Chapter Summaries

Humanity won the battle after the Zerg Empress defected and helped capture the Universe Lords of the Northern Frontier Alliance and the Starry Sky Giant Beast Alliance. The allied races escaped with their remaining forces, while Qin Mu and humanity celebrated their newfound dominance and planned further research.

• The Prison Clan Devil Lord, Crystal Race Holy Lord, Dream Demon Ancestor, and Demon Ancestor Zhen fled as the Zerg Empress joined humanity, while Mechanical Race Father God attacked Giant Axe Founder to protect the retreating allies.
• Dream Demon Ancestor and Demon Ancestor Zhen escaped with the Demon Race, and the Prison Clan Devil Lord, Crystal Race Holy Lord, and Starry Sky Ancestor God fled with their forces.
• Giant Axe Founder and Qin Mu accepted that the enemy’s Universe's Strongest had escaped, while Giant Axe Founder declared humanity victorious after capturing the Universe Lords of the Northern Frontier Alliance and the Starry Sky Giant Beast Alliance.
• Qin Mu welcomed the captured Starry Sky Giant Beast Universe Lords as valuable research subjects and said humanity could demand more than half of the alliance’s resources.
• The Zerg Empress reported that humanity had captured thirty-one Northern Frontier Alliance Universe Lords and thirty-seven Starry Sky Giant Beast Alliance Universe Lords, prompting the human experts to celebrate.

After humanity’s victory, the defeated peak races agreed to watch one another and endure while warning the Universe Sea about Qin Mu’s Swarm. Humanity celebrated its growing power and welcomed the Zerg Empress and her queens, while the Holy Lands and other Universe Sea races began to fear Qin Mu’s rise.

• The Mechanical Race Father God, Crystal Race Holy Lord, Dream Demon Ancestor, Demon Ancestor Zhen, and Prison Race Demon Ancestor discussed their defeat and decided to warn the Universe Sea about Qin Mu.
• The defeated leaders agreed to form a loose alliance, preserve their strength, and wait for Qin Mu’s clones to merge when he became one of the Universe’s Strongest.
• Humanity and its allies celebrated their victory, and Giant Axe Founder welcomed the Zerg Empress and the six Zerg Mother Queens into the Human Race.
• Giant Axe Founder described how Qin Mu’s research had strengthened humanity and announced plans to develop the conquered Northern Frontier Alliance territory and improve Life Levels.
• The Mechanical Race Father God’s warnings spread through the Universe Sea, prompting East Emperor Ancestor, Purple Moon Ancestor, and other races to fear Qin Mu’s Swarm and consider limiting humanity’s growth.

After humanity’s victory, Qin Mu and Chaos City Lord planned the development of conquered territory, the abolition of slavery, and reforms to strengthen humanity. Qin Mu then entered the Zerg Empress’s Empress Palace, leaving the purpose of his visit unrevealed.

• Chaos City Lord told Qin Mu that the Starry Sky Giant Beast Alliance had accepted humanity’s terms, including providing Universe Lords for experiments in exchange for resources.
• Chaos City Lord asked Qin Mu to help develop the surrendered Northern Frontier Alliance’s territory, and Qin Mu granted him access to the Wormhole Network.
• Qin Mu proposed abolishing slavery throughout humanity, and Chaos City Lord agreed to order every Universe Country to cooperate.
• Qin Mu announced that he would use the Swarm to purge criminal elements within humanity and help popularize Low-level Living Armor and genetic-ascension programs.
• After humanity learned that the war had ended in victory, Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and True Yan Venerable were stunned by the news.
• Qin Mu entered the Zerg Empress’s Empress Palace.

Qin Mu visited the Zerg Empress to teach her the 64 Secret Pattern Diagrams and share his advanced bloodline research. He revealed that he planned to live in Empress Palace long-term and bring his research resources there, leaving the Empress stunned by the scale of his Primordial Sea clones.

