Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng changed to Bard (Broken), used its boosts to farm Abyss Monsters and fully nurture the Sakas Emperor Sword. When Abyss's Wrath grew harder on its first anniversary, he protected the Light faction from the new Wisdom of the Wise effect.

• Zhou Heng used a Fourth Class · Class Change Certificate to change to Bard (Broken), greatly increasing his Attack Speed and Movement Speed.
• Zhou Heng combined his boosted stats and area attacks to kill Abyss Monsters in vast numbers while nurturing the Sakas Emperor Sword.
• By November 3, the Sakas Emperor Sword had reached maximum Nurturing and gained 1,000 Attack (Silver).
• On Abyss's Wrath's first anniversary, a World Announcement increased the event's difficulty and drops and introduced the Wisdom of the Wise check.
• Zhou Heng activated Coldness of Light, removing Wisdom of the Wise from Light faction units and restoring affected players to their senses.
• Players across the Sakast Region looked to Zhou Heng with worship and respect, calling him Heng God.

Zhou Heng discovered that the longevity-cursed species were altering the resources shown in kill notifications, then received Fate’s guidance about their plans in the Ninth Chapter. He found the hidden operative and set out to pursue both suggested paths, while searching for the Contemplative Skeleton King.

• Zhou Heng compared the Abyss Monsters’ initial kill notifications with their actual drops and realized the longevity-cursed species were changing the displayed resources.
• Zhou Heng suspected the white paper was involved in blocking access to resources as players and NPCs charged Abyss Monsters to collect Revival Coins.
• Fate revealed that the Seven-Petal Council was assessing Zhou Heng, and that Su Yilin was secretly trying to accelerate an Abyss assault with a Deep-Space Bag.
• Zhou Heng used Time’s Passerby to inspect the Ninth Chapter’s Time Interstice and found a level 501 longevity-cursed species member carrying 2,000 Ceramic Shards.
• Zhou Heng watched the hidden operative without taking the Ceramic Shards and searched for the Contemplative Skeleton King.

Zhou Heng demanded help from the Contemplative Skeleton King, provoking a challenge in the Contemplators' Noble Domain. He discovered that the level-90 Skeleton King was formidable by ordinary standards but far weaker than his own full-strength power.

• Zhou Heng met the Contemplative Skeleton King and asked it to help him.
• After Zhou Heng questioned the nobility of contemplation, the Contemplative Skeleton King activated the Contemplators' Noble Domain and granted him three chances to challenge it.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King explained the Contemplators' history and challenged Zhou Heng to fight at level 90.
• Zhou Heng checked his attributes and appraised the Contemplative Skeleton King, learning its restricted stats and abilities.
• Zhou Heng realized that the Skeleton King's attributes were weak compared with his own strength at full power.

Zhou Heng defeated the Contemplative Skeleton King with one strike and received a single-use item that could summon it. Su Yilin accelerated Abyss’s Wrath, but Zhou Heng seized the 2,000 Ceramic Shards, prompting her and Zhou Qin to alert the Seven-Petal Council.

• Zhou Heng killed the Contemplative Skeleton King in one strike, cleared its domain, and received the Contemplative Call.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Skysea of the Empty Realm and entered the Ninth Chapter’s Time Interstice to pursue the Longevity-Cursed Species and its Ceramic Shards.
• Su Yilin gave the Contemplative Skeleton King Activity Acceleration Authority to accelerate Abyss’s Wrath.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King told Su Yilin that Zhou Heng was powerful, then sent her out of the Abyss Portal.
• Su Yilin saw Zhou Heng use the White River Purifying Bottle to crush the target in the Time Interstice and seize the 2,000 Ceramic Shards.
• Su Yilin and Zhou Qin exchanged alarmed looks and crushed their Encrypted Black Aura to send the news to the Seven-Petal Council.

The Seven-Petal Council debated Zhou Heng’s abilities and decided to prepare a response as the Longevity Trial approached. After Su Yilin challenged Zhou Heng and vanished, the Contemplative Skeleton King accelerated Abyss’s Wrath, unleashing a vast undead invasion that Zhou Heng answered by deploying Grievance units and fusing Ceramic Shards with the Holy Sword.

