Chapter Summaries

Li Rong, Yuan Du Zi, and the others fled into Penza Empire territory, but Knosus’s fleet pursued and attacked them. Wei He appeared as a planet-sized golden bird, destroyed the fleet, and then confronted the True Spirit projection that arrived to hunt them.

• Li Rong brought the group into Penza Empire territory and said they would seek Wei Heng’s father for protection.
• Knosus’s fleet caught up with the ship and fired its main cannons before the group could jump away.
• A gigantic golden bird shielded the ship and destroyed tens of thousands of warships with its gaze before transforming into Wei He.
• Wei He reunited with Yuan Du Zi and Wei Heng, while Resala warned that the Perfection Society would send a True Spirit after them.
• Wei He revealed that the True Spirit was already there and blocked a green beam with a hand of golden flames as a giant green python emerged.

Noxi ordered Minoen to probe the Revival Society while preparing to summon stronger True Spirits. Wei He killed Minoen with the power of a colossal finger, protected the spacecraft, and left to confront the Perfection Society, while the others wondered whether he served an ancient god.

• Noxi destroyed an entire star system to kill the former Imperial Intelligence director, then learned that his imperial sister was involved with the Revival Society and that Minoen had gone to investigate it.
• Noxi allowed Minoen to act as he wished, intending to use his encounter with the Revival Society to measure the strength of its Sovereign.
• Wei He told Minoen he wanted to study True Spirits, then summoned a colossal finger that crushed Minoen's projection and sent it back to the Mother River.
• Wei He offered to help Yuan Du Zi escape her physical limits and wrapped her spacecraft in golden flame to keep its passengers safe.
• Wei He said he would probe the Perfection Society and departed, while Wei Heng, Song Chaochao, and Resala questioned whether he was serving an ancient god.

Wei He invaded Knosus, destroying a vast fleet and burning a path toward its heartland while absorbing star cores and strengthening his divine office. As Knosus prepared to intercept him, the Dome of Heaven plotted to capture Wei Heng’s soul and intensify the conflict.

• Wei He destroyed the Knosus border legion with a golden fireball, and Revival Society members prayed as he flew toward Knosus’s heartland.
• Noxi dismissed the loss of the fleet and sent Barto and Osiris to intercept Wei He near the new defensive ring, where Mother of Earth Ying was stationed.
• The Dome of Heaven agreed to work with the Legendary Ones to capture Wei Heng’s soul and push the conflict to its extreme.
• Wei He burned through star systems and battle stars, absorbing life-planet star cores as his Evolutionary Codex advanced and his divine office grew.
• Wei He sensed his divine office expanding toward the powers of life and decided he could try to swallow the Perfection Society if his strength proved sufficient.

Wei He confronted three powerful True Spirits outside the Lyra System, while the Legendary Ones observed and discussed the Mother River and its hierarchy. As Osiris attacked in his colossal Burning Monarch form, Wei He summoned a golden hand to meet its blow.

• Hand explained the Legendary Ones’ classification of True Spirits and their connection to the Mother River, while the others questioned the ancient god system and the River’s changing nature.
• Wei He arrived at Knosus’s defensive perimeter, where Mother of Earth Ying confronted him and revealed that most of her power had descended.
• Osiris and Barto joined Ying, and Barto called for an attack, but Osiris struck him for trying to command him.
• Osiris transformed into the colossal Burning Monarch and reached down to seize Wei He above the Lyra System.
• Wei He raised a golden light curtain and summoned a massive golden hand from a vortex to strike against Osiris’s descending hand.

Wei He defeated Osiris after Mother of Earth Ying and Bato joined the fight, while observers concluded that the Perfection Society’s hidden leader Noxi might be behind its unexplained victories. The confrontation was broadcast across the Penza Empire, advancing Yuesai and Wei He’s plan to integrate the Revival Society and humanity.

