Chapter Summaries

Huang Ji's group climbed Gang Rock while hauling the Winged God, and Huang Ji rescued a stranded climber near the summit. The climber reached the top but collapsed from exhaustion and lack of oxygen, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Huang Ji's group reached a sheer cliff separating them from Gang Rock, and Wally, One-Eyed Eagle, Luo Yan, and Brando each showed off different ways to cross and climb it.
• Brando carved a climbing groove into the cliff with the Black Wand, and Lin Li hauled the Winged God across as the group began climbing.
• Huang Ji flew toward Gang Rock's summit with Feis's Energy Shield and spotted a climber stranded thirty meters below the top.
• The climber had followed old hook slots up the mountain, but his last anchor was cracking and his oxygen had run out.
• Huang Ji lowered a rope to the climber, who climbed to the summit and followed Huang Ji into the basin.
• The exhausted climber slipped down the slope and blacked out, while Huang Ji was already farther ahead.

Huang Ji revived An Lu Ban on Well Mountain and recruited him to help uncover a gateway to Gang Rock, explaining that the Kunlun Nine Wells held ancient weapons. As they dug, Huang Ji discussed ancient Huaxia history and concluded that the Yellow Emperor’s true personal invention was medicine.

• Huang Ji told the recovered climber, An Lu Ban, that he could either descend or wait in the tent while Huang Ji carried out his secret task.
• An Lu Ban refused to leave without repaying Huang Ji and followed him outside, where he found fourteen powerful men breaking through the ice.
• Huang Ji explained that the group was digging for relics inside Well Mountain, one of the Kunlun Nine Wells, to use against aliens.
• While An Lu Ban helped clear the broken ice, Huang Ji explained the ancient meaning of shen and discussed the origins of Huaxia culture and inventions.
• Huang Ji said that the Yellow Emperor’s inventions had largely been credited to him from others, but that he had truly developed medicine and been a doctor.

Huang Ji led the group to an ancient underground base beneath Gang Rock and forced open its landing platform, triggering the Enlightened Beast’s defense. Wearing the Winged God, he defeated the guardian and left the base entrance open.

• Lin Li and the others uncovered a sealed metal platform beneath the ice, and Huang Ji explained that it had once supported Kunlun Hill.
• Huang Ji identified the platform as a landing-gear hatch with no usable entrance mechanism, so Wally and then Huang Ji attacked it.
• The hatch opened after Huang Ji cut into it, and the Enlightened Beast emerged and attacked with lasers and an anti-energy javelin.
• Huang Ji blocked the lasers with the Winged God’s wing blades, caught the javelin, and drove it into the Enlightened Beast’s lower abdomen.
• The Enlightened Beast shut down on Gang Rock’s summit, while An Lu Ban watched Huang Ji’s group in stunned disbelief.

Huang Ji led the group into the chamber beneath Well Mountain, where they discovered an ancient star chart made from Five-Colored Stone grains. Using the Enlightened Beast’s authorization, he opened a hidden passage that revealed an image of a colossal Dragonkin statue carved from an entire living Rock Planet.

• Huang Ji disabled the Floating Cannons, collected them with the others, and cut through the well’s gate with his spear.
• Huang Ji illuminated the underground hall and explained that its animated star chart had been assembled grain by grain over forty years.
• Huang Ji used the Book of Shao Hao to describe how the First-generation Illuminati had fled west after Zhuanxu’s Severing of the Heavens.
• Huang Ji opened a hidden passage by accessing the Enlightened Beast’s authorization.
• The group saw the star chart reveal a planet-sized Dragonkin sculpture with oceans, glaciers, plants, and an atmosphere.

Huang Ji dismantled the Five-Colored Stone star chart and explained how the stones worked, then led the group toward the Hundred Gods Warehouse beneath a magma lake. He claimed the entrance required genetic camouflage using the genes of the Queen Mother of the West’s human daughters, and wagered the Winged God against Brando on whether they would find them.

