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Li Xingkong used a formation to refine thousands of tons of ore, impressing the giantess who ran the factory. After earning 100,000 universal coins, he received a business card that could guide him back to the merchant caravan and decided to seek information about the civilizations of the Pan-Civilization Convention.

• Li Xingkong used a module of the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique to refine ore into high-quality ingots while the other workers watched.
• The aliens saw how quickly Li Xingkong refined the metal and hurried to process their own shares of the ore.
• Li Xingkong stopped after refining 3,000 tons of metal, and the giantess checked the ingots and praised their quality.
• The giantess paid Li Xingkong 100,000 universal coins and introduced herself as Twenty-Seventh Pillar.
• Twenty-Seventh Pillar gave Li Xingkong a business card that pointed toward the merchant caravan, and he considered learning more about the powerful civilizations in the universe.

Li Xingkong was cornered by local gamblers on Fortune Street and forced into a Russian roulette game. His body survived a direct shot, and when one opponent tried to shoot him instead, the chamber of commerce executed the monster for violating its code.

• Li Xingkong tried to leave Fortune Street but three rat-headed men and two centipede monsters blocked his way and pressured him into gambling.
• Li Xingkong agreed to Russian roulette against the group, and a centipede monster took the first turn with a custom gun loaded with five bullets.
• The centipede monster fired into an empty chamber, then Li Xingkong shot himself in the forehead and survived without a mark.
• Li Xingkong pushed the gun back to the centipede monster and demanded that he take his turn.
• The centipede monster tried to aim the gun at Li Xingkong, but the chamber of commerce's code froze and reduced him to ash.

Li Xingkong forced the aliens on Fortune Street to pay him and direct him to an intelligence shop. At Knows Everything, he learned that the Pan-Civilization Convention was dominated by three powers capable of altering fundamental laws of the universe.

• Li Xingkong intimidated the rat-headed gang into handing over their money and a card for Knows Everything on Intelligence Street.
• Li Xingkong accepted the card and let the thugs go after the rat-headed alien claimed a centipede freak needed burial money.
• Li Xingkong found Knows Everything and was escorted into its library-like intelligence room.
• Li Xingkong read about the Pan-Civilization Convention and its three leading powers: the Kingdom of Fixed Light, the Kilometer Arc, and the Holy Church of Truth.
• Li Xingkong learned that the three powers could redefine the speed of light, π, and universal constants, rendering other civilizations' technology useless.

Li Xingkong learned how the Pan-Civilization Convention ranked civilizations and realized that the Snail People and their suzerain were minor powers. He concluded that the Divine Land needed to join the convention and keep fighting the Snail People to secure its independence.

• The introduction explained the convention’s origins, its three dominant powers, and the military standards used to rank civilizations.
• Li Xingkong learned that Earth Star was unranked and outside the convention, while the Snail People were fifth-tier and their suzerain was fourth-tier.
• Li Xingkong considered how the Divine Land might avoid becoming a puppet and concluded that immortal cultivation could let it eventually reach third-tier status.
• Li Xingkong recognized that joining the convention would protect the Divine Land from neighboring powers exploiting its conflict with the Snail People.
• Li Xingkong decided the war with the Snail People could not be mediated and that the Divine Land had to strike hard and make a name for itself.

Li Xingkong learned that joining the Convention required a sponsoring civilization, but he had no contacts who could vouch for Earth Star. After he left Knows Everything, its president ordered someone to find him and offer sponsorship, seeing his restraint as a sign that his civilization could make a useful ally.

• Li Xingkong searched Knows Everything and learned that a country needed a Convention member to vouch for it, with strong sponsors able to bypass the review.
• Li Xingkong realized he had no way to contact a suitable sponsor and left the business card at the front desk before departing Intelligence Street.
• The front desk worker told the president that Li Xingkong had consulted information about the Convention and left the card behind.
• The president ordered the worker to find Li Xingkong and offer to vouch for him.
• The president explained that Li Xingkong's restraint suggested his civilization had been peaceful for a long time and could be trusted as an underling.

