Chapter Summaries

The Shadow Race offered to care for and strengthen the Great Flame Empire’s children, provoking the Black Tiger Race and prompting the High Priest to seek Yi Chen’s approval. Swamp Crocodile then proposed integrating the Demon Race into the empire, outdoing the Shadow Race in proving his loyalty to Yi Chen.

• Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race’s higher-ups accused the Shadow Race of trying to displace them and warned that its offer might conceal a plot.
• The High Priest and six Deputy General Presidents calmed the Black Tiger Race, while the Shadow Kings stopped arguing and agreed to wait for Yi Chen’s decision.
• The High Priest resumed the discussion of Contribution Points, but Swamp Crocodile argued that the Demon Race should not need to participate because its members were already citizens of the Great Flame Empire.
• Zhong Ren, Feng Yue, and the others realized Swamp Crocodile meant to offer the Demon Race’s full integration into the empire, and the Shadow Kings grew wary of their rival.
• Swamp Crocodile formally asked the High Priest to tell Yi Chen that the Demon Race was willing to fully integrate, prioritizing his master’s favor over the Demon Race’s independence.

Yi Chen settled the Shadow Race and Demon Race proposals, setting rules for their place in the Great Flame Empire. After Zhong Ren reported his decisions, the four parties resumed negotiations and agreed on a Contribution Points system.

• The High Priest sent Zhong Ren to ask Yi Chen for instructions after the meeting stalled over the Shadow Race and Demon Race proposals.
• Yi Chen approved the Shadow Race’s offer but rejected servants, ordered the Black Tiger Race caretakers returned to the Nika Tribe, and instructed the Intelligence Organization to monitor the tribe and eliminate those who hated the empire.
• Yi Chen rejected the Swamp Crocodile’s proposal to incorporate the Demon Race, instead allowing members of the Demon Race, Shadow Race, and Black Tiger Race to apply for Second-Class Citizenship after making sufficient contributions.
• Zhong Ren returned to the meeting and announced Yi Chen’s decisions, leaving the Black Tiger Race dissatisfied and the Swamp Crocodile disappointed while the Shadow Kings felt relieved.
• The General Political Department and the three races resumed negotiations and agreed on a Contribution Points calculation and spending system.

The Great Flame Empire announced the First and Second Generation Blessed Grotto Heavens, spurring citizens and allied races to cultivate and seek Military Merits. After advancing to Mystic Immortal Level Eight, Yi Chen returned to address the Demon Race’s coming tribulations and prepare for the next cultivation teaching and expansion.

• The General Political Department announced the Blessed Grotto Heavens, and citizens called for the expansion plan that would let them earn Military Merits.
• Former Ferocious Beast Army members joined the Great Flame Empire as Second-Class Citizens, while the Shadow Race sent hundreds of thousands of young geniuses to cultivate in the Blessed Grotto Heavens.
• The Shadow Emperor and Chief Nika retained leadership of their peoples while receiving Great Flame Empire identities, though Chief Nika privately felt he deserved a higher rank.
• Yi Chen cultivated in outer space and advanced from Mystic Immortal Level Three to Level Eight in about three months.
• After the Intelligence Organization reported that the Swamp Crocodile had reached max level, Yi Chen returned to prepare for the Demon Race’s tribulations, a higher-level cultivation method, the Seventh New Cultivation Method Teaching, and the planned expansion.

Yi Chen prepared the Swamp Crocodile to become the Demon Race’s first tribulation-crosser by refining Extreme Defense Pills and a custom defensive Immortal Artifact. After receiving the armor, the Swamp Crocodile rejoiced at its formidable protection as it waited to face the Heavenly Tribulation.

• Yi Chen found the Swamp Crocodile and told it to cultivate until the Heavenly Tribulation was about to appear.
• Yi Chen judged the Swamp Crocodile’s tribulation to be less intense than his own and decided to support it with pills and equipment.
• Yi Chen refined an immortal-grade pill furnace and developed the Extreme Defense Pill for the Demon Race.
• Yi Chen made over ten thousand Extreme Defense Pills before running out of materials, then forged armor tailored to the Swamp Crocodile’s Demon Power.
• The Swamp Crocodile bound the armor with a Blood Oath, learned how it worked, and celebrated its defensive power.

