Chapter Summaries

Su Li realized he had forgotten his promise to visit Xia Ke’s parents and made amends by arranging a visit that evening. After an easy family dinner, Xia Ke’s father asked when the two planned to get married, leaving Su Li caught off guard.

• Su Li understood that Xia Ke was upset because he had forgotten his promise to meet her parents, and he apologized and suggested visiting that night.
• Su Li spent the afternoon planning gifts, choosing alcohol for Xia Ke’s father and rare, specially prepared plants for her mother.
• Su Li gathered supplies in the Virtual Universe and processed the plants in his laboratory before returning to the Real Universe.
• Su Li brought Xia Ke to her parents’ home, where they welcomed him with dinner and were pleased with his gifts.
• Xia Ke’s father asked Su Li and Xia Ke when they planned to get married, surprising Su Li.

After Xia Ke's father urged Su Li to take Xia Ke home and set a marriage date, Su Li and Xia Ke agreed to marry and discussed a grand proposal. Su Li then returned to the Virtual Universe and prepared to take Jessica back to the Rendo Civilization, leaving Linghui Star with her.

• Su Li told Xia Ke's father he wanted to marry Xia Ke as soon as possible, and Xia Ke's father asked him to take her home during the vacation and set a date.
• Su Li and Xia Ke agreed that he would take her home and marry her, while Xia Ke asked him to make a grand proposal.
• Su Li stayed overnight at Xia Ke's home, then returned to the Virtual Universe to fulfill his promise to Jessica.
• Jessica told Su Li her father was on Cold Sun Star and had warned her not to return, but Su Li agreed to take her there.
• Su Li outfitted Jessica in a pressure-resistant spacesuit and left Linghui Star with her.

Su Li and Jessica infiltrated Cold Sun Star so Jessica could return to her father, and Su Li saw how frightened the Rendo people were by the Xilan Civilization. He concluded that the Xilan Civilization’s growing deterrence made resistance difficult and resolved to learn more from Qina, Netri, and Monina.

• Jessica told Su Li that her father had refused to speak with her, so Su Li agreed to escort her into Cold Sun Star.
• Su Li infiltrated and took control of Cold Sun Star’s defense system, then carried Jessica onto the planet undetected.
• Su Li saw that the Rendo people were anxious and that shops and public services had begun shutting down.
• Su Li reflected that the Xilan Civilization’s victories had weakened its enemies’ confidence and that it might be pursuing rapid expansion.
• Su Li decided to ask Qina and Netri about the situation and to probe Monina for information.

Su Li found Jessica’s father, Grier, and reunited them before returning to the Tianheng System to build more B-Class mecha. As the holiday began, Su Li and Xia Ke flew to his home, where she nervously prepared to meet his parents.

• Su Li searched Cold Sun Star’s network and found Jessica’s father, Grier.
• Su Li brought Jessica to Grier’s castle, where she reunited with her father and Grier thanked Su Li.
• Su Li declined Grier’s invitation and left after telling Jessica to contact him if she was ever in danger.
• Su Li returned to the Tianheng System and built three more B-Class mecha over five days while Monina observed.
• Xia Ke arranged holiday matters at the Detective Bureau, and her parents agreed that she could visit Su Li’s home.
• Su Li and Xia Ke flew home for the holiday, and Xia Ke grew nervous as they set out from Quancheng Airport.

Su Li brought Xia Ke to his parents’ home in Quancheng, where her arrival surprised them and made dinner tense as she nervously met the family. After they returned to Su Li’s room, Xia Ke asked for intimacy, and Su Li reinforced and soundproofed the room before they began.

• Su Li’s parents opened the door to find Su Li and Xia Ke, and Wang Xin eagerly welcomed Xia Ke inside.
• Su Li’s parents questioned Xia Ke over dinner while she sat nervously and swallowed a braised rib whole.
• Su Li explained that high-level superhumans could digest bones, and Wang Xin served Xia Ke more food.
• After dinner, Xia Ke collapsed onto Su Li’s bed, hugged him, and admitted she was exhausted from being nervous.
• Xia Ke initiated intimacy, so Su Li used equipment from the Shop and Carbon Element Manipulation to reinforce and soundproof his room.