• Qin Mu met the Zerg Empress in his true body and gave her access to the Secret Pattern Diagrams and bloodline research through her Swarm Network.
• The Empress discovered Qin Mu’s twelve-level Bloodline Evolution technique and its plans for reaching the 10081 Life Level Gene.
• Qin Mu urged the Empress to study the Nine Nether Sea’s Creation talent and explained that he had begun analyzing the Gold and Space Beast God’s Life Structure Diagram.
• Qin Mu said he intended to live in Empress Palace and research the Innate Beast Gods and Twelve Peak Bloodlines there, bringing a Primordial Sea and Universe Venerable-level Mother Nests.
• The Empress was stunned when Qin Mu said he had several tens of thousands of Primordial Sea clones and could create more as resources allowed.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress used Lord of Golden Horn and Lord of Whirlwind Annihilation to research Universe Lord-level Starry Sky Giant Beasts in the Primordial Sea. Their experiments revealed a promising path toward studying the Innate Beast Gods, while Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress grew more coordinated and he settled into the Empress Palace.

• Qin Mu formed a ninety-million-kilometer Primordial Sea and had the Zerg Empress place Lord of Golden Horn and Lord of Whirlwind Annihilation inside it.
• Qin Mu told the captive beasts to cooperate with his research or face the consequences of breaking their alliance's agreement.
• The Zerg Empress used the Empress Palace and Mother Nests to restrain the beasts, and she and Qin Mu began studying their Life Structure Diagrams.
• Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress analyzed the beasts' life structures and produced Golden Horn Beast specimens with unusual, high Life Levels.
• The Zerg Empress proposed studying the eight Innate Beast Gods to combine their strengths and seek a Gene Structure beyond 10081, and Qin Mu moved into the Empress Palace.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress studied Secret Pattern Diagrams and developed symbiotic armor for the Swarm, but found it inadequate for Larva Nest Tyrants. They decided to pursue better treasure-refining methods, with Qin Mu planning to seek Craftsman God Lord and the Empress offering to accompany him.

• Qin Mu guided the Zerg Empress through the 64 Secret Pattern Diagrams, and she learned the Talent Secret Pattern technique "Creation".
• Qin Mu explained how Secret Pattern Diagrams could reveal the essence of things and help improve strength.
• Qin Mu created symbiotic armor for the Swarm and tested its shield, but concluded it was only suitable for middle-level combat forces.
• Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress discussed the need for Supreme Treasure-level armor for Larva Nest Tyrants and considered seeking Craftsman God Lord's refining inheritance.
• Qin Mu decided to study the race's existing artifact-refining methods before visiting Craftsman God Lord, and the Zerg Empress agreed to go with him.

Qin Mu began studying artifact refinement to strengthen the Swarm after concluding that improving its Life Level would take too long and its forces lacked suitable equipment. He rapidly mastered basic crafting and advanced to heavy treasures, where the Crimson Scale Bear Armor inspired ideas for improving the Swarm’s biological armor.

• Qin Mu decided to focus on refining treasures rather than raising the Swarm’s Life Level, since the Swarm’s battle losses and equipment shortages limited its strength.
• Qin Mu and dozens of his Larva Nest Tyrant bodies entered the Human Race’s artifact-refining halls and began learning from the basics using Lord Peng Gong’s secret manual, Heavenly Craft.
• After three months, Qin Mu had refined hundreds of thousands of weapons and armor pieces, then moved on to the more complex work of crafting heavy treasures.
• Qin Mu studied the composite Crimson Scale Bear Armor and realized the Swarm could incorporate metals and special materials directly while growing into biological armor.
• Qin Mu sought Lord Peng Gong’s guidance and continued building his artifact-refining foundation while analyzing ways to improve Legion Flow biological armor.

After humanity’s victory, Luo Feng worried over the Tribulation Armor and his teacher Mountain Lord’s hostility toward the Human Race. Qin Mu visited him, revealed how much he knew about Luo Feng’s hidden past, and asked him to carry a message offering Mountain Lord help with revenge in exchange for a price.

• Luo Feng reflected on humanity’s triumph and the expansion into Northern Frontier Alliance territory, while considering going there to seek a breakthrough.
• Qin Mu arrived and guessed that Luo Feng was troubled by the Tribulation Armor and Mountain Lord.
• Qin Mu told Luo Feng he was only researching the Tribulation Armor and that Luo Feng could reclaim it when he was able to use its power.
• Luo Feng asked how Qin Mu knew about Mountain Lord and the armor, and Qin Mu explained that his Swarm’s intelligence network had revealed much of Luo Feng’s history.
• Qin Mu revealed that he knew about Luo Feng’s Star Tower trial and Pu Ti’s hidden identity, then asked Luo Feng to tell Mountain Lord that he could help him take revenge for an agreed price.

