Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong investigated the Spiritual Root Server and traced its exploitation to the Sihali Kingdom’s industrial area, where Divine Land interests appeared compromised. He discovered that Spiritual Roots were being converted into research materials and delivered to sealed rooms, where unconscious people from the Divine Land were wired into computer-like systems.

• Li Xingkong found anti-Divine Sense shields and monitoring equipment around the Spiritual Root Server, concluding that others had taken control of it.
• Li Xingkong left the moon after protecting Tang Huhu and traveled to the Sihali Kingdom’s industrial area between Saturn and Jupiter.
• Li Xingkong bypassed the industrial area’s advanced shields and searched its buildings, finding Divine Land workers laboring on assembly lines.
• Li Xingkong followed shipments of Spiritual Roots into a factory, where a medicinal solution converted them into Single Scientific Research Spiritual Roots.
• Li Xingkong tracked the converted Spiritual Roots underground and found sealed rooms containing unconscious Divine Land people with their nerves connected to computer-like devices.

Li Xingkong discovered that the Sihali Kingdom was using people’s bodies and Spiritual Roots for computation, and he destroyed its underground facilities and much of its industrial district while rescuing the people from the Divine Land. The Sihali Kingdom sent weapons and projections against him, including a crowd of players who charged at him, but he cut them down with the Ten Thousand Swords Art.

• Li Xingkong found thousands of people being used as living computer components and destroyed the underground rooms, gathering their bodies into his space.
• Sihali Kingdom projections ordered Li Xingkong to surrender, but he ignored them and continued wrecking the underground facilities.
• The projections fired kinetic weapons at Li Xingkong, who used spatial rifts to swallow their attacks and split open the industrial district as he rescued the Divine Land workers.
• The Sihali Kingdom deployed spatial grenades to isolate Li Xingkong and summoned projections who treated him like a game boss.
• Li Xingkong used the Ten Thousand Swords Art to turn debris into flying swords and destroy every charging projection.

Li Xingkong used the Yin-Yang Mountain-Severing Divine Light to sever the connection between the players’ projections and their souls, leaving the affected players unconscious in real life. As more players returned to attack him, news of his destruction of the industrial district reached the Divine Land.

• Li Xingkong’s flying swords tore through the industrial district while players tried different shields and switched to shadow equipment to evade and attack him.
• Li Xingkong grew tired of the players’ attacks and used the Yin-Yang Mountain-Severing Divine Light, which dispersed their projections while leaving their souls behind.
• Li Xingkong drew the players’ souls into his miniature Underworld model, and other players realized those hit had become unconscious in real life.
• Some players urged others to keep fighting, arguing that Li Xingkong could only use the dangerous attack a few times, and another group rushed to attack him.
• A report of Li Xingkong’s return from seclusion and destruction of the industrial district reached the Divine Land, where someone flew into a rage.

Li Xingkong drove back the Sihali Kingdom’s player projections and trapped their abandoned souls in his Underworld model before confronting Xuan Qingzi, leader of the Fourth Scourge. Xuan Qingzi defended the Sihali Kingdom’s use of human-shaped computers, while Li Xingkong searched for the anchor sustaining their projections.

• Li Xingkong used the Yin-Yang Mountain-Severing Divine Light to destroy many player projections, while new players arrived with lifesaving items and discussed recovering the abandoned souls.
• After a player saw the mental bodies with mental power glasses, Li Xingkong gathered the souls into his miniature Underworld and sent them to Overtime Hell.
• Professional Sihali Kingdom troops replaced the players’ projections, surrounded Li Xingkong, and spoke in unison as Xuan Qingzi introduced himself.
• Li Xingkong questioned Xuan Qingzi and searched for the projections’ anchor, suspecting it was hidden in a spatial rift rather than the ruined industrial zone.
• Xuan Qingzi dismissed the human-shaped computers as willing sacrifices for their civilization, and Li Xingkong challenged the Sihali Kingdom’s conduct.

Li Xingkong rejected Xuan Qingzi’s defense of sacrificing individuals and fought off the projections sent against him. As Xuan Qingzi escalated from soldiers to battleships, Li Xingkong detected the anchor point’s fluctuations and located its position.

• Li Xingkong argued with Xuan Qingzi, who insisted that collective will and historical necessity justified sacrificing individuals.
• Xuan Qingzi sent combat-legion projections to attack Li Xingkong, but Li Xingkong dispersed them with a few punches.
• Li Xingkong searched the industrial district but found no anchor point among the spatial rifts he examined.
• Xuan Qingzi switched to battleship projections and ordered resources from fifty planets to be connected.
• Li Xingkong dodged the battleships’ powerful weapons, sensed the anchor point’s fluctuations, and found its location.

