Chapter Summaries

After Jia Wen was captured, Huang Ji manipulated rival factions into conflict so his company would settle the dispute with Ziwei by paying thirty trillion lang. Dulan told Shadow Long that the boss wanted to see him and asked whether he would join the Heavenfall Project.

• The Cloud Ghosts recorded the war in the Cloud Chronicle and developed new beliefs about Earth Mother before Huang Ji left their star system.
• Dulan told Shadow Long that Jia Wen had been captured, and Huang Ji encouraged a plan to split Ziwei from its allies and provoke a conflict among the factions.
• Light Burst and Lingzhu fought over the primordial water formula, and Lingzhu's secret connection to Ziwei pulled Ziwei into their dispute.
• Seven days later, Dulan told Shadow Long that Ziwei had accepted thirty trillion lang in compensation and Jia Wen had been ransomed.
• Dulan said the boss wanted to meet Shadow Long and asked if he would join the Heavenfall Project.

Huang Ji joined Anunnaki’s Heavenfall Project and learned that the corporation had secretly replaced three Shacha royal successors. With the Shacha emperor near death, Huang Ji proposed a way to combine their divided supporters behind a new candidate and seize the throne.

• Anunnaki’s executives welcomed Huang Ji into the Heavenfall Project and revealed their plan to control the Shacha Civilization and crush Zi Wei.
• Dulan explained that Anunnaki had secretly replaced three royal successors, including Alshaz, who had risen to ninth place with his family’s support.
• The executives debated how to advance Alshaz as the Shacha emperor neared death and succession time ran short.
• Kaleidoscope asked Huang Ji how to push Alshaz into first place, and Huang Ji proposed replacing a compatible candidate to unite the three successors’ supporters behind him.

Anunnaki’s directors approved Huang Ji’s plan to consolidate the Heavenfallers’ votes behind Shadow Long, who would replace a Shacha royal and pursue the throne. Alshaz accepted the change of plans and prepared to help Shadow Long enter the Shacha Civilization, while Huang Ji raised concerns about Great Emperor Ziwei noticing his departure.

• Anunnaki’s directors agreed to redirect the three Heavenfallers’ votes to a new candidate and chose Shadow Long to use the last dose of Special Grade Gene Disguise.
• Alshaz admitted that he still wanted to become emperor, but Kaleidoscope urged him to support Shadow Long’s proposal and focus on Anunnaki’s broader ambitions.
• Kaleidoscope ordered Alshaz to guide Shadow Long, and Alshaz agreed to help him take the Shacha throne.
• Alshaz promised Shadow Long a Pass Permit and access to royal records so he could choose someone to replace and build a base of support.
• Huang Ji asked whether leaving his Aurora assignment might draw Great Emperor Ziwei’s attention, but Alshaz insisted that the Shacha territory would protect him, and Huang Ji set off.

Huang Ji learned that Kaleidoscope was an addicted Taiwei Hua from Andromeda while Ziwei Country completed its preparations and held its founding ceremony. After the Star Realm Human Race was certified and Sirius was reclaimed, Huang Ji warned that the Shacha Civilization might soon bring the Great Silence to Ziwei.

• Kaleidoscope took Fortune Longevity Particles from Suo Rui, whose explanation revealed the drug’s addictive effects and Kaleidoscope’s dwindling supply.
• Huang Ji ordered Ziwei to pay the Dragon Race construction teams and begin the founding ceremony after learning Kaleidoscope’s secrets in the Virtual Universe.
• Nifita, Spirit Boat, Liu Tengkong, and other guests attended Ziwei Country’s ceremony as Gaia Star and Kunlun Palace showcased the new capital.
• Nifita reported that the Star Realm Human Race had been certified as the Nomu Civilization’s second species and that the Star Realm Human Race had reclaimed Sirius.
• Huang Ji warned that the Shacha Civilization would learn of Ziwei’s founding and Sirius’s recovery, potentially bringing the Great Silence back.

The Warden invaded Ziwei Country during its founding ceremony, using advanced Shacha weapons to destroy its defenses while streaming the attack. After revealing that he had resigned and was working for the Shacha Civilization, he flew toward Gaia Star, intending to bring down Great Emperor Ziwei.

