Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun’s two War Boats continued fighting the Insect Race while the Third Legion failed to identify or contact them. By attacking Golden-Core insects as well as pursuing Nascent Souls, the War Boats protected the besieged Human Race fleet without revealing their origins, and their assault began to break the siege.

• Fang Yingwu reported the two unidentified War Boats to Southgate, who authorized the Third Legion to requisition them but could not identify their model.
• Elder Yaoyang agreed with Feng Jun’s suggestion to attack Insect Race Golden Cores so the War Boats would appear to be protecting their fellow humans.
• The two War Boats shifted targets and killed hundreds of Golden-Core insects while the Insect Race Nascent Souls hesitated to engage them.
• The War Boats severely wounded a Void-Piercing Mantis when Insect Race Nascent Souls returned to harass them.
• After an hour of bombardment, the Insect Race siege faltered and the dragonfly assault group scattered.

The Seventh Army helped rout the Insect Race, but the fleeing swarm suffered heavy losses as it tried to rejoin its main force. Fang Yingwu then faced a shortage of ammunition, energy, and damage-control supplies as Southgate ordered him to keep fighting with limited resources.

• The Dragonflies and Moth Race fled, triggering a widespread Insect Race rout that Captain Garen and Fang Yingwu used to increase the Seventh Army’s firepower.
• The routed insects rushed toward their main force, suffering heavy losses under the warships’ fire as Fang Yingwu pursued them cautiously.
• Two insect swarms advanced to receive the routed troops, and Southgate ordered the Seventh Army to defend, fight if possible, and then withdraw.
• Fang Yingwu told Southgate that the Seventh Army’s ammunition and energy had fallen below half, and that medical and damage-control supplies were also running low.
• Southgate told Fang Yingwu to conserve resources, find supplies himself, and consider buying them from the crews of the two shuttle-shaped warships.

Fang Yingwu and Southgate struggled to make contact with the two unknown warships, whose crews insisted the Seventh Army keep its distance. Feng Jun and the cultivators rejected the idea of being requisitioned and began investigating the light signals so they could shake off the reconnaissance ships.

• Fang Yingwu told Southgate that the warships' weapons were unclassified and that five reconnaissance ships had failed to establish contact.
• After a reconnaissance ship was destroyed by the Insect Race, one warship shielded its pilot but ordered the approaching Seventh Army ships to keep their distance.
• Fang Yingwu ordered the reconnaissance ships to follow from afar, while Southgate demanded to know why he had not requisitioned the warships.
• Feng Jun explained that the cultivators would not accept requisition by mortals, and Hua Sheng challenged him to find a way to lose their pursuers.
• Fishing Elder searched the souls of two dying soldiers and learned how the light signals worked, while Feng Jun and Yi Jue discussed mundane objects that could protect divine sense.

Feng Jun and the Heavenly Zither cultivators planned to exploit the Insect Race’s disarray and continue attacking in the Insectoid World. Their preparations were interrupted when Ren Tu of the Grand Void Sect appeared and asked Yi Jue where Duan Liang and the other Nascent Souls had gone.

• Fishing Elder persuaded the others to take the War Boats into the Insect Race’s territory, and the reconnaissance ship lost track of them when they vanished.
• Feng Jun transferred the cultivators and both War Boats to the Hot Spring Sector, where they planned to attack the Insect Race during its confusion.
• Feng Jun agreed to continue helping the Human Race, though he suspected that interest mattered more than appeals to Human Race dignity.
• Elder Cang Jing said her fellow sect members were outraged and would send reinforcements, prompting Feng Jun to suggest waiting for the Mysterious Water Sect.
• Fishing Elder sensed Ren Tu nearby, and the Grand Void True Venerable appeared and asked Yi Jue where Duan Liang and the other Nascent Souls were.

True Venerable Ren Tu traced Feng Jun and Yi Jue to the Hot Spring Sector after a new monitoring system detected True Venerable Fishing Elder. As he questioned them about the Insectoid World, he learned their forces faced hundreds of millions of insectoids and asked whether Divine Descent was involved.

