Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng forged and claimed the Sakast Imperial Throne, defeating Naren Sakaste in a contest of will and taking authority over the Sakast Empire. The throne absorbed the Empire’s energy and revealed powers that would let Zhou Heng rebuild the nation and reclaim its territory.

• Zhou Heng completed the Sakast Imperial Throne blueprint and reshaped the throne into a cloud-white design, naming it the Sakast Imperial Throne.
• Zhou Heng sat on the throne, triggering a title conflict with the Sakast Imperial Throne in the Sakast region.
• Zhou Heng defeated Naren Sakaste in a will check and gained the right to use the throne, seizing the region’s authority.
• Naren Sakaste sensed Zhou Heng’s Divine Truth-level will and expressed relief at having entrusted Sakast and the Empire to him.
• The throne absorbed golden energy and gained powers tied to founding the Sakast Empire, strengthening it through citizens and reclaimed territory, and forging national artifacts.

Zhou Heng traveled to the Sakast Mana Element Grand Corridor, where the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King tried to recruit him to stop Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth from helping Vast Star Nation Councilor. Zhou Heng heard the proposed plan but waited for Fate Hint to reveal its risks before deciding whether to cooperate.

• Zhou Heng approached the spatial rift aboard the Sakast Imperial Throne, seeking to complete his Eightfold Legendary achievement breakthrough before restoring the Sakaste Empire.
• Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth resisted the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King's corruption and continued helping Vast Star Nation Councilor devour Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Borbo.
• The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King sensed Zhou Heng arriving and called him over, hoping to use his presence to stop Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth's assistance.
• Zhou Heng used General Relativity's Watch to reach Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth, and the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King offered to help him stop Vast Star Nation Councilor in exchange for persuading Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth to stop helping her.
• Zhou Heng withheld his answer and waited for his Fate Hint talent to show him the danger of the deal.

Zhou Heng entered the Mind Corridor of "Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth" with a darkness truth fragment and persuaded him to reconsider what made contemplation noble. The Skeleton King, newly questioning his path, asked Zhou Heng what the original purpose of contemplation was.

• Zhou Heng accepted a darkness truth fragment from the "Dark Contemplative Skeleton King" and entered the Mind Corridor.
• Zhou Heng found "Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth" questioning the nature of contemplation and the world's cycle of predation.
• "Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth" said his agreement with the "Dark Contemplative Skeleton King" prevented him from interfering with their deal.
• Zhou Heng argued that contemplation's nobility lay in the individual who contemplated, not in contemplation itself.
• Zhou Heng explained that a truth endured when it aligned with the living being who pursued it, prompting the Skeleton King to reconsider his path.
• "Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth" asked Zhou Heng what the original purpose of contemplation was.

Zhou Heng challenged Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth’s belief in contemplation and showed him information about the First Expansion, leading the Skeleton King to accept that contemplation might not be exalted. The Skeleton King agreed to summon Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath and granted Zhou Heng a temporary body through Swapped Fate.

• Zhou Heng argued that the truly strong did not need contemplation and questioned whether its truth was exalted.
• Zhou Heng revealed part of the information he had obtained about the First Expansion, causing Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth to doubt his belief in contemplation.
• Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth agreed to help summon Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath and asked Zhou Heng for the White River Purifying Bottle.
• Zhou Heng handed over the White River Purifying Bottle, and Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth agreed to leave Zhou Heng to deal with Dark Contemplative Skeleton King and Vast Star Nation Councilor.
• Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth recognized Zhou Heng, triggering Swapped Fate and giving him the Skeleton King’s temporary body.

Zhou Heng took control of Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth and used Truth of Experience to drive off the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King. He trapped the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King and Vast Star Nation Councilor in Contemplation World, then revealed himself as Zhou Heng and confronted the councilor.

• Zhou Heng inspected Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth’s attributes and followed Fate Hint’s instructions to tear away the Black Liquid and activate Truth of Experience.
• The Dark Contemplative Skeleton King tried to possess Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth, but fled when Truth of Experience threatened to erase him.
• Zhou Heng used Contemplation World to drag in the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King and Vast Star Nation Councilor, interrupting her devouring of Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Borbo.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor demanded an explanation from Contemplative Skeleton King, and Zhou Heng disclosed his identity and challenged her to make an agreement with him instead.

Zhou Heng used Contemplation and Swapped Fate to confront Vast Star Nation Councilor while she tried to devour Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Borbo. After she revealed the way to defeat her, Zhou Heng returned to his own body, leaving Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth to hold her off as the fight escalated.

