Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang and Helian Feng manipulated Wind Cloud City's factions into attacking Night Walker, hoping to weaken the forces that could hinder their assault on the City Lord's Manor. When Night Walker turned the battle against Two-Headed Eagle and Purple Lightning, Gu Yang and Helian Feng slipped away toward the City Lord's Manor.

• Gu Yang gathered intelligence about Two-Headed Eagle, Purple Lightning, and their factions, while Helian Feng reported that Night Walker's influence in the South District was growing.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng decided to provoke Two-Headed Eagle and Purple Lightning into fighting Night Walker, then split up to gather intelligence and spread suspicion.
• Helian Feng sent Two-Headed Eagle a concealed jade slip implying that Night Walker was plotting and Purple Lightning might intervene, prompting both leaders to mobilize against Night Walker.
• Three days later, Two-Headed Eagle and Purple Lightning attacked Night Walker's stronghold, but Night Walker appeared and began turning the battle around.
• Night Walker evaded their combined assault and wounded Two-Headed Eagle's shoulder, while Gu Yang and Helian Feng left the battlefield and headed toward the City Lord's Manor.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng led an assault on the City Lord’s residence and fought the Wind Cloud City Lord in his bedchamber. The City Lord unleashed his Triceratops Dharma Image and prepared a devastating attack as Gu Yang and Helian Feng launched their strongest strikes against him.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng infiltrated the City Lord’s residence with their elites, using a fire and attacks on the guards to create chaos.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng entered the City Lord’s bedchamber and attacked him, but he awoke and fought back with his sword.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng coordinated their attacks and wounded the City Lord, driving the battle through the ruined bedchamber.
• The City Lord summoned a Triceratops Dharma Image while Helian Feng manifested a Griffin Dharma Image and Gu Yang used the Ten-Thousandfold Golden Blade Technique.
• The City Lord gathered a sphere of destructive energy above the Triceratops’s horns and launched it at Gu Yang and Helian Feng as they attacked together.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng battered Wind Cloud City's City Lord, destroying his triceratops Dharma Image, but his dark golden barrier withstood their attacks. Helian Feng sent his Primordial Spirit out of his body to tear a crack in the barrier, giving Gu Yang an opening for a decisive slash.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng destroyed the City Lord's triceratops Dharma Image and blasted him to the ground.
• The City Lord formed a black protective barrier, then repelled their attacks with a dark golden barrier as he stalled for reinforcements.
• Helian Feng noticed a fluctuation in the barrier, but the City Lord mocked their attempt to exploit it.
• Helian Feng sent his Primordial Spirit out of his body and transformed it into a sword that split the dark golden barrier.
• Gu Yang gathered his strength and swung his saber toward the opening in the barrier.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng killed Wind Cloud City's City Lord, then fought the Night Walker, who escaped using his stealth technique. With the city likely to descend into chaos, they gathered their injured teammates and hurried toward the outskirts.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng shattered the City Lord's barrier and killed him with a coordinated attack.
• The Night Walker appeared and attacked Gu Yang and Helian Feng to avenge the City Lord.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng wounded the Night Walker, but he vanished into the darkness before they could finish him.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng decided to leave before Wind Cloud City's other forces arrived.
• Helian Feng carried an injured teammate while Gu Yang led the group cautiously toward the outskirts.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng led their wounded companions out of Wind Cloud City through a secret tunnel, then fought off Night Walker and fled into the forest. When Night Walker caught up with a larger force, Gu Yang split the group and stayed behind with Helian Feng to hold off the pursuers, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng guided the exhausted team through Wind Cloud City, avoided a patrol, and escaped through Helian Feng's hidden tunnel beneath the city wall.
• Night Walker ambushed Gu Yang and Helian Feng outside the city, but vanished after their combined attacks challenged his dark force.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng led the team into the forest, rested briefly, and began arranging scouts and supplies.
• A scout warned that Night Walker's pursuers had found them, so Gu Yang ordered a northwest retreat and split the team after a member's misstep revealed their position.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng stayed behind with several companions to face dozens of Longevity Realm pursuers, whose combined formation began pressing them hard.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng fought off Night Walker and the pursuers, broke through the encirclement, and reunited with their team in the forest. As the group fled from Wind Cloud City, a pack of Ferocious Beasts tracked them, and Helian Feng killed a Black Wolf that attacked from the undergrowth.