• True Venerable Ren Tu ordered the Hot Spring Sector’s new administrator to report Feng Jun and Yi Jue if they appeared, and a warning system detected True Venerable Fishing Elder’s brief release of spiritual energy.
• True Venerable Ren Tu sent a True Nascent Soul incarnation to investigate and found Yi Jue, Feng Jun, and True Venerable Fishing Elder in the Hot Spring Sector.
• Yi Jue explained that she and Feng Jun had returned to rest after fighting in the Insectoid World and that they planned to go back.
• True Venerable Ren Tu learned that the Insectoid World contained a Human Race society and that Yi Jue’s group had fought to protect it from seven to eight hundred million insectoids.
• Yi Jue told True Venerable Ren Tu that the enemy force included more than a hundred Nascent Souls and around a hundred thousand Golden Cores, and he asked whether they had Divine Descent.

Feng Jun coordinated with True Immortals gathering allies for an expedition into the Insectoid World, while the competing sects sought to secure their own places. The chapter ended with Fishing Elder offering to bring fifty Nascent Soul cultivators and Ren Tu questioning whether they could keep Heavenly Zither's secrets.

• Elder Qingji told Ren Tu that Luan Xiong had divined the Insect Race Divine Lord tablet and placed its cultivation above Soul Emergence.
• Ren Tu planned to enter the Insectoid World to rescue humans, and Feng Jun agreed to help Cang Jing collect Mysterious Water Sect members from the Icefield Plane.
• Cang Jing's four Nascent Soul High Stage fellow sect members arrived and identified the slightly plump True Immortal as Jiu Si, also known as True Immortal Tuo Tuo.
• Ren Tu and Fishing Elder argued over bringing more cultivators into the Insectoid World, prompting Yi Jue to ask Feng Jun to help her recruit for the Spirit Plant Path.
• Fishing Elder offered to bring at least fifty Nascent Soul cultivators, and Ren Tu questioned whether they could stay concealed without exposing Heavenly Zither's secrets.

Feng Jun struggled to limit the number of cultivators seeking transport into the Insectoid World, while sects sent more people to join the expedition. By the time the party prepared to depart, it had grown to more than fifty people, leaving Feng Jun to transport them in batches.

• True Venerable Fishing Elder asked Feng Jun to transport ten Nascent Soul cultivators, and Elder Cang Jing said she could invite True Venerable Hanhai if needed.
• True Venerable Fishing Elder agreed to go to Spirit Plant Path first, and the group later gathered in the Yellow Heaven Sector with twenty-five additional True Immortals from four sects.
• Three True Immortals from Golden Crow Sect and four from Azure Lotus Sect arrived after completing a mission, and their elders Qing Huang and Qingji helped them seek places in the expedition.
• Only seven of the twenty-one newly arrived True Immortals met Feng Jun's requirements, while the others planned to scout the Insectoid World through the passage.
• Feng Jun found himself responsible for transporting a party of more than fifty people into the Insectoid World and realized he would need to take them in batches.

Feng Jun transported cultivators to the Insectoid World, rested at Pacify Arms Mountain, and then returned to find the others quietly attacking the Insect Race across the system. When he asked to join the fighting on Xingzheng Prime Star, Elder Yaoyang refused, insisting Feng Jun’s role was in logistics.

• Feng Jun planned seven trips with ten-hour rests between them to transport the cultivators without revealing his limits.
• Ren Tu True Venerable and the others built a concealed shelter while the Insect Race attacked four Human Race planets, and Fishing Elder True Venerable argued with Ren Tu over whether to launch a sneak attack.
• After delivering the seventh batch, Feng Jun went to Pacify Arms Mountain to recuperate, then brought people from Luo Hua, including Liu Yuting and Zhao Xia, there to cultivate.
• Feng Jun returned to the Insectoid World after five days and learned that Yi Jue’s group and the other cultivators had been ambushing Insect Race forces across the planets.
• Feng Jun asked to join the attacks on Xingzheng Prime Star, but Elder Yaoyang told him to remain in the rear and handle logistics.

