Recaps

Zhou Heng received the delayed rewards for the Abyss’s Wrath and experienced Emperor Sarendo Sakas’s power through Eternity Wind God · Starwind (false conceptual state). After the giant form fought a black, insect-haired enemy and launched Soaring Rooftop Palace toward Island Country, Zhou Heng was ejected with Sarendo Sakas’s Concept Origin Seed, and Fate’s guidance appeared as he prepared to enter the Sakas Underground Palace.

• Zhou Heng discovered that the Abyss had blocked his settlement for Abyss’s Wrath and received rewards, including 500 million Lifespan and increases to his initial attack and movement speeds.
• Zhou Heng merged more deeply with Eternity Wind God · Starwind (false conceptual state) and watched it grow to five million meters, break through the Sakas Emperor’s Glorious Secret Realm, and enter the real world’s Tenth Chapter.
• Eternity Wind God · Starwind (false conceptual state) used Emperor’s Majesty to destroy a sliver of Longevity-Cursed Species top 9’s power, then was struck by a black, insect-haired being that seized Waves of Heaven and Earth of Light.
• Eternity Wind God · Starwind (false conceptual state) fought the black being, grew to ten million meters, and hurled Soaring Rooftop Palace toward Island Country before diving toward the Imperial Capital Ruins.
• Sarendo Sakas told Zhou Heng to take his Concept Origin Seed into the Sakas Underground Palace, and Zhou Heng seized the seed when he was ejected from Eternity Wind God · Starwind (false conceptual state).
• Zhou Heng prepared to head underground, but Fate’s guidance appeared again.

Zhou Heng used the transcended Time Corrector to flee the Tenth Chapter, but the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth pursued him through the chapters. The pursuer chose to continue hunting Zhou Heng, and a new escape guidance began with an estimated duration of one year.

• Zhou Heng used the Skill Transcendence Scroll on Time Corrector, raised it to Heavenly Tome++, and escaped toward the Eighth Chapter.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro struck at the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth, distracting him while Soaring Rooftop Palace was placed into Island Country.
• The Black Awakened One used Sakast Region Vision to track Zhou Heng, who repeatedly changed destinations by following Fate Hint.
• The Black Awakened One realized Shengtiandao Ichiro had been targeting Island Country, but abandoned that matter to pursue Zhou Heng.
• The Black Awakened One began testing Zhou Heng's Level 401 Legendary Might, and Zhou Heng received guidance for an escape estimated to last one year.

Zhou Heng tried to escape the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth's overwhelming power, using Time Corrector to survive as the enemy flipped the chapters of the Time Interstice and then fished him out. Blue Sky intervened just as Zhou Heng escaped, and the chapter ended with sword light clashing against countless black palms as the Black Awakened One continued trying to seize him.

• Following Fate Hint, Zhou Heng used Time Corrector on his body and hung upside down as the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth flipped the ten chapters beneath him.
• The Black Awakened One used Voice of Justice and Where My Voice Is, There I Am to draw Zhou Heng out of the Time Interstice and into his palm.
• The Black Awakened One closed his hand to crush Zhou Heng, but Blue Sky’s delayed death knell halted the attack and Zhou Heng escaped with Time’s Passerby.
• The Black Awakened One realized Blue Sky had used the Kingdom of All Beings as a smokescreen to test Zhou Heng and moved to catch him as he attempted to transcend to the Eighth Chapter.
• Sword light destroyed the Black Awakened One’s giant palm, but countless more black palms reached for Zhou Heng as sword light filled the Time Interstice.

The ninth kind of Longevity Curse spread Dark Longevity Worms across the Sakast Region and hunted Zhou Heng, who escaped by traversing time and space while searching for a way to survive. After eight months, the Skysea of the Empty Realm opened, and Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng to visualize the Lord of Time and Space to resist the curse’s final pursuit.

• The Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth spread his Dark Longevity Worms across the chapters, prompting Blue Star Federation forces to send reinforcements to the present world.
• Su Longevity declared that neither Zhou Heng nor Blue Sky could stop civilization’s progress and prepared to welcome Su Qingxin’s death and rebirth.
• Zhou Heng encountered Dark Longevity Worms in the Eighth Chapter, fled to the present world, and learned that the worms could fuse into powerful strains that pursued him.
• Zhou Heng tested his White River Purifying Bottle against the worms and used his enhanced Time Corrector to keep escaping, while eight months passed.
• The Skysea of the Empty Realm opened, and Fate Hint instructed Zhou Heng to visualize the Lord of Time and Space to resist the curse’s final pursuit; a streak of black light struck between his brows as he vanished.

