Recaps

As the renewed Heavenly Dog crisis plunged the Mother Planet into chaos, Yi Xuan and his experts struggled to find a solution. Liang Shi proposed the Bullet Plan to penetrate multiple layers of stomach wall, and the chapter ended with someone claiming they had the bullet they needed.

• The announcement of the Heavenly Dog crisis drove people on the Mother Planet into despair, anxiety, and violence, while the Global Security System hesitated to intervene because of the population’s circumstances.
• Yi Xuan and his experts spent three days discussing the crisis but failed to find a practical solution.
• Liang Shi suggested the stomach walls discovered by the advance party might belong to the original Heavenly Dog and warned that it could have many layers.
• Liang Shi demonstrated his Bullet Plan by firing through a stack of paper, but admitted he did not know how to make it work against the Heavenly Dog.
• As the group dismissed the plan, an unidentified voice declared that they had a bullet.

Yi Xuan proposed using the sun’s power to propel the Mother Planet through the Heavenly Dog and escape, reviving his abandoned Billiards Plan as the Detonating the Sun plan. After Niu Keli judged it feasible, Yi Xuan went to Venerable Yuan to choose a destination in the Immortal Realm, and Venerable Yuan began considering the problem.

• Yi Xuan explained that his Billiards Plan would use a collision’s force to send the Mother Planet through the Heavenly Dog, but that they had lacked the power to carry it out.
• Yi Xuan pointed to the sun and proposed using the Dyson Sphere to detonate it and propel the Mother Planet.
• Niu Keli calculated that the plan was feasible, and Yi Xuan assigned the others to work out its details.
• Yi Xuan went to Venerable Yuan, who asked what was happening, and Yi Xuan told him the whole story.
• Venerable Yuan considered the Immortal Realm as Yi Xuan sought his help choosing the Mother Planet’s destination.

Venerable Yuan showed Yi Xuan an Immortal Script map and explained that their Immortal Realm was a Lesser Immortal Realm within a much larger hierarchy. He pointed to the center of their Lesser Immortal Realm as a possible future destination for the Mother Planet.

• Venerable Yuan searched his private library and found a beast hide marked with Immortal Script.
• Venerable Yuan used Immortal Qi to activate the hide, revealing a three-dimensional star domain map.
• Venerable Yuan showed Yi Xuan that their Immortal Realm was a Lesser Immortal Realm, while Middle and Greater Immortal Realms contained vast numbers of realms above it.
• Yi Xuan set aside his shock at the Immortal Realm's scale and focused on finding a future destination for the Mother Planet.
• Venerable Yuan pointed toward the center of their Lesser Immortal Realm and asked Yi Xuan if it would work.

Yi Xuan learned that the Immortal Realm might still be fighting the Demon Race and that the Immortal Court was the safest destination for the Bullet Plan. When the enormous distance seemed to make the plan impossible, Niu Keli completed his calculations and declared they could reach it.

• Venerable Yuan explained that the Mother Planet lay at the edge of the Ziwei Domain and that the Heavenly Dog's presence suggested the Immortal Realm's defenses had failed.
• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan concluded that the Demon Race might still be waging war across the Immortal Realm, and No. 01 estimated their deduction was ninety-five percent likely to be correct.
• Yi Xuan returned to the Dawn with the Immortal Court's coordinates, leaving the team shocked by the distance of more than fifty thousand light-years.
• Niu Keli worked through a day and night of calculations with No. 01's assistance while the others watched.
• Niu Keli finished sixty-eight pages of calculations, stood up excitedly, and declared that they could reach the destination.

Niu Keli showed that the Bullet Plan could use successive solar detonations, including artificial suns, to propel the Mother Planet, but Liang Shi raised the danger to humanity at extreme speeds. Yi Xuan revealed that people could be moved into the former secret realms, now research and development centers, before the planet’s journey.

• Niu Keli explained calculations showing that detonating the sun alone could not accelerate the Mother Planet to its destination.
• Niu Keli presented a multistage propulsion plan using artificial suns, and the experts concluded it was theoretically possible.
• Yi Xuan announced that the Bullet Plan had officially begun.
• Liang Shi warned that humanity might not survive the Mother Planet’s extreme acceleration.
• Yi Xuan displayed a register of the research and development centers and revealed they were converted secret realms where humanity could take shelter.

Yi Xuan ordered experts to recalculate the Bullet Plan’s maximum speed and energy needs while he addressed the riots caused by the news that the Heavenly Dog still threatened the Mother Planet. After a half-hour warning, the Global Security System carried out a massacre against those who continued to threaten public safety, leaving Yi Xuan viewed as a ruthless monster.

