Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong forced the prisoners into a sealed battlefield and announced that they would all die if no side won within half an hour. After the countdown began, the attackers and defenders finally clashed, leaving the battlefield in chaos.

• Li Xingkong divided the prisoners into two groups and placed them on opposite sides of Attack and Defense Zone One, a battlefield modeled on the Normandy coast.
• The prisoners discovered they could not escape the region, while Earth Star viewers watched the livestream and read the charges displayed above them.
• When the two sides refused to fight, Li Xingkong announced that everyone would be wiped out if no winner emerged before the half-hour countdown ended.
• A burly man charged into the opposing group, prompting both sides to unleash spells and begin a chaotic battle.

Li Xingkong tested his resurrection array during a brutal battle on Venus, restoring the fighters who were killed. The array worked, and the Divine Land planned to return the defeated to prison while keeping the victors on Venus as recurring opponents for future combatants.

• Zhou Mikuang and other cultivators slaughtered fighters on the Venus battlefield as viewers watched their histories appear on the livestream.
• The bodies of the dead were transferred into Li Xingkong’s resurrection array, where their flesh, organs, mana circuits, and consciousness were restored.
• The resurrected fighters awoke in chambers, panicked, and were given clothes after the test tubes released them.
• Li Xingkong examined the resurrected people and confirmed that their bodies and consciousness had returned to normal.
• Li Xingkong and the Divine Land decided that defeated or killed fighters would return to prison, while surviving victors would remain on Venus as opponents in future combat matches.

Divine Land confirmed Venus could serve as a safe combat and military training ground, while Li Xingkong watched battles there and continued studying the Ten Thousand Swords Technique. Meanwhile, the snail people identified the Solar System’s natives as the source of the spatial explosion and assessed their civilization as below level one.

• After experiments with prisoners verified the resurrection formation, Divine Land opened parts of Venus to cultivators and began live-combat military exercises there.
• Astronomy enthusiasts connected the livestreamed battles to Venus after detecting changes to the planet and matching its terrain to the arenas.
• Li Xingkong watched a small-team battle from an asteroid near Venus, declined the System’s bet, and studied the Ten Thousand Swords Technique.
• After six warps, the snail people obtained information about the Solar System and Aozile told Lao Mu that its natives had caused the spatial explosion.
• Aozile reported that the Solar System’s civilization had not reached level one and showed no signs of space activity.

Aozile and Lao Mu planned to seize Earth Star and Venus while avoiding the use of a planet-destroying weapon. As their ship began another jump, Venus’s battles grew more intense, Li Xingkong devoted himself to mastering the Ten Thousand Swords Art, and Earth Star’s scholars detected abnormal spatial fluctuations near the Solar System.

• Aozile proposed a decapitation strike on the second planet and saturation bombardment of the third planet and its satellite, and Lao Mu approved while warning against using the planet-destroying weapon.
• The ship began its next jump after drifting through space and recharging.
• Venus’s deathmatches drew huge numbers of participants, and cultivators developed powerful combat spells with severe side effects.
• Li Xingkong focused on learning to divide his thoughts and control many swords with his consciousness.
• Earth Star’s scholars detected abnormal spatial fluctuations near the Solar System.

Divine Land scholars investigated a spatial fluctuation, but a cloaked Snail People warship emerged near Uranus and began preparing to assess the Solar System. Aozile and Lao Mu ordered scouts to investigate the native civilizations while the ship scanned the planets.

• Divine Land scholars found nothing at the site of the first spatial fluctuation and considered traveling there to research it.
• A white gate opened near Uranus, and a Snail People warship emerged before cloaking itself and the gate closed.
• Aozile complained about the warp passage while Lao Mu ordered the ship to scan the Solar System’s planets.
• Aozile proposed sending scouts to investigate native civilizations, and Lao Mu agreed to equip them with camouflage combat gear.
• Aozile and Lao Mu discussed claiming reimbursement for the gear as the warship prepared to send its prisoner-of-war troops on the dangerous scouting mission.

