Chapter Summaries

The Shadow Emperor and Yi Chen captured the Earth Tree Race elders and destroyed their elite army, then waited for the Time Race forces to arrive. The Time Race Grand Elder fell into Yi Chen’s ambush and was overwhelmed by his attacks.

• The Shadow Emperor brought Poseis and Titanbo into the Flying Magic Treasure while Yi Chen drew the Earth Tree Race Elite Army into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and killed them with the Five Elements Array.
• Yi Chen bound the captured Earth Tree Race elders with the Immortal Binding Rope and struck the Grand Elder when he threatened him.
• Yi Chen and his companions replenished their Immortal Power while waiting for the Time Race elder team and army to arrive.
• The Time Race Grand Elder believed the area was peaceful, but his perception detected a defensive barrier appearing around a meteorite.
• The formation distorted the Time Race’s perceptions and altered the flow of time around the Grand Elder as Yi Chen attacked him with Sword Qi.
• Yi Chen’s attacks shattered the Grand Elder’s Defense Shield and Top-tier Defensive Treasure, leaving him unable to escape the assault.

Yi Chen defeated and captured the Time Race elder team, completing his ambush of all three hegemon races. He began extracting the captives’ Luck Energy while arranging ransom demands, and the Shadow King discovered a space-type Supreme Treasure among their loot.

• Yi Chen used Sword Qi to badly injure the Time Race Grand Elder, and the Immortal Binding Rope brought him into the Flying Magic Treasure.
• The Immortal Binding Rope captured the remaining Time Race elders while Shadow Emperor, Poseis, and Titanbo subdued or collected the rest of their forces.
• Yi Chen drew the Time Race elite warriors into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and killed them with its Five Elements Array.
• Yi Chen told Shadow Emperor to coordinate the captives’ ransom, while the Shadow Kings contacted their informants inside the three races.
• Yi Chen extracted the captives’ Luck Energy and returned a small amount to each, and the Shadow King found a space-type Supreme Treasure in the Reincarnation Race Grand Elder’s Space Stone.

After capturing thirty-one Earth Tree Race elders, Yi Chen continued cultivating while his allies inspected the seized treasures. The Earth Tree Race leaders agreed to prepare a ransom and summoned Human Federation officials to gauge Yi Chen’s intentions before deciding how to respond.

• Yi Chen stored the Supreme Treasure and continued cultivating as Shadow Emperor, Poseis, and Titanbo inspected their growing haul of resources and treasures.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader learned that Yi Chen had captured thirty-one elders and struggled to comprehend the Human Race Supreme Expert’s strength.
• The Earth Tree Race elders agreed that they had to ransom the captured elders back and debated how to handle Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire.
• An elder suggested involving the Human Federation, but the Ninth Elder warned that Yi Chen’s hatred for it would make it a poor intermediary.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader ordered the Human Federation’s senior officials brought in to test Yi Chen’s intentions and told the elders to organize the ransom.

The Earth Tree Race revealed that Yi Chen had captured its elder team and demanded a ransom, so it planned to pay and seek an alliance. The clan leader ordered Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives to use the Human Federation’s children as leverage, leaving them chilled by the realization that their people were being used as hostages.

• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader told Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives that Yi Chen had ambushed and captured the Grand Elder, Third Elder, and their team in the Golden Cloud Interstellar Era.
• The Clan Leader said the Earth Tree Race would pay Yi Chen’s ransom demand and wanted the Human Federation to help arrange an alliance.
• Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives realized Yi Chen’s power had made the Earth Tree Race unwilling to confront him directly.
• The Clan Leader instructed the Federation leaders to claim that their advocacy had stopped the Earth Tree Race from punishing the Human Federation and had led it to seek an alliance.
• Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives understood that the Earth Tree Race was using the Human Federation’s children as covert leverage over Yi Chen.

Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives were ordered by the Earth Tree Race to publicly threaten the Human Federation with punishment, then present themselves as representatives seeking an alliance with Yi Chen. As citizens celebrated the Earth Tree Race’s latest conquest and expected more rewards, the Council issued a sudden announcement.

• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader instructed Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives to announce a ten-day deadline and later claim they would seek an alliance with Yi Chen.
• Lu Qingxian and the Federation Executives returned to their meeting room, complained about the Earth Tree Race’s demands, and discussed how to limit the damage to their reputation.
• Lu Qingxian warned that the Human Federation could become a target or be sent as cannon fodder if Yi Chen rejected an alliance.
• Federation citizens celebrated reports that the Keto Race had forced the Red Barbarian Race to surrender and speculated about upcoming rewards.
• The Council suddenly issued an announcement while the citizens were celebrating.

Federal citizens learned that Yi Chen had captured an Earth Tree Race elder team and that the Human Federation faced severe punishment. Parliament and Military leaders negotiated with the Earth Tree Race Clan Leader, who agreed to pay Yi Chen’s ransom and ally with the Great Flame Empire, revealing how powerful Yi Chen had become.

• Federal citizens read Parliament’s announcement that Yi Chen had ambushed and captured the Earth Tree Race’s elder team, prompting the Earth Tree Race to threaten the Human Federation with severe punishment.
• The Human Federation panicked as citizens feared the Earth Tree Race would attack them and blamed its leaders for failing to prevent the crisis.
• Federal Parliament announced that its and the Military’s leaders had traveled to the Earth Tree Race’s home planet to meet the Clan Leader.
• Parliament announced that the Earth Tree Race had agreed to pay Yi Chen’s ransom and form an alliance with him and the Great Flame Empire.
• Human Federation citizens realized that the Earth Tree Race regarded Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire as powers capable of standing alongside it.

Citizens of the Human Federation feared that Yi Chen might either ally with the Earth Tree Race and demand control of them, or refuse the alliance and leave them exposed to its anger. The Time Race and Reincarnation Race prepared to negotiate together, but Yi Chen had no intention of allying with any race except the Shadow Race.

• Human Federation citizens regretted rejecting reconciliation with Yi Chen and worried he might ask the Earth Tree Race to hand them over to him.
• The citizens realized Yi Chen could refuse the Earth Tree Race and choose the Time Race or Reincarnation Race instead, leaving the Federation vulnerable either way.
• The Time Race and Reincarnation Race decided to pay ransom for their captured Elders and try to recruit the Great Flame Empire as an ally.
• The Tribal Chiefs of the Time Race and Reincarnation Race agreed to negotiate with Yi Chen together.
• Yi Chen rejected the prospect of alliances with other races, while the Shadow Race remained his sole true ally because the Shadow Emperor had pledged himself and his people early on.

Yi Chen delayed alliance negotiations with the Three Hegemon Races while strengthening the Great Flame Empire, then launched its third expansion against two medium-sized races and more than twenty small races. The chapter ends with the Great Flame Empire surrounding the Purple Eagle Clan’s hidden coalition before it could spring its ambush.

• Yi Chen continued cultivating while the Great Flame Empire accepted the Three Hegemon Races’ ransoms and stalled their alliance negotiations.
• The Great Flame Empire completed a second expansion, and Yi Chen broke through to Level 227 before teaching the Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivation methods.
• The Military began the third expansion, sending its hundred-billion-strong army along nine routes to target two medium-sized races and more than twenty small races.
• The Purple Eagle Clan and six allied small races hid their armies near the Chen Feng Race’s home base, planning to ambush the Great Flame Empire.
• The Great Flame Empire surrounded the Uninhabited Planet where the coalition’s experts and Elite Armies were gathered.

The Purple Eagle Clan Leader considered whether the Seven-Race Allied Forces should fight or retreat after the Great Flame Empire attacked their Uninhabited Planet, then learned the Empire had launched attacks on nine fronts. As the allies began seeking reinforcements from other races, the Great Flame Empire Army and an eight-person Assassination Team advanced toward the planet.

