Arc 17The Forgotten Trial

Zhou Heng forged the Sakast Imperial Sword, helped Guangming Assassin Martha confront Su Gudao, and obtained the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword as Sarendo Sakas defended the Secret Realm. He entered Soaring Rooftop Palace’s Forgotten Trial to rescue Sarendo’s soul, then linked Starwind to the Abyss so Sarendo could return as a Heroic Spirit.

  • Zhou Heng entered the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm, learned that the Sakas Emperor had never blamed Martha, and killed a Longevity-Cursed Species woman who attacked him.
  • Zhou Heng fought off the Star River Longevity-Cursed Species while Martha reached the Command Platform and received the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light from Sarendo Sakas.
  • Zhou Heng trained in the Vast Star Nation’s technology trial, forged the Sakast Imperial Sword, and gained Heaven and Earth · Sword · Mind Severance from Glorious Free Radical.
  • Zhou Heng helped Martha learn Su Gudao’s true feelings, but Longevity-Cursed Species top 9 killed her, and Zhou Heng then beheaded Su Gudao and claimed Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword.
  • Sarendo Sakas used Soaring Rooftop Palace to defend the Secret Realm from top 9, sacrificing himself and fading from most players’ and NPCs’ memories.
  • Zhou Heng chose the sword’s unsealing method that required killing one trillion units and entered the Forgotten Trial inside Soaring Rooftop Palace.
  • Zhou Heng fought through the trial’s central passages and seized Sarendo Sakas’s point of light just before the Abyss’s maw reached it.
  • Zhou Heng linked Eternity Wind God · Starwind to the Abyss, and Sarendo merged with Starwind to return to Soaring Rooftop Palace as a growing Heroic Spirit.
Chapters 401–425 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 401Regional Truth: Ripples of Heaven and Earth · Sword of Light

Zhou Heng crossed the Emperor Audience Road by answering questions about the Sakas Empire and received the Regional Truth fragment Ripples of Heaven and Earth · Sword of Light from the Sakas Emperor’s lingering figure. A hidden chapter revealed that the Sword of Heaven and Earth had shattered into fifteen fragments, and Zhou Heng entered the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm as a new Fate Hint appeared.

  • Federal Army soldiers recognized Zhou Heng as he approached the Sakas Emperor’s Audience Road, where its pressure reduced his Attack Speed and Movement Speed.
  • Zhou Heng chose Fate Hint One and used its guidance to answer the road’s questions, advancing through 999 steps.
  • The Sakas Emperor asked why it would be meaningless to kill the repentant Light Assassin-Masha, and Zhou Heng answered that she would certainly die while repaying the price of her choices.
  • The Sakas Emperor’s light-form gave Zhou Heng Ripples of Heaven and Earth · Sword of Light and asked him to tell Masha that he had never blamed her.
  • Zhou Heng learned that the Regional Truth of Sakast, Heaven and Earth · Sword, had shattered into fifteen fragments, with the locations of three unknown.
  • Zhou Heng turned away from the Longevity-Cursed Species and entered the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm.

Ch. 402A Repentant Soul and a Merciless Ideal

Zhou Heng entered the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm and witnessed Guangming Assassin-Martha reliving the emperor's beheading and her remorse. Meanwhile, Su Gudao and the Longevity-Cursed Species prepared to seize the secret realm and its treasures, with Su Gudao vowing to kill Martha himself.

  • Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint's directions through unstable space and entered a fragment depicting the Sakas Emperor's beheading.
  • Zhou Heng saw Guangming Assassin-Martha grieving and questioning the emperor's corpse as the memory of her killing him repeated.
  • Zhou Heng waited quietly while Martha repented and vented her anguish.
  • Su Gudao and the Longevity-Cursed Species reached the secret realm's endpoint and realized Zhou Heng might have learned their secret.
  • Su Gudao sent an item into the secret realm and ordered his companions to reclaim the Command Platform and Ripples of Heaven and Earth · Sword of Light, while he vowed to kill Martha.

