Chapter Summaries

Maris infiltrated the collection room to copy data, but Wei He caught her and discovered she was pregnant with Wei Heng’s child. As Wei He moved to confront the Heart of the Banyan Tree and pursue his plans for the Revival Society, Speaker Malone learned that Revivalists were attacking the Dragon Machine database and ordered an immediate crackdown.

• Maris entered the collection room to access a safe, but Wei He caught her and crushed her with an invisible gravitational force.
• Wei He discovered that Maris was pregnant with Wei Heng’s child, spared her, and sent her back to Wei Heng’s room unconscious.
• Wei He reflected on the Revival Society’s growth and decided to stop hiding and seek control of the Penza Empire.
• Speaker Malone and Senator Resina surveyed the worsening crisis in the Jiudu River System.
• The Heart of the Banyan Tree director told Malone that Revivalists had attacked the Dragon Machine database and mobilized warships, so Malone ordered an immediate encirclement operation.

Wei He planned a surprise attack on the Dragon Mecha Archive to expose the Revival Society and recruit Imperial civilians. Meanwhile, Wei Heng woke beside Maris and realized his family had discovered she had spent the night at his home.

• Wei He briefed the Revival Society’s Immortal leaders on the Dragon Mecha Archive’s defenses and assigned Cole, Aifulia, and Gould to lead the vanguard.
• Wei He explained that the attack would defeat the Immortal Council’s defenders, reveal the Revival Society’s benefits, and draw civilians into its ranks.
• Gould warned that Malon and Yuesai could overwhelm the Immortals, but Wei He said they would not be present for the surprise attack.
• Wei He and the Revival Society’s leaders raised their hands and pledged themselves to a better tomorrow.
• Wei Heng woke beside Maris, found signs that his mother had returned early, and was startled by Wei He greeting him outside the bedroom.

Wei He told Wei Heng that a new job assignment would arrive within three days, then left to begin official business. Meanwhile, the Revivalists seized ports across the Ice Velvet Star Region, and Rong Ling fought through the chaos while recording what she learned about them.

• Wei He reassured Wei Heng that his assignment would arrive within three days and urged him to spend time with Marys before then.
• Wei He left his home and told an associate that they could begin.
• The Flying Eagle Fleet received orders to change course for the Dragon Mech Archive and help exterminate the Revivalists, while Karei secretly apologized to Tifa.
• Revivalist officers attacked their comrades and seized ports throughout the Ice Velvet Star Region, cutting off distress signals.
• Rong Ling fought her way through a port, killed a powerful Revivalist elite, and recorded details about the Revivalists before continuing toward the main control hall.

Cole, Gould, and Aifulia launched a surprise raid on the Dragon Mech Database while the Penza Empire fleet raced to reinforce it and fought Revival Society forces en route. Aifulia and Kashadell clashed at the station’s defenses as the battle began.

• Cole led Gould and Aifulia toward the Dragon Mech Database, while Aifulia deployed his black-armored assassination squads.
• Yue Sai’s fleet encountered a Revival Society force, and General Audis stayed behind to engage it while the main fleet continued onward.
• Yue Sai and Resina discussed the Revival Society’s regeneration and its lack of a top-tier powerhouse as the fleet prepared for another jump.
• Kashadell ordered the station’s garrison to fire at attackers striking the defensive force field.
• Aifulia broke through the force field with a giant psychic hand, and Kashadell raised a tower shield to meet his attack.

Cole, Gould, and Aifulia attacked the shield protecting the Dragon Machine Database while Wei He met Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong and admitted he founded the Revival Society. As Yue Sai began his final jump toward the battle, an enormous flesh blanket appeared behind him and Wei He’s golden eyes met his.

• Aifulia and Kashadell unleashed wide-area spirit arts as Kashadell expanded his shield to cover the entire space station.
• Cole ordered the main cannon to charge and joined Gould and Aifulia in attacking the shield while they waited for Yue Sai and Resina’s reinforcements.
• Wei He told Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong that he had founded the Revival Society and asked them for a strand of hair, saying they were family.
• Cole and Gould continued bombarding the shield, estimating it would take another hour to break through.
• Yue Sai’s biological armor suffered an unknown engine malfunction as he prepared to jump to the battlefield.
• Yue Sai turned and saw a planet-sized blanket of flesh covered in blood-red eyes, with Wei He’s figure rising at its center.

Freya disabled the Dragon Machine Database’s final defense and led its personnel to welcome Kashadell as the Revival Society’s forces overwhelmed the station. Wei He defeated Yue Sai in space and revealed that he had fused Star Abyss and psychic power.

