Recaps

Li Xingkong learned that souls and reincarnation were constructs made possible by cultivation, and the system assigned him an Artificial Underworld project for the Golden Core Stage. He outlined plans to deepen his cultivation and develop an Artificial Spiritual Root that could speed cultivation and distribute techniques, leaving the idea ready for experimentation.

• The system explained to Li Xingkong that a soul was a Magic Power structure created at death and that an Underworld could preserve it for reincarnation.
• The system told Li Xingkong that his new Golden Core practical course was to create an Artificial Underworld.
• Li Xingkong realized that the battle royale game could help him practice for the course, while the system said it was mostly for fun.
• Li Xingkong planned to prioritize cultivation and spells while continuing his studies of space, formations, and artifact refining.
• Li Xingkong proposed an Artificial Spiritual Root that would help cultivators absorb Spiritual Qi faster and connect them to a repository for cultivation techniques.

Li Xingkong decided to terraform Venus into a live-action battle royale arena and considered how his Golden Core abilities could solve its atmospheric, temperature, and rotation problems. He began by searching the Kuiper Belt for asteroids to hurl at Venus, but first sent a gold-rich asteroid toward Earth Star.

• Li Xingkong chose Venus as the site for a large-scale battle royale game and planned to terraform it.
• Li Xingkong determined that he could alter Venus's atmosphere by breaking and rearranging chemical bonds, and could manage its heat by absorbing sunlight.
• Li Xingkong decided to speed up Venus's rotation by throwing water-rich asteroids at it before making other changes.
• Li Xingkong flew to the Kuiper Belt and searched the asteroids with his Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong found an asteroid made almost entirely of gold and pushed it toward Earth Star.

After finding an enormous ice asteroid with enough fresh water to support Venus’s initial transformation, Li Xingkong sent it toward Venus and used the journey to select Golden Core Stage spells. He considered two powerful offensive options: the Ten Thousand Swords Art and Space-Severing Slash.

• Li Xingkong found an ice asteroid containing dormant microorganisms and a quantity of fresh water roughly equal to all of Earth Star’s fresh water.
• Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to send the asteroid along a planned route toward Venus, then prepared to meet it at its destination.
• Li Xingkong decided to choose Golden Core Stage spells while waiting and set out requirements for powerful, wide-ranging attacks that could counter different methods.
• The system presented the Ten Thousand Swords Art, which let Li Xingkong control nearby materials as weapons, and Space-Severing Slash, which attacked the space around a target.

Li Xingkong examined the Five Elements Divine Light, a powerful set of five divine abilities he could learn because he possessed Earth-Traversing Golden Light. He realized his limited brain capacity had brought on the Soul Tribulation early, and the system explained that his extensive learning was the cause.

• The system recommended Five Elements Divine Light to Li Xingkong, who discovered that it comprised five distinct abilities with different combat uses.
• Li Xingkong learned that Earth-Traversing Golden Light gave him the foundation to pursue the divine ability, though mastering it would be difficult.
• Li Xingkong realized his remaining brain capacity might not be enough to learn Golden Core spells and identified the problem as his Soul Tribulation.
• Li Xingkong asked the system why his Soul Tribulation had arrived so soon after his Physical Body Tribulation.
• The system explained that Li Xingkong's extensive study of cultivation, spells, alchemy, artifact refinement, and spirit plants had consumed his brain capacity and brought on the tribulation.

Li Xingkong learned how cultivators managed the Soul Tribulation by deleting old memories or expanding memory capacity, then chose a practical solution for his current realm. After enlarging his memory capacity, he began studying the Ten Thousand Swords Art.

• Li Xingkong asked the system how cultivators had dealt with the Soul Tribulation, and it explained memory deletion and capacity expansion.
• Li Xingkong questioned whether either method could solve the tribulation permanently, but the system told him to focus on what he needed for his current stage.
• Li Xingkong decided that a solution only needed to carry him through the Golden Core Stage and used his Divine Sense to add several memory units to his body.
• With his memory capacity expanded severalfold, Li Xingkong turned to the Ten Thousand Swords Art and considered the power of kinetic attacks.

