Chapter Summaries

After killing Kamorshe, Zhou Heng massacred the Divine Truths fleeing Brightlight Giant City until Xingyueye explained how Eternity Species had artificially raised many of them. He spared the survivors at her request, learned where he might find the Merciful Holy Mother, and stayed to inspect the resources he had seized as Xingyueye warned him that his exposed Born Star God power would draw danger.

• Zhou Heng returned to Brightlight Giant City after killing Kamorshe, frightening the Divine Truths who had supported the Eternity Species.
• Zhou Heng attacked the fleeing Divine Truths at 60,000 times light speed, repeatedly killing them as they revived.
• Xingyueye introduced herself and explained that many Divine Truths had been artificially raised with God-Ascending Divinity to serve Eternity Species.
• Xingyueye asked Zhou Heng to spare Brightlight Giant City's Divine Truths, and Zhou Heng asked whether she knew the Merciful Holy Mother.
• Xingyueye identified the Merciful Holy Mother as Compassionate Vastness and suggested Zhou Heng seek her in the ancient, shattered Yixuxi Starfield.
• Zhou Heng spared the Divine Truths for compassion, while Xingyueye warned him about the danger of revealing his Born Star God and the hidden depths of the Starry Sky dungeon.

Zhou Heng summoned Sea of Stars Merchant Wuwu, who assessed his resources and revealed that Zhou Heng had only recently entered the Sea of Stars. Wuwu bought most of his goods, warned him to keep the meteorite and metal piles, and lent him an item connected to finding the Boundless Star Maiden.

• Zhou Heng used a Sea of Stars Merchant Invitation, and Wuwu arrived at Brightlight Giant City and opened his shop.
• Zhou Heng found Wuwu's merchandise far beyond his means and offered the resources he had gathered instead.
• Wuwu bought Zhou Heng's resources except the fragmented meteorite piles and discarded metal piles, paying him 100 billion star crystals.
• Wuwu warned Zhou Heng that Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. was buying the piles and told him not to sell them.
• Wuwu gave Zhou Heng a strand of hair as an interest-free loan toward finding the Boundless Star Maiden, asking him to repay it when he obtained a Yōuyuǎn Heart.

Zhou Heng merged a Boundless Star Maiden’s hair with Star Maiden’s Light Hair to create the powerful Star God Long Hair, then returned to Beauty Star Nation to restore Wings of Freedom and claim the Vast Star Position. After Wings of Freedom transformed and greatly increased his speed, he strode toward the position as Blue Sky Star Nation citizens watched him go.

• Sea of Stars merchant Nothingness wondered at Zhou Heng’s powers, then left to find another user of a Sea of Stars Merchant Invitation.
• Zhou Heng collected the meteorites and discarded metal and examined the strand of hair Nothingness had left behind.
• Zhou Heng merged the Boundless Star Maiden’s hair with Star Maiden’s Light Hair, creating Star God Long Hair, and equipped it.
• Zhou Heng entered Beauty Star Nation to return Wings of Freedom (Fragmented) and acquire the Vast Star Position.
• Wings of Freedom (Fragmented) transformed into Wings of Freedom · Starwind (Fragmented), increasing Zhou Heng’s attack and movement speed by a hundredfold.
• Zhou Heng strode toward the Vast Star Position as citizens of Blue Sky Star Nation bid farewell to him.

Zhou Heng entered the second stage of the Vast Star Position Trial and experienced the Ice Clan’s persecution on the B141 Administrative Planet as Valuwa. Guided by Fate Hint, he won Star Radiance’s wager and was sent through the Ancient Era · Sea of Stars Star Gate to meet the Vast Star Lord.

• Zhou Heng became Valuwa, learned that the Ice Clan faced extermination, and inherited the mission to reach the Star Gate after his mother died.
• Zhou Heng rejected the elder’s offer of help and followed Fate Hint’s instructions to change the Vast Star Lord’s past.
• Zhou Heng endured a Flame Clan member’s burning attack, then told Star Radiance he would claim a Star Lord’s seat.
• Star Radiance challenged Zhou Heng to answer ten questions, and Zhou Heng selected every answer with Fate Hint’s guidance in three seconds.
• Star Radiance recognized Zhou Heng as the answer the Vast Star Lord needed and sent him into the Star Gate.

