Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his pursuit by Klavisu, Song Chen returned to the Blazing Fire Platform and learned that his actions had helped the war zone. Qiu Ya warned him that Klavisu would prepare to hunt him again, then proposed a dangerous sabotage mission in the Blood-Eclipse Star System.

• Song Chen returned to the Blazing Fire Platform with Qiu Ya and took refuge in a spare cabin to recover from the mental strain of the pursuit.
• The next morning, Turik, Kalian, Aoba, and Rockspike visited Song Chen to make sure he was safe.
• Qiu Ya warned Song Chen that Klavisu held grudges and would prepare equipment to counter his spatial movement and recovery.
• Qiu Ya asked Song Chen to join a mission to the Blood-Eclipse Star System, where allied cultivators would sabotage the Blood-Eclipse Civilization's weakened defenses.
• Qiu Ya explained that the mission would require stealth and survival because the enemy's security systems were advanced and no one could extract Song Chen.

Song Chen accepted Qiu Ya’s mission to infiltrate the Blood-Eclipse Star System and received equipment and funds for the journey. Before leaving, he asked Lar to send resources to Blue Star, and Lar promised to strengthen its protection.

• Song Chen agreed to travel to the Blood-Eclipse Star System, treating the dangerous mission as a new hunting ground.
• Qiu Ya gave Song Chen an Aura-Concealing Dust Crystal, the stealth-capable Shadow Glider, and twelve million cosmic crystals.
• Song Chen told Lar about the mission, and Lar warned him to hide his identity and keep the crystal on at all times.
• Song Chen gave Lar five million cosmic crystals to exchange for resources for Blue Star, and Lar agreed to send them in batches and raise Blue Star’s protection level.
• Lar urged Song Chen to stock up at Heavenly Pivot’s Warrior Store and return alive.

Song Chen visited Heavenly Pivot’s Warrior Store to buy lifesaving equipment before entering the Blood-Eclipse Star System. He stocked up on shields, recovery supplies, and space jump discs, then continued shopping with Rona’s help.

• Song Chen studied a map of the Blood-Eclipse Star System and memorized its districts, noting that the Resistance Organization operated mainly in the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Districts.
• Song Chen entered Heavenly Pivot’s Warrior Store and told shopping guide Rona that he wanted equipment to keep him alive.
• Rona showed Song Chen an Individual Space Shield, and he bought one for eighty thousand cosmic crystals.
• Song Chen bought several kinds of recovery items, including Frostheart Fruits, Solar Marrow Elixir, and Regenerative Salve.
• Song Chen asked for several Space Jump Discs, and Rona promised to provide discs from the latest batch.

Song Chen visited the Slave Market and bought Shelly, a defiant Seventh-Rank Peak slave from the Blood-Eclipse Star System, hoping to learn about the region before traveling there. As they left the market, Shelly followed silently behind him and confirmed her name.

• Song Chen spent over a million cosmic crystals on supplies before Rona invited him to visit the Slave Market.
• Song Chen entered the market and saw slaves from various alien races in cages.
• A Metal Lifeform argued with a Moonshadow Clan member about what their races bought on the black market.
• Song Chen found Shelly, a Blood-Eclipse native captured for resisting the clan's rule, and bought her for thirty thousand cosmic crystals.
• Song Chen left the market with Shelly, then asked her name in a quiet corridor, and she faintly confirmed it.

Song Chen received a free-ranging sabotage mission in the Blood-Eclipse Star System and prepared to depart aboard the Shadowglide, bringing Shelly with him. The chapter ended as he led her into the ship at Jump Port Three.

• Shelly followed Song Chen through Heavenly Pivot, fearing what her new owner might do after she had been sold and transported far from home.
• At the Celestial Pivot Jump Point, Song Chen left Shelly in the waiting area while he met Yiming from the Joint Operations Department.
• Yiming briefed Song Chen to inflict as much damage as possible on the Blood-Eclipse Star System and warned him not to contact other operatives unless necessary.
• Yiming gave Song Chen an Emergency Communication Beacon and authorized him to take the Shadowglide along a secret route toward the Blood-Eclipse Star System.
• Song Chen found Shelly waiting and led her to Jump Port Three, where they boarded the Shadowglide.

