Chapter Summaries

After the defense of Human Emperor City, the four Human Emperors honored the captains who had helped Kindling Civilization survive and announced its new plans as a hegemonic power. Song Chi earned first place in the merit rankings and chose a Human Sovereign Jade Edict granting him authority over Kindling Fortune from eighty galaxies, while the chapter ended with the Song Family assessing its losses and Song Yan preparing to advance Flame-Boiling Sea into a Galaxy Warship.

• The Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall masters discussed the mysterious origin of the thirty-six-winged sacred angel before descending to Human Emperor Hall for the postwar meeting.
• Emperor Jiang thanked the assembled captains, outlined plans for cooperation with Wizard Civilization and a future campaign against the Corpse Sovereign Clan, then announced merit rewards.
• Emperor Jiang named Song Chi first on the merit rankings for his contributions, including rescuing more than ten million fleet members and bringing the Truth Mechanical Battle Star to the defense.
• Song Chi chose the Human Sovereign Jade Edict, which granted him a share of Kindling Fortune generated in eighty galaxies, in addition to Dragonspine Kingdom.
• Song Wujiang told Song Chi that the Song Family had suffered heavy losses, largely from lifespan limits, but its surviving captains had advanced in rank and its high-ranking forces had grown.
• Song Yan told the family group that he was ready to have Flame-Boiling Sea attempt advancement into a Galaxy Warship after returning to the Ancestral Domain.

Song Chi traveled with the four Human Emperors to the Heavenly Peak Secret Realm to receive the highest authority over the Primordial Kindling Source Seed. As the authority key fused with him, his Tricolor Kindling Seed resonated with the Source Seed and drew him into enlightenment.

• After Human Emperor City was restored, Song Chi stayed behind while the Song Family fleet returned to the Ancestral Domain, and the four Human Emperors took him to grant him the promised authority.
• The four Human Emperors revealed that they intended to cultivate Song Chi as a possible fifth Human Emperor, though he would need to advance to a Transdimensional Warship Captain to convince others.
• Emperor Ying explained that the Primordial Kindling Source Seed was stored in the Heavenly Peak Secret Realm, where the four Human Emperors had guarded it for more than three hundred thousand years.
• At Heaven-Peak Mountain, Emperor Ji and Emperor Jiang recounted how the four had discovered the Source Seed and built Kindling Human Civilization, while Sacred Emperor explained its importance and presented the authority key.
• Song Chi fused the authority key into his body and received information about the Source Seed’s powers, but his Tricolor Kindling Seed began resonating violently with it.
• Emperor Jiang recognized the resonance as a sign of enlightenment, and the four Human Emperors guarded Song Chi as golden runes enveloped his kindling and formed a cocoon of Chaos light.

Song Chi gained the fifth share of the Primordial Kindling Source Seed’s highest authority and used its memories to achieve minor mastery of Black Universe, Profound Universe. He considered how to secure more territory and fortune, then declined to open a gateway to the Heavenly Peak Secret Realm because his family could not safely guard it.

• Song Chi entered the Primordial Kindling Source Seed’s inner space and studied the memories of Kindling Human Civilization and the birth of universes.
• Song Chi comprehended Black Universe, Profound Universe, forming two illusory universe realms as the four Human Emperors watched over him.
• Song Chi inspected the Fortune Pool and saw that his newly assigned share held only about 0.5% of its Kindling fortune.
• Song Chi considered offering the Immortal Domain Continent Ruins or the Myriad Heavens Market to gain more territory in the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster, then decided the Market could be his strongest bargaining chip after reaching Rank 9.
• Song Chi told the four Human Emperors that his contact with the Primordial Kindling Source Seed had helped him achieve minor mastery of the secret art.
• Song Chi declined the offer to open a fifth gateway to the Heavenly Peak Secret Realm because the Song Family lacked the strength and forces to guard it.

Song Chi sought an astrologer to locate the missing portion of the Light of Judgment and learned that it lay in the perilous Dark Abyss Starfield. After agreeing to help the Star-Moon Astrological Tower Alliance compete for Star Turtle Continent, he returned to prepare and resume cultivation.

• Song Chi ended the Sky Ruins Firmament’s fruitless search across hundreds of billions of light-years and visited Yue Ling at the Astrological Tower in the City of Holy Light.
• Yue Ling said the Light of Judgment exceeded her divination abilities and introduced Song Chi to Elder Xing Hui in exchange for a Life-Reforming Creation Pill.
• Elder Xing Hui identified the Light of Judgment as connected to the legendary Judgment Temple and asked Song Chi to help the Star-Moon Astrological Tower Alliance contest Star Turtle Continent; Song Chi agreed.
• Elder Xing Hui divined the missing fragment’s location and gave Song Chi coordinates in the Dark Abyss Starfield, warning that even Mythic lifeforms feared entering it.
• Song Chi returned to the Myriad Heavens Market, sought high-tier anti-interference components from his family and allies, and resumed seclusion while preparing for future dangers.

