Chapter Summaries

Cheng Han’s magic muskets shifted the Green Sheep Realm’s World Power and gave the Dawn Tribe overwhelming military strength. He ordered the Great High Priest to lead the Magic Musket Legions against the Blue Stone Tribe, hoping to seize its population and advance to Totem King.

• Cheng Han noticed that World Power had shifted after the magic muskets were created and suspected they had strengthened the Green Sheep Race.
• The Magic Musket Legion wiped out a Wilderness Wolf Pack during a live-fire exercise, returning to Dawn City with six hundred beasts and intimidating disloyal members of the tribe.
• The Dawn Tribe formed three more Magic Musket Legions, bringing the number of shooters to more than ten thousand.
• Cheng Han praised the Great High Priest and promised to help him advance to Totem Venerable One without a living sacrifice.
• Cheng Han ordered the Great High Priest to lead the Magic Musket Legions against the Blue Stone Tribe in five days.
• Cheng Han watched the Blue Stone Tribe from across a canyon and planned to seize its population so he could advance to Totem King.

Black Stone marched with the Second Magic Musket Legion toward the Blue Stone Tribe and became convinced that the Great Elder had devised and directed their precise approach. As the legion prepared to attack at dawn, Black Stone’s warrior soul awakened within him.

• Black Stone marched with the Second Magic Musket Legion, treasured his marksman badge, and hoped to earn a promotion.
• The legion reached a valley near the Blue Stone Tribe ahead of schedule, and Black Stone concluded that the Great Elder had planned and overseen the march using Spirit Birds.
• The legion received orders to camp without fires and attack the Blue Stone Tribe at dawn, strengthening Black Stone’s confidence in victory.
• Black Stone ate dinner, rested beside his magic musket, and fell asleep after the exhausting march.
• Black Stone woke before the attack, prepared to set out, and felt eager to shoot enemies and earn merit.
• Black Stone’s warrior soul awakened deep within his bloodline.

Black Stone joined the Second Magic Musket Legion’s dawn assault on the Blue Stone Tribe and discovered his exceptional skill with a magic musket. After killing three enemies in a rapid sequence, he urged his squad to advance.

• The Second Magic Musket Legion marched toward the Blue Stone Tribe under cover of darkness, while Black Stone learned that squad leaders carried scarce Night Vision Goggles.
• As the sky brightened, Black Stone saw the legion’s sharpshooters moving ahead and heard gunfire signal the start of the attack.
• The Colonel ordered the Third Company to enter the Blue Stone Tribe and establish positions, while Spirit Birds guided the squads forward.
• Near the outskirts, Black Stone saw a sharpshooter kill a Green Sheep Person and felt eager to earn merit for the Great Elder.
• When three enemies rushed from behind a building, Black Stone fired twice in under a second, killing all three and astonishing his squad leader and the Spirit Bird.
• Black Stone told his squad to charge, and the squad leader recovered from his surprise and led the advance.

Black Stone’s newly awakened affinity with the magic musket turned him into the squad’s exceptional marksman as they raced to seal an entrance to the civilian district. He ended the chapter by killing a powerful Blue Stone Tribe fighter with one precise shot and praising the Great Elder’s invention.

• Black Stone sensed the magic musket had become like an extension of his limbs and killed enemies with rapid, precise shots as Captain’s squad advanced.
• Black Stone’s squad reached a junction and built a thorn-vine barricade, where two more squads arrived to help block the civilian district.
• More than twenty Blue Stone Tribe fighters charged the barricades, and the marksmen’s first volley brought down many of them.
• Black Stone waited for an armored fighter to expose his face while throwing a short spear, then shot him through the throat and killed him.
• Black Stone praised the magic musket as a great invention and called the Great Elder an exceptionally great leader.

The Dawn Tribe conquered the Blue Stone Tribe with Magic Muskets, Heaven-Shaking Magic Pellets, and Cheng Han’s new Bird Strike technique, killing its Totem Venerable One. The survivors surrendered and were taken prisoner, while Cheng Han planned to use the upcoming Conversion Ceremony to advance to Totem King and secure their loyalty.

• Black Stone and his squad repelled repeated attacks as three Magic Musket Legions encircled the Blue Stone Tribe and Heaven-Shaking Magic Pellets blasted enemy forces.
• The Blue Stone Tribe’s Totem Venerable One appeared, and Cheng Han gathered the Spirit Birds’ power to form a Light Bird that killed him in a single strike.
• The squad leader ordered the soldiers to enter the residential area and force the Blue Stone Tribe’s people to surrender, destroying houses when defenders resisted.
• Black Stone’s squad inspected the bombing site and learned that the Heaven-Shaking Magic Pellets had killed more than a thousand enemies, including two Totem Masters.
• The Magic Musket Legion escorted more than two hundred thousand prisoners to Dawn City, and Cheng Han planned to advance to Totem King during the upcoming Conversion Ceremony.

