Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Cheng Han orders a swift attack on the Calamity Nest, despite knowing it will result in heavy initial casualties.
• The first Profound Arks strike the Calamity Nest's location with devastating force, causing the ground to sink and triggering the nest's counterattack.
• The Calamity Insect Swarm emerges from the sand, and a hunt ensues across the desert.
• Mystic Adepts use a combination of Profound Weapons and mystic arts to combat and suppress the Calamity Insect Swarm.
• Cheng Han's strategy involves compressing the insect swarm's living space with Profound Ark fleets, leading them into a trap.

Character Developments

• Cheng Han demonstrates his strategic prowess and willingness to accept casualties for the greater good.
• Mystic Adepts show varying levels of skill and caution, with some successfully defeating Calamity Insects and others falling victim to their cunning.

Significant Themes

• The importance of strategic planning and adaptability in warfare.
• The brutal and unforgiving nature of the conflict between humans and the Calamity Insect Swarm.
• The consequences of underestimating one's enemies.

Character Interactions

• Cheng Han's orders and strategies guide the Mystic Adepts' actions, but he does not directly engage in combat.
• Mystic Adepts work together in teams, combining their skills to overcome the Calamity Insects, but also face setbacks due to underestimating their enemies.
• The Calamity Insect Swarm demonstrates a collective intelligence, using tactics and strategies to counter the Mystic Adepts' attacks.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing exchange gifts and letters, with Cheng sending Qian a Bewildering Sand Dream crystal ball that allows her to learn a new martial technique in her dreams.
• Cheng Han, aboard the Silver Pattern Profound Ark, approaches the Bewildering Sand Realm battlefield after 20 hours of flight. He uses a Star Evolution Chart to monitor the battle and issues commands accordingly.
• Cheng Han orders the removal of two Central Envoys for delaying their entry into the War Zone and adjusts the course to eliminate a group of escaped Calamity Worms.

Character Developments

• Qian Qingqing: She learns a new martial technique through the Bewildering Sand Dream, demonstrating her exceptional talent. She expresses her desire to travel across the myriad worlds with Cheng Han.
• Cheng Han: He shows his strategic prowess by monitoring the battlefield from afar and making decisive commands. He also demonstrates his sternness by punishing those who disobeyed his orders.

Significant Themes

• Talent and Ability: Qian Qingqing's ability to learn a new martial technique through the Bewildering Sand Dream highlights her exceptional talent. Cheng Han's ability to monitor the battlefield from afar and make accurate decisions showcases his strategic prowess.
• Relationship and Communication: The exchange of gifts and letters between Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing strengthens their relationship and keeps them connected despite the distance.
• Accountability and Punishment: Cheng Han's swift and severe punishment of the two Central Envoys for their delay in entering the War Zone emphasizes the importance of following orders and the consequences of disobedience.

Character Interactions

• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing: Their relationship deepens as they exchange gifts and letters, with Qian Qingqing expressing her desire to travel with Cheng Han.
• Cheng Han and Ma Xuandu: Ma Xuandu becomes increasingly impressed by Cheng Han's abilities, finding it difficult to comprehend how he can monitor the battlefield from afar and make accurate decisions.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Envoy Cheng leaves the Profound Ark to engage in battle, surprising Ma Xuandu.
• Ma Xuandu uses his secret techniques to locate Calamity Moth Worms, but Envoy Cheng kills them with a single strike using the Law of Life.
• Cheng Han creates a Vine Man Avatar and proposes an experiment to the Ant Lady (the Collective Consciousness of the Sand Ants) to create a powerful vine suited to the desert and evolve it into a World Will.
• Cheng Han asks the Ant Lady to help the Myriad Radiance People eliminate the Calamity Worms.

Character Developments

• Envoy Cheng demonstrates his power and knowledge of Laws, impressing Ma Xuandu.
• Cheng Han shows his strategic thinking and willingness to experiment, aiming to create a powerful World Will to combat Calamity Worms.

Significant Themes

• The power of Laws and their importance in battle.
• The potential of collective consciousness and its manipulation.
• The struggle against Calamity Worms and the need for powerful allies.

Character Interactions

• Envoy Cheng and Ma Xuandu: Envoy Cheng's actions and power impress Ma Xuandu, showing the gap between them.
• Cheng Han and the Ant Lady: Cheng Han proposes an experiment to the Ant Lady, demonstrating his strategic thinking and willingness to cooperate with other entities.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Cheng Han orders Profound Ark fleets to watch for unusual movements among sand ants, leading to the discovery and elimination of Calamity Worms hiding beneath the sand.
• The Calamity Nest is found and destroyed using powerful Intermediate Profound Weapons.
• Cheng Han pursues and kills the Small Worm that split off from the Calamity Nest.

