Chapter Summaries

Chen Jue learned that the Sun Wheel's rune enabled quantum communication and flew toward Mars to investigate the signal from the First Emperor's Mausoleum. Meanwhile, the lunar Wormhole Tunnels to Second Home vanished, cutting off the outposts, and Zhong Deyuan learned Chen Jue was unreachable after an unknown spherical craft attacked Area 15.

• Chen Jue deduced that the Sun Wheel's Sun Character Rune used advanced communication technology and considered how it might connect to the civilization on Second Home.
• Chen Jue piloted his spherical craft from Earth toward Mars, intending to investigate the signal before confronting the approaching extraterrestrial civilization.
• Lunar Rovers repeatedly failed to enter the Wormhole Tunnel at crater N9527, and the Ground Base lost contact with Second Home.
• Zhong Deyuan learned that the Wormhole Tunnels held by Russia and Eagle Country had also closed, leaving the lunar exploration teams without support or supplies.
• Zhong Deyuan's staff reported that Chen Jue's wristband was offline and that an unidentified spherical craft had attacked Area 15 before departing.

Chen Jue accelerated his spherical craft to 57% of the speed of light on the way to Mars, recording how cosmic dust threatened the hull. After following the First Emperor's Mausoleum’s energy signal to the Martian surface, he uncovered a pyramid-shaped structure beneath the rocks.

• Chen Jue pushed his craft to Mach 500,000, reinforced its hull against cosmic dust, and recorded the danger of high-speed space travel.
• Chen Jue sensed Mars’s gravity, slowed down, and formed an observation window to view the planet.
• Chen Jue followed the Mausoleum’s energy signal through Mars’s atmosphere and landed near the equator.
• Chen Jue stepped onto the Martian surface and sensed something beneath the rocky hill.
• Chen Jue stamped the ground, shattered the surrounding rocks, and exposed a pyramid-shaped structure resembling the First Emperor's Mausoleum.

Chen Jue discovered a rune-covered pyramid on Mars, opened its golden door, and passed through a spatial barrier into a vast structure beneath the planet. There, he encountered a powerful shelled creature that recognized him as human.

• Chen Jue stopped his spherical craft from rolling down the pyramid and examined the scarlet-gold structure and its runes.
• A Martian dust storm covered the pyramid in sand, and Chen Jue sensed its energy field pulling the sand toward it.
• Chen Jue used plasma energy to open the pyramid’s enormous gold-and-bronze door, revealing a dark passage blocked by an invisible spatial barrier.
• Chen Jue tested the barrier with a stone rod, then stepped through and found himself deep beneath Mars inside a vast enclosed structure.
• Chen Jue sensed a powerful shelled creature, which opened its crimson eyes and greeted him as a human.

Chen Jue encountered Bixi, a colossal dragon turtle imprisoned beneath a Civilization Stele in the Martian Pyramid. After subduing it, he learned that Emperor Zhuanxu had sent Bixi to guard the last water source and heard its account of the realms’ ancient collapse.

• Chen Jue recognized the enormous creature as Bixi when it communicated with him through mind rainbow light.
• Bixi awakened, asked Chen Jue to remove the Civilization Stele, and said Emperor Zhuanxu had promised a future human would free it.
• Bixi’s thrashing shook the chamber, so Chen Jue bound it with metal chains and stunned it with a powerful electric shock.
• Chen Jue asked Bixi about the Heavenly Realm, and Bixi recalled Gonggong breaking a passage and Emperor Zhuanxu cutting down Jianmu.
• Bixi said Zhuanxu had sent it to guard the Earthly Realm’s last remaining water source, while Chen Jue wondered whether the Spirit Realm was the asteroid belt.

Chen Jue activated the Civilization Stele and witnessed the history of humanity across Earth, Mars, and a lost planet in the Asteroid Belt. The stele revealed that ancient humanity’s wars devastated the Solar System, and the survivors eventually left Earth behind and departed for the stars.

• Chen Jue used his Mind Rainbow Light and scarlet-gold energy to activate the Civilization Stele on the Bixi’s back.
• Chen Jue saw that humans evolved on Earth, Mars, and an emerald planet, while Mars and the emerald planet developed cultivation civilizations.
• Chen Jue witnessed a war between powerful figures that drained Mars’s water and shattered the emerald planet into the Asteroid Belt.
• Nüwa placed the Moon outside Earth and used the Four Sea-Calming Needles to subdue the floods, then helped move powerful populations to the Heavenly Realm.
• After further wars destroyed Jianmu and devastated the Heavenly Realm, Emperor Zhuanxu led the surviving humans away from the Solar System, leaving Earth’s people behind.