• Wei He merged with a giant Golden Crow form and overwhelmed Osiris, but Mother of Earth Ying and Bato restrained him so Osiris could attack with a black-hole spear.
• Wei He grew another pair of arms, caught the spear, broke free of the True Spirits’ restraints, and destroyed Osiris with the weapon.
• The Legendary Ones discussed the Revival Society’s strength and Brain suggested that Noxi might have secretly manipulated the Perfection Society’s conflicts with True Spirits.
• Factions across the Eastern Extreme Alliance and other powers watched the clash, while Yuesai broadcast it throughout the Penza Empire using the Heart of Myriad Woods.
• Yuesai and Wei He continued developing the Divine Court Plan to integrate human society with the Revival Society’s ancient gods.

Wei He defeated the Revival Society’s three True Spirits and then fought Noxi to a stalemate, while both sides concealed their strongest abilities. After accomplishing his goals of intimidating the Perfection Society and merging with more than a million Life Planet Star Cores, Wei He began discussing an end to the fight with Noxi.

• Wei He shattered the Mother of Earth’s wall and defeated Osiris, Barto, and the Mother of Earth, leaving the Perfection Society’s gathered True Spirits reluctant to fight for Noxi.
• When the other True Spirits refused to confront Wei He, Noxi left the Fate Star Mothership and transformed to face him himself.
• Wei He and Noxi battled in colossal forms above the Shengyun River System, unleashing enough power to tear open a black hole that swallowed them into the Evil Layer.
• Wei He and Noxi pulled away from each other in the Evil Layer and agreed that neither could win without revealing their hidden trump cards.
• Wei He reflected that he had achieved his aims, including scattering his offspring and merging with more than a million Life Planet Star Cores, and began telling Noxi that they had no absolute reason to be enemies.

After the battle between Noxi and Knosus vanished into the Evil Layer, Wei Heng and his companions realized they had been used as bait in a plot to provoke the Perfection Society and Revival Society. An attempt to assassinate Wei Heng failed, and Wei He hunted the attackers, identifying them as the Legendary Ones, who repeatedly escaped his pursuit.

• Wei Heng, Yuan Du Zi, Li Rong, Song Chaochao, and Resala watched reconstructed footage of Noxi and Knosus fighting before both disappeared into the Evil Layer.
• Yuan Du Zi blocked a flying needle aimed at Wei Heng, but a hidden spike blew apart his head; his body and brain matter then reassembled, revealing a safeguard made from Wei He's flesh.
• The Legendary Ones hiding nearby realized Wei Heng's soul had been protected and discussed how the failed attack threatened their plan to intensify conflict between the Perfection Society and Revival Society.
• Wei He sensed the attack, searched for the attackers with his subordinate bodies, and destroyed their spacecraft, but the Legendary Ones escaped through long-range movement.
• Wei He tracked the Legendary Ones to another spacecraft and destroyed it as well, then recognized them as the organization behind the attacks and disruptions.

The Revival Society and Perfection Society ceased fighting, while Wei He returned to his peaceful family life and explained his reasons for seeking unity to his companions. Yuan Du Zi chose to join the Revival Society and pursue the ancient gods’ path, and Wei He promised he had prepared it for her.

• The Legendary Ones’ spaceships exploded in golden flashes, and Wei He and Noxi returned unharmed as their factions called a ceasefire and withdrew.
• Wei Heng returned home excited by Wei He’s battle against the Perfection Society, but Bilian initially dismissed his claims as nonsense.
• Wei He gave Bilian a bracelet for her birthday and extended her lifespan, while she treated his displays of power as jokes.
• Wei He told Yuan Du Zi, Li Rong, Song Chaochao, and Resala that he sought power to protect people and unify the world, though Li Rong questioned his reasoning.
• Yuan Du Zi decided to join the Revival Society and attempt the ancient gods’ path, and Wei He said he had prepared it for her.

