Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen met with Swamp Crocodile and addressed the discrimination the Ferocious Beast Army faced, explaining how its soldiers could earn First-Class Citizen status through contributions. He then revealed that he planned to create a path for ferocious beasts to break through their limits and gain broader opportunities for promotion in the Great Flame Kingdom.

• After digesting the Fake Serious Criminals' memories, Yi Chen received Swamp Crocodile in the Great Hall.
• Yi Chen questioned Swamp Crocodile about its costly Third Grade defensive Spiritual Instrument, and Swamp Crocodile said it valued anything that improved its chances of survival.
• Swamp Crocodile told Yi Chen that the Four Routes Army made the Ferocious Beast Army take the lead in dangerous situations and that its soldiers faced discrimination.
• Yi Chen told Swamp Crocodile that its First-Class Citizen status entitled it to equal rights and that ferocious beasts could earn that status through contributions.
• Yi Chen told Swamp Crocodile he planned to create a path for ferocious beasts to break through their limits and gain broader promotion opportunities.

Yi Chen studied how ferocious beasts absorbed spiritual energy and began developing a cultivation method based on their shared Ferocious Beast Crystals. He left the Swamp Crocodile under his personal control and confirmed that a crystal-based energy vortex could draw in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, though the method still needed refinement.

• Yi Chen examined the Swamp Crocodile and over a hundred ferocious beasts with his Divine Sense, finding that their crude, varied methods made them cultivate slowly.
• Yi Chen decided to build a universal ferocious-beast cultivation method around the Ferocious Beast Crystal and asked the Swamp Crocodile whether it wanted to become the emperor of a new race.
• The Swamp Crocodile agreed, released its crystal, and let Yi Chen replace Bai Ruoxin as its controller through the Beast Taming Art.
• Yi Chen had ferocious beasts above level thirty remove their crystals and tested how energy released from and returned to the crystals interacted with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
• Yi Chen formed a more effective energy vortex by having the beasts release and withdraw energy at once, confirming his approach while continuing to seek a way to transform the absorbed energy.

Yi Chen ignored the upheaval caused by the General Political Department's announcement and focused on developing a cultivation method for Ferocious Beasts, then used Lu Qingxian's request to reopen negotiations with the Human Federation. He demanded vast resources and three million children as interest for the Federation's unauthorized use of his cultivation techniques, and warned that the Milky Way's Heavenly Dao might punish the Federation for withholding payment.

• The General Political Department announced punishments for people who had secretly learned Yi Chen's New Cultivation Method, causing turmoil across the Great Flame Kingdom.
• Yi Chen continued researching cultivation for Ferocious Beasts while Bai Ruoxin brought Lu Qingxian's virtual image to meet him.
• Yi Chen rejected Lu Qingxian's proposed contract and demanded resources and three million children as interest for the Human Federation's unauthorized use of his cultivation methods.
• Lu Qingxian refused Yi Chen's demands, but Yi Chen argued that the Milky Way's Heavenly Dao could punish the Federation for taking the benefits of his methods without paying him.
• Lu Qingxian and the leaders of the Council and Military were shocked when Yi Chen suggested the Heavenly Dao would punish the Human Federation.

Yi Chen used the Human Federation’s growing troubles as leverage in negotiations, demanding five million infants and toddlers as interest. After Lu Qingxian left, Yi Chen ordered a plan for raising and educating them, then returned to studying cultivation methods.

• Lu Qingxian admitted the Human Federation faced recurring troubles but hid that the Soul Race had become a major threat.
• Yi Chen warned that rising strength would bring more frequent problems and used the danger to pressure the Human Federation into paying interest.
• Lu Qingxian objected to sending infants as bargaining chips, but Yi Chen demanded five million children and required their delivery within ten days.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to have Zhong Ren, Feng Yue, and the other Deputy General Presidents prepare a detailed plan for raising and educating the children.
• After Bai Ruoxin left, Yi Chen resumed studying and adjusting the cultivation methods of the Swamp Crocodile and the Ferocious Beasts.

