Chapter Summaries

Bai Heng discovered a Life Simulator and began his first simulation, entering the life of a gifted child raised alongside A Ruan in a Land Blessed by Abundance. By age seven, he had excelled at school while A Ruan’s unusual interests left her isolated by her classmates.

• Bai Heng learned that he had been assigned to contact the Simulated Universe’s four founders before heading to the Space Station.
• Bai Heng activated the Life Simulator and chose Died Young, Alluring Youth, and Last Stand as his talents.
• Bai Heng’s simulated parents left him in the care of the Ruan family, where he grew up alongside A Ruan.
• Bai Heng and A Ruan joined Aunt Mei’s research trip to No Man’s Land, where they saw an indescribable thing awaken from the ice.
• Bai Heng returned home with A Ruan and later attended school, where his talents won him admiration while her strange interests led the other children to isolate her.

After losing his family, comrades, fellow disciples, and master in the war against the Antimatter Legion, Bai Heng collapsed with a sword through his chest. He awoke in a woman’s bedchamber to find A Ruan playing the Ruan Lyre, and she greeted him after their long separation.

• At eight, Bai Heng gave A Ruan a plum-blossom Ruan Lyre before she left with her family, and he later set out to become a life scientist so he could meet her again.
• After a Stellaron brought the Antimatter Legion to his planet, Bai Heng lost his mother and father and joined the resistance against the invaders.
• Bai Heng discovered his master had been corrupted by the Stellaron and fought him, but his master pierced his chest with a sword.
• As he lay dying atop the battlefield, Bai Heng remembered his childhood and heard a Ruan Lyre playing nearby.
• Bai Heng woke in a woman’s bedchamber, walked into the courtyard, and found A Ruan playing the lyre; she told him, “Long time no see.”

Bai Heng recovered with A Ruan’s help, returned to mourn his family, and finally let himself grieve while she comforted him. Over the following year, he pursued life sciences research, became A Ruan’s assistant, and decided to confess his feelings to her on her nineteenth birthday.

• A Ruan brought Bai Heng back from the battlefield, where he recovered after sleeping for half a month.
• Bai Heng returned to his hometown with A Ruan and kept vigil for his parents and loved ones for seven days.
• A Ruan offered to grant Bai Heng any reward he wanted, and he asked her to hug him before breaking down in her arms.
• At eighteen, Bai Heng left his homeland with A Ruan and celebrated his coming-of-age with Uncle Ruan and Aunt Mei on their research planet.
• Bai Heng joined the life sciences institute, worked hard to catch up to A Ruan, and became her assistant at nineteen.
• After turning down other women’s confessions, Bai Heng decided to confess his feelings to A Ruan on her nineteenth birthday.

After A Ruan left Bai Heng’s feelings unanswered, he devoted himself to life sciences and developed Hyper-Sensory Remote Sensing. When a fleshly planet trapped his research crew, Bai Heng sacrificed himself to send a desperate appeal that Aha spread across the universe, leaving the crew’s fate uncertain.

• Bai Heng confessed to A Ruan at her nineteenth birthday banquet, but she gave him no clear answer, and he continued pursuing his research.
• Bai Heng studied Ilyasalaas’s manuscript and created an inferior version of Hyper-Sensory Remote Sensing, which researchers began using aboard their starship.
• At twenty-two, Bai Heng and the crew discovered a flesh-covered monster’s gravitational pull trapping their starship, and their plans to escape failed.
• Bai Heng left plum blossom cakes and a letter for A Ruan, then secretly took a small craft away from the starship.
• A Ruan contacted Bai Heng, who told her he was satisfied with his life before ending their call and driving his craft toward the monster.
• Bai Heng activated his modified device to broadcast his coordinates and falsely identified himself as a member of the People of Abundance, inviting the Calamity-Bringer to draw Its bow; Aha transmitted his signal throughout the universe.

Bai Heng’s simulation ended with the Hunt’s arrow destroying him, while A Ruan refused to let the system erase the name he had given her. After waking, Bai Heng reviewed his rewards and attributes, then opened the Simulation Store to see what his 5,000 points could buy.

• The Hunt’s arrow annihilated the ancient beast, tore open a rift into the void, and removed the star system’s gravitational field.
• Mother Mei caught the unsteady A Ruan, who rejected the AI’s attempt to restore her username after Bai Heng had changed it to “Bai Heng’s Bride.”
• The simulation awarded Bai Heng achievements, 5,000 Simulation Points, 300 attribute points, and the five-star talent Alluring Youth.
• Bai Heng woke after four hours in reality despite experiencing twenty-two years in the simulation, then examined his changed appearance and character panel.
• Bai Heng considered the danger of accumulating too many memories with low Spirit and opened the Simulation Store to browse its goods.

