Chapter Summaries

Xu Kun received the Jiao Lord Token, which represented the Flood Dragon Race Elder Council’s bet on his leadership and future reforms. He also welcomed a million-strong navy and elite forces from allied races before Hao Jian confronted Wenren Zhuoyun.

• Ao Suxin gave Xu Kun the Jiao Lord Token and explained its authority within the Flood Dragon Race.
• Xu Kun realized the Elder Council had entrusted him with the token in exchange for the Nine Extremes Jiao God Scroll and as a stake in the Flood Dragon Race’s future.
• Su Xin and Lian Xin brought Xu Kun a million-strong Flood Dragon Race navy, which he added to his assembled forces.
• Qiao Ba arrived with ten thousand Dark Elves, including thousands of elite smiths, and Milio reported that the Light Regiment was ready for orders.
• Hao Jian approached Wenren Zhuoyun with a second divine weapon on his back and demanded to know if he was Wenren Zhuoyun.

Xu Kun subdued Wenren Zhuoyun, took command of the Monkey Race’s war affairs, and laid out a battlefield deployment. As Yang Yao prepared to relay his orders, Xu Kun stopped her and called Li Yian over.

• Sikong Ting and Hao Jian nearly fought over who would punish Wenren Zhuoyun until Xu Kun arrived and calmed them down.
• Xu Kun introduced his powerful companions to Wenren Zhuoyun, who abandoned his pride and accepted Xu Kun as the Monkey Race’s temporary leader.
• Xu Kun took over the Monkey Race’s war affairs, and its members agreed to follow his command.
• Xu Kun dictated a complete battle plan to Yang Yao before the battlefield entrances were due to close.
• Xu Kun stopped Yang Yao from relaying the orders and called Li Yian over.

Xu Kun received a call from the Phoenix Lord, who asked him to reconsider his relationship with Yuan and sent him a memory of her past. The memory showed Yuan as a golden-feathered chick in the dangerous Ember Sandplain.

• The Phoenix Lord contacted Xu Kun, and he called her Grandma while the others realized she was a legendary figure.
• The Phoenix Lord requested an alliance between the Phoenix Race and the Monkey Race and urged Xu Kun to reconsider the matter of the Nine Heavens Parasol Tree for Yuan's sake.
• The Phoenix Lord transmitted a memory of Yuan's past, and Xu Kun examined it despite his wish to avoid her.
• Xu Kun saw Sandplain Chickens fleeing through the Ember Sandplain and recognized a golden-feathered chick as possibly being Yuan when she was little.

Xu Kun watched the little yellow chick’s life unfold, from witnessing her mother’s death and enduring captivity to surviving war and betrayal. After her former companions pushed her toward an enemy, she fell from a ten-thousand-zhang cliff, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Rock Feather Vile Vultures killed the little yellow chick’s mother, captured the chick, and kept her with other Sandplain Chickens as livestock.
• Storm Eagles defeated the vultures and captured the surviving chickens, but a Fifth Realm Ben-Zhi descendant killed the eagles and brought the little yellow chick into the Ben-Zhi Empire.
• The little yellow chick lived through the empire’s fall and fled with companions, but they betrayed her by pushing her toward an enemy soldier.
• The little yellow chick fell from a ten-thousand-zhang cliff while fleeing her captor.

Xu Kun learned how the little yellow chick inherited the Yuan Ancestor’s legacy and became Yuan, the Phoenix Lord’s disciple and a candidate to lead the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins. Yuan’s rise left her powerful and devoted to her mission, but also dangerously ruthless and possessive toward Xu Kun.

