Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After the Black Dragon seized Xu Fu and the Elixir of Immortality, the Japanese exploration team survived and found Xu Fu’s ruins largely untouched.
• Japan claimed it had defeated the ruins’ guardian and gained the Fangshi inheritance. Other countries offered only perfunctory congratulations, while online users mocked the claim, pointing out that the team had been helpless against Xu Fu.
• Attention shifted to the Black Dragon and its possible connection to the First Emperor. Xu Fu had addressed it as “His Majesty the First Emperor,” prompting speculation that the dragon was the Emperor’s avatar and that the Emperor might awaken once the Elixir reached his jade coffin.
• A popular online analysis proposed that Xu Fu had once sought to keep the Elixir for himself, while the First Emperor, Xu Fu, and the Fangshi lineage had all fallen into a long sleep.
• Central Continent officials held emergency meetings and judged the Black Dragon’s spatial powers impossible to counter. They classified it as a Forbidden Creature, designated the First Emperor Mausoleum a Forbidden Land, and prohibited martial artists from approaching.
• The chapter ends with Gu Chen in Coastal City checking his Origin Points.

Character developments

• The Japanese exploration team go from terror and near-despair to relief and opportunism, then present their survival and likely access to the ruins as a national triumph.
• Xu Fu becomes central to public speculation: his address to the Black Dragon suggests a deep connection to the First Emperor, while commentators suspect he once intended to keep the Elixir.
• The First Emperor is recast in public imagination as potentially more than a historical ruler—perhaps a sleeping figure of immense supernatural power.
• Gu Chen remains separate from the global crisis, appearing briefly at the end as he checks his Origin Points.

Significant themes

• The collision of history and myth: Ancient legends and historical figures may be real, powerful forces in the modern world.
• Fear of the unknown and state control: Officials respond to an overwhelming threat by declaring it forbidden, acknowledging their inability to resist it.
• Propaganda versus public perception: Japan’s boastful account contrasts with the online audience’s knowledge of what actually happened.
• Speculation in the information age: Social media rapidly turns limited evidence into competing theories about the First Emperor, Xu Fu, and the Elixir.

Character interactions

• The Black Dragon’s seizure of Xu Fu and the Elixir ends the confrontation at the ruins and leaves the Japanese team free to explore.
• Japan’s announcement draws dismissive reactions from other nations, whose attention is fixed on the Black Dragon.
• Xu Fu’s words to the dragon fuel the public’s theories about their relationship and the First Emperor’s possible return.
• Central Continent officials discuss the threat collectively, ultimately responding with a ban on approaching the mausoleum.

Plot points and events

• The Black Dragon’s appearance at the First Emperor Mausoleum causes a sensation, earning Gu Chen a million Origin Points.
• Gu Chen considers the Fangshi cultivation method he previously revealed a rough, dangerous draft: practitioners absorb mercury and other substances, risking poisoning or being transformed by them.
• He spends his new Origin Points strengthening the Hundred Schools of Thought Secret Realms across the Central Continent, preparing to awaken them.
• The Confucian School Secret Realm stirs. In Qufu’s Kong Ancestral Hall, a bamboo slip held by a statue of Confucius shines with Spiritual Light, accompanied by the sound of Confucian classics.
• The Kong Clan interprets the event as Confucius manifesting. Its leaders order a ceremony and place the slip under guard until then.
• Videos of the phenomenon spread online, prompting debate about whether Confucian scholars have their own supernatural cultivation system and how they might fight.

Character developments

• Gu Chen shifts from drawing attention to the First Emperor Mausoleum to actively awakening the Hundred Schools of Thought, using his Origin Points to lay the groundwork.
• The Kong Clan moves from reverence for its scholarly heritage toward the hope that Confucian learning may grant supernatural abilities. The clan leader and elders respond with religious awe and formal plans to honor the relic.
• Old Man Sun, the ancestral hall caretaker, becomes the bamboo slip’s appointed guardian.

Character interactions

• Kong Clan members gather around the glowing slip, sharing excitement and speculation; the elders then establish rules to protect it.
• Online commenters debate what Confucian powers could look like, ranging from supernatural “verbal attacks” to reminders that ancient scholars were trained in practical arts, including archery and horsemanship.

Significant themes

• Tradition meeting supernatural change: The Kong Clan hopes its literary heritage can become a path to power without abandoning its identity.
• The cost of pursuing power: The Fangshi method illustrates how poorly understood cultivation can be dangerous.
• Public mythmaking: The clan and online audiences quickly turn an unexplained event into competing expectations about Confucius and Confucian abilities.