• Huang Ji destroyed the Embroidered Star Chart and gathered its Five-Colored Stones, explaining that each stone could regenerate and serve as an energy source and engine.
• Huang Ji said the stones could not be charged in time to help defeat Dis, so the group continued searching for the Hundred Gods Warehouse beneath the volcano.
• Huang Ji identified Weak Water as the warehouse’s defense and said genetic camouflage was needed to enter because the Queen Mother of the West’s human daughters had lived at the Nine Wells.
• Huang Ji claimed the Queen Mother of the West’s seven daughters might be found in the other wells’ art halls, and Brando challenged his theory.
• Brando wagered that if they failed to find the daughters, the Illuminati would follow him, then demanded the Winged God and its control methods as stakes; Huang Ji accepted, and Brando rushed to search.

Brando found a preserved corpse and a jade pendant that controlled its conch-shaped chair, but Huang Ji’s prediction proved right when Brandy found another corpse. Huang Ji dismissed the wager and prepared to use genetic disguise to pose as an authorized user, leaving Brando to worry that Dis might arrive on Huang Ji’s birthday.

• Brando discovered a corpse in an Art Hall and used its pendant to control and conceal the conch-shaped chair.
• Brando hid the corpse, but Brandy returned with another one, proving Huang Ji had been right about finding them.
• Huang Ji told Brando that their wager had no agreed terms and let it go, then explained that two people could use genetic disguise to pose as authorized users.
• Brando volunteered for the disguise, but Huang Ji said Lin Li and he were better candidates and asked Brando for a birthday present instead.
• Brando realized Dis might arrive on Huang Ji’s birthday and destroyed the tracking spores in his body.
• Huang Ji transformed into a young woman and told Lin Li it was his turn.

Huang Ji led the group into the Hundred Gods Warehouse, an underground ecosystem preserved beneath a lava lake, and showed them some of its legendary machines. The group met the construction robot Lu Wu, who went to retrieve the warehouse’s electrical appliances.

• Huang Ji explained how he used complete metamorphosis to give Lin Li a woman’s body while preserving his original body and memories.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li used their authorization to guide the group through the lava lake’s protective bubble passage.
• The group entered the Hundred Gods Warehouse and saw its miniature ecosystem, including the extinct horned hyena called a Tu Lou.
• A red flying sphere named Di Jiang followed Huang Ji and played music as she described its abilities as a speaker, drone, and communicator.
• The group watched Lu Wu repair a building and tend the garden, and Huang Ji ordered it to bring out the electrical appliances.

Huang Ji explained that the artifacts from the Kunlun Nine Wells were mostly household devices, but God Lu Wu, the base’s materials, and ancient Fungus People could help Double Pupils prepare for its unavoidable fight with Dis. The group learned that the Fungus People were domesticated remnants of an interstellar civilization, while Huang Ji’s plan still required both killing Dis and preserving humanity.

• God Lu Wu brought over the garden’s artifacts, and Huang Ji identified their everyday uses, including several tools that could support construction and environmental control.
• Brando dismissed the artifacts as household goods and proposed hiding a small population underground, but Huang Ji said he would pursue survival while also killing Dis because Feis was dead and Dis valued her deeply.
• Luo Yan questioned the group’s chances because the devices were depleted and materials were scarce, so Huang Ji proposed dismantling the Kunlun Nine Wells and using its materials and energy to prepare for battle.
• Huang Ji revealed that the five-thousand-year-old Fungus People were domesticated crops descended from an intelligent, spacefaring species that had sold itself to fund its civilization.
• Huang Ji explained that the Star Alliance allowed civilizations to sell their own people and that newly joined civilizations occupied the bottom of a stratified interstellar society.

Huang Ji explained how he could refine the Moronic Fungi into a human-symbiotic serum and warned that hiding underground would not guarantee humanity's survival after the Gamma-ray Burst. After the group dismantled the base and salvaged its materials and artifacts, they chose An Lu Ban to take the Seven Fairy form and control the artifacts while the others trained.

