Chapter Summaries

Six mining ships harvested an asteroid before returning to the Dyson Sphere, where Old Huang revealed that his son had joined Principal Liang’s research and development team at Imperial University. The chapter left the ships among the many vessels supporting the growing Dyson Sphere Project.

• Six interstellar warships anchored themselves to an asteroid, broke it apart, and captured every fragment.
• The crew discussed Old Huang’s upcoming leave and learned that his son had joined Principal Liang’s research and development team.
• Old Huang said his son had traveled to the Eternal Night Forest with Principal Liang to look for an unusual Demon Beast.
• Old Huang explained that his son’s research projects required extra financial support, and the crew praised his achievement.
• After a spatial jump, the mining ship reached the Dyson Sphere, where countless spacecraft and enormous warships worked on the project.

Two hundred years later, Yi Xuan’s fleet had advanced the Dyson Sphere Project while the Cultivation Realm had become a modern, technologically advanced society under his global security system. As people enjoyed the benefits of progress and cultivators blended into society, Yi Xuan faced a new problem: Spirit Roots.

• Yi Xuan focused his fleet on mining, processing, and transporting materials for the Dyson Sphere and Stars' Assistance Plan rather than expanding its combat power.
• The Cultivation Realm became a modern society filled with skyscrapers, vehicles, smart wearables, and widespread virtual reality and holographic technology.
• People trusted the Dyson Sphere Project and Stars' Assistance Plan and chose to enjoy life rather than worry over the coming apocalypse.
• Yi Xuan's Vacation Plan and global security system reduced the divide between cultivators and ordinary people, while the system crushed a major disturbance involving over forty Five-Tribulation Loose Immortals.
• Cultivation, research, and entertainment became three popular professions as technology eased labor and raised living standards.
• Yi Xuan approved of the entertainment industry's growth but was troubled by the problem of Spirit Roots.

Yi Xuan revisited his long obsession with Spirit Roots, recalling that the Sea God's transplantation technique worked on others but failed on him. After No. 01 found that technological talent tended to correlate with poor Spirit Roots, Yi Xuan suspected his own Rootless condition was connected to technology, though the evidence remained inconclusive.

• Yi Xuan reflected that being Rootless had led him to technology and kept him researching Spirit Roots while continuing an aimless daily cultivation practice.
• Hai Qingshi gave Yi Xuan the Spirit Root Transfer Secret Technique, but the transplanted Spirit Root disappeared without activating in Yi Xuan.
• Yi Xuan tested the technique repeatedly on himself and then on others, confirming that it worked reliably for them but never for him.
• Yi Xuan gave up pursuing cultivation and left No. 01 to continue researching Spirit Roots.
• No. 01 presented data showing that people with greater technological talent tended to have weaker Spirit Roots, and Yi Xuan suspected technology was linked to his Rootless condition.

Yi Xuan’s Spirit Root obsession faded after the secret technique failed and No. 01’s data confirmed the result, so he returned to his work. In the 235th year of the Crisis Era, the Dyson Sphere was completed, while the Stars’ Assistance Plan’s Grand Star Formations awaited the delivery of Spirit Stones.

• Yi Xuan moved on from his disappointment about his Spirit Root and continued developing the world’s scientific system and talent.
• In the 235th year of the Crisis Era, the Mother Planet celebrated the completion of the Dyson Sphere, one of two projects meant to counter the coming Heavenly Dog crisis.
• People watched as the Stars’ Assistance Plan’s satellites formed two vast layers around the Mother Planet, with craft transporting Spirit Stones into orbit.
• Yi Xuan left the Mother Planet’s naturally occurring Spiritual Qi untouched, reserving it for cultivation after the apocalypse.
• The Good and Evil Twin Corpses achieved a breakthrough in force-field control and developed anti-gravity technology, which Yi Xuan used to create a space elevator for transporting Spirit Stones.

The Dyson Sphere project succeeded, and the Mother Planet celebrated as the sun dimmed under its effects. Yi Xuan monitored an enormous artificial sun nearing completion, intended to compensate for the lost sunlight.

• The world watched as the Dyson Sphere’s colorful swarm of satellites enveloped the sun and pulsed like a heart before the broadcast abruptly went dark.
• The sun’s light weakened, and a global notice announced that the Dyson Sphere was operating stably, prompting people across the Mother Planet to celebrate.
• Yi Xuan watched from the Dawn as crews carried out final inspections on a sphere nearly three hundred kilometers wide.
• Yi Xuan corrected Zhuo Ning, explaining that the sphere would become an artificial sun, not a sun.

Yi Xuan and Zhuo Ning activated a giant artificial sun and combined it with the National Fortune Great Sun to counter the Dyson Sphere Project’s effects on the Mother Planet. The chapter ended with the two suns shining in the sky and Yi Xuan affirming that the National Fortune Great Sun should not belong to any one person.

