Chapter Summaries

Xu Kun forced the Earth Dragon Clan to submit and then led his allies to occupy every Snow Mastiff Clan Strategic Point. When the Snow Mastiff Venerable demanded a duel, Xu Kun let his companions take turns beating him, leaving the next challenger to step forward.

• Xu Kun offered the Earth Dragon Venerable a choice between extermination and obedience, and the Venerable agreed to serve him.
• Xu Kun promised the Earth Dragon Clan rewards for mining source ore for his forces and ordered its members to cooperate.
• Xu Kun sent miners to develop and occupy every Snow Mastiff Clan Strategic Point before the next Open Day.
• The Snow Mastiff Venerable demanded a duel with Xu Kun, but Xu Kun had his companions fight him instead.
• Hao Jian drew the first lot and beat the Snow Mastiff Venerable for five minutes, after which the group argued over who would fight next.

Xu Kun helped the Monkey Race defeat the Snow Mastiff Clan, then arranged to use the Earth Dragon and Rock Rhino clans for mining while Yang Yao revealed that the Human Race would claim half of their labor. After the races reinforced their forces on Open Day, Xu Kun prepared the Monkey Race army to march on the Shadow Wolf Battlefield.

• Kuzan froze Snow Mastiff Venerable after Hao Jian beat him, and the Snow Mastiff Clan lost its battlefield and Race Sequence Ranking.
• Xu Kun arranged for the Earth Dragon Clan to join the Monkey Race's mining operation and sent Yang Yao to offer excavation and transport teams to the Human Race.
• Yang Yao told Xu Kun that her father expected half of the Rock Rhino and Earth Dragon workers to be transferred to the Human Race, leaving Xu Kun responsible for the clans' promised conditions.
• Xu Kun ordered the Rock Rhino and Earth Dragon clans to send more workers, and they dispatched laborers to the Monkey Race and Human Race Battlefields on Open Day.
• Wenren Zhuoyun reported that thirty million Monkey Race elites were ready, and Xu Kun ordered them to set out for the Shadow Wolf Battlefield.

Xu Kun launched a phased invasion of the Shadow Wolf Clan, using decoy armies to draw its forces away while spreading monkey race troops across its territory. The chapter ended with Wenren Zhuoyun leading the final army toward the Shadow Wolf Clan’s Race Nexus.

• Xu Kun inspected thirty million elite monkey race soldiers and reviewed intelligence mapping the Shadow Wolf Clan’s territory, troops, and Race Nexus.
• Xu Kun sent three million monkey race soldiers toward the Shadow Wolf Clan’s developed Strategic Points as decoys, with Gongsun Jing, Lin Yi, and Shentu Ba commanding them.
• After the Shadow Wolf Clan focused on defending its developed Strategic Points, Xu Kun deployed more than twenty million troops toward its undeveloped Strategic Points.
• Xu Kun ordered Wenren Zhuoyun to lead the final million soldiers toward the Shadow Wolf Clan’s Race Nexus.

Xu Kun directed the monkey race’s war against the Shadow Wolf Clan, using layered command and strategic planning instead of leading the charge himself. The monkeys overwhelmed the Shadow Wolves, while nearly two hundred million more monkeys remained available on the battlefield.

• The Shadow Wolf Clan leader deployed sixty million troops and tried to ambush the thirty million advancing monkeys, but the monkey legions scouted the terrain and avoided the traps.
• The Shadow Wolves were driven back in frontal battles, losing defensive positions despite their numerical advantage.
• Xu Kun applied Han Xin’s principle of mustering as many troops as possible by directing the monkey generals and their legions remotely.
• Xu Kun chose to act as a marshal rather than a general so the monkeys could gain real combat experience while he tested his military theories.
• The monkeys fought under Xu Kun’s military merit system, with rewards for kills and support promised to the families of fallen soldiers.

Xu Kun led the monkey race to defeat the Shadow Wolf forces, then used Monkey Wine to turn the forest around the Shadow Wolf Race Nexus into a devastating inferno. After the Shadow Wolf Clan’s losses became catastrophic, Xu Kun confronted its leader and offered him a deal that would determine the fate of the remaining descendants.

