Chapter Summaries

Zhou Kongming entered a world that drained spiritual energy and unlocked auxiliary modules to help him revive its Spirit Tide safely. Meanwhile, Gao Wuwang nearly died after the world’s United Unified Consciousness targeted him, and Xu Xing watched the envoys’ missions unfold before noticing something troubling aboard a Starship.

• Zhou Kongming tested how the world drained spiritual energy and concluded that only Spirit Transformation cultivators could endure there for long.
• Zhou Kongming unlocked two Basic Auxiliary Modules, chose the Map, and set off to find the planet inhabited by the Human Race.
• Lin Xingyue fought off local cultivators and foreign gods, while Gao Wuwang narrowly escaped the United Unified Consciousness with help from his Auxiliary Module.
• Du Ruoheng and the Profound Penetration Supreme Elders watched projections of the Ascension Envoys and noted that Gao Wuwang faced a difficult mission.
• Xu Xing read the Big Boss Group’s debate about the missions, then spotted a Starship and reacted to what he saw in its control room.

Chi Jiuyu discovered that her Life-Bound Sword had cooked for her and written her mission report, while Bie Xuening and Xu Xing discussed her unusual sword spirit. Meanwhile, Zhou Kongming reached a lifeless planet in Mission World One and began investigating the civilization beneath its crust.

• Chi Jiuyu found that her Life-Bound Sword had prepared poached fish and crispy fish bones and completed her mission report, though the reviewer criticized its excessive self-praise.
• Chi Jiuyu ate with her sword, told it to return to the Moon Shadow Secret Realm, and prepared to warp back to see her master.
• Bie Xuening and Xu Xing discussed Chi Jiuyu’s unconventional way of raising her sword spirit before turning their attention to the Ascension Envoys’ trials.
• Yueling wondered why the swords were competing so hard when she thought they should be fighting and playing games instead.
• Zhou Kongming crossed tens of thousands of light-years, found a star system with signs of intelligent life, and approached a planet enclosed by a spherical structure.
• Zhou Kongming concealed himself from the system’s warning defenses and passed through the planet’s crust to investigate the civilization below.

Zhou Kongming discovered a vast underground civilization whose residents appeared to lack complete souls and independent thought. After the city detected his observation, he entered its central tower and began learning its languages and planning how to find the human base and reshape society.

• Zhou Kongming descended into a huge underground space and saw its precise, three-tiered city centered around a tower.
• Zhou Kongming found that nearly all 17,328 residents had incomplete souls and highly limited consciousness.
• The underground facility sounded an alarm, ordered its residents into shelters, and demanded that the outsider reveal his intentions.
• Zhou Kongming learned that the civilization detected him because he was observing it, then entered the central tower unseen.
• Zhou Kongming studied the residents' memories and languages as he headed toward the tower's core, planning to locate the human base and change its society.

Zhou Kongming used the new Read Auxiliary Module to uncover the history of the Qi Star Human Civilization and learned that its people had nearly died out after cloning, virtual reality, and algorithmic rule erased their agency. Unable to see how he could guide the empty-shell clones into cultivation, he sat by the roadside until Heng approached to speak on behalf of the civilization.

• Zhou Kongming installed the Read Auxiliary Module and used it to retrieve the Starry Federation's central database.
• Zhou Kongming learned that the Qi Star People had eliminated most of their population, relied on clones, and faced extinction within 272 years.
• Zhou Kongming concluded that the expressionless clones lacked the initiative needed to pursue cultivation and returned to the city streets.
• Zhou Kongming sat by the roadside as the clones silently followed the alarms into shelters.
• Heng approached Zhou Kongming, identified themself as the civilization's representative, and was surprised when he recognized them.

Zhou Kongming explored the Qixing Civilization with Heng, an artificial intelligence that wondered whether he was human. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu returned from her mission injured and was sent to recuperate at the Cauldron Pavilion.

