Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun and the other cultivators entered the Insectoid World, where they helped secure the passage exit and learned that nearby planets held low-level Insect Race clans. After the main force arrived and exploration began, Feng Jun and his companions rejected the Two Sects’ advice to stay behind and prepared to explore for themselves.

• Elder Duan Liang’s summoned allies arrived, while Yi Jue, Cang Jing, and Qingji struggled to gather helpers after the Two Sects restricted who could enter the Insectoid World.
• The Two Sects opened three passages and sent more than a hundred thousand cultivators into the turbulent Insectoid World, with Feng Jun’s group among the vanguard.
• Feng Jun’s group emerged into a star-filled world and helped defend the passage exit while the Two Sects organized exploration of nearby planets.
• Three days later, the remaining cultivators arrived, and scouts reported that nearby planets held Insect Race clans whose members reached at most Golden Core cultivation.
• The Two Sects’ disciples urged Feng Jun to remain at the passage entrance, but he and his companions, especially Yi Jue, chose to explore the Insectoid World themselves.

Feng Jun’s group split from Duan Liang’s party to explore the Insectoid World, prioritizing learning its rules over gathering resources. After confirming Feng Jun could still teleport between worlds, they surveyed a star system and found no life, though they discovered mineral deposits.

• Feng Jun and Yi Jue chose to explore for knowledge rather than resources, and Qingji and Cang Jing decided to accompany them while Duan Liang led the other group.
• Yi Jue urged Feng Jun to test his Teleportation Divine Ability, and he confirmed he could still travel among Heavenly Zither, Kun Hao, Blue Star, and the Void.
• Feng Jun’s group traveled by Flying Boat to a star system and began exploring its planets from the outskirts inward.
• The group found no living beings in the star system; Cang Jing identified supposed Insect Race fossils as an ancient rodent species.
• Qingji found a deposit of White Exotic Gold Essence Ore, Cang Jing criticized the poor-quality Mystic Ice, and Feng Jun noticed a large gold mine.

Feng Jun and the True Immortals explored the Insectoid World, finding mineral deposits and an insect ecosystem before he spotted water and vegetation on two planets. The group realized the unusual plant-bearing system could be difficult to explore and handle.

• Qingji True Immortal and Cang Jing discussed the White Exotic Gold Essence Ore deposit, while Feng Jun was unsettled when the sect cultivators refused to record his gold discovery.
• The group searched two more star systems and found additional mineral deposits, then discovered insects living in an ecosystem on a Shattered Stone Belt.
• Feng Jun found and took a massive gold nugget, then explained his reluctance to transport rock-eating worms because of the risk of invasive species.
• Yi Jue killed the two mantises she had captured, and the group concluded they had no way to Soul Search insects for signs of Incense Faith Apotheosis.
• Six days later, Feng Jun used a telescope to discover water and vegetation on the third planet and water on the fourth, leaving the group wary of the unusual Insectoid World.

Feng Jun and the cultivators split up to investigate the planets and hide from the Insect Race. Feng Jun brought Qingji and a Yuangang cultivator to the frigid sixth planet, where they found weak insects near a volcano and Qingji insisted they avoid alerting them.

• Yi Jue and Cang Jing divided their groups to explore the third and fourth planets, while Qingji chose the sixth planet as a hiding place.
• On the third planet, a Golden Core Heavenly-Eyed Insect spotted an unidentified object vanish and argued with a flying centipede over its warning.
• Feng Jun spent five days traveling invisibly to the sixth planet, confirmed its highest temperature was minus forty degrees Celsius, and returned to bring Qingji and a Yuangang female cultivator there.
• Feng Jun, Qingji, and the Yuangang cultivator dug a deep cave, rested, then set out for a volcano the following evening.
• Qingji stopped the Yuangang cultivator from killing nearby insects, explaining that they should avoid exposing themselves, and questioned whether she took the Incense Apotheosis Path seriously.

