Chapter Summaries

Lin Lin completed the theoretical foundations of the Reincarnation Longevity Method, defining a true human by the development of a True Spirit, and created a Soul Projection Method after cultivating and studying the Three Souls and Seven Spirits. He left its safety testing to Zhou Zheng, who volunteered in hopes of resolving the problem limiting his cultivation.

• Lin Lin concluded that soul projection required the Three Souls and Seven Spirits to work in harmony and grow strong enough to withstand natural energies outside the body.
• By observing infants and Zhou Zheng's clones, Lin Lin determined that a True Spirit formed only after more than two years of development, and he used that distinction to define which clones counted as human for reincarnation.
• Lin Lin created the Soul Cultivation Method and strengthened his own souls, bringing his combat power close to Planetary Level while delaying his breakthrough.
• Lin Lin developed a low-requirement Soul Projection Method that could let the Soul of Life leave the body, but chose not to test it on himself.
• Zhou Zheng volunteered to test Lin Lin's method, hoping it would resolve the cultivation problem caused by his brain swap.

Lin Lin tested and revised the Soul Projection Method with Zhou Zheng, seeking a safe way to separate a Divine Soul for reincarnation. After twenty years of work, Zhou Zheng successfully projected his soul with his intelligence intact, and Lin Lin recognized the result as a Nascent Soul.

• Lin Lin transmitted the Soul Projection Method into Zhou Zheng's mind, and Zhou Zheng's first soul projection left him without intelligence until Lin Lin stabilized him.
• Lin Lin observed that Zhou Zheng's body weakened while his Divine Soul was away, then returned the soul to his body and sent him to recover.
• Lin Lin revised the method to link the projected soul to the brain, but the connection weakened Zhou Zheng's intellect and failed when he tried to enter a new body.
• Lin Lin spent twenty years developing a third method that used Inner Breath to give the Divine Soul its own intellectual support, while Zhou Zheng recovered to the Heavenly Human Third Realm.
• Zhou Zheng projected his soul using the third method and retained his normal intelligence as a tiny, blazing-white figure.
• Lin Lin recognized Zhou Zheng's new form as a Nascent Soul and proposed calling the third version the Nascent Soul Method.

Lin Lin completed Zhou Zheng’s reincarnation experiments and cultivated a Nascent Soul of his own, confirming a path to extend life by replacing the body. After examining his lifespan and defining three realms of longevity, he resolved to reach the utmost limit of each.

• Lin Lin observed Zhou Zheng’s Nascent Soul and recognized that the method could support reincarnation while expanding the body’s reserves of power.
• Zhou Zheng’s Nascent Soul shattered a fertilized egg, but it successfully entered an eighteen-year-old clone made from his bloodline information.
• Zhou Zheng’s Nascent Soul destroyed an incompatible clone, then successfully took control of another unfamiliar body after adapting its fusion with the Seven Spirits.
• Lin Lin ended the Divine Soul projection experiment and explained that the remaining questions about True Spirit reincarnation did not require Zhou Zheng’s testing.
• Lin Lin cultivated a Nascent Soul, reached Planetary Level combat strength, and read an Attribute Panel showing a potential lifespan of 326,789 years.
• Lin Lin concluded that longevity had three realms and vowed to reach the ultimate extreme in all of them.

Lin Lin activated the moon-based Planet-Level Computer to investigate how Heaven and Earth Essence Qi formed while continuing to refine the Eternal Life Art. Meanwhile, Great Xia opened its Reincarnation service, and the first applicants began rebirth at the lunar Reincarnation Department.

• In Great Xia year 160, Lin Lin powered up the Planet-Level Computer on the moon, using its scans and immense computing power to analyze Aqua Blue Star and search for the source of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• As Lin Lin absorbed the sun’s essence, the leftover light made Aqua Blue Star’s sky appear to have two suns, and Great Xia’s citizens awaited the cultivation resources his research might produce.
• The Merit System introduced a Reincarnation service that let people exchange merit to be reborn, and more than eighty million people applied.
• The Reincarnation Department registered applicants, prioritized the elderly, and sent the first group to its lunar facility for processing.
• Mu Qingshan confirmed his identity and merit balance, then underwent anesthesia as the department extracted his Divine Soul and placed it in a fertilized egg inside an Artificial Womb.

