Chapter Summaries

After recovering his HuoZhong bone marrow, Li Mu raised his Disguise talent to LV20, began strengthening his Phoenix bloodline, and gathered Gluttonous Jellyfish as reserves for leveling. He returned to the Hurricane Archipelago, learned that the Whirlpool Archipelago’s ancient ruin had caused the hurricanes to weaken, and chose to prepare before joining the expedition.

• Li Mu hunted the remaining Pure Sea Demon Lotuses until he reached LV40, then raised Disguise to LV20 and gained the Rebirth trait.
• Li Mu bought thunderbird and peacock blood, used it to brew Life Blood Wine, and began cultivating his Phoenix bloodline.
• Li Mu paralyzed the Gluttonous Jellyfish in a dark sea region and sealed them in the space inside the painting as reserve rations.
• Li Mu returned to the Hurricane Archipelago and learned that the whirlpools and hurricanes had weakened after the sea race’s near-extinction and the discovery of an ancient ruin.
• Li Mu decided to raise his Blood Origin Wizard to LV50 before exploring the ruin, then arrived in Turin City and spent the evening relaxing.

Li Mu discovered that a cursed ship figurehead connected to a Second Epoch space, then obtained and examined the Brandon Family’s Altar of the Dead. When Lucy awakened, he realized the person in her room was an impostor and suspected the old steward had helped the real Lucy escape or switch places.

• Li Mu bought billions of gold coins’ worth of resources from the Turin Merchant Association, then secluded himself to create Blood God Spawn and learn Blood Origin Wizard spells.
• The Hurricane Battle Corps reported that a salvaged figurehead had caused deaths in the City Lord’s Mansion, and Li Mu learned it connected to an alternate space transmitting curses at night.
• Li Mu treated Lucy with Nirvana Flame and received the Altar of the Dead from the old steward, then used Heart Sense Perception to uncover its powers and dangers.
• Li Mu placed a Golden Crow Secondary Soul to watch Lucy, but two days later he found that the awakened woman was not the real Lucy and suspected the old steward had helped switch her.

Li Mu uncovered a trace of the Lord of Twilight’s divinity hidden in the Altar of the Dead, then abandoned the Hurricane Lord identity and began considering how to replace Ghost Admiral Richardson. At the Turin auction, he bought five [relics] and escaped the trackers by using a Blood God Spawn as a decoy; he then began removing the mental marks on the items.

• Li Mu used Heart Sense Perception to discover the Lord of Twilight’s divinity parasitizing the undead divinity within the Altar of the Dead.
• Li Mu sold the Hurricane Lord’s territories and properties to Poseidonia Grand Lord for five hundred million gold coins, then left the Hurricane Archipelago with the Hurricane Battle Corps.
• Li Mu chose Ghost Admiral Richardson as a potential identity to steal, but learned Richardson was exceptionally difficult to capture and postponed the attempt.
• At the Turin Merchant Association auction, Li Mu bought a blood dragon’s dragon crystal, avoided bidding on a vampire prince’s blood core, and later purchased all five auctioned [relics].
• Li Mu escaped the auction by teleporting and using a Blood God Spawn to bear the trackers’ mental marks, then examined the [relics] and summoned the steam mechanic to remove their marks.

Li Mu traveled to Sea Forest, learned that Ghost Admiral Richardson would return before his wedding, and devised a plan to capture him. He disguised himself as Richardson’s lover Sani and waited in her place to lure Richardson into a trap.

• Li Mu converted a purple Relic into the Multiplier Revolver and upgraded Soul-Stinging Thorn by fusing it with a green Relic, gaining the ability to create Abyss Soul Poison.
• Li Mu reached Sea Forest, traded goods in Sea Grudge City, and infiltrated the City Lord’s Mansion through the Mirror World to read the memories of its residents.
• Li Mu learned that Richardson was away seeking a gift for his fiancée Helena and would return within a month to marry her.
• Li Mu captured a goblin delivering fruit to the City Lord’s Mansion, turned it into a Blood God Spawn, and disguised himself as a Summer Moon Fruit in the shipment.
• Li Mu put Sani to sleep, took her magical treasures, turned her into a Blood God Spawn, and assumed her appearance to await Richardson.

