Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen defeated the Swiftfoot Race after they attacked him, killing their fighters and capturing King Tess. He left King Tess unconscious and planned to create a technique to extract his memories about the Heavenly Spirit Star System.

• King Tess ordered Locke to kill Yi Chen, but Yi Chen vanished behind Locke and beheaded him with one strike.
• Yi Chen charged through the Swiftfoot Race, killed their expert and hundreds of fighters, and cut apart King Tess's vine.
• King Tess fled, but Yi Chen used the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and Immortal Binding Rope to slow and bind him.
• Yi Chen demanded information about the Heavenly Spirit Star System, the Swiftfoot Race, and their surrounding races through King Tess's perception ability.
• Yi Chen destroyed King Tess's cultivation realm, knocked him unconscious, and decided to develop a technique to extract his memories.

Yi Chen defeated King Tess’s Swiftfoot pirates, freed Chief Nika and his Black Tiger Race clansmen, and learned about the Black Tiger Race and Sharp Edge Planet. He offered to return Nika to Crimson Planet in exchange for his loyalty, and Nika immediately accepted.

• Yi Chen took King Tess’s Space Stone, stored the ship’s resources, and killed the Swiftfoot Race guards aboard the Giant Sailing Ship.
• Yi Chen freed Chief Nika and his clansmen from vines that suppressed their energy, then asked Nika about the Black Tiger Race, the Swiftfoot Race, and Sharp Edge Planet.
• Nika explained that King Tess had captured him and looted the Nika Tribe two years earlier, and that flying back to Crimson Planet on their own would take thousands of years.
• Yi Chen offered Nika the Giant Sailing Ship and additional resources, but Nika said they could not operate flying treasures from other races.
• Yi Chen offered to send Nika and his clansmen home if Nika swore loyalty to him, and Nika immediately prostrated himself and accepted.

Yi Chen bound Chief Nika with a Blood Oath and brought him and the Black Tiger Race clansmen along while he handled other matters. He rewarded Chief Nika with plundered resources, then began researching a technique to extract memories.

• Yi Chen made Chief Nika swear a Blood Oath, giving him control over the chief’s life and death.
• Yi Chen told Chief Nika and the others to cultivate aboard the ship and said he would send them back to the Crimson Planet in a few months.
• Chief Nika warned Yi Chen that staying near the Sharp Edge Planet could attract trouble, but Yi Chen ordered him not to question his decisions.
• Yi Chen gave Chief Nika the resources recovered from the Nika Tribe and much of King Tess’s plunder, earning the chief’s gratitude and loyalty.
• Yi Chen placed the Mini Spaceship in the cabin, activated its scanning system, and began researching a technique to extract memories.

Yi Chen created the Soul Searching Technique and used it to extract King Tess’s memories, learning about the Swiftfoot Race, Sharp Edge Planet, and nearby races. With the location of his escape route confirmed, he began constructing the Law Runes needed for a Teleportation Array, which he expected to complete in about three months.

• Yi Chen devised a cultivation method that let his Divine Sense imitate another person’s perception and evade their Biomagnetic Field.
• The Shadow Emperor considered killing Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race but decided against it and chose to cultivate before checking on Yi Chen later.
• Yi Chen tested the new method on the unconscious King Tess and extracted and organized all of his memories, naming the technique Soul Searching Technique.
• Yi Chen burned King Tess to ashes, and Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race rejoiced at their former enemy’s death.
• Yi Chen began constructing the roughly thirty Law Runes needed for a Teleportation Array after confirming his escape route from King Tess’s memories.

While the Federal Parliament and Military waited for the Earth Tree Race to appoint a Third Envoy, Yi Chen completed the Law Runes for a Teleportation Array in the distant Heavenly Spirit Star System. He stored Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race tribesmen in the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and took the Giant Sailing Ship, preparing to enter Sharp Edge Planet.

• The Federal Parliament and Military continued waiting for the Earth Tree Race to choose a Third Envoy, while their Think Tank misjudged Yi Chen's plans because it lacked key information about him.
• The chapter revealed that Yi Chen had left the Cosmic Storm Zone more than half a year earlier, leaving only his clone on Exile Planet, and that he had never signed a contract with the Earth Tree Race's second envoy.
• After three more months, Yi Chen completed the Law Runes required to construct a Teleportation Array in the Heavenly Spirit Star System.
• Yi Chen ordered Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race tribesmen into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram so they could stay there while he went to Sharp Edge Planet.
• Yi Chen stored the Giant Sailing Ship in his Storage Ring to conceal King Tess's death and preserve the ship's valuable materials for upgrading his Flying Magic Treasure.

Yi Chen traveled to Sharp Edge Planet and built a pair of Teleportation Arrays in a concealed cave within King Tess’s territory. After testing them successfully, he recognized their potential to strengthen Great Flame Kingdom’s control and movement across its territory.

