Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Bixi Ancestor’s cabin, Old Mo and two other Ninth Realm powerhouses misunderstand his intentions, assuming he may be proposing marriage for himself. Amused and offended by their thoughts, Bixi Ancestor punches all three of them away.
• The three retaliate, sealing the surrounding space and preparing to attack him together. However, Bixi Ancestor points out that they truly had misunderstood him, causing them to withdraw their attacks.
• Old Mo asks what Bixi Ancestor is actually planning. Bixi clarifies that he is no longer interested in Old Mo’s granddaughter and turns his attention toward a Ninth Realm powerhouse of the Lunar Folk, taking out an imprint-type supreme treasure and beginning to invoke “Yao.”
• Meanwhile, on Third Star, Yi You and the Divine Arrow Squad finish exterminating a group of Insect Soldiers. They meticulously harvest the insects’ valuable flesh, crystals, bones, and shells.
• The insect flesh is extremely beneficial to martial artists when properly prepared, but dangerous if consumed incorrectly, potentially causing grotesque mutations. Because Su Bo lacks personal wealth despite having access to the Bixi Lineage’s resources, Yi You ensures nothing from the battlefield is wasted.
• Elsewhere, another military unit changes its formation from Mountain Stance to the ninth-layer Sea-Covering Stance. Their overwhelming, wave-like sword attacks destroy hundreds of Advanced Insect Soldiers in only a few breaths.
• After the battle formation collapses, the soldiers suffer severe exhaustion, having nearly depleted their astral qi and mental strength. Liu Yue wants to continue fighting because hundreds of Advanced Insect Soldiers remain in Insect Valley.
• Su Bo returns with the Assault Squad and uses his starlight and moonlight divine abilities to instantly restore the soldiers’ physical strength, qi, blood, souls, and mental energy. The soldiers’ respect and admiration for him deepen.

Character Developments

• Bixi Ancestor: Reveals his sharp temper and mischievous nature by punishing the other Ninth Realm experts for misinterpreting him. His attention shifts toward the Lunar Folk powerhouse Yao, suggesting a larger scheme involving high-level figures.
• Old Mo and the other Ninth Realm powerhouses: Their careless thoughts expose their misunderstanding, and they are humiliated when Bixi Ancestor catches them off guard. Despite their anger, they recognize that their assumptions were obvious to him.
• Yi You: Demonstrates discipline, efficiency, and loyalty to Su Bo by personally ensuring that every valuable part of the Insect Race corpses is collected.
• Su Bo: Is portrayed as both materially poor and exceptionally powerful. Though he has access to the vast wealth of the Bixi Lineage, he is careful not to squander it. His ability to restore exhausted troops makes him an especially dependable commander.
• Liu Yue and the soldiers: Show extraordinary endurance and commitment, continuing to fight despite physical and mental exhaustion. Their admiration for Su Bo grows because he protects and sustains them.

Significant Themes

• Misunderstanding and perception: The opening scene humorously shows how even powerful beings can be misled by their own assumptions, while Ninth Realm experts possess extraordinary sensitivity to thoughts and distant references to their names.
• The value of resources: The battlefield harvest emphasizes the importance of every material in wartime, especially for those without vast personal wealth.
• Dangerous power: The Insect Race’s flesh embodies the double-edged nature of power—it can accelerate cultivation but may also destroy the body and mind if mishandled.
• Teamwork and military discipline: The soldiers’ coordinated formations allow them to overwhelm far stronger enemies through relentless teamwork rather than individual strength alone.
• Leadership and loyalty: Su Bo’s ability to restore his troops turns him into a commander they can trust with their lives, strengthening morale and devotion.
• Exhaustion versus duty: Even after reaching their physical and mental limits, Liu Yue and the soldiers remain focused on the larger battle and the need to protect their comrades.

Character Interactions

• Bixi Ancestor physically reprimands Old Mo and the other two Ninth Realm powerhouses after sensing their improper assumptions.
• Old Mo attempts to clarify the situation by mentioning his granddaughter, but Bixi Ancestor immediately rejects the idea and redirects his attention to the Lunar Folk powerhouse.
• Yi You leads the Divine Arrow Squad in battlefield cleanup, reinforcing their professional cooperation and loyalty to Su Bo.
• Liu Yue commands the exhausted formation soldiers and tries to keep them fighting despite their depleted strength.
• Su Bo’s return changes the soldiers’ condition instantly: his healing abilities restore them and inspire renewed reverence for him as their commander.