Li Xingkong sought a civilization willing to vouch for Earth Star so it could join the convention, and considered selling cultivation principles to pay for information. A rat-headed intelligence worker told him their president had agreed to vouch for him, and Li Xingkong went to meet the president.

• Li Xingkong decided he could sell basic cultivation principles for money after the system gave him permission to dispose of its knowledge.
• Li Xingkong stayed on Intelligence Street to look for a place to sell knowledge and ask about vouching slots.
• A rat-headed man called to Li Xingkong and told him his president could vouch for him.
• Li Xingkong agreed to return to the shop and discuss the offer with the president.

Li Xingkong met Xuanyizi, the proprietor of Knows Everything, and learned that the Sihali Kingdom wanted a local ally because major powers were secretly searching the nearby star domain for the Axiom Arc. He realized the sought-after secret might be the system he carried, though the system insisted no one could detect it.

• Li Xingkong met Xuanyizi, who apologized for investigating him and said he had offered a guarantee because their civilizations shared values and could become allies.
• Xuanyizi explained that the Sihali Kingdom needed a reliable local ally in the nearby region.
• Xuanyizi told Li Xingkong that the Axiom Arc, the Kingdom of Fixed Light, and the Holy Church of Truth were investigating the star domain for a secret that might involve rules.
• Li Xingkong realized that the secret might be the system within him and privately questioned the system about whether the civilizations were searching for it.
• The system said the civilizations probably could not detect how it entered the universe and claimed that, since it had fused with Li Xingkong, no one could find it.

Li Xingkong agreed to let the Sihali Kingdom guarantee Earth Star's civilization's entry into the Convention, while keeping its location secret. As he waited for Xuanyizi's representative, he discovered that the gifted Longing for Home leaves could help cool his Hexagram, and then prepared to go to the Convention's office.

• Li Xingkong accepted Xuanyizi's offer for the Sihali Kingdom to act as guarantor, and Xuanyizi promised not to contact Earth Star's civilization before it joined the Convention.
• Xuanyizi gave Li Xingkong two Longing for Home leaves and left after saying their future cooperation could be discussed later.
• Li Xingkong analyzed and tasted the leaves, discovering that they could improve ordinary people's thinking and reduce the heat produced by his Hexagram.
• A younger rat-headed person arrived, told Li Xingkong that Xuanyizi had delegated the necessary authority, and invited him to the Convention's office.

Li Xingkong accompanied Baili Qiu from Knows Everything to the Convention’s registration office, checking the Sihali Kingdom’s reputation and the merchant association’s relationship with the Convention along the way. The visit left him reassured that Knows Everything was unlikely to be interested in Earth Star’s limited resources.

• Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to listen to conversations on Intelligence Street while walking with Baili Qiu, seeking views of the Sihali Kingdom beyond Xuanyizi’s account.
• Li Xingkong heard aliens describe Knows Everything as trustworthy and powerful, with strong ties to the three major powers and a reputation for fair contracts.
• Li Xingkong and Baili Qiu left Intelligence Street and went to the Convention’s registration office, where Li Xingkong felt reassured by the Convention’s vast presence aboard the merchant association’s ship.
• Officials quickly escorted Li Xingkong and Baili Qiu to the office area responsible for civilization records, a massive library filled with books, documents, and maintenance robots.

Li Xingkong completed Divine Land’s Convention membership and received an emblem that eased worries about Earth Star’s safety. After accepting Baili Qiu’s teleportation bracelet, he left the merchant ship to deal with the Snail People.

• Li Xingkong submitted the required documents, and the Convention approved Divine Land’s membership in less than half an hour.
• Baili Qiu gave Li Xingkong an emblem to place on a planet and a bracelet containing a teleportation platform connected to the Convention network.
• Li Xingkong accepted the bracelet, and Baili Qiu said Knows Everything would await news from him.
• Li Xingkong left the merchant ship’s commercial street and returned to the landing pad.
• Li Xingkong flew away from the merchant ship toward the transition point for his next jump, intending to deal with the Snail People.

