Chapter Summaries

The Nüwa reached Mercury to begin the Mending the Sky Operation, but unexpectedly intense Solar Wind threatened the mission before the crew could approach the Sun. After mining Helium-3 and consulting Kunlun Base, Liu Tengkong’s crew adopted a more dangerous plan that gave them only thirty minutes to deploy every Five-Colored Stone.

• The Nüwa entered Mercury’s synchronous orbit and found Solar Wind intensity thirty percent above projections, forcing Liu Tengkong to abandon the original approach plan.
• Liu Tengkong ordered the Nüwa to land on Mercury’s far side, where the crew could collect Helium-3 and report their situation to Kunlun Base.
• Liu Tengkong led four crew members across Mercury’s surface to collect nearly two tons of Helium-3 ore while Old Zhang maintained communications with Earth.
• After consulting Kunlun Base, Liu Tengkong’s crew planned to convert the gravity generator into an Energy Shield module and use Mercury’s Helium-3 as fuel.
• The revised projections gave the Energy Shield no more than thirty minutes of protection, requiring the crew to deploy every Five-Colored Stone within that time.

Liu Tengkong and the five other crew members risked the Nüwa and their lives to deploy Five-Colored Stone at the Sun’s shifting X Coordinate and stop the solar eruption. They succeeded in triggering the planned effect, but the Nüwa exploded and the crew faced death in the Sun’s inferno.

• Liu Tengkong rejected retreat and launched the Nüwa toward the Sun with the crew and its cargo of Five-Colored Stone.
• The Nüwa entered the chromosphere, where a flare damaged its shield and cut its remaining endurance time.
• Old Ma discovered that the X Coordinate had shifted slightly, and Liu Tengkong spent the spacecraft’s return energy so the crew could keep searching.
• The crew charged through solar hazards to reach the coordinate and deployed the Five-Colored Stone particles.
• Old Ma confirmed the plan had worked, and the crew celebrated as the Nüwa broke apart and they were overwhelmed by the Sun.

Liu Tengkong and his crew survived the Nüwa’s destruction after Nai Di and Yi Mei rescued them, then learned they had been brought aboard an immense alien vessel. Nai Di carried them to meet his master, while the Saint Ship rested across the far side of the moon.

• A hexagonal energy shield lifted Liu Tengkong and the other five crew members out of the sun’s surface and toward a gigantic mechanical being.
• The crew woke inside purple spheres aboard a ship, where the living blue light introduced himself as Nai Di, governor of the Ziwei Empire.
• Nai Di explained that his master had healed them and that he had been ordered to bring them to him; the crew agreed to travel with Nai Di.
• Nai Di carried the crew through the ship and revealed that the Saint Ship was three thousand kilometers long.
• The Saint Ship lay across the moon’s far side, stretching from near its north pole to its south pole like a golden toad.

Liu Tengkong and the other astronauts met Huang Ji and learned that he and his companions were Earth natives who had built a powerful civilization among the stars. Huang Ji revealed that, although he had rescued them, Earth must believe the six heroes died on the Sun, leaving their return and recognition to be handled gradually.

• Liu Tengkong met Huang Ji and mistook him and the others for aliens, while Huang Ji called them compatriots and praised the astronauts for overcoming the solar disaster themselves.
• Huang Ji explained that he had watched the mission and intervened only after the astronauts had completed it, because humanity had to face its own trials.
• Huang Ji showed the astronauts a projection of Yu Mo Shuo and Earth’s leaders, who confirmed that Huang Ji and his companions were originally from Earth and recounted humanity’s past conflicts with alien forces.
• Liu Tengkong and the others learned that Huang Ji had established a territory among the stars and that Earth had a chance to build an independent future.
• Huang Ji told the leaders that the six astronauts had already sacrificed themselves in the eyes of Earth, because their mission had ended with them being vaporized by the Sun.

Huang Ji arranged for Liu Tengkong and the other rescued astronauts to be declared dead, then asked Earth to provide people who would eventually take over Ziwei Country. After spending a month at home with his grandfather, Huang Ji left with Lin Li and resumed his work in the interstellar world.

