Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng’s Heroic Spirits began capturing musicians across the Ancient Star Domain System “Lonely Elegant Scholar,” including the Flame Clan prodigy Kaerte Aoxinghun. After exhausting his supply, Zhou Heng summoned Su Longevity and asked him to become a Heroic Spirit; Su Longevity accepted and lost his sentience.

• Bing Na of the Frost Star Clan left after deciding against confronting Zhou Heng, while he continued releasing Heroic Spirits to search for musicians.
• Kaerte Aoxinghun recalled his defeat in a musical contest against an Eternity Species musician and encountered Sarendo Sakas, a Heroic Spirit sent by Zhou Heng.
• Sarendo Sakas seized Kaerte Aoxinghun and carried him toward Zhou Heng as other Heroic Spirits captured musicians across an expanding area.
• In his 100th year in the event, Zhou Heng exhausted his available Heroic Spirits and entered his soul to summon another batch.
• Su Longevity told Zhou Heng he had become data bound to Zhou Heng, then agreed to become a Heroic Spirit and lost his sentience.

Zhou Heng summoned and deployed a force of 1ee Heroic Spirits to explore the Ancient Star Domain System “Lonely Elegant Scholar” and capture its musicians and Eternity Species. When Wang Wuyi captured a powerful Eternity Species, a hundred-petaled Eternity Species in the system’s center noticed the interference and began investigating.

• Zhou Heng summoned Su Shuangxue and Sad Song Musician as Heroic Spirits, and both joined his forces despite recognizing the danger of serving him.
• Zhou Heng summoned the other Eternity Species he had killed and the units he had defeated in Sakast, eventually reaching the 1ee Heroic Spirit limit in the 200th year of the event.
• Zhou Heng spent 50 years deploying his army, then ordered the Heroic Spirits to explore Lonely Elegant Scholar and apprehend musicians and Eternity Species.
• By the 300th year, Wang Wuyi had reached a point 945 light-years away and captured a fifteen-petaled Eternity Species in a brief chase.
• The captured Eternity Species vanished from Lonely Elegant Scholar, prompting a hundred-petaled Eternity Species at the system’s center to investigate Wang Wuyi and the interference in Star God’s Ancient Ballad.

As Zhou Heng drifted through the extra-large event, “Star God's Ancient Ballad,” powerful beings began investigating the anomaly and a fair-faced man secretly sent nanoscale ants through a spatial rift. Four hundred years after entering the event, Zhou Heng met the first participants and began a musical Dao debate with his sorrowful composition, “All Beings' Unforgotten Lament.”

• The Eternity Species with 100 lotus petals sent out its subjects to find the anomaly and report whether it involved Zhou Heng.
• A fair-faced man judged that the time was not yet ripe, then used “Unobservable Construction at the Nanoscale” to send countless nanoscale ants through a rift.
• Four hundred years after entering “Star God's Ancient Ballad,” Zhou Heng opened his eyes as the first event participants arrived.
• The participants recognized Zhou Heng and challenged him to debate the Dao of music.
• Zhou Heng summoned the “Lonely Zither” and performed his new sorrowful score, “All Beings' Unforgotten Lament.”
• The music debate began, and participants answered Zhou Heng with their own music.

Zhou Heng repeatedly defeated event participants in musical contests, using “All Beings' Unforgotten Lament” to collect and upgrade instruments. After winning ten thousand contests, he became a Genius Musician, regained a limited surveying ability, and unlocked the second-stage mission of “Star God's Ancient Ballad” as another notification appeared.

• Kumushui, Yue Zhilan, and Kuang'ao each lost their musical contest against Zhou Heng and were teleported away with only one instrument apiece.
• Over the following month, Zhou Heng defeated successive batches of participants captured by Heroic Spirits, gaining and upgrading musical instruments.
• The participants realized Zhou Heng was behind the Heroic Spirits' victories and accepted that they had become his stepping stones.
• Zhou Heng's title advanced through successive victory milestones until he defeated ten thousand participants and became a Genius Musician.
• Zhou Heng regained the ability to survey a radius of ten thousand astronomical units and opened the second-stage mission of “Star God's Ancient Ballad.”

