Chapter Summaries

Fang Yi tracked down Saito Heihachi, the prophet who had foretold Xia Kingdom’s destruction, and demanded a detailed prophecy about the kingdom’s coming hell. Saito had foreseen that Fang Yi would visit without endangering his life, and the chapter ended with Fang Yi pressing him for answers.

• Fang Yi captured a Democratic Lord and ordered him to find the prophet’s whereabouts.
• The Democratic Lords retrieved files identifying the prophet as Saito Heihachi, who lived on Poppy Street on North Sakura Island.
• Saito Heihachi rejected a young cultivator as a spy and had her killed while selecting new cultivators.
• Fang Yi entered Saito Heihachi’s room, where the gathered cultivators recognized him as the Yang God Lord.
• Fang Yi sat before Saito Heihachi and demanded a detailed prophecy about the hell of Xia Kingdom.

Fang Yi had Saito Heihachi prophesy about Xia Kingdom’s destruction and learned that the Earth God Tribe was awakening beneath Mount Tai. He left to confront the threat, while Saito collapsed after exhausting his life force.

• Fang Yi offered Saito Heihachi Spirit Flower’s vitality so he could make another prophecy.
• Saito prophesied that the defeated Earth God Tribe lay dormant beneath Great Xia and would awaken during Spirit Qi Recovery to destroy Xia Kingdom.
• Saito continued until he coughed up blood and grew too weak to speak further.
• Fang Yi stopped the prophecy and asked where the Earth God Tribe was; Saito said an entrance to hell was opening at the foot of Mount Tai.
• Fang Yi cut off the vitality supply and vanished, leaving Saito to collapse as the others panicked.

Fang Yi entered a hidden passage beneath Mount Tai and discovered a concealed civilization that threatened the Xia Kingdom. After defeating a boy-shaped puppet guarding the way, he suspected the corpse fragments marked the entrance where the Earth God Tribe would awaken and left with the fragments and an array plate.

• Fang Yi found a spirit-qi boundary wall in a hidden passage on Mount Tai and shattered it to enter.
• A barefoot boy appeared, claimed to be gathering herbs, and attacked Fang Yi with a Naginata after revealing overwhelming strength.
• Fang Yi determined the boy was a puppet and destroyed it with a wave of saber light infused with Golden Sun Affinity and Lightning Affinity.
• Fang Yi saw the boy’s corpse fragments form a circle that he believed marked the Earth God Tribe’s entrance.
• Fang Yi took the corpse fragments and left Mount Tai with the Ancient Battlefield Military Souls Killing Array plate.

Fang Yi emerged from Mount Tai after destroying a puppet guarding the hidden Earth God Tribe and summoned Xia Kingdom’s Spirit Association and Military Region leaders. He explained the tribe’s existence and Saito Heihachi’s prophecy, leaving the gathered leaders shocked by the threat beneath Great Xia and Fang Yi’s strength.

• Two soldiers guarding Mount Tai saw Fang Yi emerge from a crack in the air carrying the remains of a puppet, and he ordered them to summon the Spirit Association and Military Region leaders.
• Fang Yi inspected the puppet’s remains and concluded that it had guarded the gate and that whoever stood behind it was likely an ancient powerhouse.
• The Spirit Association and Military Region leaders, including Lin Yiyi, Li Zhongyue, and Zhang Tian, arrived to meet Fang Yi.
• Lin Yiyi noticed the bloodied remains, and Fang Yi clarified that they were human before confirming they were connected to Saito Heihachi’s prophecy.
• Fang Yi told the leaders that the defeated Earth God Tribe was hidden beneath Mount Tai, and they reacted with shock when they learned he had killed its gatekeeping puppet.

Fang Yi prepared to use a powerful killing array to ambush the Earth God Tribe when it awakened, while Xia Kingdom mobilized resources and cracked down on crime. He explained to Lin Yiyi that full Spirit Qi Recovery would unleash immense opportunities and dangers across Earth Star, leaving her worried that cultivators were eagerly approaching a hidden catastrophe.

• Fang Yi gained unanimous support from Great Xia leaders to use an array plaque and Xia Kingdom spirit qi to create a deadly trap for the Earth God Tribe.
• Fang Yi installed the killing array in the passageway and assured Lin Yiyi that the Earth God Tribe would not be alerted by the death of its gatekeeper.
• Lin Yiyi vowed to seize more Thrones to supply the array as Xia Kingdom launched a nationwide crackdown on crime.
• People on the international forum debated Xia Kingdom's growing dominance and feared that hell would appear there when Spirit Qi Recovery began.
• Fang Yi explained to Lin Yiyi that full Spirit Qi Recovery would let cultivators and other beings advance rapidly, exposing hidden creatures and dangers across Earth Star.
• Lin Yiyi wondered whether the cultivators eagerly awaiting Spirit Qi Recovery feared that hell might be waiting for them.