• The Seven-Petal Council considered whether Zhou Heng had future-prediction, omniscience, or dual talents, and the elderly figure agreed to leave a change to Su Yilin’s position to her while preparing a backup.
• Su Yilin received intelligence, declared that her contest with Zhou Heng had begun, and vanished from the Present-Day Sakas Empire.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King announced an undead calamity and accelerated Abyss’s Wrath, reviving slain enemies and opening portals that released monsters, bone dragons, and Titans.
• Zhou Heng activated Reduction of Desire to counter Mistress’s Desire as players and NPCs reacted to the sudden rise in the event’s difficulty.
• Zhou Heng released Grievance units into the Light faction, then fused the Sakas Emperor Sword with 2,000 Ceramic Shards and awaited its transformation.

Zhou Heng led the Light Faction in fighting Abyss Monsters until the faction reached Tier 3, earning empire-wide teleportation authority and the Sakas Imperial Throne blueprint. He put the blueprint away and prepared to keep farming when a Fate Hint appeared.

• Zhou Heng used the empowered Sakas Emperor Sword (Holy Sword) to slaughter Abyss Monsters while leading the Light Faction and protecting players and NPCs.
• The Light Faction fought for a month, raising Abyss's Wrath completion from 20% to 40%.
• The Light Faction reached Faction Tier 3, and Zhou Heng received teleportation authority throughout Chapter Nine and the Sakas Imperial Throne crafting blueprint.
• Zhou Heng examined the throne’s four difficult crafting conditions and decided to pursue them gradually.
• Zhou Heng prepared to resume fighting Abyss Monsters, but a Fate Hint appeared on his retinas.

Zhou Heng chose the path that led to a valuable item in Su Yilin’s Spacetime Abyss and confronted her as she released the Calamity of Longevity across the Sakas region. After identifying a way to deal with the creature, he brought it before the Lord of Lifespan, leaving his body behind as his thoughts entered the Starry Grassland.

• Zhou Heng chose Fate Hint Two’s path because it promised a valuable item in the Spacetime Abyss.
• Su Yilin arrived in the present-day Sakas Empire, and Zhou Heng suspected that Time-Space Corruption was damaging her true body.
• Zhou Heng swung the Sakas Emperor Sword at unjust players and NPCs while letting Su Yilin believe he relied on Future Prediction.
• Su Yilin released the Calamity of Longevity, whose pus-green liquid eroded the lifespan of entities it touched.
• Zhou Heng seized the Calamity of Longevity and performed the ritual to gain an audience with the Lord of Lifespan.
• Zhou Heng’s thoughts entered the Starry Grassland alongside the Calamity of Longevity.

Zhou Heng sacrificed the Calamity of Longevity, gained an audience with the Lord of Lifespan, and received a temporary Deep-Space Longevity Leaf. Meanwhile, Su Yilin prepared a Spacetime Abyss and concluded that Zhou Heng might possess a one-time talent granting him access to the Vast Star Nation Database.

• Zhou Heng sacrificed the Calamity of Longevity, upgraded Glimmer of Health, and learned it had helped eradicate the Lord of Lifespan (Calamity).
• Using Fate Hint, Zhou Heng asked the Lord of Lifespan for power and received the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf, which granted 100 million temporary lifespan per second and would leave after 10 days.
• Su Yilin continued releasing Calamities of Longevity to prepare a Spacetime Abyss for Zhou Qin, while considering how Zhou Heng had learned the method of audience.
• Su Yilin suspected Zhou Heng had a one-time talent that gave him access to something like the Vast Star Nation Database, then sent the theory to headquarters.
• Zhou Heng returned from his audience, and he and Su Yilin looked at each other across the sky.

Zhou Heng used the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf to absorb the Calamities of Longevity released by Su Yilin, confirming that the Lord of Lifespan wanted to test his ability to harvest more. As Su Yilin searched for a way to delay him until she could open the Spacetime Abyss, she accepted the Abyss Succubus’s offer of her power while insisting on keeping two skills.

