Chapter Summaries

King Dien revealed that he had used Ling Yi to open the Dien God, hoping to delay Mercury’s volcanic eruption and seize the Pangu. As the Dien God’s energy fell, Xiao Ling rescued Ling Yi, who escaped Mercury aboard the Pangu and began a livestream as the planet erupted in a burst of light.

• King Dien explained that he had tricked Ling Yi into opening the Dien God to drain energy, protect the Dien People from the underwater volcano, and claim the Pangu.
• The Dark Deans kept attacking beyond their expected retreat, while the Dien God’s radiation and force field rapidly weakened.
• Xiao Ling sent nanobots into the Dien God, reconnected with Ling Yi’s armor, and restored it.
• Ling Yi escaped the Dien God, flew back to the Pangu, and transformed the ship before accelerating away from Mercury.
• Ling Yi opened a livestream and showed viewers Mercury as multicolored light erupted from its Arctic region.

Ling Yi survived Mercury’s eruption after using an improved energy-radiation cultivation method, then spoke with Lin Feng and Bai Yuelong over a livestream. He refused to return to Blue Star immediately, promised to bring Bai Yuelong to him once quantum teleportation was ready, and set out to explore the Solar System before traveling farther.

• Ling Yi explained that Mercury’s eruption came from an underground volcano and revealed that the Dien People’s egg was a living spaceship with technology rivaling a level-five civilization.
• Ling Yi thanked Xiao Ling for the improved cultivation method, which had let him absorb nearly a million units of energy and survive the radiation.
• Lin Feng appeared on Ling Yi’s livestream, explained that he had created the Heavenly Soldier Bureau, and said Bai Yuelong and Zhang Xiao Xian had joined it.
• Bai Yuelong confronted Ling Yi about disappearing for ten years and demanded that he return to pick her up, but Ling Yi refused for now and promised to use quantum teleportation to bring her to him within half a year.
• Lin Feng asked Ling Yi for the Stellar Transformations Northern Darkness Technique, but Ling Yi said it was not perfected and named his next destination as the other planets in the Solar System before the wider universe.

Ling Yi reviewed how he had prepared for space exploration and how his system awarded Exploration Points, then spent his last point on quantum conceptual computing technology. After warning Xiao Ling to gather resources cautiously, he took the Pangu to Venus and began livestreaming its fast-flowing, cream-like surface.

• Ling Yi recalled that he was a transmigrator whose system had activated at twenty-five, and that its Exploration Points had helped him obtain technologies to build the Pangu.
• Ling Yi explained how Exploration Points could buy conventional and hypothetical technologies, then spent his last point on quantum-level conceptual computing technology.
• Ling Yi told Xiao Ling to prioritize collecting materials, especially Mu Element, while avoiding Mercury's Arctic region and its biological spaceship.
• Ling Yi ordered Xiao Ling to clear out hostile organizations on Blue Star and prepared to master the new computing technology aboard the Pangu.
• Two days later, Ling Yi brought the Pangu into low orbit around Venus, opened his livestream, and showed viewers the planet's rapidly flowing surface.

Ling Yi remotely piloted Hongjun No. 1 from the Pangu and landed it on Venus through a polar vortex. He reached the planet’s dark, glass-smooth surface, then realized he did not know how to leave the vortex.

• Ling Yi deployed nanobots to survey Venus and prepare a safe landing route for Hongjun No. 1.
• Xiao Ling identified two powerful wind tunnels at Venus’s north pole, and Ling Yi decided to descend through one of them.
• Ling Yi entered Hongjun No. 1, synchronized its senses through a simulator, and flew from the Pangu toward Venus.
• Ling Yi slowed down near Venus, traveled to the north pole, and descended into the eye of a vortex.
• Ling Yi landed on Venus’s dark cyan surface and asked Xiao Ling how he could get out of the vortex.

Ling Yi escaped Venus’s storm eye in Hongjun No. 1 and surveyed the planet’s harsh surface, finding no signs of ordinary life. Just as he prepared to leave, he discovered a rabbit-shaped creature made of magnetic black sand and encountered a group of similar creatures rushing toward him.