Qin Mu told Luo Feng details about Mountain Lord’s past and gave him two secret techniques to pass along, leaving Mountain Lord convinced that Qin Mu was a powerful reincarnated being who knew his deepest secrets. Mountain Lord told Luo Feng he would speak with Qin Mu in the Universe Sea.

• Qin Mu told Luo Feng that Pu Ti was stronger than Yan Emperor but had refused to aid the Human Race, and said Mountain Lord’s enemy was tied to Ancient Civilization and a destroyed nation.
• Qin Mu sent Luo Feng the secret techniques “Bloodline Evolution” and “Secret Pattern Compendium,” explaining that they could help Luo Feng cultivate after he became immortal.
• Luo Feng left Chaos City, contacted Mountain Lord, and repeated Qin Mu’s words and the techniques he had received.
• Mountain Lord was shaken by Qin Mu’s knowledge of his origins and the secret trial involving the 64 Secret Pattern Diagrams, and he sensed the Original Universe Will watching him.
• Mountain Lord concluded that Qin Mu was likely a powerful reincarnated expert from the Origin Continent and told Luo Feng he would speak with Qin Mu in the Universe Sea.

Qin Mu continued studying artifact refinement and considered transforming Swarm Units so their bodies could rival Supreme Treasures. When Giant Axe Founder prepared to enter the Universe Sea, Qin Mu equipped him with Swarm forces and explained how they could establish navigation markers, communicate, and prepare future Human Race bases.

• Qin Mu reasoned that refining Supreme Treasures to equip the Swarm would take too long, so he planned to study how powerful lifeforms could have bodies with Supreme Treasure properties.
• Qin Mu studied artifact refinement for a thousand years with guidance from Lord Peng Gong and help from his avatars and the Swarm’s computational ability.
• After learning Giant Axe Founder was entering the Universe Sea, Qin Mu gave him five hundred Larva Nest Tyrants, other Swarm Units, and Mother Nests for scouting and exploration.
• Qin Mu explained that Swarm Units could serve as navigation points through their shared soul and could let humans communicate across the Universe Sea through the Second World.
• Qin Mu asked Giant Axe Founder to capture lifeforms that survived in the Universe Sea so Qin Mu could study how they endured its Chaos Current, and Giant Axe agreed.

Qin Mu and Giant Axe Founder planned to place the Primordial Sea in Qingfeng Realm as a Human Race base, then Qin Mu sought Primal Ancestor’s knowledge to improve the Swarm’s Second World. Chaos City Lord brought Qin Mu to meet Primal Ancestor Yuan, while the Virtual Universe Lords welcomed him and teased him about the Zerg Empress; on the way, they recalled Yuan’s former supremacy and the Human Race’s past strength.

• Giant Axe Founder recommended placing Qin Mu’s Primordial Sea in Qingfeng Realm’s water region, where it could serve as a safe base and encounter Water Flow Spirits for research.
• Qin Mu told Chaos City Lord that he wanted to meet Primal Ancestor and learn the Virtual Universe’s mysteries to improve the Swarm’s Second World.
• Chaos City Lord gathered the Virtual Universe lineage’s Universe Lords, who welcomed Qin Mu as one of their own and teased him about his relationship with the Zerg Empress.
• Chaos City Lord led Qin Mu and the others through the Virtual Universe to meet their teacher, Primal Ancestor Yuan.
• Chaos City Lord and the other Universe Lords described Yuan’s past achievements, recalling that he had made the Human Race a dominant force feared throughout the universe.

Qin Mu visited Primal Ancestor with Chaos City Lord and learned why the Virtual Universe could not be recreated in the Universe Sea. Primal Ancestor passed him the secret technique and guidance for developing a Swarm-based Second World, leaving Qin Mu determined to find a way to free him.

• Chaos City Lord introduced Qin Mu to Primal Ancestor, who praised Qin Mu and explained that the Virtual Universe depended on the Original Universe’s Cosmic Origin.
• Primal Ancestor gave Qin Mu the Virtual Universe secret technique and advised him to build a Second World using Swarm nests, the Soul Network, and the Wisdom Sea.
• Qin Mu asked whether the captured Mechanical Race Universe Lord could help power the Second World, but Primal Ancestor said enslaving him would be extremely difficult.
• Primal Ancestor told Qin Mu to study the materials and seek him through the Virtual Universe, then his visitors departed.
• Youhou Lord, Darkness Lord, and Chaos City Lord lamented that they had no way to free Primal Ancestor, while Qin Mu insisted they would find one as their strength grew.