Chapter Summary: “Guesswork”

Key plot points and events

After the battle, Su Bo’s forces quickly clear all Insect Race corpses from the basin. Su Bo and Liu Yue examine Shadow Sparrow’s footage of Insect Valley and notice that nearly one-third of the Insect Soldiers left the valley without returning, yet those remaining show no alarm and continue guarding the caves. Su Bo suspects the caves contain something important. When Liu Yue excessively flatters him, Su Bo abruptly punches him away, amusing the watching soldiers.
Once Liu Yue returns, the troops are ordered to recover for another battle. The human forces still face hundreds of Advanced Insect Soldiers and nearly two thousand Intermediate ones, making the next confrontation extremely dangerous. Su Bo and Liu Yue conclude that the caves may contain an insect nest or, more seriously, a Broodmother. They debate whether the Federation would intentionally place such a threat on the training planet. Liu Yue reasons that if one exists, it must be severely crippled and deliberately included to create a genuine trial. The chapter ends when Su Bo and Liu Yue consider an even more dangerous possibility: the presence of the Demon or Devil Races.

Character developments

• Su Bo demonstrates sharp observational skills, battlefield authority, and overwhelming personal strength. He remains confident and domineering but is also irritated by Liu Yue’s exaggerated attempts at flattery.
• Liu Yue acts as Su Bo’s subordinate and adviser. He quickly identifies the likely presence of an insect nest or Broodmother and shows a strong understanding of the Federation’s motives. However, his sycophantic behavior backfires, leading to Su Bo striking him.
• The soldiers gain a clearer understanding of their own limitations. Their success came largely from the battle formation, Liu Yue’s command, and Su Bo’s support rather than individual superiority.

Significant themes

• Hidden danger and uncertainty: The Insect Soldiers’ unnatural calm suggests a concealed threat within Insect Valley.
• The purpose of trials: Liu Yue explains that a truly meaningful test must involve danger and the possibility of death, rather than allowing geniuses to eliminate weak, scattered enemies without risk.
• Power and hierarchy: Su Bo’s effortless dominance over Liu Yue reinforces his authority, while the soldiers recognize the gap between ordinary cultivators and a monstrous genius like Su Bo.
• Strategic deduction: The characters must infer the enemy’s true nature from limited evidence, with the possibility that the Insect Race is only part of a larger threat.

Character interactions

Su Bo and Liu Yue discuss the strange behavior of the Insect Soldiers, with Liu Yue repeatedly praising Su Bo until Su Bo realizes he is merely flattering him and knocks him away. Their exchange remains comedic but also shows mutual trust: Liu Yue openly shares his deductions, while Su Bo relies on his judgment. Liu Yue blames Yi You for teaching him the ineffective flattery technique, and Su Bo threatens to punish Yi You as well. The chapter closes with Su Bo and Liu Yue jointly suspecting that the Demon or Devil Races may be involved.

Chapter Summary: “Death, Failure”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Federation’s senior ancestors observe projections of ten Life Stars relocated to the Ancient Chaos Starfield. These stars contain secret realms and treasures, making them extremely valuable sources of cultivation resources.
• The starfield training exercise proves deadly. A core-sequence prodigy is killed in the Seventh Star while exploring a dangerous treasure land. He dies holding two Innate Divine Ability Seeds, which disappear into the void after his death.
• The prodigy’s Ninth-Realm ancestor, Five-Elements Ancestor, nearly loses control and prepares to unleash his power, but several other ancestors suppress him.
• Another Federation prodigy, Feiyu Yinxing of the Winged Folk, is rescued after being badly wounded by Devil Race soldiers. However, because he was saved inside a treasure land, he loses his status as a First-Class Prodigy. His survival does not spare him from punishment under the training rules.
• Five-Elements Ancestor protests, arguing that his race’s prodigy had the potential to reach the Ancestral Realm. Bixi Ancestor reminds him that the Federation’s contract explicitly forbids rescue inside treasure lands, and that all ancestors agreed to the conditions beforehand.
• Floating Cloud Ancestor mockingly boasts about his own race’s prodigy, who has already conquered a treasure land and obtained an Innate Divine Ability Treasure Seed. His taunting infuriates Five-Elements Ancestor, who is forced to suppress his anger.
• The focus then shifts to Su Bo, a Human-Dragon Race prodigy fighting on the Third Star. He is slaughtering Insect Race soldiers while leading three battle formations.
• Su Bo’s forces surround a severely weakened broodmother that is desperately producing more insects despite its depleted origin. Su Bo personally overwhelms several Divine Ability Realm insect soldiers and destroys one of them with a single punch.
• The Sixth Ancestor proudly declares that Su Bo possesses talent surpassing even the Ancestral Realm. In his excitement, he repeatedly pounds the shoulder of another Ninth-Realm ancestor—partly celebrating and partly taking revenge for an old insult.

