Chapter Summaries

Wen Jing joined Aoderiqi and the others to explore an ocean world in search of rare crystals from the seafloor. After astonishing her teammates with her controlled planetary form, she followed Aoderiqi toward the deep-sea canyon where the crystals had been found.

• Seweiya, Kashi, Weierna, Aoderiqi, and Wen Jing arrived in the ocean world and gathered at Weierna’s fluorescent beacon.
• Wen Jing descended from the sky as a huge planet, then compressed her form to a ten-meter sphere and landed gently on the sea.
• Wen Jing’s display stunned Seweiya, Kashi, and Weierna, while Aoderiqi praised her and privately grew greedier.
• Aoderiqi led the team beneath the waves toward an undersea canyon about three thousand meters down, where he had found rare crystals before.
• The team passed into the dark deep-sea zone, with only their own light illuminating the descent.

The team explored an abyssal canyon and found dark crystals and what appeared to be the ruins of a civilization. As they considered the dangers and possible treasures inside, the group stood poised to explore farther.

• Aoderiqi led the team around a powerful presence beneath the sea, and Wen Jing said it had been watching them.
• The team descended to the abyssal region and followed Weierna's fluorescent markers into Aoderiqi's canyon.
• Weierna, Seweiya, and Kashi collected dark crystal fragments from the canyon's outer area.
• Wen Jing led the team deeper, where they found a fallen stone pillar and damaged statues that looked like civilization ruins.
• Weierna warned that the ruins could be dangerous, while Seweiya and Kashi showed interest in exploring them for rare treasures and Wilderness Weapons.
• Aoderiqi said the ruins might explain the area's danger and valuable crystals, but agreed that exploring them was risky.

Wen Jing and the others discovered a tentacled altar and were trapped by Aoderiqi, who offered them as sacrifices to the Great Deep Sea. As the ruins transformed the group, Wen Jing resisted and unleashed the power of a star, leaving the others’ fate uncertain.

• Wen Jing agreed to continue exploring, and the group found a massive altar surrounded by dark crystals and topped with a tentacled statue.
• Aoderiqi revealed his betrayal and summoned the Great Deep Sea, awakening the ruins and trapping the group in a wave of corruption.
• Seweiya, Kashi, Weierna, and Aoderiqi began mutating, while Wen Jing analyzed the transformation and deflected Aoderiqi’s attack with her Gravitational Field.
• Wen Jing told the others to return, but Seweiya, Kashi, and Weierna could not escape because the corruption had locked down their bodies and minds.
• A crack opened across Wen Jing’s black planet, releasing blazing light and magma as her Gravitational Field forced the surrounding seawater aside.

Wen Jing rescued Seweiya, Kashi, and Weierna from the ruin’s mental contamination, then stayed behind to investigate its effects and seek its world core. After battling the mutated Aoderiqi, she deliberately accepted the infection to test how it affected her.

• Wen Jing used her star-like Wilderness Body to dispel the mutations in Seweiya, Kashi, and Weierna and send them out of the abyss.
• The three recognized Wen Jing’s power and left, grateful that she had saved them.
• Wen Jing suppressed her stellar light, changed back into her insect form, and decided to investigate the ruin and devour its world core.
• Aoderiqi recovered from the star’s radiance and attacked Wen Jing, while his mind became increasingly consumed by fanaticism and his body continued to mutate.
• Wen Jing repeatedly repelled Aoderiqi and determined that his growing physical strength still fell short of S-rank.
• Wen Jing accepted the ruin’s mental infection deliberately, and frenzied murmurs flooded her mind.

Wen Jing accepted the ruin’s whispers and transformed into a high-ranking kin of Cthulhu, while her Sovereign Will tested how the corruption affected her personality. She found and devoured the ruin’s world core, gaining the A-rank trait Indescribable.

• Wen Jing’s body and consciousness transformed under the statue’s gaze, and Aoderiqi submitted to her as a superior being.
• Wen Jing’s Sovereign Will questioned the kin personality and found that its sense of beauty, logic, and language had changed, though it retained its autonomy.
• Wen Jing discovered that the altar was dedicated to Dagon and Hydra and that the transformed Aoderiqi had abandoned his human identity.
• Wen Jing used a Skill Point to learn that the ruin’s world core was indescribable, then began devouring it.
• Wen Jing devoured more than half the world and gained the A-rank trait Indescribable.

After returning from the ruins, Wen Jing revealed that her Wilderness Body had evolved into a star and announced she would enter the Compatibility Trial. Elsewhere, her Analysis Personality tested biological swarms, but their crude control and lack of genuine awareness left Wen Jing without the force she wanted.

