Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu defeated the Insectoid Clan Venerables, learned their swarm had invaded a star system after losing contact with the Great Devourer, and arranged a trade with the Insectoid Clan for access to the remaining insects and a Time Law environment. At the Demon Race Imperial Palace, Ao Qing told Gold Horn that the Phoenix Lord wanted to meet him about renewing the Dragon-Phoenix Alliance.

• Jiang Shu killed three Insectoid Clan Venerables, devoured their bodies, and searched their souls for information.
• Jiang Shu learned the Insectoid Clan expedition had entered the star system after subspace cut it off from other regions and severed its connection to the Great Devourer.
• Jiang Shu killed and devoured the Insectoid Clan powerhouses on the planet, then returned to Cangyu Star and told Elder Lei about the star system and its Time Law environment.
• Elder Lei negotiated with the stationed Insectoid Clan Venerable, and their leader agreed to trade resources for the planet's coordinates.
• Gold Horn dismissed rumors that he might establish a Dragon Court, and Ao Qing told him the Phoenix Lord wanted to discuss continuing the Dragon and Phoenix races' alliance.

Gold Horn learned that the Dragon and Phoenix Races wanted him to marry the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord’s daughter, then met the Phoenix Lord and was exposed as Jiang Shu’s incarnation. The Phoenix Lord offered to protect him and support his cultivation in exchange for a Marriage Alliance that would connect the Phoenix Race with the Human Race, and Gold Horn agreed to negotiate terms.

• Ao Qing told Gold Horn that the Dragon and Phoenix Races intended to arrange a Marriage Alliance between him and the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord’s daughter.
• Gold Horn went to meet the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord, who dismissed Ao Qing and sealed the hall against the outside.
• The Five Virtues Phoenix Lord identified Gold Horn as Jiang Shu’s incarnation and explained that he had detected the karmic connection between Jiang Shu and Gold Horn during the battle at Myriad Gods Cave.
• Gold Horn asked what the Phoenix Lord intended to do, and the Phoenix Lord proposed a Marriage Alliance to establish ties with the Human Race while offering to conceal Gold Horn’s identity and support him.
• Gold Horn agreed to the Marriage Alliance, and he and the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord began negotiating conditions.

Gold Horn and Feng Yao prepared to enter Immortal Volcano as part of the Dragon-Phoenix marriage alliance, while the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord secretly arranged a meeting with Dao Venerable Tai Wu. The meeting ended with the Phoenix Race and True Martial Sect reaching agreements to cooperate against the Phoenix Lord’s rivals among the Demon Race.

• The Five Virtues Phoenix Lord agreed to the marriage alliance, promised Gold Horn access to Phoenix treasures, and announced that Gold Horn and Feng Yao would enter Immortal Volcano.
• News of the alliance and Immortal Volcano’s opening spread through the Demon Race, and the Phoenix Lord led Gold Horn, Feng Yao, and Ao Qing toward the destination.
• Near the Human Race, the Phoenix Lord rendered Ao Qing unconscious, and Gold Horn sent a coded signal that reached Dao Venerable Tai Wu.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu met the Phoenix Lord, who proposed that the True Martial Sect help him suppress disobedient Demon Race clans in return for intelligence and cooperation.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu agreed to consult the figure behind the True Martial Sect, and the two sides spent a long time negotiating and reached several agreements.

Jiang Shu returned to Canglan Kingdom after arranging for the great-cosmos Insectoid Clan to eliminate the insects threatening the local Human Race. He proposed an alliance with Ming Haoxing and Li Hanyi, then explained the wider situation and hinted at bringing other Human Race factions together.

• Dao Venerable Tai Wu departed after negotiating with the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord, who then woke Ao Qing and continued toward the Immortal Volcano with Gold Horn and Feng Yao.
• Zhan Jiuxiao and the other powerhouses discovered that Insectoid Clan Navigators distorted time and space and were destroyed when exposed to the great cosmos, so they divided the remaining Navigators among their races for research.
• Great-cosmos Insectoid Clan Venerables found the local Insectoid Clan and sensed the false Mother Queen's location, then began slaughtering the local insects as they set out to kill her.
• Jiang Shu returned to Canglan Kingdom and told Zhan Feng that matters were mostly settled, then reassured Ming Haoxing and Li Hanyi that the insects would be dealt with.
• Jiang Shu proposed an alliance between the Human Race factions, and Ming Haoxing and Li Hanyi agreed before asking whether he intended to unite the other Human Race groups.

