Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• A brilliant, lightning-filled glow appears around Mars, lighting the night sky on Blue Star. The phenomenon sparks widespread speculation, but Chen Siyao recognizes it as her brother Chen Hao’s Heavenly Tribulation.
• Siyao alerts Qin Zheng and the Special Operations Department, explaining that no intervention is needed. They quickly notify the relevant authorities.
• Deep inside Mars, Chen Hao undergoes the nine levels of tribulation required to reach the Nirvana Stage. He steadily draws the Way of Fire into his body, using flame spirit marrow to manage its repulsion with the Spatial Great Dao.
• He survives each trial, from silvery-white lightning through increasingly powerful golden and purple lightning. The eighth level’s World-Destroying Thunder cracks his flesh, but the flame spirit marrow repairs the damage.
• Chen Hao rests for three years to recover and stabilize the buffer between the two Daos. He then begins the ninth and final tribulation: a colossal display of nine-colored lightning. Mars shines brighter than the moon, drawing the attention of people across the globe.

Character developments

• Chen Hao demonstrates extraordinary endurance and control, calmly progressing through increasingly dangerous trials. His breakthrough depends not only on his powerful body but also on careful preparation and the flame spirit marrow.
• Chen Siyao shows confidence in her brother’s capabilities and takes practical action to prevent authorities from interfering.
• Yang Wanqing’s excitement and admiration deepen as she witnesses the visible sign of Chen Hao’s breakthrough.

Character interactions

• Yang Wanqing rushes to show Siyao the footage; together they watch Mars from the balcony and realize the event is Chen Hao’s tribulation.
• Siyao contacts Qin Zheng, who responds promptly and ensures the authorities are informed.
• After the first level, Yang Wanqing and Siyao silently exchange smiles, sharing relief and pride. At the chapter’s end, they watch the climactic ninth tribulation together.

Significant themes

• Power and perseverance: Chen Hao endures escalating trials through strength, patience, and discipline.
• Preparation and balance: Flame spirit marrow helps reconcile the conflicting forces of the Way of Fire and the Spatial Great Dao.
• The unseen truth behind public events: The world sees a mysterious astronomical phenomenon, while only a few know its true cause.
• Shared anticipation: Siyao and Wanqing’s watchful support connects Chen Hao’s solitary ordeal on Mars with those waiting for him on Blue Star.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao withstands the ninth and final wave of heavenly lightning on Mars. The collision between the Spatial Great Dao and the Way of Fire causes intense pain, but the flame spirit marrow helps the two Daos reach a stable coexistence.
• The lightning collapses, and Chen completes the breakthrough to the Dao Venerable True Body after four years and seven months of cultivation. His body now contains two Great Daos, which circulate independently but support one another.
• Chen realizes he has surpassed the Void Refinement Realm—a realm no one in the Primordial Era had reached—and estimates his lifespan at roughly 100,000 years.
• He concludes that his path forward is to alternate between qi cultivation and body cultivation, incorporating more Great Daos into his body over time.
• Planning to balance Fire with its elemental counter, Water, Chen travels through a spatial passage from Mars to Mercury, the former Mysterious Water Realm.
• Using the flame spirit marrow as a bridge, he successfully incorporates the Way of Water into his qi cultivation and reaches the first level of Dao Tribulation.

Character development

• Chen proves his endurance and resolve by remaining firm through the most painful stage of the tribulation.
• His breakthrough gives him a new understanding of his cultivation path and of his unprecedented status beyond the established limits of the old era.
• He remains ambitious but pragmatic: although he considers the possibility of incorporating all three thousand Great Daos, he decides to proceed one step at a time.

Significant themes

• Balance through coexistence: Fire and Space, though initially in conflict, find harmony without merging; Chen later seeks to balance Fire with Water.
• Breaking established limits: Chen’s new realm overturns the belief that the world cannot support cultivation beyond Void Refinement.
• Growth through alternating disciplines: Chen’s developing method moves between qi cultivation and body cultivation, building strength through successive stages.
• Endurance and measured ambition: He withstands extreme pain, yet recognizes the scale of his ultimate goals and focuses on the next achievable step.

Character interactions

• There are no major conversations or other characters in the chapter. Chen’s central interaction is with the two Daos within his body: he first brings Space and Fire into stable coexistence, then begins cultivating Water. He also uses the flame spirit marrow as the bridge that enables these processes.

Chapter Summary: “Unable to Enter the Origin World”

Key plot points and events

• After spending four years and seven months away, Chen Hao returns home to Treasure Sky City by tearing open space. He finds his home largely unchanged and is welcomed enthusiastically by his husky, Xiao Yue, and bird, Xiao Qing.
• He cooks dinner and catches up on the reports accumulated on his Wristband.
• That evening, his sister Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing return. The meal reveals Chen Hao is home, and Yang Wanqing rushes to greet him.
• Over dinner, Chen Siyao reports a major crisis: all 3.2 billion Origin World users can access only personal pages and the marketplace, not instance worlds or the Training Pavilion.
• Since those services rely on the Formation Spirit on Jupiter, Chen Siyao suspects external interference or deliberate damage rather than ordinary wear. The Human Alliance has sent an investigation mission from its Ganymede outpost.
• Chen Hao agrees to wait for the report and says he will repair the Formation Spirit if necessary.

Character developments

• Chen Hao returns calm and composed after a long absence. He reconnects with home through familiar routines—caring for his pets, cooking, and sharing a meal—and quickly takes responsibility for the Origin World crisis.
• Chen Siyao has continued managing her responsibilities while Chen Hao was away. Though troubled by the crisis, she visibly relaxes after he offers to handle the problem if needed.
• Yang Wanqing remains lively and talkative, openly expressing how much she missed Chen Hao and teasing Chen Siyao’s cooking.
• Xiao Yue and Xiao Qing show strong affection toward Chen Hao, emphasizing the continuity of his home life despite his years away.