Li Xingkong studied the Ten Thousand Swords Art in Venus's orbit until the icy asteroid he had sent out crashed into him. He inscribed the asteroid with spell structures and kicked it toward Venus, where its impact made the planet spin faster.

• Li Xingkong became absorbed in studying the Ten Thousand Swords Art for several months without keeping any Hexagrams ready to guard him.
• The icy asteroid he had sent out struck Li Xingkong and stopped, leaving cracks in its surface.
• Li Xingkong used Magic Power structures from the Ten Thousand Swords Art to cover the asteroid and reinforce its attack.
• Li Xingkong kicked the spell-covered asteroid toward Venus, and its impact made the planet spin faster.

Li Xingkong began terraforming Venus by striking it with a magically reinforced asteroid, accelerating its rotation, stripping away part of its atmosphere, and bringing rain to the planet. After observing the changes, he began designing and inscribing a planetary formation to shade Venus and regulate the energy reaching its surface.

• Li Xingkong's asteroid struck Venus, triggering global earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and faster rotation.
• The asteroid bounced across Venus, stripping away atmospheric gases before breaking apart and releasing enough water to cause the planet's first rain in tens of thousands of years.
• After observing Venus for several days, Li Xingkong designed a formation to weaken sunlight, distribute Spiritual Qi and Magic Power, and defend the planet with energy cannons.
• As the planet's upheaval continued, Li Xingkong detected anaerobic microorganisms and noticed that Venus's atmosphere was changing in ways favorable to life.
• Li Xingkong began inscribing the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Veiling Formation across Venus itself, using the planet as one enormous formation plate.

Li Xingkong finished transforming Venus’s atmosphere and discovered an artificial underground complex containing murals about the Snake-People Race. The murals revealed that the race’s homeworld had been destroyed, and Li Xingkong connected its remains to the Kuiper Belt.

• Li Xingkong completed the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Obscuring Array and entered Venus to alter its atmosphere.
• Li Xingkong spent two months breaking apart and recombining atmospheric molecules until Venus’s air became mostly similar to Earth Star’s.
• Li Xingkong detected an artificial space deep beneath Venus and descended into it.
• Li Xingkong examined murals showing that the Snake-People Race had controlled several planets, using Venus as a technology center, Earth Star as a dinosaur ranch, and Mars as a residential area.
• Li Xingkong saw that another civilization had destroyed the Snake-People Race’s homeworld and realized its remains had formed the Kuiper Belt.

After discovering records of the Snake-People Race’s destruction by a careless alien fleet, Li Xingkong resolved to remain vigilant and continued transforming Venus into a battle royale training ground. He finished reshaping its surface and began rebuilding its ecosystem with samples from Earth Star.

• Li Xingkong deciphered the Snake-People Race’s records and learned that an alien fleet had nearly destroyed their civilization for amusement.
• The records left Li Xingkong uneasy about Earth Star’s weakness, so he protected the ruins and returned to Venus.
• Li Xingkong used the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique to reshape Venus into varied terrain suited to solo, team, and legion battles.
• After nearly half a year of work, Li Xingkong completed Venus’s surface remodeling, accounting for its terrain, resources, water, and climate.
• Li Xingkong repeatedly traveled to Earth Star to bring plant and animal samples to Venus and recreate its ecosystem.

Li Xingkong captured notorious criminals for an experiment on Venus, where a formation he had designed was supposed to test resurrection. He gathered hundreds of prisoners and ordered them to fight to the death in two camps, leaving the experiment about to begin.

• Two cultivators held a girl hostage in Divine Land until Li Xingkong immobilized them and carried them off to Venus.
• The Supervisory Department officers recognized that a mysterious senior had intervened, as officials had been warned about his capture of notorious criminals.
• Li Xingkong used his Space Bag to bring hundreds of criminals to Venus, while Divine Land received a formation that broadcast events there to Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong assigned markers to the prisoners and ordered them to fight a battle of annihilation in Attack and Defense Zone One, promising sentence reductions for winners.