Yi Jue and Cang Jing reported finding Insect Race Divine Temples and Incense Faith cultivators, and Yi Jue agreed to show her discoveries to True Venerable Luan Xiong. After she presented the captured Insect Race cultivators and the stolen Divine Lord Statue, Luan Xiong recognized its Incense Faith aura and praised her.

• Cang Jing and Yi Jue returned with reports of Divine Temples worshipping the Bee King and Cicada King, and described their encounters with Nascent Soul Insect Race cultivators.
• Yi Jue revealed that she had captured a Nascent Soul Insect Race cultivator, seized Golden Core cultivators, and stolen a Divine Lord Statue, which she had sealed.
• Feng Jun and the others worried about the Divine Lord Statue's true body and decided to send it out of the Insectoid World for examination.
• Yi Jue chose to take the discoveries to Blazing Flame, where Qingji contacted True Venerable Luan Xiong.
• Yi Jue showed Luan Xiong the dead and living Insect Race cultivators, then produced the Divine Lord Statue she had taken from a temple.
• True Venerable Luan Xiong detected the Incense Faith aura in the living spider and told Yi Jue that she was very good.

True Lord Luan Xiong examined the Divine Lord Statue, removed Yi Jue’s forming Karmic Mark, and urged caution toward the Insectoid World. After returning, Feng Jun and the others debated how the Insect Race transmitted information and how to proceed.

• True Lord Luan Xiong determined that the Divine Lord worshipped by the statue was above the Spirit Projection Stage and removed Yi Jue’s forming Karmic Mark.
• True Lord Luan Xiong declined to travel to the Insectoid World unless its leaders invited him, then recognized Feng Jun as someone who could bring people through the Void.
• Feng Jun took Yi Jue and Qingji back to the Insectoid World without bringing an additional True Immortal, while True Lord Luan Xiong told Elder Qing Huang to pursue matters concerning the Void.
• Feng Jun, Yi Jue, Qingji, and Cang Jing discussed whether the Insect Race could transmit information during combat or only near Divine Temples.
• Feng Jun suggested that the Insect Race might send messages during battle but that the Divine Lords might not respond.

Feng Jun's group pushed deep into the Insectoid World, fought Insect Race creatures, and withdrew after discovering an ambush. At the entrance base, Feng Jun learned what the other explorers had found and prepared to return to the frontier despite Dawn True Immortal's warning.

• Feng Jun argued that gods on the Incense Apotheosis Path could not answer every believer, and the group agreed to hunt Insect Race creatures while searching for resources.
• Over the next dozen days, Feng Jun's group killed two Nascent-Soul and more than ten Golden-Core Insect Race creatures, then withdrew after Feng Jun divined an ambush by more than twenty Nascent Souls.
• Feng Jun persuaded Yi Jue and the others to push deeper into the Insectoid World, and they later reached a Shattered Stone Belt where he took a Xuanhuang Sect Golden Core True Adept back to the passage entrance.
• Feng Jun found a fortified base with two hundred thousand Human Race cultivators and learned that explorers had confirmed the world followed the Incense Faith Apotheosis path and contained Vitality Stones instead of Spirit Stone Mines.
• Feng Jun told the cultivators about the Insect Race's Divine Temples, prompting them to seek information from the Yuangang Sect, while Dawn True Immortal urged him to withdraw.
• Feng Jun refused Dawn True Immortal's warning and asked whether another Golden Core disciple could accompany him back to the frontier.

Feng Jun and Dawn True Immortal joined Yi Jue’s group in a fierce battle against the Insect Race, then helped wipe out the enemy. After recovering, the cultivators went to investigate a dark cave behind a large rock where the insects had gathered.

• Dawn True Immortal received special approval to accompany Feng Jun to the Shattered Stone Belt, where Yi Jue’s group was struggling against Insect Race creatures.
• Dawn True Immortal and Feng Jun joined the fight, and Feng Jun brought Elder Qing Huang and two other Nascent Soul True Immortals as reinforcements.
• A hidden wasp attacked Feng Jun, but Feng Jun disrupted its attempt to turn invisible and a Golden Crow Sect True Immortal killed it.
• Dawn True Immortal used Endless Xuanhuang to slow the Golden-Core Insect Race creatures, and the cultivators slaughtered the remaining insects.
• After nearly a day of recovery, the group went to inspect a large, dark hole behind a rock, and Feng Jun gave Huoliu True Immortal an emergency lamp.

