Chapter Summaries

The Longevity-Cursed Species decided to send Beasts of Longevity to kill Zhou Heng in the Skysea of the Empty Realm, prompting the Supreme Council to send Li Rang to check on him. Li Rang broke through the sealed boundary and found Zhou Heng towering like a hundred-thousand-foot deity, leaving him stunned.

• The Five-Petal Council debated Zhou Heng and unanimously approved deploying the Beasts of Longevity against him in the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• The Supreme Council discussed the lockdown and decided Li Rang should investigate, while agreeing they would not abandon Zhou Heng if his life was in danger.
• Li Rang received a warning that Zhou Heng was in danger and used his SSS-rank Interstice Traversal talent to reach the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• Li Rang found the area sealed and saw decrepit Lifespan Contract users being sent inside.
• Li Rang fired a glowing bullet through the barrier, slipped inside, and found Zhou Heng towering a hundred thousand feet high like a deity.

Zhou Heng merged the Compassionate Ancient Flute (Illusory) with the Elegant Ancient Flute to create the Elegant Compassionate Flute (Illusory), then continued toward the next Ultimate Spell despite Red-Lipped Su Mo’er’s warning. As he approached the spell, the Five-Petal Council mobilized authority that would give the Longevity-Cursed Species intermittent immunity to Ultimate Techniques, and Red-Lipped Su Mo’er rose as Starlight Fall vanished from her body.

• Zhou Heng combined the Compassionate Ancient Flute (Illusory) and the Elegant Ancient Flute, creating the Elegant Compassionate Flute (Illusory) with new abilities and a way to gain exemptions from Mottling by saving living beings.
• Red-Lipped Su Mo’er warned Zhou Heng that Epic Divine Ability combatants would soon join the battle, but Zhou Heng ignored her and flew away.
• A world announcement warned the Skysea of the Empty Realm that Zhou Heng was about to obtain his fifth Ultimate Spell: Heaven and Earth Series spell, while his attack pinned down most would-be opponents.
• Red-Lipped Su Mo’er received a response from the six seniors of the Five-Petal Council, who mobilized 10% of their authority to grant Longevity-Cursed Species intermittent immunity to Ultimate Techniques in 10 seconds.
• Red-Lipped Su Mo’er stood despite Starlight Fall’s impact, and the attack vanished from her as a notification appeared on Zhou Heng’s retinas.

Zhou Heng overcame the Longevity-Cursed Species’ attacks and obtained the eight-element Ultimate Spell at the top of the pillar of light. A Barrier-Breaking Ship then entered the Skysea of the Empty Realm, and Fate revealed that Li Rang could help Zhou Heng obtain the Starry Sky Barrier before a true war began.

• Zhou Heng used his authority and Divine Eyes to rush toward the pillar of light while the Longevity-Cursed Species became immune to his spells.
• Zhou Heng evaded the Cloudwhales and Longevity-Cursed Species attacking him as he climbed the pillar.
• Zhou Heng reached the summit, seized the white flame, and obtained and bound Ultimate Spell: Water, Fire, Wind, Thunder, Ice, Wood, Light, and Darkness of Heaven and Earth.
• A Barrier-Breaking Ship pierced the Skysea of the Empty Realm’s spatial barrier, and Zhou Heng received Fate Hints warning of an impending war and identifying Li Rang as a possible ally in obtaining the Starry Sky Barrier.
• Zhou Heng activated Divine Eyes of Heaven and Earth to search for Li Rang.

The Calamity Lord arrived aboard the Barrier-Breaking Ship and unleashed a mass transformation of the Longevity-Cursed Species into Beasts of Longevity. Zhou Heng worked to protect the Skysea of the Empty Realm’s natives, while Red-Lipped Su Mo'er warned the Calamity Lord that its delay was giving him time.

• The Barrier-Breaking Ship broke through the spatial barrier, and its artificial sun dispelled much of Zhou Heng’s darkness effect.
• The Calamity Lord emerged from the ship, introduced itself to Zhou Heng, and fired green pus into the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• The Calamity Lord released a black aura, prompting over eighty percent of the Longevity-Cursed Species to sign Lifespan Contracts and transform into Beasts of Longevity.
• The Beasts of Longevity began draining the lifespans of nearby inhabitants, and Zhou Heng used his Ultimate Technique to shield the natives and help them evacuate.
• Red-Lipped Su Mo'er confronted the Calamity Lord and ordered it to attack Zhou Heng, but it ignored her, and she realized their best chance had passed.

