Chapter Summaries

After years of preparing for a possible planetary disaster, Su Hao helped launch the spacecraft Beginning on its first test flight. The craft barely moved under its conventional engines, so Su Hao proposed using Source from Red Ice Star’s ring as propulsion.

• Su Hao learned that space showed no abnormalities and reflected that his Star-Shattering Mini Cube might not be needed for a planetary impact.
• Ashan reported that the spacecraft’s basic components were assembled, and Su Hao agreed to test-fly it; they named it Beginning.
• Su Hao Teleported Beginning billions of kilometers from Source Star and had Ashan start the test flight.
• Beginning crawled forward despite its engines running at maximum power, and Su Hao explained that the spacecraft’s immense mass overwhelmed its thrusters.
• Su Hao proposed converting Red Ice Star’s ring into Source and using it to propel Beginning through three Small Worlds in its exhaust nozzles.

Su Hao turned the rubble from Red Ice Satellite into vast quantities of Source Pearls and finished outfitting the Beginning spacecraft. With the awaited disaster still absent and its form unknown, he prepared to take Feiyuan into space to study Spiritual Power and began the spacecraft’s second test flight.

• Su Hao used Planet Viruses and Focus Systems to convert rubble in three Small Worlds into oceans of Source Pearls, astonishing Feiyuan, Ashan, and Feng Cheng.
• Su Hao returned the spacecraft to the Islet and planned a self-supplying thruster that would turn collected matter into Source Pearls.
• Twenty years later, Su Hao had completed the Beginning and installed ten collection vehicles, but the expected disaster had still not arrived.
• After finding no abnormalities in the star system, Su Hao concluded that the disaster would take an unknown form and planned to pursue higher Spiritual Power with Feiyuan.
• Ashan, Feng Cheng, and Feiyuan reported that the Beginning was fully equipped, and Su Hao led them into its second test flight.

Su Hao, Ashan, Feng Cheng, and Feiyuan tested their new spaceship and celebrated its successful launch into space. Their first glimpse of the stars was interrupted when Su Hao discovered that Location Stones on Source Star were being destroyed, suggesting that an unknown force had arrived there.

• Su Hao watched the ship accelerate, then warned Ashan and Feng Cheng that Flash Step and Teleport preserved their momentum after they crashed into one another.
• Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng returned to the ship, where Feiyuan reported that its performance exceeded expectations but the thruster nozzles needed cooling after an hour of acceleration.
• The four completed a month of tests and celebrated aboard the ship's artificial-gravity Islet, discussing the vastness of the universe and their desire to keep exploring.
• Su Hao sensed that Location Stones on Source Star were being destroyed, and Ashan and Feng Cheng confirmed that dozens of their own stones were disappearing too.

Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng returned to Source Star and found it engulfed in catastrophic fires and explosions, with New Era City destroyed and nearly all life gone. After finding no useful clues on the planet, they returned to the Seal Satellites to look for records of the disaster.

• Su Hao sent Feng Cheng to a Seal Satellite to scout Source Star, and Feng Cheng reported that the planet was burning and appeared finished.
• Su Hao and Ashan teleported to Feng Cheng and saw Source Star covered in violent flames and energy.
• Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng searched New Era City and found no survivors or recognizable ruins.
• The three searched the ocean, where they found widespread destruction and marine creatures dying amid the upheaval.
• Feng Cheng suggested that Observers on the Seal Satellites might have records, so the three returned to search the stations.
• Feng Cheng found two Recorders at an Observation Station and identified himself after startling them.

Su Hao reviewed the Observation Station’s records of Source Star’s destruction and investigated the chain reaction that had engulfed the planet. After returning to the burning world, he sensed that the disaster’s true cause was something he himself had created.

• Yuan Feng and Ling Xue showed Feng Cheng the Wind God Sky Eye System’s records after Su Hao and Ashan arrived at the Observation Station.
• Su Hao watched the footage and saw a disaster strike the Islet, followed by flames that spread across Source Star within half an hour.
• Yuan Feng and Ling Xue left the station, saw Source Star burning, and feared that Jia Wei had destroyed it.
• Su Hao returned to Source Star with Ashan and Feng Cheng, sensed the energy around him, and realized the disaster’s root cause was something he had created.

Su Hao discovered that a chain reaction in the planet’s Magic Power had destroyed Source Star, and he and his companions disabled the satellites that had worsened the disaster. As Source Star continued burning, Su Hao stayed behind to study the reaction while Feiyuan learned that his home had no survivors and asked to return.

