Chapter Summaries

After the Song Family’s month-long campaign, Song Chi agreed to join Song Yan’s planned raid on the Astral Spirit Clan for rare stellar materials. Months later, Song Chi logged into the Yaoguang Star Tower after hearing that a new Chaos Mission offered chances to comprehend the Chaos Monument.

• The Song Family’s hidden branch returned to Dragon Abyss City after its operation, and Song Shixing ordered everyone to avoid further outings while the Flame Sparrow Dominator and Sword Slave Lord watched them.
• Song Yan privately invited Song Chi to join a future operation against the Astral Spirit Clan, which possessed Neutron Star Remnants and Black Hole Dense Stone, and Song Chi agreed.
• Song Chi used Time Marrow Fluid to enhance his Time Chess component to lv60, then entered the Myriad Heavens Market to cultivate the Law of Time.
• Several months later, Song Chi returned to Dragonspine Continent after the Yao Guang Star Token group chat announced a new Chaos Mission at the Yaoguang Star Tower.
• Song Chi examined the Secret Realm Exploration mission, which restricted participation to fifth-rank-and-below Kindling warship captains and offered rewards based on discoveries, including possible Chaos Monument comprehension opportunities.

Song Chi traveled with Song Yan to the City of Holy Light, where they met two Mirror Phantom Clan prodigies and arranged an operation against the Astral Spirit Clan. After spending six days exploring the city, Song Chi noticed a shop called Apocalypse Mechanics.

• Song Chi decided to postpone accepting the Star Tower's secret-realm mission until more information became available, while Garry Flandi and several others accepted it.
• Song Chi and Song Yan traveled to the City of Holy Light, and Song Chi concealed the Angel King's Regalia Wings before they entered the city.
• Song Chi bought a Source-Sealing Stone and other scarce resources at the Arcane Commerce Tower.
• Song Yan introduced Song Chi to Mirror Ji and Mirror Hu, and they agreed to target the Astral Spirit Clan in seven days and split the gains forty-sixty.
• Song Chi and Song Yan spent the following six days exploring the City of Holy Light, and Song Chi spotted the Apocalypse Mechanics shop.

Song Chi and Song Yan traded a Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body and minerals at Apocalypse Mechanics for seventy intermediate intelligent-brains to upgrade the Sky Ruins Firmament's intelligent-brain component. Song Chi then brought a Time Chess piece to the Astrological Tower, where astrologers sent him up through six floors before he was told to wait on the seventh.

• Song Chi learned that Apocalypse Mechanics accepted only barter and offered minerals, but the shopkeeper valued them at only twenty intermediate intelligent-brains.
• Song Yan traded an orange-quality Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body for another fifty intermediate intelligent-brains.
• Song Yan warned Song Chi about intelligent-brains taking control, and Song Chi explained that the brains were for the Sky Ruins Firmament's component.
• Song Chi removed a Time Chess piece from the Destiny Compass · Disk and entered the Astrological Tower with Song Yan to seek a divination.
• Astrologers on the first six floors refused to divine the Time Chess piece and directed Song Chi upward.
• At the seventh floor, an attendant told Song Chi to wait patiently while the astrological window remained closed.

Song Chi used a seventh-rank astrologer to divine the Time Chessboard’s location, but the coordinate was too distant for the current Space Wormhole Generator to reach. He then joined Song Yan and the Mirror Phantom Clan in a plan to infiltrate Starcore City, and the operation began with the Starry Sky Dragon Shark drawing out the Astral Spirit Sovereign.

• Song Chi paid three silver Star Sea Marvels to divine the Time Chessboard’s location and received a coordinate covering an area with a thirty-billion-light-year radius.
• Song Wujiang tested the Space Wormhole Generator against the coordinate, but it could not connect because the destination was beyond its range.
• Song Chi sought teleportation pieces that could increase the generator’s range, then left the City of Holy Light with Song Yan, Mirror Ji, and Mirror Hu.
• Near Starcore City, Mirror Ji and Mirror Hu disguised the Starry Sky Dragon Shark as a Blacktooth Megashark and sent it to provoke the Astral Spirit Sovereign.
• The Astral Spirit Sovereign left Starcore City to fight the disguised Starry Sky Dragon Shark, while Mirror Ji and Mirror Hu directed mirror light at the Sky Ruins Firmament and the Crimson Flame Boiling Sea.