• The Warden arrived at the edge of the Xuanyuan Star System with an Eight Trigrams-class Starburst Battle Cloud and announced that he was at Ziwei Country for its founding ceremony.
• The Warden used his Space-Time Order Keeper's Spear to shatter Ziwei Country's atomic-era defenses and absorb the debris into his battle cloud.
• Viewers condemned the invasion while the Warden claimed he was only putting on a show and revealed that he had resigned from his Star Alliance job and planned to stop streaming.
• The Warden tacitly confirmed that the Shacha Civilization had offered him wealth, status, territory, and a royal marriage.
• The Warden activated the Great Silence Barrier and flew toward Gaia Star, determined to make Great Emperor Ziwei fall.

The Warden attacked Huang Ji and the Nomu Race with an Eight Trigrams-class Starburst Battle Cloud and a Lawkeeper's Spear, while Huang Ji prepared to face him. The Warden claimed he sought revenge for a family Huang Ji had supposedly killed a century earlier, leaving Kunlun Palace's witnesses baffled.

• The Great Silence Barrier cut off communications as the Starburst Battle Cloud appeared above the Nomu Race celebration.
• Huang Ji activated a second Great Silence Barrier and transformed into his modified Ziwei Star Destroyer, reassuring the crowd and restoring communications.
• Huang Ji and Ling Zhou Governor identified the Warden and his Lawkeeper's Spear as the threat, and Ling Zhou released a million Dragon Splitting Pearls to defend the system.
• Huang Ji asked Ling Zhou to suppress the Starburst Battle Cloud, saying he would take the Dragon Splitting Pearls after five minutes.
• The Warden's gravitational-wave attack was mostly absorbed by Huang Ji's azure shield, and Huang Ji asked the Warden to spare his life.
• The Warden accused Huang Ji of killing a Wisdom Rat Race family a hundred years earlier, while Lin Li and the others realized the accusation made no sense.

Huang Ji and Spirit Boat fought the Warden, who used the Lawkeeper’s Spear to overwhelm their weapons and seemingly disintegrate Huang Ji. As the Warden turned to leave, Huang Ji’s unmanned mecha fired a Genesis Death Ray at close range, leaving both combatants motionless and Spirit Boat unsure whether they had died together.

• The Warden attacked Huang Ji with a Gathering Void Orb, but Huang Ji deflected it using Three Phases Power.
• Spirit Boat’s Dragon Splitting Pearls damaged the Warden with a preset self-destruct, but the Warden captured the remaining weapons and attacked Huang Ji with a repulsion field.
• Huang Ji abandoned his mecha and dodged the Warden’s repulsion field several times before the Warden expanded it and seemingly disintegrated him.
• Believing Huang Ji was dead, the Warden turned to leave while Huang Ji’s mecha continued charging toward him.
• The mecha fired a Genesis Death Ray through the Warden’s head, and Spirit Boat found both the Warden and the Ziwei Star Destroyer motionless.

Huang Ji outmaneuvered the Warden, then seized control of the Starburst Battle Cloud and defeated him. He spared the Warden’s life but handed him over to the Star Alliance, where he would be imprisoned with Le Ji, Crown Prince.

• Huang Ji revealed that the apparent death had been a decoy and explained that the Warden’s Thought Energy Body was hidden inside the Lawkeeper's Spear.
• The Warden switched to automated combat, forcing Huang Ji to use Spirit Boat’s Dragon Splitting Pearls to take control of the Starburst Battle Cloud.
• Huang Ji transformed the cloud into a three-eyed star god, cut off the Lawkeeper's Spear’s energy supply, and defeated the Warden.
• Huang Ji extracted the Warden’s consciousness, gave him a new body, and handed him to Spirit Boat instead of killing him.
• Spirit Boat delivered the Warden to the Star Alliance Guard, who took him to be imprisoned with Le Ji, Crown Prince.