• Night Walker ambushed Gu Yang, but Helian Feng intercepted the attack, and the two men fought back together until Night Walker was wounded and forced to retreat.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng charged through the weakened pursuers and broke out of the encirclement after Night Walker's dark barrier shattered and he fled.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng reunited with their team in a dense forest and ordered everyone to withdraw along a safe route.
• Gu Yang warned the team to hurry when wolf howls suggested Ferocious Beasts were tracking them.
• A Black Wolf leaped at the rear of the group, and Helian Feng cut it down with a single sword strike.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng led their exhausted team away from Wind Cloud City, fighting through Ferocious Beasts and Night Walker’s assassins as they raced deeper into the forest. They escaped the immediate pursuit and slipped past a territorial black bear, but knew the danger still lay ahead.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng led the team through the forest and killed several Ferocious Beasts sent to track them.
• Night Walker’s assassins attacked, and Gu Yang led the team in breaking through their encirclement.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng stayed behind to confront Night Walker, while the team fought the assassins and eventually broke through together.
• The team continued through the forest for another day, with Helian Feng driving off approaching Ferocious Beasts.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng evaded a giant black bear by distracting it and leading the team around its territory.

Gu Yang and Helian Feng led their exhausted team away from a city and across the Multi-horn Race border, where Night Walker’s warriors caught up with them. Canglong Island’s Elders arrived in time to drive off the pursuers, and the team took shelter in a hidden valley to recover and plan their next move.

• Gu Yang changed the team’s route toward the Multi-horn Race border because their pursuers might know their whereabouts, and the team passed a Multi-horn Beast without provoking it.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng led the team beyond the border, but Gu Yang heard Night Walker’s approaching forces and hid everyone in the brush.
• Night Walker’s warriors discovered the team, and Gu Yang, Helian Feng, and the others fought them until Canglong Island’s Elders arrived as reinforcements.
• Night Walker ordered his warriors to retreat, and an Elder stopped Gu Yang and Helian Feng from pursuing them farther into enemy territory.
• The Elders helped treat the wounded and guided the team to a hidden valley, where Gu Yang studied a map and discussed their plans with Helian Feng.

Gu Yang led his team through repeated clashes with the Multi-horn Race pursuers and finally escaped their territory. The group reached the Cistanche Race border and prepared to begin a new operation.

• Gu Yang and Helian Feng led the weary team away from their camp, but Multi-horn Race pursuers caught up and attacked them in the forest.
• Gu Yang ordered a retreat to a concealed position, then organized the team’s counterattack when the pursuers caught up again.
• Gu Yang, Helian Feng, the Elders, and the team routed the pursuers and continued along a hidden trail.
• Gu Yang led the team through the night across a mountain range and reached the plain bordering Cistanche Race territory.
• Gu Yang announced that the team had left the Multi-horn Race’s territory and would move on to a new destination and operation.

Gu Yang and his group entered Cistanche Race territory while fleeing the Multi-horn Race, and a patrol brought them before a Cistanche Race Elder. Gu Yang secured permission to cross under strict supervision, and the group continued toward a Cistanche Race city.

• Gu Yang spotted Cistanche Race patrol warriors and led his group onward cautiously through their territory.
• A patrol detected the group, and Gu Yang surrendered peacefully and explained that they were fleeing the Multi-horn Race.
• Gu Yang offered a jade pendant from Qin Wujiu as proof of sincerity, and the Elder allowed them to pass under the Cistanche Race's rules and supervision.
• Gu Yang reunited with his group, and they followed the patrol captain through forests and meadows, avoiding harm to plants and animals.
• The patrol captain guided them to a valley deep in Cistanche Race territory and told them a city lay a few miles ahead.

Gu Yang and his team visited the Cistanche Race’s city, experienced its traditions, and witnessed a miraculous response at Cistanche Spirit Lake. After exploring the village and receiving a protective charm, they left to continue their journey.