• Yi Xuan ordered the artificial sun’s ignition, and its subsystems passed inspection.
• Yi Xuan directed the artificial sun into its designated orbit, where people across the Mother Planet saw it in the daytime sky.
• Zhuo Ning summoned the National Fortune Great Sun as Hai Qingshi and the five Barbarian Ancestors watched from afar.
• Zhuo Ning, Hai Qingshi, and Man Da joined their clans’ fortunes, enlarging the National Fortune Great Sun.
• The National Fortune Great Sun merged into the artificial sun, creating a second sun and resolving the Dyson Sphere Project’s effects on the Mother Planet.
• Zhuo Ning asked whether Yi Xuan regretted giving up control of the National Fortune Great Sun, and Yi Xuan replied that it should not belong to any one person.

After the Dyson Sphere’s completion, technology and civilian spaceflight advanced rapidly, bringing ordinary people into space and inspiring risky competitions near the Heavenly Dog. In year 385 of the Apocalypse Era, an extreme sports enthusiast noticed the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was contracting faster than official data predicted, raising fears that the apocalypse could arrive early.

• The fourth-generation heavy-nucleus fusion reactor reduced energy loss, while Yi Xuan’s Good Corpse led upgrades that greatly improved the Light-Speed Engine and space fleet.
• Liang Shi’s bioengineering and medical work helped raise ordinary humans’ lifespans, as progress spread across many fields.
• In year 258 of the Apocalypse Era, civilian spaceflight became widespread, and people began exploring safe areas of the star system.
• Interstellar travelers increasingly risked approaching the Heavenly Dog for resources and extreme-sport competitions, despite many being devoured.
• In year 385, an extreme sports enthusiast’s spacecraft data showed that the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was contracting faster than it had a year earlier.
• The discovery suggested the apocalypse might arrive ahead of schedule and caused growing public alarm.

An extreme sports enthusiast’s measurements revealed that the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was contracting faster than the authorities had claimed, sparking worldwide panic, riots, and a standoff in space. As Venerable Yuan and the others sought Yi Xuan, they found him studying a shrinking piece of metal that appeared to be an immortal artifact.

• An extreme sports enthusiast stayed near the Heavenly Dog and posted a year of observations showing its stomach wall was contracting at an accelerating rate.
• More extreme sports enthusiasts and professionals confirmed the data, and the authorities’ silence fueled public doubt and panic.
• Ambitious people incited marches, riots, and disorder, bringing society close to collapse within a month.
• Those agitators assembled civilian and military starships into a fleet that faced off against the authorities’ forces in outer space.
• Venerable Yuan, Hai Qingshi, and the five ancestors of the Barbarian Clan found Yi Xuan studying metal in a secret-realm research center.
• The metal shrank rapidly and glimmered with seven-colored light, leading Venerable Yuan to identify it as an immortal artifact.

Yi Xuan confirmed that doomsday was arriving early because the Heavenly Dog was accelerating its consumption of the sun in response to the Dyson Sphere. He explained that he had anticipated this and deliberately brought the confrontation forward so the Heavenly Dog would not be at its strongest.

• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to begin performance tests on the newly made metal artifact and declined to explain it to Venerable Yuan and the others.
• Venerable Yuan and Man Si warned Yi Xuan that a rebel fleet had gathered in outer space and the situation was worsening.
• Yi Xuan confirmed to Hai Qingshi that doomsday was coming early and linked the acceleration to the Dyson Sphere's completion.
• Yi Xuan explained that the Heavenly Dog was devouring the sun to mature and would speed up because the Dyson Sphere was absorbing the sun's power.
• Yi Xuan showed data suggesting the Cultivation Realm had always fought the Heavenly Dog at its strongest and said he had deliberately moved the confrontation earlier.

Yi Xuan revealed that the Dyson Sphere would fall short of its energy target, but proposed making up the difference through the Stars' Assistance Plan. He believed the Tomb of the Sea God held the Spiritual Qi needed, and Hai Qingshi agreed to open it for investigation.

• Yi Xuan explained that the Dyson Sphere would not accumulate enough energy to meet its target, so they would increase the Spiritual Qi allocated to the Stars' Assistance Plan.
• Yi Xuan clarified that the plan would use only half the Spiritual Qi that existed before the Vacation Plan, not half of what remained on the Mother Planet.
• Yi Xuan told Hai Qingshi that the Tomb of the Sea God itself, rather than the Sea Clan's Heavenly Burial remains, could provide the needed Spiritual Qi.
• Yi Xuan reasoned that the Eternal Sea's grand formation had absorbed vast amounts of Spiritual Qi and stored it in the Tomb of the Sea God, while Venerable Yuan added supporting information.
• Hai Qingshi agreed to open the Tomb of the Sea God for Yi Xuan to investigate, revealing that his control over it extended only to opening and closing it.

