Chapter Summaries

Song Yan led the Kindling Fleet’s assault on the Northern Silence Sea Galaxy Cluster, where coordinated attacks by the Heavenly Ruins Divine Court, Xianqin Divine Dynasty, and Holy Hall Federation broke the allied defense at the Nether Vortex. With the native civilizations’ resistance collapsing and the Black Abyss Starcore Galaxy Cluster also falling, the expedition moved closer to expanding Kindling Human Civilization’s territory by two galaxy clusters.

• Song Chi felt the changes from the Eight Mysteries Derivation Art and the Heaven-Earth Beidou Floating Continent Grand Formation, reinstalled the Miracle Cloning Pod, and entrusted the Soul-Devouring Altar to Song Yan.
• The five great Kindling empires launched an expansion expedition, sending a vast fleet led by their transdimensional motherships and guarded by the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale toward the Northern Silence Sea and Black Abyss Starcore Galaxy Clusters.
• After decades of travel, the fleet encountered resistance from native civilizations, and Song Yan led the Heavenly Ruins Divine Court fleet to attack the Shadow Songstress alliance’s defenses at the Nether Vortex.
• Song Yan coordinated a frontal assault with flanking attacks by Ying Wei’s Xianqin Fleet and Wilson Aclemon’s Holy Hall Federation fleet, breaking through the Last-Song Corridor’s defenses.
• The combined fleets destroyed the Shadow Songstress Resonance Array and nearly annihilated the allied army, leaving the Northern Silence Sea Galaxy Cluster unable to stop the Kindling advance.
• The Divine Xia Imperial Dynasty and Red Yu Divine Dynasty continued their campaign in the Black Abyss Starcore Galaxy Cluster as both target clusters neared conquest.

After three thousand years of travel, Song Chi reached the Star Sea · Southern Extremity and discovered a vast, law-shattered ruin. He confirmed it was the Time Temple’s ruins, but remained uncertain why the legendary temple had appeared there or whether its inheritance key still worked.

• After the Kindling Civilization divided its newly conquered territories, Song Chi set out to explore the Star Sea · Southern Extremity, guided by the Destiny Compass.
• Song Chi traveled south aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament for three thousand years, then found the compass aligned with its Southern Extremity mark.
• Song Chi sent the Mirror Battleship ahead through a region where matter, energy, and the laws of space and time had grown indistinct.
• The Mirror Battleship detected an enormous ruin formed from fragments of time and source laws, and Song Chi recognized its core from a place he had seen in the River of Time.
• Song Chi sent the Broken Gate of the Time Temple and the Time Temple Inheritance Key to the Mirror Battleship, and their reaction confirmed that the ruin belonged to the Time Temple.
• Song Chi wondered why the Time Temple’s main hall was at the Star Sea · Southern Extremity rather than the end of the River of Time, then continued toward the ruin.

Song Chi entered the Time Temple inheritance space and acquired three treasures along with a stream of information revealing the path to ascension and the Southern Extreme Region’s significance. He realized that discovering the region could expose the Kindling Civilization to hidden powers, so he resolved to conceal the secret and focus on strengthening himself and his civilization.

• Song Chi used the Time Temple Inheritance Key to open a passage into the ruins’ inheritance space with the Mirror Battleship.
• Song Chi’s Void Spirit Body collected the Chrono Spirit Divine Spear, Ascension Origin Stones, and Time God-King’s Blessing before the remaining data stream flooded his consciousness.
• Song Chi learned that the four poles of dimension were ascension grounds and that Era Wonders could guide their discovery.
• Song Chi connected the Destiny Compass to the Immortal Domain Civilization’s destruction and realized he had found the Southern Extreme Region.
• Song Chi noticed the Destiny Compass concealing his discovery and decided to keep the secret while building the Kindling Civilization’s strength.
• Song Chi sealed the Ascension Origin Stones and recognized that using the Time Temple treasures openly could expose the Kindling Civilization’s inheritance.