Song Chi used the Song Family’s verified intelligence to enslave a newly advanced ninth-rank Great-Toothed Star Shark, then fought a nearly late-ninth-rank Dragonspine Tyrant Whale. After a year of repeated attempts, he finally enslaved the Tyrant Whale as well.

• Song Yiming told Song Chi that the family had verified reports of a ninth-rank Great-Toothed Star Shark and a ninth-rank Dragonspine Tyrant Whale.
• Song Chi and his forces defeated the newly advanced Great-Toothed Star Shark, and he completed its enslavement after ninety-three days.
• Song Chi tracked down the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale and attacked it with the Sky Ruins Firmament, the Asura Emperor, the Truth Mechanical Battle Star, and the Great-Toothed Star Shark.
• The Dragonspine Tyrant Whale summoned an ancient mythic Dragon Whale phantom, and Song Chi used the Sky Ruins Firmament to withstand its powerful strike.
• Song Chi’s forces disrupted the Tyrant Whale’s power, allowing him to begin enslaving it; after nearly a year, he completed the process and the Tyrant Whale submitted.

Song Chi traveled to the Astrological Tower Civilization after helping Song Yan promote Flame-Boiling Sea to a Galaxy Warship. The chapter ended with Song Chi observing the civilization’s dimensional-folding Eye of the Stars and recognizing its formidable technology.

• Song Chi went to Black Rose Continent, where Freddie Monroe exchanged a seventh-rank Time Realm Fruit for Song Chi’s items and a better Essence energy tide location for Song Yan.
• Black Rose Continent completed its advancement to a ninth-level floating continent, and Song Yan began Flame-Boiling Sea’s promotion at the tide’s peak.
• Flame-Boiling Sea successfully advanced into a Galaxy Warship, and Song Wujiang suggested keeping the news secret until Song Yan broke through in his Guidance Art.
• Song Chi returned to Dragonspine Continent with Song Yan, then traveled with Elder Starlight through a transdimensional portal to the Astrological Tower Civilization.
• Elder Starlight showed Song Chi the civilization’s Star Towers and the Eye of the Stars, which Song Chi discovered existed across seven dimensional spaces.

Song Chi led the Star-Moon Tower Alliance in capturing territory on Star Turtle Continent, then answered the Sanction Tower’s call to fight at the Eclipse Tower battlefield. He destroyed the Red Spirit Race’s Heaven-Burning Furnace and forced the race to withdraw, while his identity as a captain from the Kindling Human Civilization drew the attention of the other factions.

• Song Chi arrived at the Moonstar Council’s platform, ignored the Takma Civilization’s spatial attack, and learned that the contest had been upgraded to a major struggle for interests.
• Elder Xinghui assigned Song Chi and the Star-Moon Tower Alliance to capture the Heavenly Crystal Mountains, and Song Chi led an air-drop assault on Starfall Peak.
• Song Chi subdued the Thunder Roc King, secured Starfall Peak, and led the alliance to claim more territory before the Sanction Tower requested his help at the Eclipse Tower battlefield.
• Song Chi confronted the Red Spirit Race’s Heaven-Burning Furnace with the Sky Ruins Firmament and the Asura Emperor, driving it into a spatial collapse field.
• The Red Spirit Race withdrew from the struggle, and its commander publicly identified Song Chi as a captain from the Kindling Human Civilization, attracting the attention of the other factions.

Song Chi helped the Sanction Tower secure the Eclipse Tower by driving off the Three-Eyed Imperial Clan’s flagship, then collected his promised compensation. On his return journey, he fused Fire Within Wood with his incomplete Samadhi True Flame and advanced his Kindling Seed to five colors.

• The Three-Eyed Imperial Clan’s Eye of Heavenly Punishment flagship attacked the Eclipse Tower, and Song Chi intervened to block its first strike and reflect its ultimate attack.
• Song Chi pressured the damaged flagship at close range, prompting its commanders to use a five-colored spatial marvel to escape and order their forces to withdraw.
• The Sanction Tower gained control of the Eclipse Tower and later gave Song Chi Fire Within Wood, two black marvels, and three Starry Sky Plant Hearts as compensation.
• After the final stellar observation tower went to the Three-Eyed Imperial Clan, Song Chi departed Star Turtle Continent for the Ember Human Territory with his reward.
• Song Chi fused Fire Within Wood with his incomplete Samadhi True Flame, created an upper-grade five-colored fire seed marvel, and absorbed it to advance his Kindling Seed to five colors.

