Chapter Summaries

After a Modo leader was assassinated by the spear-wielding Secret Spear, Modo officials blamed Black Star and speculated that the killing was meant to prevent their retreat from the Shattered World Battle. The Crimson Dynasty also believed Black Star had ordered it, and Urranrell decided to covertly help his subordinate escape.

• The Two Kings of Modo learned that the killer matched the wanted criminal Secret Spear, whose history linked him to the Kunde Race incident and the Crimson Dynasty.
• Modo officials debated whether Black Star had ordered the assassination to trap Modo into continuing the Shattered World Battle, while also considering that a third party might be framing him.
• The Two Kings ordered an all-out search for Secret Spear and vowed that Modo would not retreat or compromise, though opposition to their leadership continued to grow.
• Urranrell reviewed the recording, concluded that Secret Spear was Black Star's subordinate, and judged the assassination a dangerous escalation despite its usefulness to the Dynasty.
• Urranrell decided to have Dynasty agents inside Modo covertly assist Secret Spear.

Han Xiao arranged for Rotel to escape Modo Civilization and agreed to consider joining Kasuyi on a dangerous secondary-dimension expedition. Rotel escaped, while political turmoil forced Modo to withdraw from the Shattered World Battle, marking its elimination by Black Star.

• Han Xiao accepted the mission to help Rotel escape and sent mechanical troops with a Sovereign Mecha into Modo territory.
• Han Xiao trained with the Dragon Emperor Stellar Energy Absorption Method, checked Aurora’s progress, and spoke with Kasuyi about exploring a dangerous secondary dimension.
• Rotel evaded Modo’s pursuit, rendezvoused with Han Xiao’s mechanical troops, and used the Sovereign to escape beyond Modo’s reach.
• Modo appointed a temporary new leader, while Maruko and other opposition leaders were cleared and released, strengthening opposition to the Shattered World campaign.
• Modo publicly blamed foreign terrorist organizations for the assassination, while its expeditionary fleets began leaving its territory.
• The Modo opposition forced the pro-war faction to withdraw from the Shattered World Battle, and Modo was eliminated by Black Star.

Han Xiao reprimanded Rotel for assassinating Modo’s leaders without permission, then suspended the Assassins Mutual Aid Society while Rotel lay low and trained. He collected Rotel’s mission rewards and chose the powerful [Fearless Heart] talent, whose surge of confidence nearly made him reckless.

• Han Xiao told Rotel that the assassination had forced the Modo Civilization to withdraw from the Shattered World Battle and ordered the Assassins Mutual Aid Society to suspend its activities.
• Han Xiao delayed settling [Kunde Leader's Last Wish] so he could complete its remaining requirement and claim its Political Asset reward later.
• Han Xiao settled [Escape with Your Life] and received experience, two random rewards, and the [Civilization Leader Assassin] milestone.
• Han Xiao chose [Fearless Heart] from Rotel’s available abilities, gaining an attack bonus against powerful enemies.
• Han Xiao felt an overwhelming urge to challenge powerful opponents, suppressed the feeling, and realized the talent had likely contributed to Rotel’s reckless assassination.

Han Xiao withdrew the Black Star Army from the Shattered World Battle after Modo pulled out, while the army players collected rewards and prepared for the World Server War and Pro League. On Planet Milton, guild alliances built strongholds and organized for the national war, which finally began as major factions watched.

• Han Xiao decided to keep a low profile and focus on technology research after Modo’s withdrawal ended the Black Star Army’s need to fight in the Shattered World Battle.
• The Modo Civilization quietly withdrew its expeditionary forces, and the Black Star Army left the Ferdinand War Zone and settled the imitation mission [Black Star Army War Order].
• Guild alliances from across the Galaxy built strongholds on Planet Milton during a protection period, forming four major camps and positioning their forces for the coming battle.
• Morning Snow and Evening Frost reviewed the Yanhuang Alliance’s defenses and resources, while Meat Bun reported that its professional players had won about 75% of their duels.
• The major factions observed the Immortals without interfering, and the national war finally began on Planet Milton.