• Yi Xuan assigned specialists to work with Niu Keli on calculating and simulating the Bullet Plan’s maximum speed and energy requirements.
• Yi Xuan activated the Global Security System and announced to the Mother Planet that the Heavenly Dog had not been eliminated and the apocalyptic crisis remained.
• Yi Xuan warned that a solution existed and threatened devastating strikes against anyone who continued to endanger the world after a half-hour countdown.
• Many people returned home, but others ignored Yi Xuan’s warning and continued rioting.
• After the countdown, the Global Security System began a massacre that killed five percent of the world’s population, and people saw Yi Xuan as a ruthless monster.

Yi Xuan began the Bullet Plan, expanding the computing effort and starting work on the Dyson Sphere and artificial suns as Mother Planet’s deadline drew closer. Niu Keli proposed using the moon as the foundation for a single giant artificial sun, while the Secret Realm Renovation Plan began to prepare for humanity’s long journey.

• After Niu Keli produced the data, Yi Xuan ordered more quantum supercomputers to speed No. 01’s simulations and began the Bullet Plan with an added ten percent energy margin.
• Yi Xuan committed almost the entire space fleet to improving the Dyson Sphere, but the plan ran short of resources for two 1,500-kilometer artificial suns.
• Niu Keli proposed replacing the three-stage boost plan with two stages and using the moon as the foundation for one giant artificial sun.
• Yi Xuan and the researchers began renovating the secret realms to house humanity for the journey, despite the severe lack of space.
• After the living conditions were announced, almost everyone accepted them, and the Secret Realm Renovation Plan got underway.

As the Heavenly Dog crisis continued, Yi Xuan repurposed the Stars' Assistance Plan satellites to reinforce Mother Planet for the Bullet Plan and replaced the secret realms’ living quarters with cryogenic pods. After humanity entered hibernation for the 52,421-year journey, Yi Xuan remained awake in a virtual environment to study technology.

• Yi Xuan began recovering the Stars' Assistance Plan satellites and had them melted down into metal frameworks deep inside Mother Planet to strengthen it for the Bullet Plan.
• After more than a million simulations, No. 01 refined the Bullet Plan, and the preparations for the Dyson Sphere, the moon, Mother Planet, and the secret realms finished ahead of schedule.
• Yi Xuan scrapped the secret realms’ cramped living quarters and installed cryogenic pods so humanity would sleep through the long journey to a new home.
• People, cultivators, the three grand elders of the Azure Cloud Sect, and Niu Keli entered cryogenic sleep; Niu Keli had devoted fifty years to the Bullet Plan.
• Yi Xuan entered a hibernation pod in No. 1 Secret Realm and connected to a virtual environment, where he planned to spend fifty thousand years studying the Book of Technology.

Yi Xuan entered the virtual space created by the brain-computer interface and discovered its capabilities and limitations while No. 01 prepared the Bullet Plan. The Mother Planet escaped the Heavenly Dog by using the sun’s destruction to accelerate to near-light speed, leaving the enraged beast behind.

• Yi Xuan entered a newly appeared door in his Sea of Consciousness and found that he could create anything he imagined in the virtual space.
• Yi Xuan discovered that the space could not materialize technology beyond its knowledge, and his attempt to create a dual-vector foil nearly caused it to collapse.
• No. 01 confirmed that Yi Xuan’s body was safe in the hibernation pod and had begun autonomous cultivation, then focused on the Bullet Plan.
• The Dyson Sphere was destroyed as the sun collapsed, releasing energy that propelled the Mother Planet away from the star system.
• The artificial sun made from the moon detonated to complete the second-stage propulsion, and the Mother Planet broke through the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall at near-light speed.
• The Mother Planet sped toward its destination while the furious Heavenly Dog was left behind, venting its rage across the starry sky.

Yi Xuan endured ten thousand years of isolation during the Mother Planet’s journey, losing his ability to speak as he devoted himself to scientific research. When the Good Corpse interrupted him to show off an invention, the Good and Evil Corpses began arguing, briefly easing Yi Xuan’s loneliness.

• Yi Xuan and Niu Keli’s team planned the Mother Planet’s route and installed Force Field Controllers to protect it from small celestial bodies.
• After the sun’s destruction severed communications, Yi Xuan remained in the secret realm and waited for underground devices to contact him.
• During ten thousand years of solitude, Yi Xuan immersed himself in research but often wept, while his original, Good Corpse, and Evil Corpse developed increasingly extreme personalities.
• The Good Corpse interrupted Yi Xuan’s research to show him an invention, but Yi Xuan could no longer speak after his long silence.
• The Evil Corpse threatened the Good Corpse, who taunted him to attack, and Yi Xuan silently watched their argument with interest.

