Chapter Summaries

The Evil Emperor captured Mu Lingshan and the remaining Ancestral Symbols for Li Chen, who used them to devour Martial Universe and claim its essence. After returning to the Origin Plane, Li Chen began converting its energy into Source Power, leaving Sky City prepared to expand its conquests.

• The Evil Emperor abducted Mu Lingshan and brought her, along with the Life and Death Ancestral Talisman, to Li Chen.
• Li Chen kept Mu Lingshan on the floating island, where she gave up resisting and settled into life as his mascot.
• The Evil Emperor used an illusion to take the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and Thunder Ancestral Symbol from Lin Dong, then nine Heavenly Towers drained Martial Universe as Sky City devoured the world.
• Li Chen and his people returned to the Origin Plane, where Origin Star had grown into an interstellar hub and Heaven Beyond Heaven had continued developing under Wine Fox.
• Li Chen began converting the plane's Soul Power into Source Power, an energy he found could transform into the power used by other worlds.

After the Great Thousand World repelled Li Chen’s first attack, he entered a new universe and discovered a human civilization living beside a black hole. He recognized the Super God Universe when demons and an angel arrived, captured the demons for research, and left the angel outside the star system.

• Li Chen’s attack on the Great Thousand World failed, and he sent Wine Fox to manage the Origin Plane while he explored another world.
• Li Chen entered a universe near a black hole and burned away a half-formed dimension that had been watching him.
• Over a thousand years, Li Chen ruled a primitive human civilization, advanced its technology, and tried to develop spacecraft capable of escaping the black hole.
• Tong Yao warned Li Chen that three monsters and a winged person were approaching, and Li Chen recognized the monsters as demons and the pursuer as an angel.
• The three demons entered the star system and landed near Li Chen’s city, while the angel retreated to report to the Angel Queen.
• Li Chen shattered a demon’s weapon, subdued all three demons, and teleported them to his laboratory as research specimens.

Li Chen oversaw the processing of three captured demons while Keisha investigated reports that the dark plane had vanished from a remote star system. She sent Yan to verify the anomaly, but Yan went offline as soon as she entered the system.

• Li Chen told Tong Yao to let the Technology Institute process the demon samples carefully and not rush the thrusters.
• Keisha received a guard angel's report that three demons had fled into a black-hole-bound star system where dark plane access was absent.
• Keisha ruled out Liang Bing and suspected Carl might be involved, then ordered Yan to investigate from a distance without making contact.
• Yan traveled to the remote system after confirming the guard angel's report, and Keisha saw that Yan had gone offline at its boundary.

Li Chen captured Angel Yan and brought her to his underground laboratory, where researchers studied her body and armor. After Yan woke, she warned that Queen Keisha and the Angel Nebula would retaliate, but Li Chen chose to keep her and ordered Tong Yao to study her genes.

• Yan fell after Li Chen struck her with purple lightning, crashed into a city building, and was carried to the underground laboratory.
• Li Chen ordered Tong Yao to draw Yan's blood, study her armor, and melt it down for materials.
• Four days later, Yan woke restrained in the observation room and demanded that Li Chen release her.
• Yan identified herself as Angel Yan, Keisha's left-wing guard, and warned that Queen Keisha and the Angel Nebula would retaliate for her capture.
• Li Chen dismissed Yan's threats, said he could use her to threaten Queen Keisha, and told Tong Yao to study Yan's genes.

Li Chen gained Angel Yan’s technological knowledge, introduced new evolutionary races, and began transforming the planet’s people into Starborn. In Melo Heaven, Keisha and Hexi suspected Carl was using Yan’s disappearance to lure the angels toward the edge of the universe, so Keisha sent Zhui to investigate the Dark Nebula while Hexi stayed behind.

• Li Chen read Yan’s memories but found only instructions for using technology, not explanations of how it worked.
• Li Chen selected a Hypercurvature Engine and delivered it to the Technology Institute, then chose several evolvable races from the celestial pack.
• Li Chen ordered the planet’s people to undergo evolution, and the first converts became Starborn with greatly enhanced physical abilities.
• Li Chen offered Tong Yao seven Study Manuscripts as a shortcut to becoming stronger after she reported slow progress on angel-gene research.
• Keisha and Hexi discussed Yan’s disappearance and suspected Carl had engineered the situation to draw the angels’ attention toward the edge of the universe.
• Keisha ordered Zhui to take a team to the Dark Nebula to investigate Carl while Hexi remained in Melo Heaven.