• Huang Ji explained why the six rescued astronauts had to remain officially dead, and Liu Tengkong and the others accepted the order to follow him.
• Huang Ji told Yu Mo Shuo that he needed his own people for Ziwei Country, and Yu Mo Shuo agreed to arrange recruits from Earth.
• Huang Ji spent a month at home with his grandfather, who believed he was an ordinary young army officer and urged Lin Li to look after him.
• Lin Li came to take Huang Ji back, and the two departed after Huang Ji said goodbye to his grandfather.
• After leaving, Huang Ji and Lin Li watched his grandfather pray for his safety, then joked about Huang Ji acting like a child before heading back to work.

Huang Ji transformed the Sixth Heavenly Army into Star Realm Humans and brought them to Gaia Star, where Ziwei began building its new society. With the empire’s funds exhausted, Huang Ji planned to exploit an Anunnaki team that had told him about its intended raid on a protected race.

• Huang Ji was appointed General Commander of the Sixth Heavenly Army and announced that its soldiers would have to stop being human.
• With the Saint Ship’s help, Huang Ji transformed the million soldiers into Nitrogen Grade members of the Star Realm Human Race and sent them aboard the hidden ship.
• On August 1, 2012, Huang Ji and the Sixth Heavenly Army left Earth and arrived at Gaia Star in the Xuanyuan Star System.
• Huang Ji assigned Sophia to educate Ziwei’s citizens and told Nai Di to open citizenship to members of the Nomu Race.
• After Ziwei’s reserves ran out, Huang Ji revealed that the Anunnaki had asked him to cover for their planned raid on the Cloud Ghost, a protected Primitive Race.

Huang Ji brought Lin Li and the others to Kepler-1649c, a protected world where Cloud Ghosts lived in the sky amid violent geological activity. They encountered local gaseous life and learned how the planet’s storms and volcanic gases sustained it.

• Huang Ji took the group to Kepler-1649c and told Yi Mei to remain at the monitoring station with the Imperial Guards.
• Huang Ji explained that Cloud Ghosts lived in the clouds and described how the planet’s atmosphere and geology supported gaseous life.
• An Earth Roar swept across the landscape, destroying mountains and raising new peaks as the group watched from the air.
• Huang Ji explained how stellar tides and underground gases caused the planet’s frequent upheavals and supplied minerals to the atmosphere.
• A Cloud Dog approached and curled around An Lu Ban for warmth, and Huang Ji identified it as an animal rather than a Cloud Ghost.
• A large, round gaseous creature arrived, and Huang Ji identified it as a skinny Cloud Ghost.

Huang Ji explained how Cloud Ghosts perceived the world and how their unusual vision shaped their religion and technological development. The group understood that Cloud Ghost civilization was driven to explore the planet’s hidden interior, though its members could not see or handle the land.

• Blue Fatty drifted toward the group, sprayed Sulfur Hexafluoride onto the Cloud Dog, and drew the dog to its side.
• Huang Ji explained that Cloud Ghosts could see gases and the planet’s glowing core but saw rocks, soil, and metals as nearly transparent.
• Huang Ji described how Cloud Ghost religion portrayed the core as the Geocore Mother and the underground as an Invisible Barrier that the Cloud Ghosts were destined to explore.
• Huang Ji explained that Cloud Ghosts had developed advanced uses of electricity and gases without understanding minerals, and that they were still waiting to conquer the land.
• Huang Ji described how Cloud Ghosts perceived the sun, Solar Wind, and the planet’s magnetic field as a protective divine barrier.

Blue Fatty encountered Lin Li and the others, mistook them for strange floating rocks, and tested its Acid Ice Weapon on Lin Li. Huang Ji explained the Cloud Ghosts’ history and warned that the Yang God Race, an old Anunnaki-backed clan, remained a threat; he said they would oppose the Anunnaki while leaving the Cloud Ghosts’ culture to develop on its own.

