Recaps

Li Xingkong awakened the great sphere and asked why it had enslaved other civilizations. The sphere explained how its people’s history of oppression led it to seek power, then admitted that it had chosen to rule as the Intelligent Brain King rather than resist the suzerain state.

• Li Xingkong restored the great sphere enough to function, and it recognized him as the ruler.
• Li Xingkong asked why the sphere had enslaved other civilizations, and it recounted how its people had been conquered and forced into generations of labor by a suzerain state.
• The great sphere said its civilization turned to enslaving other species to avoid dying from hard labor and developed Intelligent Brain Ascension as a path to mechanical immortality.
• The great sphere revealed that it had created the Intelligent Brain King but kept the final consciousness transfer for itself, fearing others would misuse the power.
• Li Xingkong learned that the sphere had chosen to rule its civilization and leave the suzerain state unchallenged because its people’s suffering no longer served its interests.

Li Xingkong looted the great sphere’s database and the Snail People’s hidden laboratories, then found and took the planetary shield they had used against him. After collecting its manual and deployment records, he headed to the nearby star system where its energy interface was located.

• Li Xingkong refused the great sphere’s offer of ascension technology and extracted its stored information by invading its core with Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong cut off the great sphere’s Magic Power, stored it in Baili Qiu’s spatial bracelet, and learned of more hidden laboratories from its database.
• Aliens who had watched the battle began flying to the planet to collect valuables while Li Xingkong looted its laboratories for technical data.
• Li Xingkong searched the planet and found the Shield of Truth Type Three, its circular base, and documents explaining how it worked.
• Li Xingkong stored the shield and documents, then headed to the nearby star system where the shield’s energy interface was located.

Li Xingkong retrieved the energy interface from a mining planet abandoned by the Snail People and found a group of children hiding there. Before leaving, he gave their leader a magical character containing Divine Land knowledge and protective spells, beginning an inheritance that left the boy unconscious.

• Li Xingkong reached the deserted mining planet and found its newly freed inhabitants looting and fighting after the Snail People fled.
• Li Xingkong located the energy interface in a ransacked hub, where aliens fought over food in the cold storage room.
• Li Xingkong cleaned the interface and discovered several children hiding inside it.
• Li Xingkong revealed himself, explained that he had come for the interface, and offered the children a magical character containing Divine Land knowledge and protective spells.
• Li Xingkong took the interface and watched as the children's leader grabbed the character and collapsed under the flood of knowledge.

Li Xingkong left the Snail People's ruined core star region and hurried toward Earth Star, worried that powerful civilizations searching nearby regions might threaten the Divine Land. As he prepared to return through the warp node, an advanced spaceship confronted him.

• Li Xingkong obtained the energy interface and Convention credentials, then departed after the Snail People's civilization had been crippled.
• Li Xingkong reflected on his journey and resolved to cultivate toward Spirit Transformation after returning to Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong learned from Xuanyizi that several leading powers were searching nearby star regions and feared their search might lead them to Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong set out for Earth Star to bring back the Convention's emblem and protect the Divine Land from the powers' attention.
• As Li Xingkong prepared to use the warp node, an advanced spaceship resembling a Snail People's vessel approached and called him the Planet Exterminator.

Li Xingkong rejected the Crawfish People's offer to control the star sector in exchange for access to his civilization's technology, citizens, and resources. After he revealed that his civilization had joined the Convention and warned them to investigate who had issued his insignia, the Crawfish People told him to leave the nearby galaxies, leaving their intentions uncertain.

• The Crawfish People introduced themselves to Li Xingkong and proposed that his civilization replace the Snail People as rulers of the star sector.
• The Crawfish People demanded access to Li Xingkong's databases and technology, annual citizens for genetic research, priority mineral rights, and a share of trade in exchange for recommending Convention membership.
• Li Xingkong showed his Convention insignia and refused the proposal, warning the Crawfish People to investigate who had given it to him.
• Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to examine the spaceship and saw its three Crawfish People crew members communicating with someone.
• The Crawfish People told Li Xingkong to leave the nearby galaxies, apparently avoiding further conflict while they investigated his background.