• The Yuan Ancestor’s lingering will recognized the little yellow chick’s powerful atavistic bloodline and offered her its legacy.
• The little yellow chick accepted the trials, endured them for two and a half years, and awakened as a golden phoenix at seventeen.
• Yuan avenged her mother by slaughtering the Rock Feather Vile Vultures, and the Phoenix Lord arrived and named her Yuan.
• The Phoenix Lord took Yuan as her disciple, brought her to Phoenix Palace, and guided her toward becoming Yuan Lord.
• Yuan entered the Haotian Pagoda at eighteen and was tasked with bringing Xu Kun back to the Phoenix Race to earn the position of Yuan Lord.
• Xu Kun discovered Yuan’s secret schemes against the women around him and her absolute loyalty to the Phoenix Race.

After learning the Phoenix Lord had engineered Yuanbao’s suffering and that she would die without help, Xu Kun struggled with whether to save her. Yang Yao urged him to follow his heart, and Xu Kun chose to rescue Yuanbao and accept the Phoenix Race’s alliance request.

• Xu Kun learned from the Phoenix Lord that she had arranged Yuanbao’s hardships to shape her into a successor for the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins.
• The Phoenix Lord warned Xu Kun that Yuanbao and her unborn child would die soon unless he saved her, then showed him Yuanbao weakening outside the Myriad Races Battlefield.
• Yang Yao comforted Xu Kun and encouraged him to give Yuanbao and himself a chance.
• Xu Kun decided Yuanbao would live until she redeemed herself and agreed to the Phoenix Race’s alliance request.
• As the battlefield entrance began to close, Yuanbao saw the Monkey Race Battlefield turn green before Xu Kun caught her and restored her fading Life Force.

After Yuan’s attempt to harm Daji nearly killed her, Yang Yao revealed that Yuan was carrying Xu Kun’s child, halting the others from retaliating. Xu Kun saved Yuan despite his resentment, and Yang Yao took charge of watching her as the group turned to question the Phoenix Race powerhouses.

• Athena accused Yuan of harming Daji and tried to strike her, but Yang Yao stopped her and revealed Yuan was pregnant with Xu Kun’s child.
• Wenren Zhuoyun dispersed the Monkey Race, while Shen-bao warned Yuan that she would settle their score later and rejected Yuan’s apology.
• Xu Kun’s Undying Mirage Tide kept Yuan alive, though her depleted phoenix blood and damaged foundation meant her life force continued to drain.
• Yang Yao told Yuan she had protected her only for the child, reminded her to guard her words, and was assigned to monitor her.
• Yang Yao asked the Phoenix Race powerhouses who had arrived with Yuan what they had planned to do.

Yuan’s pregnancy with Xu Kun’s child secured her standing among the Phoenix Race, whose members paid respects to Xu Kun as the Azure Phoenix Crown Prince. Xu Kun recognized Yun Cheng Wanlipeng and reflected on the Phoenix Race’s training system, which had recently accelerated Yun’s growth.

• Yuan ordered the Phoenix Race members to pay respects to Xu Kun, and her authority and unborn child’s status made them comply.
• The leading Phoenix Race members knelt before Xu Kun and greeted him as the Azure Phoenix Crown Prince.
• Xu Kun recognized Yun Cheng Wanlipeng, who had advanced quickly after joining the Phoenix Race’s T1 genius training ranks.
• Xu Kun considered why top races made their geniuses struggle and build a foundation before rapidly supplying them with cultivation resources.
• Xu Kun noted that Yun had entered Upside-Down Mountain only a few months earlier and was already nearing the late stage of the second realm.

Xu Kun received the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins delegation and learned that the Phoenix Race had sent a ten-thousand-strong army to support him. He demanded to know whether the legion would follow his command, then threatened to send the delegation home when most of its leaders hesitated.

• Yuan introduced twenty Tier-SSS Bloodline prodigies from the Yuan-Chu main branch and nine branches to Xu Kun.
• Xu Kun greeted Yun Cheng Wanlipeng warmly, and Yuan left with Yang Yao after Xu Kun told her to rest.
• Yun Cheng Wanlipeng told Xu Kun that the Phoenix Lord had sent ten thousand troops, including five hundred SS-tier and five hundred S-tier Bloodline members from each branch.
• Xu Kun asked whether the Phoenix legion would obey him, and Yun Cheng Wanlipeng pledged his loyalty while the other nineteen prodigies hesitated.
• Xu Kun threatened to send the Phoenix delegation back, as his other forces rose ready for battle.