Zhou Heng accepted the risk of taking power from all four truths held by the corrupted Lord of Time and Space, despite Fate Hint warning him of the danger. As the nightmare skill pulled him into dreamland, the Lord briefly regained its consciousness and used its last power to set Zhou Heng on the Endless Dream-Slaying Path.

• Fate Hint urged Zhou Heng to seek the truths of decay, despair, deathly silence, and asphyxiation, becoming an existence that held four Virus Source Species.
• Zhou Heng chose to ask the Lord of Time and Space for power and declared that he wanted all four truths.
• The Lord sent threads of decay, despair, deathly silence, and asphyxiation into Zhou Heng, just as Who Awakens First from the Nightmare activated and drew his consciousness into dreamland.
• The Lord of Time and Space briefly regained consciousness, touched Zhou Heng's brow, and used its final power to begin his Endless Dream-Slaying Path.

Zhou Heng faced a dream attack from the Divine Truth class The Dream Clown Who Mocks, which used illusions of his loved ones to weaken him. A power of truth restored his mental state, but the Dream Clown began its next trial: ten thousand years on the run.

• The Dream Clown Who Mocks introduced itself and began a dream of Zhou Heng’s friends and family being annihilated.
• Zhou Heng cut down the illusory classmates and loved ones who blamed him or urged him to surrender to Longevity.
• The nightmare replayed scenes of Qi Sinian, Yaya, and others being slaughtered, stirring fear and resentment in Zhou Heng despite his knowing they were false.
• An incandescent white light struck Zhou Heng and granted him spacetime’s self-correction, a Time Sword, and the one-use authority Time-Space Paradox.
• The self-correction power drove the dream’s influence from Zhou Heng’s mind, and the Dream Clown announced its next dream: ten thousand years on the run.

In the second dream, Zhou Heng used the Time Sword to fight the overwhelming Dream Demons while carefully studying its time-space skills. As four Virus Source Species battled over his body and Virus Erosion, Deathly Silence noticed his efforts and began modifying Time Corrector.

• The Jesting Dream Player began the second dream, surrounding Zhou Heng with powerful Dream Demons and granting him the Time Sword.
• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng against complacency and urged him to study Time-Space Pause and River of Time amid the changes in his body.
• Zhou Heng froze the charging Dream Demons with Time-Space Pause and cut them down, then slowed his attacks to better understand the sword's skills.
• Decay, Despair, Deathly Silence, and Asphyxiation fought over Zhou Heng's heart and Virus Erosion as their influence transformed his body.
• Deathly Silence realized Zhou Heng was studying the time skills and quietly began modifying Time Corrector.

While Zhou Heng fought through the second dream, Deathly Silence secretly modified Time Corrector, triggering a power struggle among the virus source species inside him. After Zhou Heng defeated the dream’s demons, he saw through the level 10000 Qi Sinian as a possible deception, kept the Time-Space Paradox, and entered a new endless-reincarnation quest.

• Zhou Heng repeatedly used Time-Space Pause and River of Time as Deathly Silence expanded Time Corrector over two months, raising his virus erosion to 25% and his resistance to 5%.
• Deathly Silence seized control of the altered skill, but Decay, Despair, and Asphyxiation modified other skills to oppose it, leaving the virus source species in a strange balance.
• Zhou Heng pushed his attack speed to its limit and killed the remaining Dream Demons in the second dream.
• The Dream Clown Who Mocks warned Zhou Heng that he would never survive the third dream, where a level 10000 Qi Sinian appeared.
• Zhou Heng suspected the Qi Sinian was fake and held back from using the Time-Space Paradox, passing the Lord of Time and Space’s test of caution.
• The Endless Dream-Slaying Dew quest activated, instructing Zhou Heng to break through a dream of endless reincarnation.

Zhou Heng faced a cycle of deadly dreams while trying to complete the Lord of Time and Space’s Endless Dream-Slaying Path without exposing memories of his previous life. He chose to use the Time-Space Paradox to embrace pain, truth, goodness, beauty, and endlessness, setting himself on a path toward greater willpower and an additional opportunity.

