Chapter Summaries

Li Yi and Tan Yaozu froze Zhang Shengfeng to limit the soul waves he was transmitting, though a trace still escaped. After Li Yi explained how he rapidly condensed Divinity Genes, his estimate of having more than forty units of soul surplus stunned Zhao He and the others.

• Li Yi strengthened his freezing Trait while Tan Yaozu used his Synergy Trait to reinforce the ice around Zhang Shengfeng.
• Zhao He said a tiny trace of Zhang Shengfeng’s soul waves was still getting through and ordered them to return to Earth and contain him.
• Zhao He warned Li Yi, He Guangzhi, and Tan Yaozu to keep the Revived Ones’ situation secret from others, except Chief Lin and Duanmu.
• Zhao He and He Guangzhi asked Li Yi how he had advanced so quickly, and Li Yi described maintaining a soul surplus and entering a state of absolute emptiness during mech battles.
• Li Yi estimated that he had forty-four Divinity Genes and around forty units of soul surplus, prompting Zhao He to demand confirmation.

After the four mechs returned to the Moon Fortress, the officers debated how Li Yi had condensed forty-four Divinity Genes in less than a year and concluded that his soul capacity had likely undergone a qualitative change. Li Yi completed a security inspection, examined his two new Divinity Genes, and was about to rest when Chen Qiong Zhi arrived at his door.

• Zhao He and Tan Yaozu confirmed Li Yi was not yet twenty and had joined the fleet less than a year ago, while He Guangzhi suspected his soul capacity exceeded forty.
• Tan Yaozu and Zhao He argued that Li Yi's capacity of forty was already extraordinary, and Li Yi agreed with their explanation.
• After Zhang Shengfeng's freezing was complete, Li Yi and the others returned to the Moon Fortress and prepared to question prisoners and inspect for infiltrators.
• Li Yi completed his inspection, then examined the Longevity Divinity Gene's vitality-granting trait and the Thunder God Series Divinity Gene's Micro-Electric Trait.
• Li Yi tested his microscopic perception and 3.2 Burst Technique, then heard Chen Qiong Zhi announce through his communicator that she was outside his door.

Chen Qiong Zhi visited Li Yi after the battle and proposed that they obtain a deep-space capital ship and establish patrol routes in Starborn territory. Li Yi agreed to become the ship captain, and the two set off to spar.

• Li Yi welcomed Chen Qiong Zhi, embraced her, and agreed to spar with her after their conversation.
• Chen Qiong Zhi praised Li Yi's achievements and proposed applying for independence to obtain a deep-space capital ship for patrols in Starborn territory.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that Li Yi's Level Eight clearance would let him apply for a new ship, while she served as Fleet Captain and shared its piloting rotation.
• Li Yi agreed to the proposal, and he and Chen Qiong Zhi went to find a training ground for their spar.

Li Yi and Chen Qiong Zhi sparred at an unused training ground so she could assess his progress and test her own strength. After Li Yi easily countered her concealed opening attack, Chen Qiong Zhi prepared to reveal her trump card, making the secret of her inheritance depend on whether he could withstand it.

• Li Yi and Chen Qiong Zhi changed into training uniforms and met at the training ground to spar.
• Chen Qiong Zhi concealed her presence with her Dust trait and charged Li Yi using the Tiger Strike Style.
• Li Yi turned toward Chen Qiong Zhi and struck her out of invisibility, sending her sliding more than ten meters.
• Chen Qiong Zhi realized Li Yi's normal physical strength rivaled that of a high-level Celestial expert and admitted he had surpassed her expectations.
• Chen Qiong Zhi offered to reveal her secret if Li Yi could withstand or break her trump-card move in a single strike.

Li Yi defeated Chen Qiong Zhi's powerful Tiger Strike Style phantom with a carefully controlled divine energy pellet. Recognizing that her technique came from Fifth Epoch divinity, he qualified to learn her secret, and she began explaining the Tianheng Star War eighteen years earlier.

