Recaps

Zhou Heng was welcomed as the prospective leader of the Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring race and was brought to its vast, illusionary-real Star Devouring Mother Star. After a dragon's challenge failed to harm him, Zhou Heng saw Kalter in deep contemplation and was led to the Star Devouring Ancient Annals, where Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring Glorious Contemplation Tian left him to explore the race's history.

• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring Glorious Contemplation Tian greeted Zhou Heng and carried him to the Star Devouring Mother Star, explaining that the original mother star had been destroyed.
• Zhou Heng surveyed the mother star as its dragons debated his appointment, and a level 100,001 dragon charged at him but could not hurt him.
• Zhou Heng saw the enormous Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring Kalter deep in contemplation and learned that Kalter's experiences had made him important to a rescue task.
• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring Glorious Contemplation Tian guided Zhou Heng to the Star Devouring Ancient Annals and offered to answer his requests.
• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring Glorious Contemplation Tian dissolved into starlight beneath the pillar, leaving Zhou Heng at the race's historical repository.

Zhou Heng read the Star Devouring Ancient Annals and learned fragments of Devouring · Boundless · Endless’s ancient history, including its encounter with Transcendence and the disappearance of boundless and endless. Fate Hint warned that reading the annals could make him an apostle of Finality, and offered a risky way to resist it as Abyssal Descent approached.

• Zhou Heng read the annals’ accounts of Devouring · Boundless · Endless questioning its purpose and meeting the Master of Technology, the Master of Beauty, and Transcendence.
• Devouring · Boundless · Endless described encountering an impassable barrier, trying to devour it, and finding that boundless and endless had vanished.
• Zhou Heng stopped to consider how little he knew about the ancient history of the Sea of Stars, then continued reading about Devouring · Boundless · Endless’s declining years and failing lifespan.
• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng that the annals contained hidden triggers for Finality and that witnessing them could mean death.
• Fate Hint offered Zhou Heng a choice to read the present-world chapter, surrender to Finality, or tear out pages about Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Kalter to interfere with Finality before Abyssal Descent.

Zhou Heng skimmed the Star Devouring Ancient Annals’ fifth expansion, uncovering a warning about its dangerous, memory-altering history and the origins of Kalter. He tore out the relevant guidance, returned the book before its black aura could trigger a chain reaction, and left to grow stronger before the “Star God's Ancient Ballad” event.

• Zhou Heng rapidly read the fifth expansion, which recorded Glorious Contemplation Tian’s struggle against the Fated Black River and its grievance beings.
• Glorious Contemplation Tian described his failed transcendence, the rise of eternity species, and his effort to save the Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring race by creating Kalter.
• Zhou Heng used his Fate Hint talent to return to the sixth chapter and tear out its material within the ten-second limit.
• Zhou Heng saw black aura vanish into the Star Devouring Ancient Annals and suspected it could trigger a chain reaction.
• Zhou Heng put the book back, kept the torn material about Kalter, and left to strengthen himself before the “Star God's Ancient Ballad” event.

Zhou Heng questioned the Starry Sky Dragons of Star Devouring about their annals, then chose to train in the Star Devouring Divine Fist at the Disordered Meteor Calamity Secret Realm. After dying and being resurrected there, he saw that his White River Guardian transcendence had resumed.

• An aged Starry Sky Dragon told Zhou Heng that Kalter had read the Star Devouring Ancient Annals, while the old dragon had not.
• Zhou Heng concluded that the Star Devouring Dragons might carry a dormant virus-related mechanism and that the annals he had seen omitted information about Contemplation.
• The old dragon advised Zhou Heng to follow the ordinary attribute route and train in the Star Devouring Divine Fist to improve his mana corridor defenses.
• The old dragon sent Zhou Heng to the Disordered Meteor Calamity Secret Realm, where immense stellar bodies passing through him killed him before he resurrected without losses.
• Zhou Heng saw that his White River Guardian transcendence had resumed in the secret realm and reached 63% progress.