After public outrage over the failed assassination of Great Emperor Ziwei, Huang Ji accepted an invitation to visit Shacha Civilization, giving it a chance to repair its reputation. Meanwhile, Anunnaki discussed the visit and its plans for Shacha’s throne, while Shadow Long began scouting targets.

• The failed assassination sparked widespread condemnation of Shacha Civilization, though the Star Alliance could not punish it for an individual’s actions.
• Three days later, Ziwei Country and the Shacha Empire established diplomatic relations, and Huang Ji accepted the Shacha Master’s invitation to visit its capital.
• Anunnaki convened at a secret underground base, where Alshaz explained that Shacha’s government had invited Huang Ji to calm public opinion and restore its image.
• Alshaz said the Old Emperor intended to leave Huang Ji’s death to the next emperor, whom Anunnaki hoped would be Shadow Long.
• Alshaz told Dulan and Jia Wen that Shadow Long had arrived three hours earlier and had gone to scout several replacement targets.

Huang Ji brought Cypher into a Shacha Civilization Shell World and showed him how its hidden city and matter-manipulating factories worked. Cypher learned that the civilization used unequal access to its mysteries to motivate citizens, while the chapter ended with him grasping how the system encouraged people to improve themselves.

• Huang Ji explained that the Shacha People had filled a star system with gas to create a Shell World, where hidden homes and buildings appeared only to people with permission.
• Huang Ji used a Gravitational Wave to gather and reshape the air into a Vacuum Cut, showing Cypher that the Shell World could function as a factory anywhere.
• Cypher made a Nuclear Fusion Sword for five Lang and learned that ordinary citizens could freely create legal Atomic Era goods and food, while advanced products still required specialized factories.
• Huang Ji demonstrated that the Shell World's technology weakened older weapons and controlled the surrounding atmosphere, making even powerful Atomic Era weapons nearly harmless.
• Huang Ji explained that citizens saw different mysteries according to their permissions, and Cypher understood that uncovering more of their city encouraged Shacha People to contribute and improve themselves.

Huang Ji and Cypher explored the Shacha Civilization’s Snail Torch during a heated election, and Huang Ji learned enough from a scientist’s campaign speech to understand nearly all the civilization’s creations. He gave Cypher an Empire Module and instructions for using questions to access the Shell World’s core, leaving Cypher realizing it worked like a cheat code.

• Huang Ji and Cypher toured the Snail Torch’s recreated ecosystems and saw the Solitary One Civilization’s popular exhibit of artificially created life-forms.
• Huang Ji and Cypher reached the election stages, where candidates campaigned before crowds, and Huang Ji stopped to study a scientist advocating major spending on research and education.
• Huang Ji absorbed the scientist’s physics knowledge, unlocking information about the Shacha Civilization’s creations and other Micro-particle Era figures.
• Huang Ji created two Empire Modules and gave one to Cypher, explaining how to link it to his pass and access the Shell World’s core with questions.
• Cypher memorized Huang Ji’s instructions and recognized that the fourth question could act like a cheat code.

Han Bi campaigned for election to clear his name and help people who had suffered injustice, insisting that he had no intention of becoming emperor. When Cypher revealed that the City Lord's Mansion had falsified evidence in Si Pike's wife's death, Han Bi vowed to investigate and bring whoever was responsible to justice.

• Han Bi told his supporters that he was running to challenge his expulsion from the civilization's team and hoped to reach the top ten thousand so he could impeach Cabinet Minister Sa Guala.
• Han Bi thanked his supporters and said he would help them seek justice, though he promised no political reforms and planned to return to the team after resolving his own case.
• Han Bi apologized to Si Pike for failing to learn why his wife died, and Cypher privately revealed that he had seen her alive and that the City Lord's Mansion's surveillance report was false.
• Han Bi told Si Pike about Cypher's testimony, and Si Pike asked him to investigate the suspicious death.
• Han Bi promised Si Pike that he would uncover the truth and make anyone responsible answer to the law.

Cypher told Han Bi and Si Pike that he had found suspicious evidence in the investigation of Si Pike’s lover’s death, but he needed Prince Alshaz’s permission to intervene. Meanwhile, Huang Ji and Alshaz reviewed candidates for a new Heavenfaller, and Kaleidoscope became interested when Huang Ji mentioned Han Bi.