Li Xingkong reached the Snail People's core territory and discovered that oppressed aliens were forced to scavenge garbage on a planet used as a dump by thirteen civilizations. After killing the Snail Person supervisor, he began turning the planet's iron waste into weapons for the workers.

• Li Xingkong entered the Snail People's territory under invisibility and found seven unusually colored planets around a star.
• The Snail Person artifact spirit explained that the planets were dumps where thirteen civilizations sent their sorted garbage for the Snail People to clean up.
• Li Xingkong saw chained aliens scavenging the trash under the watch of Snail Person supervisors, and decided to help them.
• Li Xingkong entered the control room and killed the supervisor by making its exoskeleton grow spikes that pierced its body.
• Li Xingkong descended to the rust-colored planet, spread a magic array across it, and forged the garbage into weapons that rained down for the aliens.

Li Xingkong tested whether the enslaved aliens still wanted to resist the Snail People and discovered they were secretly building a warship. He used his power to turn the planet’s garbage into metal that completed the ship, leaving the aliens amazed at their sudden chance to fight back.

• Li Xingkong scattered weapons across the planet to see whether the aliens would show any desire to resist.
• The aliens gathered most of the weapons on the surface but secretly took nearly one percent underground.
• Li Xingkong discovered the aliens’ hidden smelter and the unfinished warship they were building to fight the Snail People.
• Li Xingkong left the planet and caused the surface garbage to melt into metal that flowed through the caves toward the warship.
• The metal formed the warship’s cabins, floors, furnishings, and weapons, leaving the aliens astonished by their completed vessel.

Li Xingkong crossed the Snail People's polluted industrial systems and reached their densely populated core star region, learning about their harsh social order from the artifact spirit. After naming him Xiaowo, Li Xingkong approached the Snail People's home planet and saw its regimented, centrally managed cities.

• Li Xingkong surveyed the garbage planets, cleared out the Snail People there, and continued toward their core star system.
• He skirted heavily polluted industrial systems after seeing the conditions faced by mechanically modified alien workers.
• The Snail Person artifact spirit explained that it lived aboard its frigate and that pilots were easily replaced, prompting Li Xingkong to give it the name Xiaowo.
• Xiaowo explained that shorter names indicated higher citizen rank and revealed its former name was Zhangyuge.
• Li Xingkong reached the Snail People's planet and observed its orderly districts, state-run facilities, and birth-determined job prospects.

Li Xingkong confronted a Snail People intelligent brain and demanded that the civilization stop attacking Earth Star, apologize, and pay compensation. Although the brain verified that Earth Star had joined the Convention, the surrounding intelligent brains secretly agreed to continue the attack and capture Li Xingkong.

• Li Xingkong entered a Snail People settlement planet and tore the roof off the structure housing its intelligent brain.
• The intelligent brain alerted armed forces on the planet and neighboring planets, then ordered Li Xingkong captured and killed after failing to identify his civilization.
• Li Xingkong identified himself and showed the Convention emblem, prompting the intelligent brain to suspend combat and speak with him.
• Li Xingkong demanded an end to attacks on Earth Star, an apology, and compensation for the previous assault.
• The intelligent brain convened with others nearby, which learned that its fleet had been destroyed and agreed to attack Earth Star and capture Li Xingkong.

Li Xingkong destroyed the Snail People’s intelligent brain and devastated their forces on the planet, but their fleet retaliated by destroying the planet. After Li Xingkong fought through the fleet, the Snail People began collapsing their star to annihilate the entire star system, leaving him facing a world-ending threat.

• The intelligent brain tried to kill Li Xingkong, but he tore it from the building and hurled it into space.
• When the Snail People attacked Li Xingkong with missiles and air strikes, he swept the planet with Sword Qi, destroying its defenses and killing nearly a tenth of its population.
• Li Xingkong sensed danger and escaped as a planet-destroying cannon split the planet into fragments.
• Li Xingkong used the fragments to unleash the Ten Thousand Swords Art, breaking through the fleet’s encirclement and destroying many ships.
• The Snail People raised Li Xingkong’s threat level and attacked with their fleet, but his Magic Power recovered under the star’s light as he fought back.
• The intelligent brains approved using a star-system annihilation bomb, and Li Xingkong saw the system’s star begin to collapse toward a single point.