• Online debate and parody: A viral question about how the Confucian School fought leads netizens to portray Confucius as both a fearsome warrior and a master of verbal attacks. Citing ancient accounts of his strength, speed, and martial abilities, they recast the Analects as the “Lun Yu,” a set of underworld rules. They jokingly reinterpret its sayings as threats and depict Confucius as a gang leader traveling with seventy-two “Hall Masters” and three thousand followers.
• Gu Chen’s response: In Coastal City, Gu Chen is amused—and puzzled—by the parody, then checks the old accounts and concludes that Confucius really was physically formidable and backed by a large following. Inspired by the online jokes, Gu Chen uses System Power to make a small, private alteration to the true meaning of Confucianism.
• Attempted theft in Qufu: News of Confucius’s manifestation draws attention to the Kong Clan, whose fighting strength is considered weak. Several martial artists sneak into the Sun Clan compound and quickly overpower its guards and Old Man Sun, hoping to steal a glowing Bamboo Slip from the ancestral hall.
• The Bamboo Slip’s defense: When an intruder lifts the slip, it becomes impossibly heavy. Literary Qi forms the words, “Who is without fault? To err and then correct oneself—there is no greater good.” The characters slam down with crushing force, pinning all the intruders.
• Character developments and interactions: Gu Chen moves from bemusement at the parody to acting on it, altering Confucianism for his own amusement. The intruders’ confidence collapses when the Bamboo Slip turns their theft attempt against them; Old Man Sun is attacked before the relic intervenes.
• Themes: The chapter plays with the gap between historical reputation and popular reinterpretation, blending humor with supernatural cultivation. It also shows how literary and moral teachings can become literal power—and how apparent weakness may conceal potent protection.

Key plot points and events

• Four masked martial artists break into the Sun Clan ancestral hall to steal the Kong Clan’s inherited Bamboo Slip.
• When they pick it up, the slip releases powerful Literary Qi and pins them beneath the words: “Who is without fault? To err and then correct it is the greatest virtue.”
• The intruders combine their martial power, talismans, and Magic Artifacts to break free, but their struggle makes a huge disturbance that alerts the Sun Clan.
• As clan members rush toward the hall, the thieves prepare to use their strongest resources to subdue the slip.
• The Bamboo Slip summons a towering Confucius Phantom. Instead of a dignified scholar, it appears as a massively muscular, menacing fighter.
• The Phantom twists Confucian sayings into excuses for violence, swiftly defeats all four intruders, and begins “teaching” them by beating them senseless.

Character developments

• The four thieves shift from confidence to panic as the Bamboo Slip’s power escalates. Despite deploying their best techniques and artifacts, they are overwhelmed.
• The Confucius Phantom is introduced as a bizarre, aggressive guardian whose strength and interpretation of classical teachings are far from what the intruders expect.

Significant themes

• Learning and correction: The slip’s first quotation emphasizes that recognizing and correcting mistakes is a virtue.
• Expectations overturned: The Phantom’s appearance and behavior sharply contrast with the traditional image of Confucius.
• Power and hubris: The thieves’ confidence in their combined strength proves useless against the Bamboo Slip’s supernatural force.
• Comic reinterpretation: Serious Confucian sayings are humorously recast as justifications for physical violence.

Character interactions

• The thieves coordinate their efforts and urge one another to use every available resource.
• Their reactions to the Phantom’s appearance and distorted quotations reveal their disbelief and fear.
• The Phantom answers their resistance with overwhelming force, turning the attempted theft into a brutal, comic “lesson.”

Key plot points

• Inside the Kong Clan Ancestral Hall, a muscular Confucius Phantom teaches the Lun Yu by wildly reinterpreting its sayings as lessons in physical strength and combat.
• The Kong Clan Leader and Elders arrive, furious at what they assume is someone disgracing Confucius. When they discover the speaker is the genuine-looking phantom produced by a Bamboo Slip, their anger turns to reverence and disbelief.
• The phantom defeats several intruding martial artists, then offers the Kong clansmen his “instruction” before dissolving back into Literary Qi.
• Rather than reject his bizarre interpretations, the Kong clansmen decide they have uncovered Confucius’s true intent and resolve to reinterpret the classics. This sets up the rise of a radically different Kong branch of Confucianism.
• Gu Chen, who engineered the incident, watches uneasily as his joke threatens to reshape the Confucian School.

Character developments

• The Kong Clan Leader, Elders, and young men move from indignation to awe, then to sincere conviction that the phantom’s teachings reveal hidden truths.
• Gu Chen shifts from amusement to apprehension when he realizes the consequences may outlast the prank.

Themes

• Authority and interpretation: A revered source can make even absurd teachings seem authoritative.
• Tradition and change: The clansmen’s confidence in inherited readings collapses, opening the way to a new doctrine.
• Comic unintended consequences: Gu Chen’s “little joke” may produce a lasting upheaval.

Character interactions

• The Clan Leader and Elders initially condemn the unknown speaker, then defer to the phantom once they recognize him.
• The phantom lectures the intruders and Kong clansmen alike, presenting martial prowess as the key to Confucian wisdom.
• The Kong clansmen reinforce one another’s new beliefs, turning the phantom’s claims into a collective reinterpretation.

