Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong piloted Moon-Chasing Island into the sky during a livestream, revealing its enormous inverted mountain underside and stunning viewers across Divine Land. The island rose above the sea as people in Deep Moon watched it from shore and online coverage spread rapidly.

• Li Xingkong entered the specially designed space at Moon-Chasing Island’s center of gravity and prepared to pilot it.
• Lou Zhiwu confirmed Li Xingkong was ready, and the ground crew began boarding the researchers before starting the launch countdown.
• Li Xingkong exerted himself after the launch command, making Moon-Chasing Island shake and rise from the sea.
• Viewers saw the island’s inverted mountain beneath it and recognized its fantastical design as it flew clear of the water.
• People in Deep Moon watched the enormous island rise into the sky, and news headlines and videos quickly spread online.

Li Xingkong guided Moon-Chasing Island into space, astonishing the public and alarming rival space powers with Divine Land’s apparent antigravity technology. The island reached space safely, with its researchers adapting to weightlessness as Li Xingkong prepared to continue its journey.

• Li Xingkong slowly lifted Moon-Chasing Island into the clouds, leaving viewers and foreign powers stunned by its unexplained flight.
• Eagle Country invoked the Outer Space Treaty to warn Divine Land against deploying weapons, while other countries proposed a shared international space station.
• Li Xingkong guided the island into the stratosphere as researchers moved freely across its steady surface.
• The researchers began experiencing weightlessness as the island climbed higher and its surroundings darkened.
• Moon-Chasing Island’s solar-powered edge lights made it visible as a glowing star from the ground.
• Li Xingkong reached space again, relying on his experience and the island’s structure as an outer layer of protection.

Li Xingkong lost track of his planned route to the moon and decided to steer Moon-Chasing Island toward the moon he could see. Ground control received his explanation and began trying to locate him and calculate a better course.

• Li Xingkong realized he had deviated from the planned route and could not determine his position in space.
• Li Xingkong spotted the moon and chose to chase it directly, ignoring the planned route.
• Li Xingkong told the system he had not expected space travel to be so difficult.
• Ground control asked Li Xingkong why he had left his trajectory, and he explained that the reference frame had changed.
• The ground team began discussing how to locate Li Xingkong and calculate a route that would intercept the moving moon.

Li Xingkong guided Moon-Chasing Island onto a direct course to intercept the Moon and spent the journey with the researchers aboard. After three days, the Moon filled most of his view as they approached it.

• The ground team sent Li Xingkong a diagram showing where the Moon would be when Moon-Chasing Island reached its orbit.
• Li Xingkong used Earth Star and the Moon as references to steer Moon-Chasing Island onto the correct course and stopped accelerating.
• Li Xingkong watched the researchers explore the vacuum outside, touch the island's outer barrier, and experience weightlessness.
• After three days of travel, Li Xingkong saw the Moon rushing toward them and filling more than half his field of vision.

Li Xingkong brought Moon-Chasing Island to the lunar base and anchored it in the moon's soil. After he completed the delivery, the system announced that he had passed the elementary school assessment perfectly and unlocked middle school study.

• Li Xingkong brought Moon-Chasing Island down to the lunar surface and waited for the ground to send the lunar base's location.
• After receiving the location, Li Xingkong flew with Moon-Chasing Island from the near side of the moon toward the base on the far side.
• Li Xingkong followed human footprints to the lunar base, where the first lunar landing party directed him to a storage site beside a crater wall.
• Li Xingkong lowered Moon-Chasing Island into the designated spot and pressed its inverted mountain peak into the lunar soil.
• The system announced that Li Xingkong had passed the elementary school assessment perfectly and unlocked eligibility to study at the middle school level.

After passing his assessment, Li Xingkong prepared to learn the Foundation Establishment method but postponed it because he was still on the moon with the first landing group. He reunited with Tang Cheng, who described the group’s work and complained about the dull lunar life.

• Li Xingkong passed the system’s cultivation assessment, and the system offered to teach him the Foundation Establishment method.
• Li Xingkong delayed learning the method because the first moon landing group was nearby.
• Tang Cheng emerged from a cave wearing Xi People-style clothes and greeted Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong asked Tang Cheng about life on the moon, and Tang Cheng explained how the fourteen members had been working and exploring.
• Tang Cheng complained that the moon felt like a prison, though he would not agree to return to Earth Star.

After completing much of their initial research, Li Xingkong toured Tang Cheng’s lunar base and learned that the researchers lacked fuel and oxygen for making construction materials. Li Xingkong realized he could use his strength and Explosive Reactive Armor’s shaping structure to produce materials through pressure, though he would have to do the work himself.

• Tang Cheng led Li Xingkong to the base while the new researchers met the people outside Moon-Chasing Island through its barrier.
• Tang Cheng showed Li Xingkong the expanded mountain cave, which held the group’s sleeping area, supplies, laboratory equipment, and lunar samples.
• Tang Cheng explained that the researchers could not make standard building materials because the moon had no usable compound fuels and its surface was a vacuum.
• Li Xingkong considered using a nuclear power plant but decided against it, then recognized that pressure could make building materials without high heat.
• Li Xingkong concluded he could press materials using his strength and Explosive Reactive Armor’s shaping structure, but no one else could do it for now.

