Chapter Summaries

Bunier’s reinforcements returned to the Local Galaxy Cluster after he warned them about the Earth Tree Race’s disastrous record there. Lie Ka and the other commanders learned that an unknown threat had killed even level 210 experts, leaving them to suspect a hidden race or powerful being.

• Bunier learned that twenty level 220 War Affairs Department experts had joined the reinforcements, leaving him and Blake with less influence over the mission’s credit.
• The reinforcements boarded two Large Warships and set out for the Local Galaxy Cluster, where Lie Ka asked Bunier about the Earth Tree Race’s bad luck.
• Bunier told the group that five of the six level 210 experts sent by the External Affairs Department had died, while Morris alone had survived; lower-level teams had suffered even worse losses.
• Bunier explained how the Shadow Emperor had used the Soul Race and described the mysterious attacks that had wiped out five level 210 experts.
• Lie Ka and Bunier concluded that a miraculous local race or a powerful sleeping being might be helping the Shadow Emperor, and Lie Ka recognized that the mission could threaten even level 220 powerhouses.

Lie Ka and the level 220 Earth Tree Race experts considered abandoning the mission until Bunier revealed the Human Race Supreme Expert’s extraordinary cultivation system and Immortal Artifact. The experts became eager to capture him and claim the resulting achievement as their fleet continued toward the Local Galaxy Cluster, unaware that Shadow Emperor was listening nearby.

• Lie Ka and the other level 220 experts began considering turning back from the mission because of its dangers.
• Bunier described the Human Race Supreme Expert’s rapid rise to Level 150 and his Immortal Artifact, which helped people of any race cultivate.
• The level 220 experts realized Bunier had tried to persuade them to stay because he needed their help securing the Human Race Supreme Expert.
• Lie Ka and the other experts grew excited about capturing the Supreme Expert and earning a major achievement, while the level 210 experts remained somewhat wary.
• Bunier changed the subject to the Supercluster as Shadow Emperor listened nearby and the two Large Warships continued toward the Local Galaxy Cluster.

Yi Chen learned that the Seventh Batch of Earth Tree Race reinforcements had arrived, bringing a huge force and lavish rewards for the Human Federation. As the reinforcements traveled to the Federal Parliament’s headquarters, Yi Chen began draining the Luck Energy of their high-end combatants.

• Yi Chen reached Golden Immortal Stage Level 6, received Shadow Emperor’s message about the arriving reinforcements, and went to the Exile Planet.
• The Seventh Batch arrived with twenty level 220 experts, a hundred level 210 experts, a thousand level 200 experts, over fifty thousand high-end combatants, and rewards worth more than all the Milky Way’s resources and treasures.
• Lu Qingxian and the other Federation Executives welcomed the reinforcements and celebrated the generous gifts, including over a hundred Top-Grade Immortal Materials.
• Bunier opposed Lie Ka’s suggestion to capture Yi Chen immediately, and the reinforcements instead traveled to the Life Planet housing the Federal Parliament Headquarters Building.
• Yi Chen told Shadow Emperor to target the Earth Tree Race’s high-end combatants first, then drained the Luck Energy of nearly five thousand of them during the journey.

At the Federal Parliament Building, Bunier proposed infiltrating the Heavenly Spirit Star System to investigate Yi Chen’s trump card before the Earth Tree Race acted against him. Meanwhile, Yi Chen extracted Luck Energy from Earth Tree Race combatants as a Reincarnation Race mole named Troke realized the mission could advance his ambitions.

• Bunier proposed sending operatives into the Heavenly Spirit Star System to investigate Yi Chen and capture Great Flame Empire personnel, and Lu Qingxian agreed to lend equipment and ships.
• Lie Ka and the level 220 experts accepted that probing Yi Chen could take one or two months, then agreed to use tracking methods to locate and eliminate other races’ Supreme Experts and armies.
• The Federation Executives eagerly awaited details about obtaining Top-Grade Immortal Materials that could raise their talent ceilings.
• Yi Chen continued extracting Luck Energy from Earth Tree Race combatants while Morris described the dangers of the Local Galaxy Cluster to them.
• Troke, a level 190 Earth Tree Race combatant secretly working for the Reincarnation Race, believed the information he had gained would earn him a major promotion and help him realize his ambitions.