Qin Mu improved the Second World and the Swarm's Soul Network while studying artifact refinement, eventually creating his first Ordinary Supreme Treasure. He and the Zerg Empress traveled aboard the Empress Palace to Craftsman God Star to meet Craftsman God Lord, who sensed their arrival and went to greet them.

• Qin Mu used Primal Ancestor's guidance to improve the Second World, strengthen the Swarm's Soul Network, and advance his artifact-refinement studies.
• After a thousand years, Qin Mu refined his first Ordinary Supreme Treasure and decided to visit Craftsman God Star to invite Craftsman God Lord to join the Hong Alliance.
• Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress transferred the Primordial Sea into her miniature universe and set off aboard the Empress Palace.
• The Empress Palace reached the Yin Fa Secret Realm and charged through its spatial vortices toward Craftsman God Star.
• Craftsman God Lord sensed the Empress Palace's arrival, considered why Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress had come, and flew out to greet them.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress visited Craftsman God Star to invite the Craftsman God Lord into the Hong Alliance, but he refused and threatened to join the Ancestral God Cult instead. Qin Mu warned him against neutrality, then revealed that he and Mountain Lord were friends and suggested Mountain Lord might guide him if he joined.

• The Craftsman God Lord welcomed Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress to Craftsman God Star and hosted them at Craftsman God Mountain.
• Qin Mu saw many Human Race powerhouses kneeling to seek the Craftsman God Lord as a master and considered reforming how humanity nurtured talent.
• After sharing wine, Qin Mu invited the Craftsman God Lord to join the Hong Alliance, but the Craftsman God Lord refused and said he would rather join the Ancestral God Cult.
• Qin Mu warned that neutrality would make the Craftsman God Lord an opponent of humanity and cited the Northern Frontier Alliance as an example of what could happen.
• The Craftsman God Lord prepared to fight, but Qin Mu said he and Mountain Lord were friends and suggested Mountain Lord might guide him if he joined the Hong Alliance.

Qin Mu persuaded Craftsman God Lord to join the Hong Alliance and invited him to help develop body refinement, a method of inscribing Supreme Treasure patterns into living Zerg. Craftsman God Lord eagerly joined the research and brought Qin Mu to his mountain’s deepest treasure-refining chamber to begin experiments.

• Qin Mu convinced Craftsman God Lord that he was friends with Mountain Lord and explained that Yan Emperor had been killed for betraying humanity.
• Craftsman God Lord accepted Qin Mu’s account and agreed to join the Hong Alliance.
• Qin Mu described his research into inscribing Supreme Treasure patterns into Zerg bodies and asked Craftsman God Lord to join the body-refinement project.
• Craftsman God Lord eagerly agreed, and Qin Mu summoned Zerg to serve as experimental subjects.
• Craftsman God Lord took Qin Mu to the deepest part of Craftsman God Mountain, where they began experimenting beside a powerful black gourd-shaped Supreme Treasure.

As Empress Palace traveled through the Dark Universe, Qin Mu told the Zerg Empress about his dealings with Mountain Lord and Mountain Lord’s connection to the Ancient Civilization. Meanwhile, news of Craftsman God Lord joining the Hong Alliance spread through the Original Universe, and Chaos City Lord reviewed Qin Mu’s proposals for developing the human race.

• The Zerg Empress questioned Qin Mu about his claimed friendship with Mountain Lord, and Qin Mu explained that their relationship came through deals with Luo Feng.
• Qin Mu revealed that Mountain Lord and his enemy were connected to the Ancient Civilization, but said restrictions prevented him from explaining further.
• The Zerg Empress challenged Qin Mu over how many clones and research arrangements he had established, and Qin Mu teased her.
• Craftsman God Lord’s entry into the Hong Alliance alarmed rival factions and made weaker races hope to join humanity’s growing camp.
• Chaos City Lord read Qin Mu’s proposals for human martial arts academies, systematic training in crafts and potions, and a new battlefield to develop combat skills.