Song Chi’s group infiltrated Starcore City to raid the Astral Spirit Treasury, but a hidden shield exposed them and summoned a Tier 7 Primal Origin Star. Song Yan, Mirror Ji, and the third companion entered the treasury while Song Chi stayed behind to hold off the Astral Spirit Clan, whose attack ended in a clash with his Angel King’s True-Spirit Phantom.

• Mirror Ji concealed the four warships and used spatial transformation to take them through Starcore City’s shield before the group headed for the Astral Spirit Treasury.
• A hidden starlight shield exposed the warships, and Song Chi identified the Primal Origin Star above as a Tier 7 threat fueled by two gold-quality Singular Artifacts and the Astral Spirit Clan.
• Song Yan weakened the treasury shield with a red-quality component, and Mirror Hu shattered it with a mirror prism, allowing the three companions to enter while Song Chi stayed outside for seventy percent of the gains.
• Song Chi used the Angel King’s True-Spirit Phantom to withstand the Primal Origin starlight and divert the Astral Spirit Clan’s attacks.
• A peak Tier 6 Astral Spirit Clan member turned the Primal Origin Star into a falling meteor, and Song Chi launched a sphere of holy light to meet it.

Song Chi fought off the Astral Spirit Sovereign’s attacks while Song Yan, Mirror Ji, and their companion raided the Astral Spirit Clan treasury. The group found the Golden Starcore Mirror Stone and had to hurry before their spatial transformation ended.

• The Astral Spirit Sovereign used the Starcore Shield’s starlight to overpower the Starry Sky Dragon Shark, then struck at Song Chi with a starlight hand seal.
• Song Chi used the Angel King’s True-Spirit Protection and several cannons to break the Sovereign’s attacks, then weakened another palm strike with Blood Judgment, Black Hole: Singularity Rapid Burst, and Neutron Star Fission.
• Song Yan led Mirror Ji and their companion to the treasury’s fifth underground level, where he used Song Chi’s Dimensional Space Stone to deploy three Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets.
• Song Chi’s puppets collected valuable resources, two portions of Neutron Star Remnants, and a silver Crimson Firmament Jump Device.
• As the spatial transformation neared its end, the group reached the treasury’s core and found a Golden Starcore Mirror Stone, which was more valuable than the silver Star Mirror Stone they had expected.

Song Chi and his allies escaped Starcore City with the stolen resources, but the Star Core Rift Cannon severely damaged Song Yan’s Crimson Flame Boiling Sea. They regrouped several thousand light-years away and decided to divide the spoils in the City of Holy Light.

• Song Chi used Spirit-Summoning Marks to send antimatter source and other valuable resources from Starcore City’s treasure vault back to the Sky Ruins Firmament.
• Song Chi and the others fought through the Astral Spirit Clan’s assault and escaped Starcore City with Mirror Ji’s spatial transformation ability.
• The Star Core Rift Cannon struck the group, and Song Yan’s Crimson Flame Boiling Sea used Black Hole Fission to withstand the beam before suffering severe damage.
• Song Chi shrank the immobilized Crimson Flame Boiling Sea and brought it aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament, then used time stop to help the group escape the Astral Spirit Sovereign.
• The three warships regrouped several thousand light-years away, and Mirror Ji and her companion chose to divide the spoils in the City of Holy Light.

Song Chi and his companions divided the spoils from their operation in the City of Holy Light, and Song Chi agreed to help the Song Family establish a city by the Shattered Sea. After returning to the City of Holy Light to seek more resources, he upgraded the Neutron Star Core Armor and prepared to use the Antimatter Source.

• Mirror Ji and Mirror Hu traded their claim to the other spoils for the Star Mirror Stone and gave Song Chi and Song Yan a silver Stellar-Core Origin Flame.
• Song Chi and Song Yan divided the remaining spoils, with Song Chi taking the Crimson Firmament Jump Device and Star Metal while Song Yan took the Stellar-Core Giant Terracotta Soldier Tree and Primordial Starlight Energy Shield.
• Song Chi returned Song Yan to Dragon Abyss City, where Song Yan described a fire-filled advanced civilization ruin that neither Song Chi nor his Starry Sky Dragon Shark could currently enter.
• Song Shixing asked Song Chi to seek Chaos Qi for Dragonwhale Hall’s repair, then discussed the Song Family’s plans to build a city at the Shattered Sea; Song Chi approved and accepted one-tenth of its annual profits.
• Song Chi returned to the City of Holy Light, fused three Neutron Star Remnants into the Neutron Star Core Armor, and took out the Antimatter Source.

