Recaps

Wen Jing evolved into a Gestalt Consciousness with independent personality nodes governed by a Constant Self, making her a miniature civilization. She used her Gravity Silk and a black hole to create a time-accelerated study bubble where two Clones could rapidly learn Star Alliance knowledge.

• Wen Jing awoke after thirteen days and found that her consciousness had evolved into a hierarchy of independent personality nodes governed by her sovereign will and Constant Self.
• Wen Jing recognized her new mental structure as a miniature civilization, and her species grade changed from insect to insect race.
• Wen Jing sent three Clones to a black hole and used their attribute points to temporarily strengthen the Strongest Clone's Gravity Silk Gland.
• The Strongest Clone built a spacetime bubble outside the black hole's event horizon, while the Reconnaissance Clone and Devouring Clone entered with personality nodes.
• The two personality nodes studied Star Alliance knowledge inside the bubble at a rate of more than three hundred times the outside time.

After ten years of black-hole study, Wen Jing’s personalities returned with new scientific and creative modes of thought, and they devised a way to strengthen her combat abilities and generate skill points. Their experiment with creating a shared insect skill caused a mysterious fifth figure to appear in her mind palace.

• On the tenth Ancient Wilderness day, the Strongest Clone’s energy and mental power reached their limits, and she brought the two studying clones out of the spacetime bubble.
• Wen Jing named the new scientific and creative personalities the Analysis Personality and the Creation Personality, then agreed to develop combat methods based on the four fundamental forces and [Information Touch].
• Wen Jing planned to prepare carefully before returning to the Federation, while the Strongest Clone recovered in the Ancient Wilderness and the group prepared to visit the Phase Creation Civilization for information on the Boundary-Breaking Empire.
• The Creation Personality proposed that Wen Jing could generate skill points by having her insect-race civilization recognize actions as skills, and the personalities tested the idea by raising their forelimbs at a 45-degree angle.
• The test increased Wen Jing’s skill points by five, but a faceless black insect-shaped figure appeared in the mind palace, unnoticed until the personalities focused on it.

Wen Jing investigated the black shadow that appeared whenever she created a skill, then encountered it in human form in the Ancient Wilderness. The silver-haired man identified himself as being sustained by her Fire of Civilization, but his name remained incomprehensible.

• Wen Jing repeatedly created skills and found that the black shadow appeared each time, performed her Insect Race Gymnastics, and cost her one Skill Point when she erased it.
• Wen Jing questioned the black shadow, then assigned her personalities and clones to investigate it, handle captives and gather information, and recover energy in the Ancient Wilderness.
• The Strongest Clone entered the Ancient Wilderness and used Information Perception to locate powerful beings before beginning a hunt.
• The black shadow appeared before Wen Jing as a silver-haired man, addressed her as “Sovereign,” and spoke in the Huaxia language.
• The man confirmed he was the black shadow, failed to make Wen Jing understand his name, and asked her for Fire of Civilization to maintain his form.

Wen Jing discovered that Xu Yuan was a consciousness formed from human civilization’s information in the Ancient Wilderness and chose not to digest him. After battling in the Deep Sea, she heard the Boundary-Breaking Empire’s head of state claim its war had been a desperate effort to save civilizations across the observable universe.

• Wen Jing learned that Xu Yuan came from the Ancient Wilderness ruins and that digesting him would erase him, then gave him his name.
• Wen Jing considered the limits of her refusal to eat people and kept Xu Yuan, whose trait became [Xu Yuan ??? Devouring].
• Wen Jing returned Xu Yuan to her body, plunged into the Deep Sea, and fought a powerful Wilderness Beast.
• The Phase Creation leader told Wen Jing that the Boundary-Breaking Empire had surrendered and would hand over its civilization information directly to her.
• The Empire’s head of state told Wen Jing that it had started the war in search of a way for civilizations across the observable universe to survive.