Yi Xuan revealed that he had deliberately allowed the unrest on Mother Planet and the rebel fleet in space to grow so he could expose and arrest those conspiring against him. He crushed the rebellion with the Global Security System and hidden controls in spaceflight technology, leaving its surviving leaders captured or dead.

• Yi Xuan explained that he had tolerated dissent within the authorities and suspended the Global Security System to draw out people plotting to seize power.
• Yi Xuan activated the Global Security System, whose robots arrested rioters and demonstration leaders across Mother Planet while ordinary protesters returned home.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to activate hidden contingencies in spaceflight technology, causing the rebel fleet's ships to malfunction and fire on one another.
• The Space Force captured the surviving rebels, while other ships and their crews were destroyed in the chaos.

After crushing the rebellion and stabilizing the world, Yi Xuan brought mathematicians and formation masters to the Eternal Sea to study the Sea God’s great formation. A year of work produced little progress, so he decided to enter the Tomb of the Sea God and investigate its formation eye.

• Yi Xuan executed the rebel fleet’s surviving members and the rebellion’s leaders on the Mother Planet, then informed the public that the apocalypse was coming early.
• A week after the rebellion ended, Yi Xuan led a team of mathematicians and formation masters to the Eternal Sea to decipher the Sea God’s great formation.
• After nearly a year, the team had only partially understood the formation, and Chen Jiaping said they might make progress by finding its formation eye.
• Yi Xuan decided to stop studying the outer formation and enter the Tomb of the Sea God to examine the formation eye.

Yi Xuan prepared two teams to enter opposite sides of the Tomb of the Sea God and search for its formation core. The teams entered different spaces, where one began searching among decoy imperial tombs and the other crossed the Lake of Fate aboard a destroyer.

• Yi Xuan selected Chen Jiaping and eight other researchers, then sent the Good Corpse with them and the Evil Corpse with Hai Qingshi to enter opposite ends of the Tomb of the Sea God.
• The two teams vanished from the island without any change visible to Yi Xuan’s original body or satellite surveillance.
• The Evil Corpse found a plain of Sea Clan emperors’ decoy tombs, and Hai Qingshi explained that the tombs were connected to the real ones for Heavenly Burial.
• Yi Xuan confirmed the decoy tombs posed no danger, dispersed the Evil Corpse’s team, and began searching for the formation core.
• The Good Corpse’s team failed to produce a usable boat at the Lake of Fate, so Yi Xuan brought out a destroyer to carry them across.

Yi Xuan’s good corpse searched the first two trials of the Tomb of the Sea God for the formation core but found nothing. He concluded that it was hidden in a later trial and led his team onward, saying he had guessed its location.

• Yi Xuan’s good corpse deployed drones across the lake and sent a mechanical whale to search the lakebed, but both searches found no formation core.
• After reaching the island at the lake’s center, Yi Xuan’s group entered the tower, ignored its rewards, and proceeded to the second trial.
• Yi Xuan’s team used their powerful Divine Sense to climb Gold Mountain and surveyed the second trial with drones, finding no formation core.
• Yi Xuan decided the formation core was not in the second trial and told the others he did not think it was in the next trial either.
• Yi Xuan stepped through the light gate and told his team to follow because he had guessed where the formation core was.

Yi Xuan’s Good and Evil Twin Corpses searched the Tomb of the Sea God’s hidden spaces while his true self analyzed their survey results. The search ended with both teams stopping at once as Yi Xuan revealed that Hai Qingshi had been a chess piece of the Sea God.

• The Evil Corpse surveyed the Sea Clan sovereigns’ tombs but found no formation core.
• The Good Corpse entered the third trial, optimized the Grand Star Formation, and appeared alone on the high platform.
• The Good Corpse led his team in mapping the space with drones and three-dimensional reconstruction technology.
• Both Twin Corpses sent their findings to Yi Xuan’s true self, who issued an unknown command through No. 01.
• The Good and Evil Twin Corpses stopped their teams and stared at the ground, and the Evil Corpse asked Hai Qingshi what he would think if he had been the Sea God’s chess piece.

Yi Xuan exposed his suspicions that the previous Sea God was alive and using Hai Qingshi, then forced him to reveal himself by attacking the Tomb of the Sea God. Unit-01 entered berserk mode and pushed apart the collapsing sky and ground, while the hidden Sea God watched in terror and warships outside the Mother Planet trained their weapons on the tomb.

• Yi Xuan challenged Hai Qingshi's claim that the previous Sea God had died and repeatedly called for the Sea God to appear.
• Yi Xuan summoned Unit-01, which smashed the ground and prompted the hidden Sea God to angrily call him a junior.
• The sky began falling, and Unit-01 caught it before the Sea God increased the pressure until the ground started rising as well.
• Yi Xuan's Evil Corpse entered Unit-01 and activated berserk mode, boosting its power with nuclear power, Spiritual Qi, and Immortal Qi.
• Unit-01 rose and pushed the sky and ground apart, while the Sea God watched in terror and warships beyond the Mother Planet aimed their weapons at the floating island.

