Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong searched for Xuan Qingzi’s hidden revival methods and discovered an old memory backup that revealed additional contingencies, including uploading his consciousness to the Sihali Kingdom’s servers. He prepared to destroy that escape route before eliminating the remaining revival points.

• Li Xingkong found several traces of Xuan Qingzi’s soul scattered across the planet and beyond, then searched the underground base for survivors.
• Li Xingkong discovered a hidden scroll in a safe, took it, and collected the base’s materials and research data with the Little Underworld.
• Li Xingkong reached a concealed annex and found a mechanized body with an old backup of Xuan Qingzi’s memories.
• Li Xingkong searched the backup and learned that Xuan Qingzi could upload his consciousness to the Sihali Kingdom’s servers if revived repeatedly.
• Li Xingkong erased the memories he had read and stored the Golden Core-level mechanized body in his Niwan Palace.

Li Xingkong dismantled Xuan Qingzi’s consciousness-upload node while using Xuan Qingzi’s account to track the Sihali Kingdom’s plans. With Fang Ritu taking responsibility for the other resurrection points, Li Xingkong prepared to destroy the last one and learned that Xuan Qingzi possessed a miniature dual-vector foil from the Li Insects.

• Li Xingkong decided to convert the mechanical body into a cultivation-compatible puppet and target the node where Xuan Qingzi would upload his consciousness.
• Li Xingkong connected to the Sihali Kingdom’s virtual network through Xuan Qingzi’s account and accessed its deployments and confidential documents.
• Fang Ritu contacted Li Xingkong, arranged for the Sihali Kingdom to handle the remaining resurrection points, and directed him to the final one.
• Li Xingkong dismantled the consciousness-upload node and asked Fang Ritu about the scroll he was carrying.
• Fang Ritu identified the scroll as a miniature dual-vector foil from the Li Insects, a weapon that could reduce targets from three dimensions to two.

Li Xingkong tracked down Xuan Qingzi’s final resurrection point, hidden inside a molecular cloud core and protected by advanced Iron Law Country shields. Unable to break through quickly, he used the Liworm Civilization’s weapon scroll and left its effect to unfold.

• Li Xingkong reflected on the Liworm Civilization’s hidden power after taking Xuan Qingzi’s treasured scroll.
• Fang Ritu’s people seized Xuan Qingzi’s resurrection points, leaving Li Xingkong to pursue the last one himself.
• Li Xingkong calculated the drifting resurrection point’s location and found it concealed within a molecular cloud core.
• Li Xingkong discovered that the meteorite sheltering Xuan Qingzi was protected by advanced shields that blocked his Divine Sense and resisted his attacks.
• Li Xingkong opened the weapon scroll and used spatial means to throw it beside the shielded resurrection point.

Li Xingkong tested a Dual-Vector Foil and learned that it reduced objects to two dimensions by removing the concept of height. The system explained that Shattering the Void required finding a dimension absent from the three-dimensional world, leaving Li Xingkong to reconsider whether time could be the fourth dimension.

• Li Xingkong activated the Dual-Vector Foil, which swallowed a shielded meteorite and nearby matter into a scroll.
• Li Xingkong sent a golden-light hand into the foil's area of effect, and it became two-dimensional while remaining linked to his Divine Sense.
• The system explained that the foil had removed the concept of height and let Li Xingkong perceive the two-dimensional world.
• Li Xingkong realized that Shattering the Void involved ascending dimensions and that time could not be the missing fourth dimension because it affected the three-dimensional world.

Li Xingkong finished killing Xuan Qingzi in the two-dimensional world and prepared to leave Sihali Kingdom before Fang Ritu could turn on him. The system explained that Spiritual Qi and Magic Power worked across dimensions, leaving Li Xingkong with a broader but humbling view of cultivation.

• Li Xingkong decided to escape Sihali Kingdom before Fang Ritu could abandon him and make him take the blame for Xuan Qingzi’s death.
• Using his Divine Sense, Li Xingkong identified Xuan Qingzi in the two-dimensional world and destroyed his final sliver of consciousness.
• Li Xingkong noticed that Sihali Kingdom’s technology had failed under dimensional reduction, while his Divine Sense and Magic Power remained unaffected.
• The system explained that cultivation’s unified principles allowed Spiritual Qi, Magic Power, and related abilities to function across dimensions.
• Li Xingkong reflected that his cultivation had followed established teachings and that his knowledge of the path remained limited.