A squad of alien scouts reached Earth Star undetected but discovered that its people were far more capable than expected. Unable to disguise themselves in space, they decided to capture a lone Earth Star native and extract information.

• Several cloaked scout ships approached Earth Star without the Divine Land noticing.
• The scouts found too many active satellites to attack, but detected White Jade Capital and planned to infiltrate its space dock.
• Near the dock, the aliens saw Earth Star People traveling through space unaided and realized their intelligence was wrong.
• The scouts argued over whether to retreat, but the bomb inside one scout forced them to continue their mission.
• The squad decided to use a jamming device and the scout ship's weapons to capture a lone native alive.

Leopard Head’s crew tracked Hupo as she set out alone from Earth Star, then caught her in a gravitational field. Hupo realized she was trapped by an unseen pursuer, leaving her unable to fly onward.

• Leopard Head spotted a lone cultivator leaving the dock and had the ship follow at a distance.
• Hupo recalled how she had begun cultivating early and reached the Late Qi Refining Stage, then set out alone along the Road to Immortality.
• Hupo discovered she knew little about navigating space and mistakenly pointed at Mars, thinking it was the moon.
• Hupo sensed she was being watched but found nothing and continued onward.
• The scout ship’s gravitational field trapped Hupo, and she recognized that her choice of the Sun and Moon Qi Refining Method had left her without a way to counter it.

Hupo escaped the scout ship’s gravity field and damaged the ship with her Tri-Beam, then rammed through its front panel to board it. The ship’s crew prepared for close combat, but Leopard Head doubted its molecular swords could stop her.

• Hupo layered defensive spells around herself while the hidden scout ship’s crew debated attacking her.
• The scout ship revealed itself and charged its laser cannons, so Hupo fired her Tri-Beam and destroyed one cannon, damaging the ship and breaking the gravity field.
• With the scout ship’s weapons and power supply damaged, Leopard Head grabbed the Kobolds and fled while Hupo ran in the opposite direction.
• Both sides turned around and charged back toward each other, and Hupo smashed through the ship’s front panel and entered the command cabin.
• The Kobolds and Tree People put on space hoods and called on Leopard Head to fight, but Leopard Head feared its molecular swords would be useless against Hupo.

Hupo fought Leopard Head aboard the damaged spaceship, where her frightened, uncontrolled punches unexpectedly overwhelmed him before her shields failed. The dog-headed commander contacted the snail people and requested help, while Hupo and Leopard Head remained at a stalemate.

• Hupo and Leopard Head circled each other aboard the spaceship as the dog-headed commander and Old Firewood argued about who should report the attack.
• The dog-headed commander crawled toward the communications cabin while Hupo watched, and Leopard Head attacked her with both blades when she was distracted.
• Hupo shut her eyes and swung her fists wildly, striking Leopard Head and smashing nearby furniture before he swept her legs out from under her.
• Hupo's shields went out after her fall, leaving her panicked as Leopard Head hesitated to attack because of his injuries.
• The dog-headed commander contacted the snail people and completed identity verification by connecting the bomb attached to its life-support system.

The Kobolds and their companions learned that their command had abandoned the infiltration mission and ordered them to detonate their bombs to test Hupo’s strength. Leopard Head’s bomb began counting down, and he begged Hupo to save him.

• A Kobold reported the scout ship’s destruction and the locals’ extraordinary abilities, then requested a rescue ship.
• Old Firewood explained that Leopard Head had lost one blade and was pretending to control the fight because Hupo had easily deflected his attack.
• General Aozile canceled the infiltration and ordered the squad to detonate their bombs after a five-minute countdown.
• The Kobolds and Old Firewood despaired as their bombs activated, while Leopard Head realized his own bomb was counting down.
• Leopard Head stumbled to his knees before Hupo, and she spoke to him using spiritual qi.
• Leopard Head grabbed Hupo’s legs and cried, “Wild Daddy, save me!”

Hupo struggled to understand Leopard Head, but discovered she could protect him from the vacuum after removing his helmet. Unable to communicate the danger, Leopard Head brought the kobold and treant out of hiding, and the kobold proposed explaining it with a drawing.