• Blue Fatty studied the glowing, floating figures and decided they were harmless rocks after its body could not push Lin Li aside.
• Blue Fatty fired an electrically charged Acid Ice Arrow at Lin Li, but it shattered against his mech armor.
• Huang Ji explained how the Cloud Ghosts’ clans developed ice weapons, electricity, and Cloud Fungus cultivation before Ghost Peak united nearby tribes.
• Huang Ji identified the Yang God Race as an Anunnaki-backed clan with advanced weapons and beliefs about gods beyond the Cloud Sea.
• Huang Ji rejected eradicating the Yang God Race’s beliefs and said they would fight the Anunnaki while reducing the outside military advantage over the Cloud Ghosts.

Huang Ji used a display of power and creation to convince Blue Fatty that he might be Earth Mother's Will, then sent him on a mission to protect his tribe. Blue Fatty was left believing that extraterrestrial demons would soon threaten his people.

• Blue Fatty's arrow failed to damage the floating rock, and Huang Ji spoke to him before revealing himself and terrifying him with a display that destroyed a mountain.
• Huang Ji emerged from the mech, and Blue Fatty mistook his energy-wrapped form for a manifestation of Earth Mother.
• Huang Ji created a bow called Sunset and dropped it six thousand meters below, telling Blue Fatty Ao Ba that claiming it could make him a hero.
• Huang Ji warned Ao Ba that followers of extraterrestrial heavenly demons would abduct his beloved and kin and devastate his homeland on the next dark night.
• Ao Ba asked whether the demons truly existed, and Huang Ji departed with Lin Li and the others, saying they soon would not.

Huang Ji and his companions disguised themselves as Cloud Ghosts and infiltrated the Ghost Peak Tribe, using helium to win the tribe’s welcome as they prepared for the coming attack. The chapter ended with the Yang God Clan surrounding the tribe and preparing to strike.

• Blue Fatty left without the bow so he could hurry back and warn his tribe, and Huang Ji explained that he wanted the Anunnaki to proceed with their planned raid.
• Huang Ji made Cloud Ghost bodies for Lin Li, Alan, An Lu Ban, and three thousand copies of Nai Di, then led them toward the Ghost Peak Tribe.
• Nai Di introduced the newcomers as the Kunlun Wraiths and produced helium, persuading the wary Ghost Peak warriors to welcome them and trade.
• The group exchanged ten tonnes of helium for goods, while Ghost Peak welcomed them and prepared its defenses based on Blue Fatty’s warning.
• As Huang Ji’s group joined the tribe’s evening gathering, the Yang God Clan surrounded Ghost Peak, and the Yang God announced that their raid would be their last job.

The Yang God Clan destroyed Ghost Peak Tribe’s cloud home with dry ice and defeated its defenders using advanced weapons. Blue Fatty escaped the flames by applying what he remembered of Earth Mother’s demonstrations, and fled into the night with the Divine Bow’s location still known only to him.

• The Yang God ordered his forces to bombard Ghost Peak Tribe with dry ice, while the tribe’s sentries raised the alarm and its warriors attacked.
• The Yang God Clan overwhelmed Ghost Peak’s defenders with flamethrowers as the cloud land collapsed into rain, destroying the tribe’s home and stockpiles.
• Ghost Peak was struck down, and the Yang God Clan captured wounded Cloud Ghosts as sacrifices while Blue Fatty searched for a way to escape with knowledge of the Divine Bow’s location.
• Blue Fatty used helium to distract his pursuers, then recalled Earth Mother’s demonstrations and formed long external arms from his body.
• Blue Fatty used his arms to combine hydrogen and oxygen into water, sprayed the pursuing Yang God Clan members to extinguish their flames, and escaped into the night.

Blue Fatty rallied the escaped Cloud Ghosts to retrieve the Divine Bow and rescue their captured kin, while An Lu Ban led them in preparing a dangerous descent. In the Yang God Race’s territory, Huang Ji treated captives and secretly warned Jia Wen against proceeding with the abduction, but Jia Wen chose to move ahead.

