Recaps

Saine prepared his elite forces for the exploration of the Sky Star Civilization ruin as the Wizard Civilization and its allies and the Minghe Empire gathered around it. He entered the subspace ruin in the second wave alongside nearby allied legions, while the Alibaba Interstellar Merchant Association stayed outside.

• Saine transferred weaker foreign gods and Level-4 forces away, keeping his longtime elite subordinates for the expedition.
• The Dragon Race, Immortal Domain Demon Race, and Minghe Empire sent more Dominators and armies to the crowded starfield around the ruin.
• Saine briefed Meili and his other subordinates, arranged his forces, and learned that the ruin belonged to the top-level Earth Elemental civilization known as the Sky Star Civilization.
• After the subspace ruin stabilized, both sides rapidly sent forces inside; Saine entered in the second wave with the Intercept Sect and Blood Sea Asura Race legions.
• Saine noticed that the Alibaba Interstellar Merchant Association did not send anyone into the ruin to search for treasure.

Saine explored the Sky Star Civilization relic as increasingly dangerous meteors fell from its gridded sky, while the Wizard Civilization learned that a major battle had erupted outside. He mined abundant elemental crystals and found unusual remains, then the chapter ended with an author’s note about the next update.

• Saine entered the relic with the Ashes Legion and observed the gridded sky, falling meteors, and other civilizations’ exploration forces.
• Saine estimated that the Wizard Civilization and Minghe Empire would meet after exploring and occupying parts of the relic.
• After four months, Saine learned that the Minghe Empire had clashed with the Immortal Domain outside the relic, drawing in the Wizard Civilization and nearly twenty Dominators.
• As Saine’s forces advanced, meteors grew more frequent and powerful, with the strongest reported strike threatening a Level-6 Creature.
• Saine deployed nearly two million mechanical puppets to mine abundant Earth Elemental Veins and discovered ancient Earth Elemental Creature remains, including a few diamond-like specimens.

Saine examined the remains and ruins of the Sky Star Civilization before Dominator-class beings entered the relic. Dipamkara Buddha hurried toward a rumored supreme treasure, but the relic’s meteors repeatedly struck him.

• Saine concluded that the Sky Star Civilization had been an egalitarian elemental civilization, and he assessed its creature remains as valuable energy sources and alchemical materials.
• In the second year of exploration, Dipamkara Buddha entered the relic first, followed later by some Wizard Civilization Dominators and Immortal Domain Saints.
• As Dipamkara Buddha flew deeper into the relic, white meteors fell from the sky grids and struck him repeatedly.
• Saine wondered whether Dipamkara Buddha had discovered a pattern in the meteors, while Dipamkara Buddha questioned why they kept targeting him.
• Dipamkara Buddha revealed that he sought a treasure comparable to the Pan Gu Banner, the Chaos Azure Lotus, and the Creation Jade Disc, then was struck by another meteor as he tried to move forward.

Saine and the Wizard Civilization’s legions investigated the Sky Star Civilization’s remains and learned that its dominant race consisted of enormous, planet-like Star Body Creatures. Saine theorized that these creatures grew by devouring planes, then compiled his findings for the Wizard Civilization’s combat headquarters.

• Saine’s Ashes Legion excavated the remains of a spherical Earth Elemental Creature, and Saine found its tissues had contracted under time and pressure.
• Saine and other explorers discovered similar remains throughout the relic, prompting new theories about the Sky Star Civilization.
• The Dragon Vein Warlock Family shared findings that the Sky Star Civilization had been dominated by a sparse race of planet-like Star Body Creatures, supported by subordinate Earth Elemental Creatures.
• Saine learned that adult Star Body Creatures were at least ten thousand meters wide and possessed power above the Demigod realm.
• Saine theorized that Star Body Creatures evolved by devouring planes and submitted his findings to the Wizard Civilization’s combat headquarters.

The vanguard forces of the Minghe Empire clashed with the Immortal Domain and Wizard Civilization inside the Sky Star Civilization Relic, while their Dominator-class powerhouses raced toward its control center. Dipamkara Buddha continued to draw the relic’s meteor attacks as the others used his misfortune to avoid being targeted.

