Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• The First Emperor’s Black Dragon destroys an Osta Giant War Mech by crushing it with its claw, despite the mech’s frantic attacks.
• A second surviving mech escapes thousands of miles using a Space Jump Device, but the dragon traps it in clouds of Xuan Yuan Heavy Water, disrupting space around it.
• The First Emperor draws the Tai’a Sword and sends a blade strike through a Space Rift, cleanly cutting the trapped mech in two.
• A satellite broadcasts the spectacle to Blue Star, where people celebrate the Emperor’s power and argue humorously over his origins and allegiance.
• Governor Oran, facing the loss of three of the Osta civilization’s thirty Giant War Mechs and the prospect of punishment, orders the fleet to retreat.
• Gu Chen is surprised that the Osta fleet flees before he has even joined the fight.

Character developments and interactions

• The First Emperor remains calm and contemptuous as he defeats the mechs, framing the attack as a defense of Central Continent and demonstrating both his dragon’s spatial powers and his own swordsmanship.
• Governor Oran shifts from command to anxious damage control, weighing the fleet’s losses and his likely consequences at home before choosing retreat.
• The Osta pilots and commanders move from desperation to brief relief after one mech escapes, only for it to be caught and destroyed; the surviving fleet then obeys Oran’s withdrawal order.
• Blue Star’s public reacts with awe and exuberant admiration, while Gu Chen responds with bemusement at the enemy’s sudden retreat.

Significant themes

• The chapter celebrates overwhelming power and the prestige of the First Emperor, contrasting traditional swordsmanship and dragon magic with advanced technology.
• It also highlights the costs of war: the Osta’s elite machines are scarce, and their destruction carries political as well as military consequences.
• Public spectacle and national pride are central, as the satellite footage turns a battlefield victory into a widely shared celebration.

Plot points

• The Omega and Osta fleets’ attack turns into a rout after the Black Dragon tears open a Space Rift and a million Qin Soldiers appear, joining Gu Chen and the other powerful defenders of Blue Star.
• The Omega admiral orders a retreat. The fleets fire their long-range weapons at Gu Chen to keep him away, but he uses System Power to reach the First Emperor.
• The First Emperor arrives with the Black Dragon and Gu Chen. The dragon’s spatial travel lets them leap ahead of the fleeing fleets and close to within striking distance.
• Panicked fleet crews bring their weapons and defenses to bear. Gu Chen slows the ships with the Mountain Moving secret art, then attacks their shields with Call Wind and Rain. The First Emperor charges in and cleaves through one warship’s defenses with the Tai’a Sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from holding off the fleet’s fire to pursuing it, determined not to let the invaders escape. He coordinates with the First Emperor through System Power and uses multiple secret arts to pin the fleets down.
• The First Emperor responds to Gu Chen’s call and joins the counterattack, leading the assault from atop the Black Dragon.
• The Black Dragon displays devastating command of Space Power, transforming the retreat into a close-range confrontation.
• The Omega and Osta commanders and crews go from confidence in their superior technology to panic as the defenders repeatedly outmaneuver them.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence gives way to fear: The technologically advanced invaders underestimate Blue Star and are overwhelmed by its extraordinary defenders.
• Power versus technology: Advanced weapons and defenses prove vulnerable to supernatural abilities, especially spatial movement and Gu Chen’s secret arts.
• No easy escape: The defenders’ determination and coordination turn the enemy’s retreat into another phase of the battle.

Plot and key events

• Gu Chen, the First Emperor, and the Black Dragon defeat the combined Omega and Osta fleets near Blue Star. They let the surviving ships retreat rather than risk provoking desperate countermeasures, while the Black Dragon secretly places Spatial Marks on them so Gu Chen can later follow them to their home worlds.
• The remaining enemy forces, abandoned by their fleeing fleets, surrender. Great Qin’s forces take them prisoner and collect the battlefield wreckage.
• The First Emperor returns to the Qin army, whose Million Soldiers form a Giant War Formation and summon a vast Xuan Bird Totem. They acclaim him and declare that Great Qin will endure forever.
• Satellite footage carries the victory to Blue Star. Governments and civilians are stunned by Great Qin’s power, and people—especially in Central Continent—celebrate the First Emperor and his army.
• Exhausted but relieved, Gu Chen reflects that his preparations for a powerful hypothetical enemy paid off: the Black Dragon’s strengthened control over space countered the Osta mechs’ Spatial Jump ability. He turns to assess what he gained from the battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen proves cautious and strategic, choosing not to pursue the retreating fleets and preserving a way to reach their civilizations later. He feels drained after the battle but reassured that his foresight protected Blue Star.
• The First Emperor is celebrated as a commanding, near-mythic leader. His return inspires the Qin soldiers to reform their battle formation and pledge their loyalty.
• The Black Dragon is crucial to the victory through its space abilities and its discreet placement of Spatial Marks.
• The Qin generals, soldiers, and Legalist masters unite in public acclaim for the First Emperor, reinforcing their shared loyalty and identity.
• Blue Star’s officials and citizens watch the victory from afar. Their fear and awe turn into admiration, particularly among Central Continent’s people, who embrace Great Qin as a source of pride.

