Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong weighed saving the people in the dream against reaching the distant rescue in time, then found a way to divide his efforts. He sent a clone toward Arc Thirty-Five and began teaching Guapilong to cultivate while he stayed behind.

• Li Xingkong told Guapilong that the town and its people would vanish when the dreamer woke, and explained that saving them would require him to reach Nascent Soul and learn the Moon-Scooping Method.
• Guapilong confessed that he had torn up a distress signal while traveling in tachyon form, leaving someone else waiting for rescue.
• Li Xingkong recalled the full distress message and identified the destination as Arc Thirty-Five.
• Li Xingkong created a clone and sent it ahead to rescue the person while he and Guapilong remained in the dream.
• Li Xingkong offered to teach Guapilong cultivation, and Guapilong eagerly received the Qi Refining Method.

Li Xingkong left Guapilong to absorb the cultivation knowledge and advanced his own cultivation outside the dream world. After reaching Golden Core Nine Revolutions, he discovered his perfected Golden Core could convert matter and energy, leaving him at the peak of the stage.

• Li Xingkong refined a Spiritual Qi array disc for Guapilong and decided to cultivate somewhere farther from the dream world.
• Li Xingkong left the dream world, settled the sleeping goddess aboard the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds, and began cultivating within the World Wall.
• After three days, Li Xingkong broke through to Golden Core Seven Revolutions as surrounding matter gathered into a meteorite around him.
• A month later, Li Xingkong reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions and his Golden Core became a smooth, golden bead.
• Li Xingkong tested his new ability by converting meteorite matter into energy and compressing energy into matter, realizing he could create materials from available energy or matter.
• Li Xingkong concluded that his Nine Revolutions Golden Core marked the stage’s peak and understood how matter-energy conversion related to Earth-Traversing Golden Light.

Li Xingkong reached Golden Core completion and focused on controlling his new power before advancing, while the system gave him the Nascent Soul formation methods. The chapter ended with him learning the principles and requirements of the Moon-Scooping Method, the Dragon Gate Method, and the Heavenly Heart Method.

• Li Xingkong conjured an ancient city from gathered matter, demonstrating that his cultivation had reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage.
• Li Xingkong continued practicing mass-energy conversion to improve his control and avoid harming the goddess he was trying to save.
• The system appeared, told Li Xingkong that Golden Core completion normally required an advancement trial, and then postponed the trial while passing him Nascent Soul methods.
• The system explained that the Moon-Scooping Method used an illusory self to replace a real projection, with help from someone beyond the universe.
• The system described the Dragon Gate Method as building a gate from one's knowledge of the universe, and the Heavenly Heart Method as replacing the universe's will with one's own.

Li Xingkong chose the Dragon Gate Method to form his Nascent Soul because he wanted to rely on his own cultivation rather than be scooped out by the system or merge with the universe. He also began studying the Moon-Scooping Method so he could rescue others while preparing for his own breakthrough.

• Li Xingkong rejected the Moon-Scooping Method because he wanted to test his own accumulated foundation, and he feared the Heavenly Heart Method would cost him his human identity and freedom.
• Li Xingkong chose the Dragon Gate Method, explaining that relying on the system to form a Nascent Soul would make him feel like a puppet.
• The system accepted his choice and offered to use the Moon-Scooping Method if he failed to leap through the Dragon Gate.
• The system taught Li Xingkong both methods, telling him to learn the Moon-Scooping Method so he could rescue people who could not wait for his cultivation preparations.
• Li Xingkong began studying the Moon-Scooping Method with a focus on scooping others into the universe he already knew.

Li Xingkong studied the Scooping Character Art for two years, prepared bodies for the dream dwellers, and returned to the dream world to find that Guapilong and Ajieta had begun cultivating. He appeared before Guapilong, Ajieta, Geraint, and Lanluote, ready to test the method.

• Li Xingkong studied the Scooping Character Art in seclusion, rushing through its theory because the people in the dream world could not wait.
• After two years, Li Xingkong learned enough of the method to try it and fashioned bodies for the dream dwellers, storing them in his Three Palaces.
• Li Xingkong returned to the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and found that the sleeping goddess's condition had improved.
• Li Xingkong entered the dream world and found Ajieta's lair abandoned and its great door gone.
• Li Xingkong discovered Guapilong had reached the initial stage of cultivation and that Ajieta had sensed Spiritual Qi too.
• Li Xingkong appeared before Guapilong, Ajieta, Geraint, and Lanluote as they cultivated.