Zhou Heng passed the second stage of the Vast Star Position trial and fought the Vast Star Lord in the third stage. He defeated the Vast Star Lord with a single palm strike and received his rewards, but was warned that Another Me was still alive.

• Zhou Heng entered the Ancient Era · Sea of Stars Star Gate, heard the Ice Clan’s pleas, and witnessed the Ice God Bird grant Vastness his wish to become human.
• The Vast Star Lord revealed that he had survived as an Ice Clan member, received the Ice God Bird’s blessing, and established the Vast Star Nation before beginning the third trial.
• The Vast Star Lord expanded to one light-year and summoned the Soaring Rooftop and nine Army Lords to attack Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng expanded his divine body to ten light-years and used his Born Star God power to destroy the nine Army Lords and the Soaring Rooftop with one palm strike.
• The Vast Star Lord accepted his defeat, awarded Zhou Heng the trial rewards, and warned him that Another Me was still alive.

Zhou Heng obtained the Vast Star Nation's treasury and a withered Ice God Bird Egg, then chose to erode the Vast Star Position rather than claim or give it away. The process was expected to take 20,000 years, and he turned his attention to the coming slaughter with ten years remaining.

• The Vast Star Lord vanished after hinting that the Vast Star Nation would rise again and that he sought the Ice God Bird's power.
• Zhou Heng examined the Vast Star Nation's Vastness Treasure Vault and the withered Ice God Bird Egg, which the Health Ancient Tree offered to nurture.
• Fate warned Zhou Heng that claiming the Vast Star Position would expose him to the past Vast Star Lord, while giving it to Blue Sky would be safer.
• Zhou Heng sat on the Virus Throne and used the Virus Lord's authority to bind and erode the Vast Star Position, unlocking the ninth chapter of the fifth expansion.
• Zhou Heng saw that erosion would take 20,000 years and said that ten years remained before the slaughter.

The Sea of Stars Cloud Star Lord sent a hundred powerful beings into the Guangming and Darkness's Sea of Stars · Starry Sky dungeon to capture Zhou Heng, a newly discovered Born Star God. Their preparations were interrupted when the Vast Star Lord returned from the past and the search for the lost truth of Vastness began as the Boundless Starsea's ninth chapter.

• The Sea of Stars Cloud Star Lord learned of Zhou Heng and, unable to send Yōuyuǎn True Gods into the dungeon, sought help from a powerful being in the Creation Star Domain.
• The powerful being ordered Alutu, Kesuoer, Wangshang, Wangxia, and others to enter the dungeon and capture Zhou Heng using a hundred permissions from the Sea of Stars Cloud Star Lord.
• The Vast Star Lord appeared over the Boundless Starsea and commanded the Subjects of the Star Nation to find whoever was devouring the power of Vastness Truth.
• The Sea of Stars Cloud Star Lord and the 10,000-light-year being recognized the Vast Star Lord and considered the significance of his return.
• A Sea of Stars announcement declared that the ninth chapter had begun and called on all living beings to search for the lost truth of Vastness.

As the Ninth Chapter of the fifth expansion began, Lin Xinyi and the others realized Zhou Heng might be endangered by Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd.'s search for the truth of Vastness. While they followed a bloodstained gauze deeper into a dungeon, two Galaxy Giants tracking Zhou Heng arrived and confronted them.

• Across the Boundless Starsea, powerful factions reacted to the Ninth Chapter's opening and made plans to pursue their own goals.
• Lin Xinyi and the others concluded that Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. might investigate Blue Star while searching the regions lost with the Vast Star Nation, putting Zhou Heng at risk.
• A female deity offered to warn Zhou Heng, but Lin Xinyi refused and led the group deeper into the dungeon by following bloodstained gauze.
• Two Galaxy Giants entered the area and tracked Zhou Heng through the dungeon.
• A Galaxy Giant sealed Lin Xinyi and the others' Magic Side truths, displayed Zhou Heng's portrait, and demanded to know whether they had seen him.

