Chapter Summaries

After returning to Bora Star aboard the Eternal, Yun Xinghe and Lan Xiulong recalled their decades-spanning voyage across the galaxy and the conflicts they had faced. Their recollections ended with Yun Xinghe’s decision to stop his father, Yun Tianye, after he betrayed the Blue Star Federation and attacked the Guwu Family.

• Yun Xinghe and Lan Xiulong reflected on how more than 5,200 years had passed aboard the Eternal and how their old relatives were long gone.
• Yun Xinghe and Lan Xiulong retraced their journey through the spiral arms, recalling the civilizations, wars, and dangers they had encountered.
• They remembered how the Starry Sky aided a wandering civilization, disrupted the robot civilization’s expansion, and later became the Eternal after trading for Level 6 technology.
• Lan Xiulong recalled that Yun Tianye’s k Creation Alliance had withheld help during the Federation’s war and slaughtered over ten billion members of the Guwu Family.
• Yun Xinghe explained that he had supported imprisoning his estranged father on a prison planet, and Lan Xiulong praised his choice to act justly.

Yun Xinghe planned to take the Eternity beyond the Milky Way to investigate why other galaxies appeared motionless, prompting the system to warn Zhou Ming that discovering the game’s boundary could trigger a destructive forced restart. Zhou Ming chose to spend Yun Xinghe’s enormous score to materialize him and the Eternity in a real universe, giving them real lives.

• Lan Xiulong and Yun Xinghe discussed continuing their exploration, and Yun Xinghe proposed taking the Eternity to the Andromeda Galaxy to investigate the apparent stillness of other galaxies.
• The system told Zhou Ming that Yun Xinghe was preparing to reach the edge of the Milky Way, beyond which there was nothing, and warned that the instance might have to be forcibly restarted.
• Zhou Ming objected to erasing Yun Xinghe and asked whether there was another way to save him.
• The system offered to materialize Yun Xinghe and the Eternity in a real universe for one hundred quadrillion Achievement Points, which Yun Xinghe had earned.
• Zhou Ming agreed to spend the points, and the system accepted his decision.

Yun Xinghe said goodbye to Old Grandpa after giving him supplies and data, then led the Eternal into a new universe and completed the Galaxy Legend instance with an SSS rating. Zhou Ming examined the newly unlocked Spirit Essence Continent instance, learning that its altered natural laws could destabilize familiar technology and that Plane Analysis would be its main rating category.

• Old Grandpa contacted Yun Xinghe, revealed he was leaving, and asked him for a Material Printer, supplies, weapons, technical data, and a Floating Stone computer.
• Yun Xinghe filled the Manifestation Treasure Chests with the requested items and bid Old Grandpa farewell.
• Yun Xinghe ordered the Eternal to accelerate toward Andromeda, but the ship shattered as it crossed a crystalline membrane, and he reformed on the other side in a new universe.
• Zhou Ming exited the Galaxy Legend game and saw Yun Xinghe's SSS evaluation and enormous Achievement Point total.
• Zhou Ming inspected the Spirit Essence Continent instance and learned that its different world laws could make advanced weapons unstable and that Plane Analysis would carry the greatest weight in its ratings.

Zhou Ming learned that the system’s new Dual-Line Mode would let him participate in an instance without neglecting his family or career. After reviewing his technology and safety preparations, he eagerly decided to enter the game.

• Zhou Ming worried that his family and business left him no time to enter instances personally.
• The system introduced Dual-Line Mode, which let Zhou Ming control an instance character while also training a bound native, with information shared between them.
• Zhou Ming asked whether splitting his self-awareness would affect his personality, and the system explained that it could switch him and his game character into AFK states as needed.
• The system revealed Zhou Ming’s brain domain development was 41%, prompting him to consider using his Material Printer for his Longevity Project and Super God Brain research.
• Zhou Ming reviewed his advanced technology and defenses, then resolved to enter the instance and take on the challenge.

