Chapter Summaries

Su Longevity · As Within, So Without examined his overwhelming abilities and concluded Zhou Heng planned to face him without using the Record of All Beings. As he headed toward Sakast, The Bystander gave him a magic-tech instrument, and he ordered it to recover Zhou Heng’s exiled Bystander Corpse.

• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without reviewed his attributes and skills, including powers that countered Zhou Heng’s lifespan and will checks.
• Su Longevity · Biaoli Riyi wondered why Zhou Heng and the others had not appeared, then suspected Zhou Heng intended to defeat him without the Record of All Beings.
• Su Longevity · Biaoli Riyi flew toward Sakast in an upright seated posture.
• The Bystander presented Su Longevity · Biaoli Riyi with a magic-tech strong-interference convergence astral instrument.
• Su Longevity · Biaoli Riyi gave The Bystander an emerald four-leaf clover and ordered it to use the item and its inheritance to retrieve the exiled Bystander Corpse Zhou Heng had taken.

Su Longevity · As Within, So Without reached Karenna’s remains and spent a month converging skills while locating her missing head in the Quark world. He launched a mecha toward it, slaughtered players and other beings to gather False/Real Celestial Palace Fragments, and contacted Sage Giant Brain to converge all the Soaring Rooftops for the final stage.

• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without found Karenna pinned beneath the Sakast Imperial Sword (Holy Sword) and spoke with Naren Sakaste, who warned that only one year remained before Zhou Heng could return.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without used the Magic-Tech Strong-Interference Convergence Astrolabe to create new skills, including Space-Time Technology Tree (Molecular State) and Sakast Ice and Snow.
• On March 2, Year 10372 of the Online Game Era, Su Longevity · As Within, So Without sensed the location of Karenna’s head in the Quark world and sent a tiny mecha toward it.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without grew enormous and killed players, NPCs, and monsters to collect False/Real Celestial Palace Fragments.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without contacted Sage Giant Brain to converge all the Soaring Rooftops for the final stage.

Zhou Heng entered Bose'er’s Mind Corridor and witnessed the Light Deity · Boson create and bless the wolf. Boson failed to intervene in Sakast, while a Sea of Stars Deity learned about the Novice Village and ordered intelligence gathered before leaving matters to the company’s system.

• Zhou Heng found the sleeping Light Giant Wolf Bose'er and entered its Mind Corridor with Mind Journey · Decay.
• Zhou Heng touched a strand of light and saw Light Deity · Boson create Bose'er and send the wolf into the Sea of Stars to seek his path.
• Light Deity · Boson sensed darkness in Sakast but could not send power there, so he withdrew and activated mechanisms within Light Element elemental lifeforms.
• A Sea of Stars Deity at Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. · Headquarters investigated Sakast and ordered intelligence about it gathered.
• The Sea of Stars Deity learned about the Vast Star Nation Collapse Plan, the company's experiments in Sakast, and Su Longevity and Zhou Heng, then left their affairs to the company’s system.

Zhou Heng accepted Light Deity Boson’s trial to gain mastery of the light element and entered the Elemental Perfection dungeon. As Bose’er held off Boltanse in Sakast, Zhou Heng effortlessly cleared the dungeon’s first stage.

• Zhou Heng chose the elemental-perfection trial and entered the Elemental Perfection dungeon to seize its reward from Perfection’s Planetary Light.
• Bose’er told Boltanse that it had prepared to neutralize him and be annihilated rather than let him transmit Zhou Heng’s power to Boson.
• Boltanse refused to accept defeat and resumed attacking Bose’er, intent on devouring its power and using it to destroy Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng encountered the first stage’s level 10000 light element god-given lifeforms and killed them simply by passing through them.

Zhou Heng defeated the stages of the “Elemental Perfection” trial and killed Perfection’s Planetary Light, which then created the item Elemental Perfection for him. Back in Bose’er’s Mind Corridor, Zhou Heng suspected that Su Longevity · As Within, So Without was approaching and set off to face the coming duel.

