Chapter Summaries

Tai Shi’s forces wiped out the Bone Spike Tribe’s elite assault team by teleporting powerhouses behind them, revealing an ability that alarmed Chief Bone Spike and his commanders. They suspected the unknown race was allied with Nika Tribe and had helped form the pirate group that raided the Swiftfoot Race, while Chief Bone Spike considered defeating Nika Tribe’s elites a chance to claim that alliance for himself.

• The Bone Spike Tribe’s Vanguard Army sent two cannon fodder teams toward the Giant Human Wall, and its flying swords cut them down.
• Tai Shi learned that a thousand Black Tiger Race combatants above level ninety were approaching and ordered his top geniuses and powerhouses to prepare.
• The geniuses teleported with their partners behind the Black Tiger Race assault team and wiped it out before it reached the Giant Human Wall.
• Chief Bone Spike and his elites realized the unknown race could teleport powerhouses and feared its strength in both large-scale and elite combat.
• The Bone Spike Tribe’s elites connected the unknown race to Nika Tribe and the Black Tiger Race Pirate Group that had attacked the Swiftfoot Race.
• Chief Bone Spike saw that defeating Nika Tribe’s elites could let the Bone Spike Tribe replace them as the unknown race’s ally and unify the Crimson Planet.

Chief Bone Spike ordered the Vanguard Army to retreat after suspecting an insider had exposed its assault plans, while Tai Shi sent the Giant Human Wall and allied forces to intercept them. At the expeditionary camp, Gu Li learned that Little Golden Ball had arrived and explained how its rapid revival and self-destruction attacks could give the army overwhelming power.

• Chief Bone Spike checked the experts’ Communication Stones, found no defections, and ordered the Vanguard Army to retreat to its garrison.
• Tai Shi split the Giant Human Wall into four routes to pursue and surround the fleeing Bone Spike Tribe army.
• Gu Li told the expeditionary force’s leaders that Little Golden Ball could help capture the Bone Spike Tribe’s experts and speed the conquest of other tribes.
• Chief Nika questioned how Little Golden Ball could be so useful despite its low realm, and the Swamp Crocodile explained its near-instant revival and repeated self-destruction attacks.
• Chief Nika and the Black Tiger Race experts realized Little Golden Ball could become a powerful battlefield force.

The Expeditionary Force surrounded the Bone Spike Tribe Vanguard Army, while Bai Ruoxin sent Little Golden Ball into battle. Little Golden Ball devastated the enemy with its golden fur and self-destruction, then revived and charged again.

• Luo Ge's army joined the other forces to encircle the fleeing Bone Spike Tribe Vanguard Army, leaving its leaders unable to find a way out.
• Tai Shi ordered the 1.4-million-strong force to slowly tighten the encirclement and suppress the Bone Spike soldiers with alternating ranged attacks.
• Bai Ruoxin brought Little Golden Ball to the battlefield and told it to fight while following orders.
• Little Golden Ball charged into the Bone Spike Tribe Army and sprayed golden fur in every direction, wounding and killing enemy soldiers.
• A Black Tiger Race elite attacked Little Golden Ball, which detonated its energy and blasted him and nearby soldiers apart.
• Little Golden Ball reappeared at the center of the explosion and continued charging at the enemy.

Little Golden Ball repeatedly self-detonated against Matthews, who kept his distance and exploited its reckless attacks. As the Human Army tightened its encirclement, Chief Bone Spike ordered the Bone Spike Tribe’s powerhouses to gather for a desperate breakout.

• Matthews attacked Little Golden Ball from a distance and repeatedly dodged its self-detonations while it revived and charged him again.
• Yi Chen watched Little Golden Ball lose its temper and considered how targeted training could teach it to fight more strategically.
• Matthews struggled to contain Little Golden Ball as its revivals continued and the Human Army’s encirclement shrank.
• Chief Bone Spike ordered the remaining troops to prepare for a full-speed breakout and directed the powerhouses to target the enemy’s Teleportation Ability users.