Song Chen took the Shadowglide out of the Milky Way and spent thirteen trillion killing value raising his star origin power to 1,700 points. In Intergalactic Space, he told Shelly that he planned to sabotage the Blood-Eclipse Civilization and asked her to guide him, leaving her to decide whether to help.

• Song Chen piloted the Shadowglide through a Jump Channel to the Milky Way’s edge and entered Intergalactic Space.
• Song Chen exchanged thirteen trillion killing value for star origin power, increasing his total to 1,700 points.
• Song Chen told Shelly he intended to disrupt the Blood-Eclipse Civilization’s rear lines and explained that he needed her knowledge of the Blood-Eclipse Star System.
• Song Chen said he would not use Shelly’s Control Ring to force her to help and offered to let her go, challenging her to consider where she could go alone.

Shelly told Song Chen how the Blood-Eclipse Clan conquered the Azure Galaxy and turned its inhabitants into livestock, then agreed to help him after he offered her a Star Marrow Crystal and promised to support her people. The two began their partnership as Shelly held renewed hope of reaching the Eighth Rank and reclaiming her homeland.

• Song Chen asked Shelly to call him by his name, and she agreed to help him.
• Shelly explained how the Blood-Eclipse Clan conquered the Azure Galaxy, renamed it, and systematically harvested its inhabitants.
• Shelly told Song Chen that the Resistance Organization had reemerged when the Blood-Eclipse Clan withdrew troops to prepare an attack on the Milky Way.
• Song Chen offered Shelly a Star Marrow Crystal and promised to help her reach the Eighth Rank and reclaim her homeland if she worked with him.
• Shelly accepted Song Chen's offer, and they toasted their partnership.

Song Chen and Shelly reached the Blood-Eclipse Star System and entered its remote Sixth District undetected. Shelly explained the Blood-Eclipse Clan’s Flesh Stations, leaving Song Chen with a clearer picture of how the clan raised its young and restored its injured.

• Shelly told Song Chen about the Blood-Eclipse Star System’s patrols, divided districts, and hidden Resistance Organization contacts.
• Song Chen and Shelly encountered a derelict refugee ship, which Song Chen chose to avoid.
• After three days of travel, Song Chen brought the Shadowglide toward the Blood-Eclipse Star System and entered it using stealthy, short jumps.
• Shelly identified their location as the Sixth District and explained how Flesh Stations stored harvested flesh and blood to nourish and heal the Blood-Eclipse Clan.

Song Chen and Shelly found a breeding planet in the Blood-Eclipse Clan’s Sixth District and saw a Flesh Station processing its inhabitants. The sight strengthened Song Chen’s resolve to keep the Blood-Eclipse Clan from invading the Milky Way.

• Song Chen learned that the Blood-Eclipse Clan used Flesh Stations to harvest entire star systems and sustain its civilization.
• Shelly urged Song Chen to raid a Flesh Station, but he chose to investigate one first and told her to watch their route.
• After a day of travel, the Shadowglide detected a life-bearing breeding planet, and Song Chen approached it under cover of an asteroid belt.
• Song Chen discovered that the station was a gigantic, tree-like structure rising from the planet’s surface into space.
• Song Chen watched Blood-Eclipse Clan guards force the planet’s inhabitants, including a young child, into blood pools to be processed as nutrients.
• Song Chen swore that he would never let the Blood-Eclipse Clan invade the Milky Way.

Song Chen and Shelly surveyed the Blood-Eclipse Clan’s Flesh Station and discovered how it farmed the planet’s people and wildlife. Song Chen landed near a mountain and went alone to investigate while Shelly stayed aboard the Shadowglide.

• Song Chen sensed that the Flesh Station housed countless Blood-Eclipse young and adults, and Shelly explained that the clan drained the natives’ Psychic Energy and bred them for better harvests.
• Song Chen and Shelly descended toward the planet aboard the Shadowglide, keeping the ship hidden as they approached through the polluted atmosphere.
• Song Chen saw that the station’s waste fed sea creatures for harvest and that its roots spread across the land, where selected natives received better living conditions before being taken away.
• Song Chen hid the Shadowglide behind a mountain and told Shelly to remain aboard while he went alone to investigate; Shelly warned him to avoid the western root zone’s patrols.