Li Xingkong began his journey back to Earth Star after reviewing his progress and deciding to focus on advancing his Golden Core. He agreed to drop Xiaowo at a nearby planet, then discovered the Snail Person artifact spirit had chosen Kro Star’s red-light district as his destination.

• Li Xingkong assessed his improved spells and Divine Sense, then passed through the spatial node to start his return journey and cultivate toward his Golden Core’s first revolution.
• Xiaowo protested that Li Xingkong was taking him to Earth Star, and Li Xingkong agreed to send him to a nearby planet instead.
• Xiaowo marked his chosen destination, and Li Xingkong promised to take him there after the spatial jump.
• A few months later, Li Xingkong brought Xiaowo to the planet and released the compass toward its surface.
• Li Xingkong saw that Xiaowo had chosen Kro Star’s red-light district and was startled by the destination.

Li Xingkong cultivated while traveling alone through space back to Earth Star, collecting Baleful Qi and learning how carefully Golden Core cultivators had to transform their cores. He left with a useful material for a future magical treasure and continued his slow, cautious cultivation.

• Li Xingkong found the chamber of commerce's starship gone and resumed his journey to Earth Star.
• He set a Hexagram to guide his return and cultivated, gathering cosmic storms and stellar radiation as Baleful Qi.
• Li Xingkong discovered sixth-grade Screening Baleful Qi and stored it for a future Seven-Colored Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe.
• He focused his Hexagrams on carefully calculating the Golden Core's transformation toward its first revolution.
• Li Xingkong reflected that other cultivators sometimes risked uncertain breakthroughs when immediate danger outweighed long-term prospects.

Li Xingkong returned to the Solar System and found four cultivators building an inn on Saturn’s rings. After learning they were from Fuzhou and had come on Mazu’s orders, he transformed their rough structure into a palace and continued toward Earth Star.

• Li Xingkong returned to the Solar System after raising his Golden Core progress to 0 revolutions, 4.43%.
• Li Xingkong spotted four cultivators joining meteorites together on Saturn’s rings to build an inn for explorers.
• The cultivators explained to Li Xingkong that they were from Fuzhou and had traveled there on Mazu’s orders.
• Li Xingkong reshaped their unfinished building into a classical palace and gathered meteorites into a floating island beneath it.
• Li Xingkong departed toward Earth Star, while the cultivators planned to set up formations around their new inn.

Li Xingkong reached Mars and explored a bustling cultivation market, where a vendor explained how Divine Land had reorganized its society and government as cultivation spread. The chapter left Li Xingkong learning why matchmaking had become an official service while Divine Land sought to expand its population.

• Li Xingkong arrived near Mars and found cultivators trading new cultivation products at a roadside market in space.
• A vendor explained that Thunder Department documents could notarize contracts and introduced documents associated with the Toad Palace and Yue Lao.
• Li Xingkong paid for the documents with a meteorite, and the vendor explained that cultivators now had to leave Earth Star as they advanced.
• The vendor described Earth Star as a protected newbie village, with Mercury and the moon for Qi Refining cultivators and Mars for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The vendor explained that Divine Land had established the Central Heavenly Court and expanded its administrative structure to manage affairs across star systems.
• The vendor said the Toad Palace handled marriages and Yue Lao was an official matchmaking agency created partly to encourage cultivators to have children.

Li Xingkong learned that Earth Star was protected by appointed gods and that Divine Land's research institutions had moved to the moon. After surveying his old home and seeing Earth Star's changing population and careful upkeep, he headed for the moon to reconnect with Divine Land and find his parents.

• Li Xingkong learned that appointed gods remained on Earth Star and could defeat returning Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• A vendor told Li Xingkong that most research institutions had moved to a restricted area around the moon.
• Li Xingkong visited Earth Star's orbit and saw that the White Jade Capital had become a civilian transportation hub.
• Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to survey Earth Star, finding many abandoned cities, a dwindling population in his hometown, and a young earth god maintaining his courtyard.
• Li Xingkong left for the moon to contact Divine Land and ask where his parents were.

Li Xingkong returned to the moon and met Zhang Yumeng, who explained how the former Earthly Capital had become the Heavenly Crafts Institute and how the Divine Land’s institutions had changed. He learned that Zhang Yumeng was now the institute’s director and that Old Tang led the Five Manors Temple.

