Chapter Summaries

Wen Jing watched Meng□□’s phone use and concluded that the novel’s reviews might reveal a way to resurrect her teacher. After leaving a message for possible readers beyond the fourth wall, she waited to see whether the novel would describe her discovery and expose who was truly writing her life.

• Wen Jing observed Meng□□ browse reviews, play sudoku, and eventually go to sleep, while the laptop stayed dark.
• Wen Jing studied Star Alliance knowledge as she waited, then saw Meng□□ return to her phone at 5:32 in the afternoon.
• When she reappeared at six the next morning, Wen Jing read reviews on chapter 171 and inferred that Xie Ming had acted against the Prophet, likely through the Ten Star Group.
• A reader’s comment asked whether setting things right could resurrect Teacher, giving Wen Jing hope that the ruin might hold a way to bring her teacher back.
• After Meng□□ closed the review app, Wen Jing spoke in Huaxia and left a message for possible readers, planning to judge whether the novel described her discovery and whether Meng□□ was only a projection of the real author.

Wen Jing endured the slow updates while studying Star Alliance technology and resisting the phone’s distracting influence, waiting for the novel’s timeline to catch up with her reality. Her reconnaissance clone then arrived at the Phase Creation Civilization, the Star Alliance’s founder.

• Wen Jing waited through Meng□□’s irregular updates and used her time to study Star Alliance technology, though phone content repeatedly distracted her.
• Wen Jing reassured herself that waiting could help her resurrect her teacher and that she could devour the exposed world core if necessary.
• Wen Jing’s reconnaissance clone appeared at the Phase Creation Civilization, a nomadic civilization that had discovered other peoples across the cosmos.
• Wen Jing learned that the Phase Creation Civilization had built wormhole stargates spanning up to a hundred thousand light-years, forming the Star Alliance’s cosmic highway network.

Wen Jing learned how the Phase Creation Civilization had split from Changheng after a dispute over whether to resist or embrace other cultures. She discovered that Changheng’s civil war had destroyed the Weavers Civilization, whose surviving legacy the Phase Creation Civilization had commemorated and scattered across the universe.

• The Phase Creation Civilization told Wen Jing that its probe had received an intelligible echo from a civilization more advanced than itself, which it identified as its former parent civilization, Changheng.
• The Phase Creation leader explained that Changheng had divided into the Purity Faction, which rejected foreign cultural influence, and the Inclusivity Faction, which accepted it as a source of progress.
• The leader said a Purity Faction border guard destroyed a lower-level gaseous civilization, triggering a civil war that ended with the Inclusivity Faction breaking away to become the Phase Creation Civilization.
• Wen Jing recognized the extinct Weavers Civilization’s art in a relic and learned that the Phase Creation Civilization had scattered such memorials through the universe since its independence.

The Purity Faction attacked the Phase Creation Civilization with technology that weakened the strong nuclear force, trapping Wen Jing and the Phase Creation leader in a disintegrating chamber. Wen Jing saved the leader, but the enemy’s reinforcements arrived as the battle escalated.

• The Phase Creation leader warned Wen Jing that the Purity Faction would trace their detection pulse and likely attack, while Wen Jing struggled with whether to act or let events follow the story’s apparent plot.
• The Purity Faction launched a rule-distortion attack that weakened the strong nuclear force around the meeting chamber, causing matter and the Phase Creation leader’s body to disintegrate.
• The Phase Creation Civilization tried to stabilize reality and strike the enemy’s energy towers, but its attacks were absorbed and its technology proved far behind the Purity Faction’s.
• The Phase Creation leader appeared to survive because Wen Jing used level-three civilization technology to protect them.
• Additional Purity Faction energy towers and warships arrived across the surrounding star field.

Wen Jing realized that the world was suppressing her thinking and that information from the book had trapped her Strongest Clone in a cognitive virus. The Reconnaissance Clone pushed toward the phone’s world core to devour it and free the Strongest Clone.

• The Phase Creation Civilization prepared for war while the Purity Faction targeted the Atom Controller’s reconnaissance craft, and Wen Jing resolved not to stake her teacher’s resurrection on an uncertain possibility.
• The Devouring Clone returned to the Wilderness Body, while the Reconnaissance Clone entered the home world and found the Strongest Clone bound inside an information-thread cocoon around a phone.
• Wen Jing realized that the world’s rules had suppressed both clones’ thinking, preventing them from coordinating their Multiple Consciousnesses properly.
• The Reconnaissance Clone saw that the phone contained the world core and charged toward it, but book comments poured into her consciousness and froze her in midair.
• The Devouring Clone’s will drove the Reconnaissance Clone forward as Wen Jing recognized the information threads as a cognitive virus that had spread through her clones.