Character Developments

• Cheng Han demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking and combat prowess, outsmarting the Calamity Nest and successfully eliminating the Swarm and its source.
• Ma Xuandu and other characters acknowledge Cheng Han's incredible abilities.

Significant Themes

• Strategic planning and adaptability in the face of an evolving enemy.
• The power of observation and deduction in gaining an advantage in battle.
• The importance of understanding and exploiting an enemy's weaknesses.

Character Interactions

• Cheng Han works collaboratively with other Profound Masters and fleets, issuing orders and coordinating efforts to eliminate the Calamity Worms and the Nest.
• The Light Shuttle God General and the Star Evolution God General observe the battle, with the former expressing admiration for Cheng Han's capabilities.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun visit a newly reclaimed plantation.
• Qian Changyun is forced to practice the Aerial Body Technique.
• They witness the efficiency of large-scale Science Magic agricultural machinery in reclaiming Wilderness and dealing with Anomalies.

Character Developments

• Qian Changyun: He has grown taller and more mature, but still resists physical training. He learns a lesson from his sister about the importance of practice and determination.
• Qian Qingqing: She shows her protective and nurturing side towards her brother, pushing him to improve. She is also dedicated to executing Cheng Han's plans for agricultural mechanization.

Significant Themes

• Determination and Persistence: Qian Changyun learns the importance of perseverance in training, echoing Cheng Han's words about not complaining about fate.
• Progress and Innovation: The introduction of agricultural mechanization represents progress and innovation, allowing for safer and more efficient farming.

Character Interactions

• Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun: The siblings interact, with Qingqing pushing Changyun to practice and Changyun initially resisting but ultimately complying.
• Qian Qingqing and Director Zhang: They discuss the plantation's progress and the benefits of agricultural mechanization.
• Cheng Han's Voice: Cheng Han's voice is heard off-page, signaling his return and causing Qingqing to react with joy.

Cheng Han returned to the Profound Palace, gave Qian Changyun an Ant Swarm Heart, and demonstrated a remotely controlled farm machine that he had modified on the spot. He agreed to take Qian Qingqing with him to the Celestial God Star Sea before leaving again, while privately worrying that the Epoch Calamity had already arrived.

• Cheng Han returned with four Mystic Adepts and told Qian Qingqing that he would leave for another world after staying in the Profound Palace for one month.
• Cheng Han agreed to take Qian Qingqing to the Celestial God Star Sea, but Qian Qingqing refused to let Qian Changyun come along.
• Cheng Han gave Qian Changyun a crystal Sand Ant sculpture called the Ant Swarm Heart, which let him sense and control nearby ants while training his mental power.
• Cheng Han modified the Science Magic Farm Machine with a new array and control device in ten minutes, then had Qian Qingqing test it with a Control Helmet.
• Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun admired the remotely controlled machine, and Cheng Han described using the technology for snowplows and vegetation maintenance.

Cheng Han returned to the hidden Underground Cave as an Avatar and began transforming Sheriff from a Black Cat into a human. Sheriff endured the painful process and condensed a new Life Imprint, taking the first step toward becoming a Cat-eared girl.

• Cheng Han appeared in the cave as an Avatar, and Sheriff greeted him after realizing his aura had changed.
• Cheng Han told Sheriff that its dream of becoming human could come true, but warned that the transformation would be lengthy and painful.
• Cheng Han began the transformation by tapping Sheriff’s forehead and weaving profound marks into its body as it formed a Blood Cocoon.
• Cheng Han urged Sheriff to endure the pain and comprehend the mysteries of the Life Element mystic arts during the transformation.
• After half an hour, Sheriff condensed a new Life Imprint, and Cheng Han judged that it had laid a solid foundation for its evolution.

Cheng Han demonstrated an ingenious potato-planting machine before Qian Qingqing, Qian Changyun, and Director Zhang, then the Azure Cloud God General arrived and drew him into a private space. There, she praised his invention and left Cheng Han wondering why another of her Avatars had visited so soon after their previous meeting.

