Chapter Summaries

Yun Xinghe recalled how Divine Domain consumed his high school years and how he fell for Yue Mengwu, only to suspect she had been using him to gather a divine artifact set for another man. After Yun Xinghe exposed her plan and defeated Overlord Gang, Yue Mengwu died still insisting that deceiving him had been fun.

• Yun Xinghe became a top Divine Domain player with Old Grandpa's guidance, leading Xinghe Gang while choosing Free Mode.
• Yun Xinghe grew close to Yue Mengwu through years of dungeon runs and fell for her despite other girls confessing to him.
• Old Grandpa warned Yun Xinghe that Yue Mengwu was collecting a divine artifact set for an outstanding man and had approached him to exploit his skills.
• Yun Xinghe obtained the final divine sword and demanded 5 million Federal Currency from Yue Mengwu, then found her with Jun Lin Tianxia at the exchange meeting.
• Overlord Gang surrounded Yun Xinghe, but more than ten thousand Xinghe Gang members arrived and defeated them; Jun Lin Tianxia died and dropped the other six divine artifacts.
• Yun Xinghe asked Yue Mengwu why she had lied, and she said she had done it because it was fun before dying in the game.

After the college entrance exams, Yun Xinghe prepared to attend Bora Star Aerospace Academy and pursue his dream of becoming an interstellar explorer. Most of his friends abandoned their plans to join him, but he took heart from the companions who stayed and resolved to build a team at the academy.

• Yun Xinghe explained the training and official requirements for becoming an interstellar explorer, and why private explorers faced serious limits.
• Sun Kang decided to apply to a music academy to stay with his girlfriend, and Yun Xinghe let him go despite knowing through Advanced Mind Reading that she was using him.
• Zhang Zhichao chose to stay and take over his parents' company, so Yun Xinghe angrily disowned him.
• Four or five more friends apologized and left, leaving Yun Xinghe with Du Xiaopang, Su Jialu, Lan Xiulong, Xianglan Meiqin, and Yun Qiaoqiao.
• Old Grandpa reminded Yun Xinghe that adults often chose practical concerns over distant dreams, and Yun Xinghe regained his resolve to gather a team at the Aerospace Academy.

Yun Xinghe began at Aerospace Academy, where he excelled in military training and was inspired by the dean’s vision of humanity’s expansion into space. The dean then revealed that Yun Xinghe’s father had vanished after the exploration vessel Dawn lost contact, leaving Yun Xinghe determined to find him someday.

• Yun Xinghe arrived at Aerospace Academy and admired its monumental campus, including the Monument of Light bearing his ancestor Yun Tianfeng’s name.
• Yun Xinghe endured military training enthusiastically and helped Du Xiaopang, Su Jialu, and Xianglan Meiqin, while his group with Lan Xiulong ranked first.
• The dean urged the freshmen to expand humanity’s reach across the galaxy and pursue the future as explorers.
• The dean met Yun Xinghe privately, praised Yun Tianfeng’s character, and said he had also met Yun Xinghe’s father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.
• The dean told Yun Xinghe that the Dawn had lost contact five years earlier while heading toward r136a Star, and explained that the vessel might have encountered danger or vanished intentionally.
• Yun Xinghe said he hoped to search for his father in the future, and the dean urged him to study hard and become an outstanding captain.

Yun Xinghe completed his exploration team by recruiting talented students for the Navigation Officer, Chief Engineer, Weapons Officer, and Repair Officer positions. With Yun Qiaoqiao joining as Medical Officer, the team was ready to pursue his dream, though Yun Xinghe silently vowed to protect her on their expeditions.

• Yun Xinghe recruited Bieliekov as Navigation Officer after giving him ten mathematical problems, five of which Bieliekov solved.
• Xia Xingkong verified Yun Xinghe's power-system design, which was named the Yun Xia Power Scheme, and agreed to join the team as Chief Engineer.
• Gu Fan joined as Weapons Officer after setting an unbeaten record in the academy's Interstellar War simulation game.
• Uehara Aika demonstrated her spaceship-repair skills and joined as Repair Officer.
• Yun Qiaoqiao became the team's Medical Officer, and Yun Xinghe vowed to protect her despite worrying about the dangers of exploration.