Troke discovered that the War Affairs Department was coordinating a secret operation to an Extragalactic Group and told Malaike about it, then revealed that Morris could forge extraordinarily powerful breakthrough treasures. The Reincarnation Race’s Intelligence Organization ordered Malaike’s team to continue its plan to seize Large Warships and bring Morris along if they could do so without detection.

• Troke used a Blue Gem to contact Malaike and the Reincarnation Race agents concealed inside it.
• Troke told Malaike that the Earth Tree Race’s War Affairs and External Affairs Departments were heading to an Extragalactic Group aboard two teleporting treasures, with ten million Large Warships involved.
• Malaike reported the operation to the Intelligence Organization and was ordered to gather information and seek a batch of Large Warships for a covert trip to the Reincarnation Star Cluster.
• Troke explained Morris’s ability to forge treasures that could help hundreds of millions of people break through their talent limits using resources from a small galaxy.
• The Intelligence Organization ordered Malaike’s team to continue its original plan, bring Morris along if possible, and await the Sixth Elder’s arrival.

Tai Teli’s suspicion of Troke led Morris and the other experts to inspect Troke’s belongings, but they found nothing unusual. The Blue Gem concealed its true nature, leaving Troke’s secret undetected as Yi Chen continued extracting the Earth Tree Race’s Luck Energy.

• Tai Teli noticed Troke’s strange excitement and panic, then told the experts that Troke might be hiding something.
• Troke claimed he had lost focus after hearing about the Human Race Supreme Expert, but Morris ordered him to surrender his treasures for inspection.
• Yi Chen asked Shadow Emperor whether he had noticed anything suspicious, and Shadow Emperor said he had not.
• The level 210 experts examined Troke’s treasures for over an hour but found nothing abnormal and accepted his explanation.
• Troke breathed a sigh of relief as the experts failed to detect that the Blue Gem was a spatial treasure hiding the Intelligence Organization’s upper echelon.

Morris insisted that the treasures be inspected by Lord Bunier and Lord Lie Ka, prompting Troke to seize the Blue Gem and flee. Troke was knocked unconscious, leaving Malaike trapped inside the gem as the Earth Tree Race prepared to extract Troke’s memories.

• Morris proposed having Lord Bunier and Lord Lie Ka inspect the treasures and keep them safe, and the level 210 experts agreed to let him contact them.
• Troke grabbed the Blue Gem and tried to escape while secretly sending Malaike a plea for help.
• Morris and the level 210 experts surrounded Troke, and Morris’s branch struck him unconscious.
• Malaike regretted not acting immediately and realized that two level 220 experts might now struggle to escape the Earth Tree Race’s prepared forces.
• Morris said he would notify Lord Bunier and asked whether anyone could use Extract Memory, and a level 210 expert volunteered.
• Malaike panicked as he realized that extracting Troke’s memories could expose the infiltrators and give the Earth Tree Race time to reinforce its search.

Malaike and Geluofu launched a plan to trap the Earth Tree Race forces on the Uninhabited Planet and kill them before their level 220 experts could break through the seal. The Earth Tree Race formed a defensive formation, leaving Yi Chen to hope they could hold out while he continued draining their Luck Energy.

• Malaike activated a confinement-type Top-Grade Treasure to seal the Uninhabited Planet while Geluofu led their forces out of the Gem Space.
• Geluofu and the Reincarnation Race agents attacked the Earth Tree Race forces and tried to prevent them from escaping the expanding seal.
• Morris recognized the trap, rallied the Earth Tree Race experts, and ordered them to form a defensive formation until Bunier, Lie Ka, and the other level 220 experts arrived.
• Malaike realized the Earth Tree Race's defensive formation could frustrate his plan to break up their ranks and defeat them quickly.
• Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor stayed hidden and hoped the Earth Tree Race could hold out while Yi Chen drained the races' Luck Energy.