A Galaxy Giant named Natan tricked Lin Xinyi and the other Human Kind into revealing that they knew where Zhou Heng might be, then attacked them when their companion gave away their relief. As Natan’s giant palms closed in, a Star Devouring Starry Sky Dragon roared about refusing enslavement and triggered a violent change in the Sea of Stars, drawing Lin Xinyi into its depths.

• Lin Xinyi claimed she had never seen Zhou Heng and suggested he might be in Haotian Star City, prompting Natan to pretend to leave.
• A Human Kind Divine Truth said Natan was finally gone, revealing their suspicion, and Natan attacked them with golden hands.
• Lin Xinyi and Huang Tianyang fled in opposite directions as Natan’s Glorious Gaze weakened them and his Heaven-Splitting Giant Palms pursued them.
• A furious voice from the dungeon’s depths declared that the Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring would never be enslaved and called for Blood Galaxy to open.
• The Sea of Stars shook, and Lin Xinyi shrank into human form before plunging into it.

Galaxy Giant Natan learned that Zhou Heng had last been seen in Brightlight Giant City, killed the informant who revealed it, and headed there alone to claim the newly ascended born star god. Meanwhile, Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Kalter struggled against the Blood Galaxy after realizing the Eternity Species had lured him into its trap.

• Galaxy Giant Natan questioned a captive Galactic Federation Divine Truth about Zhou Heng and learned he had last been seen in Brightlight Giant City.
• Galaxy Giant Natan released the captive, then used a silver Mechanical Deity to tear him apart and kill him for lying.
• Galaxy Giant Natan kept the information from his allies and raced toward Brightlight Giant City to capture Zhou Heng for himself.
• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Kalter tried to overturn the Blood Galaxy, furious that the Eternity Species had manipulated him into seeking the Ancient Purifying Bottle.
• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Kalter concluded the Eternity Species had orchestrated the trap after the Blood Galaxy’s domain drained his blood and converted his attributes.

Zhou Heng faced Galaxy Giant Natan, who attacked him with the technology-side domain Starfield Domain. Zhou Heng countered with Star God Long Hair, but Natan summoned Machine God Bolangkeluntian as silver light poured from a vast spatial rift.

• Starry Sky Dragon of Star Devouring · Kalter realized that his attributes were turning into health and that his death would attract Divine Truths to the dungeon, serving the eternity species’ plans.
• Zhou Heng waited in Brightlight Giant City while surveying the surrounding ten light-years, then spotted Galaxy Giant Natan approaching.
• Natan attacked Zhou Heng with golden palms and unfolded Starfield Domain to seal Zhou Heng’s magic-side abilities, but the attacks dealt no damage.
• Zhou Heng warned Natan that he should have brought allies, then used Star God Long Hair to seal Natan’s magic-side skills below Truth LV10 and dispel his attacks.
• Natan called for Machine God Bolangkeluntian as spatial rifts opened and merged into a rift spanning more than 1,000 light-years, releasing streams of silver light.

Zhou Heng calmly fought the Galaxy Giant Natan, evading the attacks of Natan’s Machine God, Bolangkeluntian, while Natan prepared his hidden killing move. Zhou Heng let witnesses spread news of his location, hoping to draw Eternity Species to the Health Ancient Tree, and Natan began to regret the encounter.

• Natan emerged from the colossal rift in Bolangkeluntian, a mechanical deity over 1,000 light-years tall, and attacked Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng used his vastly superior movement speed to evade Bolangkeluntian’s strikes and lasers while Natan continued attacking and prepared his trump cards.
• Divine Truths gathered over Brightlight Giant City, appraised Zhou Heng’s level 10001, and spread news of his power and location to their factions.
• Zhou Heng allowed the witnesses to report him so Eternity Species might come within reach of the Health Ancient Tree, while Natan wondered what Zhou Heng was planning and began to regret the fight.

High Heaven and the other Star Lords assessed the mysterious Zhou Heng, while the Eternity Families prepared forces to enter the dungeon and confront him. Tianren Li, who was more certain Zhou Heng was not a safeguard left by Light Deity · Boson, remained unsure how to respond.