At the end of his academy years, Yun Xinghe joined a fleet internship while preparing an exploration ship for his future journeys. After spending his own fortune to rebuild Ship No. 37, he named the completed vessel Flying Heaven, leaving ready to begin his life among the stars.

• Yun Xinghe delivered a graduation speech declaring his ambition to explore the stars and continue his family's tradition.
• Yun Xinghe joined the 11th Fleet aboard Dragon Halberd and reassured a disillusioned pilot that soldiers would eventually be given difficult missions.
• Yun Xinghe spent five years on routine fleet duties while closely monitoring the construction of his exploration ship.
• Yun Xinghe paid for extensive upgrades to Ship No. 37, turning it into a highly advanced vessel at a cost of more than eighty billion Federal Currency.
• Yun Xinghe named the completed ship Flying Heaven, and the factory manager praised the name.

Yun Xinghe chose p654j Star, where Old Grandpa said intelligent plant life would later be destroyed, and secured permission to take the Flying Heaven there. After tearful farewells, the crew launched from Bora Star and began their journey.

• Old Grandpa told Yun Xinghe that p654j Star held a planet with intelligent plant life that a future Federation fleet would destroy.
• Yun Xinghe persuaded the Starry Sky Exploration Bureau to let the Flying Heaven travel through the Oma Nebula to p654j Star.
• Yun Xinghe and his crew said goodbye to their families at the Bora Star Spaceport, while Yun Xiaoying agreed to raise Yun Xinghe’s future children.
• Uehara Aika asked Yun Xinghe for genetic material so her father could have grandchildren, then left her two future children in his care.
• Yun Xinghe confirmed the crew was present, received clearance from the tower commander, and ordered the Flying Heaven to depart.

Flying Heaven left the Bora Star System and accelerated toward the Oma Nebula, while its crew prepared to enter hibernation. Before sending a message home, Yun Xinghe learned that time dilation meant the video needed a different timestamp.

• Flying Heaven crossed the Oort Cloud at 0.4 times the speed of light, and its force-field hull protected it from particles in the sparse cloud.
• After the ship entered absolute vacuum, Navigation Officer Bieliekov plotted an economical route to the Oma Nebula, and Yun Xinghe ordered the crew to begin accelerating.
• Yun Xinghe reduced the acceleration to ease the strain on the crew, and Flying Heaven reached its maximum speed of 0.55 times the speed of light a month later.
• The ten crew members recorded a video for their families on Bora Star and prepared to transmit it through a nearby quantum communications relay station.
• First Officer Lan Xiulong corrected Yun Xinghe's timestamp, explaining that time dilation meant more time had passed for people outside the ship.

After 160 years of hibernation, Yun Xinghe recovered his memories, repaired damage to the Flying Heaven, and led the crew toward the Oma Nebula. The crew endured years of violent storms and dense matter before finally escaping the nebula, shaken by the ordeal.

• Yun Xinghe entered hibernation for 160 years, and Zhou Ming chose to remain in the game while handling his own affairs.
• Yun Xinghe awoke with memory loss, restored his memories with the Memory Recovery Machine, and repaired a hole in the Flying Heaven's right wing.
• Yun Xinghe inspected the spacecraft, awakened his companions, and the crew decided to cross the Oma Nebula after slowing down and collecting acceleration medium.
• The Flying Heaven entered the nebula at 0.35c, where dense matter and violent storms battered the ship and left the crew severely ill.
• After more than a year in the stormiest region and over three additional years crossing the nebula, the crew escaped and vowed to detour around such nebulae in the future.

Flying Heaven discovered Pandora Star, a highly habitable world rich in life and valuable Floating Stone, after exploring the p654j Star System. The crew replenished supplies at Xiaopang One, found abundant life in its atmosphere, and ended the chapter surveying Pandora Star’s forests, animals, and enormous floating islands.