Lin Lin’s Reincarnation Department began returning its first citizens to life, while public support led him to become Heavenly Emperor and rename Great Xia the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty. Over the following years, reincarnation reshaped society, and learning became a shared value as people sought meaning beyond ordinary pleasures.

• Lin Lin monitored the Reincarnation Department’s successful operations and estimated that his deduction of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi would take 180 years alongside his cultivation.
• Mu Qingshan passed the reincarnation examination, entered the Observation Institute, and announced his return to friends and family through the Virtual World network.
• News of Mu Qingshan’s reincarnation sparked renewed public interest, and people began calling for Lin Lin to become Heavenly Emperor and rename Great Xia the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty.
• Lin Sixue and the ministers petitioned Lin Lin, who agreed; he ascended as Heavenly Emperor, and the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty began its new calendar and celebrations.
• As reincarnation extended lifespans and ordinary pleasures grew stale, citizens increasingly pursued arts and knowledge, making learning a new social value.

The Great Xia Immortal Dynasty developed interstellar fleets and began preparing unmanned colonial expeditions, while Lin Lin restricted human travel to prevent distant factions from threatening the dynasty. As birth rates fell, Lin Lin introduced incentives and artificial childrearing, then announced that every citizen would donate reproductive cells.

• The Great Xia Immortal Dynasty developed Interstellar Spaceships and began building unmanned Voyager Fleets to explore and exploit nearby stellar systems.
• Lin Lin rejected scholars' requests to join long-range voyages unless they paid the enormous cost of life support, citing both resource use and the risk of separatist fleets.
• By year 200 of the Da Xia Immortal Calendar, births had fallen below one million annually as people prioritized personal pursuits, leaving the population at about 10.5 billion.
• Lin Lin rejected mass-producing cloned humans because they might create divisions between naturally born and manufactured citizens.
• Lin Lin increased merit rewards for having children, promoted Artificial Wombs, and introduced socialized childrearing, raising annual births to more than ten million.
• After machine-assisted reproduction became common, Lin Lin announced that every citizen would donate reproductive cells.

The reproductive-cell donation policy became established after the first children raised through it graduated and integrated into Great Xia society. In Da Xia Immortal Calendar Year 230, Lin Lin completed a powerful new Nascent Soul Method and the third version of the Eternal Life Art, then resumed cultivation as he prepared to rebuild his foundation and finish researching Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.

• Great Xia introduced a policy allowing donated reproductive cells to be randomly paired and used to raise children through the Reincarnation Hall, with court-funded education and cultivation costs recorded as merit debts.
• Twenty years later, the first Growth Institute children completed basic education, and most passed the assessment, received Great Xia Citizen status, and entered society.
• Lin Lin observed that the graduates had integrated successfully, then turned his attention back to cultivation after roughly seventy-five years of deriving the third version of the Eternal Life Art.
• Lin Lin completed a Nascent Soul Method that simulated all seven corporeal souls, giving his Nascent Soul Planetary Level combat power and the ability to assist with cultivation.
• Lin Lin circulated the new Eternal Life Art, reached three times Planetary Level combat power, and estimated that he could rebuild his foundation and complete his research into Heaven and Earth Essence Qi in fewer than fifty years.

Lin Lin completed his analysis of how Heaven and Earth Essence Qi formed and enabled the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty to produce it artificially. The Zhou Tian Star Array began widespread use, generating Spirit Stones to support cultivation across the stars.

• Lin Lin stabilized his Aqua Blue Star model, discovered how overlapping force fields created Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and achieved an initial conversion efficiency of seven percent.
• The Proxima Centauri expedition fleet returned with processed ores and research samples, having encountered neither Trisolarans nor Cybertron's silicon-based life-forms.
• The Great Xia Investigation of Things Academy announced that Lin Lin had completed his analysis and that artificial production of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi would initially be reserved for scientific research.
• More than seventeen billion Great Xia Citizens prayed in reverence to Lin Lin, and his annual Divine Power rose to thirty million drops.
• By Great Xia Year 270, the Zhou Tian Star Array was widely installed alongside fusion reactors, producing Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and compressing it into Spirit Stones.
• Great Xia prohibited Spirit Stones on Aqua Blue Star's surface because they posed a danger to children with low cultivation.

