Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and Chuchu discovered a hidden trove of rare ores, including enough Water-Hydrogen Stone to make devastating bombs, and discussed preparing weapons against the city-states and monsters. After returning to the tribe, Lu Li found Nia helping Emily plant crops, though Emily remained unsure they would grow.

• Chuchu determined that the ores in the karst cave had been mined elsewhere and deliberately hidden, and she found materials suited to upgrading the group's equipment.
• Lu Li and Chuchu discovered a cubic meter of Water-Hydrogen Stone, and Chuchu carefully separated it from the Sunny Star Ore.
• Lu Li proposed making Water-Hydrogen bombs for self-defense against the city-states' armies, and Chuchu agreed to process the stone later while prioritizing his equipment.
• Lu Li explained that he was growing stronger by eating monsters, while Chuchu refused to try them and chose to focus on collecting minerals for the group's gear.
• Lu Li returned to the tribe and found Nia planting rice seedlings with Emily, who hoped the crops would grow into food but remained uncertain.

Lu Li and Aizen discovered that humans in this world could not grow plants because a mysterious power prevented them, while outsiders could farm and might be the Human Kings of prophecy. The chapter left Lu Li and Aizen inside a company’s underground facility, where they found an unknown sphere connected to three Main Brain creatures and a virtual world Lu Li recognized as the Overlord World.

• Aizen told Lu Li that plants cultivated by the world’s people withered, but an outsider’s Golden Bread Tree seed had sprouted, and he believed outsiders might be the Human Kings described in prophecy.
• Aizen suggested that human hope and faith might welcome back the Human King, while Lu Li and Aizen agreed to keep hunting strange creatures and grow stronger.
• Lu Li and Aizen raided a gaming company’s headquarters as Nia distracted the pursuing legion, and Aizen used Kyōka Suigetsu to turn a heavy mech against the company’s troops.
• Lu Li and Aizen found three inactive Main Brain creatures linked to an unknown sphere of light in the underground facility.
• Lu Li spotted the Overlord World among the company’s discontinued virtual worlds and recognized it from his previous visit.

Lu Li and Aizen raided a game company, discovered its virtual-world engine was an ancient relic, and escaped with three mainframe aberrations. As Aizen investigated the engine and the Overlord World, he concluded that the Continent of Benevolence had once supported far stronger beings, then suggested Lu Li might be able to operate the game.

• Aizen discovered that the company had repurposed an ancient world as a virtual-world template, then stored its core and the three inactive mainframe aberrations.
• Lu Li and Aizen collected equipment and escaped the laboratory before pursuers arrived, then reunited with the injured Nia.
• Lu Li healed Nia, and Aizen began examining the stolen devices while Nia rested and ate.
• Lu Li told Aizen that Ape's Fire had identified his native world as No. 6030, while their current world was No. 60302.
• Aizen reasoned that the world's high baseline energy level and narrow difficulty range suggested that uncanny beings were still evolving and that the continent might once have supported Ninth Order powerhouses.
• Aizen accessed detailed information about the Overlord World and said Lu Li might be able to operate the discontinued game.

Lu Li entered the Overlord World through the Virtual World Engine and discovered that nine thousand years had passed, while his legend had been reshaped into that of the Human King. Guided by Aizen’s theory that the world might preserve clues about the Continent of Benevolence’s past, Lu Li confronted Emperor Pompey to investigate.

• Lu Li authenticated through the Virtual World Engine, causing the company’s three game worlds to go offline while he descended into Overlord with GM privileges.
• Lu Li explored the continent, confirmed it was the Overlord World, and learned that nine thousand years had passed and that history remembered him as the Human King rather than the Martial God.
• Aizen reasoned that Overlord might contain records from the Continent of Benevolence before its decline, and Lu Li decided to investigate the imperial family.
• Lu Li entered the Imperial Capital and appeared before Emperor Pompey, who initially mistook him for an imitation of the Human King’s image.
• Lu Li incapacitated Pompey’s hidden guards and revealed that he was the legendary Human King, then Pompey asked why he had come.

Lu Li and Aizen uncovered the Continent of Benevolence’s history: humanity’s advanced civilization collapsed after corporate oppression, a war with insurgents, and the rise of aberrant beings. When Lu Li returned to the present, he found a strange countdown in the sky and hurried to take Nia back to the tribe.

• Lu Li persuaded Pompey to show him the Baharuth Empire’s historical records, revealing that players had once descended on the continent and that many later vanished.
• Lu Li found a black tablet describing how corporate massacres birthed aberrant beings, companies and insurgents fought instead of uniting, and extinction weapons destroyed nearly all humanity.
• Lu Li and Aizen concluded that the Human King had likely led the insurgent army, and Lu Li left Pompey’s world to return to the Continent of Benevolence.
• Lu Li, Aizen, and Nia saw gray mist blotting out the sun and the number 99 appearing in the sky, which seemed to count down the end of an era.
• Aizen and Lu Li decided they could no longer go to Old City and needed to return to the tribe immediately.