Song Chen explored a Blood-Eclipse Clan planet and saw its people exploited as livestock to feed the Flesh Station. After Shelly challenged him to destroy it, Song Chen questioned whether one attack could help and considered how the oppressed might learn to resist.

• Song Chen surveyed the planet, saw natives forced to harvest pale grass under guard, and witnessed the living Flesh Station draining the land.
• An alien old man warned Song Chen to stay away from the station and a dangerous red-water ditch, then refused the Cosmic Crystal Song Chen offered.
• Song Chen returned to the Shadowglide and told Shelly what he had seen, including people being driven toward the station and blood pools.
• Shelly urged Song Chen to destroy the station, but he argued that the Blood-Eclipse Clan could rebuild it and that destroying one station would not save the planet.
• Song Chen asked why people had stopped resisting, and Shelly said generations of slaughter had made them afraid and unable to resist.

Song Chen destroyed the Flesh Station and fought off the Blood-Eclipse Clan, killing its Garrison Commander, Gulakun, and trapping thousands of survivors. He then took control of the planet’s communications network to address its inhabitants.

• Song Chen sensed hundreds of thousands of Blood-Eclipse Clan members surrounding the ruins and sent Shelly to safety.
• Song Chen cut down waves of charging enemies with his blade and swiftly killed those who tried to rally the clan.
• Gulakun, the eighth-rank Garrison Commander of Farming Planet 74587, attacked Song Chen, who severed three of his arms and then killed him.
• Song Chen used star origin power to trap more than ten thousand surviving Blood-Eclipse Clan members without killing them.
• Song Chen seized the planet’s communications network and began a global broadcast, prompting Shelly to ask what he intended to do.

Song Chen claimed to be an emissary of the Radiant Dawn Civilization and urged the people of the Azure Galaxy to rebel against the Blood-Eclipse Clan. After the people killed their captives and claimed the station’s resources, Song Chen sent them to spread the news of the uprising.

• Song Chen broadcast that the Blood-Eclipse Civilization had been defeated and called on the people to stand up against their oppressors.
• Song Chen summoned the planet’s sixty-two seventh-rank inhabitants, but they admitted they were afraid to fight back.
• Song Chen gave a boy a blade and challenged him to kill a Blood-Eclipse captive; after the boy struck the captive repeatedly, a seventh-rank man joined him and others followed.
• The crowd killed the restrained captives, and Song Chen ordered them to divide the station’s resources among those who stood up.
• Song Chen instructed the sixty-two seventh-rank people to spread the news that the Radiant Dawn Civilization had returned, then left with Shelly, admitting the First Holy Lord was still alive.

Song Chen destroyed six Blood-Eclipse breeding stations across the Sixth District, drawing the attention of its leaders, then spent twenty trillion killing value to upgrade his system to True Star Level. He advanced Void Traverse to its ninth tier and gained a deeper perception of space.

• Song Chen destroyed the stations on three planets, killing their Blood-Eclipse guards and younglings and earning trillions of killing value at each stop.
• The Blood-Eclipse Sixth District leaders learned that Song Chen had destroyed six stations and sent the Shadowfang Squad to capture him alive.
• Song Chen saw that his killing value had reached twenty-six trillion and used twenty trillion to upgrade his system to True Star Level.
• Song Chen upgraded Void Traverse from its sixth tier to its ninth and began sensing the deeper structures and dimensions of space.

Song Chen rejected the Radiant Dawn Civilization’s demand that he stop using its name while attacking Blood-Eclipse Clan stations. In the civilization’s hidden refuge, its Elders’ Council discussed his campaign and worried that the Blood-Eclipse Clan would retaliate against them.

• Song Chen told a Radiant Dawn Civilization contact that he would keep using the name while killing the Blood-Eclipse Clan, then ended the call and headed for the next planet.
• The chapter revealed that more than two thousand Radiant Dawn survivors lived in cramped, freezing chambers hollowed out inside an asteroid belt.
• Heren reported to the Elders’ Council that Song Chen had destroyed at least twenty-two Flesh Stations in the Sixth District within two months.
• Kasha questioned how one person could destroy so many stations, while Wayne asked who Song Chen was and learned that he fought with a saber and vanished in a strange manner.
• Heren said the Blood-Eclipse Clan had mobilized much of its Sixth District defense force and the Shadowfang Squad to hunt Song Chen.
• Kasha interrupted Heren as he began to explain what the survivors had finally managed to accomplish.