Chief Bone Spike led the Bone Spike Tribe Vanguard Army in a desperate breakout, but Tai Shi’s forces stalled them with Earth Walls and coordinated attacks. The elite team remained trapped under the Human Army’s assault as the Vanguard Army was nearly wiped out.

• Chief Bone Spike ordered the Vanguard Army to break through east, while Tai Shi redirected the Human Army to intercept them.
• Tai Shi’s east-side troops replaced their Fire Dragon attacks with dense Earth Walls, slowing the Bone Spike Tribe’s charge and throwing it into chaos.
• Chief Bone Spike charged ahead behind a giant shield with more than a hundred elites, enduring Fire Dragons until he was about fifteen hundred meters from the Human Army.
• Tai Shi sent more than a hundred top geniuses and their partners to attack Chief Bone Spike, then used repeated assaults and Teleportation Technique to disrupt the elite team’s advance.
• The Human Army’s other three routes continued closing in, reducing the Vanguard Army to almost nothing while the Bone Spike Tribe Elite Team remained about a kilometer from the eastern force.
• The Bone Spike Tribe Elite Team came under spell attacks from all four routes of the Human Army.

Bai Ruoxin used Little Golden Ball to break the Bone Spike Tribe Elite Team’s defenses, allowing the Expeditionary Force to capture its powerhouses and force Chief Bone Spike to surrender. The chapter ended with Chief Nika binding the severely injured chief and confirming he was no longer a threat.

• Bai Ruoxin warned Little Golden Ball to stop searching for Matthews and carried it above the remaining Bone Spike Tribe elites.
• Chief Nika urged Chief Bone Spike to surrender, but Chief Bone Spike refused because he believed his tribe could still mobilize a much larger army.
• Bai Ruoxin dropped Little Golden Ball into the enemy formation, where its repeated explosions broke through the elites’ shield and forced them to scatter under the Four Routes Human Army’s Fire Dragon attacks.
• Tai Shi halted the bombardment, and Expeditionary Force fighters knocked out and captured more than half of the Bone Spike Tribe’s powerhouses.
• Luo Ge and Chief Nika subdued the remaining injured powerhouses, while Chief Bone Spike stopped resisting and let the attacks weaken him.
• Chief Nika approached the charred, nearly unconscious Chief Bone Spike and bound him with sealing vine.

After capturing Chief Bone Spike and defeating the Kai Lin and Bone Spike Tribes, the Expeditionary Force began absorbing both tribes and preparing to demand the surrender of neighboring tribes. Yi Chen also ordered special training for Little Golden Ball to improve its speed and reactions.

• Yi Chen persuaded Little Golden Ball to accept special training, and Bai Ruoxin agreed to arrange exercises for its speed and reactions.
• Gu Li ordered the Expeditionary Force to advance toward the Bone Spike Tribe's encampment while Chief Nika offered Chief Kai Lin and six experts a Life-Death Contract.
• Chief Kai Lin and the six experts signed the contract, and Chief Nika sent them with Black Tiger Race warriors to take over and reorganize the Kai Lin Tribe.
• The Expeditionary Force surrounded the Bone Spike Tribe, and Chief Nika killed two experts who refused to submit before Chief Bone Spike and the remaining experts signed the contract.
• Chief Bone Spike announced the Bone Spike Tribe's surrender, and the Expeditionary Force summoned neighboring tribal chiefs to submit by a deadline; most arrived within the allotted time.

The Shadow Emperor found the Soul Race’s hidden base and asked the Soul Emperor to join him in killing a group of Earth Tree Race members. The Soul Emperor agreed, hoping to strengthen their alliance against the race that threatened to destroy the Soul Race.