• Xu Kun watched the monkey race overwhelm the Shadow Wolves, then ordered its generals to kill uncontrollable fighters to restore discipline.
• Wenren Zhuoyun’s million-strong army reached the Shadow Wolf Race Nexus and waited as the Shadow Wolf leader gathered his remaining forces to defend it.
• On Xu Kun’s command, fire-element monkeys ignited the seven-hundred-mile forest, which the army had soaked with Monkey Wine.
• The fire raged for half a month, killing thirty million Shadow Wolves as monkey patrols hunted survivors across the battlefield.
• Xu Kun confronted the Shadow Wolf Venerable at the Race Nexus and revealed that around eight million descendants remained, placing their survival in the leader’s hands.

Xu Kun secured the Shadow Wolf God Skull and defeated the Shadow Wolf Race on the Myriad Races Battlefield, then ordered Temujin to lead a human invasion of their homeland. The Shadow Wolf Race began surrendering as humanity moved to annex it, while Xu Kun returned to the monkey clan nexus in a gloomy mood.

• The sixth-realm Shadow Wolf agreed to trade the Shadow Wolf God Skull for the release of eight million Shadow Wolves.
• Xu Kun took the skull, resisted the lingering will hidden inside it, and released the Shadow Wolves before ordering the sixth-realm Shadow Wolf to take his own life.
• The sixth-realm Shadow Wolf dispersed himself, and Temujin led human forces into Shadow Wolf territory under Xu Kun's orders.
• The monkey clan claimed the Shadow Wolf battlefield's source mines while the human army began conquering and annexing the Shadow Wolf Race, prompting many Shadow Wolves to surrender.
• Xu Kun returned to the monkey clan nexus, where Wenren Zhuoyun and the monkey clan generals greeted him, but Xu Kun looked gloomy.

Xu Kun confronted Wenren Zhuoyun and the monkey race generals over their ignorance of the battle’s enormous casualties and the deaths caused by berserk comrades. He explained that he had resigned from command out of shame at the losses, then erupted in anger as the monkey elites cowered before him.

• After the Shadow Wolf Race was defeated, Wenren Zhuoyun asked Xu Kun when they would fight again, and Xu Kun announced that he had submitted his resignation.
• Xu Kun gave Wenren Zhuoyun a casualty roster that classified the dead as martyrs or traitors, then challenged him for not knowing the losses or the dead’s fates.
• Xu Kun revealed that 1,897,451 monkeys had died and 4,368,920 had been seriously wounded, and explained that many casualties came from berserk monkeys attacking their own comrades.
• Wenren Zhuoyun explained the Combat Factor and admitted that powerful bloodline bearers could become uncontrollable, while Xu Kun condemned the deaths and dishonor inflicted on their own people.
• Xu Kun shouted at the monkey elites to activate their Combat Factors, but they cowered; as he neared losing control, someone placed warm hands on his shoulders and told him they could quit if the job made him unhappy.

After the monkey commanders begged Xu Kun to remain their leader, he agreed on the condition that the clan obey three strict rules. He began a military-strengthening plan to control the monkeys’ Combat Factors, leaving the clan’s hopes of challenging a higher-ranked race dependent on the training’s success.

• Xu Kun rejected the monkey commanders’ beliefs about sacrificing their own, but relented when they and the battlefield monkeys begged him to stay.
• Xu Kun required the clan to honor its martyrs, support their families, and deduct their rewards from the surviving members who had harmed fellow monkeys.
• Xu Kun halted campaigns against higher-ranked races and ordered paired combat training to teach the monkeys to control their Combat Factors.
• Xu Kun appointed Jian Jian and Xiao Ting to train the clan, with orders to beat those who lacked discipline or lost control until they recovered their senses.
• Xu Kun suspended every monkey’s Monkey Wine quota until someone learned to control their Combat Factor, and the commanders accepted all three rules.
• Xu Kun told Yang Yao that the military-strengthening plan was the only way to reduce casualties and give the monkey clan a chance to contend for royal-clan status.