The Council and Military agreed to meet Yi Chen’s demands and devised a plan to secretly send resources and five million orphans to the Great Flame Kingdom. They decided the Revival Army would take the blame, then began arranging the cover story and contacting the necessary parties.

• A Military giant said the Federation had no choice but to accept Yi Chen’s demands, and the Council proposed blaming the Revival Army for delivering the materials and orphans.
• Lu Qingxian suggested portraying the Revival Army as powerful and loyal to Yi Chen, while claiming rebels and hackers had compromised the Space Fortress and warship surveillance.
• Lu Qingxian reasoned that Yi Chen would likely wait years before demanding another payment, and the giants hoped to buy time until the Third Envoy could pressure him into a contract.
• The giants spent more than a day devising a detailed cover plan for gathering five million orphans, collecting materials, and sending them through the Cosmic Storm Zone.
• The Council and Military leaders split up to contact Yi Chen and the Revival Army and make arrangements using their influence.

Yi Chen accepted Lu Qingxian’s proposal while secretly using the Human Federation’s cooperation to move supplies and five million orphaned children to the Great Flame Kingdom. He developed a unified cultivation method for ferocious beasts and planned to advance his cultivation before hiding the Teleportation Array on Exile Planet.

• Yi Chen agreed to Lu Qingxian’s proposal, and the Human Federation helped him secretly bring a transport ship, supplies, and five million children to the Great Flame Kingdom.
• Yi Chen sheltered the children in the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and decided he could not abandon the Great Flame Kingdom’s territory on Exile Planet.
• After a month and a half of work, Yi Chen created a cultivation method that let ferocious beasts absorb energy through their Ferocious Beast Crystals.
• Yi Chen unified the ferocious beasts’ energy traits through the new method, making the mixed group capable of becoming the Demon Race once they adapted.
• Yi Chen left the Swamp Crocodile to lead the spread of the cultivation methods and planned to visit the Crimson Planet to advance before creating a Formation to conceal the Teleportation Array.

Yi Chen returned to the Crimson Planet, found the Nika Tribe restored to order, and gave Chief Nika new instructions as he prepared for future expansion. The chapter left Chief Nika to gather and train workers, strengthen the tribe’s warriors, and await Yi Chen’s plans to raid Sharp Edge Planet and other tribes.

• The Swamp Crocodile told the full-level ferocious beasts that breaking through would bring Heavenly Tribulation, and that Yi Chen planned to study it when the Swamp Crocodile reached that point.
• Yi Chen teleported to the Crimson Planet, where Black Tiger Race guards recognized him and Chief Nika came to welcome him.
• Yi Chen ordered Chief Nika to withdraw the guards from The Valley and provide the Low-Grade Immortal Stones he had gathered.
• Yi Chen told Chief Nika to select about five hundred thousand careful, nimble tribesmen to learn how to care for Human Race infants.
• Yi Chen instructed Chief Nika to strengthen the Nika Tribe’s warriors in preparation for raiding Sharp Edge Planet and attacking other tribes.

The Shadow Emperor reached Exile Planet to seek an alliance with Yi Chen, but discovered that Yi Chen’s true body had returned to the Heavenly Spirit Star System. He instead spoke with Yi Chen Clone and proposed that the Shadow Race ally under Yi Chen’s leadership, leaving Yi Chen skeptical.

• The Shadow Emperor passed through the Great Flame Kingdom’s defenses and searched Exile Planet, but found only Yi Chen Clone in the Flying Magic Treasure.
• The Shadow Emperor used the aura he had collected from Yi Chen to locate him millions of light-years away, then decided to negotiate with the clone instead.
• Yi Chen Clone asked how the Shadow Emperor had bypassed the Defense Array, and the Shadow Emperor explained the Shadow Race’s ability to pass through tiny gaps in energy barriers.
• The Shadow Emperor assured Yi Chen Clone that Earth Tree Race Experts could only break through the Defense Array by force, though its shield might last only about a minute.
• The Shadow Emperor announced that he represented the Shadow Race in seeking an alliance with Yi Chen, with Yi Chen as the alliance leader, and Yi Chen doubted his claim.

