Chapter Summaries

Song Chi used the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Time Reversal to rescue Liao Tianchang’s failed advancement, helping Star-Moving Commerce gain a Transdimensional Mothership. After reviewing his own flagship’s new limits and receiving a key component from Ji Heng, Song Chi was entrusted with greater responsibility as Ji Heng prepared to enter seclusion, while Jiang Yuan proposed that the civilization pursue Mythic Souls in the Godfall Sea.

• Song Chi reversed time to undo Liao Tianchang’s failed advancement, and Liao Tianchang succeeded on his second attempt and agreed to keep the secret under the Seven-Colored Confidentiality Protocol.
• Song Chi inspected the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Transdimensional Mothership attributes and realized that upgrading its highest-tier components would require scarce Mythic Souls.
• Song Chi and Jiang Yuan returned to Ji Heng, who said he would enter seclusion and expected Song Chi to help shoulder the civilization’s challenges.
• Ji Heng gave Song Chi the Three-Corpses Spirit-Nurturing Shrine component, and Song Chi equipped it as the four Human Emperors’ plan to cultivate him as the fifth Human Emperor took shape.
• Jiang Yuan raised the need to obtain Mythic Souls, and Ji Heng recognized that he wanted to pursue them in the Godfall Sea.

After learning about Godfall Sea and the ancient Transcendent whose death shaped it, Song Chi broke through to the ninth order of the Guidance Art. Emperor Jiang then summoned him to Human Emperor City, where the Human Emperors discussed an early destruction-level Superbrain Storm and how the Kindling Civilization could gain access to Godfall Sea.

• Jiang Yuan explained that Godfall Sea was a growing war relic on the Chaos Divine Continent, filled with mind-threatening Superbrain Storms and Soul-Eating Beasts, and that a twelfth-order mind-power Transcendent had fallen there.
• Song Chi used the Dragon Essence Crystal, Illusory Demon Seed, and other rare resources to break through the bottleneck in his Guidance Art and reach the ninth order.
• Emperor Jiang summoned Song Chi to Human Emperor City and showed him a star map of Godfall Sea, its guarded regions, and the forces surrounding it.
• Emperor Ying reported that a destruction-level Superbrain Storm had erupted decades earlier than expected, while Sacred Emperor Ferdinand said the Nether Soul Clan was rumored to have found the Transcendent's remains.
• Jiang Yuan proposed approaching the Genesis Mechanical Civilization so the Kindling Civilization could join the struggle for Godfall Sea.

Jiang Yuan and Song Chi gathered valuable marvels to secure Genesis Mechanical Civilization’s support for Kindling Civilization’s entry into the Godfall Sea. After the peak clans challenged their right to enter, the Godfall Duel began, and the chapter left the Kindling Civilization trailing 1–2 as Sacred Emperor Ferdinand faced the Nether Soul Clan’s Memory Devourer.

• Jiang Yuan presented the Tech Brain, and Song Chi returned with a mirrored Mechanical Lord to strengthen the offer to Genesis Mechanical Civilization.
• Fifteen Kindling Warship avatars traveled toward the Godfall Sea, detouring around a Soul-Eating Beast swarm and passing deadly storms filled with God-Eating Vines.
• The Chaos Demon Apes, Nether Soul Clan, and Split-Mountain Clan challenged humanity’s right to enter, while the Wizard Civilization and Genesis Mechanical Civilization supported the Kindling Civilization.
• The peak clans invoked the Godfall Duel protocol, requiring five ninth-rank representatives from each side to fight for control of a region.
• Emperor Ying defeated a Split-Mountain Clan warrior with the Light of Order, but Jiang Yi and another Kindling representative lost their matches.
• Sacred Emperor Ferdinand entered the fourth match against the Memory Devourer, which began by releasing memory contamination to restrict his Heavenly Holy Light.

The Kindling Civilization won the decisive fifth match when Song Chi’s Sky Ruins Firmament defeated Jin Tu despite his powerful seven-color wonders and repeated regeneration. Jiang Yuan claimed the seventh spiral-arm region of Godfall Sea for the Kindling Civilization, and Song Chi was promised a share of its Mythic Soul profits.

