Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang sent the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Group Armies to retrain in the Demon Cave and set an assessment for prospective Imperial Guard officers. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Martial Dynasty launched simultaneous assaults against the Void Faction on two fronts, where the fighting became a massive stalemate.

• Wei Liao and Jia Xu explained the Demon Cave’s challenges and resources to Xiao Tianyang, who ordered the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Group Armies to complete two months of retraining there.
• Xiao Tianyang outlined an assessment in which selected candidates would lead elite soldiers in sabotage missions on Polaris Continent and Crimson Continent, with Sun Wu judging their performance.
• Yue Fei and Bai Qi ordered attacks on the eastern and western fronts after the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s Group Armies took position.
• Enzo and Kankuli met the sudden assault with prepared countermeasures as more than one hundred million elite troops clashed.
• The battle settled into a fierce stalemate, with the Heavenly Martial Dynasty maintaining its advance while the Void Faction counterattacked with its ace legions.

Xiao Tianyang’s Imperial Guard candidates proved themselves by helping break the battlefield standoff, and Sun Wu selected four commanders for the Nine Dragon Imperial Guards. The new forces prepared to train in dangerous secret realms while Yuwen Chengdu took command of the Tianwu Imperial Guards to protect the palace and capital.

• Chen Qingzhi led Yang Dayan, Tan Daoji, Wei Xiaokuan, Xiang Yu, Long Ju, Zhongli Mei, and Ji Bu in a plan that drew the Immortal Legion out of its fortress, allowing Bai Qi to drive it back.
• Guo Ziyi and seven generals captured an armory and used ambushes to make Yue Fei trust his strategy on the western front.
• With the standoff broken, the Heavenly Martial Dynasty resumed its advance while the Void Faction strengthened its rear defenses.
• Sun Wu selected Chen Qingzhi, Guo Ziyi, Xiang Yu, and Gao Changgong as the remaining commanders of the Nine Dragon Imperial Guards.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the new commanders to train their troops in selected secret realms within half a month and appointed Yuwen Chengdu to command the Tianwu Imperial Guards.

Xiao Tianyang reviewed the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s military organization and the Imperial Guards’ readiness while Yue Fei and Bai Qi held the front against the Void Faction in a ceasefire. The Dynasty remained wary of advancing further, and Xiao Tianyang suspected the Void’s continued inaction pointed to a problem within its own ranks.

• Xiao Tianyang assessed the Dynasty’s troop numbers, soldier tiers, and the balance among the Military Affairs Pavilion, the Grand Commandant’s Mansion, and the Ministry of War.
• Xiao Tianyang’s advisers set a three-month assessment period for the newer Imperial Guards, warning that commanders could be replaced if their troops failed to meet standards.
• Yue Fei and Bai Qi halted the advance at the Void Faction’s security line after thirteen days of rapid gains, citing supply concerns and the unusually easy progress.
• The Ministry of War, the Grand Commandant’s Mansion, and the Heavenly Strategy Bureau supported the ceasefire and urged caution before any broader war with the Void.
• Xiao Tianyang noticed that the Void Faction had remained motionless despite more than a month of fighting and suspected its inaction stemmed from an internal problem.

Xiao Tianyang and his advisers evaluated intelligence that the Void was occupied elsewhere and established the conditions for launching the God Hunting Plan. The Heavenly Martial Dynasty began preparing for an expedition while reinforcing its defenses, leaving the plan contingent on the Void’s actions.

• Xiao Tianyang shared the Heavenly Tribulation Sect’s intelligence with Sun Wu, Zhang Liang, and Jia Xu and explained that he would avoid acting hastily.
• Xiao Tianyang proposed launching the God Hunting Plan in three months if the Void showed no signs of counterattacking, with Yue Fei leading an allied force of about ten Group Armies.
• Xiao Tianyang and his advisers set conditions for the plan, including maintaining defensive forces and attempting to seize the Extreme Heart Continent and the Crimson Continent if the Void was tied down.
• Sun Wu and the other advisers supported preparing the plan while keeping the current battle lines steady and strengthening the Defense Legions.
• The Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s military leaders began drafting plans for the expedition, possible Void assaults, and attacks on the Polaris Continent and the Crimson Continent.

