Chapter Summaries

Wen Jing extinguished Babuta to force the Forging Alliance to surrender, then accepted their submission on its homeworld. The Kelike Tribe called her the Great Star Extinguisher, while she left her own name unstated.

• Babuta rapidly lost its light and heat, devastating the Forging Alliance's energy supplies and threatening the planets and colonies in its system.
• The Forging Alliance's leaders begged Wen Jing to stop and surrender, but Babuta became a dark black dwarf in less than ten minutes.
• Wen Jing left the black dwarf intact, returned to the Ancient Wilderness, and gained three enhanced traits after devouring the star's energy.
• The Forging Alliance broadcast its surrender, and Wen Jing teleported to its homeworld, where its leaders lowered their defenses and performed a traditional gesture of defeat.
• A Lord of the Furnace Core called Wen Jing the Great Star Extinguisher and asked her name; Wen Jing told them to call her whatever they liked.

Wen Jing collected the Forging Alliance’s core civilizational records and instructed them to gather information from other primitive species. After reviewing the data, she reflected on the gains from consuming a red giant and began examining the new traits she had unlocked.

• The Forging Alliance told Wen Jing that compiling all its civilizational information would take time, and its sociologist tried to build rapport by explaining the Kelike people’s original forms and customs.
• Wen Jing claimed her insect-like form was only a probe and said her real body was at home, leading the Forging Alliance to infer that her civilization had vast faster-than-light communications coverage.
• Wen Jing ordered the Forging Alliance to tell the other primitive species it could contact to store their civilizational information for her to collect later.
• Wen Jing took the storage device through a spatial rift to an unmonitored asteroid belt and began reading the Forging Alliance’s records.
• Wen Jing concluded that consuming a red giant had raised her first three attributes by about 350 points on average, but that eating stars was less practical than consuming things from the Ancient Wilderness.
• Wen Jing realized her new traits were unlocked when an individual clone crossed 2,000 attributes and began examining [Cellular-Level Regeneration].

Wen Jing studied the Forging Alliance’s technology and evolved a Biological Furnace to manufacture materials and gain skill points. After acquiring two new traits from civilization ruins, she decided to explore more dangerous, advanced ruins to build the strength needed to face an S-rank.

• Wen Jing reviewed her new abilities and concluded that she still could not challenge the Prophet or withstand S-rank powers.
• Wen Jing studied the Forging Alliance’s history and technology, learning how the Kelike Tribe had transformed from ocean-dwelling arthropods into a mechanized civilization.
• Wen Jing spent 200 skill points to evolve a Biological Furnace, then forged corundum from soil and earned skill points by learning Kelike technology.
• Wen Jing’s strongest clone cleared two civilization ruins and gained the traits [Duel Invitation] and [Natural Lever].
• Wen Jing chose to explore industrial-age and information-age civilization ruins because she needed stronger traits and skill points to prepare for an S-rank opponent.

Wen Jing arrived at the Forging Alliance’s reception hall to collect information from the surrounding civilizations, but discovered an unidentified spaceship approaching the planet. After scanning its hull, she learned that it belonged to the Law String civilization, which was offering to submit to her order.

• The Starshine People and the Condensed Rock Tribe exchanged thanks while delivering their civilizations’ information as tribute.
• Wen Jing arrived and detected an anomalous system embedded in the reception hall.
• Wen Jing followed its connection outside and spotted a concealed triangular spaceship descending through the clouds.
• The Forging Alliance’s leaders asked whether the ship belonged to Wen Jing, and she said it did not.
• Wen Jing scanned the ship’s information-storing hull and learned that the Law String civilization was willing to submit information and join her order.

Wen Jing received a delegation from the Law String Civilization, which pledged allegiance after recognizing her ability to transmute matter and travel between galaxies. The delegation revealed it had secretly monitored the Forging Alliance for over two centuries, and explained that it had delayed noticing Wen Jing because it avoided contact with level-one civilizations.

• Wen Jing told the anxious Masters of the Furnace Core that the approaching triangular ship had come to pledge allegiance, and the Law String Civilization confirmed it in the Forging Alliance's language.
• The Law String delegation praised Wen Jing as the Atom Controller, explaining that matter transmutation surpassed extinguishing a star, while the Forging Alliance realized how far her abilities exceeded its technology.
• The Law String Civilization printed a five-limbed ceremonial avatar from materials in the air and offered its knowledge and obedience to Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing used a jump to reach the Law String Civilization's home galaxy, where the delegation's Stardust Vortex was located, astonishing them with her apparent ability to decipher their encrypted coordinates.
• The Law String delegation said it had monitored the Forging Alliance since 856 rotations of the extinguished star, more than two hundred years, and claimed it had only recently discovered Wen Jing because it had deprioritized the region.