Wei He received Barron's invitation to explore the Life Garden, then crossed a black hole in the eighth layer and reached the universe's final source layer, the Void. After speaking briefly with Lin Shi, he found himself back in the seventh layer's Evil Layer with the black hole gone.

• Yuan Du Zi, Li Rong, and Song Chaochao chose to join Wei He's Revival Society, and Resala began sharing a secret about the Dragon Machine Project and the Life Garden.
• Barron told Shadow Dragon Wei He that the Life Garden held a secret to breaking through the Life Process and invited the Revival Society to cooperate in exploring it.
• Wei He accepted the message and continued exploring the eighth layer, where he discovered a black hole and flew into it.
• Wei He emerged in a starry expanse filled with floating stone heads and saw a golden light, an arched gate, and three mysterious figures that he could not approach.
• Lin Shi told Wei He that he was in the universe's final source layer, the Void, then sang before falling silent.
• The Void darkened, and Wei He awoke in the seventh layer's Evil Layer as the black hole disappeared.

Wei He completed the fusion of one hundred million Life Star Cores and began a breakthrough using the Boundary-Breaking Pearl. The Pearl bestowed the divine position imprint of Star Emperor Xi Xiang, leaving Wei He with immense new power and a warning of the dangers that had destroyed its former bearer.

• Wei He investigated the distorted rule lines and found no records of the Three Great Masters ever acting directly, suspecting they could not move.
• Over the next half year, Wei He fused with life planets across his jurisdiction until he had nearly reached one hundred million Life Star Cores.
• Wei He gathered Yue Sai, Yuan Du Zi, Li Rong, and the Revival Society's other higher-ups to witness his summoning.
• Wei He fused with the final Star Core and used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to simulate a suitable breakthrough catalyst.
• The Pearl gave Wei He the divine position imprint of Star Emperor Xi Xiang, whose memories revealed that destroying too many stars had caused universes to collapse and eventually led to his death.
• Wei He awoke from the ascension with the power to reach across tens of thousands of light-years, while realizing his physical body remained at its former scale.

Wei He became the Lord of All Stars Heavenly Emperor and began conferring Star Lord titles to build a system that would increase his power. The Revival Society rapidly expanded across Jiudu and into rival territories, while Knosus learned that the Star Emperor Xi Xiang had once destroyed the home universes of Mother of Earth Ying and Wood God Ohara.

• Wei He merged with the divine throne, received the Star Emperor Xi Xiang's cosmic origin, and realized his authority to confer godhood was the foundation of his power.
• The Revival Society's members hailed Wei He as Heavenly Emperor, and he began evaluating Black Flame-level members for titles under Divine Court law.
• The Jiudu Human Alliance offered its allegiance, and more than ninety percent of Jiudu's life-bearing planets entered the Revival Society's system within half a month.
• The Revival Society advanced into Knosus and Eastern Extreme Alliance territory, prompting repeated clashes and disputes.
• At Knosus's Fate Star Mothership, Mother of Earth Ying and Wood God Ohara revealed that the Star Emperor Xi Xiang had destroyed their home universes by consuming planets and collapsing their dimensions.
• Noxi and the true spirits feared Xi Xiang's arrival, and Ying warned that although it could not destroy the great universe, it could destroy them.

Kashulia witnessed the turmoil caused by the wars and spoke with Wei He, who explained that the Revival Society sought to revive humanity and invited her to join. Meanwhile, Wei He prepared to expand the Divine Court’s power, setting his sights on Knosus and the Star Abyss.

• Kashulia saw refugees fleeing war-torn star systems and watched a Three-legged Golden Crow pass her ship.
• Wei He contacted Kashulia, revealed that the Golden Crow was his true body, and asked what she thought of the four great river systems.
• Wei He told Kashulia that the Revival Society aimed to revive humanity, explained humanity’s bond with the gods, and gave her an address.
• Wei He reflected that Kashulia was a candidate for contacting the Life Garden and decided to make a probe rather than wait for her to return on her own.
• Wei He separated Star Emperor Xi Xiang from the Solar Star Lord and resolved to occupy Knosus and the Star Abyss.

