Recaps

After Zhou Heng killed Su Guangtian, the Eternity Species fled rather than face him, and Su Liuxing surrendered in hopes of becoming his slave. Zhou Heng erased Su Liuxing anyway, and the chapter ended as the effect reached the Sea of Stars’ Eighth Chapter, “Gods’ Ancient Will.”

• Countless Eternity Species saw Zhou Heng’s power and scattered using their escape skills.
• Zhou Heng caught up with Su Liuxing, a level 270,000 Eternity Species, as he tried to flee.
• Su Liuxing knelt and offered to serve Zhou Heng as his eternal slave for one hundred million years.
• Zhou Heng dismissed Su Liuxing’s surrender and used Thus Spoke Eternity to erase him and claim his death drops.
• Su Liuxing dissolved into starlight, and the chapter shifted to the Sea of Stars’ Eighth Chapter, “Gods’ Ancient Will.”

The Supreme Holy Guard Army traced the Eternity Ordinance violation to the Trial of the Will of the Gods, but the Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm blocked its attempt to enter. The Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" arrived from future space-time, gave the Supreme Holy Guard Army information about Zhou Heng, and plunged into Heaven Realm.

• The Supreme Holy Guard Army emerged after Zhou Heng killed "Su Liuxing" and violated the Eternity Ordinance, then tracked the violation to Auspicious Cloud Star City.
• The Supreme Holy Guard Army reached to enter Heaven Realm and capture the violator, but stopped when it saw the Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm seated within.
• The Supreme Holy Guard Army wondered why the Sublimity Realm Master appeared to be protecting an Eternity Species.
• The Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" arrived from future space-time and passed the Supreme Holy Guard Army a ball of light containing information about Zhou Heng.
• The Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" entered Heaven Realm, and the Supreme Holy Guard Army examined the information it had received.

The Supreme Holy Guard Army discovered that Zhou Heng was Anomaly Number 0000101 and realized his record might warrant a Sea of Stars Lord’s intervention. Unable to interfere with the Trial of the Will of the Gods, it prepared for the possibility that Boundary Setting could lose and summoned powerful parties to meet with it.

• The Supreme Holy Guard Army reviewed Zhou Heng’s feats and learned that he was Anomaly Number 0000101, despite the Boundless Court having only one hundred seats.
• It understood why the Sublimity Realm Master had barred it from Heaven Realm and why Boundary Setting had crossed the Space-Time Crystal Wall System to intervene.
• The Supreme Holy Guard Army decided it could not interfere with the Trial of the Will of the Gods but prepared for the possibility that Boundary Setting would lose to Zhou Heng.
• The Supreme Holy Guard Army called for Virtual Reality, Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd., and the Frontier God Lord to observe it and have an audience.

As the Supreme Holy Guard Army summoned three powerful Sea of Stars Lords to a secret meeting, a group of Sea of Stars Merchants discussed the Trial of the Will of the Gods and Zhou Heng. The merchants decided it was time to act after learning that Boundary Setting had entered the Heaven Realm.

• Void·038, Boundary Thought, and Virtual Reality and Dark answered the Supreme Holy Guard Army’s summons for a secret meeting.
• At the Siesta Tavern, an elderly man playing an erhu sensed that the Trial of the Will of the Gods had encountered trouble and that the Sublimity Realm Master had manifested.
• A flame-haired woman said the Supreme Devourer had arrived and wondered whether mating with Zhou Heng could produce a Sea of Stars Lord surpassing Heaven.
• A Divine Truth of the Refraction Race reported that the Supreme Holy Guard Army had summoned the three Sea of Stars Lords and seemed interested in the Trial of the Will of the Gods.
• A tree-like merchant said Boundary Setting had entered the Heaven Realm and urged the Sea of Stars Merchants to move in pursuit of profit.

Zhou Heng learned that Boundary Setting had entered Heaven Realm and was rushing to kill him, so he fled toward a nearby Divine Kingdom ruin. Boundary Setting arrived behind him, discovered Zhou Heng’s direction by reading two would-be toll collectors’ memories, and set off after him.

• Zhou Heng received a Fate Hint warning that Boundary Setting was approaching with skills designed to erase him.
• Zhou Heng fled at conceptual speed toward a Divine Kingdom region filled with ruined skyscrapers.
• A Water Maiden and a Flame Clan Divine Truth tried to stop Zhou Heng and demand a toll, but he sped past them without their noticing.
• The two Divine Truths fled in fear, only to encounter Boundary Setting in the direction they ran.
• Boundary Setting searched their memories, learned Zhou Heng’s route, and resolved to pursue him.

Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" pursued Zhou Heng into "Heaven Realm," but the wills of its fallen "Heavens" blocked his gaze as he crushed a Divine Kingdom ruin. The event added a faction system centered on Zhou Heng, while the Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm awoke and turned its attention to him.

• Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" followed Zhou Heng's trail but found his gaze blocked by the united wills of the fallen "Heavens" in "Heaven Realm."
• Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" seized and crushed a Divine Kingdom ruin, causing all of "Heaven Realm" to tremble.
• The event rules detected Zhou Heng and added the Zhou Heng Protection Army and Eternity Imperial Army factions, ordering participants to choose a side within ten breaths.
• The Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm awoke and focused on Zhou Heng, calling him the "Bearer of ultimate beauty."

After the Sea of Stars Lord Boundary Setting entered the Heaven Realm to hunt Zhou Heng, the Eternity Imperial Army faction received a quest to locate him and report his coordinates. The chapter ended as its members weighed the danger against the chance to gain rare resources and change their fates.

• The Su clan soul eternity species and the leaders of the Virtual Reality and Heaven clans recognized that a Sea of Stars Lord had entered the Heaven Realm to fight Zhou Heng, and reconsidered their dismissive judgments of him.
• The three soul eternity species chose the Eternity Imperial Army faction and received a quest to find Zhou Heng and report his location to Boundary Setting.
• The faction members learned they could exchange event points for resources in the Sea of Stars Lord Marketplace and realized the quest might cost them their lives.
• The Eternity Imperial Army faction members suppressed their fear and decided to search for Zhou Heng, hoping to earn rewards and rise within the eternity species.

In a tree-filled Divine Kingdom, the Triangular Crystal alerted the Soil Living Being and Crescent Moon to Zhou Heng’s role in the Fifth Expansion. They concluded that his feat may be the key to completing the Eighth Chapter and advancing to the Ninth, then vanished to seek him.

• The Triangular Crystal sent pink light through the Divine Kingdom, prompting the Soil Living Being to rise from the ground and make a Health Tree Trunk.
• The Crescent Moon appeared, and its voice noted that the pursuers came from the Fifth Expansion and carried an aura of the Present World.
• The Triangular Crystal transmitted information that Zhou Heng had cleared the Eighth Chapter alone and forced progression toward the Ninth Chapter.
• The Soil Living Being wondered whether Zhou Heng could help them complete the Eighth Chapter and advance, while the Crescent Moon recalled the affix truth of Sublimity.
• The Soil Living Being, Crescent Moon, and Triangular Crystal vanished from the Divine Kingdom.

Zhou Heng’s Thus Spoke Eternity erased Eternity Species who tried to observe him, forcing the survivors to search indirectly. Before their search could begin, Ancient Erhu Old Man arrived and offered to sell them resources that might let them fight Zhou Heng, and they accepted by surrendering their Lotus Petals.

• Zhou Heng entered the technological Divine Kingdom, and Eternity Species who saw him were erased despite their Revival Coins.
• The surviving Eternity Species abandoned direct observation and planned to locate Zhou Heng with a Distance-Halving Method.
• Ancient Erhu Old Man appeared before the survivors and offered to sell resources to help them deal with Zhou Heng.
• Ancient Erhu Old Man told the Eternity Species that their speed was insufficient to pursue Zhou Heng and promised a chance to duel him if their transaction satisfied him.
• The Eternity Species chose to accept the offer and peeled off their Lotus Petals to hand over to Ancient Erhu Old Man.

Sea of Stars merchants profited by selling goods and power to the Eternity Species amid the turmoil surrounding Zhou Heng. In a technological Divine Kingdom, Yaqù introduced himself to Zhou Heng and offered the Sea of Stars Commercial Association’s catalog, leaving a potential deal ahead.

• The ancient erhu elder accepted Lotus Petals from the Eternity Species and offered them the power to pursue Zhou Heng.
• A red-haired woman and a sword-bearing man of the Refraction Race also traded with the Eternity Species as Sea of Stars merchants gathered wealth.
• Yaqù passed through the defenses of the technological Divine Kingdom where Zhou Heng was staying.
• Yaqù introduced himself to Zhou Heng as a member of the Sea of Stars Commercial Association.
• Yaqù displayed the association’s catalog and suggested its goods could help Zhou Heng handle the situation.

Zhou Heng examined Yaqù’s shop while being hunted by Boundary Setting and found its treasures priced at steep shares of everything he owned. He reconsidered his trust in the Sea of Stars Merchants as a prompt from fate appeared.