Li Xingkong struggled to escape the Snail People's star-detonation weapon after spatial fluctuations and neutrino interference disrupted his usual means of flight. As the blast spread, he focused on Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and realized its ability to halt matter at the molecular level might offer a way to survive.

• Li Xingkong ruled out a spatial jump because the collapsing star had made space dangerously unstable, then tried to flee with Earth-Traversing Golden Light.
• Neutrinos disrupted Li Xingkong's divine ability and forced him back into his original form as the star began expanding.
• The blast pulverized the nearest planet and its Snail People, while the Hexagram mapped the weapon's dangerous and survivable zones.
• Li Xingkong realized he could not outrun the blast and reviewed his abilities, keeping a forced spatial jump as a last resort.
• Li Xingkong chose Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and reconsidered its description of halting matter at the molecular level.

Li Xingkong used Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light to survive the energy wave from a star’s collapse, then realized how the divine ability had protected him. He emerged unharmed but disoriented, drifting through space after the Snail People assumed he was dead.

• Li Xingkong tested Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and saw its silver ray become solid and get pushed along by the energy wave.
• As the wave reached him, Li Xingkong wrapped himself in the divine light, which stopped his perception and carried him through the destruction of the star system.
• The Snail People and nearby intelligent brains concluded Li Xingkong was dead and discussed wiping out his civilization before the Convention’s database synced.
• After drifting through space for days, Li Xingkong emerged from the fading divine light and found himself completely unharmed.
• Li Xingkong realized the divine light stopped molecular movement and repelled incoming energy, allowing it to protect him while still being pushed through space.

After the Snail People destroyed a star system in an attempt to kill Li Xingkong, he retaliated by driving a moon into their neighboring planet. He escaped the star system after destroying the planet and damaging dozens of ships in the Snail People's fleet.

• Li Xingkong recovered his Magic Power near the destroyed star system and found Snail People observation ships returning to nearby systems.
• Li Xingkong followed one ship into a neighboring star system, where he chose an artificially modified moon as a weapon.
• Li Xingkong used the Ten Thousand Swords Art to seize control of the moon and drive it into the nearby planet.
• The moon struck the planet, unleashing destruction that killed the Snail People on its surface and destroyed the planet's intelligent brains.
• Li Xingkong fled the star system and tore through the Snail People's fleet, destroying dozens of warships.

After halting his attacks on ordinary Snail People, Li Xingkong traveled to their core star region to target the leaders and intelligent brains behind the assault. There, he found that foreign visitors around the capital complicated his plan, so he began considering how to drive them away.

• Li Xingkong learned that Snail People were evacuating nearby systems and decided to stop attacking ordinary citizens, focusing instead on the Snail People's leaders and intelligent brains.
• Guided by Xiaowo, Li Xingkong located the Snail People's core star system and created a spatial passage to reach it.
• Nearly a month later, Li Xingkong arrived in the core region and saw widespread bounties describing him as an extremely dangerous planet destroyer.
• Li Xingkong discovered that merchants and other aliens in the core region could become caught in his revenge, so he sought a way to remove them before attacking the Snail People's capital.

Li Xingkong entered a tavern in the core star system and revealed himself to the alien mercenaries, using his reputation to warn the planet. He vanished after giving them three days before he destroyed every living thing there.

• Li Xingkong ordered tree sap from the spider-like proprietress and removed his cloak, causing her to recognize him from the Snail People's bounty notices.
• A burly Golden Shaded mercenary mocked Li Xingkong, while the frightened proprietress tried to appease him by offering free drinks and her tavern.
• Li Xingkong refilled his glass with drinks from the wall-mounted barrels and warned that in three days not a chicken or dog would remain alive on the planet.
• Li Xingkong vanished, leaving the proprietress and mercenaries terrified.
• The proprietress threw liquor at Golden Shaded for provoking Li Xingkong, and Golden Shaded muttered that he wanted to go home.