Zhou Heng rescued billions of Skysea of the Empty Realm’s inhabitants while waiting for the Starry Sky Barrier to appear, even as the Longevity-Cursed Species began corrupting the realm. A Cloudwhale emerged carrying the anticipated Ultimate Spell, but its sudden teleportation made Zhou Heng pause.

• Zhou Heng saved the Skysea of the Empty Realm’s creatures with his Ultimate Spell and met Sky Sniper Li Rang, who warned that the Barrier-Breaking Ship would soon shatter the realm’s rules.
• Zhou Heng told Sky Sniper Li Rang he knew what he was doing, and Li Rang stayed beside him as he continued rescuing inhabitants.
• The Calamity Lord’s Barrier-Breaking Ship spread a black field that corrupted space, while the Skysea of the Empty Realm struggled to repair its rules.
• After waiting for the Starry Sky Barrier, Zhou Heng saw a starlit Cloudwhale emerge and heard that Ultimate Spell: Heaven and Earth's Touch was about to appear.
• Zhou Heng rushed toward the Cloudwhale, then stopped when it teleported across the Skysea of the Empty Realm.

Zhou Heng killed successive waves of Beasts of Longevity, gaining enough experience to reach level 80, then learned through Fate Hint that the enemies were luring him into activating a contaminated Eighth Turn Certificate. He chose the Abyss’s Affection achievement anyway, accepting the Abyss’s temporary attribute boost and the Abyss Succubus’s new control skill.

• Zhou Heng discovered that his attacks could kill the Beasts of Longevity, then defeated the first wave of 30 and lost 30 years of lifespan while gaining experience.
• Zhou Heng fought off larger waves of Beasts of Longevity and leveled up to 80, where he could no longer gain experience without beginning the eighth turn.
• Fate Hint revealed that the Abyss Succubus and Calamity Lord were using the Beasts to push Zhou Heng toward a contaminated Eighth Turn Certificate, and outlined the risks and alternatives.
• Zhou Heng used the Eighth Turn Certificate, causing the achievement system to transform into an abyss system and offering him slaughter achievements or Abyss’s Affection.
• Zhou Heng selected Abyss’s Affection, which required him to help the Abyss Succubus capture him and granted temporary 100% abyss erosion.

The Abyss Succubus regained power and controlled nearly every living creature in the Skysea of the Empty Realm, while the Calamity Lord learned of Zhou Heng’s bizarre Eighth Turn achievement and launched a counterattack. Guided by Fate, Zhou Heng fled east with Li Rang and narrowly evaded Red-Lipped Su Mo’er as the Calamity Lord committed to its plan.

• The Abyss Succubus gained the skill "Cool, Mature, Playful Charm" and realized Zhou Heng’s Eighth Turn achievement required her to help capture him.
• The Abyss Succubus activated her skill, controlling nearly every living creature in the Skysea of the Empty Realm and turning them against Zhou Heng.
• After receiving the details of Zhou Heng’s achievement, the Calamity Lord teleported tens of thousands of Beasts of Longevity toward Zhou Heng and hid Red-Lipped Su Mo’er among them.
• When spatial ripples warned Li Rang of danger, Zhou Heng followed Fate’s guidance, protected him, and raced due east while evading Cloudwhales and schools of fish.
• Zhou Heng followed further Fate Hints to dodge Red-Lipped Su Mo’er’s attempt to grab Li Rang as the Calamity Lord committed everything to its attack.

Zhou Heng obtained Ultimate Technique and Earth's Touch, greatly increasing his power and letting him immobilize his enemies across the Skysea of the Empty Realm. When the Calamity Lord began warping the Barrier-Breaking Ship at the cost of its lifespan, Zhou Heng followed Fate’s hint and headed west to seek the Brilliant Cloudwhale and the Starry Sky Barrier.

• Zhou Heng caught the Brilliant Cloudwhale and obtained Ultimate Technique and Earth's Touch, which enhanced Ultimate Technique and Earth's Greatness.
• Zhou Heng used his illusory arms to control the Beasts of Longevity and repeatedly pin down Red-Lipped Su Mo'er and the Abyss Succubus.
• The Calamity Lord decided to spend its lifespan warping the Barrier-Breaking Ship to drag Zhou Heng into the domain of Disaster of Longevity.
• Fate told Zhou Heng to head west and enter the Brilliant Cloudwhale for a chance to reach the Time Interstice and obtain the Starry Sky Barrier, while also revealing his concealed Audience method as an alternative.
• Zhou Heng chose to preserve the Audience method and turned west, attacking his enemies and clearing a path with his techniques.