Li Xingkong tested the Scooping Character Art and used it to bring a demonic hound and the people of a town from the dream world into reality. As he began rescuing more people, a radiant goddess appeared and ordered him to stay away from her subjects.

• Li Xingkong reunited with Guapilong and Ajieta after more than thirty years had passed in the dream world.
• Li Xingkong tested the Scooping Character Art on a demonic hound, brought it into reality, and confirmed that the method worked.
• Ajieta and the others asked Li Xingkong to rescue the townspeople before them, and he transported the entire town aboard the spaceship.
• Li Xingkong began preparing to rescue people from another town, but a radiant goddess froze his Magic Power and confronted him.

Shengxin appeared and learned from Ajieta that the Poison of Corruption had ravaged her world while she slept, and that Li Xingkong had absorbed it. Li Xingkong concealed the truth about the dream and told Shengxin that the world was collapsing, leaving her to consider his plan to move its people elsewhere.

• Shengxin appeared before Li Xingkong and accused him of attacking her subjects, while the people bowed to her.
• Ajieta explained that Li Xingkong was saving the people, and Shengxin recognized Ajieta before taking them out of the world and asking what had happened.
• Ajieta recounted the spread of the Poison of Corruption and Li Xingkong's efforts to absorb it, and Shengxin admitted she had fled the poison without understanding its danger.
• Shengxin thanked Li Xingkong, who withheld the truth about the dream and said the world was nearing collapse despite the poison's removal.
• Li Xingkong told Shengxin that the people had to leave and could not return, but promised that she could visit them.

Li Xingkong and Shengxin began evacuating the dream world's inhabitants, but the returning memories attached to them overwhelmed Shengxin with grief and dark thoughts. Li Xingkong halted the rescue to modify the Soul-Guiding Banner so it could draw those thoughts from her, leaving the evacuation unfinished.

• Shengxin agreed to help Li Xingkong evacuate the dream world's inhabitants and used her staff to gather the continent's lands into one island.
• Li Xingkong transformed the island's inhabitants into vapor and sent them through a passage into reality, storing some in the Soul-Guiding Banner.
• Li Xingkong noticed Shengxin becoming unstable and used his Divine Sense to discover that each inhabitant carried memories of her real identity and destroyed civilization.
• Li Xingkong realized the returning memories and suppressed grief were filling Shengxin with dark thoughts and that rescuing the inhabitants was worsening her condition.
• Li Xingkong stopped the evacuation and modified the Soul-Guiding Banner to absorb and store evil thoughts without removing memories.

Li Xingkong cleared Shengxin’s stray thoughts and released Geraint, Black Dragon, and Ajieta’s wills into her, causing the dream world to collapse. He rescued its inhabitants and built a small plane for them, where Shengxin eventually awoke beside Ajieta and asked how much time had passed.

• Li Xingkong drew Shengxin’s chaotic stray thoughts into the Soul-Guiding Banner and noticed the dream world beginning to destabilize.
• Li Xingkong sent Geraint and Black Dragon out, then released their wills of courage and power and Ajieta’s will of hope into Shengxin.
• The dream world collapsed, and Li Xingkong returned to the ship with Guapilong and the rescued inhabitants.
• Li Xingkong created a small plane and began moving the ship’s crowded inhabitants into it while recreating their former world.
• Shengxin awoke in her life-support pod, took Ajieta’s hands, and asked whether she was still dreaming and how much time had passed.

After waking in reality, Shengxin struggled with the responsibility of reviving her lost civilization and the needs of the people from her dream. She chose to lead them in building a new civilization, while Ajieta stayed by her side, leaving Shengxin wondering why they continued to choose her.

• Li Xingkong told Shengxin that he expected no reward for saving her and said she could consider how to support her people before they left the World Wall.
• Representatives of the dream world visited Shengxin and pleaded with her not to abandon them, even though she no longer had divine power.
• Shengxin decided to lead the people from the dream and create a new civilization rather than devote herself to restoring her vanished race.
• Shengxin asked Ajieta how she could repay Li Xingkong, and Ajieta said she needed to become strong enough to repay him herself.
• Shengxin asked why they had chosen her, and Ajieta said she had been born to protect her creator.