• Wen Jing purged the contamination from her kin personalities and killed the dazed Aoderiqi as the ruins collapsed.
• Seweiya, Kashi, and Weierna returned to the Awakened Guild and reported that Aoderiqi had lured them into the ruins to sacrifice them and empower himself.
• The three survivors described Wen Jing’s transformation into a star, her suppression of Aoderiqi, and her decision to stay behind so they could escape.
• Wen Jing returned safely, took Xu Yuan by the hand, and announced she would participate in the month’s Compatibility Trial, revealing that her compatibility had exceeded 60%.
• Wen Jing’s Analysis Personality tested a biological swarm made with Alaya Race technology, but its units became confused and attacked one another when given complex commands.
• Wen Jing concluded that the swarm lacked consciousness and strategic judgment, and that she had no time to let it evolve naturally.

Wen Jing maneuvered the Alaya Race into seeking her out for study, aiming to gain access to its Sacred Core, while her rise in the Empire drew the attention of its three power holders. The Icon Council selected her for membership, and the chapter ended as her 100% Compatibility Trial began.

• Wen Jing explained that the Sacred Core was protected by Boundless, while Xu Yuan noted that entry would require rewriting spatial rules or being invited in.
• Luo Lan confirmed that Weiluo had reached 90% compatibility, and Xu Yuan reported to Panxi that she could use her gravitational properties to locate Ancient Wilderness worlds she had visited.
• Panxi recognized the news as a key to Ancient Wilderness and planned to report it to the Sacred Core, while Xu Yuan received promises of higher research rank and knowledge clearance.
• The marshal, the grand elder, and the prime minister each invited Weiluo to join their power centers, but the Icon Council instead selected her for the Icon Selection.
• Wen Jing stood before Imperial dignitaries for her 100% Compatibility Trial, and the runes activated as she vanished from the platform.

Wen Jing’s Wilderness Body transformed into a black hole, and the Icon Council summoned her to participate in the Icon Selection. Inside the Sacred Core, Gestalt Consciousness protected her identity from its torrent of memories while the six Prophets failed to understand her information.

• Wen Jing’s Wilderness Body formed a black hole before vanishing, and the detector identified her as a fully awakened A-grade Awakened.
• The Icon Council descended over the Awakening Temple and invited Weiluo Selan to enter and take part in the Icon Selection.
• Wen Jing climbed into the Sacred Core, where she discovered that the hall was only a temporary interface and her existence became information.
• The Sacred Core flooded Wen Jing with memories and thoughts, but Gestalt Consciousness anchored her personality node.
• The six Prophets examined Wen Jing’s information and found it impossible to interpret, experiencing confusion for the first time.

Wen Jing used [Indescribable] and [Information Touch] to evade the Sacred Core’s defenses and uncover how it worked. Deep inside, she found that its functions depended on the [Heavenly Evolution] trait and discovered that the Awakened who possessed it was still conscious.

• Wen Jing let the Sacred Core’s information torrent cover her exploration while [Indescribable] confused the six prophets studying her.
• She passed through the Sacred Core’s knowledge layer and learned that the six prophets held unchanging administrator authority.
• Wen Jing used [Information Touch] to bypass the protocol barrier and enter the prophets’ hidden control space.
• She traced the protocols to the Sacred Core’s source and found the [Heavenly Evolution] trait powering its functions.
• Wen Jing discovered that the Awakened linked to [Heavenly Evolution] was still alive and conscious.

Wen Jing discovered that Heavenly Evolution was still conscious but had been tortured by the Sacred Core’s relentless information flow until it could only beg to die. She chose to counter-hijack the Alaya Race’s prophets by copying Heavenly Evolution’s ability and evolving her Personality Network, leaving her with eight personality nodes and a plan underway.

• Wen Jing used Information Touch to suppress nearby protocol noise and tried to communicate with the consciousness sustaining the Sacred Core.
• The consciousness finally responded by begging Wen Jing to kill it.
• The Creation Personality analyzed how the information torrent had worn away Heavenly Evolution’s identity and left it in constant pain.
• Wen Jing identified the Sacred Core’s protocols as a way to counter-hijack the six Alaya prophets, but concluded she needed them to open their defenses themselves.
• Wen Jing spent 21,790 Skill Points to copy Heavenly Evolution’s characteristic and activated the copied ability.
• Wen Jing spent one million Skill Points to evolve Split III, increasing her Personality Network from four nodes to eight.