• Sacred Emperor Ferdinand used the Gods' Chart to annihilate the Nether Soul Clan combatant, bringing the wager score to 2:2.
• Jiang Yuan revealed Jin Tu’s strength and left the choice of the fifth combatant to the group; the Kindling Civilization selected Song Chi’s Sky Ruins Firmament.
• Jin Tu battered the Sky Ruins Firmament with the Wishful Star-Shattering Axe and Heavenly Demon Possession Armor, while Song Chi activated the Time Chessboard and counterattacked with his battleship’s weapons.
• Song Chi repeatedly struck Jin Tu as his body regenerated, then used a five-colored restraint to delay the Chaos Void Tower and prepare a final blow.
• Divine Xia Jiuli intervened when Skullcrusher Golden Ape pressured the battle platform, and the mechanical arbitrator declared the Kindling Civilization the winner.
• Jiang Yuan announced the Kindling Civilization’s ownership of Godfall Sea’s seventh spiral-arm region and promised Ying Yi, Ferdinand, and Song Chi shares of its Mythic Soul profits.

After a tenth-tier Mythic Soul-Devouring Beast appeared in the seventh spiral-arm region, Jiang Yuan led the Divine Xia Jiuli in defeating it and collecting its valuable remains. Several hundred years later, Song Chi left his warship in Godfall Sea and returned to Transcendence City to explore the ancient city.

• After a half-year without a Mythic Soul, Ember Humanity began finding them regularly, and its stockpile grew over the next 120 years.
• Beidou found two Mythic Souls, but a tenth-tier Mythic Soul-Devouring Beast disabled the Yaoguang Celestial Star and swallowed them.
• Jiang Yuan arrived aboard the Divine Xia Jiuli, pinned the beast with the Human Emperor's World-Shocking Tome, and attacked it with the Haotian Annihilation Godslayer Cannon and Imperial Dragon Qi.
• The beast self-destructed, but Jiang Yuan's forces collected 28 Rule Soul Spirit fragments, 15 Mythic Souls, and more than 1,000 Overlord True Spirits before defeating the other approaching Soul-Devouring Beasts.
• After several hundred quiet years, Song Chi left Chaos City, stored his warship avatar in the Dimensional Space Stone, and traveled to Transcendence City to explore it.

Song Chi explored Transcendence City through the Sky Ruins Firmament Mirror Battleship, learned how its districts operated, and traded for a tenth-rank Gold Apple. After Enforcers interrupted an inspection in the Exchange District, he moved to the Mission District and found a collection mission seeking corpses of high-rank beings, leaving him weighing which task to accept.

• Song Chi sent the Sky Ruins Firmament Mirror Battleship into Transcendence City’s white mist and explored the Outer City District and Inner City District.
• Song Chi entered the Trading District and exchanged one hundred strands of tenth-rank Floating Continent Essence and one strand of eleventh-rank essence for a tenth-rank Gold Apple.
• Song Chi inspected the Exchange District’s item lists and saw that the Special Exchange District required permission to access.
• Enforcers arrived to investigate unauthorized probing, but a burst of Chaos light from the Transcendence District drew them away before they scanned Song Chi’s location.
• Song Chi entered the Mission District, examined its missions, and discovered a collection mission offering contribution points for corpses of high-rank flesh-and-blood beings.

Song Chi selected missions in Transcendence City and mobilized the Dragonspine Song Family and Kindling Human Civilization to find prodigious alien lifeforms. After entering the Transcendence District, he learned that its residents were trapped there and faced a deadly challenge, then asked whether an avatar could complete it.

