Chapter Summaries

After Luohu disrupted a joint conference of Milky Way factions, Hongjun appeared and offered them a broadly applicable cultivation method to demonstrate goodwill. The attendees were tempted by its promise of longevity, but remained suspicious as Hongjun called it a free gift meant to establish diplomatic relations.

• The expeditionary force returned after losing a third of its members, and reports of their defeat spread among the factions.
• Two months later, Luohu disrupted the joint conference with a restrained display of force before escaping unharmed.
• Hongjun arrived at the conference and introduced himself as a visitor who had come with goodwill.
• Hongjun offered the attendees a cultivation method that could let practitioners overcome the limits of their lifespans.
• The conference participants asked what the method would cost, and Hongjun said it was a gift intended to establish diplomatic relations.

Hongjun offered a cultivation method to the gathered civilizations and the interstellar slave trader accepted it, despite secretly planning to test it on slaves. The slave trader then invited Hongjun to a banquet to discuss diplomatic relations, turning the meeting against the Primordial World into a welcoming feast.

• Hongjun offered to create a beautiful world together, leaving the meeting participants confused.
• Hongjun recognized that the man who thanked him was a notorious interstellar slave trader with immense karmic sin.
• Hongjun gave the slave trader a Divine Sense Jade Slip containing a cultivation method, and the man eagerly accepted it.
• The slave trader planned to have one hundred thousand slaves test the cultivation method and expected to share the jade slip with the other participants.
• The slave trader invited Hongjun to a banquet to discuss diplomatic relations, and the meeting became a feast welcoming guests from the Primordial World.

Hongjun met Luohu on a desolate planet after arranging their cooperation and explained how he planned to turn his new relationships into conflicts that could give Luohu the wars and slaughter he wanted. Luohu questioned Hongjun’s motives, and Hongjun claimed he was trying to popularize basic education while using the cultivation methods to spread knowledge.

• Hongjun arrived on the barren planet where Luohu had been waiting and brushed off Luohu’s complaints about his delay.
• Luohu recalled how he had fought Hongjun, accepted his strength, and agreed to cooperate because the alliance promised opportunities for slaughter.
• Hongjun explained that he had built shared interests with several Milky Way figures and planned to deepen their divisions until conflicts broke out.
• Hongjun predicted that Luohu could win support from those who disliked him, while insisting that people would tolerate schemes when the benefits were great enough.
• Luohu asked what Hongjun hoped to gain, and Hongjun answered that he was probably trying to popularize basic education.

Orsaga reflected on Tzeentch’s immense magical power and the legacy that had strengthened him. He explained how Hongjun’s Tzeentch-linked knowledge and the Creation Jade Disk gave him the qualification and advantages needed for Confluence with Dao.

• Orsaga recalled that Tzeentch’s knowledge, preparations, and defenses had made him immensely powerful, and that Nurgle’s betrayal helped bring about his defeat.
• Orsaga noted that Tzeentch’s legacy enriched him and that the Tzeentch Demon Army used knowledge and schemes to corrupt and recruit wise, strong-willed targets.
• Orsaga explained that Hongjun’s plan to spread knowledge of himself suited his Tzeentch-related power, while the Creation Jade Disk enhanced his comprehension of the world’s laws.
• The Creation Jade Disk gave Hongjun special privileges from the Heavenly Dao, including qualification for Confluence with Dao, which would otherwise be effectively fatal.
• Orsaga stated that the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches had some qualification through their ties to Pangu, but their flaws made Confluence with Dao difficult to achieve.

Hongjun and Luohu plotted to exploit the Tzeentch Demon Army’s abilities, but observers from the Cosmic Elder Council exposed their scheme to slow their growth. The factions they had deceived issued a joint wanted order, forcing the pair to flee as Hongjun admitted he had underestimated their enemies.

• Hongjun planned to use his concealed ability to deceive factions into cultivating a flawed method and strengthen the Tzeentch Demon Army.
• Luohu approved of Hongjun’s unorthodox plans and looked forward to seeing the victims’ reactions.
• Observers from the Cosmic Elder Council monitored Hongjun and Luohu and decided their success would accelerate the Council’s experiments.
• The observers exposed the flaw in Hongjun’s Cultivation Method, prompting the deceived factions to issue a joint wanted order.
• Troops pursued Hongjun and Luohu, and Luohu angrily confronted Hongjun while Hongjun admitted he had underestimated the factions’ ability to detect the flaw.

