Chapter Summaries

Wei He continued building the Revivalists while the Empire’s officials investigated their rapid growth, and he drove Balldias away after killing him repeatedly. Mi Fei offered to help Wei He find other Rebooters in exchange for a future favor, as Wei He prepared to expand his territory and grow stronger.

• Wei He told Erdos not to target Immortal Council members yet and to approach neutral councilors, then met Rong Ling after a late-night hospital shift.
• Two months later, Farmen and Tifa discussed the Revivalists’ rapid expansion, mysterious leadership, and links to more than six Immortals, and Tifa ordered a meeting with their upper ranks.
• In Star Abyss, Wei He’s Nine-Headed Bird attacked Balldias again after sixty killing charges, and Balldias withdrew and called off his feud over Adeba.
• Mi Fei offered to use the Star Abyss Eye to identify other Rebooters and help Wei He expand in return for one future request, and Wei He agreed.

Kashulia learned that her injuries had left her unable to serve as a Dragon Machine User and that the military intended to make her stand trial. Meanwhile, Wei He established a secret Revival Society base on an asteroid and began researching a myth-inspired path to surpass the Immortal level in psionic power.

• Kashulia overheard doctors confirm that her injuries might not be survivable and that she could no longer serve as a Dragon Machine User.
• Balrid promised to protect Kashulia, but military representatives told him she would retire and stand trial after causing the deaths of hundreds of Ascendants and support personnel.
• Wei He emerged from a blood-red eyeball on a remote asteroid and established a secret experimental base for the Revival Society.
• Wei He recruited thirteen rescued scientists, led by Kofila, to research a psionic evolution system inspired by myths and legends.
• Kofila proposed beginning with divine creatures from Penza Empire mythology, and the researchers started developing and testing cultivation methods.

Jin De met First Prince Noxi, who revealed that Leidua’s incomplete soul could be restored if Jin De avenged him, and described his plan to evolve humanity through the Mother River. Meanwhile, Wei He prioritized experiments using his completed Boundary-Breaking Pearl as the Revival Society prepared to establish its own era.

• Jin De entered the council chamber despite a giant noble’s warning that Noxi was taboo at the Silver Palace.
• Noxi summoned Leidua’s incomplete soul from the deep-blue river and told Jin De that avenging his teacher would allow him to be resurrected.
• Noxi asked Jin De to help advance his plan to evolve humanity and establish an immortal empire through the Mother River.
• Wei He convened the Revival Society and heard reports that the Perfection Society had thwarted their attempts to infiltrate Knosus.
• Wei He ordered the society to focus on the Eastern Extreme Alliance and begin simulation experiments using his completed Boundary-Breaking Pearl, starting with a legendary divine bloodline.

After graduating, Wei He discussed Kashulia’s condition and his family’s affairs before consulting Yuan Du Zi about expanding his martial arts realm. Yuan Du Zi explained that expansion meant condensing his realm into a rule and finding other domains where it applied.

• Balrid congratulated Wei He and Rong Ling on graduating, discussed Kashulia’s unresolved psychic deviation, and registered them at Wulan Galaxy Comprehensive University.
• Wei He and Rong Ling parted ways, with Rong Ling returning to her department and Wei He heading home after sharing his new address on World-Encompassing Star.
• Bilian told Wei He that the Saluto family wanted to relocate to the Wulan galaxy and that Wei Heng was dating a girl; Wei He let her decide how to handle both matters.
• Wei He contacted Li Rong and asked Yuan Du Zi how to expand his martial arts realm beyond the path he had already taken to its limit.
• Yuan Du Zi explained that Wei He needed to condense his martial arts realm into a rule or pattern, then test it and find a domain where it could be applied.

Yuan Du Zi explained the martial arts realm of Extraction to Wei He while demonstrating how it let her suppress and kill a Rebooter. Wei He then returned to the Revivalist Research Base, began breaking through to the Immortal level, and ordered Kofila to investigate new mythological materials for advancement rituals.

• Yuan Du Zi told Wei He that Expansion strengthened the overall self and described Extraction as refining martial arts into a soul-based realm that could approach the Dao.
• Yuan Du Zi defeated a middle Fission-level Rebooter while her team restrained his Deep Crimson Terrifying Human collaborator.
• Yuan Du Zi explained that each person had to discover their own path to Extraction, then ended the communication with Wei He.
• Wei He realized that his own path emphasized strengthening while Yuan Du Zi explored technique, and he transferred himself to the Revivalist Research Base.
• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to purify his psionic energy and begin his breakthrough to the Immortal level.
• Wei He instructed Kofila to continue researching the Evolutionary Codex and test new mythological materials, starting with Golden Crow True Blood.

