Chapter Summaries

Li Yi attended a meeting about the coming offensive against the Starborn while developing a new Body Tempering Method. Lin Jianlong reviewed the mission to strike Chang'ang Star, and Li Yi offered to help Tan Yaozu break through his bottleneck so he could strengthen the Star Gate.

• Li Yi listened distractedly as Lin Jianlong asked the Supreme Experts to explain their assignments for the offensive.
• Fang Hai said he would infiltrate Probo Star, also called Chang'ang Star, and destroy its Star-Chain Communication System before the main assault.
• Duanmu Xiong explained that the captured Star Gate could send Fang Hai through the Starborn transit network, after which he would drift to his destination in a Drift Casket.
• Tan Yaozu said he would use Resonance Blessing to prepare the Star Gate and Drift Casket, but doubted he could build up the technique for three days without breaking through his bottleneck.
• Li Yi offered to try tempering Tan Yaozu's body to help him advance, saying he had an idea but would need a divinity item.

Li Yi requested Duanmu Xiong’s Nano-Sensor to prepare for forging Tan Yaozu’s body, and Duanmu gave it to him. The leaders finalized the campaign against the Starborn and planned a Federation-wide award ceremony for Li Yi.

• Li Yi explained that the Nano-Sensor would help him adapt to microscopic perception before forging Tan Yaozu’s body and improving the chance of merging his three cores.
• Duanmu Xiong found the Nano-Sensor in his collection records and offered it to Li Yi, while the others joked about rewarding him with their treasures and assets.
• Duanmu Xiong arranged for Tan Yaozu to collect the Nano-Sensor and bring it to Li Yi.
• Lin Jianlong assigned the campaign’s priorities: Fang Hai would destroy the Chang'ang Star Chain System, Lin Jianlong would lead attacks on key enemies, and Duanmu Xiong would lead the assault on the Nano-Ruins with Li Yi, Tan Yaozu, and Lu Yunsheng.
• The leaders planned to capture Chang'ang Star to prevent a prolonged guerrilla war, then Lin Jianlong announced a live Federation award ceremony for Li Yi.

The Federation’s decision-makers awarded Li Yi the rank of general and planned a live conferment followed by a public ceremony on Earth. They also arranged for Qin Longchuan to help pursue Heng Sol as the broadcast preparations began.

• Lin Jianlong proposed making Li Yi a lieutenant general, and the decision-makers congratulated Li Yi after the rank was approved.
• Lin Jianlong scheduled a live rank conferment and a public ceremony three weeks later, which he intended to use to mislead the Starborn.
• Lin Jianlong told Old Tan to meet Li Yi at Moon Fortress and attempt a breakthrough, then asked He Guangzhi about Heng Sol.
• He Guangzhi said Heng Sol remained difficult to catch, so Lin Jianlong asked Qin Longchuan to help pursue him.
• The Federation’s AI assistants and media organizations spread headlines announcing Li Yi’s live rank conferment.

Cai Xiaodong and Li Yi’s former classmates gathered in the Yao Chi training hall to watch Li Yi’s live-streamed commissioning ceremony. As the broadcast began, they saw a lavish montage recounting his rise and battles, leaving them stunned by the enemies he had defeated.

• Cai Xiaodong arrived late, and Sun Duxiu and the others teased him before saving him a place to watch Li Yi’s ceremony.
• Tan Haoran told the group that Yao Shiwang had gone to arrange a giant-screen broadcast for the class.
• Yao Shiwang arrived with expensive projection equipment and used her divinity-control talent to set up a massive display in the training hall.
• The broadcast’s AI narrator recounted Li Yi’s achievements, including his discovery of the Inheritance Ruins, victories over Heavenly Rank opponents, and recent rise to top-tier Heavenly Rank.
• Cai Xiaodong marveled at footage showing Li Yi defeating an enemy over 260 meters tall.

Li Yi received the rank of general in a grand Federation ceremony, while friends and former teammates watched and celebrated from across the galaxy. Afterward, he planned to work on Seed Void and refine the Body Tempering Method, then called Chen Qiong Zhi with an alarming request.