• Freya activated her Revival Society helmet, confirmed that she had disabled the defense system, and requested extraction.
• The Dragon Machine Database’s silver shield shattered, and Freya led the converted officers and soldiers to welcome Kashadell.
• Wei He restrained Yue Sai and endured his powerful psychic attacks, recovering from the damage they inflicted.
• Wei He showed Yue Sai his pure psychic power and said he had spared the database because he did not want more compatriots to die in civil war.
• Wei He retracted his enormous blood-red body, and Yue Sai recognized him as the result of a successful Star Abyss and psychic power fusion.

Wei He healed Yuesai, entrusted him with leading the Revival Society, and asked him to eliminate war and unify humanity against the Astral Abyss. After the Revival Society defeated the Imperial forces without killing their leaders and restored the dead, Yuesai arrived to find the Society’s immortals awkwardly welcoming him as one of their own, while Wei He prepared to focus on researching mythical bloodlines.

• Wei He restored Yuesai’s body and revealed that his transformation came from the evolution of flesh and blood, not the Astral Abyss.
• Wei He placed Yuesai in charge of the Revival Society and asked him to unify the three great empires, resist the Astral Abyss, and eliminate war; Yuesai agreed to try.
• Freya and the Revival Society defeated Kashadell and the Imperial forces, while Gould explained that Wei He had forbidden them from killing the surrendered immortals.
• The Revival Society revived wounded and recently dead Imperial soldiers, stunning Kashadell and the other officers.
• Wei He and Yuesai arrived above the station, where Gould and the other immortals awkwardly welcomed Yuesai as a fellow member of the Society.
• Wei He planned to use Yuesai’s influence to weaken the Immortal Council and turn his attention to a discovery hidden in mythical bloodlines.

After graduation, Wei Heng was forcibly taken away by soldiers for a demanding job arranged by his father, leaving Shu Meng stunned. Meanwhile, at the Revivalist Research Headquarters, Wei He floated near the planetary core with cultivated Golden Crow True Blood before him.

• Wei Heng and Shu Meng discussed their classmates’ futures at the graduation gathering, where Alice Rogge displayed an extravagant starship projection message.
• Wei Heng told Shu Meng he would like to create his own game company, then parted from him at the fork in the road.
• A heavily armed aircraft landed, and a muscular man told Wei Heng that his father had arranged a job paying a hundred thousand a month with no days off.
• Soldiers took Wei Heng aboard the aircraft, while Shu Meng wondered whether he should call the police.
• At the Revivalist Research Headquarters, Wei He floated in a black space near the planetary core beside cultivated Golden Crow True Blood.

Wei He discovered that concentrated Golden Crow True Blood produced an authority effect and began researching how authority might develop into divine ranks, while Yue Sai managed the Revival Society’s hidden retreat. In Knosus territory, Jin De summoned Spirit God Messenora and annihilated the Eastern Extreme Alliance’s fleet and battlefield forces.

• Wei He found that nine grams of Golden Crow True Blood at its initial concentration triggered an authority effect, then began cultivating stronger True Blood with the Wall of Eternal Slumber.
• Wei He considered whether the Boundary-Breaking Pearl could reproduce divine ranks, recognized that his psychic energy had reached its limit, and turned his attention to analyzing authority.
• Wei He confirmed that Yue Sai was quietly consolidating control of the Immortal Council and protecting the Revival Society, Bilian, and the others.
• Jin De piloted the battered Tyrant Dragon into the Eastern Extreme Alliance’s carrier fleet and continued attacking despite the Potential Energy Incineration Cannon and his dwindling energy.
• Jin De invoked the True Name of Spirit God Messenora, whose golden wind reduced the carriers, colonial bodies, and other battlefield objects to golden particles.

Wei He attended a high-level gathering of Black Flame Lords at the Flame King Palace, where he sought answers about strange phenomena surrounding his true body. The Three Monarchs’ Barron arrived and announced the Rebooter game’s final stage, a deadly contest whose victor would receive three portions of the rulers’ heartblood.

• Wei He traveled to the Flame King Palace and reunited with Mi Fei, while noticing Balldias avoiding him.
• Wei He learned from Blood River that his wine contained a compressed satellite, then asked about his unexplained experiences with objects gathering around his true body.
• Barron entered the palace and received an ecstatic welcome from the assembled lords.
• Barron announced that the Rebooter game would enter its final stage, Desperate Wanderer, where twelve Rebooters would fight until one remained and the victor would receive three portions of the rulers’ heartblood.