Fang Yi told Lin Yiyi that he was investigating whether other beings besides the Earth God Tribe existed on Earth Star. Meanwhile, strange Anomalous Zones spread across Xia Kingdom, and growing panic led people to believe Hell was about to descend.

• Lin Yiyi asked whether they should reveal the Earth God Tribe’s existence, but Fang Yi refused and said he needed other countries to help test for other beings on Earth Star.
• Fang Yi said he had guesses about other forces on Earth Star but would tell Lin Yiyi only after he verified them.
• Villagers in southeast Xia Kingdom witnessed compound eyes inside a cave, but Spirit Association cultivators and instruments detected no anomaly there.
• The Spirit Association sent Su Qingying a map showing Anomalous Zones scattered throughout Xia Kingdom, and she recognized the scale of the threat.
• People across Xia Kingdom blamed the Anomalous Zones on the coming Gates of Hell, and panic spread that Hell was about to descend.

As Spirit Qi Recovery drew nearer, strange disturbances and rumors of an invasion frightened Xia Kingdom, while the Spirit Association reassured the public that the Yang God Lord would protect them. Fang Yi found an entrance to the Earth God Tribe beneath a month-long storm and confronted its gatekeeper, who was stunned when his lightning failed to harm him.

• People panicked over reports that higher races would invade Earth Star, and the Spirit Association publicly denied that hell would descend on Xia Kingdom.
• The Spirit Association learned that Fang Yi had personally gone to an Anomalous Zone.
• Fang Yi arrived at a sealed storm zone and identified a hidden entrance to the Earth God Tribe beneath the lightning and rain.
• Fang Yi plunged his Tang Saber into the ground, igniting the domain and drawing out the Earth God Tribe's gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper attacked Fang Yi with lightning, but Fang Yi remained unharmed, leaving the gatekeeper shocked by his strength.

Fang Yi killed the Earth God Tribe’s four gatekeepers and prepared Xia Kingdom’s defenses as Spirit Qi Recovery began. Across the world, Spirit Qi flooded the land and the Lords felt their Thrones responding to its power.

• Fang Yi killed Xing Luo with his Yang and Thunder Attributes, then left to attack the remaining Earth God Tribe entrances.
• Fang Yi destroyed the gatekeepers at all four entrances and ordered the Spirit Association to place killing-array formation plates at each one.
• Saito Heihachi and leaders from America, Sakura Country, and the British Empire discussed the prophecy of Xia Kingdom’s fall and planned to exploit a conflict between Fang Yi and the Earth God Tribe.
• Spirit Qi Recovery began at eight in the morning, strengthening people, transforming the world, and filling the internet with celebrations.
• The Lords felt their Thrones respond to the arriving Spirit Qi, and the Tyrant Lord summoned his Throne on Bear Country’s highest mountain.

As Spirit Qi Recovery began, the Thrones melted into cave abodes inside the Lords, strengthening their control over elemental power. A massive disturbance struck from the east, and while the Tyrant Lord feared what the Earth God Tribe’s awakening meant for Xia Kingdom, foreign forums filled with predictions that Xia Kingdom would fall.

• The Tyrant Lord absorbed his melting Throne and gained a cave abode, refined spirit qi, and a clearer grasp of elemental power.
• The Thrones of Lords across the world melted into cave abodes as Spirit Qi Recovery transformed them.
• A tremendous crash came from the east, and the Tyrant Lord suspected the Earth God Tribe had awakened in Xia Kingdom.
• Foreign netizens from America and Sakura Country celebrated Xia Kingdom’s apparent silence and predicted its destruction, while countries aided by Xia Kingdom defended it.
• Golden Border Country argued that Xia Kingdom could not be expected to face an advanced cosmic civilization alone, but Sakura Country mocked its dependence on the Yang God Lord and the forum system muted an angry reply.

As Xia Kingdom faced the imminent awakening of the Earth God Tribe, other countries mocked its apparent silence while its vassal states defended it. Beneath Xia Kingdom, the Earth God Tribe awakened and prepared to conquer the planet, with its leader breaking through the darkness toward the surface.

