Chapter Summaries

Brando escaped the Supreme Platform with Brandy, the Ark of the Covenant, and two Sword-Keepers as Musta’s failed nuclear bluff triggered fighting among the rebels. When Feis’s clone legion appeared, Saxon and Arona fled separately, while Brando carried Brandy toward the shore and revealed his plan to escape through the sky.

• Musta’s nuclear missile failed to launch, and Huang Ji urged him to surrender while the rebels dismissed his accusations against Hua Ji.
• The Medici Family turned on Musta, and Amu and Wally joined the fight as Brando escaped with Arona and Saxon while Brandy followed carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
• Huang Ji ordered the rebels not to pursue Brando, and Brando headed west through the burning Temple District with Medici Family members following him.
• Feis’s clone legion emerged from the pyramid, prompting Saxon to kick Brando and flee with Arona while Brando continued with Brandy and the Ark.
• Brando used his Iron Umbrella to fly over the flames and told Brandy that he planned to reach the stratosphere to escape Saint Qing Island.

Musta revealed that he had won the Clone Army over and sent the clones to attack everyone without bio-armor, while Hua Ji and Luo Yan took control of the rebels. The clones killed Saxon, and Bobo attacked Arona to avenge him and claim his bio-armor.

• Musta explained how he had discovered the clones’ mission and persuaded their nineteen language-understanding leaders to follow him instead of Feis.
• Hua Ji admitted he hated Folo, and Luo Yan agreed to abandon Folo and place the rebels under Hua Ji’s command.
• Musta’s clones split up and attacked the Sword-Keepers, Brando’s group, and the rebels; the Medici Family fighters fleeing with Brando were slaughtered.
• Arona used the Benben Stone to kill pursuing clones, but its blasts also killed Saxon, who had been gravely wounded and could not escape.
• Bobo emerged from the inferno and attacked Arona, blaming him for Saxon’s death and demanding that he remove his bio-armor.

Huang Ji and the rebels fought the Clone Army, while his living External Dantians kept Amu and Wally in the battle. After Huang Ji used an Energy Shield to evade the clones, an explosion tore through the Temple District.

• The Clone Army overwhelmed the rebels on the Supreme Platform, forcing Luo Yan to lead most of them east while Huang Ji, Amu, and Wally stayed behind.
• Huang Ji restored Amu and Wally with External Dantians as they fought through wave after wave of clones.
• Musta ordered the clones to surround and kill the three remaining elite fighters, and Huang Ji leaped into the air with Amu and Wally.
• Huang Ji projected an Energy Shield beneath himself to block attacks and propel the trio through the air, astonishing Musta and Folo.
• The Temple District exploded behind Musta as the battle continued.

A bomb hidden in the Temple District exploded, blasting Feis into view and disrupting the battle for the Supreme Platform. Kidd joined the fight with an elite force, but Musta mistook his troops for Feis’s allies and sent clones to stop them, leaving the battlefield in confusion.

• An explosion destroyed Low Mountain and flattened much of the Temple District, while the shock wave threw Bobo, Arona, and Huang Ji across the battlefield.
• Adams gathered the King-Protecting Army in the Port District, but Kidd arrived with over a thousand S-class fighters and claimed Feis had ordered him to suppress the rebellion.
• The blast revealed Feis inside an Icosahedron Shield, contradicting Kidd’s claim that Feis was still in Hua Country.
• Kidd led his troops toward the rebels as Alexei’s Dragonkin attacked from the flank, and Huang Ji’s shout caused fighters to assume the forces were joining together.
• Musta ordered three clone squads to intercept Kidd, and the clones charged into his troops, starting a battle between them.

Kidd’s attack killed Folo and Carmen, but Musta’s Clone Army nearly killed Kidd before Feis arrived and destroyed the clones with their brain kill switches. Feis seized the Black Wand and, facing a battlefield that regarded him as a traitor, declared that he would restore order by killing the Double Pupils Faction.

• Kidd blasted the Supreme Platform with the Black Wand, killing Carmen and destroying most of Folo’s body while Musta survived in bio-armor.
• Musta sent the Clone Army after Kidd, and No. 4 and No. 5 wounded him before No. 9 took the Black Wand.
• Feis arrived, caught Kidd, and activated the clones’ kill switches, killing the Clone Army while No. 18 remained hidden after Hua Ji had removed his device.
• Musta accused Feis of using the clones to establish his authority, while A Fu revealed that Brando had released Iron-Eating Bacteria and sunk the fleet.
• Grania secretly informed Feis that Luo Yan and Hua Ji led the rebels, and Feis decided to spare only Adams’s loyal force and the surviving Sword-Keeper Arona.
• Feis took the Black Wand, denied belonging to the Double Pupils Faction, declared that he would spare none of its members, and fired its plasma attack.