Li Xingkong began expanding the lunar base after deciding it needed more space and a secluded place for cultivation. He used Sword Qi to reshape the mountainside and cleared the debris, beginning work on a large cave abode for the group.

• Li Xingkong reviewed the lunar base layout with Tang Cheng and decided to hollow out additional caves, including a separate cultivation room.
• Li Xingkong used Sword Qi to slice protrusions from the mountainside until its surface became a smooth wall.
• The people at the base watched Li Xingkong’s display in silence and began to regard him as an immortal.
• Li Xingkong formed an Explosive Counter Spell into a large square and pushed the fallen rocks away from the mountainside.
• Li Xingkong began carving a large cave abode intended to house the group and support their research and daily needs.

Li Xingkong carved a vast, reinforced cave into the mountainside for the lunar base and compressed the rubble into sturdy bricks. The architects and combat engineers began planning and building the interior while researchers moved in their equipment.

• Li Xingkong estimated the base needed about six hundred square meters and marked out the cave’s approximate forty-meter diameter.
• Li Xingkong pushed into the mountainside with his Explosive Counter Spell and hollowed out a huge space, leaving structural pillars and reinforcing the rock.
• Li Xingkong compressed the excavated rubble into durable bricks, making enough for interior partitions and more.
• The researchers inspected the cave, then moved in research equipment and materials.
• The architects divided the cave into rooms for research projects, and the combat engineers began building partition walls with Li Xingkong’s bricks.

Li Xingkong received Foundation Establishment knowledge through the system’s Divine Sense Suppression and learned how the technique overwhelmed a target’s senses and nervous system. He left the lesson understanding how dangerous Foundation Establishment cultivators could be to Qi Refining cultivators and ordinary people.

• Li Xingkong chose the operations room on Moon-Chasing Island for seclusion and asked the system to begin transmitting Foundation Establishment knowledge.
• The system used a chaotic visual pattern to overwhelm Li Xingkong’s nervous system and force knowledge into his mind for nearly ten minutes.
• After recovering, Li Xingkong asked about the technique, and the system identified it as Divine Sense Suppression.
• The system compared Divine Sense Attacks to DDoS attacks, explaining that they could overwhelm any sensory organ and even work through recorded video.
• The system said Foundation Establishment cultivators could control mortals or alter and overload their memories, leaving Li Xingkong relieved that he was the first cultivator.

The system explained that Foundation Establishment cultivators attacked through spiritual sense and that resisting them required protecting or changing the signals of one’s senses. Li Xingkong learned that Foundation Establishment focused on cultivating the mind and computing power, then began studying the Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method and its enormous advantage over ordinary methods.

• The system explained how people could resist spiritual sense attacks by replacing their senses or encrypting the signals from their nervous systems.
• Li Xingkong recognized computing power as the main goal of Foundation Establishment, and the system added that a cultivator also needed to develop their mind and learn to use that power.
• The system told Li Xingkong to study the Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method, which he found far more extensive than the Hibernating Dragon Technique.
• Li Xingkong learned that the method cultivated a spiritual sense seed in the brain, then evolved computing structures throughout the body that could support recovery and sharper senses.
• Li Xingkong discovered that computing power varied enormously between Foundation Establishment methods and understood that his system-provided method gave him a major advantage.

Li Xingkong prepared for years of Foundation Establishment cultivation by arranging lunar base work and choosing a secluded location away from Moon-Chasing Island. He left Tang Cheng with seeds for planting trials and planned to make more materials before entering seclusion.

• Li Xingkong realized Foundation Establishment cultivation would require years of seclusion and decided to expand the lunar base and delegate Body Tempering Grass planting trials.
• Li Xingkong chose a mountain near the base for seclusion because researchers frequently came and went at Moon-Chasing Island.
• Li Xingkong found Tang Cheng carving Xi People characters onto a stone artifact and discussed the forgery with him.
• Li Xingkong gave Tang Cheng seeds to pass to the botanists for lunar planting trials and told him he would soon enter seclusion for years.
• Li Xingkong said he would make more materials before seclusion and asked Tang Cheng to keep people away from the mountain, which Tang Cheng agreed to do.

Li Xingkong sealed himself inside a cave on the Moon to study the Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method, determined to reach Foundation Establishment before emerging. After mastering the method’s knowledge, he realized that two months had passed, but the chapter left him still short of his goal.

• Li Xingkong told Tang Cheng everything he could think of and greeted Earth Star's aerospace teams before beginning secluded cultivation.
• He carved a cave into a lunar cliff, made a platform, and sealed the entrance to keep from being disturbed.
• Li Xingkong sat down to study the Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method and swore not to leave until he reached Foundation Establishment.
• He became absorbed in the method, drawing on his lack of hunger to study without interruption.
• Li Xingkong finished working through the method once and used his biological clock to learn that two months had passed.

Li Xingkong began practicing the Foundation Establishment Method and set out to construct a Divine Sense Seed in his pineal gland. After learning that cultivators had developed the seed by modifying that organ, he altered its structure and prepared to build the required mana structures.