• Vast Star Nation Councilor accelerated her attempt to devour Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Borbo, and Borbo fought back with his Taboo-type skill.
• Zhou Heng asked Vast Star Nation Councilor what level he needed to reach to kill her, while she and the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King hesitated to answer.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor suppressed Borbo and told Zhou Heng that 20,000% affinity with the Guangming Element Corridor would let him defeat her.
• Zhou Heng used Swapped Fate to return to his own body, and the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King charged toward Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth.
• Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth said he would hold Vast Star Nation Councilor back for 197 seconds, while the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King accused him of carrying the aura of Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor hesitated, then charged at Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth.

Zhou Heng triggered the Abyss return ritual while Vast Star Nation Councilor fought to stop him and Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth from escaping her control. When she entered its Mind Corridor and attacked Zhou Heng, her will skill failed against his transcendent Divine Truth-level will.

• Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint's guidance, praised the Abyss Sage, and raised the "darkness" truth fragment to activate the return ritual.
• Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath opened a portal, and the Abyss began recalling its units from Sakast's Tenth Chapter.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor forced her way into Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth's Mind Corridor as the Dark Contemplative Skeleton King tried to turn it against Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng thrust the Blooming Starlight Sword into the Mind Corridor to anchor Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth in Sakast.
• Vast Star Nation Councilor used Guangming Will's Glorious against Zhou Heng, but the skill failed against his transcendent will.

Zhou Heng avoided Vast Star Nation Councilor’s offer and raced after Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath as the countdown ended. He returned to Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth’s Mind Corridor and received his Transcendence settlement, including a level increase to 901.

• Vast Star Nation Councilor offered Zhou Heng an alliance against π Longevity and presented Vastness's Fairness Balance as a pledge, but Zhou Heng suspected her proposal was a trap and stayed silent.
• Dark Contemplative Skeleton King was drawn into the Abyss Portal after taunting Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth, who watched without responding.
• As the countdown reached its final seconds, Zhou Heng chased after Abyss Giant Python · Wisdom · Wrath, and Vast Star Nation Councilor followed him.
• Five seconds later, Zhou Heng reappeared in Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth’s Mind Corridor and received confirmation that he had rescued Truth and met the hidden achievement requirements for “Abyss's Contemplation.”
• Zhou Heng received his Transcendence settlement, including a forced drop increase, star-rank gains for Compassion Priest and Dancer of Heaven and Earth's Light, attribute refinement, and a level increase to 901.

Zhou Heng chose to take Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth to the Eighth Chapter to find Sakast of the Root and have the skeleton king preside over the Supreme Council. After arriving in the Blue Star Federation’s vast Hope Radiance headquarters, Zhou Heng was met by a robot that had been waiting to escort him to the council.

• Fate gave Zhou Heng four possible paths for dealing with the collision between Sky-Roof Leap · East and West Palaces and Soaring Rooftop Palace four years later.
• Zhou Heng rejected sending Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth to investigate the Skysea of the Empty Realm and chose to seek Sakast of the Root in the Eighth Chapter.
• Zhou Heng and Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth left the Tenth Chapter, The New World Reborn, after seeing Blue Sky, Head of the Blue Star Federation, pinned in place.
• Zhou Heng arrived in the Eighth Chapter and used General Relativity's Watch to observe its busy streets, the Spiral Staircase, and the enormous city above.
• Zhou Heng landed in Blue Star Federation Headquarters · Hope Radiance, where a golden humanoid robot asked him to go to the Supreme Council.

Zhou Heng reached the Supreme Council (Fragment) and used Blue Sky’s starlight key to unlock a scroll containing the Federation’s intelligence on the Nine Longevity Forms. After studying the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth’s abilities and weaknesses, he was joined by senior figures from the Federation.

• Zhou Ruolan, Roaring Hedru, and Void independently set out after learning that Zhou Heng had arrived, while Sihui briefly stirred in the Federation Court.
• Zhou Heng arrived above Hope Radiance at the Supreme Council (Fragment) and received witness rewards for seeing the Federation’s highest-sequence item.
• Blue Sky’s starlight key unlocked the council’s central seat, revealing the Ten Longevity Forms scroll, and Zhou Heng opened it.
• Zhou Heng read the intelligence on the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth and concluded that he might be able to kill the enemy with a will-based attack, but would need a way to erase him.
• Sihui, Zhou Ruolan, and Void appeared in the other seats and greeted Zhou Heng as the Acting Federal Leader.

Zhou Heng took control of the Remnant Supreme Council, appointed Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth as Acting Federal Leader, and collected the Federation’s Greedy Giant Mouths to strengthen Achilles’s Wrath. He then used General Relativity's Watch to locate Sakast of the Root in the deepest part of the Main Resource Vault.