Xiao Tianyang helped the Autobots retrieve the Ark and Core Flame, but the Decepticons emerged and attacked. After the battle, he learned that the Core Flame could awaken machine life and might become a derivative plane when joined with a Plane Core.

• Xiao Tianyang asked Optimus Prime how he wanted him to handle any surviving Decepticons, and Optimus Prime requested that they be exiled rather than killed.
• Brash calibrated the teleportation device, and Xiao Tianyang opened a gate for the Ark using the blue crystal and his Sky-Piercing Hand.
• Megatron, Shatter, Soul Reaver, and other Decepticons burst out of the Ark and attacked Optimus Prime.
• Xiao Tianyang’s allies subdued the Decepticons, and White Robe and Ram Horn recovered the two halves of the Core Flame from Megatron and Shatter.
• Xiao Tianyang fused the Core Flame and learned that it could awaken machine life or become a derivative plane when integrated with a Plane Core.

Xiao Tianyang offered the Autobots a choice of homeland or vassalage, and Optimus Prime accepted vassal status for them. At the Life Ancient Tree, Xiao Tianyang discovered that Shui Bing'er had grown a piece of bark into a Soul Tree, which required careful feeding to survive.

• Xiao Tianyang banished the Decepticons and the others from Douluo Continent, then brought Optimus Prime and Soundwave to the imperial palace to discuss the Core Flame.
• Xiao Tianyang presented the Autobots with two options: settle on the southern islands or take the Core Flame and become a vassal state of the Heavenly Martial Dynasty.
• Optimus Prime immediately chose vassalage, and Xiao Tianyang assigned Fang Xuanling to negotiate the agreement while he handled the Derivative Plane.
• Xiao Tianyang found Shui Bing'er by the Life Ancient Tree and discovered that she had cultivated a piece of bark into a juvenile Soul Tree.
• Xiao Tianyang explained the Soul Tree's properties to Shui Bing'er and learned that her careful care had kept the resource-hungry tree alive.

Xiao Tianyang and Shui Bing'er discussed the Round Table Knights’ discovery of a Level 5 deep-sea resource land, then examined minerals recovered from its outer perimeter. Xiao Tianyang learned that Radiant Stone had powerful effects but was scarce and difficult to mine.

• Xiao Tianyang and Shui Bing'er decided to transplant the Soul Tree into the medicinal garden beside the Life Ancient Tree, where the Ancient Tree Elves could care for it.
• Shui Bing'er told Xiao Tianyang that Saber and the Round Table Knights had left to explore a secret realm in the deep sea, which she estimated was a Level 5 Resource Land.
• Shui Bing'er explained that scans suggested the secret realm was an Ancient Ones ruin and that Master Mozi had highly evaluated the metals recovered from its outer perimeter.
• Xiao Tianyang examined a Radiant Stone, learned it could enhance Holy Light damage or create a Healing Domain, and asked about its supply.
• Shui Bing'er reported that the outer perimeter had only two Radiant Stone veins with limited reserves, and that their connection to the earth veins would make mining twice as difficult as usual.

Xiao Tianyang retrieved a sealed [Plane Core] and learned that fusing it with the Autobots’ Core Flame had an 81% success rate. He asked the [Chaos Ring] how to improve the odds, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Tianyang and Shui Bing'er discussed the ores and the Dark Spirits in the ruins before reaching the [Life Ancient Tree].
• Shui Bing'er took the [Soul Tree] to the core herb garden while Xiao Tianyang went to the [Crystal Altar].
• Xiao Tianyang had an Ancient Tree Elf retrieve Sealed Object Number 37, an earthen jar hidden in a compartment.
• Xiao Tianyang removed the jar’s talisman and stabilized the space as a damaged [Plane Core] emerged.
• Xiao Tianyang asked the [Chaos Ring] about the fusion probability, learned it was over 81%, and sought a way to improve it to protect the Autobots’ future.

