Chapter Summaries

Mount Akina Speed persuaded scientists and readers that Cave Heaven Blessed Lands were literal radiation-based constructions, prompting Earth Mother to understand the ancient method. The chapter ended with a white-haired scientist recognizing the researchers’ scientific spirit and craftsmanship.

• A white-haired nuclear weapons scientist recalled dismissing a student who said the times had changed, then admitted that later developments had overturned his assumptions.
• Mount Akina Speed explained that Cave Heaven Blessed Lands used magnified cosmic energy to create radiation-rich cultivation regions, and readers recognized the literal meaning of the name.
• Earth Mother demonstrated the simple method by focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass to ignite her Jianmu vine, while Hu Haihan reacted with shock.
• Mount Akina Speed suggested that Nüwa Mending the Sky referred to repairing the atmosphere, and readers reconsidered ancient myths as records of technological processes.
• The white-haired scientist conceded that he would not judge Celestial Weapons and praised Mount Akina Speed and the forum researchers for their scientific spirit and craftsmanship.

Yuan Qinghua explained that the ancient cultivation world used Sun Descent Weapons to create Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, prompting the Nine Provinces Planet nations to adopt cultivation and reshape education. The planet entered an era of spiritual qi revival, and Xu Zhi recognized the development as a plausible model for real cosmic cultivation civilizations.

• After the lunar expedition failed, Ji Wuxiang invited Yuan Qinghua to address the continental leaders, and Yuan described the ancient civilizations and their cultivation heritage.
• Ji Wuxiang concluded that the nations could obtain an extraordinary cultivation system from the ancient divine beasts, and Yuan introduced Buddhism and Daoism as its basic systems.
• Yuan explained how Sun Descent Weapons could illuminate valleys and form Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, persuading the leaders to use them as cultivation sites.
• Within five years, spiritual qi revival transformed education and society, with universities built in blessed valleys and cultivation incorporated into everyday life.
• As spiritual qi waned and atmospheric radiation thinned, Xu Zhi observed that the nations had solved the problem of gathering energy on planets far from the sun.

Xu Zhi watched Nine Provinces Planet develop under a divided system of sunlit cultivation lands and shadowed regions, where vampiric creatures preyed on cultivators. After generations of growth, solar Element Lifeforms attacked with a devastating Sun Descent Weapon, triggering an interplanetary chain of reflected beams and the outbreak of the Second World War.

• Xu Zhi settled in a villa district and discussed the rise of sect monopolies and attacks by heretics with a high school girl who cultivated using her motorcycle.
• The girl confronted a vampire zombie that had been attacking cultivators and classmates, revealing her Buddhist staff and training.
• Over the next ninety years, Heavenly Emperors grew powerful enough to create new Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, while Ji Shang faced opposition from his descendants and vampiric dark creatures spread fear.
• Element Lifeforms fired a vastly powerful Sun Descent Weapon at Nine Provinces Planet, destroying part of a city and prompting its cultivators to try reflecting the beam.
• The beam bounced between planets across the Solar System as the television hosts announced that an interstellar Second World War had begun.

The Nine Provinces learned that their rotating stockpile of mirrors could withstand the Sun Descent Weapon and watched the Sun Civilization use its beam to demand submission. When the Nine Provinces refused to redirect the message toward Mercury, a Sun Elemental boarded the expanded beam tunnel and projected its elemental body toward their planet.

• The broadcast explained that over seventeen hundred mirrors and coordinated cooling and reforging could sustain the Nine Provinces' defense against the Sun Descent Weapon.
• A mirror on Mercury failed, and the resulting energy storm devastated Mercury's inhabitants as the Nine Provinces leaders watched.
• Yuan Qinghua and the leaders saw the Sun Civilization shape its beam into a message demanding that the planets submit.
• The Nine Provinces refused to redirect the message toward Mercury and sent the beam into space instead.
• A Sun Elemental revealed that expanded beams could form Elemental Tunnels, then rode one toward the Nine Provinces Planet while leaving its Heart of Element behind.

