Chapter Summaries

After exhausting himself by borrowing Capricorn’s power, Wang Yu was rescued and recovered in the Time Tower, then chose to enter prolonged seclusion to strengthen himself against the Dia Clan and Crimson Snake Race. While Wang Yu trained, the Human Emperor prepared humanity for retaliation and prioritized Rune Art research as the Underground City grew quieter.

• Wang Yu collapsed in the wilderness after the backlash drained his energy, and the Human Emperor, Purple Bamboo, and the Divine Shaman arrived to rescue him and return him to the Underground City.
• Wang Yu slept for more than two months in the Time Tower, then recovered by eating stored Star Envoy-grade beast meat and learned that the Crimson Snake Clan was assembling a punitive force while the Dia Clan’s plans remained unknown.
• Wang Yu vowed to remain in seclusion until he could resolve humanity’s troubles, and the Human Emperor agreed to handle matters outside.
• The Human Emperor and the Divine Shaman confirmed that the Universe Six Directions Array could conceal the Underground City from Great Star Envoys and committed to expanding Rune Art research despite limited supplies.
• Over the following months, the Underground City operated quietly as construction slowed and the Rune Research Department pursued experiments and debates around the clock.

The Human Emperor kept the humans hidden underground while the Scarlet Snake Clan and Dia Clan searched the Avicin Realm, then oversaw nearly eight years of underground development as the search faded. The chapter ends with Divine Shaman demonstrating seventh-level Bright Light equipment powerful enough for a True Person to threaten a Star Envoy.

• Divine Shaman spotted Scarlet Snake Clan searchers, and the Human Emperor kept the Underground City sealed while Young Master Jin supplied intelligence from White Bone City.
• The Scarlet Snake Clan and Dia Clan searched the Avicin Realm for years, then secretly continued their hunt after their public efforts found nothing.
• During nearly eight years underground, the humans completed the fourth level, began building the fifth, developed energy-rich crops, advanced seventh-level Rune Art, and created storage rings.
• The Human Emperor joined Divine Shaman and other leaders beneath the Heavenly Being Tower to inspect the completed Bright Light Armor and Bright Light Spear.
• A barbarian True Person used the Bright Light Spear to pierce Divine Shaman's Cosmic Power, demonstrating that the equipment could let True Persons threaten Star Envoys.

Wang Yu completed the Myriad Things Life and Death Method in the Time Tower, gained a seventh strand of Cosmic Power, and endured Heavenly Punishment while expanding his Bloodline Power. After reuniting with the Human Emperor and the others, he learned that the alien tribes’ search parties might still be nearby and prepared to investigate.

• The Divine Shaman demonstrated the Bright Light Spear and Bright Light Armor, while the Human Emperor and others praised their potential despite their high production costs.
• Wang Yu maxed out the Myriad Things Life and Death Method after decades of cultivation in the Time Tower and gained his seventh strand of Cosmic Power.
• Wang Yu used the energy passage to expand his Bloodline Power, survived Heavenly Punishment with the Rainbow Lotus Spirit Shield, and recovered from his injuries.
• Dongfang Ji urged Wang Yu to prioritize ancient mystic arts and seek methods for cultivating his final three strands of Cosmic Power.
• Wang Yu returned to the Underground City and learned that the alien tribes’ search parties might still be operating in secret.
• Wang Yu said he would investigate the surface and estimated he had a seventy percent chance of handling the situation, depending on the circumstances.

After eight years of secluded cultivation, Wang Yu returned to White Bone City and faced a force of Crimson Snake Race and Dia Clan experts who had come to capture him. He revealed seven strands of Cosmic Power and killed a five-strand Great Star Envoy with one strike, leaving the enemy leaders shocked.

• Young Master Jin worried that his rivals in the Delecott Family succession battle were overtaking him and that Polite was undermining his authority in White Bone City.
• Wang Yu emerged from secluded cultivation and returned to White Bone City, where the Sha Bone Tribe guards recognized him and alerted Polite.
• Polite confronted Wang Yu, but more than thirty Crimson Snake Race and Dia Clan fighters broke through the city walls to seize him.
• Jefftas and Amerik ordered Wang Yu captured while Polite refused to intervene, and the group moved to take the fight outside the city.
• Wang Yu used Moon Emperor Slash to split a five-strand Crimson Snake Race Great Star Envoy in two, revealing his own seven strands of Cosmic Power.