Lin Lin completed his research on the Zhou Tian Star Array, raising its energy-conversion efficiency to ninety-nine percent, then began integrating it into his cultivation. The array formed a golden sphere in his Dantian Qi Sea, which drew in solar energy and greatly accelerated the growth of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

• Great Xia began selling spirit stones through the Merit System, and eligible citizens bought the first limited batch immediately.
• Lin Lin finished dismantling and understanding the Zhou Tian Star Array, then improved its energy-conversion efficiency from seven percent to ninety-nine percent.
• Lin Lin tested the array near and inside the sun, where it converted most incoming solar energy into Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and protected him from the plasma.
• Lin Lin chose to build the Zhou Tian Star Array inside his Dantian Qi Sea by transforming his Inner Breath into runes.
• The completed inner array formed a golden sphere resembling a miniature Aqua Blue Star, which Lin Lin recognized as a Planetary Golden Core.
• The Golden Core gathered solar energy, converted it into Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and fueled Lin Lin's body, Nascent Soul, and cultivation.

Lin Lin modified his Zhou Tian Star Array into a Golden Core and experimented with containing a solar fusion reactor inside it. After using Humanity's Luck to gain insights into spacetime, he began shrinking the Golden Core enough to return it to his body.

• Lin Lin reinforced the Golden Core's runes to store Essence, Qi, and Spirit, emptying his reserves and doubling his potential power capacity.
• Lin Lin expanded the Golden Core outside his body, converted surrounding solar energy into Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and drew in solar matter to create a contained fusion reactor.
• Lin Lin stabilized the reactor with Blazing Sun Intent Realm but found that he could not compress the Golden Core enough to return it to his body.
• Lin Lin used more than five hundred strands of Humanity's Luck to explore spacetime knowledge and began shrinking the Golden Core through newly gained insights.

Lin Lin completed his Golden Core and demonstrated that he could absorb the Sun’s energy, reaching combat power far beyond the Planetary Level. He returned to Aqua Blue Star to reunite with his family and arrange matters before leaving the Solar System to cultivate elsewhere.

• Lin Lin drew on his fully activated Golden Core to absorb the Sun’s light and energy, causing the Solar System to fall dark until he ended his cultivation.
• Lin Sixue reassured the people of the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty that the Sun remained intact and that Lin Lin had caused the darkness.
• Lin Lin assessed his strength as five times the Planetary Level in his normal state and up to three hundred times the Planetary Level near a star.
• Lin Lin decided to cultivate away from the Sun so his power would not endanger humanity’s home star system.
• Lin Lin accelerated toward Aqua Blue Star, planning to reunite with his family and give instructions before leaving the Solar System.

At a Heavenly Court banquet, Lin Lin described a cultivation system that differed from the path Great Xia’s martial artists had followed and explained how to build a foundation before advancing. He introduced the Golden Core Realm but had not yet explained what came after its condensation when the chapter ended.

• Lin Lin attended a celebration in the Heavenly Court, reunited with old companions, and enjoyed a banquet of performances and artistic displays.
• Jian He and Xia Mingyue fought before Lin Lin, who stopped their duel and advised Jian He to cultivate the Tian Jing Acupoint.
• Jian He asked Lin Lin how cultivation realms after the Heavenly Human Fourth Realm should be divided, prompting Lin Lin to explain his cultivation path.
• Lin Lin described the Divine Hidden Treasures Method for opening 129,600 Potential Doors and the Soul Cultivation Method for nourishing the Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
• Lin Lin defined the Foundation Establishment and Divine Sea realms, then showed the Golden Core that cultivators could condense after completing all nine levels of Foundation Establishment.

Lin Lin explained the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation realms, then ended the banquet and prepared the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty to spread his cultivation system. He entrusted Great Xia to his family, shared plans for Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and left for the Proxima Centauri System to cultivate after spending time with his family and harem.