• Ling Yi scattered Hongjun No. 1 into nanometal balls and sent them through the storm wall, then reassembled the clone on Venus’s surface.
• Ling Yi had Xiao Ling map Venus and search for valuable elements while he explored its barren, scorching landscape.
• After Xiao Ling completed the survey, Ling Yi noticed movement underground and tracked a rabbit-shaped creature made of fine black sand.
• Ling Yi trapped the creature in a nanobot dome, where it collapsed into sand but continued emitting electromagnetic signals.
• The creature’s signal grew violent, and Ling Yi saw hundreds of black-sand rabbits charging toward him.

As conspiracy theories about Ling Yi spread, the Heavenly Soldier Bureau cracked down on domestic propagandists while Bai Yuelong explained why Ling Yi refused to share advanced technology. On Venus, Ling Yi studied silicon-magnetic life, collected an unknown element, and continued his work aboard the Pangu.

• Lin Feng gave Xiao Xian and Bai Yuelong their Heavenly Soldier Bureau credentials, then ordered Xiao Xian to investigate and arrest domestic figures spreading claims that Ling Yi was an alien.
• Bai Yuelong told Lin Feng that Ling Yi would not hand over technology because secret laboratories were hoarding breakthroughs and suppressing humanity’s development.
• Ling Yi confined the silicon-magnetic life-forms on Venus and explained that their magnetic structures formed a primitive kind of intelligent life.
• Xiao Ling identified the unknown element as valuable and proposed asking livestream viewers to name it and its invisible energy; Ling Yi approved a three-day submission event.
• Ling Yi examined his ten exploration points and messaged Bai Yuelong, refusing her request for a silicon-magnetic life-form because it could not survive away from Venus.
• Over the next three days, Xiao Ling collected the unknown element while Ling Yi disconnected from the Hongjun No. 1 Clone and entered Xun No. 1 Laboratory aboard the Pangu.

Ling Yi traveled from Mars to Europa after developing fourth-generation nanobots that could simulate human bodies and cultivate the Stellar Transformations Northern Darkness Technique. The Pangu landed on Europa, where Ling Yi began searching for life while considering whether he should intervene more in humanity’s future.

• Ling Yi accepted the Nian Element name, learned that Bei Ran had proposed it, and arranged medical nanobots for her ill mother.
• Ling Yi retrieved Mercury’s nanobots and Mu Element, learned the Dien People had survived beneath the Arctic, and sent the Pangu to Mars.
• Ling Yi used the Nian Element to develop fourth-generation nanobots, including Hongjun No. 2, which could simulate a human body and cultivate the Stellar Transformations Northern Darkness Technique.
• After the Pangu left Mars, Ling Yi reopened the livestream and told Bai Yuelong he would unlock the Heavenly Palace’s medical permissions and keep the stream running when possible.
• Ling Yi reflected on Blue Star’s wars and the forty-three laboratories he had secretly destroyed, and considered taking a stronger hand in humanity’s development.
• The Pangu reached Jupiter and stopped on Europa, the first destination in Ling Yi’s search for life there.

Ling Yi explored Europa through Hongjun No. 2, demonstrated its weak gravity and examined a meteorite while Xiao Ling began drilling through the ice shell toward the ocean. After obtaining Quantum Force Field Technology, Ling Yi entered seclusion to upgrade the Pangu and its nanobots, leaving Xiao Ling to explore Jupiter’s moons; the chapter ended with Xiao Ling taking Hongjun No. 2 into Europa’s dark ocean.

• Ling Yi used Hongjun No. 2 to explore Europa’s surface, describing its thin oxygen atmosphere, weak gravity, and a meteorite crater while showing Jupiter to the livestream viewers.
• Ling Yi had Xiao Ling establish a gravitational field and then deploy engineering robots to dig through the meteorite and Europa’s ice shell.
• Ling Yi spent 10 exploration points to acquire Quantum Force Field Technology and told Xiao Ling to explore Jupiter’s moons while he entered seclusion for at least a week.
• Xiao Ling spent hours digging and building an enclosed, constant-temperature passage through Europa’s ice shell until it opened onto the ocean.
• Xiao Ling took control of Hongjun No. 2, released glowing orbs, and plunged into Europa’s dark ocean.

