Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng accepted the Star-Gazing Honglong’s wager to kill one of the Longevity Nine Venerables within a hundred years in exchange for a way to counter a special mechanic. After completing the Time-Space Core’s data reconstruction, he gained the ability to summon his own Ancient Mechanical Deity, Eternal Krossa, and prepared to leave the Star-Rank Wreckage Secret Realm.

• The Star-Gazing Honglong challenged Zhou Heng to slay one of the Longevity Nine Venerables within a hundred years, promising a skill to counter an otherwise unbeatable special mechanic.
• Zhou Heng accepted the wager, received the quest, and respectfully told the Honglong that time would prove it wrong.
• The illusory figure returned Zhou Heng to the Star-Rank Wreckage Secret Realm and began the final Data Reconstruction Authority process.
• The Time-Space Core transformed the Krosa-Type Exoskeleton Mecha into the Ancient Krossa-Type Mecha Krossa, which Zhou Heng could summon as Eternal Krossa.
• Zhou Heng inspected the upgraded Time-Space Core and prepared to leave the secret realm.

Zhou Heng delivered advanced Vast Star Nation technology to the Blue Star Federation’s scientists, then wandered Hope Radiance and considered the missing Federation coins. He sensed that the Great Copper of the World quest was approaching, but first needed to face π Longevity’s scheme in two years, as a new prompt from Fate appeared.

• Zhou Heng used General Relativity’s Watch to find the Blue Star Federation’s Research Institute and transmitted the technology he had obtained from the Third Army Lord, Hollow Spirit’s Long Space-Time Realm.
• Bose Koppfield discovered Zhou Heng’s data, recognized its advanced technologies, and summoned the scientists to an urgent meeting.
• Zhou Heng walked through Hope Radiance, observed that residents used Blue Star paper money, and wondered where the Federation’s silver, gold, and copper coins had gone.
• Zhou Heng saw the unique copper coin in his backpack and concluded that the Great Copper of the World quest was nearing, but that he had to deal with π Longevity’s scheme first.
• A prompt from Fate appeared before Zhou Heng after he chose what to do next.

Zhou Heng chose to return to the Tenth Chapter and enter Soaring Rooftop Palace, intending to subdue the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother and use its abilities against π Longevity. He began making his way through the dungeon after discovering that Concept Origin Seeds could help revive the Sakas Emperor.

• Zhou Heng followed Fate’s second hint and traveled back in time, losing 42,000 years of lifespan after his Time-Space Affinity reduced the cost.
• Zhou Heng arrived in the rebuilt Tenth Chapter and teleported to the entrance of Soaring Rooftop Palace, now a crowded dungeon.
• Zhou Heng entered Soaring Rooftop Palace and killed a Level 12 Conceptual Fiction Entity · Doggo, collecting its Concept Origin Seed.
• Zhou Heng brought the dropped seed near the Sakas Emperor’s Concept Origin Seed and sensed it begin to emit revival fluctuations.
• Zhou Heng continued deeper into the dungeon, determined to subdue the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother and prepare to counter π Longevity.

Zhou Heng raced through the conceptualized Soaring Rooftop Palace to confront the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother, but the creature used decoys and tiny particles to deprive him of attributes. The Broodmother hid on Zhou Heng’s foot and lunged toward his forehead while he searched for it.

• Zhou Heng crossed the first two stages of Soaring Rooftop Palace (Conceptualized) and charged into the third stage to find the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother.
• Zhou Heng used General Relativity's Watch and the Seated Awakened One to see through the maze and pursue the Broodmother as it continually reshaped the palace.
• The Conceptual Fiction Broodmother pleaded for mercy, but Zhou Heng ignored it and continued advancing.
• The Broodmother spread black-green water and particles, then sent its octopus-shaped decoy to collide with Zhou Heng while its true body escaped into the water.
• Zhou Heng destroyed the decoy with the Sakast Imperial Sword (Lifespan), but the Broodmother’s particles bypassed Time-Space Pause and rapidly reduced his attributes.
• The molecule-sized Broodmother clung to the black-green water beneath Zhou Heng’s foot and shot toward the space between his eyebrows as he searched for it.