Ch. 403Authority: Space Conversion

Zhou Heng gained the Sakas Emperor’s partial recognition and unlocked Space Conversion, an authority that let him survey part of the secret realm and manipulate its spatial rifts. He used it to target one of Su Gudao’s searching Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species, drawing her toward the illusory space.

  • Guangming Assassin Martha mistook Zhou Heng’s appearance for Su Gudao’s before recognizing him, and Zhou Heng revealed that he held Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light.
  • Martha explained that she had killed the emperor and needed to take the sword to the Command Platform, where she had been manipulated into serving a Longevity-Cursed Species.
  • Zhou Heng asked Martha to find a way to forge and unseal his Emperor Sword at the Command Platform, and she agreed to trust him and help.
  • Zhou Heng told Martha that the Sakas Emperor had never blamed her; she departed through a spatial rift, saying she would meet him at the Command Platform.
  • Zhou Heng sat on the Sakas Imperial Throne, where Sarendo Sakas granted him partial recognition and left his remaining strength at the Command Platform.
  • Zhou Heng unlocked Space Conversion, spotted Su Gudao’s Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species searching the secret realm, and opened a rift to bring one into his illusory space.

Ch. 404White River's Heroic Spirit Hall

Zhou Heng summoned a powerful Longevity-Cursed woman and killed her before she could use the items prepared to counter him. Her death shook the White River Purifying Bottle, and fate offered Zhou Heng several possible skill evolutions, including White River's Heroic Spirit Hall.

  • The Longevity-Cursed woman entered Zhou Heng's spatial rift and attacked him with more than ten thousand clones.
  • Zhou Heng used Wind's Vision to find her real body and killed her through her Icebound Shield before she could activate Life State Tending Toward Balance.
  • The White River Purifying Bottle absorbed the woman's remains and began to shake as fate revealed four possible skill evolutions.
  • Zhou Heng stopped the bottle's transformation and chose to pursue White River's Heroic Spirit Hall.

Ch. 405Was this all they had?

Zhou Heng rejected the Longevity-Cursed Species’ recruitment and began hunting the Star River Longevity-Cursed Species gathered against him. After testing their countermeasures, he concluded that they no longer posed a threat and prepared to clear the field.

  • Zhou Heng tore up the recruitment note, while Su Gudao learned that Wang Xin had died and warned the other Longevity-Cursed Species to be careful.
  • Su Gudao planned to use the remaining 998 Star River Longevity-Cursed Species to exhaust Zhou Heng’s Future Prediction before striking with his fallback.
  • Zhou Heng lured a team of three into his illusory space and killed them, intercepting a modified Life State Tending Toward Balance item.
  • Zhou Heng drew in a team of five, let them use their countermeasures, and learned that Resurrection Equivalent Exchange blocked most of his resurrections.
  • Zhou Heng decided the Star River Longevity-Cursed Species were no longer a threat and prepared to clear the field.

Ch. 406Zhou Heng vs. 901 "Galaxy" Species

Zhou Heng gathered the remaining Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species into his illusory space and fought their coordinated assault. He used spatial authority to escape their speed advantage and kill their dual-halberd warrior, whose final words hinted that Zhou Heng would soon die.

  • Su Gudao tried to deduce Zhou Heng’s abilities from the deaths recorded in his book, but Zhou Heng gathered the remaining Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species into his illusory space.
  • A dual-halberd warrior charged Zhou Heng while his allies unleashed frost, a song, and movement-speed support to help overwhelm him.
  • Zhou Heng converted his attack attribute to gold and struck the warrior repeatedly, but the Unceasing Deathmatch Warrior’s ability prevented him from dying.
  • Frost slowed Zhou Heng, allowing the warrior to close in, but Zhou Heng severed the spatial authority connecting the two spaces and restored their movement-speed difference.
  • Zhou Heng kited the warrior to death; as the warrior’s head was severed, he warned that Zhou Heng would die soon, and a Fate Hint appeared.

Ch. 40790 seconds, facing Longevity Top 9!