Jiang Shu learned that the Saints had forged the Torch, a device that could guide factions through subspace in the Minor Universe, and discussed how it could draw scattered groups to them. As he and the gathered powerhouses waited for the Torch’s final adjustments, a tide of destruction surged toward Star City and Zhan Jiuxiao moved to stop it.

• Jiang Shu helped unite Canglan Kingdom and Cangyu Star, while hiding the greater Cosmos powerhouses’ true origins.
• Elder Lei told Jiang Shu that the Saints had studied the Insectoid Clan Navigators, so Jiang Shu returned to the greater Cosmos and found a radiant structure above Star City.
• Zhan Jiuxiao and the Mech Divine Envoy explained that the Saints had built the Torch to provide spatial coordinates and temporal measures for travelers in the Minor Universe.
• Jiang Shu argued that the Torch could draw lost factions toward them, despite the risk of attracting enemies, and learned that maintaining it would consume vast energy and Venerables as fuel.
• As Jiang Shu and the other powerhouses waited and studied the Torch, a destructive tide struck Star City, and Zhan Jiuxiao flew out to block it with lightning.

The Doomsday Cult ambushed Star City with a corrupted star, revived corpses, and weapons aimed especially at the Mech Clan. Jiang Shu fought Fen Wu as the three races struggled to contain the assault, and the chapter ended with both fighters wounded and Jiang Shu taunting his opponent.

• Jiang Shu and the Venerables defended Star City when the Doomsday Cult trapped them in a Space Strangling Web and drove a corrupted star toward them.
• Jiang Shu shattered the star with the Pangu phantom, but its corpses revived as a black-robed Cult expert unleashed the Great Doomsday Banner and its Soul Tide.
• The Mech Clan, Human Race, and Insectoid Clan fought the revived corpses as the Doomsday Cult used Anti-Inorganic Toxicity and soul attacks to target the Mech Clan.
• Jiang Shu confronted Fen Wu while other Doomsday Cult experts blocked Zhan Jiuxiao, the Mother Queen Guard, and the Mech Clan divine envoy from helping.
• Jiang Shu and Fen Wu traded powerful attacks, leaving Jiang Shu wounded and Fen Wu with a chest wound that would not heal; Jiang Shu called Fen Wu's strength average.

Jiang Shu wounded Fen Wu, but the Doomsday Cult revealed an abandoned Mech Mother clone and began the Mech Clan’s Coronation System to seize control of the Star City. The coronation succeeded, leaving the Mech Clan’s defenders frozen as the city mobilized its energy.

• Jiang Shu used his prepared strength to withstand Fen Wu’s Time Law and shatter Fen Wu’s ghostly attack, severely injuring him.
• The Doomsday Cult revealed an abandoned Mech Mother clone, and its attempt to counter the Mech Divine Envoy’s Reality Modification shocked the three races.
• The Doomsday Cult’s Mech Mother began the Coronation System, prompting the Mech Divine Envoy to warn the others that it could grant access to a Mech Mother’s authority.
• Jiang Shu abandoned Fen Wu and rushed to stop the coronation, but Fen Wu obstructed his path and hindered his spatial movement.
• A Doomsday Cult agent tainted the intact Mech Mother clone with Aura of Destruction, and the Doomsday Cult’s clone announced that coronation had succeeded.
• The Mech Clan experts froze as the Star City began mobilizing its energy, leaving Jiang Shu uncertain what threat the city could pose.

Jiang Shu and the allied forces stopped the Doomsday Cult from winning the battle but failed to prevent its experts from escaping through a gate to a Minor Universe. After returning to the War Alliance Ancestral Land, Jiang Shu reported the crisis to the secluded Saint.

