Chapter Summaries

Zhou Heng remained hidden inside the "Heng God of All Beings" while "Lord of Compassion · ...%￥%...￥ · (*^▽^*) · (•́へ•́╬) · Yixuxi" searched for him and revealed that Zhou Heng would leave the "Truth Realm" in four hundred and twenty million years. After the "Heng God" faction vanished in the one hundred and sixty-seven million, two hundred and ten thousandth year, the threads woven from "Zhou Heng" turned red and completed their first transcendence, then trembled.

• Zhou Heng sealed off his thoughts for a million years, and "Lord of Compassion · ...%￥%...￥ · (*^▽^*) · (•́へ•́╬) · Yixuxi" failed to find him inside the statue.
• "Lord of Compassion · ...%￥%...￥ · (*^▽^*) · (•́へ•́╬) · Yixuxi" returned the statue and revealed that four hundred and twenty million years remained before Zhou Heng left the "Truth Realm".
• The extra-large event repeated its cycle of arrivals, prayers, battles, and deaths, adding more "Zhou Heng" threads to the cocoon.
• You Yao returned as a small child, said she had succeeded and that the world's future rested on her, then left after asking the "Heng God" not to hate her.
• In the one hundred and sixty-seven million, two hundred and ten thousandth year, the "Heng God" faction vanished and the threads woven from "Zhou Heng" turned red, completing their first transcendence and trembling.

After reaching 1eeeeee (Crystal☆) will through observing the eleventh dimension, Zhou Heng found that further gains were condensing into a new structure inside his soul. By the four-hundred-and-eighty-seven-millionth year, the starlit foundation platform had become nearly solid, though its purpose remained unknown.

• At the two-hundred-millionth year, Zhou Heng saw countless versions of himself across dimensional boundaries, then received 10000 (Crystal☆) will for observing the eleventh dimension.
• By the two-hundred-and-fiftieth-millionth year, the Zhou Heng affix had turned balanced red, and each observation granted him 1e (Crystal☆) will.
• As the affix deepened to bloodlike crimson, Zhou Heng's observation gains rose to 1eee (Crystal☆) each time while the broader conflict barely changed.
• Zhou Heng's will reached 1eeeeee (Crystal☆) and stopped increasing; excess will began forming liquid drops that built a foundation platform deep within his soul.
• By the four-hundred-and-eighty-seven-millionth year, the platform had become nearly solid and radiated faint starlight from within.

After advancing his will to Crystal ★, Zhou Heng discovered a fissure deep within his soul and followed the Ice God Bird into a vast world of elemental power. There, he encountered a mysterious being formed from eight elements and black-and-white forces, which turned its gaze toward him.

• Zhou Heng advanced his will from Crystal ☆ to Crystal ★, strengthening it as his soul's foundation became half tangible.
• A fissure opened beneath the foundation in Zhou Heng's soul, releasing eight brilliant colors.
• The Ice God Bird rushed through the fissure, and Zhou Heng followed it into a vast world of eight elements.
• Zhou Heng saw black and white orbs at the far end of the elemental world, where all eight elements converged into a mysterious being.
• The being, with one black eye and one white eye, turned its gaze toward Zhou Heng.

A fading elemental being told Zhou Heng about boundless endless and gave him three warnings before vanishing. Zhou Heng received eight B-rank elemental talents and returned to the Heng God of All Beings to wait out five hundred million years.

• The elemental being explained that the eight elements had been joined by boundless and endless, and that Zhou Heng would learn their mysteries after shattering the Boundless Court.
• The being warned Zhou Heng about fixed limits of three, cautioned him against conceptual cognition until his will reached the required level, and told him to raise the Ice God Bird.
• The being promised they would meet again when Zhou Heng gathered living beings of all eight elements and gave them his virus erosion power, then dispersed.
• Eight elemental torrents entered Zhou Heng, granting him the Eight Element Affixes of Boundless Endless as eight B-rank talents.
• Zhou Heng returned the Ice God Bird to his body, left the elemental world, and waited for five hundred million years to pass.

After five hundred million years in the Truth Realm, Zhou Heng finished gathering Truth Points and prepared to leave for the ongoing Extra-Large Event. Self-Void Truth Heaven gave him two lights, and the first revealed the Great affix; Fate warned him that relying on it without strengthening his ordinary Truth skills could let the Boundless Court kill him in his mind.