• The Minghe Empire’s vanguard met the Immortal Domain Buddhism Sect Legion, and the Wizard Civilization and Immortal Domain Dragon Race Legions rushed in to support them.
• The allied forces stopped exploring deeper and spread out along both flanks after the battle began.
• Danielle observed that Dipamkara Buddha was repeatedly struck by meteors, and the Dragon Mother and the others found they could reduce their own targeting by avoiding his route.
• Dipamkara Buddha blocked another meteor with his Golden Bowl and wondered why he was so unlucky.
• The Dominator-class powerhouses recognized Sky Starfall as an active rule weapon and raced toward the relic’s calculated control center.

Dragon Mother Danielle reached the Sky Star Civilization ruins’ control hub and witnessed a vision of the civilization’s war against the Mustard Seed Civilization. The vision ended as the Mustard Seed Civilization’s planet-parasitism breakthrough turned the tide against the Sky Star Civilization.

• By the sixth year of exploration, Dragon Mother Danielle reached the control hub before the other explorers and entered the largest mound in a vast graveyard of Star Body Creatures.
• Inside the ruins, Danielle sensed strange Level-9 particles and a powerful stellar energy that revealed a vision of the Sky Star Civilization’s past.
• Danielle watched the Sky Star Civilization expand through a nebula and wage war against the Mustard Seed Civilization, initially dominating with its vassals and the power of Sky Starfall.
• The Mustard Seed Civilization gained the upper hand in the war after developing Planet Parasitism, and disaster began to fall upon the Sky Star Civilization.

Dragon Mother Danielle learned how the Mustard Seed Civilization defeated the Sky Star Civilization by adapting its parasitism, and reflected on the danger of underestimating the Galente Federation. She discovered that many Sky Star Creatures survived in suspended death, and that awakening them was necessary to obtain the Sky Starfall fragment.

• Dragon Mother Danielle watched the starlight images show the Mustard Seed Civilization adapting to parasitize Earth Elemental and Star Body Creatures, turning the war against the Sky Star Civilization in its favor.
• The images revealed that the Mustard Seed Civilization had already won two Top-Level Civilization wars before defeating the Sky Star Civilization, which had won only one.
• Dragon Mother Danielle concluded that the Wizard Civilization could not let down its guard against the Galente Federation, despite gaining the upper hand in their war.
• The starlight images ended before revealing the full fate of the Sky Star remnants, and Danielle wondered whether the Wizard Civilization could defeat the Mustard Seed Civilization.
• Dragon Mother Danielle discovered that many Star Body Creatures remained alive in suspended death, and she had to help awaken them to obtain the Sky Starfall fragment.

Dragon Mother emerged from the Central Ruins and found Dipamkara Buddha fighting four Minghe Empire Dominators while Sky Starfall relentlessly targeted him. Zhao Gongming refused to help unless Dipamkara returned the twelve Sea Pacifying Pearls, leaving Dipamkara to hold out alone.

• Dragon Mother learned that several Dominators would need to cooperate to awaken the Dead Stars and flew out of the Central Ruins to consult the others.
• Dragon Mother saw Dipamkara Buddha surrounded by four Minghe Empire Dominators and battered by Sky Starfall, while Zhao Gongming watched from the sidelines.
• Zhao Gongming demanded the return of his twelve Sea Pacifying Pearls before he would help, but Dipamkara Buddha insisted the pearls were fated to belong to him.
• Dipamkara Buddha defended himself with the twelve Sea Pacifying Pearls and his many treasures, holding his own against the four Dominators despite his worsening situation.

Dragon Mother Danielle and the Immortal Domain Saints agreed to a temporary truce with the Minghe Empire to awaken the Dead Stars, while Dipamkara Buddha was excluded and left fighting. The Dead Stars awakened, revealing a decayed Star Body Creature that had once been a Rank Eight Dominator and forcing both sides to pause.