• The Doomsday Cult opened a gate to a Minor Universe, and Fen Wu sacrificed himself to block Jiang Shu from destroying it while the cult’s experts escaped.
• The allied forces learned that the Mech Clan’s Coronation Protocol had been compromised and that the gate would take four days to repair; Zhan Jiuxiao warned that the Doomsday Cult threatened the wider Cosmos.
• Zhan Jiuxiao sent Jiang Shu to report to the Saint and assess possible cooperation with the Insectoid Clan, assigning Li Yang and Duan Tianya to accompany him.
• Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to return to the War Alliance Ancestral Land and sent Li Yang and Duan Tianya to gather supplies.
• Jiang Shu entered the secluded pavilion and informed the Saint that an urgent matter involving the Doomsday Cult had arisen in the Minor Universe.

Jiang Shu had the Saint’s Clone reforge the Desolate Star Halberd and learned that the Doomsday Cult’s return might be tied to something hidden in the Minor Universe. He returned to Cangyu Star with materials, helped rebuild Star City, and revealed the Torch’s power and terrible cost to Huang Xuesheng and Ming Haoguang.

• The Saint’s Clone reforged the Desolate Star Halberd with the head of No. 3 Mech Mother’s clone and told Jiang Shu to eliminate the Doomsday Cult’s hidden threat in the Minor Universe.
• The War Alliance ancestor and a black-robed figure discussed Jiang Shu’s potential to reach the Saint realm and take part in a coming battle.
• Jiang Shu returned to Zhan Jiuxiao with the materials to repair Star City, and the Mech Clan rebuilt it before reopening the gate to the Minor Universe.
• Jiang Shu and the others returned to Cangyu Star, where he told Elder Lei about the Doomsday Cult and prepared to establish the Torch.
• Jiang Shu showed Huang Xuesheng and Ming Haoguang that the Torch could reveal their location to allies, then explained that keeping it lit required burning an early-stage Venerable every month.

Jiang Shu convinced the Venerables of Canglan Kingdom that he came from the greater Cosmos, then established a Torch there to broadcast its coordinates through subspace. In the Crimson Firmament Starfield, two Venerables spotted the light and decided to travel toward it.

• Jiang Shu showed Ming Haoguang and Huang Xuesheng the humans, Insectoids, and Mech Clan working together at the space station, then explained the greater Cosmos and took them through a teleportation gate to meet Zhan Jiuxiao.
• After returning to Cangyu Star, Ming Haoguang and Huang Xuesheng agreed to erect the Torch in Canglan Kingdom, and Ming Haoguang persuaded Li Hanyi and Chen Huanran to support the plan.
• Jiang Shu and the other experts built and activated the Torch on a desolate planet in Canglan Kingdom, sending its light and coordinates into subspace.
• Two Venerables in the Crimson Firmament Starfield saw the Torch’s distant light, recognized it as a coordinate, and resolved to travel toward it.

Jiang Shu’s Torch drew factions from across the Minor Universe, and the Spirit Race arrived seeking to seize it. After their leading Venerable attacked him, Jiang Shu overpowered and captured her, then threatened the figure hidden inside their warship.

• Insect swarms and factions across the Minor Universe learned the Torch’s coordinates and began traveling toward them.
• Jiang Shu and the Canglan Kingdom received arriving factions, while two Human Race Venerables entered the starport peacefully.
• A colossal Spirit Race fleet appeared, and its leading woman demanded the Torch as a treasure and attacked Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu shattered the woman’s blood techniques with the Law of Force and the Devouring Law, then wounded and sealed her.
• Jiang Shu drove back the other Spirit Race Venerables and threatened to crush their captive’s head unless the hidden figure came out.

Jiang Shu drove off Yaoyue’s Spirit Race fleet by revealing the Human, Insectoid, and Mech clans’ Late-stage Venerables and killing a Spirit Race Venerable. As more visitors arrived at the Torch, Blood Sickle led the local Insectoid swarm against an invading swarm and turned the battle in his favor.

• Jiang Shu confronted Yaoyue, who admitted that he had ordered a Spirit Race woman to provoke him, then revealed Elder Lei, Blood Sickle, and Resistor as three allied Late-stage Venerables.
• Jiang Shu crushed the Spirit Race woman and let Yaoyue’s fleet enter the port, leaving her corpse on display as a warning to other visitors.
• Yaoyue told his Spirit Race companions that the Torch would make Kambia Space a central Cosmos-wide coordinate, and that their race would need allies to seize it.
• A vast invading Insectoid swarm entered the Mingkuang Star Sector, and Blood Sickle led the local insects into battle against it.
• Blood Sickle’s swarm grew stronger by devouring its opponents, gained the advantage, and killed a Mid-stage Venerable Insectoid Clan warrior.