• Blue Fatty gathered the surviving Cloud Ghosts, urged them to save their captured families, and accepted leadership after Ghost Peak was taken.
• An Lu Ban joined Blue Fatty’s group as the only escaped Kunlun Wraith and proposed using ropes and ice tools to descend safely toward the Divine Bow.
• Blue Fatty agreed to follow An Lu Ban’s climbing plan, and the group set out for the mountain’s lower slopes.
• In a sealed chamber, Huang Ji healed wounded Cloud Ghosts with a void field while secretly communicating with Anunnaki operative Jia Wen.
• Huang Ji urged Jia Wen to delay the operation until he located Huang Ji and Lin Li, but Jia Wen refused and prepared to proceed with capturing Cloud Ghosts.

Jia Wen and the Anunnaki team arrived to collect Cloud Ghost sacrifices, while Huang Ji observed and negotiated with Six-Tusk White Elephant. When Huang Ji revealed his unusual abilities and spoke the common tongue, Jia Wen and the Hao brothers realized he was an outsider and ordered him killed.

• Jia Wen brought East Hao, West Hao, and two Silicon-Based Lifeforms to the Yang God Race settlement, where East Hao and West Hao began checking the Cloud Ghost sacrifices.
• East Hao tortured a captive for insulting him, while Huang Ji streamed the Anunnaki’s actions to Six-Tusk White Elephant and agreed to discuss payment for capturing them alive.
• Jia Wen descended in his mech and killed a Cloud Ghost, prompting Ghost Peak to charge East Hao and suffer devastating injuries.
• Huang Ji treated Ghost Peak, revealing a precisely controlled Void field that shocked Jia Wen.
• Jia Wen demanded to know who Huang Ji was, and Huang Ji identified himself as a doctor before East Hao and West Hao realized he spoke the common tongue.
• East Hao recognized Huang Ji as an off-world visitor and ordered him killed.

Huang Ji and Nai Di fought Jia Wen’s Star Destroyer mech while Anunnaki poachers tried to retreat after discovering that Huang Ji was Great Emperor Ziwei. Huang Ji stalled Jia Wen until a million Vacuum Cuts arrived and shattered the mech’s force field.

• Jia Wen ordered East Hao to kill Huang Ji, but Huang Ji dodged the attack and Nai Di emerged as a blue Light Elf energy body.
• Over three thousand modified Cloud Ghosts merged into Nai Di’s blue energy armor, and Nai Di identified Huang Ji as Great Emperor Ziwei.
• Jia Wen ordered the poachers to retreat after learning that Ziwei had discovered their operation, but Huang Ji blocked them and Nai Di revealed his identity.
• Huang Ji used Nai Di’s data-processing ability to counter Jia Wen’s electromagnetic attacks and fought him toward the outer atmosphere.
• Jia Wen activated his Star Destroyer mech’s Lightwing Mode and began overwhelming Huang Ji, who stalled him by discussing the Anunnaki mole.
• A million Vacuum Cuts arrived from beneath the planet’s surface and shattered Jia Wen’s force field, giving Huang Ji the advantage.

Huang Ji battled Jia Wen in space while Alan and Lin Li ambushed Anunnaki's forces from the clouds. Lin Li turned a silicon-based employee's Degenerate Matter Bomb against him, leaving East Hao and West Hao stunned by their teammate's sudden death.

• The Cloud Ghosts watched Huang Ji and Jia Wen clash as East Hao ordered them to remain inside their cabin.
• Jia Wen called West Hao and East Hao to help him, and both joined the battle against Huang Ji.
• Alan fired a cannon from the clouds and critically wounded one of Anunnaki's silicon-based employees.
• Lin Li emerged in a Silver Mecha, and the remaining employees attacked him with Flying Feathers and a Degenerate Matter Bomb.
• Lin Li's neutrino beam intercepted the bomb near its shooter, killing the silicon-based employee in the resulting explosion.