Xu Kun reconsidered how to strengthen the monkey race without letting its Combat Factor endanger its people, and Yan explained how Frieza’s transformations were modeled on that power. They left with a new research approach: gradually releasing and mastering the Combat Factor, though Xu Kun had yet to explain his proposed method.

• Xu Kun resolved to prioritize controlling the monkey race’s Combat Factor over advancing the race’s status, even if it required painful training.
• Yan told Xu Kun that Frieza had studied the Combat Factor to develop his transformations and described the power and limits of his forms.
• Yan revealed that Frieza had not entered the Sixth Realm because he still could not master his Final Form, which was designed to rival the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s fully activated Combat Factor.
• Xu Kun proposed that the monkey race gradually release portions of its Combat Factor until it could control the power completely.
• When Yan asked how they would do that, Xu Kun grinned and asked whether she had ever raised a dog.

Xu Kun devised a staged method to help the monkey race control its anger-triggered Combat Factors, drawing on the past losses of control by his senior brothers and the possible influence of Human Race Luck. He tested his approach on Wenren Zhuoyun and other monkeys, whose Combat Factors fully activated as they recalled threats to their people, leaving one enraged monkey approaching Xu Kun.

• Xu Kun proposed gradually provoking the monkey race's anger while instructors beat down anyone whose Combat Factor activation became uncontrollable.
• Yang Yao recalled that Yuan Hong had once been subdued by her father, while Douzhan Martial Saint had caused widespread destruction when enraged; Xu Kun and Yang Yao suspected Human Race Luck had helped his senior brother control his Combat Factor.
• Xu Kun began training the monkey race, and after several days of beatings he selected Wenren Zhuoyun and other monkeys for an experiment.
• Xu Kun gave the monkeys Monkey Wine, then instructed them to activate their Combat Factors by recalling their angriest memories.
• Xu Kun used his Great Dao Thunder Sound to make the monkeys imagine losing their wine and seeing their families and tribe slaughtered, triggering their Combat Factors until one enraged monkey walked toward him.

Xu Kun tested how his Illusion-Shattering Divine Eyes and Human Emperor Power affected the monkeykin’s Combat Factor, discovering that their tails stored the power and were a fatal weakness. He left the old problem of controlling the Combat Factor unresolved and decided the monkeykin needed treatment before other races discovered the weakness.

• Xu Kun used his empowered eyes to calm the raging monkeykin and found that stronger suppression drove the Combat Factor into their tails, ending the monkeykin’s violent state through exhaustion.
• Xu Kun tested his control on Wenren Zhuoyun, then cut off his tail and saw the Combat Factor disappear before a new tail grew back and restored it.
• Xu Kun confirmed that the monkeykin’s tails stored their Combat Factor, and he tested how much tail could be removed from the other monkeykin while they protested.
• Wenren Zhuoyun explained that monkeykin tails served as a third leg in daily life but were vulnerable in battle, and that they could not control their tails while the Combat Factor was active.
• Xu Kun concluded that the monkeykin needed to address both their uncontrolled Combat Factor and their tails’ vulnerability before the other races learned the secret.

Xu Kun tested whether Human Emperor Power could tame the Monkey Race’s Combat Factors and let Wenren Zhuoyun control them without his tail. The experiment worked temporarily, but the tail proved essential for regenerating sustainable Combat Factors, leaving Xu Kun with a method that could only treat the problem’s symptoms.

• Xu Kun used Human Emperor Power to guide Wenren Zhuoyun’s Combat Factors out of his tail and establish a new cycle in his bloodline.
• Xu Kun removed Wenren Zhuoyun’s tail, and Wenren Zhuoyun learned to control his Combat Factors, boosting his strength at the cost of exhausting them.
• After more than ten hours, Wenren Zhuoyun’s dormant Combat Factors revived and responded to his control.
• Xu Kun discovered that Wenren Zhuoyun’s tail did not regenerate and that his Combat Factors were now gradually consumed instead of being reusable.
• Xu Kun concluded that the tail generated sustainable Combat Factors and that his taming method required repeated help, making it impractical for an army.