Zhou Heng used Fate Hint to understand the trap behind the Star God's Ancient Ballad and continued winning music debates until the event's second-stage quests opened. He saw the location of the strongest participant in the Lonely Elegant Scholar system: Zhen, a 100-petaled eternity species known as Zhen Divine.

• Zhou Heng learned that Bai Zhang planned to exploit level mechanics to kill him and that obtaining a second drop of Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption · Tears of the Heart would risk trapping him in the Krobert Ancient Galaxy System.
• Zhou Heng continued flying through the Lonely Elegant Scholar ancient star domain system, defeating participants and leveling up his musical instruments through music debates.
• Over the thousand years since the event began, Zhou Heng completed tens of thousands of debates and raised all four instruments beyond level one million.
• The second-stage quests for Star God's Ancient Ballad appeared, including quests to defeat high-ranking participants and the Music Apostle · Bass.
• Zhou Heng viewed the event star map and identified its strongest participant in the Lonely Elegant Scholar system as Zhen of the Eternity Family, a 100-petaled eternity species called Zhen Divine.

The ancient star domain systems "Lonely Elegant Scholar," "Krobert," and "Calling" began contracting as the eternity race and Pure White Heaven and Earth prepared to clash in the event "Star God's Ancient Ballad." The "Vast Star Lord" and "Compassionate Vastness" entered the systems in pursuit of powerful truths, while an unseen deity observed the event.

• The pale-faced man used "Nano-Level Unobservable Construction" to coordinate the three ancient star domain systems, which began contracting together.
• "Zhen Divine," "Wu Space-Time," and "Galaxy Summit" each activated "Chains Beyond Space-Time" to seal off their respective star domain systems.
• The "Vast Star Lord" entered "Calling" after sensing the truth of "vastness" and searching for a way to regain control of it.
• "Compassionate Vastness" entered the three systems after sensing the aura of the Library and summoned "National Treasury No. 1."
• A white-robed male deity holding the "Boundless Codex" watched the event from beyond the three star domain systems.

Zhou Heng defeated the Eternity Species Xinlun with a will check, then captured Moluoxing inside Beauty Star Nation. As Moluoxing revived under the Transcendence Torch’s flames, Bai Zhang set out toward Zhou Heng’s location.

• Xinlun used Eternity’s Mind’s Call against Zhou Heng, but Zhou Heng’s will rose to 2eee (Crystal☆) and defeated him.
• Zhou Heng warped to the next point of light, prompting the Eternity Species in Lonely Elegant Scholar to notice Xinlun’s death and investigate.
• Moluoxing met Zhou Heng and tried to start a music debate, but Zhou Heng trapped him in Beauty Star Nation with Buddha’s Kingdom in the Palm.
• Moluoxing sent Zhou Heng’s location through the eternity link, then tried to flee after sensing the danger within Beauty Star Nation.
• The Transcendence Torch blocked Moluoxing and burned him until he revived, then forced him into another will check.
• Zhen Divine relayed Zhou Heng’s location to Bai Zhang, who entered a black hole and charged toward him.

Zhou Heng’s virus subjects overwhelmed the stellar-rank Virus Source Species · Decay, while Su Qingxin began spreading Finality across Beauty Star Nation. After leaving the Virus Throne, Zhou Heng received Fate Hint’s instructions for a coming battle with Bai Zhang and raised his level to 200,000.

• The Eternity Species Moluoxing lost all its Revival Coins, releasing the stellar-rank Virus Source Species · Decay, which failed to send resources to Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. and fled.
• Zhou Heng’s virus subjects and other virus source species chased and attacked the fleeing Decay.
• Su Qingxin spread a black domain across part of Beauty Star Nation and looked toward the Virus Throne.
• Zhou Heng watched Su Qingxin, decided to bring more virus source species into Beauty Star Nation, and then returned to Lonely Elegant Scholar in the Ancient Star Domain System.
• Fate Hint warned Zhou Heng that Bai Zhang would arrive at the battlefield in 15 seconds and directed him to raise his level and order Su Shuangxue to attack a specific tentacle.
• Zhou Heng used Eternity’s Divine Spring in Beauty Star Nation and reached level 200,000.

