Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng was drawn to an undersea palace, where a mechanical elder explained that Blue Sky had entrusted him with the key to the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, one of the Vast Star Nation’s Sea of Stars Great Walls. The elder said the Great Wall could help Blue Star resist Su Longevity and asked Zhou Heng to choose a trial path.

• Zhou Heng was dragged through the Pacific Ocean to a palace whose appearance unfolded as he approached.
• Zhou Heng met a mechanical elder, gave his name, and inserted the starlight key Blue Sky had entrusted to him.
• The palace transformed into a white room, revealing a writhing phantom beyond the doorway.
• The elder explained that Blue Star had built four Transcendence Artifacts to oppose Su Longevity and described their origins.
• The elder identified the structure as the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall and said limited energy left only some of its capabilities available.
• The elder asked Zhou Heng to choose between civilian technology, weapons technology, and Gene Sequence enhancement.

Zhou Heng learned that choosing authority over the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall could give him leverage against π Longevity, so he asked to attempt its control trial instead of selecting one of the three improvements. The trial began with a requirement to walk the Great Wall without stopping, but assistance reduced the distance he needed to cover to one-tenth of its full length.

• Fate gave Zhou Heng hints about three development paths and the possibility of unlocking authority over the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall.
• Zhou Heng asked the humanoid elder whether he could attempt to control the Great Wall, despite learning that Blue Sky had failed its trial more than three million times.
• The humanoid elder unfolded the room and connected the Great Wall to Zhou Heng's forehead, instructing him to visualize Boundless Endless.
• Zhou Heng entered the trial and learned he needed to walk 38,110 light-years without pausing, but assistance reduced his required distance to one-tenth.

Zhou Heng began the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall trial, where he had to walk at 1.0 m/s toward a destination thousands of light-years away. As the endless journey stirred an urge to stop, he suspected the trial hid a mechanism, and a notification from fate appeared.

• Zhou Heng realized the Great Wall stretched beyond his sight and calculated that walking one-tenth of it would take over a trillion years at his restricted speed.
• While walking, Zhou Heng reviewed the enormous attribute gains from his levels and classes, though he considered them modest compared with epic divine ability users such as Karenna.
• Zhou Heng examined his sevenfold-refined initial attributes and wondered what secrets remained behind the Legendary of Heaven and Earth Path.
• Zhou Heng continued along the Great Wall as a repeated thought urged him to stop, but he resisted and kept moving at 1.0 m/s.
• Zhou Heng reasoned that the trial likely concealed a mechanism because he was only equivalent to a third-class Vast Star Nation citizen, and a notification from fate appeared.

Zhou Heng endured ten thousand years of walking along the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, resisting hallucinations and numbing repetition in pursuit of the Divine Truth God-Ascending Stairway. Near the edge of his endurance, he considered using his virus-infected skills and Deathly Stillness to make it through the remaining journey.

• Zhou Heng ignored Fate’s hints and continued at 1.0 m/s, determined to pursue the Divine Truth God-Ascending Stairway.
• Zhou Heng resisted hallucinations of Qi Sinian and other loved ones, as well as accusations from dead compatriots.
• A humanoid elder watched Zhou Heng and judged that he had yet to prove himself worthy of the Great Wall’s authority.
• After ten thousand years, Zhou Heng kept walking through numbness by repeatedly encouraging himself.
• Zhou Heng destroyed an apparition of his mother, then wondered whether his virus-infected skills could carry him through the remaining journey while he entered Body Dies, Dao Disappears (Deathly Stillness).

Zhou Heng used his death skill to let Deathly Silence take over his body and continue through the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall while he sank into a deathly silence. An elder who sought to intervene discovered Zhou Heng’s extraordinary Divine Truth postures and decided to leave him to his own path, turning planned triggers into gifts.

• Zhou Heng drank Weak Concealment, lowered his maximum health, and killed himself with the Sakast Imperial Sword to activate Body Dies, Dao Disappears.
• Deathly Silence took control of Zhou Heng’s body and continued along the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, intending to use him to find the hidden Secret Realm and devour the Primordial Mother.
• The humanoid elder in the Undersea Palace noticed the virus’s control and traveled into the space of sinking deathly silence to find Zhou Heng.
• The elder saw Zhou Heng develop the Seated Awakened One and Reclining Sage postures, then witnessed the Book-Reading True Lord appear above him.
• The Book-Reading True Lord forced the elder to its knees, and the elder left Zhou Heng alone, deciding to change some planned triggers into gifts.

While falling through the space of deathly silence, Zhou Heng read a book containing the first eighteen years of his life, easing the irritation of ten thousand years. Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence revealed that Zhou Heng would still have to endure 1,142.5378 billion years, then watched an entity intervene to increase his will.