• Li Xingkong began practicing the Foundation Establishment Method after two months of studying it.
• Li Xingkong learned that constructing a Divine Sense Seed would let him control his body and eventually external objects directly with Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong examined his pineal gland and discovered that it was suited to house the Divine Sense Seed.
• The system explained that cultivators had developed the Divine Sense Seed through generations of research into modifying the pineal gland.
• Li Xingkong studied and mentally reconstructed the pineal gland, then painfully removed the structures the Divine Sense Seed did not need.
• Li Xingkong finished altering the pineal gland and prepared to build the mana structures that would awaken it as his Divine Sense Seed.

Li Xingkong completed the initial construction and activation of his Divine Sense Seed, gaining synesthesia, sharper perception, and a data-like view of his surroundings. The system explained that the information his Divine Sense displayed depended on what he already understood.

• Li Xingkong endured the pain and finished modifying the mana and physical structures of his pineal gland into a Divine Sense Seed.
• Li Xingkong circulated mana through the seed, activating it and surrounding it with a soft yellow, diamond-shaped glow.
• Li Xingkong discovered that seeing things let him hear their inferred sounds, while his other senses and awareness of the moon's movement also grew sharper.
• Li Xingkong saw measurements and other data about the cave wall appear in his field of vision and learned he could toggle the display at will.
• The system told Li Xingkong that his Divine Sense translated the world according to his existing knowledge and could not show him concepts he did not understand.

Li Xingkong tested his newly completed Divine Sense Seed and learned that he still needed to master the Changes system to enter Foundation Establishment. The chapter left him preparing to build the trigrams and lines required for his first hexagram.

• Li Xingkong used synesthesia to scan his cave dwelling and found that his Divine Sense Seed immediately formed a detailed mental model.
• Li Xingkong recognized that completing the Divine Sense Seed was only halfway through the introductory stage of the Foundation Establishment Method.
• Li Xingkong studied Changes, a system based on eight trigrams that could serve as a microscopic programming language and boost his computational power.
• Li Xingkong learned that a hexagram would act like a microscopic supercomputer supporting his Divine Sense Seed.
• Li Xingkong determined that he first had to prepare the trigrams and connecting lines that formed the basic parts of a hexagram.

Li Xingkong finally constructed a trigram line after repeated failures and discovered that his seclusion had lasted one year and seven months. With Foundation Establishment still ahead, he resumed work and chose to construct the Qian Hexagram first for its strengths in creativity and learning.

• Li Xingkong completed his first trigram line after many failed attempts.
• Li Xingkong checked his biological clock and learned that one year and seven months had passed during his cultivation.
• Li Xingkong reflected on how long periods of seclusion distanced cultivators from ordinary social interaction, then returned to constructing a trigram.
• Li Xingkong decided to build the Qian Hexagram first because he needed its capacity for creativity, learning, and designing new spells.

Li Xingkong completed and activated the Qian Hexagram, successfully entering Foundation Establishment and gaining greatly enhanced mental abilities. He remained in his lunar cave abode to recover his depleted magic power and tidy himself before emerging from seclusion.

• Li Xingkong finished constructing the hexagram lines and assembled them into the Qian Hexagram.
• Li Xingkong enveloped the completed Hexagram with his Divine Sense and channeled magic power into it, nearly exhausting his reserves.
• The activated Qian Hexagram began revolving around Li Xingkong's Divine Sense Seed and transformed with golden light and tiny characters.
• Li Xingkong discovered that his thinking, memory, and synesthesia had greatly improved, confirming that he had become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Li Xingkong decided to wait for his magic power to recover and clean himself up before leaving his lunar cave abode.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Li Xingkong discovered that his Divine Sense Seed and Hexagram consumed mana, while his progress remained limited by the scarcity of Spiritual Qi. Once his mana recovered, he emerged from seclusion and revealed his power to the lunar base by lifting and throwing the mountain peak.

• Li Xingkong discovered that maintaining his Divine Sense Seed and Hexagram slowed his mana recovery, and the system explained that a strong Qi Refining foundation was necessary for the Heavenly Evolution Foundation Establishment Method.
• Li Xingkong learned that advancing further would require more Spiritual Qi, and the system said a Spiritual Qi revival was still a distant goal.
• After his mana recovered, Li Xingkong cleaned himself with a Restoration Technique and sent Sword Qi through the mountain peak.
• People at the lunar base saw the peak shake and rise into the air, with Li Xingkong holding it aloft.
• Li Xingkong surveyed the lunar base and tossed the mountain peak toward an open space.

After three years in seclusion, Li Xingkong returned to the lunar base and stopped a falling mountaintop from crashing into it. He saw how the base had grown, introduced himself to its staff, and was welcomed back as its commander.

• Li Xingkong caught the descending mountaintop with one foot and gently set it on the ground.
• Li Xingkong approached the expanded lunar base and observed its buildings, paved ground, and solar-panel-covered cliff.
• The staff at the entrance greeted Li Xingkong and identified him after checking his name and photographs.
• The staff confirmed Li Xingkong was the base's commander and welcomed him back, while he found their attention awkward.