Sun Flame God Asa invaded the planet with overwhelming force and demanded that its people submit, explaining that he meant to prevent humanity from becoming gods and threatening his civilization. Yuan Qinghua recognized the strategy as similar to the Reincarnation Governor’s, while the planet’s leaders faced defeat and enslavement.

• Sun Flame God Asa descended through a beam of light and announced that he would conquer the planet in retaliation for its past attack on the Sun Element Elves.
• Hundreds of Heavenly Emperors attacked Asa, but his immense size and flames killed more than seventy before the rest fled.
• The planet’s Sun Descent Weapons and a Moon Descent Nuclear Weapon failed to hit Asa, who destroyed cities as he demanded submission.
• Asa told the leaders that he would spare the planet only if its Heavenly Emperor-level experts left as servants of his solar civilization.
• Ji Wuxiang asked Asa about his plans, and Asa explained that he had attacked the moon to stop humanity from gaining power and eventually threatening his people.
• Yuan Qinghua recognized Asa’s plan to suppress humanity’s advancement as resembling the Reincarnation Governor’s method, while Asa declared that humans could not become gods before his people.

Sun God Asa forced the races of the solar system to submit and established the Sun God Dynasty, while the civilizations entered an era of interplanetary travel and prosperity. Years later, Yuan Qinghua met the hidden zombie emperor Ji Shang at a Galaxy Council and recognized him as Xing Di.

• Sun God Asa threatened widespread slaughter, and the leaders of the flesh-and-blood races chose submission; the Moon People and elemental races followed.
• Sun God Asa ordered the beam redirected to graze the moon, then imprisoned the races’ Heavenly Emperors in Asgard Golden Palace and established the Sun God Dynasty across the galaxy.
• The Sun God Dynasty built Cosmic Bridges between planets, while Sun God Asa monitored attempts to reach godhood and otherwise left civilizations free to govern themselves.
• The Moon People and Nine Provinces fought over the Blood of Eternal Life, and the people of Nine Provinces increasingly joined the immortal race and cultivated true qi.
• Sun God Asa discovered a faster cultivation method in the elemental energy tunnels, then continued working toward godhood over the following years.
• At the Galaxy Council, Yuan Qinghua questioned Ji Shang about his proposal, then recognized the zombie emperor as Xing Di and excitedly called out that he was Cantonese.

Yuan Qinghua mistook Ji Shang for an ancient Guangdong transmigrant, prompting online speculation that zombies came from Earth. The forum then built an elaborate theory that Chinese myths recorded a prehistoric civilization and its planetary disasters, while Xu Zhi watched in disbelief.

• Yuan Qinghua interpreted Ji Shang’s lack of reaction to his Cantonese joke as evidence that Ji Shang was an ancient Guangdong transmigrant and posted the theory online.
• Forum users speculated that the zombie bloodline originated on Earth and that zombies formed a third system alongside Buddhism and Daoism.
• Mount Akina Speed theorized that ancient myths described a powerful civilization whose Sun Approaching Mirrors damaged the planet and whose conflicts caused environmental catastrophe.
• Mount Akina Speed connected Gonggong striking Mount Buzhou to the destruction of a vast Elemental Tunnel and proposed that Nüwa used a giant turtle and Five-Colored Stones to repair the atmosphere.
• Mount Akina Speed interpreted Hou Yi shooting the suns and other legends as accounts of ancient Celestial Weapons, then proposed that floods and dinosaur extinction followed mythological wars.
• Xu Zhi secretly watched the forum’s speculation and wondered how its members had strayed so far from researching Transcendents.

At the Solar System Conference, Ji Shang proposed that Sun God Asa adopt the Blood of Eternal Life to accelerate his cultivation, while Yuan Qinghua urged him to send beams of light beyond the universe and expand his rule. Asa considered Ji Shang’s proposal and heard Yuan Qinghua’s ambitious plan.