Character Developments

• Five-Elements Ancestor: His grief and anger reveal how deeply he values his race’s prodigies. However, his emotional reaction clashes with the rules he personally accepted. His frustration intensifies when Floating Cloud Ancestor mocks him, but he ultimately has no choice but to endure the loss.
• Bixi Ancestor: He acts as a firm enforcer of the Federation’s rules, suppressing Five-Elements Ancestor and reminding him that the consequences were agreed upon in advance.
• Floating Cloud Ancestor: He is shown as arrogant, competitive, and deliberately provocative. He exploits another ancestor’s grief to boast about his own race’s prodigy.
• Feiyu Yinxing: Though rescued from certain death, he suffers a major setback when stripped of his First-Class Prodigy status, emphasizing that survival alone does not guarantee continued recognition.
• Su Bo: He emerges as an exceptionally powerful and ruthless young warrior. His ability to dominate multiple Divine Ability Realm insect soldiers demonstrates extraordinary combat potential.
• Sixth Ancestor: His pride in Su Bo is overwhelming and almost childlike. His celebration also exposes his vindictive side, as he uses the opportunity to retaliate against an old rival.

Significant Themes

• The cost of advancement: The training ground offers immense opportunities but demands real sacrifices, including the deaths of elite prodigies.
• Rules versus emotion: The ancestors struggle to accept regulations that permit prodigies to die, but the Federation’s contracts leave little room for exceptions.
• Fortune and destiny: The ancestors repeatedly debate whether surviving, obtaining treasures, and displaying power indicate a prodigy’s “bearing of the Ancestral Realm.”
• Competition among allies: Although the ancestors belong to the same Federation, rivalry, resentment, and factional pride remain strong among them.
• Life-and-death cultivation: The chapter presents advancement as dependent not only on talent but also on luck, judgment, and the ability to survive dangerous opportunities.
• Pride in exceptional talent: Su Bo’s performance shifts the atmosphere from mourning and conflict to excitement, suggesting that one outstanding prodigy can restore hope to an entire race.

Character Interactions

• Several ancestors restrain Five-Elements Ancestor when he nearly attacks after witnessing his race’s prodigy die.
• Bixi Ancestor directly confronts and suppresses Five-Elements Ancestor, insisting that the rescue restrictions must be honored.
• Floating Cloud Ancestor provokes Five-Elements Ancestor by comparing their prodigies and claiming that his own has greater fortune.
• The Sixth Ancestor enthusiastically celebrates Su Bo’s success while physically pounding the shoulder of a rival ancestor, combining genuine pride with an old grudge.
• The chapter contrasts the despair of ancestors watching their prodigies die or fail with the excitement generated by Su Bo’s overwhelming victories.

Key plot points and events

• Bixi Ancestor watches Su Bo’s exploits on a screen, then is confronted by two furious Ninth Realm women: Ji Qingyan of the Sun Folk and a Lunar Folk powerhouse. They blame his grandson for mistreating their granddaughters. Bixi is bewildered at first, then delighted at the prospect of gaining two more granddaughters-in-law.
• At Insect Valley, Su Bo and Liu Yue debate whether the remaining insects might conceal a mother insect or nest. The visible insect force is small, but entering the caves would be dangerous.
• Yi You and his wounded squad return from the forest, pursued by dozens of women. Su Bo transforms into his glazed dragon form, while Liu Yue channels the Ninefold Mountain-Sea Battle Formation through him. Their combined pressure forces the pursuers out of hiding.
• Su Bo and Liu Yue recognize the attackers as Sun Folk and Lunar Folk—likely followers of Core Sequence prodigies Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue, the Federation’s celebrated “Sun-Moon Pearls.”
• Yi You explains that his squad had climbed above Insect Valley to search for another way to draw out the insects. They were ambushed before he could investigate further.
• He reveals that he spotted a living, severely damaged mother insect—probably at least level five—in a deep cave. Its life essence could be extraordinarily valuable, making it a prize both groups may pursue.