• Zhou Heng grabbed a Calamity of Longevity, lost 3,000 years of Lifespan, then used the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf to contain it.
• Fate hinted that Zhou Heng could use Time's Passerby and the Scroll of the Years to enter the Third Chapter and harvest Magic Beasts of Longevity from Hero King Karenna.
• Zhou Heng continued absorbing the Calamities of Longevity as Su Yilin realized the leaf was rapidly disrupting her plan.
• Su Yilin decided she needed to delay Zhou Heng until she could unfold the Spacetime Abyss and considered ways to confuse his Field of Vision.
• The Abyss Succubus offered to take Zhou Heng away in exchange for Su Yilin's power, and Su Yilin accepted while demanding to keep Temporal Clone and Spacetime Abyss.

The Abyss Succubus and the Contemplative Skeleton King entered the Sakast Region as bosses, unleashing an invasion around the ruined capital of Salendo. Zhou Heng avoided the Succubus’s charm, then invoked the contemplation rule and caused the Skeleton King’s forces to turn against her.

• The Abyss Succubus left the Abyss Portal, while the Contemplative Skeleton King decided to act in the Sakast Region without breaking its contemplation rule.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King summoned its Skeleton Throne and Contemplative Skeleton forces in the Ninth Chapter, and its throne crushed Salendo.
• The Abyss Succubus arrived and charmed more than ten billion players and NPCs, turning them against Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng kept his eyes closed in the Skysea of the Empty Realm and avoided the Abyss Succubus’s charm.
• The Contemplative Skeleton forces targeted the Abyss Succubus, revealing that Zhou Heng had invoked the contemplation rule and changed the Skeleton King’s faction.

After turning the Contemplative Skeleton King and saving billions of lives, Zhou Heng gained a dramatic upgrade to Wind God's Throne and watched the battle in the Present-Day Sakas Empire turn in his allies’ favor. He continued clearing Su Yilin’s Calamity of Longevity while she prepared a trap that could drag him into the Abyss if he left the Skysea of the Empty Realm.

• Zhou Heng’s actions turned the Contemplative Skeleton King to the Light faction, saved 37.2 billion living beings, and raised Abyss’s Wrath progress to 60%.
• Zhou Heng’s Mottled exemptions rose to 693, and Wind God's Throne upgraded to ★★ with greatly increased attributes, speed, and new powers.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King’s army overwhelmed the Abyss forces and freed players and NPCs from the Abyss Succubus’s charm, repeatedly triggering Tears of Compassion for Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng continued removing Su Yilin’s Calamity of Longevity as quickly as she released it.
• Su Yilin, having given all her attributes to the Abyss Succubus, appraised Zhou Heng and planned to lure him from the Skysea of the Empty Realm into the Abyss.

Zhou Heng harvested a million "Calamities of Longevity" from the third chapter to fill the "Deep-Space Longevity Leaf," despite attacks and warnings from an elder of the Su Family. He discovered a possible connection to lifespan secrets before the elder withdrew and promised to await him in the third chapter.

• Zhou Heng used "Scroll of the Years (Shattered)" to inspect the third chapter and saw a golden-armored blonde woman surrounded by "Calamities of Longevity."
• An elder of the Su Family reached across the chapter to drain Zhou Heng's lifespan, but the "Deep-Space Longevity Leaf" replenished temporary lifespan faster than the attacks depleted it.
• Zhou Heng captured the endlessly reappearing "Calamities of Longevity" and ignored the elder's offer to join the Su Family and receive Su Yilin as a servant.
• Zhou Heng noticed that containing 500,000 "Calamities of Longevity" reduced the elder's lifespan drain by 0.5 years and suspected a connection to the "Land of Longevity" and "Lifespan Contracts."
• Zhou Heng completed the containment of a million "Calamities of Longevity" after ten days, despite the elder's warning against investigating lifespan.
• The elder withdrew his hand, promised to await Zhou Heng in the third chapter, and warned him not to die in the "Skysea of the Empty Realm" sixteen years later.

After filling the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf, Zhou Heng was transported to the Boundless Lifespan Grassland, where a forced Nine-Turn Transcendence began. As the Abyss Succubus and Su Yilin prepared to seize him through his chosen path, the Glimmering Woman offered Zhou Heng the choice to pursue longevity.