Xu Kun explained that the Monkey Race sought royal-race status to use Race Aura of Luck to control its unstable Combat Factors, but its enormous population would force leaders to choose between weakening everyone equally or privileging an elite. He suspected the upper ranks planned to reduce the population through the War of the Myriad Races and realized the Four Mixed Monkeys had chosen him to find another way.

• Xu Kun told Yang Yao that the Monkey Race pursued royal-race status because immense racial luck could ease its bloodline defect and that its leaders had conditioned members to glorify sacrifice.
• Xu Kun explained that royal-race luck could not benefit the entire population, leaving the Monkey Race to distribute it broadly or reserve it for a privileged few.
• Xu Kun warned that favoring a small elite could create class conflict, while Yang Yao realized he suspected the Monkey Race's leaders intended to cull their population through the war.
• Xu Kun concluded that the Four Mixed Monkeys had made him leader so he could find an alternative to racial culling, and he chose to accept the challenge with Master and Uncle Yang's support.

Xu Kun pushed the monkey race through brutal training to overcome the fatal flaws in their Combat Factor, hoping his experimental results could become a bargaining chip with Frieza. After Shi Gandang described the moment he briefly regained calm while thinking of his newborn twins, Xu Kun realized they had misunderstood the key to controlling Combat Factor.

• Xu Kun told Yang Yao he needed experimental results before he could bargain with Frieza, and he began devising harsher training for the monkeys.
• Xu Kun subjected the monkey race to months of torture-like training, arguing that their survival depended on overcoming their bloodline weaknesses.
• After a year on the Myriad Races Battlefield, Xu Kun found records showing that Shi Gandang had remained calm for five minutes while his Combat Factor was active.
• Xu Kun healed Shi Gandang and asked how he had calmed himself; Shi Gandang said he had been thinking about his newborn twins.
• Xu Kun realized the monkey race and he had been wrong about what could control Combat Factor.

After Shi Gandang’s outburst made Xu Kun reconsider his harsh training methods, he realized he had mistaken racial loyalty for something ordinary people could be forced to feel. Yang Yao ended the first phase of the training and began a new approach focused on faith and personal bonds.

• Shi Gandang briefly controlled the Combat Factors in his body through the will he drew from thoughts of his unseen children, then fainted.
• Xu Kun realized his experiments had failed because he had demanded that ordinary monkey race members put racial interests above their personal lives.
• Yang Yao comforted Xu Kun and argued that painful training could spare the monkey race from greater losses in the coming war.
• Yang Yao declared Xu Kun’s previous devilish training methods over, and the monkey race members celebrated with Monkey Wine.
• Yang Yao began the army’s second training phase by comforting the soldiers and starting an ideological lesson about faith and what they wanted to protect.

Yang Yao announced that the Monkey Race’s elite soldiers could leave the battlefield and return home, presenting the decision as compensation and the start of military reform. With Xu Kun’s leader token and the Staff of Power behind her, she prepared to make a promise to the soldiers, whose terms remained unrevealed.

• Yang Yao comforted the Monkey Race troops after Xu Kun’s harsh half-year military strengthening plan and announced that they would be allowed to leave the battlefield.
• The soldiers protested that leaving would abandon their duty and make them deserters, despite wanting to return to their families.
• Yang Yao declared that the soldiers’ return was part of a reform of the Monkey Race military system and said she controlled whether the upper ranks approved and whether the troops were branded deserters.
• Yang Yao showed the Monkey Race Leader Token and the Staff of Power, then promised to settle the soldiers’ military merits and send them home in glory when the next battlefield bell rang.
• Wenren Zhuoyun and the other Monkey Race prodigies asked Yang Yao what promise she wanted to make, and she gathered her resolve to answer.

Yang Yao announced a military reform that let Monkey Race soldiers return home for six months, then recruit hometown troops and command them in the battlefield. The monkeys celebrated the chance to keep their families close and earn promotions, while Xu Kun recognized the reform’s hidden cost: whole hometown groups could be sacrificed in battle.

