Chapter Summaries

After condensing a Space Law String, Cheng Han used twelve clones to hunt down and kill a Void Divine Dragonfly clone by exploiting turbulence and shattered space. The distant Super Worm sensed the Avatar’s death and sent two more Avatars to investigate.

• Cheng Han completed his second Law String and gained the ability to move through turbulence without sacrificing a finger.
• Cheng Han deployed twelve clones to attack the Void Divine Dragonfly clone with Flowing Light Needles and drive it into turbulence.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to locate the worm in the turbulence, where one clone disrupted its laws and another shattered its remaining body.
• Cheng Han celebrated the kill, despite losing two clones, and noted that his soul power would recover within a day.
• A distant Super Worm sensed its Avatar’s death and sent two Avatars to investigate.

Cheng Han gained the Great Sand Ant’s trust, and it mobilized the sand ants to warn the Myriad Radiance People that the Calamity Insect Swarm was approaching. As the defenders prepared for battle, the Light Shuttle God General recognized Cheng Han’s influence and regretted not keeping him in their ranks.

• Cheng Han spotted an Outpost Tower equipped with thousands of Mystic Weapons and sensed that the first Space-Time Sacs had arrived at the Bewildering Sand Realm.
• The Great Sand Ant pledged the sand ants’ help, then sent a warning to the swarm after Cheng Han earned its trust by working alongside it to sow Bewildering Sand Vines.
• Sand ants formed the words “Prepare for battle” in an outpost, and Colonel Fan confirmed their warning before ordering the Warriors to ready their Biochemical Armor.
• The Outpost Tower reported that every outpost had received the warning and that the Calamity Insect Swarm was expected to descend in two hours.
• Colonel Fan ordered the Warriors to feed the sand ants and monitor nearby Flying Ants, while the Light Shuttle God General suspected Cheng Han had united the swarm and regretted not keeping him.

Luo Jun discovered that the Flying Ants could communicate through their wingbeats and recruited one, Little Fly, to help guide the Warriors. As the swarm descended during a violent sandstorm, Colonel Fan rallied the outpost’s Warriors, while Cheng Han used the Sand Ants to strengthen their morale.

• Luo Jun and another Warrior approached a Flying Ant swarm, and Luo Jun understood its wingbeats as an offer to guide them to the enemy.
• A high-ranking Flying Ant landed on Luo Jun’s shoulder, and he named it Little Fly before reporting the discovery to Colonel Fan.
• Little Fly warned Luo Jun that the swarm had arrived, and an alarm soon called all the outpost’s Warriors to assemble.
• Colonel Fan told the Warriors to hold back the swarm and urged them to rely on the Sand Ants’ knowledge of the desert.
• Cheng Han praised the Great Sand Ant and revealed that he had used the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness to boost the legions’ morale.

Cheng Han watched the swarm’s assault on the Bewildering Sand Realm and assessed the Myriad Heavens Race’s aerial defenses. As the Calamity Worms pushed toward the sandstorm, he predicted their tactics and prepared to spring a surprise with the Great Sand Ant.

• More than two hundred thousand Space-Time Sacs descended toward the sandstorm, carrying hundreds of millions of Calamity Worms, and Cheng Han inferred that a concealed Divine Worm was directing the assault.
• The Sky Dome Legion used Banyan Spirit Shuttles to appear above the Space-Time Sacs and destroyed roughly one-tenth of them with a volley of Profound Weapons.
• The Calamity Worms burst many Space-Time Sacs themselves, scattering their occupants into smaller targets, as Cheng Han explained the tactical mistake to the Great Sand Ant.
• Cheng Han predicted that the Flying Moth Flies would split into two swarms, one attacking the Sky Dome Legion and the other engaging the Flame Eagles, and both groups immediately did so.
• Cheng Han estimated that over eighty percent of the Calamity Worms would reach the sandstorm and told the excited Great Sand Ant that they would later give the swarm a surprise.

Cheng Han watched the Warhawk Legion struggle to contain the Moth Fly swarm and explained why the Myriad Heavens Race was allowing casualties to mount. He prepared the Great Sand Ant for the arrival of a larger second wave, which the Myriad Heavens Race planned to lure deeper before unleashing its full strength.

• The Moth Flies overwhelmed a Hunting Fire Eagle, tore into its two Warriors, and were killed when the cockpit exploded.
• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant that the Warhawk Legion had to restrict the swarm even at the cost of lives, and urged it to accept sacrifices in war.
• The Sky Dome Legion sent Bombers to support the Warhawk Legion, curbing the swarm but allowing more insects to reach the sandstorm.
• Cheng Han assessed that the intervention would let fifteen million more Calamity Worms survive and criticized the Light Shuttle God General for lacking ruthlessness.
• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant to use its full strength when the larger second batch of Space-Time Sacs arrived in about two hours, as part of the plan to lure the swarm deeper.