Black Stone escorted Blue Stone Tribe prisoners toward Dawn City and stopped an attempted attack during a rest break. Cheng Han’s Deduction revealed that Black Stone had gained a new talent through the Green Sheep Realm’s World Power, leaving Cheng Han interested in studying the realm’s will and its laws.

• Black Stone guarded the prisoners as the Fourth Company marched them toward Dawn City under orders to prevent anyone from escaping.
• During a rest break, Black Stone spotted prisoners exchanging signals and ordered several of them to come forward.
• One prisoner threw a dagger at Black Stone, but Black Stone shot it out of the air, and the other marksmen killed the attackers.
• The squad leader praised Black Stone’s skill and promised to report him for a promotion to squad leader.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to discover that Black Stone’s soul had formed a new brand, which Cheng Han believed came from the Green Sheep Realm’s World Power.

Black Stone earned a promotion and a Hand Magic Musket after distinguishing himself, then advised White Valley to use prisoner escapes to expose hostile captives. Cheng Han recognized Black Stone’s command talent, enhanced his Marksman Talent into the Magic Eye Talent, and confirmed that doing so increased the World Power Black Stone received.

• White Valley promoted Black Stone to squad leader and gave him a newly made Hand Magic Musket.
• Black Stone suggested letting prisoners with ill intent attempt to escape so the escort could identify and eliminate them, and White Valley agreed.
• Cheng Han revealed that the prisoner escort was an assessment meant to help him find capable subordinates for the rapidly growing Dawn Tribe.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to create the Magic Eye Talent and bestowed it on Black Stone.
• Cheng Han observed that Black Stone received more World Power after the change and considered how this could help him create a stronger Totem Shadow when he became a Totem King.

Black Stone led a staged prisoner escape attempt, then Cheng Han subjected him to a lethal Dream Cycle trial to awaken his Magic Eye Talent. By the sixth illusion, Black Stone managed to graze the Wolf Shadow, showing that he had begun to awaken his talent.

• Black Stone and the colonel lured more than two hundred prisoners into a river escape attempt, where hidden shooters ambushed them downstream.
• Black Stone fell asleep on watch and dreamed that a Wolf Shadow attacked him, killing him after he repeatedly missed with his Hand Magic Musket.
• Cheng Han revealed that he was using the Dream Cycle Method to force Black Stone's soul to fuse with a Talent Seed and awaken the Magic Eye Talent, at the cost of Black Stone's Soul Origin.
• Black Stone repeatedly died in the dream, and in the third cycle he shot himself as soon as he awoke.
• In the sixth illusion, Black Stone's third shot grazed the Wolf Shadow, and Cheng Han recognized that Black Stone had begun to awaken his talent.

Cheng Han used the Dream Cycle Method to push Black Stone through repeated battles with Wolf Shadow, triggering his Soul Potential and accelerating his awakening of the Magic Eye Talent. After Black Stone mastered the talent and defeated Wolf Shadow, Cheng Han appeared and revealed himself as the Great Elder.

• Black Stone weakened across the dream cycles as Wolf Shadow disarmed him, bit off his right hand, and attacked his leg, pushing him to fight desperately.
• Black Stone's Soul Potential erupted, rapidly healing his soul and advancing its fusion with the Magic Eye Talent mark.
• A new cycle began, and Black Stone used the talent's ability to see through Wolf Shadow's illusion and land a shot on its shoulder.
• By the twenty-fifth cycle, Black Stone used the Eye of Spirit to curve a Magic Bullet into Wolf Shadow's eye, stun it, and kill it with two more shots.
• Cheng Han emerged from the shadows and introduced himself as the Great Elder, and Black Stone knelt in reverence, realizing the battle had been a test and a gift.

As the Dawn Tribe converted the Blue Stone Tribe’s prisoners, the Totem Pillar began changing, and Cheng Han used the growing number of converts to gather power for his advancement to Totem King. The ceremony continued as Black Stone felt his Sea of Spirit transform, while Cheng Han recognized him as a Child of the World and granted him a small share of the power.

• More than two hundred thousand Blue Stone Tribe prisoners arrived in Dawn City, and most accepted conversion under pressure from the magic muskets and the promise that living sacrifices would never be used.
• Black Stone was promoted to Vice Commandant of the Second Magic Musket Legion and allowed to observe the Conversion Ceremony.
• The first prisoner received a metal Thorn Twig from the Totem Pillar, smeared his blood on it, and converted after sensing a powerful connection to the pillar.
• Black Stone sensed a change in his Sea of Spirit as a protrusion began growing from the Totem Pillar, while Cheng Han began using the converts’ World Power to break through to Totem King.
• The ceremony shifted to groups of eight, the protrusion grew, and Cheng Han identified Black Stone as a Child of the World and allocated him a small share of the gathered power.

