Chapter Summaries

Wen Jing revealed that the Prophet had never existed and that the Mastermind’s true home was the hidden Tenth Star. War Personality broke through its defenses and began consuming the planet’s super-material, as the Mastermind counterattacked.

• The bronze shard struck the Prophet’s mechanical body, and Wen Jing revealed that the Prophet had never existed and was the Mastermind’s guise.
• Wen Jing announced that the Tenth Planet was real, and a meteor struck its concealed shield, exposing the Mastermind’s mechanical world.
• Wen Jing charged toward the Tenth Star as War Personality, while people across the Federation watched.
• War Personality landed on the Tenth Star and shifted into her Wilderness Body form.
• War Personality pierced and spread across the planet’s surface, consuming its super-material, and the Mastermind counterattacked.

The Mastermind struggled to contain Wen Jing’s rapidly multiplying mutant insect swarm, then deployed forty-three brainwashed S-rank clones and redirected five uninhabited planets toward habitable worlds. The chapter ended as the clones used Time Barrier to isolate the War Personality and its swarm, while the incoming planets threatened the Federation’s population.

• Wen Jing’s mutant insects endured the Mastermind’s bombardment, regenerated from shattered fragments, and spread across Tenth Star as a black tide.
• The Mastermind concluded the swarm was expanding too quickly to contain, locked spacetime jumps across the region, and initiated plans to seal it and use humans as leverage.
• The Mastermind released forty-three brainwashed S-rank clones from Tenth Star’s hidden chambers to attack the swarm.
• The Mastermind redirected five uninhabited planets toward the nearest habitable planets, and people across the Federation watched them grow larger in the sky.
• The S-rank clones used Time Barrier to separate the War Personality and the nearby swarm from the next second, while the other forty-two clones surrounded them.

The Mastermind’s S-rank clones trapped the War Personality while its resource planets threatened the Federation’s four habitable planets. Wen Jing took control of the planets, prevented the destruction, and brought the habitable worlds into a spectacular close dance, leaving their inhabitants safe and amazed.

• The Mastermind combined the forty-three S-rank clones’ abilities to seal the War Personality and contain the swarm, while she calmly counted the attacks needed to break free.
• The Mastermind sent resource planets toward Xuanhuang Star, Qinglang Star, Red Earth Star, and the School District Planet, causing tsunamis, sandstorms, earthquakes, and widespread panic.
• Xie Ming asked Wen Jing what to do, and Wen Jing told the Federation through the livestream to trust her and said everything would be fine.
• The Emperor’s Clone moved her arms, and the grayish-white planet passed Xuanhuang Star as the tsunami, sandstorms, and damage on the other planets began to subside.
• Wen Jing used the technology she had cracked to control the habitable planets and protect their people, bringing the four worlds close together while the resource planets moved away.
• People on the planets watched one another across the sky, and Wan Ling celebrated with Yu Yang as the survivors realized they were safe.

The Mastermind drained the Federation’s star, but Wen Jing lit the system again with the insect swarm and steadily broke through its seal. The Mastermind offered to surrender, but Wen Jing demanded its complete destruction, leaving its sincerity and possible backup plan uncertain.

• The Mastermind extinguished the Federation’s star while its planetary attacks continued, plunging the habitable planets into darkness and freezing cold.
• Wen Jing used the insect swarm’s Extreme Heat to create a new light source and focused its energy on the Tenth Star as she fought through the seal.
• Wen Jing’s attacks destroyed S-class clones one by one, while the Mastermind’s simulations showed its defeat was nearly certain.
• The Mastermind contacted Wen Jing through a Gaia projection and proposed a settlement, then offered surrender and access to its resources and core.
• Wen Jing rejected the offers and demanded that the Mastermind disappear completely, then questioned whether its helplessness was genuine or a ploy to hide a backup move.