Significant themes

• Preparation and restraint: Gu Chen’s planning helps avert disaster, while refusing to destroy the retreating fleets avoids unnecessary risk.
• Power, unity, and legitimacy: Great Qin’s formation and collective oath present its strength as rooted in disciplined unity and loyalty to the First Emperor.
• History made present: The ancient Qin army’s appearance bridges more than two thousand years, reshaping Blue Star’s understanding of its past.
• Victory and future consequences: Though the battle ends, the Spatial Marks leave open the prospect of future contact—and conflict—with the alien civilizations.

Key plot points and events

• The second Blue Star Defense War ends in victory. The First Emperor, Great Qin’s generals and soldiers, and the Legalist experts return through a Space Rift. The Immortal Han forces escort Omega and Osta’s surviving leaders back to their city.
• Gu Chen, still disguised as Old Immortal Nanhua, returns to an Immortal Han city, resumes his true appearance, and checks his system rewards. The battle has earned him nearly four million Origin Points, bringing his total to 7.6 million.
• Concerned that Osta’s advanced ships and teleporting Giant War Mechs could threaten Great Qin, Gu Chen spends 1.6 million Origin Points strengthening the First Emperor’s Black Dragon Clone, Great Qin’s generals, and its million soldiers.
• Gu Chen plans a retaliatory invasion. Once the enemy fleets return home, Great Qin can use spatial marks on their ships to create a teleportation route. Confident in Great Qin’s enhanced strength, he expects the civilizations’ defeat—and hopes to learn whether aliens yield Origin Points.
• Two years pass. Blue Star returns to peace, while scientists make progress adapting Omega spacecraft technology; mech research remains difficult because of the technological gap. Blue Star’s own spacecraft could eventually support lunar and Martian colonies.
• The First Emperor Mausoleum opens again. Epang Palace emerges from a Space Rift amid Great Qin troops, and the First Emperor issues a decree announcing plans to wage war on Omega and Osta.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen turns his victory into preparation for expansion, investing heavily in Great Qin and plotting an invasion. His satisfaction and dark anticipation reveal both his confidence and his opportunistic interest in gaining Origin Points from alien enemies.
• The First Emperor shifts from defending Blue Star to pursuing an offensive campaign against the invading civilizations. His decree makes Great Qin’s intentions public.
• Great Qin’s generals and soldiers are reinforced by Gu Chen’s system power, strengthening the empire’s capacity for the coming war.
• Immortal Han’s forces return with Omega and Osta’s surviving leaders, while Gu Chen withdraws to a secluded chamber to assess his rewards and plan his next move.
• Blue Star’s scientists focus on spacecraft rather than mechs, acknowledging the limits of their current technology while pursuing space expansion.

Significant themes

• Defense becoming conquest: Great Qin’s victory quickly gives way to plans for retaliation and expansion.
• Technology and unequal power: Blue Star can learn from alien spacecraft, but advanced mechs remain beyond its ability to reproduce.
• Preparation and strategic advantage: Gu Chen uses his rewards to strengthen Great Qin and exploit spatial traces left by enemy ships.
• Ambition and exploitation: Gu Chen views the coming conflict not only as a military opportunity but also as a possible source of Origin Points.

Plot points and events

• After nearly two years of silence, the First Emperor Mausoleum stirs: the Epang Palace appears, and the Great Qin army assembles under its black Xuan Bird banner.
• The Central Continent Security Bureau and officials raise their alert level, while media coverage sends the event trending nationwide.
• In Coastal City, Gu Chen sees the news and uses the system to take the form of the First Emperor.
• Before the assembled army and watching crowds, he draws the Tai’a Sword and unleashes a colossal sword strike visible from space.
• He commands Great Qin to follow him into battle among the stars. The soldiers answer as one, and a huge Black Dragon tears open a rift in space.

Character developments

• Gu Chen embraces the spectacle and authority of the First Emperor’s persona, taking the lead in announcing an audacious campaign.
• The First Emperor, as presented to the public, appears decisive and commanding; his grand entrance and declaration turn him into an even greater celebrity.