Zhou Heng used Fate Hint to evade attacks from the Longevity Top 9 possessing Su Gudao and stall for the Command Platform to activate. The top 9 recognized that Zhou Heng’s Future Prediction was thwarting him and considered drawing more power from his original body as another fate hint appeared.

  • Su Gudao calculated that Zhou Heng’s Divine Truth class was ★★, and the backlash reduced his attributes to 1.
  • Zhou Heng revealed the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light and provoked the Longevity-Cursed Species members into attacking him.
  • The Longevity Top 9 took control of Su Gudao’s body and tried to grab Zhou Heng, but Fate Hint’s instructions helped Zhou Heng evade the attack.
  • Sarendo Sakas confronted the top 9, who withdrew his attempt to destroy the Secret Realm before Sarendo vanished.
  • The top 9 repeatedly failed to catch Zhou Heng, recognized that Future Prediction was anticipating his moves, and considered drawing on his original body as Zhou Heng received another fate hint.

Ch. 408Every living being was cautious in the face of life and death

Zhou Heng evaded Longevity top 9’s attacks while Fate’s hints revealed a chance to kill him if he drew on his true body, but Longevity top 9 chose not to risk it. Meanwhile, Guangming Assassin Martha reached the Command Platform and began opening it with her sword.

  • Fate warned Zhou Heng that Longevity top 9 might draw on his true body, giving Zhou Heng a chance to use Sarendo Sakas’s power against him.
  • Zhou Heng used Fate Guidance to evade Longevity top 9’s repeated surprise attacks.
  • Longevity top 9 considered transferring power from his true body, but feared Sarendo Sakas might strike through the channel and closed the connection.
  • Zhou Heng learned that Longevity top 9 had abandoned the risky choice and felt brief regret that he could not attempt to kill the powerful enemy.
  • Guangming Assassin Martha reached the Command Platform, reflected on her guilt and her abandoned plan to poison Su Gudao, then drove her sword into the pillar of light to open it.

Ch. 409A trial from the Vast Star Nation

Zhou Heng received a trial from the Vast Star Nation and used a Fate hint to demand both its magic and technology rewards. Meanwhile, Guangming Assassin Martha entered the heart-refining path despite being unable to let go of her hatred, and the Galaxy longevity-cursed species pursued her.

  • The Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm unfolded into a starlit road, and Longevity top9 sent the 899 Galaxy longevity-cursed species toward its end.
  • Zhou Heng received the Vast Star Nation's choice between magic and technology, then used a Fate hint to demand both rewards.
  • Guangming Assassin Martha reached the Command Platform, where Glorious Free Radical told her to follow Starlight Avenue despite her fake Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light.
  • Glorious Free Radical judged that Guangming Assassin Martha would not survive because she was consumed by regret, despair, violence, and death-seeking impulses.
  • Sarendo Sakas reflected that Guangming Assassin Martha could have survived by letting go of her hatred, then vanished as the 899 Galaxy longevity-cursed species pursued her along Starlight Avenue.

Ch. 410Planetary Formula and Heaven's Awakened One

Zhou Heng accepted the Vast Star Nation’s magic-side trial and entered a futuristic world to study the Awakened One posture. He began training in a fragment of Planetary Formula and Heaven's Awakened One, learning that the posture had to align with an Awakened One at the atomic level.

  • Glorious Free Radical offered Zhou Heng both magic-side and technology-side trials, and Zhou Heng accepted the six-month challenge.
  • Zhou Heng woke in a futuristic bedroom beside a girl who looked like Yaya, who hurried him to class through a quantum channel.
  • Awakened One Type B1111 showed Zhou Heng a course schedule that described thousands of years of training and Divine Truth transcendence.
  • Zhou Heng asked for a fragment of Planetary Formula and Heaven's Awakened One, then assumed the Ultimate Technique and Earth's Awakened One posture.
  • Awakened One Type B1111 identified Zhou Heng’s aptitude and began correcting his posture at the atomic energy level.

Ch. 411The Root of Everything

Guangming Assassin Martha received Sarendo Sakas’s forgiveness and the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light, then activated its power to pursue Su Gudao. The chapter ended with her facing the empowered Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species and demanding to know where Su Gudao was.