Luo Jun and the Warriors fought Calamity Worms in a sandstorm, using the Sand Ants’ warnings and Biochemical Armor to ambush the hidden swarm. As Cheng Han watched, he recognized the battle’s insect corpses would feed the Bewildering Sand Vines and advance his path toward godhood.

• The Sand Ants formed arrows that pointed to the Calamity Worms’ landing sites, and Little Fly confirmed Luo Jun’s interpretation.
• Colonel Fan deployed the Warriors in two platoons, and Luo Jun joined the First Platoon to confront the bugs in the northeast.
• Little Fly warned Luo Jun’s squad that Calamity Worms were buried nearby, and the Warriors tracked them to a dune marked by Sand Ants.
• Team Leader Ma led the Warriors’ attack, and they killed the emerging Calamity Worms, though a leader’s Bone Needle killed one Warrior.
• Cheng Han watched the battle and told the Great Sand Ant that the insect corpses would nourish the Bewildering Sand Vines and strengthen his progress toward godhood.

Cheng Han watched the Bewildering Sand Vines spread their seeds after feeding on a Moth Fly corpse, while the sudden growth of the vines drove the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness to evolve into the Collective Consciousness. He then used his bond with the Great Sand Ant to grasp a second Law String, the power of gathering, and the two reaffirmed their friendship.

• Cheng Han saw Bewildering Sand Vines consume a Moth Fly corpse, produce far more seeds than usual, and scatter them across the desert on the gale.
• The Great Sand Ant grew larger and transformed as the proliferation of Bewildering Sand Vines strengthened and evolved the Ant Swarm Collective Consciousness.
• Cheng Han studied the changing laws with a Law String and concluded that the entity should now be called the Collective Consciousness.
• The Great Sand Ant displayed new law-based power, thanked Cheng Han, and told him it trusted his path toward becoming a World Will.
• Cheng Han plucked a second Law String that embodied gathering, having drawn on the Collective Consciousness's power to understand the law.

Cheng Han used Gathering Power to fuse Bewildering Sand Vines, helping them consume Mothworm corpses and teaching the Great Sand Ant how a World Will could wield collective strength. He then encouraged Seed mutations to increase life’s diversity, while Luo Jun’s platoon witnessed the vines devouring corpses on the battlefield.

• Cheng Han used Gathering Power to link thousands of Bewildering Sand Vines, which rapidly consumed a Mothworm corpse and used its nutrients completely.
• Luo Jun noticed a Mothworm corpse had vanished and discovered a nearly invisible tendril, then told Team Leader Ma what he had seen.
• Luo Jun’s platoon watched tendrils drag away the corpses of thirteen killed insects, leaving the fallen Wan Hao Warrior behind, and Team Leader Ma ordered the group onward.
• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant that Gathering Power was essential for a World Will and urged it to promote mutations among Bewildering Sand Vine Seeds.
• Cheng Han used a Law String to show mutated Seeds spreading on the wind, and he recognized the emerging third Law String as using small species to create a flourishing world.

First Platoon encountered mutated Moth Worms whose cold attacks killed Team Leader Ma and four other Warriors, while Cheng Han traced the insects to Glacier Realm and prepared the next stage of his plan. With a second wave of Space-Time Sacs approaching, Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant to begin.

• Mutated Moth Worms ambushed First Platoon with cold-air clusters, freezing Team Leader Ma and four Warriors to death before Captain Zhang led the squad in destroying the swarm.
• Captain Zhang ordered the Warriors to inspect the insect corpses, and Luo Jun identified them as mutated Moth Worms before reporting the discovery to the outpost.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to trace the mutated Moth Worms to Glacier Realm and explained to the Great Sand Ant how environmental mutation helped species survive.
• Cheng Han implanted cold-resistant Chain of Life fragments into Bewildering Sand Vine Seeds and told the Great Sand Ant he would teach it to create more mutated species.
• Cheng Han noted that the second wave of Space-Time Sacs was nearing Bewildering Sand Realm and ordered the Great Sand Ant to begin closing in on the plan.

Cheng Han used the Great Sand Ant to create an accurate map of the insect swarm, which reached the Myriad Heavens Legion and was verified by Mystic Overseer Ma. As the Light Shuttle God General ordered the Ant Palace guarded, Cheng Han prepared to suppress the sandstorm ahead of the second wave of Space-Time Sacs.

• The sand ants in the Ant Palace formed an Insect Swarm Distribution Map, and the Mystic Master summoned Mystic Overseer Ma.
• Mystic Overseer Ma ordered Liu Yunqing to verify the map, and the results matched its locations exactly.
• Mystic Overseer Ma reported the map to the Light Shuttle God General, who ordered the Ant Palace guarded and regretted that Cheng Han had left.
• Cheng Han praised the Great Sand Ant for creating the map and told it to prepare to quell the sandstorm before the second wave of Space-Time Sacs arrived.