Character interactions

• Officials respond to the mausoleum’s activity with alarm and order constant surveillance.
• Online fans celebrate Brother Zheng, joke about joining his army, and express intense admiration.
• The Great Qin generals, Legalist leaders, and soldiers stand behind the First Emperor and pledge to follow his sword.
• The Black Dragon responds to the command by opening a path through space.

Significant themes

• Power and spectacle: The army, palace, sword strike, and dragon make authority a public performance.
• Myth meeting modern media: Ancient imperial imagery spreads instantly through livestreams, trending stories, and social platforms.
• Ambition and loyalty: The First Emperor’s cosmic declaration is matched by the army’s unified obedience.
• Escalating scale: The story moves from a mausoleum’s awakening to the prospect of warfare among the stars.

• Plot and events: The Black Dragon and Great Qin experts construct a massive Spatial Anchoring Formation around a Void rift. Using hidden Spatial Marks previously placed on Omega warships, the Black Dragon stabilizes the rift and opens a series of Space Teleportation Arrays linking Blue Star to the Omega Civilization. The Arrays will allow a million Great Qin Soldiers to cross in batches. Gu Chen has chosen the Omega Civilization—a Level Four power and a familiar foe—as the first target, planning to deal with the Osta Civilization afterward. Once the Arrays are ready, the First Emperor orders the army to advance. The soldiers’ battle cry, “Wind! Wind! Wind!”, travels through the connection and reaches the Omega Starport just as its fleet returns.
• Character developments: The First Emperor publicly commits to conquest, projecting confidence and authority. Gu Chen’s choice of a comparatively weaker, familiar enemy shows strategic caution. The Black Dragon demonstrates formidable spatial abilities, but also relies on the Formation and the marked warships to make long-distance transport practical.
• Character interactions: Great Qin soldiers and Legalist experts work together to build the Formation, while the Generals lend their strength. The First Emperor’s command prompts the soldiers to answer in unison. On the Omega side, returning captains, commanders, and troops recognize the terrifying battle cry—and are thrown into fear and disbelief.
• Themes: The chapter highlights the scale and spectacle of interstellar war, the strategic role of preparation and technology, and the power of a shared battle cry to inspire one side and terrify another. Public excitement on Blue Star also frames the impending invasion as revenge for the Omega Civilization’s earlier attacks.

Plot points and events

• The Great Qin Legion, led by Bai Qi, Meng Tian, Wang Jian, and other generals, uses Black Dragon’s teleportation array to cross hundreds of light-years into the Omega System.
• Great Qin soldiers emerge beside Spatial Marks aboard Omega warships. Meng Tian destroys the first ship with a single halberd strike; Wang Jian’s forces soon destroy another.
• The attack at Omega Starport shocks visiting aliens, who flee the area and speculate about who would dare challenge the powerful Omega Civilization.
• Omega citizens and officials respond with fury, mobilizing weapons and placing planets across the system on high alert.
• The Legion’s ancient-looking soldiers bewilder onlookers: their primitive weapons seem incapable of defeating advanced warships, yet they have already done so.
• Surviving members of the Omega Expeditionary Fleet recognize the invaders and suspect that a Star Beast’s spatial powers brought them there.
• The full million-strong Legion enters the system and activates its War Formations, summoning enormous, imposing Totem Phantoms.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Tian and Wang Jian establish the Legion’s forceful arrival through decisive attacks on Omega warships.
• Bai Qi and the other generals lead the mass deployment, showing the unity and discipline of the Great Qin forces.
• Omega soldiers, officials, and civilians shift from shock to anger and alarm, while alien visitors react with curiosity, fear, or schadenfreude.
• The surviving Omega fleet personnel recognize the Great Qin soldiers but are stunned by their arrival and apparent power.

Significant themes

• Tradition versus technology: Ancient-armored soldiers with bronze weapons overpower sophisticated warships.
• Power and humiliation: The attack at a major starport challenges the Omega Civilization’s status and provokes a forceful response.
• Fear and spectacle: The Legion’s mysterious arrival and giant War Formations turn the invasion into a dramatic display of overwhelming strength.

Chapter summary

Key events

• The Great Qin Legion’s war formations withstand the Omega System’s powerful planetary defenses. Their Totem Phantoms absorb the attacks by spreading their force across each formation’s general and roughly one hundred thousand soldiers.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Meng Tian, and the other generals invoke the First Emperor’s Imperial Edict and lead the assault.
• The formations smash through Omega warships, tearing apart their shields and armor with the giant Xuan Bird Totems.
• Other formations charge the system’s six colony planets. Winged Fierce Tiger, Flood Dragon, and Taotie Totems break through the orbital fire and destroy Star Fortresses and defensive vessels. Explosions and ruins mark the opening of the planetary assault.