• Gu Yang followed the patrol captain into the Cistanche Race’s city, where the team rested at an inn and joined the residents’ evening gathering beneath the Cistanche God Tree.
• The patrol captain led Gu Yang and the team to Cistanche Spirit Lake, where they joined the elders’ blessing ritual and witnessed a rainbow-like beam rise from the water.
• Gu Yang and his teammates visited the handicraft workshop and herb garden, where Gu Yang made a flower basket and received a petal from a Spiritglow Flower.
• A Cistanche Race elder gave Gu Yang a carved protective charm as he and the team prepared to depart.
• Gu Yang led the team out of the city with the patrol captain and continued along the mountain road toward an unknown land.

Gu Yang and his team left the Cistanche Race’s territory and entered the dangerous Chaotic Land. After defeating Fangtooth Clan bandits and ambushing infiltrators, they camped for the night, determined to continue onward.

• Gu Yang and his team crossed the Cistanche Race’s borderlands, encountered children from a nearby village, and continued into the unmanaged region.
• Gu Yang’s team ambushed a band of Fangtooth Clan bandits, and Gu Yang killed their leader before the team defeated the rest.
• Gu Yang led the team to a concealed valley, where they set up camp as night fell.
• After a team member detected approaching infiltrators, Gu Yang and Helian Feng devised an ambush that killed them and yielded valuable supplies.
• Gu Yang’s team stored the spoils, cleaned the battlefield, and rested by the fire for the journey ahead.

Gu Yang led the Canglong Island team in a desert ambush against Fangtooth Clan bandits, striking them before they could respond. When the bandits retreated in an organized formation, Gu Yang halted the pursuit so his team could focus on returning to Human Race territory.

• Fangtooth Clan border bandits set out to hunt Gu Yang's team in the desert.
• Gu Yang positioned the Canglong Island team in an ambush and attacked the approaching bandits.
• The Fangtooth Clan bandits suffered heavy losses, then organized a counterattack that Gu Yang's team defended against.
• The bandits withdrew in formation, and Gu Yang ordered his team not to pursue.

Bai Yi’s fleet discovered that the starry river was filled with the Insectoid Race and was caught in a catastrophic battle as powerful Ninth-tier beings intervened. In high-dimensional space, the Forbidden Guardian refused to let other Ninth-tier Lifeforms enter, arguing that the Life Goddess’s intervention had already shattered the balance.

• Bai Yi ordered the fleets to destroy the interference system, revealing an Insectoid Race horde that filled the starry river.
• The Life Goddess’s Tree of Life appeared as a golden cultivator crashed through tens of thousands of warships, and Bai Yi ordered the fleet to retreat.
• Golden chains pierced Divine Sons and holy sons as the fleets continued fighting the Insectoid Race and reinforcements poured through the Dimensional Black Hole.
• General Tunisia reported that the cultivation-system experts had been wiped out, while a golden chain targeted the Aokes and left Bai Yi unable to protect them.
• The Master of the Forbidden Zone asked whether Ninth-tier Lifeforms should be allowed through, and the Forbidden Guardian refused, warning that their arrival would overwhelm the battlefield.

Star Princess confronted the Myriad Races Alliance’s ninth-tier experts and threatened to destroy them if they tried to leave the seven-dimensional space. After she struck the Beast Lord and revealed power comparable to theirs, the alliance’s leaders faced pressure to decide whether to fight.

• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone left after receiving an urgent message, while the Forbidden Guardian and the hazy figure watched events unfold in another stretch of seven-dimensional space.
• Star Princess challenged the Mechanical Empire's God Lord, the Dragon Lord, the Beast Lord, and the other ninth-tier experts when they questioned her ability to stop them.
• The Beast Lord mocked Star Princess, and she struck him so quickly that his head was blown apart before it regenerated with his aura weakened.
• The Mechanical Empire's God Lord warned the Dragon Lord that Star Princess had grown too powerful, but the Dragon Lord refused to take the lead against her.
• Star Princess forbade the ninth-tier experts from leaving and threatened to use her strongest methods, including self-destruction, to kill or severely wound many of them.
• The alliance's experts looked to the God Lord and Dragon Lord for a decision, while the Beast Lord fell silent.

Bai Yi ordered the Aokes to fire the single-use Vector Star Cone at the Tree of Life to break the enemy’s suppression. The star cone pierced the Tree’s golden-chain defense but lost its power, while the distant Star Princess’s avatar digitized and collapsed.