Zhou Heng escaped the Abyss Succubus and the Calamity Lord by entering Eternity Star Fortress (Fragmented), where he found a technology box that Sky Sniper Li Rang needed five days to open. He stayed at the fortress entrance to hold off their forces while Li Rang worked.

• Zhou Heng broke through the enemy blockade and entered the Brilliant Cloudwhale just as the Barrier-Breaking Ship warped toward him, escaping the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• Zhou Heng discovered Eternity Star Fortress (Fragmented) in the Time Interstice and found a technology box surrounded by black arcs.
• Sky Sniper Li Rang recognized the box as a product of Time Interstice turbulence and asked Zhou Heng for five days to open it.
• The Abyss Succubus and the Calamity Lord pursued Zhou Heng, but the Time Interstice turbulence prevented spatial warping.
• Zhou Heng used his illusory palms to hold off the Abyss Succubus, the Calamity Lord, and the Beasts of Longevity while Li Rang approached the technology box.

Zhou Heng endured five days of attacks from the Calamity Lord while Sky Sniper Li Rang worked to free the Starry Sky Barrier, and his lifespan fell sharply. After retrieving the barrier, Zhou Heng used his 3% authority to survey the worlds beyond the Skysea of the Empty Realm and found Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces in the Abyss Edge.

• The Abyss Succubus repeatedly tried to reach Zhou Heng, while the Calamity Lord sent Beasts of Longevity to drain his lifespan.
• Zhou Heng used his ultimate spells to control the Beasts of Longevity, but lost 20,000,120 years of lifespan over five days.
• Sky Sniper Li Rang cracked the time-interstice box, and Zhou Heng retrieved and appraised the Eternity Star Fortress · Starry Sky Barrier (Fragmentary).
• Zhou Heng decided the barrier could help him overcome the Skysea of the Empty Realm's rules and damage the Calamity Lord, Red-Lipped Su Mo'er, and the Abyss Succubus.
• Zhou Heng used his 3% authority to survey the Möbius-shaped Skysea of the Empty Realm, the Land of Longevity, the nine-part Sakast Region, and the Abyss boundary.
• Zhou Heng extended his vision into the Abyss Edge and found Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces.

Zhou Heng used the White River Purifying Bottle to suppress the Abyss Mother’s erosion, then tricked the Abyss Succubus into helping him complete his Eighth Turn and reach level 81. After permanently gaining 300% Abyssal Corrosion and enraging the Abyss Mother, he drove the Succubus away and turned his attention to detaining the Calamity Lord.

• Zhou Heng used Time’s Passerby to retrieve the White River Purifying Bottle from the Abyss Giant Python, suppressing the Abyss Mother’s 100% erosion boost.
• Zhou Heng forced the Abyss Succubus to help complete the Eighth Turn achievement Abyss’s Affection by giving her a Bondage Rope and making her strike him with it.
• The Abyss Mother sensed the failed capture, became enraged, and Zhou Heng gained level 81, permanently fixed Abyss Erosion, and a total of 300% Abyssal Corrosion.
• Zhou Heng released the Abyss Succubus, then revealed the White River Purifying Bottle and drove her to flee after she realized he had plundered the Abyss Mother’s power.
• Zhou Heng concluded that he could detain the Calamity Lord, a unit connected to the Lord of Lifespan, because he had seen beyond the Skysea of the Empty Realm.

Zhou Heng discovered how to activate a hidden mechanism in the shattered Eternity Star Fortress and used the Vast Star Fist to unlock his Gene Sequence. A mysterious voice guided his training, then warned him that he must unlock Star River Transcendence during the Legendary Might stage and reach light speed to transcend into Divine Truth.