Feng Jun was ordered to stay away from the front lines and serve as a retreat point, but he persuaded True Venerable Ren Tu to take him to the four planets so he could prepare for rescues. Ren Tu left him on Xingzheng Prime Star, where Feng Jun would have to decide how to proceed on his own.

• Elder Yaoyang and True Immortal Hua Sheng explained that Feng Jun was to remain at a teleportation array as the battlefield’s retreat guarantee, and Elder Yaoyang urged him to follow the rules of racial warfare.
• Feng Jun agreed to defer his decision until speaking with a True Venerable, then asked True Venerable Fishing Elder to take him around all four planets so he could prepare to rescue people.
• True Venerable Fishing Elder refused at first, but True Venerable Ren Tu offered to take Feng Jun around the planets, and Fishing Elder let him go.
• True Venerable Ren Tu took Feng Jun to the fourth, sixth, and eighth planets, where Feng Jun marked thirty or forty Footprints in total.
• True Venerable Ren Tu dropped Feng Jun onto Xingzheng Prime Star and left him to work out how to leave.

Feng Jun secretly entered the battlefield and found Yi Jue near Lower Capital, where Blue-Light Moths were attacking a town. As mech reinforcements arrived, stronger mantises ambushed them, and Feng Jun watched from concealment.

• After True Venerable Ren Tu left, Feng Jun searched for Yi Jue and learned about the sparsely populated frontier star system.
• Feng Jun reached a forest near Left Capital, and Yi Jue told him to come to Lower Capital, where the Insect Race was concentrating its attacks.
• Blue-Light Moths attacked a town, and Feng Jun saw residents shelter in basements and return fire while one Golden Core Stage moth lurked nearby.
• Mech reinforcements arrived, but several Emergence from Dust Stage mantises appeared and attacked them.
• One mantis severed a mech's arm, while another mech dodged a mantis and fired its Plasma Cannon.

Feng Jun helped the Human Race defeat a Mantis attack, then joined Yi Jue in eliminating the hidden Golden Core Blue-Light Moth. Yi Jue explained how she had explored the world and gave Feng Jun an Obsidian containing its language and technological knowledge.

• Feng Jun used Divine Sense attacks to stun Mantises, helping the veteran and the mechs kill three while the fourth fled.
• Feng Jun tracked down the fleeing Mantis, dragged it into the Blue Star Realm, and stored its remains before returning to the battle.
• Yi Jue appeared and silently killed the hidden Golden Core Blue-Light Moth, then shot at the scattered moths and took Feng Jun away.
• Yi Jue told Feng Jun about the sealed Teleportation Arrays, the Momentum Laser Gun, and her research into the world's language and technology.
• Yi Jue gave Feng Jun an Obsidian filled with linguistic and technological knowledge, and he thanked her.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue traveled to Lower Capital to observe the fighting and saw Potter Wasps seize a mother and child. Yi Jue attacked the insects with a Momentum Laser Gun, and Feng Jun asked whether they could prevent either side from observing them so they could fight more effectively.

• Yi Jue told Feng Jun the two Venerables wanted him to withdraw twenty million li, but he argued that he wanted to stay near the star system and see its mundane objects.
• Yi Jue offered to gather mundane objects and took Feng Jun to a battlefield outside Lower Capital, where they saw the Insect Race attacking fortresses.
• Yi Jue explained that the Human Race used All-Out Mobilization and said the battlefield offered a chance to fish in troubled waters.
• Potter Wasps dragged away a mother and child, and the woman detonated a grenade rather than let the insects take them alive.
• Yi Jue fired three shots at the Potter Wasps and took Feng Jun away, then explained that the Golden Core healer was difficult to target and both sides had strong surveillance.
• Feng Jun asked Yi Jue what would happen if they prevented the Human Race and Insect Race from observing them.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue planned to use a Nascent Soul-level Rain-Praying Array to conceal their actions and disrupt the Insect Race’s battlefield support. They obtained True Immortal Huoliu’s array disk and summoned clouds over Lower Capital, while the Human Race command center chose to wait and observe.