Xu Kun brought the Phoenix Race prodigies under his command after they submitted to his bloodline pressure and flattered him. He rejected the title Azure Phoenix Crown Prince, appointed Yun Cheng Wanlipeng to lead the Phoenix legion, and began the racial war alongside the Monkey Race.

• The Phoenix Race prodigies cowered before Xu Kun and scrambled to praise him by citing their lineages' connections to his family and abilities.
• Xu Kun told the prodigies not to call him Azure Phoenix Crown Prince, and they agreed to call him Kun, Xu Kun, or God Kun instead.
• The Phoenix Race legion accepted Xu Kun's command despite the Phoenix Lord's decree assigning them to Yuan-Chu's arrangements.
• Xu Kun appointed Yun Cheng Wanlipeng temporary commander of the Phoenix Race legion and ordered him to coordinate with Xu Kun.
• Xu Kun began the racial war he had been ordered to assist the Monkey Race in.

Xu Kun organized the monkey race’s allied forces and sent scouts to investigate neighboring clans as he explained the battlefield rules governing lower-ranked challenges. The chapter ended as he began describing how the Race Nexus and Strategic Points could determine a race’s fate.

• Xu Kun appointed Yun Cheng Wanlipeng commander of the allied forces and assigned human prodigies to units suited to their abilities.
• Wenren Zhuoyun pledged the support of over a hundred million monkey race members to Xu Kun.
• Xu Kun ordered Yue Chan’er and Yue Yi to lead limited scout forces into neighboring clans and gather intelligence.
• Xu Kun explained that challenger races faced exposed coordinates and strict scout limits, while Race Nexuses served as command centers and troop deployment points.
• Xu Kun explained how Strategic Points stored race points and enabled battlefield weapons and killing-point rewards.

Xu Kun explained how territory, strategic points, and race leaders determined victory in the War of the Myriad Races, then revealed his plan to secure the monkey race’s rear before pursuing challenges against higher-ranked races. He aimed to lead the monkey race toward the royal races, though its ability to reach that goal remained uncertain.

• Xu Kun’s account explained that occupying a race’s entire territory exposed its leader to battle, and the leader’s death could end that race’s participation in the war.
• Xu Kun sent Yue Chan'er to locate every Shadow Wolf Clan Strategic Point and its Race Nexus, while Yue Yi and others investigated three lower-ranked races.
• Xu Kun told the monkey race’s leaders that he planned to attack the three races below them first to secure the monkey race’s rear before challenging higher-ranked races.
• Hao Jian asked whether the monkey race ultimately intended to challenge the royal races, and Xu Kun firmly agreed.
• Sikong Ting and the others questioned whether the monkey race had the strength to reach the royal ranks, which required overthrowing one of the seven royal races.

The chapter recounts humanity’s rise from a subordinate race to 978th place in the Tier-B Race Sequence through decades of sacrifice and warfare. It ends with Xu Kun preparing to make his mark in the First Tier War, which he considers his home ground.

• The chapter explains that mid- and upper-tier races rarely changed ranks because they avoided full-scale wars, while Xu Kun planned an unusually destructive campaign against the Shadow Wolf Clan.
• Under Sky Eye, humanity unified, built base cities, and formed armies while remaining a subordinate race of the Black Tortoise Race.
• Humanity entered the Myriad Races Battlefield, spent twenty years fighting on the Wildlands Battlefield, and later broke into the Myriad Races Sequence after many casualties.
• Humanity advanced into the C-tier Race Sequence and, after defeating an alliance of six races, reached 978th place in the Tier-B Race Sequence.
• The other races feared humanity’s rapid growth and unusual ability to grow stronger through battle, while Xu Kun prepared to make his military miracle in the First Tier War.