Plot points and events

• After an attempted theft of the Kong Clan’s inherited Bamboo Slips, the Clan announced that the relic was safe and thanked the thieves for giving them a chance to experience Confucius’s teachings.
• The four battered would-be thieves were forced to copy the Analects a hundred times under the supervision of burly guards. The Kong Clan’s interpretation of Confucian lessons was comically violent, leaving the thieves confused and resentful.
• Meanwhile, ancient ruins and a hidden Mohist Secret Realm in Shennongjia awakened. Their formations activated, Spiritual Energy began flowing, and mechanical creations stirred from beneath the earth.
• Nearby cultivators, drawn by the spectacle, gathered at the ruins hoping to claim an opportunity. When they approached, ancient puppet constructs—shaped like animals and made from materials such as bronze, stone, and wood—emerged to guard the site.
• The cultivators recognized the Pre-Qin Seal Script and connected the mechanical constructs to the Mohists and the Gongshu School, concluding that the site might be Mohist ruins.

Character developments and interactions

• The four thieves shift from attempted criminals to unwilling students, forced to copy Confucius’s teachings while guards threaten them with extra work.
• The Kong Clan responds to the theft with a mix of reverence and absurdly harsh humor: they celebrate Confucius’s manifestation while using it to discipline the thieves.
• The Shennongjia cultivators move from excitement at discovering a relic to wary amazement when its mechanical guardians appear. They debate the constructs’ origins and abilities, eventually identifying their likely Mohist connection.

Significant themes

• Ancient knowledge returning: The awakening ruins suggest that old supernatural systems and technologies are coming back to life.
• The power of history: Cultivators assume the Pre-Qin relic’s age means it may possess exceptional power and value.
• Tradition and irony: The Kong Clan’s stern treatment of the thieves contrasts comically with its claim to honor Confucian teachings.
• Competition for opportunity: The cultivators rush toward the relic, reflecting the growing desire to gain power as the supernatural world revives.

Key plot points and events

• The Shennongjia Hermits attack the wolf-shaped Mohist puppets with spells and magical weapons, expecting to destroy them. Their attacks only strip away the dirt covering the machines; the puppets remain unharmed.
• The puppets recite Mohist teachings, then charge the attackers. Their protective restrictions and formations absorb the hermits’ blows, and they capture those who fought back.
• A Foundation Establishment expert’s powerful sword briefly drives the puppets back, but an eagle-shaped Mechanical Beast swiftly defeats him with a single strike.
• The hermits realize the machines may fight at Gangsha-level strength and that the ruins could contain many more. The puppets ignore those who did not attack.
• The captured attackers are taken into the ruins, where the onlookers glimpse a vast Mechanical City and enormous machines. Mohist Mechanical Men emerge and recite teachings on Universal Love and Non-aggression.

Character developments and interactions

• The Shennongjia Hermits move from confidence to shock and fear as their strongest attacks prove ineffective. Some respond with defiance, while others recognize the danger.
• The Foundation Establishment hermit’s confidence in his sword is shattered when the eagle-shaped machine overwhelms him.
• The machines act selectively: they capture aggressors but leave noncombatants alone, giving their behavior an apparent connection to the Mohist principle of non-aggression.
• The Mechanical Men address the captured hermits calmly, presenting Mohist doctrine rather than immediately escalating the confrontation.

Significant themes

• The power of ancient technology: The Mohist machines’ durability and combat ability exceed the hermits’ expectations.
• Action versus principle: The attackers are punished for initiating violence, while those who abstain are spared.
• Universal Love and Non-aggression: The machines’ words and selective response suggest that Mohist philosophy governs their actions.
• Human limits and uncertainty: The glimpse of the immense Mechanical City hints that the ruins contain forces far beyond what the hermits can handle.

Plot points and events

• Mohist Mechanical Creations capture the Shennongjia Hermits who attacked the Mohist Ruins. Instead of killing them, the machines make them study Mozi’s teachings, enforcing attention with ruler blows.
• Footage of the Ruins spreads online. The public marvels at the ancient machines and speculates about the immense Mechanical City, its Mechanical Behemoth, and possible sleeping Mohist Sages.
• The Central Continent Security Bureau judges the Ruins unusually safe: the Mohist machines restrain intruders rather than endangering them, consistent with Mohism’s principles of “Universal Love” and “Non-aggression.” Officials decide to monitor the Hundred Schools of Thought, foster friendly relations, and prepare for possible instability elsewhere.
• Gu Chen, having noticed that both Mohism and Confucianism have appeared, resolves to bring the remaining schools into the modern world gradually.
• Over the next year, ruins and brief glimpses of Secret Realms associated with the Daoist, Yin-Yang, Legalist, School of Diplomacy, and other traditions emerge. Apparent ancient disciples spread their schools’ classics and ideas, with the Security Bureau protecting them from interference.
• Interest in the Hundred Schools surges, and people begin studying the ancient texts and seeking to join the schools or enter their Secret Realms.

Character developments and interactions

• The captured Hermits shift from attackers to unwilling students, compelled by the Mohist Mechanical Men to recite Mohist teachings.
• Other Hermits respond by filming the Ruins and sharing their discovery, turning it into a public sensation.
• Security officials move from assessing the Mohist Ruins to adopting a broader policy of cooperation with the emerging schools.
• Gu Chen reveals his larger ambition: to bring the Hundred Schools of Thought onto Blue Star, but carefully and one step at a time.