The Shadow Emperor revealed the Shadow Race’s history and plight to Yi Chen, offering to put his life under Yi Chen’s control in exchange for an alliance. While the Shadow Emperor drafted a contract and shared information about the Earth Tree Race, Yi Chen’s main body successfully broke through to a new Great Realm on Sharp Edge Planet.

• The Shadow Emperor told Yi Chen everything about the Shadow Race and his own actions, explaining that Yi Chen’s extraordinary fortune had given him hope of saving his people.
• Yi Chen agreed to an alliance if the Shadow Emperor would surrender control of his life and death, and said he would perform the Blood Oath after his main body broke through in half a day.
• The Shadow Emperor drafted a contract and told Yi Chen about the Supercluster and the Earth Tree Race while Yi Chen prepared tea and talked with him.
• On Sharp Edge Planet, signs of Yi Chen’s breakthrough gathered across the sky, and Nika sensed the phenomenon and hurried to The Valley to observe and cultivate.
• After more than half an hour, the gathered light scattered as starlight across the land, and Yi Chen opened his eyes after successfully breaking through.

After breaking through to the Profound Immortal Stage, Yi Chen stabilized his realm and finalized an alliance with the Shadow Emperor and the Shadow Race. He then arranged for the Shadow Emperor to conceal the Teleportation Array on Exile Planet from Earth Tree Race perception and human scanners.

• Yi Chen broke through to the Profound Immortal Stage, stabilized his transformed Qi Sea and meridians, and returned to the Great Flame Kingdom's palace.
• Yi Chen signed a contract placing the Shadow Emperor's life in his hands, then signed a second contract binding the Shadow Race to him as a junior ally.
• Yi Chen told the Shadow Emperor to call him State Lord and asked whether the Shadow Emperor could conceal his Formation from Earth Tree Race Experts.
• Yi Chen brought the Shadow Emperor to the secret chamber and explained that the Teleportation Array connected Exile Planet to Sharp Edge Planet and Crimson Planet.
• The Shadow Emperor enveloped the secret chamber with his shadow and activated a method that hid it from Earth Tree Race perception and human scanners.

Yi Chen arranged for the Shadow Race to monitor the Earth Tree Race and help secure resources, then prepared to travel to the Human Federation with the Shadow Emperor. Before leaving, he entrusted Bai Ruoxin with spacecraft training and the Teleportation Array, and departed aboard the Flying Magic Treasure with Little Golden Ball.

• Yi Chen ordered the Shadow Race to watch the Earth Tree Race External Affairs Department and asked the Shadow Emperor to gather Human Federation intelligence and resources.
• The Shadow Emperor agreed to help solve the Shadow Race's migration problems, and Yi Chen gave him a Space Stone containing treasures taken from Earth Tree Race Experts.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to train trustworthy clansmen to control spacecraft and warned her not to take the modified spacecraft beyond the Milky Way.
• Yi Chen brought Bai Ruoxin to the secret chamber, taught her how to use the Teleportation Array, and explained her duties in contacting the Black Tiger Race and managing the distant planets.
• Yi Chen returned Bai Ruoxin to the main hall, entered the Flying Magic Treasure with Little Golden Ball, and prepared to leave with the Shadow Emperor.

Yi Chen returned to Tailin City and asked Lin Yuehai about obtaining a Large Warship and locating Doctor Qi Li, whose expertise was needed to modify ships safely. Unable to buy a Large Warship locally, Yi Chen teleported straight to Doctor Qi Li’s room to bring him in personally.

• Shadow Emperor carried Yi Chen from the Flying Magic Treasure through the Cosmic Storm Zone to a nearby Life Planet, and Yi Chen continued to A61258 Planet in his Mini Spaceship.
• Lin Yuehai reflected on how Yi Chen’s escape had secured the Revival Army and how his own fortune had improved until he had paid off his debts and rebuilt his wealth.
• Yi Chen appeared in Lin Yuehai’s office and asked whether Tailin City could provide a Large Warship; Lin Yuehai said only decommissioned Medium Warships were available.
• Yi Chen asked about Doctor Qi Li, whom he needed to modify Rebel Army ships without risking sabotage, and decided to fetch him himself.
• Yi Chen changed his appearance and used the Teleportation Technique to arrive in Doctor Qi Li’s room.