• Yi Chen flew toward Sharp Edge Planet while cultivating and stockpiling luck for a possible future confrontation with the Earth Tree Race.
• Yi Chen entered Sharp Edge Planet and traveled to the Endless Mountain Range, choosing a hidden karst cave in King Tess’s territory for the Teleportation Array.
• Yi Chen excavated a mountain cave, set up a Defense Array, and repeatedly adjusted the Teleportation Array’s Law Runes until its Law Power stabilized.
• Yi Chen built a second Teleportation Array beside the first and successfully teleported between them.
• Yi Chen concluded that the Teleportation Arrays could improve Great Flame Kingdom’s troop movement and governance.

Yi Chen returned Chief Nika and his clansmen to Crimson Planet, where they found that the Tek Tribe had taken over the Nika Tribe. Yi Chen captured Chief Teke with the Immortal Binding Rope, leaving the Tek Tribe in disarray and Chief Nika’s people ready to reclaim their position.

• Yi Chen traveled from Sharp Edge Planet to Crimson Planet and released Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race clansmen from the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.
• Yi Chen told Chief Nika that the Tek Tribe had annexed the Nika Tribe, and Chief Nika recognized Chief Teke as the likely culprit.
• Yi Chen and Chief Nika flew to the tribe’s settlement, where guards sounded an alarm and Chief Teke confronted them.
• Chief Teke told Chief Nika to leave because the Nika Tribe had been merged into the Tek Tribe.
• Yi Chen bound Chief Teke with the Immortal Binding Rope despite his attempts to resist, throwing the Tek Tribe’s guards into chaos.

Yi Chen left Crimson Planet after defeating Chief Teke and setting up a Teleportation Array, then began developing a technique to bypass barriers as he traveled back to Exile Planet. Meanwhile, the Earth Tree Race Eighth Elder finished cultivating and turned to his official duties.

• Yi Chen knocked Chief Teke unconscious and left Chief Nika to take control of the Nika Tribe.
• Yi Chen set up a Defense Array and Teleportation Array in a valley, then ordered Chief Nika to keep the area sealed.
• Yi Chen left Crimson Planet and traveled toward Exile Planet, where he planned to set up another Teleportation Array.
• Yi Chen studied Space Law and began creating a Teleportation Technique capable of passing through Energy Shields and formations.
• The Earth Tree Race Eighth Elder absorbed a batch of high-quality Immortal Stones, replenished his supply, and began handling External Affairs Department business.

The Earth Tree Race Eighth Elder reviewed reports and ordered the External Affairs Department to investigate signs that the Time Race might be preparing for war. After reading a report about the Human Race and the loss of two envoys, he ordered a Third Envoy to recover a contract and suppress the Shadow Emperor, while leaving the Human Race to handle its own troubles.

• The Earth Tree Race Eighth Elder ordered the External Affairs Department to verify reports of Time Race experts infiltrating the Earth Tree Star Cluster and to alert the Tribal Chief if the threat was confirmed.
• He forwarded a vassal race's request for aid to the War Affairs Department after learning that the race had suffered a powerful attack.
• He reviewed a report claiming that a Human Race Special Envoy had died after the Shadow Emperor ambushed him, and ordered another expert to retrieve the Human Race contract.
• He assigned the Third Envoy to suppress the Shadow Emperor but decided that the Human Race would have to resolve its own hidden dangers.
• The Eighth Elder made his decision without knowing that the report omitted key facts about the Human Federation, Yi Chen, the contract, and the envoys' injuries.

The Human Federation planned to secure the Third Earth Tree Race envoy’s support against Yi Chen before asking him to help with the Soul Race. After more than five months of work, Yi Chen perfected a short-range Teleportation Technique that could pass through Energy Shields, Forbidden Restrictions, and Formations.

• Lu Qingxian explained that the Federation would use resources to secure a contract with the Third Earth Tree Race envoy and ensure he sided with them against Yi Chen.
• The parliament and military leaders agreed to keep their plans concerning the Soul Race secret until Yi Chen had signed a contract, then seek the envoy’s help in severely injuring the Soul Emperor.
• As the Mini Spaceship traveled toward the Milky Way, Yi Chen completed his Teleportation Technique inside the Flying Magic Treasure.
• Yi Chen tested and refined the technique, which let him teleport anywhere within eight thousand kilometers of his Divine Sense and bypass Energy Shields, Forbidden Restrictions, and Formations.

Yi Chen reforged his Flying Magic Treasure, crossed the Cosmic Storm Zone, and returned through the Large Defense System to the Exile Planet. Meanwhile, Chief Nika waited anxiously for Yi Chen to return, and Shadow Emperor wondered how Yi Chen was doing.

