Chapter Summaries

Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan bargained with the Sakast · Root Tree for relief from Annihilation · Su Longevity, while Zhou Heng built his second Epic Path. The chapter ended as Fate Hint began to reveal guidance about the Noun tied to the path.

• Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan offered not to interfere with Zhou Heng for a hundred years in exchange for the Sakast · Root Tree removing his debuff.
• The Sakast · Root Tree agreed to remove the debuff if Elegant Swan signed a contract forbidding him from attacking Zhou Heng for a hundred years.
• Elegant Swan signed the contract and sent the Swan Emperor back to the real world, leaving himself vulnerable to Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng used the Self-Containment Virus Source Species gathered by the White River Purifying Bottle to complete his second Epic Path and reach level 3000.
• Zhou Heng suspected that his second Epic Path's Noun would relate to Decay, and Fate Hint began offering guidance.

Zhou Heng killed Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan before the Swan Emperor could reach them, then used the lingering Annihilation · Su Longevity to study the truth of decay. The Swan Emperor arrived too late, could not get past Sakast · Root Tree, and left carrying information about Zhou Heng.

• Sakast · Root Tree shielded Zhou Heng as he approached Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan and concealed him until they met.
• Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan called for the Swan Emperor, while Zhou Heng drew the Sakast Imperial Sword and struck before help arrived.
• The White River Purifying Bottle activated after Longevity Curse Second Kind · Elegant Swan died, but a wisp of Annihilation · Su Longevity escaped and began annihilating Zhou Heng’s attributes.
• Zhou Heng sat beneath Sakast · Root Tree and used the attribute-less Epic Path to analyze Annihilation · Su Longevity and pursue the truth of decay.
• The Swan Emperor arrived, failed to reach Zhou Heng past Sakast · Root Tree, and left after capturing information about him.

While comprehending Annihilation · Su Longevity, Zhou Heng watched Virus Source Species · Decay battle Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence and discovered his own truth of decay: destroying the old to make way for rebirth. He gained a new truth skill and brought Decay under his command, while Endless Book · Magnificence Path · Epic appeared before him.

• Annihilation · Su Longevity eroded Zhou Heng as Virus Source Species · Decay absorbed its power and fought Virus Source Species · Deathly Silence inside his domain.
• As Decay weakened Deathly Silence, Zhou Heng watched and began to understand decay through the battle.
• Virus Source Species · Decay tried to escape Zhou Heng's body to warn Su Longevity, but Zhou Heng realized decay could serve rebirth and comprehended its truth.
• Zhou Heng gained the truth skill Decay, which let him command decay-affiliated virus source species and inflict decay on units seeking rebirth.
• Zhou Heng seized Virus Source Species · Decay and made it submit as his butler; Endless Book · Magnificence Path · Epic then appeared before him.

Zhou Heng completed the preliminary construction of his second Epic Path, Decay, and gained the hidden achievement for defeating the Forest Lord without being attacked and rescuing the imprisoned elves. After collecting rare items from the Elegant Swan, he prepared to leave the Land of Origin with a branch from Sakast · Root Tree, which urged him to reclaim Heaven and Earth · Sword.

• Zhou Heng chose Decay for his second Epic Path, completing its construction and unlocking several achievements, including the hidden achievement Decay of Nature.
• Zhou Heng returned to reality and collected the drops from the Elegant Swan, finding mostly statues and three special items among them.
• Zhou Heng recognized that the Sea of Stars Fun-Lover's Great Bard was close to granting him the Bard class and stored all three special items in his backpack.
• Sakast · Root Tree gave Zhou Heng a branch that let him enter and leave its Land of Origin freely, and urged him to reclaim Heaven and Earth · Sword.
• Zhou Heng set out from the Land of Origin as Fate Hint offered him new guidance.

After killing the Elegant Swan, Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint toward the Seventh Chapter while the other Longevity Nine Venerables learned of the death. His victory restored the Friends List across Sakast and shifted the war in the Blue Star Federation’s favor as he arrived in the Seventh Chapter.