After the Insectoid Clan’s losses improved its strength, Jiang Shu and the other leaders planned to turn the Mingkuang Star Sector into a hub for interworld trade. They invited over a thousand factions to establish a merchant association, and Jiang Shu outlined rules for collateral, arbitration, and optional sharing of coordinates.

• Blood Sickle led the surviving Insectoid Clan back to the Barren Planets, while visiting experts warned their followers not to break the local rules.
• Jiang Shu, Elder Lei, Blood Sickle, Resistor, and other representatives discussed plans to open a marketplace and build a merchant association among the 1,236 factions gathered in the Mingkuang Star Sector.
• On the twenty-first day after the torch was lit, Jiang Shu and the other experts invited the factions to discuss opening trade routes.
• Jiang Shu addressed the faction representatives and explained that the merchant association would connect worlds through trade without forcing them into a federation.
• A Mid-stage Human Race Venerable asked how the association would handle broken trade agreements, and Jiang Shu said traders could lodge goods as collateral.
• A Giant Spirit Race Venerable asked whether factions had to reveal their coordinates, and Jiang Shu said sharing them was voluntary and brought tax reductions and access to arbitration and protection.

Jiang Shu’s three-race coalition established a thriving trading platform in Mingkuang Star Sector, while factions began exchanging resources and awaiting the eventual introduction of currency. As trade expanded, Navigator Fang Zhenghua arrived with Spatial-Fixing Star Iron and heard a troubling rumor about the immense resources required to sustain the Torch.

• Jiang Shu and the other experts established trading sites on desolate planets, and factions gradually returned with resources to trade.
• The three races profited from commissions as trade expanded, while the Mech Clan divine envoy estimated that currency could be issued after their commission goods exceeded ten times the current market volume.
• Fang Zhenghua escaped an Orc ambush in subspace and arrived at the trading platform with eighty crates of Spatial-Fixing Star Iron.
• Fang Zhenghua’s buyers eagerly competed for the iron, whose value had risen because it helped factions stabilize their vessels in subspace.
• Faction representatives discussed the Torch and heard that keeping it alight year-round required an ocean of resources.

Jiang Shu suspected the Doomsday Cult had spread rumors that the Torch consumed Venerables, while preparing to force the Beastmen out of the trade routes. On a returning cargo run, Fang Zhenghua’s crew discovered Beastman spores growing into attackers, and their Faith Dao resonance suggested a larger group was approaching.

• A rumor spread through the Mingkuang Star Sector that Venerables were burned to maintain the Torch, and Jiang Shu suspected the Doomsday Cult had started it.
• Jiang Shu ordered Elder Lei to inspect the sector and decided not to respond to the rumor publicly.
• Jiang Shu learned that the Beastmen and their Eternal Slayer were connected to the Law of Faith, then ordered an attack to clear the Beastmen from the trade routes.
• Fang Zhenghua led several cargo starships through subspace toward their home planet, hoping their resources would help Jupiter’s powerhouses advance.
• Beastmen spores hidden in Warehouse Twenty-Six on Starship Three grew into moss and spawned Beastmen, so Fang Zhenghua sent the crew to attack them.
• A Tenth Realm cultivator killed the strongest Beastman, but the survivors absorbed its power and grew stronger, while the cultivator sensed a larger Beastman group nearing through Faith Dao resonance.

Fang Zhenghua’s fleet was overrun by beastmen, but Jiang Shu and his allies arrived to intervene. Jiang Shu overwhelmed the Beastman Venerable, uncovered the faith and time powers sustaining him, and prepared to use Forbidden Law Dao Resonance.

• Fang Zhenghua ordered the fleet to abandon its warehouses and turn back toward the Mingkuang Star Sector after beastmen spread through the ships.
• A Beastman Venerable attacked the fleet, broke into a starship, and led a horde of beastmen inside.
• Jiang Shu and powerful allies from the Human Race, Mech Clan, and Insectoid Clan entered the battle and rescued Fang Zhenghua’s fleet.
• Jiang Shu confronted the Beastman Venerable, crushed his attacks, and discovered that faith power and time law enabled his rapid healing.
• Jiang Shu recognized that a Saint stood behind the beastmen and summoned the Desolate Star Halberd to continue fighting.
• Jiang Shu revealed Forbidden Law Dao Resonance as the Beastman Venerable drew faith power from the other beastmen.