• Lin Lin demonstrated Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivation, described Spirit Transformation, and announced that detailed methods would be available through the Merit System.
• Lin Yue warned that widespread cultivation could threaten public security, so Lin Lin revealed his carbon-based Heavenly Soldiers and Generals and said he had already created thirty Moon Shattering Level ones.
• Lin Lin told Lin Sixue and Lin Yue that he would leave for the Proxima Centauri System and asked them to oversee Great Xia and gather People's Aspirations while he was away.
• Lin Lin comforted his family, spent time with Su Minghua and the other women in the Jade Pool, and then sent the Investigation of Things Academy materials for researching spacetime and Curvature Navigation Technology.
• Lin Lin departed the Solar System to begin secluded cultivation and pursue a breakthrough.

Lin Lin traveled faster than light to the Proxima Centauri System and began secluded cultivation inside a star, seeking to improve his cultivation and master the Myriad Aspects Sword Dao. After years of progress, he broke through with his Potential Door and Three Souls and Seven Spirits, and his body began a profound transformation in spiritual flames.

• Lin Lin used the Grand Unification Theory to create a Warp Bubble and traveled to the Proxima Centauri System at ten times the speed of light.
• He arrived at a system stripped of most of its resources by intelligent machines and found three celestial soldiers cultivating beside its stars.
• Lin Lin built a palace inside one star, established the Zhou Tian Star Array, and began cultivating his body and intent realms.
• Over the years, Lin Lin cultivated 303 intent realms while the star’s light and violent activity faded as he absorbed its energy.
• Lin Lin raised his Potential Doors to Level Four and his Three Souls and Seven Spirits to Level 40, causing his vitality, intelligence, and control over his body to increase.
• Lin Lin’s body exploded into golden blood mist and divine bone as spiritual flames began transforming his flesh and blood.

Lin Lin underwent the final stages of his three hundred and three bodily rebirths while the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty advanced its cultivation economy and developed faster-than-light travel. After his transformation neared completion, Lin Lin entered a star and devoured its energy until it went dark.

• Lin Lin’s body repeatedly shattered and reformed as Heaven and Earth Essence Qi tempered him, and he cultivated the corresponding intents of the Myriad Aspects Sword Dao.
• By Great Xia Year 380, cultivators across the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty were grinding for academic contributions and selling their industries to afford cultivation, leaving Lin Lin as the civilization’s ultimate owner.
• In Great Xia Year 420, the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty developed a faster-than-light Warp Engine, expanded into distant star regions, and increased its supply of spirit stones.
• Lin Lin used Humanity’s Luck to bring all three hundred and three Heaven and Human Intent Realms close to completion as his bodily transformation approached its end.
• After his final rebirth, Lin Lin’s body began converting surrounding energy into his own power, and he plunged into the star beneath the Solar Palace.
• The star reappeared to outside observers, then dimmed from the place where Lin Lin entered until it went completely dark.

Lin Lin completed the transformation of his Golden Flesh Jade Bones into a Myriad Phenomena Body, raising his power and lifespan to extraordinary levels. He traveled to Alpha Centauri to accumulate Essence, Qi, and Spirit, then began upgrading his Golden Core and Nascent Soul for his next breakthrough.

• Lin Lin absorbed the energy of a Proxima Centauri star as his body transformed into a Myriad Phenomena Body and his seven corporeal souls merged with his Divine Soul.
• Lin Lin's physical combat power rose to 1,200 times Planetary Level, and he calculated that his True Spirit could live for 5,035,681 years.
• Lin Lin reflected on the realms beyond Divine Transformation and decided that only an indestructible True Spirit would qualify as immortal.
• Lin Lin traveled to Alpha Centauri and entered one of its stars to gather energy for his next cultivation stage.
• Lin Lin rebuilt his Golden Core with stacked Zhou Tian Star Arrays, improved spatial folding, and antimatter technology, then began reconstructing his Nascent Soul.

Lin Lin transformed his Nascent Soul into a Heaven and Earth Dharma Image, greatly increasing his combat power but finding that he could sustain it for only a moment. After completing his cultivation-system revisions, he turned to improving combat techniques and announced plans to build the Human Realm and Immortal Realm, leaving the immense projects ahead.