Wei He prepared for the Monarch’s Desperate Wanderer game while strengthening his Golden Crow bloodline with the newly created Golden Crow Blood Marrow. Meanwhile, Jin De annihilated an imperial legion to feed the First Prince’s plan and the mysterious Mother River.

• Barron announced that Desperate Wanderer would begin in half a year, with twelve Rebooters competing through eighty-eight Star Prisons for three drops of the Monarch’s Heart’s Blood, and required the lords to serve as guardians.
• Wei He returned to Peace Star and learned that research into authorities had uncovered similar abilities among genetically modified human psychics.
• Kofila showed Wei He the Golden Crow Blood Marrow, and Wei He began absorbing it to strengthen his Golden Crow True Blood and condense a fuller authority.
• In the Shengyun River System, Jin De launched his Tyrant Dragon mech into battle and wiped out an imperial legion, sending its souls toward the mech.

Kashulia escaped the ruined Revival Society base, while Wei He secretly set her on a path that he expected would eventually bring her to an ally. Across the human territories, Rebooters launched wars ahead of the Desperate Wanderer game, and Wei He arrived at the gathering of Black Flame Lords, where Leimuna attacked him.

• Kashulia awoke in the wreckage of a Revival Society research base, recovered from her injuries, and escaped in a spacecraft bound for the Eastern Extreme Alliance.
• Wei He told Kofila that Kashulia was bait and ordered him to secretly help her, while Kashulia chose to seek out a former comrade instead of Wei He.
• A bespectacled Rebooter attacked a wounded girl in the Eastern Extreme Alliance, while other Rebooters fought across human territories to eliminate competitors before the game began.
• Wei He arrived late at the Black Flame Lords' gathering to create the Desperate Wanderer game and found every suitable planet occupied.
• Leimuna mocked Wei He for being a newcomer, and Wei He dismissed him before Leimuna angrily swelled and charged at him.

Wei He defeated Leimuna and waited as Monarch Barron created an eighty-eight-palace competition for the Black Flame Lords, while Wei He considered simulating the essence blood of legendary beings. Days later, Wei Heng arrived in the Eastern Extreme Alliance after graduating from a decade of training and prepared to visit his two godmothers with his family.

• Wei He swallowed Leimuna, weakened it, and drove off nearby Black Flame Lords before claiming two planets as seats.
• Monarch Barron explained that Black Flames could not evolve beyond their peak and created eighty-eight connected palaces where the Lords would compete for rankings.
• Wei He learned that a true Rebooter would be guaranteed to win the challenge, then decided to test whether he could simulate the essence blood or other traces of legendary beings.
• Several days later, Wei Heng arrived in the Eastern Extreme Alliance after completing ten years of special training and messaged Shu Meng, who was curious about his experiences.
• Wei Heng planned to relax with his family and visit his godmothers Li Rong and Yuan Du.

Wei Heng reunited with Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong, who invited him to help investigate the Mother River and observe a planned capture of a Perfection Society member. In Knosus, Noxi ambushed Messenora’s unfinished spirit body and destroyed its descended power to harvest its essence for his own ascent.

• Wei Heng arrived at Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong’s home with Maris and their daughter, Wei Dajun, and met He Yunyin.
• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong invited Wei Heng to join their research into the Mother River and watch an operation to capture a Perfection Society member.
• Noxi descended beneath the palace and spoke with Messenora, who explained how True Spirits earned recognition and imprinted their True Names in the Mother River.
• Noxi attacked Messenora, arguing that sacrificing a True Spirit’s soul could improve his standing with the Mother River.
• Noxi destroyed Messenora’s half-formed spirit body and gathered its golden spiritual essence, provoking a future threat of vengeance.

Noxi continued harvesting souls to complete the Eternal Soul Crown as the Perfection Society weakened Knosus's royalists. Meanwhile, Wei He tested the power of his Golden Crow True Blood inside a star, where it let him control stellar flames and manifest a colossal Three-legged Golden Crow.

• Noxi learned that the Eternal Soul Crown was more than halfway replenished and ordered Bafis to gather enough spiritual essence to fill the remaining fifth.
• Yue Sai told Wei He that the Perfection Society's Tyrant Dragon Dragon Mech had destroyed one of Knosus's last three royalist fleets, while Wei He refused to return to leadership and continued his experiments.
• Wei He discovered that his Golden Crow True Blood let him generate heat and control flames within a range of over one hundred thousand kilometers.
• Wei He entered a star and used its flames to form a gigantic platinum-white arm, then drew out the phantom of a Three-legged Golden Crow.
• A spacecraft crew witnessed the Golden Crow apparition, and the first officer knelt and prayed to it as the Sun God.