Wei Heng brought Maris Ean to meet his parents, while Wei He and Bilian prepared to shelter Bilian’s displaced Saluto relatives. At the spaceport, Duoshali’s family faced security checks as a vast Imperial fleet jumped away, leaving them stunned by its scale.

• Wei Heng reassured Maris Ean before introducing her to Bilian Saluto and Wei He at the family manor.
• Wei He and Bilian discussed housing the more than thirty members of the Saluto family at their eastern-suburbs manor.
• Duoshali led her relatives through World-Encompassing Star’s spaceport, where soldiers turned away travelers whose security clearance had expired.
• Duoshali and her family watched tens of thousands of Imperial warships, including over a thousand floating-island motherships, jump away.

Wei He helped Duoshali and the Saluto Lineage pass security and brought them into the World-Encompassing Star, then hunted down and killed a Rebooter. He learned that Balrid was considering handing Kashulia over to the Eternal Silence Party for research, and the chapter ended with Wei He silently weighing whether to intervene.

• Duoshali pleaded with security after members of the Saluto Lineage were rejected for expired clearances, and Wei He arranged for the whole group to enter through a side checkpoint.
• Wei He reassured Duoshali that the Orga Galaxy was protected and offered to house her family, while explaining that property in the World-Encompassing Star was beyond their means and required a silver contribution badge.
• Wei He located a blond Rebooter in the crowd, stopped time with the Star Abyss Eye, and killed her before she could finish her attack.
• Wei He told Black Eye One he would use the Rebooter game to strengthen himself, since the Star Abyss already knew about him.
• Black Eye One revealed that Balrid had agreed to give up treating Kashulia and was considering the Eternal Silence Party's proposal to take her for Dragon Machine research.
• After hearing Balrid's recorded conversation, Wei He stopped walking and said nothing as Black Eye One asked whether he would help Kashulia.

Noxi revealed the Mother River to Jin De and granted him the power to summon true spirits. He Bing learned that his Master was a Star Abyss lord and member of the Eternal Silence Party, while Wei He’s consciousness was drawn into a vast black space before a blue sphere.

• Noxi led Jin De to a barren planet and revealed the immense blue rivers of the Mother River across its surface.
• Noxi granted Jin De authorization to summon true spirits, whose True Names entered his mind and whose power formed a defensive layer around his psionic energy.
• He Bing’s Master revealed his corrupted face and explained that the Star Abyss largely ignored humanity and that he used its power to preserve peace.
• He Bing learned that his Master belonged to the Eternal Silence Party, but his Master revealed that he was a Star Abyss lord rather than a human.
• Wei He’s consciousness expanded across the Wulan galaxy, then contracted and appeared in a boundless black space before a glowing blue sphere.

Wei He reached the Immortal level and discovered that his physical strength had amplified his psychic energy far beyond ordinary Immortals. He began consuming a Star Abyss planet to strengthen his body, while Kashulia collapsed after eating congee brought by Professor Balrid.

• Wei He broke through to the Immortal level, and tests showed his psychic energy exceeded average Immortal levels in total strength, speed, and range.
• Wei He and Gudrian shared the discovery that physical strength greatly amplified psychic energy with the Revival Society's branch bases.
• Wei He entered Star Abyss and enveloped a small planet in his flesh carpet to consume its materials and strengthen his body.
• Professor Balrid brought Kashulia birthday congee at the hospital, and Kashulia lost consciousness after suspecting it had been tampered with.

Kashulia was betrayed, gravely wounded, and left to die after the Eternal Silence Party abducted her and another group extracted her psionic power. Wei He rescued her as a spatial bomb erased the scene, while He Bing learned of her reported death and reflected on how people became tools.

• Balrid helped the Eternal Silence Party take Kashulia from the hospital, but a Defense Department assault disrupted their escape and a stray bullet wounded her.
• A woman and her companion extracted the psionic power from Kashulia’s left eye and abandoned her; Balrid refused to save her, and the Eternal Silence Party declared their deal void.
• As a spatial oscillation bomb detonated, Kashulia begged for help, and Wei He arrived, lifted her, and began reshaping her body, calling it rebirth.
• In the Eastern Extreme Alliance, He Bing heard that Kashulia had died in an ammunition depot explosion and realized that becoming a tool meant eventually being discarded.