Su Li entered the newly revealed Ursa God Great Star Cluster and explored the ruined planet Ceres. After a giant Tentacle Monster appeared from a hidden spatial fluctuation and attacked him, Su Li subdued it and began learning its language.

• Su Li left Xia Ke sleeping and entered the Virtual Universe to investigate the new star cluster that had appeared after he reached Tier B.
• Su Li arrived in the Ceres System and found that the planet Ceres was covered in flesh-like matter and inhabited by monsters amid the ruins of a fallen civilization.
• As Su Li prepared to leave, a concealed void fluctuation cast a massive Tentacle Monster onto the planet.
• The Tentacle Monster attacked Su Li, who destroyed its tentacles and restrained it without killing it.
• Su Li exchanged sounds with the Tentacle Monster and quickly deciphered enough of its language to begin communicating.

Su Li captured and questioned Ceres, learning that the Tentacle Monster was an evolutionary who served Upper God Yingyu and worshipped the powerful Supreme Ursa God. Ceres revealed that Ursa God enforced rules across the star cluster and had transported hundreds of gods to a postponed God War, leaving Su Li wary of the power behind the region.

• Su Li asked the Tentacle Monster its name, and it identified itself as Ceres and warned him that he had violated Ursa God's rules.
• Su Li found Ceres listed in the Shop as an intermediate first-order evolutionary and purchased him so he would answer questions more cooperatively.
• Ceres explained that Ursa God was the supreme goal of evolution and killed gods who broke his rules, prompting Su Li to wonder how Ursa God monitored the vast star cluster.
• Ceres said he had been taken from his territory to fight in a God War between Upper God Yingyu and Upper God Tianhu, which had been postponed without a winner.
• Ceres revealed that Ursa God had transported 528 participants to the battlefield at once, and Su Li concluded that Ursa God might be stronger than an A-rank Superhuman.

Su Li learned that Ursa God forced the gods of its star cluster to fight and devour one another, and a mission appeared ordering him to enter the killing game and defeat or kill every opponent. After questioning Ceres about the rules and Superhumans, Su Li remained in Ceres’s territory with the details of the game in hand.

• Ceres told Su Li that gods fought to evolve by defeating opponents and devouring their cores under Ursa God’s deadlines.
• Su Li received the Ursa God Chapter mission to enter the killing game and kill or defeat every opponent for resource points.
• Ceres explained that Ursa God ranked gods into twenty-nine levels, set battle cycles by rank, and awarded victors their opponents’ bodies, territories, and subordinates.
• Su Li learned that Ceres was a level-two god and that Upper God Yingyu was a level-seven god who usually waited until its deadline to fight.
• Su Li asked Ceres about Superhumans, and Ceres recalled hearing that their strength could suddenly leap across many god levels.

Su Li considered joining Ursa God's killing game to gain Resource Points and territory, then returned to Ceres and took a fourth-level god’s core from it. The chapter left Su Li examining the core and questioning Ceres about what evolvers were.

• Su Li decided that joining Ursa God's killing game could earn him Resource Points and territory, and wondered how to enter it.
• Su Li left Ceres, which restored its tentacles and hid the core of an injured fourth-level god in its mouth.
• Su Li returned and demanded that Ceres reveal what it had hidden, then drew the hexagonal energy crystal toward himself.
• Ceres admitted that the crystal was the core of a fourth-level god, and Su Li asked whether all evolvers had one.
• Su Li concluded that Ceres barely understood what it was and continued examining the core.

Su Li returned the Level 4 God Core to the Ceres God, then built a Void Radar to locate powerful life-forms and learn more about the Ursa God's game. He found and subdued a near-B-Class creature, which accused him of violating the rules and warned that the Supreme Ursa God would not let him off.