• Cai Xiaodong, Yao Shiwang, and Tan Haoran watched Li Yi’s battle highlights and celebrated his rise to general.
• Ning Feiyu’s team watched the livestream, and Ning Feiyu said she would soon challenge the Boundless Spire and Trait Spire to reach Celestial Rank.
• Li Lulu arrived at Moon Fortress after passing inspection and learned that her brother Li Yi had become a Federation general.
• Qin Longchuan pinned Li Yi’s rank insignia on him during the livestream ceremony, and Li Yi took the oath.
• Li Yi received congratulatory messages from his friends, then planned to cultivate Seed Void and refine the Body Tempering Method before Old Tan arrived.
• Li Yi called Chen Qiong Zhi and told her he needed to borrow her body, leaving her stunned.

Li Yi asked Chen Qiong Zhi to help optimize the Body Tempering Method, then welcomed Li Lulu to his lunar villa and learned that she sensed an unsettling presence on Earth. After Chen Qiong Zhi arrived, she noticed the scent of another woman in the villa.

• Chen Qiong Zhi agreed to help Li Yi revise the Body Tempering Method in exchange for his future assistance when she asked.
• Li Yi welcomed Li Lulu, who had safely arrived with Chen Tongchen, and rewarded Chen Tongchen with five hundred battle merits for escorting her.
• Li Lulu said the black line above Li Yi’s head had darkened and reached deeper, shortening the estimated time before it reached his core to one or two years.
• Li Lulu told Li Yi that something on Earth had made her uncomfortable, so he planned to train her in combat techniques and help her become an Evolver faster.
• Chen Qiong Zhi arrived at Li Yi’s villa and noticed the scent of a woman she did not recognize.

Li Yi introduced Li Lulu as his sworn sister to Chen Qiong Zhi, then sparred with his instructor to assess her perfected Tiger Strike Style. Their fight revealed that Chen Qiong Zhi could briefly produce an unexpectedly powerful punch, and Li Yi ended by asking what she wanted to know about Li Lulu.

• Li Yi told Chen Qiong Zhi that Li Lulu was his sworn sister, and Li Lulu greeted Chen Qiong Zhi as Sister Chen before leaving them alone.
• Li Yi and Chen Qiong Zhi went to the training grounds, where Chen Qiong Zhi manifested a solid multicolored tiger and confirmed that her Tiger Strike Style was perfected.
• Li Yi suppressed his strength to match Chen Qiong Zhi and used Fluid Force to counter the strange power behind her attacks.
• Chen Qiong Zhi landed a punch that pierced Li Yi's defenses, and Li Yi suspected she had somehow combined her clone's power with her own.
• Chen Qiong Zhi ended the spar and asked to begin Li Yi's Body Tempering Method research plan, while Li Yi asked whether she wanted to question him about Li Lulu.

Li Yi tested a high-frequency, micrometer-level Body Tempering Method on Chen Qiong Zhi, using her reactions to refine the technique. Over three days, he condensed two more Divinity Genes and gained something new from the dark memory fragments.

• Li Yi explained that his new Body Tempering Method imitated some of the physical changes Lu Yunsheng experienced while advancing to the supreme level, and Chen Qiong Zhi agreed to be his test subject.
• Li Yi used rapid punches and precise strikes to stimulate Chen Qiong Zhi’s cells, recording her bodily reactions and adjusting his techniques with help from his AI assistant.
• Li Yi incorporated Needle Thrust Force and Explosive Spiral Force into the test, which he suspected were old body-tempering techniques, while Chen Qiong Zhi endured the increasingly intense session.
• Over three days, Li Yi condensed his sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth Divinity Genes, gaining the Wind God trait Tornado and the Fire God trait Incinerate.
• Li Yi gained something new from the dark memory fragments.

Li Yi absorbed more of Katuya’s memories, identifying a time-related treasure she had hidden on Planet 5570 and gaining useful knowledge of ancient-script decryption. At the Moon Fortress, Qin Longchuan brought Li Yi a Nano-Sensor, and Li Yi successfully tested it at extreme magnification before Lu Yunsheng warned him to ease up.