Wei He oversaw Kashulia’s revival and the Revival Society’s research into bloodline cultivation before strengthening himself by devouring a Star Abyss planet. After advancing to Black Flame, he met two Star Abyss lords who explained the factions’ rules and offered him the chance to seek recognition from one of the Three Great Masters.

• Wei He learned that Kashulia’s body and psychic energy had been rebuilt around her purified soul, and he ordered the researchers to notify him when she woke.
• Kofila gave Wei He an Evolutionary Codex formula for Golden Crow True Blood, and he ordered preliminary tests while planning further tests involving other kinds of True Blood.
• Kofila reported the Revival Society’s growing membership, reserves, and psychic energy, while Wei He said its development toward the Eastern Extreme Alliance was nearing its goal.
• Wei He devoured a small Star Abyss planet and absorbed its creatures, raising his psychic energy to 3.14 million Spirit Ears and bringing his physical strength close to that of a Black Flame Lord.
• Two Black Flame Lords told Wei He that mutual devouring was forbidden among their kind and that he could join a faction by seeking recognition from its Master.
• Wei He asked whether he could meet the Three Great Masters, alarmed that he might have to approach them so soon after advancing.

Wei He declined to join the Star Abyss factions and resolved to focus on strengthening himself. Meanwhile, the Penza Empire’s Immortal Council debated the Revival Society, and Heart of the Banyan Tree agents questioned Wei He about the group.

• Black Thorn Ball explained the Star Abyss rule against conflict among Black Flame beings, and Wei He chose to delay any decision about joining them.
• At the Immortal Council meeting, Chairman Malong halted disputes over postwar spoils and turned the discussion to the Revival Society.
• Aishaniell Royce reported that the Heart of the Banyan Tree had lost control of its intelligence on the Revival Society, whose members included many powerful psychics.
• After learning that Kashulia Andy had died in an attack involving a suspected third party, Malong ordered an investigation into the Revival Society’s original core members.
• Rong Ling and Lawrence Cobo visited Wei He under the pretext of investigating the hospital bombing, then told him they mainly wanted information about the Revival Society.

Wei He learned that the Heart of the Banyan Tree was investigating the Revival Society and ordered its units to halt their expansion while he continued strengthening his body. Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong arrived at his manor, where Yuan Du Zi warned him that the Star Abyss could control any powerful flesh and urged him to stop growing stronger.

• Rong Ling and Lawrence questioned Wei He about the Revival Society's activities and benefits, then decided to keep him under observation because he seemed unusually calm.
• Wei He warned nearby Revival Society units through psionic energy to curb their expansion as the Heart of the Banyan Tree began investigating them.
• Wei He reflected on his rapid growth from devouring Star Abyss planets and learned that the Rebooter game had reached its final stage.
• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong arrived at Wei He's manor, and Yuan Du Zi recognized that he was still strengthening himself through martial arts.
• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong told Wei He that the Star Abyss could control powerful flesh, but Wei He insisted he had a way to resist it.
• Yuan Du Zi asked Wei He to stop strengthening his body, and he fell silent because he could not prove his method would protect him.

Wei He demonstrated that he could absorb the Star Abyss’s chaotic will and offered Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong the chance to gain the ability through implanted cells. After leaving, Yuan Du Zi suspected that Wei He might be under deceptive pollution and decided that the Dome of Heaven’s prophecy could help determine his true condition.

• Wei He absorbed the chaotic will from a piece of Nine Fury Ghost flesh and said his psychic energy could purify pollution up to the Fission level.
• Wei He offered Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong a trace of his cells so they could gain the same ability, and Yuan Du Zi said she would verify his claims first.
• After Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong left Wei He’s estate, Yuan Du Zi detected and removed particles Wei He had left on them.
• Yuan Du Zi explained the dangers of deep and deceptive Star Abyss pollution, and she feared Wei He might be a deceptive-pollution victim.
• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong concluded that they could seek a prophecy from the Dome of Heaven to investigate Wei He’s condition.

Resala Dongting learned that the Holy Seal Legion had been crippled by an internal mutiny before allied forces attacked her position, forcing her to retreat. After hearing that Knosus was massacring civilians near the White Orchid Starfield, Wei He grew concerned for Olga and decided to head to the front lines and relocate his subordinates.

