Recaps

Li Xingkong escaped the Sihali nebula, learned that Xuan Qingzi had been confirmed dead, and built a new Spiritual Root Server containing his Name-Calling Rebirth Technique. After contacting Baili Qiu with the server’s location, Li Xingkong encountered an unexpected person just as he was about to leave.

• Li Xingkong slipped past the nebula’s armed patrols, copied a Sihali officer’s memories, and learned that Fang Ritu was moving to take control of Xuan Qingzi’s forces.
• Li Xingkong borrowed a Sihali national’s identity and spent nearly a month escaping across the Sihali Kingdom as news confirmed Xuan Qingzi’s death and his brother’s succession.
• Li Xingkong decided to honor his promise to Baili Qiu and devised a server that could produce his cells for the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique.
• Li Xingkong spent nearly two weeks redesigning the server and built a planetary-scale Spiritual Root Server in the Sihali Kingdom’s outer star territory.
• Li Xingkong contacted Baili Qiu and sent him the server’s location, then an unexpected person appeared before Li Xingkong could leave.

Li Xingkong prepared to leave after helping bring down Xuan Qingzi, and Fang Ritu explained how he had discovered Li Xingkong’s disguise and why Xuan Qingzi’s followers might seek revenge. Fang Ritu then hinted that trouble might also be brewing over Li Xingkong’s civilization’s territorial expansion.

• Fang Ritu met Li Xingkong with a projection, recognized him despite his disguise, and offered him gifts before explaining how surveillance data and energy readings revealed his identity.
• Fang Ritu told Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi’s surviving loyalists still controlled several personal guard units and were becoming increasingly reckless.
• Fang Ritu explained that the investigation had blamed the Li Insects for Xuan Qingzi’s death after evidence pointed to their use of a Dual-Vector Foil and their assassins’ methods.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi’s followers might target civilizations that had dealt with him, especially Li Xingkong, who had destroyed one of their fleets.
• Fang Ritu added that a separate issue involving Li Xingkong’s civilization might be connected to its earlier territorial expansion.

Fang Ritu told Li Xingkong that the Great Expedition had reached Ten Thousand Gods Star, a holy land of the Radiance Theocracy, after Xuan Qingzi’s territorial adjustment placed it within Earth Star’s borders. Li Xingkong left eager to return and prevent the situation from escalating into war.

• Fang Ritu explained that the Weitian Galaxy was registered with the Convention as Ten Thousand Gods Star, a holy land claimed by the Radiance Theocracy.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong that developing the galaxy could give the Theocracy recognized grounds to declare war.
• Fang Ritu described how the Theocracy was ruled by a player who had ascended to godhood and commanded the entire civilization.
• Li Xingkong accepted Fang Ritu’s warning, blamed Xuan Qingzi for the setup, and hoped Old Tang and the others had not provoked trouble.
• Li Xingkong entrusted the server and the method for making Spiritual Roots to Fang Ritu for safekeeping and hurried to return home.

After punishing the Earth Star conspirators, Li Xingkong returned to the moon and questioned Ge Baoqi about restoring the Divine Land’s institutions. He discovered that Ge Baoqi had arranged a top-level retirement package for himself.

• Li Xingkong imprisoned the Divine Land cultivators who had witnessed his killings in his Little Underworld model until reincarnation could be restored.
• Li Xingkong returned to Earth Star, reflecting that the Divine Land’s repeated crises had made it feel like a burden, and decided to wait until he met the expeditionary force before judging its future.
• Li Xingkong found Ge Baoqi fishing beside an artificial lake on the moon and demanded an account of his work.
• Ge Baoqi said he had restored the institutions and old development plans, approved research labs for Ji Nanzhi and Ji Qiu, and taken no official position.
• Li Xingkong discovered that Ge Baoqi had arranged retirement benefits at the highest national level and called him out for it.

Li Xingkong reviewed the Great Expedition’s records and set out to find its team, which had already reached the Weitian Galaxy. He found isolated outposts along the route and helped one settlement improve its planet before continuing his search.

• Ge Baoqi gave Li Xingkong detailed records of the Great Expedition, including its route and participants.
• Li Xingkong learned that the expedition was surveying a region hundreds of light-years around the Divine Land and had reached the Weitian Galaxy.
• Li Xingkong left the Solar System and followed the route, finding small communications and maintenance outposts before reaching a settlement with over a hundred cultivators.
• Li Xingkong learned that later expeditionary teams had stayed on the planet to develop it rather than continue along the route.
• Li Xingkong set up a grand formation to gradually adjust the planet’s atmosphere, then continued onward to search for the expeditionary team.