• The Purple Eagle Clan Leader told the assembled leaders that the Seven-Race Allied Forces could fight the Great Flame Empire Army or withdraw, but warned that the Empire might have a hidden advantage.
• An Elder reported that the Great Flame Empire was attacking eight other regions at once, prompting the Purple Eagle Clan Leader to seek an alliance with the other targeted races.
• The Great Flame Empire Army completed its assembly, and its five-million-strong Human Vanguard advanced toward the Uninhabited Planet despite facing more than seventy billion elite troops.
• Marys, the Shadow King, the Ye Shi Clan Leader, and five other experts set out as the Assassination Team for this route, relying on their combat strength and treasures despite being outnumbered by the Purple Eagle Race Alliance's experts.

Marys and Shadow King ambushed the Seven-Race Allied Forces’ leaders and elders, capturing them with the help of the Ye Shi Clan Leader and the Assassination Team. After securing the prisoners, Marys contacted Military Marshal Zhan Cheng to report the successful capture.

• Marys ordered Shadow King to take him behind the Purple Eagle Clan Leader while the others prepared to block escape routes.
• Marys ambushed and severely injured the Purple Eagle Clan Leader, and the Ye Shi Clan Leader struck and severely injured the Purple Eagle Grand Elder.
• Marys activated an imprisonment-type treasure to seal the council meeting area, then attacked the remaining experts while Shadow King and five others ambushed the panicked elders.
• Marys and his allies incapacitated more than a hundred clan leaders and elders and stored them in a spatial-type treasure.
• Marys told Shadow King to leave the meeting area and contacted Zhan Cheng to report that the leaders and elders had been captured.

Zong Shan's five-million-strong Human Army devastated the Seven-Race Allied Forces with long-range fire, making the Purple Eagle Clan Leader and the other clan leaders realize they could not win. After the Human Army stopped attacking, it suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the opposite side of the Uninhabited Planet.

• Zhan Cheng sent five million Human Army soldiers ahead toward the Uninhabited Planet, while Marys let the captured clan leaders command their forces through Communication Stones.
• The Purple Eagle Clan army sent one million elite soldiers to attack, but Zong Shan's Fire Sea and Fire Dragons wiped them out in a little over a minute.
• Zong Shan ordered another attack across more than ten thousand kilometers, and the Fire Sea and Fire Dragons threw the Seven-Race Allied Forces into chaos.
• The Purple Eagle Clan Leader called for Marys to stop the attack, then fell silent when Marys challenged why they should stop.
• After five or six minutes, Zong Shan halted the attack; the Human Army vanished and reappeared on the other side of the Uninhabited Planet.

Marys secured the surrender of the Purple Eagle Clan and five other races, while the Great Flame Empire conquered twenty-two races in less than three days. Alarmed by the Empire’s rapid growth, the Earth Tree Race leaders concluded that Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire had stalled alliance talks and began discussing how to stop him.

• Marys presented the Purple Eagle Clan Leader and the other leaders with surrender contracts after the Human Army demonstrated its long-range attacks and Teleportation Ability, and all six races signed.
• Zhan Cheng and Zong Shan coordinated the Human Army’s withdrawal from the battlefield, while the conquered races’ forces stopped resisting and awaited the Great Flame Empire’s takeover.
• The Great Flame Empire’s other eight armies conquered their targets, bringing the expansion’s total to twenty-two races, including two medium-sized races, in less than three days.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader and the top hundred Elders realized Yi Chen had stalled alliance negotiations while the Great Flame Empire expanded and grew stronger.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader argued that killing Yi Chen was the key to stopping the Great Flame Empire and reminded the Elders that Yi Chen’s four top-level fighters relied on stealth and close-range ambushes to defeat Level 240 opponents.