  • Sarendo Sakas told Guangming Assassin Martha that he had never blamed her and gave her the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light.
  • Sarendo Sakas transformed the Command Platform, bestowed the Heart of Light on Martha, and ordered her to eradicate Longevity.
  • Martha recalled Su Gudao’s challenge to bring the sword to the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm and kill him there.
  • Martha accepted the compatibility assessment, unlocking the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light and its powers, including immortality and guaranteed hits and critical hits.
  • Martha endured the weapon’s intense pain as empowered Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species descended from Starlight Avenue, then demanded to know where Su Gudao was.

Ch. 412The key to confronting the Longevity Crusaders Army Lord

Guangming Assassin Martha tried to kill Su Gudao but was blocked by the Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species, while Zhou Heng began training his left eye in a deeper Awakened One posture. The chapter left Zhou Heng entering the Molecular Microcosm world to begin his Molecular State training.

  • Guangming Assassin Martha attacked Su Gudao and emptied his health bar, but he immediately resurrected and began boosting his attributes.
  • A distant archer killed and displaced Martha, but Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light's Undying Body kept her alive as she continued trying to reach Su Gudao through the 899 Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species.
  • Awakened One Type B1111 taught Zhou Heng to stabilize his basic three-dimensional Awakened One state and offered him five modules for further study.
  • Zhou Heng chose to train his left eye, and Awakened One Type B1111 calculated that the training would take four months and twenty-nine days.
  • Awakened One Type B1111 linked Zhou Heng to the Molecular Microcosm world and instructed him to visualize the words 'Boundless Endless' as training began.

Ch. 413Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword

Zhou Heng advanced his Molecular State cultivation as Guangming Assassin Martha fought Su Gudao in the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm. Su Gudao revealed that he had engineered their battle to strengthen Martha and prepare the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword for its union with her sword, while a hidden woman watched from below.

  • Zhou Heng continued cultivating the Molecular State Awakened One form and steadily increased his willpower.
  • Guangming Assassin Martha killed all 899 level-1000 Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species and approached Su Gudao, but he evaded her strike and gathered their pages into his book.
  • Su Gudao transformed the book into the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword and explained that he intended to die by Martha's hand so their swords and his Eternity's Augmentation could elevate her Regional Truth.
  • Su Gudao struck Martha and beat her, revealing that he had planned to keep her fighting for six months so she would grow stronger before the sword's final sharpening.
  • A voluptuous woman emerged partway from the ground and watched Martha and Su Gudao while holding a cotton-candy-like item.

Ch. 414Lifespan Years and Fortune (Stable State)

Zhou Heng completed the “Planetary Art and Heaven's Awakened One Eye” skill and advanced to a technological trial focused on forging a Blood-Drinking Killing Sword. He used his Empire Fortune to begin refining the Sakas Emperor Sword, though the result had not yet been revealed.

  • Zhou Heng completed the Molecular State posture, then trained in the Atomic State while his Will continued to rise.
  • Zhou Heng followed a fate hint and visualized himself as the Awakened One, comprehending the “Planetary Art and Heaven's Awakened One Eye” skill and raising his Will to 12.0.
  • Zhou Heng entered a classroom trial where a giant mechanical lifeform taught the figures there how to forge small Blood-Drinking Killing Swords.
  • The mechanical lifeform inspected Zhou Heng's Sakas Emperor Sword and explained that stable-state fortune could be used to forge it, but might change its prefix.
  • Zhou Heng chose to proceed, and the mechanical lifeform drew power from his Empire Fortune into the Sakas Emperor Sword.

Ch. 415The Unfinished Trillion

Zhou Heng forged the Sakast Imperial Sword with the help of the thousand-meter mechanical life-form, creating a weapon with immense power. The Second Army Lord, Glorious Free Radical, recognized Zhou Heng’s potential and left to prepare something for him, while Zhou Heng asked his teacher why the sword was considered technological rather than magical.