• High Heaven ordered 30 million level 1 million Divine Truth beings into the dungeon and told them to kill Zhou Heng if possible, but otherwise let him go.
• Star Lords of the Fallen Star Domain and the Ancient Map Star Domain sent powerful Divine Truth beings to pursue Zhou Heng, while the Sea of Stars Cloud Star Domain held back.
• Wu Guangyi suspected Zhou Heng was a pawn of Light Deity · Boson and ordered 10 million Eternity Species members of First Star Ring strength to target him.
• Zhen Tiandi ordered 10,000 level 1 million stellar Radiance-level beings into the dungeon, believing Zhou Heng was a measure left by Light Deity · Boson.
• Tianren Li reviewed detailed intelligence about Zhou Heng, judged he was almost certainly not Boson's measure, and wondered how to act.

Tian Zhiyu learned that the eternity species planned to seal Guangming · Darkness's Sea of Stars · Starry Sky and sacrifice its inhabitants to obtain the Ancient Purifying Bottle and release the Fated Black River. As factions gathered inside the dungeon, the eternity species avoided confronting Zhou Heng directly, while ordinary Divine Truths began to realize how dangerous he was.

• Tian Zhiyu read Patriarch Tianren · Li's plan to claim Zhou Heng and the Ancient Purifying Bottle, seal the dungeon, and sacrifice everyone inside to the Blood Galaxy.
• Three black-robed members of the Sea of Stars Magic Association learned from Lady Xingyueye that the eternity species intended to seal the dungeon, and they resolved to stop them from obtaining the Ancient Purifying Bottle.
• Tens of thousands of figures inside the dungeon decided to wait for the shift to the world of darkness and seek authority at the Blood Galaxy instead of traveling toward Brightlight Giant City to face Zhou Heng.
• The eternity species entering the dungeon held back, each expecting someone else to confront Zhou Heng first.
• Ordinary Divine Truths rushed toward Brightlight Giant City but reconsidered after learning Zhou Heng's opponent was a Galaxy Giant.

Unable to leave the Dungeon, Zhou Heng and its inhabitants waited through two years until the Dungeon Reversal plunged the Sea of Stars into darkness. There, millions of Eternity Species exposed his coordinates and attacked him, and Zhou Heng prepared to fight back with the Sakast · Heaven and Earth Killing Sword.

• Ordinary practitioners of "Divine Truth" and Galaxy Giant Natan discovered they could not log out of the Dungeon; Natan questioned Zhou Heng, then retreated without fighting him.
• Zhou Heng stayed in Brightlight Giant City as Galaxy Giants and Eternity Species avoided the area, and he waited quietly for the Dungeon's ten-year period to end.
• At the end of the second year, the Dungeon underwent its Reversal, flipping Brightlight Giant City into the dark world and limiting Zhou Heng's vision to 1 astronomical unit.
• Millions of Darkness's Anchor (True Name) effects exposed Zhou Heng's coordinates, and Eternity Species surrounded him in the darkness and launched attacks.
• Zhou Heng ignored the incoming attacks and summoned the Sakast · Heaven and Earth Killing Sword, eager to harvest the Eternity Species.

Zhou Heng fought the First Star Ring-tier Eternity Species while Galaxy Giant Alutu gathered their power to pull him into the atomic dimension. Alutu completed the skill’s activation and challenged Zhou Heng to face him.

• Zhou Heng dealt enormous damage to the Eternity Species but could not prevent them from reviving because of the Guangming and Darkness Revival Coin.
• Alutu told the other Galaxy Giants to lend him their Machine Gods’ Dimensional Power and ordered them to flee to the Blood Galaxy if he failed to capture Zhou Heng.
• The Eternity Species transferred their attributes to Alutu as he activated The Glory and Greatness of the Atomic World, while Zhou Heng continued killing them and taking resources from their Divine Kingdoms.
• Alutu’s talent showed him a vision of Zhou Heng killing him, and he resolved to hold Zhou Heng back so his kin could escape.
• The skill reached 100% activation, and Alutu called out Zhou Heng and opened the way to the atomic dimension.

Zhou Heng fought Galaxy Giant Alutu inside the Atom Dimension while Alutu tried to use their battle to gather intelligence and create the contact needed to activate his final trump card. The fight remained unresolved as Alutu continued attacking, seeking an opening to trigger Virus Source Species · Asphyxiation.