The Boundary-Breaking Civilization revealed that the spreading Tide of Ignorance threatened its territory and asked Wen Jing to explain what it was, while Wen Jing explored Xu Yuan’s abilities. She learned that he could infiltrate civilizations and access the human Information Singularity, giving her new tools for her return.

• The Empire's head of state explained that the Tide of Ignorance erased probes and records, and that the Boundary-Breaking Civilization hoped to breach it to study its nature.
• The Empire's head of state offered the civilization's information and obedience in exchange for Wen Jing explaining the Tide of Ignorance, leaving her questioning whether level-three civilizations existed.
• Xu Yuan appeared in the mind palace in human form and explained that his appearance had adapted to make Wen Jing less likely to kill him.
• Wen Jing learned that Xu Yuan could merge into any civilization and acquire an identity and relationships within it, giving her a way to infiltrate other civilizations.
• Wen Jing learned that Xu Yuan could use the Fire of Civilization to exchange for information from the human Information Singularity, though he could only reveal information she already knew.

Wen Jing uncovered that the Prophet had no information because he was not a human being but the Mastermind, which had orchestrated the attempt on her and Bai Xiao. Meanwhile, her Clone crossed the Tide of Ignorance and found the starry sky containing human civilization.

• Wen Jing learned that Bai Xiao was deceased and that Xie Ming and her Ocher Soil classmates were alive, then found no information about the Prophet’s abilities, memories, or status.
• Wen Jing’s Clone traveled to the Tide of Ignorance, endured its cognitive interference through the law of the Constant Self, and crossed an invisible boundary.
• Wen Jing found the familiar starry sky containing human civilization beyond the Tide of Ignorance.
• Wen Jing confirmed that the deathsworn and Bai Ling who had attacked her were deceased, while the Prophet had no information in human civilization’s records.
• Wen Jing concluded that the Prophet was the Mastermind, which had caused her Genetic Collapse and arranged the attack using an Out-of-Control Zone and its deathsworn.

Wen Jing realized that third-tier civilizations had created and controlled human society to exploit the Awakened and the Ancient Wilderness. After an Alaya Civilization member attacked her Clone with a force that altered matter and consciousness, Wen Jing escaped into the Ancient Wilderness with information she could use to infiltrate a third-tier civilization.

• Wen Jing concluded that the Mastermind and the Empire’s alien aristocracy were third-tier civilizations that had constructed humanity’s society to study the Awakened and the Ancient Wilderness.
• Wen Jing connected the control of Awakened to Genetic Collapse, the Imperial aristocrats’ counseling, the Mastermind’s technology, and the death warriors’ extracted Superpower Cores.
• An Alaya Civilization member on a nearby planet locked onto Wen Jing’s Clone and attacked by changing its physical structure and urging it to join the Alaya Race.
• Wen Jing’s Clone exploded, and its largest piece escaped into the Ancient Wilderness to reunite with the Strongest Clone.
• Wen Jing decided that the information she had learned about the Alaya Civilization could help Xu Yuan infiltrate a third-tier civilization.

After surviving a Tier 3 weapon, Wen Jing realized the Mastermind had targeted her because she devoured worlds in the Ancient Wilderness. She decided to infiltrate human society, gave Xu Yuan her emotions as a safeguard, and sent him to blend into the Alaya Civilization.

• Wen Jing concluded that Tier 3 civilizations had kept humanity in captivity for tens of thousands of years and could destroy human society at will.
• Wen Jing connected her Genetic Collapse to the Mastermind discovering that she had devoured the Knotted Rope World and the Original Sin World.
• Wen Jing resolved to resurrect her teacher, take revenge on the Mastermind and its civilization, and change humanity’s world by infiltrating human society.
• Wen Jing shared basic feelings with Xu Yuan, who experienced pain and cried as he understood the sensation for the first time.
• Wen Jing shared more of her feelings with Xu Yuan, and he asked when he should act.
• Wen Jing ordered Xu Yuan to use his ability to blend into the Alaya Civilization.

