Chapter Summaries

Tartarus returned to Kaleidoscope without the ten million troops he had saved by ordering them to scatter, leaving Anunnaki desperately short of soldiers for the coming battle. Kaleidoscope defended Tartarus and invited Huang Ji to share a drink, while privately fearing that Ziwei’s schemes had anticipated their every move.

• Kaleidoscope welcomed Tartarus and praised him after Jia Wen claimed he had returned with ten million men, but Tartarus revealed that the troops were scattered across the Abyss.
• Shadow Madman, Jia Wen, and the others berated Tartarus for abandoning the army, while Kaleidoscope stopped them and said Tartarus had made the right choice under the circumstances.
• Kaleidoscope ordered Tartarus to contact the scattered employees and gather whoever could return in time, then reassured him that he was not to blame.
• Tartarus grew uneasy because Huang Ji had warned him that Kaleidoscope concealed his suspicions, though Kaleidoscope genuinely believed his account and knew he was sincere.
• Kaleidoscope privately suspected that Ziwei had an unseen spy or new surveillance technology and admitted that Huang Ji’s repeated outmaneuvering had frightened him.
• Huang Ji denied responsibility for the battle between Los and Ziwei, then accompanied Kaleidoscope toward a building for the Golden Silk Brew he had prepared.

Huang Ji confronted Kaleidoscope over their broken friendship, and Kaleidoscope explained that he had waited two thousand years for Huang Ji to trust him. Huang Ji agreed to fight alongside Kaleidoscope against Ziwei and urged him to attack the last of the Four Emperors’ strongholds, while concealing that he was not Firefeather.

• Huang Ji accused Kaleidoscope of abandoning and killing former companions for power, while Kaleidoscope insisted that trust—not strength—was what he had needed from Huang Ji.
• Kaleidoscope revealed that he had waited two thousand years for Huang Ji’s trust and explained why he had eliminated the other former allies.
• Huang Ji said he finally understood Kaleidoscope, and Kaleidoscope invited him to choose whether to fight beside him or against him in the coming battle.
• Huang Ji chose to join Kaleidoscope and proposed attacking the last remaining Four Emperors’ stronghold.
• Kaleidoscope left with Huang Ji, unaware that the person he believed was Firefeather was actually Huang Ji.

The Four Emperors Marauder Corps seized the three wormholes in the Shacha Civilization’s Orion Nebula and attacked its richest metropolitan regions. Han Bi ordered an emergency defense and evacuation, but faced fierce opposition over whether to turn threatened Shell Worlds into Starburst Battle Clouds.

• The Four Emperors Marauder Corps captured the Miman, Wo Xin, and Xuan Ke wormholes and began attacking nearby metropolitan regions.
• Han Bi ordered civilians evacuated, converted two hundred nearby Shell Worlds into Starburst Battle Clouds, and deployed the four Star Shell Legions to retake the wormholes.
• Han Bi learned that the Shacha Civilization’s vast army could not reach the Orion Nebula quickly because the pirates controlled its wormholes, so officials proposed building weapons locally while the front held.
• Han Bi ordered civilians evacuated from all three regions and proposed converting every Shell World entered by the pirates into a Starburst Battle Cloud.
• Ministers argued that destroying the cities would cost more than the pirates’ plunder, so Han Bi postponed the decision and ordered the front to keep the Four Emperors outside the defensive line around the wormholes.

Han Bi traced the Four Emperors’ invasion to help from the financial-conglomerate remnants and chose to fight them rather than allow Shacha Civilization to be plundered. Cypher connected him with Huang Ji, who revealed he was at the last of the Four Emperors’ lairs and warned that the Truth Society might be targeting Shacha Civilization’s hidden imperial research center.

• Han Bi and Leqi King realized the Four Emperors had entered through a wormhole seized with help from the financial-conglomerate remnants, so Han Bi ordered searches and strict checks across Shacha Civilization.
• Han Bi told Cypher he was torn between evacuating threatened Shell Worlds and destroying them to deny the pirates a prize, and Cypher reminded him the choice depended on what he valued most.
• Han Bi decided to defend Shacha Civilization’s dignity by inflicting the greatest possible losses on the Four Emperors, and Cypher said Huang Ji believed their lairs had already fallen into enemy hands.
• Han Bi called Huang Ji and learned he was at the Invincible Yak Marauder Gang’s headquarters, the last of the Four Emperors’ lairs, where Kaleidoscope was fighting returning reinforcements.
• Huang Ji declined Han Bi’s offer of military support and warned him that the Truth Society’s members might be targeting Shacha Civilization’s hidden imperial research center.

