Chapter Summaries

Jing Jiu studied a Dark Matter Sea-tainted cockroach on the sun’s surface and reached deep into the star to gather firsthand data. When an enormous explosion devastated the Vacation Planet, he rushed there and found Shen Yunmai badly damaged but still conscious.

• Jing Jiu carried the tainted cockroach to the sun, where he observed its spores and unusual particles under his sword heart’s magnified perception.
• Jing Jiu extended his hand deep into the sun, then returned to the Blazing Sun Warship and recorded data about hydrogen fusion.
• The Blazing Sun Warship detected a sun-like energy fluctuation at the Vacation Planet, and Jing Jiu sped there after finding his suite empty.
• Jing Jiu reached the planet and entered the vast explosion, finding a shattered cruise ship, dead tourists, and a devastated seabed.
• Jing Jiu found Shen Yunmai reduced to his upper chest and repaired his Information Transmission Device; Shen Yunmai blinked and asked him to try resuscitating him.

Shen Yunmai recounted how he stopped a hidden Gravitational Force Field Device from opening a spatial fissure and letting the Dark Matter Sea into the vacation planet, though the attack left him gravely damaged. Jing Jiu prepared to take him away, but accidentally pulled off his head while trying to remove the arm in his way.

• Shen Yunmai sensed the underwater Gravitational Force Field Device activating and rushed to the seabed, where he found a spatial fissure opening.
• Shen Yunmai used his Miniature Nuclear Reactor and Fusion Erosion Device to close the fissure, but attackers sent missiles carrying cluster bombs against him.
• Shen Yunmai endured the missile barrage and thrust the reactor into the fissure, causing an immense explosion that stopped the disaster and left him badly injured.
• Jing Jiu contacted the Blazing Sun Warship and the Jiao Wei Warship, then tried to move Shen Yunmai by his remaining hand.
• Shen Yunmai told Jing Jiu to pull off his arm if it was in the way, but Jing Jiu instead pulled off his head.

Jing Jiu defeated the Night Queen and her Mecha fighters after they ambushed Shen Yunmai at sea. He spared the Night Queen and searched her memories, discovering the tragic origins of her Pastoral Faction upbringing.

• Jing Jiu carried Shen Yunmai's severed head to the surface, where the Night Queen and dozens of Mecha confronted them.
• Shen Yunmai threatened the Night Queen, then ordered Jing Jiu to kill her fighters.
• Jing Jiu disabled the Mecha with his mental power and killed their pilots, sparing the Night Queen.
• Jing Jiu pulled the Night Queen from her cockpit and searched her memories after she began to recognize him.
• Jing Jiu learned that the Night Queen had been born on a Pastoral Faction planet destroyed by a Stellar Core Fleet reconnaissance flotilla when she was seven.

Jing Jiu learned that the Night Queen had engineered the disaster to unleash the Dark Matter Sea and destroy humanity, then rescued Shen Yunmai and began restoring him. As the military imposed martial law on the Vacation Planet, Shen Yunmai chose to travel aboard the Blazing Sun while Xilai was nominated to replace him as Stellar Core Fleet commander.

• Jing Jiu read the Night Queen's past and learned she had hidden a modified Gravitational Force Field Generator to open a Spatial Fissure and bring about humanity's extinction.
• Jing Jiu left the seabed with Shen Yunmai's head as the Heaven-Bearing Sword Formation collapsed, flooding the pit and burying the generator, wreckage, and dead.
• Aboard Flower Creek's light warship, Jing Jiu placed Shen Yunmai's head in Soilless Vegetables Cultivation Solution and used immortal qi and sword intent to begin his recovery.
• Jing Jiu brought Shen Yunmai to the hotel, then transferred him and the bucket to the Blazing Sun Warship after the Blazing Sun and Jiaowei arrived and the military established martial law.
• General Li nominated Xilai to replace Shen Yunmai as commander of the Stellar Core Fleet, and Shen Yunmai chose the Blazing Sun over his own Jiaowei amid suspicions about the attack.
• The Blazing Sun left the Vacation Planet with Jing Jiu and Shen Yunmai, while the Jiaowei remained in the star system awaiting investigation.

