Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen killed three Scorpion Monsters and collected Divine Cores, then discovered that a meteorite impact had released incredibly potent Divine-Grade Spiritual Energy. As he prepared to cultivate near the impact site, he sensed a powerful monster approaching.

• Bai Xiaowen identified the Scorpion Monster’s mouthparts as its weakness, dodged its green beam, and killed it with a Formless Blade strike before defeating the other two Scorpion Monsters.
• Bai Xiaowen collected three Divine Cores and learned that they could power a Planetary Portal.
• A meteorite struck nearby, triggering volcanic eruptions and releasing a trace of unusually pure spiritual energy.
• Bai Xiaowen flew to the impact site after the spiritual flames subsided and recognized the released energy as Divine-Grade Spiritual Energy.
• Bai Xiaowen prepared to set up a defensive formation and cultivate, but sensed a powerful aura approaching.

Bai Xiaowen encountered Okandis, an angel and envoy of the Light God, on a planet in the sealed starfield and fought him over a deposit of Primordial Spiritual Energy. After forcing Okandis to negotiate, Bai Xiaowen learned the region was called the Battlefield of the Gods and asked about portals, Okandis’s survival, and other powerful creatures.

• Okandis ordered Bai Xiaowen to leave, then attacked when Bai Xiaowen tried to ask questions.
• Bai Xiaowen dodged Okandis’s holy swords and pierced his armor with a Formless Blade, but Okandis knocked him back with a wingbeat.
• Okandis shifted into a powerful greatsword form, and Bai Xiaowen avoided his attacks by using Position Swap and keeping near the Primordial Spiritual Energy deposit.
• Bai Xiaowen used Okandis’s reluctance to damage the deposit to evade his attacks until Okandis agreed to answer questions.
• Okandis called the sealed starfield the Battlefield of the Gods and pointed out a portal toward the inner planets, but Bai Xiaowen distrusted his answer and rejected his claim that the Light God guided his survival.
• Bai Xiaowen used his final question to ask whether any other creatures on the planet were as powerful as Okandis.

Bai Xiaowen tricked Okandis into delaying their fight while he secretly prepared the Nine Yang Formation, then used its firepower and his Taoist arts to pin the Divine Scion down. He struck Okandis with the Eye of Divine Punishment and prepared to exploit the opening before his formidable opponent could counterattack.

• Okandis answered Bai Xiaowen's three questions and demanded that he leave, but Bai Xiaowen pointed out that Okandis had never agreed to let him go afterward.
• Bai Xiaowen revealed that he had used their conversation to secretly place talismans for the Nine Yang Formation, then activated it to trap Okandis in intense heat.
• Bai Xiaowen used Position-Swap and Origin Lightning to pierce Okandis's Holy Armor, while the formation's red suns scorched him and restricted his escape.
• Okandis hurled his giant light sword at Bai Xiaowen, forcing Bai Xiaowen and his summoned allies to suppress it with the Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal.
• Bai Xiaowen locked Okandis in place with the Eye of Divine Punishment and struck him with Heavenly Lightning, though the blast also damaged the earth veins and threatened to destabilize the formation.
• As Okandis remained trapped in the lightning, Bai Xiaowen prepared to seize the chance to kill him before he could retaliate.

Bai Xiaowen killed Okandis and received a Punishment Mark from the God of Light, while his Shadow God Boon Mark failed. He cultivated amid Aqiluo Star’s monsters and broke through Taigong’s Art of War to the high tier, expanding his inner chamber and clearing the way for his Spirit Force crystal to grow.

• Bai Xiaowen combined his summoned creatures’ Spirit Force into a spear that destroyed Okandis’s Angel’s Heart and killed him.
• Bai Xiaowen received the God of Light’s Punishment Mark, but his Shadow God Boon Mark became invalid.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered Sigrdrifa to search Okandis’s body and keep watch while he cultivated using Primordial Spiritual Energy.
• Sigrdrifa displayed Okandis’s head to deter Aqiluo Star’s monsters, while scorpion monsters emerged nearby.
• Bai Xiaowen used his last Divine-Scion Tier Insight Orb and repeatedly studied Taigong’s Art of War until he broke through to the high tier.
• Bai Xiaowen expanded the inner chamber of his Elixir Field and realized this would allow his Spirit Force crystal to grow and evolve.

After Bai Xiaowen broke through to level 17, his summoned army grew much stronger and defeated the scorpion monsters around the great rift. While inspecting the spoils from Okandis's corpse, Bai Xiaowen found a bronze disc marked with Divine Script.