Tong Yao ascended to black hole ascendant and easily defeated the angel Yan in a sparring match, even after Li Chen restored Yan’s strength. Li Chen then accelerated time throughout the Earth-Moon System, rapidly advancing its technology and research.

• Tong Yao returned after ascending to godhood with the authority of destruction and the power of a black hole ascendant.
• Li Chen brought Tong Yao and the angel Yan to a barren planet for a sparring match, where Tong Yao pinned Yan down with gravitational forces.
• After Li Chen restored Yan’s condition, Tong Yao defeated her again, and Yan blamed her loss on the absence of a dark plane.
• Li Chen returned to the underground laboratory, then accelerated time throughout the Earth-Moon System to speed up its development.
• Within hours, the first rocket launched and the first space warship was built as genetic and weapons research advanced.

Keisha led Zhui and ten Guard-Class Angels into the star system, where Li Chen's forces attacked and captured them. Li Chen then boarded the Heavenly Blade, subdued the remaining angels, and contacted Hexi in Melo Heaven.

• Keisha crossed into the star system with Zhui and ten Guard-Class Angels, losing access to the Knowledge Treasury and the Dark Plane.
• The warships fired on the angels, and Li Chen's Space-Based Dragon-Slaying Cannon struck Keisha with a devastating, unexplained attack.
• Tong Yao used gravity to pin Keisha and the angels, then had them taken to the planet as prisoners.
• Keisha was injected with Energy-Suppressing Serum and restrained in a separate room in the Observation Zone.
• Li Chen boarded the Heavenly Blade, incapacitated the angels aboard, and contacted Hexi, who asked who he was.
• Li Chen told Hexi that she had been looking for him.

Li Chen extorted the Angel Civilization and Kieran for their accumulated knowledge and resources, then negotiated a prisoner exchange with Hexi. After discovering she had withheld dark silver, he demanded that Hexi trade herself for Keisha, leaving her facing his ultimatum.

• Li Chen demanded the Angel Civilization's scientific knowledge and half its resources in exchange for its captured angels, and Hexi agreed to a prisoner exchange in seven days.
• Li Chen exposed Kieran's hidden projection, injured him, and obtained the Shenhe Civilization's accumulated knowledge.
• During seven days of accelerated time, the Origin Civilization advanced its warships, weapons, and genetic technology.
• Li Chen exchanged the captured angels with Hexi, then confronted her after discovering she had withheld dark silver.
• Hexi provided more dark silver, and Li Chen released the angels except Keisha, whom he offered to exchange for Hexi herself.

Hexi traded herself and Zhixin for Keisha’s release, then was forced to work for Li Chen’s civilization. After seeing its experiments and signing a mysterious Contract, Hexi was assigned to map the known universe and donate blood, while Tong Yao planned to exploit the Angel and Shenhe archives and address the Origin Civilization’s population shortage.

• Hexi brought her true body to Li Chen’s Mothership and agreed to surrender herself in exchange for Keisha, whom she found weakened and restrained after extensive experiments.
• Li Chen demanded Zhixin as an additional condition, and Hexi contacted her; after Zhixin was detained aboard the Mothership, the fleet released Keisha and departed.
• Tong Yao led Hexi through laboratories conducting experiments on Demons, Angels, cloning, genetic hybrids, and consciousness transfer, explaining that the Origin Civilization did not experiment on its own people.
• Hexi signed a seemingly blank Contract that formed an unfamiliar connection, then learned her duties were to map the known universe and donate blood regularly.
• Tong Yao planned to combine the Angel archives with Shenhe data to target Shenhe life-forms genetically and pursue cloning to solve the Origin Civilization’s population crisis.

Li Chen had Zhixin undergo the Fallen Angel genetic modification, then tested her new abilities in the laboratory. After she passed every test and regenerated from complete destruction, Li Chen declared that she would serve as a weapon under his command.