Li Xingkong escaped the Sihali nebula, learned that Xuan Qingzi had been confirmed dead, and built a new Spiritual Root Server containing his Name-Calling Rebirth Technique. After contacting Baili Qiu with the server’s location, Li Xingkong encountered an unexpected person just as he was about to leave.

• Li Xingkong slipped past the nebula’s armed patrols, copied a Sihali officer’s memories, and learned that Fang Ritu was moving to take control of Xuan Qingzi’s forces.
• Li Xingkong borrowed a Sihali national’s identity and spent nearly a month escaping across the Sihali Kingdom as news confirmed Xuan Qingzi’s death and his brother’s succession.
• Li Xingkong decided to honor his promise to Baili Qiu and devised a server that could produce his cells for the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique.
• Li Xingkong spent nearly two weeks redesigning the server and built a planetary-scale Spiritual Root Server in the Sihali Kingdom’s outer star territory.
• Li Xingkong contacted Baili Qiu and sent him the server’s location, then an unexpected person appeared before Li Xingkong could leave.

Li Xingkong prepared to leave after helping bring down Xuan Qingzi, and Fang Ritu explained how he had discovered Li Xingkong’s disguise and why Xuan Qingzi’s followers might seek revenge. Fang Ritu then hinted that trouble might also be brewing over Li Xingkong’s civilization’s territorial expansion.

• Fang Ritu met Li Xingkong with a projection, recognized him despite his disguise, and offered him gifts before explaining how surveillance data and energy readings revealed his identity.
• Fang Ritu told Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi’s surviving loyalists still controlled several personal guard units and were becoming increasingly reckless.
• Fang Ritu explained that the investigation had blamed the Li Insects for Xuan Qingzi’s death after evidence pointed to their use of a Dual-Vector Foil and their assassins’ methods.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong that Xuan Qingzi’s followers might target civilizations that had dealt with him, especially Li Xingkong, who had destroyed one of their fleets.
• Fang Ritu added that a separate issue involving Li Xingkong’s civilization might be connected to its earlier territorial expansion.

Fang Ritu told Li Xingkong that the Great Expedition had reached Ten Thousand Gods Star, a holy land of the Radiance Theocracy, after Xuan Qingzi’s territorial adjustment placed it within Earth Star’s borders. Li Xingkong left eager to return and prevent the situation from escalating into war.

• Fang Ritu explained that the Weitian Galaxy was registered with the Convention as Ten Thousand Gods Star, a holy land claimed by the Radiance Theocracy.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong that developing the galaxy could give the Theocracy recognized grounds to declare war.
• Fang Ritu described how the Theocracy was ruled by a player who had ascended to godhood and commanded the entire civilization.
• Li Xingkong accepted Fang Ritu’s warning, blamed Xuan Qingzi for the setup, and hoped Old Tang and the others had not provoked trouble.
• Li Xingkong entrusted the server and the method for making Spiritual Roots to Fang Ritu for safekeeping and hurried to return home.

After punishing the Earth Star conspirators, Li Xingkong returned to the moon and questioned Ge Baoqi about restoring the Divine Land’s institutions. He discovered that Ge Baoqi had arranged a top-level retirement package for himself.

• Li Xingkong imprisoned the Divine Land cultivators who had witnessed his killings in his Little Underworld model until reincarnation could be restored.
• Li Xingkong returned to Earth Star, reflecting that the Divine Land’s repeated crises had made it feel like a burden, and decided to wait until he met the expeditionary force before judging its future.
• Li Xingkong found Ge Baoqi fishing beside an artificial lake on the moon and demanded an account of his work.
• Ge Baoqi said he had restored the institutions and old development plans, approved research labs for Ji Nanzhi and Ji Qiu, and taken no official position.
• Li Xingkong discovered that Ge Baoqi had arranged retirement benefits at the highest national level and called him out for it.

Li Xingkong reviewed the Great Expedition’s records and set out to find its team, which had already reached the Weitian Galaxy. He found isolated outposts along the route and helped one settlement improve its planet before continuing his search.

• Ge Baoqi gave Li Xingkong detailed records of the Great Expedition, including its route and participants.
• Li Xingkong learned that the expedition was surveying a region hundreds of light-years around the Divine Land and had reached the Weitian Galaxy.
• Li Xingkong left the Solar System and followed the route, finding small communications and maintenance outposts before reaching a settlement with over a hundred cultivators.
• Li Xingkong learned that later expeditionary teams had stayed on the planet to develop it rather than continue along the route.
• Li Xingkong set up a grand formation to gradually adjust the planet’s atmosphere, then continued onward to search for the expeditionary team.