Zhou Heng’s golden-tier will overpowered the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother’s will contract, but the broodmother split into countless copies and fled. Zhou Heng suspected its transformation involved negative-value skills and threw Abyss’s Blooming Spear at one of the copies.

• The Conceptual Fiction Broodmother attacked Zhou Heng with its high-speed skills, but he moved despite its attempt to reduce his speed to zero.
• The broodmother activated Fairness Will Fiction Contract, only for the link to rank Zhou Heng as the primary with 1.0 (Gold) will against its 33e.0.
• The broodmother tried to flee, while Zhou Heng used his stronger will to force it to turn back.
• The broodmother changed color, split into countless copies, and scattered across several kilometers to escape.
• Zhou Heng suspected the broodmother’s transformation was a negative-value skill and hurled Abyss’s Blooming Spear at one of its copies.

Zhou Heng defeated the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother and forced it to agree to construct fictional matter with its 1eee Fiction Points. The Broodmother recognized that Zhou Heng intended to use the creation to impact the Sakast region and accepted its fate, trusting that the Boundless Endless Insect Emperor would avenge it.

• Zhou Heng used the Abyss's Blooming Spear and its Chain Bloom effect to kill the false Conceptual Fiction Broodmothers and stop the real one from escaping.
• Zhou Heng examined the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother's abilities and realized it had avoided using Fictional Absurdity Conversion (Truth), leaving it vulnerable.
• The Conceptual Fiction Broodmother warned Zhou Heng that killing it would make the insectoids of the Aotel Star Domain hunt him.
• Zhou Heng told the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother he would spare its life if it spent 1eee Fiction Points to construct fictional matter, though he inwardly admitted he was lying.
• The Conceptual Fiction Broodmother concluded that Zhou Heng planned to use the fictional matter to cause a data impact across the Sakast region and agreed to comply, invoking the Boundless Endless Insect Emperor's vengeance.

Zhou Heng used the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother to create material constructs that could thwart π Longevity’s plan to return to Sakast. Realizing Zhou Heng had anticipated him, π Longevity prepared a counterattack and waited for their confrontation two years later.

• Zhou Heng continued using the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother’s Fictional Concept skill to construct fictional matter.
• π Longevity sensed Zhou Heng’s presence and used Longevity’s Prospect to see him inside Soaring Rooftop Palace (Conceptualized).
• π Longevity realized Zhou Heng had subdued the Broodmother and was making constructs to counter the data stream from the palace collision.
• π Longevity prepared Longevity’s Perception, Longevity’s Link, and Boundless Gaze to attack Zhou Heng when the data chains fractured.
• π Longevity closed his eyes and waited for the confrontation two years later, while Fate’s prompts appeared before Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng waited while the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother spent two years creating Fiction Broodmothers to help him counter Sakast’s data chains. After killing it, he received the Soaring Rooftop Main Control Star Chain and a Zerg gift, then examined the new mark and title.

• Zhou Heng considered the three Fate hints and decided to wait until his Ninefold breakthrough before choosing, ruling out the first path.
• Zhou Heng continued cultivating the Seated Awakened One posture while the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother kept fabricating material creations.
• The Conceptual Fiction Broodmother spent its 1eee fiction points creating Fiction Broodmothers, then warned Zhou Heng cryptically about the item he would use after killing it.
• Zhou Heng crushed the Conceptual Fiction Broodmother and obtained the Soaring Rooftop Main Control Star Chain, which he chose not to use yet.
• Zhou Heng received the Mark of the Zerg Will, a swarm gift, and the Swarm Hunter title, then opened the mark and title to inspect them.

Zhou Heng used the crack in the Sakast root database to raise his level to 1,000 and begin Sea of Stars Transcendence despite being repeatedly slain by Boundless Gaze. He completed the Swift Divine Energy achievement and threw Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex into the database before dying for the third time, after which the database sealed itself.