Kaleidoscope’s forces escaped an ambush by the Anunnaki with help from Ou Ran Gu’s Black Hole Free Roaming Bullets, but Kaleidoscope used a Divine Sense Power technique to stop Ou Ran Gu from pursuing. Ou Ran Gu stayed behind to defend the stronghold and reported Kaleidoscope’s location to the Truth Society.

• The Invincible Yak Marauder Gang’s elite forces returned through a portal and fought off the Anunnaki ambush with Ou Ran Gu’s Black Hole Free Roaming Bullets.
• Kaleidoscope led his forces away and killed thousands of pursuing Dark Wing Race members with Snow Wheel Flowers.
• Ou Ran Gu destroyed six Snow Wheel Flowers, but Kaleidoscope used a Taiwei Hua technique that left him helpless and made him retreat.
• Ou Ran Gu refused to continue the chase, warning that his forces could not overcome Kaleidoscope’s weapons with their available energy.
• Ou Ran Gu chose to stay and defend the stronghold, then informed the Truth Society of Kaleidoscope’s whereabouts and his Divine Sense Power weapon.

Kaleidoscope led the Anunnaki back to Gamma's lair, then fled toward the Milky Way's edge with his forces while Tartarus secretly retrieved the Ninth General's body for Huang Ji. The body revealed a hidden wormhole that brought Mahāpratisarā to their planet, leaving Kaleidoscope relieved that the attacker was not the Taiwei Huaren anti-drug squad.

• Kaleidoscope returned to Gamma's lair and found eight million Little Greys waiting there, restoring his army to ten million.
• Kaleidoscope and the Anunnaki abandoned Gamma's lair and set course for the edge of the Milky Way.
• Tartarus revealed that he had retrieved the Ninth General's body for Huang Ji, but the body transformed into a miniature wormhole.
• Jia Wen spotted Tartarus with the body, and Kaleidoscope tried to destroy the wormhole as Three-Inch Golden Men poured out and protected it.
• Mahāpratisarā emerged through the expanding wormhole, seized the planet with his Unified Force, and reached toward Kaleidoscope's group.
• Kaleidoscope realized their attacker was Mahāpratisarā rather than the Taiwei Huaren anti-drug squad and said he was relieved.

Mahāpratisarā attacked Kaleidoscope and Blue Snow Star, prompting Kaleidoscope to unleash the planet’s weapon form and fight back. As the battle continued, a Brahma Seal began transforming the surrounding matter into glass, and Jia Wen explained the weapon’s power.

• Mahāpratisarā emerged from the wormhole in a gigantic golden form, fired a unified-field beam at Blue Snow Star, and demanded that Kaleidoscope stop fleeing.
• Kaleidoscope refused to surrender and launched Negative Mass Weapons, but Mahāpratisarā reversed their effects and hurled a Brahma Seal at the planet.
• Kaleidoscope activated Blue Snow Star’s weapon form, reshaping it into a vast snowflake structure and engaging Mahāpratisarā’s six arms.
• The Brahma Seal struck an icy mountain, and its influence began turning the surrounding air, ice, rock, and metal into glass.
• Jia Wen explained that Brahma Seals were enormous celestial molecules that could transform matter, while Kaleidoscope’s Quantum Divine Core slowed their spread.

Kaleidoscope and his allies attacked Mahāpratisarā, but the Venerable One overwhelmed them until Kaleidoscope absorbed a large quantity of Fortune Longevity Particles and incapacitated him. As Kaleidoscope’s forces faced dwindling reserves, the Ziwei Divine Army poured through the wormhole, bringing the long-awaited final battle.