The Yanhuang Alliance and the Anti-Black Star Front clashed in the Dragon Soaring Hills, where the Yanhuang Alliance gradually gained the advantage through stronger overall forces and a disruptive charge by Evolution Badge users. Far away, Han Xiao watched the battle and celebrated the resources he expected to earn from repairing and recharging the players’ equipment.

• Morning Snow and Evening Frost directed the Yanhuang Alliance’s preparations as both sides deployed their forces around the main base.
• The battle began, and both alliances suffered heavy losses as their class units fought according to their roles, with Pugilists taking the brunt of the frontline casualties.
• Morning Snow and Evening Frost learned that the Yanhuang Alliance had fewer deaths per player and ordered forty thousand Evolution Badge users to charge as aberrations.
• The aberrations split the enemy vanguard and disrupted its coordination, raising the Anti-Black Star Front’s death count and strengthening the Yanhuang Alliance’s advantage.
• Han Xiao watched Meat Bun’s broadcast and looked forward to earning money from recharging Evolution Badges and repairing mechanical units.

As the world server war raged across Planet Milton, the Yanhuang Alliance maintained its lead while Han Xiao deflected the Empire’s questions about the Immortals. Sorokin decided to secretly interfere in the fighting to help the Infinite Financial Group’s players, unaware that the rules prohibited NPC involvement and that his plan could wipe out his own faction’s forces.

• Players fought across Planet Milton for two days, with the Yanhuang Alliance holding the strongest overall advantage and independent players engaging in battles against one another and the major factions.
• Han Xiao reviewed war reports showing the Yanhuang Alliance’s rising win rate and its ambush victories against rival guild alliances.
• Tarrokov asked Han Xiao why Immortals disappeared and returned stronger, but Han Xiao withheld what he knew and gave only information the Empire could observe for itself.
• Han Xiao estimated that the war would provide enough experience for him to reach level 340 before the Pro League and considered using the Evolution Cube again.
• Sorokin decided to covertly help the Infinite Financial Group’s Immortals win the war so he could attract more players, unaware that NPCs were forbidden from interfering and that his actions could destroy his own faction’s players.

The Reverse Crusade and Hex Armed Forces caught the Apocalypse Foundation between two attacks, but Sorokin intervened without being asked and turned the battles in its favor. His interference sparked outrage and drove many Infinite Financial Group players to defect, leaving Sorokin baffled when his attempt to attract them had the opposite effect.

• The Reverse Crusade attacked the Golden Mountain base while the Apocalypse Foundation’s main force was fighting the Hex Armed Forces, and Sisyphus struggled to defend the base on two fronts.
• Sorokin used Mental Deterrence and support abilities on the battlefield, freezing Reverse Crusade players and helping the Apocalypse Foundation defeat its attackers and the Hex Armed Forces’ troops.
• Players condemned the Apocalypse Foundation on the forum for bringing in a Beyond Grade A, while Sisyphus insisted Sorokin had acted on his own.
• Han Xiao concluded that Sorokin had intervened to make the Infinite Financial Group seem more appealing and saw an opportunity to recruit players disillusioned by the incident.
• The Apocalypse Foundation abandoned its base, and many Infinite Financial Group players resigned and joined other factions, including the Black Star Army, leaving Sorokin bewildered.

The Yanhuang Alliance won the first national war after defeating the Pan-Commercial Union, and Han Xiao celebrated the victory’s benefits to the Black Star Army. He leveled up to 340, received an advancement mission requiring Divine Transformation to reach level 10, and considered buying Planet Milton for the Yanhuang Alliance.

• On the sixth night, the guild alliances launched a battle royale that eliminated seventy percent of the players, and by the thirteenth day only six alliances remained on Planet Milton.
• The Yanhuang Alliance used its aberrations to destroy enemy bases and eliminate two guild alliances, leaving it and the Pan-Commercial Union as the final survivors.
• The Yanhuang Alliance defeated the Pan-Commercial Union in a battle at the Dragon Soaring Grand Canyon, ending the national war and winning widespread congratulations.
• Han Xiao credited the war and Little Sorokin with helping him gather enough experience to rise from level 331 to level 340, triggering an advancement mission to raise one Divine Transformation to level 10.
• Han Xiao requested a golden blueprint from the Crimson Dynasty and considered buying Planet Milton and nearby planets to give to the Yanhuang Alliance.

