Recaps

Divine Land captured Eagle Country and dealt with the aftermath of nuclear war and a released virus, while Li Xingkong turned to large-scale construction and secluded cultivation. His growing Divine Sense transformed people and animals across Earth Star, leaving him to pursue a formation capable of controlling the planet.

• Li Xingkong and Divine Land’s commanders sent a Spatial Beacon to Eagle Country, captured its capital and leaders, and took control of the country as its forces and civilians were battered by nuclear strikes.
• After Eagle Country’s army seized Chouyue City, its commander released an experimental virus that spread through the capital, the army, and other cities before Divine Land developed a way to eliminate it.
• Divine Land planned Eagle Country’s surrender and debated how to integrate its people while confronting nuclear fallout, environmental damage, and tensions between cultivators and newcomers.
• Li Xingkong studied the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique, tested it by constructing buildings in the Gobi, and built a lunar nuclear power plant that used a Spatial Beacon to create an External Core.
• Li Xingkong secluded himself on the moon, used the External Core to accelerate his cultivation, and expanded his Divine Sense until it reached across Earth Star.
• As Li Xingkong trained control over his Divine Sense by tracing the character “Human” across the moon, people and animals exposed to moonlight changed toward humanlike bodies and minds, and Divine Land accepted the transformed beings as yao citizens.
• Li Xingkong brought his Divine Sense under control, found it could cover the moon and manipulate objects across its range, and began studying advanced formations to meet the system’s demand that he control Earth Star.

Li Xingkong completed two formations that could control Earth Star’s weather and gradually reshape its terrain, then passed his Foundation Establishment assessment and formed a Golden Core near the sun. He returned with the Earth-Traversing Golden Light ability and began considering a battle royale that could restore participants after death.

• Li Xingkong completed the Four Seas Heaven-Regulating Formation design and planned an Earth Vein network to spread spiritual qi while guiding gradual geological changes.
• Li Xingkong returned from seclusion, learned about the Divine Land’s cultivation restrictions and social divisions, and discussed its plans with Old Tang.
• Li Xingkong installed the four Dragon Palace formation cores, activated the weather formation, and completed the system’s weather-control tests with Zhang Yumeng’s help.
• Li Xingkong visited the government experiment on Cherry Blossom Country Island, then placed the terrain formation’s nodes and used its Nine Tripod Cauldrons to reshape a hill and begin a five-hundred-year continental shift.
• Li Xingkong passed the Foundation Establishment assessment and chose solar Baleful Qi to form a Leakless Golden Core, gathering it near the sun until a False Core formed.
• A spatial experiment in the Divine Land caused a collapse that erased a laboratory, prompting an unknown civilization to send Lao Mu and Aozile’s battleship toward Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong ignited his False Core with nuclear fission and survived a solar particle beam, completing his Golden Core and gaining the Earth-Traversing Golden Light ability.
• Li Xingkong returned toward Earth Star, confirmed that his formation was shifting South America, and considered staging a battle royale with participants restored after death.

Li Xingkong transformed Venus into a battle arena and tested a resurrection system while cultivating, as the Snail People prepared to scout Earth Star. Hupo defeated their scouting party and brought three aliens to White Jade Capital, where Divine Land began preparing for the approaching threat.

• Li Xingkong expanded his memory capacity to face the Soul Tribulation, then used an ice asteroid to accelerate Venus’s rotation and reshape its climate.
• Li Xingkong completed a planetary formation, altered Venus’s atmosphere, discovered ruins of the Snake-People Race, and remodeled the planet for battle.
• Li Xingkong brought criminals to Venus for deathmatches, and Divine Land used his resurrection formation to restore the dead before opening the arenas to military exercises.
• Aozile and Lao Mu sent cloaked scouts toward Earth Star after deciding to investigate the Solar System, while Divine Land scholars detected unusual spatial fluctuations.
• Hupo was trapped by the scouts’ gravity field but destroyed part of their ship, fought Leopard Head, and learned that the crew’s bombs were counting down.
• Hupo took the captives to the moon, used its power to transform them into humans, and removed their bombs before bringing them to White Jade Capital.
• Lin Chong, Gou Huo, and Old Firewood revealed that the Snail People had sent them to scout Earth Star, and Divine Land began investigating their ship and preparing for space warfare.

The Snail People invaded Venus, but Li Xingkong turned the battle around and destroyed their fleet. He then began helping the Divine Land handle the aftermath, learning that Earth Star’s future expansion could bring it under the Pan-Civilization Convention and the Snail People’s nominal rule.

• Captain Wang traced the Earthly Capital anomaly to a particle-bombardment experiment and found that researchers had continued studying the rift.
• Lin Chong advised the Divine Land military on the Snail People’s forces and helped devise a plan to exploit their mistaken belief that Venus was Earth Star’s core.
• The Snail People attacked Venus, where cultivators fought through repeated deaths and revivals while some captured cannon fodder turned against their own forces.
• Tie Xingzhen and other cultivators battled the Snail People’s fleet, but a cruiser released disintegration bombs that devastated Venus and killed the cultivators on its surface.
• Li Xingkong stopped the Star-Destroying Ship, destroyed the fleet, and used Venus as a weapon against the battleship before restoring the planet to its place.
• Li Xingkong began preparing to restore the fallen cultivators, refined a Soul-Guiding Banner, and arranged for the recovery of battlefield souls.
• Li Xingkong visited Venus and learned that the Divine Land was feeding and studying the surrendered aliens, then used a captive Snail Person’s memories to uncover the Pan-Civilization Convention’s rules and the Snail People’s dependence on a superior civilization.
• Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng concluded that Earth Star needed to learn more about the Convention and prepare before the Snail People returned.