• Song Chi chose missions to trade Star Sea Marvels, hunt the Blood Ghost Raiders, and recruit prodigies from across the myriad worlds.
• Song Chi exchanged marvels for a Transcendence City Entry Token and ordered the Dragonspine Song Family and Dragonspine Shops to search for super-galactic-cluster-level prodigies.
• Song Chi entered the Transcendence District and saw the mythological beings Darkwing and Thousand Illusions fighting near a bustling city inhabited by powerful non-mythological beings.
• Song Chi heard that District residents could not leave freely and that the century-long Transcendence Challenge had begun, with a dangerous tower challenge and a high death rate.
• Song Chi asked a Three-Eyed Clan member whether an avatar could complete the Transcendence Challenge and whether any avatar had succeeded before.

Song Chi brought the Sky Ruins Firmament Mirror Battleship to the Bhasa Transcendence Tower and began its challenge, suspecting it was the superior tower to the Bhasa Inheritance Tower. After climbing to the 350th floor, he faced the Mythic Primordial Emperor Insect and struggled to keep the battleship alive as the battle continued.

• A one-eyed alien told Song Chi that challengers who cleared the Tower of Transcendence were locked onto by it and soon disappeared, but Song Chi decided to proceed to the Transcendence Grounds.
• Song Chi piloted the Mirror Battleship through the Storm Sea, evading a pursuing tenth-rank Mythic beast with the Starlight Flashspirit Stone Talisman and Bhasa Meditation Seal.
• Song Chi discovered that the Bhasa Transcendence Tower shared the Bhasa Inheritance Tower's origin, then confirmed their superior-subordinate relationship and began the challenge.
• The Mirror Battleship defeated successive floors of enemies and reached the 350th floor, where the Mythic Primordial Emperor Insect attacked it with psychic force, spatial collapse, and devouring energy.
• Song Chi used the battleship's defenses, a Resurrection Medal, and its weapons to damage one of the Primordial Emperor Insect's eyes, but the creature healed and sent insect swarms toward the ship.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Chi's Mirror Battleship fails to defeat the Primordial Emperor Insect, but he gains valuable insights for future improvements.
• The Dragonspine Song Clan issues a bounty for foreign prodigies, leading to a surge in acquisitions across Kindling territories.
• The five Human Emperors decide to launch a war against the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster in three hundred years.
• Song Chi requests and obtains permission to establish the Kindling Fifth Empire if they can occupy more than 100 galaxy systems in the upcoming war.

Character Developments

• Song Chi demonstrates strategic thinking and long-term planning, aiming to strengthen his family and establish the Fifth Empire.
• The Dragonspine Song Clan grows in power and influence, with Song Wujiang fully supporting Song Chi's plans.

Significant Themes

• Ambition and long-term planning: Song Chi's vision extends beyond immediate gains, focusing on building a strong foundation for future growth.
• Family and legacy: The Dragonspine Song Clan's unity and support for one another are crucial to their progress.
• War and expansion: The impending war against the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster highlights the importance of territory and resources in building a civilization's power.

Character Interactions

• Song Chi and Jiang Yuan (Jiang Emperor) discuss the war and Song Chi's requests, leading to an agreement between them.
• Song Chi and Song Wujiang discuss the family's future, with Song Wujiang fully supporting Song Chi's plans and taking charge of the family's affairs.

Song Chi secured the Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall's alliance for a fifth expeditionary fleet and exchanged Transcendence Contribution Points for a tenth-rank Golden Apple. When three twelfth-rank Transcendents attacked Transcendence City, his Mirror Battleship was destroyed and he barely survived the resulting spiritual contamination.

• Song Chi persuaded the North Dipper Star Lord to accept an eighty-twenty territorial split and priority cooperation for the Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall.
• The seven hall masters and other Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall leaders swore a star oath to ally with the Dragonspine Song Clan and coordinate in the war against the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster.
• Song Chi submitted captured alien prodigies in Transcendence City for contribution points and exchanged 30,000 points for a tenth-rank Golden Apple.
• Three twelfth-rank Transcendents attacked Transcendence City, and the Mirror Battleship was caught in the city's emergency evacuation as their battle destroyed it.
• Song Chi cut the contaminated portion from his soul to survive the battle's aftereffects, then recognized how insignificant he was beside the Transcendents.