• Zhou Heng recognized the Heaven and Earth Fishing Rod as the tool Fate Hint directed him to use in the Seventh Chapter, then left the Land of Origin.
• Su Shuangxue, Starry-Sky Great Medicine, Elegance Bard, and Gabriel Heng received news that the Elegant Swan had died and considered Zhou Heng’s growing power.
• Gabriel Heng realized the Elegant Swan’s death would restore the Friends List mechanic throughout Sakast.
• A World Announcement credited Zhou Heng with killing the Level 10000 Elegant Swan at Level 3000, restoring the Friends List, and raising his Longevity Hunter title by 1000 levels.
• Players celebrated the restored Friends List, and the Blue Star Federation’s forces began driving the longevity-cursed species back.
• Zhou Heng used the time during the announcement to reach the Seventh Chapter.

Zhou Heng learned from the dying Sakas prime minister Kaben Hers that the Bard golden statue was connected to the Endless Corridor of the Mind and the piece “Compassionate Waltz.” As Zhou Heng climbed toward the inverted cloudsea sky realm, powerful figures received reports of his movements and prepared for what might come next.

• Kaben Hers broke free of the virus source species corrupting his words and told Zhou Heng to find the Bard golden statue in the Endless Corridor of the Mind by playing “Compassionate Waltz.”
• Kaben Hers died after asking Zhou Heng to send his regards to the Sakas Emperor, and the Cloud-White Spiral Sky Ladder began to crumble as Zhou Heng climbed it.
• The Sage Council Court tracked Zhou Heng’s arrival in the Seventh Chapter and sent information about his discovery to Su Shuangxue, who remained blocked in the Sixth Chapter by the Three Pure Ones.
• Longevity Curse Sixth Kind · Boro Divine Temple refused to attack Zhou Heng before he reached her, while Pangu watched from across the Time Corridor.
• Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord prepared the Forest Legendary of the Sun Moon Star Court to defend herself from Zhou Heng.
• The lord of the Vast Star Nation’s capital set out for the Seventh Chapter to help the Sage Council Court act against Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng received a fate hint that the Vast Star Capital Lord might join his faction if shown the right skills. He revealed his Giant Whale Abyss skills to the Capital Lord, who left to consider whether to help Zhou Heng oppose Su Longevity.

• The Vast Star Capital Lord turned away from the Second Chosen One · Earth and rushed toward Zhou Heng, while Councilor Henala went to stop Earth.
• The Vast Star Capital Lord attacked Zhou Heng, but the Contemplative Skeleton King appeared to block him and activated Contemplation World.
• Zhou Heng read fate hints describing the Capital Lord's former level 27.1 million Technology Capital Lord status and suggesting he recruit him by showing his Abyss Skill Set.
• Zhou Heng asked the Contemplative Skeleton King to leave and invited the Vast Star Capital Lord to speak privately on the Cloud-White Spiral Stairway to Heaven.
• Zhou Heng showed the Capital Lord Abyss Slaying · Giant Whale and Abyss Absorption · Giant Whale, then said he wanted help against Su Longevity.
• The Vast Star Capital Lord said he needed time to think and vanished from the Seventh Chapter.

Zhou Heng fished up the crucial Authority of the “Skysea of the Empty Realm” while Su Longevity revealed his ambition to inherit Space-Time and rise among the Sea of Stars Lords. The observing Longevity-Cursed Species fled, and Su Longevity’s wager with Su Qingxin over Zhou Heng and Moerdan Trilis remained unresolved.

• Zhou Heng entered the reversed “Cloudsea Sky Realm” and fished as the Longevity-Cursed Species debated whether to interfere.
• Su Longevity asked Su Qingxin about Zhou Heng’s Talent and explained that he sought to sever his emotions and reach his own “Divine Truth.”
• Su Qingxin accused Su Longevity of altering memories and using Thought Seals, and he wagered that she reveal the “Mother of Family Affection” if Zhou Heng did not next defeat Moerdan Trilis.
• Su Longevity swallowed the false “Lord of Time and Space” and transformed into a miniature version of it.
• Zhou Heng fished up a brilliant cluster of light, and the observing Longevity-Cursed Species fled the reversed “Cloudsea Sky Realm.”
• Zhou Heng identified his catch as the crucial Authority of the “Skysea of the Empty Realm.”