Wang Yu overwhelmed and killed the Great Star Envoys Amerik and Jefftas, drawing two dukes of the Crimson Snake Race and Dia Clan to White Bone City. As the dukes confronted him, Wang Yu prepared to fight them, while Polite watched in alarm.

• Polite realized Wang Yu had likely waited for the Crimson Snake Race and Dia Clan forces, and Jefftas and Amerik joined forces against him.
• Amerik attacked Wang Yu with a Cosmic Power Python Dragon, but Wang Yu countered with Red Flame and a blade strike that gravely wounded him.
• Wang Yu used Capricorn's Divine Beast Power to restrain Amerik, impaled him with his trident, then killed Jefftas as he tried to flee.
• Wang Yu burned Amerik's body away and confronted the newly arrived reinforcements, including Duke Woolldwin, while Zhu Liyes explained that he had not lied about Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu sensed that the two arriving dukes each wielded nine strands of Cosmic Power, and Polite recognized their immense status as the forces gathered in White Bone City.

After emerging from decades of secluded cultivation, Wang Yu fought Duke Streis and Duke Woolldwin, the masterminds behind the persecution of humanity. He overcame their joint assault with his mystic technique and Capricorn Divine Beast Power, killed both dukes, and stored their bodies as the consequences of their deaths remained uncertain.

• Streis attacked Wang Yu in White Bone City, and their clash reduced the city to rubble.
• Woolldwin joined Streis in attacking Wang Yu, but Wang Yu endured their blows and used his mystic technique to drain their vitality.
• Wang Yu refused the Flag Spirit's offer to intervene and continued fighting to test his strength.
• As their vitality waned, Streis and Woolldwin tried to retreat, but Wang Yu immobilized them with the Capricorn Divine Beast Power.
• Wang Yu drained both dukes' vitality until they died, then stored their bodies in his ring.

After the Scarlet Snake Clan and the Dia Clan made no move for months, Wang Yu decided to investigate the Sky Lake Star System and meet the Bone King, who had summoned him through Young Master Jin. Wang Yu arrived at the Bone King’s fortress in the Avicin Realm and faced the ruler on his throne.

• The Human Emperor reported that both clans had held meetings attended by their Dukes, and Wang Yu decided to investigate the Sky Lake Star System.
• Young Master Jin relayed that the Bone King wanted to meet Wang Yu, and Wang Yu agreed despite the danger.
• Wang Yu met Young Master Jin in the newly rebuilt White Bone City, where Young Master Jin had become its City Lord.
• Young Master Jin escorted Wang Yu through the Sha Bone Tribe’s subworld to the Bone King’s fortress.
• Wang Yu entered the hall and saw the Bone King seated on a white bone throne.

Wang Yu learned that the Angel God Clan had arranged a truce between humanity and the Crimson Snake Race and Dia Clan because a renewed war with the Fierce Demons was approaching. With humanity’s security temporarily assured, its leaders planned a return to surface development while retaining the Underground City, and Wang Yu prepared to refine his Path of Evolution using the fallen dukes’ bodies.

• Wang Yu met the Bone King, who confirmed the Angel God Clan had ordered the mediation and forbade both sides from provoking one another.
• The Bone King warned Wang Yu that the Angel God Clan was preparing for another invasion by the Fierce Demons, and Young Master Jin explained their history and the star domain’s preparations.
• Wang Yu reported the truce and the Fierce Demons to humanity’s leaders, who agreed to pursue surface and underground development and cooperate with the Sha Bone Tribe.
• The Human Emperor put the cooperation agreements into effect, allowing humanity to obtain resources and resume rapid development.
• Wang Yu entered the Time Tower and prepared to use the two slain dukes’ corpses in his cultivation experiments, while the Flag Spirit reflected on how he had created his new method.

Wang Yu tested his Path of Evolution 2.0 by absorbing the bloodline and other energies of two alien Dukes, gaining major enhancements and stronger Dragon Scales. After leaving the human Underground City to seek the remaining streams of Cosmic Power, he arrived in the Mansozier Realm and hunted a local delicacy.

