Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zhou Heng fought off the Starlight Longevity-Cursed Species attacking him in Komachi Town, effortlessly killing their squads while Yu Jun and the others watched in shock. When the enemy deployed more fighters and items to suppress his recovery, Zhou Heng remained ready to continue the battle.

• Su Ruoshui led the B001 Squad in attacking Zhou Heng, but his Will check resisted their charm skill and his Emperor's Swordlight killed them as they approached.
• Zhou Heng repeatedly killed the attackers and gained one hundred years of Lifespan for each enemy slain.
• Yu Jun saw Starlight Longevity-Cursed Species on Elven Thrones attack while others used Darkness Aid Me and scrolls to weaken Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng's swordlight killed both groups before they could threaten him, and he taunted the enemy while waiting for Shengtiandao Ichiro to respond.
• The enemy used items to cut Zhou Heng's Health and Mana recovery by 100%, but he retained 20% recovery and raised his sword against the surrounding attackers.

Zhou Heng used an ancient sword skill with a range of 10 million meters to cut down approaching enemies while allies and foes converged on him. As Su Ruoshui launched a coordinated attack, Zhou Heng evaded the first strike but faced a Lifespan Judgment.

• Guan Ling, Guan Shanhai, Buzong, and Hui Yue recognized Zhou Heng's enormous White Lightsabers and rushed toward their intersection.
• Shima Tianjun and Shima Tianying identified Zhou Heng's skill, and Shima Tianjun used Guidance of the Will of All Beings to draw tainted units toward him.
• The tainted units repeatedly resurrected inside the sword's range, while Faction Two players and NPCs gathered and headed toward Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng surveyed the 10,000-kilometer area and spotted Shima Tianjun, Guan Ling's group, and multiple identical copies of them.
• Su Ruoshui feinted at Zhou Heng as shells and magic skills struck his position; Zhou Heng teleported away, and Su Ruoshui activated Lifespan Judgment against him.

Zhou Heng endured a massive lifespan drain while rapidly killing the Starlight-rank Longevity-Cursed Species with the Sakast Imperial Sword (Lifespan). When one enemy used Equal Lifespan Pact, Zhou Heng killed him outright, leaving the others terrified and wondering what he was trying to trigger.

• The Longevity-Cursed Species used Lifespan Judgment · Erosion, but Glimmer of Health reduced Zhou Heng’s lifespan loss from ten million years to four million.
• Su Ruoshui ordered the enemies to sacrifice themselves to activate the Lifespan Blood Magic Array, then retreated when Zhou Heng showed no reaction.
• A Starlight-rank Longevity-Cursed Species attacked Zhou Heng with Darkness Aid Me, but Zhou Heng’s healing vastly outpaced the damage.
• The attacker activated Equal Lifespan Pact to exchange his lifespan for Zhou Heng’s, but Zhou Heng severed his head with a sword strike and prevented his resurrection.
• The enemies realized Zhou Heng’s sword could erase them and suspected he had killed the attacker to trigger something.

Zhou Heng killed Su Ruoshui, Shima Kōgetsu, and the remaining Starlight-tier Longevity-Cursed Species, then watched a pillar of light disappear beneath Komachi Town. As Dancer of Heaven and Earth · Guan Ling and Shima Tianjun arrived, Zhou Heng stepped into the bottomless hole.

• Su Ruoshui ordered the Blood Lifespan Magic Array activated, but Zhou Heng killed the Starlight-tier Longevity-Cursed Species before they could complete it.
• Shima Kōgetsu attacked Zhou Heng at extreme speed, but Zhou Heng used the Sakast Imperial Sword's Emperor's Art to guarantee a hit and beheaded him.
• The White River Purifying Bottle absorbed 10,000 Galactic Transcendences, and Zhou Heng collected resources and the core of the Blood Lifespan Magic Array.
• A pillar of light beneath Komachi Town drew in air and debris before sinking underground, leaving a gigantic hole as a voice spoke to Zhou Heng.
• Dancer of Heaven and Earth · Guan Ling and Shima Tianjun arrived together, and Zhou Heng stepped into the hole and disappeared.

Zhou Heng reached the Sakas Emperor’s Imperial Palace, Eternal Starry Sky Dream, where angel guidance robot A009 offered him four paths. A Fate Hint revealed the competing plans behind the trials and gave him alternatives to follow the Emperor’s seed, pursue a way to save Qi Sinian, or defend the entrance and fulfill Sarendo Sakas’s final wish.

• Dancer of Heaven and Earth · Guan Ling and the other Blue Star Federation prodigies fought Shima Tianjun and the eight other Starlight-level Longevity-Cursed Species while Zhou Heng fell into darkness.
• Zhou Heng’s descent turned into an ascent through light and clouds, bringing him to a vast triangular complex crowned by a starry tableau.
• Angel guidance robot A009 welcomed Zhou Heng to Eternal Starry Sky Dream and offered him paths named Universal Love, Kindness, Fairness, and Justice.
• Emperor Sarendo Sakas’s Concept Origin Seed flew toward the Fairness path, but Zhou Heng received Fate Hints describing Blue Star Federal Leader · Blue Sky’s scheme and the dangers of following it.
• Fate suggested that Zhou Heng could choose Universal Love to seek a way to save Qi Sinian, or remain at the entrance, slay incoming Will of All Beings-infected units, and fulfill Sarendo Sakas’s final wish.