Bai Heng spent his Simulation Points on attribute improvements, then prepared to accompany Topaz and Charles to the Herta Space Station. After reviewing the visitor files, Ruan Mei unexpectedly agreed to attend their meeting.

• Bai Heng distributed 300 attribute points among stamina, endurance, and strength, then went to the cafeteria for breakfast.
• Bai Heng organized information about Xipe and Ena and considered whether the simulation might be connected to his upcoming visit to the Herta Space Station.
• Topaz and Charles arrived at the Interastral Astronomical Society VI Space Station, where Topaz introduced Numby and said they needed to meet Herta about an excessive bill.
• Bai Heng arranged for Topaz and Charles to travel to the Herta Space Station immediately.
• Herta gave Ruan Mei the visitors' files, and Ruan Mei surprised her by saying she would attend the meeting.

Ruan Mei wondered whether Bai Heng was the old acquaintance she had waited centuries to meet, while Bai Heng arrived at Herta's Space Station with Topaz and the Astral Society delegation. The chapter ended with Ruan Mei recognizing Bai Heng and touching his cheek as the others watched in surprise.

• Ruan Mei told Herta that she had seen a possible old acquaintance and recalled that He had predicted they might meet again centuries later.
• Bai Heng, Topaz, Charles, and Xiao Si arrived at Herta's Space Station after Xiao Si's high-speed piloting left the passengers sick.
• A station staff member escorted the Company delegation to meet Herta and Ruan Mei in the conference room.
• Ruan Mei stopped serving tea when the delegation entered and fixed her gaze on Bai Heng.
• Ruan Mei walked past Topaz and Charles and touched Bai Heng's right cheek.

Bai Heng met Ruan Mei at Herta Space Station, and their conversation confirmed that he remembered a past life connected to her. After the others left, Ruan Mei questioned him about his identity and memories, then confronted him over why he had waited so long to see her.

• Bai Heng pinched Ruan Mei's cheek after she touched him, and she accepted his apology before agreeing to discuss cooperation with the Interastral Peace Corporation.
• Herta took Topaz and Charles on a tour, leaving Bai Heng and Ruan Mei alone in the conference room.
• Ruan Mei asked Bai Heng whether he was the person she remembered, and he answered that he was him and yet was not him.
• Bai Heng recalled childhood incidents with Ruan Mei, including their first-grab ceremony and her pastries, confirming to her that he had reincarnated with his memories.
• Ruan Mei told Bai Heng to call her A Ruan, revealed the sword Nameless, and asked why he had waited so long to visit her.

Bai Heng and Ruan Mei reunited after six hundred years, and she welcomed him back before they joined Topaz and Asta at Herta Space Station. Ruan Mei agreed to cooperate with the Interastral Astronomical Society on the condition that Bai Heng become her assistant, leaving him resigned to the arrangement.

• Ruan Mei asked Bai Heng whether he preferred her past or present self, then embraced him and welcomed him back after he said he liked both.
• Topaz showed Asta and Herta the bill that had frozen Herta’s account, and Herta fled, leaving Asta to pay it with her IPC black card.
• Bai Heng told Topaz that Ruan Mei had agreed to cooperate with the Interastral Astronomical Society, while Mr. Screwllum and Mr. Stephen still needed to decide for themselves.
• Ruan Mei told Topaz she would work only with the Interastral Astronomical Society and requested that Bai Heng be assigned as her sole company contact and serve as her research assistant.
• Topaz accepted Ruan Mei’s request, and Bai Heng privately resolved to offer at least token resistance to relying on Ruan Mei.

Bai Heng helped secure cooperation between the Interastral Astronomical Society and Herta, while Herta tried to acquire his sword for research. As Bai Heng prepared to leave the Space Station, Ruan Mei gave him contact details and salted plum blossom cakes, then teased him by stepping on his foot.

• Asta greeted Bai Heng, and Herta examined him before asking to trade for his sword.
• Bai Heng offered to lend the sword for research if Herta cooperated with the Interastral Astronomical Society, and Herta agreed.
• Ruan Mei stepped on Bai Heng's foot when he nearly agreed to let Herta study him and the sword together.
• Bai Heng left the final decision to Ruan Mei, and Herta agreed to establish a cooperative relationship with the Interastral Astronomical Society.
• Ruan Mei saw Bai Heng off with salted plum blossom cakes and her Hyperfrequency Remote Sensing account, teasing him by keeping her foot on his as he complained.