• Yi Chen spent three days reforging his Flying Magic Treasure, giving it enough speed to cross the Cosmic Storm Zone in around ten days.
• Yi Chen entered the Cosmic Storm Zone, dodged meteorites, and used the Mini Spaceship to check his position as he traveled.
• After more than ten days, Yi Chen emerged from the Cosmic Storm Zone, used a warp jump to approach the Exile Planet, and teleported through the Large Defense System's Energy Shield.
• Chief Nika conquered the Tek Tribe and waited anxiously for Yi Chen, fearing that the Swiftfoot Race would retaliate if Yi Chen never returned.
• Shadow Emperor, cultivating on an Uninhabited Planet, remembered Yi Chen and wondered how he was doing.

Shadow Emperor tracked Yi Chen to the Milky Way and realized he might be preparing to rescue the Great Flame Kingdom’s citizens. Yi Chen returned to the Exile Planet, reunited with Bai Ruoxin and Little Golden Ball, and established a hidden Large Defense Array to prepare for a discreet evacuation.

• Shadow Emperor detected Yi Chen’s direction and, believing Yi Chen had not abandoned the Great Flame Kingdom, hurried toward the Milky Way to seek an alliance.
• Yi Chen found the palace-shaped Flying Magic Treasure on the Exile Planet and reunited with Bai Ruoxin and Little Golden Ball after more than a year away.
• Yi Chen learned that the Great Flame Kingdom controlled 2.8 billion square kilometers and had a population exceeding six million.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to return to the Great Flame Kingdom and crafted Law Runes for a Large Defense Array while they traveled.
• Yi Chen completed and concealed the Large Defense Array around the Great Flame Kingdom, leaving it ready to be activated for the planned evacuation.

Yi Chen completed a Large Defense Array covering the Great Flame Kingdom, prompting Federation viewers to assume he had run out of ideas and was acting out of spite. He left the array inactive while guards learned to operate it and ordered officials to announce that citizens would enter and exit through its four openings.

• Live Stream Room viewers watched Yi Chen set up a Large Defense Array and speculated that he was blocking Scanner scans because he had stopped creating new cultivation methods.
• Federation viewers debated Yi Chen's refusal to sign a contract, and public opinion began shifting against him again after more than a year without reconciliation.
• Yi Chen returned to the Royal Palace and worked on weakening the Heaven Severing Art for Spirit Dao Stage cultivators.
• Yi Chen summoned more than a dozen trusted guards, taught them how to open and close the array, and instructed them to test its Array Eye and four openings before activating it.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to have the General Political Department announce that citizens could enter and leave the Great Flame Kingdom only through the array's four openings.

Yi Chen activated a Large Defense Array across the Great Flame Kingdom and completed a Teleportation Array linking the Exile Planet with the Sharp Edge Planet and the Crimson Planet. He began preparing to gather the planet’s Human Race and beasts as he faced pressure from the Human Federation.

• The Live Stream Room viewers speculated that Yi Chen had built the Large Defense Array to conceal a new cultivation method and defend against the Human Federation, but they doubted it could stop the Federation from learning the techniques or using force.
• The guards learned to operate the Large Defense Array and successfully activated it across the Great Flame Kingdom.
• Yi Chen built a Teleportation Array in a secret chamber beneath the Royal Palace and tested travel between the Exile Planet and the Sharp Edge Planet, though he worried the array could be discovered.
• Yi Chen ordered Bai Ruoxin to gather the known Fake Serious Criminals, halt the Four Routes Army’s expansion and bring the planet’s Human Race to the Great Flame Kingdom, and have the Swamp Crocodile bring back Full Level Ferocious Beasts and beasts of various levels.

The Federal Parliament and Military analyzed Yi Chen’s preparations and agreed on countermeasures while waiting for the Earth Tree Race’s Third Envoy. They decided to infiltrate the Great Flame Kingdom and restart negotiations, hoping to delay Yi Chen or secure a contract first.

• Lu Qingxian and the Federation’s leaders concluded that Yi Chen had raised a Large Defense Array, gathered the Fake Serious Criminals, and prepared to hide or evacuate the Great Flame Kingdom’s people.
• The Think Tank warned that Yi Chen’s array could block Scanner scans and make his Flying Magic Treasure difficult to locate, while his summons likely meant he would demand loyalty from the Fake Serious Criminals.
• Lu Qingxian said the Federation’s Large Defense System had sealed Exile Planet and might have prevented Yi Chen from escaping, though the leaders did not know he had already left the planet and the Milky Way.
• Lu Qingxian urged the leaders to keep pursuing a contract with the Earth Tree Race’s Third Envoy while preparing for unexpected developments.
• The Federal Parliament and Military decided to infiltrate Exile Planet and restart the Fifth Negotiation with Yi Chen.