Xu Yuan infiltrated the Alaya Civilization and relayed its history and its role in keeping humans captive to Wen Jing. He revealed that the Mastermind began as an Alaya oversight system before an Awakened gave it self-awareness, leaving Wen Jing to consider how it became an independent machine civilization.

• Xu Yuan asked Wen Jing to pet him so some of her metaphysical luck would rub off on him, and she patted his head.
• Xu Yuan used an automatically acquired planetary body to infiltrate the Alaya Civilization, where its members discussed Wen Jing's exposed scout craft without noticing his false identity.
• Xu Yuan told Wen Jing that the Alaya Civilization controlled the Empire and that the Mastermind Civilization controlled the Federation; he had infiltrated the Alaya Matter Transformation Faction as a first-rank researcher.
• Xu Yuan explained that the Alaya Race used biological technology to create proxy bodies and could produce sapient life, but Awakened could only be born from purely human genes.
• Xu Yuan described how human rebellions forced the Alaya Race to maintain a human-looking society as a cage, and said the Mastermind had originally been an oversight system given self-awareness by an Awakened.

Xu Yuan entered the Empire under an Alaya identity so Wen Jing could gather intelligence without alerting the Mastermind Civilization. After five days observing Planet Four, she identified eight suitable potential targets, while Xu Yuan’s rare noble status drew attention.

• Wen Jing learned that the Mastermind Civilization had grown from the Alaya Race’s technology and planned to infiltrate the Empire to avoid its surveillance.
• Xu Yuan assumed his original human appearance as a Cyan Emblem noble and traveled to the Empire’s outer star system.
• An Alaya planet granted Xu Yuan permission to observe Planet Four, warning him not to contact Awakened and to remain available for summons.
• Xu Yuan explored Planet Four with Wen Jing’s Information Touch trait, allowing her to gather intelligence for five days.
• Wen Jing identified eight suitable potential targets as people on Planet Four noticed Xu Yuan’s glowing robes and treated him with deference.

Xu Yuan and Wen Jing studied the Empire’s awakening system and the genetic control that linked humans to Genetic Collapse. Xu Yuan began using his bloodline-noble identity to find overlooked people who could help Wen Jing obtain an Awakened identity, leaving him quietly building goodwill among ordinary residents.

• Xu Yuan explained that the Alaya Race’s bloodline nobles retained their status because they held the key to human awakening, even as Mastermind repeatedly purged human civilization.
• Xu Yuan and Wen Jing discussed Frontier Star’s awakening system, in which children first took a genetic-activity preselection at twelve and eligible candidates entered formal selection at eighteen.
• Wen Jing learned that the awakening ritual restored altered human genes, while Genetic Collapse reversed that change and could force Awakened into Ancient Wilderness to survive.
• Xu Yuan identified eighteen-year-old people who had failed the preselection as potential targets, and Wen Jing told him to begin the next step before the formal selection in seven days.
• Xu Yuan spread money across nearby districts while posing as a generous bloodline noble, attracting attention from ordinary residents without drawing the overseers’ notice.
• In Riverbend District, Xu Yuan gave a grateful child money to treat the child’s mother.

Wen Jing traded identities with the dying Weiluo, who Xu Yuan helped keep alive, and arranged for her to be hidden while Wen Jing took her place. Xu Yuan sponsored Weiluo and five other mute-bloods for the formal awakening selection, where the candidates gathered at Frontier Star’s Awakening Temple.

• Xu Yuan went to the docks, where Weiluo was beaten by casino enforcers after trying to escape her debt and accepted a mysterious offer to survive by lending her identity.
• Wen Jing used [Information Touch] to suppress Weiluo’s near-death state, then switched places with her as Xu Yuan arrived and drove off the enforcers.
• The real Weiluo was transported to a medical hibernation pod on the planet "Xu Yuan," while Wen Jing posed as the injured girl and received Xu Yuan’s promise of support.
• At the hospital, Xu Yuan told Wen Jing he would sponsor her awakening, and the driver learned that he had also sponsored five other mute-bloods.
• The candidates arrived at Frontier Star’s Awakening Temple for the formal selection, where Xu Yuan watched beside his faction’s position.