• The Lord of Time and Space altered Zhou Heng’s skill, changing Who Awakens First from the Nightmare into Who Wakes First from the Great Dream.
• Fate warned Zhou Heng that recalling his past-life death could draw the attention of Boundless Endless’s final boss, so he suppressed the memory and understood that the dreams revealed scenes from his soul.
• Zhou Heng realized he had to complete the Endless Dream-Slaying Path through an endless cycle of dreams while resisting memories of his previous life.
• Zhou Heng consulted Fate about the Time-Space Paradox and received four possible paths involving endless dreams, goodness and evil, pain, or all three forces together.
• Zhou Heng chose the fourth path, accepting pain, truth, goodness, beauty, and endlessness in pursuit of greater willpower and an additional opportunity.

Zhou Heng endured the altered Endless Dream-Slaying Path as the Kingdom of All Beings event began in the Tenth Chapter. Shengtiandao Ichiro entered the rain-soaked special area and climbed toward Island Country, confronting its accusations while recalling his past with Blue Sky.

• Zhou Heng’s refutations transformed the Endless Dream-Slaying Path into dreams of truth, goodness, and beauty paired with unbearable pain, and he struggled through them while watching for past-life scenes.
• On February 2, Online Game Era 10006, black liquid fully stained Soaring Rooftop Palace, and a world announcement opened the Kingdom of All Beings Country and offered Descent, Return, and Unaffiliated factions.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro suspected Blue Sky had accelerated the event to protect the contest for the Resurrection Authority, then entered the Sakas Imperial Capital to lead and help Island Country.
• Black rain clung to Shengtiandao Ichiro as voices accused him of betraying Island Country and blamed Blue Sky and the Xia Kingdom for its subordination.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro cut the black liquid from himself, dismissed the accusations, and followed a Black Spiral Stairway toward Island Country while remembering his past with Blue Sky.

Shengtiandao Ichiro reached the Kingdom of All Beings Country and confronted his former friend Pingtian Jurokurō, who embraced the Longevity-Cursed Species while Ichiro argued that the event offered Island Country a chance to escape its hatred. As Ichiro entered the kingdom, players and Sakas Empire NPCs chose their factions and the event began while Zhou Heng continued raising his willpower in the dreamscape.

• Shengtiandao Ichiro realized that overseeing the Kingdom of All Beings could be a crucial first step toward uniting Blue Star civilization.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro reached Frost City and confronted Pingtian Jurokurō, who accused Blue Sky and the Blue Star Federation of targeting Island Country and vowed to prove that embracing longevity was the right choice.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro urged Pingtian Jurokurō to turn back, but Pingtian Jurokurō refused and challenged him to meet in the kingdom's deepest part.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country, and players across the Tenth Chapter chose factions, with the player army overwhelmingly joining the Return Faction.
• Players discovered that the black liquid on the spiral stairway stirred negative emotions and unlocked a willpower attribute as they entered the special area.
• Most Sakas Empire NPCs joined the Return Faction while a smaller group chose the Descent Faction, as Zhou Heng continued severing dreams and increasing his willpower.

Zhou Heng completed the endless dream-slaying path and awakened the mystical skill Giant of the Mind. As he headed toward the exit to finish the Lord of Time and Space’s mission, the Tenth Chapter continued fighting to protect the flame of civilization and waiting for his return.

• A Female Emperor-like woman appeared in the Tenth Chapter, summoned a White Flame, and ordered lower-level players to retreat while the others held the chapter until Zhou Heng returned.
• Unknown black tentacles pierced the woman, and players and NPCs fought to keep the White Flame from being eroded, with members of the Black Bear Guild vowing to make amends for their past actions.
• Zhou Heng realized the endless dream-slaying path was teaching him to sever memories of his previous life so he could face the unknown enemy behind boundless endless.
• After the illusory women around him vanished, Zhou Heng reached out and transformed into a towering figure, then received the skill Giant of the Mind.
• Zhou Heng considered how the skill might help him overcome impossible situations and walked toward the distant exit while checking unread messages.

After completing the endless dream-slaying path, Zhou Heng examined the new abilities and changes he had gained, including the power of Mind Severance and enhancements from the Virus Source Species. He then inspected the unusual Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword, a replica of a regional truth fragment.

