Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng crushed the Despair Curse Source Code and collected the Hope Awakening Elixir, rejecting the paths Fate offered to control or spread the curse. The Watcher protected information about Zhou Heng from the Sage Council Court, then vanished as a World Announcement rang throughout Sakast.

• Fate warned Zhou Heng that he could swallow the Despair Curse, purify it with the White River Purifying Bottle, or crush it and collect the Hope Awakening Elixir.
• Zhou Heng crushed the Despair Curse Source Code, and a spatial rift released spring water that he collected in his Generalized Relativistic Infinite Backpack (Brilliant).
• The Sage Council Court detected the returned Despair Curse Source Code and investigated Zhou Heng, but the Watcher interfered and removed information about him from the System Log.
• The aged Watcher returned to the fallen Yōuyuǎn Watchtower, spoke of the future belonging to the children, and vanished from the Broken Starfield Domain · Mirror Image.
• A World Announcement rang throughout Sakast across all times and spaces.

Vast’s lingering Star Seat raised every living being’s maximum lifespan to 100 billion and excluded those below 100 trillion Basic Attributes from the Star Seat contest. Zhou Heng prepared to attack the falling Longevity Crusaders and Magic Apostles, hoping to complete his quest before Vast Star Nation Councilor could react.

• Every living being in Sakast witnessed Vast’s Star Seat and received a maximum lifespan of 100 billion years.
• Zhou Heng learned that contestants with a sum of Basic Attributes below 100 trillion had been excluded from the Star Seat contest.
• Zhou Heng realized the excluded beings might include the Longevity Crusaders and Magic Apostles he needed to kill for Dancer of Heaven and Earth's Light Ruoxue’s quest.
• Zhou Heng suspected his lack of a warning from Fate Hint might be connected to the White River Purifying Bottle and Blooming Starlight Sword he had left in the Sixth Chapter.
• Zhou Heng loaded Hope Awakening Elixir into his backpack, activated Great Light Holy Sword and Holy Power of Justice · Despair, and faced the falling Longevity Crusaders and Magic Apostles.

Zhou Heng slaughtered the Magic Apostles and Longevity Crusaders in the Broken Starfield Domain, restoring and increasing his Lifespan while the Vast Star Nation Councilor found herself blocked from reaching him. As the Councilor waited for the Blooming Starlight Swords to merge, the Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces advanced toward Sakast with a Skeleton army and transformed Priests, setting the stage for a new era of deterrence.

• Zhou Heng attacked the Magic Apostles and Longevity Crusaders with the Sakast Imperial Sword, killing them rapidly with his Light Element and Holy damage.
• Zhou Heng gained Lifespan through the Lifespan Plunder effect, raising his maximum Lifespan back to ten billion and beyond.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor sensed the Despair Curse Source Code return to the Sixth Chapter and realized Zhou Heng was using Light Element skills.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor tried to reach Zhou Heng but found the passage blocked by two merging Blooming Starlight Swords.
• Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces approached Sakast, followed by Skeleton Warriors and black-robed Priests who transformed into alluring figures.

Zhou Heng slaughtered the units falling into the Broken Starfield Domain, plundering their lifespans and killing many Longevity-Cursed Species. After claiming a Sakast's Banner, he saw that he needed seven more to complete the set.

• Zhou Heng continued killing Magic Apostles and Longevity Crusaders while Time-Space Pause and his regeneration kept him safe.
• More Broken Starfield Domain explorers fell from beneath the Starlight Throne, and Zhou Heng suspected the Watcher had sent them.
• Zhou Heng struck the falling units with the Sakast Imperial Sword, killing many while its holy effect passed harmlessly through units protected by its mechanics.
• Lifespan Plunder drained the remaining lifespan from Longevity-Cursed Species, causing even low-level victims to die as Zhou Heng gained their years.
• A level 8,410 Longevity-Cursed Species dropped a Sakast's Banner, and Zhou Heng used Time Corrector Silence to seize it.
• Zhou Heng inspected the Legendary Sakast's Banner and realized he needed seven more.

Zhou Heng slaughtered the Longevity-Cursed Species who had broken free and collected the remaining seven Sakast · Empire Banners. He then crushed the "Watch" Star Seat, met a phantom of the Master of Class, and received a Class Star-Raising Permit as countless Watch classes appeared.

