Chapter Summaries

After the Nature Disruptor caused an earthquake, Feis and Carmen debated how the Illuminati should respond and whether to seek another patron. In Port-au-Prince, Huang Ji deduced that the alien’s actions planted causes to steer events toward an unknown goal, not simply to take revenge or destroy humanity.

• Feis ordered Carmen to suppress news of the earthquake, control the Haitian government, and keep Dis uninformed while Feis consulted the other Sword-Keepers.
• Feis considered whether the Nature Disruptor could offer the Illuminati an alternative to Dis, but worried that backing both sides could leave him with nothing.
• Carmen assigned Amu and Huang Ji to investigate the people who had encountered the ball of light, and Huang Ji pretended that he had retained an alien language transferred by the craft.
• Huang Ji recognized that Bruno’s recorded numbers matched lottery numbers and had a ticket bought, while explaining that the Nature Disruptor appeared to grant wishes.
• Huang Ji told Amu that the Nature Disruptor’s interventions likely planted causes to guide reality toward an unknown outcome, and that its elaborate actions suggested it did not intend to wipe them out.

Huang Ji’s report led the Illuminati’s experts to debate the Nature Disruptor’s motives and whether to evacuate Port-au-Prince before the threatened earthquake. Dr. Maxi’s elaborate decoding of the alien’s numbers proved unnecessary when they won a lottery, and Carmen sent for Huang Ji again.

• Carmen escorted an international Advisory Group to Port-au-Prince, where Dr. Maxi rebuked the investigators for calling the Zetans “Little Greys.”
• Huang Ji explained that the light ball had granted people’s wishes, but Dr. Maxi dismissed his lottery interpretation and assigned him to record an alien-language dictionary.
• Experts debated the light ball’s power and purpose, while Amu argued that the Illuminati should evacuate Port-au-Prince to test Huang Ji’s theory that the alien wanted to use them.
• Carmen considered Amu’s proposal, but Dr. Maxi urged him to report the alien to Dis and let the earthquake happen rather than risk exposing the Illuminati’s advance knowledge.
• Dr. Maxi used the Yehuoer Model to decode the numbers into a shape, but Amu learned that they were the winning numbers of a recent American lottery.
• Carmen ordered Amu to bring Huang Ji back.

Huang Ji explained that the Disruptor’s questions could be orders to subordinates, prompting Feis to evacuate Port-au-Prince before the predicted earthquake. After the city was emptied and devastated, the Disruptor appeared to Carmen and warned of an even bigger earthquake in Chile.

• Huang Ji explained that the Disruptor’s words could be interpreted as orders, and the Illuminati considered whether he wanted control of Earth or something hidden there.
• Feis ordered Port-au-Prince evacuated, and Carmen persuaded Haiti’s president to stage a fictional coup as cover while the Illuminati supplied relief.
• The January 12 earthquake and tsunami destroyed Port-au-Prince, but the residents and armies had already withdrawn, leaving the disaster to cause economic losses instead of mass casualties.
• Carmen met the Great Light Ball above an aircraft carrier and welcomed the Disruptor on behalf of humanity.
• Huang Ji translated the Disruptor’s warning that Chile would suffer an even bigger earthquake on February 27.

The Illuminati learned that the Nature Disruptor was causing earthquakes to locate an ancient Dragon Race Environment Modifier buried on Earth. Feis chose to cooperate with him, and the Disruptor agreed to help the Illuminati find the Winged God.

• Dr. Maxi resented Huang Ji’s sudden fluency and feared Carmen and Feis were betraying Dis by approaching the Nature Disruptor.
• The Nature Disruptor revealed that he was causing earthquakes to search for an Environment Modifier left on Earth by the ancient Dragon Race.
• The Disruptor explained that the relic could control a planet’s ecology and climate, but he wanted its computer, energy-absorbing force field, and counter-detection system.
• Feis decided the Illuminati should cooperate with the Disruptor, hoping to recover other ancient alien relics for themselves.
• The Disruptor offered to mark the Winged God’s location on a map, identifying it as a Phoenix Race mech.