• Sakura Country mocked Xia Kingdom and threatened its vassal states, while the vassals angrily defended Xia Kingdom.
• As the Earth God Tribe's awakening drew near, observers declared Xia Kingdom doomed because its people had not appeared after half an hour.
• Spirit qi recovered across Earth Star, and the Earth God Tribe awakened as lingering souls beneath Xia Kingdom.
• The Earth God Tribe leader ordered his clansmen to form up and activate their divine artifacts for revenge and conquest.
• The Earth God Tribe leader erupted in golden flames and crashed through the darkness above.

The Earth God Tribe burst through Xia Kingdom’s surface and spread its life-bound golden strange fire across the land, destroying Forbidden Lands and threatening the cities. As the flames paused before reaching the people, Fang Yi triggered a brilliant spiritual energy explosion, leaving the Earth God Tribe’s advance interrupted.

• The Earth God Tribe emerged through its passage and unleashed golden flames that spread across Xia Kingdom.
• Observers from America and Sakura Country predicted Xia Kingdom’s destruction as the Earth God Tribe’s forces and golden tide advanced.
• The golden flames swept through Forbidden Lands and stopped just short of the human urban areas.
• Fang Yi calmly spoke, and a deafening explosion sent white light and a vast spiritual energy firework across the sky.

Fang Yi used a Spirit Qi firework to empower a killing formation and devastate the Earth God Tribe as it tried to revive beneath Xia Kingdom. He moved between the four entrances, hunting down the survivors as the golden flames dwindled.

• The Earth God Tribe sensed danger beneath the surface, but Fang Yi’s Spirit Qi firework triggered a blast that extinguished most of the golden waves.
• Military souls within the killing formation slaughtered the Earth God Tribe members trapped underground, while observers from other nations watched in disbelief.
• Some powerful Earth God Tribe experts fought their way out of the formation, wounded and weakened, and faced Fang Yi.
• Fang Yi traveled between the four entrances and killed the remaining Earth God Tribe prodigies as the last golden sparks faded.

Fang Yi destroyed the Earth God Tribe’s revival grounds with his flames, killing its remaining fighters and burying the ancient race. The Spirit Association began looting the ruins while foreign spies learned Xia Kingdom had survived and witnessed the terrifying aftermath.

• An Earth God Tribe prodigy watched Golden Fire vanish, then saw Fang Yi unleash a different supreme fire across the tribe’s territory.
• Fang Yi burned the Earth God Tribe’s elders, younger prodigies, and defenses, then killed the prodigy who charged him.
• Fang Yi declared that the tribe’s remnant souls should disperse, confirmed no living enemies remained, and ordered the Spirit Association to loot the ruins.
• Foreign spies reported that Xia Kingdom had survived the Earth God Tribe’s attack and wondered how its four entrances had exploded.
• The spies then witnessed a terrifying scene that left them shaken.

Fang Yi led Xia Kingdom’s forces in defeating the Earth God Tribe and looting its tribal grounds, while foreign informants feared his retaliation against their nations. He claimed the Tribe’s Martial Dao Crystal and extinguished its Golden Fire without harm, leaving Xia Kingdom with the civilization’s knowledge and the Tribe’s final defense gone.

• Foreign informants witnessed Undertaker and the Spirit Association overrun the Earth God Tribe and feared their countries would face his retaliation.
• Fang Yi ordered Xia Kingdom’s powerhouses to loot the Earth God Tribe’s tribal grounds.
• A Spirit Association Pioneer identified the crystal at the center of the altar as the Earth God Tribe’s Martial Dao Crystal, containing its knowledge and inheritances.
• Fang Yi reached into the Golden Fire and seized the Martial Dao Crystal without being burned.
• The Golden Fire vanished after Fang Yi removed the crystal, and those present realized his Yang God Lord title could let him command Fire Attribute forces.

Fang Yi secured the Earth God Tribe's Martial Dao Crystal and weapons for Xia Kingdom, giving it valuable resources for future growth. News of Xia Kingdom's victory spread, and Sakura Country learned that the array that stopped the Golden Fire had originally belonged to America.

• Fang Yi sealed the Martial Dao Crystal against its torrent of information and handed it to a Spirit Association Pioneer for Xia Kingdom to study.
• Fang Yi ordered the surviving Earth God Tribe weapons collected, while Spirit Association members recognized the gains he had secured for Xia Kingdom.
• News spread that Xia Kingdom had extinguished the Golden Fire and seized the Earth God Tribe's territory, prompting celebration among Xia Kingdom and its allies and excuses from its critics.
• Sakura Country grew furious after hearing Xia Kingdom had used an array to stop the Golden Fire and wondered who had supplied it.
• Xia Kingdom officials revealed that America had brought the array during its failed ambush on Fang Yi, and that Fang Yi had seized it.
• Sakura Country realized it had been cursing America, while America stayed silent as Xia Kingdom and its allies mocked it.