• Cheng Han built a potato-planting machine, and Qian Changyun operated it as its eight automatic arms planted potatoes with great efficiency.
• Cheng Han explained that the arms used low-grade Biochemical Muscle trained to remember planting motions and received visual information through Qian Changyun's Control Helmet.
• Cheng Han sensed that the Azure Cloud God General was about to descend, and she appeared before Qian Qingqing, Qian Changyun, and Director Zhang.
• The Azure Cloud God General used Divine Power to draw Cheng Han into a special space, leaving the others outside in suspended, slow-moving time.
• The Azure Cloud God General understood how the farm machine worked, praised Cheng Han's ingenuity, and left him puzzled because another of her Avatars had visited him the day before.

Azure Cloud God General consulted Cheng Han about Ten Thousand Puppets God General’s Construct Army proposal, and Cheng Han warned that the Calamity Worms could adapt to and seize control of constructs. She decided to oppose the proposal, while the Supreme Divine Court moved to test Cheng Han’s East Wind Profound Weapon, and she arranged for a God General in the Celestial God Star Sea to look after him.

• Azure Cloud God General told Cheng Han that his discovery of the Calamity Nest had alerted the Supreme Divine Court and that Ten Thousand Puppets God General had proposed a Construct Army against the Calamity Insect Swarm.
• Azure Cloud God General showed Cheng Han a construct, and he recognized that its design drew on his Biochemical Armor and Guided Profound Weapons.
• Cheng Han warned Azure Cloud God General that the Calamity Worms could evolve to infest or take control of constructs, even if they had self-destruct mechanisms.
• Azure Cloud God General decided to submit a memorial opposing the Construct Army proposal.
• Azure Cloud God General told Cheng Han that the Divine Court had ordered the East Wind Profound Weapon tested and that Waves God General Rippling would look after him in the Celestial God Star Sea.

Cheng Han placed Avatars in Cloud Sea Realm to investigate and prepare for a possible Calamity Insect Swarm, while he and Qian Qingqing visited a Guided Profound Weapon factory in Void Wind Realm. The contrast between the realms left Cheng Han concerned that the Ten Thousand Puppets God General had copied factory designs without adopting the systems that supported workers and efficient production.

• Cheng Han deployed an Anchor of Myriad Realms in Cloud Sea Realm and sent Avatars across the realm to learn about it ahead of a possible insect tide.
• Cheng Han's Avatar, working under the name Liu Yidao, was harassed by a Patrol Officer who was conspiring with a factory manager to force employees out and sell their jobs.
• The Avatar entered a Construct assembly factory and recognized similarities to the Science Magic Engine production line in Void Wind Realm.
• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing arrived at a Guided Profound Weapon factory in Eagle Strike City under the identities Ma Sandao and a newly hired technician.
• Cheng Han learned that Artificers had improved the factory's production line, raising its efficiency by nearly fifty percent.

The Avatar inspected the Cloud Sea Realm’s Construct factory and found rushed production, poor quality control, and corruption, while Cheng Han assessed a more efficient factory in the Void Wind Realm and learned about its fair artificer association. Back at the Living Quarters Palace, Cheng Han admired the growth of Little Profound Palace and accepted Ying Beibei and Xie You’s flirtatious challenge to demonstrate the bedchamber techniques they had studied.

• The Avatar observed that the Cloud Sea Realm factory’s assembly was noisy and inefficient, then helped an apprentice install fasteners and learned that advancement depended on bribery and sexual favors.
• The Avatar found defective components being installed to meet production quotas and feared the Construct Army would fail against the Calamity Insect Swarm, so he decided to find a solution.
• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing inspected a better-run factory in Eagle Strike City, where Cheng Han advised apprentices and learned that the Artificer Association offered transparent advancement assessments and support for artificers.
• Cheng Han praised the factory’s production process, and Qian Qingqing decided to commend it and promote its methods through the Hall of Councillors.
• Cheng Han enjoyed a meal with Ying Beibei and Xie You, then joined them on the rooftop garden and admired the growth of Little Profound Palace and the surrounding cities.
• Xie You teased Cheng Han about Ying Beibei’s study of bedchamber techniques, and Cheng Han asked the two secretaries to demonstrate what they had learned.

Cheng Han used a costly void-travel technique to investigate Dark Cave Realm and discovered that it had become a vast Calamity Worm nest. He warned the Azure Cloud God General through a fabricated dream and urged her to send the Construct Army there, as he expected a plane-wide war within a year.