• Su Li returned the Level 4 God Core to the Ceres God and decided that evolver cores would be another reason to join the Ursa God's game.
• Su Li assembled and activated a medium-sized Void Radar on Ceres to search for powerful life-forms.
• Su Li used the radar to identify a near-B-Class life-form 765 light-years away and traveled to its planet.
• Su Li pulled a gigantic earthworm-like creature out from underground and withstood its attacks until it stopped resisting.
• The creature told Su Li that he had violated the rules and that the Supreme Ursa God would not let him off.

Su Li persuaded the Earth Dragon God to explain how to contact Ursa God and request entry into the God War. When the Earth Dragon God finally presented Su Li’s request, Ursa God examined him and asked whether he wished to participate.

• Su Li pressured the Earth Dragon God into identifying itself and answering his questions.
• The Earth Dragon God explained that Su Li could request to join the God War by contacting Ursa God, and offered to use its remaining opportunity to do so.
• The Earth Dragon God summoned a stone stele and spent most of its ten-minute audience exchanging for resources.
• The Earth Dragon God presented Su Li’s request to Ursa God, whose shadow examined Su Li and asked whether he wanted to participate in the God War.

Ursa God summoned Su Li to Five Extremes Space, gave him the title Virtual God, a Divine Order, and the Primordial Star Bead containing the former home galaxy of the Tianfeng Civilization. Su Li left Earth Dragon God and began examining the Divine Order, though he could not yet read its writing.

• Ursa God transported Su Li to Five Extremes Space and asked his name and divine title.
• Su Li named himself Virtual God, and Ursa God gave him a Divine Order and designated him a Level Seventeen God.
• Ursa God gave Su Li the Primordial Star Bead, which contained the Tianfeng Galaxy as his initial resource.
• Su Li returned to Earth Dragon God, thanked him, and departed.
• Su Li arrived in an empty stretch of space and sent his consciousness into the Divine Order, finding writing he could not yet read.

Su Li studied the Divine Order and learned about Evolvers, Superhumans, and the rules of the God War. He activated the Primordial Star Bead and released the Tianfeng Galaxy, leaving him awestruck by the scale of his power.

• Su Li learned that he had to participate in a God War within three days and read about the differences among Evolvers, Superhumans, and their types.
• Su Li examined the Primordial Star Bead, which contained the Tianfeng Galaxy, and chose the empty void as a place to release it.
• Su Li activated the Primordial Star Bead with his energy and retreated as the galaxy began to expand into space.
• The Tianfeng Galaxy appeared with its star and nine planets, eight of them modified for various functions.
• Su Li watched the galaxy take shape and felt his belief that he could become a god proven true.

Su Li entered the sealed Tianfeng Galaxy and discovered that time had stopped there since Ursa God announced the God War and sealed it away. He met Tianfeng Civilization’s leader, Miris, and warned him that the civilization had to help him win the war or face harsh consequences.

• Su Li flew to Tianfeng Star and found that Tianfeng Civilization was human and its people’s knowledge of the outside world had been frozen at the moment Ursa God sealed them away.
• Su Li entered Tianfeng Star and summoned Tianfeng Civilization’s leader, Miris, who came to meet him.
• Miris bowed to Su Li, fearing that defying him would bring Ursa God’s destruction upon Tianfeng Civilization.
• Su Li assured Miris that he was not a Flesh Evolver, then warned that Tianfeng Civilization had to help him win the God War or he might cultivate one himself.

After taking control of the Tianfeng Civilization, Su Li returned to Quancheng and reflected on the danger of becoming indifferent to life. He and Xia Ke went for a nighttime stroll through his old school, where they discovered a pair of lovers sneaking around.

• Su Li gave Miris three days to suppress resistance across the Tianfeng Galaxy and bring the Tianfeng Civilization under control.
• Back in Quancheng, Su Li reflected on the lives sacrificed under the Ursa God's rule and resolved not to become indifferent to life.
• Xia Ke woke up, made an excuse to Su Li's parents for sleeping late, and suggested that she and Su Li go out together.
• Su Li took Xia Ke to Quancheng No. 1 High School, where they climbed over the wall and explored the dark campus as he shared memories from his school days.
• Xia Ke spotted a pair of lovers sneaking around inside a building.