• Huang Ji described the benefits of a serum refined from Moronic Fungi and said he needed the fungi to reach S7.
• Huang Ji warned that the Anunnaki Corporation could seize survivors after humanity was declared extinct, while a Star Alliance Law Enforcement Officer might expose anyone hidden inside Torch Dragon.
• Huang Ji urged the group to prepare to fight for humanity instead of relying only on hiding, and everyone worked through the night to dismantle the base beneath Well Mountain.
• The group salvaged Five-Colored Stones, rare construction materials, alien components, and the artifacts, including Weak Water, while Huang Ji gathered the Seven Fairies' preserved bodies and genetic samples.
• Huang Ji said someone had to remain in the form of a Seven Fairy to control the artifacts, and the group chose An Lu Ban because he did not need to train.

Huang Ji returned from Well Mountain with ancient materials and the Sun-Shooting Arrow, then explained how Da Yi’s rebellion against the Sun God had helped the Yan and Huang faction. As the Nature Disruptor arrived, it seized control of Yu Mo Shuo’s missile batteries and turned them against Huang Ji, forcing him into a direct fight.

• Huang Ji arrived with two tons of ancient materials and revealed the Sun-Shooting Arrow, which could pierce shields and break down matter.
• Huang Ji explained that the Yellow Emperor had manipulated Da Yi into fighting the Sun God’s forces and helped bring down the nine suns.
• Yu Mo Shuo’s team made an imitation crop circle as bait, and Huang Ji ordered all noncombatants to evacuate before the Nature Disruptor arrived.
• The Nature Disruptor appeared as a glowing sphere, and Yu Mo Shuo’s missile batteries launched without orders under its control.
• Huang Ji intercepted the missiles with the Winged God and charged the Nature Disruptor with an Ion Light Spear.

Huang Ji defeated the Nature Disruptor by exploiting a flaw in his predictive system and using Brando’s unintentional throw of the Sun-Shooting Arrow to create an opening. The alien lay dead in the ruined valley, and Huang Ji explained how his gamble had succeeded.

• Huang Ji and his allies attacked the Nature Disruptor, but he predicted their moves and battered them while Brando fled with Brandy and the Sun-Shooting Arrow.
• Brandy tried to return to the fight, and Brando knocked him down before throwing the arrow toward Huang Ji without intending to attack the alien.
• Huang Ji forced the Nature Disruptor to dodge into the arrow’s path, then struck him with the Winged God’s full power while the arrow prevented him from raising an Energy Shield.
• The blast devastated the mountains and buried Huang Ji’s allies, but they emerged to find the Nature Disruptor dead.
• Huang Ji explained that the alien had failed to predict Brando’s unintentional throw, and thanked Brando for giving him the chance to win.

After defeating the Nature Disruptor’s avatar, Huang Ji explained that its death had bought humanity time but had not removed the threat to Torch Dragon or Earth. He laid out a plan to kill Dis and build humanity’s interstellar capabilities, leaving Yu Mo Shuo and the others ready to support him.

• Yu Mo Shuo asked about the spoils, and Huang Ji revealed that he had integrated the Disruptor’s Biological Computer into the Winged God.
• Huang Ji explained that the dead insect was only an avatar and that the Disruptor would likely assume the Moon’s weapons had destroyed it.
• Huang Ji and Luo Yan discussed how Torch Dragon might preserve some survivors after 2045 but could not guarantee humanity’s future against alien civilizations.
• Lin Li told Yu Mo Shuo about Plan A and Plan B, and Huang Ji said humanity needed to build a spaceship and join the Galactic Star Alliance before 2045.
• Huang Ji proposed killing Dis while the Moon was undefended, then using the next three months to explore the Solar System and build humanity’s capabilities.
• Yu Mo Shuo pledged his support, and Lin Li and the others resolved to fight Dis.