Lu Li learned from the Gatekeeper that the tribe's people would be erased as the numbers in the sky counted down, while the city-states had been founded by people who left the tribe in earlier eras. He refused to flee and left determined to fight, while Chuchu revealed she had made more than two pieces of equipment for him.

• Lu Li returned to the tribe, calmed its panicked people with Ji Hong, and urged them to resume their daily lives instead of praying outside.
• The Gatekeeper explained that Saint Awakened had failed to pull the sword from the Iron Throne in every era, and that the Human King had prophesied a return to lead humanity through the endless night.
• The Gatekeeper revealed that the city-states had begun as settlements founded by people who left the tribe with cultivation scrolls, and that humans of corresponding ages vanished whenever the numbers in the sky changed.
• Lu Li refused to take the scrolls or flee, saying he would rather die while fighting forward than wait for the tribe's destruction.
• Chuchu admitted she had eavesdropped and refused Lu Li's plan to send her to the city with Nia, then revealed she had made more than two pieces of equipment for him.

Chuchu completed Lu Li’s new Immortal-Grade pendant and inner armor, along with speed-focused shoes, giving him specialized equipment for the dangers of Native World No. 60302. Lu Li stayed in the tribe to deduce a new martial path while Aizen left to investigate Old City.

• Chuchu showed Lu Li the finished Ragnarok pendant, Unfallen Lonely Citadel inner armor, and Myriad Realms Traverse shoes, explaining that the unfinished pieces were also for him.
• Lu Li equipped the pendant and inner armor, whose abilities boosted his damage against gods and aberrations and strengthened his defenses.
• Lu Li tried on the shoes, which weakened movement hindrances and provided spatial footholds and powerful acceleration.
• Lu Li told Chuchu he would stay in the tribe to deduce martial arts because devouring ordinary aberrations no longer helped him and he still needed three SSS-Grade martial arts.
• Aizen left to investigate Old City while Lu Li remained behind, summoned A'Huo to guard the tribe, and opened the Martial Furnace menu.

Aizen witnessed humanity’s erasure spreading through Old City, while Lu Li pursued a martial arts breakthrough and failed to save Ji Hong from the same force. As the tribe grieved and Emily tended her sprout of hope, Lu Li warned that an aberration and human army was approaching.

• Aizen watched Old City residents vanish as the sky’s number fell and decided he needed to meet the city’s Old God.
• Lu Li refined his martial arts beyond the Martial Furnace’s limits, seeking to create a cultivation system of his own.
• Emily told Lu Li that Ji Hong had died and gave him Ji Hong’s letter, which said he believed Lu Li was the Human King.
• As the number fell to 50, middle-aged people vanished from the tribe, while Emily continued tending the Golden Bread Tree sprout with Nia.
• Nia began telling Emily about his childhood, but Lu Li and A'Huo arrived with news that an aberration and human army was coming.

Lu Li and Nia defended the tribe against a vast army of aberrations, but Lu Li’s fight was interrupted when human forces from the major city-states arrived and began attacking. The chapter ended with Lu Li and Nia facing both the aberrations and the approaching human armies.

• A'Huo warned Lu Li that dangerous aberrations were approaching, and Lu Li saw countless creatures gathering beneath a sky filled with glowing eyes.
• Lu Li ordered the tribe to retreat to its forbidden grounds while he, Nia, and A'Huo fought to hold back the invasion.
• Lu Li used Ragnarok and his blade to kill and devour many aberrations, but the strongest creatures pressed forward and one shadow aberration wounded him.
• Human aircraft arrived and fired a super-electromagnetic cannon at Lu Li, while Nia spotted the Desire River Company among the forces.
• Lu Li realized that armies from the major city-states had joined the battle, creating a new threat alongside the aberrations.

Lu Li and his companions defended the tribe against an anomalous army and a human assault by the city-states. Chuchu’s guided Mother’s Sigh launchers destroyed most of the human forces, and Lu Li ended the battle by killing the last anomaly.

• The city-state CEOs sent their forces to destroy the tribe, believing they could win the Gods’ favor and survive the deaths caused by the changing numbers in the sky.
• Nia fought to protect the tribe, but artillery tore away half his body; Lu Li used two Shadow Clones to cover Nia and defend against the bombardment.
• Lu Li called to Chuchu, who used a tablet to target the attackers and launched small guided Mother’s Sigh rounds at the human forces.
• The explosions destroyed more than 95% of the city-state forces, prompting their leaders to argue over how to respond and decide to wait until the anomalous attack ended.
• Lu Li killed the last anomaly after an exhausting battle, then headed toward the basin as the wounded A'Huo approached.