Feng Jun learned that Vitality Stones could not strengthen Blue Star directly without causing environmental harm, but the Guardians could convert them into spiritual qi for its own use. The Guardians agreed to help convert some for Blue Star and asked Feng Jun to bring it a trace of the foreign domain’s aura.

• Dawn True Immortal identified Vitality Stones in the cave, and the group mined a batch before Feng Jun took some to test elsewhere.
• Feng Jun presented a Vitality Stone to the Guardians, who explained that using large quantities on Blue Star would be like burning fossil fuels and could cause rising sea levels.
• The Guardians revealed that it could convert Vitality Stones into spiritual qi for itself, but initially had little interest in reviving Blue Star’s spiritual vitality.
• Feng Jun offered to provide Spirit Stones in exchange for the Guardians converting Vitality Stones for Blue Star, and the Guardians agreed to help while transferring the Domain Favor to Feng Jun.
• The Guardians advised Feng Jun to seek the favor of other domains and asked him to bring back a trace of the foreign domain’s aura.

Feng Jun consulted the Guardians and the Yin Soul Big Shot about converting Vitality Stones into spiritual energy, then brought Dawn True Immortal and Mingxin True Immortal to the mining site in the space of shattered stones. He had not found a conversion method, and the gathered cultivators prepared to move on after several days of mining.

• Feng Jun brought soil and air samples from Pacify Arms Mountain and Liba Beach to the Guardians, who said the former could better preserve Vitality Stones while the latter might convert them into spiritual energy.
• Feng Jun went to Yellow Heaven Sector with Dawn True Immortal, where a Xuanhuang Nascent Soul High Stage cultivator collected insect corpses and Vitality Stones for study.
• Feng Jun consulted the Yin Soul Big Shot, which suggested converting Vitality Stones into electricity in the Insectoid World, but agreed to help investigate spiritual-energy conversion in Kun Hao.
• Dawn True Immortal arranged for Mou Qiang to guard Liba Beach and Mingxin True Immortal to accompany them, and Feng Jun took them to Kun Hao before traveling to the mining site.
• Mingxin True Immortal and Huoliu True Immortal bickered over an old dispute, while Feng Jun told Yi Jue and the others he had not yet discovered how to use the Vitality Stones.
• Elder Qingji said the group had mined for several days and asked whether they could fill in the tunnels and continue onward.

Feng Jun’s expedition followed a vast migrating Insect Race swarm, planning to wait until it clashed with another group before attacking. Dawn True Immortal returned to the passage entrance for supplies and reinforcements, where Venerable Fishing Elder decided to join the expedition.

• Feng Jun’s group spotted hundreds of millions of insects moving through space and followed them from a distance, hoping to strike after they suffered losses in battle.
• As the Xuanhuang Sect’s Concealment Talismans ran low, Dawn True Immortal arranged to return with two injured members while the others continued trailing the swarm.
• Feng Jun transported Dawn True Immortal and two companions back to the passage entrance, where Dawn reported the expedition’s progress and requested supplies and two True Adepts.
• Venerable Fishing Elder heard Dawn’s account and volunteered to join the expedition.

Fishing Elder True Lord joined Feng Jun’s expedition into Insect Race territory, and Elder Yaoyang and Hua Sheng followed after securing permission. After shadowing a vast Insect Race force for more than twenty days, the group watched over a thousand saucer-shaped craft charge toward it.

