Chapter Summaries

Wei He sent a subsidiary body into the golden black hole and discovered a ruined temple containing a headless statue. The statue’s memories revealed an ancient Whole Human’s failed experiment, which Wei He identified as the Divine Authority Status and Ascension Ritual.

• Wei He sent a subsidiary body toward the black hole, where gravity stretched and compressed it until it reached the black sphere’s surface.
• Wei He used a Star Number Worm body to withstand the pressure, saw golden light with his purple eyes, and drilled into the sphere.
• Wei He entered a ruined white temple, approached its headless golden statue, and evaded its attacks until falling rubble buried it.
• A golden light merged with Wei He, and the black hole crumbled into white debris as the information from the subsidiary body reached his main body.
• Wei He pieced together that an ancient Whole Human had created the black hole after a failed experiment, then committed suicide after a mental breakdown.
• Wei He learned that the experiment was called the Divine Authority Status and Ascension Ritual.

First Prince Noxi began a galaxy-wide sacrifice to achieve dimensional ascension and unleashed the Perfection Society’s assault on rival powers. As the Immortal Council struggled to respond, Councilor Duramid revealed that the Revival Society’s goal might be to revive ancient gods.

• Noxi fused the Everla Galaxy into a burning heart and explained to Jin De that the Eternal Soul Crown would enable ascension to a higher dimension.
• Noxi began the sacrifice, and Perfection Society members launched strategic weapons against civilian galaxies while three True Spirits attacked Alliance forces.
• Speaker Malong briefed the Immortal Council on the True Spirits and the Perfection Society’s advances, while Aisharnir warned that Knossoss’s defenses were collapsing.
• Councilor Duramid told Malong that the Revival Society’s purpose might include reviving gods from the ultra-ancient era.

The Immortal Council learned that the Revival Society's ancient god system had a vast hierarchy and agreed to vote on its acceptance. Meanwhile, Wei He began a Divine Throne Ascension Ritual by absorbing stars, leaving Kashulia and He Bing to investigate the collapse of sixteen star systems.

• Duramid told the Immortal Council that the Revival Society's Four Sacred Beasts were guards in a larger ancient god system, with seventy-two Black Tortoises and ranks extending up to Heavenly Venerables.
• Yue Sai said the Revival Society would join the war only if Heart of Myriad Woods ended its strict surveillance and recognized it as a legitimate organization, then called for a vote.
• Wei He studied the Divine Throne Ascension Ritual and decided to attempt dimensional ascension by absorbing a star, using his Boundary-Breaking Pearl to reduce the risks.
• Wei He destroyed his subordinate body and transferred to a star, where a Three-legged Golden Crow briefly appeared before the star collapsed and vanished.
• Kashulia witnessed all six stars in the Yadu Star System disappear and warned He Bing, who said sixteen star systems across the borders of the three great empires had lost their stars.

Wei He compressed the more than twenty stars he had absorbed, endured the crushing pressure of dimensional ascension, and used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to force a breakthrough. He awakened in what appeared to be a lifeless new dimension, where the stars he had devoured existed only as tiny spheres of light, and found a barren planet covered in green mineral veins.

• Wei He lowered the temperatures of the stars within him, intensifying their gravity until light and matter collapsed inward.
• As the pressure compressed Wei He to the size of a coin and threatened to destroy his soul, he triggered the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to force a breakthrough.
• Wei He lost consciousness as the black sphere he had become cracked and fell through a hole.
• Wei He awakened in the same location but sensed that the surrounding universe belonged to a different dimension, and found the Boundary-Breaking Pearl drained.
• Wei He traveled to a nearby star system and discovered that a green-looking planet was barren, with its color coming from vast mineral veins.

Wei He escaped the eighth layer of the True World after its distortions drove him toward suicide, then discovered he could reach for distant stars. As the Black Tortoise neared defeat against Barto, a gigantic golden hand appeared and crushed Barto in a single grasp.