  • The thousand-meter mechanical life-form had Zhou Heng hammer the sword while recalling how he gained the Empire Fortune, and his memories appeared above the classroom.
  • Glorious Free Radical recognized the significance of Zhou Heng’s achievements and the items in his backpack, then left to prepare something for him.
  • Zhou Heng’s final hammer blow completed the Blood-Drinking Killing Sword and transformed it into the Sakast Imperial Sword.
  • Zhou Heng appraised his new sword and found that it inherited 900 billion kills, gained powerful combat abilities, and could plunder enemies’ lifespans.
  • The thousand-meter mechanical life-form praised the sword and asked Zhou Heng whether he knew why it counted as a technological weapon, and Zhou Heng asked his teacher to explain.

Ch. 416Level: 25 Million

After his sword-forging trial ended, Zhou Heng encountered Glorious Free Radical, the level-25-million Second Army Lord of the Vast Star Nation, and received a chance to comprehend freedom. He rejected the achievements Glorious Free Radical offered in favor of Heaven and Earth’s Legendary Codex, then received the Will of Freedom quest as the being’s power began to fade.

  • The thousand-meter mechanical lifeform sent Zhou Heng out of the school, but the journey twisted and divided his perspective until he saw the true form of the streaks of light.
  • Zhou Heng appraised Glorious Free Radical, witnessed the level-25-million being, and gained a technology-system buff from the witness reward.
  • Glorious Free Radical gave Zhou Heng 100 billion EXP and offered him triple and quadruple refinement achievements.
  • Fate Hint advised Zhou Heng to reject those achievements, use Heaven and Earth’s Legendary Codex, and unlock triple refinement by completing the Will of Freedom quest.
  • Zhou Heng rejected the offered achievements, and Glorious Free Radical began dissipating into streaks of light that granted him power and started the ten-second quest to comprehend a freedom skill.

Ch. 417Heaven and Earth · Sword · Mind Severance

Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint’s instructions to use the pain of devouring light to visualize the Billion Gates and reach Heaven and Earth · Sword. He gained a new skill and ten portions of Named Freedom light, then withdrew before the Longevity-Cursed Species could detect the disturbance.

  • Zhou Heng used Star Maiden's Light Hair to swallow a streak of light and endured its tearing pain while strengthening his will.
  • Zhou Heng visualized Boundless Endless and the Billion Gates, then swam through the archways by instinct.
  • Zhou Heng reached Heaven and Earth · Sword and, following a Fate Hint, sat cross-legged to visualize heaven and earth and activate Holy Power of Justice.
  • Zhou Heng used Star Maiden's Light Hair and Holy Power of Justice to devour ten portions of Named Freedom light as Glorious Free Radical secretly extracted a trace of power from Heaven and Earth · Sword.
  • Glorious Free Radical gave Zhou Heng the skill Heaven and Earth · Sword · Mind Severance and asked him to preserve Guangming Assassin Martha's remains if possible.
  • Zhou Heng gained the skill and an increase to all attributes, then left the special space to avoid alerting the Longevity-Cursed Species.

Ch. 418Transcendence: Greed of Light

Zhou Heng used Fate Hint to uncover how he could complete the hidden achievement "Greed of Light" and asked Sarendo Sakas to help Guangming Assassin Martha while he manipulated the secret realm's time. As the countdown continued, Sarendo Sakas intervened, giving Zhou Heng a chance to pursue his plan against the Longevity-Cursed Species Su Gudao.

  • Zhou Heng activated the Triple Refinement Achievement and discovered the hidden achievement "Greed of Light," which required him to complete all the listed objectives.
  • Fate Hint told Zhou Heng that Guangming Assassin Martha wanted to know whether Su Gudao had ever loved her and gave him two possible paths to complete the achievement.
  • Zhou Heng selected "Greed of Light," looked to his right, and saw a countdown begin as Sarendo Sakas watched Martha fight Su Gudao.
  • As Martha screamed and her body weakened under the cleansing power of Waves of Heaven and Earth·Sword of Light, Zhou Heng asked Sarendo Sakas to help her for twenty seconds.
  • Zhou Heng activated Time Corrector and repeatedly grasped at space, spending a hundred thousand years of lifespan, while Sarendo Sakas entered the secret realm to aid Martha.