Li Xingkong reached the Weitian Galaxy and reunited with Tang Cheng aboard the expeditionary force’s ship. Tang Cheng explained how the expedition had made contact with the Land of Radiance and agreed to preserve the galaxy as a jointly developed scenic area.

• Li Xingkong traveled directly to the Weitian Galaxy and found its twelve planets arranged in two unnaturally orderly orbits.
• Li Xingkong located the expeditionary force’s ship and surprised Tang Cheng in the command room, where the two reunited.
• Tang Cheng told Li Xingkong that most of the expedition was complete and that the others were developing the chosen capital star system.
• Tang Cheng explained that the expedition had copied alien technology after rescuing an adventure team, leading to contact with the Land of Radiance and orders for its equipment.
• Tang Cheng said the Land of Radiance and the expedition had agreed to preserve the Weitian Galaxy as a scenic area and build protective measures around it.

After learning that the Radiance Theocracy’s support had improved the Divine Land’s position between it and the Sihali Kingdom, Li Xingkong hurried to the capital system to reunite with his parents. He found the system being rebuilt from shattered planets and caught up with his family, who heard about his recent experiences and worried about his ties to the Divine Land.

• Li Xingkong learned from Tang Cheng that the Divine Land’s situation was favorable and set off for the capital system to see his parents.
• On the way, Li Xingkong spotted a Divine Land warship towing a planet toward the system.
• Li Xingkong entered the capital system and watched Wu Ting and other cultivators break a newly delivered planet into fragments.
• Li Xingkong located Old Tang and his parents in a temporary fortress, then went to greet them.
• Li Xingkong reunited with his parents in their spirit-plant laboratory and told them about what had happened since he left seclusion.
• His parents worried that his actions might estrange him from the Divine Land, but they understood his relationship with it more deeply than before.

Li Xingkong visited Old Tang and learned that the Divine Land was building the Thirty-Three Heavens, a vast, layered megastructure intended as the future capital. As the project’s material needs and immense timeline became clear, Old Tang raised a new development in cultivation and asked Li Xingkong for ideas.

• Li Xingkong’s parents told him to visit Old Tang and Wu Ting after he asked why planets were being dragged in and broken apart.
• Li Xingkong found Old Tang studying a model of the proposed Thirty-Three Heavens, a thirty-three-layer megastructure inspired by mythology.
• Old Tang explained that the structure would provide vast living space and simulated day and night, but would require hundreds more planets’ worth of materials.
• Li Xingkong used the Hexagram to calculate the enormous scale of the project and learned it might take thousands of years to complete.
• Old Tang told Li Xingkong about a new development in cultivation and asked whether he had any ideas.

Old Tang explained how the cultivation system had been subdivided to help more people advance, and asked Li Xingkong to devise a more accessible path to Core Formation. Li Xingkong produced a preliminary False Core method and received a strange replication spell before going to see Wu Ting, who was working on a planet.

• Old Tang told Li Xingkong that they had added Qi Refining Perfection and divided Foundation Establishment to strengthen cultivators’ foundations and improve their chances of advancing.
• Old Tang said Wu Ting and the other early cultivators lacked the physical strength and Magic Power required by the Core Formation plan, and asked whether a False Core realm could help ordinary cultivators progress.
• Li Xingkong used his hexagrams to create a simplified Core Formation method that formed a weaker, reactor-like core as a transition toward the Golden Core Stage.
• Old Tang gave Li Xingkong the Eye of Replication, a spell that analyzed objects and produced crude instructions for making imperfect copies.
• Li Xingkong left the fortress and found Wu Ting working on a planet, where he judged Wu Ting’s strength to be impressive for his realm.

Li Xingkong reunited with Wu Ting, who was preparing to form his core using the Golden Lotus in Fire Method. Wu Ting explained that his real ambition was to comprehend the universe’s Dao, leaving Li Xingkong and the system impressed by his resolve.

• Li Xingkong approached Wu Ting after watching him fight and declined his invitation to spar because Wu Ting was close to Core Formation.
• Wu Ting told Li Xingkong he had chosen the Golden Lotus in Fire Method because he could not reliably identify Baleful Qi.
• Li Xingkong questioned whether the fire-based method suited Wu Ting’s close-combat style.
• Wu Ting described how conventional cultivation felt like following others’ footsteps and explained his ambition to understand the universe through his heart and unite with its will.
• The system recognized Wu Ting’s strong Dao heart, while Li Xingkong noted that Wu Ting’s goal differed from his own graduation requirement to break through the universe.