Huang Ji used the great light ball to reveal the Winged God's location and explain humanity's origins and ancient history to the Illuminati. The Illuminati learned that the relic lay buried in the Sahara, while Huang Ji planned to recover it and ultimately seek the Dragonkin treasure Torch Yin in Qinghai.

• The Illuminati used the great light ball to locate the Winged God in the Sahara Desert, and Huang Ji explained that ancient Egypt's territory had once extended there.
• Huang Ji told the Illuminati that Anunnaki had created Homo Erectus, and Dragon Race researchers later introduced their genes to create Homo Sapiens.
• Huang Ji explained that the Winged God was the Shao Hao Mecha, a relic from the Ten Sun Kingdoms that had been taken to Ancient Egypt and buried in the desert.
• Huang Ji recounted how Gaoyang Clan performed Severing the Heavens, causing the Fusang Pillar and the Ten Sun Kingdoms to vanish and Shao Hao's descendants to flee with the mecha.
• Huang Ji planned to use the Illuminati to recover the Winged God and then pursue Torch Yin in Qinghai.

Maxi rejected the Nature Disruptor’s offer and remained committed to Dis, while Huang Ji identified the Great Light Ball’s missing Environment Modifier as the Torch Dragon recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. He argued that ancient texts described it as a real, electrically powered object, leaving the specialists to reconsider the meaning of the ancient records.

• Maxi weighed the Illuminati’s ties to Dis against the Nature Disruptor’s offer and decided not to abandon his lifelong commitment to Dis.
• Huang Ji asked whether the Great Light Ball was searching for Torch Yin or Torch Dragon, then connected the Environment Modifier to a description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• A balding expert recounted the legend of Torch Dragon, and Huang Ji explained that the ancient word translated as “god” could refer to an electrically powered object.
• Huang Ji pointed the expert to the Overseas Northern Classic, where Torch Yin was described as both a god and “the object itself.”
• Huang Ji argued that Torch Dragon was a vast device that controlled climate and that the Classic of Mountains and Seas recorded real objects rather than invented deities.

Huang Ji used Oracle Bone Script and the Classic of Mountains and Seas to argue that Huaxia’s ancient dragons were members of the alien Dragon Race, then asked the Great Light Ball to help Amu evolve. The Great Light Ball granted the request and warned Carmen that Maxi, Jerry, and Feis would leak information, leaving Carmen and Huang Ji to suspect Feis planned to betray the alliance.

• Huang Ji explained that Torch Dragon was an ancient machine and argued that the Oracle Bone Script characters for dragon and emperor showed that Huaxia’s dragons were human-headed, snake-bodied beings.
• Huang Ji asked the Great Light Ball to help Amu evolve his genes, and it pierced Amu with its spines before leaving for Hua Country.
• The Great Light Ball secretly gave Carmen a list of people who would leak information, including Maxi, Jerry, and Feis.
• Carmen concealed Feis’s name when Feis asked who was on the list, then followed Feis’s orders to monitor Maxi and Jerry and prepare to take them to Egypt.
• Huang Ji told Carmen and Amu that Feis might betray the Disruptor to appease the Anunnaki Corporation, and Carmen realized he and the others could be sacrificed.

After returning to Detroit, Huang Ji checked on Messiah’s expanding base and learned its new rocket and nano spacesuit were ready. He decided to make a concealed crewed trip into space before leaving, intending to use the Buddha Bone Armguard to hide the launch and see Earth’s history.

• Carmen decided to assign Luo Yan to the Winged God Squad so he could search for the Winged God and contact the Double Pupils Faction.
• Huang Ji returned to Detroit and saw that Sophia’s team had improved the nanofactory and built a rocket and portable spacesuit.
• Huang Ji visited the hidden mountain base, where Messiah’s people and the Dragonkin lived and worked alongside one another.
• Huang Ji asked Heinrich to prepare the rocket for a crewed launch before March 3, despite Heinrich and Adams warning him about the risks.
• Huang Ji said he would use the Buddha Bone Armguard to conceal the launch from satellites and the Illuminati because he needed to see Earth’s history from space.