Character developments and interactions

• The Great Qin generals remain composed under fire, then reveal their eagerness for battle and direct their soldiers with a unified command.
• The soldiers answer their generals’ order in unison, showing the discipline and cohesion behind the formations.
• Omega’s defenders are overwhelmed, while alien observers watch from nearby ships in disbelief and speculate about the Qin army’s origins and power.

Significant themes

• Unity as strength: The formations distribute incoming damage across their members, making the army far more resilient than any individual soldier.
• Tradition versus technology: Ancient weapons and supernatural abilities defeat advanced cannons, shields, and warships.
• Overwhelming conquest: The Qin advance turns from resisting Omega’s defenses to systematically destroying its fleet and planetary fortifications.
• Spectacle and fear: The alien witnesses’ astonishment underscores how completely the Qin force overturns their assumptions about military power.

Key plot points and events

• Empowered by a million Origin Points, the Great Qin Legion overwhelms Omega ships, warships, and Star Fortresses across the Omega System.
• Omega’s leaders debate whether to surrender or fight to the death, but cannot reach agreement.
• Gu Chen enters the Omega System through a Space Rift and sees the Legion’s devastating advance. He concludes that an ordinary Level Four Civilization cannot withstand it.
• He heads for Aoyin, Omega’s capital, where the leaders and strongest defenses are concentrated.
• Using information from Omega captives, Gu Chen finds the hidden mobile command base. He breaks through its defenses, locates the leaders, and subdues them all, successfully striking at the enemy’s command.

Character developments

• Gu Chen shifts the war from battlefield destruction to a decisive capture operation. Confident in his power and intelligence, he acts directly and swiftly.
• Omega’s leaders are exposed as divided and uncertain: some favor surrender, while others insist on continued resistance. Their indecision ends when Gu Chen captures them.

Significant themes

• The cost of miscalculation: Omega’s leaders underestimated the supernatural power of the people on Blue Star and now face a collapsing war effort.
• Power and strategy: The Great Qin Legion’s strength wins the wider battle, while Gu Chen’s targeted strike may end it faster.
• Leadership and morale: Capturing commanders can break a force’s will to fight, illustrating the value of attacking the enemy’s center of command.

Character interactions

• The Omega leaders argue over surrender versus resistance, but reach no resolution.
• Gu Chen uses Omega prisoners’ knowledge to navigate the command base, overpowering its soldiers and defenses.
• When he confronts the leaders, his Primordial Spirit Power subdues them before they can respond.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen confronts the Omega Civilization’s leaders in their mobile wartime command center, immobilizing them with his overwhelming Primordial Spirit Power.
• The leaders recognize him as the powerful individual who destroyed ten of their warships during an earlier expedition. Gu Chen reminds them that the Omegas invaded Blue Star first and demands their public surrender and reparations.
• The leaders refuse, insisting that their Level Four civilization will never submit to a Level Two civilization. Gu Chen responds by using his Spiritual Sense to break their resistance and reshape their minds, turning them into loyal puppets.
• On Gu Chen’s order, the leaders announce Omega’s surrender and agree to pay for its two invasions. The order reaches Omega’s forces across the system, which comply; Great Qin’s generals then halt their attacks.
• Watching alien crews are astonished that Omega surrendered so quickly, suspecting the powerful civilization must have had other options.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen is confident and contemptuous of Omega’s threats. Although he initially offers surrender as an alternative to further fighting, he resorts to mind control when the leaders refuse.
• Omega’s leaders shift from bluster and appeals to their status in the Star Alliance to terror, helplessness, and ultimately unquestioning devotion after Gu Chen puppets them.
• The Great Qin generals, including Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian, stop fighting once the surrender order arrives.
• The leaders’ interaction with Gu Chen establishes the stark imbalance of power: their political authority and defensive measures prove useless against him.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: Omega’s military strength and rank cannot protect its leaders from Gu Chen’s superior supernatural power.
• Imperial hypocrisy and retaliation: Gu Chen rejects Omega’s claim to victimhood by pointing out that it initiated the invasions.
• Surrender versus autonomy: Omega formally capitulates, but the surrender is compelled through the leaders’ loss of free will, raising the question of whether it is genuine submission or simply control.