Yi Xuan inspected the Good Corpse’s new biological computer, which outperformed a quantum computer and resisted electromagnetic radiation. After Yi Xuan ordered further development, No. 01 signaled that equipment beneath the Mother Planet had activated, indicating the Bullet Plan was nearing its destination.

• The Good Corpse summoned Liang Shi in virtual space, but Yi Xuan dispersed the manifestation and demanded to see his latest creation.
• The Good Corpse unveiled a biological computer made from biological materials and shaped like an enormous human brain.
• The Good Corpse demonstrated that the biological computer performed better than a quantum computer, and Yi Xuan ordered him to combine it with quantum computing.
• Yi Xuan entered the laboratory, where No. 01 reported that equipment beneath the Mother Planet had activated as the planet slowed near its destination.

After fifty years of research, Yi Xuan and his Good and Evil Corpses learned that the Mother Planet had arrived, ending their fifty-thousand-year journey through solitude. Yi Xuan hoped he could return to a normal life, though he knew his long isolation could not simply be undone.

• The Good Corpse showed Yi Xuan and the Evil Corpse his biological-quantum computer, and Yi Xuan ordered him to change its human-brain shape.
• Yi Xuan stopped and stared at the sky, alarming the Good Corpse and drawing the Evil Corpse to his side.
• Yi Xuan told the Good and Evil Corpses that the Mother Planet had arrived.
• The Good and Evil Corpses embraced Yi Xuan, and all three cried with joy over the end of their fifty-thousand-year journey.

After reaching their destination, Yi Xuan confirmed the Mother Planet had survived but was badly damaged and began organizing repairs. An enormous, unexpected star had captured the planet, and Venerable Yuan believed the Immortal Court lay beyond a nearby asteroid belt.

• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to connect with the Mother Planet and learned it was damaged but still supporting more than a thousand secret realms.
• Yi Xuan sent warships from the ten highest-numbered secret realms to explore, and No. 01 reported that a star had captured the Mother Planet and set it orbiting and rotating.
• No. 01 discovered the star was 2.6 billion kilometers in diameter, leaving Yi Xuan baffled that Niu Keli's team had missed it.
• Yi Xuan ordered the fleets to gather plentiful nearby resources, but No. 01's expanded search still could not locate the Immortal Court.
• After awakening Venerable Yuan and waiting half a month for him to recover, Yi Xuan heard him say the Immortal Court should be beyond the asteroid belt.

Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan approached the region where the Immortal Court was supposed to be, but No. 01 found no sign of it beyond the asteroid belt. They discovered Immortal Script carved into asteroids, and Venerable Yuan realized that the asteroid belt itself was the Immortal Court.

• Yi Xuan told Venerable Yuan through voice transmission that he had lost the ability to speak, and reasoned that his unusual cultivation had left his heart undeveloped.
• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan spent two months traveling through space while Yi Xuan worked on technology and Venerable Yuan cultivated.
• At the asteroid belt, No. 01 reported that it could find no sign of the Immortal Court beyond it, but Venerable Yuan insisted the Court was there.
• Venerable Yuan spotted an asteroid bearing Immortal Script, and No. 01 projected more asteroids marked with different characters.
• When an asteroid bearing the character “cherish” appeared, Venerable Yuan collapsed, then declared that the asteroid belt was the Immortal Court.

Yi Xuan stopped Venerable Yuan from attacking No. 01 after its scans revealed that the asteroid belt was the shattered remains of the Immortal Court. Venerable Yuan recovered, while Yi Xuan explained the harsh inequalities of the Immortal Realm and the Immortal Ascension Pool's value to grassroots immortals.

• Venerable Yuan realized the asteroid belt was made from the destroyed Immortal Court and despaired over its unknown fate.
• Venerable Yuan tried to stop No. 01's search, but Yi Xuan restrained him with Divine Sense and calmed him down.
• Venerable Yuan apologized to Yi Xuan after regaining his composure.
• Yi Xuan explained that grassroots immortals sought the Immortal Ascension Pool because it could improve their Spirit Roots and help them compete with immortal descendants.
• Yi Xuan noted that lower-realm tests could mistake Immortal Spirit Roots for Ninth-Grade Mortal Roots, and that talented ascendants could attract powerful factions.
• Yi Xuan contrasted technology's potential for a comfortable life with cultivation's brutal competition, leaving the Immortal Realm depicted as harsher than the mortal world.

Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan searched the Immortal Court’s asteroid-belt ruins but found nothing until Yi Xuan switched the Dawn’s sensors to quantum mode. They discovered countless hidden souls wailing in agony, leaving them to confront the mystery of why the souls had been undetectable.