Feis slaughtered the rebels at the Supreme Platform, revealed himself as an S5 fighter armed with the Black Wand, and attacked the remaining ten thousand alone. Huang Ji rallied the survivors to fight back, and One-Eyed Eagle joined them after Feis wounded him and Huang Ji healed him.

• Feis killed Musta with repeated plasma blasts after Musta realized that Feis was using the conflict to eliminate the rebels.
• Feis persuaded Adams and the King-Protecting Army that he was there to save them, then sent them away to rescue Arona.
• Huang Ji explained that Feis had reached S5 by surviving two experimental Ascension No. 2 injections and revealed that Luo Yan's transformation had activated dormant Dragonkin genes.
• Feis overwhelmed the Dragonkin and rebels with his shield and Black Wand, killing thousands with each plasma blast.
• Huang Ji gave One-Eyed Eagle a Lightsaber and sent him a Medical Pack; after Feis wounded him and the pack healed him, One-Eyed Eagle joined Huang Ji's attack.

Huang Ji confronted Feis with a Buddha Bone shield and revealed that Feis’s powerful shield was limited by its lack of a proper charger. As Feis attacked, Huang Ji exposed his greater strength and used Feis’s own Black Wand against him, leaving Feis gravely wounded.

• Feis’s Energy Shield let him batter the rebels, but Huang Ji blocked his charge and protected Wally with the Golden Glimmering Rhomboid Shield.
• Huang Ji identified the Buddha Bone shield and pointed out that Feis lacked the charging equipment for his third-generation shield, forcing him to rely on a Philosopher’s Stone.
• Feis attacked Huang Ji, whose strength stopped Feis’s punch while One-Eyed Eagle and Amu tried unsuccessfully to strike through the shield.
• Huang Ji claimed he was S6, and Feis dismissed the claim before preparing to use the Black Wand.
• Huang Ji copied Feis’s incantation and mannerisms, causing Feis’s charged Black Wand to fire into him and blast away nearly half his body.

Huang Ji outmaneuvered Feis in battle, disabled the Black Wand, and forced him to reveal his fear of Dis. The fight continued as Feis attacked with the Benben Stone, and Huang Ji ended the chapter by asking whether Feis and Dis had a child.

• Huang Ji used Feis's voice to make the Black Wand wound Feis, then kicked him into the pyramid and blocked his attempts to use it again.
• Feis abandoned the Black Wand and fought Huang Ji, using his powers to regenerate and reshape his body, but Huang Ji optimized his own physique and overpowered him.
• Feis offered to rebuild the Illuminati with Huang Ji, but Huang Ji asked whether he would dare kill Dis.
• Feis rejected the question and used the Benben Stone to attack Huang Ji, then admitted that Dis was S10 and that the Master stood above him.
• Huang Ji suggested that Feis's Energy Belt came from Dis because they had a child together, and Feis shouted at him to stop.

Huang Ji revealed that Feis had gained the ability to father hybrid children and had been forced by Dis to bear Little Grey offspring in exchange for an Energy Belt. Feis denied the accusation as Huang Ji explained how he had deduced the secret and connected the ability to ancient myths.

• Feis had risked his life to gain multiple superpowers, including the ability to produce offspring with cells from almost any organism.
• Dis recognized Feis's power and coerced him into bearing a human–Little Grey hybrid, promising him an Energy Belt in return.
• Dis gave Feis an energyless belt, then threatened to ruin him unless he bore more children, leaving Feis trapped in the arrangement.
• Huang Ji fought through Feis's laser fire, slammed him and his shield into the ground, and explained why Dis could only have obtained Feis's cooperation by offering the belt.
• Huang Ji accused Feis of bearing Dis's children and cited ancient stories of gods having children with humans as evidence that such hybrid offspring were possible.

Huang Ji exposed Feis’s secret and challenged him to kill Dis, prompting Feis to massacre everyone on Saint Qing Island. After Feis transformed using the Child of Dis’s genes, Huang Ji activated the Winged God and defeated him, while Adams lost Veronica and Feis died admitting he had never dared defy Dis.

• Feis admitted that he had borne Dis’s child in exchange for advanced equipment, then revealed his fears about humanity’s future and resolved to kill everyone who knew his secret.
• Adams’s rescue attempt turned chaotic when Arona accused him of betraying the Illuminati, seized Veronica as a hostage, and attacked Adams’s allies while they fought Bobo.
• Adams caught Arona near the pyramid, but Arona tricked him by destroying the structure where Veronica lay; Adams killed Arona after the collapse buried her.
• Feis began slaughtering loyalists and rebels alike, then fought Huang Ji, activated dormant genes from the Child of Dis, and mortally wounded him.
• Huang Ji used the Child of Dis’s blood to awaken the Winged God, defeated Feis with an Ion Light Spear, and heard Feis admit that he had never dared kill Dis.