Character developments and interactions

• Bixi Ancestor shifts from confused spectator to gleeful matchmaker when he realizes Su Bo may attract the Sun and Lunar Folk families.
• Su Bo remains bold and practical, assessing the danger and immediately using his power to protect Yi You’s injured team.
• Liu Yue contributes tactical support through the battle formation, though his earlier suggestion to send Yi You back into the nest is plainly reckless.
• Yi You proves perceptive and cautious: he discovers the mother insect but retreats when his squad is ambushed.
• Su Bo and Liu Yue quickly identify the attackers’ affiliations and understand that the conflict could draw in powerful followers, not just the two famous prodigies.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Su Bo’s strength and growing notoriety attract both admiration and resentment.
• Competition over rare resources: The mother insect’s healing essence makes Insect Valley a high-stakes prize.
• Teamwork and tactical judgment: Su Bo’s force and Liu Yue’s formation work together to drive off the ambushers, while Yi You’s quick retreat saves his squad.
• Comic contrast: Bixi’s matchmaking enthusiasm and Liu Yue’s questionable advice lighten the tension surrounding the dangerous discovery.

Key plot points and events

• Yi You and Liu Yue accept the cost of following Su Bo: they will give up the chance to become Unifying True Saints, hoping instead to advance under his future power and fortune. They see the mother insect as a vital source of resources for building that force.
• Ji Xixi and Wangshu Lanlan each want to capture Yi You and recruit him for their respective Holy Maidens. Their rivalry reflects the Sun Folk–Lunar Folk hostility, and both resent the other’s interference.
• Su Bo arrives and overwhelms Ji Xixi, Wangshu Lanlan, and their soldiers with his draconic aura and battle formation. He calls for their Goddess and Holy Maiden, but neither initially responds.
• Su Bo offers the two women a chance to follow him. They refuse, so he presses them back down, determined to subdue every Federation prodigy standing between him and first place on the Third Star.
• Two powerful figures finally emerge: the Sun Folk’s Goddess and the Lunar Folk’s Holy Maiden. They attack Su Bo together, and the chapter ends as their powers clash with his.

Character developments

• Yi You and Liu Yue reaffirm their commitment to Su Bo, accepting a sacrifice to their own cultivation prospects in exchange for the hope of rising with his future faction.
• Su Bo demonstrates confidence and ruthless resolve. He treats refusal as a challenge to be overcome by force and openly seeks confrontation with the opposing leaders.
• Ji Xixi and Wangshu Lanlan shift from hunters to captives. Despite their pride and loyalty to their Holy Maidens, they are powerless under Su Bo’s suppression.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: Su Bo’s followers surrender part of their own potential in hopes of sharing his rise.
• Power and hierarchy: The gap between Federation Core Sequence prodigies and First-Class Sequence geniuses is shown as overwhelming.
• Force and ambition: Su Bo sees domination of his rivals as necessary to claim first place.
• Factional rivalry: Sun Folk and Lunar Folk compete to recruit talent, while their mutual hostility complicates their plans.

Character interactions

• Yi You and Liu Yue silently reinforce each other’s resolve to secure the mother insect for Su Bo’s future force.
• Ji Xixi and Wangshu Lanlan blame and insult one another for disrupting their recruitment schemes.
• Su Bo confronts the two captured women, offers them a chance to join him, then suppresses them when they refuse.
• The Sun Folk Goddess and Lunar Folk Holy Maiden unite in an immediate attack on Su Bo, beginning a major three-way battle.