Lie Ka and the Earth Tree Race experts learned that Geluofu was a Reincarnation Race mole and rushed to rescue their team on the Uninhabited Planet. Malaike disrupted their assault on the confinement treasure, but the Earth Tree Race regrouped to counter him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bunier told Lie Ka and the other level 220 experts that a Reincarnation Race expert had infiltrated the Human Federation, and they set out to rescue the Earth Tree Race team.
• The experts split into two groups, and ten level 220 experts reached the Uninhabited Planet and attacked the white barrier around it.
• Lie Ka learned from his subordinate that Morris had gathered the Earth Tree Race team and that they were holding their defense against Malaike and Geluofu.
• Malaike decided to distract the attackers while the Reincarnation Race experts focused their strength on breaking through the Earth Tree Race team's defense.
• Malaike attacked the Earth Tree Race experts from outside the barrier, forcing them to dodge and slowing their assault on the confinement treasure.
• Bunier advised the Earth Tree Race experts to gather, so nine level 220 experts attacked the barrier while Lie Ka prepared to intercept Malaike; Malaike then summoned his Reincarnation Power.

Lie Ka and the Earth Tree Race experts became locked in a stalemate with Malaike and the Reincarnation Race while Geluofu repeatedly attacked their defenders inside the Uninhabited Planet. The delay gave Yi Chen time to drain the Luck Energy of the remaining high-end Earth Tree Race combatants, while both battles left the Earth Tree Race increasingly vulnerable.

• Lie Ka told the ten level 220 Earth Tree Race experts not to resist Malaike's Reincarnation Power, and both sides entered a stalemate as Malaike relied on Top-Grade Immortal Materials to withstand its backlash.
• Geluofu led the Reincarnation Race experts in repeatedly weakening and gravely injuring one level 210 Earth Tree Race defender at a time, though the Earth Tree Race replaced each fallen defender.
• After a day, Malaike's Top-Grade Immortal Materials were nearly depleted, and more than seventy Earth Tree Race experts inside the Uninhabited Planet had been gravely injured.
• Yi Chen used Control Time's tenfold time-flow acceleration to drain all the Luck Energy from the remaining forty-thousand-plus high-end Earth Tree Race combatants.

Yi Chen drained the luck of the Earth Tree Race’s experts as Geluofu’s forces broke through their defense and slaughtered the trapped army. After Lie Ka’s group weakened the Forbidden Restriction, Geluofu wiped out the remaining Earth Tree Race forces inside and ordered his allies to erase all traces before the barrier fell.

• Yi Chen drained the luck of the Level 200 and level 210 Earth Tree Race Experts, and one level 210 expert’s retreat opened a gap in their formation.
• Geluofu led his forces through the gap, killing the remaining level 210 experts and then attacking the Level 200 experts as Yi Chen began draining luck from the Reincarnation Race.
• Lie Ka and the other level 220 Earth Tree Race Experts purged much of the Reincarnation Law Power from their bodies and accelerated their assault on the Forbidden Restriction.
• Malaike warned Geluofu that the Top-Grade Treasure was close to failing, and Geluofu’s forces killed the Level 200 experts and slaughtered the remaining Earth Tree Race combatants.
• Geluofu ordered his forces to erase all energy fluctuations before the barrier collapsed, fearing pursuit by an Earth Tree Race expert skilled in tracking.

Malaike and Geluofu fled after their forces were annihilated, while Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor secretly pursued them and drained their luck. Bunier tracked the fugitives and arranged an ambush using Human Federation Large Warships, as the Earth Tree Race split up to intercept them.

• Malaike ordered the retreat when the Forbidden Restriction neared collapse, and he and Geluofu escaped with the surviving Reincarnation Race members concealed in a gemstone.
• Lie Ka and the Earth Tree Race Experts discovered that more than fifty thousand reinforcements had been wiped out and pursued Malaike and Geluofu, while Bunier and Blake ordered Lei Si to gather auras and Space Stones.
• Yi Chen told the Shadow Emperor to keep pursuing, and the Shadow Emperor caught up with the fugitives while Yi Chen drained Geluofu's remaining luck and then targeted Malaike.
• Bunier had Lei Si track Malaike and Geluofu's coordinates and asked Blake to arrange for Human Federation Large Warships to move ahead and intercept them.
• When the Earth Tree Race Experts sensed the Large Warships, they split into five groups, with two experts continuing the chase and the other groups boarding the ships.