The Wind Riding Great Emperor worked to finish a Starry Sky Gourd that the Various Races planned to use to reach Exile Planet and kill Yi Chen. After learning Yi Chen had quickly built a powerful defense array around the Great Flame Kingdom, the Soul Emperor reconsidered his plan to capture him.

• A Wind Riding Race member told the Wind Riding Great Emperor that Yi Chen had set up a Large Defense Array across the Great Flame Kingdom in about an hour, and that it blocked warship scans.
• The Wind Riding Great Emperor explained that the Various Races had secretly joined forces to create a fast, durable, scan-blocking Starry Sky Gourd and send five Angel Alliance Supreme Experts to kill Yi Chen.
• The Wind Riding Great Emperor estimated that he needed a few more months to complete the Forbidden Restriction on the Starry Sky Gourd.
• The Soul Emperor learned about Yi Chen's defense array and ordered his people to watch for the Human Federation testing its defensive power.

Yi Chen confronted more than three thousand Fake Serious Criminals in the Great Flame Kingdom and offered them a choice between leaving for the Human Federation or staying under harsher restrictions. Zhong Ren chose to stay, while the others hesitated over why that option carried the greater punishment.

• Yi Chen addressed the assembled Fake Serious Criminals and said he would spare them because many had contributed greatly to the Great Flame Kingdom.
• Yi Chen offered them two choices: leave after losing their cultivation realms and having their memories extracted, or stay after also losing their noble titles and becoming Second-Class Citizens.
• Zhong Ren immediately chose to stay, and Yi Chen accepted his choice.
• The crowd struggled to understand why staying meant a harsher penalty than leaving, especially because Second-Class Citizens had few benefits and little chance of promotion.

Yi Chen forced the Fake Serious Criminals to choose whether to stay in the Great Flame Kingdom or leave, then made them cripple their cultivation and extracted their memories. As the kingdom faced the fallout and prepared to uncover the remaining criminals, Lou Xing left the palace feeling grateful for the High Priest, whom he had come to accept as his father.

• Zhan Cheng chose to stay, and Yi Chen gave the Fake Serious Criminals five minutes to decide before treating everyone who remained prostrate as having chosen to leave.
• About half chose to stay and half chose to leave, and Yi Chen ordered all of them to cripple their cultivation.
• Yi Chen used the Soul Searching Technique to extract their memories, then told them to settle their affairs and instructed the General Political Department to announce the results.
• Yi Chen ordered Bai Ruoxin to recruit those who stayed into the Intelligence Organization and send the remaining Fake Serious Criminals back to the Human Federation.
• The High Priest waited outside the palace for Lou Xing, who felt fortunate to have gained a father he had gradually accepted.

Lou Xing told the High Priest that he had crippled his cultivation and been demoted to a Second-Class Citizen, leaving his father worried about his future. After learning that Yi Chen had given the same punishment to many powerful officials, Lou Xing warned that the resulting vacancies would intensify political competition and urged the High Priest to avoid forming factions.

• Lou Xing told the High Priest that he had crippled his own cultivation and been demoted to a Second-Class Citizen, shocking his father.
• The High Priest reassured Lou Xing that he still regarded him as his son, then worried that Lou Xing could not earn the contributions needed to regain First-Class Citizen status.
• The High Priest decided to plead with Yi Chen to cancel Lou Xing's demotion, but Lou Xing stopped him and explained that everyone involved had received the same punishment.
• The High Priest realized Zhong Ren, Feng Yue, and other powerful figures had also been punished, while Lou Xing said Yi Chen considered it a lenient warning.
• Lou Xing brought the High Priest back and advised him not to form factions or seek to fill the newly vacant posts, warning that political competition would grow fiercer.

Zhong Ren explained why Yi Chen’s punishment made leaving the Great Flame Kingdom a greater penalty than staying, and the Vice Presidents agreed to prepare for conflict with the Human Federation. As they left the palace, they argued over which of them would pursue Xi Yi.

• Feng Yue proposed announcing that the Vice Presidents had secretly learned an untaught New Cultivation Method, urging other undiscovered Fake Serious Criminals to turn themselves in.
• Zhong Ren explained that those who left would become citizens of the Human Federation, while those who stayed and accepted punishment had earned Yi Chen’s forgiveness.
• Zhong Ren urged the Vice Presidents to plan how to handle the Federal Parliament and the Military, and Feng Yue felt relieved that their undercover lives were over.
• Feng Yue claimed Xi Yi as his choice for the Deputy General President’s wife, but Zhong Ren and the other Vice Presidents insisted they would compete for her.
• The Vice Presidents left the Royal Palace while discussing the details of their announcement.