• Zhou Heng demanded that anyone holding a Sakast · Emperor's Banner hand it over, while the Longevity Crusaders called for a final attack.
• Li Zheng'en tried to ambush Zhou Heng, but Time-Space Pause stopped him and Zhou Heng killed him with a sword strike.
• Over three days, Zhou Heng collected the remaining seven Sakast · Empire Banners and killed more than three billion Longevity-Cursed Species who had broken free.
• Zhou Heng appraised the Watch Star Seat, crushed it, and entered a Cloudmist World where the Master of Class told him to seek a prefix for his Watch class.
• The Master of Class granted Zhou Heng a Class Star-Raising Permit, and a vast number of Watch classes appeared.

Zhou Heng examined several Watch system Divine Truth classes and used Fate Hint to learn that Yōuyuǎn Watchers would limit his future ceiling. He chose Watch Star Sniper, hoping to transcend it into General Relativity · Watch · Stellar Sniper.

• Zhou Heng compared the attribute boosts of Star-Devouring Watch Marksman and Galaxy Watch Marksman with Wind God's Throne.
• Zhou Heng studied Geometric Watchers and Yōuyuǎn Watchers, realizing that some classes built attributes over time through their skills.
• Zhou Heng considered choosing Yōuyuǎn Watchers, but Fate Hint warned that it would limit his future ceiling and pointed him toward Watch Star Sniper.
• Zhou Heng memorized the Watch system classes, returned to Watch Star Sniper, and confirmed his choice.

Zhou Heng gained the complete ★★ class General Relativity · Watch · Stellar Sniper, vastly increasing his attack and movement speeds and allowing him to survey the wider structure of Sakast. His observation earned him a fragment of the Sakaste Empire national artifact, and he turned his attention to appraising the Civilization Kindling.

• Zhou Heng unlocked his sixth class slot and obtained General Relativity · Watch · Stellar Sniper, raising his attack speed and movement speed to about 1.01 million.
• Zhou Heng used his enhanced Watch to observe Sakast, its ten chapters, the cracked Space-Time Barriers, and the Longevity-Cursed Species guarding them.
• Zhou Heng saw the secret realms linked to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Chapters, then witnessed the Sakast Emperor Naren Sakaste in the First Chapter.
• Naren Sakaste granted Zhou Heng a crumb of the Sakaste Empire National Artifact · Starway Connecting Heaven, which greatly enhanced Empire Fortune.
• Zhou Heng reviewed Empire Fortune’s new blessings and, after withdrawing his gaze, examined the still-unappraised Civilization Kindling.

After appraising the Vast Civilization Kindling, Zhou Heng learned it granted immense free attributes and protection, then used it to found a nation with an ambitious name. He left himself with eight Truth quests to complete before the nation could ascend into a Star Nation.

• Zhou Heng calculated that the kindling’s Torso Power had granted him over 40 billion Epic Divine Ability-level free attribute points since birth, while its Vastness Power could negate negative effects every nanosecond.
• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng that the Vast Star Nation’s treasury had been emptied, but suggested he could rebuild the nation and exploit the world’s unrestricted first-time nation creation.
• Zhou Heng considered the eight possible virus source species of Su Longevity, then let the Vast Civilization Kindling enter his body and triggered the nation-construction mechanic.
• Zhou Heng named his nation Vastness of Despair · Deathly Silence · Asphyxiation · Decay · Longevity · Lifespan · Space-Time · Authority and confirmed the name despite the warning about difficult evaluations.
• Boundless Endless recognized the Vast Nation of Despair · Deathly Silence · Asphyxiation · Decay · Longevity · Lifespan · Space-Time · Authority and assigned eight quests to obtain matching Truth skills before Star Nation ascension.
• Zhou Heng closed the quest panel and resolved to explore the Sakast region and its world map to prepare for confronting the Longevity-Cursed Species.

Zhou Heng discovered that π Longevity was sending Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces toward Sakast with help from the Abyss Giant Whale, triggering a disaster that could also offer a chance to improve. Fate revealed that the Vast Star Nation’s Watchers had bought him more than 400 years and hinted at a route to defeat Longevity Crusaders Army Lord · Karenna.