• Zhou Heng slew every Light Element God-Given Lifeform in the trial’s first ninety-nine stages and reached its final stage.
• Perfection’s Planetary Light appeared, but Zhou Heng struck it with a sword light and dealt overwhelming damage.
• After searching Sakast’s data, Perfection’s Planetary Light learned about Zhou Heng and his All-Knowing and All-Seeing talent, then decided to give him Elemental Perfection.
• Perfection’s Planetary Light collapsed into a white flame and became Elemental Perfection, an item that guaranteed light-element damage and countered dark-element defenses.
• Zhou Heng returned to Bose’er’s Mind Corridor, sensed that an enemy was coming, and identified Su Longevity · As Within, So Without as his likely opponent.
• Zhou Heng accepted the prospect of a duel and strode away.

Zhou Heng faced Su Longevity · As Within, So Without and the remains of Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm while arranging for Bose'er to fight Boltanse. He sent Vast Eternal Krosa against the enemy's assault, but the abyss aura shattered his time reversal and struck Krosa.

• Boltanse sensed Zhou Heng approaching in Bose'er's Mind Corridor, and a Mecha entered and unleashed a barrage of attacks at him.
• Zhou Heng read Fate Hint's guidance and chose a plan to help Bose'er devour Boltanse while preparing to confront Su Longevity himself.
• Zhou Heng summoned Vast Eternal Krosa and used Time Reversal to give Elemental Perfection to Bose'er.
• Bose'er swallowed Elemental Perfection and lunged at Boltanse as Su Longevity's clones attacked Zhou Heng.
• Su Longevity revealed that he had analyzed Zhou Heng's abilities, then used abyss aura to shatter Time Reversal and strike Vast Eternal Krosa.

Zhou Heng used the Abyss Aura from Su Longevity · As Within, So Without’s attack to create Transcendence's Dark Torso and prepare a counterattack. Su Longevity · As Within, So Without launched a desperate move that revealed the Soaring Rooftop · Central Foundation Stone, while the Light Giant Wolf "Bose'er" swallowed the weakened Black Giant Wolf "Boltanse".

• Zhou Heng absorbed the Abyss Aura and formed Dark Sky Wings and Transcendence's Dark Torso, raising his Dark Erosion to the 1ee level.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without chose not to flee and attacked with shattered black mirrors and Space-Time Fracture Crush, but Zhou Heng cut the skill apart with an Abyss-transformed Heaven and Earth · Sword · Mind Severance.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without sacrificed his Su Longevity clones, covered the wreckage of Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm in black mirror-like substance, and sent a glimmer beyond the Mind Corridor of the Light Giant Wolf "Bose'er."
• The Light Giant Wolf "Bose'er" suddenly shrank, allowing the Black Giant Wolf "Boltanse" to laugh and prepare to swallow him, but pressure from the Soaring Rooftop · Central Foundation Stone flattened Boltanse.
• The Black Giant Wolf "Boltanse" identified Youtier as being behind the Soaring Rooftop, and the Light Giant Wolf "Bose'er" swallowed him before he could finish speaking.

Su Longevity · As Within, So Without launched an all-out assault to force Zhou Heng into a final showdown, while Zhou Heng used the Abyss Panel to transform Bose'er into a bound battle pet. Zhou Heng then saw the Celestial Palaces between truth and falsehood, and a new hint from fate began to appear.

• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without fused Celestial Palace fragments and Soaring Rooftop sections to open a path toward the false/real Celestial Palace.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without used Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm to draw the Endless Corridor of the Mind toward the Atomic World and force Zhou Heng into battle.
• Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint and poured Abyss Aura into Bose'er, causing the Light Giant Wolf to transform as the Abyss Panel overwhelmed the Light Deity Boson's underlying code.
• The Light Deity Boson sensed that its child had disappeared and wondered whether the Endless Abyss mechanics meant rebirth or death.
• Zhou Heng bound the transformed Light-Dark Star Wolf and saw countless Celestial Palaces between truth and falsehood before another hint from fate appeared.