• Chen Qiong Zhi formed a massive, nearly solid tiger phantom as she prepared her trump card.
• Li Yi compressed his divinity into a small energy pellet and struck the tiger between the brows.
• The pellet blasted apart the tiger's head, but the phantom continued moving until its hidden internal damage made it collapse.
• Chen Qiong Zhi confirmed that her technique originated from Fifth Epoch divinity and said she was not a Reviver.
• Chen Qiong Zhi told Li Yi that he had earned the right to know her secret and began with the Tianheng Star War eighteen years earlier.

Chen Qiong Zhi told Li Yi how she found a mysterious floating corpse during the Tianheng Star War and reported it to humanity’s leaders. After experts broke the corpse’s Mind Seals, they deciphered a cultivation method and clues to its identity, and Li Yi asked whether that method explained why she had kept it hidden.

• Chen Qiong Zhi recounted how the Starborn invasion breached the Frontier Star’s defenses and forced her squad to flee into the Stardust Corridor.
• Chen Qiong Zhi said she found a three-to-four-meter corpse frozen in ice near Planet 72 and thawed it with Divinity Energy.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that the thawed corpse sent mental messages and Mind Seals into her, so she sealed it away and reported it to the authorities.
• Chen Qiong Zhi said several Supreme Experts, including a soul specialist, shattered the Mind Seals and helped decipher a cultivation method and information about the corpse’s identity.
• Li Yi asked Chen Qiong Zhi whether the cultivation method was why she had kept the matter hidden after the Tianheng Star War.

Chen Qiong Zhi explained the Void Seeding cultivation method deciphered from a floating corpse and revealed that she had spent eighteen years as its only successful test subject. She told Li Yi the sealed consciousness’s identity would shock him because he probably knew it.

• Li Yi told Chen Qiong Zhi that people aboard the ship already believed she was far stronger than she claimed, and she reluctantly accepted that her concealment had failed.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that the floating corpse’s cultivation method, called Void Seeding, created clones that could receive Divinity Radiation and later return their Divinity Genes to the main body.
• Chen Qiong Zhi revealed that she had successfully condensed two clones, while more than a dozen other volunteers had failed to do so over eighteen years.
• Chen Qiong Zhi said the method’s main drawback was the risk of wasting years of cultivation, and that the clones consumed mental energy and lacked enough intelligence to act independently.
• Li Yi considered how Void Seeding might accelerate his own cultivation and asked about the floating corpse and its identity.
• Chen Qiong Zhi said the corpse and its sealed consciousness should still exist, and hinted that Li Yi would recognize its identity.

Li Yi learned how divine intent could be refined and used in advanced combat techniques from Chen Qiong Zhi. Chen Qiong Zhi revealed that the Martial Sage, King of Chenliu, was her Chen Clan ancestor, then offered to teach Li Yi the complete Tiger Strike Style, prompting him to recall its family restriction.

• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that divine-intent trait techniques were a Fifth Epoch combat school and described how they could surpass ordinary techniques.
• Chen Qiong Zhi outlined three ways to refine divine intent: purifying Celestial Rank divinity, using the Art of Manifestation, or cultivating a combat technique to the divine-intent stage.
• Chen Qiong Zhi said her manifested tiger came from the Wind God Series' original divine intent, while the Tiger Strike Style might lead to cultivating Tiger Divinity.
• Chen Qiong Zhi confirmed that the Martial Sage, King of Chenliu, was her Chen Clan ancestor and was likely the expert called Zhen in the Gourd Men records.
• Chen Qiong Zhi offered to teach Li Yi the complete Tiger Strike Style, and Li Yi reminded her that only a Chen family son-in-law could learn it.

Chen Qiong Zhi began teaching Li Yi the complete Tiger Strike Style, revealing its powerful first form, Tiger Crouch, and promising to teach him how to plant the void after he learned the set. Meanwhile, Zhao He and He Guangzhi planned how to interrogate the captured Heng Sol and obtain information that might help rescue Zhang Shengfeng.