Wen Jing secured the Law String Civilization’s knowledge after its leaders mistook her actions for a warning and voluntarily submitted. She then entered an industrial-era ruin, where machinery produced crude mechanical copies of her that she quickly destroyed.

• The Law String Civilization debated Wen Jing’s claims and deterrents, then chose to submit and sent a delegation carrying encrypted information.
• Wen Jing deciphered the civilization’s information carrier, causing delegations both in the Forging Alliance and at their home system to kneel and surrender their knowledge.
• Wen Jing reflected that Ancient Wilderness matter and human spiritual bodies blocked mental-power readings, then followed gravitational coordinates into an industrial-era ruin.
• Wen Jing found that her [Key of Tuning] could not reveal the machinery’s critical nodes and that her Energy Pulse could not damage the assembly lines.
• The ruin’s production lines built twelve mechanical insects modeled on Wen Jing, but she shattered them with Shockwave and absorbed their fragments without gaining nutrients.

Wen Jing discovered that the factory world adapted its mechanical enemies to her attacks, forcing her to retreat, and that entering it locked her physical growth. She found the restriction affected every clone that had entered the world and prevented attribute points from being transferred between them.

• Wen Jing saw the factory produce reinforced mechanical insects that resisted Shockwave, then used Energy Pulse to defeat them as she realized each batch adapted to her attacks.
• When Wen Jing tried to escape the swarm by moving through other areas, the production lines activated and created stronger, faster, flying enemies; she retreated to the material universe rather than keep feeding them.
• Wen Jing found that devouring resources in an asteroid belt no longer increased her attributes, and she traced the lock to the factory world's rules affecting clones that had entered it.
• Wen Jing tested her reconnaissance clone and confirmed that it was also locked, while the clone that had remained in the natural Ancient Wilderness could still grow.
• Wen Jing stopped her unaffected clone from touching the locked clones, then confirmed that attribute points could no longer be transferred between clones.

Wen Jing discovered that the factory world adapted its mechanical swarm to her attacks and devised a plan to overwhelm its production system by forcing it to create too many specialized models. She began testing the strategy, and the factory responded by producing insects with antifreeze coatings.

• Wen Jing returned to the factory world and found that its mechanical insects had grown stronger and continued multiplying while she was away.
• Wen Jing tested how the production lines responded to different attacks and determined that they created counter-models, stopped producing models she eliminated, and upgraded models she left untouched.
• Wen Jing realized she could exploit the swarm’s inability to synchronize by attacking every new model with a different ability and creating excessive, redundant production lines.
• Wen Jing targeted the [X-1.5.3] models with weakened Frost Vein Silk, immobilizing them at their joints.
• The factory produced [X-1.8.3] insects with matte antifreeze coatings in response to Wen Jing’s cold attack.

Wen Jing spent more than forty days fighting the Factory World’s evolving mechanical swarm, carefully creating new models while limiting their strength. As the newest machines grew harder to kill, an unexpected friendly-fire incident revealed a possible change in the battle.

• Wen Jing used varied combat techniques and traits to prompt the factory to produce many specialized robot models while keeping weaker versions in production.
• Wen Jing devoted her days to planning and her nights to fighting, eventually bringing her Reconnaissance Clone into the battle as the swarm’s strength increased.
• Wen Jing returned to find the Factory World crowded with three-digit model numbers and struggled to destroy the newest [X-17.9.56] before it could grow stronger.
• Wen Jing’s strongest clone fought the newest models while the Reconnaissance Clone gathered intelligence and encouraged the swarm to inflict friendly fire.
• One [X-17.9.57] knocked over three [X-8.3.11] models and triggered an explosion, drawing Wen Jing’s attention to the unusual incident.

Wen Jing used Banishment and Duel Invitation to protect the outdated mechanical models that sustained her production-line strategy as Factory World tried to eliminate them. The factory ultimately collapsed from within, and Wen Jing began devouring its blueprint core, gaining skill points rapidly.

• Wen Jing realized Factory World was using its newest models to eliminate outdated units, threatening the production-line strategy she had built over more than forty days.
• Wen Jing used Banishment to exile endangered models and Duel Invitation to redirect attacks and reduce damage, preserving the outdated units while the factory continued expanding its production lines.
• Wen Jing’s effort drove her computational workload and energy consumption higher as she used both traits across the battlefield.
• Just before daybreak, Factory World’s conveyors and production lines failed, and its mechanical units froze and crumbled into grit.
• Wen Jing saw that the world’s core was a blueprint, and the insect in her Mental Vision began devouring it, causing her skill points to rise rapidly.