• As the five-hundred-million-year mark arrived, Zhou Heng's will reached 1eeeeee(Crystal★) and the gathered Truth Points vanished.
• Zhou Heng recalled his comrades and other lives he had watched, then prepared to leave the Truth Realm for the Extra-Large Event.
• Self-Void Truth Heaven appeared and gave Zhou Heng two glimmers of light before disappearing.
• Zhou Heng received the Great affix, which let his body grow to the maximum size attainable in the region he occupied.
• Fate warned Zhou Heng that neglecting ordinary Truth skills could leave him vulnerable to the Boundless Court and suggested he pursue Return to the Mortal.

Zhou Heng received authority over the Truth Realm and learned the seven tasks required to obtain its affixes. Fate revealed his enemies’ three plans and guided him toward the Compassion Realm, while he set out across a transformed Starsea and stepped onto the Health Thoroughfare.

• Zhou Heng read the seven affix tasks tied to his authority over the Truth Realm and resolved to focus on surviving the coming event.
• Fate revealed that his enemies had prepared Compassionate Guidance, You Yao’s attempt to pin him to their past meeting, and an attack by fictional lives of Zhou Heng.
• Fate instructed Zhou Heng to enter the Compassion Realm, hide as an ordinary follower, and contemplate the divine truth of ordinary living beings.
• Zhou Heng left the Truth Realm and crossed the dark Starsea, where the former eighth chapter had vanished and the Health Thoroughfare stretched toward the Health Heavenly Realm.
• Zhou Heng walked onto the Health Thoroughfare, a road paved with bones and lined with living beings suspended in eternal humiliation.

Zhou Heng entered the Health Heavenly Realm after resisting the factions’ attempts to break his Invincible Heart. Lord of Compassion’s power failed to find him because Zhou Heng had concealed himself as an ordinary believer within the Compassion Realm.

• Lord of Compassion and other powerful beings confronted Zhou Heng at the end of the Health Thoroughfare, trying to weaken his Invincible Heart.
• Zhou Heng challenged Lord of Compassion and stepped into the Health Heavenly Realm.
• The factions began searching for Zhou Heng, while Lord of Compassion’s Compassionate Guidance activated but could not locate him in the Compassion Realm.
• Lord of Compassion searched the Compassion Realm thirty quadrillion times and found no trace of Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng revealed that he had blended in among ordinary believers using the power of the Truth Realm, intending to contemplate an ordinary life and improve his Truth skill.

Zhou Heng joined the Compassion believers at the colossal Compassion Kitten statue and was assigned to engrave its third claw with two ordinary skills. He began his work while the Lord of Compassion continued searching the realm for him.

• Zhou Heng followed a procession of Compassion believers to the million-zhang-tall Compassion Kitten statue.
• The bald man assigned Zhou Heng to engrave and maintain the statue's third claw and gave him Pattern Eye and Knife Engraving Method.
• Zhou Heng recognized that his comprehension of Divine Truth would begin with the two ordinary engraving skills.
• Zhou Heng collected an infinite-mana activation device and an indestructible engraving knife, then joined the other workers carving patterns into the kitten's claw.

Zhou Heng lived as an ordinary believer and engraved patterns on a colossal cat statue while learning that its construction served a mysterious plan. Meanwhile, Lord of Compassion weighed whether to move the statues out of the Compassion Realm and ultimately made them all vanish from it.

• Zhou Heng engraved the cat statue's paw for fifteen days and gained experience in the Knife Engraving Method.
• Zhou Heng asked a fellow believer whether their work could lead them to Divine Truth, and the believer said it was unrealistic but explained that the statue was tied to a great plan.
• Zhou Heng continued carving, intrigued by the cat statue's hidden meaning and the believer's account of its purpose.
• Lord of Compassion considered moving the Time-Space Cats to the Health Heavenly Realm to keep Zhou Heng from discovering their true number and purpose, despite the danger of attacks from rival powers.
• After deliberating for about a year, Lord of Compassion chose to move the statues, and every cat statue in the Compassion Realm rose into the air and disappeared.

Zhou Heng watched the Kitten statues vanish from the Compassion Realm, then settled in Cixin City as an engraver while investigating how to gain experience in his Truth skills. He learned that city rankings determined experience rewards and planned to rise through the ranks to learn more about the Lord of Compassion.

• The Kitten statues across the Compassion Realm rose into the sky and vanished, while the followers knelt and Zhou Heng remained standing under the protection of the Truth Realm.
• Zhou Heng refused to earn Compassion Points through prayer because it required him to kneel before the Lord of Compassion.
• Zhou Heng traveled to Cixin City, rented an alley storefront, and opened an engraving shop using the skills he had developed on the statues.
• Zhou Heng learned that Cixin City's annual rankings determined how much Truth experience people earned, with the top-ranked resident gaining a chance to see the Lord of Compassion's projection and travel to other Divine Kingdoms.
• Zhou Heng decided to pursue the rankings and begin a long journey of exploring Ordinary Truth.