Cheng Han waited for the second, larger wave of Calamity Worms to enter the Bewildering Sand Realm before the Great Sand Ant used its power over the world's Laws. As the hidden Myriad Heavens forces prepared their trump cards, the collapsing sandstorm threw the insect swarm into chaos.

• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant to wait until the Calamity Worms had fully arrived, while the Light Shuttle God General ordered his Mystic Supervisor commanders to attack in ten minutes.
• The Myriad Heavens Race sounded alarms in hidden underground hangars and prepared thousands of Hunting Fire Eagles and East Wind Profound Weapons.
• More than three hundred thousand Space-Time Sacs descended, but the faster wave reduced the Warhawk Legion's success and left the Sky Dome Legion grounded to avoid a surprise attack.
• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant that most of the insects had appeared, and it used its connection to the world's Laws to suppress the sandstorm.
• The sandstorm suddenly dropped several kilometers, causing the Moth Fly Swarm to halt and the insect swarm to fall into chaos.

Cheng Han and the Myriad Heavens Race turned the collapsing sandstorm into a trap, then used Insect Devouring Profound Weapons to slaughter the exposed Calamity Worms. With the insect army in retreat and the Great Sand Ant aiding the Myriad Heavens Race, Cheng Han prepared to confront the hidden Divine Worm commanding the swarm.

• The sandstorm collapsed, exposing the Space-Time Sacs, and the Light Shuttle God General ordered the Myriad Heavens Race to attack.
• The supreme insect commander withdrew some Space-Time Sacs from the Bewildering Sand Realm as the swarm descended into chaos.
• The Great Sand Ant used World Power to suppress the sandstorm, then awakened weakened and declared the insect swarm a common enemy with the Myriad Heavens Race.
• East Wind Profound Weapons and Warhawk Legions unleashed Insect Devouring Profound Weapons, whose green filaments killed insects across the battlefield.
• Cheng Han told the Great Sand Ant to digest the insect corpses while Bewildering Sand Vines competed for the remains, strengthening the Collective Consciousness.
• Cheng Han decided it was time to draw out the Divine Worm hiding as the insect army's supreme commander.

Light Shuttle God General realized that a hidden force had manipulated the battle and received Cheng Han’s guidance to locate the God-Slaying Horned Dragon. The God Generals killed the Divine Worm, while an unseen observer wondered who had concealed their involvement so perfectly.

• Light Shuttle God General noticed strange vines consuming the insect corpses and suspected that someone had arranged the war behind the scenes.
• A Silver Needle Transmission showed Light Shuttle God General an image of the God-Slaying Horned Dragon, and he reported it to Heavenly Killing God Monarch.
• Cheng Han used his deductions to pinpoint the God-Slaying Horned Dragon through its connection to the Space-Time Sacs, then sent the location to the God Generals.
• Light Shuttle God General and the other God Generals attacked the God-Slaying Horned Dragon, which escaped into Sub-space.
• Light Shuttle God General used the Annihilation Ring to shatter the surrounding Sub-space and crush the God-Slaying Horned Dragon.
• An unidentified figure watched from afar and wondered which race’s old fox had hidden their hand without leaving a flaw.

Cheng Han arranged for the Great Sand Ant’s Collective Consciousness to cultivate glowing plants that could help the Myriad Heavens Race locate underground Calamity Worms. He then saw that the Raging Wind God General had sent insect swarms to the Green Basket Realm, where Green Basket Warriors were already deserting their forced conscription.

• Cheng Han showed the Great Sand Ant how to grow Nightglow Plants, which could strengthen its power and scout for Calamity Worms underground.
• The Anchor of Myriad Realms showed Cheng Han Space-Time Sacs carrying insect swarms toward the Green Basket Realm, confirming his prediction about the Raging Wind God General’s plan.
• Cheng Han accepted that the Green Basket People would be used as cannon fodder to fight the insects and reduce Myriad Heavens Race casualties.
• In the Green Basket Realm, Cheng Han’s Avatar overheard Green Basket People say that many conscripted Warriors had deserted and planned to hide in the Sky Tower Green Basket’s Tree Hollows.
• Cheng Han watched the deserters and wondered whether they could hide from the disaster approaching their world.

Cheng Han confronted the Green Basket Mystic Supervisor, who had been secretly encouraging resistance to the Myriad Heavens Race. Cheng Han used a Spore to turn him into a puppet just as the Space-Time Sac was about to land.