The Revival Society invaded Knosus with vast armies, and Noxi responded by sacrificing his empire and the True Spirits to the Mother River. As the Heavenly Emperor began gathering every stellar core in the Shengyun River System, the True Spirits realized that the Evening Elephant was repeating the destruction of their former universe.

• Hundreds of thousands of Three-legged Golden Crows destroyed the Knosus border fleet, while Pengsha, Jiudu, and the Revival Society's armies poured into Knosus.
• Noxi and the True Spirits confronted the Revival Society's advance, and Noxi decided to activate a hidden measure rather than seek peace.
• Noxi activated a soul-sacrificing formation that dissolved Knosus's fleets, bioforms, generals, and True Spirits into green light.
• Noxi revealed that his true body was the Eternal Soul Crown, while the crown absorbed the sacrificial energy.
• The Heavenly Emperor appeared outside the Shengyun River System and began drawing the stellar cores from its countless stars toward himself.

As Wei He overwhelmed Knosus, Noxi sacrificed everything to summon a powerful High True Spirit from the Mother River. The mysterious swordsman emerged through Noxi’s destruction, leaving Wei He and the watching forces facing a new threat.

• The Eastern Extreme Alliance elders split over whether to submit to the Revival Society’s ancient god, while fleets mobilized and the Revival Society launched a coup.
• Wei He absorbed star cores and grew more solid as he crushed the remaining resistance in Knosus.
• Noxi sacrificed his True Spirits and summoned the Mother River’s High True Spirits, but none answered until he plunged farther upstream and called without conditions.
• Noxi encountered the shadow whose voice had once guided him, blamed it for his emptiness, and was struck down as the shadow merged with him.
• A black-haired swordsman emerged from Noxi’s darkness, and Ohara grabbed the nearly destroyed Ying and fled.

Wei He defeated Extreme Transmission Sword Emperor Lin Zhen by combining the strength of the stars and living beings, then realized his next step was to complete the cycle between spiritual energy and matter. He turned his divine authority toward erasing the Mother River’s influence and every trace of the Perfection Society.

• Wei He shattered Lin Zhen’s enormous body, but Lin Zhen reappeared and attacked him with the strength of fused stellar cores.
• Lin Zhen identified Wei He as Xi Xiang and invoked his father’s power to unleash the Jagged Sword, the Heartless Sea, the Law-Patrolling Light.
• Wei He gathered the power of his sub-bodies and countless psychics into Myriad Xi Xiang, All Things Return to One, breaking Lin Zhen’s sword and destroying his remaining spiritual energy.
• Wei He understood that he needed to discover how spiritual energy transformed into matter to complete his divine authority’s cycle.
• Wei He declared that all things connected to the Mother River and every trace of the Perfection Society should be eliminated.

Wei He and the Revival Society prepared to probe the Star Abyss as their forces neared control of the Eastern Extreme Alliance. There, Wei He approached Barron about cooperating in the complete revival of the ancient gods, while Barron asked what he could gain.

• Yue Sai reported that the Revival Society controlled Pengsha, Jiudu, and Knosus and was close to taking the Eastern Extreme Alliance.
• Wei He said the Evening Elephant Heavenly Emperor intended to test the Star Abyss Masters, and Yue Sai shared records linking the Life Garden to new evolutionary paths and Masterhood.
• In Barron's Star Abyss game, Wei He told Barron that the Emperor wished to visit the ninth level and investigate the Masters' situation.
• Barron realized that the Black Flame Lords around him had joined the Revival Society, and Wei He proposed cooperating to bring about the ancient gods' complete revival.
• Barron asked what he would gain, explaining that he wanted to become a Master and escape the Star Abyss's confinement.