After Xia Kingdom destroyed the Earth God Tribe, other nations feared its rapid growth from the advanced civilization’s Martial Dao Crystal. A month later, Fang Yi learned how the legacy was transforming Xia Kingdom’s institutions and strengthening its people.

• Nations recognized that Xia Kingdom had destroyed the Earth God Tribe and likely obtained its Martial Dao Crystal.
• America’s hidden Throne Lords regretted that their failed attempt to assassinate Fang Yi had given Xia Kingdom the formation that resisted the Golden Fire, but they hoped alien civilizations would eventually destroy Xia Kingdom.
• Over the month after the Earth God Tribe’s destruction, Xia Kingdom expanded its institutions and accelerated its development by analyzing the Martial Dao Crystal.
• Su Qingying told Fang Yi that the Ministry of War and the Ministry of People had been established and that the Research Department had extracted cultivation methods and techniques from the crystal.
• Fang Yi noticed that Su Qingying had reached the middle stage of the Second Realm and realized the Martial Dao Crystal had helped Xia Kingdom become Earth Star’s giant dragon.

Fang Yi feared that cosmic civilizations had already discovered Earth Star while Xia Kingdom remained young and vulnerable. A Light God Tribe scout arrived intending to seek cooperation, but a blazing figure approached as he wondered how to contact Yang God Lord.

• Fang Yi reflected that Xia Kingdom urgently needed time to grow before facing cosmic civilizations.
• A Light God Tribe scout emerged from a spring near Xia Kingdom's border and learned that the Earth God Tribe had been annihilated.
• The scout heard people repeatedly mention Yang God Lord and realized that Xia Kingdom held great potential.
• The scout decided to seek friendly relations with Xia Kingdom rather than annex Earth Star.
• A terrifying flaming meteor approached the scout, and he recognized the human inside as possibly Yang God Lord.

Fang Yi confronted a pioneer from the Light God Civilization, who claimed to have come peacefully and offered to invest in Xia Kingdom and the Yang God Lord. The pioneer proposed sharing martial arts knowledge, cultivation methods, and equipment in exchange for future support and trade, leaving Fang Yi to weigh the offer cautiously.

• Fang Yi arrived in the mountains after sensing an unusual fluctuation and pinned the Light God Tribe pioneer at swordpoint with his Tang Saber.
• The pioneer identified himself as a representative of the Light God Tribe and explained that he had come to invest in Earth Star and Xia Kingdom, not invade.
• The pioneer described the Light God Tribe’s alliance-based diplomacy and its five thousand years of martial arts development after Spirit Qi Recovery.
• The pioneer offered Xia Kingdom knowledge, cultivation methods, and advanced equipment in exchange for possible help in a future crisis and opportunities for interstellar trade.
• The pioneer invited Fang Yi to visit or develop in the Light God Tribe civilization, while Fang Yi remained wary of his claims.

Fang Yi declined the Light God Tribe pioneer’s alliance offer for now but kept a way to contact him. Back on the Light God Civilization’s Satellite, the pioneer reported to the three Elders that Earth Star had a super genius likely to be stellar-level.

• Fang Yi told the Light God Tribe pioneer he would consider an alliance in the future because Xia Kingdom was not ready for interstellar travel.
• The pioneer gave Fang Yi a blue light sphere that would let him contact the Light God Tribe, then returned to his civilization.
• Fang Yi reflected that Earth Star would attract more extraterrestrial civilizations and resolved to become stronger.
• The chapter described the Light God Civilization’s three Main Stars and its mature hierarchy, including the Satellite where elite members lived.
• Soli hurried to the Palace of Light and told the three Elders that he had encountered a super genius likely to be stellar-level on Earth Star.

A Light God Tribe scout reported that a Xia Kingdom genius single-handedly destroyed the Earth God Tribe after the Xia Kingdom extinguished its Golden Fire with an outer-domain formation. The Light God Tribe leader awakened and ordered his civilization to recruit the genius at all costs.

• The Light God Tribe scout told three elders that Earth Star’s Xia Kingdom had defeated the Earth God Tribe and that one genius had killed every member himself.
• The Grand Elder concluded that the genius might be powerful enough to help the Light God Civilization rise from Level 7 to Level 8 and ordered the news reported to the leader.
• The Grand Elder sent a pillar of light from the satellite to the Light God Civilization’s Main Star, startling the Light God Tribe members there.
• The Main Star’s leader awakened and declared that the Light God Tribe must recruit the Earth Star genius at all costs.