• Cheng Han used his deductions and the Void Boundary Profound Imprint to skip through the void, sacrificing fingers as he traveled toward new Small Worlds.
• Cheng Han discovered that Dark Cave Realm was filled with Calamity Worms, including a Destruction War Beetle that detected his observation, and concluded the world had become an enormous Insect Nest.
• Cheng Han's true body woke in Void Wind Realm and judged that a war against the Calamity Insect Swarm would begin within a year at most.
• Cheng Han contacted the Azure Cloud God General and presented his avatar's findings as scenes from a strange dream, suggesting the Forest Will had sent a warning.
• The Azure Cloud God General agreed to have Zhang Han God Monarch verify the report, and Cheng Han proposed mobilizing the Construct Army to attack Dark Cave Realm.

Cheng Han warned Qing Han Profound Palace that the Calamity Insect Race was preparing for a massive war, then oversaw the expansion of Biochemical Armor production. He discovered Void Slugs scouting through the void, confirming that the insect swarm’s war machine was advancing toward other Small Worlds.

• Cheng Han told Yun Changtian that eight Small Worlds, including the Void Wind Realm, would be mobilized to fight the Calamity Insect Race, and urged Qing Han Profound Palace to prepare for attacks.
• Yun Changtian thanked Cheng Han for the warning and escorted him from Brocade Mountain Palace, reflecting on how much Cheng Han’s status had risen.
• Cheng Han showed Qian Qingqing and Qian Changyun a new Biochemical Armor factory, whose vats produced armor twice as fast and with greater power than the earlier design.
• Cheng Han ordered Little Profound Palace to build fifteen more Biochemical Armor factories within a month and expand to two hundred factories within half a year.
• Cheng Han sensed through his Avatar that Void Slugs were gathering in the void and recognized them as the Calamity Insect Swarm’s vanguard, scouting routes to other Small Worlds.

Cheng Han warned Liu Yidao that the Calamity Insect Swarm could target their world within months and urged him to prepare the Patrol Department. As Cheng Han tested a way to exploit the void against Void Slugs, increased construct production signaled that the Construct Army was preparing to march, though factory workers’ forced overtime made him doubt the plan.

• Cheng Han warned Liu Yidao that the Calamity Insect Swarm could attack within a month to half a year, and Liu promised to strengthen the Patrol Department after it received Biochemical Armor.
• Cheng Han’s Avatar watched a Void Slug enter Sub-space during Void Turbulence, opened a hole in its refuge, and caused the turbulence to destroy it.
• At a Cloud Sea Realm factory, Cheng Han’s Avatar learned that construct production would rise by up to fifty percent and that workers would be forced to work four extra hours each day.
• Cheng Han inferred that Ten Thousand Puppets God General’s Construct Army was preparing to expedition to the Nanli Realm Cluster, but he doubted the attrition strategy because the factory’s coercive orders would worsen construct quality.

Cheng Han exposed a factory steward’s scheme to frame his Liu Yidao avatar, and the resulting investigation cleared him while bringing down the factory’s management. After a huge green light pillar appeared over Cloud Sea Realm, Cheng Han realized the war was imminent and the Calamity Worms might soon attack.

• An elderly steward and two Patrol Officers accused Liu Yidao of stealing Lapis Silver and tried to arrest him, but Cheng Han evaded them and manipulated events so Patrol Officer Liu accidentally killed his colleague.
• Cheng Han warned Patrol Officer Liu that his dead colleague had powerful relatives, prompting Liu to blame the steward and exposing their plot before the factory’s apprentices.
• Patrol Officer Liu revealed the group’s dirty dealings, the investigation cleared Cheng Han, and the factory management was swept away.
• Cheng Han signed the document closing his case and learned that the accused would face execution or long prison sentences, though he expected they would be sent to fight the Calamity Worms.
• A Heaven Banyan Light Shuttle delivered hundreds of thousands of Constructs and Mystic Adepts to Cloud Sea Realm, and Cheng Han warned that the war and a Worm assault were near.

Cheng Han watched the Heaven Banyan Light Shuttle arrive while evading the Light Shuttle God General, then continued his work in the Bewildering Sand Realm. He planted Bewildering Sand Vines designed to resist the Calamity Insect Swarm and help the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness become a World Will, beginning an experiment to establish resistance bases in insect-threatened worlds.