Song Chi evolved the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine to black quality, then spent years seeking a rare component trait before returning to Dragon Abyss City. He reached the Shattered Sea and saw Dragon Shark City’s patrol fleet protect fleeing serpentfolk from Sword Slave Clan pursuers.

• Song Chi used an Antimatter Source to evolve the Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine to black quality, unlocking its ability to consume more sources and support a second engine.
• Song Chi enhanced the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System to seventh rank but could not upgrade the Crimson Firmament Jump Device without Spatial Sand.
• Song Chi opened a shop in the City of Holy Light, then obtained Spatial Sand from the family’s Merit Tower and returned to the city to search for an oddity with a doubled-effect-range trait.
• After five years without finding the trait or making major cultivation breakthroughs, Song Chi returned to Dragon Abyss City and traveled toward the Shattered Sea.
• Dragon Shark City’s patrol fleet stopped Sword Slave Clan pursuers from killing fleeing serpentfolk, and the Sword Slave Clan members withdrew from the city’s territory.

The Song Family patrol spared a Half-Snake Person, who later brought a damaged sword secret-art stele to Dragon Shark City to sell. Song Chi acquired it and used the Destiny Compass to locate the missing half, which was also on the Red Star Continent.

• Song Zhengyan stopped Song Qing from attacking the fleeing Sword Slave Clan members, explaining that Dragon Shark City had to uphold its neutral-city rules.
• The injured third-rank Half-Snake Person reunited with its family and brought them to Dragon Shark City, where it put the damaged stele up for sale.
• Song Qing recognized the stele as a secret art inheritance and offered a Spirit Snake Blood-Tempering Fruit, but a fifth-rank foreign race threatened him over the deal.
• Song Chi appeared, ruled that the foreign race had violated trading regulations, and fined it before trading a drop of sixth-rank snake-type source blood and the fruit for the stele.
• Song Chi learned that the stele contained the Flying Sword Form and Fiend Sword Chant secret arts, then used the Destiny Compass to locate its other half on the Red Star Continent.

Song Chi learned that a dangerous Cosmic Secret Realm held a peak seventh-rank Overlord, then spent fifteen years advancing his cultivation and helping complete the Fiend Sword inheritance. He evolved the Neutron Star Core Armor to gold quality and ended by heading to the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to continue improving his Guidance Art.

• Song Chi declined to join the secret-realm mission for now after Cui Yulong revealed the Bloodbattle World contained a peak seventh-rank Bloodbattle Clan Overlord and its resources were unknown.
• Song Chi harvested Deepwater Mussel Pearls, raised his Guidance Art to lv58, and learned that the Hidden Lineage had recovered the other half of the Fiend Sword Secret Art Inheritance Stele.
• Song Chi chose not to study any of the newly revealed Fiend Sword secret arts because he already controlled enough techniques.
• Song Chi acquired the final Neutron Star Remnant and evolved the Neutron Star Core Armor to gold quality, unlocking the High-Energy Particle Storm trait.
• Song Chi recalled the Sky Ruins Firmament and went to the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to keep improving his Guidance Art.

Song Liang advanced his Kindling Seed from white to blue, then pursued a third-rank Purple Butterfly Race member carrying a sought-after flash-escape component. He trapped the target with the Chen Liang and attacked alongside soldier puppets, but the enemy remained dangerous as the battle continued.

• Song Liang’s Kindling Seed advanced to blue after he drank the Fire Carp soup his family had preserved for him.
• Song Liang traveled toward the edge of the Jiesong Star Zone, where he spotted Dragon Whale and Morning Star fleets attacking the Purple Butterfly Race.
• Song Liang learned from his father that the Morning Star Family was trying to seize a Purple Butterfly component that increased transmission distance fourfold.
• Song Liang identified and followed a third-rank Purple Butterfly Race member after it escaped the fleeing group, hoping to claim its component and repay Song Chi’s help to the family.
• Song Liang’s Chen Liang caught the target and bound it with Starvine Binding before nuclear missiles struck it.
• The Purple Butterfly member survived the blast and slashed the Chen Liang’s hull, but Song Liang’s soldier puppets attacked its wound while vines restrained it again.

Song Liang survived Lesser Morningstar’s attack, but the confrontation escalated when Song Qian arrived with reinforcements and ordered an attack. A Morning Star Family Supremacy Chaser projection stopped the Song fleet, until Song Qian summoned a Song Clan projection to face it.