Huang Ji gave Messiah the knowledge to develop nanotechnology and the Longevity Elixir, then launched aboard the spacecraft Preaching to record Earth’s history in his information database. The chapter ended with Huang Ji looking down on Earth and resolving to preserve the ancient history of civilization.

• Huang Ji transferred Mu Yuan’s research to Messiah’s computers, taught the team how to make the Perfect Human Serum and Longevity Elixir, and ordered 160 doses sent with Double Pupils Badges to prospective allies in the Illuminati.
• Huang Ji asked Adams whether he would become a Sword-Bearer and said that otherwise Adams would have to take Veronica abroad and kill her to protect Detroit Base from exposure.
• Messiah prepared its first manned spacecraft, Preaching, using a superconducting energy transmission system, and Huang Ji launched into space.
• From orbit, Huang Ji absorbed Earth’s historical information into his database so he could consult the planet’s history from ancient times to the present.

Huang Ji explained to Lin Li and Adams that Kunlun was Earth's ancient name and that the Mound of Kunlun may have been a vast Dragonkin city or interstellar base. He placed the Kunlun Ruins in northwest Qinghai, setting the group up to search for alien artifacts there.

• Huang Ji met Lin Li and Adams at sea after returning from space and said that seeing Earth had changed his perspective.
• Huang Ji explained that Kunlun meant an ordered world inhabited by beings beneath one sun and argued that the Dragonkin had named Earth.
• Huang Ji interpreted the Mound of Kunlun as a huge Dragonkin structure rather than a natural mountain, possibly serving as a city and interstellar base.
• Huang Ji said the Mound of Kunlun had departed, leaving ruins with traces of surrounding structures and alien equipment.
• Huang Ji located the Kunlun Ruins in northwest Qinghai, and Lin Li wondered whether they lay within the modern Kunlun Mountain Range.

Huang Ji explained to his gathered allies how ancient human history unfolded under alien rule, and revealed that the Yellow Emperor had sent his son Heng Wo to the moon as a Dragonkin undercover agent. The chapter ended with Huang Ji reflecting that no one could know what the Yellow Emperor had truly felt.

• Huang Ji told the assembled group that his Illuminati intelligence had clarified humanity's place in the universe and explained how Earth’s myths described its history.
• Huang Ji recounted how the Yellow Emperor defeated the Eastern Yi, while Anunnaki Corporation claimed the Solar System and treated humanity as its property.
• Huang Ji explained that the Yellow Emperor pursued human unity and tolerance rather than eliminating the Eastern Yi, leaving behind the principle of Great Virtue Carries All.
• Huang Ji revealed that the Yellow Emperor sent his son Heng Wo to steal the Elixir of Immortality, transform into a Dragonkin, and travel to the moon aboard a spacecraft.
• Huang Ji said the Dragonkin accepted Heng Wo and that the Yellow Emperor had secured his promise to pass intelligence and occasional aid to humanity.
• Lin Li called the Yellow Emperor ruthless, and Huang Ji chose not to discuss Nüba before reflecting that later generations could not know the Yellow Emperor's heart.

Huang Ji explained how Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens won humanity protection under Star Alliance law by proving that humans could develop independently of alien technology. He left the group understanding that Zhuanxu had destroyed the shamans, artifacts, and even his own power to secure humanity’s future.

• Huang Ji described how alien powers had once controlled Earth and explained that Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens drove them away.
• Lin Li recounted how Zhuanxu defeated the first-generation Illuminati and exiled Shao Hao, while Huang Ji explained that alien technology had kept humanity legally unprotected.
• Huang Ji explained that the Yellow Emperor preserved political stability and unified the Central Plains and Eastern Yi under shared rules, paving the way for Zhuanxu.
• Zhuanxu used alien technology to defeat the Great Shamans and Shao Hao, then destroyed the artifacts and records and regressed civilization to the Stone Age.
• Huang Ji revealed that Zhuanxu sacrificed his own power and family to prove humanity’s potential, after which the Star Alliance protected humans and the Era of Ten Suns ended.