• Wei He found every star system in the eighth layer empty of life and struck his own head, then remembered that the Evil Layer twisted the nature of everything within it.
• Wei He used stellar power to escape the eighth layer and returned to a populated star system, where he realized that his rule-lines had also been distorted.
• Wei He left to test his newly ascended power and felt that he could pluck distant star systems from space.
• Barto overwhelmed the exhausted Black Tortoise while factions across the star realm watched the battle, and He Bing prepared to intervene.
• A gigantic golden hand reached across the Starry Sky, seized Barto, and crushed him.

After the golden hand crushed Bartow, the Immortal Council and Knosus reassessed the Revival Society’s power, and the two factions later signed a peace agreement. In the Star Abyss, Wei He reached Monarch and Barron recognized his transformation, inviting him to meet two others.

• Noxi and the True Spirit avatars agreed to prioritize the Revival Society and hasten their offerings after witnessing the golden hand defeat Bartow.
• The Immortal Councilors debated the giant hand’s possible identity, then decided to monitor the Revival Society without hostile actions and seek talks with its leaders.
• The Revival Society and the Immortal Council signed the Thirteen Covenants of Peaceful Coexistence, while Knosus launched a devastating offensive and the Star Abyss Beast Tide stopped.
• Nine Rebooters reached the palace guarded by the first Black Flame Lord, while Barron and the other Black Flame Lords watched their attempt to challenge it.
• Barron sensed that Wei He’s soul had transformed into a Monarch’s and congratulated him, then invited him to meet two other Monarchs.

Wei He returned to Star Abyss, where Barron recognized him as a newly ascended Monarch and revealed that a local True Spirit had emerged in the Shengyun River System. Barron tested the power behind Wei He’s breakthrough, and Wei He’s display of ancient, overwhelming aura left Barron realizing that his assumptions had been wrong.

• Wei He watched the Desperate Wanderer game with Barron and explained that it was too early to predict who would win the Heavenly Ladder.
• A crystal skull reported that a gelatinous embryo in the Shengyun River System had absorbed psionic energy and that the Mother River had produced a True Spirit.
• Barron announced that a new Monarch had ascended and identified Wei He, then took him away to speak privately.
• Barron asked how Wei He had broken through without Monarch’s Heart’s Blood, and Wei He implied that a powerful existence had granted him a similar catalyst.
• Wei He revealed purple light in his eyes, exposing a trace of the power behind him, and Barron felt an ancient, vast aura that overturned his assumptions.

Wei Heng and his godmothers investigated a Perfection Society attack on a remote mining planet, while a mysterious computer selected them as candidates. Elsewhere, Wei He advanced an offspring body to Monarch and explored another black hole, where he found a strange realm of darkness and falling light.

• Yuan Du Zi told Wei Heng and his companions that she had sent their Perfection Society findings to the Alliance and that they were waiting for approval.
• An explosion struck the mining planet, and Perfection Society biomechanical suits attacked nearby spacecraft and a lone Alliance fighter.
• Yuan Du Zi and Song Chaochao rushed to aid the fighter while Yuan Du Zi ordered the others to protect Wei Heng.
• A computer in a derelict spacecraft activated, revised a prophecy, and named Song Chaochao, Yuan Du Zi, He Bing, and Wei Heng as optimal candidates before deleting its data.
• Wei He described his plan to cultivate an artificial Divine Court and sent a Monarch-level Three-legged Golden Crow offspring body into a black hole.
• Wei He found a soundless black realm beneath waterfalls of colored light, while Bilian watched him set down his spoon and speak.

Wei He explored a black hole and found clues linking the pre-Dayuan civilization to Yuan Jun and someone named Jiuguang. He then followed Barron into Star Abyss, where Delma served a meal made from inhabited planets, leaving Wei He facing the other diners’ expectant gazes.