Yi Chen used Soul Searching Technique to extract Doctor Qi Li’s memories and learned how his failed ambition to advance warship Laser Cannons had left him wealthy but trapped on the wrong research path. Yi Chen brought Doctor Qi Li back to Lin Yuehai’s office and ordered Lin Yuehai to transfer the money from Doctor Qi Li’s accounts.

• Yi Chen knocked Doctor Qi Li unconscious inside his villa and used Soul Searching Technique to bypass the memory-protection devices in his brain.
• Yi Chen learned that Doctor Qi Li was a former Federal Research Institute academician who had lost his position after selling confidential research and pursuing a risky project.
• Yi Chen discovered that Doctor Qi Li had spent decades and his accumulated wealth trying to improve Large Warship Laser Cannons, a research direction the Federation had moved away from.
• Yi Chen teleported Doctor Qi Li to Lin Yuehai’s office and instructed Lin Yuehai to transfer the money in Doctor Qi Li’s accounts.
• Lin Yuehai retrieved an encrypted transfer device from the office safe.

Yi Chen coerced Doctor Qi Li into modifying a Large Warship by revealing that he could uncover and extract his secrets, then offered him an annual salary of one trillion and freedom after the work was done. Doctor Qi Li remained wary and asked how Yi Chen would prove he would not kill him afterward.

• Lin Yuehai transferred Doctor Qi Li’s more than two hundred billion in assets to a secret account, and Yi Chen ordered him to wake Doctor Qi Li.
• Doctor Qi Li recognized Lin Yuehai, but Yi Chen explained that he wanted a Large Warship and future Large Transport Ships modified, along with access to Doctor Qi Li’s company and research lab.
• Yi Chen had Lin Yuehai return the funds after demonstrating that he could uncover Doctor Qi Li’s identity, secrets, and memories, and said he would assign guards to watch him.
• Yi Chen teleported Doctor Qi Li to a plain and displayed thousands of tons of Enlightenment Stones, showing that Doctor Qi Li’s wealth meant little to him.
• Yi Chen offered Doctor Qi Li an annual salary of one trillion and promised to set him free after he modified a large Spacecraft, but Doctor Qi Li asked how Yi Chen would prove he would not kill him afterward.

Yi Chen arranged for Doctor Qi Li to modify a Large Warship and then stole a fleet from the Tongxing Army. He returned to A61258 Planet and handed the captured ships to Lin Yuehai before continuing to cultivate in outer space.

• Doctor Qi Li agreed to erase his memories after modifying the Large Warship, and Yi Chen arranged for Lin Yuehai to contact him.
• Yi Chen traveled to the Tongxing Army base hidden inside a meteorite and killed its commander with a vase.
• Yi Chen took the Tongxing Army’s empty Large Warship and more than twenty small and medium-sized warships.
• Yi Chen returned to A61258 Planet, gave Lin Yuehai the Space Stone containing the ships, and resumed cultivating in outer space.

Yi Chen learned that the Earth Tree Race had confirmed its Third Envoy, who could arrive within two months, and considered how to delay the envoy without exposing that he had refused to sign the Loyalty Contract. He decided he needed to begin retreating before the envoy arrived, though he had not settled on a safe way to handle the powerful visitor.

• Yi Chen used Chief Nika's Low-Grade Immortal Stones to reach the second level of Mystic Immortal in just over ten days.
• The Shadow Emperor informed Yi Chen that the Earth Tree Race had selected its Third Envoy, who would come to retrieve the signed contract and help suppress the Shadow Emperor.
• Yi Chen learned that the Third Envoy was an Illusion Star-level expert around level 210, and the Shadow Emperor said he could track him undetected if Yi Chen released no energy or aura.
• Yi Chen considered using the Luck Incantation to weaken the envoy but judged the risks too high and abandoned the plan to injure him and force him into seclusion.
• Yi Chen decided to begin retreating before the envoy arrived so his disappearance would not reveal that he had not signed the Loyalty Contract.