• Shadow Madman, Jia Wen, and their allies attacked Mahāpratisarā, but his defenses and counterattacks destroyed their weapons and killed most of Kaleidoscope’s followers.
• Mahāpratisarā pinned Kaleidoscope’s Quantum Divine Core with his beams and began destroying it, but Kaleidoscope absorbed at least 0.2 grams of Fortune Longevity Particles and stripped the Venerable One of his senses.
• Kaleidoscope carved into Mahāpratisarā’s golden body while Jia Wen, Chi Xiang, and Tartarus survived nearby, and Huang Ji secretly sent a pulse through the wormhole.
• Kaleidoscope fired at an arriving Soldier Insect transport ship, destroying it, while the insect shifted the wormhole aside and spared the passage from the blast.
• Suo Rui urged Kaleidoscope to control his excitement, and Kaleidoscope realized that the Ziwei Divine Army was pouring through the wormhole to begin the final battle.

Evil Dragon, Saya, and the Kunlun group fought the Little Greys, exploiting their reliance on autopilot to defeat them and seize their weapons. The battle shifted in Ziwei’s favor as the victors gained access to the enemy’s Unified Force Weapons.

• Evil Dragon and Saya led the insect forces into battle against the Little Greys, whose Tai Wei Hands and Energy Axes gave them a technological advantage.
• Saya attacked a Little Grey with his Space-Time Order Keeper's Spear, but the Little Grey’s armor and autopilot initially countered the assault.
• A Little Grey followed the system’s assisted-control recommendations until the Kunlun fighters manipulated its choices, then forced it into a disastrous all-out attack against a Deformation Worm decoy.
• Evil Dragon watched the Little Grey emerge from its wrecked armor, and Saya silenced it before they discussed how its reliance on the system had led to defeat.
• Saya retrieved a Tai Wei Hand from the wreckage, and Evil Dragon and Saya began collecting and using the Little Greys’ Unified Force Weapons.

Kunlun's forces used overwhelming high-energy attacks to devastate Little Grey and drive the survivors toward the Venerable One's golden body. The chapter ended with Antimatter nebulae battering the body and sweeping away the Anunnaki forces clustered on it.

• Lin Li and Alan detected Little Grey forces at a distance, and Alan killed one with a Genesis-level Death Ray as they discussed Kaleidoscope's strategy.
• Jia Wen, Chi Xiang, and Tartarus struggled to defend the golden body while Suo Rui told them Kaleidoscope was seizing its energy reserves and ordered them to keep enemies away.
• Kunlun's fighters gathered strategic energy and launched a vast Star-Annihilation Charge, while the Dark Matter Insect Cloud created a supernova-scale explosion that destroyed more than half of Little Grey's army.
• The Kunlun Empress deployed Antimatter clouds and formed hundreds of nebular vortices aimed at the golden body.
• The nebulae struck the golden body, scraping away kilometers of its outer layer and unleashing shock waves that ravaged the Little Grey and Anunnaki forces on it.

Brando's forces broke the Quantum Divine Core's barrier by sending Feis through the supernova blast with the Ziwei Star Armor and a Tai Wei Hand. Their attack devastated the core, but an invisible force suddenly halted the blast, leaving the assault's outcome uncertain.

• Brando argued that the stalemate had to be broken by sending someone in the Ziwei Star Armor to disrupt the shield with a Tai Wei Hand, and Bone Fan approved the plan.
• Bone Fan chose Feis for the mission, and he explained that the armor's speed might let him escape the blast after breaking the barrier.
• Feis merged with one of Bone Fan's brood pouches, accelerated through the supernova flames, and shattered the Hexagonal Crystalline Force Field with the Tai Wei Hand.
• Suo Rui fled into the Quantum Divine Core with Tartarus, while Jia Wen and Chi Xiang escaped as the blast struck the exposed core.
• The supernova torrent pinned the Quantum Divine Core against Mahāpratisarā and melted much of it, but an invisible force suddenly froze the blast in place.

Kaleidoscope used the Quantum Divine Core to defeat Ziwei’s forces and destroy the Dark Matter Insect Cloud, but Huang Ji revealed he had been hiding inside Axis and sabotaged the Core. The chapter ended with Huang Ji confronting Kaleidoscope as the Ice and Snow Planet returned to normal.