Zhou Heng endured the stellar wind in the Disordered Meteor Calamity to refine Star Devouring Divine Fist and discover how it produced Element Foundation Stones. He continued training with the goal of accelerating Mana Corridor construction enough to surprise the Eternity Species.

• Zhou Heng learned the Truth skill Star Devouring Divine Fist and resolved to refine it toward its limit.
• After a century of enduring the stellar wind, Zhou Heng condensed a starlight phantom of himself in his mind.
• Zhou Heng punched the stellar wind with his phantom, which burst apart, but the attempt strengthened his will and yielded an Element Foundation Stone.
• Zhou Heng appraised the stone and realized Star Devouring Divine Fist could let him maintain a microcosmic Mana Element Corridor realm.
• Zhou Heng resumed punching the stellar wind, repeatedly enduring pain and obtaining Element Foundation Stones.

Zhou Heng completed the transcendence of White River Guardian into Fated White River Purifier and spent millennia training in the Disordered Meteor Calamity, advancing his Mana Element Corridor realm. With less than two years until the Star God's Ancient Ballad, he left the realm and was offered help by Glorious Contemplation Tian.

• Zhou Heng transcended White River Guardian into Fated White River Purifier, gaining powerful abilities despite unknown corrosion disabling several bonuses.
• Zhou Heng continued training for a thousand years, collected 100 million Element Foundation Stones, and completed the microcosmic-level Mana Element Corridor realm.
• Zhou Heng upgraded his Mana Element Corridor realm to Observation Rank, then to Planetary Rank as his will reached 2eee.
• Zhou Heng learned that less than two years remained until the Star God's Ancient Ballad and left the Disordered Meteor Calamity for the Star Devouring Mother Star.
• Glorious Contemplation Tian asked whether Zhou Heng would join the event and offered an item that might help him advance.

Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Glorious Contemplation Tian gave Zhou Heng a Tear of the Heart and sent him to the Dark Calamity star domain. Guided by Fate Hint, Zhou Heng chose to seek the Vast Star Nation Library, while He Heng was also searching for the library in the star domain’s central region.

• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Glorious Contemplation Tian gave Zhou Heng a Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption · Tear of the Heart and explained how Divine Truth leveling had changed across eras.
• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Glorious Contemplation Tian sent Zhou Heng to the Dark Calamity star domain, where he received a Divine Experience Prompt that revealed a monster 37,000 light-years away.
• Fate Hint told Zhou Heng that Su Longevity had exiled the Vast Star Nation Library and that finding it could help him open National Treasury No. 1 and claim naming rights to a chapter.
• Zhou Heng ignored the monster’s coordinates and headed toward the central region of the Dark Calamity star domain to find the Vast Star Nation Library.
• He Heng and a ring of Human Kind and Machine Kind advanced through the gray mist of Calamity God Eternal Life, seeking the Vast Star Nation Library and its code to locate National Treasury No. 1.

He Heng of the "Eternity Species" searched the gray fog for the "Vast Star Nation Library," using the level-10000 "Su Yao" as his guide. After finding the library, he realized too late that the apparent "Su Yao" had been a decoy and another Su Yao had slipped inside.

• He Heng transferred the "Dark Calamity" debuffs to his controlled beings and continued searching for the library before his "Revival Coins" ran out.
• The level-10000 "Su Yao" pointed west, and He Heng inspected her, spared her, and redirected the group toward the place she indicated.
• After fifty days in the gray fog, He Heng found the library and praised "Su Yao," while she secretly prepared for the arrival of the "Science Divine Court's" Third Sequence Sequence Leader.
• He Heng confirmed that the building was the "Vast Star Nation Library" and claimed the Truth of Vastness as his prize.
• When the level-10000 "Su Yao" rushed for the entrance, He Heng seized her, but she mocked him as another Su Yao flew into the library on a Magic Broom.

Su Yao used the Vast Star Nation Library to seek its administrator position while Zhou Heng confronted the Dark Calamity’s Lifespan Years. His lifespan-granting ability killed the creatures, but their deaths caused a black aura to emerge from him.

