Chapter Summaries

Black Star endured a massive attack with his self-repairing hybrid mecha, then faced Magina and her allies’ army of tens of thousands of mechas. He used his divine ability to make the army abandon its ranged formations and charge him in a frenzy, leaving Magina bewildered.

• Black Star offered Magina and her two allies a chance to strike him, and they launched a wide-area attack that nearly burned him down.
• Black Star’s flesh-and-blood mecha rapidly repaired itself, revealing its unusual blend of biological and mechanical technology.
• Magina and her allies sent three mechas and tens of thousands of Sky-Reaching Level mechas to attack Black Star with coordinated barrages.
• Black Star used pills to unleash a large-scale power and then activated his divine ability, Great Transformation of All Under Heaven.
• The mecha pilots began making incomprehensible noises and charged into close combat, disrupting the army’s formations as Magina tried to stop them.

Black Star used Life-Contending Pills to throw the enemy army into chaos, then faced Magina and the two hidden commanders as they launched repeated attacks. He continued fighting and taking pills, hoping the pressure of near-death combat would push him into the Above God realm.

• Black Star revealed that he had given the soldiers Life-Contending Pills, permanently damaging their aptitude and discipline.
• Magina and Mashala grew enraged, and Magina ordered the army to surround Black Star while the other two commanders prepared to strike from stealth.
• The two commanders used Unity with Dao to hide and launch surprise attacks, while Black Star resolved to risk death in pursuit of an Above God breakthrough.
• The hidden commanders’ beams tore Black Star’s mecha apart and badly wounded him, but he continued taking pills and charging through the army.
• Black Star recovered from repeated devastating blows and charged back into battle, insisting that he would break through before he died.

Black Star fought the Artificial Universe’s army while Li Qing arranged a final push to help him break through. After Old Immortal appeared to sacrifice himself, Black Star drew on the Soul Waves of the dead and emerged transformed, ready to show his enemies the collective power of the Immortal Dao.

• Magina and Mashala realized Black Star was using the battle as a whetstone to force a breakthrough, while Li Qing judged that he had only a 30% chance of surviving it.
• Li Qing decided to use Sylvie’s talent to open the Gates of Heaven’s Dao and Truth for Black Star, and planned to make a controlled familiar take the lethal cost of opening the Gate of Truth.
• Li Qing, posing as Old Immortal, told Black Star he would sacrifice his life to help him, prompting Black Star to grieve for the mentor who had guided him.
• Black Star reflected that his weakness had endangered those he cared about, then absorbed vast Soul Waves gathering from across the universe and transformed inside his mecha.
• Black Star confronted Magina, Mashala, and their army, declaring that he would show them the true power of collective strength before invoking the Heavenly Dao.

Black Star drew power from the living and the remnant souls of the Immortal Dao Continent, then overwhelmed the enemy army. He disabled Mashala’s mecha and prepared to torture her as punishment for the Great Flood.

• Magina explained that Sylvie had used the Gate of Heavenly Dao and her chips to channel the Immortal Dao Continent’s power into Black Star.
• Black Star called on the living and the souls of those killed by the Great Flood to lend him their strength and overthrow their oppressors.
• Black Star appeared before Mashala, smashed her mecha’s chest, and began slaughtering the Artificial True Gods while sending their wreckage into the universe.
• The enemy soldiers pleaded for mercy, but Black Star refused to spare them and continued attacking Mashala.
• Black Star blasted Mashala’s mecha apart, pulled her from its opened hatch, and threatened to torture her for helping destroy a civilization.

Black Star confronted the creator of the Artificial Universe after humiliating Mashala, accusing him of caring more about her dignity than the universe’s slaughtered inhabitants. He refused the Old Man’s offer of cooperation and ended by declaring that the dead wanted him to smash the Old Man’s glasses.

• Black Star restrained Mashala and taunted her, while Magina watched in shock and people across the immortal-path continent cheered his revenge.
• Black Star continued tormenting Mashala until the Old Man appeared and ordered him to stop, offering cooperation between their civilizations.
• Black Star mocked the Old Man for tolerating the destruction of his people but intervening over Mashala’s humiliation, then explained that his guardian had died protecting his path.
• The Old Man apologized and said he wanted to meet the people behind Black Star, but Black Star questioned whether one person could represent an entire civilization.
• Black Star listened to the cries of the dead Lost Souls and announced that they wanted him to smash the Old Man’s glasses.