Su Li and Xia Ke encountered Su Li’s former high school class monitor, Li Fengxin, while leaving their old school, and agreed to attend a class reunion after the New Year. Xia Ke encouraged Su Li to reconnect with ordinary people, and he recognized that maintaining human connections could matter as his power grew.

• Su Li and Xia Ke heard an intimate couple inside the school and hurried out, then encountered another couple by the wall.
• Li Fengxin recognized Su Li, and after Xia Ke nudged him, Su Li agreed to attend a class reunion before the tenth day of the New Year.
• Su Li questioned why Xia Ke wanted him to attend, and she said she worried his isolated life could affect his mental state.
• Su Li agreed that he should interact with more people, reflecting on the danger of allowing his growing power to distance him from humanity.
• Xia Ke admitted she wanted to attend because she was bored at home with Su Li, and he promised to take her along.

Su Li entered a God War against the seventeenth-level Nine Dragon God, who brought a dozen powerful subordinates to the battlefield. The chapter ended with Su Li standing unharmed after taking their combined attack head-on.

• Su Li accepted the God War and was teleported to a dense planet to face his opponent.
• Su Li sensed Nine Dragon God’s forces, including two B-rank lives and ten nearly B-rank subordinates.
• Nine Dragon God introduced himself, and Su Li revealed his giant golden form as the Virtual God.
• Su Li recognized Earth Dragon God among Nine Dragon God’s twelve generals.
• Nine Dragon God ordered all twelve subordinates to combine their energy attacks against Su Li.
• After the energy storm cleared, Nine Dragon God saw Su Li standing unharmed with one hand extended.

Su Li fought Nine Dragon God, using his abilities to overcome the stronger evolver and kill him. As Nine Dragon God’s followers charged or fled, Su Li turned to face them.

• Nine Dragon God struck Su Li hard enough to drive him back, but Su Li countered by summoning black armor and withstanding his next attack.
• Nine Dragon God ordered his twelve lackeys, including Earth Dragon God, to attack while he charged Su Li.
• Su Li restrained Nine Dragon God and used Carbon Element Manipulation to damage his brain and body, then battered him until he died.
• Nine Dragon God's followers watched in fear as the giant two-winged serpent exploded into bloody mist.
• The One-Legged Elephant led nine followers in a desperate charge while the last one fled underground, and Su Li launched the elephant into the sky before charging the others.

Su Li won the God War against Nine Dragon God and ordered Earth Dragon God to gather the corpses and energy cores. After returning to human form, Su Li revealed his identity to the bewildered Earth Dragon God and told him to help receive Nine Dragon God's legacy.

• Su Li surveyed the remains of Nine Dragon God and his followers, then realized Earth Dragon God had escaped.
• Su Li found Earth Dragon God hiding underground and ordered him to collect the corpses and energy cores.
• Su Li contacted Ursa God, reported his victory, and learned that his next God War was scheduled for 368 years later.
• Earth Dragon God mistook human-sized Su Li for the great god's subordinate, and Su Li struck him until he recognized the truth.
• Su Li spared Earth Dragon God and told him to help receive Nine Dragon God's legacy.

Su Li arrived at Tianfeng Star, where he found the civilization restoring order, and discovered that his latest kills had earned him more than eighty-one billion Resource Points. He bought the fifth part of the Nine Spirit Diagram of the Supreme God and learned about the powers of A-rank, though he wondered whether Ursa God surpassed that level.

• Su Li teleported to Tianfeng Star and visited Miris during a meeting at the Tianfeng Civilization's administrative center.
• While Miris's meeting continued, Su Li inspected Nine Dragon God's compressed energy core and considered using it as an energy source for reaching A-rank.
• Su Li checked his Resource Points and found that killing Nine Dragon God and his eleven subordinates had brought his total to more than eighty-one billion.
• Su Li spent twenty-seven billion Resource Points to purchase the fifth part of the Nine Spirit Diagram of the Supreme God.
• After digesting the information, Su Li learned that A-rank Superhumans stood at the pinnacle of ordinary life and wondered what rank Ursa God had reached.