• Eternity Species He Heng realized Su Yao had used false thoughts to distract him, but he failed to stop the Vast Star Nation Library from escaping.
• You Yao presented the Sublime and Elegant Musical Flute as proof of identity and entered the library to complete verification as its administrator.
• Zhou Heng entered the Dark Calamity and was attacked by creatures called Dark Calamity · Lifespan Years, which drained his lifespan and permanently reduced his attack attribute.
• Zhou Heng transformed into the Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree and granted lifespan to the creatures, causing them to burst into black mist and die.
• As he received notifications of increased lifespan limits, Zhou Heng noticed a black aura emerging from his body, resembling the reversed Lord of Lifespan.

Zhou Heng’s transformation let him survey the Dark Calamity system and discover a mysterious node, where a faint figure revealed itself as the Master of Boundless Endless and gave him instructions about finding true false reality and the Real Universe. After the Boundless Endless · Eyes searched the system for 99 seconds, Zhou Heng returned and realized that a game between him and an indescribable being had begun.

• Zhou Heng’s growing black aura made him resemble the reversed Lord of Lifespans and allowed him to survey the Dark Calamity system, where he found Calamity God Eternal Life and a dangerous Boundless Lifespan Years Node.
• The Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption · Tear of the Heart responded to the node and summoned a faint figure that Zhou Heng recognized as the Master of Boundless Endless.
• The Master of Boundless Endless told Zhou Heng to seek true false reality, said Boundless Endless must merge into the Real Universe, and gave him something to help find the tears of the other selves.
• The Master of Boundless Endless pulled Zhou Heng into temporal turbulence just before the Boundless Endless · Eyes arrived and repeatedly searched the Dark Calamity system.
• After 99 seconds of searching, the Boundless Endless · Eyes vanished, and Zhou Heng returned, concluding that his game with an indescribable being had begun.

Zhou Heng captured and killed the level 10 million Eternity Species, He Heng, after learning from his silence that he had been pursuing the Vast Star Nation Library. He collected 100 million Revival Coins and continued absorbing the Dark Calamity while traveling toward the Star Nation Library.

• Zhou Heng used "Where the river remains, the god remains" to seize the Eternity Species, He Heng, as he pursued the Vast Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng attacked He Heng before he could finish offering information, reducing his attributes to zero and killing him.
• He Heng’s Divine Kingdom and body turned to radiance, leaving 100 million Boundless Starsea-tier Revival Coins before Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng suspected the Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree had gained new functions from absorbing the black mist, then set off toward the Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng continued defeating Dark Calamity · Lifespan Years and absorbing the black mist as time passed.

Zhou Heng spent fifty years battling the Dark Calamity and gained the Dark Lifespan Lord skill, which connected him to the Lord of Lifespan. The Lord of Lifespan sensed Zhou Heng and vowed to claim him, while Bai Zhang waited for Zhou Heng to appear at the Star God's Ancient Ballad event.

• Bai Zhang discussed Zhou Heng with the Heaven-Piercing Sword and prepared to capture him for eternal reformation.
• Zhou Heng continued absorbing dark Lifespan Qi by killing the attacking Dark Calamity · Lifespan Years.
• After fifty years, Zhou Heng gained the Dark Lifespan Lord skill and received three blessings from the Lord of Lifespan.
• Zhou Heng considered increasing the skill's Erosion Level and continued killing the Dark Calamity.
• The Lord of Lifespan sensed Zhou Heng in the Endless Abyss and vowed that he would become its own.

You Yao navigated the Vast Star Nation Library’s maze and passed its first stage, then entered a survival trial set in Little Bird Town. After dying by turning in too much Blackwater Grass at once, she learned the trial reproduced a real scene and asked to try again.