• Zhou Heng received the Zerg’s Swarm Hunter title and commanded the Fiction Broodmothers as the Sky-Roof Leap palaces merged with the Soaring Rooftop Palace.
• A crack opened in the Sakast root database, rewarding witnesses with non-class skill transcendence authority, and its gaze repeatedly killed Zhou Heng until his revival chances were exhausted.
• Guided by Fate Hint, Zhou Heng sent Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence into the database to harvest experience, raising his level from 901 to 1,000.
• Zhou Heng used Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex to initiate ninefold legendary refinement and Sea of Stars Transcendence, earning the Swift Divine Energy achievement.
• Zhou Heng threw the codex into the crack and was slain by Boundless Gaze for the third time; the Sakast root database cleared clashing data and sealed itself.

After dying, Zhou Heng used the Sakas Decree to secretly set the true chapters of Sakast in motion, hoping to complete his ninefold Legendary Temperament without revealing to π Longevity that he survived. π Longevity remained cautious with Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex, while a player named Yuanyuan opened the decree and unleashed its power across Sakast.

• Zhou Heng saw Fate's hints and chose to use the Sakas Decree rather than risk exposing himself to π Longevity.
• Zhou Heng wrote a proclamation on the decree, declaring that his death marked a beginning and calling for the true chapters to open, then cast it into Soaring Rooftop Palace (Conceptualized).
• π Longevity hesitated to cultivate Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex and ordered the Longevity Nine Venerables to watch for signs that Zhou Heng was alive.
• After four months, Soaring Rooftop and West Section had fully merged, and a party of nine players explored its third stage.
• Yuanyuan found and opened the Sakas Decree, projecting Zhou Heng's proclamation across Sakast as he tore it apart and sent golden light toward all ten chapters.

After Zhou Heng reopened the true chapter of Sakast and was believed to have died, its defenders struggled to face the Longevity-Cursed Species without him. Su Qingxin and a group of powerful allies redirected their plans toward Black Ring, leaving his future support as their next hope.

• Zhou Heng tore apart the Sakas Imperial Decree and reopened The Ancient Years, revealing the false chapters and the conspiracies surrounding Sakast.
• Players and NPCs mourned Zhou Heng, while the Ninth Longevity-Cursed Species, the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth, and the other Longevity Nine Venerables waited for proof that he was dead.
• Su Qingxin returned to the Longevity Curse Resistance Army’s council chamber and ordered its nine generals to shift all privileges toward Black Ring and target Skysea of the Empty Realm.
• Three figures atop the Skyward Trees agreed that Zhou Heng’s apparent death left them little time and resolved to fully support Black Ring, the Chosen One of the Last Millennium.
• Bear Loli proposed activating a plan to strengthen Black Ring, and the three figures agreed to let the Lone Wolf Organization act.

Zhou Heng's allies pursued new powers and fought the Longevity-Cursed Species during the seventy-eight years he was believed dead. After π Longevity finally began using Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex, Zhou Heng awakened and completed the first part of his Sea of Stars divine energy transcendence.

• Yu Tong and Yaya departed for the Land of Disorder to seek a power that Karenna said could counter a strongest sequence of the Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Qi Sinian obtained a powerful class, while Black Ring led the Ring of Blackness in exterminating the Longevity-Cursed Species with support from major Blue Star Federation organizations.
• The Lone Wolf Organization temporarily expelled the Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth at the cost of a leader's life, and the Ring of Blackness recovered a fragment of Heaven and Earth · Sword.
• The Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth returned twenty-five years later and devastated the allied forces before National Extinction · Blue Sky intervened.
• The Black Awakened One of Heaven and Earth confirmed Zhou Heng's death after seventy-eight years and sent intelligence to π Longevity, who began cultivating with Heaven and Earth's Legendary Codex.
• Zhou Heng opened his eyes within the Soaring Rooftop and West Section and received confirmation that he had completed Sea of Stars Divine Energy Transcendence · Proud Heng God.