• Sun God Asa asked Ji Shang how the Blood of Eternal Life could help him cultivate to divinity faster.
• Ji Shang explained that burning lifespan could accelerate cultivation fourfold, but would require repeated deep sleep and a guardian.
• Ji Shang described how complete transformation could overcome the bloodline’s fear of radiation, while bringing the greater flaw of needing to sleep.
• Ji Shang proposed raising livestock in cave-heaven blessed lands and using their blood to cultivate, with guardians pairing up to address the sleep problem.
• Sun God Asa said he would consider Ji Shang’s proposal, then asked Yuan Qinghua to state his plan.
• Yuan Qinghua proposed sending beams of light beyond the universe as pathways for Asa’s true spirit to explore and rule the cosmos.

Yuan Qinghua presented Aza and the Sun Star System Council with a plan to build a cosmic World Tree and Mother River network that could expand the civilization across the universe. The plan left Aza convinced it was feasible, though it required centuries of construction and a joint breakthrough by the civilizations’ Moon Diviners.

• Yuan Qinghua explained that Sun Advent beams would form a Mother River trunk and branching tunnels connecting planets across the universe.
• Yuan Qinghua revealed that Element Lifeforms could send their true spirits through the beam network and revive at the Mother River’s source if they died.
• Aza named the Solar System at the World Tree’s base Cosmic Midgard and approved the vision, while noting that light-speed travel was too slow for crossing the universe.
• Yuan Qinghua proposed using an Incense Dragon Vein Array and the Sun Approaching Mirror to twist the laws of the universe, accelerate the Mother River beyond light speed, and conceal its source from ninth-rank beings.
• Yuan Qinghua estimated that the Solar System array would need 711 major-realm mirrors and more than 17,800 minor-realm mirrors, take at least 300 years to build, and require the Moon Diviners to jointly develop the core Mother River Mirror.

Aza approved the Cosmic Mother River Tree project and Ji Shang’s eternal-life system, then entered slumber after taking a second-generation bloodline. Ji Shang seized the age of the vampire dynasty, conquered Nine Provinces and the Moon, and prepared the Solar System array’s worship network while Xu Zhi observed how the new era reshaped ordinary lives.

• Aza approved the Cosmic Mother River Tree project and the spread of Ji Shang’s eternal-life system, then learned that bloodline purity declined with each generation.
• Aza took a Gene Potion and ordered the Element Leaders to maintain order while he slept; a hundred years later, the Sun Descends Star Chart began construction and the Heavenly Emperors fought over eternal-life blood.
• Ji Shang reestablished the Great Entropy Dynasty, forced Ji Wuxiang to surrender his throne, and defeated the nations of Nine Provinces with overwhelming power.
• Ji Shang conquered the Moon and became known as Later Entropy; he and Li Wang ordered Moon God Ji’s statues built across the planets to prepare for the Solar System array.
• Xu Zhi watched a former student struggle to obtain a higher-generation bloodline and told his maid that she would soon share in the influence of his worship.

Xu Zhi transformed his housekeeper Wu Ming into an elemental lifeform and asked Ji Yi to teach her cultivation, while Wu Ming’s extraordinary talent gave Ji Yi hope of securing a longevity bloodline. When the river system’s faith formation was completed, the prayers of countless beings awakened Wu Ming’s divine form, leaving Ji Yi stunned by the identity of the woman she had taken in.

• Xu Zhi modified his housekeeper into an elemental lifeform, but worried that her incense-born nature left her without creativity, and asked Ji Yi to teach her Buddhist cultivation.
• Ji Yi trained Wu Ming, who rapidly reached Sixth-Order and gained fame as a prodigy, while Ji Yi devoted herself to researching and guiding her.
• When universities offered Wu Ming new cultivation paths, Ji Yi decided to reject them, become Wu Ming’s protector, and seek a longevity bloodline through her.
• The River System Star Map was completed, and people across the system prayed to Moon God Ji.
• The prayers transformed Wu Ming into a towering, radiant elemental deity, and Ji Yi looked on in shock.