• Sigrdrifa and the summoned army held back the scorpion monsters while Bai Xiaowen focused on his breakthrough.
• Bai Xiaowen reached level 17, greatly strengthening his summoned creatures through his high-tier Command-type Lord abilities.
• Bai Xiaowen used Lightning Strikes to help his army kill or drive off the scorpion monsters, and Abaddon and Butcher gathered their corpses for an undead army.
• Sigrdrifa congratulated Bai Xiaowen and presented the spoils recovered from Okandis's corpse, including a damaged Holy Spirit Heart and the fifth fragment of the Heaven's Punishment Sword.
• Bai Xiaowen examined a bronze disc and recognized Divine Script on it.

Bai Xiaowen studied the Titan Star Chart and began deciphering Okandis’s records to assess the dangers of the Origin Land. After Abaddon finished converting the defeated monsters, Bai Xiaowen left to seek a valuable Long-Range Teleportal, realizing that conserving Spirit Force would be crucial to survival.

• Bai Xiaowen used his Spirit Sense to inspect the Titan Star Chart and found Okandis’s star map and travel notes in Divine Script.
• Bai Xiaowen inferred that triangles marked dangerous planets, arrows showed planetary movement, and other symbols marked locations of interest, but he could not interpret the latest record reading “seven.”
• Abaddon reported that he had made three Leader Tier Stitched Monsters and converted the remaining corpses into Elite Tier Skeleton Champions.
• Bai Xiaowen left Aqiluo Star in search of a Long-Range Teleportal and avoided fighting the wary creatures gathered around the remaining Primordial Spiritual Energy.
• Bai Xiaowen watched the creatures fight over the energy and concluded that Spirit Force conservation was vital, while his summons’ ability to replenish through Soul Essence gave them an advantage.

Bai Xiaowen searched Aqiluo Star for a Long-Range Teleportal leading to the Second-Layer Starfield and traveled through it alone. He arrived on a frozen planet, where the extreme cold and thick ice greeted him.

• Bai Xiaowen found and recorded two Short-Range Teleportals, then continued searching while fighting insect monsters and absorbing their Soul Essence.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered a Long-Range Teleportal to a nine-planet cluster in the Second-Layer Starfield and noted that its central planet bore an unusual eye symbol.
• Bai Xiaowen had his undead servants bury themselves near the portal and marked one with a Daoist spell so he could monitor Aqiluo Star.
• Bai Xiaowen spent a Divine Core to activate the portal and traveled alone, keeping the Four Heavenly Kings and his other summoned creatures in Death God's Visage.
• Bai Xiaowen arrived on a planet covered in thick ice, where the temperature was around minus one hundred degrees Celsius.

The narrator requested a day off because severe rhinitis blocked both nostrils and made their chest feel tight.

• The narrator described having severe rhinitis.
• The narrator said both nostrils were completely blocked and their chest felt tight.
• The narrator requested a day off.

Bai Xiaowen explored Profound Ice Star, uncovered a sealed Planetary Portal, and encountered dangerous monsters along the way. At another buried portal, he found two alien treasure hunters and chose to wait while they excavated it.

• Bai Xiaowen dug through the ice on Profound Ice Star, found a Planetary Portal and Boundary Stele, and deciphered references to the Hall of Prophecy and an underground path leading to holiness.
• Bai Xiaowen killed an Ice Leech that attacked him and collected its Divine Core and Ice Leech Fang materials.
• Bai Xiaowen traveled for eleven hours on the Frost Dragon, fought Ice Vengeful Spirits, and reached another suspected Planetary Portal.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered two concealed aliens excavating the ice valley and learned that they had found the buried portal first.
• Bai Xiaowen refused the aliens' demand for ten Divine Cores and waited nearby as they continued digging.

Bai Xiaowen encountered two aliens excavating Profound Ice Star and helped them survive an Ice Leech swarm, which Chadu destroyed with Meteorfall Art. The impact exposed a ruin beneath the ice, and the group split up to explore separate entrances.

• Bai Xiaowen watched Chadu and the bristled alien excavate until Ice Leeches burst through the ice and attacked them.
• The bristled alien transformed into a Tauren giant to defend himself while Chadu used stellar magic against the swarm.
• Chadu asked Bai Xiaowen for help, and Bai Xiaowen used Intimidation to control the Ice Leeches while the aliens escaped its effects.
• Chadu cast Meteorfall Art and struck the swarm with a meteorite, creating a crater in the ice.
• Bai Xiaowen, Chadu, and the bristled alien found a ruin passage exposed by the impact, then Chadu and the bristled alien entered one opening while Bai Xiaowen cleared and chose the other.