Chen Jue learned the history of the Heavenly Realm civilization from the stele and discovered that its Bird-Worm Seal Script was spirit script. After freeing Bixi in exchange for lessons, he told it that Earth had lost its cultivation resources, and Bixi recognized the mortal world as having entered the Age of Declining Dharma.

• Chen Jue reviewed the stele's records, learning how the Heavenly Realm civilization rose and departed, why the First Emperor's Mausoleum signaled the Martian pyramid, and how Earth's rulers inherited divine authority.
• Chen Jue considered how Bird-Worm Seal Script might advance his understanding of plasma energy and the realms beyond Shatter the Vacuum.
• Bixi told Chen Jue that the characters were spirit script created by Cangjie and offered to teach him if he set Bixi free and took it out of the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Chen Jue agreed to free Bixi and asked whether it could survive outer space; Bixi said its clan could cross the void without protection.
• Chen Jue freed Bixi and explained that Earth's cultivation resources had run out and that he was currently its strongest human.
• Bixi recalled Emperor Zhuanxu's prophecy and declared that the mortal world had entered the Age of Declining Dharma.

Chen Jue learned the prehistoric cultivation ranks and Spirit Script from Bixi, discovering that his Shatter the Vacuum realm corresponded to a Level 8 Creation Great Power. He used Spirit Script to create light and fire, then shrank the Civilization Stele on Bixi’s back into a short staff as the first step toward freeing the old turtle.

• Bixi explained that Chen Jue’s early Shatter the Vacuum realm was equivalent to a Level 8 Creation Great Power, while Bixi itself stood at the peak of Level 7.
• Bixi taught Chen Jue how to read and use Spirit Script, which prehistoric cultivators used to channel energy and power magical arts and artifacts.
• Chen Jue wrote the Spirit Script characters for “lamp” and “fire,” creating adjustable light and a small fireball, and his panel recorded Spirit Script Application as a new skill.
• Bixi asked Chen Jue to remove the Civilization Stele that had restrained it, and Chen Jue agreed.
• Chen Jue used Matter Interference and the Spirit Script character for “shrink” to compress the towering Civilization Stele into a short staff on Bixi’s back.

Chen Jue shrank the 200,000-ton Civilization Stele into a needle and attached it to his combat suit, freeing Bixi from its weight. Bixi activated the Pyramid and climbed out, then mourned Mars’s lost oceans as it prepared to return to the Heavenly Realm.

• Chen Jue tested the shrunken Civilization Stele, found it weighed nearly 200,000 tons, and decided it would make a suitable weapon.
• Chen Jue shrank the Civilization Stele again and embedded it in his combat suit, freeing Bixi from the weight that had pinned it down.
• Bixi thanked Chen Jue and said it planned to return to the Heavenly Realm to search for its clansmen.
• Bixi activated the Pyramid’s Spirit Script and mechanisms, causing the structure to rise from underground and unfold.
• Chen Jue flew out of the opened Pyramid, and Bixi climbed out and recalled that Mars had once been an ocean home for aquatic demon beasts.

After emerging from the Pyramid on Mars, Bixi flew into space and met up with Chen Jue, who armored him with a Spirit Script-inscribed suit so they could travel to Emperor Zhuanxu’s descendants. As they circled Mars, Bixi pointed out a mountain shaped like a human face and revealed it was the remains of the great god Gonggong.

• Bixi emerged from the Pyramid and roared on Mars, prompting Earth observers to leak blurry footage of the giant creature.
• Bixi flew out of Mars’s atmosphere using gas-powered jets and Gang Qi, while Chen Jue followed in his spherical craft.
• Chen Jue told Bixi about the Sun Wheel and the suspected descendants of Emperor Zhuanxu, and Bixi confirmed that the artifact sent distress signals to Great Sun Stars.
• When Bixi said he could only fly for half a day, Chen Jue used the Civilization Stele to reshape the craft’s metal into Spirit Armor around him.
• Bixi thanked Chen Jue and flew around Mars, then pointed out a colossal face-shaped mountain and identified it as remains left by Gonggong after his death.

Chen Jue discovered that Gonggong’s enormous remains were made of layered metals, giving him a new direction for advancing his nuclear-fusion cultivation. As Chen Jue and Bixi left Mars, cameras across Earth captured Bixi, sparking worldwide uproar over apparent extraterrestrial life.

• Chen Jue examined Gonggong’s remains and learned from Bixi that the giant stone colossus was the god’s discarded body.
• Chen Jue excavated the remains and realized their layered metal composition reflected nuclear fusion reaching its endpoint, inspiring ideas for his next cultivation breakthrough.
• Bixi bowed to Gonggong, then Chen Jue took Bixi away from Mars and questioned him about prehistoric cultivators and the differences between humans and demonic beasts.
• Space agencies and telescopes captured Bixi flying out of Mars’s atmosphere, and footage of the turtle spread across the internet as news outlets announced an alien sighting.
• Internet users around the world reacted with shock and questioned whether the sighting was real.