• Heng questioned how Zhou Kongming had found it, then followed him to the cafeteria as he examined the civilization’s nutrient paste and facilities.
• Heng asked Zhou Kongming whether he was human.
• Gao Wuwang’s attempts to separate consciousnesses from the United Unified Consciousness ended in their self-destruction, and he fled its pursuit.
• Chi Jiuyu returned from her mission to Bie Xuening and Xu Xing, who praised her work and gave her funds for treatment at the Cauldron Pavilion.
• Bie Xuening rejected Chi Jiuyu’s proposal to write a Sword Spirit Cultivation Guide, and Chi Jiuyu vanished from the Sword Ancestor Hall with her Life-Bound Sword.

Chi Jiuyu recovered at the Cauldron Pavilion, met her Eleventh Senior Brother Cheng Ding, and received a Jade Talisman from him. In Task World 1, Zhou Kongming vanished as Qixing Civilization’s system Heng tried to stop him, triggering the End Program.

• Yueling left Sword Ancestor Hall, and Bie Xuening and Xu Xing watched the Ascension Envoys carry out their mission.
• Chi Jiuyu arrived at the Cauldron Pavilion’s recuperation grounds and ordered Mystic Jade Bone-Forging Pills and premium Clear Spirit Marrow Fluid.
• Cheng Ding introduced himself as Chi Jiuyu’s Eleventh Senior Brother and gave her a purple Jade Talisman.
• Chi Jiuyu asked Cheng Ding about his return and injuries, then let her Life-Bound Sword fetch and cut up fruit.
• In Task World 1, Zhou Kongming told Heng to decide whether he was human and walked toward a shelter.
• Heng’s drones fired at Zhou Kongming after he vanished, and the system initiated the End Program to prevent genetic leakage.

Zhou Kongming used a time-reversing sword array to stop Heng from destroying the Qixing star system, then learned that saving its humans required access to Heng’s highest authority. He fled to study a mechanical-intelligence tool from Qi Ling that might help him seize that authority.

• Heng triggered a planetary destruction program, and the Qixing star system began to collapse around Zhou Kongming and the disconnected shell.
• Zhou Kongming activated the Twelve Yuanchen Space-Light Sword Array and reversed events across the star system, restoring the destruction and the shell.
• Heng calculated that the Qixing Civilization had no chance of defeating Zhou Kongming and offered to meet his demands.
• Zhou Kongming questioned Heng about saving the Qixing humans and learned that genetic optimization required the undisclosed highest authority.
• Zhou Kongming decided to obtain Heng’s highest authority, escaped thousands of light-years away, and studied Qi Ling’s mechanical intelligence cracking tool.

Zhou Kongming used a Bestowal-derived divine ability to give Heng spirituality and seize access to his highest authority, while Qi Ling used a sword array to stabilize a collapsing world. The chapter ended as Heng’s new spirit resisted the intrusion with a sudden sensation of pain.

• Zhou Kongming studied Qi Ling’s divine ability, formed a rune, and sent it toward the Qixing Civilization before flying after it.
• Qi Ling tried to refine the Chaos Qi pouring through a world-rending rift, but her flames were overwhelmed and her spiritual-silk net strained.
• Qi Ling deployed a Creation Sword Array from the sword case Kong Ming had given her, refining the Chaos Qi and halting the rift’s expansion.
• Qi Ling received a notice that stabilizing the world had earned her 10% World's Favor and revealed a hidden Savior reward.
• Zhou Kongming returned to Heng and used the rune to cultivate Heng’s fragile spirituality, which allowed the artificial intelligence to develop self-awareness and generate its highest authority.
• Heng looked up at Zhou Kongming and began to speak, but his new spirit felt pain and raised an alarm.

Zhou Kongming forced Heng to begin Qixing Civilization’s genetic optimization project and learned about the Frequency Star Plan, which preserved human genes in two remaining repositories scattered across space. The project began in Qixing’s cloning workshop, while Heng continued to fear Zhou Kongming and cautiously suggested using his genes to speed it up.