Zhou Heng waited until Su Longevity · As Within, So Without entered the False/Real Celestial Palace, then claimed the Black Giant Wolf "Boltanse's" death drop, a countermeasure against data tampering. After returning to the Graveyard of All Beings, he received the Record of All Beings and followed a newly formed passage as the Sixth Chosen One began speaking to him.

• Zhou Heng ignored Su Longevity · As Within, So Without's warning and waited as the remains of Hollow Spirit's Long Space-Time Realm entered the False/Real Celestial Palace.
• Zhou Heng reached toward the spot where the Black Giant Wolf "Boltanse" had disappeared and retrieved Endless Willow Branch · Abyss α, which could suppress calamity data and counter data tampering.
• Zhou Heng returned to the Graveyard of All Beings, where the Record of All Beings formed a heart of light in his hand and granted him repeated All attributes (gold) +1 increases.
• Emerald glimmers formed a passage from the Graveyard of All Beings toward Sakast, intersecting the route opened through the False/Real Celestial Palace.
• Zhou Heng stepped onto the new passage, and the voice of the Sixth Chosen One reached him.

Zhou Heng escaped into Waltz Xiaoyue Star City as it fused with the False/True Celestial Palace, creating Star City Celestial Palace and completing the preliminary construction of the Blue Sky Divine Kingdom. Su Longevity · As Within, So Without and countless others rushed toward the new dungeon to claim its witnessing reward.

• Zhou Heng recognized Su Longevity · As Within, So Without among the figures watching him, then activated Anti-Air Orbital Cannon Authority as his countdown ended.
• Waltz Xiaoyue Star City broke through Sakast's space and collided with the False/True Celestial Palace, while the Old Man in a Straw Hat and Cape pulled the falling structures into Sakast with Ancient Sea of Stars Heavenly Fishing.
• Zhou Heng deactivated Vast Eternal Krosa and entered Waltz Xiaoyue Star City just before it merged with the False/True Celestial Palace to form a new dungeon.
• Star City Celestial Palace opened to Blue Sky Divine Kingdom (Prototype), with buffs that commanded the kingdom's dungeons, let living beings witness the eldest princess's remnant might, and drew the kingdom's resources into the dungeon.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without questioned whether a Divine Kingdom was optional, then charged toward Star City Celestial Palace; the Contemplative Skeleton King, Star Capital, Earth, Xiaoyue, and many other beings followed.

Zhou Heng followed Embraced Love through unstable slices of Sakast’s past and witnessed Zhou Qingqing’s desperate attempts to learn what Su Longevity had done to the future. The vision ended with Su Longevity killing her and challenging Zhou Heng, who was expelled from the dungeon after answering that he was ready.

• Zhou Heng entered the Sandwich-Mode Thousand-Layer Space-Time Pie and found himself in the unstable past of Sarendona.
• Embraced Love guided Zhou Heng to the Imperial Palace, where he overheard Zhou Qingqing questioning Su Longevity about the future and an attempt to kill him.
• Zhou Heng followed Embraced Love through further scenes in a slum and the sewers, where Zhou Qingqing confronted Su Longevity and tried to force him to reveal what he had done.
• Zhou Heng witnessed countless versions of Zhou Qingqing sacrificing herself to corrupt Su Longevity and become a weapon of hatred against him.
• Su Longevity killed Zhou Qingqing in the vision, then challenged Zhou Heng to prepare for their battle; Zhou Heng said he was ready before the dungeon expelled him.

After completing the first dungeon, Zhou Heng gained Beauty God's Boundless Defilement and entered Amitabha's False Western Heaven. Fate revealed that collecting its false Eastern immortal and god skills could help him create a unique skill set, and he began picking them up.

• Zhou Heng stored Beauty God's Boundless Defilement, formed from Beauty Goddess Zhou Qingqing, in his backpack.
• Zhou Heng chose the western dungeon, Amitabha's False Western Heaven, from the newly revealed routes.
• Zhou Heng saw through the false Buddhas' disguises, revealing them as demons, and killed them with Heaven and Earth's Killing Three Lives Sword.
• Fate told Zhou Heng that gathering the false Eastern immortal and god skills could let him fuse falsehood and reality, but warned that abandoning this path would prevent him from developing Creation of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhou Heng crouched down and began collecting the false skills.