Li Mu lured Richardson into the undead plane, sealed him, and turned him into a Blood God Spawn before claiming the plane as his own. With Richardson managing the Undead Heart and Altar of the Dead, Li Mu began investigating why no undead in the plane had intelligence.

• Richardson returned to Sani and tried to save her when she began vomiting blood, then took her to the undead plane and placed the Undead Heart inside her.
• Li Mu emerged from Sani, used the Nightmare Crown and Spacetime Source Core to strip Richardson of his authority, and sealed his main body with the Blood Source God-Sealing Curse.
• Li Mu pursued Richardson’s avatar, overcame the summoned LV70 Spectral Death Adjudicator with the Steam Mechanic’s help, and killed the avatar with a Soul-Stinging Thorn.
• Li Mu turned Richardson into a Blood God Spawn, discovered the Undead Heart’s side effects also affected him, and temporarily sealed the Relic while giving Richardson control of the Altar of the Dead.
• Li Mu refined the undead plane’s core to become its master, forced the Death Adjudicator to retreat, and used Heart Sense Perception on an LV60 Dark Specter to investigate the plane’s unintelligent undead.

Li Mu discovered that the undead plane’s curse could threaten his intelligence, transferred its burden to his Demon God Juvenile clone, and claimed the Bag of Greed. When Helena arrived for their wedding, she recognized that he was Li Mu rather than Richardson and revealed the black-quality Abyss Demon Heart fused with her.

• Li Mu traced the warnings from Heart Sense Perception and the Hope Pendant to a curse on the undead plane, then bound Richardson to his Demon God Juvenile clone to redirect the curse.
• Li Mu claimed the Bag of Greed, whose Greed Coins could force transactions but whose use consumed lifespan and caused addiction; he planned to transfer its side effects to his clone.
• Li Mu returned to Sea Grudge City, prepared for the wedding, and received a message from Grand Lord Poseidonia saying Helena would be sent through a temporary teleportation gate without guests.
• Helena arrived in a tattered wedding dress, recognized Li Mu beneath his Richardson disguise, and insisted that she wanted to marry him.
• Li Mu read Helena’s memories and learned that Grand Lord Poseidonia planned to use her child with Richardson to obtain the Bag of Greed and pursue demigodhood.
• Li Mu discovered that Helena had been fused from birth with the black-quality Forbidden Relic Abyss Demon Heart, which let her perceive and affect the thoughts of others.

Li Mu turned Helena into a special Blood God Spawn, but the Abyss Heart intervened when the old butler and Lucy tried to summon a god inside the Mirror Void. After investigating the relic and uncovering Lucy’s role in the Brandon Family’s downfall, Li Mu preserved his cover and gained a strengthened Mirror Void, though he began to suspect another force was behind his extraordinary luck.

• Li Mu decided to bind Helena as his slave and transform her into a special Blood God Spawn, then ordered the wedding to be held the next day.
• Li Mu used the Blood Source Fusion Agent and a blood pool to change Helena’s class, formed a contract with her, and completed her transformation.
• While Li Mu slept, the old butler and Lucy seized control of the Mirror Void and began a ritual to communicate with a god.
• Helena’s Abyss Heart altered the ritual and summoned black slime that swallowed the old butler and Lucy before Helena collapsed.
• Li Mu regained control of the Mirror Void, investigated the Abyss Heart, and learned that Lucy had deceived the old butler and caused the Brandon Family’s destruction.
• After Helena recovered, Li Mu realized his good fortune on the Abyss Giant Star might have another source beyond his demonic god infant avatar.