Li Xingkong reached the Weitian Galaxy and reunited with Tang Cheng aboard the expeditionary force’s ship. Tang Cheng explained how the expedition had made contact with the Land of Radiance and agreed to preserve the galaxy as a jointly developed scenic area.

• Li Xingkong traveled directly to the Weitian Galaxy and found its twelve planets arranged in two unnaturally orderly orbits.
• Li Xingkong located the expeditionary force’s ship and surprised Tang Cheng in the command room, where the two reunited.
• Tang Cheng told Li Xingkong that most of the expedition was complete and that the others were developing the chosen capital star system.
• Tang Cheng explained that the expedition had copied alien technology after rescuing an adventure team, leading to contact with the Land of Radiance and orders for its equipment.
• Tang Cheng said the Land of Radiance and the expedition had agreed to preserve the Weitian Galaxy as a scenic area and build protective measures around it.

After learning that the Radiance Theocracy’s support had improved the Divine Land’s position between it and the Sihali Kingdom, Li Xingkong hurried to the capital system to reunite with his parents. He found the system being rebuilt from shattered planets and caught up with his family, who heard about his recent experiences and worried about his ties to the Divine Land.

• Li Xingkong learned from Tang Cheng that the Divine Land’s situation was favorable and set off for the capital system to see his parents.
• On the way, Li Xingkong spotted a Divine Land warship towing a planet toward the system.
• Li Xingkong entered the capital system and watched Wu Ting and other cultivators break a newly delivered planet into fragments.
• Li Xingkong located Old Tang and his parents in a temporary fortress, then went to greet them.
• Li Xingkong reunited with his parents in their spirit-plant laboratory and told them about what had happened since he left seclusion.
• His parents worried that his actions might estrange him from the Divine Land, but they understood his relationship with it more deeply than before.

Li Xingkong visited Old Tang and learned that the Divine Land was building the Thirty-Three Heavens, a vast, layered megastructure intended as the future capital. As the project’s material needs and immense timeline became clear, Old Tang raised a new development in cultivation and asked Li Xingkong for ideas.

• Li Xingkong’s parents told him to visit Old Tang and Wu Ting after he asked why planets were being dragged in and broken apart.
• Li Xingkong found Old Tang studying a model of the proposed Thirty-Three Heavens, a thirty-three-layer megastructure inspired by mythology.
• Old Tang explained that the structure would provide vast living space and simulated day and night, but would require hundreds more planets’ worth of materials.
• Li Xingkong used the Hexagram to calculate the enormous scale of the project and learned it might take thousands of years to complete.
• Old Tang told Li Xingkong about a new development in cultivation and asked whether he had any ideas.

Old Tang explained how the cultivation system had been subdivided to help more people advance, and asked Li Xingkong to devise a more accessible path to Core Formation. Li Xingkong produced a preliminary False Core method and received a strange replication spell before going to see Wu Ting, who was working on a planet.

• Old Tang told Li Xingkong that they had added Qi Refining Perfection and divided Foundation Establishment to strengthen cultivators’ foundations and improve their chances of advancing.
• Old Tang said Wu Ting and the other early cultivators lacked the physical strength and Magic Power required by the Core Formation plan, and asked whether a False Core realm could help ordinary cultivators progress.
• Li Xingkong used his hexagrams to create a simplified Core Formation method that formed a weaker, reactor-like core as a transition toward the Golden Core Stage.
• Old Tang gave Li Xingkong the Eye of Replication, a spell that analyzed objects and produced crude instructions for making imperfect copies.
• Li Xingkong left the fortress and found Wu Ting working on a planet, where he judged Wu Ting’s strength to be impressive for his realm.

Li Xingkong reunited with Wu Ting, who was preparing to form his core using the Golden Lotus in Fire Method. Wu Ting explained that his real ambition was to comprehend the universe’s Dao, leaving Li Xingkong and the system impressed by his resolve.

• Li Xingkong approached Wu Ting after watching him fight and declined his invitation to spar because Wu Ting was close to Core Formation.
• Wu Ting told Li Xingkong he had chosen the Golden Lotus in Fire Method because he could not reliably identify Baleful Qi.
• Li Xingkong questioned whether the fire-based method suited Wu Ting’s close-combat style.
• Wu Ting described how conventional cultivation felt like following others’ footsteps and explained his ambition to understand the universe through his heart and unite with its will.
• The system recognized Wu Ting’s strong Dao heart, while Li Xingkong noted that Wu Ting’s goal differed from his own graduation requirement to break through the universe.