• Dragon Mother Danielle told the Immortal Domain Saints what she had found and proposed working with the Minghe Empire to awaken the Dead Stars.
• The Tenth Pharaoh King agreed to a temporary truce on the condition that Dipamkara Buddha was excluded, and the Immortal Domain Saints accepted.
• Fa Hai gave up his claim to the relic’s treasures and went to help Dipamkara Buddha, while the other Dominators prepared to awaken the Dead Stars.
• Danielle and the Tenth Pharaoh King secretly planned to turn on each other after the awakening, even as they joined forces to release their Dominator Power.
• Several hundred Dead Stars awakened, including a massive Star Body Creature that had once been a powerful Rank Eight Dominator, causing Danielle and the Tenth Pharaoh King to halt their attacks.

Over a hundred Dead Stars awakened and learned that their civilization could not be restored. Their Level-8 leader offered fragments of Sky Starfall in exchange for the survivors being allowed to leave, and the gathered powers accepted as Dragon Mother proposed an alliance with the Wizard Civilization.

• The Level-8 Dead Star pierced the secret realm’s sky and studied a star map to determine how much time had passed.
• Sky Starfall’s falling meteors stopped across the secret realm, though Dipamkara Buddha continued to be bombarded while fighting four enemies, with Fa Hai helping him defend himself.
• The Level-8 Dead Star said the Dead Stars could not be revived and offered Sky Starfall’s rule fragments in exchange for the others treating its people kindly and letting them leave.
• Dragon Mother and the Immortal Domain powerhouses accepted the proposal, and the Minghe Empire agreed after the Tenth Pharaoh King spoke with the other Pharaoh Kings.
• Dragon Mother welcomed the future Star Body Creatures to join the Wizard Alliance and showed Danielle’s group an image of the Amethyst Crystal World.

Dragon Mother tried to recruit the newly awakened Star Body Creatures by offering them safety, a home, and help rebuilding their race under the Wizard Alliance. As the dead stars weighed her offer, Immortal Domain Saints also made their pitches, while Dipamkara Buddha asked them to stop the Sky Starfall’s attacks on him.

• Dragon Mother showed the dead stars the Amethyst Crystal Great World and described how the Wizard Civilization had helped it prosper.
• Dragon Mother offered to sign a Law Contract with the dead stars, pledging protection and help for their descendants in exchange for their trust.
• After Dragon Mother fell silent, the strongest level-eight dead star withheld judgment while the others discussed her proposal among themselves.
• Immortal Domain Saints tried to persuade the Star Body Creatures to join the Immortal Domain Civilization.
• Dipamkara Buddha asked the Star Body Creatures to join his Western Paradise and requested that they suspend the Sky Starfall’s attacks on him.

The Level-8 Dead Star refused to join the competing civilizations, offered the Sky Starfall, and asked that its people be allowed to leave. As the Sky Star Civilization’s Dead Stars released their final Star Power, the relic transformed and a Pink Nascent Star began forming before Saine and Nataya.

• The Tenth Pharaoh King offered the Dead Stars territory and one thousand Complete Rule Planes, while Dragon Mother Danielle watched without changing her terms.
• The Level-8 Dead Star said the Sky Star Civilization would not join the disputes, offered the Sky Starfall, and asked to open a passage for its people to leave.
• After the Dominators agreed, the Level-8 Dead Star secretly messaged Dragon Mother Danielle and led the Dead Stars into the sky to release their final Star Power.
• White halos swept through the subspace, turning the blue sky into a starry expanse and causing violent tremors, especially in the Wizard Civilization’s occupied territory.
• Saine found the excavated Star Body Creature remains splitting apart as a Pink Nascent Star rapidly formed in place of the expected Star Core.
• Nataya stepped forward and curiously poked the Pink Nascent Star Body.

Nataya formed a mother-daughter bond with the newly awakened Pink Nascent Star and made it her mount through a blood contract. Saine watched as Nataya named the star creature Little Star and fed it Star Core fragments, leaving him bemused by his new god-daughter.