Li Mu discovered that [Relics] were dead HuoZhongs and married Helena on the Abyss Giant Star before raising the Phoenix to LV19. Back in Golden Crow City, he learned the Alien Races had begun using Seed Destroyers, and Zhang Yi revealed that Gaia’s will now allowed some Alien Race geniuses to awaken Origin HuoZhongs, leaving Li Mu worried that humanity’s confidence could prove misplaced.

• Li Mu used Heart Sense Perception to learn that [Relics] were dead HuoZhongs transformed by the Abyss HuoZhong, and confirmed that HuoZhong Professionals received the Abyss Giant Star’s favor.
• Li Mu married Helena in Richardson’s place, held off Sea Forest Family elders with undead creatures, and spent the night with Helena.
• Li Mu raised the Phoenix’s hull structure and Shipboard Spark to LV19, then had Helena use the Abyss Heart to identify the Crystal Skull’s eye as an Abyss Eye that required Brandon Family bloodline to unseal.
• Li Mu returned with Helena to Golden Crow City and learned from Zhang Yi that Alien Races were attacking human cities and could now pilot Seed Destroyers.
• Zhang Yi explained that the Alien Races’ growing influence over Gaia’s will had crossed a threshold that let some of their geniuses awaken Origin HuoZhongs, while the Spark Alliance planned to use war to purge rivals and select who could remain in the Spark World.
• Li Mu doubted that the Spark Alliance’s confidence was justified and feared the Alien Races might eventually defeat humanity.

Li Mu fused the Abyss Eye with the Clairvoyance Spark and used crystallized godhead powder to upgrade the Shipboard Spark, gaining a Virtual Godhead that converted faith into HuoZhong Source Power. He set out for the Starlight War Zone to hunt Alien Races for battle merit, but his first test against the Light Spirit Race revealed the overwhelming strength of its LV80 leader.

• Li Mu broke the Crystal Skull’s seal with Belloc’s blood, fused the Abyss Eye with the Clairvoyance Spark, and gained powerful vision abilities while deciding not to risk activating Abyss Gaze.
• Li Mu discovered the Crystal Skull’s remains were crystallized godhead powder and used them to upgrade the Shipboard Spark, which gained the Virtual Godhead characteristic and began converting faith into HuoZhong Source Power.
• Li Mu ordered the Phoenix Apostle to mythologize him, left Rei Ayanami in charge of Golden Crow City, and traveled to the Starlight War Zone to pursue the Spark Alliance’s battle-merit rewards.
• After reviewing the war-zone intelligence, Li Mu learned that the Light Spirit Race was besieging Starlight Free City and that its leader was an LV80 extraordinary lifeform.
• Li Mu tested his Void Realm Starshatter Cannon against the Light Spirit Race in the Mirror World, killing many of its members but getting the Phoenix destroyed by the leader after its twenty seconds of invulnerability ended.
• Li Mu restarted the Mirror Void and planned to find a way to escape after firing another shot so he could devastate the Light Spirit Race and earn battle merit.

Li Mu failed to recruit Starlight Free City for a coordinated strike, but crippled the Light Spirit Race with a surprise Void Realm Shell before moving to Gemstone Forest to earn battle merits and HuoZhong Source Coins. After his successful purge made him a target of the Alien Alliance, he considered buying a Phoenix Feather to strengthen the Phoenix, while wondering whether the offer was bait.

• Li Mu contacted Xin Zhengxiang to arrange an attack on the Light Spirit Race, but Helena detected Xin Zhengxiang's lies and Li Mu decided to fire one shot before leaving.
• Li Mu disguised himself, launched a delayed Void Realm Shell that killed Light Spirit Race members below LV50, and earned more than 160,000 battle merits.
• The enraged Light Spirit Race leader broke through Starlight Free City's defenses and looted the city, while the Spark Alliance blamed Xin Zhengxiang for the defeat rather than Li Mu.
• Li Mu traveled to Gemstone Forest and used Void Realm Shells to complete mercenary missions, earning nearly eighty million HuoZhong Source Coins over more than half a month.
• Li Mu's battle merit passed one million and he entered the rankings' top hundred, prompting warnings from his Hope Pendant and making him a target for the Alien Alliance.
• Li Mu considered spending battle merit on a Phoenix Feather that could strengthen the Phoenix's hull, but suspected the item might be bait.