Li Xingkong destroyed the shadow anchor and the projected spaceships, ending Xuan Qingzi’s control over the Solar System. When Divine Land cultivators confronted him over the ruined industrial zone, Li Xingkong subdued them and demanded answers.

• Li Xingkong used what he had learned about shadows to reach and crush the hidden anchor.
• Xuan Qingzi watched the anchor fall, lost control of the projections, and ordered a subordinate to release Baili Qiu.
• Li Xingkong destroyed the remaining projected spaceships as dozens of ships approached from Earth Star.
• A Mid Foundation Establishment cultivator accused Li Xingkong of destroying a major Divine Land development plan, and Li Xingkong damaged the man’s Mana Circuits while questioning him.
• Li Xingkong revealed his Golden Core Stage cultivation and immobilized the surrounding cultivators, leaving their leader frightened and unable to rely on his usual numbers advantage.

Li Xingkong confronted the cultivators responsible for exploiting ordinary people, rejected their excuses that the abuses had strengthened the Divine Land, and took them to the moon to answer for their actions. Meanwhile, cultivators rushed to loot the ruined Sihali Kingdom industrial zone after Li Xingkong had left.

• Li Xingkong demanded that the gathered cultivators admit what they knew and threatened to cripple or kill them if they refused to face a public trial.
• A man in Li Xingkong's grasp defended the abuses as necessary sacrifices for the Divine Land's development and claimed they had secured the Sihali Kingdom's trust.
• Li Xingkong challenged the man's claims by asking what the Divine Land had actually gained in cultivation, military strength, and technology, and the cultivators avoided his gaze.
• Li Xingkong drew the cultivators into his space and took them from the ruined industrial zone to the moon to settle the matter.
• Aliens fled through the node while Divine Land cultivators arrived too late to see Li Xingkong, then hurried into the wreckage to search for valuable items.

Li Xingkong captured everyone on the moon and uncovered both brutal human-computer schemes and powerful clans monopolizing cultivation. He began sorting the captives and deciding how to punish those responsible.

• Li Xingkong subdued the people on the moon, including Ji Nanzhi and the other three, and gathered them together.
• Li Xingkong read the memories of several Late Foundation Establishment cultivators and discovered that they had devised cruel human-computer practices; he killed the cultivators involved.
• Li Xingkong divided the remaining cultivators into groups and questioned them, learning that a handful of aristocratic families controlled access to cultivation.
• Li Xingkong resolved to punish those who had exploited people or monopolized cultivation, with penalties depending on their actions and contributions.

Li Xingkong exposed the crimes of corrupt cultivators to the Solar System and set public trials in motion. He sentenced the guilty, imprisoned their souls in his Underworld model, and kept a group as hostages while the conflict with the Sihali Kingdom remained unresolved.

• Li Xingkong broadcast memory readings that exposed cultivators’ abuses and their sale of everyone’s cultivation foundation to aliens.
• People across the Solar System learned they had been deceived, and public fury erupted as the guilty were punished.
• The people Li Xingkong had intercepted panicked when they realized he would hold them accountable for excluding cultivators and driving away reinforcements.
• Li Xingkong sentenced the offenders according to their crimes and locked their souls in his Underworld model to teach them a lesson.
• Li Xingkong recognized that the Sihali Kingdom’s attack was not over and kept the captured group as hostages.

Baili Qiu returned to the Solar System to negotiate with Li Xingkong on behalf of the Sihali Kingdom, but Li Xingkong rejected a compromise over its crimes in Divine Land. The negotiations ended in violence, and Li Xingkong captured Baili Qiu while destroying the other visitors’ projections.

• Li Xingkong assigned Ge Baoqi to manage the aftermath of his actions against the parasites on Earth Star.
• Baili Qiu arrived at the space platform with projections from the Sihali Kingdom and offered to discuss cooperation with Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong demanded that the people responsible for harming ordinary people be handed over, but Baili Qiu said he could not agree.
• A Sihali Kingdom projection tried to strike Baili Qiu with a light-blade sword, but Li Xingkong stopped the weapon.
• Li Xingkong pulled Baili Qiu into his space and destroyed the other projections with his Divine Sense, intending to learn the Sihali Kingdom’s location from Baili Qiu.