• Zhou Heng considered how Mind Severance could help him face the Longevity Crusaders Army Lord and noted his Will had risen to 120.0 after the endless dream-slaying path.
• Zhou Heng found that virus erosion and virus resistance had increased to 25% and 5% without harming him, and reviewed the mutated Time Corrector, Mind Journey, Holy Power of Justice, and Vast Star Fist skills.
• Zhou Heng noted that Time-Space Pause and River of Time could help him fight weaker level 10000 Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Zhou Heng remembered the active Virus Source Species purified by the White River Purifying Bottle and closed his Attribute Panel.
• Zhou Heng inspected the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword, which could improve his luck, bring misfortune, or strengthen most items.

Zhou Heng used the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword to transform the Foundation Deer Embryo into Foundation Deer Ripples, then completed the Endless Dream-Slaying Path and received Mind Repair. He left the Lord of Time and Space Silence determined to grow stronger, and information about the Skysea of the Empty Realm and the Kingdom of All Beings appeared as he returned to the Sakast Region.

• Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint and infused the Foundation Deer Embryo with the black light of the Waves of Heaven and Earth Sword, creating Foundation Deer Ripples.
• Zhou Heng reached the exit of the Endless Dream-Slaying Path and received the Mystical-grade skill Mind Repair as the Lord of Time and Space's final gift.
• Zhou Heng realized that Mind Repair and the Sakast Imperial Sword's lifespan plundering could work together to help him deal with contaminated Mind Corridors.
• Zhou Heng observed the sinking Lord of Time and Space Silence, thanked the deity, and left, resolving to become stronger and confront the Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Sakast Region, where information about the Skysea of the Empty Realm and the Large-Scale Event, Kingdom of All Beings, flooded his retinas.

Zhou Heng chose the Return Faction and found the Tenth Chapter filled with corpses, then seized the Spark of Civilization, which needed the lives of a hundred billion compatriots to reach full power. As the dead returned and begged him to kill them, Zhou Heng sensed something was wrong and hesitated with his sword in hand.

• Zhou Heng chose the Return Faction after learning that Island Country could not merge with Boundless Endless.
• Zhou Heng saw that nearly everyone in the Tenth Chapter had died and spotted the Spark of Civilization surrounded by players and NPCs fighting black creatures.
• Zhou Heng teleported to the Spark of Civilization and took it, hearing that he needed to charge it to return Island Country to Blue Star.
• Zhou Heng read that the Spark held the civilizational will of six billion compatriots and needed a hundred billion to reach full power.
• The dead compatriots revived and begged Zhou Heng to kill them, but he sensed that the situation was too convenient and paused before striking with the Sakast Imperial Sword (Lifespan Years).

Zhou Heng rejected the Blue Star Federation’s plan to sacrifice 94 billion fellow countrymen and traveled to the special area, Kingdom of All Beings Country, to seek another path. There, he encountered the Pitch-Black Chaotic Ancient Trees and visions in the red rain that pointed him toward the Black Spiral Stairway and two figures connected to Island Country’s fate.

• Zhou Heng chose not to kill the resurrected fellow countrymen and promised to leave the rest to him.
• Zhou Heng teleported to the boundary of the Kingdom of All Beings Country and found that Pitch-Black Chaotic Saplings had become ancient trees amid red rain.
• The ancient trees formed creatures that attacked Zhou Heng, but his sword could not harm them, and he refused to risk using the White River Purifying Bottle.
• Zhou Heng saw Soaring Rooftop Palace surrounded by black liquid and touched the falling red rain.
• The red rain showed Zhou Heng a conversation between two figures about fighting over Island Country’s fate and its future.
• Zhou Heng decided he needed to meet the two figures and entered the red-rain-covered area toward the Black Spiral Stairway.

Zhou Heng entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country as the Shima Family’s Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species pursued a plan to exhaust his powerful talents. After receiving his faction missions, he suspected the Blue Star Federation’s Civilization Kindling was meant to counter the garbled final mission, just as a new notification from Fate appeared.