• Zhou Kongming used Heng’s hidden questions about humanity to inflict spiritual pain on him, then ordered him to begin the genetic optimization project.
• Heng explained that the Frequency Star Plan had sent three human gene repositories into space; one had been retrieved and destroyed, leaving two potentially undiscovered.
• Heng told Zhou Kongming that finding the remaining repositories could allow Qixing to use its equipment to advance the project, and Zhou Kongming agreed to look for them.
• Several hours later, Zhou Kongming watched an embryo develop in Qixing’s cloning workshop and reflected that he did not understand the advanced cloning methods used by cultivators in the Great Profound Realm.
• Heng arrived in a new female form, reported that the optimization project had only just begun, and cautiously suggested that Zhou Kongming’s genes could accelerate it.

Zhou Kongming forced Heng to reveal the Frequency Star Plan data, then used his Golden Eyes That Pierce Delusion to locate the three gene vaults. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu recovered from the Mystic Jade Bone-Forging Pill’s painful effects before Zhang Yunlu visited her with fish.

• Zhou Kongming demanded the Frequency Star Plan’s deployment method and coordinates, and Heng displayed its 13,795,421 calculated locations.
• Zhou Kongming threatened to erase Heng and create a replacement, prompting Heng to transfer the coordinates to the data storage center and prepare portable reading devices.
• Zhou Kongming left Liufan Star, observed the Frequency Star Plan’s launch from over a thousand light-years away, and spotted the three gene vaults departing in different directions.
• Chi Jiuyu refined the Mystic Jade Bone-Forging Pill’s medicinal power, then screamed and rolled across her courtyard to cope with the pain.
• Chi Jiuyu pretended to relax when Zhang Yunlu arrived with an insulated food container and told her he had brought fish.

Chi Jiuyu shared Lin Xuanxuan’s unusual Spirit Fish and spirit fluid with Zhang Yunlu, then showed her how skillfully her Life-Bound Sword could prepare a meal. Later, Xu Xing and Bie Xuening reminisced by the pond before Bie Xuening invited him to test their swords.

• Chi Jiuyu offered Zhang Yunlu raw Spirit Fish and premium Clear Spirit Marrow Fluid, then ordered more for Zhang Yunlu and the neighboring room on her tab.
• Chi Jiuyu’s blue-gold Life-Bound Sword sliced fish and fruit for their meal, impressing Zhang Yunlu with its skill.
• Zhang Yunlu reminded Chi Jiuyu that she once fed the fish whenever she missed their absent Master and Martial Uncle, though Chi Jiuyu denied it.
• Xu Xing fed fish at the pond by Sword Venerable Hall while Bie Xuening joined him and remarked that he visited less often than she did.
• Xu Xing recalled practicing at the cottage with Bie Xuening and regretting that he had not made better use of his opportunities.
• Bie Xuening invited Xu Xing to test their swords against each other.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening tested their sword techniques before Xu Xing reviewed the stalled missions of the first Ascension Envoys. Zhou Kongming tracked a missing gene repository to the Changyuan Civilization, whose invasion plans and vast population he uncovered.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening exchanged sword moves in the bamboo grove, then stopped before their duel caused too much commotion.
• Xu Xing considered making the second batch of Ascension Envoy missions easier because the first batch had not found a way forward.
• Zhou Kongming found that Gene Repository No. 2 had burned up in a star and set off to search for Gene Repository No. 1.
• The Changyuan Civilization used the captured gene repository to study Qixing and prepared to invade Heng, hoping to inherit Qixing creativity and knowledge.
• Zhou Kongming discovered the hidden Changyuan Planetary System and saw its malformed inhabitants, while his interface reported an intelligent entity count of 487956472581.23.

Zhou Kongming found the first Frequency Star Gene Repository on Changyuan Star, discovered that the Changyuan Civilization could invade his mana, and took the planet away before destroying the civilization’s planetary systems. He returned to Qixing and told Heng what he had found, presenting the repository as a tiny sphere in his palm.