Zhou Heng entered the Nine-Star Alignment refinement trial and raced across its planets toward Naren Sakaste, overcoming a gale with the Wind-Calming Pearl. On the eighth planet, he encountered an army of Guangming Titans guarding the Sakast Emperor’s palace and prepared to face them.

• After completing Sea of Stars Divine Energy Transcendence, Zhou Heng followed a summons into the deep Sea of Stars and met Naren Sakaste.
• Naren Sakaste warned Zhou Heng that restoring the tier severed from Legendary Might would draw attention, and Zhou Heng silently accepted the risk.
• The nine planets aligned horizontally, beginning the Nine-Star Alignment trial and setting a one-year deadline for Zhou Heng to reach its end.
• Zhou Heng used his 300-million attack speed and movement speed to cross the first six planets, then relied on the Wind-Calming Pearl to pass the gale on the seventh.
• On the eighth planet, Zhou Heng encountered 300,000 Guangming Titans · Golden Breed blocking his way and appraised their attributes.

Zhou Heng crossed the Guangming Titan wall and entered the ninth planet, where Naren Sakaste’s manifestations suppressed him and Fate revealed two ways to respond. The chapter left Zhou Heng facing a choice between learning Gaze of Will under Naren Sakaste’s tutelage or sincerely honoring him to comprehend Sakast’s Will.

• Zhou Heng used the Sakast Imperial Sword to kill the Guangming Titans · Golden Breed guarding the eighth planet and reached the ninth planet.
• Zhou Heng resisted the Starway Connecting Heaven’s will erosion, but its inversion and illusory Light Gates blocked his attempt to observe the ninth planet.
• Zhou Heng found that the ninth planet’s mountains, rivers, and plants all took forms associated with Naren Sakaste.
• Naren Sakaste’s manifestations used Emperor’s Suppression to force Zhou Heng to kneel and begin kowtowing.
• Fate offered Zhou Heng a choice between learning Gaze of Will through humiliation and respectably prostrating himself to comprehend Sakast’s Will.

Zhou Heng witnessed Naren Sakaste’s memories of Blue Sky and comprehended the skill Sakast’s Will. He turned toward the illusory gate of light, while recognizing he still needed greater strength to defeat the Longevity-Cursed Species Nine Venerables for good.

• Zhou Heng accepted Naren Sakaste’s guidance and watched memories of Blue Sky confronting the Sakast Emperor’s grave.
• Blue Sky’s memories revealed his suspicions about Black Ring, his determination to kill Su Longevity, and his struggle to protect the Blue Star Federation.
• In the final vision, Blue Sky affirmed that human civilization’s will would endure and Sakast would never perish.
• Zhou Heng comprehended Sakast’s Will, a skill that let him construct a false Sakaste Empire and clash wills with an opponent.
• Zhou Heng considered how the skill might help him face the Longevity-Cursed Species Nine Venerables, but knew he still lacked a way to bypass their resurrection.
• Zhou Heng looked toward the ninth planet’s gray steps and the illusory gate of light waiting at their summit.

Zhou Heng crossed the Light Gate and confronted a death-tainted Naren Sakaste, whose Emperor skills and attacks overwhelmed him and disrupted his powers. After Naren Sakaste forced the Vast Civilization Kindling back into Zhou Heng’s backpack, he summoned trillions of Crimson Swords, leaving Zhou Heng trapped as Naren Sakaste began to swell.

• Zhou Heng passed through the Light Gate and faced the decayed Naren Sakaste on the Sakast Imperial Throne.
• Naren Sakaste’s Emperor skills weakened Zhou Heng, then his crimson gaze and spikes repeatedly wounded him despite Zhou Heng’s speed and healing.
• Erased Lifeline reduced Zhou Heng’s maximum health when he recovered, but Zhou Heng used Vastness Power to block a negative effect.
• Naren Sakaste struck the Vast Civilization Kindling out of Zhou Heng’s hand and taunted him about his coming battle with Su Longevity.
• Naren Sakaste summoned trillions of Crimson Swords, and Zhou Heng used Time-Space Pause to halt them before they surrounded him.
• Naren Sakaste dismissed Zhou Heng’s Virus-tainted Time-Space Pause and began swelling.