Song Chi advanced the Golden Apple Mother Tree to the ninth rank, then traveled to the Dark Abyss Starfield, where he fought Void Shadow-Killers and intervened to rescue an eighth-rank Eternal Clan member from a demon horde. The Eternal Clan member recovered after Song Chi shielded it and gave it Life-Reforming Creation Pills, while the battle continued.

• Song Chi used three ninth-rank Starry Sky Plant Hearts, spiritual spring water, and eighth-rank Spirit-Devouring Insect source blood to advance the Golden Apple Mother Tree to the ninth rank, and he collected its final seven eighth-rank Golden Apples.
• Song Chi crossed several trillion light-years to reach the outer Dark Abyss Starfield and fought off twelve Void Shadow-Killers that ambushed his battleship in the Soul-Rending Corridor.
• Song Chi detected an eighth-rank Eternal Clan member named Luojia and its silver shuttle battleship surrounded by Void Demons, then chose to intervene despite the Skyvault AI's warning.
• Song Chi attacked the demon horde with the Sky Ruins Firmament, the Great-Toothed Star Shark, and the Asura Emperor, while Luojia joined the battle.
• A ninth-rank demon lord struck Luojia with a black beam, so Song Chi shielded both battleships and supplied Luojia with Life-Reforming Creation Pills that rapidly healed its injuries.

Song Chi and Luojia defeated a group of Void Demons, then Song Chi spent centuries exploring the Dark Abyss Starfield in search of the missing part of Light of Judgment. His search led him to an eleventh-rank Mythic corpse that bore signs of the same gray mist found in the Immortal Domain ruins, with the missing weapon fragment embedded in its chest.

• Luojia transformed into his Eternal True Form and, with Song Chi's help, defeated the Void Demons and killed three ninth-rank Demon Overlords.
• Luojia thanked Song Chi, gave him a communication tablet, and warned him about the lethal dangers deeper within the Dark Abyss Starfield before departing.
• Song Chi used the Destiny Compass to search the Dark Abyss while the Mirror Battleship explored, losing many ships to storms and other dangers over the following centuries.
• After the Destiny Compass detected the missing part of Light of Judgment, Song Chi directed the Mirror Battleship toward it through the hazardous inner region.
• The Mirror Battleship emerged near a vast dark-energy pyramid and an eleventh-rank Mythic corpse, whose hidden gray mist resembled the energy found in the Heavenly Mandate Immortal Lord's Tomb.
• Song Chi saw that the missing part of Light of Judgment was a half-broken spear embedded in the corpse's chest.

Song Chi used a carefully timed approach to retrieve the Light of Judgment fragment from the mythical corpse, then restored the artifact and returned to cultivation. The chapter ended with two seven-star Ancient Demons and two humans arriving outside the Dark Abyss Starfield to test collecting dark energy for the Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt.

• Song Chi discovered through decades of tests that the Dark-Energy Crystal Pyramid released its devastating shockwave at fixed intervals rather than in response to intruders.
• Song Chi timed the Mirror Battleship's approach between shockwaves, evaded the gray mist's spatial vortices, and used Immortal-Binding Tether Ropes to catch the Light of Judgment fragment.
• As an early shockwave engulfed the Mirror Battleship, a waiting seventh-tier Void Demon carried the fragment back to the Myriad Heavens Market, where Song Chi recovered it.
• Song Chi restored the Light of Judgment with the Destiny Compass, unsealed its Civilization · Judgment trait, and returned to the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to focus on his Guidance Art.
• Two seven-star Ancient Demons and two humans arrived outside the Dark Abyss Starfield to test whether they could collect dark energy for the Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt.

The Song Clan abandoned its attempt to harvest dark energy in the Dark Abyss Starfield and answered the Immortal Qin Ember Ancestral Court’s call to support the Heaven Realm. Ten years later, Song Yan led the clan’s forces into the war, where they began fighting the Evil God-corrupted armies threatening the Aclemon Family’s territory.