• Venerable Yuan thanked No. 01 for comforting him and agreed with Yi Xuan to investigate the destruction of the Immortal Court.
• Yi Xuan used the Dawn’s reconnaissance craft to survey the asteroid belt, but they found only Immortal Script and no signs of energy, life, or signals.
• As Yi Xuan prepared to leave, he noticed the character for “soul” on the display and ordered No. 01 to switch the survey system to quantum mode.
• The quantum scan revealed dense blue points throughout the asteroid belt, and Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense surged outside the Dawn as he sensed them.
• Yi Xuan told Venerable Yuan to send out a small portion of his Divine Sense at the same frequency, allowing Venerable Yuan to hear the souls’ agonized wails.

Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan discovered that the wailing souls in the planetary belt vanished whenever they were taken beyond its boundary, leaving them unable to investigate the Immortal Court’s collapse. After returning to the Mother Planet, Yi Xuan found its reconstruction had turned it into a gigantic steel sphere that he planned to develop into a space fortress, though humanity could no longer cultivate there.

• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan captured a wailing soul, but neither cultivation techniques nor immortal methods could make it respond or manifest.
• After the Dawn left the asteroid belt, the captured soul and the other surrounding souls disappeared, so Yi Xuan returned to the belt to test his theory.
• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan captured another soul, which vanished as soon as the Dawn crossed beyond the belt, confirming that the souls could not leave it.
• Yi Xuan ordered the Dawn back to the Mother Planet, and the round trip took half a year.
• Yi Xuan found that the Evil Corpse had overseen the Mother Planet’s reconstruction into a gigantic steel sphere and decided to turn it into a planetary-scale space fortress.
• Yi Xuan’s plan would provide humanity with a fortified base, but the transformation meant they could no longer cultivate.

After returning to the Mother Planet, Yi Xuan began awakening researchers and settling them into the space fortress, where they studied the technology accumulated over fifty thousand years. He also shared what he and Venerable Yuan had seen in the asteroid belt with a group of immortals, and one of them recognized something there as a formation.

• The Evil Corpse finished protecting the Mother Planet’s surface and building the first living area before Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan arrived.
• Yi Xuan awakened the first group, mostly researchers, and arranged cultivation or life-extending genetic drugs for those who needed them.
• After their recovery, the researchers entered living area No. 1 and studied fifty thousand years of technological knowledge in virtual space.
• Yi Xuan added his and Venerable Yuan’s observations of the asteroid belt to virtual space for the researchers to examine.
• Yi Xuan told the hundred or so immortals that the Immortal Court had fallen, then described the asteroid belt to them.
• One immortal recognized something in the asteroid belt as a formation.

Elder Hai discovered that the asteroid belt contained a vast formation that revealed more than ten thousand related formations as it rotated. Yi Xuan sent a research team to investigate it while remaining on the Mother Planet to strengthen himself against the unknown being who created it.

• Elder Hai told Yi Xuan that the planetary belt was a formation, and Yi Xuan trusted his judgment because of his scientific rigor.
• Elder Hai carefully adjusted the projection until Yi Xuan and Supreme Elder Li could see a grand formation within the asteroid belt.
• Elder Hai rotated the projection, revealing more than ten thousand distinct formations that could operate independently or together.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to send Chen Jiaping, Elder Hai, and Venerable Yuan to the asteroid belt to analyze the formations.
• Yi Xuan stayed on the Mother Planet and focused on improving his strength because he feared the being who had created the formation.

After fifty years, humanity had settled into life aboard the transformed Mother Planet, but the loss of Spiritual Qi left people unable to cultivate and worried about their lifespans. Yi Xuan’s Good Corpse asked Venerable Yuan how immortals’ descendants cultivated in the Immortal Realm and learned they used Immortal Qi directly.

• The Mother Planet completed its transformation into a space fortress, and humans from the secret realms moved into its residential districts.
• Yi Xuan failed to find a way to create Spiritual Qi, while probes sent to search for a planet suitable for cultivation found none.
• Yi Xuan’s Good Corpse met Venerable Yuan and explained that Yi Xuan’s original self had grown worse and withdrawn from public life to focus on research.
• Yi Xuan asked Venerable Yuan how immortals’ descendants cultivated when born in the Immortal Realm.
• Venerable Yuan told Yi Xuan that those descendants cultivated in the Immortal Realm using Immortal Qi instead of Spiritual Qi.

Yi Xuan learned that the formation trapping souls in the asteroid belt gathered and refined their soul power, while the team could analyze but not reproduce it. He proposed rescuing the souls by uploading them as digital life, and revealed a quantum biological computer that might host them all.