• Chen Qiong Zhi agreed to teach Li Yi her family's ultimate art, insisting that he keep it secret and that her remarks about marriage had been a joke.
• Chen Qiong Zhi demonstrated Tiger Crouch, whose concealed aura and efficient use of divinity impressed Li Yi.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that the Tiger Strike Style had been inspired by a divinity-infused tiger and told Li Yi to practice the first form.
• Zhao He and He Guangzhi identified Heng Sol as their priority for interrogation and considered how to restrain him safely.
• He Guangzhi proposed that Old Lu use the Neptune Mech to create a frozen zone and combine it with Li Yi's ice-prison-type trait to limit Heng Sol's movement.

He Guangzhi reaffirmed his resolve to continue the war against the Starborn, and Zhao He agreed that Li Yi should join the interrogation of Heng Sol. Meanwhile, Li Yi quickly mastered Chen Qiong Zhi’s Tiger Strike Style and formed an embryonic giant divinity tiger, leaving him eager to develop it further.

• He Guangzhi told Zhao He that the returning pursuit force had suffered damage but no major casualties, and insisted that humanity must continue its campaign against the Starborn.
• Zhao He supported He Guangzhi’s resolve and agreed that Li Yi should participate in interrogating Heng Sol as a rising figure in humanity’s decision-making circle.
• He Guangzhi called Lu Yunsheng to bring him and Li Yi to the interrogation.
• Chen Qiong Zhi demonstrated the nine forms of the Tiger Strike Style, and Li Yi memorized and performed them.
• Li Yi formed an embryonic giant divinity tiger, astonishing Chen Qiong Zhi with his talent.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that further developing the tiger could help Li Yi refine Tiger Divinity, but cautioned him to consolidate the forms first.

Li Yi practiced the Chen Clan’s Tiger Strike Nine Forms and quickly brought his Divinity control to fulfillment, forming his forty-fifth Divinity Gene. He suspected the inherited art was incomplete, while Chen Qiong Zhi struggled to believe how quickly he had surpassed her years of training.

• Li Yi repeated the Tiger Strike Nine Forms, and Chen Qiong Zhi watched in astonishment as he rapidly grasped its force-generation principles.
• Li Yi focused on the forms’ automatic flow of Divinity and practiced until a giant Divinity tiger grew above him.
• On his seventeenth repetition, Li Yi merged his accumulated memories and brought his Divinity control to fulfillment.
• The giant tiger roared, shaking dust and equipment across the training ground, while Chen Qiong Zhi stared in disbelief.
• Li Yi formed his forty-fifth Divinity Gene and sensed that the Tiger Strike Nine Forms held further teachings that might have been lost.
• Chen Qiong Zhi touched Li Yi as if searching for an explanation, and asked what his body was made of.

Chen Qiong Zhi taught Li Yi the Art of Manifestation, which used ordered information extracted from the soul’s subconscious to form an avatar that could aid Divinity Gene condensation. Their lesson was interrupted when He Guangzhi summoned Li Yi to interrogate a captured Starborn Supreme Expert.

• Chen Qiong Zhi examined Li Yi’s Micro Force and learned it had emerged after his combat techniques reached the second realm beyond perfection.
• Chen Qiong Zhi began teaching Li Yi the Art of Manifestation and explained that it formed an avatar from ordered parts of the soul’s subconscious.
• Li Yi asked whether extracting too much order could make an avatar develop independent consciousness, and Chen Qiong Zhi said she limited her own extraction to twenty percent.
• Chen Qiong Zhi explained that most previous students had failed to extract order from their subconscious and offered to watch Li Yi attempt the first step.
• He Guangzhi called Li Yi, interrupting the lesson and summoning him to interrogate a captured Starborn Supreme Expert.