Han Xiao reached the tenth stage of Divine Transformation: Mechanical, then used the Evolution Cube before completing his level 340 advancement. He gained the Gene Limiter Removal and Void Authority talents, but his newfound power erupted and destroyed the barren planet where he had advanced.

• Han Xiao crafted a gold-quality item, reached the tenth stage of Divine Transformation: Mechanical, and discovered that further advancement required additional conditions.
• Han Xiao used the Evolution Cube, gaining gene optimization and a special bonus to his next racial sublimation.
• Han Xiao completed his level 340 advancement mission and chose the Void Deity and Void Progenitor paths, gaining Gene Limiter Removal and Void Authority.
• Han Xiao’s Black Star Race talent, Mechanical Genius, improved, and he received a huge increase in attributes.
• Han Xiao’s unstable energy burst outward, melting the ground and causing the barren planet to explode.

After completing a powerful advancement that raised his attributes and energy level, Han Xiao hid the planet-destroying reaction from his army and explored his new Void Authority. He connected to the Void Dimension just before meeting Kasuyi, who sensed the new connection and was shocked by how easily it had been established.

• An Army monitoring station detected a massive golden energy eruption, but its investigators found the planet annihilated and no source of the blast.
• Han Xiao revealed that he had caused the explosion during his advancement and told Phillip to report it as an unexplained incident while troops conducted a token search.
• Han Xiao examined his new level 340 attributes, placed his free points into luck and intelligence, and used a Mission Settlement Card to reduce the cost of upgrading Divine Transformation: Mechanical.
• Kasuyi called Han Xiao and urged him to meet in the Void Dimension immediately, while Han Xiao asked Sylvia to manage the Army during his absence.
• Han Xiao used Void Authority to enter and connect to the Void Dimension without difficulty, and Kasuyi sensed the new connection and wondered who had reached its core so quickly.

Han Xiao met Kasuyi in the Void Dimension and learned that Kasuyi had sensed a chance to advance his Divine Transformation inside a dangerous secondary dimension. Han Xiao accepted Kasuyi’s invitation to explore it, eager to claim its secrets before Manison could.

• Han Xiao traveled to Kasuyi’s territory, where Kasuyi noticed his powerful void bloodline and Han Xiao confirmed he had connected to the Void Dimension.
• Kasuyi explained that advanced Divine Transformation could reveal a personal mission whose completion would ease further progress, and said his opportunity lay in an unknown secondary dimension.
• Kasuyi told Han Xiao that powerful, unfamiliar creatures guarded the dimension and had defeated his avatars, so he wanted Han Xiao’s help and Sovereign Mecha for the expedition.
• Han Xiao agreed to accompany Kasuyi in person and received a mission offering 450 billion experience, six random rewards, and a Divine Transformation point.
• Han Xiao concluded that he had taken Manison’s place on the expedition and looked forward to claiming its rewards, while Manison sneezed and suspected Han Xiao was talking about him.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi fought through the Void Lice and forced their way into a mysterious secondary dimension, where they found a populated interstellar civilization guarded by powerful defenders. The chapter left them surrounded by six Beyond Grade As as their Void Dimension connections and related abilities stopped working.

• Kasuyi guided Han Xiao to the secondary dimension, where aggressive Void Lice attacked their ship and Han Xiao's mechanical army defeated them.
• A mysterious Peak Beyond Grade A demanded they leave, but Kasuyi and Han Xiao fought back, and Han Xiao sent the guardian flying with the Star Slaying Blade.
• Han Xiao and Kasuyi broke through the Void Lice's shield and entered the secondary dimension, while the returning guardian declared that its extermination mode had begun.
• Inside, Han Xiao and Kasuyi discovered a bustling city whose residents evacuated into Sanctuaries as turrets and six Beyond Grade As confronted them.
• Kasuyi found that his connection to the Void Dimension was severed, and Han Xiao discovered that his Void-related abilities, Secondary Dimension Army Box, and Dimensional Factory were frozen.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi arrived in an isolated secondary dimension, fought off the Koristi Civilization’s guardians, and escaped to an asteroid belt to investigate their surroundings. As Han Xiao began planning a military base and information-gathering operation, an unidentified man awakened and hoped the newcomers would be useful.

