Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan entered Chen Ye’s game to contend for divine authority and found that he could transform followers but could not control them. He set a crown atop a mountain and made his people compete to become king, but a wise man united them, leaving Li Yuan to recognize his candidate.

• Chen Ye began the divine authority game and sent the participants into a galaxy, while Computer, Great Demon, Bai Ye, and others did not participate.
• Li Yuan appeared as an incorporeal observer among a thousand humans and discovered that he could transform them into Fishmen but could not control their minds or actions.
• Li Yuan placed a crown on a mountain and told his followers that the first person to claim it would become king, prompting them to race up the mountain and fight.
• The Fishman Li Yuan had transformed was killed after other climbers joined forces against him, and Li Yuan planned to make Fishmen symbols of an upper class.
• Li Yuan taught the people to make fire when they failed to reach the summit on the first day, and they resumed climbing the next morning.
• A wise man urged the climbers to cooperate rather than keep killing one another, and they helped each other reach the summit as Li Yuan recognized him as a potential king.

Li Yuan crowned a merciful human king and began turning his people toward the Fishman form as a symbol of divine glory. Elsewhere, the Starry Sky Principal’s randomly chosen king was murdered, and the killer was crowned and transformed into an energy being with the Power of Stars.

• Li Yuan crowned the human chosen by the crowd, made him a priest, and transformed some people into Fishmen while teaching them that the Fishman form represented divine power.
• Humans guided by the God of Mysteries settled the fertile land of Angnas under the Starry Sky Principal’s rule.
• The Starry Sky Principal’s appointed king ordered the people to build an altar while demanding that his ascension begin.
• A man stabbed the king with a stone spear, killed him, and was acclaimed as the new king by the frightened crowd.
• The Starry Sky Principal crowned the killer and sent a crystal shard into his chest, transforming him into an energy being who felt the Power of Stars.

The Starry Sky Principal established an ascension ritual and planned to grow his civilization by keeping some people human until they had children. Ye Long tried to develop his people and father children, while Insects panicked over his limited power as their followers mined; the chapter left both civilizations struggling to advance.

• The Starry Sky Principal announced that believers who made great contributions could ascend, and planned to preserve a human population for reproduction before turning people into Star Dependents.
• Ye Long tried to conceive children with several women and finally found that one had become pregnant.
• Ye Long ordered his king to provide clothing, housing, and food, then prioritize mining, but discovered the king did not know what ore was.
• Insects despaired because his only usable ability was controlling insects rather than creating or splitting dependents.
• The king of Insects's civilization accepted dew from a Holy Beetle and decided to make the insect a symbol for their people.

Insects struggled to make use of his insect-controlling ability while several gods and civilizations developed across the Central Continent and beyond. The chapter left Sequence 009 wondering when he could split off another object after Chen Ye imposed a time limit on his ability.

• Insects reflected on how enlightened insects could gain intelligence and evolve, but could not advance in rank without cultivating on their own.
• Jiang Chen and Soul-Replaced Bai Ye repeatedly encountered each other, agreed to divide the land with a boundary, and their followers called the deal the Pact of Two Gods.
• Jiang Chen’s Shadow Creatures and Soul-Replaced Bai Ye’s soul-bound undead spread through the region as eerie fog, darkness, and cries accompanied the changing ecosystem.
• Meng Qing used Silk Threads to link the people of his civilization, whose laws and sworn covenants led them to worship him as the God of Judgment.
• The God of Chaos indoctrinated his overseas followers and gave them a brazier with an unquenchable fire, while Sequence 009 realized Chen Ye had restricted how often he could split off objects.

The Starry Sky Principal directed the Star King and Gawain to prepare for war against the God of Life’s people, after discovering their settlement by the western lake. Forty days later, Gawain led a hundred Star Dependents in an assault, and the chapter ended as they attacked the settlement.

• The Star King used energy extraction to create Star Crystals and discussed the cost of draining Angnas, but the Starry Sky Principal urged expansion through strength.
• After a Star Dependent reported humans near the western lake, the Star King ordered weapons and armor forged and tasked Gawain with investigating the outsiders.
• Gawain followed the people to their settlement and learned that the God of Life’s blessing let couples have children who grew to youth within two days.
• Forty days later, Gawain led a hundred Purple Iron-armored Star Dependents west to attack the God of Life’s tribe.
• Gawain killed a man who was fleeing toward his wife, and his armored knights advanced on the settlement.