• Venerable Yuan told Yi Xuan he did not know the cultivation method used by second-generation immortals, but Yi Xuan decided it gave him another path to pursue.
• Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai reported that they had finished analyzing the formation but could not break, imitate, or reproduce it.
• Yi Xuan read their analysis and learned that the formation gathered souls, drained their soul power, and sent it into an unknown void.
• Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai agreed that the souls might be rescued as digital life, though hosting over ten billion lives would require powerful hardware.
• Yi Xuan showed Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai a quantum biological computer that he believed could meet their needs.

Yi Xuan began converting souls into digital lives using Adam and a biological quantum computer, after learning that souls were contradictory forms of nonsteady-state matter. The conversion proceeded without disturbing the grand formation, and Yi Xuan returned to the Mother Planet while Chen Jiaping and the others monitored the ongoing process.

• Yi Xuan learned from the Book of Technology that souls had traits described by several scientific theories, yet were nonsteady-state matter that could not control the dimensions, time, and space they involved.
• After a year of refinement, the biological quantum computer was ready to support more than ten billion digital lives, so Yi Xuan and the research team deployed it in the asteroid belt.
• Chen Jiaping and Elder Hai finished placing the grand formation under surveillance, and Yi Xuan ordered Adam to begin converting souls into digital lives for the Garden of Eden.
• Yi Xuan checked with Chen Jiaping and learned that the soul power showed no fluctuations during the conversion.
• After staying for three days, Yi Xuan returned to the Mother Planet while Chen Jiaping and the others continued monitoring the conversion and studying the grand formation.

Zhang Yang recounted his rise from a shepherd boy with a Ninth-Grade Spirit Root to commander of the Immortal Emperor’s personal guard, then described the Golden Crow’s attack and the Demon Race’s conquest. As his consciousness faded, more than ten billion captured humans were being sacrificed to revive the Golden Crow.

• Zhang Yang was chosen by an immortal sect as a child, discovered to have a Ninth-Grade Spirit Root, and rose to Late Tribulation Transcendence before ascending.
• In the Immortal Realm, Zhang Yang tested with a Seventh-Grade Immortal Root, joined the Immortal Army, and became commander of the Immortal Emperor’s personal guard.
• A great sun appeared above the Immortal Court, and the Immortal Emperor ordered Zhang Yang to get away before fighting the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• The Immortal Emperor fought the Golden Crow for a year, then self-destructed to destroy its physical body, while the Demon Race army surrounded the Immortal Court.
• The Demon Race defeated the humans, captured more than ten billion people, and sacrificed them in a True Yang Nirvana Grand Array to resurrect the Golden Crow.
• Zhang Yang’s consciousness faded as the butcher’s blade fell.

Zhang Yang recounted how his lifelong dream led him to study mythology, then recognized the dream’s giant and three-legged bird on an ancient mural. A familiar voice urged him to flee, and Zhang Yang answered as a subordinate before his surroundings disappeared and Doctor Bai appeared.

• Zhang Yang described his recurring childhood dream of a golden-armored giant fighting a three-legged monstrous bird and said Doctor Bai was the first psychologist who took it seriously.
• Doctor Bai told Zhang Yang to pursue his curiosity but never forget who he was, prompting Zhang Yang to study mythology.
• Zhang Yang became a world-renowned mythology expert over thirty years but found no explanation for his dream.
• Zhang Yang read unknown writing on an archaeological mural, which described the Demon Race’s invasion, the Immortal Court’s destruction, the Immortal Emperor’s death, and the Golden Crow’s nirvana.
• Zhang Yang recognized the mural’s giant and bird from his dream, heard a voice tell him to hide, and cried, "Your subordinate obeys!"
• The world around Zhang Yang vanished, and Doctor Bai appeared before him.

Zhang Yang recovered memories of his past life as an Immortal Emperor’s guard and learned from Adam that he had been reborn as a digital life-form in a world created for him. After Adam implanted more memories, he sent Zhang Yang through a black hole to continue his journey.

• Zhang Yang’s sealed memories returned as he relived his current life and his past life as the commander of the Personal Guard Camp under the Immortal Emperor of the Ziwei Domain.
• Zhang Yang cried out to warn the giant he recognized as the Immortal Emperor before fainting.
• Zhang Yang woke in Doctor Bai’s office, identified himself to Adam, and learned that Adam administered a world Heavenly Father had created for him.
• Adam implanted memories into Zhang Yang, who learned that he had died and been reborn as a digital life-form.
• Adam declared Zhang Yang’s activation complete and sent him through a black hole.