Li Mu upgraded the Phoenix with a Phoenix Feather and several powerful modules, including the Void Realm Starshatter Cannon, then learned that the Alien Alliance planned to abandon the Spark World for the Nightmare Dimension. With the war nearing its end and his battle-merit rank still far from first, he headed toward other battlefields to challenge stronger alien races.

• Li Mu bought a Phoenix Feather through the Nightmare Black Market, found and removed its hidden tracking mark, and used it to raise the Phoenix's hull structure to Red LV20.
• Li Mu enhanced the Spatial Nanoworm Nest and Light Matter Engine, improving the Phoenix's spatial abilities, repairs, speed, and interstellar travel capabilities.
• Li Mu raised the Void Realm Starshatter Cannon to LV20, gaining the Twins trait that made every shell produce an additional duplicate.
• Li Mu cleared most alien species from the Gemstone Forest Sea, then decided to reinforce other battlefields as the aliens fell into a severe disadvantage.
• The Spark Alliance announced that the Alien Alliance had used a seven-colored HuoZhong to reincarnate fallen aliens in the Nightmare Dimension and planned to abandon the Spark World.
• Li Mu suspected the Spark Alliance had allowed the plan to proceed, saw that he ranked twenty-ninth with 1.4 million battle merits, and resolved to fight powerful alien races for first place.

Li Mu traveled to the underground war zone beneath Black Goat Free City to earn battle merits and upgraded Hull Fusion Technique, gaining the ability to inherit Phoenix’s traits. He fought an elite Alien Race force and killed the LV71 battle-axe insect man, leaving the battlefield cleared of its most dangerous attackers.

• Song Xiaoyu searched the Spark Network for vulnerable war zones, and Li Mu chose the underground region beneath Black Goat Free City.
• Li Mu fused a red Spark Star Core into Hull Fusion Technique, reached LV20, and gained the Fusion trait that let him inherit Phoenix’s traits.
• Li Mu used Hull Fusion and Void Ring attacks to kill lower-level Alien Races besieging a Spark City, while his Blood God Spawns engaged the stronger enemies.
• Li Mu sealed the wind-thunder winged man and captured the shadow frog man and shadow monster in the Mirror Void as the battle-axe insect man attacked him.
• Li Mu survived the insect man’s deadly burst by swapping places with a Blood God Spawn, then used the Bag of Greed to distract him and cut off his head with repeated Void Rings.

Li Mu rushed to aid Mountain Monster City, where he killed the LV82 Star River Divine Spider and absorbed its thread into the Abyss Eye, then captured the city after Shan Mingzhi’s betrayal. When the Blood River Cult’s pope attacked Black Goat Free City, Li Mu escaped the coming battle through a Light Matter Wormhole and returned to Golden Crow City.

• Li Mu cleared the remaining Alien Race members, entered the underground world, and hurried toward Mountain Monster City after Song Xiaoyu reported that Shan Mingzhi had killed the reinforcements and surrendered the city.
• The Star River Divine Spider pierced Li Mu with a thread, but his Abyss Eye consumed it and caused the spider to lose its soul.
• Li Mu absorbed the spider’s remaining power, used its thread to seal Mountain Monster City into a photograph, and received battle merits that raised his total to 3.02 million.
• Li Mu reflected on Shan Mingzhi’s surrender and resolved to grow stronger before traveling to reinforce another Titan Underground City.
• Song Xiaoyu reported that the Blood River Cult’s pope had attacked and captured Black Goat Free City, so Li Mu used Light Matter Wormhole to escape the threatened continent.
• Li Mu returned to Golden Crow City and prepared to clear the Alien Races hiding in the Vast Sea Realm.