Isis’s Rare People Tribe was conquered by Gawain’s Star Legion, though its king escaped south, while the Starry Sky Principal celebrated the victory and planned to expand. Elsewhere, the Soth built a hierarchical oceanic kingdom under their Cthulhu king, whose people valued human reproduction until they discovered another oceanic race.

• Isis recognized that Gawain’s advancing army could overwhelm her followers and ordered the distant groups, especially the king, to migrate south.
• Gawain’s Star Legion conquered the Great Western Lake region, sparing noncombatants and accepting voluntary surrenders while capturing blessed people, seeds, and poultry.
• The Rare People Tribe king fled south with some followers, and Gawain returned to Angnas with the campaign’s spoils.
• The Starry Sky Principal praised the Star Legion’s victory and concluded that the captured Rare People Tribe members and blessed plants could solve population and food shortages.
• The Soth maintained a five-class society in which humans lived on land and Fishmen lived underwater, and their Cthulhu king encouraged humans to have children.
• The Soth discovered another oceanic race in the sea.

Li Yuan and Hydra united their oceanic peoples through a marriage alliance, then welcomed Leviathan as he arrived seeking Li Yuan. The three rulers faced the problem of protecting all three crowns, and needed to form an alliance before any crown could be transferred.

• Li Yuan and Hydra arranged a marriage alliance between their peoples, forming the Soth people under two equal kings.
• Li Yuan explained his views on how societies established gender roles and told Hydra he would handle the coming challenge himself.
• The two kings' child hatched three months after the egg was laid and was recognized as the next king by both peoples.
• Leviathan arrived after half a year, having reached the fourth tier by absorbing nutrients from beings that died in his Abyssal Stomach.
• Li Yuan realized the three crowns all had to remain present and concluded that the rulers needed to ally before transferring any crown.

Li Yuan completed a nautical chart while Angel Mo and the Starry Sky Principal expanded their powers and territories. The Rare People Tribe joined the Star Empire under a fragile agreement, and the chapter left Isis hoping a formal alliance would soon become possible.

• Li Yuan and three gods completed a chart showing the Central Continent, a vast second continent, and the world's connected seas.
• After confirming a remote island's people worshipped Angel Mo, Li Yuan realized Angel Sequence 023 could create followers.
• Angel Mo drank the Heavenly Lord Forbidden Potion, reached Fifth Tier High Rank, and created winged people and twelve powerful apostles.
• Angel Mo crowned an ambitious Winged King, who sent winged people to explore overseas lands while remaining guarded on Paradise Island.
• The Starry Sky Principal established the Star Empire, whose army continued capturing Rare People as the Life Blessing weakened in their descendants.
• Isis offered the Starry Sky Principal an alliance, and he accepted; she blessed the empire's citizens, though she still feared the agreement could be broken without crowns.

Merserka and the Star Empire’s southern legion crossed a deadly desert and discovered Solon, a territory of the Sun Country. After learning that the Sun God had transformed mountains into desert, Merserka sent word to Angnas and declared the Star Empire’s intention to bring Solon under its protection.

• Merserka led the southern legion across rocky wasteland into a vast desert, where giant sandworms attacked and killed several soldiers.
• Merserka ordered a breakout, and the legion reached a life-filled oasis by nightfall.
• Merserka examined the sand and suspected the desert had once been mountains before some tremendous force changed the land.
• Soldiers captured Abul, who identified the region as Solon and said its people worshipped the Sun God, who had made the desert.
• Merserka ordered a guard to carry news of Solon to Angnas and told Abul that the Star People would bring all life under the Star Country’s protection.

Insects discovered that a powerful Star Expeditionary Army had reached Solon and struggled to find a way to defend the mineral-rich nation. The Golden King arrived with merchants offering a currency system and promised to help Insects in exchange for an alliance.

• Insects warned the King of Solon that an armed army had crossed the border, but the king panicked and asked God to drive them away.
• Insects considered using his newly cultivated sandworms and Holy Beetles against the invaders, but the insects were only First Tier and he had not had enough time to prepare.
• At dawn, merchants serving the Golden King arrived in Solon and asked to establish a currency system and trade routes.
• Insects recognized the Golden King’s attempt to imitate a Silk Road as the merchants offered goods in exchange for gold, silver, and copper.
• The Golden King appeared before Insects and offered to resolve his military crisis if Insects formed an alliance with him.