Black Star refused Old Man’s offer of peace and fought the mechanical army Old Man took control of, breaking through to Above God Level during the battle. Li Qing then discovered that Black Star’s breakthrough had transformed one of the rings in his body into an Above God Level blueprint.

• Black Star rejected Old Man’s attempt to avoid a feud and continued attacking, saying he would avenge the universe’s dead.
• Old Man took control of Magina’s and the other man’s mechas, along with tens of thousands of True God Mechas, and formed them into a coordinated army against Black Star.
• The mechanical army overwhelmed Black Star with linked attacks, but he kept fighting and began to break through.
• Black Star’s true body transformed, and he emerged from his destroyed mecha as a new Above God Level existence.
• Li Qing felt his power surge as one of the rings in his blueprint library became an Above God Level blueprint.

Li Qing realized that his breakthrough left him with the life blueprints of countless races but did not make him overwhelmingly powerful. Black Star broke through, escaped the Old Man’s encirclement, and chose to punish Mashala despite the Old Man’s warnings.

• Li Qing reflected that his Creator God nature let him draw on different racial blueprints, but he remained vulnerable and could use only one race’s talents at a time.
• Black Star refined his Natal Magic Treasures into Above God Level treasures, reaching 3,000 rings and smashing through the True God Mechas surrounding him.
• The Old Man urged Black Star to stop, arguing that the battle had no meaningful winner and that he had already won.
• Black Star rejected the Old Man’s appeal to reason and vowed to fulfill his promise to vent the anger of All Living Beings.
• Black Star seized Mashala and declared that he would force the demon to eat a pound of an Original Life-form, while the Old Man shouted for him to stop.

The Old Man and his allies withdrew after Black Star humiliated Mashala in the Artificial Universe, ending the conflict without a decisive battle. The Immortal Dao Civilization celebrated, while Li Qing suspected the Old Man’s caution stemmed from the danger of exposing his true strength to a hidden enemy.

• The Old Man considered shutting down the Artificial Universe, but Magina begged him not to because she and the other remnants would die with it.
• The Old Man’s allies planned to enter Unity with Dao mode and log out, while Mashala endured Black Star’s public humiliation.
• People across the Immortal Dao continent watched the broadcast and cheered Black Star for avenging those who died in the Great Flood.
• The Old Man and his two allies vanished, and after several days without retaliation, the Immortal Dao Civilization declared victory.
• Sylvie explained that the Old Man had little to gain from fighting, while Li Qing suspected he feared exposing his foundation to an ambush.

Li Qing broke through to the True God level and discovered he could enter the universe in a state of Unity with Dao. Outside the universe, Black Star continued cultivating as Professor Wales approached him to propose exchanging information.

• Li Qing reached the True God level after cultivating to 980,000 Rings and considered the long road ahead.
• Li Qing visited an immortal city, where Sylvie and Sylph told stories, then observed people rebuilding the universe by returning matter from the void.
• Li Qing entered Unity with Dao and found that he could enter the universe despite possessing Above God Level traits.
• Black Star meditated outside the universe and worked to increase his ring count.
• Professor Wales appeared before Black Star, introduced himself, and proposed exchanging information.

Li Qing suspected Professor Wales was a powerful figure from another world, while Wales tried to persuade Black Star to help him reach the Crystal Wall System Universe. Wales revealed that countless Above God Level beings and civilizations were hidden throughout the universe, leaving Black Star wary of the unseen powers surrounding him.

• Li Qing recognized Professor Wales’s name and wondered whether he had crossed over from Ning Guochang’s parallel Earth.
• Wales asked Black Star for information about the outside world and the Crystal Wall System Universe, but Black Star refused to cooperate or provide its coordinates.
• Wales tried to recruit Black Star to join forces against the Crystal Wall System Universe, but Black Star rejected his offer and warned against endangering reality.
• Wales offered to trade coordinates and information, explaining that he had encountered other Unobservable Level outsiders in the Artificial Universe.
• Wales told Black Star that Above God Level civilizations had created the vast fields of Space Fragments by stealing matter from the universe and leaving ruins behind.
• Wales warned Black Star that countless hidden Unity with Dao existences might surround even his tiny civilization, so neither of them could safely make the first move.

Black Star and Wales discussed the fate of Above God Level civilizations and the universe’s repeated collapse and salvage. Black Star agreed to give Wales the coordinates of the Crystal Wall System Universe, while Li Qing realized Black Star was bringing another dangerous being toward the Ancient God.