Zhou Heng slaughtered the units infected by the Will of All Beings in the Sakas Imperial Palace until Foundation Deer Ripples consumed 100 trillion hatred and evolved into the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer. He stored the powerful new creature and resumed killing to gather more fictional power for Emperor Sarendo Sakas’s Concept Origin Seed.

• Zhou Heng waited beneath the light as Will of All Beings-infected units began pouring into the Sakas Imperial Palace.
• He used the Sakast Imperial Sword and his immense attack speed to slaughter the infected units, earning hatred and fictional power.
• After three days of killing, Foundation Deer Ripples consumed 100 trillion hatred and evolved into the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer.
• Zhou Heng appraised the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer and found it could resist attacks within the Sakast Region, leap great distances, and gain combat attributes matching its holder’s when paired with a Bard class and a flute or xiao.
• Zhou Heng stored the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer and continued killing because the Concept Origin Seed had not yet changed.

Zhou Heng discovered that the Civilization Kindling within the Will of All Beings’ infected units grew stronger as he drained their power of Fiction, while he continued trying to revive Emperor Sarendo Sakas. Shima Tianying’s attempt to use the infected army and the Killing Fellow Countrymen Thought Seal against Zhou Heng failed when she found the Kindling had vanished, and he captured her.

• An infected Island Country man briefly regained his reason after Zhou Heng shattered him, revealing that the Longevity-Cursed Species was in Strongest Town and that the Civilization Kindling was tied to the change.
• After a month of observation, Zhou Heng found the infected units’ Civilization Kindling growing stronger as he drained their power of Fiction, while Pingtian Jurokurō sensed that power being drawn away.
• Shima Tianying entered the hole in Komachi Town and transformed herself into an infected unit, hoping to use the Killing Fellow Countrymen Thought Seal against Zhou Heng.
• By March 1, Zhou Heng’s efforts had made Emperor Sarendo Sakas’s Concept Origin Seed glow and murmur, while infected units could retain their reason for up to five seconds.
• Shima Tianying charged Zhou Heng and activated the Thought Seal, but she could not sense the Civilization Kindling; Zhou Heng noticed her reaction and captured her.

Zhou Heng restrained Shima Tianying and watched as Emperor Sarendo Sakas emerged from his Concept Origin Seed and freed her from the will of all beings. After Shima Tianying surrendered her inventory, Sarendo explained the restrictions on the friends list before flying toward his Imperial Palace.

• Shima Tianying accused Zhou Heng of knowing more than his future-prediction talent should allow and tried to escape into the will of all beings, but Zhou Heng kept hold of her.
• Sarendo Sakas emerged from his Concept Origin Seed, and Zhou Heng handed him the restrained Shima Tianying.
• Sarendo poured white streams of light into Shima Tianying, awakening her and removing the will of all beings' control.
• Shima Tianying failed to send a warning with the encrypted black aura, then gave Zhou Heng the resources in her inventory.
• Sarendo told Zhou Heng that Blue Sky imposed unpredictable restrictions on ordinary friends-list users and would soon try to return those authorities, then flew toward the eternal starry sky dream.

Zhou Heng received three fate hints while deciding how to proceed in the Trial of the Master of Sakas Imperial Palace, including the chance to entrust the decision to Sarendo Sakas. Zhou Heng made no choice, and Sarendo realized Zhou Heng had understood his intentions and resolved to choose his own fate.

• Zhou Heng read the three Fate Hints, which described the consequences of choosing either path or entrusting the choice to Sarendo Sakas.
• Sarendo returned to the Sakas Imperial Throne and waited for Zhou Heng to choose a direction.
• Sarendo wondered why Zhou Heng had not chosen between the two paths and looked toward him across the void.
• Sarendo recognized Zhou Heng's trust and suspected that Zhou Heng had known he was handing him the right to choose fate.
• Sarendo decided to make his own choice and pointed into the void from the Imperial Throne.

Zhou Heng entered Sarendo Sakas's Mind Journey and found himself in a limbless body after Sarendo had provoked the Longevity Family Su. After receiving a Fate Hint about meeting the Sakast Emperor in Black Crow Forest, Zhou Heng crawled out of the house and headed into the eerie forest beneath nine blood moons and nine blood suns.

• Shawa and Shana told the awakened Zhou Heng that the Longevity Family Su had cut off Sarendo's limbs, while Shawa promised to seek a Limb Regeneration Potion.
• Zhou Heng received a Fate Hint explaining that Sarendo had fought the Su players over a woman from the Shima Family and would meet the Sakast Emperor in Black Crow Forest that night.
• When night fell, Zhou Heng gained control of Sarendo's body and struggled to drag a chair to the door and open it with his teeth.
• Zhou Heng crawled outside beneath nine blood moons and nine blood suns, spotted Black Crow Forest, and made his way into it to find the Sakast Emperor.