Song Chi installed the Time God-King's Blessing and left the Southern Extremity, then resumed cultivation. About three hundred years later, he discovered that a suspected Transcendent was drawing the Immortal Domain Continent out of the Dark Side of the Void Sea, revealing the other three immortal swords and prompting him to plan a risky attempt to seize them.

• Song Chi replaced the Barbarian God's Aegis with the seven-colored Time God-King's Blessing, then left a Void Demon sentinel in the Southern Extremity before returning to the Shattered Star Sea.
• Song Chi returned to cultivation, using the Time Chessboard and Time God-King's Blessing to strengthen his Guidance Art, rule comprehension, and Mythic Status.
• Around three hundred years later, an alarm from the Mirror Battleship alerted Song Chi that an enormous spatial vortex was pulling the Immortal Domain Continent out of the Dark Side of the Void Sea.
• The Destiny Compass revealed that the mythic gray-mist entities carried Massacring Immortal, Severing Immortal, and Slaying Immortal, along with the likely formation diagram; the entities then helped accelerate the continent's extraction.
• Song Chi decided to risk collecting the Slaying Immortal Sword Formation while the process took months, and began planning to use a clean, powerful slave creature and a defense against the suspected Transcendent.

Song Chi prepared to seize the Immortal Domain Continent Ruins by enslaving two peak Rank Ten Void Demon Overlords and obtaining safeguards from Transcendence City's special Exchange District. With the continent's removal from the Dark Side of the Void Sea nearing, he waited for the right moment to strike and finally found an ideal opportunity.

• Song Chi borrowed Jiang Yuan's Song of Holy Favor component and used it with the Heavenly Authority Ring to enslave two peak Rank Ten Void Demon Overlords in the Annihilation Shattered Star Belt.
• Song Chi sent the Void Demons on missions in Transcendence City until they earned enough contribution points to become enforcers and access the special Exchange District.
• Song Chi spent 17,000,000 Transcendence Contribution Points on two Transcendence Pacts and a Rule-Blocking Force Field to protect his plan.
• Song Chi recalled the Void Demons and waited for a chance to attack the gray fog energy entities controlling the Slaying Immortal Sword Formation.
• More than half a month later, Song Chi finally found what he considered a perfect opportunity to make his move.

Song Chi trapped five gray mist energy entities in a Rule-Blocking Force Field and sent two berserk Void Demon Lords and a summoned Primordial Emperor Insect to defeat them. After the force field collapsed, the surviving Void Demon Lords fled with the spoils as a giant claw reached out from the spatial vortex to seize them.

• Song Chi ordered two Void Demon Lords to ambush three mythical gray mist entities and two ordinary Tier 10 entities inside a Rule-Blocking Force Field, then used Enslavement Mark · Berserk to raise the demons to Tier 11.
• Song Chi commanded one Void Demon Lord to crush Primordial Emperor Insect Amber, summoning a mythical insect that attacked the Tier 11 gray mist entity and distracted it.
• A Void Demon Lord seized the opening to kill one Tier 10 gray mist entity, and the two demons then overwhelmed and killed the other three.
• The Primordial Emperor Insect self-destructed, helping the Void Demon Lords break the Tier 11 entity’s barrier and kill it, while one demon claimed its Slaying Immortal Formation Diagram.
• The Rule-Blocking Force Field collapsed, and Song Chi ordered the wounded Void Demon Lords to retreat with their spoils.
• A giant claw reached out from the spatial vortex and attempted to stop the fleeing Void Demon Lords.

Song Chi escaped a twelfth-tier transcendent’s pursuit by recalling and then self-destructing the two Void Demon Archdukes, severing the causal traces that could lead to him. After the danger passed, he reunited the Four Slaying Immortal Swords with their formation diagram and discovered they had become a Chaotic Wonder.