• Zhou Heng observed the Starry Sky Swimming Dragon circling a one-petal youth who was cutting grass in the First Chapter with a Spiritglow Sickle.
• A black eye appeared above the First Chapter and sent black-liquid-stained members of the longevity-cursed species into its deeper reaches.
• Zhou Heng used Planetary Art and Heaven's Awakened One Eye to see the black tentacles beneath Sakast and the workers being carried through the Fated Black River into the Abyss Edge.
• Zhou Heng spotted Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces moving toward Sakast, and found that the White River Purifying Bottle had opened a passage he could use to escape.
• Fate revealed that π Longevity and the Abyss Giant Whale were seeking to escape the truth of Watch by striking Sakast, and that Zhou Heng had more than 400 years to develop.
• Fate advised Zhou Heng to enter the Space-Time Bubble when the Abyss Giant Whale moved its tongue and plant upon The Bystander’s remains to create an opportunity to slay Longevity Crusaders Army Lord · Karenna.

Zhou Heng discovered that Sakast lay inside the Abyss Giant Whale's mouth and located the Bosaeruite Starlight Tree in the molecular world. After declining to leave with the Star Guild, he observed the Federation producing billions of his doubles while Longevity-Cursed Species multiplied and spread across Chapters.

• Zhou Heng expanded his observation of Sakast and discovered that the region lay inside the Abyss Giant Whale's enormous mouth.
• Zhou Heng explored the molecular world and located the Bosaeruite Starlight Tree surrounded by several figures, including a leader in pale golden dragon robes who seemed to sense his gaze.
• Zhou Heng withdrew after warnings that deeper molecular observation would permanently deduct attribute points, then failed to see through the Starlight Throne.
• Zhou Heng declined a Star Guild player's invitation to return to the Eighth Chapter and learned that the Federation had activated emergency protocols against an Abyss attack possibly targeting him.
• Zhou Heng observed the Blue Star Federation producing over 300 billion doubles of him in the Eighth Chapter, apparently as a diversion.
• Zhou Heng discovered that Longevity-Cursed Species were multiplying through asexual fission in the Second Chapter and spreading through Space-Time Barriers into later Chapters.

Zhou Heng waited for the Blooming Starlight Swords to fuse while observing the Blue Star Federation’s strange actions across Sakast. When Vast Star Nation Councilor attacked after the fusion, Zhou Heng grabbed the sword and tried to escape, leaving the chapter with his Dark Heaven and Earth Deer leaping past her forced lock-on.

• Over nearly ten months, Zhou Heng watched the Blue Star Federation fill the Ninth and Tenth Chapters with copies of him while holding back the Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor watched the Blooming Starlight Swords fuse, then tried to seize the newly formed sword.
• Zhou Heng activated Wind God's Protection, grabbed the fused Blooming Starlight Sword, and followed Fate Hint’s instructions to mount the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor brought Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces, the Black Skeletons, and the Black Priest crashing into Sakast, then entered the Broken Starfield Domain · Mirror Image.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor struck Zhou Heng with several skills, but Wind God's Protection made him immune to the damage and plundering as the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer leaped away despite Guangming's Lock-On.

Vast Star Nation Councilor pursued Zhou Heng as he fled on the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer, hoping to learn how he had obtained it and what he knew about the Abyss. Zhou Heng escaped into the Abyss Edge through a Space-Time Bubble, leaving her behind as she headed toward the Sakast region to remind Skeleton King of their deal.

• Vast Star Nation Councilor recognized Zhou Heng's Dark Heaven and Earth Deer as a Foundation Deer and relentlessly chased him as it teleported.
• She offered to cooperate against the Longevity-Cursed Species and asked Zhou Heng about the Foundation Deer, while he demanded to know how she hid Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces and what deal she had made with the Abyss.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor deduced that Wind God's Protection was shielding Zhou Heng and pursued him as the skill neared its end.
• Zhou Heng reached the White River Purifying Bottle, but Vast Star Nation Councilor could not take it; Zhou Heng lifted it and leaped into the Abyss Edge.
• A Space-Time Bubble appeared amid a shock wave and whale calls, separating Zhou Heng from Vast Star Nation Councilor and carrying him away.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor watched Zhou Heng disappear, then headed toward the Sakast region and told Skeleton King not to forget their deal.