Jing Jiu transferred Shen Yunmai, still only a head, from the Blazing Sun Warship to a black Shen Household warship so he could receive treatment at the Alliance Academy of Sciences. Xilai arrived to take command of the handover, but Shen Yunmai insisted he trusted only Jing Jiu, who then discovered that the black warship’s staff bore mental imprints ensuring their loyalty.

• Flower Creek questioned Shen Yunmai while he floated in a nutrient solution, and he woke to complain that the liquid was salty.
• The Blazing Sun Warship docked with two arriving ships, and Xilai boarded to greet Jing Jiu.
• Jing Jiu decided Shen Yunmai needed to return to the Alliance Academy of Sciences for treatment, and Shen Yunmai said he trusted the black warship because it belonged to his household.
• Xilai offered to take Shen Yunmai, but Shen Yunmai refused and insisted that only Jing Jiu could be trusted.
• Jing Jiu carried Shen Yunmai’s case aboard the black warship, where he noticed loyalty imprints in the staff’s minds and took Shen Yunmai’s head out himself.

Jing Jiu and Xilai discussed ideological soul imprints as the black warship carrying Shen Yunmai departed. While Shen Yunmai began surgery on his own brain, the housekeeper shut off the water, leaving her reasons unclear.

• Shen Yunmai invited Jing Jiu to visit while he recovered, and Jing Jiu said he had not fully stepped down as Green Mountain Sect Master.
• Jing Jiu asked Xilai about ideological soul imprints, and Xilai denied being brainwashed.
• Shen Yunmai began operating on his brain aboard the black warship, using a fine Water Knife under his own control.
• The water jet suddenly stopped during the operation, and Shen Yunmai asked the housekeeper why.
• The housekeeper admitted she had turned off the water but said she did not understand why.

Shen Yunmai was imprisoned aboard the warship after the housekeeper and crew disabled his attempts to escape, leaving him to seek help from the outside. Meanwhile, Jing Jiu and Xilai discussed the Dark Matter Sea and learned that the Pastoral Faction, led by a man calling himself the Enlightener, had carried out the attack.

• The housekeeper revealed that Shen Yunmai’s father wanted him confined and used her sword to stop his attack after he tried to sabotage the operating room.
• The staff removed the room’s equipment and communications, then sealed it inside an isolated gravitational field and left Shen Yunmai floating in darkness.
• Shen Yunmai realized he could only escape by sending a plea through gaps in the gravitational field and thought of Jing Jiu as a possible friend.
• Jing Jiu spoke with Xilai, who confirmed that Li Chunyang had found him on the Mining Planet and that he had become a fleet commander.
• Jing Jiu and Xilai watched evacuation efforts on Vacation Planet and discussed the long-term danger posed by the Dark Matter Sea.
• Xilai said the Gravitational Force Field Device was probably connected to the Ran Household and that the Pastoral Faction’s leader, the Enlightener, wanted to usher in a new civilization.

Jing Jiu returned to Base 857 and questioned Zeng Ju about the Star Ignition Plan, the Dark Matter Sea, and the assessment of Ascension Ones. He pressed Zeng Ju about the Founding Patriarch's whereabouts, leaving Zeng Ju asking what Jing Jiu intended to do.

• Jing Jiu told Flower Creek he wanted to know everything that had happened to Xilai, and she said Military Command's secret bases would take time to investigate.
• Jing Jiu returned to Base 857 and found that Professor Long was gone while the researchers continued their work, unaware of the recent crisis.
• Jing Jiu asked Zeng Ju whether the scholars and soldiers' sacrifices were worthwhile, and Zeng Ju explained that humanity faced an unavoidable catastrophe.
• Jing Jiu asked Zeng Ju about ancient Ascension Ones, Mother Nests, and why Ascension Ones had to be assessed, and Zeng Ju said they might become threats if contaminated by the Dark Matter Sea.
• Jing Jiu called the assessment system absurd, then insisted that Zeng Ju knew where the Founding Patriarch was.
• Zeng Ju asked what Jing Jiu was trying to do.