• Zhou Heng addressed the Remnant Supreme Council and learned that Blue Sky had been holding back the Nine Longevity Forms and π Longevity largely alone.
• Zhou Heng appointed Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth as Acting Federal Leader, and all thirty-two councilors accepted his decision.
• Zhou Heng ordered the Federation to collect Greedy Giant Mouths, then took Great Sage · Sihui to the Main Resource Vault.
• Zhou Heng fed 39.5 billion Greedy Giant Mouths to Achilles's Wrath (Tier 3), which gained a crimson bar marked ×39.5 billion.
• Zhou Heng used General Relativity's Watch to locate Sakast of the Root behind a barrier in the vault’s deepest section.

Zhou Heng examined the power of Sakast of the Root and discovered two other rare items in the Blue Star Federation’s Main Resource Vault: an incomplete Fated Crystal linked to Black Ring and a Vast Star Nation Anti-Magic Furnace. After fate offered him two possible ways to use the crystal, he chose to melt it down in the furnace, and the furnace began shaking.

• Zhou Heng inspected Sakast of the Root and recognized the strength of its truth-tier damage and recovery effects.
• Zhou Heng took the Fated Crystal (incomplete) (Black Ring) from the Main Resource Vault, prompting White River's Purifying Bottle to release resentment toward it.
• Zhou Heng examined the Vast Star Nation Anti-Magic Furnace and stored it and the incomplete Fated Crystal in his backpack.
• Fate offered Zhou Heng the choice to melt the crystal into a Fated Machine God skill or keep it to help Black Ring create a crystal later.
• Zhou Heng chose the first option and tossed the incomplete Fated Crystal into the furnace, which began to shake and buzz.

At the Supreme Council, the councilors learned that Zhou Heng had killed the Longevity Crusaders’ army lord, Karenna, and debated how to prepare for the coming threat. After they approved Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth’s proposal to use Abyssal Corrosion, Zhou Heng completed the transformation of his anti-magic Furnace and searched the Federation’s Main Resource Vault for further upgrades.

• Deputy Speaker Zhou Wusheng announced that a new Karenna with a ten-petaled lotus between her brows had emerged and replaced the original army lord.
• Great Sage · Sihui and the other councilors learned that Zhou Heng had killed Karenna, and Void proposed activating the Final Plan, Transcendence’s Health.
• Contemplative Skeleton King · Truth said the Final Plan was premature and proposed Abyssal Corrosion, which the 62 councilors approved unanimously.
• Zhou Heng finished smelting the Fated Crystal (Incomplete) (Black Ring), transforming the Vast Star Nation Anti-Magic "Furnace" and unlocking its Fated Machine God (Incomplete) effect.
• Zhou Heng stored the Furnace and began searching the Main Resource Vault for resources to improve his other legendary attributes and his Bard class.

After two years of absorbing resources in the Blue Star Federation's Main Resource Vault, Zhou Heng completed the transcendence of his attributes and raised his Bard class to 100 stars. He believed he still needed more power to defeat Naren Sakaste, but his Bard class was now poised to improve rapidly through elegant flute-playing.

• Zhou Heng spent two years in the Main Resource Vault, and on January 1, 10070, his attributes completed their transcendence to epic divine ability.
• Zhou Heng saw his Virus Erosion had reached 29% and suspected that reaching 30% would trigger a new state connected to the virus source species.
• Zhou Heng found Will of the Planet in the Main Resource Vault and spent it to raise Bard from star rank 69 to 100.
• Zhou Heng reviewed Bard's new abilities and learned that playing the Elegant Compassionate Flute (illusory) could repair the class, while finding the lost Golden Statue could help it transcend to divine truth.
• Zhou Heng resolved to keep playing elegantly, believing Bard would improve rapidly, though he still wondered whether he could defeat Naren Sakaste.

Zhou Heng searched the Blue Star Federation's Central Resource Vault, raised his attributes, and used 100 million Books of Glorious to upgrade his backpack. He followed Sakast of the Root into a dark space, where a pale golden light revealed a crystal tree that called to him.