Li Xingkong forced the prisoners into a sealed battlefield and announced that they would all die if no side won within half an hour. After the countdown began, the attackers and defenders finally clashed, leaving the battlefield in chaos.

• Li Xingkong divided the prisoners into two groups and placed them on opposite sides of Attack and Defense Zone One, a battlefield modeled on the Normandy coast.
• The prisoners discovered they could not escape the region, while Earth Star viewers watched the livestream and read the charges displayed above them.
• When the two sides refused to fight, Li Xingkong announced that everyone would be wiped out if no winner emerged before the half-hour countdown ended.
• A burly man charged into the opposing group, prompting both sides to unleash spells and begin a chaotic battle.

Li Xingkong tested his resurrection array during a brutal battle on Venus, restoring the fighters who were killed. The array worked, and the Divine Land planned to return the defeated to prison while keeping the victors on Venus as recurring opponents for future combatants.

• Zhou Mikuang and other cultivators slaughtered fighters on the Venus battlefield as viewers watched their histories appear on the livestream.
• The bodies of the dead were transferred into Li Xingkong’s resurrection array, where their flesh, organs, mana circuits, and consciousness were restored.
• The resurrected fighters awoke in chambers, panicked, and were given clothes after the test tubes released them.
• Li Xingkong examined the resurrected people and confirmed that their bodies and consciousness had returned to normal.
• Li Xingkong and the Divine Land decided that defeated or killed fighters would return to prison, while surviving victors would remain on Venus as opponents in future combat matches.

Divine Land confirmed Venus could serve as a safe combat and military training ground, while Li Xingkong watched battles there and continued studying the Ten Thousand Swords Technique. Meanwhile, the snail people identified the Solar System’s natives as the source of the spatial explosion and assessed their civilization as below level one.

• After experiments with prisoners verified the resurrection formation, Divine Land opened parts of Venus to cultivators and began live-combat military exercises there.
• Astronomy enthusiasts connected the livestreamed battles to Venus after detecting changes to the planet and matching its terrain to the arenas.
• Li Xingkong watched a small-team battle from an asteroid near Venus, declined the System’s bet, and studied the Ten Thousand Swords Technique.
• After six warps, the snail people obtained information about the Solar System and Aozile told Lao Mu that its natives had caused the spatial explosion.
• Aozile reported that the Solar System’s civilization had not reached level one and showed no signs of space activity.

Aozile and Lao Mu planned to seize Earth Star and Venus while avoiding the use of a planet-destroying weapon. As their ship began another jump, Venus’s battles grew more intense, Li Xingkong devoted himself to mastering the Ten Thousand Swords Art, and Earth Star’s scholars detected abnormal spatial fluctuations near the Solar System.

• Aozile proposed a decapitation strike on the second planet and saturation bombardment of the third planet and its satellite, and Lao Mu approved while warning against using the planet-destroying weapon.
• The ship began its next jump after drifting through space and recharging.
• Venus’s deathmatches drew huge numbers of participants, and cultivators developed powerful combat spells with severe side effects.
• Li Xingkong focused on learning to divide his thoughts and control many swords with his consciousness.
• Earth Star’s scholars detected abnormal spatial fluctuations near the Solar System.

Divine Land scholars investigated a spatial fluctuation, but a cloaked Snail People warship emerged near Uranus and began preparing to assess the Solar System. Aozile and Lao Mu ordered scouts to investigate the native civilizations while the ship scanned the planets.

• Divine Land scholars found nothing at the site of the first spatial fluctuation and considered traveling there to research it.
• A white gate opened near Uranus, and a Snail People warship emerged before cloaking itself and the gate closed.
• Aozile complained about the warp passage while Lao Mu ordered the ship to scan the Solar System’s planets.
• Aozile proposed sending scouts to investigate native civilizations, and Lao Mu agreed to equip them with camouflage combat gear.
• Aozile and Lao Mu discussed claiming reimbursement for the gear as the warship prepared to send its prisoner-of-war troops on the dangerous scouting mission.