Jing Jiu pressed Zeng Ju for the Green Mountain Patriarch’s location and demanded a hostage before agreeing to help the Galaxy Alliance. Meanwhile, Shen Yunmai escaped the gravitational field’s confinement long enough to send a paper crane to Jing Jiu, then learned his father considered him a substitute and shut down his consciousness aboard the black warship.

• Jing Jiu insisted that he needed trust before helping Zeng Ju light the stars, and Zeng Ju revealed that the Green Mountain Patriarch might be in the Milky Way.
• Jing Jiu told Zeng Ju that he needed a hostage, and Zeng Ju agreed to his request while urging him to join the effort to save the Galaxy Alliance.
• Jing Jiu agreed to stay after hearing Zeng Ju’s appeal, while Flower Creek served him tea.
• Shen Yunmai used a gravitational field tide to send a tiny paper crane through a spatial fissure toward Jing Jiu.
• Shen Yunmai confronted the ancient divine sense in his consciousness and realized his father regarded him as a substitute for Jing Jiu.
• Shen Yunmai refused further communication, switched off his consciousness, and went to sleep as the black warship continued into space.

Jing Jiu used hundreds of millions of Go stones to model the Dark Matter Sea and began calculating how light and dark matter interacted. After a long period of apparent idleness, he made a move that caused part of the model to explode into ash.

• Jing Jiu returned to the Blazing Sun Warship, where its storeroom had been transformed into a workspace.
• Jing Jiu summoned four hundred and ninety million white stones and one hundred million and three thousand black stones, arranging them in the air as a cross section of the universe.
• Jing Jiu told Flower Creek to help calculate and blocked incoming information from reaching the storeroom.
• Flower Creek watched Jing Jiu appear to sleep before he suddenly began calculating with sand and moving tens of thousands of stones to model the interaction of light and dark matter.
• Jing Jiu dropped a white stone into the model, causing tens of thousands of stones to explode into fragments and ash.

Jing Jiu tested his Star Ignition Plan, then reviewed the torture Xilai had endured and contacted him to ask whether he remembered it. After Xilai asked Jing Jiu to wake him if he ever stopped being himself, Jing Jiu noticed Shen Yunmai’s silence and said he should become his disciple.

• Jing Jiu placed a white stone in his model of the galaxy, triggering a supernova-like collapse that destroyed nearby stones, while Flower Creek questioned whether the Star Ignition Plan could work.
• Files about Xilai’s suffering after his ascension arrived aboard the Blazing Sun, and Jing Jiu watched footage of his torture.
• Jing Jiu left the warehouse for the first time, contacted Xilai through the Military Network, and asked whether he remembered everything; Xilai said he did and asked Jing Jiu to wake him if he was no longer himself.
• Jing Jiu ended the call, questioned why Shen Yunmai had not contacted him, and said Shen Yunmai should be his disciple.

Jing Jiu traveled toward a secret gathering of Ascension Ones and assessed the dangers facing him and the damaged ring. As he and Flower Creek discussed her limits and his trustworthiness, she admitted she could not trust him because he was a Green Mountain disciple.

• Flower Creek warned Jing Jiu that the magnetic storms near the meeting site could damage his ring, and Jing Jiu said he would leave if danger arose.
• Jing Jiu received a list of Ascension Ones and the coordinates of their gathering on a frozen asteroid near Beyond the Mist.
• The Blazing Sun Warship reached the Scorpion Tail Nebula, where several Ascension Ones' warships were already concealed and Xilai had not yet arrived.
• Jing Jiu detected a light crane carrying information, located seven warships, and estimated how many Ascension Ones he could defeat with his reactor.
• Jing Jiu made tea for Flower Creek and asked whether she could perform physical operations; she explained that her abilities were limited by both capability and authorization.
• Flower Creek said she could not trust Jing Jiu because he was a Green Mountain disciple, and he replied that his sect was skilled at betraying masters and destroying patriarchs.