The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King questioned its forgotten identity, then tried to ally with the entity inside Soaring Rooftop Palace before heading toward Frost City to search for Zhou Heng. As Abyss’s Wrath 2.0 began across Sakast, players and NPCs chose sides while hidden Longevity-Cursed Species and black-robed Priests prepared to act.

• The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King recalled its agreements with Vast Star Nation Councilor and wondered what Contemplation meant and whether it remained complete.
• The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King proposed joining forces with the entity inside Soaring Rooftop Palace, but the entity retreated into the palace, which plunged into the former Sakas Empire Imperial Capital.
• The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King led its black skeleton army toward Frost City to establish a base and pursue Zhou Heng.
• After the black-robed Priests transformed into alluring men and women, a world announcement declared that Abyss’s Wrath 2.0 had begun and named the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King and Conceptual Fiction Broodmother as attackers.
• Players and NPCs chose between defending Zhou Heng and aiding the Abyss, while the hidden Longevity-Cursed Species and black-robed Priests prepared in secret.

Zhou Heng received Protection of the Past from Su Qingxin and used Fate Hint to choose a path that could save her and Blue Sky while preparing to confront the longevity-cursed species. He traveled to the projection of the Lord of Time and Space Silence and activated the handkerchief’s power as the projection remained under attack.

• Zhou Heng entered the Space-Time Bubble, where a Dark Void Spirit gave him Su Qingxin’s bloodstained embroidered handkerchief and replenished the bubble’s dark void substance.
• Zhou Heng appraised the handkerchief, learning that Protection of the Past could block one fatal attack from an enemy in the past and grant 100 seconds of invincibility.
• Fate Hint offered Zhou Heng four possible paths, including one that could prevent Su Qingxin and Blue Sky from dying and make him take up the fight against the longevity-cursed species.
• Zhou Heng chose Fate Hint Three, visualized the Lord of Time and Space Silence, and traveled to the space containing its projection.
• Zhou Heng raised Protection of the Past toward the projection, and the handkerchief’s bloodstains released an invisible fluctuation toward it.

Zhou Heng met Blue Sky to learn how to return to the true past and identify the strongest Longevity-Cursed Species, receiving a key to the Supreme Council. After Zhou Heng promised to take over the struggle, Blue Sky considered relinquishing his burdens and returning the truth system of Contemplation.

• Zhou Heng asked the Lord of Time and Space · Decay · Despair · Deathly Silence · Asphyxiation to deliver a message to Su Qingxin and arrange a meeting with Blue Sky.
• Blue Sky told Zhou Heng that returning to the true past required seizing resurrection authority in the Cloudsea Sky Realm and repeatedly activating the Sakast mechanism through resurrection and death.
• Blue Sky identified the Longevity Nine Venerables and Su Longevity as enemies above Longevity Crusaders Army Lord · Karenna and gave Zhou Heng a key to enter the Supreme Council and occupy his seat.
• Blue Sky admitted that he did not know how Su Longevity contacted the Abyss Giant Whale, what his talent set was, or how to fish up the ????????? Secret Realm.
• Zhou Heng urged Blue Sky to take care of himself, promised to handle what came next, and said that π Longevity would not return anytime soon before leaving.
• Blue Sky considered returning the truth system of Contemplation and suspected that Zhou Heng had deliberately prompted him to do so.

Zhou Heng watched a young Longevity-Cursed Species member use his Starry Sky Swimming Dragon to open the Vast Star Nation's Ultra-Miniature Resource Repository. He then began training in the Reclining Sage scroll to strengthen his defenses during the two hundred years he had in the Space-Time Bubble.

• Zhou Heng released the coordinates of the Vast Star Nation's Ultra-Miniature Resource Repository, which led to a hidden treasury beneath Ring Mountain Peak.
• Zhou Heng discovered that the young Longevity-Cursed Species member he had met before was digging toward the repository.
• The young man reached the treasury, hoping to find a way to break the Thought Seal and leave the Longevity Family.
• The young man asked his Starry Sky Swimming Dragon to disassemble the repository while he observed it to trigger its opening mechanism.
• Zhou Heng concluded that the treasury was likely the opportunity foretold by Fate Hint and turned to planning his training.
• Zhou Heng set aside Vast Star Fist · Asphyxiation and opened the Reclining Sage scroll to study Reclining Slumber.

