Chapter Summaries

Zi Ye explained that he wanted to secure an independent star domain for the Myriad Races and asked Jing Ci about her ancestral homeland, the Infinite Star Sea. Jing Ci described its ties to the merchant guild and said she wanted to return there before she died.

• Zi Ye arranged for Jing Ci to stay in his quarters, while Wa Ruo was told to focus on cultivation and Supreme Yu chose to join the discussion.
• Zi Ye told Jing Ci he wanted to claim territory and build a powerful faction for the Myriad Races, offering to rescue the people she wished to save.
• Jing Ci said she had lost her family and friends and wanted only to set foot in her homeland and leave her flesh and blood there before dying.
• Jing Ci identified her homeland as the Infinite Star Sea, and Supreme Yu recognized her as its former young star lord.
• Jing Ci explained that the merchant guild had long rented stars in the Infinite Star Sea to mine ore.

The narrator learned that the Heaven-Shaking Divine Alliance had invaded the resource-poor Infinite Star Sea and assessed its resources and the forces arrayed against it. The chapter ended with Jade Supreme Venerable explaining the immense power and difficulty of forging a Heavenly Origin Artifact.

• Jing Ci told the narrator that the Heaven-Shaking Divine Alliance had attacked the Infinite Star Sea after losing territory in the Free Star Sea.
• Jade Supreme Venerable explained that wars often broke out over resource-rich starfields, while Jing Ci described the Infinite Star Sea's Primal Chaos Stones and ancient tombs.
• The narrator asked about the alliance's Heavenly Origin Artifacts and learned it possessed at least seven.
• Jade Supreme Venerable said their House had three Heavenly Origin Artifacts, including the Heaven-Punishing Sword, and that she had brought the sword with her.
• The narrator suggested duplicating the Heaven-Punishing Sword, and Jade Supreme Venerable explained that forging such an artifact could take centuries and that the sword could unleash lightning over a vast area.

The narrator decided to investigate the newly occupied Infinite Star Sea and set off with Jing Ci and Jade Venerable aboard a commercial starship. They were captured on arrival and taken to the main star region, where Jing Ci revealed that her father had died in battle.

• The narrator invited Jade Venerable and Jing Ci to investigate the Infinite Star Sea, and both agreed to go.
• The group rented a luxurious commercial starship and loaded it with goods to disguise their arrival as a trade mission.
• Seven or eight armed starships surrounded them as soon as they entered the Infinite Star Sea and escorted them to its main star region.
• Jing Ci explained that resistance forces remained in the other star regions and that her father had died in battle.
• The narrator comforted Jing Ci and promised to find a chance to avenge her father.

The group learned that being taken to the Main Star Domain could mean imprisonment or worse, so they negotiated with the armed ships escorting them. They paid one million shattered crystals for an introduction to a Route Venerable who might open a trade route, and left the conversation with an agreement to meet him.

• Jade Venerable warned that men accused of spying might be sent to excavate Chaos Stones and women might be forced into servitude, prompting the narrator to question the captain.
• The captain confirmed the threat might be real, and the narrator contacted the armed fleet's leader, who admitted he intended to earn merit by taking them to the Main Star Domain.
• Mirror Resignation offered a protection fee for the merchant ships and negotiated an introduction to a Route Venerable in exchange for one million shattered crystals.
• The narrator praised Mirror Resignation's negotiation, while Jade Venerable complained about the expense and Mirror Resignation said he had followed Venerable Zi Ye's example.

The group reached Jing Ci’s former home star and learned that her family had likely been killed or captured after the invasion. When the Dao Venerable overseeing the Jun Tian Divine Alliance route challenged their request to trade, the narrator killed him and the officials around him, then demanded that the surviving officers surrender.

• The group arrived at Jing Ci’s agricultural star, where she mourned the loss of her brothers and sisters.
• An officer offered to look for surviving imperial relatives in prison, while claiming the men had been slaughtered and the women tortured to death.
• The narrator met the Dao Venerable and presented a floating sword as he discussed their request to trade freely.
• The narrator used a spacetime technique to stab the Dao Venerable and unleashed his floating swords to kill the officials present.
• The narrator threatened the remaining officers, and several removed their Earth Origin Artifacts while the rest hesitated.

The narrator crushed the Lordly Heaven Divine Alliance’s rebellion and seized control of the star, then sought supplies and a way to escape before the alliance’s main forces arrived. Jing Ci identified a hidden divine-tomb space that could conceal starships, while the narrator ordered prisoners released and resources loaded aboard the flagship.