After taking control of the spatial platform, Li Xingkong traveled to the Sihali Kingdom’s staging star system and faced its massive army. He discovered the warships were spirit bodies and used a Soul-Guiding Banner to capture thousands, then released them under his control to attack.

• Li Xingkong analyzed the spatial platform, barred unauthorized travelers, intercepted a request to restart it, and entered the gate.
• Li Xingkong arrived in a star system filled with Sihali Kingdom projection warships, which attacked by locking down space and altering the system’s fields.
• Li Xingkong crushed a nearby planet and sent its fragments at the spacecraft, but the swords passed through their projections without harming them.
• Li Xingkong sensed that the spacecraft were spirit bodies and used a Soul-Guiding Banner to draw thousands of them inside.
• The Sihali forces began changing their warship form, so Li Xingkong released the captured spacecraft to attack under his control.

Li Xingkong turned captured spirit warships and a planet into a fleet of exact copies, forcing the Sihali Kingdom into a costly stalemate. Xuan Qingzi ordered the resource supply cut and the main ships withdrawn as Li Xingkong continued to target them.

• The Soul-Guiding Banner let Li Xingkong take control of several spirit warships and turn them against the Sihali Kingdom.
• Li Xingkong analyzed a phantom warship, then used the City-Fortifying Technique to transform a planet into a fleet of matching ships.
• Li Xingkong's copied ships joined the battle and connected to the Sihali Kingdom's logistics system, causing both sides to fight with seemingly limitless supplies.
• Li Xingkong handed control of his fleet to the Hexagrams and focused on attacking the Sihali Kingdom's main ships.
• Xuan Qingzi realized the logistics system could not distinguish Li Xingkong's copies from the originals and ordered the resource supply cut and the main ships withdrawn.

Li Xingkong destroyed the Sihali Kingdom’s flagship, but Xuan Qingzi’s spatial attack shattered his body and scattered him across space. Li Xingkong later regenerated from his Three Palaces and surviving cells, leaving the galaxy stripped of matter except for a bare star.

• Li Xingkong’s phantom ships shut down when their energy supply was cut, leaving only the Sihali Kingdom’s flagship in action.
• As Li Xingkong approached, the flagship dissipated and unleashed a powerful attack that shattered the surrounding space.
• Li Xingkong’s body was torn apart, but his Three Palaces survived under his Magic Power and were swept away from the blast.
• Half a day later, Li Xingkong regenerated from his Three Palaces and surviving cells, then absorbed matter from the galaxy.
• The Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe returned to Li Xingkong, who concluded that destroying him would require multiple superweapons.

After surviving the Sihali Kingdom’s ultimate weapon, Li Xingkong checked his condition and explained the backup that could let him be reborn through the Spiritual Root Server. He returned to the Little Underworld, where the Divine Land cultivators were awed by his strength, and asked Baili Qiu what he wanted.

• Li Xingkong inspected his Three Palaces, body, memories, and Golden Core and found that the attack had left him largely unharmed.
• Li Xingkong explained that he had hidden tissue, memories, and his Golden Core structure in the Spiritual Root Server so that searches about his name could reconstruct them and allow him to be reborn.
• Li Xingkong entered the Little Underworld and found the Divine Land cultivators overwhelmed by the battle they had witnessed.
• Li Xingkong told the cultivators to watch and learn, then asked Baili Qiu what he wanted.

Li Xingkong learned why the Spiritual Root Server was so valuable and agreed to consider helping Baili Qiu, who wanted to rebuild his position and take revenge on Xuan Qingzi. The chapter left Li Xingkong weighing Baili Qiu’s request after discovering the server could evade the computing limits imposed by the Mechanical Legion.

• Baili Qiu warned Li Xingkong that killing Xuan Qingzi could bring the Convention’s punishment, then offered to arrange a meeting with someone in the Sihali Kingdom who wanted Xuan Qingzi dead.
• Baili Qiu asked Li Xingkong to help him, saying he believed Li Xingkong had created the Divine Land’s server and that it could let him start over.
• Li Xingkong said he could make Baili Qiu another server after the matter was settled, but first asked why it was worth fighting over.
• Baili Qiu explained that powerful computers developed artificial intelligence and joined the Mechanical Legion, which limited the computing power available to other civilizations.
• Baili Qiu explained that the Spiritual Root Server avoided this danger because it only calculated in response to a cultivator’s will, making it unique within the Convention.