• Cheng Han’s void avatar had killed more than seven hundred and eighty Void Slugs, but stopped lying in wait to replenish its blood essence in a Small World.
• The Light Shuttle God General pursued Cheng Han, who escaped by linking three turbulence drifts through deductions made with the Eye of Omniscience.
• Cheng Han arrived in the Bewildering Sand Realm as the Ten Thousand Puppets God General’s army reached the Nanli Realm Cluster, and the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness offered to help fight the insect swarm.
• Cheng Han planted Bewildering Sand Vines made mostly of sand, explaining that they would deter Calamity Worms and could erode insects adapted to eat them.
• Cheng Han told the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness that spreading the vines across the Sand Sea could help it become a World Will, as part of his plan to create resistance bases in worlds threatened by the insects.

Cheng Han entered the poisonous Dead Marsh Realm and saw an opportunity to draw the Ten Thousand Puppets God General there by provoking the Calamity Nest and attracting the Light Shuttle God General. He killed a Destruction War Beetle through a series of illusions and space-based attacks, then observed Calamity Moth Worms emerging with adaptations to the realm’s toxins.

• Cheng Han descended into the Dead Marsh Realm, shielded himself from its poisonous air, and considered using the realm as a battlefield for the Construct Army.
• Cheng Han planned to draw the Light Shuttle God General’s attention by killing Calamity Nest powerhouses and causing chaos in the realm.
• A Destruction War Beetle ambushed Cheng Han, but he evaded its attacks with Reality Illusions and killed it with a Sky Splitting Spear.
• Cheng Han stored valuable parts of the Destruction War Beetle and flew away, expecting the Calamity Nest to notice the death.
• Calamity Moth Worms emerged from the marsh with new traits suited to the toxic environment, and Cheng Han watched them through a Light Screen.

Cheng Han trapped and killed a Destruction War Beetle, then used puppets to attack the Calamity swarm and draw out a Destruction Eye that could detect his illusions. He decided to flee, but the Destruction Eye detected a branch left by one of his self-destructing puppets.

• Cheng Han used Reality Illusions and a hidden spatial cutting net to cripple and kill the second Destruction War Beetle, then deduced that fine strings had transmitted its messages.
• After the Calamity Nest sent Calamity Midges to search for him, Cheng Han used a temporary puppet to kill them and mislead the gathering swarm.
• Cheng Han deployed more puppets over the next ten hours, killing over eight thousand Midges and alarming the swarm across a vast area.
• The Eye of Omniscience warned Cheng Han about the Destruction Eye, whose nested pupils detected his surveillance, prompting him to decide to flee.
• The Destruction Eye located a branch floating in the marsh and formed a tentacle from a nearby Midge’s blood mist to seize it; the branch had been left by Cheng Han’s destroyed puppet.

Cheng Han used the Void Slugs and the Light Shuttle God General’s response to draw attention to Dead Marsh Realm and encourage the God General to recognize the value of a Construct Army there. Meanwhile, Cheng Han’s other Avatar watched the Myriad Heavens Race prepare its constructs for war and predicted that they would win early before the swarm adapted.

• Cheng Han detected three Destruction Eyes approaching and relied on the Light Shuttle God General to handle the Void Slugs waiting outside Dead Marsh Realm.
• The Light Shuttle God General arrived and slaughtered the Void Slugs, while the Destruction Eyes halted their encirclement after mistaking him for Cheng Han’s reinforcements.
• Cheng Han left Dead Marsh Realm, and the God General sensed the Void Wanderer’s aura and began investigating the world’s many hidden bugs.
• In Bewildering Sand Realm, Cheng Han’s Avatar and the Great Sand Ant saw thousands of Myriad Heavens Race constructs drilling overhead.
• Cheng Han predicted that the Construct Army would initially gain an advantage against the swarm but later be defeated after the Calamity Nest adapted.

Cheng Han continued planting Bewildering Sand Vines and realized that restoring the Law of Life might lead him to the Divine Throne. Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Puppets God General’s Construct Army invaded the Dead Marsh Realm and won its first battles, though Cheng Han expected the Calamity Nest to adapt.

• Cheng Han and the Great Sand Ant continued planting Bewildering Sand Vines, which weakened the approaching sandstorm and strengthened the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness.
• Cheng Han sensed the Law of Life reviving as the desert changed and resolved to help the Collective Consciousness become the World Will.
• A Light Shuttle carrying hundreds of thousands of Construct Army units arrived in the Bewildering Sand Realm.
• In the Dead Marsh Realm, constructs descended onto giant-tree outposts and began attacking Calamity Worms in remotely controlled squads.
• A Mystic Master-level Great Moth Worm destroyed one construct squad, but reinforcements soon killed it with a concentrated assault.
• Cheng Han watched the Construct Army’s early victories and expected the Calamity Nest to develop countermeasures.