Song Chi evolved the Heavenly Authority Ring, while the Dragonspine Song Family spent three centuries mobilizing and expanding its strength for war against the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster. After Song Yiming outlined the family’s forces and deployment plans, Song Chi brought Song Xuanfeng to the Dragonspine Secret Realm to inspect five new motherships.

• Song Chi used the Gold Apple to evolve the Heavenly Authority Ring and enhanced it to lv100 with ninth-tier Overlord True Spirits.
• Song Wujiang ordered the Song Family into full mobilization, opened its inheritance secret realms, and authorized the use of discovered Titanium Crystal veins to prepare for war.
• Over the next three hundred years, the Song Family expanded its population, awakened millions of clansmen, and increased its ranks of high-tier captains and Star Destroyers.
• Song Xuanfeng emerged from seclusion and attended a family council where Song Yiming reported the Song Family’s strength and announced its plan to deploy more than forty billion clansmen alongside the Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall.
• After the meeting, Song Chi took Song Xuanfeng through a spatial rift to the Dragonspine Secret Realm, where five Explorer-Class Deep-Space Motherships awaited them.

At the Kindling Expedition Ceremony, Song Chi led the Dragonspine Song Clan and Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall into the formation of the Four Great Empires and asserted their right to establish a fifth front. After demonstrating their formidable forces, they were formally recognized as qualified to establish the Fifth Empire and began the expedition against the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster.

• The Song Family and Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall prepared five Explorer-Class Deep-Space Motherships as mobile platforms for the coming war.
• Jiang Yuan arrived at the Eye of the Starvault with the Divine Xia fleet and learned that Dragonspine Song Clan had not been assigned a central position.
• Song Yiming announced the Dragonspine Song Clan and Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall Joint Combat Group as the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet Group, and their fleet took the vacant central position.
• Shang Tianque, Shangguan Mingjing, and Chunyu Lie challenged Song Chi, who declared that his forces would independently undertake the fifth front.
• Song Chi revealed a second hyperdimensional mothership and additional powerful combat units, then ordered the fleets to conduct live combat drills upon arrival.
• The four Human Emperors formally recognized Dragonspine Song Clan as qualified to establish the Fifth Empire, and the five expeditionary fleet groups began their first jump toward the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster.

Song Chi’s Fifth Front battled the Corpse Sovereign Clan across the Bone Galaxy, destroying a corpse-chain defense and later confronting Bone Sovereign and his ninth-rank Azure Sea Thunder Dragon ship corpse. As the Truth Mechanical Battle Star fired at the ship corpse’s core, Song Chi remained in reserve against a possible Rakshasa Clan attacker.

• Song Chi ordered the fleet to continue its advance despite reports of Rakshasa Clan activity, reasoning that the Rakshasa Clan would not risk a full-scale war while Divine Xia Jiuli remained alive.
• The Fifth Front used Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall’s purifying starlight to clear corpse poison, then Song Chi ordered the Truth Mechanical Battle Star to destroy the corpse-chain defense.
• Song Chi and the Big Dipper Star Lord sensed a ninth-rank extreme presence and abandoned their pursuit of the retreating Corpse Sovereign Clan army, while the Fifth Front continued advancing.
• After decades of fighting, the Fifth Front reached the Bone Galaxy’s southern stronghold, where Bone Sovereign attacked with a ninth-rank Azure Sea Thunder Dragon ship corpse.
• Song Chi shared the ship corpse’s scan data, and the Big Dipper Star Lord supplied a Thunderbane Resistance component as the fleets prepared for its lightning attacks.
• Song Chi held the Sky Ruins Firmament back to confront a possible Rakshasa Clan expert while the Truth Mechanical Battle Star fired at the Azure Sea Thunder Dragon’s core.

Song Chi defeated the Blood Skull Prince in a single-ship duel, forcing the Rakshasa Clan to withdraw and allowing the Fifth Front to crush the Corpse Sovereign Clan’s resistance. The Fifth Front then advanced through the Bone Galaxy, occupying its galaxies over the following centuries.