• Fishing Elder True Lord agreed to accompany Dawn True Immortal’s group, and Feng Jun accepted despite concerns about teleporting him.
• Elder Yaoyang arrived and negotiated to join the expedition with Hua Sheng, while Feng Jun warned them about the enormous Insect Race force they were tracking.
• Feng Jun teleported the assembled group deep into Insect Race territory, where they caught up with Yi Jue and the others.
• Fishing Elder True Lord ordered the group to follow the migrating insects and wait for his signal before attacking.
• After more than twenty days of pursuit, the insects entered a star system, where over a thousand saucer-shaped flying objects appeared and charged toward them.

Feng Jun and the others watched a battle begin between the Insect Race and a fleet of saucer-shaped craft, then learned that the craft carried Human Race members whose civilization resembled their own. The chapter left Feng Jun speculating that the occupants’ unusual physiques might be the result of evolution.

• A fleet of more than a thousand saucer-shaped craft confronted the Insect Race, and Yi Jue determined that the craft were mundane objects with no cultivation.
• The Insect Race accused the craft’s occupants of taking a Vitality Treasure-Seeking Insect and demanded a search, but the craft refused and threatened war.
• The Insect Race attacked with lower-level insects, and Feng Jun warned the others to retreat from the battle’s lasers and other weapons.
• Fishing Elder True Venerable investigated damaged craft and reported that they blocked Divine Sense and held Human Race members with large heads and short limbs.
• Fishing Elder True Venerable ruled out the Dwarf Human Race, and Feng Jun suggested the occupants’ physiques might have developed through evolution.

Feng Jun and the cultivators watched the Insect Race attack a star system while debating whether to intervene. As the battle intensified, they decided to leave the mortal fleets alone and target the Insect Race for materials.

• Yi Jue recognized the large-headed, short-limbed people as the result of selective breeding, but Feng Jun argued their traits had developed through survival.
• Feng Jun, Qing Huang, and Elder Yaoyang opposed intervening in the battle, while Elder Cang Jing reported that the Insect Race was charging toward the planets.
• Commander Southgate ordered Fang Yingwu’s Seventh Army to stay outside the system and fight independently, leaving its ships without enough energy and ammunition.
• Captain Garen protested the shortages aboard his front-line destroyer, and Fang Yingwu threatened military discipline before ordering the fleet to spread into skirmish lines.
• The Insect Race entered the system and clashed with the Third Legion’s fleets, spherical fortresses, and planetary defenses as Feng Jun’s group watched.
• The Fishing Elder judged the mortal weapons unsuitable for cultivators and decided their group would kill Insect Race members to gather materials.

True Venerable Fishing Elder secretly attacked the Insect Race, killing hundreds of Golden-Core fighters and several Nascent Souls before eliminating its three healers. The Seventh Army detected an abnormal energy fluctuation, and Garen later reported that the Insect Race appeared to have lost its healers.

• True Venerable Fishing Elder refused to bring Dawn True Immortal along and began secretly picking off Golden-Core Insect Race members.
• Fishing Elder killed more than a thousand Golden-Core members and three Nascent-Soul members without initially raising the alarm.
• A Nascent-Soul blade mantis healer noticed the missing Nascent Souls, but Fishing Elder ambushed the three healers and killed two Nascent Souls and more than thirty Golden-Core members.
• The Seventh Army detected abnormal energy fluctuations, and Garen requested an energy resupply for his battered fleet.
• After repairs and resupply, Garen told Fang Yingwu that the Insect Race seemed to have no healers left.

Fang Yingwu realized the Insect Race healers had vanished and used the discovery to bolster the besieged Human Race fleet’s morale. As three insect Nascent Souls searched for the healers, Fishing Elder True Venerable asked Feng Jun to help secretly kill one so the group could delay revealing the Heavenly Zither cultivators, and Feng Jun agreed.

• Fang Yingwu told the fleet to watch the Insect Race healers, and soldiers confirmed that the healers’ green healing halos had stopped appearing.
• Fang Yingwu falsely announced that an elite squad had eliminated the healers, raising Human Race morale and slightly weakening the Insect Race’s morale.
• Three insect Nascent Souls investigated the healers’ disappearance, found no clear traces, and split up while Fishing Elder True Venerable recognized their separation as a trap.
• Fishing Elder True Venerable explained the situation to the Heavenly Zither cultivators and asked whether anyone could secretly kill an insect Nascent Soul.
• Feng Jun agreed to kill one of the insect Nascent Souls so Fishing Elder True Venerable could eliminate the other two without exposing their group.