Li Yi traveled to Moon Fortress’s underground prison to meet He Guangzhi and learned about its history, prisoners, and ancient Divinity Script seals. He planned to investigate Old Zhang’s connections and help Li Lulu leave Earth, but the prison blocked communications as he prepared to enter.

• Li Yi reviewed the Federation’s chaotic early history and learned that Moon Fortress’s core prison held dangerous convicts and valuable specialists.
• Li Yi saw Second Era Divinity Script characters sealing the prison and sensed faint divinity flowing across them.
• Li Yi considered investigating Old Zhang and arranging for Li Lulu to leave Earth, then discovered the prison blocked quantum signals.
• He Guangzhi met Li Yi at a small prison entrance and explained that Li Yi’s Pluto Mech would enter through a larger west-side entrance.
• Li Yi asked He Guangzhi whether messages could be sent from inside because he had urgent matters to handle at the Earth Ruins.

Li Yi urgently sought a way to contact Qinling Base about Li Lulu and followed He Guangzhi to God-Suppressing Prison, where he learned about its ancient origins and powerful facilities. He Guangzhi opened the prison’s central hub, revealing a vast, hellish interior.

• Li Yi realized his unusual forgetfulness of Li Lulu might be caused by the Fate Sequence and told He Guangzhi that he urgently needed an external communication line.
• He Guangzhi led Li Yi toward God-Suppressing Prison and explained that its artificial soul had named it, while the prison had been modified across several eras.
• He Guangzhi said Li Yi could upgrade his Pluto Mech at the prison’s A-rank and S-rank Ascension Pools because his military merits exceeded three million.
• He Guangzhi discussed Biao Star’s special relationship with the Federation and advised Li Yi to explore Earth’s cities to understand it.
• Li Yi and He Guangzhi reached the God-Suppressing Prison Hub, where He Guangzhi opened the stone gate and revealed a vast, imposing interior.

Li Yi entered the God-Suppressing Prison with He Guangzhi and learned that the prison might have been formed from Pluto, making it a powerful place for his Pluto Mech to ascend. He arranged to bring Li Lulu to the Moon Fortress, then learned from He Guangzhi that her ability to see fate might help avert a disaster that could destroy everything.

• Li Yi examined the God-Suppressing Prison’s statues and agreed that its icy environment could greatly enhance his Pluto Mech’s ascension.
• He Guangzhi explained that the prison might have been made from Pluto and that ascending the corresponding Celestial God Series mech there could give its traits conceptual powers.
• Li Yi used Level Eight authority to assign Chen Tongchen a two-thousand-battle-merit mission to transfer Li Lulu safely from Qinling Base to the Moon Fortress.
• Li Lulu told Li Yi that she had felt terrified and uneasy, prompting him to become more vigilant about an approaching crisis.
• Li Yi told He Guangzhi that Li Lulu could see fate, and He Guangzhi asked whether that ability could help them avoid the disaster that would exterminate everything.

Li Yi discussed how Fate Sequence abilities might help investigate the calamities and considered whether young Fate Sequence pilots were connected to Tianheng Star’s destruction. He began ascending his Pluto Mech in the God-Suppressing Prison’s Ascension Pool, where the prison trembled around it.

• He Guangzhi explained that Chief Lin believed Fate Sequence abilities were indispensable for investigating calamities, though Li Yi doubted that screening people one by one was practical.
• Li Yi learned that fewer than ten Fate Sequence Mech pilots had been found, most aged sixteen to eighteen, and wondered whether their talent was connected to Tianheng Star’s destruction eighteen years earlier.
• He Guangzhi and Li Yi went to the Ascension Pool so Li Yi could ascend his Pluto Mech before they went to interrogate Heng Sol.
• Li Yi submerged the Pluto Mech in the pool, creating a powerful divinity vortex that made the God-Suppressing Prison tremble.
• He Guangzhi detected that the trembling centered on the Ascension Pool and concluded that the God-Suppressing Prison had been built around Pluto.