• Wang Yu restored some vitality to two Duke corpses and used his revised Path of Evolution to absorb their bloodline and other energies.
• Wang Yu spent a month refining the energies, strengthening his enhancements and deciding to reuse bloodlines he had already fused rather than always seeking new ones.
• Wang Yu tested his improved Dragon Scales and considered seeking powerful scaled or armored creatures to strengthen them further.
• The Human Emperor and the other leaders sent newly advanced Heavenly Humans on missions with Level 7 rune equipment while they cultivated and saved resources for the return journey.
• Wang Yu traveled to the Mansozier Realm to seek ways to cultivate his remaining three streams of Cosmic Power and killed a Gugu Crab for food.

Wang Yu followed clues to the Dongfang Family ruins and discovered that the Rock Vine Frog Tribe’s sacred relics were ancient human weapons linked to the Trial Cave. He found a hidden spatial disturbance near the tribe’s settlement and advanced toward it, overcoming the guardians as the chapter ended.

• Wang Yu searched along the Black River for the Dongfang Family inheritance, guided by Dongfang Ji’s memories and his own ability to detect spatial disturbances.
• Wang Yu rescued Ai Ye and another Rock Vine Frog Person from Rotten Ones after seeing Ai Ye use ancient rune cannons mounted on his arms.
• Dongfang Ji recognized the cannons as weapons from Mecha Soldiers associated with the Trial Cave, giving Wang Yu a lead to the ruins.
• Wang Yu learned that the Rock Vine Frog Tribe had gained its sacred relics after finding ancient rune objects, then located the tribe’s settlement near the Black River.
• Wang Yu discovered faint spatial fluctuations in a rocky crack and approached, but the Rock Vine Frog guardians attacked to defend their sacred ground.
• Wang Yu immobilized the guardians with Divine Beast Power and blocked the cannon beams with Dragon Scales as he continued toward the crack.

Wang Yu entered the ancient Dongfang Family ruin and began its trials, discovering Rune Puppets whose technology might help humanity strengthen its forces. With Dongfang Ji guiding him, Wang Yu easily cleared the first trial and reached a second one featuring powerful Mecha Generals.

• Wang Yu followed spatial tremors through a rock crevice, tested an ancient energy cannon, and blasted open the entrance to the ruin.
• Wang Yu entered the ruin with Dongfang Ji’s confirmation and learned that the passage led to a family trial ground containing a Mystic Art.
• Wang Yu defeated the Mecha Soldiers in the first trial by destroying their chest cores and collected the puppets and fragments for research.
• Dongfang Ji guided Wang Yu past the second corridor’s traps and hazards as he approached another trial area.
• Wang Yu entered the second trial, where ten Mecha Generals activated and charged at him.

Wang Yu cleared the trial ruin, obtained the Flowing Feather Profound Art, and learned its divine ability was tied to the Great Wind God Bird. Outside the ruin, he encountered Dongfang Xinghai, a long-lost genius of the Dongfang Family transformed into a Soul Lost One, and their battle began with Wang Yu unleashing Divine Beast Power.

• Wang Yu defeated ten Great Star Envoy-level Mecha Generals and collected the Rune Puppets.
• Wang Yu touched the reward sphere and received the Flowing Feather Profound Art, seeing the Great Wind God Bird merge with him.
• Wang Yu left the emptied trial ruin, then found the corpses of Rock Vine Frog Tribe members outside the cave.
• Dongfang Ji identified the arriving armored man as Dongfang Xinghai, a former Dongfang Family genius who had become a Soul Lost One under the Shrieking Dragons' control.
• Dongfang Xinghai attacked Wang Yu, whose Moon Emperor Slash and Red Flame failed to stop the Soul Lost One's overwhelming physical power.
• Wang Yu activated Divine Beast Power and summoned the Capricorn Divine Beast phantom to fight Dongfang Xinghai.

