Chapter Summaries

Han Liu learned that his sister Han Yu had safely infiltrated Yunqin Nation and was preparing to spy on the arriving Zhongji Star Demonic Beings. Lin Xuankong entered closed-door cultivation with four precious Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystals from Wang Ze, intending to advance quickly and help his companions grow stronger before the crisis.

• Wang Zuo reassured Han Liu that Han Yu’s secret contact method and training made her infiltration secure, and said she had earned Yi Feifeng’s trust.
• Wang Zuo brought Lin Xuankong, You Rui, and Han Liu to their new residences and announced that Zhennan Royal Family experts would use donated Source Stone Crystals to pursue breakthroughs.
• Lin Xuankong entered his cultivation room and found four top-grade Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystals and a letter from Wang Ze urging him to use them freely.
• Lin Xuankong decided the crystals could help You Rui, Han Bao, and others advance, increasing their chances of surviving the coming crisis.
• Lin Xuankong began fusing a Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystal and planned to help his companions accelerate their breakthroughs afterward.

Lin Haoyun and the Kindling Organization learned that Pang Liang had joined Yunqin Nation and that their plan to destroy its spacetime array had failed. With the Zhongji Star Demonic Beings set to arrive soon, they chose Plan B: evacuating only 35,000 people from Mars, leaving the rest behind.

• Lin Haoyun and Zhao Jiulin discussed how the Situ Shi and Situ Changming brothers had been captured and suspected that a mental attack had disabled them.
• Zhao Jiulin concluded that Yunhan Nation may have joined Yunqin Nation, giving its side nearly thirty Fourth Tier Gene Experts against the Kindling Organization’s forces.
• Wang Zuo reported that Pang Liang had used his Soul-Suppressing ability to capture the Situ brothers and that the other infiltrators had also been imprisoned after their attempt to destroy the spacetime array failed.
• Wang Zuo said the prisoners would likely be sacrificed to the Zhongji Star Demonic Beings when they arrived, and Lin Haoyun warned that the array would activate in a little over ten days.
• Lin Haoyun officially activated Plan B, and Wang Zuo explained that seven spacecraft could carry only 35,000 people away from Mars.

Yun Song Nation and other nations prepared to evacuate five thousand kindling seeds from Mars while a dozen Fourth Tier experts chose to remain and fight. In seclusion, Lin Xuankong advanced to the late Fifth Tier Life Tier and discovered that his Water Drawing Technique could kill nearly every lower-tier lifeform within five kilometers.

• Zhao Jiulin and Wu declared that they would stay on Mars to defend their nations, while four more Fourth Tier experts also chose to remain and fight.
• The remaining Fourth and Fifth Tier experts prepared to flee Mars aboard interstellar escape ships, and Lin Haoyun urged them to protect the kindling ships on their journey to a habitable planet thousands of light-years away.
• Lin Haoyun encouraged the experts staying behind, saying they could hide people across Mars and might resist the invasion until Wang Zuo emerged from Closed-door Cultivation.
• Lin Xuankong opened his eyes after reaching the Sixth Tier Life Tier, then spent nearly half a year advancing to the late Fifth Tier Life Tier.
• Lin Xuankong sensed that his Water Drawing Technique could control every water molecule within a five-kilometer radius and kill all lifeforms below the Fifth Tier Life Tier in that area.
• Lin Xuankong compared his ability with Yi Feifeng's, Wang Zuo's elemental powers, and the strength of Earth Immortals and higher-order lifeforms.

Lin Xuankong brought Han Bao, Han Liu, and Zhu Ling to meet the Zhennan Royal Family’s experts as the world-ending crisis approached. The gathered Gene Experts were awed by Lin Xuankong’s rapid progress but feared the Zhongji Star Demons would arrive before he and his disciples could grow strong enough.

• Lin Xuankong considered whether powerful Third Order Life Tier beings would target Mars, then accepted Patriarch Wang Zuo’s summons to the reception hall.
• Lin Xuankong teased Han Liu and Han Bao about how their fighting strengths depended on their distance, and the group joked together despite the looming calamity.
• Lin Xuankong and his companions entered the courtyard, where Sixth Tier Gene Experts discussed his astonishing advancement and regretted that the crisis might arrive too soon.
• Zhang Yun, Guan Gu, Tian Guang, Sun Lin, and Huang Liang greeted Lin Xuankong, and Zhang Yun marveled at how far Lin Xuankong and Han Liu had advanced since their last meeting.