Li Yi’s Pluto Mech entered the Ascension Pool in God-Suppressing Prison and began absorbing Pluto’s vast stores of high-quality divinity, while He Guangzhi and Zhao He observed the enhancement. The chapter left Li Yi accelerating the process to increase his Pluto Divinity Genes beyond nine.

• Zhao He piloted the Fire Drake Mech to the second-highest level of God-Suppressing Prison, where He Guangzhi explained that Li Yi was upgrading the Pluto Mech.
• He Guangzhi and Zhao He identified the tremors as a celestial enhancement and discussed how Pluto’s reserves, accumulated across more than three eras, might benefit Li Yi.
• Li Yi’s Pluto Divinity Genes absorbed the Ascension Pool’s high-quality divinity, increasing in quality and quantity while new genes formed.
• Li Yi reached nine Pluto Divinity Genes in half an hour and used Ego Focus and the Transcendent Art of the Brain to draw Liquified Divinity toward the Pluto Mech faster.

Li Yi endured the A-rank Ascension Pool’s immense pressure as he generated Pluto Divinity Genes and grew the Pluto Mech to 267 meters tall. He emerged after two hours and twelve minutes, leaving He Guangzhi and Zhao He astonished as He Guangzhi asked how many conceptual traits he had awakened.

• Li Yi’s divinity manipulation created a vast vortex that shook the God-Suppressing Prison, surpassing the disturbance Lu Yunsheng had caused.
• Li Yi activated all fourteen Pluto Divinity Genes, drawing in high-quality Pluto Divinity and generating ancient memory fragments in his Dreamscape Plains.
• Li Yi pushed past his limit and generated the fifteenth and sixteenth Pluto Divinity Genes before ending his Ascension Pool trial.
• He Guangzhi told Zhao He that Li Yi had lasted two hours and twelve minutes, a record for humanity’s A-rank Ascension Pools.
• Li Yi emerged in a 267-meter-tall Pluto Mech, and He Guangzhi asked how many conceptual traits he had awakened.

After Pluto’s celestial empowerment, Li Yi discovered ancient memory fragments and gained a major increase in strength. He began sparring with He Guangzhi to test Pluto’s new Traits, leaving Zhao He stunned by the power of Ice Hell.

• Li Yi piloted the upgraded Pluto Mech away from the Ascension Pool and found more than a hundred deep memory fragments that might contain memories of the Armor-clad People and ancient eras.
• He Guangzhi asked Li Yi about his Concept Traits and arranged a spar before Old Lu arrived from the Frontier Star stargate.
• Li Yi assessed his new strength, including seventeen Pluto Sequence Divinity Genes and a physical foundation comparable to a sixth-level celestial powerhouse.
• He Guangzhi attacked the Pluto Mech with the Thunderlight Thirteen Fists, and Li Yi evaded before activating Ice Hell to freeze the surrounding space.
• Zhao He watched the spar and was shocked by the apparent ability of Ice Hell to freeze space.

Li Yi and He Guangzhi fought at full strength as Li Yi’s Ice Hell and Gravity Traits showed conceptual power against the Thunder King Mech. The chapter left He Guangzhi impressed and alarmed when Li Yi’s gravity-enhanced strike nearly breached his Electromagnetic Force Field.

• Li Yi’s Ice Hell Trait froze the surrounding space and restrained He Guangzhi’s Thunder King Mech.
• He Guangzhi unleashed his Heavenly Rank ultimate technique, Scorching Lightning Blast Wave, driving back the Pluto Mech and scorching its armor.
• Zhao He warned He Guangzhi not to injure Li Yi, but He Guangzhi insisted Li Yi could withstand his strongest attacks and cut off their communications.
• Li Yi used the Gravity Trait to redirect the Thunder King Mech’s punch and pull it into the Pluto Mech’s Tiger Pounce Stance.
• The Thunder King Mech blocked most of Li Yi’s gravity-enhanced strike with its Electromagnetic Force Field, but He Guangzhi realized the blow had nearly broken through.