After defending the tribe, Lu Li watched Nia struggle with the effects of devouring aberrations and heard the painful story behind his resolve to protect the tribe. As aberrations approached again, Lu Li and Nia went out to fight while the sapling remained in the terraced field.

• Lu Li healed A'Huo and checked the tribe's remaining ammunition with Chuchu after the city-states failed to launch another attack.
• Nia showed signs of mental instability, and he frightened Emily when she approached him; afterward, he told Lu Li how he had sold himself to Desire River Company to pay for his mother's treatment, only to return home after she had died.
• Nia said he wanted to use his body and blade to defend the tribe's last pure land, then crushed the last Lovegrass cigarette Lu Li had given him.
• Lu Li and Nia saw aberrations approaching through the flames and left the basin to confront them.

Lu Li and the tribe fought an overwhelming aberration attack until an ancient god nearly destroyed them, killing many tribespeople. The Gatekeeper finally emerged, raised a Gray-White barrier around the tribe, and told Lu Li that summoning back the great King was their only hope against the Doomsday.

• Lu Li fought the aberrations alongside Nia while A'Huo guarded the tribe, but an unseen ancient god attacked and overpowered Lu Li.
• Lu Li charged the ancient god and severed one of its fingers, but black threads pinned him down as the creature slaughtered the hunters and other tribespeople who tried to protect the young.
• The Gatekeeper unleashed a Gray-White shockwave that freed Lu Li, destroyed the nearby aberrations, and sent the ancient god flying.
• The Gatekeeper emerged from the cave, activated the tribe's hidden facilities, and shielded the tribe with a Gray-White barrier while saying he needed time to summon back the great King.
• Nia crashed through the barrier with his tail burned, and Lu Li pulled him close and began healing him.

The Gatekeeper fought the gods attacking the tribe, killing four and embedding their power as jewels in the compass the Human King had given him. After he lit the Sacred Path’s beacon fires, he collapsed near death, and the tribe’s barrier began to fail without any sign of the King’s return.

• The Gatekeeper activated the tribe’s barrier and fought the gods while Lu Li and Nia battled the uncanny army outside it.
• The Gatekeeper killed the God of Desire and the God of the Uncanny, absorbed their remains into jewels, and returned to the barrier gravely wounded.
• The Gatekeeper explained that the compass needed nine jewels to ignite the beacon fires and bring back the Human King, while Lu Li struggled to heal him.
• The Gatekeeper killed the God of Deals and the God of the Ocean, filling the compass, but the Old God killed the God of Eternal Night and then overwhelmed the wounded Gatekeeper.
• The Gatekeeper placed the compass on the first lamp post, lighting the beacon fires along the Sacred Path, then collapsed as Lu Li realized he was dying.
• The tribe waited for the Human King as the barrier neared collapse, while a girl continued hammering equipment inside the forbidden ground.

Lu Li fought the Old God as aberrations slaughtered the tribe, and Emily died protecting the fields before Lu Li saved her from death. After Lu Li integrated Soul Intent into the Origin Seed and defeated the Old God, he took the Iron Throne and was welcomed as the Human King.

• The Old God shattered the Gatekeeper's barrier, and Lu Li and Nia led the tribe's resistance against the aberrations.
• Emily charged at aberrations trampling the fields, and Nia's mutated tentacles pierced her as she comforted him.
• Lu Li healed Emily and urged Nia to protect her and Chuchu while he fought the Old God alone.
• The Old God crushed Lu Li's heart and threw him into Chuchu's stone house, while the Gatekeeper watched the last fires fade.
• Lu Li emerged from the ruins after integrating Soul Intent into the Origin Seed, then killed the Old God with Prison Demon.
• Lu Li sat on the Iron Throne and offered to become king, and the Gatekeeper knelt to welcome the Human King.

After killing the Old God, Lu Li gained the compass and the faith it held, healed the Gatekeeper and Nia, then endured and devoured a vast lightning tribulation as he forged the Martial Saint Sutra. Meanwhile, Aizen led a revolt against the city-state corporations and rallied humanity, leaving Lu Li’s tribulation witnessed across the world and the upheaval among the city-states underway.

• The Gatekeeper gave Lu Li the nine-gemstone compass, and Lu Li understood that the Human King had intended the Gatekeeper to kindle hope rather than await his return.
• Lu Li absorbed the compass’s power, healed the Gatekeeper and Nia, and rose to face the lightning gathering above the tribe.
• Lu Li endured the lightning tribulation, created the Martial Saint Sutra, fused his Soul Intent with his Origin Seed, and devoured the thunderclouds.
• Aizen halted a joint city-state fleet near the tribulation and told Mances Julius and other leaders to spread the call for humanity to resist.
• Aizen revealed that he had helped overthrow the leaders of the major corporations and had used Mother’s Sigh to bombard strange beings in the wilderness.
• Aizen suspected the Six Great City-States had secretly cooperated for centuries on God-Powered Warrior research, whose true purpose was not simply to control human populations.