• Hupo removed Leopard Head’s helmet and used the Vacuum Technique to let him breathe safely in space.
• Leopard Head exposed the countdown device embedded in his chest and tried to explain his situation to Hupo with gestures.
• The kobold and treant peeked into the command cabin and misread Leopard Head’s frantic movements as a striptease.
• Leopard Head dragged the kobold and treant into the cabin and told them they needed to get Hupo to help disarm the bomb.
• The kobold stopped struggling and suggested using a drawing to explain the danger to Hupo.

Hupo realized the devices on the Kobolds, Tree People, and Leopard Head were bombs and sought a way to save them. She used moonlight from Sword Immortal Li Xingkong’s character on the moon to transform the three into humans, then removed and launched their bombs into space.

• Hupo understood that the devices on the three captives were bombs, but struggled to find a way to defuse them.
• Hupo remembered the character Sword Immortal Li Xingkong had left on the moon and directed the ship toward it.
• The Tree People manually operated the damaged ship, and Hupo used a spell to draw the moon’s power toward the group.
• The moonlight began transforming Leopard Head, the Kobolds, and the Tree People into humans, allowing Hupo to remove their bombs and send them into space.
• The three finished transforming and lay naked on the ship’s floor, so Hupo covered them with clothes.

Hupo brought a damaged spaceship and its three transformed passengers to the White Jade Capital, where the garrison questioned them. The three thanked her, and Leopard Head offered himself to her in marriage, leaving Hupo embarrassed as she realized she still did not know their names.

• Hupo carried the leaking spaceship to the White Jade Capital and told the garrison captain how she had found its passengers.
• The captain brought Hupo and the three passengers together after they refused to answer questions without seeing her.
• Leopard Head, the dog-headed man, and the treant knelt before Hupo, and Leopard Head offered himself to her in marriage.
• The captain explained that the Transformation Technique had given the three Divine Land language and cultural foundations.
• Hupo awkwardly asked the three what their names were.

Hupo met three transformed extraterrestrial scouts and learned that they had arrived aboard a Snail People warship, now hidden near Uranus. The cultivators reported the threat to their superiors, while Hupo learned the captives would likely receive Divine Land citizenship.

• Lin Chong, Gou Huo, and Old Firewood introduced themselves to Hupo and described the discomfort caused by their transformed bodies.
• Gou Huo told the cultivators that the three had come to Earth Star with the Snail People's warship to scout the planet.
• Gou Huo explained that the Snail People conquered civilizations after detecting major spatial anomalies and used survivors as cannon fodder.
• Gou Huo said the warship had set out about ten years earlier and was cloaked near Uranus, prompting the squad leader to leave and report the information.
• Gou Huo and the others pledged loyalty to Hupo, who declined to take them as underlings but asked what would happen to them.
• A cultivator told Hupo that the three would likely be granted Divine Land citizenship because they had undergone the Transformation Technique and provided important intelligence.

Divine Land formed teams to study the captured alien ship, investigate what had attracted the aliens ten years earlier, and prepare Earth Star for space warfare. At White Jade Capital, scholars began questioning the three aliens and examining their ship, while investigators started searching for the reason behind the ten-year-old event.

• Divine Land organized scholars to study the reconnaissance ship, investigators to discover what had drawn the aliens, and military forces to prepare for space warfare.
• The squad leader returned to White Jade Capital with scholars, who questioned the three aliens before beginning their research.
• Spacecraft and materials experts took Old Firewood to inspect the ship, while sociology and linguistics experts spoke with Gou Huo.
• Hupo and Lin Chong went to the lounge to watch Venus Showdown after the scholars left Lin Chong with nothing to do.
• The investigation team reviewed White Jade Capital's documents and asked why the aliens had come ten years earlier.

Captain Wang investigated why aliens had detected spatial fluctuations and sought help from Tang Cheng and Old Tang. Old Tang found records of a particle-bombardment experiment that had created a spatial rift, leaving the investigators to wonder why Li Xingkong’s spatial manipulation had gone unnoticed.