Malaike and Geluofu were caught in an encirclement by the Earth Tree Race, while Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor moved on after draining Malaike’s Luck Energy. Lie Ka blocked the pair’s attempted escape with a vast transparent wall, leaving them with no clear way through.

• Malaike and Geluofu decided to separate, with Geluofu planning to flee toward the Reincarnation Star Cluster, but they discovered Earth Tree Race experts had intercepted them from multiple directions.
• Geluofu realized the Earth Tree Race had used Large Warships and an expert skilled in tracking to surround them, so Malaike planned to weaken their pursuers with Reincarnation Power while Geluofu carried him past them.
• Yi Chen told Shadow Emperor that Malaike’s Luck Energy had been drained and that Malaike’s group was doomed, then left to seek the Earth Tree Race tracking expert.
• Geluofu identified Lie Ka among the interceptors as Malaike suppressed their cultivation, and Geluofu tried to carry Malaike around the weakened pursuers.
• Lie Ka deployed a Top-Grade Treasure that formed a huge transparent wall, and Geluofu’s strike failed to break it.

Lie Ka and Bunier’s Earth Tree Race forces killed the Reincarnation Race infiltrators Malaike and Geluofu, but lost their fifty thousand reinforcements in the process. They decided to retrieve the experts on the Uninhabited Planet and investigate Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor, who had already reached it.

• Lie Ka and another level 220 Earth Tree Race Expert trapped Malaike and Geluofu, and four more Earth Tree Race Experts arrived to overwhelm them.
• Geluofu summoned his subordinates to help them escape, but the Earth Tree Race Experts wiped them out and destroyed Malaike and Geluofu’s bodies and Divine Souls.
• Lie Ka and Bunier realized that all fifty thousand reinforcements had been wiped out, though they had eliminated two high-ranking Reincarnation Race moles.
• Bunier advised retrieving the experts on the Uninhabited Planet before investigating the coordinates of Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor, and Lie Ka agreed.
• The ten level 220 Earth Tree Race Experts flew toward the Uninhabited Planet as the Shadow Emperor brought Yi Chen there using Control Time.

Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor eliminated a Level 200 Earth Tree Race Expert, then hid near the Federal Parliament Headquarters to drain the Luck of a Level 220 expert. The surviving Earth Tree Race Experts regrouped and began searching for Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor, unaware that their targets were nearby.

• Shadow Emperor located a Level 200 Earth Tree Race Expert, and Yi Chen trapped him in the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, where Titanbo and Poseis killed him.
• Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor went to the Life Planet holding the Federal Parliament Headquarters and secretly entered the Forbidden Restriction to drain a Level 220 expert’s Luck.
• Bunier and Lie Ka arrived at the Uninhabited Planet, discovered the tracking expert had vanished with the Space Stones, and regrouped with the other surviving Earth Tree Race Experts.
• The Earth Tree Race Experts decided to search for Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor, while Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor listened from their hiding place and continued extracting Luck Energy.

The Earth Tree Race experts failed to track Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor, who were protected by Top-Grade Treasures, and decided to focus on Yi Chen while searching for a chance to kill the Shadow Emperor. They planned a cautious advance toward the Heavenly Spirit Star System, leaving Bunier and Blake to guard the Human Federation.

• Bunier and the Earth Tree Race experts failed to locate Yi Chen or the Shadow Emperor, and Bunier concluded that both targets carried treasures that blocked tracking.
• Yi Chen knew the experts’ conclusion was correct because Poseis and Titanbo had helped him refine the treasures for the Human and Shadow Races.
• Bunier proposed targeting Yi Chen because the Shadow Emperor’s location was unknown, while Lie Ka and the others suspected the Shadow Emperor was behind Yi Chen’s hidden trump cards.
• Lie Ka proposed that the experts travel in linked groups so they could support one another, and the others agreed.
• Bunier offered to stay with Blake to guard the Human Federation, and Lie Ka approved the plan.
• The Earth Tree Race experts agreed to set off immediately for the Heavenly Spirit Star System.