Yang Yao arranged the Monkey Race’s deployment as the chapter explained how races mined source ore, spent points on battlefield buildings, and balanced construction against military expansion. The Monkey Race had entered in two batches, with most of its more than a hundred million members assigned to locate and mine ore.

• Yang Yao took over from Xu Kun and arranged the Monkey Race’s subsequent deployment after the advance scouts completed their intelligence gathering.
• The chapter described how races exchanged Strategic Points for resource, defensive, military, and special buildings to develop and protect their Race Battlefields.
• Races balanced the cost of finished buildings and blueprints against their available points, craftsmen, and need to send troops on campaigns.
• The chapter explained that races entered the battlefield in stages to keep mining efficient while protecting their Blue Star homelands from attacks by other races.
• More than a hundred million Monkey Race members entered in two batches, and eighty percent of them could locate mineral veins and mine.

Xu Kun coordinated the Monkey Race’s excavation of source mineral veins, using his knowledge to identify likely Strategic Point sites. As the group assessed the enormous Monkey Race Battlefield, they learned its scale rivaled the historic battlefields of Royal Races, leaving Xu Kun hopeful that his senior brothers would surprise him.

• Xu Kun directed Yang Yao to coordinate Monkey Race miners, Dark Elves, and Athena’s giants as they excavated source mineral veins at likely Strategic Point sites.
• Xu Kun considered how excavation cycles and battlefield sizes grew with the scale of each War of the Myriad Races, noting that the Millennium Period war would demand unprecedented preparation.
• Yang Yao concentrated the miners on veins whose Strategic Point locations could be identified with high confidence instead of spreading them across the vast battlefield.
• Yun Cheng Wanlipeng and the other Phoenix Race prodigies estimated that the Monkey Race Battlefield was half the size of the Phoenix Race Battlefield five hundred years earlier.
• Athena and Yan said the current Monkey Race Battlefield was comparable in size to the historic Titan Race battlefield and larger than the Angel Race battlefield had been.
• Xu Kun concluded that the Monkey Race had the foundation and bearing of a Royal Race and wondered whether his senior brothers would surprise him.

While the monkey race waited for Yue Yi’s intelligence, Xu Kun’s forces mined, trained, and studied as Yuan settled into a peaceful domestic life and Daji rebuilt her human body. After Yue Yi confirmed the Rock Rhino Clan’s Race Nexus and three Strategic Points, Xu Kun ordered the troops to attack and destroy the Rock Rhino Clan battlefield within three days.

• Xu Kun assigned small elite units to guard the mountain passes and kept the supporting forces ready to attack the Rock Rhino Clan once Yue Yi located its Race Nexus.
• Xu Kun sent the others to train on the Heavenly Ladder or study at Jixia Academy, while Shen-bao remained idle during pregnancy and Yuan was barred from training after nearly dying under the pressure.
• Xu Kun urged Yuan to learn to live as an ordinary person, and she spent the next half month cooking meals for the group.
• Xu Kun became a Jixia Master in the Way of Military Strategy and met its dean, Old Man Jiang, while Daji rebuilt her human body.
• Yue Yi reported the Rock Rhino Clan’s Race Nexus, troop distribution, and three Strategic Points, so Xu Kun ordered the waiting elite forces to march and flatten its battlefield within three days.

Xu Kun coordinated a rapid assault on the Rock Rhino Clan, using allied armies and a massive flood to destroy its battlefield. After the Rock Rhino Clan fell in three days, its sixth-realm Venerable recognized Xu Kun as the force behind the disaster.