• Song Liang used the Chen Liang’s Obsidian Hull Armor and venom-coated Azure Crab General puppet soldiers to survive and defeat the wounded Purple Butterfly clan member, obtaining the special flash-escape component.
• Lesser Morningstar attacked the immobilized Chen Liang and demanded the component, but Song Liang warned that killing him would bring Song Chi’s vengeance.
• Song Qian arrived with three more Song Family cruisers and ordered them to attack Lesser Morningstar, while Song Family ships blocked his escape.
• A Morning Star Family cruiser activated a sub-seal that summoned a Supremacy Chaser projection; Quinn Morningstar froze Song Qian’s flagship and demanded that the conflict end.
• Quinn Morningstar’s domain severely damaged Song Qian’s flagship, so Song Qian summoned a Song Clan Supremacy Chaser projection, whose captain Song Ting confronted Quinn.

Song Chi intervened when Quinn Morningstar threatened Song Liang, helped Song Ting kill Lesser Morningstar, and rewarded Song Liang for securing a valuable flash-escape component. He then upgraded the Space Wormhole Generator to reach 120 billion light-years, leaving Song Wujiang stunned by Song Chi’s ability to alter a golden component’s traits.

• Song Ting confronted Quinn Morningstar over Lesser Morningstar’s attempt to seize Song Liang and threatened to summon Song Chi.
• Song Chi arrived, restrained Lesser Morningstar, and ordered Song Ting to attack; her cannon destroyed his warship and killed him.
• Song Chi recovered two undamaged purple components, rewarded Song Liang with them, a red energy shield, and orange advancement fire source, then made Song Liang and Song Ting sign confidentiality agreements.
• Song Chi borrowed Song Wujiang’s Space Wormhole Generator and combined it with the Star-Escaping Broom’s fourfold transmission-distance trait, raising its maximum range to 120 billion light-years.
• Song Wujiang saw the upgraded component and realized Song Chi could alter the traits of a golden component.

Song Chi and Song Wujiang tested the Space Wormhole Generator and reached a distant Void Belt, where Song Chi’s compass detected three Time Chess pieces but not the Time Chessboard. After his relatives returned to guard the clan, Song Chi began planning a search across the surrounding two billion light-years.

• Song Wujiang made Song Chi sign a confidentiality agreement to keep the method of modifying gold Holy Domain-grade component traits secret.
• Song Chi and Song Wujiang confirmed that the wormhole coordinates worked from Calamity Wind Floating Continent, while Red Star Continent could not connect to them.
• Song Wujiang, Song Shiyuan, and Song Chi opened a wormhole from Calamity Wind Floating Continent and led their ships through it into a Star Sea Void Belt.
• Song Chi’s territorial star map revealed three silver points that he identified as Time Chess pieces, while the Time Chessboard remained undetected.
• Song Wujiang and Song Shiyuan returned through the wormhole, and Song Chi asked them to destroy it to protect Calamity Wind Floating Continent.
• Song Chi recorded the three piece coordinates and planned a search of the surrounding two billion light-years for the Time Chessboard.

Song Chi traveled hundreds of millions of light-years through an unknown starfield while avoiding major risks, and the Myriad Heavens Market neared the requirements for its Tier 6 upgrade. After discovering a valuable Level 5 floating continent ruled by the Primordial Clan, he chose to raid a single location and withdraw quickly, but his attack on Ancient Demon King City drew an alarm.

• Song Chi used the Crimson Firmament Jump to cross the starfield, then continued traveling cautiously while watching for threats and recording new Time Chess coordinates.
• Over ten years, the Sky Ruins Firmament traveled 600 million light-years, and Song Chi avoided a battle between advanced civilizations while gathering rare resources from a Level 4 floating continent.
• The Market transaction ended, and Song Chi found that the Myriad Heavens Market had reached level 59 and accumulated 968,000 of the one million Tier 5 Floating Continent Essence needed for its next upgrade.
• Song Chi jumped near an unshielded Level 5 life-type floating continent, used the Eye of Heaven to detect its forces and a silver marvel, and identified its inhabitants as the Primordial Clan.
• Song Chi decided to loot only one location and escape, then shattered the shield above Ancient Demon King City with a blood-colored spear, prompting the Primordial Clan to demand the attacker’s identity.

Song Chi devastated Ancient Demon King City, looted its secret vault, and enslaved dozens of Ancient Monsters before learning of a nearby Titanium Crystal vein. The captured six-star Ancient Monster then revealed an underground teleportation array linking the floating landmass to a Tier 7 Ancient Monster stronghold, leaving Song Chi facing a looming threat.