• The Calamity Lord fled aboard the Barrier-Breaking Ship after recognizing Zhou Heng's White River Purifying Bottle, while Sky Sniper Li Rang praised Zhou Heng and offered help with the Time Interstice before departing.
• After searching the shattered Eternity Star Fortress without success, Zhou Heng received Fate Hints that revealed how to activate its hidden mechanism.
• Zhou Heng planted the Imitation Star Nation Flag where the Eternity Star Fortress Sky Barrier had stood and practiced the Vast Star Fist beneath it.
• A mysterious voice used its remaining power to assist Zhou Heng, raising his punching speed to 10,000.0/s and helping him break through his genetic shackles to unlock Gene Sequence.
• The voice warned Zhou Heng to unlock Star River Transcendence during the Legendary Might stage and reach light speed in Attack Speed and Movement Speed to transcend into Divine Truth.

After doubling his lifespan and reaching Heaven-and-Earth Tier, Zhou Heng unleashed the White River Purifying Bottle’s Grievance across the Skysea of the Empty Realm. He defeated the Calamity Lord, while Su Yilin confronted him, announced she would face him herself, and left as the Abyss’s Wrath event began.

• Zhou Heng emerged from the Brilliant Cloudwhale, released Grievance throughout the Skysea of the Empty Realm, and was announced as a Heaven-and-Earth Tier boss.
• The Calamity Lord absorbed every Beast of Longevity in the realm, grew to a million zhang tall, and attacked Zhou Heng, but Grievance drove it back.
• Red-Lipped Su Mo'er tried to escape, but Su Yilin arrived, knocked her unconscious, and brought her to Zhou Heng.
• After a day of Grievance erosion, the Calamity Lord died, and Su Yilin cut Red-Lipped Su Mo'er in two before telling Zhou Heng she would face him directly.
• Su Yilin departed after praising Zhou Heng for protecting Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces, and the Abyss's Wrath large-scale event began.

Zhou Heng reviewed the newly begun large-scale event "Abyss's Wrath" and used Fate Hint to decide to join the Longevity Family after waiting three days. While waiting in the peaceful Skysea of the Empty Realm, he acquired the seventh Heaven and Earth Series piece, which let him teleport across the area, and then received a new notification.

• The "Abyss's Wrath" event intensified and presented the Longevity Family, Blue Star Federation, and Sakas Empire as faction choices.
• Fate Hint advised Zhou Heng to wait three days before joining the Longevity Family so he could plunder its contribution marketplace.
• Zhou Heng reviewed his attributes, saved his new points, and searched the Skysea of the Empty Realm for the seventh Heaven and Earth Series piece.
• Zhou Heng obtained "Ultimate Technique: Heaven and Earth's Instant," gaining the ability to teleport throughout the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• A notification appeared after Zhou Heng's collection reached seven Heaven and Earth Series pieces.

Zhou Heng gained enough authority over the Skysea of the Empty Realm to project some of his power outside it, then waited as Abyss’s Wrath began across the chapters. In the present world, Yu Tong began a dangerous trial to regain his lifespan and revive his wife.

• Zhou Heng used his new authority to survey the Seventh and Ninth Chapters, then stayed in the Skysea of the Empty Realm to await his chance.
• Abyss’s Wrath began across the Sakast Region, though the Abyss Creatures that emerged in Chapter One turned back after seeing the man on the Sakast Imperial Throne.
• Yu Tong left Frost Mechanical City carrying his wife’s coffin and prepared to hunt Abyss Creatures to fulfill the next stage of Longevity Trial: Despair of Salvation.
• Yu Tong learned that completing the trial could restore his lifespan and revive his wife, but his next objectives included killing 100 Abyss Creatures more than ten levels above him and finding the item that caused her memory loss.
• Yu Tong stabbed his wrist repeatedly to exchange pain for temporary attributes, determined to become strong enough to eradicate the long-lived.

Zhou Heng joined the Longevity Family faction, examined its marketplaces, and used a Fate Hint to uncover hidden mechanics in the Abyss's Wrath event. Newbie Village Development Regulation Three then unlocked the Light faction and offered him the chance to lead it, which he accepted.

• Zhou Heng joined the Longevity Family faction and received three quests tied to capturing people connected to him, killing Abyss Monsters, and buying an item from Darkness's Shop.
• Zhou Heng inspected Darkness's Shop and the Longevity Family Contribution Marketplace, noting their powerful items and the faction's competition for transcendence.
• Zhou Heng received Fate Hints warning that Darkness's Shop concealed a route to the Abyss faction and suggesting he repeatedly reverse it.
• Zhou Heng reversed Darkness's Shop nine times, triggering Newbie Village Development Regulation Three and unlocking the Light faction.
• Zhou Heng chose to become the Light faction's leader.