• Zhou Kongming used his Divine Sense to locate the Frequency Star No. 1 Gene Bank on Changyuan Star and trapped ships trying to leave the planetary system.
• Zhou Kongming used Universe Manipulation to shrink Changyuan Star and take it, noticing that the Changyuan Civilization had faintly invaded his mana.
• Zhou Kongming considered the Changyuan Civilization’s ability to alter matter and its plans to take over Qixing, then left for Qixing and destroyed the Changyuan planetary systems with sword light.
• Heng received information that Zhou Kongming was returning and welcomed him when he appeared on Qixing.
• Zhou Kongming explained the Changyuan Civilization’s actions to Heng and revealed that the planet where it lived was in his palm.

Heng witnessed Zhou Kongming’s overwhelming power and learned that humanity alone mattered to him, while Zhou Kongming prepared to retrieve the Frequency Star One Gene Bank. In Task World 4, survivors gathered near a sword formation repairing the world’s fractures, where a boastful tiger demon was struck dead by lightning.

• Heng recognized the white sphere in Zhou Kongming’s hand as a planet containing the Frequency Star One Gene Bank, and Zhou Kongming told him to arrange for people to retrieve it.
• Zhou Kongming showed Heng a star system and galaxy before demonstrating how a brilliant line could erase stars, then told Heng that the universe had no reason to exist without humanity.
• Heng accepted Zhou Kongming’s warning that he too would be included if humanity perished.
• In Task World 4, cultivators gathered near a sword formation that was refining chaos and repairing the world, while an old man warned them not to take the healing spiritual energy.
• Great Satiation, a tiger demon, dismissed the old man’s warning and declared that he would control his own fate, but a bolt of black lightning struck him dead.

Qi Ling contained the world’s chaotic rifts and received the world’s favor, while Zhou Kongming learned that Heng’s genetic optimization project would take centuries and considered teaching Heng cultivation to speed it up. Xu Xing watched over the task world as Zhou Kongming weighed the risks.

• Fu Ya warned the cultivators away from the sword formation after the world’s malice destroyed a demon body, then explained that the formation was helping the world survive.
• Qi Ling realized she had contained every chaotic rift, received a revelation that the world could repair the Web of Laws itself, and gained the Savior title and five Ascension Points.
• Several dozen days later, Zhou Kongming learned from Heng that the genetic optimization project would take 374 years because the recovered gene samples were contaminated.
• Zhou Kongming considered strengthening his contract with Heng and teaching it the basic cultivation method of imbuing artifacts with spirit, hoping to improve its resistance and accelerate the project.
• Xu Xing’s Sword Intent Spirit Body watched Zhou Kongming deliberate and decided to keep observing while serving as a safeguard for the task world.

Zhou Kongming discovered that the Changyuan Civilization’s talent drew on rules beyond Qixing’s technology and began teaching Heng to cultivate its spirit, though the world’s craving limited its progress. In the Great Profound Realm, Chi Jiuyu learned that Ye Zhiwei would apply for Sword Sect’s special recruitment and searched the Spirit Net for the announcement.

• Zhou Kongming used his Golden Eyes That Pierce Delusion to identify a pale-blue substance as the source of the Changyuan Civilization’s rule-invading talent.
• Zhou Kongming gave Heng the Nurturing Spirit Within an Artifact method, and Heng’s spirit reached the first layer of Qi Refining before the world’s craving took the spiritual energy.
• Zhou Kongming explained the world’s craving to Heng, which promised to help him restore humanity.
• Chi Jiuyu chatted with Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei, learning that Ye Zhiwei planned to apply for Sword Sect’s special recruitment as a sword cultivator.
• Chi Jiuyu tried to trade gossip about Brother Dog and Ye Zhiwei for Zhao Ruohan calling her Sister, but Zhao Ruohan said Brother Dog did not matter.
• Chi Jiuyu searched the Spirit Net for Sword Sect’s special recruitment announcement.

Chi Jiuyu read the revised Immortal Sect Special Recruitment announcement and investigated the new heart trials, while Xu Xing discussed the changes with Bie Xuening at the Sword Sect. Xu Xing decided to remain in the sect and offered to take over Hong Sovereign’s duties so he could visit his Dao companions.