• The Soul Emperor continued studying the Earth Tree Race’s cultivation method through the body of its Special Envoy while the Imperial Family Army cultivated in isolation.
• The Shadow Emperor arrived outside the Soul Race’s Forbidden Restriction, and the Soul Emperor removed it to welcome him.
• The Shadow Emperor and the Soul Emperor exchanged sensory traces in their Communication Stones so they could contact each other.
• The Shadow Emperor asked the Soul Emperor to help kill a batch of Earth Tree Race members, and the Soul Emperor agreed.

The Shadow Emperor secured the Soul Emperor’s help in ambushing the Earth Tree Race’s incoming subordinates, while promising the Soul Race a chance to obtain Yi Chen later. The Soul Emperor gathered the Soul Kings to plan, unaware that Yi Chen had arranged the entire situation and that the Shadow Race obeyed him.

• The Shadow Emperor told the Soul Emperor that Earth Tree Race members would arrive in ten days and asked him to help eliminate them while the Shadow Emperor lured away the Third Envoy.
• The Soul Emperor agreed to follow the plan and bring several Shadow Kings when the Shadow Emperor contacted him.
• The Soul Emperor asked about Yi Chen, and the Shadow Emperor admitted he knew Yi Chen’s approximate hiding place and intended to use him as bait against the Earth Tree Race.
• The Shadow Emperor offered to hand Yi Chen to the Soul Race once he no longer needed him, then left to keep watch.
• The Soul Emperor summoned the Soul Kings to weigh the benefits and risks of cooperating with the Shadow Emperor.
• Yi Chen’s arrangements remained hidden: the Shadow Emperor had acknowledged him as master, and the Shadow Race followed his commands.

After unifying the region around the Bone Spike Tribe, Yi Chen traveled to meet Morris’s arriving subordinates and listened as Human Federation leaders discussed finding him and using his defensive arrays. Morris’s elite force began arriving, while his External Affairs Department subordinates refused to come.

• The Expeditionary Force integrated the surrendered tribes and unified the region, raising Yi Chen’s sphere of influence to about 630 million square kilometers.
• The Shadow Emperor told Yi Chen that Morris’s subordinates were nearing the Milky Way, so Yi Chen traveled through the Teleportation Array to meet him.
• The Human Federation leaders speculated about the Great Flame Kingdom’s progress and planned to make Yi Chen install Large Defense Arrays on their Space Fortresses.
• Yi Chen learned of their plans and regretted that he would not help build the arrays.
• Morris’s Large Warship began arriving with about three hundred elite subordinates, while his External Affairs Department subordinates collectively refused to come.

Morris brought more than three hundred Earth Tree Race members to Exile Planet to search for the Human Race's Supreme Expert, while Yi Chen secretly followed and drained Tosman's luck. Tosman used discarded fruit pits from Yi Chen's old cave to activate his tracking method, leaving Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor to keep their distance as the search began.

• Lu Qingxian welcomed the Earth Tree Race members, but they ignored him and greeted Morris, who ordered them to travel to Exile Planet.
• Shadow Emperor identified Tosman as a level-175 tracker, and Yi Chen began secretly draining Tosman's luck.
• Morris and the Earth Tree Race members reached Exile Planet, where Morris told Tosman to search the Mountain Cave for traces of the Supreme Expert.
• Tosman chose three fruit pits discarded by Yi Chen and used them as the medium for his tracking method.
• Shadow Emperor pulled Yi Chen farther away as Tosman left the cave with the three fruit pits.

Tosman used fruit cores to track Yi Chen, while Yi Chen secretly drained Tosman's luck and empowered the Shadow Emperor for a surprise attack. The Shadow Emperor struck Tosman, and Morris sensed him and retaliated.