Ch. 419Unattainable "Love"

Guangming Assassin Martha used the Truth of True Love to break through Su Gudao’s Thought Seals and learn whether he had loved her. After she killed him, an unknown power revived him, and he reached for her as the countdown neared its end.

  • As the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light reclaimed her attributes, Su Gudao repeatedly attacked Martha and mocked her.
  • A kindly voice lent Martha strength, and she summoned towering mechanical figures before calling Serna to join the fight.
  • Martha and the mechanical figures pinned Su Gudao down, and Serna planted the Truth of True Love within range of him.
  • The item assaulted Su Gudao’s Thought Seals, and Martha demanded to know whether he had ever liked her.
  • Su Gudao’s conflicting responses and tears revealed his feelings, and Martha stabbed him between the brows with the Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light.
  • With three seconds left on the countdown, Su Gudao opened his eyes, surged with an unfamiliar power, and reached for Martha.

Ch. 420Light Departed, Darkness Remained

Zhou Heng used the Secret Realm core to alter its mechanisms, then killed Su Gudao before he could destroy Martha’s body or escape with the sword. The chapter left Zhou Heng with new rewards and a level-up as the story moved toward the next volume.

  • Zhou Heng found the core of the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm and modified its time-return mechanism to regain the power of Fourth Chosen One · Between Heaven and Earth.
  • Longevity-Cursed Species top 9 killed Guangming Assassin Martha with Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light, but Sarendo Sakas restrained him as Zhou Heng modified the Secret Realm core.
  • Longevity-Cursed Species top 9 tried to flee with the sword, while Sarendo Sakas pursued him; Zhou Heng used a sword strike to behead Su Gudao before he could attack Martha’s corpse.
  • Zhou Heng’s forced-drop power severed Abyssal Protection: Drops and claimed Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword, while The Truth of True Love kept Martha and Su Gudao’s bodies in the mortal world.
  • Zhou Heng received the hidden achievement Greed of Light’s rewards, began third-tier refinement restoration, and advanced to level 401.

Ch. 421The end was the beginning, a sudden upheaval

After Zhou Heng reached level 401, the deaths of Masha and Su Gudao transformed them into an item that released the SSS-Rank Talent Eternity’s Augmentation across the Tenth Chapter. Sarendo Sakas sacrificed himself to protect the event from Longevity-Cursed Species Top 9, leaving a new era to begin.

  • Zhou Heng completed another round of attribute increases and appraised the item Embraced Love (Masha Gudao), discovering it had Eternity’s Augmentation and Virus Installation.
  • Light streamed from Embraced Love throughout the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm, filling players, NPCs, and Longevity-Cursed Species across the present-world Tenth Chapter with delight.
  • Longevity-Cursed Species Top 9 recognized the release of Eternity’s Augmentation and tried to reclaim it from Su Gudao.
  • Sarendo Sakas entered the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm, linked to Soaring Rooftop Palace, and shut Top 9 outside.
  • Top 9 linked to his True Body and attacked the Secret Realm, while Sarendo Sakas took the Phantom Sakas Imperial Throne to defend it.
  • Sarendo Sakas accepted that using Soaring Rooftop Palace would erase him from the memories of most players and NPCs, then closed his eyes forever.

Ch. 422Blue Sky vs. Su Longevity vs. Su Qingxin

Blue Sky, Su Longevity, and Su Qingxin each advanced plans involving Zhou Heng and the changing fate of the Clash of Heaven and Earth. At the Command Platform, Zhou Heng triggered the Sakast Imperial Sword’s unsealing ritual and learned he had to choose how to unlock it.