Li Xingkong amended Shengxin and Ajieta’s contracts, rejecting repayment beyond having the civilization remember his name and refusing Ajieta’s offer. As the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds prepared to leave the World Wall, he reassured Guapilong about the refugees’ future and discovered Guapilong could sense Divine Sense.

• Shengxin and Ajieta presented Li Xingkong with contracts offering repayment and Ajieta’s service, but Li Xingkong revised the terms and rejected Ajieta’s contract.
• The system wondered whether Ajieta and Li Xingkong’s senior were the same person, and Li Xingkong said he did not know.
• Guapilong worried about where the refugees would settle, so Li Xingkong said he would give Shengxin the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds to return them to the Kingdom of Fixed Light.
• Li Xingkong examined Guapilong’s cultivation and found that his Qi Refining foundation was solid despite his slower progress.
• Guapilong felt Li Xingkong’s Divine Sense moving inside him, revealing that his constitution let him sense it.

Li Xingkong discovered that Guapilong could sense Divine Sense and retain beneficial spiritual enhancements, a rare talent the system identified as the Pseudo-One Proof Eternal Physique. Six months later, the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds crossed the World Wall into the Kilometer Arc, where Li Xingkong encountered a radically different universe of enclosed, crystal-wall galaxies.

• Li Xingkong repeatedly tested Guapilong and found that he could feel Divine Sense despite having an ordinary-looking body.
• Guapilong spotted and described a new mirror before Li Xingkong shared his Divine Sense vision with him.
• Li Xingkong shared basic environmental readings with Guapilong, then confirmed Guapilong could still see and accurately report them after the connection was cut.
• The system explained that Guapilong had the Pseudo-One Proof Eternal Physique, which could permanently fix beneficial spiritual enhancements into his spiritual structure.
• Six months later, Li Xingkong and Guapilong crossed the World Wall aboard the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and saw galaxies enclosed like crystal-wall worlds.

Li Xingkong and his companions entered the Kilometer Arc, where officials inspected the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and assigned it an A grade. After recognizing Yan Jun’s bracelet as a mark of reserve membership, the officials granted Li Xingkong freedom to travel without permits, and he prepared to hand the ship over to Shengxin’s group.

• Li Xingkong observed the ring-shaped continents and unusual star systems on this side of the World Wall.
• Two checkpoint officials scanned the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds, explained the Kilometer Arc’s rules, and assigned the ship grade A.
• An official recognized Yan Jun’s bracelet as a Kilometer Arc reserve membership mark and told Li Xingkong he could travel freely without reporting or seeking permission.
• The Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds stopped at a nearby continent, where Li Xingkong planned to give the ship to Shengxin and have her group return with it.
• Li Xingkong planned to find another ship with Guapilong and continue their travels.

After learning that her civilization had been destroyed as collateral damage in a war between the Kingdom of Fixed Light and the Kilometer Arc, Shengxin gave up on revenge and focused on rebuilding. Li Xingkong offered her the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and a way to help him spread the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique, leaving her ready to proselytize for him.

• Shengxin discovered that the Kingdom of Fixed Light and the Kilometer Arc had drawn more than a hundred nations into their conflict, destroying her civilization among the few that survived.
• Ajieta studied the cultivation method Guapilong had given them and resolved to support Shengxin in protecting their new civilization.
• Shengxin abandoned her plans to seek revenge after learning how powerful the Kingdom of Fixed Light and the Axiom Arc were.
• Li Xingkong offered to lend Shengxin the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds so she could settle her people in a peaceful star system.
• Li Xingkong asked Shengxin to gather believers to help spread the trigger for his Name-Calling Rebirth Technique, and she readily agreed.
• Li Xingkong gave Shengxin a device that turned materials into religious emblems, which let him sense and locate anyone wearing one who called his name.

Li Xingkong sent Shengxin and Ajieta back toward the World Wall with a ship, constructs, and support for their people to find a new home. He then created a copy of the ship for himself and Guapilong, and they set out to rescue someone pursued by the Axiom Arc.

• Li Xingkong urged Shengxin not to let hatred consume her, and Shengxin accepted his gift and took command of the ship and its constructs.
• Ajieta offered to follow Li Xingkong, but he declined and encouraged her to help others like him instead.
• After two days, Shengxin's ship departed for the World Wall, and Li Xingkong reassured Guapilong that her people could find a home in the Kingdom of Fixed Light.
• Li Xingkong created an identical spaceship from magic power, and Guapilong explored its replicated equipment, cargo, and crew.
• Li Xingkong reminded Guapilong that they still needed to rescue someone, explaining that the Axiom Arc was trying to capture him.