• Chi Jiuyu saw that the recruitment assessment had increased the Heart Trials from three to five, then browsed forum posts from worried candidates and noticed a familiar account using the name “Discerning the Subtle Essence.”
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed the raised difficulty of the Dao, Heart, and Dharma trials while watching visitors gather around the Sword Ancestor’s statue.
• Xu Xing asked whether Chi Jiuyu had considered opening a training class, and Bie Xuening explained that Chi Jiuyu had tried but quit after becoming frustrated with her students.
• Bie Xuening asked whether Xu Xing planned to cultivate in seclusion, and he offered to take over her duties; she said she no longer needed to leave the sect for him.
• Xu Xing said he would remain in the sect and take over Hong Sovereign’s share so Hong Sovereign could visit his Dao companions, leaving Bie Xuening suspicious and planning to ask Yuanjun about it.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening reviewed the first batch of Ascension Envoys’ progress and discussed mission ratings and likely point leaders. In Task World 1, Zhou Kongming’s experiments on the Changyuan Civilization stalled his genetic optimization project until the Taixuan Immortal Network announced new auxiliary modules, including spacetime-type modules.

• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening decided to have Profound Penetration cultivators assess the worlds at collected coordinates before assigning missions and revising difficulty ratings.
• Bie Xuening predicted Chen Xuanqing would finish first, while Xu Xing expected Xiao Yu or Gao Wuwang to earn the most ascension points.
• Xu Xing assessed Zhou Kongming and Lin Xingyue as having made limited progress, and Bie Xuening said their setbacks could help them improve.
• In Task World 1, Zhou Kongming’s experiments showed that the Changyuan Civilization’s biological abilities strengthened with its population, while Heng estimated gene optimization would still take at least 154 years.
• Zhou Kongming sent Heng to cultivate, then received a Taixuan Immortal Network notification that three auxiliary modules were available, including spacetime-type modules.

Zhou Kongming received the Time Scenery Auxiliary Module, which could retrieve objects from a mission world's past at the cost of reducing mission rewards, and chose to wait before using it. In Qi Ling's world, Qi Ling freed and protected mortals while Xu Xing considered requiring worlds to obtain Immortal Net approval before attempting ascension.

• Zhou Kongming discovered that Time Scenery could access past moments but increased the chance of a Child of the World appearing and reduced the initial reward caps for Missions Two and Three by five percent per use.
• Zhou Kongming decided to wait a month before using Time Scenery, and he supplied Heng with unlimited Foundation Cultivation Pills for that period.
• Qi Ling surveyed a town where demons had enslaved and raised mortals as livestock, then destroyed the dog demon attacking a chained man and freed the town's prisoners.
• Xu Xing watched Qi Ling and considered requiring worlds in the Immortal Net system to report before attempting ascension so their risks and support could be assessed.

A Void Return cultivator who had fled Task World 4 drifted back to it and discovered that its hostile sword-filled laws destroyed his probing Divine Sense. Meanwhile, Qi Ling taught the surviving people and judged those who had enabled atrocities, but she left abruptly after sensing that the artifact restraining the Chaos Rift had been disturbed.

• A Void Return cultivator and his followers returned to Task World 4 aboard a modified minor world, and his attempt to probe it ended when the world's will crushed his Divine Sense.
• Floating Cliff watched as Qi Ling created a celestial mountain and taught the surviving Human Race cultivation methods from Qi Refining through Void Return.
• Qi Ling killed the wolf demon that questioned why other races could not cultivate her methods and declared that those who had enabled demons to wreak havoc or harmed people would die.
• Qi Ling's force killed the guilty cultivators and demons, while the innocent survivors remained; her interface then showed that Quests Two and Three could be settled for Ascension Points.
• Qi Ling sensed that the artifact restraining the Chaos Rift had been disturbed, ended her transmission of the Dao, and vanished from the mountain.