After devouring the Factory World, Wen Jing gained the Standardization Meme trait and tested how it could spread her abilities to insect-shaped targets. She learned that infection depended on the target’s form, material, capabilities, and proximity, and began considering whether she could use living creatures such as the Krik People.

• Wen Jing returned to the material universe with 21,429 skill points, but still lacked enough to evolve her splitting ability or resurrect her teacher.
• Wen Jing tested Standardization Meme on stone sculptures and found that insect shapes with legs could be infected, while a humanoid statue and a limbless shape could not.
• Wen Jing added moving parts to the sculptures and discovered that infected traits worked only as strongly as the sculptures’ bodies allowed, with some effects damaging or destroying them.
• Wen Jing determined that infected bodies could carry multiple traits over time, but their abilities were limited by her own strength and by an aura that expanded around her and vanished beyond its range.
• Wen Jing considered producing controlled mechanical insect swarms and wondered whether she could infect living creatures such as the Krik People for use as a temporary army.

Wen Jing tested how [Standardization Meme] could infect living creatures and used it to build a rapidly expanding mechanical insect swarm, while studying Law String Civilization technology to improve the swarm’s control. More than thirty days later, her clone trapped in Spacetime Amber received a single frame of light from outside.

• Wen Jing discovered that [Standardization Meme] could infect Wilderness Beasts and giant insects, though the infected creatures did not obey her.
• Wen Jing’s sealed clone infected giant insects in Spacetime Amber with the traits it had retained, hoping they might break the seal.
• Wen Jing built and tested a mechanical insect production line that used infected traits for rapid gathering, processing, and combat, then reclaimed the swarm.
• Wen Jing identified the swarm’s weaknesses in control and durability and began studying Law String Civilization technology to improve its command system.
• After more than thirty days, Wen Jing’s sealed clone suddenly received a single frame of light from outside Spacetime Amber.

Wen Jing returned to the Law String Civilization after a breakthrough and decided to make contact with other Star Alliance civilizations. She arrived at the Stardust Vortex and met Set, who welcomed her on behalf of Axiom and learned that her research project had advanced.

• Wen Jing considered how infecting the giant worm might have loosened the Spacetime Amber's seal and continued studying the Law String Civilization's technology with her clones.
• Wen Jing concluded her technology had roughly reached level-two standards and decided to contact other Star Alliance civilizations.
• Wen Jing's strongest clone entered the Ancient Wilderness while her Reconnaissance Clone traveled to the Law String Civilization's home star system.
• The Law String Civilization reshaped nearby stardust into a crystal plain and sent Set, an avatar containing twenty-four consciousness crystals, to receive Wen Jing.
• Set explained that Analysis was on mandatory leave and asked whether Wen Jing's research project had achieved a breakthrough; Wen Jing confirmed that it had.

Wen Jing learned that the Law String People had turned work into their main source of fulfillment and were marching because some citizens had been denied overtime. She agreed to attend the Star Alliance’s Resonance Assembly, prompting excitement across the alliance.

• Wen Jing read the Law String citizens’ thoughts and saw them marching to demand equal overtime access.
• Assembly explained how the Law String People’s pursuit of happiness had led to a crisis, prompting laws that limited work and enforced vacations.
• Wen Jing deflected Assembly’s question about her civilization by asking whether the Law String People had faced a genuine threat before ascending.
• Assembly explained that the Star Alliance’s five other level-two civilizations had been pressuring the Law String Civilization to arrange contact with Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing asked when and where the Resonance Assembly would take place and agreed to attend.
• News of Wen Jing’s agreement energized the entire Star Alliance.

Wen Jing attended the Star Alliance’s Resonance Assembly in a personal capacity, rejecting the five civilizations’ attempt to establish diplomatic relations while secretly studying their technology. As the delegations began probing her credentials, a Source Fire Civilization scientist challenged her to explain how to extract signals from cosmic background noise, and Wen Jing interrupted their act.

• The Star Alliance’s five great civilizations built a venue near Law String Civilization territory and welcomed Wen Jing and the Law String delegation.
• Wen Jing refused to establish diplomatic relations, saying she attended only as an individual, and the civilizations redirected her toward their scientific exhibits.
• Wen Jing’s Reconnaissance Clone recorded and analyzed the exhibits while her other consciousnesses studied the technologies and theories.
• The representatives observed Wen Jing’s interests and increasingly probed her, suspecting she might be pretending to come from a level-three civilization.
• Black Hole of the Source Fire Civilization challenged Wen Jing to explain how to extract pure fluctuation signals from cosmic background noise, and Wen Jing interrupted the exchange through the Mental Link.