• The Pink Nascent Star awakened and called Nataya "Mama" after she approached it.
• Nataya realized Little Star was hungry and formed a mount-type blood contract with it using her blood.
• Saine questioned Nataya's choice to take a planet-like creature as her mount, and Nataya insisted she would raise Little Star as her daughter.
• Little Star shrank to about two meters and hid behind Nataya, still hungry.
• Nataya took two Star Core fragments from Saine and fed one to Little Star, while Saine protested that it should eat cheaper stones or meteorite fragments.

Saine studied Little Star as Star Core fragments and elemental crystals drove her rapid growth, while news from the Wizard Civilization revealed that other new-generation Star Body Creatures had awakened across the ruins. Little Star began absorbing the laws within an intact Micro Plane Star Core, and her expanding body left Saine wondering whether his fortress could contain her.

• Saine received intelligence that roughly two hundred new-generation Star Body Creatures had awakened in Wizard Civilization territory, including a violet one already at Level Four.
• Saine and Nataya continued feeding Little Star Star Core fragments and Earth Elemental Energy Crystals, helping her rise from Level One or Two to Level Three.
• Saine concluded that white halos spreading from the northeast were accelerating Little Star's growth and maturity.
• Saine gave Little Star an intact Micro Plane Star Core after fragments no longer satisfied her appetite.
• Little Star absorbed the Star Core's energy and began drawing on its laws, while her full-power body expanded to several thousand meters.
• Saine worried that Little Star's future true form might outgrow even his Combined Fortress Group.

Saine learned that the dying level-eight Dead Star had chosen the Wizard Civilization to shelter the newborn Star Bodies, then sent most of them through a spatial bridge. Little Star stayed behind with Nataya as the Dead Star spent its remaining power scattering Law of Light across the ruins, igniting a full-scale melee.

• Saine learned that more than two hundred newborn Star Bodies had awakened in Wizard Civilization territory, compared with fewer than one hundred in Immortal Domain territory and around fifty in Minghe Empire territory.
• The level-eight Dead Star chose the Wizard Civilization, sacrificed the other Dead Stars to strengthen the newborn Star Bodies, and opened a spatial bridge for them to leave the secret realm.
• Most newborn Star Bodies followed the summons, but Little Star refused to leave because it could not bear to part from Nataya.
• The level-eight Dead Star closed the bridge and unleashed Law of Light across the ruins, prompting the Dominators and civilization forces to abandon their battles and fight over it.
• As the ruins erupted into a full-scale melee, the exhausted Dead Star began to dissipate and turned its attention to the lone Star Body that had stayed behind.

As the Level-8 Dead Star's will prepared to disperse, it saw Nataya fighting alongside Little Star and decided the Sky Star Remnant Race would be cared for by the Wizard Civilization. It secretly sent a portion of Sky Starfall's Law of Light to Little Star, and its gift triggered a sudden transformation in Nataya.

• Saine and the Ashes Legion joined the fierce battle against the Minghe Empire as Law of Light fell across the battlefield.
• Nataya fought from atop Little Star, while the Level-8 Dead Star's will confirmed that Little Star had chosen to stay with her.
• The Level-8 Dead Star guided most of the falling Law of Light toward Dragon Mother Danielle and sent a small portion toward Little Star.
• Little Star received the gift through the blood pact, and Nataya's power erupted in demonic flames and magma as she began to transform.

Saine’s forces continued fighting the Minghe Empire over the Law of Light in the Sky Starfall secret realm as Nataya advanced to Rank Four and chose to remain on the battlefield. After Little Star’s kin reached safety, she revealed that she could locate nearby high-quality energy mineral deposits, hinting that the campaign would extend beyond the fragments.

• Nataya advanced to Rank Four during the fighting, and Saine learned that both sides had been ordered to seize fragments of the Law of Light.
• The war continued for years across the secret realm and surrounding starry space, while the Dragon Mother claimed the most Sky Starfall fragments and Wizard Civilization escorted more than three hundred newborn stars to safety.
• Saine offered to send Nataya and Little Star to the rear, but Nataya refused and said she would visit Little Star’s kin after the campaign.
• Saine discussed the growing war and the secret realm’s rich mineral deposits with Nataya and the Ashes Legion powerhouses.
• Nataya told Saine that Little Star could accurately locate nearby high-quality energy mineral deposits.