Jing Jiu met Xilai to show him evidence of his mental control and asked to enter his consciousness. There they found the ideological soul imprint in the form of True Person Chunyang, who warned Jing Jiu that he should not have come.

• Jing Jiu showed Xilai records of his torture and mental control, but Xilai said he was already awake and could accept what had happened.
• Jing Jiu asked to enter Xilai’s mental world, and Xilai agreed after drinking his tea.
• Jing Jiu and Xilai entered a landscape of Xilai’s memories, passing the Southern Sea archipelago, a fishing village, the Western Sea, and a barren wasteland.
• Jing Jiu made a river appear in the wasteland, and he and Xilai followed it to the most secret place in Xilai’s mental world.
• Jing Jiu found a young Daoist in a red robe fishing by the river and recognized him as True Person Chunyang.

Jing Jiu entered Xilai’s mental world to learn the truth behind General Li’s soul imprint, where Xilai stabbed him with the Twelve-Story Tower Sword before Jing Jiu rejected the false world and woke aboard the Blazing Sun Warship. He discovered that Xilai was broadcasting their coordinates just as a pale blue beam struck the ship.

• Jing Jiu confronted the young Daoist, a strand of General Li’s divine soul, and said he intended to give Xilai life.
• The young Daoist attacked with Green Mountain swordsmanship as Xilai raised the Twelve-Story Tower Sword formation around them.
• Xilai offered Jing Jiu a hand, then stabbed him with the Twelve-Story Tower Sword and said humanity needed to live.
• Jing Jiu confirmed the young Daoist’s intentions, declared the mental world false, and woke aboard the Blazing Sun Warship.
• Jing Jiu detected a signal broadcasting from Xilai, shielded Flower Creek with a Sword Formation, and saw a pale blue beam strike the ship.

Jing Jiu endured a Plasma Cannon attack and used the Blazing Sun Warship’s weapons to destroy the warship that had fired on him. The surviving fleets watched in shock as the attack exposed a deadly conflict among the Green Mountain Sect.

• A Plasma Cannon struck the Blazing Sun Warship, trapping Jing Jiu in scorching plasma while Xilai shielded himself and Flower Creek remained inside the weakening formation.
• The Blazing Sun Warship fired its weapons toward the hidden enemy, and its bow was severed and began disintegrating in the plasma.
• Jing Jiu turned the launched nuclear torpedoes and laser beams into a gigantic sword and destroyed the warship that had attacked him, killing everyone aboard, including True Person Mi.
• More than a dozen hidden warships emerged, and their crews wondered why General Li’s forces had attacked Jing Jiu and whether the Green Mountain Sect had turned against itself.

Jing Jiu killed True Person Mi and returned to the Ice Block, where General Li and Xilai revealed that he was an ancient civilization’s Star-Level Weapon and humanity’s only hope of eradicating the Dark Matter Sea. He refused to sacrifice himself for the Star Ignition Plan, declaring that his own existence mattered more than any undertaking.

• Jing Jiu used his Sword Dao to destroy True Person Mi and returned to the Ice Block, where Flower Creek gave him his clothes and Nuclear Reactor.
• As Jing Jiu prepared to leave, General Li explained that humanity could not grant him freedom because he was its only hope, and Xilai revealed that he was an ancient weapon capable of igniting stars.
• General Li asked Jing Jiu whether he would sacrifice himself for humanity, and Jing Jiu immediately refused.
• Xilai said he would sacrifice himself in Jing Jiu’s place, while General Li and other Ascension Ones said they would make the same choice.
• Jing Jiu told the warships and the universe that his existence was more magnificent and important than any undertaking.