• The narrator used twelve floating swords to kill the wavering officers and then split an armed warship in two when it tried to flee.
• Jade Exalted Sovereign warned that stellar communications had been shut down too late to keep the main star domain from learning of the rebellion.
• The narrator threatened the remaining officers, demanded the Navigation Exalted Sovereign’s supplies and Heavenly Origin artifacts, and learned that one was installed on Lord Shanghe’s flagship.
• Jing Ci proposed hiding the starship in a hidden divine-tomb space, and the narrator asked her to find someone who could help pilot it.
• The narrator ordered an officer to release the prisoners and directed his people to load the starship with supplies.

After taking control of the fleet in the Infinite Star Sea, the narrator led Jing Ci and the rebels against forces blocking their escape. The narrator used the Ice Sea Judgment to freeze more than a hundred enemy ships, then guided the fleet into a spacetime jump.

• The narrator made Jing Ci the figurehead, accepted rebel forces, and took control of Shanghe Navigation Venerable’s flagship and fleet.
• The narrator gathered rebel forces and Jun Tian Divine Alliance troops, then led the fleet toward a defensive line formed by temporary forces from several starfields.
• The enemy attacked, but the narrator’s fleet countered and drove the scattered ships to retreat.
• The narrator activated the Ice Sea Judgment, freezing more than a hundred enemy warships and prompting the remaining pursuers to withdraw or surrender.
• The fleet escaped without further pursuit and entered a spacetime jump using coordinates Jing Ci provided.

Jing Ci guided the fleet through a hidden spatial route into the ancient Divine Tomb Space, where the rebels uncovered buried ruins and a colossal hatch. The chapter ended with the narrator asking what a Galaxy-class warship was.

• Jing Ci led the fleet through a precise spatial jump from a barren planet into a vast, green hidden world.
• Jing Ci explained that she had discovered the entrance in ancient records and that the world had remained unexplored for ages.
• The narrator ordered the fleet to search the world, and the rebels located suspected ruins before dusk.
• The rebels excavated the ruins and uncovered a buried hatch at least ten thousand zhang across, which experts believed belonged to a Galaxy-class warship.
• Venerated Jade and Jing Ci reacted with alarm, and the narrator asked what a Galaxy-class warship was.

Ziye and the rebel leaders realized the Divine Tomb was the main body of a still-operating Galaxy warship, but they could not open its entrance. After the obvious ways in proved impossible, Ziye decided to search for the warship’s emergency entrance himself.

• Jade Supreme and Jing Ci explained the grades and capabilities of armed warships, and Ziye identified the Divine Tomb as a Galaxy warship.
• The rebel army cleared the ruins’ entrance and uncovered a sealed circular gate that repelled their attempts to force it open.
• Ziye outlined three ways to enter the ship, but the leaders ruled out forcing the gate and searching for its former owners or keys.
• Jing Ci and Jade Supreme doubted they could find an emergency entrance across the enormous ship, and Ziye told them to leave the search to him.

The narrator identified the derelict ship as a Divine War-class flagship and located its back door, but an enemy fleet discovered the expedition and attacked. While Jing Ci and Venerable Jade drew the enemy away, the narrator reached the entrance and began forging the spell-form imprint needed to open it.

• The narrator mapped the warship and identified it as a Divine War-class flagship powered by Chaos Stones.
• The teams searched three areas and confirmed the back door’s location after a day of surveying.
• Ripples appeared in the sky as enemies attacked the spatial barrier, and Jing Ci concluded they had been discovered.
• The narrator sent Jing Ci and Venerable Jade to draw the enemy fleet away while taking technical teams to the back door.
• The narrator explained that the back door needed a spell-form imprint and began inscribing it with a Chaos Stone.

The narrator cracked the galaxy-class warship’s back-door password while defending the gathered teams from attacks by multiple Heaven Origin Artifacts. After activating the back door and gaining control of the warship’s systems, the narrator saw Jade Venerable and Jing Ci’s ruined flagship trapped by enemy ships.

• The narrator used twelve floating swords and the Earth Origin Artifact armor to decode the back door’s layered password.
• The Jun Heaven Divine Alliance attacked with Heaven Origin Artifacts, unleashing a blizzard, a corrupting time technique, and a vast lightning net.
• The narrator sheltered the technical and engineering teams, countered the attacks, and continued unlocking the back door.
• The back door activated and teleported everyone into space, where the narrator linked a Chaos Stone to the warship’s systems.
• The narrator viewed the battlefield through the warship and found Jade Venerable and Jing Ci’s flagship badly damaged and surrounded.