• The Asura Emperor and Sky Ruins Firmament Mirror Battleship stopped the Azure Sea Thunder Dragon Ship-Corpse from repairing itself with battlefield corpses.
• Seven Rakshasa Necroships arrived, and the Blood Skull Prince challenged Song Chi to a duel to decide whether the Fifth Front would withdraw.
• Song Chi used the Time Chessboard and Light of Judgment against the Blood Skull Prince, then detonated the beam inside his Necroship and struck it with the Sky Ruins Firmament.
• Song Chi transformed the Sky Ruins Firmament into a miniature neutron star, melting the Rakshasa Necroship and forcing the Blood Skull Prince to concede.
• Song Chi let the Blood Skull Prince and the six other Rakshasa Necroships leave, avoiding a wider war.
• The Fifth Front killed the Bone Sovereign and Azure Sea Thunder Dragon Ship-Corpse, then occupied one galaxy every few decades over the following centuries.

Song Chi and the Big Dipper Star Lord intercepted a Corpse Sovereign Clan squad carrying Myriad Corpse Blood Marrow, but the pursuit led them into an ambush by five Rakshasa Necroships. Song Chi destroyed Blood Skull Prince and the Rakshasa attackers, and the Big Dipper Star Lord ordered the fleet to return to the Fifth Front.

• The Fifth Front advanced into Corpse Sovereign Clan territory as resistance weakened and members fled.
• Song Chi and the Big Dipper Star Lord left the front to intercept a fleeing Corpse Sovereign Clan squad suspected of carrying Myriad Corpse Blood Marrow.
• The two Hyperdimensional Motherships caught the squad, but five Rakshasa Necroships ambushed them and their attacks destroyed Song Chi's Mirror Battleship.
• Song Chi revealed the true Sky Ruins Firmament, used Mythic Pulse Wave to disrupt Blood Skull Prince's ship, and killed him with the Light of Judgment.
• Song Chi destroyed the remaining Rakshasa Necroships, and the Big Dipper Star Lord ordered a swift return to the Fifth Front.

Song Chi and Beidou Star Lord divided the enormous haul from the Corpse Sovereign and Rakshasa clans, including seventeen colored mythic oddities. Song Chi chose the Bone Tomb and began raising it to nurture a Tier 10 Bone Giant aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament.

• Song Chi and Beidou Star Lord counted their spoils, including 8.2 kilograms of Myriad Corpse Blood Marrow and vast quantities of oddities, Mythic Souls, and other resources.
• Song Chi chose the Bone Tomb over the Blood River Medical Pod, and Beidou Star Lord took the Blood River Medical Pod.
• Song Chi claimed the Rakshasa Heaven-Slaying Sword, while he and Beidou Star Lord divided the other mythic oddities according to their needs.
• Song Chi and Beidou Star Lord split the remaining oddities and resources, with Song Chi taking most of the corpse fiend essence and Beidou Star Lord taking most of the undead ores.
• Song Chi enhanced the Bone Tomb to lv110 with Mythic Souls and prepared to see whether it could nurture a Tier 10 Bone Giant.

Song Chi strengthened the Sky Ruins Firmament and arranged to gather corpse-fiend to accelerate the Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt, then continued advancing with the Fifth Frontline. The Rakshasa God arrived in projection near the Kindling fleets, forcing the advancing frontlines to halt as Jiang Yuan confronted it.

• Song Chi upgraded the Light of Judgment to lv110, replaced several Sky Ruins Firmament components, and filled its remaining auxiliary cannon slots.
• Song Chi ordered Song Yiming and the Dragonspine Shop branches to buy corpse-fiend, then posted a collection mission in the Myriad Heavens Market to support the Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt.
• Song Chi continued advancing with the Fifth Frontline while the Kindling Civilization's five frontlines pushed deep into the Corpse Sovereign Clan Galaxy Cluster.
• Jiang Yuan halted the Divine Xia Imperial Dynasty's advance to meet a Rakshasa God projection, and the other frontlines were ordered to suspend their advances.
• Song Chi detected Mythic-level spatial fluctuations and learned from Ying Yi that the Rakshasa God had descended; Jiang Yuan challenged the projection, which emerged from a rift in its full form.