Significant themes

• Ancient knowledge returning: The Pre-Qin schools reappear as powerful forces in the modern world.
• Ideals reflected in action: Mohist pacifism is shown through the machines’ nonlethal punishment of intruders.
• Caution and coexistence: Gu Chen and the Security Bureau favor gradual change and friendly engagement.
• Public fascination with the supernatural: The Ruins spark widespread debate, renewed study of classical texts, and hopes for personal advancement.

Chapter Summary

• The Hundred Schools spread worldwide: More than a year after the schools’ ruins emerged, their teachings had become a global phenomenon. People across Blue Star studied the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Yin-Yang, Legalist, and other schools, while each attracted followers suited to its ideas and cultivation methods.
• The Kong Clan’s altered teaching takes off: Gu Chen recalls that a prank of his had sent the Bamboo Slip Spirit down the wrong path, leading the Kong Clan to produce an altered version of the Analects. To his dismay, foreigners embraced its outlandish interpretation of “The Gentleman is Not a Vessel,” imagining that Confucian gentlemen excelled at beating opponents with their bare hands.
• Gu Chen considers expansion beyond Blue Star: He estimates that the Hundred Schools could dominate Blue Star within five years, allowing him to begin the next phase of his plans and perhaps spread the teachings to other civilizations. He wonders whether extraterrestrial followers could generate Origin Points, which would free him from the limits of Blue Star’s population.
• A new threat approaches: Gu Chen reflects that the schools’ growing popularity has earned him nearly 3.6 million Origin Points in under two years. Then a premonition warns him of danger. Since he believes the source lies beyond Blue Star, he suspects the Omega Civilization—whose warships were defeated eight or nine years earlier. He searches the stars from Immortal Han Ancient City and discovers an unknown reconnaissance craft approaching from outside the Solar System.

Character Developments and Interactions

Gu Chen is amused and embarrassed by the unintended consequences of his prank, but his attention shifts from the schools’ success to the strategic opportunity it offers: expanding his influence and harvesting more Origin Points. His confidence is tempered by a sharpened sense of danger. The chapter’s clearest interactions are indirect: Gu Chen’s prank affects the Kong Clan, the Clan’s altered teaching captivates foreign students, and the looming alien craft signals that Blue Star may soon face another confrontation.

Significant Themes

Ideas spreading and transforming across cultures

The unpredictable consequences of meddling

The pursuit of power and resources on an ever-larger scale

The tension between Blue Star’s growing cultural influence and threats from beyond it

Plot points and events

• Four Omega scouting ships approach the Solar System under optical stealth. Gu Chen detects them but lets them continue, expecting the main fleet to arrive.
• The Omega Civilization, wary after its earlier defeat by Blue Star’s supernatural beings, has recruited the more powerful Level 5 Osta Civilization. The two civilizations plan to capture and study the supernatural individuals.
• The scouts photograph Blue Star, the Immortal Han Ancient Cities, and the wreckage of an Omega warship. Osta’s commanders dismiss Blue Star as a primitive Level 2 civilization, while the Omegas seek to avenge their humiliation.
• Both fleets drop their concealment and enter the Solar System. Near-Earth satellites detect them, prompting alarm across Blue Star and emergency preparations among major nations.

Character developments

• Gu Chen remains confident and playful. He sees the coming invasion as a chance to test the Mythical Great Qin and Hundred Schools of Thought he created, and deliberately avoids warning the enemy by destroying its scouts.
• Osta’s commanders, especially Governor Oran, display arrogance and underestimate Blue Star.
• Omega’s leaders and fleet officers are driven by wounded pride as well as strategic interest: they want to recover their reputation after losing to a supposedly inferior civilization.

Character interactions

• The Omega Civilization shares intelligence with the Osta Civilization and persuades it to join the assault; the two fleets now cooperate to capture Blue Star’s supernatural individuals.
• Blue Star’s governments and aerospace authorities respond to the approaching fleets with emergency meetings, heightened combat readiness, and coordination.
• Citizens react with fear and calls for Central Continent’s supernatural defenders and Starry Sky Ancient City to protect the planet.

Significant themes

• Arrogance versus underestimated strength: Osta assumes technological and civilizational rank guarantees victory, while Blue Star’s power lies beyond its conventional classification.
• Revenge and reputation: Omega’s return is fueled by humiliation as much as military objectives.
• Preparation and hidden capability: Gu Chen’s calm response and prior creations suggest Blue Star may be ready for an invasion its enemies do not understand.