• You Yao spent years using her flute to explore the Library’s branching paths until she reached a field of floating books.
• She claimed she could save the Vast Star Nation, passed the first stage, and began a simulation.
• You Yao arrived in Little Bird Town, where Xiong Ba’s Black Bear Guild had taken over local quests and promised players better rewards.
• She accepted a Blackwater Grass gathering quest and died after collecting and turning in 500 stalks, exhausting her three resurrection chances.
• The Library revealed that the trial excerpt came from a real region, and You Yao chose to try again.

Elegance repeatedly challenged the Vast Star Nation Library’s survival trial, where level 31 left her only 120 seconds to escape Red-Lipped Su Mo’er, an epic divine ability. After spending a hundred years and countless attempts without finding a way to survive, Elegance gave up just as Zhou Heng’s Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree connected with the library.

• Elegance entered the Land of the Howling Gale, discovered her level 1000 legendary might mount, and was killed almost instantly by Red-Lipped Su Mo’er.
• The library told Elegance that only those who cleared every trial could obtain administrator status, and teleported her back when she tried to leave the book’s path.
• Elegance repeatedly retried the dungeon, eventually coordinating with her mount to survive Red-Lipped Su Mo’er for two seconds before dying again.
• After more than a hundred years and countless attempts, Elegance concluded that she could not clear the trial’s 120-second chase.
• At the moment Elegance gave up, Zhou Heng’s Boundless · Lifespan Ancient Tree connected with the Vast Star Nation Library, only 100 kilometers away.

After his efforts to increase Dark Lifespan Lord (???)'s erosion failed, Zhou Heng entered the Vast Star Nation Library and spent a century studying its vast collection. He learned about the Nation’s history and Abyssal Descent, then prepared to leave for the Large-Scale Event, Star God's Ancient Ballad.

• Zhou Heng stopped trying to increase Dark Lifespan Lord (???)'s erosion and flew to the Vast Star Nation Library.
• Zhou Heng entered the library, received a Witness reward of Light +1.0, and began examining its books.
• Zhou Heng read the Vast Star Nation Royal Chronicle and learned how the Vast Star Nation developed its wonder structures, Great Walls, and Concept Star System.
• Zhou Heng studied the library for a hundred years and gained knowledge about the Boundless Starsea and the Endless Abyss.
• Zhou Heng read that Abyssal Descent occurred when the Boundless Court’s phantom court appeared, and suspected the Boundless Court deliberately caused it.
• Zhou Heng decided to head to the Large-Scale Event, Star God's Ancient Ballad, after settling matters there.

Zhou Heng encountered You Yao, who had spent two hundred years failing to clear the Land of the Howling Gale, and she followed him into the dungeons. He cleared Little Bird Town and the Land of the Howling Gale with ease, convincing You Yao that he was the person sought by the Vast Star Nation Library as they entered the third dungeon.

• You Yao met Zhou Heng and learned he had fought alongside her father, Youtier.
• You Yao invited Zhou Heng to team up, and he entered Little Bird Town with her following close behind.
• Zhou Heng cleared Little Bird Town in one attempt by gathering attributes and defeating Longevity Species.
• Zhou Heng entered the Land of the Howling Gale, rode the Light Giant Wolf, and cleared the dungeon in 120 seconds.
• You Yao became certain Zhou Heng was the person the Vast Star Nation Library sought and followed him into A Nation of One.

Zhou Heng cleared the fourth dungeon and reached the Scholar Star Chancellor, who gave him a fragment of the Truth "Vastness" and entrusted him with the library. The Chancellor revealed his former plan to You Yao before dissolving, leaving her shaken and Zhou Heng holding the tiny library as notifications appeared.

• Zhou Heng cleared the "Cloudsea Sky Realm" dungeon and followed a path of books through the void with You Yao.
• The Scholar Star Chancellor welcomed Zhou Heng and gave him a fragment of the Truth "Vastness," along with authority over the library.
• The Chancellor explained that You Yao had been intended as a pawn in his plan to restrain Su Longevity and restore his strength.
• You Yao paid her respects to the Chancellor, then trembled in shock after learning the truth about her origins and planned fate.
• The Scholar Star Chancellor dissolved into starlight after entrusting the future of Vastness to Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng picked up the tiny library, and a torrent of notifications appeared.