• A Transcendence Pact shielded the Void Demon Archdukes from the transcendent’s attacks and causal tracing while Song Chi upgraded their Chapters of Divine Sense and recalled them.
• Song Chi used the Time Chessboard’s Time Reversal to restore a shattered Miracle Cloning Pod, then ordered both Void Demon Archdukes to self-destruct to erase any traces the transcendent could follow.
• The transcendent’s gaze searched for Song Chi as he strengthened the Destiny Compass and hid within the Myriad Heavens Market until the void currents erased the demons’ remains and broke the causal links.
• Song Chi relaxed after the transcendent’s pursuit ended and fused the Four Slaying Immortal Swords with the Slaying Immortal Formation Diagram.
• The reunited Slaying Immortal Sword Formation appeared as a Chaotic Wonder, identified as the former Immortal Domain Civilization’s strongest offensive wonder.

Song Chi upgraded the Slaying Immortal Sword Formation, strengthened the Sky Ruins Firmament’s energy supply, and made final preparations for the Heaven-Battling Ruins’ collapse. After centuries of secluded cultivation, he learned that Void Demons had found a mythic alien race.

• Song Chi enhanced the Slaying Immortal Sword Formation to lv129 and found that its most powerful attacks still required immense energy and a stronger warship to reach their full potential.
• Song Chi used the Soul-Devouring Altar to test whether a seven-color Mirror Split Image could copy the Chaos-quality sword formation, then reversed time after the test failed.
• Song Chi used the Soul-Devouring Altar on the Corpse Fiend Core Engine and upgraded another engine, raising the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Dark Energy pool to forty billion.
• Song Chi increased the Market Ruins’ resource rewards, placed an eighth-tier Star Sea Giant Ape at Split-Mountain Ancestral City, and sent Void Demon thralls to seek mythic creatures.
• Song Chi returned to secluded cultivation, broke through to Guidance Art lv102 over the following centuries, and learned that Void Demons had found a mythic alien race.

Song Chi attacked the Spacetime Netherglow Dragon in its Netherbamboo Galaxy nest and used his warships, skeletal giants, and special abilities to weaken and defeat it. He successfully enslaved the near-dead dragon, adding it as his fourth mythic-grade servant.

• Song Chi discovered that the Spacetime Netherglow Dragon had formed a spacetime maze around its nest, then sent two skeletal giants to break the Netherbamboo Continent's shield and draw the dragon out.
• The Spacetime Netherglow Dragon used its mastery of time and space to wound the skeletal giants and evade or deflect attacks from Song Chi's warships.
• Song Chi empowered his forces with the Time Chessboard and restricted the dragon's spatial abilities with a five-colored sealing light curtain, but the dragon remained difficult to defeat.
• Song Chi activated the Twelve-Life Life-and-Death Chess five times to weaken the dragon, then hit it with the Immortal Godslayer Cannon's Primal Chaos Annihilation Strike.
• Song Chi used the Heavenly Authority Ring and Song of Cloned Divine Favor to enslave the dying Spacetime Netherglow Dragon.

After a thousand years of preparation, Song Chi brought Zihuan back to the Heaven-Battling Ruins, where Zihuan reached Mythic rank and the Heaven-Battling Will gave Song Chi the Chaos wonder High-Dimensional Sea. Their departure accelerated the ruins’ collapse and triggered a battle among the Mythic factions waiting outside, while Song Chi safely concealed the wonder in the Myriad Heavens Market.

• Song Chi emerged from a thousand years of seclusion and arranged for Zihuan to advance during Earthplate Floating Continent’s attempt to reach ninth rank.
• Zihuan used the energy tide and a Primordial Limitless Pill to break through to the tenth-rank Mythic level.
• Song Chi and Zihuan returned to the collapsing Heaven-Battling Ruins, where Song Chi showed the Heaven-Battling Will that he had fulfilled their agreement.
• The Heaven-Battling Will gave Song Chi the Chaos wonder High-Dimensional Sea, and Song Chi and Zihuan escaped the ruins before they collapsed.
• The weakening of the ruins’ will stirred waiting Mythic factions into battle, after which they joined forces to accelerate the ruins’ erosion.
• Song Chi concealed High-Dimensional Sea in the Myriad Heavens Market while the Heaven-Battling Ruins entered its final countdown to collapse.