• Wei He found a silver fragment in the black hole bearing an ancient message that asked whether Yuan Jun had truly disappeared and whether his final step had succeeded.
• Wei He entered an ancient hall inside the black hole, searched its wreckage, and found a golden metal page mentioning Jiuguang and an expedition to a place that might hold hope.
• Barron led Wei He into a silver cluster at Star Abyss’s galactic core, where he met Delma and the elderly Xilong in a restaurant called Delma’s Home.
• Delma served the group soybeans and pork ribs, but Wei He saw that the soybeans were inhabited planets and realized the meal’s ingredients were horrifying.
• Wei He set down his spoon as Delma, Barron, and Xilong watched him to see what he would do.

Wei He learned that the eighth level distorted everything without the protection of a cave abode, while the war between Knosus and the coalition forces erupted into a clash between Jin De’s Overlord Dragon Machine Body and He Bing’s Eternal Star Dragon. The two pilots’ battle escalated as He Bing tried to stop Jin De, who summoned the power of the White Dragon King and declared he was no longer the person he once was.

• Wei He explained that he would not kill people for food, then ate the flesh Delma had made and asked about the eighth level.
• Delma and Xilong told Wei He that the eighth level warped everything and that a cave abode was needed to endure it; Xilong also mentioned the Life Garden.
• Two days later, Jin De piloted the Overlord Dragon Machine Body against the coalition forces, empowered by the half-True Spirit Broken White Dragon King Osiris.
• Coalition forces hit Jin De with a mobile black hole net, but his machine recovered before he could unleash its golden attack.
• He Bing’s Eternal Star Dragon struck Jin De’s machine and fought him at high speed as He Bing urged him to resist the power controlling him.
• He Bing launched Double Dragon Flash, but Jin De blocked the attack with a golden rune disc and merged with the enormous phantom of a white dragon.

Noxi’s Perfection Society threatened to overwhelm its enemies by trading war casualties for True Spirit power, while Wei He prepared the Revival Society to seek aid and offered Balldias a chance to overcome his limits. The chapter ended with Balldias confronting his craving for Wei He’s golden blood.

• Noxi learned that the Perfection Society had occupied about 9.376 billion inhabited Star Systems and considered offering them to the Mother River for a reward.
• Yuesai and Kofila concluded that the Revival Society could not stop the Perfection Society alone, and Wei He appeared to tell them they needed aid and to offer up everything they possessed.
• Wei He approached Balldias in disguise and explained that Balldias’s stalled advancement might be caused by Star Abyss itself rather than by his own flaws.
• Balldias agreed to consider Wei He’s offer in exchange for help, and Wei He presented a drop of golden blood that awakened an intense craving in him.

Wei He began expanding the Three-legged Golden Crow’s power by sharing its original True Blood with thousands of subordinate bodies for his Divine Court plan. Meanwhile, Balldias’s transformation continued, leaving him stronger and increasingly disgusted by Star Abyss chaos.

• Wei He relaxed with Bilian and Maris on World-Encompassing Star, while Bilian urged him to check on their son and Wei He suggested having more children.
• Wei He realized his Three-legged Golden Crow bloodline could control nearly forty stars and traveled to Revivalist One to oversee Kofila’s cultivation ceremony.
• Wei He distributed original Golden Crow True Blood among thousands of subordinate bodies and ordered them to spread through nearby star systems to claim stars for him.
• Balldias hosted Black Flame Lords and reflected on how Wei He’s blood had formed a heart within him, completed his life blueprint, and advanced him to the middle rank.
• Balldias grew increasingly repulsed by the chaotic behavior of the Star Abyss creatures he had once tolerated.

Balldias convinced six Black Flame Lords to accept the Revival Society’s benefits after explaining how Wei He’s golden blood had repaired his life blueprint. A year later, Wei He attempted to use the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to simulate Azure Dragon True Blood, glimpsed the Primordial Heavenly Venerate again, and resolved to keep learning from it despite the danger.