Before entering Spirit Essence Continent, Zhou Ming bought every Cultivation Method in the system shop and stocked up on Probability Cards. He rejected starting as an infant and began searching for a young, talented native who was near death as a potential injection target.

• Zhou Ming learned that the system's 7% Plane Analysis limited its shop to Cultivation Methods that reached no higher than the middle Solid Core stage.
• Following the system's advice, Zhou Ming bought all the available manuals for 176 billion Achievement Points and purchased Probability Cards for another 200 billion.
• The system explained that matching was easiest with blank-souled newborns, while adult candidates needed to be young, talented, and near death.
• Zhou Ming refused to raise another native from infancy and activated global search mode to find a suitable youth himself.

Zhou Ming searched the vast Spirit Essence Continent and discovered that it was a world created by a transcendent being, guarded against the system's interference. He found Ye Kong dying after Ye Chen attacked him, and the system identified Ye Kong as a compatible character for possession.

• The system explained to Zhou Ming how the Spirit Essence Continent and its twelve moon-suns worked, and revealed that it had once angered the continent's creator by possessing a powerful person.
• Zhou Ming searched the continent's immense wilderness and cities, learning how spirit essence supported its unusual productivity.
• At a Ye family martial arts arena, Ye Kong accused Ye Chen of conspiring to ruin his chances of joining Azure Cloud Mountain and securing its recruitment slot.
• Ye Chen attacked the badly injured Ye Kong, and a family member declared Ye Kong dead.
• The system told Zhou Ming that it had found a compatible character near death, and Zhou Ming prepared to inject into Ye Kong.

After waking from Ye Chen’s attack, Ye Kong learned that Old Grandpa had saved him and could heal him in time for Azure Cloud Mountain’s recruitment competition. Old Grandpa warned that leaving his mother behind would expose her to retaliation, and Ye Kong chose to abandon the competition and seek a safer path for them both.

• Three days after Ye Kong was attacked, he woke to find his mother grieving beside his bed.
• After Ye Kong recovered enough to speak, Zhou Ming explained that he had saved him and Ye Kong blamed Ye Chen for the attack.
• Ye Kong told Old Grandpa he wanted to enter Azure Cloud Mountain, and Old Grandpa promised to heal him and teach him a suitable cultivation method.
• Old Grandpa warned Ye Kong that Ye Chen and Madam Liu might harm his mother if he left for the competition, and Ye Kong refused to abandon her.
• Old Grandpa advised Ye Kong to use his injuries as a reason to leave the Ye Family with his mother and seek admission to Guang Lei Mountain instead.
• Ye Kong accepted Old Grandpa’s advice and decided to protect his mother rather than pursue Azure Cloud Mountain’s recruitment competition.

After leaving the Ye family with his mother, Ye Kong was pursued by Qian Biao, a guard sent to kill him. Ye Kong escaped a cliff fall with a parachute and killed the badly injured Qian Biao.

• After recovering from his injuries, Ye Kong refused his father's offer of support and left the Ye family with his mother.
• Ye Qing Tang let Ye Kong go and offered him one thousand Spirit Coins, but Ye Kong refused the money.
• Madam Liu learned Ye Kong had left and ordered the lackey to summon Qian Biao to carry out a task against him.
• Qian Biao caught up with Ye Kong's carriage, destroyed it, and chased him to the edge of a cliff.
• Ye Kong punched apart the fragile cliff edge, sending Qian Biao falling, then slowed his own fall with a parachute Old Grandpa had taught him to make.
• Ye Kong found the severely injured Qian Biao at the bottom of the cliff and killed him with Qian Biao's Waist Knife.

Ye Kong reached Heavenly Thunder City with his mother, secured her future through a successful clothing business, and entered Guang Lei Mountain’s Apprentice Recruitment Competition. He passed all three gates with his team and was accepted directly into the inner sect as a disciple marked for focused cultivation.