Aisharnir and Malone discussed the Revival Society’s growing influence and planned to trap its spies as the threat to the Empire worsened. Ten days later, Wei He entered the Star Abyss Eighty-Eight Palaces game, where the Rebooters would compete to find the sole survivor.

• Aisharnir warned Malone that Councilor Qinghe had withdrawn from their plan and that the Revival Society might be plotting against the Heart of Myriad Woods.
• Aisharnir proposed using the crisis to expose internal spies, and Malone offered his cooperation while preparing to negotiate a ceasefire with Knosus.
• Mi Fei explained to Wei He that Sovereign Barron had gathered the Rebooters for the Star Abyss Eighty-Eight Palaces event to speed up the final game.
• Wei He wondered whether Sublimator-level Rebooters could defeat Black Flame Lord guardians, and Mi Fei urged him to see for himself.
• Wei He entered the final spacecraft as Black Eye One panicked over their lack of preparation for the game.

Wei He entered the Rebooter game, then killed his game-body immediately, while the real Wei He left the human-controlled starfield aboard a spacecraft. The other Rebooters began fighting as the Star Abyss Lords watched the contest that could shape the future of the Monarchs.

• Barron brought the twelve Rebooters to a crumbling platform and explained that they had to survive the Eighty-Eight Palaces, where they could kill one another to gain strength.
• Wei He tried to surrender, but the refined young man with glasses and an old man explained that the game offered no way out.
• Wei He killed himself, causing his strength to be divided among the other eleven Rebooters and leaving them stunned.
• Jeliush charged at a dark-skinned woman as the Rebooters' slaughter began and the Star Abyss Lords focused on the game.
• The real Wei He traveled alone aboard his custom-built spacecraft, leaving humanity's three great galaxies and entering the Draco Dwarf Galaxy.

Wei He traveled hundreds of thousands of light-years into a remote nebula to attempt simulating Monarch's Heart's Blood and break through to Monarch. Meanwhile, peace talks at Myriad Scenery Mountain were attacked by the Perfection Society, which summoned Barto Salman as the negotiations descended into crisis.

• Wei He used consecutive long-range jumps to reach a remote nebula beyond the star chart, where he planned to simulate Monarch's Heart's Blood.
• Gao Yiling and Golia negotiated a thirty-year nonaggression agreement between the allied forces and Knosus at Myriad Scenery Mountain.
• The goat-helmeted leader and Perfection Society soldiers broke into the negotiations and declared their intent to eliminate everyone except Golia.
• Gao Yiling's forces suppressed unrest among the surrounding fleets, but the leader summoned Barto Salman, whose tentacles engulfed Myriad Scenery Mountain.

Gao Yiling’s attempt to escape was stopped as True Spirit Water God Barto attacked the Revivalists, prompting Lord Xuanwu to reveal itself and clash with Barto. In the Dwarf Galaxy, Wei He’s breakthrough attempts with Monarch’s Heart’s Blood failed, but simulating Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s vital essence triggered the Boundary-Breaking Pearl and exposed him to a vision of the universe’s origin.

• Gao Yiling activated an emergency communicator, but an unknown spirit art immobilized him before he could escape.
• Andanifa tried to leave with his subordinate, but Barto’s tentacles blocked their path and attacked them.
• Lord Xuanwu emerged from beneath Myriad Scenery Mountain and collided with True Spirit Water God Barto above the negotiation chamber.
• Wei He failed to find a breakthrough path using Monarch’s Heart’s Blood and decided to simulate Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s vital essence.
• The Boundary-Breaking Pearl reacted to Wei He’s simulation, opening a black hole whose light showed him the universe reversing to its origin.
• Wei He saw an immense figure at the beginning of everything, and its gaze sent a torrent of information and insights into his mind.

After his attempt to simulate Primordial Heavenly Venerate nearly destroyed him, Wei He recovered and gained a new violet-tinged perception that revealed the threads of rules woven through matter. He followed a golden point of light to a black hole, where he began questioning the nature of its golden rule threads.

• Wei He’s simulation collapsed when Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s passing gaze nearly shattered his body and mind, but his injuries soon healed.
• Wei He realized he had confirmed Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s existence and received information from the being, though it did not seem to belong to his world.
• Wei He discovered that his psychic energy had turned pale violet and that he could see objects as networks of colored threads representing different rules.
• Wei He left his spacecraft and examined the nebula, an asteroid, and the surrounding space through his new perception.
• Wei He spotted a golden point in the nebula, jumped toward it, and discovered it was a black hole.
• Wei He recalled humanity’s classifications of black holes, black tubes, and black abysses, and wondered why the black hole’s rule threads appeared gold.