Xiao Tianyang secured the Mechanical Core and arranged for the Autobots to rebuild Cybertron Planet, hoping their growth would support his future plans. He also directed the integration of Underground City professionals into the Heavenly Martial Dynasty, setting their guild location and defining where they could explore and fight.

• Xiao Tianyang caught the Mechanical Core, having spent seven sealed artifacts and sixteen top-tier materials to create it, and resolved to let the Autobots develop freely on Cybertron Planet.
• Xiao Tianyang gave Fang Xuanling the iron box and ordered him to oversee the Autobots’ rebuilding, with supplies available in consultation with Old Fan.
• Li Si reported that the Heavenly Martial Dynasty had signed thirty agreements with the Underground City faction and asked Xiao Tianyang to settle two remaining issues.
• Xiao Tianyang chose New Virtue City for the Adventurer's Guild and directed professionals to explore Douluo Continent’s secret realms or fight on the Abyss Battlefield.
• Xiao Tianyang reaffirmed that the professionals had to abide by their agreements and rely on Heavenly Martial Dynasty cities for supplies and rest.

After the Void Faction was tied down by the Abyss, Xiao Tianyang moved ahead with the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s planned operation. At Life and Death Fortress, he activated a new large-scale teleportation device, but a flashing red light left its status uncertain.

• Xiao Tianyang learned that the Void Faction had suffered heavy losses fighting the Abyss and could not attack during the three-month deadline.
• Xiao Tianyang and Sun Wu used the reprieve to prepare the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s troops and equipment for their operation.
• Xiao He and Yue Fei welcomed Xiao Tianyang to Life and Death Fortress, where a million-man Defense Legion guarded a newly built teleportation device.
• Gongshu Ban explained that the device used technology from Mozi and Optimus Prime’s team and was designed to prevent enemies from intercepting travelers.
• Xiao Tianyang placed [Endless Energy] and [Golden Key] into the control system, activating the device as Space Ripples appeared and a red light flashed above the archway.

Xiao Tianyang learned that the Kingdom of Gods’ defenses had made the Space Passage unstable, but the invasion plan could still proceed by slowly breaking through. After weighing the threat from the Void and the Abyss, he ordered Gongshu Ban to delay the passage’s opening by forty-eight hours and make it seem accidental.

• Gongshu Ban explained that the Kingdom of Gods’ sealed defenses were destabilizing the Space Passage, though the transmission device remained operational.
• Xiao He suggested that the unstable opening might make the enemy underestimate the Heavenly Martial Dynasty and recalled how Zeus’s actions had weakened the Kingdom of Gods.
• Zhang Liang assured Xiao Tianyang that the dynasty retained enough forces to withstand the Void and that the Void could not easily pull troops away from the Abyss Battlefield.
• Xiao Tianyang told Gongshu Ban to delay entry into the Kingdom of Gods by forty-eight hours and create the impression that someone had opened the passage by accident.
• Gongshu Ban accepted the task confidently and prepared to use his deceptive mechanisms, including Phantom Armor, to mislead the enemy.

The gods in the Hall of Gods awakened and planned to invade the plane connected to their realm, while the Goddess of Destiny concealed what she had foreseen. She later told Goddess of Time and the Goddess of Luck that a man in a dragon robe and his army would destroy the God Realm.

• Zeus and the other gods awakened in the Hall of Gods after sensing intruders approaching through a Space Passage.
• The Goddess of Destiny lied to Zeus, claiming that the enemy had concealed their destiny and was not strong enough to threaten them.
• Zeus ordered Ares, Athena, Poseidon, and Apollo to lead their legions against the enemy and establish a base in the intruders' plane.
• The Goddess of Destiny confided in Goddess of Time and the Goddess of Luck that she had foreseen the Hall of Gods reduced to ruins.
• The Goddess of Destiny said a dominant man in a dragon robe and his army seemed to be responsible for destroying the God Realm.