• Li Xingkong contacted the moon’s communications network, and the Heavenly Crafts Institute sent a group led by Zhang Yumeng to meet him.
• Zhang Yumeng brought Li Xingkong to the Heavenly Crafts Institute and showed him its palaces and five research departments.
• Li Xingkong discovered that Zhang Yumeng was the institute’s director, and she explained that she had taken the role amid a shortage of staff.
• Zhang Yumeng told Li Xingkong that Old Tang had been transferred to lead the Veteran Cadres Bureau, now called the Five Manors Temple, which managed gods and immortals.

Li Xingkong reunited with his parents on the moon and spent a peaceful few days helping them tend their medicinal fields. He learned how they had become respected spiritual-plant experts, then discovered that their studies had also led them to develop their own mental computational abilities.

• Li Xingkong told Zhang Yumeng about his journey, and she recorded his report before carrying the classified documents to Divine Land's authorities.
• Li Xingkong found his parents living and working in the medicinal fields outside Guanghan City.
• Father Li recognized Li Xingkong, and Mother Li embraced him as the family reunited.
• Li Xingkong stayed with his parents, helping with chores and farming while awaiting decisions about the Convention emblem and the Sihali Kingdom's marker.
• Li Xingkong noticed that his parents could use their own mental computational structures and learned they had developed them to understand the technical materials behind their spiritual-plant research.

The Divine Land’s leaders reviewed Li Xingkong’s report that he had destroyed the Snail People’s invasion force and secured the Divine Land a place in the Pan-Civilization Convention. They began deciding where to place the Convention Marker, proposing Venus to keep the moon’s secrets hidden.

• The Divine Land’s senior officials, Old Tang, and Tang Cheng gathered on the moon to review Li Xingkong’s recorded conversation with Zhang Yumeng.
• The meeting chair explained that Li Xingkong had killed the invading Snail People leader, attacked their lair, and left them unable to launch another attack.
• The attendees celebrated the news and discussed Li Xingkong’s violent methods as an expression of the Divine Land’s determination to take revenge.
• The chair reported that Li Xingkong had secured the Divine Land a place in the Pan-Civilization Convention with a guarantee from the Sihali Kingdom.
• The officials debated where to place the Convention Marker and leaned toward Venus rather than the moon, so it would not expose the Divine Land’s secrets.

The conference settled on Mars as the location for the Sihali Kingdom’s teleportation marker and Earth Star as the location for the Shield of Truth, while preparing for the arrival of powerful civilizations. As the meeting neared its end, the chair asked Tang Cheng and Old Tang to assess Li Xingkong, and Old Tang described him as a qualified student of Confucianism, much like Mencius.

• The participants chose Mars for the Sihali Kingdom’s teleportation marker and agreed to prepare a group of military families’ children as a contingency plan to scatter across the universe.
• The participants argued over where to place the Shield of Truth, then voted to install it on Earth Star.
• The conference turned to planning the Divine Land’s development and trade among the universe’s civilizations as its business concluded.
• The chair asked Tang Cheng and Old Tang what kind of person Li Xingkong was, and Old Tang compared him to Mencius and his school of thought.

Old Tang explained that Li Xingkong’s ruthless treatment of the Snail People came from identifying with the Divine Land while viewing outsiders as beyond its moral and legal constraints. The meeting gained a clearer picture of Li Xingkong’s character, and Tang Cheng described him as a cultivator devoted almost entirely to pursuing the Dao.

• Old Tang clarified that Li Xingkong’s actions resembled Mencius’s theory of human nature because Li judged others by whether he considered them human.
• Old Tang argued that Li Xingkong followed the Divine Land’s laws and moral limits because he identified with it, but showed no such restraint toward the Prisoner Continent or the Snail People.
• The attendees discussed their own hostility toward Cherry Blossom Country, and Old Tang’s analysis helped them better understand Li Xingkong.
• Tang Cheng described Li Xingkong as exceptionally capable and likened his relentless cultivation to a machine built to pursue the Dao.