• Tosman used three moldy fruit cores to point Morris and the Earth Tree Race team toward Yi Chen.
• Morris ordered the team to pursue Yi Chen and sent Lu Qingxian to gather items used by the Soul Race.
• Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor followed the team from behind as Yi Chen drained Tosman's luck.
• Yi Chen spent the accumulated luck to empower the Shadow Emperor, then hid in his Flying Magic Treasure while the Shadow Emperor returned to the group.
• The Shadow Emperor transformed into a Black Shadow Spear and attacked Tosman, and Morris sensed him and blasted toward him with his branches.

The Shadow Emperor attacked Tosman, but Morris’s order and mistimed strike left Tosman exposed, and Morris accidentally killed his own ally. The Shadow Emperor escaped, while Morris sent his subordinates to search for the Human Race’s Supreme Expert and planned to leave the Local Galaxy Cluster.

• The Shadow Emperor ambushed Tosman, and Tosman failed to activate his strongest defenses in time.
• The Shadow Emperor detonated part of his spear inside Tosman and wounded him, leaving him vulnerable.
• Morris’s branch struck Tosman and split him in half, destroying his body and soul as the Shadow Emperor fled.
• Morris’s subordinates grew wary of him, and he ordered them to search separately for the Human Race’s Supreme Expert.
• Morris planned to find the Supreme Expert, obtain Kotes’s Space Stone, fulfill his contract with the Human Federation, and then seek to leave the Local Galaxy Cluster.

Morris left the Local Galaxy Cluster to cultivate while Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor began draining the luck of the Earth Tree Race members searching for him. After targeting the first member, they moved on to the next, leaving Morris’s whereabouts to be monitored.

• Morris told Lu Qingxian to send a Large Warship so he could leave the Local Galaxy Cluster for secluded cultivation.
• The Shadow Emperor reported killing Tosman, then took Yi Chen to investigate the site and track the Earth Tree Race members.
• Yi Chen learned that Morris had left the Local Galaxy Cluster while the other Earth Tree Race members searched for him in separate groups.
• Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor found a lone Level 170-plus Earth Tree Race member, and Yi Chen drained his Cyan Luck before leaving him with Black Luck and a trace of Cyan Luck.
• Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor continued to the next Earth Tree Race members and began draining their luck one by one.

Yi Chen transferred a portion of the luck extracted from the Earth Tree Race to the Shadow Emperor, who then arranged a joint attack with the Soul Race against a level 190 Earth Tree Race member. The Soul Emperor revealed a way to break the target’s root-system Energy Shield, giving the Shadow Emperor a promising plan for the assault.

• Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor drained the luck of more than three hundred Earth Tree Race members, and Yi Chen merged some of it into his own luck.
• Yi Chen gave the Shadow Emperor half of the remaining luck, which the Shadow Emperor merged into his overall luck.
• The Shadow Emperor contacted the Soul Emperor and brought the Soul Race to the edge of the Qi Xiang System.
• The Shadow Emperor asked whether the Soul Race had a combined-attack technique for killing a level 190 Earth Tree Race member.
• The Soul Emperor explained that the combined mental power of him and the Soul Kings could tear open the target’s root-system Energy Shield.
• The Shadow Emperor saw that the Soul Race’s ability could complement his own strength and agreed to proceed with the plan.

The Shadow Emperor led the Soul Emperor and more than a hundred Soul Kings in a surprise attack on a level 190 Earth Tree Race Special Envoy. They tore open his Energy Shield and drove a thousand kilometers of the Shadow Emperor’s spear into his body, leaving him facing a potentially devastating detonation.

• The Shadow Emperor agreed to try to preserve the Special Envoy’s body but warned the Soul Emperor that he would destroy it if the plan was threatened.
• The Shadow Emperor concealed the Soul Emperor and Soul Kings, approached within ten kilometers of the Special Envoy, and sent them his target’s location.
• The Shadow Emperor attacked, and the Soul Race members used their spiritual power to tear open the Energy Shield around the Special Envoy’s Root System.
• The Shadow Emperor transformed into a Black Shadow Spear and pierced more than a thousand kilometers into the Special Envoy before the Special Envoy’s branches cut the spear in two.
• The Shadow Emperor ordered the Soul Race to continue mental attacks and guard against the Special Envoy contacting companions, then attacked again as the Special Envoy realized the spear inside him could be detonated.