The Earth Tree Race planned to cooperate with the Time Race and the Reincarnation Race to eliminate Yi Chen and curb the Great Flame Empire, while secretly hoping to capture Yi Chen alive. The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader contacted the Time Race Clan Leader, who remained unconvinced that Yi Chen’s ambitions posed an urgent threat.

• The Earth Tree Race elders agreed that locating and assassinating Yi Chen would be easier with the Time Race and the Reincarnation Race’s help.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader proposed also joining forces with other races to ambush the Great Flame Empire, and the elders discussed offering a temporary non-aggression contract to secure cooperation.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader decided the Earth Tree Race should make concessions to speed up an alliance, while secretly pursuing the capture of Yi Chen.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader contacted the Time Race Clan Leader and warned that Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire were stalling and aimed to conquer the Supercluster.
• The Time Race Clan Leader replied that ambition depended on strength, showing he did not yet understand the danger Yi Chen posed.

The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader warned the Time Race Clan Leader that the Great Flame Empire’s rapid expansion and Yi Chen’s cultivation methods could soon make it too powerful for the three hegemon races to oppose. He persuaded the Time Race Clan Leader to contact the Reincarnation Race Clan Leader about forming an alliance, while concealing that the Empire’s rapid advances came from Blessed Grotto Heaven.

• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader described the Great Flame Empire’s successive conquests, and the Time Race Clan Leader doubted it could sustain its expansion.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader argued that conquered races’ experts and Elite Armies strengthened the Empire, while its growing power could suppress unrest caused by the costs of expansion.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader claimed Yi Chen’s cultivation methods had raised the Empire’s average realm to Levels 130 to 140, alarming the Time Race Clan Leader.
• The Earth Tree Race Clan Leader urged the Time Race Clan Leader to join the Reincarnation Race in acting against the Great Flame Empire as soon as possible.
• The Time Race Clan Leader agreed to contact the Reincarnation Race Clan Leader, while the Earth Tree Race Clan Leader privately concealed that Blessed Grotto Heaven—not Yi Chen’s cultivation method—had caused the Empire’s rapid rise.

The Earth Tree Race, Time Race, and Reincarnation Race negotiated a secret alliance to attack the Great Flame Empire, each securing terms that served its own ambitions. The three clans mobilized their forces, but the Great Flame Empire Intelligence Organization discovered the plan through spies near the other races' leaders.

• The Earth Tree Race, Time Race, and Reincarnation Race negotiated a nonaggression pact lasting two hundred thousand years, with the Earth Tree Race and its vassals agreeing not to expand.
• The three clans agreed that the Time Race and Reincarnation Race would take the Great Flame Empire and its Large Warships, while the Earth Tree Race would receive its resources and treasures, including Yi Chen's Blessed Grotto Heavens.
• The Earth Tree Race secretly planned to kill Yi Chen, reconstruct his Divine Soul, and control him to create stronger Blessed Grotto Heavens and loyal troops.
• The three clans signed their contract, assembled an Elder team, and secretly sought support from the Golden Cloud Galaxy Cluster's large races to ambush the Great Flame Empire Army.
• The Great Flame Empire Intelligence Organization learned of the alliance through Shadow Kings planted near the leaders of the large races.

Yi Chen reached Level 230 while the Three-Race Alliance’s elders gathered in the Golden Cloud Galaxy Cluster to plan how to find and capture him. They decided to send a stealth expert ahead to infiltrate the Great Flame Empire’s home planet, leaving the larger ambush plan in preparation.

• Yi Chen welcomed the incoming elder teams because their Luck Energy could benefit him, then continued cultivating as the Great Flame Empire expanded.
• Yi Chen reached Level 230 as the empire prepared its fourth expansion, and the Three-Race Alliance’s new elder teams converged in the Golden Cloud Galaxy Cluster.
• The elders discussed using the Armor Splitting Race as bait to draw out Yi Chen and considered searching the Great Flame Empire’s home planet first.
• The elders agreed to send Level 230 experts skilled in stealth, beginning with the strongest one, to infiltrate the empire’s home planet and wait for further instructions.