Huang Ji and the others reached Torch Dragon and discovered it was an enormous, mostly stripped climate-control facility that could shelter up to five million people. As Yu Mo Shuo prepared to build an underground refuge, Huang Ji requested most of Torch Dragon’s energy modules and warned that Iron Man might hijack the supplies.

• With help from Huang Ji and six thousand soldiers, Yu Mo Shuo’s team dug a shaft fifteen kilometers underground to Torch Dragon’s tail.
• Lin Li cut through one of Torch Dragon’s scales, and the group entered its illuminated halls while Huang Ji warned that the opening weakened its scan-shielding.
• The group found the tail’s recreational areas empty, and Huang Ji explained why the Dragonkin had hidden Torch Dragon and might reclaim it later.
• Yu Mo Shuo estimated the refuge could hold at most five million survivors and agreed to build an underground shelter.
• Huang Ji asked to dismantle some functional modules and extract ninety percent of Torch Dragon’s energy, which would leave it operating for only three more years.
• Yu Mo Shuo offered to provide other materials, and Huang Ji warned that Iron Man might hijack the supplies.

Dis landed in Hangzhou to investigate the Ark of the Covenant’s signal and recovered a sphere and camera from the soil. He recognized evidence connected to Brando and threatened Hua Ji before leaving Earthlings to dismiss the witness’s story as a delusion.

• Dis arrived in a cloaked saucer and landed in a park, frightening a man walking his bird before claiming he was shooting a movie.
• Dis scanned disturbed soil with a probe, excavated it, and retrieved a sphere and camera.
• When the man tried to touch his eye, Dis lost control of his emotions, roared Feis's name, and threatened Hua Ji.
• Dis had the probe collect spores Brando had left in the soil, then boarded his saucer and left.
• The man reported the alien to the police, but the officers mistook his account for nonsense and sent him home with his family.
• Dis expected Earthlings and authorities to dismiss the sighting, as they had done on his previous visits.

Mu Yuan traced Brando’s spores to Yuzhu while Dis waited in the Great Northwest, and Brando struggled to decide whether to lead Dis to Huang Ji’s unfinished base. Brando ultimately returned to Huang Ji’s birthday celebration with a Spores Radar, leaving the group aware that Dis was nearby but still together.

• Mu Yuan questioned a man who had seen Dis, found Brando’s spores at the park, and used them to detect a matching signal in Yuzhu.
• Dis placed spores on a mountain in the Great Northwest and waited for Brando to respond, while Brando sensed his arrival during Huang Ji’s birthday celebration.
• Huang Ji urged everyone to enjoy the party and finish their defenses before confronting Dis, despite Brando’s warnings that the enemy might arrive.
• Brando told Brandy that Dis had come and tried to flee with him, but Brandy persuaded him to give Huang Ji more time to prepare.
• Chu Shaojun announced that Brando had left, but Huang Ji predicted he would return, and Brando soon came back with a Spores Radar showing Dis’s location.

Dis’s grief over Feis’s death drove him to unleash destructive power before he abandoned his search in the Great Northwest and headed for Area 51. From a nearby mountain, Huang Ji watched Dis and his saucer, gaining the knowledge that gave him confidence in the coming battle.

• Dis imagined conquering the galaxy, then awoke in his saucer and mourned that Feis’s death had ended his plans to create a reproductive race from Little Greys and other civilizations.
• Dis destroyed the spores he had placed outside, failed to reach Aomazo, and decided to go to Area 51 to obtain information about Hua Ji from the Illuminati’s current leaders, Double Pupils.
• Huang Ji watched Dis leave from a nearby mountaintop with Lin Li and Luo Yan, having memorized the saucer’s functions and read Dis’s abilities and behavior.
• Huang Ji said the glimpse had given him absolute confidence, and he checked the time: 23:33 on his birthday, when humanity’s fate had changed.