Zhou Heng fought through Amitabha's False Western Heaven, defeated its fused demon, and encountered Bard · Youtier, who revealed a route toward a Divine Truth skill. Vastness · Waltz then appeared, destroyed the Celestial Palace Fragment, and tasked Zhou Heng with repelling Su Longevity · As Within, So Without before the funnel emptied.

• Zhou Heng slew false Buddhas and collected six empty false Eastern immortal and god system skills, triggering the Dungeon's demons to merge into a black heavenly demon.
• Zhou Heng defeated the black heavenly demon and uncovered a Celestial Palace Fragment, which resonated with his Elegant Compassionate Sea of Stars Flute.
• Bard · Youtier appeared, told Zhou Heng to use the fragment and flute to reach his double, and urged him to pursue the Boundless Starsea.
• Vastness · Waltz appeared on the second throne, crushed the fragment and other Celestial Palace Fragments into a funnel, and challenged Zhou Heng to repel Su Longevity · As Within, So Without before its grains ran out.
• Zhou Heng received the unique quest and learned that its reward was the Truth LV1 skill Sea of Stars · Starry Sky, which granted one Deity experience point every ten thousand years in the Boundless Starsea.

Zhou Heng used Fate Hint to find a way to pursue every reward and objective, then rejected the Eldest Princess's quest and challenged her to a wager. He left the dungeon determined to confront Su Longevity and claim the Truth Skill and dungeon without her approval.

• Fate Hint presented Zhou Heng with four possible paths, including one that could secure all his goals.
• Zhou Heng chose the fourth path and followed its guidance to lay the hourglass on the ground.
• Zhou Heng told Vastness · Waltz that he did not need her quest or her approval to face Su Longevity and claim the Truth Skill.
• Zhou Heng wagered that he would repel Su Longevity · As Within, So Without, obtain Sea of Stars · Starry Sky, and converge and return the dungeon.
• Vastness · Waltz called Zhou Heng interesting and said she looked forward to his arrival as he vanished into the distance.

Zhou Heng followed Fate Hint through dungeons while practicing the Vast Star Fist, steadily increasing his power. In the Endless Technology Great Wall, the Mechanical-Like Old Man discovered Starlight Leaf · Seed Tears growing on a drifting corpse, just as a human emerged from a space-time rift beside it.

• Zhou Heng entered the Space-Time False Rift and practiced the Vast Star Fist until his special attributes reached 300,000.
• Fate Hint directed Zhou Heng to the Endless Technology Great Wall, where he kept practicing as players and NPCs watched him.
• The Mechanical-Like Old Man recognized Zhou Heng's Vast Star Fist and Primordial Living Beings Panel aura, then accepted that the Vast Star Nation had to rely on Zhou Heng against π Longevity.
• The Mechanical-Like Old Man used faint emerald light to scan the dungeon and found Starlight Leaf · Seed Tears growing on a corpse drifting through a hidden blind spot.
• A small space-time rift appeared beside the corpse, and a human cautiously crawled out.

The ten-petal longevity-cursed species “The Bystander” touched the ancient hero “The Bystander’s” corpse and was killed by the hero’s trial. The hero then received the Star-Climbing Tree Seed and planted it among the 107 Starlight Leaf · Seed Tear plants, beginning Zhou Heng’s plan to connect Sakast’s temporal layers.

• The ten-petal longevity-cursed species “The Bystander” found the ancient hero’s corpse and tried to take it, triggering the mandatory hero trial.
• Unable to move or escape during the ten-second trial, the ten-petal longevity-cursed species “The Bystander” was killed by the ancient hero’s will.
• The ancient hero “The Bystander” absorbed the dead species’ class and noticed that one of the 108 Starlight Leaf · Seed Tear plants was missing.
• The mechanical-looking old man recognized the Star-Climbing Tree Seed’s role and sent it to the ancient hero “The Bystander.”
• The ancient hero “The Bystander” planted the Star-Climbing Tree Seed among the 107 plants, aiming to grow the Star-Climbing Ancient Tree and connect the temporal layers.