Li Xingkong concluded that the Divine Land’s expedition was developing well enough for him to turn to his own affairs and travel to the Kingdom of Fixed Light. Before leaving, he began building the Underworld in the capital star system, starting with the Reincarnation Platform and the first reincarnation paths.

• Wu Ting explained his cultivation plan to understand the law of fire, or temperature, and Li Xingkong shared advice on core formation.
• Li Xingkong decided the Divine Land’s strength and development no longer required his constant attention, and planned to deal with the Sihali Kingdom branch and explore the two-dimensional world.
• Li Xingkong chose to visit the Kingdom of Fixed Light’s star system and resolved to build the Underworld in the capital star system instead of on Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong placed the Underworld on the reverse side of the outermost heaven layer and designed it to cover the capital star system.
• Li Xingkong began constructing the Reincarnation Platform and planned to establish human and animal paths first, along with the hells he had already designed.

Li Xingkong built the Underworld’s core facilities and tested its judgment and reincarnation systems using souls from his Little Underworld. The test succeeded, and the souls were ready to be sent into reincarnation.

• Li Xingkong created a hidden space for the Underworld and built its main structures, including the Judgment Hall, Reincarnation Platform, and River of Forgetfulness.
• Li Xingkong set up separate servers for judging souls and coordinating Golden Core constructs, then made more than ten constructs to carry out the Underworld’s duties.
• Li Xingkong released the souls from his Little Underworld and sent them through the Judgment Hall, whose judgments he reviewed and found essentially accurate.
• Li Xingkong brought the souls to the River of Forgetfulness and immersed half of them to erase their current-life memories.
• Li Xingkong used the Three Lives Stone to retrieve the souls’ memories from the river, confirming that the process worked and that the souls could proceed to reincarnation.

Li Xingkong confirmed that souls could reincarnate as animals and explained how reincarnation differed from body possession before inviting cultivators to join the human experiment. Old Tang then introduced a couple who asked Li Xingkong to give their son Yang Wujiu another chance, and Li Xingkong found that Yang Wujiu’s soul was still available.

• Li Xingkong sent souls into animal embryos and observed that memories mostly faded as the souls merged with their new lives.
• Li Xingkong distinguished reincarnation before an embryo developed from body possession of a formed baby, then sent cultivators a reincarnation agreement.
• Many cultivators agreed to participate in the experiment, but Old Tang asked Li Xingkong to meet a couple first.
• The couple asked Li Xingkong to give their son Yang Wujiu another chance, accepting responsibility for their failure to teach him.
• Li Xingkong searched the remaining souls, found Yang Wujiu, and learned the Judgment Hall had judged him a thoroughly nice guy who could not refuse requests.

Li Xingkong completed tests showing that souls could safely reincarnate through the Underworld’s Reincarnation Platform, then handed the system over to Divine Land’s management. As the Underworld became operational under Lin Yinxuan, Li Xingkong turned his attention to exploring the two-dimensional world.

• Li Xingkong sent the remaining souls through the Reincarnation Platform, and experimental reports showed no significant problems with reincarnation, whether souls kept or lost their memories.
• Li Xingkong produced enough Soul-Guiding Banners and left staffing and operational planning to Old Tang and the others.
• Divine Land debated the Reincarnation Agreement and decided that participation would be voluntary, with signers gaining access to reincarnation and agreeing to accept Underworld souls into their families.
• Divine Land began planning the Underworld’s management and accommodations, selecting Lin Yinxuan to oversee its affairs.
• Li Xingkong showed Lin Yinxuan and the other selected cultivators how the Underworld worked, then left them in charge and resumed studying the two-dimensional world.

After the system approved Li Xingkong’s Underworld project, it advised him to focus on cultivation until he reached a nine revolutions golden core. Li Xingkong then contacted Baili Qiu to ask about servers that had accessed information about him through the Sihali Kingdom’s network.

• The system praised Li Xingkong’s Underworld but deducted points because its limited range depended on Soul-Guiding Banners.
• Li Xingkong realized that Sihali Kingdom technologies could solve the range problem, though he had learned to use them without understanding their principles.
• The system told Li Xingkong to prioritize cultivation and ended their discussion until another project arose.
• Li Xingkong contacted Baili Qiu after detecting three Sihali Kingdom servers accessing information about him.
• Baili Qiu was surprised that Li Xingkong knew the servers had gone into mass production, but accepted that his ally kept some secrets.