Li Xingkong used the Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light to freeze the mercenaries who tried to claim the bounty on him, demonstrating his power to the onlookers. After the merchant association explained the technique, its investigator made plans to leave rather than risk being trapped when the Planet Extinguisher’s three-day deadline arrived.

• Li Xingkong was surrounded by mercenaries hoping to collect the bounty and decided to show them his abilities.
• Li Xingkong cast the Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light, which absorbed the mercenaries’ shots and immobilized their ships and crews.
• Mercenaries from the tavern and other observers examined the frozen ships but could not determine how to free them.
• An investigator from the merchant association explained that the light had fixed the surrounding molecules in place, leaving those trapped inside as if time had stopped.
• The investigator said the merchant association could not help because it had an honored guest to welcome, and the association prepared to leave before the Planet Extinguisher’s deadline.

Li Xingkong arrived in the Snail People's star system and devastated their fleet while alien spectators watched. As he reached the core planet, the Snail People activated a planetary shield around it.

• The Snail People sealed off their core planet as aliens fled the star system ahead of Li Xingkong's promised arrival.
• Li Xingkong entered the system openly and flew toward the Snail People's assembled fleet.
• The Snail People's fleet fired a volley of lasers, and Li Xingkong used the Ten Thousand Swords Art to reflect the beams back and destroy many ships.
• Li Xingkong charged through the fleet, leaving it in chaos as warships fled in all directions.
• Li Xingkong stopped before the Snail People's core planet, and the Snail People raised a planetary shield around it.

Li Xingkong found that the Snail People's planet was protected by a powerful shield he could not penetrate, so he used a giant magical hand to spin the shielded planet instead. The shield held firm, but its inhabitants and everything on the surface were hurled into it at lethal speed.

• Li Xingkong and the observers discovered that the planet was protected by the formidable Shield of Truth, which repelled his attacks and blocked his Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the shield's power source was likely distributed across the Snail People's civilization and abandoned the idea of disabling it.
• Li Xingkong formed a planet-sized array and used a giant hand of Magic Power to grasp the shielded planet.
• Li Xingkong accelerated the planet's rotation until its inhabitants, buildings, plants, water, and rocks were flung from the surface into the shield.

Li Xingkong finished subduing the Snail People’s planet, while their remaining forces fled and alien observers marveled at his power. After the planetary shield shut down because its energy supply had been stolen during the rout, Li Xingkong entered the ruined world and searched for the Snail People’s central administrative complex.

• Li Xingkong slowed the planet’s rotation after the Snail People inside had been flung against the shield, and the remaining Snail People forces fled across nearby star systems.
• Aliens watching from the edge of the star system discussed Li Xingkong’s destructive power and considered seeking compensation from Iron Law Country.
• The planetary shield flickered out after the Snail People’s energy supply was stolen during the rout on a mining planet several star systems away.
• Li Xingkong flew into the ruined planet and used his Divine Sense to locate several ornate buildings he suspected were the central administrative complex.

Li Xingkong searched the Snail People’s ruined planet, learned that their Intelligent Brains were former citizens transformed into machines, and discovered that their supreme Overlord was housed near the equator. He reconnected the damaged Overlord and supplied it with Magic Power, and the sphere began a self-diagnostic.

• Li Xingkong restored a damaged building and used his Divine Sense to gather and reassemble its paper documents.
• Li Xingkong read the documents by accessing Xiaowo’s knowledge of the Snail People’s language.
• Li Xingkong learned that Intelligent Brains were former Snail People whose consciousnesses had been transferred into machines, and that the Overlord led them.
• Li Xingkong reached the Overlord’s equatorial facility and found a dark, disconnected sphere resembling a brain.
• Li Xingkong reconnected the sphere’s severed lines and powered it with Magic Power, causing it to glow and begin a self-diagnostic.