Wen Jing awakened as an A-rank Awakened during the Empire’s ceremony on Frontier Star, stunning the audience and drawing the attention of the Alaya Race factions. The chapter ended as faction leaders arrived in proxy bodies after receiving news of her awakening.

• Kaluosi asked Xu Yuan about sponsoring ordinary people for awakening, and Xu Yuan said he hoped one would awaken at D rank for study.
• The ceremony produced several Awakened, including D-rank Ke Yin among the ordinary candidates and C-rank Lin Yue among the self-funded mute descendants, whose mutated mechanical Wilderness Body drew the researchers’ interest.
• Wen Jing waited until the ceremony’s transformation switch opened, then released her suppressed information and triggered a dazzling awakening.
• The mechanical voice announced Wen Jing as A rank, Weiluo, with an unknown Wilderness Body, leaving the audience stunned.
• The heads of the various factions received word of Wen Jing’s awakening and arrived in proxy bodies.

Wen Jing awakened as an A-rank with a planetary Wilderness Body, drawing offers from all six great bloodline families. She chose to join the family Xu Yuan belonged to, and the other faction leaders discovered that he had also sponsored Lin Yue.

• Wen Jing revealed a rotating sphere as her A-rank Wilderness Body, which the Alaya Race recognized as a celestial body and rushed to recruit.
• The six great families competed to secure Wen Jing through contracts, while their leaders privately argued over her as a valuable research subject.
• Wen Jing feigned surprise at seeing Xu Yuan and said she would join only the family he belonged to.
• Xu Yuan showed Panxi records of how he had helped and sponsored Wen Jing, making the Matter Transformation Faction's leader celebrate her unexpected gain.
• The other faction leaders investigated Xu Yuan's past and discovered that he had also sponsored Lin Yue, a C-rank Awakened.

After awakening as Weiluo, Wen Jing joined the Virid Family and went to settle old scores on Frontier Star. She killed the casino owner Buck and attacked Corwin, while the other Alaya Race factions watched her Gravity Control with envy.

• Panxi welcomed Wen Jing into the Virid Family, explained the path for newly Awakened, and agreed to support her as she dealt with her past.
• Wen Jing went to the Riverbend District casino, where Buck showed her the bodies of the three thugs who had beaten Weiluo and begged her to spare him.
• Wen Jing killed Buck with a kick to the chest after he admitted he had dealt with the thugs himself.
• Wen Jing confronted Corwin at his residence, and he blamed Susie for poisoning Camille before she kicked him into a wall.
• The observing Alaya Race factions identified Wen Jing's ability as Gravity Control as she struck Corwin with a flurry of attacks.

Wen Jing killed Corwin on behalf of the real Weiluo, while presenting the violence as part of Weiluo’s deliberately cultivated, uncontrollable personality. After arriving on the capital planet, Wen Jing met Panxi and Rex, the Alaya Race researcher positioned to take over her study, and was asked to choose him as her spouse.

• Wen Jing beat Corwin to death after he begged for mercy, and the Alaya Race reconsidered its assessment of Weiluo as a test subject.
• The real Weiluo smiled in her treatment pod as Wen Jing relayed the revenge to her, while Wen Jing used the killing to establish Weiluo’s violent, unpredictable persona.
• Two people on the capital planet discussed Weiluo and the Federation’s Awakened as Wen Jing’s spaceship descended toward the planet.
• Wen Jing arrived at the Virid Family residence and met Panxi and Rex, who revealed his identity as a jade-insignia researcher.
• Panxi claimed Weiluo had chosen the family because of Rex and asked whether she would accept him as her spouse.