After a month at the Company's Pillars of Creation, Bai Heng traveled to the Xianzhou Luofu to investigate the Path of Abundance and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus. The Cloud Knights arrested the passengers when they raided the smuggling skiff, and Bai Heng began his second life simulation while waiting for the investigation.

• The Company promoted Bai Heng to P40 and, after his month-long stay at Pillars of Creation, assigned him to investigate the Xianzhou Alliance; he declined assigned subordinates and brought only Xiao Si.
• Bai Heng traveled to the Luofu as an outworlder on a commercial skiff, sent Ruan Mei a photo of his Immortality Joy Tea, and received a photo of her preparing to bathe.
• Cloud Knights raided the skiff, and Bai Heng discovered that it had been smuggling contraband drugs and that tourists had been brought aboard to confuse the authorities.
• A Cloud Knight Lieutenant recorded Bai Heng's identity and confined him with the other passengers while the investigation continued.
• Bai Heng opened the Life Simulator interface and started his second simulation.

Bai Heng chose Longevity Lock, Sword Heart, and Versatile and Talented for his second simulation, while Alluring Youth was activated automatically. Born into poverty on a planet ruled by the Buli People, he discovered that people were being raised as food for giant worms, then escaped aboard a spacecraft with three miners.

• Bai Heng selected his three traits and began the simulation.
• At five, Bai Heng found a bunker where captive people were fattened before being fed to giant worm-like beasts, and realized his missing brother had likely met the same fate.
• At five, Bai Heng watched his parents take his sister away, and later saw them measure him and his older brother as they grew.
• At seven, Bai Heng joined three miners hiding in a supply cart bound for a Buli People starship.
• Bai Heng and the miners found an abandoned spacecraft and escaped into space when the guards were lax.

After Jingliu rescued the boy from the Buli People, he followed her to the Xianzhou Luofu and became a servant at Sword Champion Manor. His remarkable talent for swordsmanship earned him Jingliu’s attention, and at nine years old he excitedly proposed that they dual cultivate.

• The boy fled a damaged star skiff and sought help from Jingliu and Bai Heng as a Shi Rou Behemoth and two Buli People pursued him.
• Jingliu killed the Shi Rou Behemoth and the two Buli People, then kicked the boy away when he offered himself to her in gratitude.
• Jingliu cleared the abandoned spaceport, and three days later the boy arrived with her at the Xianzhou Luofu and became a servant at Sword Champion Manor.
• The boy’s cooking won Jingliu’s attention, and his fast-growing swordsmanship led her to exchange moves with him as his master.
• At nine years old, the boy condensed sword intent, found a dual-cultivation sword manual, and asked Jingliu to dual cultivate with him.

Bai Heng grew up training under Jingliu and became increasingly devoted to her, while sharing his feelings with his online friend Wuxia Feiguang. After Jingliu beat him for bringing candied hawthorn to Bai Heng, he offered the next batch directly to Jingliu.

• Jingliu accepted Bai Heng’s congee after he earnestly asked her to try it, then told him to clean her room.
• Bai Heng defended Jingliu to Wuxia Feiguang, explaining her loneliness and why she kept wielding her sword to protect the Xianzhou.
• At thirteen, Bai Heng learned the black half of a sword art with Jingliu, and joint practice made him aware of his growing feelings for her.
• At fourteen, Bai Heng sought Bai Heng’s advice on pursuing Jingliu and brought her candied hawthorn, then Jingliu beat him during sparring.
• After Wuxia Feiguang left his complaint about the beating on read, Bai Heng offered his next candied hawthorn to Jingliu and placed it in her hand.

Bai Heng trained for years while preparing to win Jingliu’s affection, but she wounded him after rejecting his confession. By eighteen, he had become a Cloud Knight and Pathstrider of The Hunt, and Jingliu hinted that he might win her over by defeating her.

• At fifteen, Bai Heng confessed to Jingliu during the Lantern Festival, but she drew her sword and left him badly injured.
• Bai Heng told Wuxia Feiguang that Jingliu had rejected him, and Wuxia Feiguang advised him that he would need to defeat her to move her.
• At sixteen, Bai Heng confessed to Jingliu every month and endured her merciless fights, while his swordsmanship steadily improved.
• At eighteen, Yingxing forged Bai Heng a sword named Soulsever, and Bai Heng joined the Cloud Knights and became a Pathstrider of The Hunt.
• After Jingliu was injured by one of Shuhu’s creations, Bai Heng treated her wounds, and Jingliu suggested he could take the chance to defeat her; he hesitated, so she declared that he had failed to seize it.