The narrator used the Galaxy Battleship’s defensive powers to destroy the attacking fleets and secure their surrender. After learning how to control the ship and teleport within its range, he proposed visiting the underwater ruins where its original master lay in a long sleep.

• The narrator unleashed the Galaxy Battleship’s aurora to destroy an enemy Celestial Origin artifact threatening the Ice Sea flagship.
• When the enemy fleets attacked again, the narrator swept them away with the Earth Whip, prompting the surviving battleships to surrender.
• The narrator examined the Galaxy Battleship and learned that its core could control its defenses and that he could teleport through its domain using the Chaos Key.
• The narrator teleported a team of two to three hundred people to join High Venerable Jade and Jing Ci as they accepted the surrender.
• The narrator told High Venerable Jade and Jing Ci about the Galaxy Battleship and proposed visiting the underwater ruins where its original master was sleeping.

The narrator learned how the stragglers from the Upper Star Sea became trapped in the Lower Star Sea and examined the Jun Tian Alliance’s map of ancient ruins. After identifying a promising site, the narrator used the Galaxy Battleship to clear the seabed and prepare to explore the ruins.

• The narrator learned that ancient wars had caused the passage between the Upper and Lower Star Seas to close, trapping the stragglers and weakening the Chaos Stones.
• Che Lu explained that the Jun Tian Alliance had lost its stronghold and sought ancient ruins using a map passed down by its ancestors.
• The narrator took Che Lu’s crystal map, and Jing Ci identified one of three suspected divine tomb sites as worth investigating.
• The narrator postponed investigating the candidate tomb until after the group explored the seabed ruins.
• The narrator used the Chaos Stone to make the Galaxy Battleship sweep away the seabed rocks and mountains.

Zi Ye and his companions explored a vast underwater city inside a galaxy warship and found its control key. He offered the key to Mirror Ci and Jade Supreme, but both refused it, while Mirror Ci chose to follow him when he left.

• Zi Ye led the group into an immense city within the warship and explained that it had been maintained automatically since its inhabitants vanished.
• Zi Ye activated the city's teleportation function and brought everyone to its administrative institution, where he found the galaxy warship key.
• Zi Ye gave the key to Mirror Ci, saying the warship could help her rule the Infinite Star Sea, but Jade Supreme reacted with jealousy.
• Mirror Ci returned the key and said she wanted to follow Zi Ye rather than stay behind to govern the star domain.
• Zi Ye offered the key to Jade Supreme, but she refused and protested that he had forgotten to ask her name.

Zi Ye gave Jing Ci the Star River Battleship's key and promised that Infinite Star Sea would flourish, while Yu Sui grew jealous of their closeness. Zi Ye, Jing Ci, and Yu Sui entered the core cabin, where they found a towering statue resembling a member of the Devil Race.

• Yu Sui asked Zi Ye to call her by her name and revealed that her twin sister was Yu Che, one of the Seven Elders of the Venerable Sect.
• Zi Ye handed Jing Ci the Star River Battleship's key and asked her to help the Ten Thousand Races settle in Infinite Star Sea.
• Zi Ye promised Jing Ci and Yu Sui that Infinite Star Sea could prosper again, and Jing Ci vowed to honor him as its Supreme Saint.
• Yu Sui admitted she could not stand seeing Zi Ye treat others better than her, and Jing Ci blushed when Yu Sui asked whether she liked him.
• Zi Ye stepped into the core cabin, with Jing Ci and Yu Sui following close behind.
• Zi Ye and the two women saw a colossal statue resembling a member of the Devil Race amid pillars carved with strange patterns.

The narrator awakened a remnant from the Upper Star Sea and learned that it had waited for a descendant to help fulfill an unfulfilled wish. The remnant revealed that its plan depended on the alignment of the Star God Seat, which had already passed, and began explaining why that event mattered.

• Yu Sui touched the bionic statue, which began absorbing her essence power and stirred awake.
• The narrator infused the statue with essence power and used runic energy to keep the remnant soul under control.
• The narrator questioned the remnant about its hidden legacy, and Jing Ci said that roughly 12,766 years had passed and she could not confirm being of its Lineage.
• The remnant said it had waited for the alignment of the Star God Seat, but that the event had already been missed.
• The narrator asked what the remnant had hoped to accomplish through the alignment, and the remnant began recounting its past.