• Song Shiyuan and Song Mingsong found that their Star Destroyers collected the Dark Abyss Starfield’s violent energy too slowly, so they abandoned the plan rather than risk the Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt.
• Song Yiming told the Song Clan that mythic Evil Gods and divine factions were fighting in the Heaven Realm, and the clan’s members volunteered for the support campaign.
• Song Wujiang decided not to disturb Song Chi and appointed Song Yan to lead the Song Clan’s forces, including ten high-ranking captains and millions of clan members.
• Ten years later, the Song Clan fleet reached the Heaven Realm and saw its floating islands, blood moons, and Evil Gods attacking the Aclemon Family’s territory.
• Song Yan ordered the Truth Mechanical Battle Star to open fire, while the clan’s second- and third-rank members formed the Azure Dragon Starry Sky Battle Formation and charged into battle.

The Song Family invaded the fallen Red Maple Kingdom to establish a foothold in the Heaven Realm, then fought off the Blood Moon Cult with help from Song Yan’s forces and the Myriad Heavens Market projection. After defeating the cult and seizing its treasure vault, Song Yan ordered the family to secure the kingdom and send Song Chi the tenth-rank Blood of the Evil God for his future advancement.

• Song Yan led the Song Family fleet into the Red Maple Kingdom, where a ninth-tier Blood Moon High Priest attacked and summoned an evil god’s will.
• Song Yan used the Great-Toothed Star Shark to kill the High Priest, prompting the Blood Moon Cult to mobilize its forces and attack the Song Family fleet.
• Song Yan brought the Flame-Boiling Sea and Truth Mechanical Battle Star into the ninth-tier battle, and they helped destroy the Blood Moon Hierarch and capture the Crimson Elegy.
• The Song Family drove the Blood Moon Cult from Red Maple Royal City and found its treasure vault, which contained a Shattered Bright Moon Godhead, a Blood Moon Staff, and a tenth-rank Blood of the Evil God.
• Song Yan ordered the Song Family to establish a base in Red Maple Kingdom and send the tenth-rank Blood of the Evil God and other spoils back to Dragonspine Continent for Song Chi.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Song Chi emerged to find the Song Family had expanded across several kingdoms and raised the Myriad Heavens Market to level 88. He received a drop of tenth-rank Blood of the Evil God and faced a choice about whether to use it for the Sky Ruins Firmament’s coming advancement or save it for a future Mythic advancement.

• Song Yan installed the Shattered Bright Moon Godhead and Blood Moon Staff as three-color components on the Flame-Boiling Sea, while the Song Family took control of the Red Maple Kingdom and later expanded its territory northward.
• The Song Family stopped advancing before the Holy Raging Sun Empire and formed an alliance with other powerful factions to resist it.
• After a thousand years in seclusion, Song Chi emerged on market day and learned that Song Family trading had greatly increased the Myriad Heavens Market’s transaction volume.
• Song Chi upgraded the Myriad Heavens Market from level 85 to level 88, leaving it one level short of 89.
• Song Chi opened a storage capsule delivered by Song Xuancang and discovered it contained tenth-rank Blood of the Evil God.
• Song Chi weighed whether to use the rare resource to improve the Sky Ruins Firmament’s chance of becoming an Ultra-Dimensional Mothership or preserve it for a future Mythic Immortal Warship advancement.

Song Chi helped the Song Family establish the Col dmoon Snow Python as an eighth-tier faith lord, then repelled three Eternal Sun envoys who attacked Red Maple Kingdom. After learning Divine Xia Continent would attempt to advance in four hundred years, he returned to the Chaos Divine Continent to explore it.

• Song Chi gave the Song Family the Col dmoon Snow Python, which absorbed divine power crystals and stored faith to advance to the eighth tier.
• Song Chi ordered the Song Family to build thousands of Spirit Serpent churches so Col dmoon could form a broad faith network.
• Three Eternal Sun envoys attacked Red Maple Kingdom, but Col dmoon severed their faith connections and killed them.
• Song Chi left Col dmoon in Red Maple Royal City and traveled to Divine Xia Continent, where he learned its advancement attempt was four hundred years away.
• Song Chi entered the Chaos Divine Continent to explore its uncharted regions.

Song Chi began his first chaos exploration using the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Mirror Battleship and survived a massive chaos storm. Far from Human Emperor City, he discovered a newly forming Flood-grade Chaos Nest and waited for it to finish incubating so he could challenge it early.

• Song Chi registered for exploration, divined upper-middle fortune, and prepared the Mirror Battleship with borrowed weapons, two six-star Ancient Demons, and backup projections.
• Song Chi sent the Mirror Battleship into the chaos while keeping his true body safe in Human Emperor City, then narrowly escaped a massive chaos storm with an ultra-long-range jump.
• After more than ten years of traveling, Song Chi steered toward a calm pocket amid dense chaotic currents and broke through its barrier just before the Mirror Battleship’s shield failed.
• Song Chi identified a rune-covered black tower as an unfinished Flood-grade Chaos Nest that had not yet produced Chaos Beasts.
• Song Chi decided to wait in a safe position while the Chaos Nest incubated, estimating it would be fully formed in about half a year.