• Flying Heaven entered the p654j Star System and discovered a habitable planet, while Yun Xinghe explained that Pandora Star had once been destroyed over humanity’s pursuit of Floating Stone.
• A year and a half later, Flying Heaven replenished its supplies at Xiaopang One and discovered countless jellyfish-like organisms floating in the gas giant’s atmosphere.
• Yun Xinghe decided the crew should continue to Pandora Star rather than delay to study the gas giant’s life.
• Flying Heaven entered orbit above Pandora Star and surveyed its life-filled terrain, finding the planet suitable for human habitation.
• Yun Xinghe recognized that the enormous floating islands near the planet’s equator contained vast quantities of Floating Stone.

Yun Xinghe chose to approach Pandora Star’s intelligent life through communication before resorting to control or conquest. After the crew captured and recruited Zu Tai, a Blue Might hunter, he returned to his tribe equipped with advanced weapons and armor and became a celebrated hero.

• Yun Xinghe rejected an immediate assault on Pandora Star and considered Old Grandpa’s strategies of conquest, control, and communication, deciding to try communication first.
• Six robots captured a sleeping Blue Might person and brought him aboard Flying Heaven for study.
• Yun Xinghe used advanced mind reading and a Brainwave Communicator to understand the captive, Zu Tai, then persuaded him to cooperate by promising weapons and help fulfilling his ambitions.
• The crew returned Zu Tai to his tribe with a spear, dagger, armor, and Brainwave Communicator.
• Zu Tai killed three giant beasts during a hunt, became a tribal hero, and caught the chief’s daughter’s attention.

The God Race expanded its trade with Zu Tai’s Blue Might People tribe, turning it into a workforce that helped build a towering structure. When the Tree God declared the tribe doomed for welcoming outsiders, Zu Tai urged the tribe to trust the Sky Gods, but tens of thousands of monsters and giant birds gathered outside the valley and charged.

• The God Race traded weapons and household goods with the Blue Might People, then paid them gold coins to work on construction.
• Zu Tai recruited growing numbers of the tribe to work for the God Race, and a towering structure took shape over more than two years.
• The old chief announced that the Tree God was enraged and blamed Zu Tai for bringing outsiders to the tribe.
• Zu Tai rejected the chief’s accusations, declared that the Sky Gods would protect the tribe, and won the crowd’s support.
• The next morning, the tribe saw the sky filled with giant birds and the ground covered in monsters.
• More than a hundred thousand creatures charged toward the tribe as its people watched in terror.

Yun Xinghe’s forces rescued Zu Tai’s tribe from a monster assault, then attempted to negotiate with the Tree God and learned that an even larger attack was coming. As the Tree God ordered the slaughter of the Blue Might People, Yun Xinghe relocated survivors to Freedom Island, leaving all-out war imminent.

• Gu Fan’s fighters and drones destroyed the attacking birds and most of the monsters around the pyramid while Zu Tai’s tribe fought off the remaining ground monsters and passed the gods’ trial.
• Yun Xinghe named Zu Tai’s people the God Chosen Tribe and arranged medical care after the battle.
• The old chieftain connected to the Sacrificial Tree, but the Tree God’s fury overwhelmed him and revealed an approaching monster assault.
• Yun Xinghe moved Zu Tai’s 187 surviving tribespeople to Freedom Island and sent aircraft and robots to relocate other Blue Might People tribes.
• The Tree God issued a Slaughter Order, and hundreds of millions of monsters killed over half the Blue Might People within days while Zu Tai helped move about one million to Freedom Island.
• Yun Xinghe considered attacking the Tree God, but Old Grandpa urged him to accept the losses as the Blue Might People prepared for all-out war.

The gods sent Zu Tai and 50,000 Blue Might People on Operation Uproot to excavate an ancient Sacrificial Tree and restore telepathic communication. The operation collapsed under monster attacks, but Gu Fan’s support helped the survivors airlift the tree to Freedom Island at a terrible cost.