• Zhou Heng read the descriptions and exchange prices of four items in Yaqù’s Shop, including the Boundless Star God’s Blood.
• He realized he lacked enough Lotus Petals to pay and that Yaqù was demanding a percentage of his possessions instead.
• Zhou Heng questioned his favorable impression of the Sea of Stars Commercial Association after seeing Yaqù’s exorbitant prices.
• As Zhou Heng weighed whether to refuse, pretend to cooperate, or attack Yaqù, a prompt from fate appeared on his retinas.

Zhou Heng read Fate Hint’s warning about the Sea of Stars Merchants and chose a path to seize the Boundless Star God’s Blood without trading or retreating. He challenged Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù as his divine body began to rise.

• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng that both trading with Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù and refusing would lead to death, but outlined a third path to take the blood by force.
• Zhou Heng considered that the Sea of Stars Merchants might be victims of Finality’s conceptual tampering rather than simply good or evil.
• Zhou Heng fixed Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù with a disdainful gaze and asked why it was so greedy.
• Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù defended its price, claiming it was merely earning a small margin as a merchant.
• Zhou Heng remained silent as his divine body began to rise higher and higher.

Zhou Heng’s Divine Body grew to a colossal scale, and the Boundless Star God’s Blood escaped Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù to return to him. After Zhou Heng awakened its power and declared his intent to follow the Boundless Star God, Yaqù realized he possessed Thus Spoke Eternity and feared he would take the Star God’s Whisper next.

• Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù recognized Zhou Heng’s transformation as that of a Boundless Star God and fled in terror.
• The Boundless Star God’s Blood burst out of Yaqù’s inventory and flew toward Zhou Heng despite Yaqù’s attempt to reclaim it.
• Zhou Heng caught the blood on his fingertip and breathed on it, awakening the power sleeping within.
• A sacred voice declared that the Boundless Star God’s Blood would be scattered across the Heaven Realm and the Star God’s Whisper raised high.
• Yaqù recognized the declaration as Thus Spoke Eternity and realized Zhou Heng was after the Star God’s Whisper in its inventory.

Zhou Heng used Thus Spoke Eternity to seize the Star God's Whisper from Tranquility Divine Tree Radiance · Yaqù, triggering the Boundless Star Gods’ final will. The whisper transformed Zhou Heng into a concept-level being within the Heaven Realm, while Yaqù remained trapped nearby.

• Thus Spoke Eternity pierced Yaqù’s inventory seals and pulled out the Star God's Whisper, which flew to Zhou Heng.
• Yaqù tried to flee, but the whisper’s setting kept it within Zhou Heng’s immediate vicinity.
• The Star God's Whisper spread its radiance across the divine kingdom, the Heaven Realm, and the world hosting the Trial of the Will of the Gods.
• The Boundless Star Gods’ final will declared that non-allies who observed Zhou Heng would face a check that could erase them, while allies would briefly receive the concept of boundlessness.
• The whisper granted Zhou Heng the concept of boundlessness, and his divine body grew to ten quadrillion light-years, reaching concept-level.

Zhou Heng’s manifested form triggered a judgment that erased hostile observers across the Heaven Realm, but Frontier God Lord Boundary Setting survived because of his Sea of Stars Lord status. As Boundary Setting confronted him with an Eternity Black Hole, Zhou Heng’s limitless manifestations filled his vision, and the other non-allied beings watching him vanished.

• Frontier God Lord Boundary Setting received a notification that Zhou Heng’s judgment had erased him, but his Sea of Stars Lord status let him survive.
• Boundary Setting expanded his Divine Body to ten concepts, seized Zhou Heng, and prepared to use skills meant to counter the Boundless Star God.
• Zhou Heng appeared in limitless manifestations surrounding Boundary Setting, who stopped attacking and summoned an Eternity Black Hole.
• Boundary Setting cast the Eternity Black Hole at Zhou Heng and declared that Zhou Heng could not claim the resources of beings erased by Eternity.
• Across the Heaven Realm, non-allied beings observing Zhou Heng were erased by the same judgment and dissolved into starlight.

Zhou Heng watched Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" use the "Eternity Black Hole" to devour the Will Crystals dropped by the beings he had erased. "Fate Hint" revealed a desperate plan involving the phantoms of "Heaven" and his long-dormant quest "Unknowable Vast Star Lord," whose final secret appeared to lie within "Heaven Realm."