• Fariti confronted Han Xiao and Kasuyi on a Koristi Civilization colony planet and attacked when they refused to surrender; Kasuyi struck him down, and Han Xiao’s mechanical troops fought the other guardians.
• Han Xiao and Kasuyi overwhelmed the six Beyond Grade As, then escaped the planet in the Mechanical Deity after Han Xiao’s slash sent their pursuers crashing into the city.
• Han Xiao and Kasuyi surveyed the vast secondary dimension, found that they could not contact the outside universe, and landed on an asteroid to discuss their options.
• Han Xiao revealed he had spare Sovereign Mechas that could provide a way out, while Kasuyi’s sense of the Divine Transformation opportunity had become vague.
• Han Xiao proposed deciphering the local quantum network, mapping the stars, and building bases and production lines; Kasuyi joked that a Mechanic was far more useful than a Pugilist in their situation.
• A scarred, four-eyed man woke in a mechanical room and murmured that outsiders had finally arrived and might be useful.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi discovered that the space they had entered contained a vast, powerful civilization governed by the Federation of All Stars and preparing the World Restart Plan. After a mysterious sender provided blueprints and rendezvous coordinates, Han Xiao received an S-class hidden mission to escape pursuers and meet them.

• The Super Security Department reviewed footage of Han Xiao and Kasuyi and authorized three divisions to capture them using the Positioning Star Map.
• Han Xiao finished deciphering the local quantum network and found that its universe was larger and more powerful than the Explored Universe, with nearly ten thousand Holy Body Grade powerhouses.
• Han Xiao learned that the Federation of All Stars had imposed martial law to carry out the World Restart Plan, while the local universe had no knowledge of the Secondary Dimension World.
• A mysterious sender transmitted Stealth device blueprints and coordinates, warning Han Xiao to learn the technology and escape his pursuers.
• Han Xiao triggered the S-class hidden mission Relay Across Iterations, whose first stage required him to evade pursuit and rendezvous with the Mysterious Person.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi prepared for the pursuit squad sent to arrest them, hoping to learn more about the local Federation of All Stars. When the squad refused to negotiate, Kasuyi launched a surprise attack and the confrontation became a fight.

• Han Xiao studied the Mysterious Person’s concealment-device blueprint, prepared escape routes, and agreed with Kasuyi to meet the pursuers and seek information.
• Milton led a nine-person Super Security Department squad of three Supreme Grades and six Holy Body Grades toward Han Xiao and Kasuyi’s planet.
• Han Xiao built ten concealment devices, detected the squad’s arrival, and met its members with Kasuyi.
• Milton ordered Han Xiao and Kasuyi to submit to source energy restraints and serve prison sentences; Han Xiao offered to join the Super Security Department, but Milton refused to negotiate.
• Kasuyi struck Milton with a prepared psychic-energy attack, sending him flying, then charged the squad and urged Han Xiao to fight.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi fought off Milton’s pursuit squad, but the nine agents retreated before Han Xiao could unleash his full strength. After the pair activated a concealment device and left to find the Mysterious Person, the Super Security Department discovered that its Positioning Star Map could no longer track them.

• Kasuyi weakened Milton with a prepared psychic attack, and Han Xiao shielded him from the other eight agents’ combined assault.
• Han Xiao and Kasuyi counterattacked, while Han Xiao examined the pursuers’ strength and the Mechanic’s method of storing machinery inside his body.
• Milton and his team abruptly teleported away, and Han Xiao and Kasuyi decided not to pursue them.
• Han Xiao activated the green-gold concealment device, and he and Kasuyi left to meet the Mysterious Person.
• Milton’s squad reported that Han Xiao was exceptionally difficult to harm and prepared to request reinforcements.
• The department head told Milton that the Positioning Star Map had lost track of both fugitives, shocking the squad.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi followed a contact from the Eye of Insight to a hidden mothership, where its leader revealed that he was native to the secondary dimension. He asked them to help destroy the world, claiming that doing so would free him and provide their only way out.