The Dawn Tribe’s Conversion Ceremony triggered the transformation of its Totem Pillar and Black Stone’s awakening of a Totem Imprint. As two Green Sheep Person Totem Kings moved to stop the tribe’s rise, Cheng Han’s enormous Magic Guns opened fire on them.

• The Conversion Ceremony brought the number of prisoners who had joined the Dawn Tribe to 160,000, while the Totem Pillar grew and changed.
• Cheng Han sensed two Green Sheep Person Totem Kings approaching and recognized that the Totem Pillar’s advancement had begun.
• The Totem Pillar split into four pillars, and Black Stone saw the Sea of Spirit and gained a Totem Imprint.
• The two Green Sheep Person Totem Kings decided to attack before the new Totem King mastered his power.
• Cheng Han’s two-kilometer Totem Shadow became giant Magic Guns aimed at the Totem Kings, who raised a barrier and retreated behind a mountain.
• The two Magic Guns fired bolts of lightning at the Totem Kings.

Cheng Han used the God Extinguishing Muskets to kill two Totem Kings who had mistaken his power for a secret treasure they could seize. He anticipated that the Totem Gods would eventually oppose his reforms, but believed the Divine War and the coming Calamity Insect Swarm would delay them as he pursued the second Godhood Road.

• The two Totem Kings mistook Cheng Han's power for a temporary boost from a secret treasure and planned to kill him, while guarding against each other.
• Cheng Han used the God Extinguishing Muskets to lock onto the retreating Totem Kings and fired at them from beyond the hill.
• The Totem Kings burned their Totem Shadows to increase their power and escape, but the shots pierced their shield and reduced them to ashes.
• Cheng Han judged the muskets' power greater than expected and considered how the Totem Gods would react to his changes to World Power.
• Cheng Han anticipated that the Divine War and Calamity Insect Swarm would distract the Totem Gods while he pursued the second Godhood Road.

General Overseer Gu arrived at Cheng Han’s Grade A Jupiter Ring and examined the rapidly growing Wandering Earth, whose Transcendental Fluctuation had risen to General Overseer level. As the Mystic Boat circled it, Gu noticed a huge silver Metal Ring embedded in its surface.

• General Overseer Gu traveled by Mystic Boat toward Cheng Han’s Jupiter Ring and envied the special treatment Cheng Han had received from Waves God General Rippling.
• Gu and his subordinates saw that the Wandering Earth had grown larger and sensed that its Transcendental Fluctuation had risen from Mystic Master to General Overseer level.
• The group debated whether Cheng Han planned to ram Celestial God stars with the enormous, mobile sphere, but Gu dismissed the idea as impractical.
• As the Mystic Boat circled the Wandering Earth, Gu spotted a silver Metal Ring about two hundred meters in diameter embedded in one of its hexagons.

Gu Xuandu visited Wandering Earth and learned that Cheng General Overseer was building Planetary Engines to propel it. He left understanding that Wandering Earth was intended to ram the Celestial God Star.

• Gu Xuandu and the Mystic Adepts entered Wandering Earth through an opening in its living Giant Vines and experienced its gravity returning inside.
• Gu Xuandu learned that Cheng General Overseer remained in seclusion after receiving Banyan Flower Divine Honey from the Waves God General Rippling's Command.
• Wei Luo led Gu Xuandu to a workshop where thousands of artificers were constructing a huge Planetary Engine designed by Cheng General Overseer.
• Wei Luo explained that Wandering Earth would have twelve Planetary Engines and could reach three times the speed of sound.
• Gu Xuandu realized the Engines would propel Wandering Earth into the Celestial God Star, and Wei Luo confirmed that the plan was to ram it.

Wei Luo and Qian Qingqing secured Gu Xuandu’s support for building more Planetary Engines, whose low operating costs could make ramming Celestial God stars practical. Gu Xuandu reported the breakthrough to Waves God General Rippling, who ordered him to assist the General Overseer Hall with all his strength.

• Gu Xuandu recognized that the Planetary Engine made the ramming tactic viable and offered Wei Luo help gathering Artisans and supplies.
• Wei Luo and Qian Qingqing explained that they had involved Gu Xuandu to speed construction and ease the God General’s concerns about the Giant Ball.
• Gu Xuandu promptly reported the Planetary Engine and its significance to Waves God General Rippling.
• Waves God General Rippling praised Gu Xuandu and ordered him to support the General Overseer Hall with all his strength.
• Gu Xuandu left the Secret Hall, surprised that he had received praise for reporting the news.