Zhou Heng became the Light faction’s master and received special tier subsidies after meeting a hidden development regulation. He opened the Light Marketplace to the Sakas Empire, while Fate Hint warned him not to circulate Chapter Five currency and revealed the Longevity-Cursed Species’ plan to force the unification of space and time.

• Zhou Heng became the Light faction’s master and acquired Coldness of Light, Reduction of Desire, and a temporary faction template.
• A hidden provision granted Zhou Heng tier subsidies, including ancient skills, a class-change certificate, imperial authority, a throne blueprint, and a future Nine-Turn breakthrough.
• Zhou Heng decided to use his surplus resources to help ordinary players grow stronger and advance the Abyss’s Wrath event.
• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng against listing Chapter Five gold coins, silver coins, Gold Crystals, or Silver Crystals, and explained the Longevity-Cursed Species’ scheme to force the unification of space and time.
• Zhou Heng stored the forbidden currency, listed Immunity Totems (Evil) and Will of the Boundless (Fragments), and opened the Light Marketplace across the Sakas Empire.

Zhou Heng returned to the Sakas Empire during the Abyss invasion and established the Light faction, then began slaughtering Abyss monsters to gather negative experience. After boosting his attack speed and power, he learned that Legendary Might-tier monsters yielded vastly more negative experience, bringing him closer to stripping resources from the Longevity-Cursed Species.

• Zhou Heng manifested above the Sakas Empire and provisionally established the Light faction, giving players and NPCs a chance to reselect their faction.
• Players and NPCs recognized Zhou Heng as his colossal figure appeared in the sky, and he killed an Abyss Demon Bull with one strike.
• Zhou Heng tested the Abyss experience rules and found that killing monsters granted negative experience equal to their levels.
• Zhou Heng spent 100 special attribute points on attack speed and activated God's Throne and O Holy Sword to greatly increase his attack speed and magic attack.
• Zhou Heng swept the Sakas Empire with sword strikes and discovered that Legendary Might-tier Abyss monsters yielded a hundred times more negative experience.

Zhou Heng slaughtered Longevity-Cursed Species and Abyss monsters across the present-day Sakas Empire, inspiring players and NPCs to join the fight. Meanwhile, Yu Tong used the Ember of Memory to uncover his wife's memories and encountered the Mistress of Despair, before his wife briefly woke to tell him to run and say she loved him; a prompt from Fate then appeared to Zhou Heng.

• Zhou Heng used the Sakast Imperial Sword to kill a level 201 Longevity-Cursed Species and pursued the fleeing Longevity-Cursed Species across the present-day Sakas Empire.
• Players and NPCs rallied behind Zhou Heng and joined the battle against Abyss monsters and Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Yu Tong stabbed himself repeatedly to turn his pain into power, then killed Abyss monsters until he could redeem the Ember of Memory.
• Yu Tong used the Ember of Memory on his wife and saw her memories of a tortured woman fused into a fleshy tumor, who called herself the Mistress of Despair.
• The woman on the tumor identified herself as the God of Light, Henala, and Yu Tong's wife briefly woke to tell him to run and say she loved him before falling asleep again.
• A prompt from Fate appeared to Zhou Heng as he continued killing Longevity-Cursed Species and Abyss monsters.

Zhou Heng discovered that the Longevity-Cursed Species had erased the memories of millions of people across the Sakas Empire, and he used 2.31 million Embers of Memory on victims in Middle Ring Province. The Longevity Family realized he knew about their Thought Seal and planned to draw him out of the Skysea of the Empty Realm by opening the Despairing Garden.

• Zhou Heng saw Yu Tong replace his wife’s coffin lid, strap it to his back, and repeatedly stab himself while vowing to save her.
• Zhou Heng searched the Sakas Empire, identified millions of victims of the Longevity-Cursed Species, and exchanged all 231 billion Negative Experience for 2.31 million Embers of Memory.
• Zhou Heng sent Embers of Memory into victims throughout Middle Ring Province, causing black aura to emerge from their foreheads.
• Longevity-Cursed Species members reported Zhou Heng’s actions to their superiors as they feared their opportunity was slipping away.
• Three Gold-Robed Elders in Salendo discussed Zhou Heng’s knowledge of the Thought Seal, and Su Mu proposed opening the Despairing Garden to pull him from the Skysea of the Empty Realm.