Li Xingkong concluded that the Divine Land’s expedition was developing well enough for him to turn to his own affairs and travel to the Kingdom of Fixed Light. Before leaving, he began building the Underworld in the capital star system, starting with the Reincarnation Platform and the first reincarnation paths.

• Wu Ting explained his cultivation plan to understand the law of fire, or temperature, and Li Xingkong shared advice on core formation.
• Li Xingkong decided the Divine Land’s strength and development no longer required his constant attention, and planned to deal with the Sihali Kingdom branch and explore the two-dimensional world.
• Li Xingkong chose to visit the Kingdom of Fixed Light’s star system and resolved to build the Underworld in the capital star system instead of on Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong placed the Underworld on the reverse side of the outermost heaven layer and designed it to cover the capital star system.
• Li Xingkong began constructing the Reincarnation Platform and planned to establish human and animal paths first, along with the hells he had already designed.

Li Xingkong built the Underworld’s core facilities and tested its judgment and reincarnation systems using souls from his Little Underworld. The test succeeded, and the souls were ready to be sent into reincarnation.

• Li Xingkong created a hidden space for the Underworld and built its main structures, including the Judgment Hall, Reincarnation Platform, and River of Forgetfulness.
• Li Xingkong set up separate servers for judging souls and coordinating Golden Core constructs, then made more than ten constructs to carry out the Underworld’s duties.
• Li Xingkong released the souls from his Little Underworld and sent them through the Judgment Hall, whose judgments he reviewed and found essentially accurate.
• Li Xingkong brought the souls to the River of Forgetfulness and immersed half of them to erase their current-life memories.
• Li Xingkong used the Three Lives Stone to retrieve the souls’ memories from the river, confirming that the process worked and that the souls could proceed to reincarnation.

Li Xingkong confirmed that souls could reincarnate as animals and explained how reincarnation differed from body possession before inviting cultivators to join the human experiment. Old Tang then introduced a couple who asked Li Xingkong to give their son Yang Wujiu another chance, and Li Xingkong found that Yang Wujiu’s soul was still available.

• Li Xingkong sent souls into animal embryos and observed that memories mostly faded as the souls merged with their new lives.
• Li Xingkong distinguished reincarnation before an embryo developed from body possession of a formed baby, then sent cultivators a reincarnation agreement.
• Many cultivators agreed to participate in the experiment, but Old Tang asked Li Xingkong to meet a couple first.
• The couple asked Li Xingkong to give their son Yang Wujiu another chance, accepting responsibility for their failure to teach him.
• Li Xingkong searched the remaining souls, found Yang Wujiu, and learned the Judgment Hall had judged him a thoroughly nice guy who could not refuse requests.

Li Xingkong completed tests showing that souls could safely reincarnate through the Underworld’s Reincarnation Platform, then handed the system over to Divine Land’s management. As the Underworld became operational under Lin Yinxuan, Li Xingkong turned his attention to exploring the two-dimensional world.

• Li Xingkong sent the remaining souls through the Reincarnation Platform, and experimental reports showed no significant problems with reincarnation, whether souls kept or lost their memories.
• Li Xingkong produced enough Soul-Guiding Banners and left staffing and operational planning to Old Tang and the others.
• Divine Land debated the Reincarnation Agreement and decided that participation would be voluntary, with signers gaining access to reincarnation and agreeing to accept Underworld souls into their families.
• Divine Land began planning the Underworld’s management and accommodations, selecting Lin Yinxuan to oversee its affairs.
• Li Xingkong showed Lin Yinxuan and the other selected cultivators how the Underworld worked, then left them in charge and resumed studying the two-dimensional world.

After the system approved Li Xingkong’s Underworld project, it advised him to focus on cultivation until he reached a nine revolutions golden core. Li Xingkong then contacted Baili Qiu to ask about servers that had accessed information about him through the Sihali Kingdom’s network.

• The system praised Li Xingkong’s Underworld but deducted points because its limited range depended on Soul-Guiding Banners.
• Li Xingkong realized that Sihali Kingdom technologies could solve the range problem, though he had learned to use them without understanding their principles.
• The system told Li Xingkong to prioritize cultivation and ended their discussion until another project arose.
• Li Xingkong contacted Baili Qiu after detecting three Sihali Kingdom servers accessing information about him.
• Baili Qiu was surprised that Li Xingkong knew the servers had gone into mass production, but accepted that his ally kept some secrets.