Wen Jing took control of the Sacred Core by replacing Heavenly Evolution and the six prophets, ending the Alaya Race’s rule and allowing her to save Weiluo. She began absorbing the civilization’s knowledge and explored how Xu Yuan could join human civilization.

• Wen Jing transferred the Sacred Core’s protocols to herself, and Heavenly Evolution chose to die after gaining freedom.
• Wen Jing used six personality nodes to overwrite the consciousnesses of the six prophets and take control of the Sacred Core.
• Xu Yuan Star vanished when the Alaya Civilization was replaced by the Insectoid Civilization, and Wen Jing rescued Weiluo and brought him to a prepared life-support pod.
• Xu Yuan explained that he could join the humans of the Empire as an Awakened, while the Federation’s humans did not count as a civilization under the Mastermind’s control.
• Wen Jing devoted her computing power to absorbing the Alaya Race’s accumulated knowledge.

Wen Jing found that Holy Spirit's ability could resurrect her teacher at the permanent cost of one Clone, but decided to prioritize attacking the Mastermind. Meanwhile, the Sacred Core announced that Xu Yuan had entered Ancient Wilderness and returned through an agent, prompting the Alaya Civilization to prepare for a major campaign.

• Wen Jing found the file on Holy Spirit and learned from Xu Yuan that its ability could exchange the living and dead states, allowing her to resurrect her teacher by permanently sacrificing one Clone.
• Wen Jing learned the exchange would cost 1,323,409 Skill Points and estimated that she could gather enough in about five months.
• Wen Jing and her personalities decided to plan an immediate surprise attack on the Mastermind before it could grow stronger, using their concealed control of the Sacred Core as an advantage.
• The Sacred Core announced that Xu Yuan's planet had entered Ancient Wilderness and that an agent had successfully returned to the material universe as Weiluo.
• Alaya members celebrated the breakthrough and discussed suspending other research to confront the Mastermind, while Panxi wondered whether Xu Yuan had been chosen because Weiluo's separated consciousness accepted him.

Wen Jing prepared to destroy the Alaya Race and chose to enter the Federation as the Empire’s emperor so she could reveal the truth about the Mastermind before the Federation could oppose her. On coronation day, Weiluo Selan emerged from the Awakening Temple and the Empire’s leaders and gathered crowd knelt before her.

• Wen Jing completed preparations for war against the Alaya Race while preserving them as a potential military resource.
• Wen Jing decided that becoming emperor would give her the best chance to expose the Mastermind to the Federation during a public event.
• The Empire announced that Weiluo Selan would return from the Icon Council to be sworn in as its new emperor, stirring reactions across the Empire and Federation.
• On coronation day, the Icon Council descended at the Awakening Temple and Weiluo Selan emerged before the assembled leaders and crowd.
• The Empire’s leaders and nobles knelt to Weiluo Selan, while those who resisted were forced to their knees by an unseen pressure.

After taking the throne, Wen Jing ordered the Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Federation and announced that she would visit in person as a sign of sincerity. The Federation Congress debated her proposal but left the decision unresolved.

• Wen Jing was crowned emperor, and the ceremony’s traditional procedures were largely canceled.
• After five days without issuing orders, Wen Jing summoned the Empire’s officials and ordered them to prepare formal relations with the Federation.
• Wen Jing confronted Lei'ang over unpaid compensation and military corruption, while Suolan began outlining a diplomatic framework.
• Wen Jing said she would personally visit the Federation, and Suolan agreed to have the Executive Council prepare a plan.
• The Federation Congress held an emergency meeting to discuss Wen Jing’s proposed visit, and Dean Fu said the decision was not theirs to make.

Wen Jing learned that the Federation had agreed to receive her and invited her to judge the Academy League, then prepared for the visit and a possible war with the Mastermind. She selected a delegation of forty-nine people, leaving a special-adviser position open, and Panxi questioned her about keeping Xu Yuan’s human lookalike nearby.

• The Prophet agreed to the Federation Congress’s invitation for Wen Jing, and the Federation invited her to attend the Academy League as a special judge.
• Wen Jing reasoned that the Mastermind had accepted because it wanted to investigate her identity, while both civilizations prepared for her visit fifteen days later.
• Wen Jing studied Alaya technology and arranged a force-field blockade as a defensive measure while a hidden Clone accumulated Standardization Meme infection near the Empire’s border.
• Wen Jing selected forty-nine candidates for the fifty-person delegation, and Suolan approved their range of skills and backgrounds.
• Panxi asked Wen Jing why she kept a human named Xu Yuan nearby, and she said his face resembled her proxy; Panxi noted that Xu Yuan had been disfigured and lacked a proper name.