Zhou Heng used the Skysea of the Empty Realm Master Control Core to gain full authority over the Skysea, then wielded the Skysea against Sakast to launch the super-large-scale event "False-True Celestial Palace." After the event began, Zhou Heng entered the twisting spatial rifts in the Reversal Elf Forest, heading toward a massive Tree of Life.

• Zhou Heng consumed the Skysea of the Empty Realm Master Control Core and followed a cyan flower to a vortex, where Bard · Youtier presented him with Ultimate Technique · World in the Palm of the Deity.
• Bard · Youtier told Zhou Heng that he could rewrite the future of the Sakast region, then departed for their expected final meeting.
• Zhou Heng activated Ultimate Technique · World in the Palm of the Deity, grew to an enormous size, and smashed the Skysea of the Empty Realm into Sakast.
• Bard · Youtier announced the beginning of the False-True Celestial Palace event, establishing True and False factions and event rewards for all living beings in Sakast.
• Zhou Heng entered the twisting spatial rifts in the Reversal Elf Forest and headed toward the immense Tree of Life.

Zhou Heng reached Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord, and Elf's Sway compelled the Elf Species to bow to him and help him cross her spatial barriers. As he closed in, black substances repeatedly disabled her attempts to send information, and she drew out Truth's Refutation as a last resort.

• Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord sensed Zhou Heng arriving and sent figures from the Tree of Life to attack him.
• Zhou Heng activated Elf's Sway, causing the Elf Species to prostrate themselves and plead for him to save their people.
• Forest Lord's attempt to activate Health Domain was halted by Mottling of the Space-Time River, so she used Cross-Section of Space-Time to isolate herself from Zhou Heng.
• The Elf Species formed a bridge of their bodies across the severed space, allowing Zhou Heng to reach Forest Lord.
• Forest Lord tried to activate Health Domain again and send intelligence through Encrypted Black Aura, but garbled characters and black substances disrupted her efforts as Zhou Heng crossed the barrier once more.
• Forest Lord recognized Zhou Heng as the enemy Su Longevity had feared and took out Truth's Refutation.

Zhou Heng used Ababa’s power and the Tree of Life’s resonance to suppress the "Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord" and prevent her from escaping. Trapped by the reversed "Domain of Health," she prepared an attack as Zhou Heng turned his back and looked into the distance.

• The "Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord" used "Truth's Refutation" and the Tree of Life to resist Zhou Heng, but Ababa’s song caused her absorbed elven power to dissipate.
• The Forest Lord tried to uproot the Tree of Life, then abandoned her immortality and fled when she realized Zhou Heng could counter her Truth skill.
• The "Mottling of the Space-Time River" reduced the Forest Lord to Level 1, giving Zhou Heng time to cross the spatial barrier and summon an elegant man who called her Lady Cui Lisi.
• Ababa’s skill reversed the Forest Lord’s "Domain of Health" into "Loneliness of Life," sealing her inside a fixed space in the "Natural Forest."
• The Forest Lord sat in the posture of the "Seated Awakened One" and began an attack related to the "Mind Corridor," while Zhou Heng turned away and gazed into the distance.

Zhou Heng killed Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord in his Domain and rescued the Elf Race. He completed the Magnificence Path of Decay, advanced to level 3001, and triggered a change to his initial login panel.

• Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord tried to use Domain of Health to reach Zhou Heng, but a black substance infected her and transported her into his Domain.
• Virus Source Species · Decay introduced itself to Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord, who accepted that Zhou Heng had defeated her.
• Zhou Heng summoned the Sakast Imperial Sword and beheaded Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord, then drew her into the White River Purifying Bottle.
• Zhou Heng received confirmation that he had killed Longevity Curse Fourth Kind · Forest Lord and rescued the Elf Race, and he began his Epic Transcendence.
• The Endless Book completed the Magnificence Path of Decay and linked the Epic Divine Ability Boundless Endless, while Zhou Heng advanced to level 3001 and his initial login panel changed.