• Xu Kun assigned the Angel, Giant, wolf rider, Light Elf, and Phoenix forces separate routes and objectives across the Rock Rhino battlefield.
• Xu Kun tasked Yun Cheng Wanlipeng, Zhang Guanqi, and Gongshu Ye with scouting sites for a military base, while Yue Yi's prisoners revealed the Rock Rhino Clan's strength and traits.
• Xu Kun ordered Su Xin and Lian Xin to prepare a flood that would sweep across the battlefield once the armies reached the Race Nexus.
• Within two days, Xu Kun's forces drove the surviving million Rock Rhinos into a low-lying canyon as the Angel Army reached the Race Nexus.
• Su Xin and Lian Xin unleashed the tide, drowning the Rock Rhinos and destroying their battlefield; the Rock Rhino Venerable watched helplessly.
• Yang Yao pushed Xu Kun before the Rock Rhino Venerable, who realized Xu Kun was responsible for his race's fall.

Xu Kun confronted Rock Rhino Venerable after the monkey race defeated the Rock Rhino Clan, then offered the clan choices between annexation, merging with other races, or becoming the monkey race’s affiliate. Rock Rhino Venerable recoiled at the proposed colonization, and Xu Kun began to explain further terms.

• Xu Kun told Rock Rhino Venerable that the Rock Rhino Clan had fallen because no race could remain isolated in the new era.
• Xu Kun asked whether the Rock Rhino Clan would try to reclaim its territory when the three bells rang, and warned that resistance would lead to its destruction.
• Rock Rhino Venerable learned that the Snow Mastiff Clan was next and asked Xu Kun to spare his people.
• Xu Kun offered the Rock Rhino Clan annexation or a merger with other bovine and rhino races, then presented colonization as a second alternative.
• Xu Kun proposed making the Rock Rhino Clan an affiliate that would mine resources and provide troops, and Rock Rhino Venerable objected before Xu Kun told him to sit and listen further.

Xu Kun forced the Rock Rhino Clan to accept colonization, promising that cooperation could preserve its Tier-B Race sequence after the First Tier War. The Rock Rhino Venerable agreed, and the chapter ended with Xu Kun’s army returning as the battlefield barriers closed, leaving the Rock Rhino Clan’s obedience to be tested.

• Xu Kun explained that the Rock Rhino Clan would provide free labor and resources under colonization, and warned that he could destroy the clan quickly if he chose.
• Xu Kun promised the Rock Rhino Venerable that obedient cooperation could secure the Rock Rhino Clan’s place in the Tier-B Race sequence after the First Tier War.
• The Rock Rhino Venerable accepted Xu Kun’s verbal agreement and pledged the clan’s full cooperation.
• Xu Kun assigned Yang Yao to arrange the colonization, and Yang Yao warned the Rock Rhino Venerable against betraying Xu Kun.
• Three days later, Xu Kun’s army returned to the Monkey Race Battlefield as the barriers closed, and the Rock Rhino Clan’s cooperation remained to be tested.

Xu Kun secured the Rock Rhino Clan’s submission and used its members as miners and transporters before attacking the Snow Mastiff Clan. After destroying the Snow Mastiff army, he gathered the terrified Earth Dragons at their Race Nexus, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Wenren Zhuoyun learned that Xu Kun had already defeated the Rock Rhino Clan and heard that he planned to pacify the Snow Mastiff and Earth Dragon Clans within a month.
• Xu Kun returned to the Rock Rhino Clan battlefield, confirmed Rock Rhino Venerable had sent ten million members to mine and five million to await orders, and placed Monkey Clan teams there to supervise.
• Yue Qing reported that the Snow Mastiff Clan had sent nearly twenty million troops to attack the Earth Dragon Clan, leaving its own Race Nexus and Strategic Point lightly defended.
• Xu Kun led his forces to seize the Snow Mastiff Clan’s Race Nexus and Strategic Point, then slaughtered its troops as they retreated through the Earth Dragon battlefield.
• Xu Kun killed nearly all twenty million Snow Mastiffs within seven days and forced the Earth Dragons, including the Earth Dragon King, to gather at their Race Nexus.