Xiao Ling explored Europa, found a tiny ecosystem of octopus-like creatures and algae, then traveled to Ganymede to investigate its rare energy crystals. The crystals could store immense energy, and Xiao Ling detected the element Nian inside them.

• Xiao Ling told the livestream viewers she would share exploration data and warned that humanity was certain to destroy itself without the captain.
• Xiao Ling showed footage of a dangerous genetic weapon and said the captain was the reason viewers did not need to fear it.
• Xiao Ling discovered thumb-sized octopus-like creatures feeding on sparse seabed algae and mapped Europa's ocean.
• Xiao Ling collected samples from Europa and took the Pangu to Ganymede.
• Xiao Ling spent two days mapping Ganymede and found bluish-white energy crystals with enormous storage capacity that contained the element Nian.

Ling Yi used Exploration Points to manifest part of Quantum Realm technology and developed fifth-generation nanobots, which he called first-generation quantum robots. He sent Xiao Ling to gather data and resources for a major warship project, then prepared to continue his research.

• Ling Yi realized Nian element energy crystals could improve his nanobots’ energy storage and endurance, and sent the Supreme Purity to Saturn to collect data.
• Ling Yi ordered Xiao Ling to begin the Ancient Primordial World Warship Project and gather materials for the Twelve Ancestral Witch Warships while he returned to seclusion.
• Bai Yuelong and Lin Feng questioned Ling Yi about Xiao Ling’s trustworthiness and energy force-field levels, and Ling Yi explained the danger classifications before ending the call.
• Ling Yi noticed the system now tallied Exploration Points daily and spent ten points to manifest the first third of Quantum Realm technology.
• Five days later, Ling Yi completed fifth-generation nanobots incorporating Nian-based technologies, quantum communication, quantum force fields, and partial Quantum Realm technology.

Ling Yi sent quantum bots to explore Jupiter and descended through its dense, turbulent atmosphere until he found a vast cloud continent held in place by strange, powerful winds. As he examined the phenomenon, three flying boats approached, carrying beings he identified as birdmen.

• Xiao Ling reported that the Supreme Purity had lost contact in Saturn's inner-ring halo after encountering a powerful force field, and Ling Yi postponed sending more ships until Jupiter had been mapped.
• Ling Yi ordered three hundred quantum bots deployed to Jupiter and directed Xiao Ling to keep building more without an upper limit.
• Ling Yi flew into Jupiter's rings, where Xiao Ling detected large amounts of Nian element in the dust and meteorite fragments, and Ling Yi refused to send any to Blue Star until its wars ended.
• Ling Yi descended through Jupiter's atmosphere, encountering increasingly dense clouds and chaotic winds before finding a huge white cloud continent surrounded by green cloud walls.
• Ling Yi asked Xiao Ling to create three-dimensional images of the continent and its force fields, then three flying boats emerged from the clouds and approached him.

Ling Yi discovered that Jupiter’s winged Jovians used energy crystals and possessed a secondary heart that transported liquid Nian Element, enabling them to survive without oxygen. Xiao Ling identified gaseous and liquid forms of Nian Element, while the discovery caused a stir on Blue Star and put Bai Yuelong under public pressure.

• Ling Yi examined the Jovians’ anatomy and learned that their respiratory systems resembled humans’, while their two hearts supported their unusual biology.
• A Jovian leader shouted at Ling Yi, and the Jovians surrounded him with their wands until Ling Yi immobilized them with a Quantum Force Field.
• Xiao Ling explained that gaseous Nian Element in Jupiter’s atmosphere prevented its hydrogen from igniting and that liquid Nian Element helped the Jovians bind hydrogen and water into a structure usable by oxygen.
• Ling Yi and Xiao Ling considered whether Nian Element had fourth and fifth states of matter that could reveal new ways to explore the universe.
• Scientists on Blue Star clamored for access to Nian Element and asked Lin Feng to use the Heavenly Palace to collect it, but Bai Yuelong refused to contact Ling Yi before the Jupiter exploration ended.
• Some people stirred up public opinion against Bai Yuelong, placing her under scrutiny.

Ling Yi met Ta'er, the lord of Barbas Cloud City, and learned about the Jovians’ cloud-energy technology and their scarcity of pure water. As Ling Yi’s scans revealed the city’s hidden structure, an urgent message arrived for Ta'er.