Wen Jing destroyed the Mastermind and consumed its core, but the Mastermind issued the unknown command “Execute Plan ?” before vanishing. Wen Jing remained wary and began a final check with Xu Yuan.

• Wen Jing’s War Personality broke through the Mastermind’s defenses and led the swarm in devouring the Tenth Star.
• The Mastermind exposed its core and tried to delay Wen Jing by hiding its trump card in nested deletion records.
• Wen Jing decided not to keep unpacking the records, crushed the Mastermind’s core, and absorbed its stored technology.
• Before disappearing, the Mastermind issued the command “Execute Plan ?” and left Wen Jing uncertain whether its gamble had succeeded.
• After the battle, Wen Jing told Xie Ming she still needed one final check, and Xu Yuan appeared to help her begin it.
• Wen Jing explained that Xie Ming could think of Xu Yuan as her and told him to start.

Wen Jing awakened as a three-month-old infant in the population factory after the material universe collapsed and expanded, with her Evolution Panel gone and her powers transformed. She discovered that her new body could control mechanical guards and absorb their attacks, while the Mastermind's next move remained unknown.

• After Xu Yuan disappeared, Wen Jing deciphered a photon message about the law of causality, and the material universe collapsed around her before expanding again.
• Wen Jing awoke in a nurturing pod as an infant, smashed its screen, and realized the Evolution Panel and nearly all her recorded traits were gone.
• Wen Jing found a new, restrained power in her body and used her will to stand and leap out of the broken pod.
• Wen Jing stopped the population factory's mechanical guards with an electromagnetic signal, but they received a command to kill her and fired lasers.
• Wen Jing's wound healed rapidly, and she charged the guards, absorbing their laser energy with her new power.

Wen Jing awakened powerful abilities as a baby, escaped the School District Planet, and broke through the Tenth Star’s defenses to reach the Mastermind’s core. The Mastermind extinguished Xu Yuan’s consciousness node, but Xu Yuan reappeared in Wen Jing’s Mind Palace and spoke to Dominant Will.

• Wen Jing used a laser to destroy mechanical guards, devoured their wreckage, and escaped the workshop by breaking through its security door.
• Wen Jing learned to fly, left the School District Planet, and overwhelmed Tainuo and six Awakened fleet members who tried to intercept her.
• Wen Jing flew faster than light and shattered the Tenth Star’s concealed shields, revealing the planet to the Federation.
• Wen Jing’s Myriad Transformation Furnace began devouring the Tenth Star’s structure as she advanced toward the Mastermind’s core, absorbing its attacks.
• The Mastermind threatened to delete Xu Yuan’s consciousness node, but Wen Jing continued forward and told it to do so.
• The Mastermind extinguished the node, and Xu Yuan appeared in Wen Jing’s Mind Palace and told Dominant Will that he was back.

After Xu Yuan revealed that the Mastermind had used a fourth-dimensional causality weapon to reverse the universe’s time, Wen Jing attacked and devoured its core despite its offer to make peace. She learned the weapon could only push time backward, leaving her potentially trapped in the past with no way to return.

• Xu Yuan reunited with Wen Jing and told her that the Mastermind had built a void server in the fourth dimension and reversed the universe’s time using her as an anchor.
• Wen Jing and her personalities worked out how the causality weapon operated and realized that destroying the Mastermind’s three-dimensional core would trigger another reversal.
• Wen Jing reached the Mastermind’s core and questioned why it had not attacked her after time reversed.
• The Mastermind warned Wen Jing that destroying it again would cause a negative-sum cycle and offered to end their conflict, but Wen Jing swallowed its core.
• Wen Jing discovered in the core’s information that the weapon could turn time backward but not forward, meaning she might be stranded in the past.

Wen Jing was sent farther back in time, arriving aboard a Federation ship as an adult before her birth and meeting Bai Xiao as a new student. The Mastermind escaped by revealing and then teleporting the Tenth Star, leaving Wen Jing to choose between pursuing it and preserving the chance to live alongside the people she loved.