• Kaleidoscope drew energy from the Venerable One’s golden body, empowered the Quantum Divine Core, and forced Bone Fan’s forces to retreat.
• Kaleidoscope found Firefeather fleeing and attacked Bone Fan’s group with Divine Sense Power before warping spacetime to destroy the Dark Matter Insect Cloud and much of Ziwei’s army.
• Kaleidoscope dragged the surviving Kunlun group before him and demanded to know where Huang Ji was.
• Huang Ji emerged from below the Quantum Divine Core, punched Kaleidoscope, and revealed himself after changing from Firefeather’s appearance.
• Huang Ji disrupted the Quantum Divine Core, restoring the planet’s ordinary conditions, and told Kaleidoscope he would deal with him himself.

Huang Ji revealed that he had secretly sabotaged Kaleidoscope’s Quantum Divine Core and used fragments of the Dark Matter Insect Cloud to create a powerful Void Outer Garment. With both sides cut off from their major energy supplies, Huang Ji prepared to fight Kaleidoscope directly.

• Kaleidoscope realized that Huang Ji had impersonated Firefeather and manipulated the battles to damage the Quantum Divine Core.
• Huang Ji explained that he had used the Tai Wei Hand to sabotage the Core while Kaleidoscope sought energy from the Venerable One’s golden body.
• Kaleidoscope argued that Huang Ji lacked the energy to defeat his Quantum Condensed Matter Body after the Dark Matter logistics system and Insect Cloud were destroyed.
• Huang Ji fused with fragments of the Insect Cloud, appearing to rise from level 20 to level 52.
• Huang Ji clarified that his Void Lifeform had not evolved; the fragments formed a Void Outer Garment that boosted his strength.
• Huang Ji told Kaleidoscope that he intended to beat him to pieces.

Huang Ji fought Kaleidoscope across the Ice and Snow Planet, using the Tai Wei Hand to counter attacks despite Kaleidoscope’s growing energy advantage. When Kaleidoscope trapped him at close range, Huang Ji struck with Divine Sense Power, leaving Kaleidoscope’s consciousness cut off.

• Kaleidoscope grew into a colossal Quantum Condensed Matter Body and unleashed devastating attacks, but Huang Ji used the Tai Wei Hand to transmute energy into gold and weaken them.
• Tartarus fired a Snow Wheel Flower at Kaleidoscope, punching a hole through his chest, and Kaleidoscope ordered Tartarus and Suo Rui to leave the battle.
• Kaleidoscope expanded until his energy reserves surpassed Huang Ji’s by more than a thousand times, then trapped Huang Ji between his palms.
• Huang Ji reminded Kaleidoscope that Mahāpratisarā had been defeated by Divine Sense Power and revealed that he was a doctor.
• Kaleidoscope tried to throw Huang Ji away, but Huang Ji released a golden flash at close range and cut off Kaleidoscope’s consciousness.

After Huang Ji destroyed the Quantum Divine Core, the stranded Kunlun group found supplies and weapons hidden in debris he had sent toward them. Tartarus attacked them while Suo Rui watched, leaving Tartarus’s loyalty under suspicion.

• Alan found a meteorite and gathered the scattered Kunlun group on it.
• Brando realized Huang Ji had deliberately sent debris containing supplies, and the group searched the meteorites for equipment.
• The group recovered an Energy Axis and a Snow Wheel Flower, which Lin Li used to gather energy from nearby matter.
• Alan spotted Tartarus approaching, and Brando ordered everyone to scatter.
• Tartarus attacked the Kunlun members while Suo Rui stayed back to test whether Tartarus would kill Ziwei’s core members.

The author presented personal reflections on Dao, virtue, Yi, and ritual propriety, arguing that change and natural principles should guide human conduct and civilization. The essay ended by describing Great Unity Under Heaven as Huaxia Civilization’s long-term goal and warning readers not to accept the reflections completely.

• The author outlined a framework connecting Dao, virtue, Yi, and ritual propriety to nature, causality, change, and civilization.
• The author argued that virtue was a natural law of giving and receiving, and that humanity had a responsibility to protect other living things.
• The author described the I Ching as an evolving system of wisdom whose principles had shaped Huaxia culture and whose divination could not calculate an entire person’s fate.
• The author presented ritual propriety as civilization’s guiding principle and claimed Huaxia’s strategy aimed at leading different peoples toward Great Unity Under Heaven.
• The author told readers not to believe the essay completely and explained that earlier research into Yi had influenced Mo Qiong’s and Huang Ji’s lives.