• Su Hao explained that violent Force Fields from the island explosion had triggered airborne Source to collapse into energy and ignite across Source Star.
• Su Hao tested an exposed Source Pearl, which exploded, confirming that the chain reaction was still active and could also destroy stored Source Pearls.
• Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng flew into space, recognized that their Satellite Seal System had contributed to the catastrophe, and began destroying its Focus Systems.
• Feng Cheng reported finding two surviving Observers, and Su Hao ordered him to bring them back to the Beginning.
• After the Focus Systems were destroyed, Su Hao stayed behind to study the chain reaction while Ashan and Feng Cheng returned to the spaceship.
• Feng Cheng told Feiyuan that Source Star had no survivors, and Feiyuan asked to return there once Su Hao found a way to make it safe.

After witnessing Source Star burn, Su Hao investigated the disaster and resolved to find and crack the Doom System. Feiyuan tried to comfort the stranded survivors, while Su Hao reviewed his past misfortunes and concluded that the system’s disasters grew with the power he gained.

• Su Hao studied the chain reaction affecting Source Star, identified the Source Vector Suppressor as a way to stop it, and returned to the spacecraft.
• Feng Cheng took Feiyuan back to Source Star, then comforted him by suggesting that the spacecraft could become his second home.
• Yuan Feng and Ling Xue asked Feiyuan whether Source Star had burned away and learned they were aboard a spacecraft leaving its star system.
• Su Hao wrote that his existence brought disasters to Life Planets and that he needed to find and crack the Doom System.
• Su Hao reviewed his death scenes and concluded that the Doom System’s disasters intensified as his power and actions increased.

After Source Star’s destruction, Su Hao began investigating the Doom System and prepared to leave the dying planet with its two surviving natives. Aboard the Beginning, he set course for Feather Weave Star and recruited Feiyuan to help research the realm beyond Spirit Transformation.

• Su Hao planned tests to track the Doom System, including comparing outsiders with Source Star’s surviving natives, and decided to observe Yuan Feng and Ling Xue over time.
• Source Star’s energy began receding after the Disaster-Sealing Satellite System was destroyed, but most marine life had died, and Su Hao left a Location Stone behind as he departed.
• Yuan Feng and Ling Xue explored the Beginning, grew bored without anyone to impress, and found new purpose in starting a family.
• After Ashan mapped nearby stars, Su Hao chose Feather Weave Star and launched a teleportation module toward the first point on the route.
• Su Hao asked Feiyuan to help research Beyond Spirit Transmutation and promised to teach him cultivation, while Ashan jealously asked to join too.

Su Hao taught Feiyuan about cultivation and offered his view that Spiritual Power connects consciousness with the world. Feiyuan reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and committed to Su Hao’s Beyond Spirit Transmutation research.

• Ashan continued researching Source Matter, while Su Hao planned to teach him to use Small World Spheres.
• Su Hao told Feiyuan he was ready to construct a Knowledge Platform and urged him to study its principles before advancing.
• Su Hao taught Feiyuan about cultivation, and Feiyuan independently built an Orbital Superposition structure to reach the Spirit Transformation Realm in less than two years.
• Feiyuan experienced his expanded Perception and asked Su Hao what Spiritual Power was.
• Su Hao described Spiritual Power as consciousness’s means of observing and transforming the world, and explained that Beyond Spirit Transmutation aimed to strengthen those abilities.
• Feiyuan understood Su Hao’s research goal and made Beyond Spirit Transmutation his own goal.

Su Hao allowed Yuan Feng and Ling Xue to have children, and Feng Cheng helped them welcome five healthy babies aboard the spacecraft. Su Hao planned for the children to study with Feiyuan when they turned six, while postponing any effort to establish a human settlement on Source Star.

• Su Hao told Feng Cheng to let Yuan Feng and Ling Xue have children, and Feng Cheng treated them for infertility.
• Ling Xue gave birth to five babies, and Feng Cheng named them Ling Baihua, Yuan Xiafeng, Yuan Qiuye, Ling Tingxue, and Ling Ling.
• Feng Cheng helped settle the newborns in cradles, while Yuan Feng struggled to adjust to caring for five children.
• Su Hao told Feng Cheng not to let the spacecraft become crowded with children and explained that he might help Yuan Feng and Ling Xue establish a settlement on Source Star after its situation stabilized.
• Su Hao suggested that Feiyuan teach the children when they turned six so he could test his ideas about Spiritual Power, and Feiyuan agreed.