• Ye Kong killed Qian Biao, reunited with his mother, and continued east while vowing to repay Madam Liu.
• Ye Kong opened a clothing shop in Heavenly Thunder City, which expanded to more than a hundred branches, and hired two cultivators to protect his mother.
• Ye Kong joined Guang Lei Mountain’s recruitment competition and reached the Golden Bridge first, taking flags and organizing nine contestants to defend them.
• Ye Kong led his team through the Mechanical Beast gate without casualties by drawing the beast’s attention while his teammates attacked its joints.
• The white-haired elder examined Ye Kong and recognized his exceptional Wind Control Physique, Pure Untainted Body, talent, and spiritual insight, admitting him directly to the inner sect for focused cultivation.

Zhou Ming prepared to enter the instance dungeon and searched for a suitable character to inhabit, rejecting several candidates, including a gifted girl, because he did not want to become a woman. He finally found a dying young man beaten for trying to stop his beloved’s wedding and chose to inject into him, setting himself up to pursue revenge.

• Zhou Ming bought ten Space-Time Treasure Chests and entered the instance dungeon after telling his wife he was sleepy.
• Zhou Ming searched for more than ten days near Guang Lei Mountain but rejected beggars and an older injured martial artist as unsuitable candidates.
• Zhou Ming refused to inhabit a dying girl with an Innate Water Spirit Body, despite the system urging him to take advantage of her exceptional talent.
• After Zhou Ming left, a green-robed cultivator arrived at Peach Blossom Villa and was welcomed as the person who could save Xuan Er.
• Zhou Ming expanded his search and found a young man being beaten for trying to stop Tian Nier’s wedding to Young Master Lin.
• After the wedding procession left the barely living boy behind, Zhou Ming accepted him as a match and ordered the system to inject.

After waking in the body of Zhang Shanhe, Zhou Ming recovered under Xia Xiaoyan’s care and began cultivating with the Wood Heart Art. He discovered that his ordinary aptitude made him cultivate more than a hundred times slower than Ye Kong, leaving him wondering whether he was truly a loser.

• Zhou Ming learned that Zhang Shanhe was an orphan whose former love, Tian Nier, had chosen Young Master Lin, and that Xia Xiaoyan had rescued him.
• Xia Xiaoyan cared for Zhou Ming and offered to support him, while her father insisted that Zhang Shanhe work once he recovered.
• After more than ten days, Zhou Ming began cultivating and used shared insights from Ye Kong to sense spiritual essence and establish his foundation quickly.
• The system’s progress chart showed that Ye Kong’s daily spiritual essence increase was over a thousand times Zhou Ming’s.
• Zhou Ming questioned the comparison and considered suicide to obtain a better body, but told the system to remove the chart so it would not discourage his cultivation.

While working in the fields with Xia Xiaoyan and Aunt Xia, Zhou Ming learned how unusually productive Golden Wheat was and began imagining an agricultural revolution. The system warned that powerful cultivators made conquest impossible, but Zhou Ming remained eager to farm.

• Zhou Ming worked in the wheat field as Xia Xiaoyan and the village women praised him and teased him about marriage.
• Zhou Ming considered his poor cultivation prospects and learned that Golden Wheat yielded about five hundred jin per mu, four times a year, for five years before the land had to lie fallow.
• Aunt Xia explained that the villagers lacked oxen and iron tools, prompting Zhou Ming to imagine using industrial farming and weapons to challenge the sects.
• The system warned Zhou Ming that the plane's strongest cultivator could destroy a moon with one attack and insisted that he focus on cultivation.
• Zhou Ming abandoned most thoughts of conquering the plane but eagerly continued hoeing, convinced that farming its fertile land was worthwhile.

Zhou Ming cultivated a one-mu wheat field using improved farming methods and tools, harvesting an astonishing 1,580 jin and transforming how Lin Fort Village viewed Zhang Shanhe. Afterward, he introduced machines for processing wheat and taught villagers to make noodles and bread, leaving the village eager to follow his innovations.