Feng Jun chose to target the Flying Centipede during True Venerable Fishing Elder’s assault on the Insect Race leaders, then returned with the centipede dead. He claimed a sect elder had killed it to conceal his own involvement, while Fishing Elder remained curious about what had happened.

• Feng Jun agreed to take part in the mission, and True Venerable Fishing Elder carried him through space to choose a target.
• Feng Jun chose the Flying Centipede because it tasted better, and Fishing Elder left him beside it before capturing the Spider King and Sandworm King.
• The Insect Race discovered that the Centipede King had vanished, and Fishing Elder realized Feng Jun had already dealt with it.
• Feng Jun returned within minutes and told Fishing Elder he had killed the Flying Centipede, intending to keep its meat for cultivation and his family.
• When Fishing Elder demanded half the centipede, Feng Jun claimed a sect elder had killed it after Feng Jun teleported it to the elder.

Feng Jun’s Spatial Shift ability unsettled the True Lords, while the elders planned a War Boat strike against the Insect Race. The group prepared to target control-type enemies and give the besieged star system some relief, but not enough to resolve its crisis.

• Fishing Elder True Lord stopped pressing Feng Jun about his Spatial Shift technique, and Elder Qing Huang praised Feng Jun and his sect.
• Feng Jun left to recover from the strain of shifting and returned five hours later as fighting intensified around the star system.
• Elder Yaoyang proposed a surprise attack using War Boats disguised as local Human Race ships, and Feng Jun agreed that the group should prioritize safety rather than try to save the whole system.
• Elder Qing Huang admitted they might wait for the battle to weaken the Insect Race so they could claim its remaining resources, and Feng Jun identified four control-type Nascent-Soul Insect Race cultivators as priority targets.
• The factions selected War Boats from Xuanhuang Sect and Yuangang Sect, while Elder Qing Huang protested that Golden Crow Sect’s vessel was also good.

Two War Boats from Heavenly Zither tore through the Insect Race swarm, killing several controlling Nascent Soul insects and throwing their forces into chaos. The Seventh Army recognized the newcomers as reinforcements, while the War Boats turned the pursuing ant and bee swarms against a war bee swarm.

• The two War Boats charged into the Insect Race and endured its attacks while blasting apart insects with powerful white-light strikes.
• The War Boats killed a Nascent Soul ant queen and a Nascent Soul bee queen, causing their swarms to pursue them recklessly as other insects scattered.
• The Seventh Army identified the War Boats as friendly reinforcements, though its attempts to contact them failed.
• The War Boats killed a Nascent Soul ice silkworm king, sending its swarm fleeing and attacking insects that blocked its way.
• The War Boats drew a war bee swarm into combat, then dodged away so the pursuing ant and bee swarms crashed into the war bees.

The Heavenly Zither cultivators killed the Mind-Bewitching Butterfly King, exploited the resulting infighting to capture the Battle Bee King, and drew the Seventh Army’s attention. Fang Yingwu struggled to reach legion command while the staff insisted the army’s situation remained manageable and the wider battle was more urgent.

• The Heavenly Zither cultivators discovered and killed the Mind-Bewitching Butterfly King, triggering chaos and defections among the insects it controlled.
• The two War Boats attacked the Battle Bee swarm, blasted the Battle Bee King, and captured its still-living body in a net.
• Fang Yingwu urged his forces to contact and cooperate with the War Boats, while Captain Garen complained that he should requisition them instead.
• Fang Yingwu ordered Garen to advance, but Garen refused to risk his lone ship without reinforcements.
• After failing repeatedly to reach Legion Commander Southgate, Fang Yingwu finally contacted the legion command staff, which said the wider star-system battle was critically dangerous and his situation remained manageable.