Bai Xiaowen explored a freezing tunnel on Profound Ice Star, collected fragments of the Frozen Ancient God Seal, and considered whether Sigrdrifa might recover memories there. The group heard a rustling from the chamber below as swarms of insects surged toward them.

• Bai Xiaowen found a fragment of the Frozen Ancient God Seal and learned that reassembling it required 17,737 pieces.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Sigrdrifa and Kitz to help collect Divine Seal Blackstones as they descended through the tunnel.
• Bai Xiaowen told Sigrdrifa to stay with him and report any memories she recovered while exploring Profound Ice Star.
• Bai Xiaowen reflected on his lack of guidance from the gods and suspected the dead seventh Death God, Naige'er, and the Black Book were involved.
• Sigrdrifa warned Bai Xiaowen as two waves of insects surged up from the chamber below.

Bai Xiaowen and his summoned creatures fought through a swarm of Ice Leech Larvae by exploiting their vulnerability to poison and fire. They reached an underground space where the larvae grew scarce, and Kitz wondered why the insects avoided it.

• Sigrdrifa's Spirit Force attacks proved ineffective against the larvae, so Bai Xiaowen tested fire and found it could still burn them.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned the Butcher, whose Rotting Poison Mist killed the larvae and whose Slaughterhouse skill restored his resources as they advanced.
• Bai Xiaowen's group followed the Butcher through insect-filled chambers, collecting Divine Seal Blackstones and examining murals along the way.
• The Butcher reached an open underground space where few larvae remained, and Kitz asked why the insects avoided it.

Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa entered a hidden underground hall and fought a two-clawed Monster Serpent that could absorb Spirit Force and attack Spirit Sense. After defeating it, they learned they had passed a test and heard the voice of a ghost of the Old Kingdom.

• Bai Xiaowen examined the underground hall, discovered protective Divine Script carvings, and found that a force suppressed Spirit Sense.
• Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa continued deeper despite an aged voice repeatedly warning them to turn back.
• A two-clawed Monster Serpent attacked Sigrdrifa, and Bai Xiaowen discovered it could absorb Spirit Force and negate some attacks.
• The Monster Serpent froze Sigrdrifa with its red eyes, but Bai Xiaowen's Eye of Evolution reflected its Spirit Sense attack and let him pin it down.
• The aged voice announced that Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa had passed the test and identified itself as a ghost of the Old Kingdom.

Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa met Antakhe, a caretaker who revealed the history of Hailan Star and the sleeping Antakheans beneath its ice. Antakhe began explaining the world’s three eras and the origins of the gods, leaving Bai Xiaowen listening as the account continued.

• Bai Xiaowen learned that Antakhe was a mental projection representing the Antakhean consciousnesses sleeping beneath Hailan Star.
• Antakhe explained that Hailan Star had once been an ocean world where the Antakheans worshiped Neptune, until a war among the gods froze the planet and destroyed their kingdom.
• Antakhe described how twelve great sages created twelve caretakers to guard the sleeping Antakheans and revive their kingdom in a new era.
• Antakhe led Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa through the mental barriers to an underground gallery filled with Antakheans asleep inside pillars of ice.
• Antakhe explained the First Era as the Creation Era and began describing the Second Era, when the gods governed the universe and pursued knowledge.

Bai Xiaowen learned how the gods created the races and how Ragnarok drove them from the Main Material Plane, though the Antakha Caretaker did not know the war’s true cause. The Antakha Kingdom offered to support Bai Xiaowen in hopes he might someday awaken its people, beginning with its treasured Psychic Force Secret Art.

• The Antakha Caretaker explained that the Supreme God created humans, while five powerful deities created dragons, beasts, elements, undead, and fiends, and other gods modified humans into demi-human races such as the Antakheans.
• The Antakha Caretaker said that mental contamination led to conflict among the gods, whose divine bodies were destroyed in Ragnarok, while their spiritual wills fled to the Astral Plane.
• Bai Xiaowen questioned whether negative emotions alone could have caused the gods’ war, but the Antakha Caretaker admitted that the Antakhe Kingdom had been only a vassal state and did not know the full truth.
• The Antakha Caretaker asked Bai Xiaowen to help the Antakha Old Kingdom awaken its people and promised the kingdom would support him, though it had lost its wealth.
• The Antakha Caretaker offered the kingdom’s long-preserved Psychic Force Secret Art as its remaining source of support.