Bai Zhang obtained the temporary Level Exploitation skill and attacked Zhou Heng as the Vast Star Lord of Past and Former Times activated the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers. Zhou Heng was erased and resurrected, then faced Bai Zhang’s enormous sword strike while the scroll’s summoning countdown began.

• Bai Zhang appealed to the Level Master and received the Truth LV100 skill Level Exploitation (Temporary).
• As Zhou Heng’s Fate Hint countdown neared its end, the Vast Star Lord of Past and Former Times used a black statue to create the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and began drawing in the regions.
• Zhou Heng received notice that Technology’s Boundless Supreme Summoning would send him into the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers after ten seconds.
• When the Fate Hint countdown ended, Eternity’s Gaze erased Zhou Heng, but the Will of Human Civilization revived him at the cost of one resurrection.
• Bai Zhang confronted Zhou Heng, demanded that he join Eternity, and attacked with an enormous sword; Zhou Heng met the unavoidable barrage of strikes.

Zhou Heng and Bai Zhang remained locked in a stalemate as Zhou Heng repeatedly restored the levels Bai Zhang stripped away. Meanwhile, Su Shuangxue recovered a second exemption tear, and the Heaven-Piercing Sword rushed to help Bai Zhang before the three ancient star domain systems were drawn into the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.

• Zhou Heng used Buddha's Kingdom in the Palm against Bai Zhang, while Bai Zhang's Level Exploitation repeatedly lowered Zhou Heng's level and Eternity's Divine Spring restored it.
• Bai Zhang swung his light-year-long greatsword at Zhou Heng as summoned Heroic Spirits attacked, and Su Shuangxue struck one of Bai Zhang's tentacles before disappearing.
• The Heaven-Piercing Sword investigated Zhou Heng's unusually rapid recovery and discovered through a will check that Zhou Heng's will had risen to crystal rank.
• Su Shuangxue secretly entered the Heaven-Piercing Sword's office and retrieved a second drop of Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption · Tears of the Heart.
• The Heaven-Piercing Sword sensed Bai Zhang was in danger and flew to assist him, while Bai Zhang continued trying to exhaust Zhou Heng's divine experience.
• At the eighteenth second, the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers swallowed the three ancient star domain systems, the Eternity Species, and Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng fought off waves of the Eternity Species in the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers while absorbing their virus-like corruption. As Bai Zhang approached with repeated level-lowering attacks, the Vast Star Lord tried to reach Zhou Heng but was confronted by Zhen Divine and the others, who learned that the Vastness affix he sought was on Zhou Heng.

• The Eternity Species attacked Zhou Heng with Eternity Heart Calling, but his powerful will defeated their checks and killed them.
• The next wave used The Eternity Source Species' Self-Blooming, surrounding Zhou Heng with lotus petals and charging him with black pus; he captured attackers with Buddha's Kingdom in the Palm and absorbed the pus as virus erosion.
• Bai Zhang advanced toward Zhou Heng while preparing repeated Level Exploitation greatswords to reduce his level.
• The Vast Star Lord traced the Vast Star Nation Library's aura and sent a divine breath toward Zhou Heng, but Zhen Divine blocked its path.
• Wu Space-Time and Galaxy Summit appeared beside Zhen Divine, and the Vast Star Lord declared that the Vastness affix he sought was on Zhou Heng.

The Vast Star Lord of Past and Former Times confronted Compassionate Vastness and the three Divine Truths of Pure White Heaven and Earth as the Eternity Species pursued Zhou Heng. While Compassionate Vastness held the Star Lord in place, the others began fighting to protect Zhou Heng, and three musical apostles appeared within the landscape scroll.

• White Realm, Star Tower, and Health Map appeared behind Zhen Divine, Wu Space-Time, and Galaxy Summit and paid their respects to the Vast Star Lord.
• The Vast Star Lord shattered Compassionate Vastness and the others with a tap, then pursued the divine-breath passage charging toward Zhou Heng.
• Compassionate Vastness used her beauty and her identity as the 3,702nd princess of the Vast Star Nation to draw the Star Lord back and hold him in place.
• White Realm, Star Tower, and Health Map confronted the three 100-petaled Eternity Species, and both sides began a Music Debate.
• Three musical apostles of Star God's Ancient Ballad took shape inside the landscape scroll, while the holder of the Boundless Codex recorded that their birth showed no abnormalities.