• The Mystic Supervisor sensed shadows streaking across the sky and tried to warn the Green Basket People, but Cheng Han’s illusion blocked his voice.
• Cheng Han revealed himself and explained that the Green Basket Realm would fall within ten days without the Myriad Heavens Race’s protection, while the Red Eye Race would enslave its people.
• The Mystic Supervisor tried to stall and then form a Light Blade, but Cheng Han activated a tiny Spore he had secretly released into the man’s body.
• The Spore transformed the Mystic Supervisor into a flesh-and-blood puppet, and Cheng Han dispelled the illusion as the Space-Time Sac neared the ground.
• Cheng Han gave no warning about the approaching danger and joined the Green Basket People, who called him Baza and invited him for a drink.

Cheng Han used the Calamity Midge attack to frighten the Green Basket People into accepting conscription, then secured a powerful position in the Conscription Office. The chapter ended with him becoming the city’s Deputy Director after persuading hidden youths to emerge.

• A Space-Time Sac released over two thousand Calamity Midges, which attacked the city atop the Sky Tower Green Basket and killed or injured thousands of residents.
• Cheng Han sheltered Ai Luo during the attack and used the deaths to persuade her that opposing the Myriad Radiance People was unwise.
• Cheng Han joined the Conscription Office and used Mental Suggestion to become an employee before taking part in a recruitment operation led by Kam.
• Cheng Han exposed Green Basket youths hiding in a Tree Hollow cluster and pressured them to accept conscription by appealing to fear, duty, and benefits.
• Secretary Hart appointed Cheng Han Deputy Director of the Conscription Office after witnessing his recruitment speech.

Cheng Han recruited more than two hundred Green Basket People and persuaded the Director and City Governor to improve their families’ prospects in exchange for military service. He proposed a Green Basket Legion of three thousand and left the banquet with Ai Luo after the City Governor promised to establish a factory within five days.

• Cheng Han recruited more than two hundred Green Basket People, promised their families stable factory jobs, and arranged a hearty meal for the recruits.
• Cheng Han told the Director that he would fulfill promises to the Green Basket People, earning the Director’s trust and admiration.
• At a banquet hosted by the City Governor, Cheng Han proposed rotating recruiters to the battlefield and establishing fair rules and generous treatment for conscripts.
• Cheng Han explained that he had joined the Conscription Office to seek a new way forward and argued that Green Basket People should receive meaningful returns for their sacrifices.
• The City Governor promised to establish a factory within five days, and Cheng Han pledged a Green Basket Legion of three thousand for five days later.
• A Green Basket noble tried to introduce Cheng Han to his cousin, and Cheng Han hurried out with Ai Luo.

After facing hostility at the Conscription Office, Cheng Han used the Mutual Aid Cooperative to improve Green Basket settlements and recruit volunteers. Five days later, he delivered 4,800 Green Basket Race soldiers and saw the City Governor's office establish mushroom farms to support their families.

• Cheng Han moved into an ordinary Green Basket neighborhood and faced resentment at the Conscription Office over his proposal to send conscription officers to the battlefield.
• After someone sabotaged Cheng Han's chair, he had it repaired and visited a Green Basket settlement, treating residents and proposing a Mutual Aid Cooperative.
• Cheng Han offered settlement improvements in exchange for volunteers, prompting the Director to investigate and then arrange a deal with him to promote the cooperative through the Conscription Office.
• Five days later, Cheng Han delivered 4,800 Green Basket Race soldiers, while the City Governor's office established two mushroom farms to support impoverished families of enlisted soldiers.

Cheng Han’s avatar hunted down and killed Butte, a Green Basket Mystic Supervisor, using puppets empowered by Minute Law. Cheng Han resurrected Butte as a puppet and ordered his forces to clear out Butte’s Mystic Adepts and Mystic Masters.

• Butte fled through the wilderness, but two of Cheng Han’s black-robed puppets ambushed him.
• Butte’s wind arts pierced one puppet, but the puppet regenerated and attacked him with streams of Black Qi.
• Cheng Han’s String Tremor killed Butte, and his Minute Law Power broke down and reassembled Butte as a puppet.
• Cheng Han explained that Minute Law let his puppets regenerate and survive injuries that would kill ordinary Mystic Supervisors.
• Cheng Han ordered three Mystic Supervisor puppets to clear out Butte’s Mystic Adepts and Mystic Masters.

Cheng Han used his Law of Life to unleash bloodthirsty worms on a Resistance Organization hideout and a nearby settlement in Water Wood City. The Raging Wind God General recognized the massacre as an invitation and headed toward the source of the strange power.

• Cheng Han accelerated microorganisms inside his victims into worms, killing more than three hundred people at a Resistance Organization headquarters.
• Worms erupted from residents and a Green Basket Mystic Master in Water Wood City, killing them and horrifying witnesses.
• A Mystic Supervisor arrived, found Law Power at the scene, and suspected a Foreign Race God-level Expert had entered the realm.
• The Mystic Supervisor summoned the Raging Wind God General, who identified the massacre as an invitation and followed the aura toward its source.