As the Kindling Organization lost influence to Yunqin Nation, Lin Xuankong met with the planet’s leading experts, who were astonished by his rapid advancement and accepted his talent as extraordinary. The chapter left him entering a crucial meeting as the older super experts treated him as a peer and placed their confidence in him.

• The Kindling Organization publicized Lin Xuankong’s rapid progress to attract experts, while Yi Feifeng promoted Yunqin Nation’s strength and promises, drawing more nations to her side.
• Zhang Yun explained that Sun Lin alone among their group had fused a Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystal and reached the early Fifth Tier Life Tier, prompting Han Liu to tease her.
• Lin Xuankong led Han Liu, Han Bao, and Zhu Ling to the reception hall after Wang Zuo summoned them for an important discussion.
• Wang Youlin watched Lin Xuankong’s group arrive and reflected on how far Lin Xuankong and Han Liu had surpassed him, while Han Bao had also reached his Life Tier.
• Wu Peng, Lin Haoyun, Wang Zuo, Zhao Jiulin, and the other leading experts welcomed Lin Xuankong and praised his astonishing talent.

Lin Xuankong rejected the offer to leave Mars aboard an interstellar spaceship, choosing to remain and fight the coming invasion of the Zhongji Star Demonic Beings. Han Bao, Han Liu, and Zhu Ling also chose to stay with him, leaving the group resolved to face the crisis together.

• Wang Zuo and Lin Haoyun offered Lin Xuankong up to 110 spaceship places for him and his companions to escape Mars with its human kindling.
• Lin Xuankong refused to leave because he needed to grow stronger on Mars to pursue high-grade Source Stones and prepare for the coming crisis.
• Lin Xuankong offered his disciples the chance to take spaceship places, but Han Bao chose to stay and fight.
• Han Liu also declined to leave, citing his teacher and his elder sister's danger in Yunqin Nation.
• Zhu Ling chose to remain beside Lin Xuankong and You Rui, and Lin Xuankong affirmed that they would face the invading Demonic Beings together.

As Yunqin Nation’s allied forces invaded Mars’s human nations, Lin Xuankong and the other experts learned that several battlefronts had already been breached. Lin Xuankong left immediately with his companions to defend Stone City from Yunque Nation’s advancing army.

• Wang Zuo, Wu Peng, and Zhao Jiulin praised Lin Xuankong for staying to fight the Zhongji Star Demons, while Lin privately considered the crisis a chance to obtain resources and a Fourth Tier Source Stone Crystal.
• Wang Youlin reported that Yunqin Nation’s allied forces had launched attacks across several nations, and Wu Peng left to defend Yun Dong Nation.
• Wang Youlin described attacks on Tang Nation’s southern, northern, and southeastern fronts, including a Yunque Nation army advancing toward Stone City.
• Lin Haoyun departed to fight the northern force, while Wang Zuo took responsibility for the southeastern battlefield.
• Lin Xuankong volunteered to lead companions to defend Stone City’s shelters, and Wang Zuo assigned Wang Youlin and his younger brother to join them while sending the Sixth Legion as reinforcements.

Lin Xuankong and Zhao Jiulin traveled to Stone City as Yunque Nation’s army approached Shelter No. 36. Han Liu and the others arrived to defend the shelter, while one-armed Commander Li learned that the reinforcements included renowned experts.

• Zhao Jiulin agreed to accompany Lin Xuankong to Stone City and help repel Yunque Nation’s army if needed.
• Deputy Captain Ma and Commander Li Chuang debated whether Shelter No. 36 should evacuate or stand and fight as the approaching army threatened the city.
• Deputy Captain Ma refused to abandon Shelter No. 36, confident that Lin Xuankong, You Rui, Han Liu, and Han Bao would return in time.
• Han Liu arrived and revealed that Lin Xuankong, Zhao Jiulin, You Rui, Han Bao, Zhu Ling, and others had come with him.
• Lin Xuankong and the others dismounted from the Sixth Tier Cloud Beast, and Li Chuang recognized Zhao Jiulin from his famous spar with Wang Zuo.