After receiving the god’s command to attack Sun Country, the king prepared a southern campaign, but the Starry Sky Principal reconsidered war after the Golden King proposed an alliance. The chapter ended with the Starry Sky Principal accepting cooperation between his civilization, Insects, and the Golden King.

• A Star Dependent returned to Angnas and reported on the desert and Sun Country, prompting the god to order an attack and the king to mobilize another army.
• The Starry Sky Principal waited as troops marched south, unable to fight personally and deciding that creating more dependents was more useful than teaching magic.
• The Golden King and Insects met the Starry Sky Principal at the front and proposed cooperation instead of war.
• The Golden King argued that an alliance would combine Insects’s resources, the Starry Sky Principal’s military strength, and his own trade, mounts, and rare materials.
• The Starry Sky Principal agreed that Insects could cover his weakness when Tier Four entered the field, and the Golden King declared their alliance established.

Five years after the Golden Road brought prosperity to the region, Griffin Knight Remord led an expedition west and found a city beyond a rift valley. As his troops prepared to attack, he rallied the Star Dependents to demand greater power and status in exchange for their service.

• The Golden King established a trade route connecting Solen, his territory, and the Star Empire, while the Starry Sky Principal kept Insects confined to Solen.
• Five years later, Remord discovered a city west of the empire and ordered his troops to cross the rift valley and assault it.
• At camp, Remord drank wine but could not taste it, reflecting on how ascension had stripped the Star Dependents of human sensations.
• Remord told the Star Dependents that they had become prisoners beneath their armor and deserved greater power and status for their service.
• The Star Dependents rose in agreement, embracing Remord's demand for compensation from the empire.

Remord rebelled against the Star King after massacring a city for energy, but Gawain killed him and suppressed the uprising. In the west, Sequence 001 discovered the slaughter and flew back to demand troops to march south.

• Remord ordered his Star Army to massacre a city, absorbing the energy of its victims and killing soldiers who objected.
• Remord gathered the Amber Plain lords’ private armies and besieged the royal capital, where Gawain fought him and killed him in the temple.
• Gawain crushed the remaining rebels, had the Amber Plain lords beheaded, and reported to the Star King, who summoned Merserka.
• Sequence 001 found the city’s few survivors, learned that purple-armored soldiers from the east had slaughtered the city, and returned to its capital.
• Sequence 001 asked its king for troops and declared that it would march south.

Sequence 001 led an invasion against the Star Empire in retaliation for Remord’s massacre, beginning with the destruction of Mountain City. After five years of costly war, the Amber Plain fell, Merserka died, and the enemy advanced toward the royal city while the Star King prepared to fight.

• Sequence 001 announced that its army would collect a blood debt, then led monsters and a giant in an attack that destroyed Mountain City and killed its lord.
• Sequence 001 transformed a survivor of Remord’s massacre into a giant and marched with the army toward the royal city.
• After the Mythical Army suffered repeated defeats, the Star King sent Merserka and Gawain to fight the invaders on the Amber Plain.
• Gawain slew the leading giant, but enemy reinforcements kept pushing the Star Empire’s forces back.
• The war continued for five years, ending with the fall of the Amber Plain and Merserka’s death as the front neared the royal city.
• With the population reduced and two enemy giants still alive, the Star King stood atop the city walls as the empire faced destruction.

The Star King rejected the Starry Sky Principal’s order to flee and chose to defend the Star Empire’s glory, while Sequence 001’s army overwhelmed the capital. The Star Empire fell, and its ruins and last defenders passed into legend as the Shattered Country and the Shattered Legion.

• The Star King rallied his energy-armored Star Dependents, declared that their fate belonged to them, and chose to face the enemy rather than escape.
• Gawain joined the king’s stand, and the soldiers swore allegiance to him as Sequence 001 watched.
• The Starry Sky Principal begged Sequence 001 for his life, but Sequence 001 refused, while Isis revealed she had hidden her king.
• In Unification Calendar Year 13, Sequence 001’s army crushed the city gate, the Star Empire fell, and Sequence 001 took the crown as the Starry Sky Principal dispersed into energy.
• Gawain and the surviving people knelt in the ruined palace and became stone statues, while the Star Empire became known as the Shattered Country and Gawain was remembered as The Last Knight.
• Insects and the Golden King benefited most from the empire’s destruction, and Isis joined their alliance.