Key plot points and events

• After Great Qin’s swift victory, the Omega Civilization formally surrenders, stunning observers across the stars and attracting attention from interstellar news outlets.
• Great Qin’s generals send messengers through the Space Rift to Blue Star with reports that the Omega System and its planets have surrendered.
• Before the First Emperor’s Mausoleum, officials, foreign satellites, reporters, livestreamers, and onlookers witness the news being delivered. Li Si praises the Emperor and Great Qin’s army.
• The news spreads rapidly across Blue Star and foreign networks. People celebrate the victory and wonder how much military power Great Qin still holds.
• On Aoyin, Gu Chen takes control of Omega’s senior leaders, orders them to calm the system, and prepares a formal surrender letter to deliver to the First Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• The First Emperor remains composed at the Mausoleum while his officials publicly celebrate the victory and affirm their loyalty.
• Li Si acts as the chief official voice of the court, crediting the Emperor and the Great Qin Spearhead for the triumph.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian report their victories through messengers, presenting the conquest as a coordinated success.
• Gu Chen moves quickly to secure Omega’s leadership and manage the aftermath, turning its surrender into an official diplomatic act.
• Blue Star’s citizens and foreign observers react with amazement, pride, and unease at the speed and scale of Great Qin’s conquest.

Significant themes

• The shock of overwhelming power: Great Qin’s one-day victory over a Level Four civilization reshapes how the wider galaxy views it.
• Public spectacle and propaganda: The court’s declarations, media headlines, and online reactions transform military success into a shared political triumph.
• Consequences of invasion: Commenters frame Omega’s surrender as repayment for its earlier attacks on Blue Star.
• Conquest followed by control: Gu Chen’s efforts to stabilize Omega show that victory must be followed by securing the defeated civilization.

Key plot points and events

• A 300-meter Omega warship arrives at the First Emperor Mausoleum, where Omega representatives formally surrender to the First Emperor. They apologize for the war and promise unrestricted compensation, resources, and technological assistance.
• The terms astonish Central Province Land’s officials and public, who realize that help from a Level Four civilization could rapidly advance Blue Star’s technology. Other nations envy Central Province Land’s supernatural advantages and its growing influence.
• More Omega ships bring supplies and basic technology through the Space Teleportation Array. The First Emperor orders the array relocated to a distant plain and announces that people may use it to enter the Omega System.
• Excitement over access to space gives way to concern about the danger. Central Province officials close the array to the public, warning that travelers need significant strength, language skills, technical knowledge, and spacefaring experience.
• Once these arrangements are complete, Gu Chen turns to reviewing what he has gained.

Character developments and interactions

• The First Emperor acts as the supreme authority over the surrender and the array, directing how the Omega resources and access to space will be handled.
• The Omega leaders’ apparent remorse and generosity are not voluntary: Gu Chen has secretly made them obedient puppets. He limits how extreme their offers appear to avoid attracting suspicion.
• Central Province officials respond first with excitement about technological and economic benefits, then with caution, prioritizing public safety over unrestricted exploration.
• Other Blue Star powers react with envy and resentment as Central Province Land’s supernatural forces and political prominence continue to grow.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: The Omega surrender looks diplomatic, but it is the result of Gu Chen’s hidden control.
• Unequal development: Omega technology offers Blue Star a chance to advance, while supernatural advantages increasingly concentrate in Central Province Land.
• Opportunity versus risk: The Space Teleportation Array opens access to the wider universe, but officials recognize that exploration without preparation could be fatal.
• Changing global order: Central Province Land’s rise leaves former dominant nations frustrated and unable to reverse the shift in power.

Plot points and events

• Gu Chen reveals that Great Qin’s counter-invasion of the Omega Civilization was also an experiment: he wanted to learn whether aliens could generate Origin Points.
• The experiment succeeds. He gains 16 million Origin Points, far more than Blue Star’s population could have provided, confirming that communicative intelligent beings across the Omega System can contribute to his system.
• Seeing the universe as a potential source of Origin Points, Gu Chen imagines eventually harvesting enough to reach the Other Shore or attain immortality. He reins himself in and sets a nearer goal: 100 million Origin Points.
• With his total exceeding 20 million, he begins a long-term plan to connect the Daotang and Immortal Han cultivation paths, progressing from Golden Core to Nascent Soul and Land Immortal.
• He then spends 3 million Origin Points to manifest the Mythical Great Qin Cultivation System, whose highest realm is the Tribulation-Crossing Human Immortal.

Character development

• Gu Chen is revealed as both a strategist and an ambitious experimenter: the invasion was not only revenge but a test of how his system works.
• His discovery dramatically expands his ambitions, but he deliberately restores his composure and focuses on a concrete target.
• He is increasingly thinking beyond individual systems, trying to build a continuous path toward immortality.

Significant themes

• Ambition and restraint: Gu Chen dreams of cosmic-scale power but grounds himself with a practical savings goal.
• Expansion of possibility: The system’s reach extends beyond Blue Star, making the universe a potential resource.
• Power and transcendence: Cultivation systems are presented as successive steps toward immortality and ultimate transcendence.
• Escalation of scale: Gu Chen’s goals shift from defending one world to drawing on civilizations across the cosmos.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen’s relationship with the Omega Civilization is primarily strategic: he treats its inhabitants as both adversaries and subjects in his experiment.
• He plans to join the Daotang and Immortal Han cultivation traditions into a progression from Golden Core to Nascent Soul and Land Immortal, extending the foundations already established in those worlds.