Zhou Heng examined his updated panels and found that the elves of the Natural Forest had been freed. At their own request, they transformed into emerald-covered books, leaving Zhou Heng with their stories and a message to wait until all twelve ancient heroes had gathered before constructing a heroic spirit.

• Zhou Heng compared his personal and primordial living beings panels, noting that his primordial attributes had increased but his movement speed had not.
• Ababa gave Zhou Heng a pure-white crystal, and the Natural Forest revived as the freed elves gathered around him.
• Zhou Heng used Transform into Book, and the elves willingly turned into emerald-covered books containing their pasts.
• The Natural Forest vanished while the collection of books remained, and Ababa urged Zhou Heng to break through the sky of despair and wait for all twelve ancient heroes before summoning a heroic spirit.

Zhou Heng planted the Health Ancient Tree in his Domain, where its Life's Radiance restored his attributes from zero to their former strength. After he survived the Forest Lord's ambush in the Natural Forest, he set out to contend for the Noble Ancient Flute.

• Zhou Heng chose to plant the Health Ancient Tree seed in his Domain so he could connect Blue Star with the Boundless Endless · Sakast region.
• The Health Ancient Tree rooted behind Zhou Heng's throne and grew, sending Life's Radiance to restore his attributes to hundreds of millions (Gold) within a day.
• The Forest Lord ambushed Zhou Heng with the Forest Legendary of the Sun Moon Star Court instance, but its Elven King attacker transformed into Zhou Heng because he had already replaced the instance's principal entity.
• Zhou Heng found a letter from the Forest Lord saying she had sent away all the resources, then sent his Quark Body of the Mind back into the instance.
• Zhou Heng left the Natural Forest to contend for the Noble Ancient Flute.

Zhou Heng lived quietly as a library administrator in Hengsky City, reading the Elf Species’ life books to max out his Health Recovery and feed experience to the Golden Ancient Tree. Over decades, Blue Star was unsealed and the conflict with the Longevity-Cursed Species continued while Zhou Heng remained in the library, eventually finishing all 3.2 billion books.

• The Longevity Nine Venerables learned that Zhou Heng had killed Forest Lord and regarded him as their equal, while the Swan Emperor continued searching for him to avenge Elegant Swan.
• In Hengsky City, Zhou Heng reassured a little girl about Blue Sky and continued reading books to gain strands of true intent.
• After raising the Book-Reading True Lord’s Health Recovery to 10,000%, Zhou Heng discovered that high-quality golden years from the books could feed the Golden Ancient Tree and grant it experience.
• When Blue Star was unsealed in Year 10158, the Longevity-Cursed Species tried to retake it, but Zhou Heng’s Heng God of Blue Star forced them to abandon the attack.
• On February 1, Year 10213, Zhou Heng finished all 3.2 billion Elf Species life books and raised the Golden Ancient Tree to a new height.

Zhou Heng examined the Golden Ancient Tree (Phantom), discovered how it greatly amplified his paired skill, and returned to the real world after fate reminded him that the Natalc Star Nation was approaching Blue Star. He waited outside Blue Star as the Natalc Star Nation’s first reinforcement corps arrived near the Solar System and began searching for the protected civilization.

• Zhou Heng inspected the Golden Ancient Tree (Phantom) and learned that its quality boosted the effects of Golden · Glorious Heaven, greatly increasing his defensive and chaos attributes.
• Zhou Heng reviewed how Sakast’s conflict had stabilized during his fifty-eight years in Hengsky City, then received fate’s warning that the Natalc Star Nation would reach Blue Star the next day.
• Zhou Heng logged out of Boundless Endless, surveyed the changed Blue Star using General Relativity’s Watch, and left the planet to await the reinforcements.
• Three hundred million Vast Grunts of the Natalc Star Nation’s First Corps arrived near the Solar System and requested permission to break Blue Star’s novice protection.
• The Natalc Star Nation’s military denied the request and ordered the corps to sweep the region for signals from Blue Star.

Nata Tianhuang’s Natalc Star Nation legion established contact with Blue Star Civilization and learned that longevity-cursed species were its strongest enemies. Confident they could defeat the supposedly weak threat, the 300 million warriors began jumping toward Blue Star.