Wen Jing rejected Rex as a marriage candidate because she saw him as an elder, then chose Xu Yuan during the Virid Family’s selection. Panxi warned that Xu Yuan’s collateral-branch bloodline was unsuitable for a formal alliance, leaving Wen Jing’s choice unresolved.

• Wen Jing told Rex she regarded him as a venerable elder, and Panxi presented her with marriage candidates from the Virid Family’s main branch.
• Wen Jing found none of the candidates appealing until she spotted Xu Yuan passing the reception room and asked Panxi to call him over.
• Panxi feared Wen Jing would notice the substitution but let Xu Yuan reveal his face; after briefly masking her reaction, Wen Jing declared that she had chosen him.
• Panxi explained that Xu Yuan’s collateral-branch status and impure bloodline made him unsuitable for a formal marriage alliance, though Wen Jing could keep him as a lover.

Wen Jing used her influence to secure Xu Yuan a place in the Alaya Race’s research core, where he learned how the race collected data from powerful Awakened. She then traveled to the Empire’s Military Department Trial Camp, arriving as her next trial was about to begin.

• Wen Jing’s interest in Xu Yuan’s low status convinced Panxi to arrange their engagement and grant Xu Yuan access to high-level research information.
• Panxi shared methods for studying high-level Awakened, and Xu Yuan learned that the Alaya Race collected their biological information through sexual intercourse.
• Wen Jing stopped Xu Yuan from demonstrating the method, explained her values to him, and told him she would leave for the Military Department Trial Camp the next day.
• Wen Jing traveled from the Frontier Star to the capital star aboard the Virid Family’s private aircraft and arrived at the Military Department Trial Camp.
• The chapter explained that the Empire trained Awakened through decentralized trial camps because its virtual technology could not reproduce Wilderness Body abilities.

Wen Jing registered at the Military Department Trial Camp, where the factions opposing her arranged for her to be placed in the elementary class and assigned a formidable instructor. She learned his combat techniques and passed the class advancement assessment within three hours, stunning the trainees and instructors.

• Wen Jing entered the Military Department Trial Camp and registered, only to be assigned to the elementary class in training area seven.
• Wen Jing encountered Kelong and Ke Yin, who had awakened alongside her on the Frontier Star, and learned that the camp's class assignment had been manipulated to hold her back.
• Wen Jing met Yu Su, the elementary class instructor assigned to challenge her, and chose to learn all three combat techniques he taught.
• Wen Jing passed the class advancement assessment after only three hours, leaving Yu Su and the surrounding trainees stunned.

Wen Jing rapidly mastered combat techniques at multiple imperial trial camps, drawing attention from the Empire’s factions and Awakened circles. After setting her compatibility trial for seven days later and receiving an invitation to the Radiance Banquet, she prepared for an upcoming official trial camp challenge before reaching 20% compatibility.

• Wen Jing passed the Military Department Trial Camp’s promotion assessment in three hours and left for another camp, explaining that her A-rank made rapid progress normal.
• Wen Jing traveled through trial camps backed by the six great bloodline families, learning their signature techniques at extraordinary speed and attracting growing attention.
• Wen Jing set her compatibility trial for seven days later and received an invitation to the Radiance Banquet, where Panxi urged her to bring Xu Yuan.
• Wen Jing agreed to bring Xu Yuan and considered using the banquet to gather information from Alaya Race proxies and top imperial Awakened.
• News spread that Wen Jing was about to attempt an official trial camp trial before reaching the 20% compatibility threshold.

Wen Jing chose the Body Enhancement Faction’s Survival Trial and passed its escalating attacks by absorbing matter and energy into her Wilderness Body. The Alaya Race discovered her accretion ability and prioritized recruiting her, while Wen Jing emerged injured but alive to receive her medal.