Zhou Heng reached 1% Virus Erosion, used the Torch of Transcendence Will to burn Bai Zhang to nothing, and left Sword stranded without its needed ally. As Sword considered what to do, Zhou Heng obtained the first Level 10 Million Musical Instrument and the Music Apostle began awakening.

• The Music Apostle formed early and waited for a participant to raise a musical instrument to Level 10 Million.
• Bai Zhang found Zhou Heng absorbing Eternity Source Species, ignored Sword’s warning, and attacked with more than ten thousand Level Exploitation swords.
• Zhou Heng’s Virus Erosion reached 1%, letting him perceive the event’s underlying data and block Bai Zhang’s swords.
• Zhou Heng used the Torch of Transcendence Will to burn Bai Zhang to nothing as Bai Zhang warned Sword to tell everyone that Zhou Heng wielded Transcendence.
• Sword stopped advancing and questioned its false-destiny divination after Bai Zhang’s death.
• Sword sensed Zhou Heng obtain the first Level 10 Million Musical Instrument, and the Music Apostle began awakening.

After reaching Level 10 Million with four musical instruments, Zhou Heng learned four ballads, unlocked the Music Apostles’ trials, and set his sights on the Music Lord War Drum. As Zhou Heng entered the Body Pleasure trial, Sword and three powerful Eternity Species planned to summon Sea of Stars Technology’s branch offices to stop him.

• Zhou Heng raised the Lonely War Drum, Lonely Guzheng, Lonely Zither, and Lonely Erhu to Level 10 Million, then exchanged them for four Star God ballad skills and learned them.
• Learning Star God's Ancient Ballad awakened the Music Apostles, opened the Star God's Praise trials, and revealed the phase two shop’s boundless-quality Music Lord War Drum.
• The Eternity Species surrounding Zhou Heng turned into starlight and vanished toward the All Beings Music trial, and Zhou Heng entered the Body Pleasure trial.
• Sword decided to summon three Sea of Stars Technology branch office headquarters into a triangular formation to create a Starfield Domain that could penetrate the event’s mechanics.
• Zhen Divine and two other 100-petaled Eternity Species received Sword’s message and prepared to act personally against Zhou Heng.

The Vast Star Lord of Past and Former Times entered the Body Pleasure Trial after activating Absolutely Singular Adaptability, while Compassionate Vastness fought Zhen Divine and the Eternity Species. The three Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. branch offices activated Starfield Domain, but a male being intercepted its signal and began recording Zhou Heng as an anomaly.

• The Vast Star Lord of Past and Former Times recognized the three Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. buildings, entered the Body Pleasure Trial, and revealed that Absolutely Singular Adaptability let him adjust to non-beneficial effects.
• Compassionate Vastness attacked Zhen Divine and the other Eternity Species with her hair of light as the three branch offices broke into the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Zhen Divine summoned the Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd. buildings into a circular formation, and they activated Starfield Domain, which sealed Magic Side powers on contact.
• The Starfield Domain's starlight spread through the Picture Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, forcing Compassionate Vastness and the others to retreat from it.
• A male being intercepted the starlight as it headed toward headquarters, approved its mechanism, and wrote in the Boundless Codex that Zhou Heng's anomaly value exceeded the theoretical value.

The Eternity Species and its allies mobilized to seal the Starfield Domain and eliminate Zhou Heng, while Zhou Heng entered the Body Pleasure trial and was allowed to pass directly by Karl Music Heaven. The Vast Star Lord of the past left the trial and departed without revealing what he had learned, leaving Zhen Divine and the others uneasy about Zhou Heng’s power.

• Zhen Divine summoned the Eternity Species, Wu Space-Time created mechanical deities, and Galaxy Summit filled the Starfield Domain with Grievance units to block Zhou Heng.
• The Divine Director sent Sword into the Body Pleasure trial to erase Zhou Heng or drive him out.
• Zhou Heng followed the Star Path to Karl Music Heaven, who dismissed the instruments and let him proceed to the Heart Music trial.
• The Vast Star Lord of the past recognized the Vast Star Nation Library’s truth and Zhou Heng’s aura, then tried to follow him but was stopped by Karl Music Heaven.
• The Vast Star Lord of the past returned to the Starfield Domain, concealed what he knew about Zhou Heng, and departed beyond the Ancient Star Domain Systems.
• Zhen Divine and the others watched the Vast Star Lord leave and worried that Zhou Heng might be beyond even his power.