• Zhou Ming asked Aunt Xia for abandoned land, then plowed one mu, selected wheat seed, and sowed it with a Seed Drill he had made.
• Zhou Ming spent months preparing fertilizer, weeding, and irrigating the field with his Water Dragon Machine, while Xia Xiaoyan helped and villagers gossiped about his strange behavior.
• Villagers watched the wheat grow unusually tall and full, then gathered to guess the harvest as Zhou Ming and the others reaped the field with his threshing machine and winnowing fan.
• Zhou Ming's one-mu field yielded 1,580 jin of wheat, stunning the villagers and changing their view of Zhang Shanhe while Xia Xiaoyan faced a flood of matchmakers and rivals.
• Zhou Ming introduced a human-powered husking machine, a stone mill, noodles, and bread, and the new foods quickly spread through Lin Fort Village and nearby areas.

Zhou Ming used the Agricultural Mutual Aid Cooperative to organize Lin Fort Village’s women, whose work produced an abundant harvest and livestock. After confronting the men with what their wives had accomplished, he helped improve the women’s standing at home, though the hunters refused to join the cooperative.

• Zhou Ming founded the Agricultural Mutual Aid Cooperative with 233 women and organized them to cultivate land, raise livestock, and make farming tools.
• The cooperative’s intense work caused household conflicts, and some men dragged their wives home and threatened Zhou Ming.
• Zhou Ming showed the men the ripe High-Yield Jin Wheat and the cooperative’s livestock, explaining how the women’s work supported their families and reduced the need for dangerous hunts.
• The men felt ashamed, apologized to their wives, and some helped harvest the wheat, which the village then ate with joy.
• The women urged their husbands to stop hunting and help with the cooperative, but the men refused to join, even as women gained greater standing in their households.

Zhou Ming joined the Hunting Team and used his archery, wilderness skills, and ingenious traps to show the hunters how to catch far more prey with less effort. He won their five-day challenge, then narrowly avoided a beating by promising the hunters a feast.

• Zhou Ming asked Uncle Xia to take him hunting, but Uncle Xia and Xia Xiaoyan warned him that the mountains were dangerous.
• After Zhou Ming demonstrated his archery, Uncle Xia allowed him to join the Hunting Team, where Zhou Ming impressed the hunters with his survival skills and cooking.
• Zhou Ming observed that the forest held abundant prey but the hunters' crude tools and methods made their hunts inefficient.
• Zhou Ming set up baited traps and challenged the hunters to a five-day contest; his group caught more prey than the rest of the team.
• The hunters accused Zhou Ming of cheating with traps, and he argued that hunters should use their brains to catch more prey safely.
• When the hunters threatened to beat Zhou Ming for insulting their intelligence, he promised them a feast, and they backed down.

Zhou Ming's Hunting Team returned to the village with preserved meat, but the Lin family's hunters seized their valuable Red Ginseng. After learning the Lin family relied on cultivation methods to dominate ordinary hunters, Zhou Ming bought the system's martial arts methods and body-strengthening formula to help his people defend themselves.

• Zhou Ming's Hunting Team preserved their prey by air-drying and smoking it, then returned to the village with lighter burdens and plenty of meat.
• The Lin family's Hunting Team stopped Zhou Ming's group and took Zhang Jin's valuable Red Ginseng, claiming the hunters could seek compensation later.
• Zhang Jin and the other hunters described how the Lin family exploited ordinary hunters, while Uncle Xia warned Zhou Ming that their cultivation methods made resistance deadly.
• Zhou Ming asked the system about the Lin family's methods and learned they were ordinary martial arts, weaker than his current strength.
• The system offered Zhou Ming simulated martial arts methods and a body-strengthening medicinal formula for five billion Achievement Points, and Zhou Ming agreed to buy them.