Huang Ji defeated Feis with the Winged God, recovered Shao Hao’s ancient records, and secured the survivors’ admiration. He spared Feis by sustaining his severed head, explaining that he needed him alive while he prepared to confront Dis.

• Huang Ji used the Winged God to defeat Feis, then returned the mech to standby when its energy ran low.
• Huang Ji found the Book of Shao Hao in the cabin and added a migration map to guide the search for Kunlun Hill.
• Huang Ji gave the ancient scrolls to Wally and returned Lorna’s Lightsaber.
• Lorna refused to kill Feis, so Huang Ji beheaded him and kept him alive with tentacles from his palm.
• Huang Ji told Feis that Dis would massacre the Illuminati if Feis died and said he would give him another body while preparing to fight Dis.

After Veronica’s death left Adams overwhelmed with regret, Huang Ji revealed that he had secretly kept her alive beneath the collapsed pyramid. Adams abandoned his plan to leave and wept with relief as the group uncovered Veronica.

• Adams told Huang Ji and the others that he regretted Veronica’s death and wanted to leave the Illuminati and return to being a dentist.
• Lin Li reminded Adams that he had chosen to let Veronica die, while Adams insisted he blamed only himself.
• Huang Ji asked whether Adams truly regretted his choice, then revealed that Veronica had survived beneath the pyramid rubble.
• Huang Ji and the others uncovered Veronica, whose External Dantian had kept her brain alive after her body was crushed.
• Adams thanked Huang Ji, changed his mind about leaving, and cried as the others laughed.

After the Illuminati fell, Huang Ji stopped Grania from killing herself and exposed Kidd’s continued betrayal. He refused the chairmanship, and Nuoqila became the new Chairman after being the first to claim the position.

• Grania stabbed Huang Ji in the neck, but he healed and stopped Wally from killing her.
• Kidd tried to surrender and reveal his usefulness, then confessed Feis’s plans; Huang Ji exposed the information he had withheld about the Nature Disruptor, and Wally and One-Eyed Eagle took him away.
• Huang Ji reunited Grania with Coyote, who told her that Huang Ji led Messiah and had secretly overthrown the Illuminati.
• Huang Ji refused to become Chairman, and Luo Yan also declined the position.
• Huang Ji offered the chairmanship to whoever spoke first, and Nuoqila claimed it before Amu could, becoming Chairman of the Illuminati.

After the Illuminati’s leaders died, Nuoqila became Chairman while Huang Ji arranged the new leadership and revealed that No. 18 had survived as a Feis clone. Brando fled toward Hua Country with the Ark of the Covenant and planned to gather hostages before Dis arrived.

• Huang Ji named Nuoqila Chairman, and Amu, Wally, Luo Yan, and One-Eyed Eagle became Sword-Keepers as the Illuminati reorganized.
• A surviving clone of Feis appeared, and Huang Ji revealed that he had removed the clone’s self-destruct device; No. 18 asked for a legal identity so he could try acting.
• Huang Ji explained that Brando had defected with Royia, and Luo Yan learned that Royia was being held captive while he recovered from Gene Collapse.
• Brando and Brandy fled above the clouds with the Ark of the Covenant and chose Hua Country as their refuge, reasoning that the Illuminati had little presence there.
• Brando decided to stop at Santa Fe to seize Royia, Saya, and Mu Yuan as hostages, and he sent someone ahead to get them out of the country.

After months of building weapons, Mu Yuan was attacked by Digg and the S-rank fighters at the Santa Fe Institute. He escaped in his unfinished Iron Battle Suit and flew toward Hua Country, vowing to confront Brando if his sister was harmed.

• Mu Yuan fell asleep in his bath after exhausting himself with months of work, and Digg led ten S-rank fighters into the institute to seize him.
• Digg forced a researcher to lead him to Mu Yuan's lab, then had the security door blown open and ordered Mu Yuan to come with them to Hua Country.
• Mu Yuan activated an Iron Gauntlet, killed one fighter, knocked another aside, and escaped through the testing area's glass wall.
• Mu Yuan assembled his unfinished Iron Battle Suit and fought Digg and the other fighters long enough to fly out of the institute.
• Mu Yuan escaped the Santa Fe Base and declared that he would go to Hua Country to confront Brando and protect his sister.