Ares led his Sixth Legion toward the upper district, where Gao Chong’s vanguard had arrived through a Teleportation Gate. Yang Yanping ambushed Ares on Gao Chong’s orders to engage without winning, and wounded him before Ares flew into a rage.

• Ares arrived with his Sixth Legion as the First Group Army’s vanguard emerged from the Teleportation Gate and began scouting and establishing defenses.
• Gao Chong identified Ares’s soldiers as divine troops made from fanatics and ordered Yang Yanping to fight Ares without winning or losing too badly.
• Hua Jieyu reported a narrow path suitable for an ambush, and Yang Yanping followed her to the location.
• Yang Yanping charged Ares and countered his attack, then struck him repeatedly and wounded him.
• Ares grew furious, his eyes turned scarlet, and Blood Qi rose from his body.

Gao Chong’s forces routed Ares and the Sixth Legion with ease, leaving the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s commanders baffled by the enemy’s weakness. Yue Fei and Jia Xu treated the result as a possible enemy scheme while they considered their next move.

• Ares entered a bloodthirsty state and attacked Yang Yanping, but Yang Yanping and Hua Jieyu drew him away from the battle according to their plan.
• Yang Yanping and Hua Jieyu signaled the Yang Family Iron Cavalry to break through the divine soldiers’ formation, and Ares chased after them with wild beasts following him.
• Gao Chong struck Ares with the Golden Tiger Head Spear and drove him back, while the Golden Spear Guards cut through the Sixth Legion.
• Gao Chong ordered a retreat after nearly ten minutes of fighting and reported the battle to Yue Fei, who initially misread the casualty figures.
• Jia Xu suggested treating the enemy’s apparent weakness as a scheme, easing the six Legion Commanders’ concerns.

The chapter explained why the Evil God Faction coveted the Kingdom of Gods: its accumulated faith, divine power, and abundant resources could help a faction grow toward a Ninth Tier Plane. After the Sixth Legion’s defeat, Zeus ordered a counterattack while the Goddess of Destiny remained terrified by what she had witnessed.

• The chapter described how the Kingdom of Gods had collapsed during the Twilight of the Gods and why its remaining power and resources attracted the Evil God Faction.
• It explained that sleeping gods had abundant divine power but weakened combat strength, and that the Kingdom of Gods could serve as a growth gift for whoever conquered it.
• Zeus declared that the Sixth Legion’s defeat had revealed the enemy’s capabilities and ordered Athena to command the Third Legion and Fourth Legion.
• Zeus ordered Poseidon and Apollo to attack the enemy formation with their temple legions, while Hercules and Achilles led the hero squad against the flanks.
• The Goddess of Destiny remained hidden beneath her blankets, frightened by the true state of the battle.

The Heavenly Martial Dynasty continued its advance through Godfall Wasteland while Athena kept her forces cautious and avoided the First Group Army’s traps. At Godfall Fortress, Jia Xu proposed a plan to draw the Hall of Gods into action, and Yue Fei prepared an ambush at White Bone Basin.

• The three goddesses debated whether to approach the enemy, but they stayed in their temples, afraid of the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s strength.
• Athena took command of the Hall of Gods’ troops and resisted Yang Jiye and Di Qing’s attempts to lure her into battle.
• The Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s armies swept through seventy percent of Godfall Wasteland, turning resisting gods into Divine Power Crystals.
• At Godfall Fortress, Yue Fei and Jia Xu assessed Athena’s cautious strategy and the enemy’s enormous numbers.
• Jia Xu told Yue Fei to prepare two legions and a sea of fire for an operation at White Bone Basin at three o’clock the next morning.