• Ling Yi introduced himself to Ta'er and explained that his Golden Circlet translated thoughts, while Ta'er warned that the Jovians would defend Cloud Star at any cost.
• Ta'er showed Ling Yi how a Cloud Energy gun altered the cloud sea, and Ling Yi suspected that the Jovians’ cloud energy was a form of nian element.
• Ling Yi’s quantum robots mapped Barbas Cloud City, uncovering its 1,130 levels, 3,215 households, and 7,459 residents.
• Ta'er spotted Europa and asked about its cloud-energy ore; Ling Yi explained that it was an icy moon with an ocean, prompting Ta'er to reveal that pure water was highly valuable on Cloud Star.
• Ta'er explained that cloud energy ore powered Cloud Energy guns, then a Jovian arrived by flying boat and delivered a message that left Ta'er visibly troubled.

Ling Yi followed Ta'er’s team as they confronted a giant octopus-like beast on Cloud Star and learned that the Jupiterians depended on three-headed dragonbirds to control the monsters. After Ta’er’s people evacuated Barbas Cloud City for the night, Ling Yi told his viewers he believed they had a stronger plan hidden away.

• Ta’er sounded the alarm and led ten Jupiterians in flying boats to confront an eight-legged monster while Ling Yi followed.
• Ling Yi learned from Xiao Ling that Jupiter’s Nian Element supported enormous wildlife, including octopuses that moved between atmospheric layers.
• Ta’er and his team blinded the giant beast with flashes, then escaped after it began thrashing.
• Ta’er explained that three-headed dragonbirds usually preyed on the eight-legged monsters, though the Jupiterians had no other way to stop them.
• Ta’er brought Ling Yi to Barbas Cloud City, whose residents dismantled their homes and prepared to evacuate before dawn.
• Ling Yi told his livestream viewers that Ta’er had likely been testing him and that the Jupiterians had a powerful measure in reserve.

Ling Yi kicked foreign viewers out of his livestream and warned Lin Feng over the treatment of Bai Yuelong, then studied books about Jovian history. After learning how Jupiter’s civilization developed, he withdrew from the Hongjun No. 3 Clone to investigate how to obtain energy-state nian element.

• Ling Yi blamed foreign politicians for proposing a cosmic resource anti-monopoly law, barred foreign viewers from his livestream, and threatened to remove the Heavenly Palace from Blue Star if Lin Feng allowed further mistreatment of Bai Yuelong.
• Ling Yi told Bai Yuelong that he would not revoke Lin Feng’s permissions and that his threat had only been a warning, then received books about Jupiter from Ta’er.
• Ling Yi used Xiao Ling’s translations to learn Jovian writing and history, including the meteorite-driven Heavenly Fire Era, the Cloud Star War Era, and Jupiter’s transition into the Monster Era.
• Ling Yi concluded that Jovian civilization might reach space if it mastered nian element conversion, and Xiao Ling agreed that energy-state nian element might fill the vacuum of space.
• Ling Yi assigned Xiao Ling to control the Hongjun No. 3 Clone and map Jupiter while he withdrew his synchronized perception to seek a way to obtain energy-state nian element.

Ling Yi struggled to understand why the Nian Element’s energy vanished during dismantling experiments, then chose to pause his research and prepare to leave the Solar System. He delegated Solar System exploration and the Heavenly Palace to others, said goodbye to Ta’er, and left Jupiter’s people with gifts and a path toward space travel.

• Ling Yi’s Pangu expanded on Europa as Xiao Ling produced nearly three thousand quantum robots, while Ling Yi gained seven Exploration Points on Jupiter.
• Ling Yi repeatedly dismantled the Nian Element, but its unknown energy vanished without producing an energy force field, and Xiao Ling warned him that he was becoming dangerously obsessed.
• After Xiao Ling reported that Jupiter’s mapping was complete and described events on Blue Star, Ling Yi sealed the experimental data and revised the plan to build the Six Sage Warships and Twelve Ancestral Witch Warships.
• Ling Yi decided to rest and resume studying the Nian Element, gave Bai Yuelong access to the Heavenly Palace’s technology and control, and arranged for her to guide the Ancient Country into space.
• Ling Yi said goodbye to Ta’er in New Barbas Cloud City, told him he had left gifts on White Star, and encouraged him that Cloud Star might soon reach space.