Wang Yu used the Shangyang Army Battle Flag to strengthen himself and beheaded the Soul Lost One Dongfang Xinghai, then left the trial ground and returned to White Bone City. After learning that another Soul Lost One and an Angel had arrived at the site, he warned the Human Emperor and the others about the Screaming Dragon threat and urged them to reinforce the Underground City's spatial defenses.

• Dongfang Xinghai broke free of Wang Yu's divine might and pierced his chest, but Wang Yu drove away the Screaming Dragon Energy and summoned the Shangyang Army Battle Flag.
• Wang Yu combined the battle flag's Upper Sun Flamefire with his own Dragon Flame and powers, then cut through Dongfang Xinghai's armor and energy to behead him.
• Wang Yu erased the remaining Screaming Dragon Energy, disposed of Dongfang Xinghai's body, and left to recover; a second Soul Lost One and an Angel later appeared at the trial ground.
• Wang Yu returned to the Avicin Realm, waited in White Bone City, and entered the Time Tower to meet with the Human Emperor and the others.
• Wang Yu told them about the Soul Lost Ones and the Screaming Dragon Cataclysm, and urged them to strengthen the Underground City's spatial formations.

The Human Race’s leaders learned that their Rune Masters could repair Mecha Soldiers, while Wang Yu began cultivating the Flowing Feather Profound Art to improve his speed. An angel searched White Bone City for Wang Yu but failed to find him, and a year later the Divine Shaman demonstrated a successfully repaired Mecha Soldier.

• The Divine Shaman concluded that the Human Race could eventually build Mecha Soldiers using Level 7 Runes and might repair ten Mecha Generals, though making new Mecha Generals remained beyond their current abilities.
• Wang Yu began cultivating the Flowing Feather Profound Art, hoping to gain more Cosmic Power and strengthen his speed.
• A Four-winged Angel arrived in White Bone City searching for someone, traced the energy to Wang Yu’s empty hut, and left after finding no one there.
• A year later, the Divine Shaman showed the Human Emperor and the Pope a Mecha Soldier he had repaired and controlled successfully.

The Human Emperor and Divine Shaman tested the human race’s Rune Puppets against Rotten Ones, proving that the Mecha Generals could destroy a flock of powerful enemies. Meanwhile, Wang Yu advanced his mystic art to the eighth speed realm and gained another strand of Cosmic Power, while the human race prepared to develop on the surface.

• The Human Emperor, Divine Shaman, the Pope, Che Qin, and the others tested twenty Mecha Soldiers on the outskirts of the abandoned land and used White Spirit Stones to recharge them.
• A Star Envoy-level Rotten Beast and a flock of Black Absolute Void Emperor rotten corpses appeared, so Divine Shaman deployed ten Mecha Generals to destroy them.
• The Human Emperor decided the human race was ready to develop on the surface and planned to notify White Bone City before building a city nearby.
• Wang Yu reached the eighth speed realm with his mystic art, opened a cosmic passage, and gained another strand of Cosmic Power despite the intensified Heavenly Punishment.
• The Human Emperor, Purple Bamboo, and the others congratulated Wang Yu, whose growing strength further supported the human race’s plans to establish itself on the surface.

The Human Race prepared to build its first surface city, while Wang Yu returned to White Bone City and encountered Chu Mantian, an ancient Human Race Soul Lost One. As Wang Yu and an Angel God Clan member captured Chu Mantian, the angel identified him as a Fierce Demon, leading Wang Yu to suspect the Shrieking Dragon was still alive.

• The Human Emperor told Wang Yu that the Human Race was ready to build a surface city, and Wang Yu agreed to hold the line while preparations advanced.
• The Human Emperor broke through and became the second Human Race member after Wang Yu to grasp two strands of Cosmic Power.
• Wang Yu returned to White Bone City and encountered Chu Mantian, a Soul Lost One who spoke ancient Human Race language and remembered Wang Yu killing Dongfang Xinghai.
• Wang Yu used the Flowing Feather Profound Art and eight strands of Cosmic Power to gain the advantage over Chu Mantian, but an Angel God Clan member arrived and helped restrain him.
• The angel stopped Wang Yu from killing Chu Mantian and identified him as a Fierce Demon, prompting Wang Yu to wonder whether the Shrieking Dragon was still alive.