• Captain Wang split the investigation team and went to Tang Cheng for information about the Earthly Capital incident.
• Tang Cheng gave Captain Wang a note directing him to his father, Old Tang, who had been at the Earthly Capital ten years earlier.
• Old Tang recalled the relevant experiments and retrieved a file describing a particle-bombardment test that had erased a laboratory and created a spatial anomaly.
• Old Tang found follow-up research files showing that teams were still studying the rift, which likely attracted the aliens’ attention.
• Captain Wang and Old Tang were left questioning why Li Xingkong’s earlier spatial manipulation had not alerted the aliens.

Captain Wang investigated the hidden laboratory and learned that its researchers were probing a spatial rift during a brief daily lull in its storm. At White Jade Capital, Lin Chong watched a lethal-looking competition with Hupo and discovered that contestants returned to life afterward.

• Captain Wang used the address in the files to reach the concealed laboratory and saw the enormous spatial rift at its center.
• Captain Wang followed a researcher to the rift, where her team sent detection equipment through it on ropes.
• The researcher told Captain Wang that the team had studied the rift for two years and could investigate its far side only during a short daily window.
• Lin Chong watched a brutal free-for-all with Hupo and worried that contestants were dying in the matches.
• Hupo explained that the contestants returned to life at a resurrection point, and Lin Chong said he wanted to compete.

Lin Chong advised the Divine Land’s military cultivators on the Snail People’s forces and tactics after they took him to their near-space defenses. Hupo registered for the Venus Showdown through the military portal while Lin Chong prepared to help plan countermeasures.

• Two military cultivators asked Lin Chong to advise them on the defenses they had built from small, disguised fortresses armed with limited weapons and backed by missiles and nuclear warheads.
• Before leaving, Lin Chong asked the cultivators to help Hupo get priority registration for the Venus Showdown, and they told her to use the military registration portal.
• The cultivators carried Lin Chong to the defensive line, where a crowd of soldiers gathered to hear what he knew about the Snail People.
• Lin Chong described the Snail People’s planet-destroyer warship, its fleets and cannon fodder, and explained that the superbrain mostly used drones for logistics.
• Lin Chong explained that the Snail People destroyed uninhabitable worlds but sent troops to conquer habitable ones, and he confirmed Earth Star appeared to be a habitable target.

Lin Chong explained that the Snail People’s bold attack suggested a universe already divided among powerful civilizations, leaving the Divine Land in a dangerous position if it failed to win. After inspecting the cultivators’ defenses, he proposed disguising their forces and using a retreating fleet to lure the Snail People’s warships into a surprise attack.

• Lin Chong warned the commander that the Snail People likely belonged to a civilization accustomed to attacking weaker powers in an already ordered universe.
• The cultivators showed Lin Chong their defensive positions, and he recognized that their ability to fight independently in space differed from conventional military forces.
• Lin Chong proposed hiding cultivators in asteroid-disguised fortresses while warships drew the Snail People’s main fleet toward the planet.
• Lin Chong explained that the Snail People had mistaken Venus for Earth Star’s core because Venus appeared heavily defended, while Earth Star seemed poorly protected.
• The Divine Land military considered how to exploit the Snail People’s limited information and capture their planet-destroying warships.

The Snail People prepared their invasion of Venus by establishing supply bases, producing disposable drop pods, and building hastily assembled frigates. Lao Mu and Aozile finalized their attack, while a Snail Person discovered that his replacement ship was a poorly made piece of junk.

• The Snail People established wartime supply bases on nearby lifeless planets and sent cannon fodder to scout Earth Star.
• Lao Mu explained to Aozile that they would use disposable drop pods and sell them after the invasion, while Aozile ordered local factories to produce cheap frigates.
• Aozile ordered bombs placed in the frigates' energy compartments so they could be detonated if the hastily made ships malfunctioned.
• After half a month of preparations, Lao Mu pointed to Venus and ordered Aozile to swiftly kill every intelligent creature there.
• A Snail Person furious about receiving a badly made replacement frigate confronted the crew member responsible, then prepared to enter battle in the junk ship.