Earth erupted in panic and speculation after the United Nations confirmed discoveries on the moon and evidence of an alien civilization on Mars, while Chen Jue remained unaware as he practiced spirit script aboard Bixi’s craft. The craft accelerated beyond Pluto toward the source of the signal.

• Blurry images of Bixi and a human-face statue on Mars sparked worldwide demands for answers, and a NASA employee leaked evidence of lunar missions and the secret exploration plan called Second Home.
• Twelve hours after Chen Jue left Mars, the United Nations confirmed major discoveries on the moon and said the photographed object on Mars likely proved an alien civilization existed.
• Space agencies struggled with the moon’s closed wormhole tunnel and feared humanity could not match the suspected extraterrestrial civilization’s technology.
• Chen Jue practiced spirit script with Bixi’s guidance and raised his proficiency to Lv7 in less than a day.
• Chen Jue inscribed protective, flight, autopilot, and gravitational-towing functions onto the spherical craft, which accelerated past Pluto toward the signal source.

Chen Jue traveled toward the approaching craft that had answered the Solar Helium Flash’s SOS while studying Spirit Script. Aboard the bronze pyramid craft, its captain learned that Earth was the abandoned homeworld of the Zhuanxu Lineage and questioned how Chen Jue had contacted him.

• Chen Jue estimated that he would rendezvous with the approaching visitor in four or five days and continued studying Spirit Script aboard his craft with Bixi in tow.
• A bronze pyramid craft crossed belts of cosmic dust and asteroids, protected by complex Spirit Script, while its crew communicated through exposed Heavenly Eyes and Spirit Script Language.
• The attendant reported that the Alliance had seeded Earth with a Civilization Disseminator and that the Zhuanxu Lineage had migrated away, leaving a withered secret realm on a satellite.
• The captain recognized the Zhuanxu Lineage’s origins and asked about the uncivilized native who had contacted him using a Star Artifact.
• The attendant explained that Chen Jue might have inherited cultivation from a predecessor and dismissed the captain’s concern, citing Earth’s early technological development.

An exploration fleet captain planned to plunder Earth for cultivation resources and slaves, unaware that Bixi was approaching his ship. After several days of travel and experiments with Spirit Script, Chen Jue tracked down the pyramid-shaped spacecraft, which sounded alarms and prepared for battle upon detecting Bixi.

• The captain and Zero Three discussed selling Earth's inhabitants and seeking the Zhuanxu Lineage's resources to gain wealth and power.
• Chen Jue traveled through the Sun System with Bixi, collecting useful asteroid materials to enlarge his spherical craft.
• Chen Jue inscribed Spirit Script onto the Sun Wheel, turning it into a long-range radar, and experimented with Spirit Artifacts.
• Several days later, Chen Jue used the Sun Wheel to locate the unidentified spacecraft.
• The pyramid-shaped spacecraft detected Bixi as a cosmic behemoth above level 7 and prepared its weapons and crew for combat.

A pyramid spacecraft fired on Chen Jue and Bixi, prompting Bixi to fight back against its main cannon and swarm of combat craft. As Bixi struggled against the sustained attacks, Chen Jue took control of the modified Civilization Disseminator and wiped out the remaining bat-shaped craft.

• The pyramid spacecraft’s captain activated its weapons and fired its Positron Main Cannon at Bixi.
• Chen Jue ordered Bixi to retaliate and capture the spacecraft, and Bixi’s blue energy sphere absorbed the cannon blast.
• The captain sent thousands of transforming combat craft after Bixi while continuing to fire the main cannon.
• Bixi dodged the bombardment, destroyed over a thousand craft, and then struggled under the swarm’s attacks.
• Chen Jue drove the modified Civilization Disseminator and swept a golden electrical net through the swarm, destroying more than eight thousand craft.

Bixi destroyed the Pyramid ship after absorbing its weapons, while the crew escaped in a Core Cabin. Chen Jue pursued the fleeing craft at near-light speed and began melting through its hull, leaving the crew convinced he was a level eight Void Immortal.

• The Pyramid ship's weapons failed to penetrate Bixi's energy barrier, which absorbed their power and grew stronger.
• The captain split the ship and launched its Core Cabin at 65% of the speed of light, but Bixi smashed the remaining hull and fired blue spheres after it.
• Bixi asked Chen Jue to pursue the Core Cabin, and Chen Jue flew through space in his Combat Suit to test his abilities.
• Chen Jue accelerated to about 95% of the speed of light and caught the Core Cabin in less than ten seconds.
• The Core Cabin's crew detected Chen Jue on the hull as he melted through it, and they realized Bixi had a powerful master.