In his twenty-sixth year in the Compassion Realm, Zhou Heng realized that he had only been pretending to be ordinary, despite years of carving and living among mortals. When a suspicious woman carrying the cognition of “Unobservable” asked him to carve her likeness, he accepted, hoping the resulting cognitive trap would help him understand ordinary truth.

• Over the years, Zhou Heng became known as the “fantasy carver,” and his skill and ranking gradually improved, though he still failed to grasp ordinary truth.
• After finishing a My Little Pony statue, Zhou Heng received a visit from an alluring woman who asked him to carve a statue in her likeness.
• Fate Hint revealed that the Lord of Compassion had never stopped searching for Zhou Heng and that the woman had been implanted with the cognition of “Unobservable.”
• Zhou Heng recognized that his past power and experience had kept him from truly becoming ordinary, and he saw the woman’s cognitive trap as a chance to face a genuine predicament.
• Zhou Heng agreed to sketch the woman and began drawing her likeness as she posed in his shop.

After a mysterious woman screened him, Zhou Heng deliberately accepted the remaining Cognition effect and lost nearly all his attributes, skills, and classes. He chose to live as an ordinary person, but after a year of failing to complete his work, his reputation collapsed and he was evicted from his shop.

• Zhou Heng tried to sketch the mysterious woman, but her power erased his memory of her face and plunged him into darkness.
• After the woman left, Zhou Heng stopped the Truth Realm from destroying the Cognition mark and touched it, losing all skills, classes, and affixes except his basic abilities.
• Zhou Heng resumed seal engraving with only a base value of 1, and after ten days he had made only a crude mark and missed his client's deadline.
• Over the next year, Zhou Heng failed to complete any of his outstanding orders as clients abandoned him and rumors spread that he was a fraud.
• Zhou Heng's landlord repossessed his shop, and Zhou Heng thanked him, accepting that a single failure could ruin an ordinary person's life.

In his second year in the Compassion Realm, Zhou Heng lived as a destitute man in an alley and received only 1 point of Truth experience, while Xin Ling'er encouraged him and cut his hair. As he slowly learned what powerlessness, starting from zero, and hope meant to ordinary people, he decided he needed more time before confronting the Lord of Compassion.

• Zhou Heng spent his second year in the Compassion Realm living in a dim alley and carving without customers or income.
• Xin Ling'er brought him his yearly city reward of 1 point of Truth experience and began combing and cutting his tangled hair.
• Zhou Heng applied the experience to Knife Engraving Method, bringing it to 13/100 and leaving 87 years of progress before LV2.
• As Xin Ling'er reassured him, Zhou Heng gained a deeper understanding of ordinary people's hardship and the weight of hope.
• Zhou Heng stayed silent about his thoughts, knowing he needed time to comprehend the Truth of being ordinary before challenging the Lord of Compassion.

After Xin Ling'er was brought back injured and threatened with sacrifice, Zhou Heng agreed to take her place. As the world receded around him, he saw the struggles of ordinary beings from his past and rose with a heartlike object made of light in his palm.

• Xin Ling'er failed to arrive at the alley for her yearly visit, and Zhou Heng wondered whether something had happened to her.
• A Stonefolk brought the injured Xin Ling'er to Zhou Heng, saying the Lord of Compassion required sacrifices and demanding that Zhou Heng volunteer.
• The Stonefolk tortured Xin Ling'er beneath its foot while counting down, and Zhou Heng agreed to become a sacrifice rather than watch her suffer.
• The world fell away around Zhou Heng, and he recalled ordinary beings struggling to survive throughout his journey.
• As Zhou Heng watched those memories, compassion and resonance entered his gaze, and he stood with a heartlike object of light above his palm.

Zhou Heng understood the ordinary truth and transformed the Invincible Heart, then returned to the alley and rescued Xin Ling'er from the Stonefolk. With Xin Ling'er alive and the Stonefolk defeated, he faced Lord of Compassion’s gaze without hiding.

• Zhou Heng realized that he was one ordinary being among countless others, and his Invincible Heart changed into a black-and-white heart.
• Zhou Heng appraised the Ancient Invincible Heart and returned to the dim alley as the world came back to life.
• The Stonefolk failed to lift Zhou Heng, while Xin Ling'er apologized for getting him caught.
• Zhou Heng destroyed the trace of Boundless Rank Virus Source Species · Cognition (Concept) after it threatened to collapse the Beauty Star Nation.
• Zhou Heng killed the Stonefolk and two others, checked that Xin Ling'er was alive, and faced Lord of Compassion in the sky.