A squad of alien scouts reached Earth Star undetected but discovered that its people were far more capable than expected. Unable to disguise themselves in space, they decided to capture a lone Earth Star native and extract information.

• Several cloaked scout ships approached Earth Star without the Divine Land noticing.
• The scouts found too many active satellites to attack, but detected White Jade Capital and planned to infiltrate its space dock.
• Near the dock, the aliens saw Earth Star People traveling through space unaided and realized their intelligence was wrong.
• The scouts argued over whether to retreat, but the bomb inside one scout forced them to continue their mission.
• The squad decided to use a jamming device and the scout ship's weapons to capture a lone native alive.

Leopard Head’s crew tracked Hupo as she set out alone from Earth Star, then caught her in a gravitational field. Hupo realized she was trapped by an unseen pursuer, leaving her unable to fly onward.

• Leopard Head spotted a lone cultivator leaving the dock and had the ship follow at a distance.
• Hupo recalled how she had begun cultivating early and reached the Late Qi Refining Stage, then set out alone along the Road to Immortality.
• Hupo discovered she knew little about navigating space and mistakenly pointed at Mars, thinking it was the moon.
• Hupo sensed she was being watched but found nothing and continued onward.
• The scout ship’s gravitational field trapped Hupo, and she recognized that her choice of the Sun and Moon Qi Refining Method had left her without a way to counter it.

Hupo escaped the scout ship’s gravity field and damaged the ship with her Tri-Beam, then rammed through its front panel to board it. The ship’s crew prepared for close combat, but Leopard Head doubted its molecular swords could stop her.

• Hupo layered defensive spells around herself while the hidden scout ship’s crew debated attacking her.
• The scout ship revealed itself and charged its laser cannons, so Hupo fired her Tri-Beam and destroyed one cannon, damaging the ship and breaking the gravity field.
• With the scout ship’s weapons and power supply damaged, Leopard Head grabbed the Kobolds and fled while Hupo ran in the opposite direction.
• Both sides turned around and charged back toward each other, and Hupo smashed through the ship’s front panel and entered the command cabin.
• The Kobolds and Tree People put on space hoods and called on Leopard Head to fight, but Leopard Head feared its molecular swords would be useless against Hupo.

Hupo fought Leopard Head aboard the damaged spaceship, where her frightened, uncontrolled punches unexpectedly overwhelmed him before her shields failed. The dog-headed commander contacted the snail people and requested help, while Hupo and Leopard Head remained at a stalemate.

• Hupo and Leopard Head circled each other aboard the spaceship as the dog-headed commander and Old Firewood argued about who should report the attack.
• The dog-headed commander crawled toward the communications cabin while Hupo watched, and Leopard Head attacked her with both blades when she was distracted.
• Hupo shut her eyes and swung her fists wildly, striking Leopard Head and smashing nearby furniture before he swept her legs out from under her.
• Hupo's shields went out after her fall, leaving her panicked as Leopard Head hesitated to attack because of his injuries.
• The dog-headed commander contacted the snail people and completed identity verification by connecting the bomb attached to its life-support system.

The Kobolds and their companions learned that their command had abandoned the infiltration mission and ordered them to detonate their bombs to test Hupo’s strength. Leopard Head’s bomb began counting down, and he begged Hupo to save him.

• A Kobold reported the scout ship’s destruction and the locals’ extraordinary abilities, then requested a rescue ship.
• Old Firewood explained that Leopard Head had lost one blade and was pretending to control the fight because Hupo had easily deflected his attack.
• General Aozile canceled the infiltration and ordered the squad to detonate their bombs after a five-minute countdown.
• The Kobolds and Old Firewood despaired as their bombs activated, while Leopard Head realized his own bomb was counting down.
• Leopard Head stumbled to his knees before Hupo, and she spoke to him using spiritual qi.
• Leopard Head grabbed Hupo’s legs and cried, “Wild Daddy, save me!”

