The Star Gate has opened. The continent trembles.Fifty prodigies from across the land gather to enter the Celestial Star Temple—a secret realm that awakens once every ten thousand years. Within its ancient halls lie supreme legacies, lost inheritances, and the power to reshape the world.Kael Voss, a nameless rogue cultivator who clawed his way from F-rank obscurity, stands among them. Mocked and dismissed, he enters the temple not for glory, but to survive—and to uncover th...

After completing the second trial of the Sacred Mountain, Kael Voss gains the Star Core Law and the Star Core Domain. Together with Jax, Lena, Lira, and Isabella, he steps through the teleportation array toward the Forgotten Land.But something goes wrong. The five are scattered across Watchtower Isle—a land ruled by the Shadow Cult. Kael wakes alone in the wilderness, with only Shadow Fang and the Ascendant System at his side.He meets the Resistance, a group of islanders fi...

After suffering endless humiliation and despair, Kael was reborn from absolute zero, bound to the mysterious and ever-growing Ascendant System.Across the first three volumes, he climbed from the absolute bottom of the world, defeated countless powerful enemies, humiliated arrogant geniuses, broke the unfair rules of this world, and grew from a nobody into a terrifying powerhouse that every great faction both fears and envies.Now, the deadliest trial in existence has opened:...

Kael Voss survived betrayal and death. Reborn with the Ascendant System, he has already reclaimed six of the seven Star Core fragments. But the Shadow Council is closing in, and the capital has fallen under the iron grip of Morgrave Black—a usurper with dark ambitions.To stop the Council's "Harvest Plan"—a scheme to awaken a Paragon-level evil that could devour the entire continent—Kael must find the seventh fragment and fuse the Star Core Heart. That means infiltrating the Council...

Betrayed by his closest friend and lover, Kael Voss dies a brutal death on the dark altar of the Black Forest. His family's legacy is shattered, and the Star Core fragment is ripped from his chest by the man he trusted most.Then the Ascendant System binds to his soul.Kael awakens the day before his sixteenth birthday—back when he was still mocked as the "useless waste" of House Voss, and the man who killed him still wore th...

Shield Tunnel Engineering: From Theory to Practice is a key technique that offers one of the most important ways to build tunnels in fast, relatively safe, and ecologically friendly ways. The book presents state-of-the-art solutions for engineers working within the field of shield tunnelling technology for railways. It includes expertise from major projects in shield tunnel construction for high-speed rail, subways and other major projects. In particular, it presents a series of advances i...

Assuring Safe Operation of Robotic Systems under Uncertainty: Control and Learning Methods applies set-theoretic and reinforcement learning approaches to formulate, analyze, and solve the challenge of ensuring safe operation of robotic systems in an uncertain environment.The authors adopt learning-supported, set-theoretic methods—specifically, the barrier Lyapunov function and the control barrier function—to achieve desirable robust safety with guaranteed performance in co...

Introduction to Renewable Energy Manufacturing Weilong Cong, Meng Zhang, Xiaoxu Song, Bradley Kramer, Timothy Deines, Z.J. Pei, Jahangir Emrani, Zhichao Li, Joe Stuart, and Wangping Sun; Edited by Meng Zhang

Provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing agri-food supply chains, including the need to be more sustainable in light of the high environmental costs of global distributionAddresses the external factors that can impact the logistics and performance of supply chains, including political developments, international conflicts and pandemics such as COVID-19Reviews the main agri-food supply chains used in different regions around the world, focussing o...

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This engaging Cambridge Companion introduces readers to the richness, complexity and diversity of one of the most important periods in Chinese history: the Song dynasty, 960–1279 CE. Bringing together leading scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, it provides an overview of key institutions, political, economic and military history, while also delving into the everyday lived experience of medieval China. Together, the authors create a vividly detailed and intimate portrayal of ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2017, held in Singapore in November 2017.The 20 full and 38 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: database and distributed machine learning; recommender system; social network and social media; machine learning; classification and clustering m...