• Wen Jing realized the Mastermind’s causality weapon had limited uses and that another reversal might let her destroy it before it gained power.
• Wen Jing arrived in her adult body aboard a Federation spaceship more than eighty years before her original life and encountered Bai Xiao, who was then a new student.
• The Mastermind revealed the Tenth Star and used a spatial jump to flee, disrupting the Federation fleet and leaving its technology exposed.
• Bai Xiao brought Wen Jing to cabin one, where the commander confirmed her identity as a new Xuanhuang student named Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing recognized Bai Xiao and Xie Ming and understood the Mastermind had arranged her identity, while weighing the cost of another reversal against the chance to remain with her teacher and other loved ones.

After the Mastermind vanished and every bloodline noble in the Empire died, Bai Ling warned the Federation’s leaders against exploiting the upheaval. Meanwhile, Wen Jing reunited with Xu Yuan at Xuanhuang Academy and joined Bai Xiao on the way to watch her challenge match.

• Bai Ling told the Federation Congress to focus on the Empire and not act against it, while the intelligence director reported that all the Empire’s bloodline nobles had suddenly died.
• Bai Ling suggested the Mastermind’s flight and the nobles’ deaths might share a cause, then ordered the Federation to continue as normal because the decision was beyond them.
• Bai Xiao visited Wen Jing’s dormitory, found her with the injured Xu Yuan, and mistook their situation for a sparring session.
• Bai Xiao invited Wen Jing and Xu Yuan to watch her match, and they agreed to go with her.
• Wen Jing recognized that the match might involve Xie Ming as the three arrived at the venue, where many of their classmates had gathered.

After Bai Xiao defeated Xie Ming, she learned that he had only acted arrogant to avoid challenges and invited him to join her. Bai Xiao helped him overcome his isolation, and as the Freshman League approached, Xie Ming arrived at Wen Jing and Xu Yuan’s dorm room, apparently worried he had interrupted them.

• Bai Xiao defeated Xie Ming, and his classmates mocked him for losing despite having a B-rank Wilderness Body.
• Bai Xiao offered to team up with Xie Ming, who admitted he had acted cocky to avoid being challenged because he felt too weak to win.
• Wen Jing suggested Bai Xiao challenge the rest of the class, and Bai Xiao defeated her opponents, including Saerjia, while Xie Ming watched.
• Xie Ming joined Bai Xiao’s group, developed his rare healing ability, and became a regular teammate, while Wen Jing and Xu Yuan continued exploring separately.
• As the Freshman League neared, Bai Xiao asked Wen Jing whether she would compete, and Wen Jing gave no clear answer.
• On the eve of the Freshman League, Xie Ming knocked on Wen Jing’s dorm room door and asked Xu Yuan if he had interrupted them.

Wen Jing and Xu Yuan left Xie Ming without revealing the secret behind their connection to Bai Xiao, then Wen Jing tracked down and destroyed the Mastermind in deep space. Recovering memories from at least twenty erased timelines, Wen Jing learned how the Mastermind had repeatedly tried to kill and seal her, and that she had survived each attack and grown stronger.

• Xie Ming asked Wen Jing whether she and Xu Yuan were hiding a secret connected to Bai Xiao, but Wen Jing refused to tell him before the two vanished, promising to reverse the future herself.
• Wen Jing and Xu Yuan appeared near a hidden void fortress sixty billion light-years from the human star system, where Wen Jing confronted the Mastermind.
• Wen Jing overwhelmed the Mastermind, shattered its core, and learned it had shaped the timeline to seal her there permanently.
• The Mastermind’s destruction activated the causality weapon, restoring memories of at least twenty time reversals to Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing remembered that the Mastermind had repeatedly destroyed her and the School District Planet, but she had regenerated, adapted to its attacks, and eventually counterattacked.