• Balldias told six Black Flame Lords that Ghost Person’s golden blood had rapidly advanced him by repairing his life blueprint.
• Cassibed and the other lords discussed the Revival Society’s origins and power, then agreed they could take its benefits while watching how events unfolded.
• A year later, Wei He noted that his cells had spread through nearly half of human river systems as the Star Abyss and Mother River forces clashed and human factions united.
• Wei He used the recharged Boundary-Breaking Pearl to attempt to simulate Azure Dragon True Blood and saw the Primordial Heavenly Venerate more clearly than before.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s information overwhelmed Wei He and caused his head to explode, but his body recovered, and he decided to try again.

Wei He repeatedly simulated the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s aura, gaining rule knowledge that advanced his Azure Dragon True Skill and helped the Wall of Eternal Slumber establish a path beyond Monarch. He switched to a distant subsidiary body to continue the process, but the simulations weakened and stopped after thirty-two attempts.

• Wei He simulated the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s aura 999 times, absorbing rule information that strengthened his body and psychic energy and advanced his Azure Dragon True Skill.
• Wei He discovered that he had gained the Azure Dragon divine seat through rule comprehension without fusing Azure Dragon True Blood.
• Wei He used the Wall of Eternal Slumber to organize the information and optimize the Evolutionary Codex, which outlined ranks beyond Monarch and identified Dominator as the final target realm.
• Wei He switched to a subsidiary body in a distant spacecraft and planned to cultivate the White Tiger True Skill by simulating the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s essence again.
• Wei He learned that reaching the Ziwei Great Emperor required fusing with more than one hundred million life-bearing planets and obtaining its natal essence as a catalyst.
• Wei He continued simulating the essence, but the information dwindled until the fissure vanished on the thirty-second attempt.

Wei He failed to reopen the fissure to the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s universe, then used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to seek a suitable divine essence blood on its own and opened another fissure. Meanwhile, Wei Heng worked with Song Chaochao’s team while avoiding going home, troubled by evidence linking his father to the Revival Society.

• Wei He discovered that the universe had repaired the fissure, then reasoned that the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s path might cost him his sense of self.
• Wei He tried simulating other supreme beings and divine beast blood, but the Boundary-Breaking Pearl could not reproduce them.
• Wei He instructed the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to find the strongest harmless divine essence blood suited to him and the White Tiger True Skill, and a black fissure opened.
• A rumor about the Wish Fulfillment Book spread across the human allied forces as the Mother River and Star Abyss fought near the Jiudu River System.
• Wei Heng accepted a child-kidnapping investigation commission from Song Chaochao’s team, while Song Chaochao, Yuan Du Zi, and Li Rong discussed why he avoided returning home.
• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong recalled that investigations into Wei He and the Revival Society had repeatedly ended with investigators disappearing, and suspected Wei Heng had seen the files about his father.

Wei Heng rushed to a kidnapping scene while observers vanished, and Wei He completed a breakthrough that transformed him into a colossal Shadow Dragon. His altered vision revealed a mysterious gate and countless broken human-face statues before a voice sent him back, leaving him to investigate his new form.

• Wei Heng received Song Chaochao’s urgent commission and raced toward the basement at 178 Ansheng Street as a bald man and woman watched him before disappearing.
• Wei He ended his simulation, then transformed in space into a huge mass of flesh and emerged as a several-thousand-kilometer-long Shadow Dragon.
• Wei He’s new eye showed him strange beings and a vast stone human face bearing an inscription that mentioned Lin Shi and the Allhuman.
• Wei He saw a golden circular gate that exerted a powerful pull on him, but a distant male voice warned him away and returned his vision to normal.
• Wei He asked the Wall of Eternal Slumber to analyze his experience, and it identified his form as closely resembling a Shadow Dragon described by the Kohn Institute.

Wei He tested the Shadow Dragon’s abilities and discovered that it could traverse between layers and places but could neither attack nor defend. After researching the ninth True World layer, he uncovered a record of an ancient rhythm whose message seemed to echo the golden door he had seen, leaving him unsettled.