• Zhou Heng practiced Reclining Sage, Seated Awakened One, and Book-Reading True Lord, discovering that the last posture created a book titled “Eighteen Years at the Orphanage.”
• Zhou Heng read through memories of his childhood with Grandma Qi Sinian, and the pages soothed his irritation as he continued falling.
• Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence explained that Zhou Heng would have to endure 1,142.5378 billion years in the space of deathly silence, while it kept moving at 1.0 m/s.
• Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence considered helping Zhou Heng break the will cap of 10000.0 if he reached it.
• Brilliant starlight entered Zhou Heng’s body and increased his will, prompting Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence to celebrate and continue walking.

With the Humanoid Elder’s help, Zhou Heng began cultivating the Seated Awakened One and used Will (Truth) and the Vast Civilization Kindling to pursue a truth of vastness. As visions of his loved ones and countless living beings passed before him, he realized his goal was not Will Truth, and an idea of vastness began to take root.

• Zhou Heng gained a wisp of true intent from reading "Eighteen Years at the Orphanage," and the Humanoid Elder urged him to focus on the Seated Awakened One.
• Zhou Heng chose Will (Truth) as the truth to pursue, but Fate suggested combining it with the Vast Civilization Kindling to create his own truth of vastness.
• Zhou Heng brought Will (Truth) and the Vast Civilization Kindling together at his abdomen while seated, and the Kindling began refining Will (Truth).
• Zhou Heng saw visions of Qi Sinian, Yaya, Zhou Ruolan, Xu Huaizhi, and Blue Sky, whose words helped him realize he sought vastness rather than will.
• Zhou Heng watched countless compatriots and members of the Longevity-Cursed Species pass before him, and an idea of vastness began to sprout in his heart.

Zhou Heng used the Will (Truth) fragment to witness countless prodigies on the Endless Campaign Road and struggled to understand the many forms of Vastness. He realized he should pursue a Vastness suited to himself, grounded in his existing realm and shared with the Virus Source Species.

• The humanoid elder recognized the Will (Truth) fragment's aura as belonging to Star Shield and watched Zhou Heng collide it with the Vast Civilization Kindling.
• Zhou Heng experienced repeated lives as his compatriots, then saw a stellar road where prodigies demonstrated different auras of Vastness.
• The humanoid elder sensed the Endless Campaign Road and realized Zhou Heng had reached a benchmark associated with the Boundless Starsea's prodigies.
• Zhou Heng watched thousands of figures pass but remained confused about the truth of Vastness, despite his Fate Hint indicating he had time to find it.
• Zhou Heng understood that he needed to seek a personal Vastness rather than grasp every possible truth, and chose his constructed realm as the foundation for a Vastness belonging to him and the Virus Source Species.

Zhou Heng chose to build a Vastness truth centered on the virus source species and took the dangerous ninth step despite warnings from other truth-bearers. His real-name announcement earned him rewards and drew the attention of powerful beings across the Boundless Starsea, and he began examining an intelligence analysis about constructing a Vastness kingdom.

• Zhou Heng walked the star path, witnessing several virus source species and other visions associated with his Vastness truth.
• Countless figures warned Zhou Heng that taking the ninth step would leave him with no chance of survival, but he stepped forward and completed it.
• Zhou Heng chose to announce his real name after receiving a notification about his discovery and its potential reward.
• The Boundless Starsea announced a hundred times that Zhou Heng had constructed a Virus Source Species · Vastness truth and awarded him progress in The Ancient Years.
• The announcement drew reactions from the Lord of Rules and the Lord of Time and Space · Decay · Despair · Deathly Silence · Asphyxiation.
• Zhou Heng received an Absolute Courage Gift Pack and an intelligence analysis about truths connected to a Vastness kingdom, then opened the analysis.

After becoming the Nation Lord of eight Virus Source Species, Zhou Heng discovered that his Vastness truth granted powerful resistance to will and rewarded worshippers with attribute increases. He continued practicing in the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, where the trillion-year ordeal began overwhelming him with mounting irritation.

• Zhou Heng examined the eight truths required by his nation and found Vastness (Truth), which granted Vast Will and the Vastness Body blessing.
• The humanoid elder sensed Zhou Heng's Vastness and knelt to worship him, receiving repeated gold Free Attribute Points.
• Zhou Heng practiced the Reclining Sage and Seated Awakened One while the elder watched from the deathly silent space and continued worshipping him.
• As irritation rose in his mind, Zhou Heng realized he still had to endure the trillion-year mechanism himself to comprehend Deathly Silence.
• Zhou Heng tried to suppress the growing irritation, but it grew stronger until he could no longer restrain it.

Zhou Heng endured a trillion years in the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall’s deathly-silent space, resisting the erosion of time as his willpower reached its limit. With only 142.5378 billion years remaining, he recovered his sense of self and began to stand, as Fate Hint’s guidance appeared.