Wang Yu handed the remaining Soul Lost One to a Four-winged Angel to prevent the Fierce Demon calamity from arriving early, then oversaw the Human Race’s plans as their new surface castle was completed. The castle welcomed Ghost Lantern Tribe merchants seeking rune-product trade rights, who were stunned by its defenses and Mecha Soldiers.

• Wang Yu learned that killing another ancient Fierce Demon would bring the calamity forward, so he let the Four-winged Angel take the remaining Soul Lost One away.
• Wang Yu returned to the surface, where the Human Emperor and hundreds of thousands of Human Race experts were building a fortified castle above the Underground City.
• After half a year, the Human Race completed the castle with Black Star Rock walls, Rune Arrays, defensive towers, and a protected airspace.
• A rotten bird approached the castle and was crushed by its gravitational defenses before it could reach the city.
• Several Ghost Lantern Tribe merchants arrived through the Teleportation Pavilion to seek distribution rights for the Human Race’s rune products.
• The Ghost Lantern Tribe visitors saw the Mecha Soldiers guarding the pavilion and suspected that the rune creations rivaled High-level Star Envoys.

The Ghost Lantern People explored humanity’s castle and discovered its rune defenses, bustling markets, and widely available pills. As the city attracted more visitors, the Human Emperor prepared to expand humanity’s workforce, while Young Master Jin arrived to negotiate and strengthen his standing within the Delecott Family.

• Two Mecha Soldiers frightened the Ghost Lantern People, who entered the city cautiously and learned about its districts and rune defenses.
• The Ghost Lantern People visited a shop and found pills and other goods readily available, prompting them to consider the castle a future trading stop.
• Wang Yu, the Human Emperor, Che Qin, the Divine Shaman, and the Pope assessed the city’s growth, discussed security and staffing, and planned to bring more people from home once they had enough spirit stones.
• In the second month after the outer city opened, Young Master Jin led a Delecott Family delegation through the teleportation gate for the scheduled cooperation meeting.
• Young Master Jin reassured the family elders that their existing agreements with humanity secured their position, while privately planning to use the visit to win their support in the family succession struggle.

The Human Emperor hosted the major alien powers at a banquet before opening a bidding session for human-made products. The Staier and Salohu powers secured the largest shares of Tiger Ridge Pills, and the auction continued as the human leaders aimed to trade output for Spirit Stones and expand the human race’s workforce.

• The Human Emperor welcomed the alien leaders to a banquet, where the guests sampled human food and wine and networked ahead of negotiations.
• Wang Yu observed the competing Sha Bone Tribe teams and other alien powers while staying out of the social gatherings as a deterrent against trouble.
• The next day, the Human Emperor introduced thirty-eight products for bidding and explained that the Delecott Family had already bought thirty percent of the Tiger Ridge Pill output.
• Mannheim, the Pengram Clan, the Alim Clan, the Staier Clan, and other powers competed for the remaining Tiger Ridge Pill shares.
• The Staier power won thirty percent of the remaining Tiger Ridge Pill output, Salohu won twenty percent, and other alien forces divided the final twenty percent.
• The Human Emperor moved on to the Scalding Blood Pill as the Pope and the other human leaders watched the wealthy alien powers raise their bids.

Humanity earned 126,000 Yellow Spirit Stones from the auction and planned to use the wealth to prepare a return to the Underground City with ten billion people. Before they could finish preparing, a massive rotten tide attacked the Human Castle as aliens took advantage of the chaos to raid its outer district.

• The Delecott Family secured a larger share of the Spirit Stone Flying Sword, while the Rivadeli Family and the Saint Nicholas Faction claimed other shares.
• Humanity tallied 126,000 Yellow Spirit Stones and discussed preparing the Underground City’s sixth and seventh levels, stockpiling food, and returning home.
• Wang Yu sensed trouble as a huge flock of rotten birds approached the Human Castle and attacked its defenses.
• Wang Yu went outside the city to hold off the rotten tide while the Human Emperor and other leaders organized Rune Puppets and human experts to suppress unrest inside.
• Several snake-headed aliens broke into a medicinal pill shop and charged at its three human cultivators, intent on killing them and stealing the pills.