A joint fleet surrounded the Solar System and demanded that it surrender Hongjun and Luohu, forcing its defenders to prepare a desperate counterattack. As the fleet launched a massive assault, Nuwa and Fuxi questioned how powerful Hongjun had become and whether the old Hong Huang settings could still be trusted.

• A joint fleet encircled the Solar System and demanded that its people hand over Hongjun and Luohu.
• The Solar System’s powerful beings planned to have Fajia seize control of enemy ships while the others created an opening.
• Nuwa asked Fuxi whether Hongjun and Luohu had already become Saints, and Fuxi said he could not be sure but suspected they had not.
• Fuxi concluded that Hongjun had departed from the old Hong Huang settings and could become a dangerous Demon Lord.
• The fleet attacked the Solar System’s celestial bodies with hundreds of millions of strikes, shaking the Innate Five Directions Banner formation with specially modified weapons.

Di Jun emerged from the sun and joined the battle to defend the Solar System from an allied army, which was driven back after twenty days of fierce fighting. As powerful beings gathered to respond to the resulting celestial chaos and formed an alliance, Di Jun saw the River Diagram and Luo Shu in Fuxi’s hands and felt the object was fated with him.

• Di Jun emerged from the sun and reluctantly headed to the Solar System’s border to help defend it.
• The allied army from the Primordial World launched a savage attack, and the Blood Wine in the Holy Grail increased during the fighting.
• After twenty days and heavy losses, the Primordial World’s forces drove back the allied army, though several nearby Planetary Systems were destroyed.
• The damaged Gravitational Field sent the Solar System drifting toward unknown coordinates, prompting powerful beings to meet and form a loosely bound alliance.
• Di Jun saw the River Diagram and Luo Shu in Fuxi’s hands and felt an overwhelming desire for the object.

Fuxi kept the River Diagram and Luo Shu after Di Jun showed puzzling interest in it, then planned to flee once the gathering ended. Months later, Di Jun tracked Fuxi down across space and demanded the return of his treasure.

• Fuxi realized Di Jun seemed confused rather than ready to seize the River Diagram and Luo Shu, and decided to flee after the gathering.
• Fuxi reassured himself that the treasure’s divination and escape abilities would let him hide from anyone.
• Months later, a spatial rift opened roughly twenty-five light-years from the Solar System and hurled an orange-yellow beam into a planet, devastating its surface and shifting its orbit.
• Di Jun emerged from the rift as a blazing Golden Divine Bird and called out for Fuxi to return the River Diagram and Luo Shu.
• Di Jun’s rage grew as he recalled learning that the River Diagram and Luo Shu were his accompanying spiritual treasure and reconsidered why he and Tai Yi had lacked it.

Di Jun defeated Fuxi and took the River Diagram and Luo Shu, leaving Fuxi to revive and Nuwa uncertain about their future relations. Three years later, Hong Huang Players began building crude spacecraft and expanding beyond the Solar System to hunt for experience.

• Fuxi refused to surrender the River Diagram and Luo Shu, so Di Jun attacked him and shattered the star where he was hiding.
• Di Jun defeated Fuxi, took the River Diagram and Luo Shu, and left Fuxi to revive through his Player Template.
• Nuwa accepted that the conflict had ended but realized that she and Fuxi were unlikely to ally with Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Three years later, Hong Huang Players began salvaging wrecked spacecraft and crafting crude vessels to reach other star regions.
• The Production Team urged the players to set sail, promising experience points and encouraging them to hunt across the universe.

Five years after the Age of Discovery began, the Mechanical Supreme appeared in the Real World as a new round of Primordial Player Qualifications was issued. After surveying the region and learning about the Age of Discovery, He left the Solar System, growing to an immense size as He moved.

• Capture Teams emerged to hunt Hong Huang Players, while both sides profited from a cycle of harvesting, capture, and resale.
• Five years later, chaos intensified and the Blood Wine within the Holy Grail neared its critical point.
• A new round of Primordial Player Qualifications was randomly issued, and Novice Players appeared on altars throughout the Solar System.
• The Mechanical Supreme arrived near a Novice Village, releasing pressure so immense that countless ordinary beings fell unconscious or panicked.
• The Mechanical Supreme scanned the region's intelligence, learned about the Age of Discovery, and stepped beyond the Solar System as His body grew to an enormous size.

Fajia struggled to overcome enemies protected against his infective power until the Mechanical Supreme arrived and destroyed the opposing fleet. Two days later, the Kaimel System and twenty-two surrounding systems had been purged, leaving seventeen Interstellar Civilizations wiped out and their machinery absorbed into the God of Refined Gold’s forces.