Yi Chen equipped the Swamp Crocodile with pills and a defensive treasure, then guided him through his tribulation. The Swamp Crocodile survived all nine bolts and emerged vastly stronger, becoming the first member of the Demon Race to undergo tribulation.

• Yi Chen gave the Swamp Crocodile Extreme Defense Pills, Low Grade Immortal Fruit, and instructions for surviving the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Swamp Crocodile began his breakthrough as Yi Chen observed the gathering Law Power and advised him to weaken the first lightning bolt with an attack.
• The Swamp Crocodile endured the first three bolts, suffering injuries as colored light transformed his body after each strike.
• Yi Chen told the Swamp Crocodile to activate the Black Armor and restore his Demon Power, then advised him to take an Extreme Defense Pill after the fifth bolt.
• The Swamp Crocodile split the force of the final four bolts between his body and the Black Armor, successfully completing the tribulation.
• The Swamp Crocodile thanked Yi Chen and recognized that his strength, talent, and lifespan had increased enormously.

Yi Chen appointed the Swamp Crocodile Demon Sovereign, helped refine his cultivation method, and planned the next teachings for the Human Race. As Yi Chen cultivated in space, Demon Race members began breaking through in large numbers, preparing the way for the empire’s expansion.

• Yi Chen made the Swamp Crocodile Demon Sovereign, tasked him with training the Demon Race army, and instructed him to develop his body and fighting style for flight and law attacks.
• Yi Chen monitored the Swamp Crocodile’s Demon Core and spent five days tailoring a cultivation method to his realm.
• Yi Chen gave Bai Ruoxin more than ten thousand Extreme Defense Pills for the General Political Department to distribute, then planned the Seventh New Cultivation Method Teaching.
• Yi Chen improved existing cultivation methods and planned a spell to slow enemies, but decided to create it after reaching a higher realm.
• Yi Chen took the Flying Magic Treasure into outer space, drew luck from the Heavenly Spirit Star System, and cultivated.
• Over half a month, more than one hundred and ten max-level Demon Race members used Extreme Defense Pills to survive their tribulations and evolve.

Yi Chen broke through to Primordial Immortal First Layer, and the Great Flame Empire and nearby races received the benefits of the Law Power released by his breakthrough. He began stabilizing his new realm and ordered the three-race army to set out to unify Crimson Planet.

• Yi Chen returned to the Great Flame Empire before breaking through, and auspicious clouds gathered as he advanced to a new Great Realm.
• Xi Sha arranged for talented Shadow Race members to experience the Law Power, while the General Political Department invited the empire’s citizens to receive its baptism.
• The High Priest announced a sacrifice to celebrate Yi Chen’s breakthrough and strengthen his Divine Right.
• Yi Chen named his new realm Primordial Immortal, expanded his Divine Sense across Crimson Planet, and improved the Primordial Immortal version of the Chaos Art.
• Yi Chen ordered Chief Nika to lead the expedition as Marshal, with Gu Li, Luo Ge, Tai Shi, Zong Shan, and the Demon Emperor as Deputy Marshals, and assigned Gu Li full authority over military affairs.
• The three-race army assembled to begin the planned campaign to unify Crimson Planet, while the Shadow Race stayed out of the expedition.

Gu Li led the Three-Race Army toward the Bone Spike Tribe, using the Intelligence Organization’s information to plan an invasion beginning with the tribe’s territory. Chief Bone Spike asked the Kailin Tribe to intercept the Nika-led army, and the Kailin Tribe agreed, hoping to gain protection and concessions.

• Gu Li gathered intelligence on Crimson Planet’s tribes and led the Three-Race Army east toward the Bone Spike Tribe, bypassing smaller tribes.
• The Three-Race Army marched with twenty million Nika Tribe soldiers, over one million Demon Race soldiers, and more than seven hundred thousand human soldiers; the Shadow Race experts provided intelligence rather than fighting.
• Chief Bone Spike received the Nika Tribe’s surrender letter and learned that its army was advancing toward his territory.
• Chief Bone Spike asked the Kailin Tribe to defeat the invading army in exchange for a thousand years without Bone Spike expansion westward and support against the Swiftfoot Pirate Group.
• The Kailin Tribe debated the risks and benefits, then decided to send troops to intercept the Nika Tribe army.