The Radiant Dawn Civilization's Elders' Council debated whether to seek out the unknown attacker who had destroyed twenty-two Blood-Eclipse base stations, then agreed to send a scouting team. Meanwhile, Kazmu decided to lure the attacker into a trap at a base station he would likely target.

• Kasha urged the Elders' Council to seize the chance created by the attack, while Heren warned that the stranger could be a Blood-Eclipse trap.
• Serene argued that the reports were real and proposed sending a fast, stealthy team to identify the attacker; Wayne volunteered.
• Kazmu confronted Gultu and Nax over the destruction of twenty-two base stations and the failure to catch the attacker.
• Nax explained that the Eighth-Rank attacker fought at ninth-rank strength and used an unknown spatial technique to evade pursuit.
• Kazmu decided to bait the attacker with a base station he was certain to attack.

Song Chen approached a heavily fortified medium-sized Flesh Station on Kielsa Nine, where he sensed a powerful ninth-rank Blood-Eclipse Clan member. He spent eighteen hours mapping the defenses and discovered flaws in the patrols, but had not yet attacked.

• Song Chen surveyed the Flesh Station on Kielsa Nine and sensed a ninth-rank Blood-Eclipse Clan member stronger than the one he had fought before.
• Song Chen told Shelly to hide the Shadowglide near the moon and Asteroid Belt while he infiltrated the planet alone.
• Song Chen concealed his aura and moved closer, discovering that the Blood-Eclipse Clan guards were organized and on high alert.
• Song Chen spent six hours mapping the station's three defensive layers and locating the hidden seventh-rank sentries inside the flesh pillar.
• Song Chen watched the ninth-rank being remain in place for twelve hours and found flaws in the guards' patrol routes.

Song Chen launched a surprise attack on the Blood-Eclipse Clan station, killing its northern guards and defeating Kurgan before the defensive array could fully activate. He then attacked the station’s central hub, destroying buildings and defensive nodes as dozens of enemies gathered.

• Song Chen exploited the weak northern defenses and killed the Seventh Rank guards in a swift ambush.
• Kurgan charged out to confront Song Chen, but Song Chen broke his bone spear and killed him.
• Song Chen sensed the defensive array activating and realized it would suppress his Psychic Energy and reveal his location.
• Song Chen redirected his assault toward the station’s central hub and struck the buildings and their defensive arrays with Star-Splitting Slash.

Song Chen fought through Kielsa Nine’s defenders as the planetary defense array activated, then faced Saren, the ninth-rank Blood-Eclipse Clan ruler. Their battle ended with Saren pressing Song Chen down onto one knee in a close-range clash.

• Song Chen killed Mark, Grus, and Taran, then defeated the remaining fighters on his way to the base station.
• The planetary defense array activated, suppressing Song Chen’s Void Traverse and attacking him with tracking beams.
• Saren emerged from the base station and attacked Song Chen with guided spears and a dark orb.
• Song Chen blocked Saren’s finger-blade strike with the Falling Star Blade, but Saren’s strength forced him onto one knee.

Song Chen defeated Saren's defenses but failed to kill him, then destroyed the Blood-Eclipse Clan's evacuated base station on Kielsa Nine. Realizing the enemy had used Saren to buy time, Song Chen attacked the clan's remaining strongholds and raised his killing value to 26 trillion.

• Song Chen used his speed and repeated Star-Splitting Slash attacks to overwhelm Saren, then struck him with twelve stacked slashes that shattered his shields and gravely wounded him.
• Song Chen sensed Saren fleeing through a hidden passage toward a Flesh Restoration Array, but chose to destroy the base station instead.
• Song Chen destroyed the station's giant pillar with Starcore Thunder Prison, then discovered the Blood-Eclipse Clan had evacuated most of its inhabitants and resources in advance.
• Song Chen concluded that Saren had been stalling him while the evacuation proceeded and flew to the clan's largest ground stronghold on Kielsa Nine.
• Song Chen swept through strongholds with Thunder Prison and Star-Splitting Slash, killing Blood-Eclipse Clan members until his killing value reached 26 trillion.