Zi Ye learned from the lingerer that the Star God Seat alignment opened a gate to a New World and could grant an undying physique. He sealed the lingerer inside a fragment crystal and planned to find the Star God Seat, while Jing Ci and Yu Sui prepared to help him reach the Upper Star Sea.

• The lingerer explained that the Star God Seat formed in another dimension and that those who reached its innermost region could gain an undying physique.
• Zi Ye proposed recreating the alignment and promised to take the lingerer to the Star God Seat after reaching the Upper Star Sea.
• Zi Ye modified a fragment crystal to hold a spirit body, and the lingerer entered it willingly.
• Yu Sui said she wanted to accompany Zi Ye to the Upper Star Sea, and Jing Ci offered ancient materials from her father's hidden treasury.
• Zi Ye suggested the lingerer might have stored Upper Star Sea materials in the nearby depots.

Zi Ye and Jing Ci assigned command of the Star River Battleship, then used it to force most nearby Jun Tian Divine Alliance forces to surrender. As they planned to unify the Infinite Star Sea, Jing Ci struggled to choose between ruling her father’s domain and leaving with Zi Ye for the Upper Star Sea.

• Zi Ye appointed Yu Sui captain and Jing Ci acting city lord, then distributed the battleship’s authorities among surrendered soldiers and rebel forces.
• Jing Ci ordered nearby Jun Tian Divine Alliance battleships to surrender, and more than ninety percent submitted while fleeing vessels were destroyed by the protective shield.
• Zi Ye explained that the battleship depended on its stores of Chaos Stones, while Jing Ci suggested buying more after defeating the Jun Tian Divine Alliance.
• Yu Sui and Jing Ci argued over whether to take the battleship to the Upper Star Sea, and Zi Ye decided it should remain in the Infinite Star Sea to help open a passage to the Land of Ten Thousand Races.
• Jing Ci said she wanted to leave with Zi Ye, but Yu Sui reminded her that the rebel army and her father’s former loyalists expected her to rule the Infinite Star Sea.

The narrator, Jing Ci, and Yu Sui explored the Star River Battleship’s sealed technical compartment and discovered that its particle-built workshop could process upper-level materials using energy stones. Jing Ci revealed that a prosperous-district market had mountains of these stones, and the group considered obtaining them for spacetime-jump routes.

• The narrator postponed deciding whether Jing Ci would lead the Infinite Star Sea until after they captured the core starfield.
• Jing Ci reported that the Star River Battleship’s upper-star-sea materials and cabins were difficult to use because their instruments were sealed and the resistance lacked the necessary knowledge.
• The narrator entered the technical compartment with Yu Sui and Jing Ci, then used an energy stone and upper-level force to demonstrate how the particle floor could form tools and process materials.
• The narrator explained that the workshop could theoretically manufacture upper-level devices, but doing so would consume scarce energy stones and require skilled technicians.
• Jing Ci said she had seen mountains of energy stones at a prosperous-district market and explained that they were undervalued because upper-level devices had disappeared from the Free Star Sea.

Zi Ye and Jing Ci used the galaxy battleship to secure the Infinite Star Sea’s surrender and reorganize its forces, but the enlarged fleet faced a shortage of funds and supplies. Yu Sui revealed that her younger sister was arriving with a major business opportunity, while Zi Ye had already considered using the region’s abundant chaos stones.

• Zi Ye rejected concerns about entering prosperous regions with the galaxy battleship and sent former Jun Tian Alliance members to demand the alliance’s surrender.
• The Jun Tian Divine Alliance surrendered, handed over criminals who had murdered the Infinite Star Sea’s Star Lord, and Jing Ci sentenced them to death.
• Jing Ci’s forces reclaimed the Infinite Star Sea without a battle, then dismantled and incorporated the Jun Tian Divine Alliance into its forces.
• Jing Ci worried that the growing fleet could not be supported because the Infinite Star Sea lacked accepted hard currency and its shard crystals were treated differently elsewhere.
• Yu Sui told Jing Ci that her younger sister, a Venerable Elder, was arriving with a starfield battleship and a major business opportunity.
• Zi Ye revealed that he had already considered a solution based on the Infinite Star Sea’s abundant chaos stones.