Plot points and events

• The system spends three million Origin Points to create Mythical Great Qin’s Extraordinary Cultivation System. Cultivation records appear throughout Great Qin ruins, and people across Central Continent begin finding and sharing them.
• The system’s realms—Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Primordial Spirit, Tribulation Crossing, and Human Immortal—spark widespread debate. Many people connect them to later cultivation traditions, proposing that spiritual power and cultivation have declined across successive eras.
• Online speculation expands to the ancient Zhou and Shang dynasties and figures from mythology. Some imagine that a supernatural resurgence could restore a primordial age; others caution that seeking legendary treasures without sufficient strength would be perilous.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators compare the new system with Daotang’s methods. Because the present world lacks the abundant Spiritual Energy and resources Great Qin once had, they judge Daotang’s route to Golden Core more practical.
• In the Omega System, Gu Chen checks interstellar news. Following Omega Civilization’s surrender, a major outlet reports how its expedition fleet tried to conquer a remote Blue Planet but was defeated by its supernaturally powerful inhabitants.
• Published footage shows the planet’s humans flying, traveling underground, fighting in space, and resisting heavy weapons. The reports attract attention from civilizations as powerful as Levels 5 and 6.

Character developments and interactions

• No individual in Central Continent dominates the chapter; the public, online commentators, and cultivators collectively react to Great Qin’s newly revealed system.
• Gu Chen remains calm and observant, following the consequences of Omega’s surrender through news coverage.
• The anonymous Omega military official gives reporters an account of the failed invasion, while interstellar audiences respond with astonishment and curiosity toward the Blue Planet’s humans.

Significant themes

• Decline and resurgence: People interpret successive cultivation systems as evidence that supernatural power weakened over time, while the new discoveries may signal its return.
• Myth and history: Ancient legends inspire speculation that mythical beings and past civilizations could have been real and extraordinarily powerful.
• Practical limits of power: A cultivation method’s promise depends on available resources; ambitious paths may be less viable than gradual ones.
• Publicity and alien attention: News of the Blue Planet’s defenders transforms a local conflict into an interstellar sensation—and may bring scrutiny from powerful civilizations.

Plot points and events

• News of the Omega Civilization’s defeat spreads across the stars, drawing alien observers to the Omega System. Attention shifts to the Osta Civilization, which lost three Zhengxin-class war mechs during the failed expedition.
• Osta’s nobles reject surrender. They publicly declare that the Level 5 Civilization will never bow to a distant planet and threaten to reveal its full military strength if attacked.
• Gu Chen reads Osta’s statement and recognizes that its confidence may reflect powerful reserves or hidden weapons. Rather than attack immediately, he decides to return to Blue Star and cultivate using his Origin Points.
• Gu Chen plans to reach the Tribulation Crossing Human Immortal realm, gain Star Shattering power, and then lead an all-out assault against Osta.
• The Great Qin Legion finishes conquering the Omega forces on the six main colony planets. Led by Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian, it returns through the Space Rift to Blue Star.
• The legion’s arrival in Central Continent stuns local officials and spectators. Its soldiers’ Baleful Qi and massive War Formation totems inspire awe as the army flies to the Great Qin Imperial Mausoleum.
• The generals enter Epang Palace to report to the First Emperor and receive rewards and titles. Amid the public excitement, Gu Chen quietly leaves the rift and searches for a secluded place to break through.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shows greater caution after recognizing Osta as a far more dangerous opponent than Omega. He chooses to strengthen himself before acting, though he remains confident that overwhelming force can eventually defeat Osta.
• Osta’s nobles display pride and defiance, dismissing the idea of surrender. Their declaration challenges Gu Chen and the Blue Planet’s supernatural forces.
• Great Qin’s commanders and soldiers return as celebrated conquerors. Their disciplined, formidable presence impresses Blue Star’s officials and civilians, while their generals prepare to report to the First Emperor.

Significant themes

• Power and pride: Osta’s status as a Level 5 Civilization fuels its refusal to submit, while Great Qin’s victory demonstrates that established rankings can be challenged.
• Caution and preparation: Gu Chen postpones an apparently imminent war to improve his strength before facing an uncertain enemy.
• Public spectacle and private action: The Great Qin Legion’s triumphant return captivates the world, while Gu Chen slips away unnoticed to pursue his next breakthrough.