Huang Ji explained how the Anunnaki Corporation, the Little Greys, and the Star Alliance controlled humanity, and why reporting or destroying the Illuminati would endanger the resistance without solving the coming catastrophes. He proposed preserving and assimilating the Illuminati so humanity could secretly develop spaceflight, leaving the group to consider his plan.

• Huang Ji explained that the Anunnaki Corporation had become a criminal syndicate under '6,' with the Little Greys overseeing Earth after the Star Alliance inspector outsourced the job.
• Huang Ji warned that reporting the Anunnaki or destroying the Illuminati could provoke retaliation against humanity and Messiah, while neither action would solve the 2012 and 2045 catastrophes.
• Huang Ji said the Anunnaki would obstruct humanity's spaceflight development to prevent it from joining the Star Alliance.
• Lin Li realized that humanity should conceal its plans and develop a long-range spacecraft while dealing with the Illuminati rather than confronting powerful aliens.
• Huang Ji said his plan was to preserve the Illuminati, change its thinking, and assimilate it, as the Yellow Emperor had done with Shao Hao Country.

Huang Ji persuaded the Messiah to absorb the Illuminati and use its resources to develop a long-range spaceship. He revealed that the real plan was to travel alone to Sirius and infiltrate alien society, leaving everyone stunned by the desperate gamble.

• Huang Ji convinced the Dragonkin, Sentinels, and others to replace the Illuminati's ruling echelon and use the organization to support humanity's development.
• Yam asked how a spaceship could evade the moon's surveillance, and Huang Ji said it could not escape openly.
• Huang Ji revealed that he would disguise himself as an alien tourist and leave Earth alone to infiltrate a city in the Sirius Star System.
• Lin Li and the others protested that Huang Ji would be entering an advanced alien civilization with almost no resources or support.
• Huang Ji insisted that sending him into interstellar society was humanity's only chance to survive and gain leverage against the Anunnaki Corporation.

Huang Ji united the resistance, Dragonkin, and former Messiah members around defending Earth and proposed killing the Nature Disruptor to secure the Torch Dragon. The group accepted Huang Ji as its first leader and named the new organization Kunlun Ruins.

• Huang Ji explained that the Torch Dragon could protect one region from the 2012 solar eruption but could not save Earth from the 2045 Gamma-ray Burst, and he proposed killing the Nature Disruptor to keep it.
• Huang Ji rallied the group to unite against the threats to Earth, and Alexei, Kaluo, and the others joined the shared cause.
• Nuoqila proposed dissolving Messiah into a new organization under Huang Ji, and the group accepted Huang Ji as its leader.
• Nuoqila suggested naming the organization after Kunlun and adding a character from each leader’s name as its suffix.
• The group approved the name Kunlun Ruins, making Huang Ji its first-generation leader.

Huang Ji prepared Hawking to become a Dragonkin after being abducted, urging him to bring back foundational alien textbooks that could unlock interstellar technology. In Egypt, Huang Ji found Saya imprisoned after a scheme framed him as a member of the Double Pupils Faction, while Saya’s secret account was actually meant to help Evil Dragon escape.

• Huang Ji injected Hawking with Nano Swarm units and explained that the medicine would transform him into a Dragonkin after the Little Greys abducted him.
• Hawking agreed to risk his life for humanity and promised to bring back foundational textbooks from an Interstellar Civilization.
• Huang Ji arrived in Egypt and met Carmen, Maxi, Luo Yan, Zoffi, and the others at their base.
• Brando detained Saya after Michael Jackson’s payments to Saya’s secret account and Zoffi’s changed testimony appeared to implicate him in the Double Pupils Faction.
• Saya endured two months of interrogation while insisting he knew nothing about the alleged faction and its base.
• Huang Ji recognized that Saya had created the account to give Evil Dragon money and help him live under a new identity if he ever abandoned his rebellion.