After the battle on Saint Qing Island, Huang Ji took the task-driven Bobo under his wing and learned Brando had escaped to Hua Country with Royia and Saya. As the Illuminati’s new Chairman, Nuoqila faced backlash over freeing the Dragonkin, and Huang Ji persuaded him to rely on his allies and use Bobo to protect his position.

• Bobo placed Arona’s head and the Biological Armor at Saxon’s grave, and Huang Ji persuaded him to follow him as his new master.
• Amu reported that Brando had escaped by boat with Royia and Saya, while Mu Yuan defected and went to Hua Country to pursue him.
• The Illuminati reorganized under Nuoqila as Chairman, with Huang Ji, Luo Yan, Feis, Amu, and others forming the Double Pupils Council.
• Nuoqila freed the Dragonkin and gave them Saint Qing Island, provoking outrage and leaving him worried that the Little Grey would learn of the decision during the coming handover.
• Huang Ji convinced Nuoqila to stand by Evil Dragon’s group and deal with his opponents, then assigned Bobo to serve as Nuoqila’s muscle.

Huang Ji brought Evil Dragon and the others to S4 Base, where Heinrich took charge of the research facility and learned that Hawking was on a mission to obtain alien knowledge. Eight Little Grey ships arrived, and their representative killed two administrators before demanding to know who was in charge.

• Huang Ji gave Heinrich control of S4 Base and directed him to begin peripheral research while preparing to copy existing alien technology.
• Huang Ji told the group that Hawking’s mission was to bring back technical data, and Evil Dragon warned that the Little Greys might react badly to the coup.
• Nuoqila assembled a reception party and prepared three thousand political opponents for delivery to the Little Greys.
• Eight alien ships descended into the hangars, and a Little Grey confronted Nuoqila’s reception party.
• The Little Grey killed two administrators with a shock-wave attack, then returned with a translator and asked who was in charge.
• Nuoqila identified himself as the Illuminati’s president, while Huang Ji and the others watched from the second floor.

Aomazo accepted Nuoqila’s leadership after testing Huang Ji, who managed to resist his suppression and strike back but remained far weaker than a Little Grey. Aomazo inspected the Illuminati’s human cargo and ordered Nuoqila to supply similarly elite captives for the next two years, leaving Nuoqila to enforce the demand.

• Nuoqila introduced Huang Ji as a guard, but Aomazo singled him out and used his electrical field to suppress the people around him.
• Huang Ji endured Aomazo’s kick, then synchronized his body’s electricity with Aomazo’s field and counterattacked before Aomazo stopped the fight.
• Aomazo accepted Nuoqila as Chairman, dismissed the change of power, and identified himself as the civilian Little Grey responsible for transport and reception.
• Huang Ji assessed Aomazo’s strength and concluded that he could not defeat him or Dis with his current abilities.
• Aomazo examined three thousand former Illuminati members, praised their unusually high intelligence, and demanded that Nuoqila provide goods of the same standard for the next two years.
• Nuoqila agreed and resolved to use Aomazo’s order to compel the Sword-Keeping Families to supply more people.

After Aomazo’s visit left the Kunlun Ruins terrified, Huang Ji confronted the group with their faltering resolve and offered those who no longer wanted to fight a place in the Illuminati. Most of the former Messiah members withdrew, leaving a small group committed to facing Dis.

• Evil Dragon broke down over his fear of Aomazo and admitted that he had wanted to abandon the fight against the aliens.
• Huang Ji told Evil Dragon that his anguish showed he could not accept giving up, then challenged the others to examine their own resolve.
• Huang Ji named Dis as the next target and offered anyone unwilling to fight a senior Illuminati post and one of the 666 survival places.
• Several former Messiah members withdrew, including Saiwen and Babuloso, who explained that he had already avenged his family.
• Old Wang refused to leave, calling the remaining companions his family and pledging to help Huang Ji kill Dis.

Huang Ji asked the remaining members of Kunlun Ruins to withdraw rather than risk their lives against Dis, but they each explained why they would stay. The group reaffirmed their resolve and trust in Huang Ji as they prepared to continue fighting the aliens.

• Old Wang, Chu Shaojun, and Chuan Zhi refused to retreat, citing their son, Xiao Fan, and Chuan Zhi’s missing sister as reasons to keep fighting.
• Sophia insisted on staying to oversee scientific research and safeguard Kunlun Ruins’ work with the Illuminati’s resources.
• Alan said he would remain because Lin Li and Huang Ji were staying, and he trusted their judgment over that of those who had withdrawn.
• Lin Li admitted he was afraid and thought fighting aliens seemed impossible, but said he trusted Huang Ji and would not turn back.
• Huang Ji accepted the group’s decision, and the remaining members strengthened their commitment to face the danger together.