  • A half-bodied old man altered the balance of fate, and Blue Sky departed after sending something away from the strange space.
  • Su Longevity declared that the Clash of Heaven and Earth was entering its next stage as he watched Naren Sakaste from his study.
  • Su Qingxin sent a Dark Void Spirit to deliver her bloodstained handkerchief into Zhou Heng’s Mind Corridor and struggled deeper into the colorful world.
  • Serna offered Zhou Heng a Deep Space Dimension Escape Cord, but he stayed behind and climbed onto the Command Platform.
  • Zhou Heng fell as the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm shook, and the Sakast Imperial Sword pierced the Command Platform, revealing its unsealing requirements.
  • Zhou Heng considered the three unsealing methods, including slaying more than one trillion entities, as a Fate Hint appeared.

Ch. 423Zhou Heng vs. Blue Sky vs. Su Longevity vs. Su Qingxin

Zhou Heng learned that Blue Sky, Su Longevity, and Su Qingxin were maneuvering against one another, and that preserving Sarendo Sakas was key to saving Qi Sinian. He summoned Starwind, chose Unsealing Three, and began the Forgotten Trial inside Soaring Rooftop Palace.

  • Zhou Heng received four Fate Hints revealing the competing schemes involving Blue Sky, Su Longevity, Su Qingxin, and Qi Sinian.
  • Zhou Heng summoned Eternity Wind God · Starwind and chose Unsealing Three, which required him to kill 1 trillion units.
  • Zhou Heng accepted the Forgotten Trial after Starwind triggered its hidden mechanism on the Command Platform.
  • Zhou Heng learned that Soaring Rooftop Palace erased concepts for citizens of the Vast Star Nation and saw that it was a gigantic iron sword.
  • Zhou Heng began the trial and followed the instruction to take the middle route, ignore monsters, and rush toward the deepest point.

Ch. 424The Small Time-Space Pauser Shows Its Might Again

Zhou Heng fought through Soaring Rooftop Palace, using Small Time-Space Pausers to survive increasingly powerful attackers and reach Emperor Sarendo Sakas’s falling soul. He activated every pauser at once and leaped for the soul as an abyssal maw rushed in to swallow it.

  • Zhou Heng cut through waves of monsters as he advanced through more than a thousand central passages in Soaring Rooftop Palace.
  • At the 1,001st passage, Zhou Heng spotted a falling light and used Small Time-Space Pausers to press forward through attacks from powerful three-headed, six-armed enemies.
  • Emperor Sarendo Sakas recognized Zhou Heng and chose to wait and see whether he could reach him before his soul landed and triggered the palace’s mechanism.
  • Zhou Heng repeatedly used Small Time-Space Pausers as enormous black-lit hands attacked him, then reached the light and saw Emperor Sarendo Sakas seated within it.
  • Zhou Heng crossed the next central path, activated all his remaining Small Time-Space Pausers, and leaped toward Emperor Sarendo Sakas as an abyssal maw lunged for the soul.

Ch. 425Watch closely: Emperor form, "Eternity Wind God · Starwind"

Zhou Heng and Emperor Sarendo Sakas activated Eternity Wind God · Starwind and linked it to the Abyss, as Sarendo began a dangerous hundred-second operation in Soaring Rooftop Palace. Zhou Heng studied the Emperor’s Skill Set while preparing to take his Concept Origin Seed and escape, but new notifications appeared as the giant Heroic Spirit continued to grow.

  • Zhou Heng seized Emperor Sarendo Sakas's point of light and escaped the forgotten trial of Honing just before the Abyss's maw broke through the time-stop effects.
  • Sarendo entered Eternity Wind God · Starwind's cockpit with Zhou Heng and told him to channel his Technology Side power into the Heroic Spirit.
  • Zhou Heng activated Dark Abyss Corridor, allowing Eternity Wind God · Starwind to form a passage to the Abyss and draw on its power.
  • Sarendo warned Zhou Heng that he had one hundred seconds to study the linked Skill Set, take his Concept Origin Seed, and withdraw before he died.
  • Sarendo merged with Eternity Wind God · Starwind and returned to Soaring Rooftop Palace, where he ignored the colored blades and grew the Heroic Spirit to ten thousand meters.
  • Zhou Heng read new notifications on his retinas as Eternity Wind God · Starwind continued to grow, and his expression turned peculiar.
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