Song Chi cleared a newly formed Flood-grade Chaos Nest and received a mysterious Transcendence City Entry Pass that severed his connection to the Mirror Battleship. He returned to the Ancestral Domain to accelerate the Myriad Heavens Market’s advancement, then finished gathering the resources needed for it to reach ninth rank.

• The Mirror Battleship entered the Chaos Nest, destroyed its ninth-rank Chaos Beasts, and cleared the nest.
• Song Chi collected the nest, Overlord True Spirits, and a black badge, which transported the Mirror Battleship away and cut off his connection to it.
• Song Chi decided not to cancel the Mirror Split Image and returned to the Ancestral Domain to advance the Myriad Heavens Market and strengthen the Sky Ruins Firmament.
• The Dragonspine Song Family restored passage fees after using two centuries of collected Floating Continent Essence to meet the Market’s transaction-volume requirement.
• Song Chi confirmed that the Myriad Heavens Market had met its advancement requirements and later obtained a high-grade Chaos Crystal and a black-grade Boundary-Sealing wonder.

Song Chi advanced the Myriad Heavens Market to level 90, gaining Mythic Status and three Great Dao Origin Totem Pillars that could temporarily strengthen its power. A century later, Emperor Ying summoned him to the Divine Xia Continent, where Wizard Glen revealed that the Thirty-Six-Winged Holy Angel killed in Human Emperor City had come from the Angel Civilization.

• Song Chi confirmed the Myriad Heavens Market's promotion to level 90, and its Essence enhancement let him briefly perceive and wield Mythic power.
• Song Chi inspected the upgraded Market and discovered that its three Great Dao Origin Totem Pillars could raise its Mythic enhancement by half a rank for a limited time.
• Song Chi spent the following century improving his condition, comprehending the Great Dao, and preparing the Market for its growing trade requirements.
• Emperor Ying summoned Song Chi to the Divine Xia Continent after receiving a message from the Wizards.
• Wizard Glen told Song Chi and the four Human Emperors that a surviving Holy Angel had confirmed the Thirty-Six-Winged Holy Angel killed in Human Emperor City came from the Angel Civilization.

The Kindling Civilization negotiated with the Angel Civilization over Claudius’s corpse, then prepared to accelerate the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu’s advancement amid growing signs of disorder. After the three civilizations formed an oath to investigate Claudius, the Divine Xia Continent’s advancement began.

• Glen explained that Claudius had vanished in the Abyssal World two million years earlier, and the Angel Civilization’s search had found nothing.
• Two Seraphs asked for Claudius’s corpse, but Emperor Jiang demanded a three-race investigation oath and gave the Angel Civilization half a year to respond.
• Jiang Yuan proposed advancing the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu early; Ji Heng agreed, and Song Chi accepted the plan in exchange for compensation and restoration of the Time Chessboards’ cooldown if needed.
• Six months later, the Kindling, Wizard, and Angel Civilizations formed an oath witnessed by the World-Shining Golden Wheel, and the Holy Angel took Claudius’s corpse for investigation.
• Jiang Yuan and Emperor Jiang secretly tracked the Angel Civilization’s departure, and decades later Ji Heng declared the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu ready as the Divine Xia Continent began absorbing its essence core.

Ji Heng successfully advanced the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu into a Mythic Immortal Warship, and Song Chi then advanced the Sky Ruins Firmament into a dimensional mothership on his first attempt. Before Song Chi could inspect its new attributes, Emperor Jiang summoned him urgently to specific coordinates.

• As the Divine Xia Continent became a Star Continent, Ji Heng began the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu’s advancement while Song Chi and Ferdinand prepared their Time Chessboard components.
• When the Xuanhuang Crimson Yu’s first attempt faltered, Ferdinand reversed time, and Ji Heng spent her Kindling Fortune to raise its success rate above 60%.
• The Xuanhuang Crimson Yu successfully advanced into a Mythic Immortal Warship, and Song Chi and Ferdinand moved to another Origin Tide bathing point.
• Song Chi used his prepared resources to raise the Sky Ruins Firmament’s advancement success rate to 66%, then began its advancement with Ferdinand standing by.
• The Sky Ruins Firmament succeeded on its first attempt and became a dimensional mothership, expanding its hull and generating a dimensional force field.
• After Emperor Jiang sent Song Chi urgent coordinates, Song Chi charged the Crimson Firmament Jump trait and departed with Ferdinand aboard the Heavenly Holy Light.