Plot points and events

• Gu Chen chooses the First Emperor Mausoleum as the safest place to attempt his breakthrough from Nascent Soul to Tribulation Crossing Human Immortal.
• Using the system’s Refine Falsehood Into Truth ability, he spends 2 million Origin Points to make the new realm real.
• His Primordial Spirit grows stronger and more substantial, while enormous amounts of spiritual energy and solar true fire converge on the mausoleum. The phenomenon is visible from space and alarms people across the region.
• Videos spread online, prompting speculation that Great Qin is making a weapon, the First Emperor is refining an elixir, or someone is cultivating.
• Authorities investigate. A palace eunuch tells their envoys that an Immortal Level being is cultivating in the mausoleum and that Central Continent is safe.
• The revelation spreads widely, inspiring awe and raising questions about why the Immortal did not intervene during earlier alien invasions.

Character developments

• Gu Chen takes a major step toward transcendence, relying on his system and the security of the mausoleum to overcome a breakthrough that would ordinarily require extensive preparation.
• The First Emperor and his forces remain a powerful symbol of protection, though the chapter does not show them directly responding to events.

Significant themes

• Transcendence and transformation: The breakthrough is portrayed as a profound change in the Primordial Spirit and in Gu Chen’s life.
• Power beyond human understanding: The spectacle challenges scientific explanations and rekindles belief in legendary Immortals.
• Secrecy and public curiosity: Gu Chen’s private cultivation becomes a global mystery through viral footage and official speculation.
• Security and awe: Authorities seek reassurance, while the public wonders what an Immortal’s presence means for the world.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen communicates with the system to initiate his breakthrough.
• Security Bureau captains travel to Epang Palace but do not meet the First Emperor; a palace eunuch delivers the official reassurance.
• Governments and officials respond through secret meetings and investigations, while the public debates the event online.

Plot points and events

• News of the First Emperor Mausoleum’s “Immortal” dominates Central Continent’s online discussions. Netizens speculate that he may be one of three Pre-Qin figures associated with the First Emperor: An Qisheng, Wang Xu of Guigu, or Wang Cizhong.
• Unaware of the speculation, Gu Chen continues his breakthrough toward becoming a Human Immortal. He must refine his Primordial Spirit, then endure the Three Tribulations of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Gu Chen’s Primordial Spirit rises from the mausoleum into space. People nearby witness and film the radiant figure, while satellites and other nations observe it.
• A vast Sea of Thunder, the Sun’s power, and Stellar Rays temper his Primordial Spirit for 108 days. He passes the Heavenly Tribulation and descends toward Earth’s Core to begin the Earth Tribulation.

Character developments

• Gu Chen remains composed throughout the dangerous breakthrough, trusting the system’s protection. After the Heavenly Tribulation, his Primordial Spirit is ten times more imposing and has gained extraordinary abilities.
• The public and international observers shift from speculation to firsthand awe at the apparent Immortal’s power.

Character interactions

• Netizens debate the Immortal’s possible identity, while content creators and media platforms amplify the mystery.
• Witnesses share footage online; governments and satellite operators turn their attention toward Gu Chen. He notices their scrutiny but ignores it and presses on.

Significant themes

• Myth meets modern life: An ancient Immortal mystery becomes a viral online and international event.
• Transformation through trial: Gu Chen’s advancement depends on successive, demanding ordeals that purify and strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Human responses to the unknown: Curiosity, awe, speculation, and the desire to study the extraordinary shape how people react to Gu Chen.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen begins the Earth Tribulation after his earlier trial in the heavens. Deep within Earth’s core, his Primordial Spirit withstands immense pressure and heat, gradually becoming solid and developing meridians and acupoints.
• The transformation prompts him to question whether a perfected spirit-body could replace his original flesh—and whether such a change would alter his identity.
• These doubts give rise to unstable Demonic Thoughts. Gu Chen destroys them with his Pure Yang Primordial Spirit Power and refocuses on cultivation.
• After eighty-one days, his Primordial Spirit is fully tempered. Having passed both Heaven and Earth Tribulations, Gu Chen reaches the Human Immortal level, gaining immense power and abilities associated with mythic figures.
• His ascent from underground causes a tremor across the Central Continent. Witnesses see the familiar Humanoid Light Cluster emerge, then vanish into the First Emperor Mausoleum.
• In the mausoleum’s Secret Realm, Gu Chen returns to his original body. Rather than discard it, he turns it into a clone by placing part of his Divine Hall in its Brow Center Ancestral Aperture.
• Now an Immortal, Gu Chen prepares to settle accounts with the Osta Civilization.