Hua Ji explained how Shao Hao and the First-generation Illuminati migrated west to Ancient Egypt, where they reshaped its religion after the aliens departed. He concluded that God Shao Hao was multifunctional Phoenix Race armor that could unfold into Yuan Shen Kui Shi’s palace, while the search team still had not found it.

• Amu told Hua Ji that an eight-hundred-person search team had spent more than forty days excavating the Disruptor’s marked location in Libya without finding anything.
• Hua Ji explained that Shao Hao and the survivors of Shao Hao Country had migrated west from Mount Everlasting and eventually brought God Shao Hao to Ancient Egypt.
• Hua Ji linked the rise of Ra worship and Ancient Egypt’s religious upheaval to the aliens’ departure after the Severing of the Heavens.
• Maxi asked where God Shao Hao was, and Hua Ji said the Disruptor’s map identified its location and the Classic of Mountains and Seas described it as Yuan Shen Kui Shi’s palace.
• Luo Yan proposed that God Shao Hao could transform from Phoenix Race armor into a palace-like shelter, and Carmen called it a wearable Individual Soldier Base.

Carmen’s team uncovered the Winged God beneath the Egyptian desert, but the Sword-Keepers denied him the promotion he expected. Convinced they meant to sacrifice him, Carmen decided to build his own faction in Cairo, following Huang Ji’s advice.

• Carmen’s team excavated a sealed, wing-shaped temple and identified it as the Winged God, but they could not open it.
• The Sword-Keepers rewarded several members of the expedition but did not promote Carmen, deepening his suspicion that they planned to sacrifice him.
• Carmen told Huang Ji and Amu that he wanted to join the Double Pupils Faction, and they pledged to follow him.
• After Luo Yan failed to respond to Carmen’s hints, Huang Ji urged Carmen to openly claim leadership and recruit the Egyptian personnel into his faction.
• Carmen agreed to make Cairo his stronghold and forbade anyone from contacting the outside without his permission.

Carmen revealed himself as a leader of the Double Pupils Faction and used the recovered Winged God to announce a rebellion against the Illuminati’s Sword-Keepers. He claimed the moon had recognized him as the Eternal Sword-Keeper, leaving the assembled members shocked and uncertain about where to place their loyalties.

• A crane lifted the Winged God from its hundred-meter-deep shaft, and Carmen celebrated its return to daylight as the Illuminati crowd cheered.
• Luo Yan noticed Double Pupils symbols on Saiyid’s helicopter and the equipment, realizing that Carmen belonged to the secret faction.
• Luo Yan recalled Carmen’s attempts to recruit him and concluded that Carmen had been secretly building support and pursuing the Longevity Elixir.
• Carmen raised the Winged God above the crowd and accused the Sword-Keepers of betraying the Illuminati and hoarding power.
• Carmen declared that the moon had recognized him as the Eternal Sword-Keeper and vowed to purge the Sword-Keepers, leaving the crowd shaken and uncertain.

Carmen rallied the Double Pupils Faction in Egypt and Libya with promises of the Longevity Elixir, while Luo Yan pretended to support the rebellion and searched for a way to warn the Chairman. Huang Ji exposed Luo Yan’s hidden communications plan and revealed that his trusted subordinate Ya Nuo was a Double Pupils spy, then stopped Luo Yan from fighting by telling him his wife was pregnant.

• Carmen used the Longevity Elixir and the Winged God to rally supporters, and Maxi worried that Carmen and Feis intended to serve the Disruptor.
• Luo Yan feigned allegiance to Carmen, concluded that Feis might be involved, and planned to delay the rebellion while finding a way to alert the Chairman.
• Carmen imposed an information blackout across Egypt and Libya, mobilized the Medici Family, and prepared to join forces with the Double Pupils Faction.
• Huang Ji met Luo Yan and revealed that he knew about Luo Yan’s quantum communicator and that Ya Nuo had secretly joined the Double Pupils Faction three years earlier.
• Huang Ji told Luo Yan that his wife was already pregnant, leaving Luo Yan stunned.