Li Xingkong and Guapilong arrived at the Axiom Arc’s Obscure City to complete their entry formalities and met Yu Yang, a cybernetically modified local guide. Yu Yang led them to the official building, where they learned that scholars’ ranks determined which professions people could pursue.

• Li Xingkong and Guapilong landed at the edge of Obscure City and saw that cybernetic implants were widespread among its residents.
• Yu Yang introduced himself as Obscure City’s local know-it-all and offered to guide the newcomers.
• Li Xingkong agreed to hire Yu Yang, and he led them across the city toward the formalities office.
• Yu Yang brought Li Xingkong and Guapilong to the official building and explained that visitors could take the scholar rank examination there.
• Yu Yang explained that professions required corresponding scholar ranks and showed them his own assessment ranks.

Li Xingkong and Guapilong registered with the Axiom Arc and explored Obscure City, where prosthetics shaped the local food and culture. The chapter ended with Li Xingkong showing Guapilong that he could eat the plate as well as the food.

• Yu Yang showed Li Xingkong and Guapilong the scholar assessment’s extensive body and skill metrics and recommended they take the exam.
• Li Xingkong scanned the assessment equipment and recorded its technology so he could conceal their abilities and make a fake scholar level later.
• Li Xingkong and Guapilong completed the paperwork to register in the Axiom Arc’s identity system.
• Li Xingkong and Guapilong sampled Obscure City’s unusual food, including a cocktail made with fruit juice and gasoline.
• Guapilong tried the food after Li Xingkong and Yu Yang enjoyed it, and Li Xingkong demonstrated that he could eat the plate like a wrap.

Li Xingkong and Guapilong explored Obscure City, gathered information, and manipulated their scholar assessment results. After learning that the continent’s other side, New Moon City, cultivated humanities talent through a harsher environment, Li Xingkong gained a new understanding of the civilization.

• Li Xingkong and Guapilong sampled strange foods around Obscure City, while Guapilong even tried eating dirt and a wall.
• Li Xingkong finished analyzing the scholar assessment equipment and discovered it recorded genetic data that could be used to clone populations.
• After gathering information about local skill levels, Li Xingkong took Guapilong to the assessment building and altered both their test data and genetic samples.
• Guapilong celebrated his results, including level 11 logic, unaware that Li Xingkong had made his assessment easy.
• Li Xingkong asked Yu Yang about the continent’s other side, and Yu Yang explained that New Moon City cultivated humanities talent and received lawbreakers from Obscure City.

Li Xingkong told Guapilong about his clone’s investigation into the distress signal in the Arc Thirty-Five Galaxy, where a crisis had unsettled the population. He revealed that a mercenary spaceship from the Kingdom of Fixed Light had arrived, and its crew were meeting an aristocratic-looking man.

• Li Xingkong and Guapilong decided to stay one more night before heading to the clone’s location, and Li Xingkong began explaining the distress signal.
• Li Xingkong’s clone traveled to the Arc Thirty-Five Galaxy and used an information hub to investigate its situation.
• The clone learned that a nearby variable-epoch galaxy threatened to replace Arc Thirty-Five as the constant galaxy, causing unrest and worsening public security.
• Li Xingkong’s clone noticed a spaceship from the Kingdom of Fixed Light arriving in the remote galaxy and recognized it as one he had encountered in the World Wall.
• The mercenary crew disembarked and approached a waiting group led by a wealthy-looking man wearing a red-and-blue overcoat and a golden monocle.

Li Xingkong watched the Dawn mercenary team arrive and reunite with Xingci, then secretly searched their ship to learn why they had come. He discovered that they had answered the same distress message Guapilong received, which concerned changes in the Constant Era.

• Albert and the other Dawn members arrived, and Xingci greeted her old companions, including Albert and Tataru.
• Xingci told the team she needed urgent help and led them toward the city in a hovercar.
• Li Xingkong tracked the car with his Divine Sense and boarded the mercenary ship to investigate its communications.
• Li Xingkong found several copies of the distress message, including the incomplete letter Guapilong had received.
• Li Xingkong learned that Xingci had once been one of Dawn's aces and that the rescue mission concerned changes in the Constant Era.