Li Xingkong learned that three servers had searched for information about him and publicized a real route to Fang Ritu to draw out Xuan Qingzi’s remnants. While traveling under the Hexagram’s control, he explored the two-dimensional world and encountered one of its native creatures.

• Baili Qiu told Li Xingkong that the servers were earning money in the Sihali Kingdom and had transferred his share to an account with the Convention.
• Baili Qiu identified three servers that had searched for Li Xingkong: one belonging to Star Lord Fang, one linked to a Sihali Kingdom server company, and one belonging to Xuan Qingzi’s remnants.
• Li Xingkong told Baili Qiu to announce that he would visit Star Lord Fang at the Pleasure Tower and share his real route, intending to draw his enemies into a direct fight.
• Li Xingkong declined Baili Qiu’s offer to hire mercenaries, then set out for Fang Ritu with the Hexagram managing his body.
• Li Xingkong directed his consciousness into his body in the two-dimensional world and observed how three-dimensional projections affected its inhabitants.
• Li Xingkong encountered a native two-dimensional creature that used touch-sensitive feelers to perceive its surroundings.

Li Xingkong explored the two-dimensional world, found a city, and questioned its ruler about the Liworm Civilization. The ruler knew of the former overlord, the Li Dragon Clan, but said it had fallen into ruin, leaving Li Xingkong to wonder whether it was the civilization he sought.

• Li Xingkong explored the two-dimensional world for months and discovered that harvested resources quickly respawned.
• Li Xingkong entered a fortified settlement and found its ruler in the city's largest building.
• Li Xingkong revealed himself, pressured the ruler, and asked whether he knew of the Liworm Civilization.
• The city lord said he had never heard of the Liworm Civilization but described the once-dominant Li Dragon Clan, whose members pursued the Heavenly Dao and might now be extinct.
• Li Xingkong suspected that the Li Dragons and the Li Insects he sought could be the same civilization.

Li Xingkong learned how the succubi defeated the Li Dragon race and became the current hegemon, then returned his attention to the real world as an ambush against him began to take shape. He detected a space tear and the Sihali Kingdom’s shadow-plane projection core, but wondered whether his enemies had prepared a hidden attack as well.

• The city lord told Li Xingkong that the succubi had bewitched the Li Dragons, survived their attempts to resist, and become the hegemon after the remaining Li Dragons vanished.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the Li Dragons were the Li Insects, and considered finding their ascension site and testing his Gen Trigram’s defense against emotional attacks.
• Li Xingkong lifted his Divine Sense blockade and vanished, deciding to search for the Li Insects’ ascension site without rushing.
• Baili Qiu reported that Xuan Qingzi’s subordinates and several server competitors were preparing a potentially large ambush against Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong deployed Golden Core modified bodies to scout his route and detected a tear in space and the Sihali Kingdom’s shadow-plane projection core nearby.

Li Xingkong uncovered a minefield of spatial-collapse weapons laid by Xuan Qingzi's forces and survived their detonation. He traced the signal that triggered the traps and entered the turbulent space to pursue the ambushers, whose escape routes had been cut off.

• Li Xingkong sent Golden Core constructs to investigate a hidden space, where spatial-collapse weapons destroyed the constructs and tore apart a star system.
• Li Xingkong continued through nearby star systems, finding traps and a broad minefield, then severed the weapons' connections and collected them.
• The observers triggered the minefield's bombs, and Li Xingkong used their signal to locate the source.
• Li Xingkong crossed turbulent space through a rift and pursued the signal's source while the spatial chaos blocked the ambushers' escape.

Li Xingkong reached the star system where the enemy fleet was waiting and fused the Star Metal Winged Tiger Divine Light with his Earth-Traversing Golden Light. He destroyed the investigating squads and split the warship apart, but an unknown voice announced that a scheduled contact operation had begun.

• Li Xingkong crossed the shattered space and arrived at the star system, where a lone warship and its patrol constructs were waiting.
• Li Xingkong avoided using the Roof Bird Wall Fire Divine Light and tested whether he could merge the Star Metal Winged Tiger Divine Light with his Earth-Traversing Golden Light.
• Li Xingkong transformed completely into a beam of divine light and sliced through the investigating squads and the warship.
• Li Xingkong returned to physical form as the warship split apart, while its crew remained silent and continued operating it briefly.
• An emotionless voice stated that Li Xingkong had appeared as predicted and that the scheduled contact operation would commence.

Li Xingkong encountered the Mechanical Scourge, which warned him that he had been listed for apprehension in thirty thousand natural years. After the system explained the civilization’s ambitions and the importance of rules and cultivation, Li Xingkong reconsidered how effective his copied soldiers would be against advanced opponents.