Plot and key events

• Two unidentified alien fleets enter the Solar System, prompting global alarm. The Central Continent remains comparatively calm, remembering how Immortal Han Ancient City defeated the previous Omega invasion eight years earlier.
• Interrogation of a captured Omega soldier reveals that the second fleet belongs to the powerful Level 5 Osta Civilization. The newcomers appear confident and begin preparing heavy weapons, warcraft, and mechs to overwhelm Blue Star.
• Immortal Han Ancient City opens recruitment to cultivators at Qi Refining Peak or higher. Blue Star’s stronger cultivation base since the last invasion draws eager volunteers, including foreign fighters and livestreamers seeking military merit.
• The Shenxiao Sect mobilizes more than a thousand disciples, who are transported by the Incense God Court.
• Gu Chen surveys the fleets and recognizes the danger posed by Osta technology, but trusts Blue Star’s defenses and retains 3.8 million Origin Points to strengthen them if needed.
• Three days later, the fleets approach within nearly a hundred thousand li of Blue Star. Immortal Han’s cities activate a vast linked formation, and warlords, strategists, and War Soldiers march out as the confrontation begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen is alert to the risk posed by a Level 5 civilization, though he remains confident in his reserves and in the forces available to him.
• Blue Star’s cultivators have become more powerful and organized since the last war; many now volunteer eagerly to defend the planet.
• The alien fleets display contempt for Blue Star, while their soldiers prepare to demonstrate the superiority of their technology.
• The Shenxiao disciples respond to the crisis through collective mobilization and the Incense God Court.

Significant themes

• Growth through past conflict: Blue Star’s people and defenses are stronger after the earlier invasion.
• Confidence balanced with caution: Central Continent trusts Immortal Han’s power, but the unknown capabilities of a Level 5 civilization remain a serious concern.
• Unity in defense: Cultivators, martial artists, foreign volunteers, and sect disciples rally against the approaching threat.
• The contrast between technology and cultivation: Advanced alien weapons face Immortal Han’s formations and supernatural forces.

Plot points and events

• Immortal Han Ancient City and the Shenxiao Sect’s Incense God Court take up battle positions against the Omega fleet. Their forces are confident they can handle Omega’s ships, but fear the unknown capabilities of the accompanying Level 5 Osta Civilization.
• The Osta flagship transforms into three colossal mecha, each several kilometers tall and equipped with particle cannons, plasma lightsabers, and repulsion fields. Other Osta ships deploy smaller mecha to support them.
• Satellite footage of the transformation spreads across Blue Star. People worldwide react with shock and fear; many foreign viewers call for surrender, while Central Continent’s citizens try to remain defiant and hope for aid from the Hundred Schools of Thought or the Black Dragon.
• Gu Chen recognizes that the Osta mecha pose a far greater threat than Omega’s conventional fleet. He begins activating the Secret Realm of the Hundred Schools of Thought and considers drawing on reserves he prepared on Blue Star.
• Omega opens the battle with a coordinated barrage against Immortal Han Ancient City’s troops and the Incense God Court. The three giant mecha then space-jump into the fight and attack with enormous plasma blades.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from confidence to serious concern when he sees the Osta mecha. Rather than wait for his current forces to fail, he takes immediate action to summon additional support.
• Blue Star’s people respond differently to the threat: foreign audiences largely panic, while Central Continent’s citizens remain more hopeful, citing possible reinforcements and legendary defenders.
• The opposing forces move from an uneasy standoff to open combat: Omega launches the first salvo, while the Osta mecha rapidly close the distance and strike at Immortal Han Ancient City.

Significant themes

• Escalation and uncertainty: A familiar enemy fleet becomes far more dangerous with the arrival of a technologically superior civilization.
• Fear versus resolve: The public’s reactions contrast panic and calls for surrender with patriotism and faith in potential defenders.
• Preparation and hidden reserves: Gu Chen’s response suggests that survival may depend on resources and allies not yet revealed.

Key plot points and events

• Osta Civilization’s Giant Mecha reveal short-range Spatial Jump technology, letting them evade encirclement, strike from unexpected positions, and travel thousands of li in seconds. Their plasma blades and long-range particle cannons make them a major threat to Immortal Han Ancient City.
• Dian Wei and other warlords attack the mechs with War Formations, but the mechs repeatedly jump clear and counterattack. Smaller mechs, spacecraft, and Omega Warships join the assault, while the Incense God Court fights back with Golden Wish Power.
• Gu Chen realizes that Immortal Han Ancient City is unlikely to withstand the combined attack unless the mechs’ jumping ability can be countered.
• The worsening battle alarms Blue Star’s nations, which place their forces and nuclear arsenals on alert. Public discussion swings between panic and faith in Central Continent’s hidden defenders.
• Gu Chen enters the battlefield as Old Immortal Nanhua and uses the Taiping Secret Art, Call Wind and Rain. His Azure Xun Wind strips shields and armor from enemy craft; Black Kan Water then engulfs and destroys more than a hundred warships and mechs.
• His intervention restores Blue Star’s morale. The Osta mechs, however, see him as a valuable target for capture and study. One jumps directly to him and attacks, setting up a test of Gu Chen’s strength against a Level 5 war machine.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from observing the battle to intervening when the city’s defeat seems imminent. His decisive display reveals the scale of his power, but he remains curious about the mechs and accepts the challenge of facing one directly.
• Dian Wei and the warlords fight in disciplined formations, but their conventional attacks struggle against enemies that can jump beyond their reach.
• The Osta pilots move from battlefield aggression to scientific opportunism: after witnessing Gu Chen’s abilities, they want to capture him for research.
• Blue Star’s nations and public react with fear to the technology, then regain hope when Gu Chen turns the tide.