• Han Xiao and Kasuyi waited on Yaldank Planet, learned that their Federation of All Stars bounties had risen, and discussed the Eye of Insight's enormous bounty.
• At an All-Spirit Cards event, a man showed Han Xiao and Kasuyi the green Heaven-Shielding Device and led them aboard a spaceship.
• Lucidias introduced himself as a senior officer of the Eye of Insight and took them to its concealed mothership.
• The Eye of Insight's leader greeted Han Xiao and Kasuyi as outsiders and asked whether the Exploration Era War had ended.
• The leader said he was from the secondary dimension, not one of the First Ones, and asked them to help destroy the world so he could escape and they could leave.

The Mysterious Person explained that the universe had undergone countless iterations and that the Sanctuary preserved knowledge between them, while the World Restart Plan had trapped his civilization in a looping spacetime. He proposed that Han Xiao and Kasuyi kill the Protector to break the loop, offering his knowledge and the Eye of Insight’s supplies in exchange.

• The Mysterious Person revealed that the Federation of All Stars and its people were phantoms trapped in a failed World Restart Plan loop, and that outsiders would die unless they broke it before a cycle ended.
• He described how the Savior Civilization began the Great Restart and how the Sanctuary preserved information across iterations, helping later civilizations develop and eventually produce the World Restart Plan.
• Han Xiao and Kasuyi listened in shock, and Han Xiao considered checking the Mysterious Person’s claims against information from the Sanctuary.
• The Mysterious Person explained that the Protector caused the loop and could create physical avatars from outsiders’ information when they died in a restart.
• He said the Protector could manifest near vessels such as the Positioning Star Map, and proposed breaking into a Super Security Department warehouse to lure and kill him.
• The Mysterious Person offered Han Xiao and Kasuyi access to the Eye of Insight’s supplies and promised to teach Han Xiao his knowledge if they helped break the loop and survive.

Han Xiao and Kasuyi negotiated with Jess over the advanced technology in the secondary dimension, agreeing that Han Xiao would learn some of it while helping break the loop. Meanwhile, Manison developed a prototype of the Virtual Mutiny Virus and added research into countering Han Xiao’s abilities to his plans.

• Han Xiao claimed the technology as his reward, and Kasuyi reluctantly agreed to let him take the lead after Han Xiao reminded him that Kasuyi’s main body was trapped there.
• Kasuyi warned Jess that Han Xiao could teleport away, so Jess agreed to teach Han Xiao some technology first and provide the remaining data closer to the mission’s completion.
• Jess revealed that he was called Jess and had begun retaining his memories over a thousand loops ago.
• Han Xiao received the second-stage mission to destroy the dimensional consciousness, break the loop, free Jess, and obtain his technology, then began lessons with Jess.
• Manison created a weak prototype of the Virtual Mutiny Virus, secured the research as a secret weapon, and added a project to counter Han Xiao’s purification ability.

Han Xiao mastered Jess's mechanical abilities and received a vast collection of technology before preparing with Kasuyi and Jess to infiltrate the Super Security Department's warehouse and destroy the dimensional consciousness entity's core. The chapter left the trio ready to begin their operation, while the fourth Pro League started in the Explored Universe.

• Han Xiao mastered the body-barracks ability and learned class skills from Jess, then copied Jess's accumulated technical data.
• Han Xiao asked Jess to obtain class knowledge for the other four superpower systems, and Jess agreed to help.
• Foreign players searched for Han Xiao to obtain his Character Card, but he was away; the fourth Pro League began with Huaxia facing heightened opposition.
• Han Xiao used the Eye of Insight's resources to build his mechanical army to its storage limit, while Kasuyi sensed that the dimensional core's source energy fragments might enable his Divine Transformation.
• Han Xiao, Kasuyi, and Jess planned to infiltrate the Super Security Department's warehouse by teleporting the Throne into it with forged authorization.
• Jess explained that he would disrupt the looping spacetime to delay the agents while Han Xiao and Kasuyi attacked the dimensional consciousness entity's core; the trio then split up to prepare.