• Li Yi absorbed Katuya’s memories, learned she had hidden a second Chronicle Ledger on Planet 5570, and improved his decryption knowledge.
• Li Yi linked Planet 5570 to Earth’s Eternal Universe Zone, also known as the Temporal Ruins, and recorded the clues for future exploration.
• Tan Yaozu and Federal Governor Qin Longchuan arrived at the Moon Fortress, where Li Yi met them with Lu Yunsheng and Zhao He.
• Qin Longchuan gave Li Yi the Nano-Sensor, and Li Yi confirmed it transmitted magnified image data directly to his brain.
• Li Yi raised the Nano-Sensor’s precision to 100 nanometers, straining his brain, and Lu Yunsheng urged him to take it easy.

Li Yi successfully used 100-nanometer vision to develop a tailored Neptune Transformation Method and prepared to adapt it before tempering Tan Yaozu. While testing the method on himself, he strengthened his body and formed three Divinity Genes, bringing his total to seventy.

• Li Yi confirmed that he had recorded the 100-nanometer image data and explained how he used humanity’s Supreme Expert records to project shared and individual traits of Supreme Transformations.
• Li Yi said he needed half a day to adapt before tempering Tan Yaozu, while Qin Longchuan and Zhao He went to the God-Suppressing Prison to deal with Heng Sol and Lu Yunsheng stayed to assist.
• Li Yi tested the Celestial Meridian Micro-forging Method on himself with repeated strikes, then refined the Neptune Transformation Method using his microscopic vision.
• As the Neptune Transformation Method strengthened Li Yi’s body, he drank nutrient solution and rapidly formed three Divinity Genes, reaching seventy in total.
• Tan Yaozu asked Lu Yunsheng whether Li Yi always formed Divinity Genes so quickly and in such numbers, leaving Lu Yunsheng at a loss for words.

Lu Yunsheng explained to Tan Yaozu how Li Yi’s combat skill, mastery of divinity control, and ability to cultivate many Divinity Sequences let him simulate the ultimate metamorphosis. As Li Yi neared the critical point, a powerful aura erupted from him, signaling that his breakthrough had begun.

• Tan Yaozu watched Li Yi generate several Divinity Genes and marveled at the effects of Li Yi’s self-created Body Tempering Method.
• Tan Yaozu described how the Inheritance Ruins, Li Yi’s combat skills, and his battle instincts had strengthened his evolution, and Lu Yunsheng said those factors alone could not explain his power.
• Lu Yunsheng explained that Li Yi could cultivate many Divinity Sequences because his divinity control had reached perfection across each sequence, allowing him to resolve conflicts between Divinity Genes.
• Tan Yaozu noticed Li Yi’s aura changing and asked whether he had simulated more than half of the ultimate metamorphosis; Lu Yunsheng said Li Yi was approaching a breakthrough.
• A powerful physical aura erupted from Li Yi, and Tan Yaozu reacted with a curse.

Li Yi used the Neptune Transformation Method to temper his body, reaching half-step supreme physical strength. After realizing how his soul reserves had enabled the breakthrough, he agreed to test his new strength against Tan Yaozu.

• Lu Yunsheng estimated that Li Yi had simulated about half of his transformation and predicted he could reach half-step supreme physical strength.
• Lu Yunsheng ordered high-quality nutrient tubes brought in, and Tan Yaozu told the AI to include tubes that might not suit Li Yi's physique.
• Li Yi drank the nutrient fluid while using his traits and abilities to control the intense body-tempering process.
• After forty-five minutes, Li Yi's body transformed, and Lu Yunsheng said he had gained half-step supreme strength ahead of schedule.
• Li Yi realized that his supreme-tier soul strength and reserves had helped him break through his physical bottleneck.
• Lu Yunsheng suggested that Tan Yaozu spar with Li Yi, and Li Yi agreed to test his new strength against him.

Li Yi demonstrated the destructive power of his transformed body and eighty-nanometer Nano-Micro Force combat technique in a spar with Tan Yaozu. He shattered Tan Yaozu’s fingers with one punch, leaving Lu Yunsheng and Tan Yaozu astonished by the strength Li Yi still had not shown.

