultivation requirements for Ascendance. On the return flight, Black Eye One froze time and offered him a partnership with the Star Abyss, leaving Wei He tempted but still weighing the proposal.

• Wei He burrowed into the Nine-Headed Bird, consumed its flesh, and recorded its Deep Crimson life structure before the collection team returned to the spacecraft.
• Wei He realized the recorded structure could help him raise his body to Scarlet Terrifying Human level, while he still needed to strengthen his psionic energy to reach Ascendance.
• Black Eye One appeared beside Wei He after freezing the spacecraft and revealed that he was a peak Deep Crimson Star Abyss envoy seeking a suitable human collaborator.
• Black Eye One explained that the Star Abyss rulers wanted agents for a mysterious game and offered Wei He military merits, authority over Star Abyss forces, and access to higher-level Terrifying Human corpses.
• Wei He asked what he would gain, then became tempted by Black Eye One’s offer when he learned other envoys were also seeking partners.

Wei He accepted the Star Abyss Eye from Black Eye One, then prepared to join the fleet’s struggle through the blue mist. As the fleet fought a Star Abyss beast tide, Wei He discovered the Eye repelled the creatures around him.

• Black Eye One offered Wei He the Star Abyss Eye, which granted command over lower-ranked beast tides and resistance to radiation contamination; Wei He took it, and Black Eye One vanished.
• Katri told Wei He that Belkin had organized a Fission gathering, while Ascenders recruited supporters and weighed whether to advance; Wei He resolved to focus on strengthening his psionic power and continue toward the battlefield.
• The Nine-Headed Bird was destroyed, and after several days of factional disputes the fleet split, with Commander Ding Si leading the larger group onward.
• The fleet encountered masses of Star Abyss creatures in the blue mist, and Belkin ordered the body frames to deploy and intercept them.
• Wei He fought among the creatures and noticed that they repeatedly avoided him; he released the Star Abyss Eye and concluded that it was repelling them.

Wei He used the Star Abyss Eye to control corrupted beasts and redirect their attacks, causing the Red Worm Galaxy forces to face an overwhelming swarm. After Belkin opened a path for the Orga main force to escape, Dilanka and most of his team were overwhelmed and killed.

• Wei He attached his psychic energy to the Star Abyss Eye's aura and took control of more than a thousand corrupted beasts, including a Fission-level colossal beast soldier.
• Wei He redirected Dust Bats and other Star Abyss creatures toward Dilanka's Red Worm Galaxy team, while the Orga squad struggled against its own attackers.
• Belkin used Spirit Arts: Sky Pillar to open a path through the encirclement, allowing Wei He, Katri, Longhubo, and the others to escape.
• Three Dust Bats ignored Belkin and attacked Dilanka's team instead, and Wei He said the Red Worm Galaxy must be carrying something that attracted Star Abyss creatures.
• The Orga survivors fled as the Red Worm Galaxy formation erupted in a massive explosion, Dilanka's psychic-energy fluctuations vanished, and Wei He continued toward the fleet.

Subfleet 7-133 survived the Star Abyss beast horde and reached the Wulan galaxy, where Wei He began preparing for ascension. An envoy investigating the person who restarted the Life Process sensed something among the arriving fleets and sent a woman toward Wei He.

• Subfleet 7-133 escaped the blue fog with only about a thousand motherships remaining, and Commander Ding Si ordered the fleet to jump toward the Star Gate.
• Katri learned that Bilian had reached the Wulan galaxy safely, while Longhubo offered to help Wei He reunite with her after the fleets were reorganized.
• Wei He reviewed the requirements for becoming an Ascender and considered how to prepare for the dangerous year-long ordeal inside a star.
• Subfleet 7-133 passed through the interference zones and arrived at the Wulan galaxy, where the fleet underwent inspections at the defenses surrounding Shada.
• An envoy learned that the person who restarted the Life Process was among the forces in the war and instructed a woman to investigate the arriving fleets.
• The woman left the passage and headed toward Wei He.

Wei He was secretly marked by the Eastern Extreme Alliance and decided to pursue strength without restraint, then returned to frontline duty as a battalion commander. When a massive Star Abyss force attacked his patrol, he used the chaos to transfer his true body into a disguised crow and escape unnoticed.

• An East Salun woman sampled Wei He's psionic aura and sent it to the Dome of Heaven, while Wei He remained unaware.
• After Katri mentioned the Eastern Extreme Alliance's warning about Star Abyss spies, Wei He resolved to raise his strength as quickly as possible.
• Several days later, Wei He returned to frontline service as a battalion commander and led a patrol near the Wulan galaxy.
• Black Eye One urged Wei He to strengthen his flesh, but Wei He ignored him and continued the patrol.
• A planet-sized mass of Star Abyss flesh appeared, and Wei He led his team into battle before an upper-level Giant Beast Soldier destroyed his left arm.
• Wei He secretly transferred his true body into a crow disguised as a Polluted Beast, leaving a humanoid shell and the Star Abyss Eye behind as he vanished into the horde.