Zhou Ming established the Hunting Cooperative Team and revealed a cultivation method that let ordinary villagers grow strong enough to resist the Lin family. After the team’s hunting success and rapid cultivation, tensions with the Lin family escalated, leaving its members calling for retaliation.

• Zhou Ming proposed a Hunting Cooperative Team organized into Main Force Hunters, Trap Hunters, porters, and Logistics Personnel, and Uncle Xia agreed to support the plan.
• Zhou Ming told Uncle Xia that he had a superior cultivation method and body-strengthening prescription, demonstrated his strength, and persuaded him that ordinary villagers could become powerful.
• After a vote, 118 hunters approved forming the team, which divided its 126 members into four roles and began hunting under the new system.
• The team filled its stores with smoked meat and added more than a thousand live animals to the Agricultural Cooperative’s farm, then shifted toward hunting ferocious beasts and gathering herbs.
• Zhou Ming shared the Dragon Snake Martial Evolution Art, and hunters rapidly grew stronger, resisted the Lin family’s demands, and fought back against its members’ abuses.
• A bruised Lin family man smashed a table and urged the family to retaliate against the villagers.

The Lin family decided to punish the villagers who challenged its control, while the Hunting Cooperative Team prepared to fight back. After the villagers evacuated their homes, Zhang Jin lured the Lin Family Men toward the western woods, where a battle was about to begin.

• The Old Clan Leader rejected killing every villager and ordered the Lin family to eliminate a few leaders and impose new rules.
• The Lin family compiled a list of thirty targets, including Zhang Jin, Wu Yong, Zhang Hu, and other cooperative leaders, but not Zhang Shanhe.
• Zhou Ming told the Hunting Cooperative Team that the Lin family planned to attack, and the team agreed to move their families and prepare for battle.
• The Lin Family Men found the targeted households empty and prepared to burn them, but Zhang Jin challenged them and ran toward the western woods.
• The enraged Lin Family Men chased Zhang Jin into the woods as a fierce confrontation loomed.

The Cooperative Team’s traps devastated the Lin Family Men, and Zhou Ming killed Lin Qidong, Lin Chong, and the Lin Family’s elder as the team overran Lin Family Mansion. The chapter ended with Zhou Ming ordering the Lin Family’s captives killed with poisoned wine, including Tian Nier, who was eight months pregnant.

• Zhang Jin lured the pursuing Lin Family Men into a forest ambush, where pits and poisoned arrows killed several of them.
• The Lin Family Men suffered further deaths and injuries from traps on their retreat, then faced the Cooperative Team in a final clash outside the forest.
• Lin Qidong fled toward Lin Fort Village, but Zhou Ming intercepted him and killed him with Bone Crushing Palm.
• Zhou Ming caught Lin Chong outside Lin Family Mansion and killed him, then defeated and pursued the Lin Family elder until he killed him in a forest.
• The Cooperative Team captured Lin Family Mansion and asked Zhou Ming how to deal with the women and children held there.
• Zhou Ming ordered the captives killed with poisoned wine, including Tian Nier, who was eight months pregnant.

Zhou Ming eliminated the Lin family and used its wealth to launch the Lin Fort Town Project, recruiting settlers and building a prosperous market town. Three years later, Lin Fort Village had become Lin Fort Town, with thousands of residents and booming trade.

• Zhou Ming learned that the Lin family's medicinal formula had damaged its men's reproductive function, then divided the family's seized wealth and supplies among the people.
• Zhou Ming persuaded Xia Hu, Zhang Jin, Yang Sheng, and other young people to help build Lin Fort Village into a market town, despite doubts from older hunters.
• Zhou Ming led an Immigration Team through nearby villages, freed oppressed people from local strongmen, and brought settlers back to Lin Fort Village, where clashes killed two team members and seriously injured him.
• After Lin Fort Village's population exceeded two thousand, Zhou Ming ended recruitment to avoid further casualties.
• Three years later, Lin Fort Town had more than three thousand residents, thriving production, and popular specialty goods that drew merchants and caravans.