Jiang Shu defeated the beastmen attacking Fang Zhenghua’s fleet, then uncovered Haitian’s role in helping them. While Soul Searching a Beastman Venerable, Jiang Shu encountered a vision of the Saint Eternal Slayer and reported it to the assembled Venerables before beginning to Soul Search Haitian.

• Jiang Shu used the Forbidden Law Dao charm to suppress and defeat a Beastman Venerable, while his allies exterminated the beastmen aboard Fang Zhenghua’s ships.
• Fang Zhenghua told Jiang Shu that Haitian of the Great Serpent Clan had searched his ship for beastmen, and Jiang Shu returned to the Mingkuang Star Sector with his fleet.
• Jiang Shu Soul Searched the Beastman Venerable and discovered that Haitian had made a deal with it to launch an assault.
• During the Soul Search, Jiang Shu saw a vision of the planet-sized Eternal Slayer, the Saint of the Beastman Clan, and felt its Saint-level pressure.
• Jiang Shu told the Venerables what he had seen, then tore Haitian’s soul from its body to Soul Search it.

Jiang Shu discovered that a giant python’s memories had been altered and uncovered its connection to the orcs and the spread of news about the Torch. He set out with Electric Current to attack the orc gathering places, arriving at a desolate star system where one was located.

• Jiang Shu searched the giant python’s soul, realized its memories had been altered, and ordered an investigation into whom it had met.
• Jiang Shu decided to deal with the remaining orcs, and Electric Current volunteered to accompany him.
• Elder Lei ordered the corpses handled cautiously, while the three ruling factions publicized evidence of the python’s cooperation with the orcs and shared methods for detecting orc spores.
• Jiang Shu and Electric Current traveled through subspace as Jiang Shu worried about the Eternal Slayer’s possible influence on the orcs.
• Jiang Shu asked Electric Current about the Mech Clan’s power-based names and learned that they represented inherited abilities.
• Jiang Shu and Electric Current arrived at a desolate star system matching the location extracted from the Beastman Venerable’s memories.

Jiang Shu fought a Beastman Venerable empowered by the collective faith of the Beastman Starfield, while Electric Current analyzed the source of its strength. Jiang Shu discovered that evading combat caused the beastmen’s faith to disperse, and Electric Current urged him to keep avoiding the fight.

• Jiang Shu entered the Beastman Starfield, where collective faith pressured him and a Beastman Venerable spotted him.
• The Beastman Venerable attacked Jiang Shu, knocking him into a barren planet before Jiang Shu recovered and fought back alongside Electric Current.
• The beastman endured Electric Current’s attack and healed rapidly as faith from the surrounding planets strengthened it; Jiang Shu continued battling it and studied its power.
• The Beastman Venerable unleashed a devastating attack that destroyed a planet, then suffered severe injuries and began healing with the remaining Faith Power.
• Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu and Space Law to evade the beastman instead of continuing to fight, causing the beastmen’s excitement and gathered faith to fade.
• Electric Current told Jiang Shu that the Beastman Venerable depended on the other beastmen’s faith and urged him to keep avoiding battle so their faith would stop flowing into it.

Jiang Shu and Electric Current entered the Beastman Starfield, evaded detection, and studied how the beastmen gained power through faith and slaughter. Jiang Shu possessed a newly formed beastman to seek its inherited cultivation methods, then fought the tribe’s leader using his avatar’s superior technique.

• Jiang Shu fled into subspace with Electric Current while the Beastman Venerable lost his way pursuing them.
• Electric Current gave Jiang Shu counter-force fluctuations that concealed them from the Law of Faith, and the pair returned to the starfield after its faith activity subsided.
• Jiang Shu observed newly born beastmen fight and saw the victor absorb their Faith Power, learning that the race could grow stronger through slaughter and faith inheritance.
• Jiang Shu and Electric Current discussed whether Body Seizing could reveal the beastmen’s cultivation methods, and Jiang Shu decided to test the idea.
• Jiang Shu seized a newly formed beastman Embryo, gained the avatar’s instincts and knowledge, and repeatedly threw the tribe’s leader to the ground with superior technique.