Significant themes

• Technological advantage versus supernatural power: Spatial Jump gives the mechs a near-unanswerable tactical edge, while Gu Chen’s abilities demonstrate that individual supernatural strength can still alter the battle.
• Escalation and vulnerability: Even formidable forces are threatened by unfamiliar technology, and the chapter stresses that power is ineffective if it cannot hit its target.
• Fear and morale: News of the mechs spreads panic across Blue Star, while Gu Chen’s intervention shows how a single defender can restore confidence.
• Conflict as opportunity: The Osta Civilization views Gu Chen not only as an enemy but as a specimen whose capture could yield valuable knowledge.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen battles two Osta Giant War Mechs in space. His Mysterious Light hand briefly withstands one mech’s particle cannon, but the machines’ powerful weapons and coordinated attacks force him to evade.
• The mechs’ 360 Repulsion Fields make them exceptionally hard to damage, while their Space Jump Devices let them teleport unpredictably across vast distances. Gu Chen realizes these devices—not the mechs’ strength alone—make them such difficult opponents.
• The Osta pilots recognize Gu Chen as a valuable target. They plan to wear him down, capture him alive, and study the source of his power.
• The Osta commanders also decide to conquer Blue Star, believing the planet must contain a major secret. A third of their mechs break away and head toward it.
• Blue Star’s nations detect the incoming invasion and mobilize: alarms sound, shelters open, and military and air-defense systems prepare. The public reacts with shock, anger, and calls for unity.
• As the two mechs continue pressuring him, Gu Chen uses the Taiping Secret Art’s Mountain Moving technique. Phantom mountains appear across space, slowing a mech that jumps in close, giving Gu Chen an opening to strike.

Character developments

• Gu Chen recognizes the limits of a straightforward fight against teleporting enemies and shifts to a tactical approach, using Mountain Moving to restrict their mobility.
• The Osta commanders and pilots move from fighting Gu Chen to treating him as a prize to capture and exploit. Their ambition expands into a direct invasion of Blue Star.
• Blue Star’s people and governments shift rapidly from confusion to emergency readiness, with citizens expressing fear but also defiance.

Significant themes

• Technology versus individual power: Gu Chen is immensely strong, but the mechs’ defensive fields and spatial jumps complicate his advantage.
• Power as a resource to exploit: The Osta seek not merely to defeat Gu Chen, but to understand and reproduce his abilities.
• Invasion and collective resistance: The threat to Blue Star unites its nations and people in preparation for defense.
• Adaptation in battle: Gu Chen counters the mechs’ mobility by changing the conditions of the fight rather than relying only on brute force.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen faces two mechs working in coordinated attacks, forcing him to evade their shifting positions and alternate weapons.
• The Osta pilots and commanders discuss how to capture Gu Chen and agree on the plan to seize Blue Star.
• Blue Star’s governments issue emergency instructions, while citizens debate the invasion and call for their nations to resist together.
• Gu Chen turns the tide of the immediate exchange by using Mountain Moving to slow a mech and create a chance to attack.

Plot points and events

• Gu Chen combines the Taiping Secret Arts Summon Wind and Overturn Sea, using the Gen Mountains’ shadow-like gravity to slow two Osta Large War Mechs before striking them with an Azure Hurricane and a Black Kan Sea.
• The mechs escape at the last moment by pushing their Space Jump Devices to their limits. Afterward, they keep their distance and attack cautiously with cannons, jumping away immediately after close-range strikes.
• Unable to catch them with the same tactic again, Gu Chen activates the First Emperor Mausoleum’s contingency through System Power. The Terracotta Army awakens as ancient Qin soldiers, and the First Emperor’s enormous Black Dragon Clone rises from the Silver Mercury Long River.
• At the same time, Osta mechs invade Blue Star. The Blue Star Nations’ missiles and aircraft prove completely ineffective against the technologically superior attackers.
• As the mechs prepare to conquer the planet, the Hundred Schools of Thought Secret Realms across the Central Continent blaze with light, revealing the powers concealed within them.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen demonstrates formidable power and tactical ingenuity, but the mechs’ timely escape shows the limits of his ambush once opponents adapt.
• The Osta pilots respond to the near-disaster by becoming wary, relying on long-range attacks and quick retreats rather than risking another close encounter.
• Osta soldiers openly ridicule Blue Star’s defenders, underestimating them as a primitive Level 2 civilization. Their contempt contrasts with the fear and alarm of Blue Star’s forces when their weapons fail.
• Blue Star’s nations fight together with their available military technology, but the invasion exposes how far they still lag behind the Osta Civilization.