• The Deep-Space Longevity Leaf filled with one million Calamities of Longevity and carried Zhou Heng and the White River Purifying Bottle away from the Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• Su Yilin watched Zhou Heng vanish and planned to capture him through the Spacetime Abyss if he chose Sea of Stars (River) Transcendence.
• The Abyss Succubus withdrew from her fight with the Contemplative Skeleton King and waited for Zhou Heng to unlock Sea of Stars (River) Transcendence.
• The Contemplative Skeleton King led the Abyss's Wrath counteroffensive, while Su Yilin and the Abyss Succubus prepared for their next moves against Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng entered the Boundless Lifespan Grassland, where a notification forcibly initiated Nine-Turn Transcendence.
• The Glimmering Woman told Zhou Heng that he could choose his own path and obtain longevity, then reached toward his brow.

Zhou Heng delayed choosing his reward from the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf quest after Fate Hints warned him against the available options, and he used the twenty-day reprieve to build his health. Meanwhile, the Abyss Succubus and Su Yilin waited in Present-Day Sakas for him to return as the battle against the Abyss Portal continued.

• Fate Hints warned Zhou Heng that choosing the Sea (River) of Stars Transcendence reward would make him the abyss mother's eternity plaything, while the other rewards were poor choices for him.
• Zhou Heng asked the Lifespan Apostle to let him choose a reward in twenty days, and she granted him the delay on behalf of her Master.
• Zhou Heng rested on the Boundless Lifespan Grassland and gained one silver health each second, more than doubling his maximum health over twenty days.
• The Abyss Succubus grew uneasy over Zhou Heng's absence before deciding he was undergoing a trial, while Su Yilin accepted the risk of her wager and grew calm.
• The players and NPCs continued attacking the Abyss Portal as the Abyss Succubus and Su Yilin waited for Zhou Heng to arrive.

As the Abyss's Wrath event reached 80%, Zhou Heng received the chance to complete his Nine-Turn achievement by killing either the Abyss Charm or the Contemplative Skeleton King. Following Fate's guidance, he waited for the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm to open, and the chapter ended as a passage into it appeared.

• Su Yilin meditated on Sky-Peering Peak as Zhou Qin planted a Spacetime Chaos Node nearby and sensed that this might be their last meeting.
• The players and NPCs pushed the Abyss's Wrath event progress to 80%, triggering Zhou Heng's Nine-Turn eligibility and the achievement to slay the Abyss Charm or the Contemplative Skeleton King.
• Zhou Heng followed Fate's guidance, left the Boundless Lifespan Grassland (Illusory), and returned to the Skysea of the Empty Realm without choosing his reward.
• Zhou Qin crushed the Encrypted Black Aura, and the Longevity Crusaders opened the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm.
• A colossal Sakas Imperial Throne appeared over Sarendo, and an imposing figure spoke before a passage to the Secret Realm opened.

Zhou Heng used the virus he seized from a spatial rift to alter the Despairing Howl Spear and defeat the Abyss Succubus. As it screamed, Su Yilin activated Spacetime Abyss, dragging both herself and Zhou Heng into its darkness.

• Zhou Heng raced toward the Sakas Emperor's Glorious Secret Realm while the Abyss Succubus pursued him and the Contemplative Skeleton King tried to block it.
• The Abyss Succubus caught Zhou Heng and activated Abyss Mother's Merciful Drag, but Zhou Heng thrust the Despairing Howl Spear into its heart and seized Virus · No. 00199 · Sakast Region · Data Modification from a spatial rift.
• Zhou Heng inserted the virus into the Despairing Howl Spear and changed Howling Hysteria's negative-experience multiplier to ten quadrillion times.
• The spear pierced the Abyss Succubus and pinned it to a mountain peak, where it screamed in terror.
• Su Yilin activated Spacetime Abyss, swallowing herself and Zhou Heng, who received notifications that time flow, lifespan depletion, and path confusion had increased.

Zhou Heng chose Star River Transcendence, then used the Elegant Compassionate Flute to trigger a level 1 duel against Su Yilin. Su Yilin revealed her plan to overwhelm him with 10,000 Temporal Clones and challenged him to prove he could defeat her.