Hupo struggled to understand Leopard Head, but discovered she could protect him from the vacuum after removing his helmet. Unable to communicate the danger, Leopard Head brought the kobold and treant out of hiding, and the kobold proposed explaining it with a drawing.

• Hupo removed Leopard Head’s helmet and used the Vacuum Technique to let him breathe safely in space.
• Leopard Head exposed the countdown device embedded in his chest and tried to explain his situation to Hupo with gestures.
• The kobold and treant peeked into the command cabin and misread Leopard Head’s frantic movements as a striptease.
• Leopard Head dragged the kobold and treant into the cabin and told them they needed to get Hupo to help disarm the bomb.
• The kobold stopped struggling and suggested using a drawing to explain the danger to Hupo.

Hupo realized the devices on the Kobolds, Tree People, and Leopard Head were bombs and sought a way to save them. She used moonlight from Sword Immortal Li Xingkong’s character on the moon to transform the three into humans, then removed and launched their bombs into space.

• Hupo understood that the devices on the three captives were bombs, but struggled to find a way to defuse them.
• Hupo remembered the character Sword Immortal Li Xingkong had left on the moon and directed the ship toward it.
• The Tree People manually operated the damaged ship, and Hupo used a spell to draw the moon’s power toward the group.
• The moonlight began transforming Leopard Head, the Kobolds, and the Tree People into humans, allowing Hupo to remove their bombs and send them into space.
• The three finished transforming and lay naked on the ship’s floor, so Hupo covered them with clothes.

Hupo brought a damaged spaceship and its three transformed passengers to the White Jade Capital, where the garrison questioned them. The three thanked her, and Leopard Head offered himself to her in marriage, leaving Hupo embarrassed as she realized she still did not know their names.

• Hupo carried the leaking spaceship to the White Jade Capital and told the garrison captain how she had found its passengers.
• The captain brought Hupo and the three passengers together after they refused to answer questions without seeing her.
• Leopard Head, the dog-headed man, and the treant knelt before Hupo, and Leopard Head offered himself to her in marriage.
• The captain explained that the Transformation Technique had given the three Divine Land language and cultural foundations.
• Hupo awkwardly asked the three what their names were.

Hupo met three transformed extraterrestrial scouts and learned that they had arrived aboard a Snail People warship, now hidden near Uranus. The cultivators reported the threat to their superiors, while Hupo learned the captives would likely receive Divine Land citizenship.

• Lin Chong, Gou Huo, and Old Firewood introduced themselves to Hupo and described the discomfort caused by their transformed bodies.
• Gou Huo told the cultivators that the three had come to Earth Star with the Snail People's warship to scout the planet.
• Gou Huo explained that the Snail People conquered civilizations after detecting major spatial anomalies and used survivors as cannon fodder.
• Gou Huo said the warship had set out about ten years earlier and was cloaked near Uranus, prompting the squad leader to leave and report the information.
• Gou Huo and the others pledged loyalty to Hupo, who declined to take them as underlings but asked what would happen to them.
• A cultivator told Hupo that the three would likely be granted Divine Land citizenship because they had undergone the Transformation Technique and provided important intelligence.

Divine Land formed teams to study the captured alien ship, investigate what had attracted the aliens ten years earlier, and prepare Earth Star for space warfare. At White Jade Capital, scholars began questioning the three aliens and examining their ship, while investigators started searching for the reason behind the ten-year-old event.

• Divine Land organized scholars to study the reconnaissance ship, investigators to discover what had drawn the aliens, and military forces to prepare for space warfare.
• The squad leader returned to White Jade Capital with scholars, who questioned the three aliens before beginning their research.
• Spacecraft and materials experts took Old Firewood to inspect the ship, while sociology and linguistics experts spoke with Gou Huo.
• Hupo and Lin Chong went to the lounge to watch Venus Showdown after the scholars left Lin Chong with nothing to do.
• The investigation team reviewed White Jade Capital's documents and asked why the aliens had come ten years earlier.