• Zhou Heng consumed attribute-raising resources and collected more than 37,000 kinds of deprived Authorities from the vault.
• Zhou Heng found the Book of Glorious and fed 100 million copies to the Generalized Relativistic Infinite Backpack, which advanced to glorious quality and revealed that it could evolve by devouring the Book of All Living Beings.
• Zhou Heng searched the vault for the Book of All Living Beings, found none, and left to seek a way to counter π Longevity's contingency before the coming collision.
• Zhou Heng used Sakast of the Root and the Noble 'Novice Village' Home Village skill to enter a black hole beneath Hope Radiance.
• Zhou Heng fell through darkness as faintly glowing snakes bit him, until pale golden light split the space and a voice summoned him to a crystal light tree.

Zhou Heng received the Root Leaf and learned that he had two years to help prevent a catastrophe threatening Sakast. Following a Fate Hint into the inverted Interstellar Wreckage, he used another hint to choose a path deeper into the secret realm.

• The Root Leaf warned Zhou Heng that the virus source species would attack Sakast's root database in two years and gave him two possible ways to stop the catastrophe.
• The Root Leaf granted Zhou Heng three uses of resurrection that could ignore erasure before the crystalline tree vanished.
• Fate Hint advised Zhou Heng to turn left instead of leaving the dark space, so he traveled through the darkness for three months.
• Zhou Heng entered the secret realm Interstellar Wreckage (Inverted World) and discovered that overhead-view skills blinded him there.
• Fate Hint directed Zhou Heng to take the ninth path from the left, and he followed it deeper into the wreckage.

Zhou Heng passed the paths and the Space-Time Particle Stream staircase, then met the dying Third Army Lord, Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm. He received its data core and learned that he needed to transcend Novice Village time and return to the hundred years before Boundless Endless opened to Blue Star to confront Su Longevity.

• Zhou Heng answered the questions on paths 301 through 600 with guidance from Fate Hint.
• Zhou Heng overcame every will check on the Space-Time Particle Stream staircase and reached the Starlight Corridor.
• The Third Army Lord examined Zhou Heng's attributes and warned that he was not yet strong enough to face the longevity virus species or Su Longevity.
• The Third Army Lord gave Zhou Heng the Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm data core and urged him to return to the time before Boundless Endless opened to Blue Star.
• Zhou Heng appraised the data core and pressed it against the Time-Space Core at his heart.

Zhou Heng received the Third Army Lord’s time-space legacy and used his memories to create the Heavenly Tome skill True Lord of Time and Space. He left the chapter with new authority over time and space and a powerful gaze-based effect against enemies.

• Zhou Heng entered the Command Platform and learned that he was meant to develop his own time-space skill from his experiences.
• Fate’s hints showed Zhou Heng three possible skills, and he chose Book-Reading True Lord to create True Lord of Time and Space.
• Zhou Heng repeatedly cast Time-Space Pause while reliving his past, gradually raising his skill-creation progress to 100%.
• Zhou Heng created True Lord of Time and Space and inspected its authorities, including protection from time-space interference and a gaze-triggered will check that could trap enemies in painful memories.

Zhou Heng received the Third Army Lord's technological inheritance and used Golden · Glorious Heaven during another data transmission, uncovering memories about ancient gene locks and the Vast Star Nation's failed attempt to pass through a sealed Star Gate. A mysterious voice appeared at the end of the memories, commanding him to enter a gate.

• Zhou Heng absorbed technological data from Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm, including information on mecha, gene potions, and quantum systems.
• The illusory figure prepared another inheritance and explained that Star-Gazing Hong Dragon would protect Zhou Heng during it.
• Zhou Heng revealed Great Light Holy Sword and Golden · Glorious Heaven, and the figure identified the latter as a true ancient skill.
• Zhou Heng activated Golden · Glorious Heaven as the figure used Star-Gazing Hong Dragon, and memories about the ancient gene locks flowed into him.
• Zhou Heng witnessed the Vast Star Nation create a Flying Foundation Deer and a Soaring Rooftop, but its application to pass the sealed Star Gate was rejected.
• An illusory gate appeared before Zhou Heng, and a deep voice told him to enter.

Zhou Heng witnessed Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will and received the Magnificent Epic Path, which could not activate until he completed the Legendary of Heaven and Earth Path. Drawn toward another gate, he followed Fate Hint and insulted the dragons, provoking an enraged roar from beyond it.

• Zhou Heng entered the golden world and introduced himself to Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will.
• Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will guided Zhou Heng to witness it, granting him the Magnificent Epic Path but postponing its activation.
• After Zhou Heng returned to Sakast, a pitch-black hand confronted Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will, and their armies prepared for battle.
• Zhou Heng was drawn toward a new, blood-marked gate and heard a voice question whether Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will could save Boundless Endless.
• Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint and told the voice that the dragons could not save Boundless Endless, prompting an enraged roar.