• Nata Tianhuang ordered his legion to send a Quark Frequency Band signal to Blue Star Civilization.
• Zhou Heng intercepted the signal, learned it was a Quark Frequency Band, and returned a warning about the powerful longevity-cursed species.
• Nata Tianhuang and his soldiers read Zhou Heng’s warning and mistakenly concluded that the longevity-cursed species were weak.
• Nata Tianhuang ordered the legion to jump to Blue Star Civilization’s hidden coordinates and attack the longevity-cursed species.
• The Natalc Star Nation’s 300 million warriors began their coordinate jump to Blue Star.

Zhou Heng briefed Nata Tianhuang and the Natalc Star Nation reinforcements on the Longevity-Cursed Species and the danger posed by Su Longevity. Nata Tianhuang’s forces headed toward Blue Star to investigate, while Zhou Heng considered what to do next and received a prompt from Fate.

• Nata Tianhuang arrived with the Natalc Star Nation’s reinforcements and met Zhou Heng, who explained the Longevity-Cursed Species and their illegal attribute breakthroughs.
• Zhou Heng revealed that the Longevity-Cursed Species wielded truth powers and had taken control of the Past and Former Times in the Sakast region.
• Zhou Heng identified Su Longevity as the strongest enemy and said its known abilities included a talent approaching π-Level.
• Nata Tianhuang shared the warning with his officers, who questioned how they could fight such powerful enemies and proposed investigating Blue Star and the Sakast region.
• Nata Tianhuang ordered the starship toward Blue Star, and Zhou Heng stayed behind before receiving a prompt from Fate.

Zhou Heng followed Fate’s hint to return to Blue Star and prepare to enter the Fated Black River fused with the Time-Space Torrent. Meanwhile, the Natalc Star Nation’s reinforcements discovered Blue Star’s extraordinary defenses and began investigating its people, while information about the Longevity-Cursed Species spread across the Federation forum.

• Zhou Heng considered the Fate hints about the Natalc Star Nation and the Supreme Council traitor, then headed back to Blue Star to pursue the third path.
• A Natalc Star Nation analyst found that a virus had expanded Blue Star’s radius from roughly 6,000 kilometers to one million kilometers.
• Nata Tianhuang and the Natalc Star Nation soldiers saw the Distant City River of All Living Beings and the Heng God of Blue Star, and Nata Tianhuang suspected that π Longevity kept Zhou Heng from leaving Blue Star.
• Nata Tianhuang’s reinforcements landed along the coast of the supermassive Xia Kingdom and questioned children about Zhou Heng and the Longevity-Cursed Species.
• Blue Star Federation players shared what they knew about the Longevity-Cursed Species after Natalc Star Nation technology pinned a forum post, and Supreme Council members supplied more detailed information.

Nata Tianhuang learned that Sakast held powerful figures and threats far beyond what a Novice Village should contain, and feared Zhou Heng would claim the Savior Star Child title. Zhou Heng then struck at the connection between Blue Star and Sakast, but Su Longevity intervened as Blue Sky’s radiance engulfed them both, prompting Nata Tianhuang to rush after them.

• Nata Tianhuang reviewed intelligence from Sakast and discovered the Soaring Rooftop, the Twelve Heroes, former Divine Truth members, and trapped Watchers were all in the Novice Village.
• Nata Tianhuang’s soldiers warned that the village was too dangerous to enter, and they feared Zhou Heng might take the Savior Star Child title.
• Nata Tianhuang recognized Zhou Heng as possibly the player once favored by the Boundless Star Maiden and urged his nation’s leaders to send stronger forces.
• Zhou Heng shrank the Distant City River of All Living Beings, counted down, and swung the Blooming Starlight Sword at the connection between Blue Star and Sakast.
• Su Longevity formed from the white substance and reached for Zhou Heng, while Blue Sky’s radiance engulfed them both.
• Nata Tianhuang instructed his soldiers to help Blue Star Civilization advance its technology, then sped toward the place where Zhou Heng had disappeared.