Wei He entered the Void Realm and learned from Lin Shi that the Three Great Masters were guarding the Gate of Silence after losing their humanity. Lin Shi explained their failed attempts to master the origins of rules and change, then revealed that they had succeeded in reversing change, but left the outcome unfinished.

• Barron agreed to cooperate with Wei He if Wei He first dealt with the other two Monarchs, and explained that the Life Garden opened once every hundred years after a failed attempt.
• Wei He entered the ninth layer of the True World with the Evening Elephant Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Authority Status and observed how rule points formed rule lines in the Void Realm.
• Lin Shi identified himself and the other two Masters, Kouda and Yiduolaya, and explained that the Void Realm contained no space, only a sea of rules.
• Wei He discovered that the Masters were ordinary-looking people whose fundamental divine minds remained to maintain the Gate of Silence, where the key to life’s ultimate evolution was imprisoned.
• Lin Shi recounted how the Masters pursued knowledge, rules, and space, then tried to reverse change and recreate the past; he said they succeeded, but did not finish explaining what followed.

Wei He learned that the Gate of Silence threatened to exhaust all life, then led humanity’s forces into the Star Abyss while secretly hunting the Legendary Ones across dimensions. He found and captured the group in a two-dimensional world, then returned to the Starry Sky.

• Lin Shi told Wei He that their pursuit of evolution had exhausted life and that the Gate of Silence would break free in 110,000 years, but refused to let him approach it.
• Wei He doubted Lin Shi’s explanation, left the ninth level, and returned to the Star Abyss border as humanity’s united fleets began their assault.
• Yue Sai ordered the fleets to advance toward the Life Garden, while Wei He remained unseen and planned to eliminate another hidden enemy.
• Wei He used the Shadow Dragon’s ability to cross into a two-dimensional world and located the Legendary Ones gathered on a bronze plate inside a planet.
• Wei He overwhelmed and captured the Legendary Ones, then returned to the Starry Sky in the form of the Shadow Dragon.

Wei He defeated Delma and Xilong, accepted Barron into the Divine Court, and prepared to leave the Star Abyss. Lin Shi then offered to reveal how souls transform into matter if Wei He approached the Gate of Silence, asking him to spare the Star Abyss.

• Barron betrayed Delma by attacking her, but Xilong severed his arm and forced him back.
• The Evening Elephant Heavenly Emperor, Wei He, appeared and used overwhelming gravity to suppress Delma and Xilong.
• Delma and Xilong attacked Wei He together, but he destroyed their assault and nearly crushed them with a gigantic golden finger.
• A white patch from Delma blocked Wei He's attack, allowing Delma and Xilong to escape; Wei He recognized Lin Shi's intervention.
• Wei He gave Barron a point of red light to absorb and said they would return for now.
• Lin Shi contacted Wei He and offered knowledge about the Gate of Silence in exchange for sparing the Star Abyss; Wei He asked how he could test it.

Wei He entered the Gate of Silence to study the Precipitation Ritual, but Lin Shi lured him into the red aperture, expecting him to be trapped by its mysteries. Meanwhile, the Revival Society withdrew its forces from the Stellar Abyss, uncertain of Wei He's fate but reassured that he was still alive.

• Wei He studied silver mist from the Gate of Silence and learned how psionic energy transformed into water vapor through the Precipitation Ritual.
• Lin Shi offered Wei He more Power of Silence in exchange for leaving the Stellar Abyss untouched, and Wei He agreed.
• Lin Shi flooded Wei He with silver mist and drew him into the red aperture, believing he would become trapped there without Evolutionary Source Matter.
• Sovereign Barron waited until Wei He disappeared, complained that Lin Shi had not removed the parasite from him, then vanished.
• Yue Sai ordered the Revival Society's legions to withdraw from the Stellar Abyss, and Yuan Du Zi, Resala, and Li Rong speculated that the Masters had intervened.
• The modified Black Flame Lords left the Stellar Abyss with the retreating legions, while the Blood of Revival indicated that Wei He remained alive.