• Zhou Heng suppressed his inner agitation and urged himself to endure the trillion years, while the humanoid elder watched and believed he could survive.
• Over the first hundred million years, Zhou Heng descended into madness and numbness but continued resisting the passage of time; his willpower reached the Novice Village maximum and briefly flickered gold.
• The system repeatedly detected Zhou Heng trying to break through his Willpower limit and unlock his Divine Truth God-Ascending Stairway, but each attempt failed.
• As the years passed, Zhou Heng gradually returned to the Seated Awakened One posture and remained motionless through a trillion years of sinking.
• With 142.5378 billion years left, Zhou Heng’s eyes regained their light, he remembered himself, and he began pushing himself to stand as Fate Hint’s guidance appeared.

Zhou Heng broke through the limits of his will with the Data Library’s approval and unlocked his Divine Truth God-Ascending Stairway ahead of schedule. After learning the nine demanding steps required to complete it, he closed his panels and waited for the remaining 142.5378 billion years to pass.

• Zhou Heng visualized the Data Library but initially saw only an indistinct, unreal blur.
• Zhou Heng’s breakthrough attempt failed, but the system located the Data Library sequence and sent it an application.
• The Data Library Administrator approved Zhou Heng’s will breakthrough, raising his will to the Divine Truth level.
• Zhou Heng unlocked his nine-step Divine Truth God-Ascending Stairway and learned the conditions for reaching its final step.
• Zhou Heng closed his panels, sat with his eyes closed, and waited for the final 142.5378 billion years to pass.

After enduring a trillion false years, Zhou Heng gained the truth of Deathly Silence and made the fleeing Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence his subject. He appraised the virus and began to infer how its energy ranks were classified by size.

• Zhou Heng returned from the false years with his will beyond 10000.0, surprising Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence, which had intended to use its increased power to bargain with him.
• Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence sensed Zhou Heng’s emerging truths and fled toward the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall.
• Zhou Heng obtained the truth Deathly Silence (Illusory), established a realm, and used his authority as nation lord to pull Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence back as his subject.
• Zhou Heng appraised Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence and found that it was Dust Rank, with ranks extending from Dust to Boundless.
• Zhou Heng considered the black tentacles in the Fated Black River and the fleshy tumor in the Aurora World, suspecting that both were Stellar Rank virus source species.

Zhou Heng passed the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall’s trial, became its master and a first-class citizen of the Vast Star Nation, then chose to fuse it with the Fated River · White River’s Protection to create a new structure. The fusion began in the Azure Palace, where he waited to see what would emerge.

• Zhou Heng questioned Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence, learned that contamination could not be undone without effects, and heard that the truth of Despair could greatly improve a unit’s attributes.
• The Humanoid Elder gave Zhou Heng the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, and notifications confirmed his first-class citizenship and mastery of it.
• A notification offered to fuse the Fated River · White River’s Protection with the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall, and Fate Hint presented Zhou Heng with three possible paths.
• Zhou Heng chose to use Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence as a medium to fuse the two items into a new structure of his own.
• The fusion forced Zhou Heng back to the Azure Palace, where he sat and waited.

After a year, Zhou Heng fused the Technology Quantum Watch Great Wall and Fated River · White River's Protection into a powerful new item and named it Distant City River of All Living Beings. Fate then urged him to seek Blue Star Mother in the Aurora World, where he might claim a greater opportunity for humanity, and he swam toward the surface to begin that journey.

• Zhou Heng appraised the fused item and found that it could boost population growth and research, trigger truth effects on him, and protect its observers and his nation.
• Zhou Heng named the item Distant City River of All Living Beings, and the Great Wall and White River drew closer together.
• Zhou Heng considered returning to the gigantic Blue Star, but Fate presented him with two possible paths.
• Fate revealed that Blue Star's will was fading under the influence of virus source species · longevity and suggested Zhou Heng seek Blue Star Mother in the Aurora World.
• Zhou Heng found that he could not use his class or observe the gigantic Blue Star, then transformed into a fish and swam toward the Pacific's surface.

Zhou Heng crossed the Pacific Ocean toward the Xia Kingdom on Wang Congxin’s back and was spotted by the Longevity Family’s forces. The Longevity Council ordered a massive assault, and mecha from the thirty-third through eleventh heavenly chains launched to intercept him.

• Zhou Heng used the White River Purifying Bottle and White River Heroic Spirit Hall to travel quickly across the Pacific Ocean on Wang Congxin’s back.
• A longevity-cursed species member detected Zhou Heng and reported his sighting to the Longevity Council on the island country of all beings.
• The ninety-nine council members voted to attack Zhou Heng with the heavenly chains beyond the eleventh layer while seeking to reconnect with the Longevity Ancestral Land.
• A longevity-cursed species commander ordered warriors aboard a starship to pilot circumplanetary mecha and snipe Zhou Heng.
• Starships across the heavenly chains from the thirty-third through eleventh layers launched countless mecha toward Zhou Heng as he approached from the Pacific Ocean.