The Three Races Elders planned to use the Split Armor Race as bait for an ambush while sending concealed experts to target the Great Flame Empire’s leaders. Yi Chen detected one of twelve Level 230 infiltrators nearing the Great Flame Empire’s Main Camp.

• The Three Races Elders agreed to gather near the Split Armor Race and dispatch other experts toward their targets.
• After learning of the plan, Yi Chen chose to focus on the Great Flame Empire’s fourth expansion and monitor for attacks on its officials.
• Yi Chen opened his Divine Sense to its full range, enabling him to detect concealed intruders.
• Twelve Level 230 experts approached the Great Flame Empire’s Main Camp, then one of them continued toward its Life Planet.
• Yi Chen sensed the approaching expert and recognized that their Stealth Ability was nearly as strong as the Shadow Emperor’s.

Yi Chen located and attacked the invading team of Level 230 powerhouses near the Great Flame Empire. He captured all twelve and left them hoping the Three Hegemon Races would pay to ransom them.

• Yi Chen traced the first stealthy Level 230 powerhouse and used teleportation to find the other eleven members of the invading team.
• Yi Chen ambushed the first powerhouse near the Great Flame Empire garrison, severely wounded him, and bound him with the Immortal Binding Rope.
• Yi Chen returned to the team’s hiding place and attacked a second powerhouse while the others realized they had lost contact with their scout.
• The remaining experts fled in panic, but Yi Chen used his Teleportation Ability and Heaven Severing Art to capture them all.
• The twelve captured powerhouses hoped Yi Chen would demand ransom from the Three Hegemon Races, which had agreed to redeem them.

Yi Chen killed twelve concealed Level 230 experts but learned only where the Three Races Elders had first arrived, while the elders regrouped in Split Armor Race territory. Five days later, the Great Flame Empire began its fourth expansion, setting both sides on a collision course across the Golden Cloud Galaxy Cluster.

• Yi Chen drained the twelve Level 230 experts' luck, destroyed their bodies and Divine Souls, and searched their memories, but found no current coordinates for the Three Races Elders.
• The Three Races Elders learned their first team had been wiped out and, fearing Yi Chen's trap, revised their plan and kept their forces away from the Split Armor Race's lair.
• The elders contacted the Split Armor Race Clan Leader and brought their expert team to the lair's star system by Large Warship, remaining at a distance to avoid Yi Chen and Shadow Emperor.
• Five days later, the Great Flame Empire completed its integration and launched its fourth expansion according to the original plan, with Yi Chen prepared to travel between target planets using Teleportation Arrays.
• The Great Flame Empire targeted one large race, seven medium-sized races, and more than a hundred small races, dividing its forces into ten routes with troop strength more than ten times greater than in the previous expansion.

The Great Flame Empire Army arrived near the Split Armor Race's home planet, while the Split Armor Race prepared to resist under a secret pact with the Three-Race Alliance. Yi Chen failed to locate the Alliance's hidden elders and planned to draw them out with an assassination, hoping to get close enough to extract their Luck Energy.

• Military Marshal Zhan Cheng sent the Great Flame Empire's ten armies toward their target regions, and the largest force assembled near the Split Armor Race's home planet.
• Yi Chen searched the surrounding space for the Three-Race Alliance's elder team but could not detect them.
• The Split Armor Race Clan Leader ordered his forces and allied races to prepare for battle while secretly contacting the Time Race Second Elder.
• The Three-Race Alliance elders agreed to capture the Great Flame Empire's Assassination Team and then target the Human Army.
• Yi Chen concluded that the elders were concealed by a Top-Grade Treasure and decided to lure them out by having the Assassination Team attack the Split Armor Race's leaders.