As Yunque Nation’s massive army approached Shelter No. 36, Lin Xuankong and Zhao Jiulin prepared the defenders and planned how to counter its Fifth Tier experts. Zhao Jiulin’s disciple Sun Lin volunteered to test the enemy’s strength, and the chapter ended as she prepared to fight.

• Zhao Jiulin encouraged Li Chuang and praised Lin Xuankong and Sun Lin as examples of hope for the future.
• Lin Xuankong insisted that Zhao Jiulin keep fighting alongside the younger generation and declared that Yunque Nation’s defectors could be routed by defeating their Fifth Tier leaders.
• You Rui ordered Deputy Captain Ma to assign the squads and promised valuable rewards to those who killed enemy troops while defending Shelter No. 36.
• Lin Xuankong and the other experts gathered atop the main gate tower, where Zhao Jiulin and Commander Li assessed Yunque Nation’s army, pet beasts, and five Fifth Tier experts.
• Zhao Jiulin asked for a disciple to probe the enemy, and Sun Lin volunteered to fight first.

Yunque Nation’s army reached Shelter No. 36, where Moyou confronted Zhao Jiulin over their old grudge and Sun Lin challenged him with her giant tree. Sun Lin’s first attack failed against Moyou’s energy ripples, and her more powerful second volley was still flying toward him when the chapter ended.

• Yunque Nation’s army halted ten kilometers from Shelter No. 36, and five commanders flew toward the city on enormous Vulture Source Beasts.
• Moyou recognized Zhao Jiulin and taunted him over their battle nine years earlier, while Zhao Jiulin mocked Moyou as a defeated underling.
• Sun Lin leaped from the wall, grew a giant tree covered in metal-like spiked fruits, and challenged Moyou to fight her.
• Sun Lin launched over a hundred thousand spikes at Moyou, but he stopped them with energy ripples and mocked her.
• Sun Lin fired hundreds of spiked fruits at Moyou in a stronger second attack as he and the other Yunque Nation commanders laughed.

Sun Lin injured Moyou’s Vulture Source Beast with exploding spiked fruits, but Valiki used spatial teleportation to ambush and badly wound her. She revealed that she had trapped Valiki with the Destruction Giant Wood, binding him tightly and leaving him unable to break free.

• Sun Lin’s exploding spiked fruits pierced Moyou’s Vulture Source Beast and damaged Moyou’s armor, forcing Moyou to retreat and order Valiki to attack her.
• Valiki transformed into a giant and charged Sun Lin, but Zhao Jiulin warned her that Valiki could teleport.
• Valiki teleported behind Sun Lin and smashed her right shoulder, sending her into a deep crater and severing her arm.
• Zhao Jiulin refused to let his other disciples intervene, saying Sun Lin needed to face the defeat herself.
• Sun Lin stood up and revealed that the Destruction Giant Wood had pierced and bound Valiki’s legs before he struck her.
• The Destruction Giant Wood wrapped Valiki’s entire body, trapping him so tightly that he could not break free.

Sun Lin revealed that she had baited Valiki into the Destruction Giant Wood’s binding branches with Zhao Jiulin’s help. As Nine Infants attacked her retreat, Zhao Jiulin intercepted him, and their fierce battle remained undecided.

• Sun Lin explained that she had let Valiki wound her so she could trap him in the Destruction Giant Wood, with Zhao Jiulin helping conceal their plan.
• Moyou ordered the remaining Yunque Nation experts to rescue Valiki, and Nine Infants charged at Sun Lin as she retreated toward Shelter No. 36.
• Zhao Jiulin intercepted Nine Infants and challenged him to a duel, while Sun Lin and the Destruction Giant Wood continued toward the shelter.
• Zhao Jiulin and Nine Infants fought at tremendous speed, and Lin Xuankong observed that Zhao Jiulin’s Golden Bone Whip threatened Nine Infants’ armored bodies.
• Han Liu asked Han Bao to predict which of the two experts would win.

Zhao Jiulin drove back Nine Infants in their duel, but Yunque Nation then deployed tens of thousands of Acid Ball Worms against Shelter No. 36. Lin Xuankong ordered the shelter’s defenders to prepare for the bombardment, intending to use the battle to train his troops rather than intervene himself.