Significant themes

• Preparation and hidden reserves: Gu Chen turns to ancient contingencies when his direct attack fails, while the Secret Realms hint at further forces waiting to emerge.
• The danger of underestimating an opponent: The Osta mechs are nearly destroyed when they misjudge Gu Chen, yet their pilots make the same mistake by dismissing Blue Star.
• Unequal power and resistance: Blue Star’s conventional defenses cannot match Osta technology, but the awakening of the Mausoleum and Secret Realms suggests that its true strength may lie beyond modern weapons.

Key events

• On the Kong Clan grounds in Qufu, Kong Ji prays for help against the alien invasion. His ritual opens the Confucian School Secret Realm, whose wonders become visible to people nearby and draw Osta mechs toward it.
• Confucius’s disciples awaken and emerge, including Zilu, Zixia, and Ziyou, along with two hundred other disciples. Zilu leads them in attacking the invading mechs; their fists destroy several machines that had resisted modern human weapons.
• At the Mohist headquarters in Shennongjia, the Mohist Secret Realm likewise opens. Mohist disciples command enormous mechanical beasts—including a six-winged centipede, an Azure Bird, and the Four Symbols puppets—into battle against the Osta mechs. The beasts overpower and pursue the invaders.
• Disciples of the Yin-Yang School also emerge, using Yin-Yang and Five Elements techniques to attack the mechs.

Character developments and interactions

• Kong Ji shifts from anxious supplication to reverent excitement when the Confucian sages answer his call. He approaches Zilu respectfully, but Zilu waves away ceremony and asks to be addressed plainly.
• Zilu is introduced as boisterous, confident, and combative. He welcomes the chance to confront the invaders and leads the charge.
• The Osta soldiers arrive expecting little resistance, but their astonishment turns to helplessness as the Confucian disciples and Mohist beasts attack.
• Ordinary observers and Kong Clan members react with awe: many witness the Secret Realm, while the Confucians’ physical strength shocks those who assume scholars cannot be fighters.

Significant themes

• Ancient traditions meet futuristic technology: the Secret Realms’ legendary powers decisively challenge advanced alien machines.
• Cultural heritage becomes active defense: Confucian, Mohist, and Yin-Yang traditions answer the invasion through their distinctive teachings and abilities.
• The reversal of expectations: revered scholars fight like warriors, and seemingly old-fashioned mechanical beasts defeat high-tech mechs.

Key plot points and events

• The Hundred Schools of Thought emerge from their Secret Realms and devastate Osta’s invading mechs. Mohist Mechanical Beasts, Daoist qi techniques, and other supernatural arts prove capable of piercing Repulsion Fields and destroying even enormous machines.
• Osta pilots send distress calls, but reinforcements suffer the same fate. The surviving mechs retreat from Blue Star, pursued into space by the ancient experts.
• News of the victory spreads across Blue Star, stunning the public and inspiring confidence in the planet’s hidden strength.
• On the Starry Sky Battlefield, both the Immortal Han side and the Osta forces are shocked by the fleeing mechs. The Hundred Schools’ arrival swings the battle decisively toward Blue Star, alarming both the Osta and Omega civilizations.
• Meanwhile, Gu Chen, besieged by two Large War Mechs, signals that he is ready to end the fight.

Character developments

• The experts of the Hundred Schools are established as formidable warriors whose abilities vastly exceed what the invading civilizations expected from a Level 2 planet.
• Osta’s pilots and commanders shift from confidence to fear as their superior technology proves ineffective.
• Gu Chen remains composed under pressure and appears ready to reveal or use his decisive strength.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and underestimation: Blue Star’s apparent weakness conceals powerful ancient forces.
• Tradition against technology: The Hundred Schools’ supernatural arts overwhelm advanced mechs.
• Reversal of fortune: Osta’s assault turns into a rout, and the wider space battle shifts in Blue Star’s favor.
• Escalating uncertainty: The enemy civilizations now suspect Blue Star may possess even more hidden trump cards.

Character interactions

• Hundred Schools experts pursue and destroy Osta mechs, while the fleeing pilots report their defeat to Osta’s command.
• The Confucian disciples use Literary Qi and verbal arts against the machines; Mohist, Daoist, and Yin-Yang practitioners fight alongside them.
• Blue Star’s observers and online public react with astonishment and pride, while the Immortal Han and Osta forces look on in disbelief.
• Gu Chen faces two Large War Mechs as the chapter closes.

Key plot points and events

• A massive Space Rift opens over the starry battlefield, and a gigantic black dragon emerges from the First Emperor Mausoleum Secret Realm. Its roar and overwhelming pressure are felt across the battlefield—and even on Blue Star.
• The sight terrifies the Omega and Osta forces, who wonder whether the dragon is an unknown Star Beast. They hesitate to attack.
• Great Qin’s soldiers, chariots, Legalist masters, and renowned generals—including Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Meng Tian—emerge through the rift. A million Qin soldiers assemble in formation.
• Their combined power creates a colossal Xuan Bird Totem Phantom. The Qin leaders and troops welcome their emperor, and nine Flood Dragons pull out a Bronze Chariot.
• First Emperor Ying Zheng appears in a Black Emperor Robe, standing atop the black dragon. Satellite footage broadcasts his arrival to Blue Star, where viewers react with awe and excitement.