Li Mu watched the Spark Alliance evacuate humanity from the Spark World and seal it, then learned Gaia intended to consume all life and that the alliance had prepared for millions of years to stop it. With the Spark Network restored in the main universe, he learned how HuoZhong Source Power would be obtained and found his new permission rank brought him a yearly conversion limit of three million units.

• Li Mu received the Spark Alliance’s order for humanity to abandon the Spark World, and Golden Crow City was carried away by a seven-colored hook as the alliance evacuated the Spark Cities.
• Li Mu saw the Spark World imprisoned in space, lost contact with Gaia’s Life Seed, and then regained access to the Spark Alliance’s public network.
• Li Mu learned from the network that the primordial Life Seed had created Gaia, that Gaia sought to consume all life, and that the Spark Alliance had spent millions of years preparing to seal the Spark World.
• The Spark Alliance announced that HuoZhong Source Power could come from the Nightmare Dimension, Spark instances, special treasures, or resources converted through projections of the Hope Grail.
• Li Mu checked his first-class earl permissions and learned he could convert three million units of HuoZhong Source Power each year, then reviewed his reserves and unspent battle merits.

Li Mu exchanged his red Spark reward for the Star God Sacred Seal, discovered it was a key to a dangerous ancient treasury, and fused it into the Shipboard Spark after finding a way to conceal its side effects. He spent the rest of his battle merits on a King-class Seed Cruiser dockyard and rare creature blood, then witnessed the Spark World being sealed as the Spark Alliance began issuing plans for the rescued Spark Cities.

• Li Mu rejected the Neutron Star Armor and Black Hole Engine before exchanging his reward for the Star God Sacred Seal, despite its dangerous side effects.
• Li Mu used Heart Sense Perception to discover that the Star God Sacred Seal was a key to an ancient treasury, but the trials required strength above LV90.
• Li Mu fused the Star God Sacred Seal into the Shipboard Spark and concealed it with the Shipboard Spark, its disguise trait, the Spacetime Source Core, and the Anchor of Fantasy.
• Li Mu spent 600,000 battle merits on a King-class Seed Cruiser dockyard and the remaining 190,000 on powerful creatures' blood, including Black Goat Demon God essence blood.
• After waiting more than a month, Li Mu saw Spark Energy chains link the stars around the Spark World and seal it away as the Spark Alliance's arrangements for the Spark Cities began arriving.

Li Mu established Golden Crow City on a promising life star, prepared it for development, and began exploring unclaimed star systems for resources and military merit. After months of poor results, Helena used the Abyss Heart to identify a meteorite that came from a potentially valuable place, giving Li Mu a new way to find promising systems.

• Li Mu used Heart Sense Perception to select a life star, then moved Golden Crow City there and bought resources, including a Miracle Ancient Tree seed, to develop the planet.
• Li Mu built ten King-class Cruiser dockyards and set out in the Phoenix to explore the main universe, sending Blood God Spawns to crew the cruisers.
• After the cruisers found little value in their first system, Li Mu surrendered its star map for military merit and continued exploring dozens of systems without success.
• Li Mu told Helena about his fruitless exploration, and she used the Abyss Heart to investigate a planet.
• Helena traced a meteorite to a very special place, and Li Mu realized meteorites could help him locate potentially valuable star systems.

Li Mu investigated a lightless star system covered in black mycelium and learned that the filaments were shed hairs from a Super Life of at least LV70. He deceived the Ghost Knight Order into signing a new contract and led them toward the system’s core, where he discovered the Super Life was a spherical fungal creature.