• Yang Yao announced that Monkey Race reinforcements would pause for six months and that future soldiers could volunteer to return with their families.
• Yang Yao proposed making the battlefield a temporary home for soldiers’ relatives and friends, promising their safety there.
• Yang Yao abolished the existing racial legion structure and offered returning soldiers promotions based on how many people they recruited into hometown troops.
• Yang Yao set rules for hometown troops, including a one-year recruitment deadline, ordinary ranks for recruits, and the commanders’ duty to protect and lead them.
• The monkeys enthusiastically approved the reform, while Xu Kun reflected that it could cause entire groups to die and bring suffering to their hometowns.

After completing his preparations for the Monkey Race, Xu Kun planned to spend the next half year strengthening himself and exploring Upside-Down Mountain. Yang Yao urged him to attend the Asura Race’s Supreme Auction and pursue alliances and ruins that could help prepare for a future conflict with the Angel Race; she hinted that another major matter remained.

• Yang Yao told Xu Kun that the Monkey Race’s forces and source-mine excavations would need another year to reach completion, while he considered the long preparations for the First Tier War.
• Xu Kun decided to focus on strengthening himself after a year spent studying at Jixia Academy and managing the Monkey Race Battlefield, and Yang Yao offered to help Shen-bao adapt to Upside-Down Mountain’s gravity.
• Yang Yao revealed that the Asura Race would hold its postponed Myriad Races Auction Convention in a month and auction an SSS-tier Devil Fruit, and she encouraged Xu Kun to use his Asura Supreme Invitation.
• Yang Yao urged Xu Kun to explore the ruins of Dao Thunder Celestial Venerable and Bloodfiend Demigod, seeking knowledge of Evil Fruits and leverage over the Asura Race.
• Yang Yao argued that Xu Kun should use the Supreme Auction to draw the Asura Race and other potential allies away from the Angel Race before their eventual battle over Rou Rou’s return.
• Xu Kun asked what other major matter was happening, and Yang Yao looked toward someone without answering.

Yang Yao and Xu Kun discussed Yuan’s worsening condition and the need to seek help from the Nine Heavens Parasol Tree beyond the Phoenix Race. Yang Yao devised a way to shift the conflict so Xu Kun could go without being trapped there, and they decided to travel together.

• Yuan continued caring for Xu Kun while her pregnancy and failing physical condition placed an increasing strain on her life force.
• Yang Yao told Xu Kun that the women had agreed to save Yuan first, leaving the matter of her past wrongs for later.
• Xu Kun explained that the Nine Heavens Parasol Tree was the only way to save Yuan, but he feared the Phoenix Race would keep him from returning to the human race.
• Yang Yao proposed using Yuan and her unborn child to influence the Phoenix Race, while making it fear the consequences of holding Xu Kun there.
• Xu Kun and Yang Yao agreed they could go to the Phoenix Race, and Yang Yao promised to follow him if he did not return.
• Xu Kun and Yang Yao decided to take in the scenery of Upside-Down Mountain while they still had time.

Xu Kun destroyed a Black Tortoise Race mountain gate, uncovered Emperor-realm ruins, and contacted Meng Ke to arrange their development. When the Ize Couple arrived, they worried that Xu Kun had been crippled, then learned he was hiding his aura; together, the group shared an astonishing haul of ruin discoveries that left Meng Ke overwhelmed.

• Xu Kun had Xiao Huang and Little Gold destroy the Black Tortoise Race mountain gate and its remaining formations, then discovered Emperor-realm ruins and notified Meng Ke.
• Lux sensed Xu Kun's apparently withered aura and feared he had become a cripple, but Xu Kun activated his aura and reassured her and Ezreal that he was fine.
• Ezreal presented thirteen ruins he and Lux had located, including a Seventh-realm ruin, while Xu Kun described the many more ruins he had sensed along the way.
• Xu Kun sent Meng Ke the combined coordinates of the ruins, and Meng Ke struggled to plan their development while the races prepared for the War of the Myriad Races.