• Resala Dongting received the shattered remnants of the Holy Seal Legion and learned that allied forces had turned its commanders against one another.
• The Thunderbird Legion and Redwood Fleet launched a surprise attack, and Resala ordered her forces to retreat.
• Wei He and Bilian received an alert that a Knosus fleet had cut off contact with more than three hundred thousand life planets while attacking civilians.
• Wei He learned that the massacring Knosus fleet was an isolated force that kept fighting despite suffering devastating losses.
• Wei He returned his consciousness to his Star Abyss body and decided to go to the front lines, relocate his subordinates in Olga, and investigate Knosus.

Wei He joined the assault on a Knosus mothership while using High Spirit Observation to investigate the blue souls rising from the battlefield. He discovered a cloud connected to the Mother River, fought its mist tentacles, and destroyed it, leaving the force behind the cloud unknown.

• Wei He received orders to clear defenders from the fourth weak point on Knosus mothership L7832.
• Wei He observed blue souls rising from fallen combatants and gathering into a pillar that flowed into a cloud above the battlefield.
• Wei He cut through the defenders near L7832, then followed a fallen enemy's soul to the cloud roughly 120,000 kilometers above the battlefield.
• Wei He recognized the cloud's mist as connected to the Mother River and saw a four-eyed mist creature inside it.
• The cloud attacked Wei He with mist tentacles, but he countered with High Spirit Energy and sliced through the cloud, causing it to explode.

Wei He confronted a powerful Perfection Society figure during a battle and learned that the First Prince of Knosus stood behind the organization. Back at the Revival Society headquarters, he ordered an investigation and prepared to test the Golden Crow True Blood.

• Wei He confronted a blue humanoid who revealed that they shared the same essence of soul and defended the Mother River’s hierarchy, while Wei He argued for equality and the reality of the present.
• A True Spirit Shockwave erupted from Knosus’s fleet, and the blue humanoid vanished after warning Wei He that he would watch him.
• Noxi Dongting ordered Fransha’s files on the Revival Society and began investigating Wei He’s organization.
• At the Revival Society headquarters, Wei He inspected Kofila’s Wall of Eternal Slumber and ordered an investigation into the Perfection Society.
• Kofila identified First Prince Noxi Dongting as the Perfection Society’s president, and Wei He reviewed his records.
• Kofila reported that preliminary Golden Crow True Blood testing would be completed the next month, and Wei He looked forward to testing it with the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.

Wei He began cultivating the four-layer Golden Crow Technique at the Revivalists' base, rapidly mastering its first three layers. He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to attempt the final layer and saw a strange red spark that might be Golden Crow True Blood.

• Wei He wore a mask linked to the Wall of Eternal Slumber and began the Golden Crow Technique in an isolation chamber.
• Wei He absorbed medicinal mist and mastered the first layer, then completed the second layer after drawing heat into his body.
• Wei He quickly advanced through the third layer and prepared to cultivate the final layer using Golden Crow True Blood.
• Wei He activated the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which filled his blood with golden patterned symbols.
• Wei He lost sight of his surroundings and saw a small red spark that shifted between the forms of fire and liquid.

Wei He successfully fused Golden Crow True Blood and ordered the Revival Society to develop its own psychic cultivation system before leaving for space. In Knosus, Resala confronted Noxi over the Holy Seal Legion, but he vanished before she could get answers.

• Wei He endured the isolation chamber’s heat as high as one million degrees and successfully fused Golden Crow True Blood.
• Wei He ordered Kofila to research a Golden Crow-based bloodline and psychic cultivation system, then departed the base in a stealth microship.
• Resala confronted Noxi in the Sacred Courtyard, accusing him of causing the Holy Seal Legion’s destruction.
• Noxi spoke of seeking reality beyond illusion, then vanished from the throne before Resala could reach him.

Wei He withdrew into a star as the war shifted against Knosus, while his son Wei Heng struggled to plan his future after graduation. That night, Wei Heng’s girlfriend Maris secretly entered the family home on an intelligence mission to investigate Wei He.

• Wei He flew into a star to absorb its heat and nourish his Three-legged Golden Crow bloodline.
• In Imperial Calendar 1347, Knosus weakened after the Holy Seal Legion incident, and it declared the Perfection Society an extremist organization and issued warrants for its members.
• At a graduation gathering, Wei Heng said he had no job plans, while Maris offered to seek help from her grandfather; Wei Heng insisted he would speak with his father instead.
• Wei Heng invited Maris to his home, and she later left his bedroom while he slept and silently went upstairs.
• Maris, whose agent identity was White Stork, received instructions from the Heart of the Banyan Tree to copy documents from Wei He's collection room as part of an investigation into his role in the Revival Society.