Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong struggled to escape the Snail People's star-detonation weapon after spatial fluctuations and neutrino interference disrupted his usual means of flight. As the blast spread, he focused on Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and realized its ability to halt matter at the molecular level might offer a way to survive.

• Li Xingkong ruled out a spatial jump because the collapsing star had made space dangerously unstable, then tried to flee with Earth-Traversing Golden Light.
• Neutrinos disrupted Li Xingkong's divine ability and forced him back into his original form as the star began expanding.
• The blast pulverized the nearest planet and its Snail People, while the Hexagram mapped the weapon's dangerous and survivable zones.
• Li Xingkong realized he could not outrun the blast and reviewed his abilities, keeping a forced spatial jump as a last resort.
• Li Xingkong chose Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and reconsidered its description of halting matter at the molecular level.

Li Xingkong used Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light to survive the energy wave from a star’s collapse, then realized how the divine ability had protected him. He emerged unharmed but disoriented, drifting through space after the Snail People assumed he was dead.

• Li Xingkong tested Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light and saw its silver ray become solid and get pushed along by the energy wave.
• As the wave reached him, Li Xingkong wrapped himself in the divine light, which stopped his perception and carried him through the destruction of the star system.
• The Snail People and nearby intelligent brains concluded Li Xingkong was dead and discussed wiping out his civilization before the Convention’s database synced.
• After drifting through space for days, Li Xingkong emerged from the fading divine light and found himself completely unharmed.
• Li Xingkong realized the divine light stopped molecular movement and repelled incoming energy, allowing it to protect him while still being pushed through space.

After the Snail People destroyed a star system in an attempt to kill Li Xingkong, he retaliated by driving a moon into their neighboring planet. He escaped the star system after destroying the planet and damaging dozens of ships in the Snail People's fleet.

• Li Xingkong recovered his Magic Power near the destroyed star system and found Snail People observation ships returning to nearby systems.
• Li Xingkong followed one ship into a neighboring star system, where he chose an artificially modified moon as a weapon.
• Li Xingkong used the Ten Thousand Swords Art to seize control of the moon and drive it into the nearby planet.
• The moon struck the planet, unleashing destruction that killed the Snail People on its surface and destroyed the planet's intelligent brains.
• Li Xingkong fled the star system and tore through the Snail People's fleet, destroying dozens of warships.

After halting his attacks on ordinary Snail People, Li Xingkong traveled to their core star region to target the leaders and intelligent brains behind the assault. There, he found that foreign visitors around the capital complicated his plan, so he began considering how to drive them away.

• Li Xingkong learned that Snail People were evacuating nearby systems and decided to stop attacking ordinary citizens, focusing instead on the Snail People's leaders and intelligent brains.
• Guided by Xiaowo, Li Xingkong located the Snail People's core star system and created a spatial passage to reach it.
• Nearly a month later, Li Xingkong arrived in the core region and saw widespread bounties describing him as an extremely dangerous planet destroyer.
• Li Xingkong discovered that merchants and other aliens in the core region could become caught in his revenge, so he sought a way to remove them before attacking the Snail People's capital.

Li Xingkong entered a tavern in the core star system and revealed himself to the alien mercenaries, using his reputation to warn the planet. He vanished after giving them three days before he destroyed every living thing there.

• Li Xingkong ordered tree sap from the spider-like proprietress and removed his cloak, causing her to recognize him from the Snail People's bounty notices.
• A burly Golden Shaded mercenary mocked Li Xingkong, while the frightened proprietress tried to appease him by offering free drinks and her tavern.
• Li Xingkong refilled his glass with drinks from the wall-mounted barrels and warned that in three days not a chicken or dog would remain alive on the planet.
• Li Xingkong vanished, leaving the proprietress and mercenaries terrified.
• The proprietress threw liquor at Golden Shaded for provoking Li Xingkong, and Golden Shaded muttered that he wanted to go home.

Li Xingkong used the Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light to freeze the mercenaries who tried to claim the bounty on him, demonstrating his power to the onlookers. After the merchant association explained the technique, its investigator made plans to leave rather than risk being trapped when the Planet Extinguisher’s three-day deadline arrived.

• Li Xingkong was surrounded by mercenaries hoping to collect the bounty and decided to show them his abilities.
• Li Xingkong cast the Taiyi Ice Soul Divine Light, which absorbed the mercenaries’ shots and immobilized their ships and crews.
• Mercenaries from the tavern and other observers examined the frozen ships but could not determine how to free them.
• An investigator from the merchant association explained that the light had fixed the surrounding molecules in place, leaving those trapped inside as if time had stopped.
• The investigator said the merchant association could not help because it had an honored guest to welcome, and the association prepared to leave before the Planet Extinguisher’s deadline.

Li Xingkong arrived in the Snail People's star system and devastated their fleet while alien spectators watched. As he reached the core planet, the Snail People activated a planetary shield around it.

• The Snail People sealed off their core planet as aliens fled the star system ahead of Li Xingkong's promised arrival.
• Li Xingkong entered the system openly and flew toward the Snail People's assembled fleet.
• The Snail People's fleet fired a volley of lasers, and Li Xingkong used the Ten Thousand Swords Art to reflect the beams back and destroy many ships.
• Li Xingkong charged through the fleet, leaving it in chaos as warships fled in all directions.
• Li Xingkong stopped before the Snail People's core planet, and the Snail People raised a planetary shield around it.

Li Xingkong found that the Snail People's planet was protected by a powerful shield he could not penetrate, so he used a giant magical hand to spin the shielded planet instead. The shield held firm, but its inhabitants and everything on the surface were hurled into it at lethal speed.

• Li Xingkong and the observers discovered that the planet was protected by the formidable Shield of Truth, which repelled his attacks and blocked his Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the shield's power source was likely distributed across the Snail People's civilization and abandoned the idea of disabling it.
• Li Xingkong formed a planet-sized array and used a giant hand of Magic Power to grasp the shielded planet.
• Li Xingkong accelerated the planet's rotation until its inhabitants, buildings, plants, water, and rocks were flung from the surface into the shield.

Li Xingkong finished subduing the Snail People’s planet, while their remaining forces fled and alien observers marveled at his power. After the planetary shield shut down because its energy supply had been stolen during the rout, Li Xingkong entered the ruined world and searched for the Snail People’s central administrative complex.

• Li Xingkong slowed the planet’s rotation after the Snail People inside had been flung against the shield, and the remaining Snail People forces fled across nearby star systems.
• Aliens watching from the edge of the star system discussed Li Xingkong’s destructive power and considered seeking compensation from Iron Law Country.
• The planetary shield flickered out after the Snail People’s energy supply was stolen during the rout on a mining planet several star systems away.
• Li Xingkong flew into the ruined planet and used his Divine Sense to locate several ornate buildings he suspected were the central administrative complex.

Li Xingkong searched the Snail People’s ruined planet, learned that their Intelligent Brains were former citizens transformed into machines, and discovered that their supreme Overlord was housed near the equator. He reconnected the damaged Overlord and supplied it with Magic Power, and the sphere began a self-diagnostic.

• Li Xingkong restored a damaged building and used his Divine Sense to gather and reassemble its paper documents.
• Li Xingkong read the documents by accessing Xiaowo’s knowledge of the Snail People’s language.
• Li Xingkong learned that Intelligent Brains were former Snail People whose consciousnesses had been transferred into machines, and that the Overlord led them.
• Li Xingkong reached the Overlord’s equatorial facility and found a dark, disconnected sphere resembling a brain.
• Li Xingkong reconnected the sphere’s severed lines and powered it with Magic Power, causing it to glow and begin a self-diagnostic.

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.