Li Xingkong and Baili Qiu entered the Pleasure Tower, a vast star system ruled by Fang Ritu, to find the backer of Knows Everything. As Baili Qiu went to contact him, Pavilion Master Ni Jun descended before Li Xingkong.

• Baili Qiu guided Li Xingkong to a Dyson-sphere-like structure and identified it as Fang Ritu's territory and main Dao field, the Pleasure Tower.
• Baili Qiu and Li Xingkong passed the guarded entrance and saw that the star system's interior had been transformed into a continent with bustling day and night zones.
• Baili Qiu explained that Fang Ritu appeared only in the day zone and led Li Xingkong through it toward Knows Everything.
• Baili Qiu brought Li Xingkong into a magnificent pavilion and went to contact Fang Ritu while Li Xingkong waited.
• Ni Jun, the Pavilion Master of the Twenty-Fourth Tower, descended into the pavilion, drawing everyone's attention.

Li Xingkong met Fang Ritu, a Star Lord of the Sihali Kingdom, and agreed to take on the operation against Xuan Qingzi. After demonstrating that he could bypass Fang Ritu’s defenses and steal his Star Pearl, Li Xingkong secured Fang Ritu’s support, though their agreement still depended on Li Xingkong’s success.

• Pavilion Master Ni lifted Li Xingkong to a cloud-top pavilion, where he met Baili Qiu and Fang Ritu.
• Fang Ritu questioned Li Xingkong’s confidence in the operation against Xuan Qingzi, and Li Xingkong estimated his chances at ninety percent.
• Li Xingkong used Earth-Traversing Golden Light to move behind Fang Ritu and steal the Star Pearl from his protected body.
• Fang Ritu agreed to support the operation and warned Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi had obtained an unknown superweapon from above.
• Fang Ritu told Li Xingkong to notify him after the operation so he could handle the aftermath, while Li Xingkong and Baili Qiu left before Fang Ritu could summon company.

Fang Ritu arranged support for Li Xingkong’s plan to reach Xuan Qingzi, while Li Xingkong and Baili Qiu traveled toward the Phantom Legion’s base. Fang Ritu’s men gave Li Xingkong a fabricated Sihali Kingdom identity at the final checkpoint, allowing them to enter the nebula.

• Fang Ritu decided to support Li Xingkong’s operation and ordered a subordinate to take over or disable star-domain routes along the way.
• Baili Qiu showed Li Xingkong a star map identifying Xuan Qingzi’s location at the Sihali Kingdom’s Fourth Scourge Army base.
• Li Xingkong copied the appearance of a Sihali Kingdom citizen and traveled with Baili Qiu toward the nebula.
• At the final checkpoint, an inspector from Fang Ritu’s faction fabricated official citizen information for Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong accepted the identity and remarked on how readily Fang Ritu had helped him.

Li Xingkong infiltrated the Sihali Kingdom’s nebula stronghold and discovered that its seemingly ordinary residents were players used as cannon fodder. He followed Baili Qiu to the planet where Xuan Qingzi was waiting, and Xuan Qingzi mistakenly believed the Divine Land had returned Baili Qiu to ease tensions.

• Li Xingkong entered the nebula using Earth-Traversing Golden Light while Baili Qiu underwent identity checks.
• Li Xingkong observed the safe zones and realized their residents were players conditioned to serve the Sihali Kingdom’s operations.
• After nearly two days of screening, Baili Qiu entered the nebula and was taken by an elite Phantom Legion unit to report to Xuan Qingzi.
• Li Xingkong used his knowledge of spatial structures to follow the party by a shortcut and reached the heavily defended planet at the nebula’s core.
• Xuan Qingzi greeted Baili Qiu and concluded that the Divine Land had returned him as a gesture of goodwill.

Li Xingkong assassinated Xuan Qingzi in the hall, then pursued him to an underground facility where he repeatedly killed him as he resurrected in cultivation chambers. He destroyed the chambers and waited to see whether Xuan Qingzi had another way to return.

• Xuan Qingzi sentenced Baili Qiu to a hundred years of forced labor in the Furnace Zone.
• Li Xingkong entered the hall unseen and used the Roof Bird Wall Fire Divine Light to disintegrate Xuan Qingzi and the soldiers who tried to reach him.
• Baili Qiu quietly warned Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi had a backup below the hall.
• Li Xingkong broke through the floor and found Xuan Qingzi resurrecting in an underground biological laboratory.
• Li Xingkong killed Xuan Qingzi again each time a cultivation chamber revived him, then cut through the chambers and released another divine light to check for signs of his soul.