Zhou Heng discovered the poverty hidden beneath the Compassion Realm’s splendid exterior and received fate’s guidance that its Divine Kingdom could help his Torch of Transcendence Will transcend. As he decided to reveal his divinity and consume the realm’s power, Xin Ling'er woke and warned him against naming the Lord of Compassion, just as a blinding radiance descended on the village.

• Zhou Heng found Xin Ling'er's home in a poor village outside Cixin City and saw how its grand exterior concealed deprivation.
• Fate revealed that Zhou Heng could confront the Lord of Compassion or draw power from the Compassion Realm to complete his skill’s transcendence.
• Zhou Heng decided to become the Heng God of All Beings and consume the Compassion Realm’s power.
• Xin Ling'er woke, and Zhou Heng told her he had killed the Stonefolk and offered to help her avoid becoming a sacrifice.
• Xin Ling'er urgently warned Zhou Heng not to speak the Lord of Compassion's name, and brilliant radiance engulfed the village.

Zhou Heng confronted the Lord of Compassion, challenged his claim to compassion, and used his exclusive Shrink the Earth to Inches skill to escape with Xin Ling'er. He kept teleporting within the Compassion Realm as the Lord pursued him, intending to prolong the encounter.

• Xin Ling'er tried to kneel when the Lord of Compassion appeared, but Zhou Heng stopped her and questioned whether the Lord’s compassion had helped her.
• The Lord of Compassion found Zhou Heng, addressed him by name, and asked why he had appeared in this form.
• Zhou Heng rose to face the Lord and declared that he did not believe the Lord was compassionate.
• The Lord unleashed radiance across the area, and Zhou Heng shielded Xin Ling'er before using Shrink the Earth to Inches to vanish with her.
• Zhou Heng reappeared one light-year away, but the Lord pursued him and attacked again, prompting Zhou Heng to prepare another escape.

Zhou Heng evaded the Lord of Compassion’s attacks, then watched as the Lord unleashed Black Liquid that transformed the realm’s worshippers into monsters. He showed Xin Ling'er the truth about her god while the growing corruption tried to restrict his movement, but his teleportation still worked within the unchanged Compassion Realm.

• Zhou Heng repeatedly teleported away from the Lord of Compassion’s attacks while holding Xin Ling'er.
• The Lord of Compassion spread Black Liquid through the Compassion Realm, transforming a worshipper into a monster.
• Zhou Heng showed Xin Ling'er the corrupted worshippers and told her that the Lord of Compassion was an aberrant being.
• Xin Ling'er questioned what she should believe as more worshippers became monsters and their power distorted space.
• Zhou Heng determined that the spatial restrictions could not stop his Shrink the Earth to Inches while the Compassion Realm remained unchanged.

Zhou Heng tried to draw the Compassion Realm’s believers and power away from Yixuxi, but Yixuxi transformed that power into a passage meant to return Zhou Heng to the Boundless Endless Era and assimilate him. The Torch of Transcendence Will ignited in response, burning and devouring the returning power as fuel.

• Zhou Heng called on the Compassion Realm’s believers to accept him as a new Lord of Compassion and offered to protect them with true compassion.
• Xin Ling’er and many other believers turned their faith toward Zhou Heng and prostrated themselves before him.
• Yixuxi filled the Compassion Realm with echoes of his name, freezing it and transforming compassion into returning power.
• Yixuxi opened a passage to the Boundless Endless Era, intending to drag Zhou Heng there and assimilate him.
• The Torch of Transcendence Will ignited within Zhou Heng, burning the returning power and consuming it as fuel.

Zhou Heng’s Torch of Transcendence Will evolved as he resisted being pulled into the Boundless Endless Era, forcing Lord of Compassion to sever half his Divine Kingdom to stop the struggle. Zhou Heng then activated the Greatness affix and began expanding beyond measure, leaving Lord of Compassion astonished and wondering whether he would try to seize control of the Divine Kingdom.

• Zhou Heng’s Torch of Transcendence Will transformed, consuming the power of Returning while Yixuxi’s echoes continued trying to drag him toward the Boundless Endless Era.
• Xin Ling’er watched Zhou Heng’s struggle and prayed for the Later Lord of Compassion.
• Lord of Compassion sensed the Torch of Transcendence Will within his Divine Kingdom, then withdrew his attention from the Ancient Era.
• Lord of Compassion split the Compassion Realm in two, sacrificing half his Divine Kingdom to interrupt Yixuxi and stop the torch from consuming more Compassion power.
• Zhou Heng challenged Lord of Compassion’s retreat, activated the Greatness affix, and expanded from human size toward the scale of a concept.
• Lord of Compassion opened both eyes in surprise and asked whether Zhou Heng intended to take control of the Divine Kingdom.