After returning to Wulan Star, Wei He learned that surviving Fissioners might be assigned to disposable long-range psionic units, then shifted his consciousness to his crow body in the Star Abyss Beast Tide. He devoured polluted beasts until his psionic energy reached the High-level Fission limit of two thousand, and the Free War Stars' golden defenses then burned away a vast section of the tide.

• Wei He rode with Katri on Wulan Star as they discussed their likely reassignment to long-range psionic units, which Katri described as disposable batteries for massed psychic attacks.
• Wei He shifted his consciousness to his crow body in the beast tide and began devouring black giant flies to increase his psionic energy.
• A Spiked Dragon Beast attacked Wei He, who unfolded his true body and used the Thousand-Eyed Demon's Hallucination ability to destroy and devour it.
• Wei He used his hallucination ability to make approaching beasts and giant beast soldiers self-destruct, raising his psionic energy to its High-level Fission limit of two thousand.
• The Free War Stars fired golden beams through the beast tide, burning away a huge portion of its advancing forces.

Wei He was swept into the Star Abyss, where he killed the Terror Cruz with stored poisons and used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to advance to a powerful new form. He then set out to grow stronger among the Star Abyss beasts, while Black Eye One briefly sensed his presence and dismissed it as an illusion.

• Wei He was carried with the retreating beast tide into a vast realm of living flesh and blood, where he encountered the Terror Cruz.
• Cruz offered to join forces with Wei He, then attacked and tried to devour him; Wei He poisoned Cruz until his body exploded and captured part of his will.
• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to break through the Evolutionary Codex bottleneck, combining Terror traits with the Nine-Headed Bird's form.
• Wei He noticed the Boundary-Breaking Pearl had changed and flew off to hunt among the dispersing beasts.
• Black Eye One appeared where Wei He had been, sensed his aura, and decided it must have been an illusion.

While Wei He’s other body secretly hunted in the Astral Abyss, his military duties on Wulan Star led him to begin further study under the Immortal Balrid. Balrid accepted him as a student and arranged for him to study whenever his military duties allowed.

• Wei He raised his psionic power to eight thousand in the Astral Abyss, then concealed himself when the region’s controller sent giant beast soldiers to hunt him.
• Wei He, Katri, and Longhubo visited Balrid’s manor, where a Serpentfolk maid escorted them to the professor.
• Balrid questioned Wei He about his background, aptitude, and cultivation, and decided he met the requirements to study under him.
• Balrid agreed to notify the military so Wei He could attend lessons starting the next day and return to his post after completing his studies.

Wei He accepted Balrid as his teacher and considered how the status could help him grow and stay safe, while Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong set out for Penza on a mission to find the Rebooter. On Wulan Star, Black Eye One urged Wei He to hunt other Star Abyss Eye pairs, but Wei He refused and asked to end their contract.

• Wei He left Balrid’s manor with Longhubo and Katri, learned that Balrid had accepted him as a student, and heard about the stages a Sublimator must pass to become Immortal.
• At the Dome of Heaven, Song Chaochao led Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong on a mission to find the person who activated the Life Process, with Penza as their destination.
• Song Chaochao explained that Yuan Du Zi was the mission’s main force and Li Rong her support, and warned that they needed to find the Rebooter before the Star Abyss completed its reboot.
• Black Eye One urged Wei He to eliminate other Star Abyss Eye pairs and grow stronger, but Wei He refused because he disliked killing.
• Wei He asked Black Eye One to wipe out their contract, and Black Eye One said it could not be undone.

Wei He encountered Roland, another Star Abyss Eye holder, and was forced into a deadly duel inside the Eye’s false space. He defeated Roland despite the latter’s stolen abilities, leaving the struggle’s outcome for the partners and surrounding world unresolved.

• Wei He planned to build strength and a positive image, then learned Bilian’s transfer had been approved and discussed gifts with Katri.
• Wei He and Roland recognized each other as Rebooters, and the Star Abyss Eye froze their surroundings to force them into combat.
• Roland attacked Wei He, whose stronger spiritual energy was offset by Roland’s exceptional physical strength and Seizing ability.
• Wei He used the Cloud Sea Codex and spirit arts to strike Roland, then tracked and fought him after Roland turned invisible and transformed into electricity.
• Wei He endured Roland’s electrical assault until Roland’s energy ran out, then crushed Roland’s skull with a palm strike.