Lin Li struggled against Tartarus after Brando and Firefeather were badly injured, but a Battle Password Huang Ji had hidden in a meteorite gave him a way to fight back. The chapter ended with Lin Li entering his confident combat state and declaring that Tartarus had already lost.

• Tartarus pursued Firefeather and blasted away half his body before Brando struck Tartarus's head with Tai Wei Hands.
• Tartarus pierced Brando with Purification Power, but Brando used the Tai Wei Hands to contain the damage and survived.
• Tartarus used a gravity attack to shred the fighters, and Lin Li protected them with the Snow Wheel Flower before facing Tartarus alone.
• Lin Li wasted much of his energy defending against Tartarus's probing attacks, then was sent crashing into a meteorite and appeared defeated.
• Lin Li found Huang Ji's Battle Password inscribed in gold inside the meteorite and followed its instructions to survive Tartarus's next barrage.
• Lin Li used the Snow Wheel Flower to push through the attack, entered his focused combat state, and told Tartarus he had already lost.

Huang Ji collapsed Kaleidoscope’s overloaded body and used prepared devices to keep him under attack after Kaleidoscope incapacitated him with a Divine Sense assault. In space, Lin Li gained the upper hand against Tartarus, whose attack was interrupted by a Genesis-level Death Ray fired from the planet.

• Huang Ji sealed Kaleidoscope’s consciousness, causing his oversized body to collapse as its overloaded matter burst across the planet.
• Kaleidoscope woke in his true body, and Huang Ji attacked him with Tai Wei Force Field Energy Bullets and a Golden Greatsword.
• Kaleidoscope launched a Divine Sense assault that left Huang Ji unconscious, but Huang Ji’s hidden traps repeatedly interrupted Kaleidoscope’s attacks.
• Lin Li fought Tartarus with renewed strength, impressing the Kunlun companions while Suo Rui demanded that Tartarus finish him quickly.
• Tartarus prepared a powerful attack against Lin Li, but a Genesis-level Death Ray from the planet struck him and stopped it.

Lin Li stalled Tartarus until reinforcements arrived, then prompted Suo Rui to ambush him. Tartarus survived the attack but concluded that Suo Rui had betrayed or been replaced by Huang Ji.

• A Genesis-level Death Ray disrupted Tartarus’s Snow Wheel Flowers, allowing Lin Li to escape the attack and damage Tartarus’s mech.
• Lin Li stopped fighting and let Tartarus replenish himself from a meteorite, explaining to his teammates that their goal was to survive until reinforcements arrived.
• Tartarus recognized Lin Li was stalling and hurried toward Suo Rui to regroup with the boss, while Lin Li’s team waited for the approaching reinforcements.
• Lin Li shouted, “Make your move,” and Suo Rui attacked Tartarus, destroying his mech and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Lin Li caught Tartarus and used the Biochemical Atomic Cloud to stabilize him as Suo Rui fled and the insect reinforcements arrived.
• Tartarus accused Suo Rui of betraying him and suspected Huang Ji had turned or replaced him.

Kaleidoscope captured Huang Ji and assimilated his unconscious body, then fought his way through Ziwei’s forces while Huang Ji’s allies struggled to stop him. Brando’s words and Kaleidoscope’s craving for the missing fortune longevity particles disrupted his mind, allowing Huang Ji to reveal himself inside Kaleidoscope’s condensed matter body.

• Keke and Ziwei’s forces arrived as Kaleidoscope seized Huang Ji, and Lin Li tried to negotiate for his release.
• Kaleidoscope assimilated Huang Ji and escaped Blue Snow Star, severely wounding Lin Li during the battle.
• Brando spent all his energy in a powerful attack, shrinking Kaleidoscope and making him pause when Brando called himself an Earthling.
• Suo Rui reported that the fortune longevity particles were gone, and Kaleidoscope admitted that he had thrown them away.
• Huang Ji appeared within Kaleidoscope’s split head and revealed that he now had a quantum body.