• Li Xingkong watched the destroyed warship reassemble into a giant mechanical creature, which warned him to stop infringing on the Mechanical Scourge’s boundaries.
• The Mechanical Scourge designated the unknown server Sihali-1 a threat and ranked Li Xingkong No. 9527 on its wanted list, scheduling his apprehension for thirty thousand natural years later.
• After the machine disintegrated, the system praised its ambition and explained that it was a second-tier civilization seeking to master element iron.
• Li Xingkong questioned why advanced civilizations’ technologies seemed similar, and the system explained that military power depended on rules while other fields followed diverse paths.
• The system warned that the Mechanical Scourge could seize control of Li Xingkong’s Golden Core constructs, and Li Xingkong realized his copied soldiers could become weapons for his enemies.
• The system advised Li Xingkong to focus on cultivation, and he concluded that sufficient strength would make the Mechanical Scourge’s threats meaningless.

After deciphering the Sihali Kingdom’s tachyon communication technology, Li Xingkong realized it resembled the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique and conceived a spell that could teleport him through information signals. He abandoned his journey to research the new ability on an uninhabited planet.

• Li Xingkong waited several days and confirmed that Xuan Qingzi’s remaining forces had made no further moves.
• Li Xingkong studied the warship’s technology and, with help from Baili Qiu and information aboard the ship, deciphered tachyon communication.
• Li Xingkong’s Divine Sense adapted to perceive tachyons, and he recognized similarities between them, the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique, and soul transfer.
• Li Xingkong conceived an information-state teleportation spell that could send his true body or a projection to anyone within the server’s coverage who called his name.
• Li Xingkong considered using followers as teleportation beacons, then left his journey and secluded himself near an uninhabited planet’s core to research the spell.

While Baili Qiu searched for the missing Li Xingkong, Li Xingkong spent months developing a way to transform matter into tachyons and create a physical projection. He appeared at Baili Qiu’s base and revealed that he could now respond to calls for help from within server range.

• Baili Qiu searched for Li Xingkong after finding the wreckage of the massive ship and evidence that its crew had died.
• Li Xingkong spent a month learning to transform matter into tachyons and another five months developing a way to reverse the process.
• Li Xingkong transformed a small piece of his flesh into tachyons and sent it to the server at Baili Qiu’s location.
• Li Xingkong appeared in Baili Qiu’s server room as a translucent clone, then solidified and explained that he had been researching a new ability.
• Li Xingkong told Baili Qiu that he could now come to his aid if someone within server range called his name and said “help.”

Li Xingkong visited Baili Qiu to discuss renaming the servers so he could use their name as an anchor for teleportation, then went to see Fang Ritu at the Pleasure Tower. After reassuring Fang Ritu that he had survived his fight with Xuan Qingzi, Li Xingkong asked him to help locate a more advanced civilization.

• Li Xingkong explained his server-renaming plan, and Baili Qiu agreed to help.
• Baili Qiu told Li Xingkong that Star Lord Fang was worried about him, so Li Xingkong left to visit Fang Ritu.
• Li Xingkong appeared inside the Pleasure Tower, startling Fang Ritu with how easily he bypassed its security.
• Li Xingkong told Fang Ritu what had happened in his fight with Xuan Qingzi and demonstrated his abilities, reassuring him that he was safe.
• Li Xingkong asked Fang Ritu to use Knows Everything to help him find a more advanced civilization.

Fang Ritu recommended destinations in the Convention to Li Xingkong, including a vast battlefield, a moon-sized ball arena, and the holy lands of the three great powers. After Li Xingkong’s clone disappeared, Fang Ritu ordered the Pleasure Tower’s defenses upgraded.

• Fang Ritu showed Li Xingkong a battlefield on the border between the Mechanical Scourge and the Zerg, where their civilizations had fought for over a hundred thousand years.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong not to join the fighting, explaining that both civilizations used war to control population growth and drive evolution.
• Fang Ritu described the Convention’s Moon-Grasping Ball arena, and Baili Qiu explained that a construct from Sihali Kingdom had lost in the preliminaries.
• Fang Ritu showed Li Xingkong the locations of the three great powers’ holy lands and explained that Sihali Kingdom and Divine Land belonged to the Kingdom of Fixed Light’s camp.
• Li Xingkong stored Fang Ritu’s recommendations and withdrew his Divine Sense from his clone, which vanished.
• Fang Ritu ordered someone to improve the Pleasure Tower’s defenses in case an assassin could enter as Li Xingkong had.