• Han Liu confidently predicted Zhao Jiulin would win, while Han Bao dismissed his boasting.
• Zhao Jiulin’s Golden Skeleton Whip badly damaged Nine Infants’ nine bodies, and Nine Infants retreated after taunting him and warning of Zhongji Star’s power.
• Moyou led Yunque Nation’s four Fifth Tier Gene Experts back to their army as tens of thousands of Acid Ball Worms advanced and aimed their acid attacks at Shelter No. 36.
• Zhao Jiulin explained the danger posed by the Acid Ball Worms and told Lin Xuankong to prepare the shelter’s defenders to destroy their acid balls.
• Lin Xuankong ordered You Rui to ready the Heavy Cannons and chose to let the Gene Warriors fight so they could gain battlefield experience.
• The Heavy Cannons shifted into position as Shelter No. 36’s disciplined crews prepared for the battle.

You Rui ordered Shelter No. 36’s ten thousand Heavy Cannons to bombard Yunque Nation’s Acid Ball Worm Legion, inflicting heavy casualties and forcing it to retreat. Moyou and Nine Infants withdrew their forces and planned a night raid to destroy the shelter, while Shelter No. 36’s Gene Warriors celebrated their victory.

• Zhao Jiulin praised Shelter No. 36’s Heavy Cannons, and Lin Xuankong credited You Rui and the shelter’s workers for its defenses.
• You Rui ordered the Heavy Cannons to fire as the Acid Ball Worms launched acid spheres, and most of the shells pierced the corrosive fog and struck the enemy positions.
• Shelter No. 36’s bombardment killed thousands of Acid Ball Worms and wounded many more, forcing Moyou to order a retreat.
• Nine Infants urged Moyou not to retreat because Valiki remained captive, and Moyou revealed plans to send troops into Shelter No. 36 on a night raid.
• Nine Infants vowed to leave no one alive when the shelter fell, while Shelter No. 36’s Gene Warriors cheered their victory.

After Shelter No. 36 repelled Yunque Nation’s army, its residents celebrated while Lin Xuankong prepared to counter the enemy’s planned night raid. At the banquet, Zhao Jiulin wondered why Lin Xuankong had not appeared, unaware that Lin Xuankong was handling the threat.

• Shelter No. 36’s Gene Warriors and disaster survivors celebrated their victory after its Heavy Cannons drove back Yunque Nation’s army and Acid Ball Worms.
• Zhao Jiulin ordered Zhang Yun to tell Yun Song Nation’s officials to more than double Capital City’s Heavy Cannons.
• Lin Xuankong told You Rui that he had overheard Yunque Nation’s leaders discussing a night raid, and asked her to keep the celebration going while he dealt with it.
• Shelter No. 36 held a large banquet across its plazas, while its residents celebrated the victory at home.
• Zhao Jiulin spoke anxiously about the approaching world-ending crisis, and Sun Lin and Han Liu urged confidence in their allies’ strength.
• Zhao Jiulin asked Han Liu why Lin Xuankong had not appeared at the banquet, and Han Liu realized he had not seen him all evening.

While Shelter No. 36 celebrated, Lin Xuankong infiltrated the Yunque Nation army camp alone to stop its planned surprise attack. He revealed his air-like Origin Energy Body to Moyou and the other leaders, and Nine Infants's clones failed to harm him.

• You Rui told Zhao Jiulin and the others that Lin Xuankong had gone alone to the Yunque Nation camp, prompting Han Liu, Han Bao, and Zhu Ling to offer to help him.
• Zhao Jiulin assessed the enemy camp's overwhelming forces and said Lin Xuankong's success could inspire human experts.
• Moyou and Nine Infants discussed launching a surprise attack on Shelter No. 36 and killing its inhabitants to avenge Valiki's capture.
• Valirong proposed leading the attack, but he and the other Yunque Nation experts noticed a humanoid figure made of air approaching their central camp.
• Lin Xuankong identified himself to Moyou and warned that the planned attack on Shelter No. 36 would not happen.
• Nine Infants sent three clones to attack Lin Xuankong, but their repeated strikes passed through his Origin Energy Body as it continually restored itself.

Lin Xuankong used Huang Yuan’s Source of Qi ability to withstand Moyou’s attack, then unleashed water and ice abilities against Yunque Nation’s forces. He trapped Moyou, Nine Infants, two other Fifth Tier Gene Experts, and five Vulture Source Beasts in thick ice and demanded that they surrender and reveal Yunqin Nation’s arrangements and information about the Zhongji Star God Race.