The Solar System’s incense offerings transformed Ji’s maidservant into a continent-sized, seven-colored elemental giant who appeared above Pingcheng. People recognized the descent as a chance to locate Moon God Ji, and lawmakers realized their incense-array plan had succeeded, leaving them to face the prospect of confronting a terrifying enemy.

• Xu Zhi transferred the incense faith gathered for Ji to her maidservant.
• The Solar System’s incense offerings converged on the maidservant in Pingcheng, expanding her into a seven-colored giant larger than a continent.
• Ji Yi studied the giant’s unprecedented elemental form as people across the planet watched in awe.
• Ji Shang, Yuan Qinghua, and other lawmakers saw the maidservant’s appearance and recognized that their search plan had found a trace of Moon God Ji.
• Yuan Qinghua posted that they had caught the ancient mysterious existence, while the lawmakers began to act and feared the enemy who had destroyed their ancient Huaxia mythological civilization.

Ji Shang confronted the possibility that his civilization had advanced unnaturally fast because Moon God Ji had guided its development, while Xu Zhi studied the maid’s transformation into a vast faith-infused elemental being. Ji Shang went to question Xu Zhi about whether his people’s history was a fabricated dream and what they meant to their creator.

• Moon Diviners debated whether gods had elemental or human forms, and an elderly scholar proposed that gods possessed flesh-and-blood hearts surrounded by energy bodies.
• Ji Shang reflected on Moon God Ji’s role in giving his civilization knowledge and life, then changed into primitive clothing and set out to confront her.
• Xu Zhi considered how the maid’s faith had transformed her into a gigantic energy lifeform and wondered whether she had become a Fifth Element.
• Ji Shang recounted how his civilization had progressed from primitive tribes to interstellar engineering in five hundred years, far faster than Earth’s history.
• Ji Shang asked Xu Zhi whether his civilization’s rapid development was a grand dream and what its people meant to Moon God Ji.

Ji Shang confronted Ji about guiding their civilization, and Ji dismissed its importance to him as no more than an ant nest. He then revealed that the civilization could surpass him because he was about to die of old age, leaving everyone stunned.

• Ji Shang accused Ji of shaping their civilization’s path, including the Moon God Monument, the incense formation, and the Mother River System.
• Ji compared the civilization to ants beneath his tree and told Ji Shang that higher-dimensional beings did not have to care about them.
• Yuan Qinghua concluded that Ji was a colossal Half-Element Lifeform and that their Mother River was not the only one.
• Ji Shang asked whether he could surpass Ji, and Ji said anyone had a chance, including him.
• Ji revealed that he was about to die of old age and had created their world for that reason.

Ji revealed that he had created the Solar System civilization to research the blood of eternal life after learning he would die of old age. He recounted destroying the Mother River Civilization to obtain the blood and said his plan now required a Dao protector who possessed it.

• Ji explained that warping the laws of the universe could not change the inevitability of death, and Li Li realized Ji had brought him to the galaxy as part of his immortality research.
• Ji said he had found a flourishing civilization whose two ancient beings could live for hundreds of thousands of years, then fought them to learn the coordinates of the immortal planet.
• Ji described how the war devastated the Mother River Civilization, shattered the Mother River, and killed its ancient sorcerers and Elemental Emperors.
• Ji admitted he had destroyed the civilization because his life mattered more to him than theirs, but said he too would soon need the blood of eternal life and a Dao protector.
• Ji declared that his plan to eliminate the other civilization was proceeding and that he now needed a Dao protector with the blood of eternal life, stirring fervor among those listening.

Ji revealed that his attempt to create a guardian was only a game he played on a whim, then dismissed the planetary leaders and returned to reading. As the leaders left, Li Li and the others struggled to accept how insignificant humanity was to a being like Ji.

• Ji told Ji Shang and the other visitors that he did not expect them to achieve Transcendence and would not settle for an inferior guardian.
• Ji dismissed the visitors and continued reading, while Ji Shang thanked him and led the shaken leaders away.
• Li Li and the other leaders reflected on how their assumptions about Ji had exposed their ignorance and weakness.
• Reporters asked Ji Shang for an interview, but he refused and left; a reporter told the public that the leaders had received valuable teachings from Ji.
• Li Li recalled Ji's words about human weakness and arrogance, then understood that Ji's casual friendliness reflected the vast gulf between them.