• Zhou Heng chose the Star River Transcendence reward from the Deep-Space Longevity Leaf.
• Following Fate's guidance, Zhou Heng sat down, played the March of Xia Kingdom on the Elegant Compassionate Flute, and activated Noble and Elegant Fighting Spirit as Su Yilin emerged from the Spacetime Vortex.
• Su Yilin explained that she had planned to use Starlight Adornment and Temporal Clone to counter the flute, but had failed to kill Zhou Heng before the duel began.
• The duel arena reduced both combatants to level 1 and allowed each to retain one weapon, class, and skill.
• Su Yilin kept Temporal Clone, which could summon 10,000 copies matching her attributes, and challenged Zhou Heng to defeat her.

Zhou Heng used the Timely Revival Platform and Sakas Emperor Sword to overcome Su Yilin’s defenses and decapitate her, then revived after she killed him and fought her again. After 10,000 more deaths, Su Yilin recognized the Timely Revival Platform and Wang Mo’s involvement as Zhou Heng approached to strike.

• Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint’s guidance and attacked Su Yilin with the Sakas Emperor Sword, while Fated River · White River’s Protection blocked her first strike.
• Su Yilin overwhelmed Zhou Heng’s protection and killed him, but the Timely Revival Platform revived him outside the Tomb of Time and Space’s effect.
• Zhou Heng’s forced-lock-on sword strike decapitated Su Yilin, who returned from the Spacetime Abyss after he began playing the flute again.
• Su Yilin killed Zhou Heng again and kept attacking as he revived and released Grievance units from the White River Purifying Bottle.
• After killing Zhou Heng 10,000 times, Su Yilin realized the platform was the Timely Revival Platform and asked what he knew about Wang Mo, as Zhou Heng raised his sword to strike.

Zhou Heng endured ten thousand battles with the Longevity-Cursed Species Su Yilin inside the Spacetime Abyss, using a newly acquired Phase Black Hole Star Body to gain the advantage. He defeated Su Yilin permanently, accepted her Star Maiden's Hair (Replica), and the Abyss Succubus was annihilated as Zhou Heng completed an achievement and reached level 91.

• After a month of repeated battles, a Fate Hint told Zhou Heng to reach out, and he caught the Phase Black Hole Star Body (Extinguished) as it pierced into the Spacetime Abyss.
• Zhou Heng used the sphere's space-distorting Phase Charge to appear behind Su Yilin and cut off her eighth head, while she demanded to know what he had caught and whether he had planned everything.
• Zhou Heng stayed silent through ten thousand executions, exhausting Su Yilin's Temporal Clones and breaking her will.
• On her final return, Su Yilin apologized, surrendered the Star Maiden's Hair (Replica), and warned Zhou Heng that she would await him in death.
• Zhou Heng accepted the hair and killed Su Yilin for good, while the Abyss Succubus was annihilated in the Present-Day Sakas Empire.
• The system announced Zhou Heng's achievement and level-up to 91, while several star upgrades and a transcendence attempt failed.

Zhou Heng entered Su Yilin’s Mind Corridor to uncover her secrets, but used Su Qingxin’s help to bypass its defenses. He explored two scenes before the gallery forked, where he paused to choose a path.

• Zhou Heng ignored the Transcendence notification and used Mind Journey on Su Yilin, then stopped after Fate Hint warned him that her Mind Corridor could destroy his consciousness.
• Zhou Heng visualized Su Qingxin, who appeared in Su Yilin’s Mind Corridor and guided him past the Mind-Eating Sharks toward a gallery.
• Su Qingxin distracted a pitch-black eye investigating the disturbance while Zhou Heng entered the gallery with only fifty seconds to explore.
• Zhou Heng saw a scene of Su Yilin killing a young dwarf on an assembly line, raising a counter from 797 to 800.
• Zhou Heng saw an old three-petaled Longevity-Cursed Species berate level 52 Su Yilin, followed by a scene of Su Yilin beside the old woman’s corpse.
• Zhou Heng reached a fork in the gallery and hesitated over which direction to take.