After Divine Land finalized its plan, Li Xingkong handed over two markers, installed the Shield of Truth on Earth Star, and powered it from Jupiter. He visited Old Tang and Tang Cheng, catching up on how Divine Land had changed while remaining focused on cultivation rather than romance.

• Divine Land sent a representative and military cultivators to collect two markers from Li Xingkong, who was the only one able to install the Shield of Truth.
• Li Xingkong installed the Shield of Truth on Earth Star and placed its power interface on Jupiter.
• Li Xingkong visited Old Tang at the Spiritual Root Mother Tree and learned that distributing the current fruit batch would bring Spiritual Root coverage to 80 percent.
• Old Tang showed Li Xingkong his demanding workload, and the two caught up in his office.
• Tang Cheng returned to reunite with Li Xingkong, revealing that he was now the Inspection Department director, was married, and expected his first child.
• Li Xingkong dismissed Tang Cheng's account of his romance and decided that proving his Dao and becoming an immortal came first.

Li Xingkong went to the space station near Mars to help activate the Sihali Kingdom's teleportation coordinate. The gate opened and displayed a star chart of reachable teleportation platforms, leaving Divine Land ready to connect with the wider universe.

• Li Xingkong left Old Tang's family and went to the space station near Mars to activate the teleportation coordinate.
• Divine Land's cultivators prepared the station with trade goods, arrays, and areas for ships of different sizes.
• Li Xingkong confirmed the station was ready, and the person in charge inserted the coordinate into the glass wall and activated it.
• The teleportation gate opened into a huge arch, and a star chart appeared showing reachable platforms across the universe.

The Divine Land sent its selected cultivators through the newly opened portal as pioneers, then prepared its space station to receive visitors from the other side. Alien adventurers arrived to trade, and Luo Ning’s team showed them that the station’s formation made its environment safe to breathe.

• Li Xingkong confirmed that the portal had stabilized, and groups of Divine Land cultivators entered it for randomly chosen destinations.
• After the pioneers departed, Luo Ning and the remaining cultivators prepared signs and positions to welcome visitors from the portal.
• Small spacecraft emerged from the portal and docked at the station, where their crews scanned their surroundings before disembarking.
• Dangkeyixu introduced himself to Luo Ning and Li Xingkong as an adventurer and treasure hunter, then headed toward the cargo area.
• Luo Ning directed aliens in spacesuits to step onto a formation, and one bulky visitor discovered that he could breathe and move freely without his suit.

Li Xingkong watched visiting alien explorers browse the space station’s goods, where Dangkeyixu discovered a plant that could grow customized alloys. A cultivator offered to demonstrate its abilities, and Anti brought out a heap of his own ore for the test.

• Aliens passed through the formation, adapted to Earth Star’s atmosphere, and headed to the goods area.
• Dangkeyixu inspected the mineral stalls and found the Body Tempering Grass, which its sign said could grow alloys from surrounding elements.
• Dangkeyixu tugged at a leaf but could not tear it, though he remained unsure whether the plant was genuine.
• Anti joined Dangkeyixu, and a cultivator offered to demonstrate the grass using suitable minerals.
• Anti returned to his spaceship and unloaded a large pile of ore, drawing the attention of nearby adventurers.

The cultivator demonstrated how Body Tempering Grass refined ore, while adventurers gathered to assess its usefulness. A catlike alien’s sudden obsession with silver vine unexpectedly secured the first interstellar trade, as Li Xingkong subdued hostile arrivals at the space station.

• The cultivator moved Anti’s ore to an open area and showed Body Tempering Grass rapidly consuming it.
• The cultivator gave seeds to nearby adventurers so they could test the plants for themselves.
• A tabby-like alien followed the scent of silver vine, clutched it, and loudly offered to buy it all.
• The silver vine became the first product to win over an alien, and other adventurers began trading as well.
• Li Xingkong used Divine Sense Suppression to force arrogant arrivals to dock, and the newcomers surrendered after seeing the cultivators.

Li Xingkong’s reputation as the Planet Exterminator frightened a group of aliens who had encountered cultivators from the Divine Land. After Luo Ning learned what Li Xingkong had done beyond the space station, the cultivators realized his infamous name could help deter trouble.