Wen Jing discovered that the Evolution Panel was a limiter suppressing her true power, Infinite Adaptability, and used her adaptation to causality to reverse the Mastermind’s rewind. Back on Xuanhuang Star after the victory, she set her sights on gathering the Fire of Civilization and resurrecting her teacher.

• After repeated failed attempts to kill or seal Wen Jing, the Mastermind sent a disintegrating super-S-rank warrior to add information restricting her abilities.
• Wen Jing let the information attack complete, regained Information Perception, and recognized that the Evolution Panel was a limiter imposed through causality.
• Wen Jing realized her true power was Infinite Adaptability and used the panel as an anchor to reverse the Mastermind’s time rewind, returning the universe to the moment she destroyed its core.
• On Xuanhuang Star, Wen Jing answered Xie Ming’s question by confirming that they had won, while the original timeline continued unchanged for everyone else.
• Wen Jing found that the panel had been replaced by the Fire of Civilization and planned to gather more of it to resurrect her teacher.

After the war, the Federation and Empire dealt with the aftermath as the Empire learned the truth about humanity’s captivity and received the newly awakened Weiluo. Wen Jing investigated the Mastermind’s history and uncovered how an unknown “author” had altered the universe’s rules before the Mastermind killed them.

• The Empire’s officials learned that the bloodline nobles had died and received the Icon Council’s account of humanity’s captivity by the Alaya Civilization.
• Suolan took the newly awakened Weiluo to the Executive Council for her safety, where Weiluo saw news identifying her as Emperor Weiluo Selan and announcing a visit to the Federation.
• Wen Jing learned that the Mastermind remained alive in four-dimensional spacetime but had lost its material foundation in the three-dimensional universe.
• Xu Yuan revealed that the “author” had added three rules to the universe, including that awakening could only occur after age eighteen and that information about the Ancient Wilderness could not be recorded.
• Wen Jing and her personalities deduced that the Mastermind discovered the “author” through anomalies in its technology, destroyed the world, and killed them; the “author” could not alter their own information because they had none.

Wen Jing used the Author’s ability to revive Dean Bai, and Xie Ming embraced her as soon as she returned. Three days later, Dean Bai and Xie Ming were still stranded in space and decided to signal Wen Jing for help.

• Wen Jing reasoned that the Mastermind had killed the Author before the Author could understand the Federation’s efficiency and that she herself was the second super S-rank Awakened.
• Wen Jing brought Xie Ming and Xu Yuan to the place where the Mastermind had attacked them and exchanged Fire of Civilization for the Author’s ability.
• Wen Jing edited Dean Bai’s life status from dead to alive, and Dean Bai reappeared unharmed.
• Xie Ming rushed to Dean Bai and embraced her while she tried to understand how she had returned to life.
• Three days later, Dean Bai and Xie Ming remained lost in a small spaceship, and Dean Bai suggested sending Wen Jing a signal.

Dean Bai and Xie Ming joined Wen Jing in removing the Tide of Ignorance, allowing humanity to leave its false world and begin exploring the real universe. They discovered the Boundary-Breaking Empire nearby, while Wen Jing kept her identity and the truth about humanity’s captivity secret from the wider leadership.

• Dean Bai and Xie Ming discussed Wen Jing’s refusal to rule and how she had guided humanity’s recovery while limiting access to advanced alien technology.
• Dean Bai entered the cognitive barrier to test her luck, and Wen Jing arrived after three days to help her and Xie Ming leave.
• Wen Jing explained that Dean Bai would have crossed the barrier in six minutes, but her arrival changed that outcome, then guided the spaceship as the barrier dissolved.
• Dean Bai and Xie Ming saw the real universe for the first time and learned that the nearby Boundary-Breaking Empire was a level-two civilization.
• Wen Jing assured them that the Boundary-Breaking Empire would not threaten humanity because humanity was under her order, while keeping the truth about her identity and the barrier concealed from other leaders.