After obtaining the High-Dimensional Sea, Song Chi studied its powers and considered using its barrier to protect the Primordial Kindling Source Seed. The Heaven-Battling Ruins then collapsed, triggering a renewed mythic battle that endangered five Kindling cities, leaving Song Chi and the other human mythic fighters struggling to hold them.

• Song Chi examined the High-Dimensional Sea's powers, including its treasure gathering, oaths, barrier, and ability to simulate laws.
• Song Chi considered merging the High-Dimensional Barrier with the Heavenly Peak Secret Realm or the Myriad Heavens Market to strengthen their defenses.
• The Heaven-Battling Ruins collapsed, and the factions searching for the High-Dimensional Sea found no trace of it.
• The mythic factions accused one another of taking the High-Dimensional Sea, and their fragile peace broke into an all-out battle.
• The battle's shockwaves threatened five Kindling cities, so Song Chi activated the Cosmic Six-Direction Wheel Formation and joined Ji Heng and the other mythic fighters in defending them.
• Song Chi realized the five cities might fall unless the humans found a way to break the deadlock.

Song Chi and the Kindling leaders abandoned their five outer cities and concentrated their forces in Human Emperor City as the Mythic war spread and claimed an eleventh-rank Mythic. Meanwhile, the Shizu Civilization launched a brutal expansion across the Shattered Star Sea, culminating in a clash with the Emperor Barbarian Clan and the appearance of Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King.

• Song Chi persuaded Jiang Yuan, Ji Heng, Ying Yi, and Ferdinand to evacuate the five Chaos Cities and concentrate their forces in Human Emperor City.
• Song Chi used the Myriad Heavens Market as a transit point to move the cities’ captains and resources to Human Emperor City, leaving the five cities to collapse.
• Song Chi and the other leaders fortified Human Emperor City, which endured the spreading Mythic melee for a century as an eleventh-rank Abyss Demon God fell and the war engulfed more star realms.
• The Shizu Civilization invaded nearby civilizations, destroying the Yuefeng Civilization and rejecting its surrender as the Emperor Barbarian Clan also came under attack.
• More than three ninth-rank Emperor Barbarian Clan Sovereigns defected during battle, and the hidden Barbarian God emerged to fight the Shizu forces.
• Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King appeared and locked onto the Barbarian God, beginning a Mythic-level confrontation.

The Shizu destroyed the Emperor Barbarian Clan and began a wider campaign of expansion, prompting Kindling Civilization’s leaders to debate their response. Jiang Yuan ordered a five-route expedition beyond Kindling territory, and Song Chi ended the chapter sensing a greater storm ahead.

• Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King killed the hidden tenth-rank Barbarian God, breaking the Emperor Barbarian Clan’s resistance and converting many surviving warriors.
• The current Barbarian God fled Emperor Barbarian City with core elites, but two ancestral Buddhas pursued him until his aura and the clan’s remaining sparks vanished.
• The Shizu launched a broader foreign expedition, and the Abyssal Devil Civilization soon began its own bloody expansion, plunging the Shattered Star Sea into chaos.
• Kindling Civilization’s leaders debated whether to consolidate their territory or expand, and Song Chi backed an expedition to prepare for the wider upheaval.
• Jiang Yuan ordered the formation of the Kindling Expeditionary Army, which assembled hundreds of millions of warships and launched five routes beyond Kindling territory.
• Song Chi entered the Myriad Heavens Market, reflected on the approaching storm, and wondered what would remain when the chaos ended.

After three eleventh-tier Abyssal Demon Gods attacked Human Emperor City, Song Chi and his allies battled to hold them off until Ji Heng and Ying Yi reported that five Shizu ancestral Buddhas were assaulting the Kindling Ancestral Domain. Song Chi rushed back and struck the Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King, but faced five powerful Buddhas while his allies and warship avatars remained behind.