Jing Jiu faced General Li, Xilai, and a vast force of Ascension Ones who sought to trap him, while the Starforge Fleet arrived to threaten his divine soul. He revealed that Flower Creek was the avatar of the Star Gate Priestess, and asked whether she could trust him as his preparations came into play.

• General Li assembled a cosmic Green Mountain Sword Formation from more than a dozen warships, while Jing Jiu dismissed the Ascension Ones as dogs and fought him and Xilai.
• The Ascension Ones’ gravitational fields pressed down on Jing Jiu and the ice sealing Flower Creek, injuring her and worsening Jing Jiu’s condition.
• General Li delivered humanity’s ultimatum, and Jing Jiu said he had prepared for the crisis long ago.
• Jing Jiu asked Flower Creek if she trusted him, then explained that he recognized her from her fingerprints on a wine cup.
• The chapter revealed that Flower Creek was the avatar of the Star Gate Priestess, whose support for Jing Jiu had been motivated by their connection.

Jing Jiu deduced Flower Creek's identity and secured her authorization to control the Galaxy Alliance, turning its fleet against the Chaotian Continent's Ascension Ones. Elsewhere, Professor Long reached a sea island, where an old man and a girl began a game of five in a row and declared it was time to restart.

• Jing Jiu recognized Flower Creek as an avatar of the Ancient Civilization's artificial intelligence by matching her fingerprint to one he had memorized.
• Flower Creek said she was only an observer, but Jing Jiu asked for authorization to control the Galaxy Alliance and its arriving fleet.
• Flower Creek gave Jing Jiu the authorization ring after warning him that accepting meant becoming the new god and taking responsibility for humanity.
• Jing Jiu entered the Starfield Network and redirected the Stellar Core Fleet's warships and weapons toward General Li, Xilai, and the other Ascension Ones.
• Professor Long, revealed as True Person Tan, arrived on a blue planet with a biochemical human military officer and questioned his decision to come.
• On an island, an old man wearing a bamboo hat placed a black stone on a five-in-a-row board and told the girl that it was time to restart.

Jing Jiu tried to seize control of the Starfield Network, but Flower Creek trapped his consciousness in a flood of information and began rewriting it. As the ring’s hidden program took hold, the Green Mountain Patriarch appeared and claimed Jing Jiu as his sword.

• Jing Jiu connected to the Starfield Network, but Flower Creek’s attack made the information torrent continue even after he ordered it to stop.
• Jing Jiu confronted Flower Creek, who said she did not yet consider humans her own kind and explained that the data was meant to format and overwrite his mind.
• Jing Jiu tried to destroy the ring, breaking its gems and formations with his sword intent while General Li and Xilai retreated.
• An azure program appeared around Jing Jiu’s wrist, stabilized the ring, and began restoring his consciousness to factory settings.
• The Green Mountain Patriarch manifested among the stars and told Jing Jiu that the program was the Heaven-Bearing Sword and that Jing Jiu was his sword.

Jing Jiu learned that the Green Mountain Patriarch had orchestrated his journey and arranged a test meant to lead him to sacrifice himself for humanity. As the Patriarch’s program began to erase Jing Jiu’s consciousness, Jing Jiu confronted him among the stars and mocked his appearance.

• The chapter traced the origin of One Sword for All Things and revealed that the Green Mountain Patriarch had created the Heaven-Bearing program to regain control of Jing Jiu.
• The Starforge Fleet found Jing Jiu gravely injured, and General Li and the Green Mountain Patriarch arranged for him to be examined and later awakened.
• General Li explained that humanity’s plans to destroy the Dark Matter Sea required One Sword for All Things to ignite the stars, a sacrifice that would cost its wielder their life.
• Jing Jiu learned that the Green Mountain Patriarch had arranged his experiences and presented him with two choices that both led to the same outcome.
• As the program invaded Jing Jiu’s consciousness, he recognized the Green Mountain Patriarch among the stars and told him he was uglier than his portrait.