Chen Jue captured an alien exploration ship and forced its captain and crew to become his servants. After ordering the ship to rendezvous with Bixi, he requested the crew’s information about the Human Alliance.

• Chen Jue breached the escape pod and used golden metal threads to bind its captain and more than a thousand crew members.
• Chen Jue created translation earplugs and learned that the captain, Bulan Kai Xiluode, served the Human Alliance’s Explorers’ Guild.
• Chen Jue branded Xiluode and the crew with Spirit Script servant marks, compelling them to kneel and acknowledge him as their master.
• Chen Jue repaired the ship’s hull and ordered Xiluode to take control of the spacecraft and rendezvous with Bixi.
• Chen Jue asked Xiluode to retrieve the ship’s information about the Human Alliance so he could examine it.

Chen Jue learned the history of the Human Alliance, the Artificial Heavenly Eye, and the Heart Demon Era, and realized how easily Xiluode’s ship could have conquered Earth without his intervention. He considered becoming a Galactic System Lord and discovered that browsing the information had raised his brain domain attribute to 0.50.

• Chen Jue viewed the Human Alliance’s history, from humanity’s expansion across the universe to the Alliance’s rise and later stagnation under powerful civilizations.
• Chen Jue learned that the Heart Demon Era destroyed tens of thousands of primitive civilizations after chemical drugs caused widespread hallucinations and addiction.
• Chen Jue learned that the Alliance developed the Artificial Heavenly Eye to support mental communication, but its rare materials drove explorers to exploit nascent civilizations.
• Chen Jue understood that Earth was too undeveloped to resist Xiluode’s exploration ship, and that without Chen Jue’s interception, its crew could have enslaved humanity.
• Chen Jue wondered whether a Galactic System Lord could receive protection from the Alliance Law Enforcement Bureau and found that his brain domain attribute had risen to 0.50.

After reviewing the Human Alliance’s information, Chen Jue decided to claim the Sun System as lord before the Zhuanxu Lineage could contest his rights to it. Xiluode outlined three promotion routes and explained why claiming the Sun System would cost 24 million Spirit Script Coins, leaving Chen Jue searching for a way to afford it.

• Chen Jue saw that his recent battle had raised his Matter Interference skill and Free Attribute Points, and he told Xiluode to find a convenient way to make him lord of the Zhuanxu Lineage’s home system.
• Chen Jue decided to claim the Sun System early so he could protect Earth’s humans and secure the Alliance’s support for developing their civilization.
• Xiluode reported that Chen Jue could qualify through military merit, a major contribution to humanity, or payment of a fee.
• Xiluode explained that claiming the Sun System would cost 24 million Spirit Script Coins because it contained the Zhuanxu Lineage’s valuable Origin Secret Realm.
• Chen Jue questioned the high price and began considering how he could raise the money.

Chen Jue learned that Earth’s resources were worth little to the Human Alliance, so he considered making and selling level-8 Spirit Artifacts instead. After Xiluode could not appraise Chen Jue’s Civilization Monument, he discovered the nearest Alliance market was 160,000 light-years away.

• Xiluode showed Chen Jue the Alliance price list, which valued Earth’s species and cultural records cheaply but priced 10,000 human slaves at one Spirit Script Coin.
• Chen Jue rejected selling Earth’s people and considered other ways to earn money.
• Chen Jue examined Spirit Artifact prices and realized his level-8 Spirit Script proficiency might let him make valuable ships.
• Chen Jue checked the level-8 ship standards, then showed Xiluode his Civilization Monument for an appraisal.
• Xiluode said the Monument required assessment at an Alliance market and showed Chen Jue a route to a transit planet 160,000 light-years away.
• Chen Jue questioned how the Exploration Ship had crossed that distance and worried about the journey time.

Chen Jue rebuilt the captured exploration ship and set off for Earth with Bixi and the captured extraterrestrials, intending to bring advanced technology back to humanity. Meanwhile, on Second Home, Linglong cornered Eugene at an ancient bronze wall, where Eugene’s sacrifice caused it to glow scarlet.

• Xiluode showed Chen Jue the Wormhole Tunnel network, and Chen Jue decided to return to Earth before visiting a transit point.
• Chen Jue persuaded Bixi to join him, rebuilt the exploration ship with Xiluode’s help, and headed toward Earth with Bixi in tow.
• On Second Home, Linglong pursued Eugene and his remaining followers through underground ruins to a massive bronze wall covered in ancient images and spirit script.
• Eugene declared that passing through the wall would lead to eternal life, while Linglong recognized its powerful mental magnetic field and prepared to attack him.
• Eugene cut a clone subordinate’s throat beside the wall, and the bronze surface began glowing scarlet.