Jiang Yuan and the other Human Emperors accepted the Rakshasa God’s proposal to let the Corpse Sovereign Clan retain an inheritance while ceding its territory, after verifying the Myriad Corpses Pagoda’s threat. Song Chi’s family gained a hundred galaxies and prepared to found the Fifth Empire, while the Kindling Civilization completed its conquest of the wider cluster.

• Jiang Yuan consulted Ying Yi, Ferdinand, Song Chi, and the Red Yu Divine Dynasty’s commander, and they agreed to limit the resources departing Corpse Sovereign Clan members could take.
• Ying Yi and Ferdinand inspected the Myriad Corpses Pagoda with warship avatars and confirmed that the Corpse Sovereign Ancestor Crystal could affect entire galaxy clusters.
• The Rakshasa God, the Corpse Sovereign Clan, and the Kindling Civilization concluded a contract; the Rakshasa Clan promised not to enter the region for ten thousand years.
• Millions of Corpse Sovereign Clan ships departed in the year 1,250, and by year 1,400 the Kindling Civilization had occupied the full cluster of nearly eight hundred galaxies.
• Song Chi’s family and the Big Dipper Seven-Star Hall took control of over a hundred galaxies, while the Dragonspine Song Clan rebuilt Corpse Ghost Continent as a major trading hub.
• Song Chi ordered preparations for the Fifth Empire’s founding ceremony once Dragonspine Continent arrived, as his Kindling Fortune territory reached three hundred galaxies.

The Dragonspine Song Clan expanded its territories and gained a second Galaxy Warship captain, while Ji Heng detected Origin Star’s early descent into the Chaos Divine Continent. As ancient powers across the myriad worlds prepared to compete for its treasures, Ji Heng resumed her cultivation to reach level ten before the star arrived.

• Huang Family members discussed their new territories and rumors that the Dragonspine Song Clan would establish the fifth Kindling Empire.
• Song Yiming reported that citizens had settled across the Song Family’s ninety galaxies, though Song Chi remained concerned that their populations were too small.
• Song Wujiang’s Calm Sea Dragonrider advanced into a Galaxy Warship after two failed attempts, and the family planned for Song Shiyuan’s Immovable Wisdom King to attempt the same advancement later.
• Ji Heng sensed Origin Star flickering and learned that it would descend into the Chaos Divine Continent within a century, two thousand years earlier than expected.
• Ancient beings across the Chaos Divine Continent and myriad worlds revealed themselves and anticipated a fierce struggle over Origin Star.
• Ji Heng suppressed her excitement, deciding to continue cultivating the Guidance Art so she could reach level ten before Origin Star arrived.

Song Chi prepared the Song Family and Kindling Civilization for Origin Star’s premature descent, while Abyssal Demon Gods threatened to make the expedition exceptionally dangerous. He negotiated a deal with Kindling and Wizard Civilization to lend out his Market Tokens in exchange for priority shares of the treasures recovered, then distributed more than a thousand tokens between them.

• Jiang Yuan told Song Chi, Ying Yi, Ferdinand, and Ji Heng that Origin Star would enter the Chaos Divine Continent in eighty-three years, two thousand years earlier than expected, and that Abyssal Demon Gods might also be awakening.
• Kindling Civilization mobilized its intelligence networks and warship resources, while Song Chi postponed plans for a Fifth Empire and ordered the Song Family to equip its Dreadnought Captains with warship avatars and Market Tokens for the expedition.
• Jiang Yuan announced that only Captains with warship avatars capable of remote operation across Origin Star could participate, except for Captains nearing the end of their lifespans.
• Ying Yi, Ferdinand, Wizard Civilization’s councilors, and more than a thousand other high-ranking figures came to the Market’s teleportation platform to negotiate access to Market Tokens.
• Song Chi agreed that the Market could claim one item out of every five recovered per token, subject to limits on taking the most valuable items, and divided more than a thousand tokens between Kindling Civilization and Wizard Civilization.