• Cypher refused to testify without Prince Alshaz’s approval, and Han Bi asked him to report the case to the prince.
• Si Pike worried that Alshaz might be involved in the cover-up and asked how he could contact Cypher if he faced danger; Cypher said Ziwei could uncover the truth if he uploaded the information.
• Huang Ji returned to Alshaz’s Resort Planet and explained that he had listed Han Bi among three possible candidates because of his public profile and political connections.
• Alshaz rejected Han Bi as a candidate because Han Bi had vowed to impeach Sa Guala, a major member of their group whom they wanted to win over.
• Kaleidoscope arrived at the Resort Planet and asked the group to choose a new Heavenfaller; after Huang Ji mentioned Han Bi’s conflict with Sa Guala, Kaleidoscope asked him to send over the candidate information.

Kaleidoscope chose Han Bi as a candidate for the succession plan and gave Shadow Long a special disguise agent that awakened his Soul Sense. After Kaleidoscope left to confront Firefeather, Huang Ji warned Han Bi that Alshaz planned to kill him and told him to trust Shadow Long if he approached as a doctor.

• Kaleidoscope selected Han Bi for the succession plan and ordered Alshaz to capture him so Shadow Long could take his memories.
• Kaleidoscope gave Shadow Long the last dose of Special Grade Gene Disguise agent, and Shadow Long awakened Soul Sense.
• Kaleidoscope left with the Ice and Snow Planet to deal with Firefeather, while telling Suo Rui to secretly monitor Alshaz and ordering him to parasitize Shadow Long with a Divine Sense Seed.
• Alshaz invited Han Bi to his private Resort Planet, but Si Pike warned that the invitation was suspicious and Cypher could not be reached.
• Han Bi contacted Huang Ji through Ziwei Divination, learned Alshaz intended to kill him, and was told to trust Shadow Long if he approached as a doctor.

Huang Ji took on Han Bi’s appearance so he could obtain Han Bi’s memories, but Alshaz’s attempt to lure Han Bi in failed. As Han Bi investigated Misha’s death, he uncovered a possible connection to her engine-maintenance work before the Black Tea City Lord summoned him to the royal capital to welcome Ziwei.

• Alshaz completed Huang Ji’s transformation into a body resembling Han Bi and ordered Da Gui and Xiao Gui to seize Han Bi, but Han Bi declined Alshaz’s invitation.
• Alshaz sent Huang Ji away and planned to use the Black Tea City Lord to draw Han Bi out, while Han Bi went to question Misha’s coworker at a bathhouse.
• Misha’s coworker said Misha had argued with her supervisor over leave and had maintained Thousand Flows’ Wormhole Roaming Boots, but Si Pike insisted Misha had not killed herself.
• The Black Tea City Lord told Han Bi that the royal capital had selected him to join the reception for Ziwei and arranged to have him picked up.
• Han Bi hesitated when the city lord asked where he was, as Si Pike silently urged him not to leave.

Han Bi learned that the supposed cabinet invitation was a trap meant to get him onto a ship controlled by the Black Tea City Lord and deliver him to Alshaz. Si Pike’s staged injury kept Han Bi from boarding, but Alshaz and Hei Cha’s conflicting plans left Han Bi in greater danger.

• Han Bi considered the invitation to welcome Huang Ji an honor, but Si Pike warned that the Black Tea City Lord might be involved in a plot against him.
• Huang Ji told Han Bi that the cabinet would not invite him and explained that the ship could take him through a wormhole to Alshaz’s private territory.
• Han Bi went to help Si Pike after an explosion, and Si Pike deliberately suffered gene collapse so Han Bi would refuse to leave for the royal capital.
• Han Bi stayed with Si Pike at the hospital and rejected the invitation, while the Black Tea City Lord reported the failure to Alshaz.
• Hei Cha refused to cooperate with Alshaz’s plan to seize Han Bi, and Alshaz resolved to protect Han Bi from the Thousand Currents Conglomerate and bring him in himself.