Wen Jing prepared Xu Yuan for the imminent war with Mastermind by sharing her memories of important Federation figures, then led the Empire delegation toward the Federation. The chapter ended as their flagship entered the security perimeter around Mystic Radiance Star and Federation patrol ships began escorting it.

• Wen Jing explained that a human with Xu Yuan's appearance had been created to maintain Weiluo's former relationship with him, and Panxi left unsettled by the sight.
• Xu Yuan read a popular romance novel about the emperor before Wen Jing shared her memories and feelings about people in the Federation with him.
• Wen Jing explored Xu Yuan's mental representations of her acquaintances and learned that Xie Ming's figure carried a label about waiting to confess.
• Wen Jing tried to obtain her teacher's Luck before departure, but Xu Yuan told her she already possessed it.
• Wen Jing ordered the delegation to depart for the Federation, and its flagship entered the security perimeter around Mystic Radiance Star as six Federation patrol ships moved to escort it.

The Empire’s delegation arrived at the Federation, where Emperor Wen Jing’s visit drew intense public attention and a formal reception at Mystic Radiance Academy. Her selective greetings, especially her deliberate omission of Dean Yifan, left the Federation’s leaders wondering about her attitude as the delegation entered the academy.

• The imperial delegation viewed Mystic Radiance Star, while Xu Yuan blocked a young man from approaching Wen Jing, who silently permitted him to do so.
• Wen Jing stepped onto Federation soil, and broadcasts showed her arrival to viewers across the Federation.
• Wan Ling and Yu Yang watched the broadcast at Red Earth Academy, while Ji Shuang, Song Zhi, and Xia Yun also found the emperor’s face familiar.
• Wen Jing greeted Dean Ailin and Fu Yuan at the reception but withdrew her hand before greeting Yifan.
• Ailin guided Wen Jing and the imperial delegation into Mystic Radiance Academy as Federation staff speculated about Wen Jing’s snub of Yifan.

At the Federation Academy League opening ceremony, Wen Jing attended as the Empire’s special guest judge and spoke of humanity’s future before the Ten Star Group launched an attack. She stopped the attackers’ abilities and lifted them into the air, leaving their fate in her hands.

• Little Ye and Heli watched a feed of Wen Jing while Xie Ming ordered the Ten Star Group to attack the ceremony and withdraw once they had turned the Empire against the major conglomerates.
• Wen Jing appeared at Mystic Radiance Academy’s opening ceremony as the special guest judge and told the crowd she hoped they would witness humanity’s future.
• Explosions and energy vines struck the venue, and the Ten Star Group’s disguised members attacked as guards moved to protect Wen Jing.
• Heli prepared to teleport the attackers away, but their abilities suddenly stopped working, preventing their planned escape.
• Wen Jing raised her hand, and a faint halo surrounded the ten attackers as they floated toward her.

Wen Jing stopped Xie Ming's sacrificial summoning of Cthulhu and restored him to human form. She revealed her true identity to the Federation, leaving the venue stunned by her return after four years.

• Xie Ming emerged from beneath Mystic Radiance Academy and used his Wilderness Weapon to head toward the venue, determined to save his companions.
• Cthulhu's summoning filled the venue with supernatural terror, and Wen Jing rushed into the fissure before Fu Yuan and Ailin could act.
• Wen Jing reversed Xie Ming's transformation and forced the summoned entity back, carrying the restored Xie Ming out of the fissure.
• Xie Ming recognized Wen Jing and wondered why she had saved him after thwarting his plans.
• Wen Jing's disguise as Weiluo Selan dissolved, and she revealed herself as Wen Jing to the shocked crowd.

Wen Jing revealed that she had survived and become the Empire's emperor, then confronted the Prophet in the Federation. As the Prophet prepared for a decisive battle, Wen Jing used her bronze Wilderness Weapon against him, and the livestream feeds went dark.

• Wen Jing revealed herself to the Federation and Empire delegations, and people who knew her recognized her across the livestream.
• Wen Jing told Xie Ming that she had found a way to bring Bai Xiao back to life, then called for the Prophet to appear.
• The Prophet arrived, confirmed that he had ordered Wen Jing's execution four years earlier, and sent a death warrior to attack her.
• Wen Jing immobilized the death warrior, and the Prophet recognized that she had reached S-class and proposed they fight somewhere uninhabited.
• Wen Jing demonstrated that her bronze Wilderness Weapon could turn advanced technology into bronze, then sent it toward the Prophet as all livestreams were cut off.