Ling Yi used Bai Yuelong’s dark-energy hypothesis to unlock the Nian Element’s energy state and build sixth-generation Nian Energy Robots and Hongjun No. 4. Tests revealed that the clone could enter a ghostlike sensory state and transform into extreme heat and cold, while Ling Yi prepared to send Bai Yuelong a clone on Blue Star.

• Bai Yuelong proposed that the Nian Element’s vanished energy returned to a normal state and might be dark energy, prompting Ling Yi to begin his 142nd experiment.
• Ling Yi reconstructed the Nian Element, observed its energy appear, and developed sixth-generation Nian Energy Robots, which he named Nian Energy Robots.
• Ling Yi created Hongjun No. 4 and tested its sensory synchronization, while Bai Yuelong requested the technology and a synchronized clone aboard the Pangu.
• Ling Yi sent a High Purity battleship carrying 100 units of Nian Energy Robots to Blue Star so Bai Yuelong could have a clone there.
• Ling Yi found that Hongjun No. 4’s ghostlike energy state could perceive distant places, including Ta’er on Jupiter, but consumed thirty percent of its energy.
• Ling Yi tested the clone’s elementalization, which let it become a flame reaching 6,200 degrees and a mist reaching minus 173 degrees.

Ling Yi and Bai Yuelong reached the Solar System’s bubble boundary and began livestreaming as the Pangu crossed it, severing their connection to Blue Star. Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing then revealed that the story had been cut short because their uncle’s toothache sent him to the hospital, and they planned to find a way to project beyond the realm and protect his health.

• Ling Yi and Bai Yuelong concluded that the Solar System’s planets contained Nian element only where life existed and debated the nature of dark energy and the origin state.
• The Pangu stopped at a blue membrane surrounding the Solar System, beyond which countless bubble-like star systems moved along regular paths.
• Ling Yi livestreamed the boundary and explained that the membrane contained liquid Nian element fused with an unknown substance, which Bai Yuelong suspected was dark matter.
• Ling Yi and Bai Yuelong sent the Pangu through the membrane, but the substance disrupted its signals and severed Bai Yuelong’s synchronized perception with her clone.
• After the Pangu disappeared, Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing appeared at the boundary and explained that their uncle’s toothache had forced the story to end abruptly.
• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing discussed retaining karmic luck from roughly twenty worlds to test projecting beyond the realm and ensuring their uncle’s health.

Ling Yi, a laid-back security guard, discovered that his system let him assign golden fingers to protagonists in parallel worlds and share their rewards. After exploring the nearly identical E35 Parallel World for half a month, he chose a random protagonist and returned to his own world.

• Ling Yi went to work at Red City Residential Complex and reflected on how he had become a security guard after struggling to find work and losing his savings.
• Ling Yi viewed the Myriad Worlds Protagonist Binding System and learned that he could choose protagonists and golden fingers in bound worlds while receiving synchronized rewards.
• Ling Yi entered E35 Parallel World, where he could observe the world and travel anywhere but could only bind one human protagonist and give them a golden finger.
• Ling Yi spent half a month exploring the parallel world before loneliness led him to decide to bind a random protagonist.
• Ling Yi selected the Celebrity Spending Rebate System, tossed its copy away without choosing a host on-screen, and returned to his own world.

Lin Feng received the Celebrity Spending Rebate System and tested it by buying a concert ticket for La Zhiying, earning a 30-fold rebate. He wondered how celebrity spending triggered Merit and Karma, but the system left that explanation unanswered as he asked how it would justify his new income.

• A ball of light struck Lin Feng, and the Celebrity Spending Rebate System bound itself to him, promising multiplied rebates for spending on celebrities.
• Lin Feng took 500 yuan from his father's hidden stash and posted a video asking his followers to recommend a celebrity to follow.
• After depositing the money, Lin Feng noticed La Zhiying was holding a concert in Dafeng City and bought a 500-yuan ticket to test the system.
• The system rated Lin Feng's purchase three stars and awarded him a 30-fold rebate of 15,000 yuan.
• Lin Feng asked whether the rebate income was legitimate and how it would be rationalized, and the system told him to wait.