Sequence 037 described the harsh life of the people who served the nine giants in the North Pole, while Dragon Country prospered under the protection of the White Dragon Kan Gong and Black Dragon Li Shang. Their rivalry shaped the country’s beliefs, and the chapter ended with the birth of a child whose father could have been either dragon.

• Sequence 037 explained that he had entered the Inner World after taking a Forbidden Potion and later created giant followers who depended on people and sea creatures for food.
• Sequence 037 described Eternal Winter City’s small population and his uncertainty about how to sustain his people or move them elsewhere.
• Ye Long’s twin children hatched as the White Dragon Kan Gong, who controlled wind and water, and the Black Dragon Li Shang, who controlled fire and lightning.
• Kan Gong and Li Shang’s rivalry led Dragon Country’s people to form the White Face Sect, Black Face Sect, and Faceless Sect, each with different beliefs about dragons.
• After two years without a third child from Ye Long, Kan Gong and Li Shang both fathered a child with the same human woman, and the chapter ended as the child was born.

Long Chen became the Martial Emperor, defeated the southern beastmen, and established a prosperous Longwu Empire. After merchants revealed a map showing the vast Desert Empire at the continent’s center, Long Chen hinted that all lands might one day belong to the dragon.

• The Twin Dragons Cult declared that only descendants with both dragons’ bloodlines could rule, and the king abdicated to the ten-year-old dragon child.
• Ye Long settled the child’s name as Long Chen, and Long Chen later renamed Dragon Country the Longwu Empire and took the title Martial Emperor.
• Long Chen led a four-year campaign that pacified the southern beastmen, then married a common woman and made her empress.
• In Dragon Calendar Year 45, traveling merchants showed Long Chen a map of the known world and described the Desert Empire’s vast territory.
• Long Chen quoted the saying that all lands beneath the sun and moon were dragon soil, then ordered the merchants treated to a feast.

Dragon Dust halted the Longwu Empire’s expansion and focused on building canals, while the Desert Empire reconsidered trade and the Golden King noticed how vast the continent was. In the southeast, the fleeing Three Gods Alliance was revealed to have waged a ten-year war against Dragon Country before the Twin Dragons stopped its advance.

• Dragon Dust ordered canals built across the Longwu Empire, directing water from the Six Lakes into barren lands despite ministers’ objections.
• After years without Longwu expansion, the Desert Empire’s leaders favored trade because their growing population faced shortages of food and freshwater.
• A minister surveyed Angnas and recalled how the land had become barren, while the Desert Empire avoided provoking Sequence 001 beyond the western rift valley.
• The Golden King studied the expanding map and noted that the Longwu Empire was only a quarter the size of the Desert Empire’s territory, calling it a possible formidable enemy.
• The chapter revealed that the fleeing beasts and beastmen belonged to a Three Gods Alliance of the Beast of a Thousand Throats, Centaur, and Elf, which had invaded Dragon Country for ten years before the Twin Dragons appeared.

After being driven from Dragon Country, the Beast of a Thousand Throats and Centaur returned to the transformed elven lands and settled near Sacred Tree City, where Tier Sandelius welcomed them. Their arrival drew attention to the elves, and a black-robed man delivered a bloodstained letter threatening the elven ruler.

• The Beast of a Thousand Throats and Centaur found the former wasteland transformed into Sacred Tree City and explained that Dragon Country had defeated them.
• The two recounted how their beastmen forces had fought Dragon Country for years before Black Dragon Li Shang drove them back and Long Chen later expelled them.
• Thousand Throats and Centaur settled outside Sacred Tree City, and Tier Sandelius accepted them into his alliance.
• Elves and humans named the God of Elves Tier Sandelius.
• A black-robed man delivered a bloodstained letter to the elven ruler and asked whether he would see the next day's sun.

The Executioner tried to recruit Tir to help seize the crowns, but Tir hesitated as the war threatened to spread to his territory. Meanwhile, Atlas led the Ocean Empire’s campaign from the northern seas to the south, urging his soldiers to win and return alive.

• The Executioner offered Tir an alliance to take the crowns, but threatened to attack him if he refused.
• The centaur warned Tir that the Executioner would eventually take his crown too, and Tir heard that the Executioner planned to invade in three months.
• Atlas visited Leviathan’s king and said his father had chosen him to lead an attack into the southern seas.
• The Ocean Empire shifted its campaign south after ten years of stalled fighting against the Giant Civilization and Meng Qing’s civilization.
• Atlas led his army onto the surface and told the soldiers to fight to win and return to those waiting for them.