Character developments

• Ying Zheng makes a dramatic return, presented as an overwhelmingly powerful and commanding ruler. His ability to stand atop the fearsome dragon astonishes both allies and enemies.
• The Qin generals and soldiers show unity and reverence, assembling into a formidable force and greeting their emperor as one.
• The Omega and Osta commanders shift from confidence to fear and caution when confronted with the dragon and the scale of Qin’s forces.
• Blue Star’s people, especially those in the Central Continent, respond with patriotic enthusiasm and renewed confidence.

Significant themes

• Imperial authority and awe: Ying Zheng’s arrival projects power capable of commanding attention across worlds.
• Collective strength: The million Qin soldiers’ formation produces a force as imposing as the dragon itself.
• Fear of the unknown: The alien civilizations’ knowledge and technology offer little reassurance against unfamiliar power.
• Historical legacy made present: The return of Great Qin links ancient history with a modern, interstellar conflict.

Character interactions

• The Qin troops and leaders collectively welcome Ying Zheng, affirming their loyalty and shared identity.
• The dragon’s arrival intimidates both the enemy forces and the Immortal Han ranks, temporarily halting hostile action.
• Blue Star viewers follow the spectacle through satellite footage, celebrating Ying Zheng’s return and expecting him to defeat the alien civilizations.

Key plot points and events

• The First Emperor arrives above the battlefield and orders Great Qin’s million soldiers to show no mercy to the invading Omega and Osta forces.
• The army divides into ten formations of 100,000 soldiers, led by generals including Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Meng Tian. Their combined power manifests as enormous Totem Phantoms and overwhelms more than a thousand enemy warships and mechs.
• Great Qin’s formations shatter enemy defenses and destroy many craft. The survivors attempt to flee, while the distant Omega and Osta fleets open fire in support.
• Three Giant War Mechs use Space Jump Devices to strike at the formations and evade retaliation. Bai Qi and the other generals repel their attacks but cannot catch them.
• The First Emperor declares that the mechs’ use of spatial power is futile. His Black Dragon tears open a Space Rift, preparing to counter their ability.

Character developments and interactions

• The First Emperor takes command decisively and displays confidence in Great Qin’s strength, then intervenes when the Giant War Mechs threaten his troops.
• The Great Qin generals and soldiers fight as coordinated formations, demonstrating power far beyond their individual strength. Bai Qi responds aggressively to the mechs’ hit-and-run tactics, calling their pilots cowards.
• The invaders shift from resistance to retreat as their losses mount, though their fleets and Giant War Mechs continue to support the battle.
• Gu Chen watches with confidence, believing the First Emperor can overcome the mechs’ spatial maneuvering.
• The First Emperor’s forces and the invading fleets exchange attacks, while the generals target the Giant War Mechs and the mechs repeatedly evade them.

Significant themes

• Unity multiplies strength: Great Qin’s formations combine soldiers’ and generals’ power into a force capable of crushing advanced warships.
• Overconfidence meets resistance: The invaders’ technological weapons and spatial devices prove insufficient against Great Qin’s martial power.
• Command and resolve: The First Emperor’s authority turns the battle decisively, while his final move signals that the enemy’s apparent advantage may soon be neutralized.

Key events

• The First Emperor’s Black Dragon tears open a Space Rift and grabs an Osta Giant War Mech as it emerges from a Space Jump. Its Deep Divine Light and crushing claw destroy the mech, killing its crew.
• The other two Giant War Mechs abandon risky jumps and attempt evasive maneuvers. The Black Dragon opens another rift, threatening a second attack.
• Governor Oran orders the Osta fleet to concentrate every weapon on the Black Dragon.
• Gu Chen charges toward the Omega and Osta warships, unleashing attacks from the Taiping Secret Art: an Azure Xun Wind hurricane and a vast surge of Black Kan Water.
• As Gu Chen attacks the fleets, the Black Dragon reaches through another Space Rift and seizes a second Giant War Mech.

Character developments and interactions

• The First Emperor remains composed and commanding atop the Black Dragon, treating the remaining mechs as insignificant targets.
• Governor Oran shifts from shock at the loss of a crucial war machine to urgent action, taking command and directing the fleet’s fire against the Black Dragon.
• Gu Chen moves from confronting the Giant War Mechs to striking at both civilizations’ fleets, driven by anger over the torment they caused him.
• The surviving Osta crews, commanders, and captains are shaken by the Black Dragon’s spatial power. The first mech’s crew realizes their usual escape technology cannot save them and dies in despair.

Significant themes

• The limits of technology: The Osta’s Space Jump Device, once considered an escape from defeat, is useless against an opponent who can manipulate space itself.
• Power and reversal: A planet dismissed as a Level 2 Civilization proves capable of destroying the Osta’s most formidable weapons.
• Retaliation and escalation: The destruction of the mech provokes a fleet-wide response, while Gu Chen’s counterattack expands the conflict from the mechs to the entire opposing fleets.