• Song Chi unleashed the Violet Firmament Divine-Thunder Cannon, nearly destroying Ancient Demon King City, then exposed its secret vault with the Taiyi Quantum Sword-Light Cannon.
• Song Chi sent soldier puppets to loot the vault and used the Heavenly Authority Ring and Calamity Star Clan members to enslave dozens of surviving Ancient Monsters.
• Song Chi found Titanium Crystals in the vault and subdued a six-star Ancient Monster, which identified the location of a nearby vein.
• Song Chi dispatched four Land Rover mining vehicles to extract the vein, whose reserves held at least seventy thousand Titanium Crystals.
• Song Chi asked the six-star Ancient Monster about reaching its kin, and it revealed an underground Primordial teleportation array connected to a Tier 7 Ancient Monster floating landmass.

Song Chi used the Myriad Heavens Market’s power and the Sky Ruins Firmament’s components to survive a strike from a pursuing Ancient Monster Sovereign, but its attack collapsed the jump passage and sent the warship into spatial turbulence. As the Market projection neared exhaustion and the ship’s defenses failed, Song Chi prepared to rely on the Black Hole Evolution Layer’s unused Black Hole Domain trait.

• Song Chi sent two fifth-rank Calamity Star Clan members to mine Titanium Crystal, then fled the level-five floating continent in the Sky Ruins Firmament.
• After jumping more than twenty thousand light-years away, Song Chi learned an Ancient Monster Sovereign had appeared and was pursuing him.
• A colossal hand tore through space behind the Sky Ruins Firmament, and Song Chi activated multiple components and the Myriad Heavens Market projection to slow and block it.
• The Sovereign hand unleashed the Primordial Heavenly Monster Seal just as the Sky Ruins Firmament entered its jump, collapsing the passage and trapping the warship in spatial turbulence.
• Skyvault AI repeatedly repaired the warship as its shield and armor broke, while Song Chi used the Last Benediction to restore the hull and key defenses.
• With the Market projection nearly depleted, Song Chi remained confident because the Black Hole Evolution Layer’s Black Hole Domain trait was still unused.

Song Chi used the Black Hole Domain and a second Market Projection to get the Sky Ruins Firmament through spatial turbulence, then escaped into a shattered region and repaired the warship. After becoming lost, he found a seven-colored point on the star chart that might mark the Time Chessboard’s true body, while preparing for the Sky Ruins Firmament’s possible advancement into a Dreadnought.

• Song Chi replenished the Black Hole Evolution Layer’s energy from the spatial turbulence, activated Black Hole Domain, and used two secret arts to hasten the formation of a second Market Projection.
• The Sky Ruins Firmament escaped the jump tunnel through a rift into a vast shattered spatial region, while Song Chi moved the Market Ruins Secret Realm to safety.
• Song Chi recovered 73,000 Titanium Crystals and looted items from the Ancient Demon royal city’s secret treasury, including ten Eternal Stone Bricks, which he fused into the warship.
• After repairs, Song Chi jumped out of the shattered region but found himself lost; a later jump brought him near a seven-colored point that he suspected marked the Time Chessboard’s true body nearly two hundred million light-years away.
• Song Chi traded for a Skyfall Stone, leaving only a high-tier spatial Law Crystal among the four resources he needed for a Dreadnought, and noted Dragonspine Continent’s progress toward the peak of the sixth tier.

Song Chi approached the Time Chessboard and discovered that its time field grew drastically stronger near the seven-colored point of light, forcing him to retreat and seek time-resistance components. After borrowing several powerful marvels, he waited for the Myriad Heavens Market to advance to level six, gaining stronger Sovereign power but finding that the market offered few other improvements.

• Song Chi used Crimson Firmament Jump and conventional jumps to approach the Time Chessboard, confirming that no advanced floating continent surrounded it.
• Song Chi measured increasingly severe time slowdowns as the Sky Ruins Firmament neared the seven-colored point of light, then used the Market Projection to get within several hundred billion kilometers before retreating.
• Song Chi asked the Yao Guang Star Token group for time-resistance components and borrowed one gold, two silver, and three red time marvels.
• Song Chi prepared the Myriad Heavens Market for advancement by upgrading the Light-Hiding Platform, then advanced the market to level six after a month.
• Song Chi found that the market's Sovereign power had risen to initial level eight and its Marvel Origin Improvement Platform could modify black supreme marvel traits, while the Spirit-Mechanism Synthesis Platform had become far less effective.