Zhou Heng attacked the Thirty-Three-Layer Heavenly Chain on Blue Star, testing his defenses against the Longevity-Cursed Species’ technology and armies. He survived their orbital cannon barrage, while the Longevity Council began separating the first ten layers and sending special ripples across Blue Star.

• Zhou Heng chose the White River Purifying Bottle, the Distant City River of All Living Beings, and the Vast Civilization Kindling to attack while protecting himself with layered defenses.
• Riding Earth's Black Awakened One · Wang Congxin, Zhou Heng reached the thirty-third layer, where Grievance units poured from the White River Purifying Bottle and fought the Ring Planet Mecha.
• Zhou Heng summoned the White River Heroic Spirit Palace and deployed his Heroic Spirit Guards, who cleared a path through the enemy forces toward the thirty-second layer.
• Longevity-Cursed Species orbital cannons overwhelmed Zhou Heng’s outer Grievance defense, but the Distant City River of All Living Beings absorbed their attacks and left him unharmed.
• The ninety-nine elders of the Longevity Council detached the first ten Heavenly Chain layers, arranged them around the Island Country of All Beings, and sent special ripples across Blue Star.

The will of Blue Star recognized Zhou Heng as a summoned outsider and helped the longevity-cursed species locate and anchor Aurora World, then used the opening to drain its energy and recover. As Blue Star’s illegal merger with Boundless Endless began to weaken, Zhou Heng sensed that the virus source species was inside the spatial rift and prepared to act.

• The will of Blue Star traced Zhou Heng’s arrival and discovered his Transmigrator Application Form, realizing he had come from another universe in answer to a summons.
• The will of Blue Star decided to aid Zhou Heng and used its power to help the longevity-cursed species find Aurora World ahead of schedule and anchor it to Blue Star.
• The ninety-nine aged members of the Longevity Council tried to enter Aurora World, but the will of Blue Star sealed them out and began drawing energy from the ancestral land.
• The longevity-cursed species realized the will of Blue Star was draining Aurora World, but they could not close the rift as the will regained strength and auroras appeared across Blue Star.
• Boundless Endless reported Blue Star’s illegal merger progress declining, while Zhou Heng looked toward the rift and sensed that the virus source species was inside.

After Blue Star’s will granted Zhou Heng additional permissions, he used newly unlocked powers to cut through the Longevity-Cursed Species guarding the spatial rift. The defenders’ last countermeasures failed, and Blue Star’s will grew more solid as Zhou Heng cleared his path toward the rift.

• Zhou Heng pushed through the heavenly chains until planetoid Starships formed a barrier that stopped him outside the tenth chain.
• Blue Star’s will gazed at Zhou Heng and granted him permission to unlock a fourth item, a class, and a non-class skill; he chose Wind God's Throne, Holy Power of Justice · Despair (Ancient), and the Sakast Imperial Sword.
• Zhou Heng used the sword’s justice effect to kill Longevity-Cursed Species inside their Starships, but the survivors injected Absolute Justice potion to gain immunity to justice checks.
• Zhou Heng switched the skill to despair and killed more defenders, allowing the Heroic Spirit Guards and Grievance units to open a passage toward the spatial rift.
• An aged Longevity-Cursed Species member’s Temptation of Longevity failed against Zhou Heng’s Vast Civilization Kindling, and the ninety-nine aged members were drained into black particles.
• As Blue Star’s will grew more solid, it teleported the remaining interceptors onto Zhou Heng’s sword, and he killed them with another swing.

Zhou Heng learned that Blue Star Will planned to sacrifice herself to protect his identity as a transmigrator, so he followed Fate Hint Two to save her by sending her to the Fated White River. He rushed into Aurora World to reach the Virus Source Species before the countdown ended.

• Blue Star Will welcomed Zhou Heng as a child of Blue Star and explained that Boundless Endless sought to connect with their universe for its own purposes.
• Blue Star Will thanked Zhou Heng for deceiving the longevity-cursed species and sent him back outside the spatial rift, telling him the best moment was approaching.
• Fate Hint revealed that Blue Star Will would perish to conceal Zhou Heng's identity, but that he could save her by sending her to the Fated White River and revealing himself to its old fisherman.
• Zhou Heng chose Fate Hint Two and learned he had eighty seconds to bite the black tumor while inserting the Distant City River of All Living Beings.
• Zhou Heng entered Aurora World, ignored the figures trying to tempt him, and reached the tumor with forty seconds remaining.