The Shadow Emperor and the Soul Race worked together to defeat Earth Tree Race members searching Yi Chen, claiming their bodies and Space Stones. After capturing both level-190 targets near the Pegasus System, they continued attacking the remaining members.

• The Shadow Emperor detonated a Black Shadow Spear inside the injured Earth Tree Race member while the Soul Emperor and Soul Kings attacked his Divine Soul, leaving him unable to call for help.
• The Soul Emperor destroyed the Earth Tree Race member’s Mind Consciousness, occupied his body, and handed his Space Stone to the Shadow Emperor.
• The Shadow Emperor headed toward the Pegasus System to find the other level-190 Earth Tree Race member, while the Soul Emperor and Soul Kings followed.
• The Shadow Emperor and the Soul Race used the same coordinated attack to defeat the second level-190 Earth Tree Race member and claim his body and Space Stone.
• The Shadow Emperor led the Soul Emperor and Soul Kings in defeating further Earth Tree Race members who were searching Yi Chen’s mind.

The Shadow Emperor and Soul Race wiped out Morris's searching force, taking its members as hosts and claiming their Space Stones. Yi Chen returned to the Crimson Planet with the gains while the Shadow Emperor continued monitoring Morris, whose possible effort to recruit an expert tracker remained a threat.

• The Federal Parliament and Military failed to get a progress report from Morris, who believed the search would take at least half a year.
• Within seven days, the Shadow Emperor, Soul Emperor, and Soul Kings captured more than three hundred Earth Tree Race members and took all their Space Stones.
• The Soul Emperor asked whether the Soul Race could kill Morris by joining forces with the Shadow Emperor, who said it was nearly impossible unless Morris was seriously injured.
• The Shadow Emperor brought the gains to Yi Chen, who kept resources useful to the Great Flame Empire and returned to the Crimson Planet by Teleportation Array.
• The Shadow Emperor set out to monitor Morris and watch for the threat of him recruiting an Earth Tree Race expert skilled in tracking.

After returning to the Crimson Planet, Yi Chen continued his cultivation research while the Human Federation grew anxious about the Earth Tree Race’s search for him. When Federation scouts could not find any Earth Tree Race members in the regions they were meant to be searching, the leaders feared Morris’s team had either ignored his orders or been eliminated by Shadow Emperor.

• Yi Chen returned to the Crimson Planet, extracted fortune from the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and began researching the Meridian Cultivation Chart.
• Lu Qingxian contacted Morris, who allowed the Human Federation to search regions the Earth Tree Race had already covered.
• Marshal Tie Xue sent a reconnaissance fleet to locate the Earth Tree Race team and learn about its progress.
• The fleet searched for hours but found no Earth Tree Race members, prompting the Federation leaders to suspect the team had been killed by Shadow Emperor or had never searched.
• Lu Qingxian contacted Morris again after the leaders realized they had no other way to learn what had happened.

Morris discovered that his Earth Tree Race subordinates had vanished and traveled to the Local Galaxy Cluster to investigate. He confirmed that Shadow Emperor and the Soul Race had silently taken them all, leaving him furious and stripped of nearly everything he had.

• Lu Qingxian told Morris that the Human Federation could not locate any of the Earth Tree Race lords despite searching for hours.
• Morris tried to contact his level 190 subordinates and then his other subordinates, but none responded.
• Morris suspected Shadow Emperor had killed his subordinates and set off for the Local Galaxy Cluster aboard a Large Warship.
• Morris followed residual energy traces and found evidence that more than a dozen Earth Tree Race subordinates had been defeated.
• Morris concluded that Shadow Emperor and the Soul Race had taken all his subordinates as hosts, leaving him with nothing but potential future rewards.