Bai Xiaowen received the Antakhe Mental Force Secret Art from the Antakha Caretaker and began training to strengthen his mental power and Spirit Force control. He started building the Soul Tower beneath the ice palace, aware that mastering the art would require long, focused training.

• Bai Xiaowen learned that the Antakhe Mental Force Secret Art used mental power to dissolve or absorb the Spirit Force behind enemy attacks and could improve his own Spirit Force control.
• The Antakha Caretaker explained that basic mastery required a hundred days and modest proficiency at least three hundred, then passed the art and his insights to Bai Xiaowen through a mental imprint.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that the secret art involved visualization, tempering, and constructing a Soul Tower, whose height reflected the density of one's mental power.
• Bai Xiaowen began training beneath the ice palace, aiming to build the Soul Tower and gain the defensive Psionic Armor and offensive Mental Dissolution abilities.

Bai Xiaowen built the first level of the Soul Tower and tested the powerful Psionic Armor it enabled, but he chose to continue exploring rather than stay and cultivate. His progress was interrupted when a swarm of Ice Leeches began approaching the underground hall.

• Bai Xiaowen successfully constructed the first level of the Soul Tower, but failed repeatedly to build its second level.
• Bai Xiaowen formed Psionic Armor from six mental-force nodes and True Essence Force, then tested it against Sigrdrifa's attacks.
• Sigrdrifa's full-strength spear thrust breached the Psionic Armor, but Bai Xiaowen dodged the slowed attack.
• The Antakha Caretaker said Bai Xiaowen might reach minor mastery and gain a new Psychic Anomaly Art within a month, but Bai Xiaowen declined to stay and cultivate.
• The underground hall shook as a large swarm of Ice Leeches rushed through the ice, surprising Bai Xiaowen and the Antakha Caretaker.

Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa entered the Antakhe Kingdom’s underground hall to find the controller guiding the Ice Leech swarm. After failing to uncover the controller, Bai Xiaowen faced the swarm’s enormous Spirit Force Manifestation and prepared to fight.

• The Antakha Caretaker discovered that the Ice Leeches had passed the first mental barrier and sent Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa into the underground hall.
• Bai Xiaowen searched for the swarm’s controller while he and Sigrdrifa dodged the Ice Leeches and killed several suspicious ones.
• Bai Xiaowen sensed that the controller was nearby, but the Ice Leeches retreated before he could locate them.
• The Ice Leeches formed a battle formation, and their combined Spirit Force created a giant that towered over Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa.
• Bai Xiaowen recognized the controller’s extraordinary Command-type mastery and resolved that he could still fight back.

Bai Xiaowen killed the mist-bodied controller behind the Ice Leech attack and learned about the ranks of divine artifacts from the Antakha Caretaker. After collecting fragments of Sea God's Staff, he traveled through the Planetary Portal toward the Prophecy Temple, leaving a Ghost behind as a lookout.

• Bai Xiaowen used True Essence Force: Intimidation to disrupt the Ice Leech formation, then killed its mist-bodied controller with Origin Lightning.
• Bai Xiaowen showed the Antakha Caretaker the Mysterious Leather and Mysterious Core, and received five Sea God's Staff fragments.
• The Antakha Caretaker explained the difference between Origin-Born and crafted divine artifacts and shared records of their names, tiers, and functions.
• The Antakha Caretaker told Bai Xiaowen that two other human-shaped subspecies had already reached the Prophecy Temple through the Planetary Portal.
• Bai Xiaowen and Sigrdrifa cleared the remaining Ice Leeches, and Bai Xiaowen collected materials and Divine Cores from their corpses.
• Bai Xiaowen left a Leader Tier Ghost buried as a lookout, activated the Planetary Portal, and traveled to the Prophecy Temple.

Bai Xiaowen reached the Prophecy Temple and discovered that flying was forbidden on its steps. At the plaza, he met Jin Gong, a goblin Chosen One who ran a trading market for divine artifact fragments.

• Bai Xiaowen checked his sensing Immortal Talisman and confirmed that Xia Feng had not visited the Prophecy Temple.
• A mysterious pressure forced Bai Xiaowen to stay on the ground when he tried to fly, so he ran up the temple steps instead.
• Bai Xiaowen found a huge statue and rows of stalls covered in notices written in an unfamiliar script.
• Jin Gong introduced himself as a Chosen One of the God of Wealth and offered translation services for one Divine Core.
• Jin Gong explained that he connected explorers trading divine artifact fragments and charged a fee for arranging their deals.