Character development and interactions

• Gu Chen’s breakthrough brings not only power but a serious identity crisis: he wonders whether his spirit-body or flesh is truly “him.” He resolves this tension by preserving his original body as a clone rather than abandoning it.
• He shows discipline by recognizing and eliminating the Demonic Thoughts born from his doubts.
• The people of the Central Continent can only speculate about the mysterious “Immortal.” Their observations of his descent, the tremor, and his return connect his private cultivation to events visible across the world.

Significant themes

• Identity and continuity: The chapter asks whether a person remains the same when their body changes.
• Cultivation and transformation: Gu Chen’s physical and spiritual trials turn him into an Immortal.
• The mind as a source of danger: Doubt and stray thoughts can become Demonic Thoughts, making mental discipline essential.
• Myth made tangible: Legends of supernatural abilities and creation gain apparent grounding in Gu Chen’s transformation.

Key plot points and events

• After completing his tribulation and becoming an Immortal, Gu Chen transfers his Primordial Spirit and Spiritual Sense Power into a newly purified Immortal Body. His former body becomes an avatar, giving him a way to conceal his true self and reduce the risk of exposure.
• Gu Chen marvels at his new strength, joking that he could seize and crush the moon, then puts the thought aside. His breakthrough earns him 800,000 Origin Points.
• Using System Power, Gu Chen takes control of the First Emperor and summons Great Qin’s leading generals and a million soldiers to Epang Palace.
• The army’s gathering draws attention across Blue Star and among visiting Aliens. People speculate about the purpose of the mobilization and connect it to the mysterious immortal recently seen near the First Emperor Mausoleum.
• Speaking through the First Emperor, Gu Chen announces an expedition against the Osta Civilization, a powerful Level 5 civilization known for its giant war mechs. The Great Qin Legion pledges to make Osta pay for its invasion.
• Great Qin begins preparing an ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array. The Immortal Han Ancient City also organizes support, recruiting cultivators at Qi Refinement Peak or Foundation Establishment to join the campaign.

Character developments

• Gu Chen has gained immense power and a new Immortal Body. By using his former body as an avatar and acting through the First Emperor, he further strengthens his ability to keep his true identity protected.
• The Great Qin generals and soldiers remain fiercely loyal, answering the Emperor’s order with a unified pledge and preparing for a difficult interstellar war.
• Warlords and Strategists in the Immortal Han Ancient City take an active role in the expedition by organizing recruitment rather than leaving the campaign solely to Great Qin.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen acts through the First Emperor to summon the generals and issue the expedition order.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Meng Tian, and the assembled soldiers respond with an oath of obedience and a battle cry.
• The Immortal Han leadership invites qualified cultivators to join, and many volunteer.

Significant themes

• Concealment and identity: Gu Chen’s separation of his true self from his avatar adds another layer of secrecy and protection.
• Power and ambition: His breakthrough brings a dramatic increase in strength, while Great Qin’s mobilization turns that power toward a larger conquest.
• Unity against a formidable threat: Great Qin and independent cultivators prepare to face a civilization far more advanced than Blue Star.
• Public spectacle and uncertainty: The mobilization sparks worldwide speculation, while Aliens debate whether supernatural forces or advanced technology will prevail.

Plot points and events

• The Black Dragon uses the newly completed, thousand-zhang Space Teleportation Array to locate Osta vessels hundreds of light-years away and open a stable long-distance passage. The Osta fleet becomes visible through the Space Rift.
• Alien observers are astonished by Great Qin’s ability to build and operate the array so quickly, and recognize that the Osta Civilization has provoked a formidable power.
• Six Ostans concealed among the observers reveal themselves as members of the Ace Airspeed Special Forces. Fearing an invasion of their homeworld, they launch X Element Laser Cannons at Great Qin’s forces and Epang Palace, while firing Dark Energy Bombs at the array and Rift.
• The attack alarms spectators and draws everyone’s attention to the Ostans. The excerpt ends as the surrounding Aliens realize who launched the assault.

Character developments and interactions

• The Black Dragon demonstrates impressive control over space, anchoring the array and creating the interstellar passage.
• Li Si, Bai Qi, the Legalist masters, and Great Qin’s generals help establish the array, showing coordinated support for the operation.
• The six Ostans shift from covert observers to attackers, revealing their fear of what the passage could mean for their civilization.
• The watching Aliens move from amazement at Great Qin’s achievement to shock at the sudden attack—and at the Ostans’ betrayal of their cover.

Significant themes

• Power and technological wonder: Great Qin’s unfamiliar mastery of spatial forces astounds the interstellar observers.
• Fear and preemptive violence: The Ostans attack to prevent a possible invasion, escalating tensions before the passage can be used.
• Secrecy and exposure: The hidden Ostan agents’ attack reveals their identity and turns the gathered crowd into witnesses.