• Three eleventh-tier Abyssal Demon Gods attacked Human Emperor City, and Song Chi, Jiang Yuan, and Ferdinand fought back with their warships, a combined mecha, and the Spacetime Netherglow Dragon.
• Ji Heng and Ying Yi reported that five Shizu ancestral Buddhas were attacking the Kindling Ancestral Domain, so Song Chi left Jiang Yuan and Ferdinand to hold the Demon Gods and returned through the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi arrived to find the Kindling forces badly wounded and witnessed the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Sun-Victory Buddha destroy the tenth-tier Planet Devourer.
• Song Chi unleashed the Sky Ruins Firmament's Light of Judgment at the Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King, dimming his Buddhist radiance and cracking the Thousand-Petaled Sacred Lotus.
• Song Chi's arrival renewed the Kindling forces' hope, but he faced five ancestral Buddhas without his warship avatars or the Spacetime Netherglow Dragon.

Song Chi defeated and killed the Shizu ancestral Buddha Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King, then discovered that the Shizu and other civilizations had been controlled by Mind-Stealing Demons from the Bottomless Abyss. He warned the Titan Giants and sought help from the transcendent powers, but doubted that his actions could stop the Abyss’s plan to ascend to a higher dimension.

• Song Chi used the Sky Ruins Firmament, the Bone Giant, and the Mythical Dragonspine Tyrant Whale to overwhelm the two ancestral Buddhas, then reset the Slaying Immortal Sword Formation’s charge time and critically wounded Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King.
• A gray-mist Mind-Stealing Enslavement Mark invaded Song Chi’s Kindle Ancestral Aperture, but Song Chi, the Dragon-Whale Palace, the Immoveable Wisdom King Talisman, and the Kindling Network destroyed it.
• Song Chi learned that the Mind-Stealing Demons had enslaved the Shizu and other civilizations, and that the Shizu had sent most of their Floating Continent Essence cores to the Bottomless Abyss.
• Spirit Mountain Tathagata Sun-Victory Buddha launched a frenzied attack, but Song Chi trapped it in the Time Chess Game while the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale killed Brahma-Sound Womb-Treasure Wheel-Turning Wisdom King.
• Song Chi used the Myriad Heavens Market to warn Tairon and the Titan Giants about the Mind-Stealing Demons, hoping Heaven-Splitting God King and Eternal Ancestor would return to defend the star sea.

Heaven-Splitting God King and the Eternal Ancestor learned that the Abyss was ascending dimensions and discovered the Abyss Demon Clan’s trap in the Heavenly Ape Star Realm. They broke the barrier with help from native Transcendents, but the six Demon Gods escaped after slaughtering more than ninety percent of the realm’s inhabitants.

• Heaven-Splitting God King received Song Chi’s warning through a junior clansman and told the Eternal Ancestor that the Mind Flayers were behind the Abyss’s dimensional ascension.
• Six Abyssal Demon Gods emerged, killed the Primordial Matriarch and its three Primordial Emperor Insects, and sealed the Heavenly Ape Star Realm with a Chaos Marvel projection.
• The Demon Gods attacked the trapped forces and harvested the life origins of the realm’s inhabitants while Heaven-Splitting God King and the Eternal Ancestor struggled to break the barrier.
• The Eternal Ancestor sent a plea for aid, and native Transcendents attacked the barrier from outside as Heaven-Splitting God King struck the marked node with the Heaven-Opening Axe projection.
• The combined attacks shattered the barrier after more than ninety percent of the realm’s life aura had been lost, and the six Abyssal Demon Gods fled with the harvested essence.

The Heaven-Splitting God King, the Eternal Ancestor, and local Transcendents pursued the fleeing Abyss Demon Gods, triggering a devastating battle in the Void Sea of Chaos. When two Transcendents from the secretly allied Transcendence City joined the Abyss side and cornered the Ice Demon Ancestor, he sacrificed himself to kill one Demon God and severely wound both newcomers.