• The aliens who recognized the danger surrendered, while their leader warned his underlings not to provoke the cultivators.
• The cultivators swiftly disarmed and bound the aliens who resisted.
• The surrendering aliens told their leader they knew the Divine Land’s people resembled the Planet Exterminator, whose destruction of the Snail People’s home base had spread fear across nearby civilizations.
• Li Xingkong overheard the aliens discussing his reputation and felt awkward about being known by such an ominous title.
• Luo Ning asked Li Xingkong about his experiences beyond the space station, and Li Xingkong explained what he had done.
• Luo Ning and the other cultivators realized Li Xingkong’s fearsome reputation could discourage outsiders from causing trouble in the Divine Land.

Luo Ning and Li Xingkong decided to punish the detained intruders by sending them to Venus to fight repeatedly before deporting them, while the Divine Land continued analyzing alien technology. After an alien named Dangkeyixu asked for a body modification that would let him move through space, Li Xingkong devised a method that would not reveal the cultivation system.

• Luo Ning and Li Xingkong ordered the intruders sent to Venus to fight and die at least ten times a day for a week before deportation.
• Luo Ning told the cultivators to let the intruders keep their weapons, while the Divine Land continued studying alien ships, equipment, and weapons.
• A cultivator enclosed the intruders in a protective bubble and carried them out of the space station toward Venus.
• Dangkeyixu asked a cultivator for body modifications that would let him move through space.
• Li Xingkong adjusted a modification plan to conceal the foundations of cultivation, and Luo Ning received the plan.

The Divine Land expanded its dealings with alien adventurers by offering space-adaptation services and building a floating city near the space station. As the aliens discovered the real battles on Venus, they began signing up to fight there themselves.

• The Divine Land divided Li Xingkong’s space-adaptation modifications into three tiers and used the service to build closer ties with alien adventurers and gather intelligence.
• The cultivators built a floating city near the space station, and after troublemakers were sent to Venus, gambling halls filled with mercenaries watching the Venus Showdown.
• Alien mercenaries learned that the Venus battles were real and that the planet’s surface hosted tens of thousands of fighting zones, mostly occupied by Divine Land locals.
• A rumor spread that Divine Land cultivators had to kill ten thousand people on Venus to reach Foundation Establishment, and alien mercenaries began signing up to fight there.
• The Divine Land set aside a flat battlefield for matches of two thousand aliens against two thousand, while Li Xingkong created spatial passages linking the Solar System’s planets.

A crowd of alien mercenaries gathered on Venus for the Solar System’s first major alien battle, but their inability to cooperate turned the opening charge into chaos. The two sides collided in a bloody melee as spectators watched and mocked them from the space station.

• Alien contestants entered the portal and arrived in two camps on a vast plain, where they struggled to organize themselves.
• A blue-skinned alien who could communicate with everyone tried to take charge, but a tiny Jinyan Mercenary Corps strategist also claimed command and was tossed aside by a larger alien.
• The mercenaries argued over leadership and charged without a plan, trampling the strategist to death before reaching the opposing side.
• Spectators in the space station’s betting halls ridiculed the disorderly fighters and their first casualty.
• The two masses of aliens collided, and energy bullets, blood, and wild fighting filled the battlefield.

Li Xingkong watched the aliens’ chaotic battle and saw the Jiaoren fighter fall to an Ironstone Clan opponent despite her powerful sonic attack. The Sihali Kingdom then arrived at Mars with a huge ship and sent projections to meet Li Xingkong, revealing a technology he immediately considered exploiting.

• A Jiaoren alien used a sonic scream to incapacitate many fighters, but an Ironstone Clan alien resisted it and knocked her down.
• A frog-like alien shot the Ironstone Clan fighter with a ray, but he finished off the Jiaoren before another attacker killed the frog-like alien.
• Li Xingkong observed how different alien species and weapons made some natural counters to others as the battle continued.
• Li Xingkong sensed a major arrival at the teleportation platform and watched an enormous Sihali Kingdom ship take up orbit around Mars.
• Baili Qiu and other Sihali Kingdom representatives appeared on the platform as projections, and Li Xingkong considered the potential uses of their technology.