• Zhou Heng saw the Will Crystals from the countless beings he had erased fill "Heaven Realm."
• Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" summoned the "Eternity Black Hole," which drew in the Will Crystals before Zhou Heng could collect them.
• "Fate Hint" told Zhou Heng to summon the phantoms of "Heaven" by visualizing "Boundless," then charge toward the black hole and activate "Divine Energy Conversion of the Divine Kingdom."
• "Fate Hint" instructed Zhou Heng to strike the dormant quest "Unknowable Vast Star Lord" at the last instant while the phantoms watched.
• Zhou Heng recalled that the quest had remained unfinished after he defeated "Past and Former Times · Vast Star Lord" and realized its last secret was hidden in "Heaven Realm."

Zhou Heng faced the Frontier God Lord Boundary Setting as the Eternal Black Hole devoured the Heaven Realm’s remaining Will Crystals. At the countdown’s final instant, Zhou Heng abandoned his Boundless Star God form and charged toward the black hole, while Boundary Setting revealed that he had anticipated the move.

• Zhou Heng and the Frontier God Lord Boundary Setting silently watched each other across the ruined Heaven Realm, with Zhou Heng appearing as countless figures in Boundary Setting’s vision.
• The Eternal Black Hole consumed nearly all the Heaven Realm’s Will Crystals, and Zhou Heng calmly praised Boundary Setting’s skill, “Eternity Before Thus Spoke Eternity.”
• As the countdown neared its end, Boundary Setting closed his eyes and quietly recited words Zhou Heng could not understand.
• At the final instant, Zhou Heng shed his Boundless Star God form, returned to his level-one human body, and charged toward the Eternal Black Hole.
• Boundary Setting reopened his eyes, precisely located Zhou Heng, and disdainfully revealed that he had expected the temporary Boundless mechanism to end.

The Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" realized that Zhou Heng intended to use Divine Energy Conversion of the Divine Kingdom to turn Will Crystals into Divine Energy and grow stronger. As Zhou Heng neared the Eternity Black Hole, Boundary Setting prepared to use Unification of Levels to suppress him, but an unexpected event interrupted.

• The Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" concealed his true thoughts and studied Zhou Heng's apparent plunge into the Eternity Black Hole.
• Zhou Heng activated Divine Energy Conversion of the Divine Kingdom while charging toward the black hole.
• Boundary Setting deduced that Zhou Heng meant to convert Will Crystals into Divine Energy and make a rapid leap in power.
• Boundary Setting raised his hand and prepared to use Unification of Levels to reduce Zhou Heng's level, attributes, and skills to 1.
• Something unexpected happened just as Boundary Setting was about to activate the Truth Skill.

Ancient Divine Truths awakened across the ruins of the Heaven Realm as Zhou Heng stood behind the Frontier God Lord, "Boundary Setting." The remnants revealed themselves as beings called "Heaven" who looked down on the living Sea of Stars Lord and ridiculed the Zhen Clan and its descendants.

• A towering mechanical lifeform rose from a ruined Divine Kingdom behind Zhou Heng and fixed its crimson eye on "Boundary Setting."
• An ancient tree, a golden stone pillar, a six-paired-winged angel, and a divine octopus awakened in other ruined Divine Kingdoms.
• Phantoms from many races appeared across the Heaven Realm as ancient Divine Truths, each radiating the power of a being near the Sea of Stars Lord realm.
• An orc, an undead phantom, and the divine octopus mocked "Boundary Setting" as a standardized Sea of Stars Lord and disparaged the Zhen Clan's descendants.

Zhou Heng stopped before the Eternity Black Hole and faced Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting," who demanded that he surrender. When Zhou Heng met the crimson eye of a Mechanical Lifeform among the phantoms of "Heaven," his vision shifted to a ruined technological domain, where the being asked whether Bing Dundun was well.

• Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" observed the phantoms of "Heaven" block its killing blow and concluded that Zhou Heng would not dare enter the Eternity Black Hole.
• Zhou Heng halted before the black hole and calmly met Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting"’s gaze.
• Frontier God Lord "Boundary Setting" warned that the phantoms could only protect Zhou Heng temporarily and urged him to bow his head.
• Zhou Heng looked toward the Mechanical Lifeform atop the Technology Divine Kingdom, and the world around him twisted and transformed.
• The Mechanical Lifeform recognized Valuwa’s aura on Zhou Heng and asked whether Bing Dundun was well.
• Zhou Heng found himself in a ruined technological domain, where the Mechanical Lifeform sat upon a Remnant Throne.