• Yun Qiaoqiao and Xianglan Meiqin explained that the Blue Might People learned quickly by sharing knowledge telepathically, while Lan Xiulong identified Floating Stone as the link sustaining that ability.
• Zu Tai led 50,000 Blue Might People to excavate a 100,000-year-old Sacrificial Tree that might restore their communication and weaken the Tree God’s control.
• Monsters overwhelmed the expedition’s defenses, destroying aircraft and wiping out units as Zu Tai appealed to the gods for help.
• Yun Xinghe ordered Gu Fan to support the failing legion and help remove the tree.
• The gods declared Operation Uproot a failure, but hundreds of transport aircraft carried the excavated, self-unaware tree to Freedom Island after nearly 40,000 Blue Might People died.

After the failed operation against the Tree God, Yun Xinghe’s crew planned to build beast-taming forces and flew to the Mountain of Gods to harvest Un element. With the Blue Might People’s mental connections restored, they launched a mass egg-stealing campaign, which left Zu Tai facing millions of unclassified eggs.

• Yun Xinghe identified the Blue Might People’s dependence on ammunition and fuel as the reason the operation failed, and praised the 15th Beast Taming Regiment’s performance.
• Su Jialu proposed forming Sky Cavalry and Land Cavalry from beast tamers, while keeping the remaining mechs and fighters as emergency forces.
• Yun Xinghe sent the Flying Heaven to the Mountain of Gods, where it took a small floating mountain despite the Tree God’s furious response.
• The crew extracted Un element from the mountain and used it to revive Freedom Island’s Sacrificial Tree and restore the Blue Might People’s mental connections with medicinal powder.
• The Blue Might People established one hundred egg-stealing squads, which raided nests for three months and collected several million eggs.
• Zu Tai halted the operation and struggled to identify, distribute, and handle the enormous stockpile of eggs.

Over ten years, the Blue Might People built a million-strong army and expanded across the mainland, defeating monster forces and establishing settlements. After discovering Tree Elder, a former Blue Might person who could grant blessings, Yun Xinghe learned the Tree God might be ready to negotiate as the Blue Might territory approached his nest.

• Blue Might people became self-sufficient farmers, their population returned to around ten million, and Zu Tai assembled an army of more than one million troops.
• Yun Xinghe approved Zu Tai’s campaign to seize mainland territory by clearing Sacrificial Tree nodes, and the Blue Might army killed nearly a million monsters with fewer than five thousand casualties in its first battle.
• The Blue Might legions expanded their territory over the following years, eventually securing ten million square kilometers and removing more than a thousand nodes.
• The Blue Might People discovered Tree Elder, an eighty-thousand-year-old Sacrificial Tree inhabited by the soul of a former Blue Might sacrificial elder who offered to help them.
• Xianglan Meiqin reported that the Tree God had sent Eagle Bird Beasts toward Blue Might settlements, and Yun Xinghe concluded that the Tree God wanted to negotiate.

Yun Xinghe used negotiations with the Tree God to demand Floating Stones, territory for the Blue Might People, and freedom for self-aware Sacrificial Trees. The Tree God was left weighing whether to accept the harsh terms or risk destruction.

• Su Ba connected with the Tree God’s avatar, and the Blue Might leaders and gods began negotiations through a projection communicator.
• Yun Xinghe rejected the Tree God’s accusations and described the Tree God as merely another resource to a higher civilization.
• Yun Xinghe revealed that the Blue Might People wanted one-fifth of the Tree God’s Floating Stones and threatened to take more or destroy him.
• Yun Xinghe demanded one-seventh of the land for the Blue Might People and at least ten independent Elder Trees with broad territories.
• The Tree God became enraged but hesitated over whether to resist, knowing the Blue Might People could destroy him and restore the planet’s balance without him.

After the Tree God betrayed the Blue Might People with a devastating monster attack, Yun Xinghe and his crew destroyed its body with the Flying Heaven’s laser cannons. They found the Tree God’s consciousness alive in a crystal core and made it cooperate with the planetary transformation, while collecting vast quantities of un element.