• Fajia led infected Mechanical Creations against a local Interstellar Civilization, but its special shields resisted his infective power.
• The Mechanical Supreme sent Fajia a command to hold the enemy back, and Fajia obeyed as his troops fought with renewed fervor.
• A black-hole-like rift opened over the battlefield, and the Mechanical Supreme’s giant hand crushed the enemy fleet and shattered nearby stars while sparing Fajia’s forces.
• The Mechanical Supreme drew Fajia into the World within Palm, where Fajia sensed information from across the planetary system and welcomed his king.
• Over the next two days, the Mechanical Supreme purged twenty-two Planetary Systems, wiped out seventeen Interstellar Civilizations, and infected the enemy’s machinery into Mechanical Life.

Several months after the Kaimel System Incident, the forces of the Milky Way prepared for a decisive war against the Mechanical Supreme while Alien Transmigrators and Alien Reincarnators supplied them with technology. The allied forces launched a ruthless assault on a star system occupied by Mechanical Life, and their leaders ordered the enemy and its territory destroyed.

• The Milky Way’s forces halted their planned retaliation to strengthen their defenses and prepare for a decisive battle against the Mechanical Supreme.
• Alien Transmigrators and Alien Reincarnators risked exposing their identities to share technologies they had developed while resisting the Mechanical Tide in their previous lives.
• The Mechanical Supreme anticipated that his enemies would gather their strength and accepted their preparations as a chance to learn more about them.
• Several months later, the allied forces detonated a star and disrupted the Mechanical Life network throughout a system occupied by the Mechanical Supreme.
• The allied forces struck the stars hiding Mechanical Life, destroying their buried cores, while their leaders ordered every enemy and the occupied territory wiped out.

Luohu watched as the Mechanical Supreme’s attack on the allied fleet was stopped by a massive crimson beam, unleashing a shockwave across the battlefield. As a supergiant Cosmic Fortress and the Mechanical Supreme faced off, the war between Mechanical Life and Flesh and Blood Life entered its second round.

• Luohu stood on an asteroid and sensed the Mechanical Supreme approaching through fluctuations from another space.
• The Mechanical Supreme unleashed a giant hand of five-element power toward the allied fleet, freezing nearby attacks and terrifying its troops.
• A crimson beam struck the giant hand, and their collision sent energy waves across the battlefield, scattering troops and dislodging nearby stars.
• Luohu concealed himself and fled before the shockwave destroyed the asteroid where he had stood.
• A supergiant Cosmic Fortress emerged through a wormhole as the Mechanical Supreme revealed its form, and both sides began attacking each other.

The Allied Forces and the Mechanical Supreme fought for months across dozens of planetary systems before both sides, depleted and badly damaged, ended the battle without a decisive victor. The Allied Forces chose to seek reinforcements from neighboring Extragalactic Systems, unknowingly giving powerful outside forces a possible pretext to intervene in the Milky Way Galaxy.

• The battle spread across dozens of Planetary Systems, causing casualties on an immense scale despite emergency evacuations.
• The Allied Forces fought to destroy the Mechanical Supreme, while the Mechanical Supreme planned to retreat and use what it had learned to prepare for its next operation.
• The Allied Forces Fortress self-destructed two-thirds of its body and heavily damaged the Mechanical Supreme, but could not pursue it after its engines were damaged.
• The Allied Forces and the Mechanical Supreme ended the battle in mutual devastation, leaving behind a ruined battlefield.
• At an emergency meeting, the Allied Forces decided to send a diplomatic delegation to request reinforcements from neighboring Extragalactic Systems.
• Powerful forces beyond the Milky Way Galaxy began considering intervention, and the Allied Forces' request for aid could provide them with a pretext for a large-scale invasion.

The Milky Way envoy fleet reached its destination and found an eager civilization already waiting to offer reinforcements. When the Envoy Leader tried to refuse the Kalder Empire’s unsolicited help, its representative made clear that the offer would not be easily declined.

• The Fleet Supreme Commander ordered the ships to prepare for their arrival in the target area and present themselves properly.
• The envoy fleet reached the target area and was quickly surrounded by the civilization it had contacted, which offered ten times the requested reinforcements.
• A signal from another party interrupted the discussion, and the Envoy Leader connected to Keke Dade Re. Chilgeno of the Kalder Empire.
• Keke Dade Re. Chilgeno claimed his empire wanted to help fight the Otherworld Lifeforms and join the envoy fleet without payment.
• The Envoy Leader tactfully suggested cooperating another time, but Keke Dade Re. Chilgeno displayed his enormous fleet and insisted that the Kalder Empire would help for free.