Yi Chen ordered the Four Routes Army and other humans to return to the Great Flame Kingdom as he prepared a full evacuation through the Teleportation Array, while keeping the plan secret behind the announced sixth cultivation-method transmission. The six Deputy General Presidents learned of the danger posed by the Earth Tree Race and rallied behind Yi Chen, while viewers anticipated the upcoming transmission and discussed testing its Alchemy teachings.

• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to recall the Four Routes Army, arrange for ferocious beasts to take over its territory, seal the Great Flame Kingdom’s defenses after everyone returned, and prepare the General Political Department for a full evacuation.
• Yi Chen reassured Bai Ruoxin that the Human Federation would not dare attack the Revival Army, though its moles meant the army’s fate would have to wait until its location was no longer at risk.
• Bai Ruoxin told the six Deputy General Presidents about the Teleportation Array and evacuation plan, and they were shocked by the Earth Tree Race’s threat and Yi Chen’s refusal to submit to it.
• The Deputy General Presidents resolved to plan the evacuation and expressed excitement about following Yi Chen despite the danger.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room celebrated the expected sixth cultivation-method transmission and proposed having an Earth Tree Race Expert check whether Yi Chen had tampered with the Alchemy teachings.

Parliament and the Military tried to decipher Yi Chen’s recent moves while awaiting a plan involving the Earth Tree Race’s Third Envoy. On Flying Snow Planet, Morris reluctantly agreed to meet the Extragalactic Group’s First Envoy, hoping to learn how to finish his mission quickly.

• Parliament and Military leaders speculated that Yi Chen’s orders prepared the Great Flame Kingdom to withstand a sudden Human Federation attack.
• They learned that the greedy, unpopular Third Envoy had been chosen, making him a candidate they hoped to use in their plan.
• Morris’s poor management had driven Earth Tree Race residents from his territories and caused his tax payments and income to decline.
• Morris resented his low-profit assignment to the Extragalactic Group and planned to delay carrying it out.
• After hearing that the First Envoy and vassal-race personnel wanted to discuss an important matter, Morris agreed to meet them in hopes of learning how to find the Shadow Emperor and complete his mission early.

The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy tried to recruit Morris to the Federal Parliament’s side in its conflict with Yi Chen, while concealing key information about Yi Chen’s power. Morris rejected the request to interfere but was tempted by the Federation’s offer to invest in his arena.

• The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy arrived on Flying Snow Planet with a Human Federation negotiation expert, and Morris rebuked him for losing his physical body.
• The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy explained Yi Chen’s history with the Human Federation and described the Parliament’s deadlock with him over a loyalty contract.
• Morris refused to judge the Human Federation’s internal conflict, saying his mission concerned obtaining Yi Chen’s contract and suppressing the Shadow Emperor.
• The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy offered Morris more than a million High-Grade Immortal Stones and promised that the Federal Parliament would invest over half its future resources in Morris’s arena.
• Morris became interested in the generous offer and considered the Federal Parliament a friend worth cultivating.

Morris agreed to a contract with the Human Federation and set off for the Milky Way to persuade Yi Chen to sign an allegiance contract. Meanwhile, Yi Chen prepared to evacuate Exile Planet with the Great Flame Kingdom, determined that they would eventually return as the Great Flame Empire.

• Morris agreed to the contract terms, including a promise to persuade Yi Chen to sign an allegiance contract, and departed for the Milky Way aboard a Federal military warship.
• The Federal Parliament and military kept the agreement secret from Federation citizens, but Yi Chen learned of their plans through Shadow Emperor.
• Half a month later, Yi Chen stopped improving the Luck Incantation, established a hidden teleportation route, and returned to Exile Planet.
• Bai Ruoxin returned the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram to Yi Chen, carrying five million children, their caregivers, and five hundred thousand trained Black Tiger Race members.
• Yi Chen found the Great Flame Kingdom's people and army gathered for evacuation and felt sorrow at leaving the deserted settlements.
• Yi Chen arranged for half the Ferocious Beast Army to remain on Exile Planet and resolved that the Great Flame Kingdom would return as the Great Flame Empire.