• Wales offered Black Star coordinates to other civilizations and explained that Above God Level civilizations broadcast signals to attract contact while hiding their true bodies.
• Wales described how the universe’s hierarchy reversed after a breakthrough, leaving many Above God Level beings stranded outside as the Main Universe shut its passages.
• Wales explained that the Main Universe had lost much of its matter to salvaging and might already be far smaller than it appeared because distant light showed the universe’s past.
• Black Star agreed to give Wales the coordinates of the Crystal Wall System Universe and warned him about the Ancient God.
• Wales wept with apparent joy at the prospect of seeing the real world, and Li Qing realized Black Star had lured another dangerous being toward them.

Li Qing returned from the fragmented region and realized that his Crystal Wall System Universe had a fatal flaw: it could not contain Above God Level beings. He found a possible way to fix it by creating an artificial Cosmic Membrane, leaving the universe’s future dependent on whether he could make the solution work.

• Black Star and Professor Wales agreed to travel together to the Crystal Wall System Universe, with Black Star withholding its coordinates until they set out.
• Li Qing took the two companions back to Black Star Continent, sent them into seclusion, and gave the big-bearded mole stolen technological knowledge.
• Li Qing returned to the Mental Hospital and recognized that the universe could not admit Ancient Gods, contradicting his claim that its interior could contain them.
• Li Qing considered killing Black Star and the Old Man but realized that future Above God Level beings would uncover the same flaw.
• Li Qing proposed simulating the Cosmic Membrane himself and using a life-form as the Crystal Wall so no one could distinguish inside from outside.

Li Qing spent centuries creating an artificial Cosmic Membrane that let him establish a Crystal Wall System Universe beyond the universe while making it appear to be inside. After Sylvie and Sylph reached Above God Level, Black Star and the bespectacled Old Man arrived with their civilization, approaching the new world.

• Li Qing placed vast numbers of Single Cells into the Mental Hospital’s expanding rooms, then secluded himself for eight hundred years to create a new Crystal Wall lifeform.
• Li Qing expanded his artificial membrane over the subspace opening and formed a protected, inward-bulging realm that the universe did not reject.
• Li Qing continued reinforcing the membranes and enlarging rooms while Sylvie and Sylph broke through to Above God Level and explored the Crystal Wall Multiverse.
• Li Qing noticed Black Star approaching after preparing for more than a thousand years to rescue his wife.
• The bespectacled Old Man brought his civilization through subspace and recognized the spatial opening above the Black Star Empire’s starfield as the world outside.

Black Star and Professor Wales returned to the Black Star Empire’s primordial starfield, where Wales described his fading memories of his homeland and warned of powerful beings in the Crystal Wall System Universe. Wales revealed his plan to use hidden Above God Level pursuers as scouts by forcing them into the Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom.

• Professor Wales explained that a vision of home had stirred emotions despite his mortal memories fading over billions of years.
• Black Star and Wales explored Black Star’s birthplace, and Wales hinted that Above God Level had further realms while refusing to explain them without being asked.
• Wales proposed observing the Crystal Wall System Universe before entering it, warning that even he might be outmatched by Ancient Gods.
• Wales revealed he had deliberately brought the Primordial Origin Civilization’s subspace as bait for any Above God Level beings following them.
• Black Star realized Wales intended to shake the civilians into the Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom, whose rules would expel any Above God Level beings and force them to scout the universe.

Professor Wales and Black Star tested the Crystal Wall System by forcing two Above God Level mecha into its worlds, then followed them into the chaotic corridor. They hid from a terrifying young woman who hunted intruders in the multiversal territory.

• Professor Wales shook his spatial cloth bag and threw two hidden mecha into the Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom, where their Unity with Dao states were broken.
• The mecha failed to return to the subspace, tore through the Crystal Wall, and escaped into the fog outside.
• Wales and Black Star crossed the Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom and entered the corridor lined with Crystal Wall worlds.
• Wales made himself and Black Star invisible when he sensed something approaching, while Black Star wondered whether instant invisibility could lead to a higher level.
• A young woman arrived dragging a battered mecha, inspected the damaged Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom, and searched for hidden intruders.

Black Star and Wales narrowly avoided Sylvie, then secretly followed her through the Crystal Wall System and discovered it was a prison overseen by a powerful Prison Master. Black Star returned shaken after overhearing a warning about an approaching ancient senior, only to realize Wales had tricked him into investigating alone.