Yue Fei and Yang Jiye laid an ambush for Ares in White Bone Basin while Athena mobilized her legions to rescue him and prepare for a wider battle. Jia Xu withdrew after setting his plan in motion, then arrived at Godfall Fortress, where Xiao Tianyang had just won a chess game against Sun Wu.

• Yue Fei ordered Yue Yun and Cao Ning to take positions as Ares led his troops into White Bone Basin.
• Yang Jiye sent Yang Yansi to strike the enemy's rear and appointed Yang Yande as the vanguard.
• Athena learned Ares was in White Bone Basin amid enemy forces and ordered several legions to move against the threat.
• Poseidon proposed using the Ocean Legion and Sky Sea Beasts, and Athena and her allies agreed on a battle plan.
• Jia Xu left the city wall with four Black Shadows after sensing Divine Sense scanning the area.
• Xiao Tianyang celebrated his chess victory over Sun Wu as Xin'er announced Jia Xu's arrival.

Jia Xu and Sun Wu revealed the Kingdom of Gods’ plans to probe the Heavenly Martial Dynasty and rescue Ares, so Xiao Tianyang set a trap and deployed his armies. The fighting began with Gao Chong and Meng Geng engaging Odysseus and Theseus, while Cao Cao’s Twelfth Group Army intercepted Hercules; the battle’s outcome remained undecided.

• Jia Xu reported that Athena, Apollo, and Poseidon were preparing to attack and rescue Ares, and Sun Wu judged that the enemy would use the war to probe the Heavenly Martial Dynasty.
• Sun Wu predicted that an elite force would strike the Eastern Defense Line, so Xiao Tianyang sent the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Group Armies forward and tasked the Fifteenth and Sixteenth with widening a trap.
• Gao Chong’s legion charged Odysseus’s forces, while Meng Geng arrived nearby to reinforce the fight against Odysseus and Theseus.
• Athena ordered Hercules and the Hero Squad and Eighth Legion into battle, but Hercules ran into Cao Cao’s Twelfth Group Army.
• Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Yuan suppressed Hercules as the Wei forces cut through the Eighth Legion.

Cao Cao’s forces turned the tide against Hercules’s Eighth Legion while a God of Assassins attempted to kill Cao Cao. After the ambush, Xiao Tianyang ordered the Hall of Enshrinement to counter enemy assassins and shifted his attention to the Thirteenth Group Army.

• Chen Gong identified Hercules and urged Cao Cao to focus his forces on crippling the Eighth Legion.
• Cao Cao sent Cao Zhang and Wang Shuang to attack the enemy center and split its formation.
• Dian Wei killed a God of Assassins who had tried to stab Cao Cao, and Chen Gong identified the attacker from his waist token.
• Cao Cao claimed the assassin’s Divine Power Crystal, while Cao Zhang and Wang Shuang’s charges shifted the battle in their favor.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the Hall of Enshrinement to target gods according to their ranks and turned his attention to the Thirteenth Group Army.

The Thirteenth Group Army defeated Apollo’s Sun Legion after Guan Yu crippled Apollo and Zhuge Liang trapped him in a formation. After the battle, Xiao Tianyang and his advisers suspected the gods had a way to resurrect and sent Zhuan Zhu to investigate the Hall of Gods.

• Zhang Fei used his Yanren Roar as the Sun Legion charged the Thirteenth Group Army.
• Zhao Yun attacked the Sun Legion’s deputy commander while Guan Yu fought Apollo and cut off his right arm.
• Apollo ordered a retreat, but Zhuge Liang raised the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation to stop him escaping.
• Zhuge Liang sent Jiang Wei with three thousand men to intercept enemy reinforcements on West River Ancient Road.
• Six hours later, Xiao Tianyang and his advisers discussed the gods’ lack of fear of death and suspected they could resurrect.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Zhuan Zhu to gather information at the Hall of Gods and investigate the location of its treasury.