Bunier sent five Large Warships carrying ten level 220 experts to the Heavenly Spirit Star System to capture Yi Chen, unaware that Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor had already drained the experts’ Luck Energy. Yi Chen launched a surprise attack on the leading squad, and the chapter ended as Titanbo struck a second Earth Tree Race Expert.

• Bunier asked Lu Qingxian to prepare five Large Warships for the operation against Yi Chen.
• Lie Ka and the other experts boarded the ships, while Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor secretly moved between them and drained the Luck Energy of all ten level 220 experts.
• At the Heavenly Spirit Star System, the experts split into five teams and advanced toward the Crimson Planet as Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor prepared an ambush with Poseis and Titanbo.
• Poseis shattered the roots and shield of the first Earth Tree Race Expert with a surprise punch, severely wounding him before he could react.
• Shadow Emperor carried Yi Chen and Titanbo after the fleeing second Earth Tree Race Expert, and Titanbo attacked his roots while activating the power of the Time Law.

Yi Chen and his allies wiped out five Earth Tree Race squads before any of them could call for help, then returned to their plans for cultivation and intelligence gathering. Bunier tried to contact the tracking expert in Lie Ka’s squad but received no answer.

• Titanbo and Poseis killed two Earth Tree Race Experts in each of the first two squads, while Shadow Emperor concealed and moved their allies between attacks.
• Yi Chen, Poseis, Titanbo, and Shadow Emperor wiped out Lie Ka’s squad and then the remaining squads, killing ten level 220 experts and one level 210 expert in about a dozen minutes.
• Yi Chen returned to the Crimson Planet to cultivate while Shadow Emperor went to monitor Bunier and investigate the External Affairs Department’s next decision.
• Yi Chen planned to strengthen the Shadow Race’s higher-ups so they could gather intelligence across the Supercluster, and hoped the Earth Tree Race would stop sending experts to the Local Galaxy Cluster.
• Bunier, unsettled and eager for news, contacted the level 210 tracking expert, but the expert did not answer after more than ten seconds.

Bunier and Blake discovered that all ten Level 220 experts and their tracking specialist had vanished after heading to the Heavenly Spirit Star System, leaving them without troops. Bunier told the Chief Steward about the destroyed reinforcements, the Reincarnation Race spy, and the Human Race Supreme Expert’s cultivation treasures, then revealed that the new force sent to capture the Human Race Supreme Expert had also gone missing.

• Bunier, Blake, and another expert tried contacting all eleven members of the mission team, but none responded.
• Bunier confirmed with Lu Qingxian that the five Large Warships had reached the Heavenly Spirit Star System, and he and Blake decided to ask the External Affairs Department for reinforcements.
• Bunier told the Chief Steward that a Reincarnation Race spy had hidden among the reinforcements and that the spy’s group had trapped and wiped out fifty thousand reinforcements before Bunier’s team killed the spies.
• Bunier informed the Chief Steward that Spirit Mines could help experts of other races break through their limits, and that their internal space was enormous.
• The Chief Steward ordered an immediate plan to capture the Human Race Supreme Expert, but Bunier revealed that all ten Level 220 experts and a tracking specialist sent to carry it out had gone missing.

After ten level-220 Earth Tree Race experts disappeared while searching for Yi Chen, the External Affairs Department refused to send more reinforcements and decided to relocate the Human Federation to the Earth Tree Star Cluster. Bunier informed Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives, who faced the prospect of being unable to unify the Local Galaxy Cluster as the Great Flame Empire expanded.

• The External Affairs Department and War Affairs Department decided not to send experts to the Local Galaxy Cluster after the reinforcements were wiped out and senior officials refused to risk the journey.
• The Ninth Elder told Bunier that the Human Federation would migrate to the Earth Tree Star Cluster, with plans for another relocation once more Large Warships were available.
• Bunier and Blake informed Council President Lu Qingxian that ten level-220 experts and a tracker sent to find Yi Chen could no longer be contacted and were presumed dead.
• Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives realized that Bunier and Blake lacked the strength to deal with Yi Chen and the Shadow Emperor or quickly unify the Local Galaxy Cluster.
• The Federation Executives considered the threat to their interests as the Great Flame Empire prepared to expand beyond the Undying Star System.