Gu Li and the Expeditionary Force’s leaders planned to use the Kai Lin Tribe’s advance to draw the Bone Spike Tribe into a vulnerable attack while relying on their intelligence and strength to defeat both foes. Yi Chen monitored their campaign as he continued preparing a cultivation method, while both enemy tribes accelerated their movements in response.

• Gu Li and the Expeditionary Force’s leaders agreed to speed up their march toward the Bone Spike Tribe and defeat the Kai Lin Tribe quickly if it caught up.
• The Expeditionary Force increased its marching speed, prompting the Bone Spike Tribe to gather its troops and urge the Kai Lin Tribe to advance faster.
• The Kai Lin Tribe accelerated its mustering and pursued the Expeditionary Force with all its might.
• Yi Chen watched the Expeditionary Force while drawing luck from the Heavenly Dao rules and studying Law Power for a new cultivation method.

Morris, unable to cultivate or recover his stolen assets, pressed Lu Qingxian for news of Yi Chen and decided to send subordinates to search for him. Lu Qingxian was pleased that Morris had proposed the search himself, while the Federation’s leaders continued to face growing public anger over Yi Chen’s disappearance.

• Morris contacted Lu Qingxian and learned that the Federation had found no trace of Yi Chen.
• Lu Qingxian reasoned that Yi Chen might be waiting until he was stronger before approaching Morris, but could not guarantee when he would appear.
• Morris decided to send subordinates from his territory to the Local Galaxy Cluster in Large Warships and consider hiring a tracking expert if they failed.
• Morris ended the call, frustrated that his losses had left him paying more to pursue Yi Chen.
• Lu Qingxian welcomed Morris’s plan because the Federation’s leaders were anxious about Yi Chen’s disappearance and could not afford to hire a tracking expert themselves.

Yi Chen learned that Morris planned to send tracking experts after him and ordered the Shadow Emperor to seek an alliance with the Soul Race. The Shadow Emperor prepared to delay Morris’s forces and investigate the Soul Race before approaching them.

• The Shadow Emperor told Yi Chen that Morris planned to send tracking specialists to search for him, beginning with a group of subordinates arriving on Large Warships.
• Yi Chen asked whether the Shadow Emperor could block the tracking and, after hearing the risks, told him to seek cooperation with the Soul Emperor without revealing the Shadow Race.
• The Shadow Emperor reported that the Soul Race was hiding in a Rebel Army Base and investigating the Earth Tree Race Expert.
• Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor considered the dangers of Morris recruiting a powerful tracking expert, while Yi Chen remained confident in his luck.
• After the call, the Shadow Emperor told the Shadow Kings to delay Morris’s subordinates and monitor them, then ordered a probe into the Soul Emperor’s plans.

Chief Bone Spike’s council debated how to respond to the Nika Tribe’s army, suspecting a Swiftfoot Race King-Level Pirate Group was hiding among its forces. After a scout reported that the Nika Tribe was turning to attack the Kai Lin Tribe, Chief Bone Spike faced pressure to act before the opportunity passed.

• Bone Spike Tribe leaders discussed the Nika Tribe’s advance and suspected that a Swiftfoot Race Prince and King-Level Pirate Group were backing Chief Nika.
• A Bone Spike Tribe powerhouse proposed hiding their leaders in the army to ambush the Swiftfoot pirates, and others argued that defeating them could help Bone Spike unite the Crimson Planet.
• Chief Bone Spike grew tempted by the prospect of using victory to unite the Crimson Planet and potentially the Black Tiger Race.
• A scout reported that the Nika Tribe’s army was turning around, apparently preparing to defeat the Kai Lin Tribe first.
• The powerhouse urging an ambush warned Chief Bone Spike that he had to act before the Kai Lin Tribe was destroyed and the opportunity vanished.