Zhou Heng passed the stages of the Heart Music Trial by interpreting the emotions and experiences conveyed in each performance, then gave Karl Music Heaven his answer about its final piece. He entered All Beings Music, discovered the gathered Eternity Species did not react to his actions, and began burning them alive.

• Zhou Heng interpreted the music of successive illusory figures and passed the Heart Music stages, relying on his keen perception of music.
• Karl Music Heaven played the Lonely Zither and gave Zhou Heng three days to interpret the piece, but Zhou Heng immediately described it as a record of events since Boundless Endless came into existence.
• Karl Music Heaven accepted Zhou Heng's answer, left a garbled warning that Zhou Heng understood as a threat, and opened the path to All Beings Music.
• Zhou Heng reached a vast platform filled with vacant Eternity Species and tested whether interacting with them triggered any Trial prompts.
• Zhou Heng used Buddha's Kingdom in the Palm and Torch of Transcendence Will to seize and burn a thirty-five-petaled Eternity Species, then prepared to act on the countless others.

Zhou Heng completed the initial trials and chose to face the Eternity Species Sword before experiencing the suffering of all beings. The trial forcibly teleported Sword to duel him, and Sword prepared to fight using its General Manager's Office as observers wondered whether Zhou Heng could survive.

• Zhou Heng captured more than a thousand Eternity Species before the All Beings Music trial appeared.
• Zhou Heng chose to undertake both trials, starting with defeating the Eternity Species Sword.
• Sword refused Zhou Heng's duel request, but the trial malfunctioned and forced Sword to teleport to Zhou Heng's platform.
• Sword compressed its divine kingdom and summoned the General Manager's Office to arm itself for the duel.
• Zhen Divine and White Realm, Star Tower, Health Map, and Compassionate Vastness watched the confrontation and considered Zhou Heng's chances of survival.

Zhou Heng killed Sword by exploiting the disorder caused by his erosion, then entered the All Beings Music trial and experienced a village memory centered on Divine Energy testing. The village scene ended in a sudden massacre, and Zhou Heng turned toward the doorway to face whatever had entered.

• Sword tried to delay Zhou Heng with a Music Debate, but Zhou Heng appeared behind it and killed it with one point of chaos damage, bypassing Star God's Ancient Ballad.
• Sword realized Zhou Heng's erosion had let him break through the event's restrictions, warned the Comrades of Eternity, and dissolved into starlight.
• Zhou Heng continued along the path of All Beings Music and was placed in the body of a child in a village, where his sister explained the eleven Divine Energy tiers and the upcoming test.
• Zhou Heng questioned why C-grade was considered mysterious, but his sister's answer became inaudible as the scene shifted.
• Zhou Heng's sister shoved him under the table as a violent attack struck the home; he emerged to find her and their mother decapitated, then turned toward the doorway.

Zhou Heng's Torch of Transcendence Will blocked Finality's will from reaching his soul, prompting a confrontation with the Sea of Stars Lords and the Starlight Ancient Bell. Finality's will lost sight of Zhou Heng and withdrew, declaring that its game with all beings of the Boundless Endless would begin again.

• Zhou Heng saw Finality's will manifest through a Twisted Lifeform and infinite transformations, but his Torch of Transcendence Will protected his soul.
• Finality's will took effect through its contingency from the extra-large event "Star God's Ancient Ballad" and encountered the Lord of Rules, Master of Class, Master of Love, and Lord of Lifespan.
• Finality's will declared that dimensions should not exist, erasing everything on a conceptual level, but an upside-down Lord of Lifespan taunted it about an anomaly.
• Finality's will encountered the Master of Beauty and Lord of Time and Space, who said there was still enough time to stop it.
• Finality's will tried to observe Zhou Heng through false reality, but the Starlight Ancient Bell rang from his Mind Heavenly Palace and filled its vision with boundlessness and reality.
• Finality's will's awareness dissipated and returned to its original place, leaving the words that the game of strategy with all beings of the Boundless Endless would begin again.