Zhou Heng met Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven, who recalled Valuwa’s failed attempt to resist the Virus Erosion Heterogeneous Species and urged Zhou Heng to take the Sakast · Heaven and Earth Killing Sword to the Health Heavenly Realm. Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven then passed on the final secret Valuwa had left behind.

• Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven told Zhou Heng that Valuwa had sought the complete method for constructing the Soaring Rooftop but could not avert failure.
• Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven recognized the Sakast · Heaven and Earth Killing Sword as the Blooming Starlight Sword and said it could not transcend the weapon itself.
• Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven directed Zhou Heng to the Health Heavenly Realm, where he could find the resources and opportunities to complete the sword’s super-transcendence.
• Pride of Sci-Fi Heaven returned the sword to Zhou Heng and sent him the final secret Valuwa had sealed from the Vast Star Nation’s core memory bank.

Zhou Heng experienced the Vast Star Lord’s first meeting with Lingxu Ring and witnessed a memory of Endless Mercy’s family rejecting her relationship with him. The second memory ended with Endless Mercy being stripped of her title and cast out, though the fate of her romance remained unclear.

• Lingxu Ring greeted the naked Vast Star Lord, conjured clothes for him, and introduced herself.
• The Vast Star Lord told Lingxu Ring his name was Vastness, and she took his hand to show him around.
• Zhou Heng felt warmth and yearning as he experienced the memory of their first meeting.
• Zhou Heng saw a memory in which an angry voice condemned Endless Mercy for loving Vastness and threatened to strip her of the prefix “Endless.”
• The voice ordered Endless Mercy to leave and never appear before her mother again, then the memory abruptly ended.

Zhou Heng witnessed the Vast Star Lord’s memories and learned that the Lord of Compassion had orchestrated the tragedy as part of a scheme against the Ancient Eight Elements. After the Lord of Compassion revealed himself and began a game of compassion, Zhou Heng stored the Vast Star Lord’s memories and received a new notification.

• Zhou Heng watched memories of the Vast Star Lord and Compassion of sharing a long, happy life and raising children together.
• A black hand seized Compassion of and killed the Vast Star Lord, while she sacrificed herself to restore his soul core.
• The Vast Star Lord explained that the Boundless Court had arranged their meeting and tragedy as a conspiracy against the Ancient Eight Elements, and that he had preserved the memory as a key to killing Compassionate Vastness.
• The Lord of Compassion announced that Zhou Heng had completed the quest and invited him to begin a game of compassion.
• Zhou Heng put the Vast Star Lord’s memory orb into his inventory, and a new notification appeared.

After completing the special quest, Zhou Heng hesitated over whether to use the Vastness Star Seat to rebuild the Vast Star Nation, suspecting the offer was a trap. Several ancient Divine Truths appeared and debated the choice, with the stone-pillar deity offering to help him proceed despite the danger of Virus Erosion.

• Zhou Heng received the Vast Star Lord title and a prompt to reconstruct the Vast Star Nation using the Vastness Star Seat.
• Zhou Heng questioned how the reconstruction could work while the Virus Lord was still eroding the Star Seat, and he chose to wait rather than accept immediately.
• A luminous ancient being warned Zhou Heng that the Vastness Star Seat was bait in an ancient trap and said he did not need to obtain it.
• An Ultimate Strongest angel recognized Virus Erosion within Zhou Heng and lamented that the Vast Star Lord and the Vastness affix had been eroded.
• A stone-pillar deity urged Zhou Heng to proceed, saying the ancient deities could lend him some assistance against the erosion.
• More divine radiance began to appear around Zhou Heng as the stone-pillar deity's offer ended.

Zhou Heng followed the ancient phantoms’ guidance and began visualizing the Vast Star Lord’s star seat without accepting the dangerous prompt to claim it. His meditation resonated with the same power within the Virus Lord, accelerating its erosion, while Su Qingxin recognized that Zhou Heng had begun uncovering an ancient secret.

• The celestial phantoms gathered around Zhou Heng and chose to stake their remaining wills on him as their successor.
• The luminous being, the angel, and the stone pillar warned Zhou Heng not to respond to the prompt offering the Vast Star Position and told him to visualize the star seat instead.
• Zhou Heng sat upright, quieted his thoughts, and began sketching the outline of the Vast Star Lord’s star seat in his consciousness.
• In the Beauty Star Nation, the Virus Lord opened its eyes as the resonance rapidly accelerated the erosion and assimilation of the star seat of vastness within it.
• Su Qingxin sensed the resonance, understood its cause, and concluded that Zhou Heng had reached the Fourth Expansion and encountered the secret relationship between Divine Kingdoms and concepts.