• The Tree God tried to assign the Blue Might People scattered, inhospitable lands, but Zu Tai demanded two large fertile regions and the Heavenly God ordered the Tree God to concede them.
• As the Blue Might People moved Sacrificial Trees, the Tree God unleashed at least 500 million monsters, destroying 150 settlements and killing nearly all of their residents.
• Lan Xiulong identified the hidden tunnels the Tree God had used to gather the monsters, and Yun Xinghe ordered the Flying Heaven to destroy the Tree God.
• Gu Fan fired three laser attacks that pierced and split the Tree God’s trunk, ending its control over the planet and scattering the giant birds.
• Yun Xinghe and his crew recovered the Tree God’s living consciousness core and collected 1.8 billion mole-units of un element over the following years.

After the Tree God's fall, Yun Xinghe helped the Blue Might People establish a new government while keeping them independent of tree-based communication. He finally reported Pandora Star and its Floating Stone to the Blue Star Federation, whose president promised to protect the planet and its people.

• The Tree Elder became Forest Overlord, while 107 Elder Trees received the rest of the territory and the Blue Might People began developing their own language and writing.
• Zu Tai pursued absolute power and immortality, so Yun Xinghe secretly arranged for his death; the gods then prevented a succession crisis from becoming a civil war.
• The Blue Might People adopted a presidential system and council of elders, and Yun Xinghe warned Sula that they would have to rely on themselves after the gods departed.
• The Flying Heaven crew reported Pandora Star and Floating Stone to the Federation after years of debate, prompting widespread excitement and a request to send a probe back for research.
• President Andiya asked Yun Xinghe why he had delayed reporting Pandora, and he explained that he wanted to protect its life and civilization from exploitation.
• Yun Xinghe said he had prepared an Artificial Planet for Federation immigrants, and Andiya promised Pandora Star and the Blue Might People would be protected.

Yun Xinghe and the Flying Heaven crew completed an artificial habitable planet in the Pandora Star System, using Floating Stone to accelerate its construction. As they prepared to leave, Yun Xinghe worried that Pandora Star would still be destroyed for its valuable resources, but Old Grandpa urged him onward toward a new intelligent civilization.

• Bieliekov celebrated the completion of the artificial planet, and Yun Xinghe praised his work.
• The chapter explained how Floating Stone and specialized transport equipment let the Flying Heaven crew build the planet in twenty-eight years, far faster than the Federation scientists thought possible.
• Bieliekov said automated devices would finish transforming the planet before Federation immigrants arrived, and the crew prepared to leave for their next destination.
• Yun Xinghe worried that the Federation would eventually mine Pandora Star for its Floating Stone, as it had in another parallel universe.
• Old Grandpa told Yun Xinghe he could only make Pandora Star's fate less terrible and said the Blue Might People would survive as an ethnic minority affiliated with the Federation.
• Old Grandpa promised Yun Xinghe would encounter a fascinating intelligent civilization at the next stop, and Yun Xinghe became eager to continue the journey.

Yun Xinghe and the crew refitted the Flying Heaven for high-speed travel and set out toward a hidden star system fifty-five light-years away. After accelerating to 0.85c, they prepared to hibernate for the thirty-year journey.

• Yun Xinghe and the crew installed Floating Orbs throughout the Flying Heaven, reducing its weight and strengthening its defenses against high-speed particle impacts.
• Yun Xinghe explained why they needed to approach the suspected Hidden Civilization and argued that explorers should learn to deal with alien civilizations rather than avoid them.
• Yun Xinghe relied on information from Old Grandpa that the hidden civilization had once captured explorers but later established diplomatic relations with the Blue Star Federation.
• Yun Xinghe ordered the Flying Heaven to accelerate, and the ship reached 0.85c before beginning its interstellar cruise.
• Lan Xiulong estimated that the trip would take thirty-four years aboard the ship, and Yun Xinghe directed the crew to enter hibernation rather than spend the journey awake.