The Milky Way delegation leader received a flood of offers from distant powers eager to provide reinforcements against the Otherworld Lifeforms. The arriving forces vastly exceeded expectations and began seizing territory, leaving local leaders troubled and the Hong Huang Players surprised by the natives’ resolve.

• The delegation leader accepted an unknown communication request, then watched dozens of factions offer help to the Milky Way Galaxy.
• The chapter revealed that Alien Transmigrators and Alien Reincarnators had sold information about the Milky Way Galaxy to distant powers years earlier.
• Local faction leaders discovered that the reinforcement forces numbered more than eight hundred times their expected total and questioned the delegation leader about them.
• The delegation leader insisted the forces had been brought as reinforcements, though he admitted that might only have been their original purpose.
• The Hong Huang Players, observing the galaxy, were surprised that the natives had brought in such powerful outside forces and recognized them as troublesome opponents.

The Milky Way’s native factions welcomed outside forces and supplied them with technology to provoke a war against the Hong Huang Players. As the Holy Grail War began, Di Jun sensed six powerful counterparts, while the Mechanical Supreme opened a signal channel to communicate with his six counterparts.

• The Milky Way’s factions agreed to let outside forces enter, hoping they and the Hong Huang Players would weaken each other.
• The factions provided the outsiders with technologies designed to target Players, aiming to profit from their conflict.
• The factions largely dismissed the approaching Holy Grail War, while some outsiders anticipated its rewards.
• The Holy Grail War began, and streams of light brought six Golden Divine Birds and six metal colossi into the Milky Way.
• Di Jun sensed his six counterparts and felt that some were more powerful than he was.
• The Mechanical Supreme detected his six counterparts, connected with them through a signal channel, and exchanged information laced with electronic viruses.

A devastating weapon tore through a region of the Milky Way, destroying stars and disrupting space travel as native factions struggled to identify its source. Before they could deploy a prohibited Space Compression Bomb, the Kala Civilization resolved the crisis with a special weapon.

• A spreading wave of destruction disintegrated stars, warships, and living beings while disrupting the surrounding space.
• Milky Way powers blamed outsiders for the catastrophe, but ruled out the Hong Huang Players after detecting that the attack used the Real World's Four Fundamental Forces.
• A faction leader proposed using a prohibited Space Compression Bomb to collapse the affected region through Dimensional Reduction.
• A new report revealed that the Kala Civilization had already stopped the disaster with a special weapon after being affected by the attack.

The Milky Way Galaxy descended into escalating chaos as prohibited weapons and strange energy fields made everyday life dangerous, while the Cosmic Elder Council and hidden Production Team members welcomed the turmoil. Hongjun absorbed knowledge from across the galaxy in Purple Cloud Palace, growing more powerful and strange.

• Prohibited weapons, disasters, and spatial disturbances threw the Milky Way Galaxy into turmoil, prompting native factions to consider fleeing and players to fear being stranded or attacked.
• Mechanical Supreme nearly lost his metal body in two surprise attacks, while Luohu also regarded the galaxy as a minefield.
• The Cosmic Elder Council and hidden Production Team members approved of the chaos as an entertaining change to the game.
• Nick Morten's transformation under the Slaanesh Demon Army pushed his sexual proclivities beyond what ordinary people could accept.
• In Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun drew knowledge from the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Primordial World through the dark-blue Creation Jade Disk, becoming stronger and stranger.

The Milky Way Galaxy faced total destruction after the Hong Huang Players set off impacts that shattered its stars, while the Cosmic Elder Council confined the blast to the galaxy. The Solar System and Blue Star survived for the moment but drifted through the devastation as the players sheltered in the Novice Village.

• Fifty years after Blue Star Humans fled their original planet, they learned through Divination Abilities that a weapon had destroyed it, unaware that the Milky Way Galaxy was also nearing collapse.
• The Milky Way Galaxy's former overseers gave up on saving it, leaving Hongjun and the other Hong Huang Players and native factions to find a way to escape or prevent the explosion.
• Ten years later, the Blood Wine filled the Holy Grail, and the Identity Conversion Period began, restoring Player Templates in the Real World while natives lost theirs in the Primordial World.
• The Hong Huang Players' prepared impacts destroyed key points across the Milky Way Galaxy, throwing its Gravitational Field out of balance and causing more than a hundred billion stars to shatter.
• The Cosmic Elder Council contained the expanding impacts within the Milky Way Galaxy, while the Solar System drifted through the destruction and Blue Star Players huddled inside the Novice Village.