• Yi Jue explained that the Insect Race’s attacks elsewhere were diversions meant to tie down the Human Race while its main offensive targeted Lower Capital.
• Feng Jun proposed using a Rain-Praying Array to interfere with surveillance and asked Yi Jue whether they could eliminate the Insect Race’s healers.
• Yi Jue judged that a Nascent Soul-level array was needed, but neither she nor the other Spirit Plant Path members had brought suitable materials.
• True Immortal Huoliu offered his Nascent Soul-level Rain-Praying Array disk, and Feng Jun took him to retrieve it despite Elder Moon Vine’s objections.
• True Immortal Huoliu activated the array under a Concealment Formation near Lower Capital, drawing vast clouds toward the area.
• The Human Race command center detected the weather changes and decided to observe rather than spend scarce energy countering them.

Qu Maji Dan and his reservist squad struggled to hold a fortress against an Insect Race invasion until rain and unexpected reinforcements offered hope. Meanwhile, Feng Jun hunted Insect Race fighters through the storm, then entered Lower Dragon City and found himself targeted by an energy beam.

• Qu Maji Dan ordered Fortress Two to evacuate as two golden beetles threatened the defenses, but Old Ge refused to abandon his post despite severe injuries.
• Xiao Ai took over the Gauss Machine Gun and pinned down the beetles, while Little Gao reported that rain had begun and gave the defenders hope of holding until reinforcements arrived.
• Yi Jue and the other cultivators attacked Insect Race forces in the rain, while Feng Jun used an individual plasma cannon and other weapons to snipe Emergence from Dust Stage enemies.
• Feng Jun hunted through the night and killed more than eight hundred Emergence-from-Dust Insect Race members before deciding to visit Lower Dragon City at dawn.
• Feng Jun walked into Lower Dragon City with an umbrella and felt an energy beam lock onto him.

Feng Jun was identified by Lower Dragon City's surveillance as an unregistered person and suspected of being an Insect Race spy. He escaped after mimicking a Bewitching Heart Butterfly, but the city circulated his anomalous brainwave signature and True Immortal Huoliu mocked his attempt to enter unnoticed.

• Feng Jun realized a fortress was targeting him, and a city system ordered him to surrender because his brainwave frequency was not in the official database.
• Feng Jun raised his hands but argued over keeping an umbrella he had picked up, while the system traced its product code and demanded that he release it.
• A female operator suspected Feng Jun of being an Insect Race spy, and two women discussed scanning his weapons and disabling him.
• Feng Jun manifested the image of a Bewitching Heart Butterfly and vanished, prompting city alarms and a warning about a suspected new Insect Race mimicry.
• Feng Jun teleported ten li away, where True Immortal Huoliu laughed at his failed attempt to enter Lower Dragon City unnoticed.

Feng Jun and Yi Jue used the Rain-Praying Array to hunt Insect Race healers, then tried to lure a hidden Nascent Soul healer out by using an injured Golden Core Invisible Wasp as bait. The wasp’s cries for help drew attention from an observation post, leaving the trap’s outcome unresolved.

• True Immortal Huoliu told Feng Jun that the Insect Race had stopped sending healers after one Golden Core healer was killed, though a Nascent Soul healer was still believed to be in Lower Dragon City.
• Feng Jun learned from Yi Jue that the Nascent Soul healer had twice escaped their search, and he asked her to capture a Golden Core Insect Race member alive as bait.
• Yi Jue and the others captured a Golden Core Invisible Wasp, and Feng Jun used divination before arranging for Elder Withered Wood to wound and partially bury it beneath a collapsed building.
• Elder Withered Wood disguised himself as a local native and repeatedly shot the wasp with a Momentum Laser Gun, causing it to shriek and send out strange Divine Thought fluctuations.
• An observation post seven or eight li away detected the wasp’s cries and reported that a General-tier Insect Race member was under attack and calling for help.