Zhou Heng received the Vast Star Nation Library and its powerful Gift of Knowledge, then used Fate Hint to consider You Yao’s possible futures. He chose to let her find her own path and waited as she recovered from learning something painful.

• Zhou Heng obtained the Vast Star Nation Library, its Administrator Authority, and the Truth Skill Gift of Knowledge at LV10000.
• Fate Hint revealed You Yao’s origins and presented Zhou Heng with several possible ways to shape her future.
• Zhou Heng decided to entrust You Yao’s future to her and waited without disturbing her.
• After ten minutes, You Yao cursed, struck the desk, and told Zhou Heng she had put the bad things behind her.

After leaving the Vast Star Nation Library, Zhou Heng and You Yao parted ways while following separate routes. You Yao headed south of the Dark Calamity on Zhou Heng’s advice, where she used her concept-level talent, Quiet Little Deer, to seek good fortune.

• You Yao told Zhou Heng she would follow him, but later admitted she had deceived him and left alone aboard her Lightspeed Starship.
• Zhou Heng advised You Yao to travel due south of the Dark Calamity, and she changed course to follow his guidance.
• Zhou Heng and the Heng God of All Beings avatar split up, and Fate Hint instructed Zhou Heng to travel for 300 years before helping You Yao obtain the Dark Ancient Willow · Stump.
• You Yao visualized Quiet Little Deer, her concept-level talent, and entered a mystical state that let her seek good fortune and avoid calamity.
• You Yao recognized auspicious signs to the south, increased her starship’s speed to its maximum, and continued visualizing Quiet Little Deer.

Zhou Heng returned to Beauty Star Nation and announced a lecture on the knowledge systems of the Boundless Starsea, drawing crowds from across its civilizations. As Su Longevity and Lan Xin arrived, fate revealed that Finality had influenced their creation and offered Zhou Heng two dangerous ways to respond.

• Zhou Heng checked the withered Ice God Bird egg and the Virus Lord’s erosion, then announced that he would explain the Boundless Starsea’s knowledge systems in Dragon City one year later.
• Beings from across Beauty Star Nation, including Xing Xue and the Star Heaven civilization, gathered in Dragon City to await Zhou Heng’s lecture.
• Blue Sky, Qi Sinian, Su Qinxin, Star Capital, and others arrived in the following months, while Su Longevity and Lan Xin appeared as newly cloned, memoryless lives.
• Fate revealed that Finality had influenced Su Qingxin to clone Su Longevity and Lan Xin in an attempt to retrieve their former selves from the Past and Former Times of Sakast.
• Fate presented Zhou Heng with the choices of killing Su Qingxin, Su Longevity, and Lan Xin, or using the Vastness passage to challenge Finality and put Beauty Star Nation through a brutal trial.

Zhou Heng spent decades teaching the Beauty Star Nation knowledge from the Vast Star Nation, accelerating its scientific and technological growth. When he explained the relationship between the macroscopic, the microscopic, and dimensions, an elegant scholar made of star systems heard him and rushed toward him, calling the subject taboo.

• Zhou Heng taught the Beauty Star Nation about Boundless Endless and subjects from the Vast Star Nation Library, boosting research across his domain.
• Over the next hundred years, scientists and the Blue Star Civilization developed new technologies, while Dragon City grew to a radius of one astronomical unit.
• Zhou Heng explained dimensions and the need to unify macroscopic and microscopic power to raise a Machine God's dimension, inviting his compatriots to investigate the problem.
• At the frontier of the Ancient Star Domain System, Lonely Elegant Scholar, star systems formed a musical figure more than 30 light-years tall.
• The elegant scholar compressed itself to 30 astronomical units and rushed toward Zhou Heng, declaring that explaining the relationship between the macroscopic, the microscopic, and dimensions was taboo.