• Moyou attacked Lin Xuankong’s air-form body with powerful Energy Ripples, and the form dispersed before Lin Xuankong appeared unharmed at the tent entrance.
• Lin Xuankong credited Huang Yuan’s Source of Qi ability for making him immune to the physical attacks of Yunque Nation’s Dragon Elephant Gene Experts.
• Lin Xuankong caused water to flood the camp, prompting Moyou and the other Fifth Tier Gene Experts and Vulture Source Beasts to leap into the air.
• Lin Xuankong sent water pillars upward as torrential rain fell, trapping four Fifth Tier Gene Experts and five Vulture Source Beasts between the streams of water.
• Lin Xuankong froze all nine enemies in thick ice and demanded their surrender and detailed information about Yunqin Nation’s plans and the Zhongji Star God Race.

Lin Xuankong froze Yunque Nation’s hundred-thousand-strong army and hundreds of thousands of Source Beasts, killing nearly half and imprisoning the rest. He left the survivors’ fate to be decided later, then asked Shelter No. 36’s forces to bring the captives back and kill the Source Beasts.

• Lin Xuankong left Moyou and eight other Fifth Tier lifeforms trapped in massive ice pillars while he moved through Yunque Nation’s camp.
• Lin Xuankong froze the camp’s troops and Source Beasts in less than three minutes, killing nearly half and leaving the rest unable to move.
• Moyou watched the destruction of his army and regretted underestimating Tang Nation and Lin Xuankong.
• You Rui and over ten thousand Gene Warriors from Shelter No. 36 arrived and reacted with astonishment at Lin Xuankong’s victory.
• Zhao Jiulin, Sun Lin, Zhang Yun, and the others praised Lin Xuankong when he returned to the gathered forces.
• Lin Xuankong ordered Shelter No. 36’s forces to take the imprisoned people back to Shelter No. 36 and kill the Source Beasts on the spot.

Lin Xuankong learned that Yunqin Nation might be using a reservoir of Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystals to accelerate the Gate of Advent, and gathered allies to plan an attack before the enemy learned that their secrets had been exposed. The chapter ended with Han Bao, Han Liu, and Zhu Ling volunteering for the dangerous mission.

• Zhao Jiulin and Yun Song Nation's experts declared they would fight Zhongji Star's demons despite the threat to Mars's human race.
• Lin Xuankong explained that disrupting Yunqin Nation's Energy Reservoir might slow the Gate of Advent, if the captured Yunque Nation experts' information was true.
• Han Liu asked Lin Xuankong to contact Wang Zuo and confirm the intelligence with Han Yu.
• Lin Xuankong reported that Han Yu believed Yunqin Nation's experts were hunting Fifth Tier Source Beasts to obtain crystals, and that Yunque Nation's defectors may have learned secrets about the Gate of Advent.
• Lin Xuankong proposed infiltrating Yunqin Nation to destroy the Energy Reservoir, and Wang Zuo arranged to bring Lin Haoyun and other experts to Shelter No. 36 to plan the operation.
• Han Bao, Han Liu, and Zhu Ling volunteered to join the mission.

Lin Xuankong and his allies rallied volunteers for a dangerous operation against Yunqin Nation, then Wang Zuo outlined Operation Zero and assigned teams to strike near Jianzhou. The chapter ended with Team One warned that its target was heavily guarded and could be even more dangerous than the Gate of Advent mission.

• You Rui, Zhao Jiulin, Sun Lin, and Lin Xuankong’s disciples volunteered for the mission, while Zhang Yun and the others explained they had hesitated because they feared being a liability.
• Lin Xuankong explained that the operation would use separate teams, diversions, and strategic attacks rather than a direct assault.
• At Nu Mountain, Wang Zuo identified the Heshan Mountain Range near Jianzhou as Target Zero, where destroying energy storage devices could delay the Gate of Advent’s opening.
• Wang Zuo assigned Wu Xiang, Zhao Jiulin, and Lin Xuankong to lead Team One in attacking Jianzhou’s industrial district and its resource and production facilities.
• Wang Zuo warned Team One that at least four Fourth Tier Life Tier experts guarded the industrial base and that the mission could be more dangerous than Team Zero’s.