Human Race forces set a trap around a wounded Wasp Assassin, drawing out an Insect Race healer and a Nascent Soul Mantis. Yi Jue and Withered Wood defeated their attackers, but Ren Tu True Immortal rescued them from God-Summoning Qi, and Yi Jue realized Feng Jun was still at the ambush site.

• Human Race officials identified the wounded Insect Race member as a Shadow Wasp and sent a squad toward its location.
• The hidden healer summoned a Nascent Soul Mantis to free the Wasp Assassin and kill the Human Race soldier, while Withered Wood sprang his Binding Array trap.
• Withered Wood restrained the mantis and stopped its Void-Splitting Slash, while Yi Jue confronted the healer.
• The healer released God-Summoning Qi, but Ren Tu True Immortal shielded Yi Jue and Withered Wood and carried them two hundred li away.
• Withered Wood thanked Ren Tu True Immortal, who wondered if he had overlooked something, and Yi Jue pointed out that Feng Jun was still behind.

Feng Jun missed the ambush’s outcome while distracted by his phone, then discovered that a forgotten hotspot had exposed his presence to nearby Human Race warriors. As a Golden Cicada Supreme God followed the karmic traces of the Saber Mantis healer, it mistook a Divine Thought sweep for an improved Human Race weapon.

• Ren Tu True Immortal realized he had left Feng Jun behind when he rescued Yi Jue and Withered Wood.
• Feng Jun searched for nearby weapons on his phone and found two Space Mechas, but their owners detected his phone’s signal because he had forgotten to turn off his hotspot.
• Feng Jun followed Human Race warriors heading toward the Wasp Assassin, then fled when he sensed a terrifying presence and found Yi Jue, Withered Wood, and the assassin gone.
• The Golden Cicada Supreme God’s background was revealed: it had answered the Saber Mantis healer’s God-Summoning Art and followed the karmic traces to the site.
• The Golden Cicada Supreme God sensed a Divine Thought sweep and mistook it for an improved Human Race weapon.

After Feng Jun’s ambush drew the attention of the Golden Cicada Supreme God, he escaped to Blue Star, where the Guardians explained the causal threads clinging to him. The Guardians said the threads could not be erased by Planar Force, but that it could modify them.

• The Golden Cicada Supreme God failed to trace the ambusher through Divination and issued a decree identifying Feng Jun’s Divine Thought signature as a threat.
• Yi Jue and the others sensed the decree, while True Immortal Ren Tu said Feng Jun had safely withdrawn and saw no reason to confront the insect deity.
• Feng Jun returned to Blue Star, traveled to Luo Hua, and met with the Guardians, bringing out two Insect Race creatures he had killed.
• The Guardians noticed a strange mantis in Feng Jun’s Storage Talisman and asked whether Blue Star had mantises, hinting at a connection between the worlds.
• The Guardians explained that Planar Force could erase causal effects but not causal threads, which would fade only slowly, then said it could modify them.

Feng Jun asked the Guardians to alter his Causal Threads, then explained the Insectoid World and demonstrated how Yi Jue had infused knowledge into him. The Guardians altered his Causal Threads and sent him away, advising him to stay on Blue Star for a year while they planned how to deal with the complications.

• Feng Jun questioned whether the Guardians could alter Causal Threads, and they explained that they could transfer his causality to the domain with its Domain Favor offsetting the burden.
• The Guardians asked about the Insectoid World, and Feng Jun described it and demonstrated the Divine Thought Infusion method he had learned from Yi Jue.
• Feng Jun asked the Guardians to help him infuse information into the people of Luo Hua, but they told him to make the Obsidian himself and offered to check his work in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Feng Jun showed the Guardians Yellow Profound Qi and said he wanted to use it to increase the domain's spiritual vitality, and they decided to consider the method after altering his Causal Threads.
• The Guardians altered Feng Jun's Causal Threads, then warned him to remain on Blue Star for at least a year and sent him back with the Flying Centipede and Yellow Profound Qi.