While Zhou Heng preached science to the Beauty Star Nation, Su Qingxin merged with her dark counterpart and became an agent of Finality. When she discovered that Zhou Heng had no Divine Kingdom, she fled Dragon City, shaken by the mystery of how he had reached Divine Truth.

• Zhou Heng continued preaching the Vast Star Nation’s Scientific System as scientists and Su Qingxin listened, while he noticed Su Qingxin’s growing corruption and chose not to stop it.
• After 250 years of preaching, Su Qingxin reached her limit at the boundary between the Mind Corridor and the Mind Heavenly Palace, where her pitch-black counterpart seized her and merged with her.
• The transformed Su Qingxin failed to contact the outside world because the Master of Boundless Endless’s residual power blocked her, then suspected Zhou Heng had access to a backend data-processing server.
• Su Qingxin and Zhou Heng met each other’s gaze across the distance, and she tried to send her power through the Beauty Star Nation.
• Su Qingxin realized the Beauty Star Nation was not Zhou Heng’s Divine Kingdom and that he had none, then fled Dragon City, questioning how he had transcended to Divine Truth.

Zhou Heng continued preparing the people of Beauty Star Nation for war while Finality’s thought chose to resist by gathering information through slaughter. In Year 283, Zhou Heng returned to the Boundless Starsea and encountered an unusual Elegant One whose eyes bore a thirty-petaled crystalline lotus.

• Zhou Heng told Blue Sky that a blood-and-fire disaster would come but no one would die, then continued teaching the powers of the Vast Star Nation.
• Su Qingxin’s body merged into the ground as Finality’s thought realized Zhou Heng had trapped her in his inner universe and intended her to serve as a whetstone for its inhabitants.
• Finality’s thought chose to resist and gather information about Zhou Heng through slaughter rather than live quietly in Beauty Star Nation.
• Zhou Heng taught the technologies of the Starfield Domain and Mechanical Lifeforms, then began explaining the Soaring Rooftop in Year 283.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Boundless Starsea and saw a 30-astronomical-unit Elegant One playing a guqin; the being looked back at him, revealing a thirty-petaled crystalline lotus in its eyes.

Zhou Heng was trapped in the Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s will adjudication after it used the General and Narrow Eternity Concept of Thought. Torch of Transcendence Will raised Zhou Heng’s will to Crystal☆, allowing him to win and erase the Zither Virtuoso of the Star on a conceptual level.

• Elegant One separated Zhou Heng’s soul and thoughts from his Divine Body and drew him into a world of thought.
• The Zither Virtuoso of the Star explained the will adjudication and offered to make Zhou Heng an Eternity Species if he surrendered.
• Zhou Heng relied on Torch of Transcendence Will to raise his will by one tier during the adjudication.
• The adjudication recalculated Zhou Heng’s will as 2eee(Crystal☆), matching the Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s 3700ee(Crystal☆).
• Zhou Heng won the adjudication, and the Zither Virtuoso of the Star began vanishing conceptually before it could pass its message into the Star God's Ancient Ballad.

After erasing the Zither Virtuoso of the Star, Zhou Heng examined its valuable drops and discovered a device that could bypass the Boundless Court’s limits on light and movement. A fate hint warned that using it would expose him to Bai Zhang, so Zhou Heng held back and continued preaching in the Beauty Star Nation as the final 17 years of the warning period approached.

• The Zither Virtuoso of the Star’s conceptual erasure caused a large haul of resources to drop, and Zhou Heng collected them.
• Zhou Heng found a Boundless Starsea Merchant Invitation, an Eternal Divine Spring, and an Eternity Divine Body Limit-Breaking Device among the drops.
• The device could raise Zhou Heng’s light attribute to conceptual light, letting his movement and attack speed correspond to light-years per second.
• Fate warned that using the device would let Bai Zhang discover and erase Zhou Heng, while delaying its use could help him escape the three Ancient Star Domain Systems.
• Zhou Heng recognized Bai Zhang as his former teacher, kept the device unused, and continued preaching with only 17 years remaining before the 300-year deadline.