• Li Yi told Lu Yunsheng and Tan Yaozu that his transformation had greatly improved his senses and that his Nano-Micro Force precision could eventually reach forty or fifty nanometers with a Nano-Sensor.
• Tan Yaozu activated his Synergy State, reversing the effects of aging and boosting his vitality as he prepared to spar with Li Yi.
• Li Yi and Tan Yaozu charged at each other, and their first clash shattered the divine shielding around their fists.
• Li Yi’s punch broke three of Tan Yaozu’s fingers by striking through his divine shield, but Li Yi withdrew his force before it could cause further damage.
• Tan Yaozu’s Synergy Trait began regenerating his fingers, while Li Yi explained that he had used a two-layered Quake-Word Technique and still had many applications left to show.

Li Yi and Tan Yaozu tested their strength in a training match, where Li Yi's precise control and physical power let him withstand Tan Yaozu's Synergy Eight-Tone Burst without using divinity. Tan Yaozu recognized the potential of Li Yi's approach, then activated his final Burst Technique to continue the fight.

• Lu Yunsheng urged Tan Yaozu and Li Yi to keep training, and Tan Yaozu regenerated his shattered fingers with his Synergy Trait.
• Tan Yaozu attacked with Synergy Eight-Tone Burst, and Li Yi countered with an eighty-nanometer-precision spiral force using only his body.
• Their attacks collided in a massive shockwave that tore up the training ground, but neither fighter was injured.
• Tan Yaozu praised Li Yi's subtle control and resolved to train toward that realm, while Li Yi said it should be combined with trait techniques.
• At Lu Yunsheng's urging, Tan Yaozu activated his final Burst Technique and challenged Li Yi to test the limits of his divine body.

Tan Yaozu revealed a powerful second-stage burst and fought Li Yi, who eventually broke it with micro-level penetrating force. Li Yi exposed the hidden cost of Tan Yaozu’s accumulated Reverse Entropy and warned that his body might fail within a few years, leaving Lu Yunsheng asking how likely Li Yi was to help him advance to Supreme Expert.

• Tan Yaozu used his second-stage burst and Myriad Forms Without Form to attack Li Yi at overwhelming speed.
• Li Yi defended against Tan Yaozu’s attacks and gradually adapted to his eighty-nanometer micro-level perception.
• Li Yi struck Tan Yaozu’s shoulder, broke his burst, and caused him to revert to his aged appearance.
• Li Yi explained that Tan Yaozu’s burst relied on accumulated Reverse Entropy and that penetrating force could disrupt its internal coordination.
• Tan Yaozu admitted he had accumulated Reverse Entropy for over twenty years and had used less than three percent during the fight.
• Li Yi warned that Tan Yaozu’s cellular vitality was dangerously weak, and Lu Yunsheng asked how confident Li Yi was about helping him advance.

Li Yi prepared to help Tan Yaozu advance, arguing they had to use his accumulated reverse entropy before time and their coming combat plan made another attempt impossible. After studying new memories, Li Yi unleashed his full power as Tan Yaozu began a three-stage, hundred-percent burst, leaving both men’s auras surging as the body-tempering attempt began.

• Li Yi explained that Tan Yaozu had to risk his next advancement attempt now, and Tan Yaozu agreed to proceed after Li Yi rested.
• Li Yi entered the Dreamscape Plains and absorbed memories about 80-nanometer control and Body Tempering Methods.
• Li Yi and Tan Yaozu woke from their dream cultivation, and Tan Yaozu gained new insight into the Sea King Body Tempering Method.
• Li Yi activated his 3.2 Burst Technique at full strength, stunning Lu Yunsheng and Tan Yaozu with his aura.
• Tan Yaozu unleashed his accumulated Reverse Entropy Coefficient in a three-stage, hundred-percent burst, restoring his aged body and matching Li Yi’s power.