• The Heaven-Splitting God King and the Eternal Ancestor chased the six fleeing Abyss Demon Gods beyond the barrier, while the Father of the Sand Sea, the Flame-Burning Ancestor, and the Ice Demon Ancestor moved to intercept them.
• More than fifteen Transcendents clashed with Chaos treasures in the Void Sea of Chaos, and both sides suffered severe injuries as their battle tore through the surrounding laws.
• Transcendence City appeared, and two of its Transcendents attacked the Ice Demon Ancestor alongside the Abyss Demon Gods, trapping him under their combined assault.
• The Ice Demon Ancestor unleashed the Heart of Frozen Seal’s Frozen Soul Domain and self-destructed, freezing his attackers long enough for the blast to devastate the battlefield.
• The explosion annihilated the Abyss Demon God wielding the Dimension Anchor and gravely wounded the two Transcendents from Transcendence City, while the other combatants were thrown back injured.

After the Abyss Demon Clan escaped the battle, the Kindling Civilization adopted a strategy of retreat, preserving its legacy, and strengthening its defenses. As Song Chi pursued a way to gain Transcendent power, the Titan Giants and Eternal Clan demanded that Kindling contribute eight Mythics and one hundred million warships to their new coalition.

• The Transcendent Mind-Seizing Demon ordered the Abyss Demon Clan and the Transcendence City beings to escape by repelling the Chaos Divine Continent’s fighters, who were left furious after the enemy vanished.
• The five Kindling Human Emperors—Jiang Yuan, Song Chi, Ying Yi, Ji Heng, and Ferdinand—decided to retreat, restart the Civilization Seed Plan, and accelerate the Heavenly Ruins Continent’s ascension.
• Song Chi trained in Chikang's No. 004 Cultivation Secret Realm and ordered Kindling captains to increase Myriad Heavens Market trading so it could reach its eleventh tier and grant him Transcendent combat power.
• The Titan Giants and the Eternal Clan announced a Star Sea Civilization Coalition and demanded eight Mythic combatants and at least one hundred million Kindling Warships.
• Jiang Yuan and the Kindling leaders reconvened to consider the conscription order, which would commit more than half of their publicly known Mythic combatants.

After thousands of years of deadlocked war between the Myriad Heavens Star Sea Allied Forces and the Bottomless Abyss, Song Chi prepared to use the Heavenly Ruins Continent’s imminent advancement to help the Sky Ruins Firmament break through to the eleventh rank. He ordered the advancement schedule to proceed, leaving the Song Clan to carry out his risky plan.

• The Kindling Civilization assembled five Human Emperor warship avatars, three enslaved Mythic beasts, and a fleet of 120 million warships, then joined the allied forces against the Bottomless Abyss.
• The Eternal Clan, Titan Giant race, Origin Star Temple, and Myriad-Mechanisms Mother Nest took command of the allied fleet, which began pushing into abyss-contaminated territory.
• Over several thousand years of attrition, the Kindling fleet lost more than thirty percent of its warships, the Mythic Black Devourer King Beast died, and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox suffered severe wounds.
• The Kindling Civilization used origin cores harvested from high-rank floating continents to bring the Heavenly Ruins Continent to the peak of level nine, close to advancing into a level-ten Star Continent.
• Song Chi prepared pills, rare resources, Time Chessboard components, and the Time God-King's Blessing for the Sky Ruins Firmament's attempted advance to the eleventh rank.
• Song Chi ordered the Heavenly Ruins Continent's advancement to proceed as scheduled, and the Song Clan prepared to carry out his command despite the risk.

The allied army entered the Bottomless Abyss and fought its way through Molten Prison Abyss as the Abyss’s dimensional ascension neared completion. Ordered to replace the battered Titan flank legion, the Kindling Fleet advanced toward the front line, where its cruelest battle yet awaited.

• The four transcendent civilizations ordered the allied army to invade the Bottomless Abyss and launch the Breach plan toward Ruins Abyss.
• The allied vanguard entered Molten Prison Abyss and clashed with Balrogs, demons, and demonized Shizu Clan Buddhist soldiers.
• The allied army advanced through the slaughter while its small and mid-sized civilization fleets were reduced to less than one-tenth of their original strength.
• The four transcendent civilizations ordered the Kindling Fleet to replace the battered Titan flank legion at the front.
• Jiang Yuan ordered the Kindling Fleet to take over the Titan legion’s position, and its five Mythic Immortal Warship avatars led the fleet toward the battlefield.