Waves God General Rippling told Azure Cloud God General that Cheng Han’s Wandering Earth Plan could transform the Star Sea Battlefield, and the two discussed the danger it might bring him. Azure Cloud intended to recall Cheng Han to the Void Wind Realm, while Rippling resolved to keep him in the Star Sea Battlefield as long as possible.

• Waves God General Rippling contacted Azure Cloud God General and explained Cheng Han’s Wandering Earth Plan and its likely impact on the battlefield.
• Azure Cloud God General deduced that Rippling had tried and failed to probe the Wandering Earth, and they agreed that Cheng Han’s strength was approaching a breakthrough.
• Azure Cloud God General considered recalling Cheng Han to protect him from the Birdmen, while Rippling offered special protection and asked to revisit the decision after the plan was completed.
• After their call ended, Rippling resolved to keep Cheng Han in the Star Sea Battlefield because his accomplishments would bring valuable merit.
• Azure Cloud God General’s Avatar worried that Rippling would enlist a God Monarch to obstruct Cheng Han’s recall and planned to advise him to keep a lower profile.

Gu Xuandu delivered valuable secret medicines and extra personnel to Wei Luo and Qian Qingqing, who concluded that the God General's Command hoped to persuade Cheng Han to stay. The first Planetary Engine successfully propelled the Giant Ball, prompting Waves God General Rippling to report its war potential to the Divine Lord.

• Gu Xuandu gave Wei Luo and Qian Qingqing secret medicines, including the Vast Sea Secret Medicine and Banyan Spirit Secret Medicine, and brought more Artificers than they had requested.
• Wei Luo and Qian Qingqing inferred that the God General's Command was trying to win them over so Cheng Han would remain in the Celestial God Star Sea.
• Five days later, Qian Qingqing used a Vine Bracelet to direct Mister Pei Qiang to install the first Planetary Engine on the Giant Ball.
• Qian Qingqing ordered an ignition test, and the Engine successfully started moving the Giant Ball as Gu Xuandu watched.
• Waves God General Rippling saw the Giant Ball accelerate and decided to report its immense war potential to the Divine Lord.

Cheng Han integrated the Banyan Flower Divine Honey and transformed his Profound Soul Imprint, advancing to Mid-rank Mystic Supervisor. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that He Di God Monarch wished to see him.

• Cheng Han completed his deduction of a new Profound Soul Imprint after integrating the divine honey's effects.
• Cheng Han transformed his Profound Soul Imprint and raised his Spirit Value to 2291.6 points.
• Qian Qingqing escorted Gu Xuandu to Cheng Han's seclusion hall, where they felt Cheng Han's overwhelming aura.
• Cheng Han emerged from seclusion and asked Qian Qingqing what was the matter.
• Gu Xuandu told Cheng Han that He Di God Monarch wished to see him.

Cheng Han traveled to meet He Di God Monarch and entered the Reaching Heaven Star River, where he realized the immense True Divine Artifact might contain the matter of several Small Worlds. Waves God General Rippling was surprised that Cheng Han could sense the river and stars’ true nature.

• Cheng Han and Gu Xuandu traveled toward the Grade A Jupiter Ring so Cheng Han could meet He Di God Monarch.
• Waves God General Rippling personally arrived and took Cheng Han away, leaving Gu Xuandu astonished at how favored he was.
• Cheng Han split off a stable wisp of his soul, and Waves God General Rippling brought him into the Reaching Heaven Star River.
• Cheng Han sensed that the river water and stars were real matter made illusory by Divine Power and speculated that the Star Emperor had consumed several Small Worlds to forge the artifact.
• Waves God General Rippling said Cheng Han was the first Mystic Supervisor to sense the artifact’s true nature.

The Waves God General Rippling brought Cheng Han to the Divine Decree Land, where the True Divine Artifact transformed his soul and increased his power. The He Di Divine Lord praised and protected Cheng Han before announcing that an opportunity for change had arrived.

• The Waves God General Rippling advised Cheng Han to comprehend more laws before ascending to the Divine Throne.
• At the Divine Decree Land, stars entered Cheng Han's soul, transforming him into a giant and increasing his Spirit Value and control over Space Power.
• The Waves God General Rippling reshaped Cheng Han into a one-kilometer Water Giant so he would be more noticeable among the God Generals.
• The He Di Divine Lord arrived with a Bronze Crane, and Cheng Han endured the crane's pressure without help.
• The He Di Divine Lord recognized Cheng Han, praised him, and thereby protected him from the assembled God Generals.
• The He Di Divine Lord announced that an opportunity for change had arrived, and the God Generals understood it was connected to Cheng Han.