Su Hao developed a new approach to expanding perception by seeking materials that reacted to otherwise undetectable cosmic fluctuations, bringing Ashan into the research with Feiyuan. Four years later, the group reached the Feather Weave Star System and found no life on Fourth Planet, leaving them to search the desolate world for anything unusual.

• Feiyuan proposed finding substances that reacted to cosmic Rays and waves so Spiritual Power could use them as a new sensory organ, and Su Hao approved the idea.
• Su Hao asked Feiyuan and Ashan to research reactive materials together, and Ashan moved into Laboratory No.1 to join the work.
• After four years, Su Hao and the others arrived at the Feather Weave Star System and chose to investigate Fourth Planet.
• The group searched Fourth Planet and found no life, liquid water, or civilization.
• Su Hao told everyone to stack their defenses and search the planet for anything unusual.

After exploring the Feather Weave Galaxy, Su Hao decided to destroy and launch away its farthest planet while observing how matter reacted to energy. Meanwhile, Feiyuan began training Yuan Feng’s five children to test whether the Focus System could help break the limits of the human body, and Ling Baihua had already learned to draw a Spirit Circle in one stroke.

• Su Hao and the others finished exploring the star system, and Feiyuan reported that thirteen collected substances had special properties.
• Su Hao told Ashan to prepare equipment for observing matter during the destruction of Tenth Planet, which they planned to launch into space two months later.
• Feiyuan began teaching Yuan Feng’s five six-year-old children literacy and visualization, giving Yuan Feng a respite from looking after them.
• Feiyuan proposed using the Focus System to concentrate power at one point and help the children break through the limits of the fleshly body.
• Feiyuan asked Ling Baihua about her Spirit Circle, and she reported that she could draw a circle in one stroke.

Su Hao infected Planet Ten with the Planet Virus and used Ashan’s equipment to search for cosmic energy fluctuations, but the experiment did not identify the Doom System’s energy. The team found two substances that reacted to particular waves and decided to use them to begin constructing the Spiritual Eye.

• Su Hao drilled a deep hole into Planet Ten, planted a Star-Shattering Mini Cube, and waited in space to sense the planet’s destruction.
• As Planet Ten was corroded by the Virus, Ashan’s equipment recorded 256 substances undergoing special movements.
• Su Hao sensed the planet’s chaotic energy fields but could not determine whether they were connected to the Doom System.
• Su Hao and the others narrowed the substances down to Seeker One and Seeker Two, which reacted to different fluctuations but were not what Su Hao sought.
• Feiyuan proposed using Seeker One and Seeker Two to construct the Spiritual Eye, and Su Hao agreed to begin the experiment.

Su Hao and his companions set course for Purple Wolf Star while continuing their research on the Spiritual Eye and the children’s cultivation. Feiyuan’s experiment succeeded, and Su Hao said the Spiritual Eye could be ready within two years as Feiyuan optimized its design.

• Su Hao learned that Purple Wolf Star lay twelve light-years away toward the inner ring and decided the group would travel there after a month of preparations.
• Su Hao and his companions departed for Purple Wolf Star, while the five children grew up aboard the spacecraft during the journey.
• Feiyuan taught the five twelve-year-olds and confirmed that his Break Surface with Point experiment had enhanced their abilities, though each child experienced side effects.
• Feiyuan announced that the children had graduated from primary school and would begin studying immortal cultivation.
• Feiyuan reported the experiment’s success to Su Hao and planned to continue trials, while Su Hao said his Spiritual Eye encoding was nearly complete and discussed Feiyuan’s ring-shaped design.

Three years after leaving, Su Hao and his companions developed Spiritual Eye 1.0 from Seeker One, a device that let its user perceive spatial folds. After Ashan tested it successfully, Su Hao installed one himself and saw a different aspect of the universe, leaving him curious about what other perceptive substances might reveal.

• Ashan installed the first Spiritual Eye 1.0 and, after two days, succeeded in sensing faint spatial folds around him.
• Ashan's success prompted Su Hao and Feng Cheng to make their own devices, while Feiyuan decided to design an external Spiritual Eye rather than install one in his skull.
• One month later, Su Hao connected his Spiritual Eye 1.0 to his brain and Knowledge Platform, carefully completing the process over two days.
• Su Hao activated his device and perceived the universe as faint folds, then wondered what a Spiritual Eye made from Seeker Two would show.

Su Hao developed an Exploration Mini Cube Planet Virus to search planets for unknown substances while his companions continued refining the Spiritual Eye. Five years later, the group reached Purple Wolf Star and launched the Mini Cube on its barren fourth planet to begin exploring for life-related materials.