Zhou Heng fought Naren Sakaste after the Abyss transformed him into a nine-headed, hundred-armed monster, using his Fated River items and White River Guardian powers to survive Naren's overwhelming attacks. The White Formal Attire restored Naren's clarity, and he recognized Zhou Heng's ability while warning that Zhou Heng still had to defeat him to reclaim the severed First Tier of Legendary Might Temperament.

• Zhou Heng used Time-Space Pause and other abilities to escape Naren Sakaste, who swallowed the paused space and mocked Zhou Heng's music skill.
• Zhou Heng appraised Naren Sakaste, but Naren split into fifty-one copies that overwhelmed Zhou Heng's Grievance units and Heroic Spirit Guards.
• Zhou Heng activated the White River Purifying Bottle, causing the Sakast Imperial Throne to break into more than a thousand Black River Purification Bottles that could not take it from him.
• White River Guardian powers gave Zhou Heng White Formal Attire, weakening the Abyss's corrosion and restoring some clarity to Naren Sakaste.
• Naren Sakaste recognized Zhou Heng's skill but warned that Zhou Heng still had to defeat him to reclaim the severed First Tier of Legendary Might Temperament.

Zhou Heng realized that his path to defeating Naren Sakaste lay in the virus source species under his authority, not in his other skills. He granted Deathly Silence permission to act and prepared to coordinate its attack with Sakast's Will.

• Zhou Heng used Deathly Silence alongside the Elegant Compassionate Flute, briefly silencing the Naren Sakastes.
• Naren Sakaste countered Deathly Silence with authority sealing, and the clash removed its suppression of sound.
• As Zhou Heng began activating Sakast's Will, Deathly Silence offered to help defeat authority sealing if granted control of four other virus source species.
• Zhou Heng recognized that his virus source species could attack authority sealing during the will check, then granted Deathly Silence permission to act.

Zhou Heng used Sakast's Will to break Naren Sakaste's resistance, while Naren restrained himself so Zhou Heng could confront Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing. Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence and four other viruses defeated and captured Authority Sealing, bringing it before Zhou Heng.

• Zhou Heng struck Naren Sakaste with Sakast's Will, obliterating the false body sustained by Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing.
• Naren Sakaste restrained his own body and urged Zhou Heng to attack Authority Sealing before it could control him.
• Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing attacked Virus Source Species, then faced Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence, Virus Source Species · Despair, Virus Source Species · Asphyxiation, and Virus Source Species · Decay.
• Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing summoned the Boundless Court, but Deathly Silence tampered with its data and the other viruses overwhelmed it.
• The five viruses escorted Authority Sealing to Zhou Heng's domain, where Zhou Heng sat waiting on his throne and watched it take humanoid form.

Zhou Heng suppressed Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing and learned that Naren Sakaste (Death Emperor Version) had died, leaving a warning and 1,200 Black River Purification Bottles. After the White River Purifying Bottle absorbed 1,000 of them and transformed, Zhou Heng used its new power to trace back the death of Longevity Crusaders Army Lord · Karenna.

• Zhou Heng suppressed Virus Source Species · Authority Sealing and had Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence begin restoring the first tier of Legendary Might refinement.
• Zhou Heng found that Naren Sakaste (Death Emperor Version) had died, leaving 1,200 Black River Purification Bottles and a warning about the Longevity Nine Venerables and hidden former Divine Truths.
• Zhou Heng fed the White River Purifying Bottle the Black River Purification Bottles, and it absorbed 1,000 of them, reaching level 1000 hundred quadrillion and gaining new abilities.
• Zhou Heng saw that Trickling Pool Water could now gather Longevity Crusaders Army Lord · Karenna, then activated it to trace back her death.