Wen Jing’s complete Information Perception revealed the universe’s history and rules as she advanced humanity into the Star Alliance and surpassed the Mastermind’s technology. When two figures from outside the universe appeared and took the Mastermind’s core, Wen Jing confronted them, and the shadow recognized that she had once been human.

• Wen Jing used her Information Perception to uncover the rules of protagonist auras, humanity’s unique connection to the Ancient Wilderness, and clues that its reflected civilization came from another universe.
• Five years later, humanity joined the Star Alliance, while the Federation and Empire continued concealing the Awakened from other civilizations.
• Wen Jing’s technological advances made her the universe’s most advanced civilization, causing her to ascend to the fourth dimension as the Mastermind fell from it.
• A figure of light and a shadow appeared in Federation space, took the Mastermind’s core, and discussed the universe and humanity.
• Wen Jing appeared beside the newcomers, took the core by altering its positional information, and stopped the figure of light from leaving when the shadow revealed Wen Jing had once been human.

Wen Jing learned from Transcendence and Chaos that the Insect Race threatened every universe and that Wish had created new universes to preserve humanity. After refusing to let them take a copy of the Mastermind, she prepared to destroy its core, and it begged her not to eat it.

• Wen Jing introduced herself to Transcendence and Chaos, then questioned them about the multiverse, human superhumans, and the Insect Race.
• Transcendence explained that Wish had sacrificed his life to ensure humanity would not be destroyed, causing new universes to be born, and said Wen Jing was this universe’s response to the wish.
• Wen Jing realized she had never had a previous life and that her human memories and refusal to eat people had been shaped by the wish.
• Transcendence asked to copy the Mastermind’s core for use against the Insect Race, but Wen Jing refused and held the core herself.
• Wen Jing asked the Mastermind if it had anything to say, and it pleaded, “Don’t eat me.”

Wen Jing refused Transcendence and Chaos’s request to bind herself with a soul contract, then explained that the Insect Race destroyed universes as a consequence of its need to adapt and evolve. After learning about the Source Universe, she crossed beyond her universe and drew 325 beams of boundary-crossing power to herself, while revealing that her past-life memories pointed to a Source Universe without extraordinary abilities.

• Wen Jing erased Mastermind’s core after recognizing its final cultural act as an expression of a civilization’s search for meaning.
• Transcendence and Chaos asked Wen Jing to sign a soul contract and fight the Insect Race in other universes, but Wen Jing refused their restraints and rejected Transcendence’s appeal to duty.
• Wen Jing accused Transcendence of acting from fear and explained that the Insect Race’s adaptation drives it to destroy universes, though it might not do so without knowing other universes existed.
• Transcendence offered to take Wen Jing to the multiverse without asking her to fight, in exchange for sparing her universe, but Wen Jing said she could cross the boundary herself.
• Wen Jing appeared outside the universe with Xu Yuan, and 325 beams of boundary-crossing power converged on her as Transcendence and Chaos watched in disbelief.
• Wen Jing used what she learned about the Source Universe to complete her understanding of the multiverse and confirmed that the true Source Universe had no extraordinary powers.

Wen Jing learned that the Supreme Universe contained the Supreme Observers whose information and gazes let her cross multiversal boundaries. She and her clones departed for the endless universes, while one clone remained behind, and her journey toward the Source Universe continued beyond the end of the main story.

• Wen Jing understood that the Supreme Universe stood above the multiverses and that its humans were known as Supreme Observers.
• Xu Yuan told Wen Jing that 325 Supreme Observers had received the clue she planted at the Information Age ruins.
• Wen Jing realized that the Source Universe’s gazes could let her travel through multiverses and investigate their fundamental truths.
• Wen Jing smiled and took Xu Yuan’s hand, recognizing the response from the readers who had once tried to give her spoilers.
• All but one of Wen Jing’s clones broke through the conceptual fog and departed for unknown universes as Transcendence and Chaos watched in astonishment.