• Su Hao told Ashan the Spiritual Eye needed better controls, distance sensing, and miniaturization, and Ashan proposed a ring-shaped device with slots for interchangeable eyes.
• Feiyuan implanted an external Spiritual Eye and became deeply committed to studying the universe’s fluctuations.
• Su Hao designed an Exploration Mini Cube that could spread through a planet and identify unknown substances, then spent five years developing it.
• The spacecraft arrived in the Purple Wolf Star System, and Su Hao’s group explored its fourth planet, finding a barren world with abundant liquid water but no life.
• Su Hao showed the group the Exploration Mini Cube and explained that it would search the planet for unknown substances rather than destroy it.

Su Hao and his companions traveled from system to system, collecting unknown materials and destroying planets to provoke the Doom System into revealing itself, but they found no sign of the material he sought. After sixty years, Yuan Feng and Ling Xue died, and their five children confronted the fear of mortality before joining the explorers; the group then arrived at Wood Star to search for life.

• Su Hao drilled into a planet and placed an Exploration Mini Cube inside before taking Ashan and the others to survey more planets.
• Two years later, Su Hao destroyed Purple Wolf Star System’s eighth giant planet to provoke the Doom System, and the group discovered two new materials, Seeker Three and Seeker Four.
• Su Hao’s group left the ravaged system and continued exploring toward the inner Pan Yang System, collecting more substances while searching unsuccessfully for a Doom System sensing material.
• Over sixty years, Yuan Feng and Ling Xue grew old and died, and their five children learned from Feiyuan that they too would eventually die.
• The five children gradually set aside their fear, joined the planetary explorations, and reached Wood Star with Su Hao and the others to search for life.

Su Hao spent two centuries searching star systems for perceptive materials that could reveal the Doom System, while cautiously breaking through his Spiritual Power limit. Despite collecting many new ways to observe the universe, he found no sign of the material and continued into the enormous, aging Hump Star system, still wondering where the answer lay.

• After a month of exploration, Su Hao and the others returned to the spaceship, and Su Hao began cultivating the Break Surface with Point Method to strengthen his Spiritual Power.
• After nearly a year of cultivation, Su Hao achieved a small Spiritual Power breakthrough and sensed a tiny portion of the universe’s Cosmic Fluctuations.
• Su Hao used a Star-Shattering Mini Cube to destroy a planet and recorded the resulting energy fluctuations before the group continued their journey.
• Over the next two hundred years, they collected 135 types of seek-series substances but found no perceptive material for the Doom System, and the crew grew keenly aware of the universe’s loneliness.
• Su Hao led the spaceship to Hump Star, where the group explored the Fifth Planet but found no life or meaningful discoveries before setting out again.
• Su Hao wondered where the Doom System’s perceptive material was and feared that a second, fiercer disaster might be approaching.

Su Hao’s preparations failed to save the spacecraft and its inhabitants from the Second Catastrophe, a Particle Torrent and Hyperfrequency Oscillation that destroyed nearly everything. He survived as a head in the Second-Level Space, then formed a temporary crystal body and surveyed the empty void.

• Su Hao went for a walk to recover his focus, and Ashan and Feng Cheng joined him for a game of Fight the Landlord.
• A Particle Ray Stream and Hyperfrequency Oscillation struck the spacecraft while Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng were playing cards.
• Su Hao escaped into the Second-Level Space, but the catastrophe destroyed the spacecraft, the Islet, and Ashan, Feng Cheng, Feiyuan, and Ling Baihua’s group.
• The energy stripped away most of Su Hao’s body and powers, leaving his head and Knowledge Platform intact.
• Su Hao used Diamond Armor to construct a temporary crystal body and observed the surrounding void before silently cursing.

After losing his body, spacecraft, and most of his power in the particle torrent, Su Hao spotted a strange translucent substance forming from the spacecraft’s remains. He suspected it was the substance he had been seeking and resolved to investigate.

• Su Hao assessed his injuries, dwindling lifespan, and lost equipment, then confirmed Ashan and Feng Cheng were dead inside Marble Space.
• Su Hao waited for the particle torrent to weaken, but it grew stronger and trapped him in its affected range.
• Before teleporting away, Su Hao noticed tiny translucent particles gathering in the distance and watched them grow before the torrent swept them away.
• Su Hao reasoned that the particles had formed from the spacecraft’s debris and developed immense mass, then wondered whether they were the substance he sought.
• Su Hao realized he had found what he had been searching for and turned to face it.