Saine used Little Star’s ore-finding talent to lead the Ashes Legion to valuable mineral deposits while continuing to fight across the subspace battlefield. After resolving his dispute with Long-Armed Ape, he gained a new friend and access to the Heavenly White Jade Pillar for his alchemical research.

• Little Star asked for Law of Light and then Star Cores as payment for finding ore, and Saine agreed to feed her Star Cores.
• Saine led the Ashes Legion to exploit rich elemental veins, including deposits containing naturally formed elemental crystal essences.
• Saine continued mobile warfare for years, gathering resources and helping Wizard Civilization and Immortal Domain legions in battle.
• Saine used his war authority to choose his own battlefields, while the only order he received was to hand over the Law of Light.
• Saine resolved his conflict with Long-Armed Ape and befriended the Blood Sea Asura Legion.
• Long-Armed Ape lent Saine the Heavenly White Jade Pillar so Saine could study it and help reforge it.

Saine reforged the Long-Armed Ape’s Heavenly White Jade Pillar, raising it to a higher grade and gaining insights that could improve his alchemy. The Long-Armed Ape offered him a flat peach and promised to repay the favor, and Saine learned that the monkey’s surname was Yuan.

• Saine took the Long-Armed Ape’s Heavenly White Jade Pillar to study and promised to make it easier to use after reforging it.
• Saine spent about half a year repairing the staff and adding Wizard Civilization magic-array inscriptions, gaining insights into Immortal Domain artifact forging.
• Saine returned the staff, which had advanced from a low-grade, low-tier to a low-grade, mid-tier World-Class Secret Treasure.
• The Long-Armed Ape offered Saine a treasured flat peach as thanks and an apology, but Saine revealed that he already had similar Immortal Domain fruits.
• The Long-Armed Ape promised to help Saine repay the favor, and Saine learned that its surname was Yuan.

Saine studied three World-Class Secret Treasures brought by Ghost Fiend Maiden, repaired her Jade Ruyi, and negotiated to receive an immature lotus seed as payment. The war intensified and spread toward the Dominator battlefield, where the Wind Tunnel Great Saint appeared nearby.

• Ghost Fiend Maiden brought Saine the Third Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, Jade Ruyi, and Blood God Sword to examine and improve.
• Saine found an immature lotus seed inside the Red Lotus and studied the treasures, but could only repair the Jade Ruyi.
• Saine returned the treasures and asked for the lotus seed as payment for repairing the Jade Ruyi.
• Ghost Fiend Maiden agreed to give Saine the seed, and Saine suggested leaving it in the Red Lotus until a Plant Element mage could safely remove it after the war.
• The subspace war intensified, and the Wind Tunnel Great Saint of the Immortal Domain Demon Race appeared near Saine and the others.

Saine observed the Dominator battle between Ventilating Great Sage Macaque King and the Broken Horn King of Monsters, then rescued the badly injured Long-Armed Ape from its edge. The battle moved northeast, and Saine concluded that Macaque King had the advantage because the King of Monsters was weakened by its broken horn and other injuries.

• Saine watched Ventilating Great Sage Macaque King fight the Broken Horn King of Monsters and gathered data on Dominator Power.
• Macaque King flung the Long-Armed Ape out of the battlefield, and Saine caught him and carried him to safety.
• The Long-Armed Ape agreed to cooperate with Saine in future Body Tempering Experiments in exchange for Saine's help.
• Saine left Life Potions with the Long-Armed Ape and returned to the frontline after the Dominator battle shifted northeast.
• Saine used the Faceless Mask to judge that Macaque King had the advantage and that the Broken Horn King of Monsters could use at most sixty percent of its strength.