• Alutu pulled Zhou Heng into the Atom Dimension and attacked him with Bolangkeluntian’s skills and Starlight Lightsaber.
• Zhou Heng evaded Alutu’s attacks and gradually improved, eventually fighting him to a standstill at lower speed.
• Alutu judged that Zhou Heng’s damage could not penetrate his defenses and considered how to gain intelligence before his likely death.
• Alutu challenged Zhou Heng to reveal his true strength while secretly preparing to use Virus Source Species · Asphyxiation.
• Zhou Heng remained silent and composed, unsettling Alutu, who resumed attacking to secure the physical contact needed to activate his trump card.

Zhou Heng let Galaxy Giant Alutu imprison him and infect him with Virus Source Species · Asphyxiation, then revealed the Virus Lord Status inside his Divine Kingdom. Alutu realized he had challenged a Roaming Star God who rivaled a Sea of Stars Lord, and faced what he understood to be certain death.

• Zhou Heng and Galaxy Giant Alutu fought in the Atom Dimension while observers doubted Zhou Heng could overcome Alutu's Eternity Source Species.
• Alutu used Quark Dimension Reversal Imprisonment to freeze Zhou Heng, then infected him with Virus Source Species · Asphyxiation.
• Alutu saw Zhou Heng's attributes and movement speed were far greater than he had assumed, but continued the attack as the imprisonment neared its end.
• Alutu followed the virus into Zhou Heng's Divine Kingdom and sent his projection a warning to run.
• The Virus Lord Status sealed the Beauty Star Nation, and Alutu recognized Zhou Heng as a Roaming Star God rivaling a Sea of Stars Lord.

After Zhou Heng trapped Galaxy Giant Alutu in the Beauty Star Nation, Alutu destroyed himself, and the Sea of Stars Clan’s gift strengthened Zhou Heng’s domain and granted its inhabitants an exemption for “Achievement” transcendence. A year later, Zhou Heng had raised his Asphyxiation truth to Planetary Rank and examined the Divine Kingdom resources he had collected, seeing a chance to explore the dark side of the starry-sky dungeon.

• Zhou Heng locked Galaxy Giant Alutu inside the Beauty Star Nation, prompting Alutu’s allies to flee with his Machine God, Bolangkeluntian.
• Galaxy Giant Alutu destroyed himself, but his remnants could not escape the Beauty Star Nation; the Sea of Stars Clan then bestowed a truth gift that expanded the domain, raised its inhabitants’ levels, and granted them a highest-difficulty exemption for “Achievement” transcendence.
• Zhou Heng considered seeking out the Galaxy Giant clan and resolving to find a way to draw living beings into the Beauty Star Nation.
• After a year without challengers, Zhou Heng’s Asphyxiation consumed Alutu’s planetary-rank Asphyxiation and reached Planetary Rank 50%, granting a one-light-year range and a fixed 10% increase to his Light Attribute.
• Zhou Heng inspected the anchoring, reversal-exemption, and Dark Roar resources he had harvested, recognizing an opportunity to roam the dark side of the starry-sky dungeon.

Zhou Heng used the dungeon’s dark roar resources to transform his light skills with the power of Light Deity Boson, gaining vast illumination, surveillance, and combat abilities. When his attempt to anchor Natan failed, he sent a shining Star Path into the darkness to pursue his enemies.

• Zhou Heng used a dark roar to transform Eternal Light of the Sea of Stars into Boson Eternal Light, illuminating darkness within a one-light-year radius.
• He transformed Bright Light of the Sea of Stars and Boundless Road of the Sea of Stars, gaining tenfold visibility and the ability to watch and teleport to living beings along a light Star Path.
• He transformed Divine Justice Multiverse Sword (light) into Divine Guangming Boson Sword, which summoned a hundred-light-year phantom of Boson to attack enemies.
• Zhou Heng entered Natan’s true name into an anchoring item, but Natan sensed the danger and repeatedly used annihilation items to evade the lock.
• Zhou Heng activated Boson Road of the Sea of Stars and traveled deeper into the darkness, leaving an enduring Star Path of light.