• Lin Lin reinforced and enlarged his Nascent Soul into a ten-thousand-zhang Heaven and Earth Dharma Image, gaining star-level combat power but withdrawing it after about 0.01 seconds because it consumed too much astral qi.
• In the year 600 of the Da Xia Immortal Calendar, Lin Lin completed his Golden Core and Nascent Soul transformations and estimated that he could reach his next realm within several hundred years, or at most a thousand.
• Lin Lin reviewed the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty's cultivation techniques, tested practical Divine Sea realm spells, and realized that some citizens struggled to afford cultivation resources.
• Lin Lin decided to use surplus productive capacity to build himself a new home and provide work for people caught between ordinary employment and scholarship.
• In the year 621 of the Da Xia Immortal Calendar, the Heavenly Court announced plans to build the Human Realm by moving and transforming rocky planets near the Solar System.
• The Heavenly Court also announced plans to build the Immortal Realm from stars arranged into a Starfield-Level Zhou Tian Star Array, creating a new base and residence for the Heavenly Emperor.

Lin Lin oversaw plans to bring planets and stars to the Solar System, expanded Spirit Stone production, and designed more powerful Spirit Stones to aid cultivation. By year 800 of the Da Xia Immortal Calendar, a probe discovered the first traces of an alien civilization 5,200 light-years from the Solar System.

• The scholars combined traditional Planetary Engines with Warp Engines to move rocky planets back to the Solar System and began planning Stellar Engines for transporting stars.
• Lin Lin assigned intelligent machines to move celestial bodies and gave Great Xia Citizens paid work decorating the planets, while the Investigation of Things Academy received resources for research.
• The expedition fleets occupied more than ten thousand star systems, and the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty built over five thousand Stellar-Level Spirit Stone Mines to supply its cultivators and Lin Lin.
• Lin Lin found that Spirit Stones increased his cultivation speed by around thirty percent, then designed graded Spirit Stones and Spirit Crystals with greater energy density and specialized elemental varieties.
• In year 800 of the Da Xia Immortal Calendar, the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty's farthest probe found traces of an alien civilization 5,200 light-years from the Solar System.

In Great Xia Year 800, a probe traveling 5,200 light-years from the Solar System discovered an extraterrestrial civilization whose inhabitants had retreated into the Virtual World. Lin Lin connected with them, leaving the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty’s first contact with an alien civilization underway.

• A probe launched from the Solar System discovered artificial structures around the fourth planet of a distant star system.
• Lin Lin examined the images and assessed the civilization as roughly five times the Planetary Level, far below the Da Xia Immortal Dynasty.
• Lin Cheng proposed that the aliens were a Fallen Civilization that had abandoned material progress and moved into the Virtual World.
• The Da Xia scholars saw Virtual World devices, automated infrastructure, and no living creatures active in reality.
• Qian Zheng asked whether to answer the aliens’ communication requests, and Lin Lin ordered him to connect.
• The civilizations exchanged a mathematical dictionary, and Lin Lin learned the aliens’ language as communication began.

The Da Xia Immortal Dynasty made contact with the Purple Mist Civilization, whose leaders concluded they had no choice but to submit to the much stronger visitors. Lin Lin decided that Great Xia should use the encounter to spread his faith and gain People's Aspirations from the aliens.

• Lin Lin greeted the Purple Mist Civilization in mathematical language and sent them a more complete dictionary, demonstrating Great Xia's ability to communicate across 5,200 light-years.
• The Purple Mist Civilization's leaders debated attacking the probe but concluded their technology, politics, and public would not allow them to resist, so they chose to cooperate and hope for mercy.
• After the Purple Mist Civilization remained silent for hours, Great Xia's citizens and officials judged it a weak, stagnant civilization and discussed what to do with it.
• Lin Lin told the ministers that the aliens could be useful for earning merit, and a minister asked whether Great Xia could spread his faith among them.
• Lin Lin confirmed the aliens had souls and True Spirits and authorized a dedicated communications network through which Great Xia could spread his faith and gather their People's Aspirations.