Yi Xuan revealed that Elder Hai had secretly controlled the Tomb of the Sea God and was using the emperors’ tombs as nodes in the Eternal Sea Grand Formation. He demonstrated that he could attack the tombs and their corresponding nodes outside at the same time, leaving Elder Hai’s formation under threat.

• Hai Qingshi heard Elder Hai’s voice and realized that he was still alive, while Yi Xuan’s investigation suggested Elder Hai had been collecting the bodies of those who died in the trials.
• As pressure pushed Unit-01 toward its limit, Yi Xuan fired at a vital site, and the Dawn struck the corresponding place in the Eternal Sea, releasing a surge of Spiritual Qi.
• Elder Hai appeared before Unit-01 after the attack eased the pressure, and Hai Qingshi recognized him.
• Yi Xuan explained that the emperors’ great tombs corresponded to nodes in the Eternal Sea Grand Formation and that he could contact the outside world from within the Tomb of the Sea God.
• Yi Xuan fired again and destroyed another great tomb, causing Elder Hai to sense a formation node fail and another attack to strike the Eternal Sea.

Yi Xuan forced Elder Hai to reveal that the Sea God had built the Eternal Sea formation to create a private extradimensional refuge and escape the Heavenly Dog. When Elder Hai refused to surrender the stored Spiritual Qi, Yi Xuan destroyed the formation, releasing Spiritual Qi across the world and leaving the Sea Clan emperors unable to control their Heavenly Burial bodies.

• Elder Hai explained that the Tomb of the Sea God was the formation eye and that Yi Xuan could coordinate with his original body through the Good and Evil Twin Corpses.
• The Sea God revealed that he had faked his sacrifice and spent hundreds of thousands of years building the formation to store Spiritual Qi and create an extradimensional refuge for himself.
• Yi Xuan demanded the Spiritual Qi absorbed by the Eternal Sea formation, but the Sea God refused.
• Hai Qingshi urged Elder Hai to hand over the Spiritual Qi, and Elder Hai blamed him for bringing Yi Xuan in before striking at him with lightning.
• Unit-01 caught the lightning, and Yi Xuan teleported everyone away before launching a black sphere at the burial grounds as the fleet attacked the Eternal Sea.
• The formation broke, Spiritual Qi spread across the world, and the Sea Clan emperors lost control of their Heavenly Burial bodies.

Yi Xuan’s antimatter bomb destroyed the Tomb of the Sea God and injured Elder Hai, while the collapsing secret realm forced the Good and Evil Twin Corpses to endure violent spatial forces. The Good Corpse’s Unit-01 survived long enough to escape, but Elder Hai reappeared in a failing Heavenly Burial body.

• The Sea God plunged into the exploding tomb complex and was caught in Yi Xuan’s antimatter blast, which destroyed the tomb and damaged his soul.
• No. 01 reported that the Spiritual Qi over the Eternal Sea had reached the level needed to support the Stars' Assistance Plan as the secret realm began to collapse.
• The Good Corpse summoned a Unit-01, which carried Yi Xuan and the other nine people inside before the Good Corpse’s space shattered.
• Spatial forces shredded both Unit-01 bodies, leaving them wounded and driving them into a berserk state, but the Good Corpse’s Unit-01 endured until it returned to the floating island.
• Yi Xuan spotted Elder Hai, who had survived the blast and taken a Heavenly Burial body that was close to collapsing under the spatial force.

Yi Xuan and the world prepared for the Heavenly Dog crisis by collecting the Eternal Sea’s Spiritual Qi and improving the Grand Star Formation. As the final year arrived, No. 01 warned Yi Xuan that the Heavenly Dog was nearing its limit, and he left his beach vacation for the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Yi Xuan rescued Elder Hai from the collapsing Tomb of the Sea God and had Hai Qingshi look after him.
• Yi Xuan’s team deployed Spiritual Qi collection devices across the Eternal Sea and spent nearly a year gathering the dispersed energy.
• In year 405 of the Apocalypse Era, Yi Xuan sent half the world’s Spiritual Qi and the Eternal Sea’s reserves into the Stars’ Assistance Plan.
• Elder Hai joined Yi Xuan’s formation research team and helped optimize the Grand Star Formation so it used half as much Spiritual Qi for the same effect.
• The team spent five years modifying the satellite formations, while progress across the world stalled during the final five years before the crisis.
• No. 01 warned Yi Xuan that the Heavenly Dog was nearing its limit, and Yi Xuan left his beach chair and appeared at his courtyard by the Azure Cloud Sect.