Chapter Summaries

Eugene summoned the scales of judgment at the Wall of Sighs and tried to use a clone’s heart to win passage to eternal life. Xiezhi exposed his deception and destroyed Eugene and his accompanying clones, then turned its judgment toward Linglong.

• Eugene used the ancient parchment to summon a golden set of scales and Xiezhi from the Wall of Sighs.
• Eugene placed a clone’s heart on the scales and recited an invocation while a green feather settled on the other pan.
• Xiezhi declared that Eugene had deceived the goddess because the heart was not his, despite Eugene’s protests.
• Xiezhi drained Eugene and his accompanying clones, leaving their bodies to shatter into dust.
• Xiezhi turned toward Linglong and told her that it was her turn.

Linglong passed the Golden Scales’ judgment by surrendering her body, manifested her soul, and entered the Wall of Sighs to receive the gods’ inheritance. As she fell into an adaptive slumber, an energy field closed every Wormhole Tunnel connecting Second Home to the moon.

• Xiezhi explained that passing the goddess’s judgment would let Linglong cross the Boundary Between Life and Death and enter the Land of the Gods’ Slumber.
• Linglong placed her heart on the Golden Scales, and it balanced with the Feather of Truth; the resulting black wind destroyed her body and the explorers and clones nearby.
• Linglong’s consciousness survived as a manifested soul, and Xiezhi declared that she had passed the judgment.
• Linglong touched the Wall of Sighs and was drawn inside, where she understood that passing its material barrier required leaving the body behind and saw records of Second Home’s origins.
• Linglong’s soul began an adaptive slumber under the flood of information, while an energy field closed the Wormhole Tunnels to the moon.
• Yun Xiaomei awoke from cultivating the Myriad Beasts Dao and told Bai Ze that the passage had closed.

Chen Jue brought a modified spaceship back to Earth, where his arrival sparked global panic and a planet-wide broadcast. After revealing that he was human and explaining the ship and the human Alliance, he reached the Moon and discovered that the Wormhole Tunnel had disappeared.

• Astronomers and governments detected Chen Jue’s spaceship approaching Earth and prepared for an extraterrestrial attack.
• Chen Jue hacked into Earth’s satellites and broadcast his identity, assuring humanity that he would not attack Earth.
• Chen Jue introduced Bixi and shared information about the spaceship and the human Alliance, stunning people across Earth.
• Chen Jue reached the Moon and found that the Wormhole Tunnel was gone.

Chen Jue discovered that the Wormhole Tunnel to the Second Home had closed, then learned its location was in the Giant Gate Star system and set out to reach Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot. Years later, after rising to level nine and building an interstellar fleet, he arrived and reunited with them.

• Chen Jue learned that the Wormhole Tunnel had closed after unusual gravitational waves passed through it, and Xiluode identified the signal as a level-nine spatial closure method.
• Zhong Deyuan showed Chen Jue that star-trail comparisons placed the Second Home in the Giant Gate Star system, 79.7 light-years from the Sun.
• Chen Jue shared Spirit Script and spaceship technology with the base, built nine level-six spaceships for it, and left cultivation materials behind.
• Chen Jue returned briefly to Chen Village, then departed Earth for the Giant Gate Star to find Yun Xiaomei and the others.
• During his journey, Chen Jue advanced to level nine and expanded his spaceship into an interstellar fleet.
• Chen Jue arrived at the Second Home, where Sun Wu and the others welcomed the fleet and Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot contacted him.