Zhou Heng perfected the Vast Star Fist and used the Mechanical-Like Old Man’s dungeon to fight endless Su Longevity clones, raising his health to the limit. Fate Hint then instructed him to leave the Endless Technology Great Wall and perform a specific dance and tune before transcending that limit.

• Zhou Heng perfected the third stage of Vast Star Fist and continued training to raise his health.
• The Mechanical-Like Old Man realized Zhou Heng was using the dungeon to gather health and brought in level 10000 longevity-cursed species clones.
• Countless Su Longevity clones attacked Zhou Heng, who killed them while repeatedly tempering Vast Star Fist.
• Zhou Heng’s health reached the 1ee limit after ten thousand rounds of training.
• Fate Hint told Zhou Heng to stop transcending the health limit, leave the dungeon, and play a waltz while assembling Karenna’s head with the Quark Body and dancing.

Zhou Heng used the Compassionate Waltz to draw the False/Real Celestial Palace’s remaining power toward himself, while Su Longevity · As Within, So Without raced to intercept him. Vastness · Waltz lifted Su Longevity’s speed restrictions, and the chapter ended as he reached Zhou Heng and raised his hand to attack.

• Zhou Heng stopped training and played the Compassionate Waltz while a Karenna Particle Avatar danced beside him.
• The music affected Su Longevity · As Within, So Without and the headless Karenna, whose competing wills began steering her toward Zhou Heng.
• The False/Real Celestial Palace’s remaining power streamed toward Zhou Heng, but false scenes delayed Su Longevity when he tried to seize it.
• Vastness · Waltz lifted Su Longevity’s attack-speed and movement-speed restrictions, allowing him to reach 1.2 billion meters per second.
• Su Longevity spotted Zhou Heng and the dancing Karenna, considered the situation, and reached toward Zhou Heng with his palm.

Zhou Heng played the “Waltz of the Night at the Vast Star Nation's Royal Court” to draw the palace fragments toward him while “Su Longevity · As Within, So Without” battled Karenna’s head. He chose to return Karenna’s head and empower his opponent, preparing to merge the Noble Ancient Flute and act.

• Karenna’s particle avatar and head blocked “Su Longevity · As Within, So Without” from reaching Zhou Heng, and the two sides fought to a stalemate.
• Zhou Heng switched from the “Compassionate Waltz” to the “Waltz” and visualized the palace structures.
• Vastness · Waltz agreed to Zhou Heng’s wish and sent the connected palace fragments toward him as starlight.
• Fate presented Zhou Heng with a choice between keeping “Su Longevity · As Within, So Without” weaker or returning Karenna’s head to grant her a perfect final curtain.
• Zhou Heng chose to return Karenna’s head and gain more attributes, then received instructions to merge the Noble Ancient Flute into the Elegant Compassionate Sea of Stars Flute and tap it toward his opponent.

Zhou Heng used the False/True Guidance to disarm Su Longevity · As Within, So Without and claim the Magic-Tech Strong-Interference Convergence Star Instrument. The False/True Celestial Palace event shattered, the Rooftop Leap Dungeon began collapsing, and the two adversaries left the conflict for the Final Battle.

• Zhou Heng’s flute drew the False/True Guidance toward Su Longevity · As Within, So Without, piercing him and knocking the Magic-Tech Strong-Interference Convergence Star Instrument from his backpack.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without failed to recover the instrument, while Zhou Heng caught it and the False/True Guidance collided with the incoming Soaring Rooftops.
• Zhou Heng shattered the False/True Celestial Palace event as its fragments joined the False/True Guidance and battered the three Soaring Rooftops.
• The repeated impacts destabilized the Waltz of Truth and Falsehood · Star City Celestial Palace (Rooftop Leap), and warnings announced that the Dungeon was collapsing.
• Su Longevity · As Within, So Without attached Karenna’s head and left, while Zhou Heng stepped onto a Star-Colored Staircase toward the Final Battle.