Chapter Summaries

Song Chen prepared to gather enough Star Origin Power to attempt a ninth-rank breakthrough, sent Shelly to hide in a meteor field, and chose a heavily guarded Blood-Eclipse Clan base on Red Sand Star as his next target. After observing its defenses for a month, he identified a brief guard-rotation window and the three-minute shift change between its two ninth-rank commanders.

• Song Chen reviewed costly breakthrough support items and planned a major operation to raise his Star Origin Power to ten thousand before advancing to ninth rank.
• Song Chen sent Shelly to wait in a hidden shuttle in a meteor field near the Sixth and Seventh District border, promising to return within three months.
• Song Chen spent a month searching the Sixth District’s fringes before selecting Red Sand Star and discovering its enormous Flesh Broodmother base.
• Song Chen found that the Broodmother held two ninth-rank Garrison Commanders, hundreds of eighth-rank defenders, and many lower-ranked guards.
• Song Chen tracked the base’s patrols and transport schedules, learning that its watchtower rotation left a brief opening before dawn and that the commanders’ shift handover weakened perimeter surveillance for about three minutes.

Song Chen attacked the Broodmother, killed its two ninth-rank defenders, and destroyed its main stalk. He then swept through the city to slaughter the fleeing Blood-Eclipse Clan.

• Song Chen descended from space, avoided psychic beams with Void Traverse, and cut through the bone towers and fighters guarding the Broodmother.
• Two ninth-rank beings emerged from the Broodmother, but Song Chen killed the grayish-white one after wounding it with successive Star-Splitting Slash strikes.
• The dark green ninth-rank being struck Song Chen repeatedly, but Eternal Body healed him as he counterattacked and killed it.
• Song Chen split the Broodmother's main stalk with Star-Splitting Slash, causing the immense creature to collapse.
• Song Chen pursued the fleeing Blood-Eclipse Clan through the city, unleashing Starcore Thunder Prison and destroying entire blocks.

Song Chen escaped Kazmu, the Blood-Eclipse Civilization’s ninth-rank peak commander, using the Silver Radiance Battle Armor’s emergency warp. Kazmu responded by placing a thirty-million-cosmic-crystal bounty on Song Chen and ordering a civilization-wide hunt.

• A spatial rift opened above the Broodmother’s ruins, and Blood-Eclipse Clan reinforcements poured through.
• Kazmu emerged from the rift, identified Song Chen as the Milky Way fighter who had escaped Klavisu, and trapped him in a powerful spatial lockdown.
• Song Chen activated the Silver Radiance Battle Armor’s emergency warp and escaped through a spatial rift despite Kazmu’s pressure.
• Kazmu ordered a full-scale hunt across the Sixth, Fifth, and Seventh Districts and raised Song Chen’s bounty to thirty million cosmic crystals.

Song Chen reached the limit of the eighth-rank Star Corona Realm and sought a safe place to break through while evading the Blood-Eclipse Clan. After meeting Shelly and reporting his actions to the Milky Way, he arrived on Azure Blue Star, where he planned to prepare for his breakthrough.

• Song Chen raised his star origin power to 9,999, learned he could not increase it further without breaking through, and left to find a secluded place.
• Song Chen met Shelly at the Asteroid Belt, learned Kazmu had placed a thirty-million-cosmic-crystal bounty on him, and accepted her modified aura detector.
• Song Chen sent the Joint Operations Department a battle report, received confirmation of his achievements and an eight-million-cosmic-crystal reward, and deferred collecting it.
• Song Chen traveled for three months to the Cloudwave Star System and landed in Landu, Azure Blue Star's largest port city, to prepare for his breakthrough.

Song Chen arrived on Azure Blue Star to prepare for a breakthrough and, with help from Tuo Shan, rented a five-year residence in Landu's central lake district. He planned to settle in before buying spirit materials the next day.

• Song Chen met Tuo Shan, a manager at Landu Spirit Materials, who offered to guide him around Landu.
• Tuo Shan described the city's cultivation districts and led Song Chen to the central lake palace.
• Song Chen chose a core-zone upper-tier chamber and rented it for five years for 240,000 cosmic crystals.
• After Song Chen completed the rental paperwork, Tuo Shan offered to take him to the Star Core Pavilion for spirit materials the next day.
• Tuo Shan gave Song Chen his communication card and departed into the crowd.

Song Chen inspected his luxurious Core Zone cultivation residence in Landu, accepted its attendants, and reviewed the resources he could use for a Ninth Rank breakthrough. He considered buying four True Star Core aids but hesitated, unsure whether his foundation was ready.

• Song Chen explored the residence and found that its cultivation room concentrated Psychic Energy to roughly ten times the level outside.
• Lan Ning introduced herself and five attendants; Song Chen agreed to keep them after learning their service was included in the rent.
• Song Chen told the attendants to stay out of the cultivation and contemplation rooms, and the brawny manservant checked the residence's defensive array.
• Song Chen reviewed his fifty-five trillion Killing Value and calculated that he needed at least one more point of Star Origin Power to reach 10,000.
• Song Chen considered spending twenty-two trillion Killing Value on four True Star Core aids, then questioned whether his foundation was solid enough for a breakthrough.