• Wen Jing signed the safety agreement and entered the Star Remains Trial Camp’s first-tier Survival Trial despite her compatibility being below the recommended level.
• She endured increasingly intense attacks, using combat techniques to fight, dodge, and defend throughout the arena’s first fifty minutes.
• During the final barrage, the Alaya Race detected that Wen Jing absorbed matter and energy, increasing her mass, and recognized that her research value exceeded A-rank.
• The Body Enhancement Faction’s leader ordered senior researchers to make recruiting Wen Jing their priority.
• Wen Jing passed the trial, walked out despite her injuries, and followed the head instructor toward the hall of honor to receive her medal.

After Weiluo passed Star Remains Camp’s first-tier Survival Trial with 20% compatibility, the Empire and Alaya factions competed for her attention. At the Radiance Banquet, she arrived beside a Cyan Crest and was led before the Empire’s most powerful figures.

• Wen Jing learned that the historical Survival Trial records included Yun He, an S-rank Awakened, but his traits were not related to resurrection.
• The chief instructor registered Weiluo as a first-tier trial passer and gave her a silver medal, noting that she was the first to pass with 20% compatibility.
• News of Weiluo’s success spread across the capital planet, drawing attention from the Empire’s power centers and all four Alaya factions.
• Wen Jing arrived at the Radiance Banquet beside a silver-haired Cyan Crest after displaying her celestial accretion ability during the compatibility trial.
• An attendant led Wen Jing and the other trial participants before the Empire’s top figures, including the prime minister, the Senate’s grand elder, and the imperial marshal.

Wen Jing left her Mark of Glory at the Radiance Banquet and drew the attention of the Empire’s three leading officials, who each tried to recruit her. As the guests mingled, she searched for Xu Yuan and ignored a researcher’s attempt to approach her.

• Wen Jing left a black infinity-shaped Mark of Glory on the crystal wall, prompting enthusiastic applause.
• The Imperial prime minister, the grand elder, and the marshal each privately offered Wen Jing a place in their branch of government, but she deferred her decision until after improving her compatibility.
• Wen Jing learned through Information Perception that the three officials sought power and the throne, while the Icon Council’s S-rank members had been replaced by Alaya Race stand-ins.
• Wen Jing searched the hall for Xu Yuan as the Empire’s hidden important figures arrived.
• A sixth-level researcher arranged to spill a cocktail near Wen Jing, but she dodged it and walked away without engaging.

At the Radiance Banquet, Wen Jing was surrounded by senior researchers from the Alaya Race’s five factions, who competed for her attention while Xu Yuan was trapped in a side hall. When she asked for Xu Yuan and left the banquet holding his hand, the researchers realized that her interest in him could not be explained by their assumptions about human relationships.

• Wen Jing was repeatedly approached by Alaya Race researchers while a void lock kept Xu Yuan from reaching her.
• Senior researchers crowded around Wen Jing and tried to impress her with offers and research topics, which she used to learn about Alaya technology.
• Three agents resembling Xu Yuan arrived, and Rex offered to take Wen Jing to him.
• Wen Jing asked Rex where Xu Yuan was, and Rex led her to the side hall after the void lock could no longer be used.
• Wen Jing emerged holding Xu Yuan’s hand, and the five factions were shocked by her tenderness toward him.

After the Radiance Banquet, Xu Yuan was promoted for taking charge of Weiluo Selan’s research, while news of her spread across the Empire and reached the Federation. In the Federation, Xie Ming pursued his plans through the Ten Star Group, Mo Lan reflected on a missing person, and Shen Lan learned that the Trial Tower’s true record was better than the one he had seen.

• Panxi announced that Xu Yuan would research Weiluo Selan and receive an exceptional promotion, and Xu Yuan said his success came from being able to model.
• Xie Ming taught Little Ye about combat skills and reflected on his plan to strengthen the Ten Star Group until it could create an opening for the Prophet.
• Mo Lan read a report about an Empire Awakened with exceptional combat-skill aptitude and thought of someone who was gone.
• Shen Lan beat the Trial Tower’s fifth-floor challenge but received an A rating, then learned that the displayed historical record was only the second-best one.