Zhou Heng practiced the first volume of Reclining Sage (Scroll) by visualizing the Master of Class and completed Reclining Slumber, greatly increasing his damage reduction. Fate’s hints revealed that he could pursue the rare Gazing Figure posture and use the Library Administrator as a model for Book-Reading True Lord.

• Zhou Heng chose to visualize the reclining Master of Class instead of the Vast Star Nation Princess while practicing Reclining Slumber.
• Zhou Heng completed the first volume of Reclining Sage (Scroll), gaining 100% progress and sharply increasing his damage reduction.
• Zhou Heng considered using his remaining time to practice multiple basic postures at once but could not identify the third posture.
• Fate hinted that the Lord of Darkness could teach Zhou Heng the Gazing Figure posture, though pursuing it would cost him family and friends.
• Fate revealed that Zhou Heng could visualize the Master of Class, the Lord of Rules, and the Library Administrator to develop Reclining Sage, Awakened One of the Sea of Stars, and Book-Reading True Lord.

Zhou Heng visualized the Master of Class, the Lord of Rules, and the Library Administrator to practice three fundamental postures. He deciphered the seated awakened one and obtained its book, then continued working toward the remaining book-reading true lord.

• Zhou Heng discovered that visualizing the three existences formed a tiered plane in his mind, and each figure left an imprint there.
• Zhou Heng split his attention among the three figures and practiced the reclining sage, seated awakened one, and book-reading true lord postures.
• Zhou Heng advanced the middle volume of reclining sage to 30%, while his analysis of the seated awakened one continued.
• Zhou Heng reached 60% progress in Reclining Dignity and deciphered the seated awakened one by combining Planetary Art and Heaven's Awakened One Eye with the Lord of Rules.
• Zhou Heng received Seated Awakened One (Book) and resumed practicing the three postures, with the book-reading true lord still remaining.

After 200 years of cultivation inside the Space-Time Bubble, Zhou Heng completed two scroll volumes and finally obtained Book-Reading True Lord (Upper Volume). He learned that Vast Star Nation Councilor had surrounded the bubble and received fate hints outlining three possible ways forward.

• Zhou Heng completed Reclining Dignity and Seated Feigned Slumber, reaching 100% progress in both scroll volumes.
• At the final second before February 2, Year 10065, the Data Library Administrator glanced at Zhou Heng, granting him Book-Reading True Lord (Scroll).
• Zhou Heng stored Book-Reading True Lord (Upper Volume) and observed the Empire of Sakast, but did not find Vast Star Nation Councilor.
• Zhou Heng received fate hints that Vast Star Nation Councilor had spread her light throughout Abyss Edge, that π Longevity might create an escape opportunity in five years, and that Deep Blue Allure · Zhou Ruolan could find him in three days.

Zhou Heng planted the Bystander’s remains with Starlight Leaf · Seed Tear seeds, and the remains revived before he left the Space-Time Bubble as a Time-Space Apostle. At the Abyss Edge, Deep Blue Allure · Zhou Ruolan carried him toward Sakast while Akliute Gabriel Heng pursued, and Vast Star Nation Councilor continued searching for Zhou Heng.

• Zhou Heng planted all 107 remaining Starlight Leaf · Seed Tear seeds in the Bystander’s remains, which took root and rose on the third day.
• The revived Bystander tore through time and vanished, and Zhou Heng transformed into Time-Space Apostle with Mechanical Fusion to leave the Space-Time Bubble.
• Deep Blue Allure · Zhou Ruolan caught Zhou Heng at the Abyss Edge just as Akliute Gabriel Heng attacked her from behind.
• Zhou Heng used Time-Space Pause to halt the surrounding space-time, and Deep Blue Allure · Zhou Ruolan carried him toward Sakast while Akliute Gabriel Heng pursued.
• Akliute Gabriel Heng suspected the Time-Space Apostle might be Zhou Heng, while Vast Star Nation Councilor kept scanning the Abyss Edge for him.