• Li Chen told Zhixin he would make her completely his to keep Hexi from defying him, then took her to Tong Yao's laboratory.
• Tong Yao modified Zhixin despite her failing vital signs, and Li Chen ordered her to continue and use the Clone-control technology.
• Zhixin awoke with silver hair and black wings, knelt before Li Chen, and called him Master.
• Tong Yao tested Zhixin's strength, speed, endurance, reactions, defense, and regeneration, and she met the fourth-generation divine body standard.
• Zhixin regenerated after Li Chen used the Space-Based Dragon-Slaying Cannon to blast her apart, and Li Chen said she would be a sharp sword in their hands.

Li Chen launched Droplet Probes and fleets to explore beyond the River Styx Galaxy, then ordered the capture of intelligent starfish on a newly discovered ocean planet. After the fringe galaxy was mapped, the fleets moved outward and burned away the Dark Plane to claim the surrounding regions for the Origin Civilization.

• Li Chen mass-produced more than ten thousand Droplet Probes and sent three combined fleets to explore in different directions.
• A fleet discovered an ocean-covered planet inhabited by intelligent, starfish-like creatures, and Li Chen ordered their capture.
• Robots captured the starfish and transported them to rearing tanks, occupied planets, and laboratories, where Hexi was made to study them.
• The fleets finished mapping the fringe galaxy and ventured beyond it, burning away the Dark Plane across the surrounding ten light-years.

As the Origin Civilization expanded beyond the Local Group, the angels remained inactive, leaving other civilizations uncertain about how to respond. Carl sent Snow to offer the Origin Civilization the Great Clock’s knowledge, while Hexi grew more interested in its technology and research; the chapter ended with her examining newly captured orcs as experimental subjects.

• Morgana learned that the angels had withdrawn their patrols and left their border outposts, then set out to seize nearby star systems and provoke Keisha.
• Carl found that the Great Clock could not model regions reached by the Origin Civilization and sent Snow to offer its knowledge, warning him not to offend them.
• The Blazing Sun Civilization watched the Origin Civilization and waited to see whether the angels would let its expansion continue.
• In Melo Heaven, Zhui learned that Keisha had briefly awakened and called Liang Bing’s name, while the angels kept her condition secret and waited for her recovery.
• Hexi became more comfortable with the Origin Civilization’s technology and research, then examined a newly captured batch of orcs in the laboratory.

Carl joined Li Chen’s Heaven Beyond Heaven after he offered her knowledge from another universe, and she agreed to bring the Great Clock to the Origin Civilization. Two thousand years later, Li Chen ordered a final offensive into the Milky Way Galaxy, while the civilizations gathered on the blue planet prepared for the Origin Civilization’s advance.

• Li Chen dismissed Snow, then told Carl that the Great Clock was the only Shenhe Civilization asset he wanted and invited her to join Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Carl accepted Li Chen’s offer, signed the Contract, and returned to the River Styx Galaxy to bring him the Great Clock.
• Over two thousand years, the Origin Civilization expanded across roughly seventy percent of the known universe, with Carl’s support and the civilizations under her command.
• Li Chen ordered three combined fleets to destroy hostile strongholds in the Milky Way Galaxy, naming Deno, Lieyang, and the angels as targets.
• Keisha, Pan Zhen, Duka'ao, and Sun Wukong met on the blue planet after Duka'ao reported that Origin Civilization warships were advancing into the Milky Way Galaxy.

After destroying the Super God Academy world and absorbing its essence, Li Chen returned to the Great Thousand World and began his second invasion. He leaves the Great Thousand World’s Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereigns allied with Heaven Beyond Heaven as the invasion proceeds.

• Tong Yao persuaded Zhixin to complete her fall and serve the king.
• Sixteen hundred years later, Li Chen let the Void destroy the Origin Civilization, then extracted the Super God Academy world’s essence and returned to the Origin Plane with Tong Yao and Carl.
• After two and a half years, Li Chen ordered Heaven Beyond Heaven and its subordinate empires to prepare for war against the Great Thousand World.
• Li Chen entered the Great Thousand World, wrote Heaven Beyond Heaven on the Firmament Ranking, and gathered its Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereigns in a small space.
• Li Chen offered the gathered experts a chance to join his world and reach a higher realm, and the Maha Ancient Clan’s elder, the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s Great Elder, and the Azure-Robed Sword Saint agreed.
• Li Chen released the experts back into the Great Thousand World and told them to contribute to Heaven Beyond Heaven’s victory.