Dipamkara Buddha struggled against a coalition of enemies in the ruins, suffering severe injuries and watching his treasures deteriorate. After Bi An asked whether he carried an ill-omened object, Dipamkara Buddha realized the Five-Colored Divine Stone had brought him bad luck and threw it into a space crack.

• Dipamkara Buddha fought off a Level-8 Minghe Empire general while the Tenth Pharaoh King attacked him with her Power of Death.
• The Tenth Pharaoh King's assault damaged Dipamkara Buddha's Ancient Coffin Glass Lamp and threatened to extinguish its flame.
• Bi An noticed the growing Death Qi around Dipamkara Buddha and asked whether he carried something like a Plague God.
• Dipamkara Buddha recalled that his bad luck had begun after he obtained the Five-Colored Divine Stone.
• Dipamkara Buddha hurled the Five-Colored Divine Stone into a nearby space crack, and the Tenth Pharaoh King recognized it.

Dipamkara Buddha escaped the Dominator battle after discarding the ill-fated Five-Colored Divine Stone and returning Zhao Gongming’s Sea Pacifying Pearls. While pursuing the fleeing Broken Horn King of Monsters with the Macaque King, he reached Saine’s battlefield and recognized the Immortal Trapping Sword.

• Dipamkara Buddha threw the Five-Colored Divine Stone into a Time-Space Rift, breaking its hold over his fortune and helping him withstand the Minghe Empire Dominators.
• Zhao Gongming arrived, received his twelve Sea Pacifying Pearls from Dipamkara Buddha, and used the restored set of thirty-six pearls to attack a level-eight Minghe general.
• Yang Jian confronted the Tenth Pharaoh King to avenge the Shuo Fang Immortal Emperor, while Fa Hai held the line so Dipamkara Buddha could leave the subspace and recover.
• Dipamkara Buddha encountered the Macaque King fighting the Broken Horn King of Monsters, and the two pursued the fleeing King of Monsters toward Saine’s battlefield.
• A sword strike cut Dipamkara Buddha’s kasaya, and he recognized the Immortal Trapping Sword on the battlefield below.

Duan Po slew a Level-6 Pharaoh with the Immortal Trapping Sword, then accepted a Golden Relic from Dipamkara Buddha, who recognized him and other figures from the Immortal Domain’s past. As Dipamkara prepared to leave, the Ghost Fiend Maiden asked him for a treasure in return for her injuries, but refused to give him her promised lotus seed.

• Duan Po killed the Level-6 Pharaoh with the Immortal Trapping Sword, startling Dipamkara Buddha when the sword’s qi cut his kasaya.
• Dipamkara Buddha recognized Duan Po as Master Tongtian’s reincarnated body and noticed Duan Ning, the Ghost Fiend Maiden, and other powerful figures on the battlefield.
• Dipamkara Buddha gave Duan Po a Golden Relic as a favor, and Duan Po accepted it for his sister’s alchemy.
• The Ghost Fiend Maiden asked Dipamkara Buddha for a treasure because she had been injured, and he offered to exchange relics for the lotus seeds in her Third Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• The Ghost Fiend Maiden said she had already promised the lotus seed to someone else, while the nearby Panda Brewmaster caught the scent of a bamboo pole.

After the fighting in the subspace secret realm eased, Saine withdrew with allied legions to rest and focus on his research. Nataya befriended the nearby Sky Star Remnant Race, and Saine suggested using their connections to build an Earth Elemental Knights Legion.

• Dipamkara Buddha left the battlefield after giving the Asura Princess a Golden Relic, and his golden rain healed creatures across nearby war zones.
• After more than a dozen years of intermittent fighting, Saine and his allied legions withdrew from the subspace secret realm to a nearby Meteorite Belt for rest.
• Saine received a new Space Fortress, prepared to expand his Combined Fortress Groups, and arranged experiments with the recovering Long-Armed Ape.
• Nataya and Little Star contacted the nearby Sky Star Remnant Race and returned with several Star Body Creatures, including one at Level 4.
• Nataya proposed forming a Starry Sky Knights Legion, and Saine advised her to recruit Earth Elemental and related creatures for an Earth Elemental Knights Legion.