• Wei He entered the eighth True World layer with the Shadow Dragon and found that Monarch-level attacks could neither touch nor harm it.
• After testing the Shadow Dragon for half an hour, Wei He concluded that its sole ability was traversal, which left it unable to affect most things while in its void state.
• Wei He returned to the spacecraft, created winged hands from his flesh to operate its controls, and asked the Wall of Eternal Slumber for information about the golden door and the ninth layer.
• Wei He reviewed millions of records and found research by Tailander, who claimed that a rhythm had persisted across planets for tens of millions of years.
• Wei He listened to Tailander’s recording, in which the researcher said the rhythm’s message was “It’s coming,” and connected it to the golden door he had seen.

Wei He tested how to merge life-bearing planets into his divine throne and sent golden birds to accelerate the process. Meanwhile, Wei Heng’s office received the Wish Fulfillment Book’s core, a covert group prepared to exploit it, and Noxi ordered a search for its missing controller.

• Wei He confirmed that his Shadow Dragon subordinate body could explore the eighth level, then planned to use it to strengthen the Revival Society while advancing his main body’s evolution.
• Wei He entered a Star Abyss planet and successfully merged with its core, then created tens of thousands of golden birds to fuse with other planets and expand his divine throne’s control.
• Wei Heng received a package containing what Song Chaochao and Yuan Du Zi identified as the Wish Fulfillment Book’s main body.
• Translucent figures aboard a passing merchant ship revealed that they had delivered the Book as bait to draw out the Perfection Society and the Revival Society, which they considered threats to humanity.
• Noxi learned that the master controller of Fransha’s Wish Fulfillment Book plan had disappeared and ordered Pano to recover it or face punishment.

After the Wish Fulfillment Book crystal merged into Yuan Du Zi and her companions, they uncovered signs of a Perfection Society plot and were attacked while investigating. Wei He went to protect them, but a group of Immortals trapped him and identified him as a Revival Society leader.

• Noxi worried that losing the Wish Fulfillment Book controller would prevent him from summoning the higher True Spirit he had targeted.
• The Wish Fulfillment Book crystal exploded into fragments that merged into Wei Heng, Yuan Du Zi, Song Chaochao, Li Rong, and Sarah, rapidly increasing their psychic energy.
• Yuan Du Zi ordered the group to report the incident, but the footage showed no crystal, the Dome of Heaven found nothing wrong, and the courier could not be located.
• Perfection Society colonies attacked Yuan Du Zi's group; Yuan Du Zi defeated twelve colonies and their Ascendant leader before an Immortal-level psychic force seized at their escaping aircraft, which Song Chaochao helped them evade.
• Wei He left the core of a star to aid Yuan Du Zi's group, but six Immortals trapped him in a spirit art cage while a golden-armored man sent someone to retrieve the Wish Fulfillment Book controller.

The Perfection Society sealed Wei He's Golden Crow subordinate body while a hidden group plotted to provoke a war by killing the Revival Society president's son. As Resala revealed her identity to defend her companions from a Perfection Society fleet, Yuan Du Zi prepared a desperate jump to an unknown destination.

• Minoen of the Star of Wind sealed Wei He's Golden Crow subordinate body into a golden bead and warned him that the Perfection Society did not fear the Revival Society's Monarch.
• Li Rong escaped the mining planet with Wei Heng, Song Chaochao, Yuan Du Zi, and Sarah aboard a transforming spacecraft, but spatial disruption stopped their jump.
• A Perfection Society fleet emerged and attacked the spacecraft with its capture cannons.
• Sarah revealed that she was Resala Dongting, Imperial Princess of Knosus and its highest Grand Marshal, then blocked the fleet's opening cannon blast with her shield.
• As the fleet's bombardment cracked Resala's shield, Yuan Du Zi coordinated a dangerous coordinate jump and said the group had only one place left to go.