• Shima Tianjun and Shima Tianying analyzed Zhou Heng’s abilities and concluded his Future Prediction talent could have at least ninety-nine uses and foresee up to three days ahead.
• Shima Tianjun’s squad entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country, while other Shima Family squads followed into the event area to test the Great Power of Fate.
• The Shima Family’s Longevity-Cursed Species recalled that their earlier schemes involving the Civilization Kindling and White River Purifying Bottle had failed, and that their true mission was to exhaust Zhou Heng’s talents before his fight with Pingtian Jurokurō.
• Zhou Heng entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country and received Return Faction missions to kill roaming enemies and Pingtian Jurokurō, clear the Pitch-Black Chaotic Ancient Trees, and complete a garbled fourth mission.
• Zhou Heng reasoned that the Civilization Kindling might counter the garbled mission, then saw a new notification from Fate appear.

Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint’s advice and used the Virus Source Species to erode the Civilization Kindling before entering Komachi Town as a Xia Kingdom traveling merchant. He was rescued from the infected town by Yu Jun and met Zhou Dong, captain of a Blue Star Federation unit.

• Zhou Heng placed the Virus Source Species into the Civilization Kindling and headed west as flecks of light fell from it.
• After the Civilization Kindling dissipated, Zhou Heng entered Komachi Town and chose the identity of a Xia Kingdom native traveling merchant.
• Zhou Heng saw that Komachi Town’s residents used grotesque objects made from human remains.
• Yu Jun pulled Zhou Heng into an alley, checked him for the town’s special buff, and led him to a hidden refuge beneath a hill.
• Yu Jun told Zhou Dong that every unit in Komachi Town had been infected by the Will of All Beings, and Zhou Dong introduced himself to Zhou Heng as captain of the Thirty-Second Army’s 998th Squad.

Zhou Heng met Zhou Dong’s trapped soldiers, learned that the Will of All Beings had driven them from Komachi Town, and accepted a quest to steal a White Crystal from the town mayor’s home. He set out to retrieve the crystal, which Fate Hint had identified as important to his different paths.

• Zhou Heng told Zhou Dong and Squad 998 that the Pitch-Black Chaotic Ancient Tree was growing and the outside world was in grave danger.
• Zhou Dong’s soldiers explained that the Will of All Beings and their inability to stay dead had forced them to retreat, and they urged him to attack Komachi Town.
• Zhou Dong ordered his squad to regroup before the assault and asked Zhou Heng to help recover an item from the town mayor’s house.
• Zhou Dong explained that the White Crystal had fallen into Komachi Town during the blood rain and issued Zhou Heng a quest to steal it within a ten-minute window.
• Zhou Heng accepted the quest and suspected that the Blue Star Federation had prepared for the Kingdom of All Beings event in advance.

Zhou Heng joined the assault on Komachi Town and discovered that the Kingdom of All Beings had become vast and strange. After encountering and repeatedly killing the fictional Guanfulang, he learned that Emperor Sarendo Sakas's Concept Origin Seed could absorb the being's aura, and turned his attention toward finding the white crystalline substance.

• Zhou Dong gave Zhou Heng a Will detector, a Will resistance pill, and a lightning potion before leading Squad 998 toward Komachi Town.
• Zhou Heng used Wind's Vision and found that the Kingdom of All Beings had expanded beyond the skill's range and was distorted by dark spots and ripples in space.
• Zhou Heng raced to the Mayor's Office and appraised Guanfulang, whose fictional nature made him difficult to attack and erase.
• Zhou Heng beheaded Guanfulang, who later reappeared, and found that the White River Purifying Bottle could not absorb him.
• Zhou Heng used Emperor Sarendo Sakas's Concept Origin Seed to absorb a wisp of Guanfulang's aura and heard it speak of fiction, the Cornerstone of Forgetting, and Longevity.
• Zhou Heng decided to pursue the white crystalline substance before seeking the power of fiction.

Zhou Heng found the white crystal in the Mayor's Office and triggered a scene with the dying Supreme Council Councilor Shengtiandao Ichiro, who revealed a warning about the Longevity Curse and Great Copper of the World. As Zhou Heng learned that the warning was only part of a deeper scheme, Pingtian Jurokurō mobilized his forces and the Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species began their hunt.

• Zhou Heng killed Guanfulang's summoned family and the other fictional characters before searching the Mayor's Office.
• Zhou Heng appraised the white crystal and triggered the special scene Will of Shengtian and Pingtian.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro warned Zhou Heng to escape and deliver information about the Longevity Curse, Great Copper of the World, and the scheme to destroy Copper Coins.
• Shengtiandao Ichiro crumbled after sending a ray of light toward the heavens, while Pingtian Jurokurō watched from Strongest Town and dispatched twenty-five special units.
• The Galaxy Longevity-Cursed Species received orders to connect to Zhou Heng's Frost Domain within three days and launched the Heng God Annihilation hunt.