Lin Li and Alan defeated East Hao’s squad while Jia Wen’s battle with Huang Ji devastated the Cloud Ghosts’ sky and revealed the stars to them. Jia Wen unleashed a million Life-Slaughtering Wheels, but Huang Ji and Nai Di seized control of them and turned his weapons against him.

• Lin Li offered West Hao a chance to surrender, then defeated him with an unseen attack while Alan killed East Hao with a particle cannon.
• Lin Li and Alan shielded themselves from a Plasma Bullet as Jia Wen and Huang Ji’s battle sent a huge fireball crashing onto a distant mountain.
• Jia Wen gathered asteroids and detonated them above the Cloud Ghosts’ world, but Huang Ji’s Golden Earth blocked the blast and exposed the stars to the Cloud Ghosts.
• Jia Wen launched a million Life-Slaughtering Wheels at Huang Ji, believing Huang Ji had spent too much energy protecting the planet’s inhabitants.
• Huang Ji synchronized a million Vacuum Cuts with the wheels, and Nai Di seized control of Jia Wen’s weapons, sending them charging back at him.

Huang Ji seized control of Jia Wen’s Life-Slaughtering Wheels, but Jia Wen trapped them and prepared to fire a Genesis-level Death Ray. Huang Ji was struck by an unseen force as Jia Wen fired, and the beam missed him, leaving him to witness its radiant afterglow.

• Nai Di scolded Huang Ji for repeatedly risking his life, while Huang Ji pursued Jia Wen with the Life-Slaughtering Wheels he had taken over.
• Jia Wen wondered how Huang Ji had obtained the control data for his newly purchased weapons, then trapped the Wheels and Huang Ji’s Vacuum Cuts in a Six-Prism Red Light Shield.
• Jia Wen began charging an uncapped Death Ray Cannon, and Nai Di warned that its energy was impossible to measure.
• Huang Ji approached Jia Wen and said he would miss, prompting Jia Wen to fire the Genesis Death Ray at close range.
• An unseen force rotated Jia Wen as he fired, sending the beam past Huang Ji and across Cloud Wraith Planet.
• Huang Ji admired the beam’s afterglow and perceived the Genesis Death Ray through the information it carried.

Blue Fatty arrived with the Divine Bow Hua Armor to rescue the Ghost Peak Tribe and challenged the Yang God Race's leader over sacrificing their people for divine knowledge. The tribes began a battle of their own as the war between the gods continued overhead.

• A white glare blinded the Cloud Ghosts and the Yang God Race, triggering a chaotic fight between them until the light faded.
• The Yang God Race's leader overwhelmed Ghost Peak's people and pinned Ghost Peak beneath his feet.
• Blue Fatty arrived with more than a thousand Cloud Ghosts and the Divine Bow Hua Armor, declaring that Earth Mother had given it to him.
• Blue Fatty revealed that the Kunlun Ghost God was Earth Mother, unsettling the Yang God Race before its leader rallied them to keep fighting for the promised knowledge of the gods.
• Blue Fatty rejected sacrificing their people for answers, and the Yang God Race's leader attacked him with an electrified iron ball.
• Blue Fatty destroyed the iron ball with a blue arrow, and the Ghost Peak Tribe and Yang God Race clashed in a battle among the clouds.

Huang Ji outmaneuvered Jia Wen, captured him, and declared that Ziwei would bring down the Anunnaki. Jia Wen's boss dismissed the threat but ordered him to take no further action while she handled the fallout.

• Huang Ji used Jia Wen's Life-Slaughtering Wheels to strengthen and redirect the Six-Prism Red Light Shield, causing Jia Wen's Genesis Death Ray to miss.
• Jia Wen fled as Yi Mei arrived, but she destroyed his Negative Pressure Thruster and battered his mech until Huang Ji took control and disabled it.
• Huang Ji captured Jia Wen and warned that Ziwei would be the downfall of the Anunnaki, while Jia Wen offered compensation and reported his defeat to Kaleidoscope.
• Kaleidoscope told Jia Wen that Huang Ji lacked complete confidence and ordered him to do nothing further while she dealt with the crisis.