Chief Bone Spike prepared an ambush for the Nika Tribe's army, but Gu Li learned of the plan and ordered the Expeditionary Force to surround the Bone Spike Tribe's Vanguard Army after dealing with the Kai Lin Tribe. The Expeditionary Force attacked the Kai Lin Tribe with a small but exceptionally powerful and mobile Vanguard Army.

• Chief Bone Spike convinced the Bone Spike Tribe's leaders to hide their powerhouses in the Vanguard Army and prepare to ambush the Nika Tribe's forces.
• Gu Li received the Bone Spike Tribe's plan and decided to surround and wear down its Vanguard Army, even if that meant killing its powerhouses.
• Gu Li's army turned toward the Kai Lin Tribe, whose troops stopped and formed defenses while Chief Kai Lin urged the Bone Spike Tribe to attack quickly.
• Chief Bone Spike sent out the Vanguard Army with nearly all the tribe's powerhouses concealed behind it, and the Expeditionary Force advanced to within sight of the Kai Lin army.
• Gu Li ordered 700,000 Human Race members accompanied by powerful Black Tiger Race or Demon Race fighters to attack the 15-million-strong Kai Lin army.
• The Kai Lin troops welcomed the apparently limited attack, unaware that the Expeditionary Force's Vanguard Army held its core combat power and extraordinary mobility.

The Expeditionary Force used coordinated teleportation ambushes to destroy the Kai Lin Tribe's Vanguard Army with almost no losses, leaving Chief Kai Lin's forces panicked and without a clear countermeasure. Yi Chen watched the battle and considered how future techniques could make the tactic even stronger.

• Chief Kai Lin ordered Mu Ni to lead ten thousand elite warriors in a flanking attack, while Chief Nika and a thousand Expeditionary Force troops moved to intercept them.
• More than a hundred top geniuses teleported with their partners into the Kai Lin Tribe's formation, and Chief Nika ambushed Mu Ni from behind.
• The Expeditionary Force's soldiers repeatedly teleported behind new targets, nearly wiping out Mu Ni's force in about two minutes.
• Mu Ni and more than three thousand Kai Lin Tribe elites were seriously wounded and captured, while the Expeditionary Force suffered only one minor injury.
• Chief Kai Lin and his soldiers panicked after realizing they had no defense against the enemy's teleportation-assisted attacks.
• Yi Chen judged the tactic effective and anticipated that the Bodyguard Shield and a speed-lowering cultivation method would make it more powerful.

Tai Shi’s Vanguard Army overwhelmed the Kai Lin Tribe’s javelin barrage with Fire Dragon attacks and launched a capture-the-leader assault. Chief Kai Lin was wounded by Chief Nika as Luo Ge and Nika continued their attack, leaving the chief struggling to defend himself.

• Tai Shi ordered 1.5 million Vanguard Army troops to advance while Chief Kai Lin and six powerhouses debated how to hold them back.
• Chief Kai Lin ordered his soldiers to throw successive waves of javelins, but the Vanguard Army’s Fire Dragons smashed through them and continued advancing.
• Tai Shi ordered the Capture the Leader Plan, and more than a hundred top geniuses teleported into the Kai Lin Tribe’s army with powerhouses.
• Chief Nika ambushed Chief Kai Lin from behind, cutting a deep wound into his back.
• Luo Ge and Chief Nika reappeared beside Chief Kai Lin, and Nika slashed his left arm while he tried to counterattack.

Chief Nika’s forces captured Chief Kai Lin and Kailin Tribe’s experts, forcing the fifteen-million-strong army to surrender. Bone Spike Tribe learned of the defeat and resolved to lure the Swiftfoot Race Prince’s group into an ambush.

• Chief Nika and Nika Tribe’s experts captured Chief Kai Lin and Kailin Tribe’s six other experts, then called on the army to surrender.
• Kailin Tribe’s soldiers prostrated themselves, and Gu Li sent over three million Black Tiger Race soldiers to take control of the prisoners.
• The Expeditionary Force withdrew its Vanguard Army and turned its attention to Bone Spike Tribe’s Vanguard Army.
• Chief Bone Spike heard that Kailin Tribe had surrendered and concluded that the Swiftfoot Race Prince had helped Nika Tribe capture its leaders.
• Chief Bone Spike and his experts agreed to stay gathered and lure the Swiftfoot Race King-Level Pirate Group and Nika Tribe’s experts into an ambush.