Aizen taught the Old God’s aberrations a method for devouring one another, intending to provoke a slaughter that would weaken them and create an opening for humanity. He allied with the Julius Family and other rebellious families, seized control of the Six Great City-States’ fleets, and began preparing a continent-wide uprising.

• Aizen met the Old God of Old City, gave it the devouring method, and agreed to teach its aberrations in exchange for Soul Coins.
• The Julius Family confronted Aizen, revealed its secret God-Powered Warrior research and plans to rebel, then joined him after learning he meant to turn the aberrations against one another.
• Aizen and the Julius Family agreed that the devouring method should spread naturally while the families rallied rebellious leaders and arranged heavy weapons support for humanity.
• After the numbers erased the families’ elders, Aizen led younger family members and their private soldiers in a counterattack against the rulers of the Six Great City-States.
• Aizen used Kyōka Suigetsu to seize the city-states’ fleets, while the allied families mobilized smaller settlements and prepared to exploit the power vacuum left by fallen gods and aberrations.

Aizen incited humanity and the strange creatures into chaos while Lu Li challenged and fought the ancient gods. As Lu Li’s battle inspired rebellion and the creatures began devouring one another, Aizen ordered his forces to begin harvesting.

• Aizen proclaimed Lu Li the Human King and urged humanity to overturn the world after the Six Gods’ deaths.
• Lu Li challenged the gods, defeated an ancient god, and devoured it before fighting the newly emerged ancient gods.
• Inspired by Lu Li, humans rebelled against strange creatures across the city-states, while Aizen protected his territory.
• Strange creatures began consuming their own kind to grow stronger, abandoning their attacks on humanity and turning the continent into a feeding frenzy.
• Lu Li killed and devoured the God of Desire as ancient gods fell and new strange gods emerged.
• Aizen watched the chaos spread and ordered his forces to begin the harvest.

Lanke and his maid discussed how the Spaces had grown weaker as they watched Lu Li challenge the ancient gods. Lu Li wounded the Ancient God of the Night, provoking it to descend upon the Continent of Benevolence as a vast hand.

• Lanke told his maid that past eras had held far stronger talents, and urged her to train until she could score full marks on the offensive power tester.
• Lanke noted that Lu Li's End Space team had a chance to place highly, while the Paradise contestant and Pantyhose Milk Tea had already conquered their worlds.
• Lu Li attacked more than a dozen ancient gods with Prison Demon, drawing cheers from the humans as he wounded them and used his compass to absorb their power.
• Lu Li challenged the formless Ancient God of the Night and pierced its manifested eye with his blade intent.
• The Ancient God of the Night transformed the sky into a giant hand, crushing the air across the continent as Lu Li drew Prison Demon again.

Lu Li killed the Ancient God of the Night and wounded the Ancient God of the Deep Sea before Mother revealed itself as the source of the bizarre beings and the creator of the monsters’ method of devouring. After Mother absorbed the monsters and overwhelmed Lu Li in battle, the chapter left him charging back into a fight against an opponent whose power continued to grow.

• Lu Li split the Ancient God of the Night’s true body and burned it into a bead, strengthening himself by pressing the bead into his compass.
• Lu Li severed a tentacle from the Ancient God of the Deep Sea, but Azure Heaven’s gray mist separated them and gathered into Mother.
• Mother absorbed the monsters across the continent, and Lu Li learned that it had been created by the previous Human King and had tested humanity while waiting to learn whether he was dead.
• Mother absorbed the Ancient God of the Deep Sea and attacked Lu Li, driving him into a mountain basin with its first strike.
• Lu Li recovered and fought Mother again, but Mother continued growing stronger, and Aizen feared that Lu Li would die if he could not end the battle quickly.

Lu Li destroyed the compass and sealed its divine power within himself, turning the battle around and defeating Mother. As she died, he discovered that she had been created by a woman’s love for her child, not hatred of humanity, and understood why she had been called Mother.

• Aizen tried to rally humanity to give Lu Li strength through hope, but most people prayed without genuine faith, and Mother continued to outgrow him.
• Lu Li rejected the crowd’s prayers, crushed the compass, and sealed its unstable divine power inside himself with black mist and the Martial Furnace.
• Lu Li entered the Divine Restriction state and struck Mother with two powerful slashes, exhausting her source and leaving her near death.
• Lu Li asked whether the Human King had created Mother, and her memories revealed that a woman had first embraced her while trying to protect her child.
• Lu Li realized Mother had inherited the woman’s love for her child, then said farewell as Mother’s final source faded away.