Li Yi pushed Tan Yaozu’s body through increasingly precise tempering to help him break through, but Tan’s depleted potential made progress stall. Li Yi forced his Nano-Sensor beyond its limit and adapted his brain to finer perception, leaving his Transcendent Art of the Brain at version 2.0 as Tan attempted his own breakthrough.

• Li Yi used the Celestial Meridian Micro-forging Method and then rapid finger strikes to strengthen Tan Yaozu’s body while refining the Neptune Transformation Method.
• Lu Yunsheng realized Tan Yaozu had overdrawn his potential and the mysterious substance needed for bodily growth to benefit his soul.
• As Tan Yaozu’s growth stalled and his aura reached its limit, Lu Yunsheng urged Li Yi to try every method he could.
• Li Yi pushed his Nano-Sensor from 80-nanometer perception toward 50 nanometers and carefully gave parts of his brain the Super-Elasticity Trait.
• Li Yi adapted to 60-nanometer perception, while Tan Yaozu’s aura stabilized and Tan attempted to complete his breakthrough.
• Li Yi’s Transcendent Art of the Brain underwent its initial iteration into version 2.0.

Li Yi used his perfected Micro-Vibration Force to help Tan Yaozu fuse his three Origin Cores and advance to Supreme Expert, restoring his life force in the process. After Tan Yaozu pledged his support, Li Yi learned that Heng Sol had uncovered an ancient ruin beneath Pluto’s God-Suppressing Prison, possibly another entrance to Enlightenment God Mountain.

• Li Yi completed the final link in his 50-nanometer Micro Force and used Micro-Vibration Force to temper Tan Yaozu’s body.
• Tan Yaozu’s soul strength transformed, allowing his three Origin Cores to fuse and carry him past the hardest hurdle to advancement.
• Li Yi recorded Tan Yaozu’s unusual transformation, which finished after sixty-three minutes and left him stronger and with renewed life force.
• Tan Yaozu confirmed that the Synergy Trait remained his supreme trait and pledged to serve as Li Yi’s steadfast comrade in the Federation.
• Li Yi received word that Heng Sol had found an ancient ruin beneath Pluto’s God-Suppressing Prison, which Qin Bangchang suspected was another entrance to Enlightenment God Mountain.

Li Yi, Lu Yunsheng, and Tan Yaozu headed to the God-Suppressing Prison after learning that Heng Sol had found the entrance to Enlightenment God Mountain. He Guangzhi revealed that Heng Sol had already begun a solo challenge and the group might face him in team battle mode.

• Lu Yunsheng and Tan Yaozu discussed Tan Yaozu's successful advancement and plans for their own Divine Mechs, while Li Yi said he wanted to explore the Earth Ruins for more Divinity Genes.
• The three piloted their Divine Mechs to the God-Suppressing Prison, where He Guangzhi confirmed Tan Yaozu had advanced and welcomed the new Supreme Expert.
• He Guangzhi explained that Enlightenment God Mountain allowed solo challenges or more rewarding team battles, and said the group would enter as a six-man team.
• Li Yi asked whether Heng Sol had entered solo challenge mode, and He Guangzhi confirmed Heng Sol had recovered more than half his body and might appear during their team challenge.

Li Yi and the others entered a cave in the God-Suppressing Prison, where Qin Longchuan explained how he, Lin Jianlong, and Duanmu Xiong had entered Enlightenment God Mountain through ruins on Mars and Saturn. As the group flew deeper into the cave, a strange force expelled them from their Divine Mechs into a place Li Yi recognized.

• Li Yi and the others reached the cave entrance, where Qin Longchuan's Snow Dragon Mech stood guard.
• Qin Longchuan led the group into the cave and explained that he, Lin Jianlong, and Duanmu Xiong had entered Enlightenment God Mountain through the Mars Ruins about 150 years earlier.
• Qin Longchuan said that the three had gained different methods for refining their divine intent, and that they later found another entrance in the Saturn Ruins.
• Lu Yunsheng wondered whether the Neptune Ruins contained an entrance, while Li Yi questioned why his own trial had granted combat techniques instead.
• The cave opened into a place familiar to Li Yi, and an unknown force ejected everyone from their Divine Mechs.