Wen Jing resisted the cognitive haze by trusting herself and sent her Reconnaissance Clone to devour the information window, while her Devouring Clone escaped the Purity Faction’s distortion field with the Phase Creation leader. She left the attackers behind and appeared at the Purity Faction’s capital, triggering its highest-level invasion alert.

• Wen Jing set a one-hour self-destruct limit and had her Reconnaissance Clone devour the information window as the Strongest Clone fought off the cognitive haze.
• The Devouring Clone endured the Purity Faction’s strong-force distortion field until the fleet abandoned capture and fired a kinetic projectile at her.
• Wen Jing traced a door inside the distortion field and used its doorknob to escape with the Phase Creation leader, discovering that the route reached another territory.
• Wen Jing and the Phase Creation leader appeared at the Changheng Purity Faction’s capital, setting off the civilization’s highest-level invasion alert.
• The Purity Faction’s expeditionary commander learned that Wen Jing had jumped 130,000 light-years and breached the capital’s defenses.

Wen Jing invaded the Boundary-Breaking Empire’s homeworld, absorbed its energy attacks, and dismantled Hengshou Tower before surviving a powerful spacetime strike. She began producing mechanical insects from the tower’s material, and the Empire struggled to destroy the growing swarm.

• Wen Jing arrived on the Boundary-Breaking Empire’s homeworld, where the Purity Faction evacuated nearby Changheng people as she surveyed their civilization.
• The Boundary-Breaking Empire’s Supreme Council ordered attacks on Wen Jing, but her body absorbed the particle beams and regenerated as she headed toward Hengshou Tower.
• Wen Jing dissolved Hengshou Tower, prompting the Empire to strike the site with Spacetime Ripple and reduce it to ruins.
• Mechanical insects emerged from the ruins, and the Empire’s analysts mistook them for primitive ground units made from the tower’s material.
• The Empire attacked the insects with directed-energy beams, but many survived and burrowed into cover, while more insects crawled from the ruins.

Wen Jing’s mechanical insect swarm multiplied across the Changheng homeworld, adapting to the empire’s attacks and escaping its spacetime solidification field. The swarm then pursued the evacuating fleet and bypassed its defenses, leaving the Boundary-Breaking Empire under attack.

• Wen Jing’s production insects multiplied underground while guard insects drew fire, and the swarm survived repeated bombardments as its numbers and abilities grew.
• The command center failed to find an energy source or decipher the swarm’s network, then ordered an evacuation and activated a regional spacetime solidification field.
• Wen Jing gathered the insects into giant forms and pursued the evacuation ships, but the swarm leaped beyond the field just before it closed.
• The Boundary-Breaking Empire’s warships attacked with kinetic projectiles, plasma spears, and repulsion fields, but the swarm absorbed the projectiles, evaded attacks with Phase Jump, and crossed the defenses.
• The mechanical insects reappeared beside the warships and began striking the nearest hull.

Wen Jing used her new S-rank [Information Touch] trait to stop the Boundary-Breaking Empire's escaping warships by suppressing the function of their warp engines. She began adjusting to the trait's overwhelming flow of information and recognized that its range depended on how much information she could process.

• The Boundary-Breaking Empire ordered its fleets to scatter and flee, while some ships sacrificed themselves to delay the mechanical swarm.
• Wen Jing captured nine warships and their crews, preserving the ships' valuable internal technology and leaving the crews under the [Intoxication] trait.
• With eight minutes left before the Ancient Wilderness world self-destructed, Wen Jing's clones devoured nearly all of its world core and obtained [Information Touch].
• Wen Jing used [Information Touch] to suppress the function of the fleeing warships' warp engines, leaving them unable to jump away.
• Wen Jing adjusted to the new trait's vast information flow and realized its range depended on her ability to process information; the Tactical Glasses had disappeared when she devoured the world core.

Wen Jing discovered that Information Touch could suppress states and temporarily elevate her traits, then helped the Phase Creation Civilization recover the battlefield and accept the Boundary-Breaking Empire’s surrender. She spent all her skill points evolving a defense for her mind and consciousness, and fell into a profound state as the evolution began.

• Wen Jing used Information Touch to suppress the Phase Creation leader’s injuries and temporarily elevate Gravity Silk Gland III, pulling fifteen disabled evacuation warships back to the battlefield.
• Wen Jing opened a spatial gate for the Phase Creation Civilization’s fleet, left them to treat their leader and clean up the battlefield, then departed with her three clones.
• The Phase Creation Civilization analyzed the abandoned mechanical swarms and met the Boundary-Breaking Empire’s people, who learned they could surrender.
• Wen Jing traveled to a secluded asteroid belt and ordered her panel to evolve an ability that would protect her mind and consciousness from supernatural interference.
• Wen Jing spent all 94,642 skill points and felt her consciousness fall into a deep, all-encompassing place.

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.