Qin Mu proposed a comprehensive human talent cultivation plan and a far more brutal battlefield where races would compete for territory. Chaos City Lord judged that Qin Mu’s strength and influence could make both reforms possible, then saw a photograph of Qin Mu strolling with the Zerg Empress.

• Qin Mu proposed educating human children in martial skills, history, and other fields to cultivate talent and strengthen unity across the Human Race.
• Chaos City Lord reflected on the political obstacles to reform and concluded that Qin Mu’s strength and promise to raise Universe Lords’ Gene Multipliers would help overcome resistance.
• Chaos City Lord considered Qin Mu’s plan to divide a new racial battlefield by cultivation level and award territory according to each race’s ranking.
• Chaos City Lord concluded that the Human Race could use its power to compel the universe’s races to accept the battlefield plan and prepare for a meeting to decide the Original Universe’s future.
• Chaos City Lord saw a photograph of Qin Mu holding the Zerg Empress’s hand as they shopped together.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress relaxed together on Earth before the Peak Genius Battle was announced. They looked forward to seeing how the Human Race’s young geniuses would fare thirty thousand years after Qin Mu’s era.

• Qin Mu showed the Zerg Empress around Yangzhou City, sharing stories of Earth’s past as they sampled local food and visited the places where he had lived and fought.
• The Zerg Empress shopped with Qin Mu at a mall and chose a bracelet, while Qin Mu reflected on how they had spent nearly a century traveling together.
• A huge proclamation announced the human universe’s Peak Genius Battle, with 5,328 Universe Countries taking part.
• Qin Mu recounted how he had advanced his allies’ strength and achieved a hundredfold gene breakthrough at the Universe Venerable level, while preparing to test it on the Dry Witch Nation Lord and others.
• The Zerg Empress said her Zerg Mother Queens would compete and joked that they might take the top ten spots, but Qin Mu said the Human Race’s other geniuses would make that unlikely.
• Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress decided to watch the battle and see how strong the Human Race’s geniuses had become.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress watched the Genius Battle, where Zerg Mother Queens excelled thanks to their powerful talents and ability to raise Zerg Warriors. Concerned that stronger bloodlines would further reduce their numbers, Qin Mu proposed improving their reproductive ability, leaving the Empress asking how to solve the problem.

• Qin Mu examined the vastly expanded Genius Battle and discussed with the Zerg Empress how its participants could become powerful elites.
• Qin Mu observed the preliminary selection and found many Human and Zerg geniuses, including more than a thousand Zerg Mother Queens who had comprehended the supreme Time and Space Origin Laws.
• Zerg Mother Queens used their Mother Nests and cultivated Warriors to dominate the preliminary melee, so humanity made them gatekeepers in the later Trial Tower stage but did not restrict their abilities.
• The Zerg Empress objected that Zerg Mother Queens made up only a small fraction of the top geniuses, and Qin Mu explained that raising bloodlines further could make their population even scarcer.
• Qin Mu suggested either lowering the Mother Queens' bloodline strength while improving their potential or researching ways to improve their reproductive ability.

Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress discussed ways to improve powerful races’ bloodlines and reproduction before turning their attention to the Genius Battle and humanity’s reforms. After the battle ended, Qin Mu backed a sweeping cultivation and education plan, and the Chaos City Lord declared that humanity would build a battlefield against the other races.

• Qin Mu proposed concealing and gradually strengthening bloodlines and developing reproduction techniques, citing the Swarm as proof that strong beings could reproduce without restrictions.
• Qin Mu and the Zerg Empress returned to her miniature universe and resumed their research; ten years later, he reviewed the Genius Battle results, including a Huaxia-lineage contestant’s tenth-place finish, and decided to grant her an opportunity.
• At a high-level meeting led by the Chaos City Lord, Qin Mu proposed Xinhuo Academies and online instruction through the Virtual Universe and the Swarm’s Second World, and the Universe Lords approved his plan.
• Qin Mu described how his purges of corrupt officials and powerful offenders had strengthened human cohesion, and he pursued a data link between the Swarm Network and the Virtual Universe.
• As humanity began sweeping reforms, the Chaos City Lord declared that it would build a battlefield against the other peak races and Alien Races, giving humanity an external enemy to fight.