Mu Yuan tracked down a convoy carrying extraterrestrial materials and seized its cargo, while Dis learned that Feis was alive and decided to pursue Hua Ji before Aomazo returned. The chapter left Dis preparing to act alone despite his suspicions about the Nature Disruptor.

• Mu Yuan found a convoy whose passengers had dug up the fake Ark of the Covenant, blocked its road, and identified himself as Hua Ji to frighten them into fleeing.
• Mu Yuan discovered about a ton each of super-solid and unfamiliar fluid materials in the abandoned trucks and planned to use them to upgrade his Iron Battle Suit.
• Dis massacred Nuoqila’s followers and learned from him that Feis was alive, in Hua Ji’s hands, and believed to be in the Great Northwest.
• Dis spoke with Aomazo, who revealed that a human on his ship had transformed into a half-Dragonkin and become his willing slave.
• Dis concealed his plan from Aomazo and decided to find Hua Ji before Aomazo returned, then recorded a message to be released if the Nature Disruptor killed him.

On the eve of the final battle, Huang Ji reached Pseudo S7 and prepared his allies, while Brando left the base to join Dis. Though Huang Ji let him go, Brando knocked Brandy unconscious and hid him so he would survive whichever side won.

• Twenty days after taking the Perfect Human Serum, Huang Ji and the others reached S6, while Space Fungus helped Huang Ji attain Pseudo S7.
• An Lu Ban told Huang Ji that God Lu Wu had nearly completed the Interference Tower, and Huang Ji sent everyone to rest before the final battle.
• Brando and Brandy sneaked away from the base so Brando could meet Dis, but Huang Ji confronted them and calmly allowed Brando to leave.
• Brando refused Huang Ji’s offer to believe in him and said he would pursue the agreement between ancient humanity and the gods.
• After leaving with Brandy, Brando struck him unconscious, sealed him inside a mountain cave, and ran toward the radar signal to find Dis.

Dis hunted Mu Yuan, believing he could lead him to Hua Ji, while Mu Yuan tried to bargain for help finding his sister, Keke. After Little Fei’s searches returned false signals, Brando arrived at Mu Yuan’s mountain hideout, and Mu Yuan, despairing over Keke, turned his anger toward him.

• Dis mistook Mu Yuan’s signal for a lead to Hua Ji and chased him in his Silver Mecha, demanding to know where Feis was.
• Mu Yuan admitted he had impersonated Hua Ji and offered to reveal Hua Ji’s location if Dis helped him find his sister, Keke, whose brain he had made into a Biological Computer.
• Little Fei failed to find Keke, then detected two false decoy signals that led Dis to empty locations.
• Dis tracked Mu Yuan through the night, hoping he would lead him to Hua Ji, but Mu Yuan only repaired his Iron Battle Suit on a barren mountain.
• Brando followed Mu Yuan’s signal to the mountain and said he had come to lead Dis to Hua Ji, then was startled to find Mu Yuan instead.
• Mu Yuan, convinced Keke had been destroyed, asked Brando who he was while filled with killing intent toward him.

Mu Yuan mistook Brando for someone else, while Brando revealed Hua Ji’s plans and the Nature Disruptor’s death to Dis. After learning Feis was dead again, Dis flew into a rage and headed for Hua Ji’s base, leaving Brando and Mu Yuan to follow.

• Mu Yuan failed to recognize Brando, who pretended to be Budeau and claimed he had defected from Hua Ji to serve Dis.
• Brando told Dis that Hua Ji had built an Interference Tower and killed the Nature Disruptor, leading Dis to dismiss both threats.
• Brando said Hua Ji had killed Feis, and Dis erupted in fury before flying toward the New Kunlun Ruins base.
• Brando tried to get Dis to take him along, then asked Mu Yuan for a lift so he could join the battle.
• Mu Yuan agreed to carry Brando toward Hua Ji’s base, hoping to find and kill Brando, his own enemy.