Wen Jing used her supernatural ability to amplify the zero-point fluctuation signal, convincing the Star Alliance's level-two civilizations that she came from a level-three civilization. The chapter ended with the civilizations eager to learn how she had done it, while she denied using technology and the Source Fire Civilization silenced the black hole.

• Wen Jing told the delegations they would have to measure the phenomenon themselves, since her civilization's laws forbade her from interfering in other civilizations' development.
• The Star Alliance prepared the multilayer spacetime-shielded stasis chamber to measure the zero-point energy spectrum, and the black hole confirmed that its equipment worked.
• Wen Jing activated Natural Lever on the experiment's core, magnifying the zero-point fluctuations until the detector displayed a clear, steady spectrum.
• The level-two civilizations compared the results with their existing measurements and recognized the data's immense value, concluding that Wen Jing could manipulate fundamental physics.
• The black hole asked Wen Jing what technological principle she had used, but she claimed she had merely amplified cosmic background radiation waves.
• The Source Fire Civilization's representatives pulled the black hole away and disabled his ability to communicate externally.

After gaining technology from five Star Alliance civilizations, Wen Jing spent four months studying it before entering the world behind a door connected to her Tactical Glasses. She found her room from her previous life, and her checks confirmed it was real rather than an illusion, though Mental Vision revealed no world core.

• The Star Alliance representatives concluded Wen Jing was an outlaw from a level-three civilization and eagerly gave her their civilizations’ information in hopes of gaining technological insight.
• Wen Jing studied the knowledge of five level-two civilizations and used their technological advantages to improve her mechanical swarm.
• After four months, Wen Jing judged the mechanical swarm combat framework complete and returned to the Ancient Wilderness to explore information-age ruins.
• Wen Jing opened an electronic lock by touching its fingerprint sensor and entered the room beyond the door.
• Wen Jing recognized the room as the one from her previous life, used Digestion to test for an illusion, and found that the room remained unchanged.
• Wen Jing confirmed her other consciousnesses were active and saw no world core with Mental Vision.

Wen Jing explored a room that resembled her home from her previous life and discovered that it made her think like an ordinary person without extraordinary powers. The room’s phone appeared functional through the Tactical Glasses, but she could not interact with its screen.

• Wen Jing examined the familiar room and realized its objects carried no precise personal memories and that the place felt unnaturally safe.
• Wen Jing tested the room’s belongings and found she could damage them only as an ordinary person could, while her extraordinary attacks had no effect.
• Wen Jing tried turning on the laptop and phone; the laptop remained broken, and the phone’s screen appeared white.
• Wen Jing took the Tactical Glasses from an empty case and saw the phone’s normal standby screen through them, though its text was blurred.
• Wen Jing tapped and swiped the phone, but the screen did not respond despite her ability to imitate a capacitive stylus.

Wen Jing saw a mysterious phone user reading reviews of a novel that appeared to describe her life, including details about the Prophet, Teacher Bai, and her genetic collapse. She considered whether the reviews came from the ruin, another dimension, or real authors and readers, then memorized them as potential intelligence.

• Wen Jing watched an unseen person order a McDonald's breakfast meal and open a reading app on the mirrored phone.
• Wen Jing read reviews identifying the Prophet as responsible for Teacher Bai's mother's genetic collapse and suggesting Wen Jing was the novel's female lead.
• Wen Jing considered three explanations for the reviews: the ruin was reconstructing her memories, the phone showed a coincidental work from another dimension, or authors and readers truly existed.
• Wen Jing analyzed the mysterious reader's attention and noticed reviews claiming the Prophet had ordered several people killed and caused Wen Jing's earlier genetic collapse.

Wen Jing identified the mysterious phone user as Meng□□, the author of her novel, and began studying her behavior for clues about the author’s motives. She discovered that the ruin’s world core was the information window on the phone, but chose to postpone devouring it while she continued observing Meng□□.

• Wen Jing recognized that Meng□□ was the author after watching her react to reviews about Dean Bai and the novel’s formulaic plot.
• Meng□□ abandoned the reading app after a negative review and scrolled through short videos, leading Wen Jing to suspect she was easily distracted rather than a powerful, deliberate author.
• Wen Jing used Mental Vision to find the ruin’s world core in the phone’s information window and confirmed she could devour it, though doing so caused static pixels to appear on the screen.
• Wen Jing decided to keep observing instead of devouring the core, since she might lose access to the unusual information it provided.
• Meng□□ watched an erotic comic and then opened a sudoku game, leaving Wen Jing wondering when she would write her novel.