• The Phoenix reached the lightless system, where Li Mu sent a King Cruiser to collect samples from the black mycelium covering its asteroid belt.
• The mycelium parasitized the King Cruiser, and Helena used the Abyss Eye to learn that it was the growing body hair of a powerful Super Life.
• Li Mu tested several flames and abilities against the mycelium, then decided to use the Ghost Knight Order to explore the system.
• Li Mu disguised himself as Belloc, tricked Jones and the Ghost Knights into accepting a new demon contract, and brought them into space to confront the Super Life.
• The Ghost Knight Order cleared a path through the mycelium and teleported toward the system’s core, where Li Mu saw a spherical creature covered in black fungal threads.

Li Mu and the Ghost Knight Order battled the Star-Devouring Spore, a super lifeform whose evolving power far exceeded its apparent level. After weeks of attrition, they killed it and escaped its collapsing body, leaving half the star system engulfed in darkness.

• Helena identified the Star-Devouring Spore and warned Li Mu that it was pretending to sleep while evolving.
• Li Mu tested Phoenix against the creature, but its attacks overwhelmed Phoenix, so he sent 261 Blood God Spawns to give the Ghost Knight Order physical bodies and stacked auras onto them.
• Jones led the Ghost Knight Order in attacking the Star-Devouring Spore while Li Mu and Phoenix restrained its star rings and supported them.
• After the creature unleashed a dark domain and tried to teleport away, Li Mu suppressed it with the Spacetime Source Core as the Ghost Knight Order continued wearing down its defenses.
• Li Mu and the Ghost Knight Order exposed the Star-Devouring Spore’s core, and Jones extracted its soul with Ghost Grip while Li Mu captured its body in the Bone Blood Gourd.
• The Star-Devouring Spore’s shell collapsed and its parasites self-destructed, so Li Mu opened a wormhole to escape as darkness dissolved the surrounding celestial bodies.

Li Mu dissected the Star-Devouring Spore and fused its Heart Core with his Blood Source Heart Core to create the Blood Source Gourd, which could cultivate Blood God Spawns and devour planets. While searching a new star system, he found the Holy Stone Clan and discovered that its records inexplicably omitted another habitable planet.

• Li Mu dissected the Star-Devouring Spore and extracted its Star-Devouring Heart Core.
• Li Mu used prolonged Heart Sense Perception to determine how to fuse the Star-Devouring Heart Core and his damaged Blood Source Heart Core into the Bone Blood Gourd.
• Li Mu completed the fusion after six months, creating the level-41 Blood Source Gourd with a Blood God Realm and the ability to devour stars.
• Li Mu tested the gourd by having its Blood Bewildering Mist consume a barren planet, strengthening the mist and expanding the sea of blood.
• Helena identified a star system containing a civilization, and Li Mu found the Holy Stone Clan on its homeworld.
• Li Mu discovered that the Holy Stone Clan's records never mentioned another habitable planet, suggesting someone had deliberately concealed it.

Li Mu conquered the Holy Stone Homeworld, harvested it and a nearby planet with the Blood Source Gourd, and captured the giant Holy Stone Clan member after damaging a star. He returned to Golden Crow Star to prepare for the Spark Alliance’s assessment on artificial fire-seed technology, then dug up the dormant Miracle Ancient Tree seed and considered traveling to another world to transform it.

• Li Mu sent Jones and the 260 Ghost Knights to conquer the Holy Stone Homeworld, while a giant Holy Stone Clan member attacked and then fled toward the star to charge a destructive attack.
• Li Mu interrupted the giant’s attack with the Phoenix, battered it with Void Realm Shells, and drove it into the star after it abandoned its main shell.
• Li Mu used the Blood Source Gourd to devour the Holy Stone Homeworld and the depleted neighboring planet, then damaged the star until the giant Holy Stone Clan member emerged and fled.
• Li Mu caught the giant with the Phoenix and sealed it inside the Blood Source Gourd before returning to the Spark Alliance in response to its notice about training HuoZhong Professionals in advanced artificial fire-seed techniques.
• Li Mu reached Golden Crow Star, reviewed the upcoming assessment, and dug up the Miracle Ancient Tree seed after it failed to sprout, considering a high-level transformation in another world.