Ji Shang allowed Ji Yi to flee with Moon God Ji’s maidservant, while the Solar System civilization began a new era by creating the Mother River. Xu Zhi lifted the Zerg isolation restrictions, letting the Mother River’s light determine where he could expand his land.

• Ji Yi fled with her maidservant, and Ji Shang refused to stop them despite others’ objections.
• Ji Shang and Yuan Qinghua reflected on how fate, rather than aptitude alone, shaped who reached the summit.
• In the second year, the Mother River Mirror fired a beam faster than light, establishing the Mother River Year Zero and launching a new cosmic civilization.
• Xu Zhi returned to the orchard and ordered the Intelligent Sub-brain to lift the Zerg isolation zone’s restrictions and allow expansion wherever the beam reached.
• Netizens learned that Ji had founded the ancient Mother River System and celebrated their revival of it.

The players watched Ji’s past and learned that Li Li was the Transcendent and a mole within the Mother River Civilization. Mount Akina Speed analyzed Ji’s motives and urged Yuan Qinghua to keep cultivating while the players secretly learned from the civilization’s development.

• The players watched screenshots revealing that the gentle-looking youth beneath the great tree was Ji, and Yuan Qinghua said Li Li was the Transcendent before leaving to rest.
• The internet debated Li Li’s origins and whether the game’s events were connected to real people, then discussed Ji’s terrifying power and cold demeanor.
• Mount Akina Speed estimated Ji’s lifespan at eighty or ninety thousand years and argued that lifespan had driven him to wage war against the Buddhist and Daoist Systems.
• Mount Akina Speed speculated that Ji was rebuilding the Mother River Civilization and experimenting with the Blood of Eternal Life while hoping an unprecedented genius might appear.
• Mount Akina Speed advised Yuan Qinghua not to abandon cultivation and urged the players to let the civilization develop while secretly learning from it.

Online discussions focused on the difficult Ninth-Order Road and the advantages of species designed for cultivation, while the major players debated using the Mother River to find Earth and revive supernatural phenomena there. As the plan remained years from implementation, Xu Zhi sensed that he was about to break through and become an Intermediate God.

• Netizens debated how difficult it was to reach the ninth order, and discussed Di Qi's Severing Three Corpses to Attain Dao method and its limited benefit for most cultivators.
• Meng Mei argued that her Incense Dragon Vein Dao-Attaining Method gave her an advantage, and ranked Mount Akina Speed and the Alchemy Emperor among players with promising paths to the ninth order.
• Online discussion shifted toward designing extraordinary species with innate advantages, as players speculated that simpler species could make ninth-order breakthroughs easier.
• Yuan Qinghua and other big shots discussed using the Mother River to reach Earth and eventually revive supernatural phenomena, while weighing the risks and the time needed to develop their technology.
• Xu Zhi read the online and private-group discussions, sensed energy surging within him, and realized he was about to become an Intermediate God.

Xu Zhi became a Middle God after drawing energy from the Mother River System and observed the approaching conflict over Caroline’s Small Universe World. In the Six Paths of Reincarnation World, the Netherworld revived as ordinary people’s souls became central, and Reincarnation Governor decided to expand beyond his borders.

• Xu Zhi absorbed the Mother River System’s energy and reached the Middle God realm, expecting to become a High God soon.
• Xu Zhi observed the Rose Tree’s rapid growth and noted that the Age of Light Beams remained capped at the Heavenly Emperor era until Sun God Asa became a god.
• Xu Zhi saw that the Three Pillar Gods had traced Caroline’s Small Universe World and were preparing to attack, while Di Qi was poised to follow them.
• You Mountain Governor explained that the Netherworld was reviving as ordinary people’s souls gained importance and supernatural practitioners lost their former dominance.
• Reincarnation Governor told the Netherworld’s gods that they would have to march beyond their borders again.