After months of fighting on the front lines, Bai Heng returned to the Xianzhou 'Luofu' and confided in her online friend, Wuxia Feiguang. Their conversation ended with Wuxia Feiguang agreeing to meet Bai Heng that night at Sword Champion Manor.

• Bai Heng fought Abundance abominations and executed Cloud Knights who had fallen to mara, earning the title of Death God and awakening the Soul Severance Sword's ability to harm spiritual entities.
• After the Xianzhou 'Luofu' gained a brief respite, Bai Heng told Wuxia Feiguang about the strain of the past few months.
• Bai Heng said she had avoided seeking comfort from Master Jingliu because Jingliu was suffering too, and called Wuxia Feiguang the only friend she had left to confide in.
• Bai Heng suggested that she and Wuxia Feiguang meet, and offered to bring food and wine.
• Wuxia Feiguang agreed to wait for Bai Heng that night on the roof of the east wing of Sword Champion Manor.

Bai Heng went to the roof hoping to meet his online friend Wuxia Feiguang, but found Master Jingliu there and discovered she had saved an embarrassing recording of him. After they fought, Jingliu stayed to share wine and food with him, ending the night by kicking him off the roof.

• Bai Heng prepared food and retrieved Master Jingliu's hidden wine before climbing onto the roof to meet someone.
• Jingliu caught Bai Heng trying to leave and questioned him about the wine and the food box he had brought.
• Jingliu played a recording of Bai Heng praising her, revealing she knew about his private feelings.
• Jingliu and Bai Heng fought on the roof until she decided to stop, after which they shared wine and talked about their years of online friendship.
• Bai Heng held Jingliu's hand and tried to push his luck, so she kicked him off the roof.

As the Xianzhou Luofu faced renewed attacks from Shuhu’s forces and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, divination foretold a devastating but survivable war. Bai Heng cared for feverish Jingliu, who fell asleep in his arms.

• Shuhu’s abominations attacked across the Star Sea as the Ambrosial Arbor’s seal weakened and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus stirred unrest on the Luofu.
• Dan Feng reinforced the Ambrosial Arbor’s seal, while the Divination Commission’s Great Calculation Array predicted the Luofu would survive at the cost of nearly all Cloud Knight soldiers and every realm.
• After three sleepless days tracking the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and practicing swordsmanship in the rain, Jingliu developed a fever.
• Bai Heng fed Jingliu medicinal broth and almond and white fungus soup while she rested in bed.
• Jingliu pulled Bai Heng into bed and asked him to stay still beside her until she fell asleep in his arms.

Bai Heng and his guard traveled to the Xianzhou Zhuming to retrieve a mysterious black sun that might break Shuhu’s Bloodstained Prison Realm and rescue the trapped Luofu forces. When they reached it, the sun’s power chose the guard and drew them into a vision of a black-scaled Ancient Dragon welcoming them to its kingdom.

• Jingliu woke beside Bai Heng, struck him after he admitted touching her hand and pinching her cheek, and watched him hurry off to brew her medicine.
• Shuhu invaded the Xianzhou Luofu, and Tengxiao, Dan Feng, Jingliu, Bai Heng, and the Cloud Knights fought the Abundance Emanator and its undying abominations.
• After Shuhu imprisoned Jingliu, Dan Feng, and thousands of Cloud Knights in the Bloodstained Prison Realm, Bai Heng recalled a black sun he had seen on the Xianzhou Zhuming and set out to retrieve it with his guard.
• The Divine General opened a breach in the dome, allowing Bai Heng and his guard to escape the Luofu and reach Zhuming after two days and nights of pursuit.
• General Huaiyan led Bai Heng and his guard to the Flame-Wheel Forging Palace, where the black sun’s power entered the guard’s consciousness and revealed an Ancient Dragon in a scarlet-rained prison.

Bai Heng met a fragment of Suiren that offered him a body-possession bargain and tested him by confronting him with painful memories. He destroyed the heart demon, leaving the trial’s outcome—and the bargain—unconfirmed.

• The Ancient Dragon revealed that it was Suiren’s shadow, a fragment that held destruction, and asked Bai Heng to help it gain freedom.
• The Ancient Dragon explained why Bai Heng suited its bargain and offered to form a contract if he passed a final trial.
• The Ancient Dragon sent Bai Heng through memories of his abandoned family, his survival at the starport, and his role in killing Mara-Struck comrades.
• Bai Heng ignored the heart demon’s repeated questions about his past and purpose, then cut it apart with Soulsever.