Han Bi followed Huang Ji’s advice and committed to uncovering the truth while relying on his supporters and Huang Ji for protection. His words made the hidden assassin A Qing suspect that Han Bi could see him, and A Qing began searching for the connection that had exposed him.

• A doctor used Huang Ji’s treatment plan to assure Han Bi that Si Pike would recover from Gene Collapse.
• Huang Ji suggested Han Bi act as though an invisible assassin might be nearby, and Han Bi spoke to the empty space before deciding to pursue the truth and stay alive.
• Huang Ji advised Han Bi to make friends out of thin air so that his movements would seem natural while evading a possible assassin.
• A Qing, who had been watching Han Bi in the hospital, realized Han Bi had looked toward him and worried that his assassination mission was compromised.
• A Qing searched for a shared circle that could explain how Han Bi saw him, then told Black Tea City Lord that he had maintained strict professional secrecy.

A Qing and Hei Cha struggled to arrange Han Bi’s assassination while an unseen companion led Han Bi around the city, and Da Gui intervened to protect him. When Han Bi finally slowed his shuttle, an attacker struck it with an antimatter weapon, forcing him to flee and call for help.

• A Qing entered Han Bi’s hospital room and realized Han Bi seemed to be speaking with an invisible person, so he withdrew and reported his suspicions to Hei Cha.
• Hei Cha sent two assassins to help A Qing, who planned to lure Han Bi into a secret chamber, but Han Bi left the hospital before A Qing could approach him.
• A Qing and the two assassins pursued Han Bi across the city until Da Gui rammed their shuttle and warned them not to harm Han Bi.
• Alshaz ordered Da Gui to hold off the assassins and sent Xiao Gui to retrieve Han Bi at any cost.
• Han Bi told Huang Ji that he needed to stop running around and save Cypher, then slowed his shuttle to test whether pursuers were following him.
• An attacker destroyed Han Bi’s shuttle engine with an antimatter weapon, and Han Bi fled while calling the police and telling Huang Ji that pursuers were real.

Xiao Gui used a prohibited Space-Time Order Keeper's Spear to capture Han Bi, but Han Bi sabotaged Xiao Gui's Flying Shuttle and the city's citizens rallied to stop the kidnapping. As Xiao Gui struggled against the crowd and prepared to kill, a Law Enforcement Team arrived and suppressed him.

• Xiao Gui trapped Han Bi with seven Gathering Void Orbs and began dragging him away while the Shell System marked him as a rioter and summoned law enforcement.
• Han Bi secretly took control of Xiao Gui's Flying Shuttle and used its antimatter weapon to destroy part of Xiao Gui's body, then damaged the shuttle's engine and energy storage.
• A fan rammed Xiao Gui's shuttle with a snail-shell home, forcing Xiao Gui to flee on foot as Han Bi's supporters hurled their homes at him to block his escape.
• Xiao Gui used the spear's force field to destroy buildings and tried to escape with Han Bi, but the citizens' attacks steadily drained his energy.
• Xiao Gui decided to kill civilians to break through the crowd, but a three-person Law Enforcement Team arrived and suppressed him with a purple barrier.

Han Bi learned that Xiao Gui had been sent to capture him, while A Qing killed Xiao Gui and secretly poisoned Han Bi. The crowd celebrated A Qing as a hero, but Han Bi collapsed from Carbon-Based Poison and faced near-certain death.

• Huang Ji told Han Bi that Cypher had provided Xiao Gui's Flying Shuttle data and that Han Bi's fans had helped save him because they needed him.
• Xiao Gui fought the Law Enforcement Team, then escaped toward the wormhole while Da Gui stayed behind to hold off the law enforcer.
• Black Tea ordered A Qing to kill Han Bi and conceal the murder, and A Qing accepted Qian Liu's order.
• A Qing used the Chaos Bringer's Blade to drain Xiao Gui's remaining energy, killed him with a Vacuum Cut, and secretly injected Carbon-Based Poison into Han Bi.
• The crowd hailed A Qing as a hero, but he turned invisible and fled when people tried to befriend him.
• Han Bi collapsed as the poison triggered multiple Gene Collapses, and a doctor warned that he was likely to die.