Key plot points and events

• Su Bo fights Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue in a fierce hundred-blow exchange. Though the two work together and use much of their strength, Su Bo remains relaxed and proves overwhelmingly powerful.
• The women consider ending the fight and negotiating for the return of Ji Xixi and Wangshu Lanlan. But Su Bo’s muttered comment about their beauty and childbearing potential enrages them.
• Ji Yiqing unleashes blazing solar attacks while Wangshu Xiyue uses freezing lunar force. Their coordinated sun-and-moon techniques still fail to break Su Bo’s defenses.
• Su Bo counters with Bixi’s formidable defensive power and Yazi’s dragon fists, then breaks through their teamwork and strikes Ji Yiqing’s arm, disrupting her attack.
• Wangshu Xiyue tries to exploit an opening, but Su Bo’s “Immovable as a Mountain” defense repels her. She recognizes the danger and tries to stop Ji Yiqing from charging back in.
• Ji Yiqing attacks anyway, and Su Bo advances with renewed force, teasingly telling her to stop resisting and come home with him.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Bo is confident, curious about the goddesses, and physically dominant. His crude remark turns a tense but potentially negotiable encounter into a personal confrontation; even while fighting, he taunts them.
• Ji Yiqing shifts from cautious restraint to furious, impulsive aggression after being insulted. Her pride and temper override the practical judgment she initially shared with Wangshu Xiyue.
• Wangshu Xiyue remains cold and tactical, coordinating attacks and recognizing when the battle has become unwinnable. She tries to prevent Ji Yiqing from making a reckless solo charge.
• The women’s teamwork is initially seamless: they combine solar heat and lunar cold to control the battlefield. Su Bo defeats that advantage by forcing his way between them and disrupting their rhythm.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming strength versus coordinated skill: The goddesses’ excellent teamwork cannot overcome Su Bo’s superior power and defense.
• Pride, anger, and judgment: Ji Yiqing’s humiliation pushes her to abandon a sensible retreat, while Wangshu Xiyue’s caution highlights the cost of losing control.
• Power and provocation: Su Bo’s strength is clear, but his disrespectful teasing escalates the conflict and shapes the women’s response.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yue’s Ninefold Mountain-Sea Battle Formation overwhelms the Sun Folk and Lunar Folk formations. By alternating between Mountain Stance defense and Sea-Covering Stance attacks, he exploits openings until both opposing formations are close to collapse.
• Su Bo, meanwhile, fights Wangshu Xiyue and Ji Yiqing. Though the two women make the battle difficult, he remains confident he can defeat them.
• Su Bo uses his Chaofeng movement technique to keep pace with Wangshu Xiyue. When she unleashes her innate ability, Silent Cold Moonlight, she freezes him—but he escapes the ice and reappears beside both women.
• Su Bo restrains them with Bixi Divine Intent, which seals their strength, astral force, divine abilities, and even their souls and minds. Their brief loss of control gives him the chance to seal nearly all their power.
• He throws the defeated women aside, leaving them furious and humiliated.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yue demonstrates growing command and confidence as a formation leader, coordinating complex defensive and offensive shifts with precision.
• Su Bo shows his superior combat skill and composure, overcoming the women’s teamwork and Wangshu Xiyue’s freezing ability. His taunting, physically humiliating treatment of them makes him appear brazen and cruel.
• Wangshu Xiyue remains agile and tactically alert, then uses her innate ability as a last resort. Her calm, icy demeanor gives way to anger and embarrassment after Su Bo captures her.
• Ji Yiqing is injured early but returns to help Wangshu Xiyue. Her fiery temperament fuels her attacks and her furious protests, though Su Bo exploits her momentary distraction to seal her power.
• The women cooperate against Su Bo, but their coordination cannot overcome his speed and suppressive ability.

Significant themes

• Strategy and adaptability: Liu Yue wins ground through rapid shifts in formation tactics, while Su Bo counters his opponents by exploiting openings.
• Power and control: The chapter repeatedly depicts battles as contests over who can suppress, exhaust, or seal an opponent’s abilities.
• Humiliation in defeat: Su Bo’s victory is framed not only as physical domination but also as an affront that intensifies the women’s anger.

Su Bo captured Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue after Liu Yue’s formation defeated their forces. The two prodigies faced the loss of their soldiers and asked Su Bo to state his terms.

• Ji Yiqing struggled against Su Bo’s seal and insulted him, while Wangshu Xiyue failed to break free and offered their trial resources and favors in exchange for release.
• Su Bo rejected the offer, saying their resources were already his spoils, and carried both women to the battlefield after confirming the fighting had ended.
• Liu Yue’s Mountain-Sea Battle Formation suppressed the Sun Folk and Lunar Folk forces, and Yi You and Yi Feng secured the remaining captives.
• Su Bo arrived with Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue and showed them their defeated, bound soldiers.
• Ji Yiqing demanded that Su Bo kill or eliminate her, while Wangshu Xiyue regained her composure and asked him to state his terms.

Su Bo captured Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue and tried to enlist their troops to deal with Insect Valley’s insect soldiers. Liu Yue worked out a plan for the battle formations, while the Sun Folk and Lunar Folk ancestors watched Su Bo mistreat the women and grew furious.

• Yi You called Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue a headache, but Su Bo said they were bargaining chips against Insect Valley.
• Su Bo explained that their troops could help fight the insect soldiers, and Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue refused to let their forces serve as cannon fodder.
• Su Bo stopped Ji Yiqing from cursing and persuaded Wangshu Xiyue to listen to his proposal.
• Liu Yue announced that he had worked out how the three battle formations could clear Insect Valley and capture the mother insect at the lowest cost.
• The Sun Folk and Lunar Folk ancestors saw Su Bo subdue and spank Ji Yiqing and Wangshu Xiyue, then angrily searched for Human-Dragon Race elders to confront.