• Bai Yi gave General Tunisia the Vector Star Cone and ordered the fleet to target the Tree of Life while fighting through the insect-race encirclement.
• A technician died after touching the cone’s Causality Weapon component, and Bai Yi explained its lethal danger to General Tunisia.
• The Aokes launched the Vector Star Cone, which tore through the insect forces as the Tree of Life and its golden chains tried to stop it.
• The star cone slipped into the void, pierced the golden-chain barrier, and lost its power before reaching the Tree of Life.
• The Star Princess’s avatar began digitizing and collapsed inside the Star Fortress’s combat conference room.

After the Star Princess’s avatar was destroyed, her angry intervention summoned a world-spanning power that silenced the battlefield. She returned to the Star Fortress, explained why she had acted and why powerful beings were normally restrained, then ordered the Empire to salvage the battlefield and strengthen itself.

• The Life Goddess watched the Star Princess’s avatar collapse as a vast eye and numerical-symbol hand appeared, leaving the battlefield in unnatural silence.
• Bai Wen questioned the Life Goddess about the Star Princess, who reappeared and ordered the insectoids to devour the corpses and wreckage.
• The Star Princess explained that her avatar’s destruction threatened the Empire’s calculations, giving her a reason to strike despite her agreement not to act freely.
• The Star Princess told the Life Goddess that stronger beings existed, described the Dragon Race as a terrifying force, and said her intervention could only be used once.
• Bai Wen ordered the largest enemy warships sent to the Imperial Academy of Engineering and the rest given to the insectoids.

Star confronted the Taboo Guardian and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone over the battle and demanded the titan descendant be handed to the Empire. In the Taboo World, General Bai Chen learned that the life-saving measure he left for his son Xiao Yi had been triggered, while Marshal Bai Chen told him his son was unlikely to have survived.

• The insect race devoured the battlefield’s corpses and wrecked fleets while the Star Ancient Empire towed away the largest command vessels.
• Star accused the Taboo Guardian of breaking the rules and demanded compensation, then insisted that the titan descendant be handed over to the Empire.
• Star asked who was sealed on Earth Star in the Primordial Eternal World, but the Taboo Guardian refused to explain.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone withdrew after the Taboo Guardian blamed her for failing to protect His Majesty in the past.
• General Bai Chen told Marshal Bai Chen that the life-saving measure he had left for his son Xiao Yi had been triggered.
• Marshal Bai Chen said Xiao Yi had no chance of surviving and reminded General Bai Chen that he had chosen to go there himself.

Yang Yu learned that the Empire had defeated an eight-billion-warship fleet and that Star had secretly handled a recent server disruption. Feeling excluded from the decisions shaping the Empire he built, he left the Imperial Study believing he had become a figurehead.

• Long Ye explained that the vassal agreements would bring the Empire tax revenue by requiring trade between the three nations to use Imperial currency.
• Yang Yu ordered military and resource assistance for the three nations, then heard from Bai Mu that a brief server disruption might affect the Empire's data and research.
• Star appeared and said she had contained the disruption, with only a minor economic impact expected, and reported that the Empire's forces had destroyed all eight billion enemy warships.
• Yang Yu questioned Star about her secrecy and said he no longer understood his role or hers, while Star insisted she remained loyal to him.
• Yang Yu said he was tired and left the Imperial Study, feeling like a figurehead in the Empire he had built.

Yang Yu sparred with Ye Jiu and Guard Dragon, then entrusted Bai Mu with government affairs while he rested. At the front, Bai Lin’s commanders proposed enslaving defeated people for labor instead of killing them, and Bai Lin was left to decide.

• Yang Yu tested Ye Jiu and Guard Dragon in the training room, tricked them with an afterimage, and told them to stop holding back.
• Yang Yu asked Chief Secretary Bai Mu to handle government affairs that the Cabinet could not resolve while he rested.
• Marshal Milamont told Bai Lin that the allied armies faced large-scale resistance in the Wanda Realm and suggested taking nonresisting dwarves as slaves to mine resources.
• The Elf Kingdom’s commanders urged Bai Lin to use defeated people for labor rather than slaughter them.