• Black Star hid from Sylvie as she searched for him, and Wales confirmed through their encrypted frequency that she had left.
• Wales urged Black Star to follow Sylvie so they could learn her patrol patterns, and Black Star discovered that the Crystal Wall System was a vast prison.
• Sylvie brought the mecha corpse to a room and spoke with a mysterious figure in a white imperial robe, who warned her that an ancient senior would soon arrive.
• Black Star retreated to the Thorn Six Spikes Kingdom and confronted Wales after learning Wales had not followed him.
• Wales said Black Star’s investigation repaid the debt of saving him and asked him to describe what he had seen.

Black Star told Wales what he had seen in the Mental Hospital, and the two parted ways after agreeing to secretly cultivate civilizations and gather tribute. Li Qing revealed that he had staged the terrifying display to frighten Wales, then let the three infiltrators roam while he began treating the Mental Hospital as a testing ground for more prisoners.

• Black Star told Wales about the powerful being and the approaching Ancient God, leaving Wales shaken by the scale of the outside world.
• Wales proposed secretly cultivating civilizations and believers in each room to offer tribute, and he and Black Star went their separate ways.
• Li Qing revealed that he had used his authority over his dependents to create the pressures Black Star had sensed and feed him false information.
• Sylvie reported that the three unseen intruders were contacting civilizations through the Crystal Wall windows and spreading their faith.
• Li Qing told Sylvie to monitor the intruders casually while she continued developing her own civilization and strength.
• Li Qing imagined bringing more Above God Levels into the Mental Hospital as tourists and declared its universe-wide internal testing underway.

Li Qing developed the Multiverse Crystal Wall System by appointing the Crystal Wall Ancient Tree as its progenitor and establishing Crystal Stones as universal currency. He stocked its worlds with processed resources, spiritual medicines, and mechanically themed spirit beasts, then left three people to develop according to his plans.

• Li Qing turned the Crystal Wall Ancient Tree into the Progenitor Ancient Tree and gave it authority over creating and destroying Crystal Wall Worlds.
• Li Qing established Crystal Stones, condensed through the tree's roots, as the multiverse's universal currency.
• Li Qing ordered outside mining teams' ores and other raw materials refined into graded Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for his starfield civilization.
• Li Qing used Black Star's Herbalism Knowledge and God-base Blueprints to create spiritual medicines, including one that permanently increased aptitude, and released them into the worlds.
• Li Qing created basic Divine Beast Races, including half-mechanical beasts, and explained their appearance as the awakening of Torture Devices from the Primordial Prison era.

Li Qing devised a fabricated ancient-god realm in which ancient gods wielded authority over the Crystal Wall Universe, then explained how to earn that status to Sylvie and the other nurse. He left them eager to claim ownerless worlds and passed the same mysteries to Black Star, who began reconsidering his plans.

• Li Qing decided ancient-god power would come from mobilizing the Crystal Wall's authority within his universe.
• Li Qing told two nurses, including Sylvie, that great contributions to the Multiverse Crystal Wall Universe could earn them the position of ancient god.
• Li Qing explained that recognition from a small world's Crystal Wall could make it their territory, while the Small Thousand and Middle Thousand Worlds already had masters.
• Li Qing revealed that the prison region was ownerless after its master died in the primordial ancient war, prompting the nurses to try claiming Mental Hospital wards.
• Li Qing sent Black Star information about ancient gods, and Black Star considered how to advance the development of worlds and gain their Crystal Walls' recognition.

Black Star conquered the Thorn World’s Heavenly Dao and claimed the entrance world as his territory. With Tuoluo’s advice, he broadcast an imperial decree across nearby civilizations to recruit talents, unaware that Li Qing was using his plan to draw hidden powers out of hiding.

• Tuoluo explained that living crystal walls could recognize powerful rulers, and Black Star decided to conquer the Thorn World’s Heavenly Dao.
• Over the following century, Black Star transformed the Thorn World into an Immortal Dao civilization and periodically lectured its rulers from beyond the crystal wall.
• Black Star gained the Heavenly Dao’s recognition, claimed the world as his territory, and asked Tuoluo what to do next.
• Tuoluo urged Black Star to broadcast a signal that would recruit outsiders and draw them into the dungeon, where Black Star could ensnare them.
• Li Qing watched Black Star’s plan and approved of using the signal to lure nearby powers out of hiding.
• Black Star issued an imperial decree inviting low-level technological civilizations to take imperial examinations and join his dynasty.