Guan Ling, Kuang Long Shanhai, Human Mecha, Crimson Blood Moon Yue, and Infinite Druid entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country to protect Zhou Heng, while others tried to slow the fusion of Island Country and Boundless Endless. Back in the Mayor's Office, Zhou Heng received Fate Hints outlining the danger of the Longevity-Cursed Species and choices that could affect the Blue Star Federation and the Skysea of the Empty Realm.

• Guan Ling and Kuang Long Shanhai gathered their forces and decided Zhou Heng had to survive, despite the failed plans and Shengtiandao Ichiro's possible death.
• Human Mecha and Crimson Blood Moon Yue joined them, and Infinite Druid warned that the upheaval inside the Kingdom of All Beings Country was worse than expected.
• The five experts entered the Kingdom of All Beings Country to reach Zhou Heng.
• A suited man repeatedly sacrificed his life to draw black aura from the Pitch-Black Chaotic Ancient Trees and slow the fusion of Island Country and Boundless Endless, while a woman’s song made the trees grow.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Mayor's Office and received Fate Hints describing his options and the more than one hundred Star Radiance-class teams hunting him.

Zhou Heng chose to stay in Komachi Town and face the approaching Starlight-rank Longevity-Cursed Species, using his combined vision skills to track their movements across the Kingdom of All Beings Country. He warned Squad 998 to retreat as the enemies prepared a coordinated encirclement, then waited calmly for them to arrive.

• Zhou Heng rejected the option of running and left the Mayor's Office to await the Starlight-rank Longevity-Cursed Species outside Komachi Town.
• Zhou Heng combined Wind's Vision with Planetary Art and Heaven's Awakened One Eye, seeing enemies across a ten-thousand-kilometer radius and tracking their approach.
• Zhou Heng instantly decapitated the fictional units attacking him and used wind blades to order Zhou Dong, Yu Jun, and Squad 998 to withdraw.
• Zhou Dong led Squad 998 back to the mountain base and ordered the team to seal its entrances and exits.
• Zhou Heng watched the Longevity-Cursed Species deploy transparent domes, enter deep space, prepare a Blood Lifespan Magic Array, and gather other powerful abilities around him.
• Zhou Heng remained seated and waited for the encircling enemies to arrive.

B001 Squad and nearly a hundred other Starlight-tier Longevity-Cursed Species prepared an elaborate operation to kill or capture Zhou Heng and exhaust his Future Prediction. Yu Jun spotted the encirclement near Komachi Town and warned Zhou Dong that at least a hundred Starlight-tier enemies were approaching.

• B001 Squad's captain used Quantum Linear Exploration and Skill Formula Deconstruction to locate Zhou Heng and prepare against his Future Prediction.
• The Longevity-Cursed Species deployed a mobile Blood Lifespan Magic Array to exhaust Zhou Heng's talent and began assembling a Moon in Midair domain and other weapons.
• One hundred Starlight-tier squads coordinated preparations as they closed in on Komachi Town, where Zhou Heng was.
• Yu Jun recognized Su Ruoshui, a Starlight-tier Longevity-Cursed Species, and realized the enemy had come for Zhou Heng.
• Yu Jun pressed Zhou Dong's head to the ground and warned him that at least a hundred Starlight-tier enemies were nearby.

Zhou Heng waited in Komachi Town as squads of Starlight-tier Longevity-Cursed Species converged on him, then demonstrated the enormous damage of his Sakast Imperial Sword. He kept attacking and letting the enemies revive while waiting for them to approach and for Shengtiandao Ichiro to witness his strength.

• Su Ruoshui spotted Zhou Heng and, suspecting he was waiting to fight, ordered Squad B001 to attack.
• Squads B082 and B034 launched toward Zhou Heng from the west and east, while black-clad fighters approached from the south and Shima Kōgetsu waited in the north.
• A thunder attack struck Zhou Heng, but Fated River · White River's Protection blocked it.
• Zhou Heng used Wind's Blade to hit Su Ruoshui for 378,000 (Gold) damage, forcing her to revive on an Instant Revival Platform.
• Zhou Heng surveyed the approaching enemies with Wind's Vision and continued attacking as they repeatedly revived and charged toward him.