The Expeditionary Force rejected the risk of targeting the Bone Spike Tribe’s gathered experts and advanced according to its original plan. Near the Bone Spike Tribe’s defensive line, Tai Shi formed a Giant Human Wall and ordered it forward, prompting the Bone Spike Tribe to respond with javelins.

• Gu Li reported that Bone Spike’s experts were concealed among the Vanguard Army, and the Expeditionary Force’s leaders chose to follow the original plan rather than spring a counter-ambush.
• Gu Li ordered the Expeditionary Force to advance, and Chief Bone Spike told his army to maintain a defensive formation as the forces drew closer.
• Tai Shi ordered Human Race soldiers to form a vast Giant Human Wall and advance toward the Bone Spike Tribe’s front line.
• Bone Spike’s warriors first dismissed the unfamiliar formation, then began throwing javelins at it as it approached.
• Tai Shi ordered the Giant Human Wall to adjust its formation and strike back.

Tai Shi led the Human Army in a sustained barrage of lightning and fire dragons that devastated the Bone Spike Tribe's vanguard and forced its army to retreat. As the Giant Human Wall advanced, Chief Bone Spike ordered an assault, but the Human Army's attacks wiped out the Assault Team and only briefly delayed the advance.

• Tai Shi ordered hundreds of thousands of Human Race soldiers to attack the Bone Spike Tribe with fire dragons and lightning.
• Chief Bone Spike ordered his hidden experts and the army commanders to withdraw while the vanguard was forced to hold its ground.
• The Human Army's lightning and fire dragon attacks shattered the vanguard's defenses, causing mass casualties and a chaotic retreat.
• Tai Shi ordered the Giant Human Wall to advance, and the Human Army continued bombarding the Bone Spike Tribe as it withdrew.
• Chief Bone Spike ordered an Assault Team of more than three thousand high-level fighters to attack the Giant Human Wall, but successive fire dragon waves wiped them out.

Chief Bone Spike ordered waves of cannon-fodder assault teams to delay the Giant Human Wall as the Bone Spike Tribe's Vanguard Army retreated. Tai Shi refused to slow the advance, and the Human Race soldiers wiped out the first teams with Spirit Swords while the wall kept moving.

• Chief Bone Spike ordered cannon-fodder assault teams to stall the Giant Human Wall while the Vanguard Army withdrew toward its encampment.
• The Vanguard Army commander formed teams of about a thousand Black Tiger Race warriors and used the Supervisory Team to force them into battle.
• Tai Shi ordered the Giant Human Wall's bottom ranks to prepare, choosing not to halt the advance or use ranged attacks.
• The Black Tiger Race cannon fodder mistook the lack of ranged attacks for exhaustion and charged toward the wall for promised rewards.
• Human Race soldiers controlled Spirit Swords to kill the first thousand attackers, and the Giant Human Wall continued forward at full speed.
• A second Cannon Fodder Assault Team charged from the Bone Spike Tribe army and was also killed when it came within two hundred meters.

Yi Chen identified the Great Flame Empire Army’s difficulty maintaining formation while moving and casting spells, then sent Little Golden Ball to join Bai Ruoxin’s Expeditionary Force. The chapter left Little Golden Ball arriving at Bai Ruoxin’s tent on the Crimson Planet.

• The Bone Spike Tribe’s commander formed a thousand-strong elite unit from warriors above level ninety while the army continued retreating.
• Yi Chen tested casting spells while flying and concluded that the Great Flame Empire’s warriors lacked the skill to move and attack together in formation.
• Yi Chen judged that the weakness would require constant practice or breakthroughs to the Avatar Stage, since improving the cultivation methods would weaken them.
• Yi Chen offered to send Little Golden Ball to Bai Ruoxin, who agreed to put it to use with the Expeditionary Force.
• Little Golden Ball rode the Immortal Sword to the Crimson Planet and arrived at Bai Ruoxin’s tent.