Significant themes

• Homecoming and continuity: The unchanged home, pets, and familiar meal offer Chen Hao a grounding contrast to his long absence.
• Family bonds and reassurance: Chen Hao’s return and decisive support ease the burden on Chen Siyao.
• Progress and renewal: The Human Alliance has expanded across the Solar System, suggesting the return of an older interstellar civilization’s reach.
• A looming mystery: The Origin World’s failure points to possible sabotage or interference, setting up the chapter’s central unresolved threat.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao affectionately greets Xiao Yue and Xiao Qing before preparing dinner.
• Yang Wanqing welcomes him with excited complaints about his long absence, while Chen Siyao’s familiar recognition of his cooking quietly confirms his return.
• At dinner, Yang Wanqing jokes about Chen Siyao’s limited cooking, prompting a lighthearted exchange.
• Chen Hao notices the strain in Chen Siyao’s expression and draws out the problem. He listens to her explanation, then reassures her that he will act if the Formation Spirit has been damaged.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• The evening after Chen Hao returns from Mars, he reviews years of information while Yang Wanqing asks whether he passed all nine stages of nirvana and how powerful he has become. He confirms his progress but brushes off further questions.
• Chen Siyao invites him to visit the company the next day. Before leaving, she tells him she is glad he has returned; Chen Hao privately shares the sentiment.
• At Haoyue Si Group’s expanded headquarters, Chen Hao sees how much the company has grown. Formerly a biotechnology startup, it now spans seven major divisions, including finance, starships, intelligence, energy, infrastructure, biotechnology, and deep-space exploration. Its projects include a partially completed Moon immigrant city, Martian energy harvesting, and a Ganymede outpost.
• Chen Hao recognizes that Siyao and Cai Jingwen have kept the enterprise running and expanding successfully during his five-year absence.
• Yang Wanqing presents synthetic food developed by the company’s biotechnology work. It tastes better than conventional food while costing a fraction as much and producing far more, eliminating a major obstacle to population growth and space colonization.
• A call from Special Operations Director Qin Zheng brings alarming news from Jupiter. Images show a mountain in the Thirty-Three Heavens stripped down to a gray-white shell, suggesting that something has consumed or depleted its metal veins. The chapter ends before the cause is revealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao adjusts to being home and observes the enormous changes made in his absence. Though his strength has advanced, he remains understated and focuses on his family and the company’s achievements.
• Chen Siyao has become a capable leader of a vast interstellar corporation. Her warm welcome to Chen Hao shows how much his return matters to her.
• Yang Wanqing has matured from an inquisitive apprentice into a prominent technical contributor, serving as vice president of Future Intelligence and a biotechnology consultant. She proudly demonstrates her team’s work and still seeks her master’s approval.
• Qin Zheng treats Chen Hao with clear respect, but quickly turns the conversation to the urgent Jupiter situation.
• The domestic, affectionate scenes—Yang’s questions at dinner, Siyao’s quiet expression of relief, and the familiar pets nearby—contrast with the scale of the corporation and the emerging danger.

Significant themes

• Growth during absence: Chen Hao returns to a world transformed by the work of those he left behind.
• Technology enabling expansion: Synthetic food and major infrastructure projects show how scientific progress makes large-scale space settlement possible.
• Family and belonging: Amid immense changes, the emotional center is Chen Hao’s reunion with Siyao and Wanqing.
• Progress shadowed by danger: Humanity’s interplanetary expansion is accompanied by an unexplained threat on Jupiter.

Plot points and events

• Qin Zheng reports widespread destruction and metal-free “barren zones” across a region. The pattern matches the earlier attacks of the metal-eating Extraterrestrial Demons, also called Heavenly Demons.
• Chen Hao recognizes the feeding marks from his past battles against the creatures on the Moon and Pluto. He immediately opens a spatial gateway to Ganymede to investigate.
• At the Southern Heavenly Gate outpost, officer Fang Yuanzheng gives Chen Hao the coordinates of confirmed barren zones around Jupiter. Chen Hao departs at once to inspect them.
• Instead of heading directly to the affected sites, Chen Hao visits the Jade Void Sacred Hall, where the Formation Spirit’s main body is housed. He finds the hall badly damaged by battle, with traces of the Amber Star Moth Clan’s techniques and metal eaten from its conduits.
• The Formation Spirit’s crystal prism is cracked and its transmission circuits are severed, but its core remains intact. Chen Hao repairs it, and after an hour the prism lights up again.

Character developments

• Chen Hao responds decisively to the demons’ return, drawing on his experience from earlier encounters. His familiarity with the Formation Spirit and its array also reveals his role in building it.
• Qin Zheng shows concern and urgency as he reports the scale of the threat.
• Fang Yuanzheng is awed by Chen Hao’s abilities and discipline, but keeps his reaction professional and orders the encounter recorded as classified.
• Chen Siyao expresses concern for her brother, while Yang Wanqing reacts with humor to his sudden departure.

Significant themes

• A returning threat: The demons’ familiar feeding pattern signals that an old danger has resurfaced on a much larger scale.
• Power and responsibility: Chen Hao acts immediately, using extraordinary abilities to respond to a crisis that ordinary forces cannot easily reach.
• Repair and preservation: Amid the destruction, Chen Hao restores the Formation Spirit, protecting a vital part of the Origin World system.
• Contrasting scales of capability: The Alliance’s fastest ship takes months to reach Ganymede; Chen Hao crosses the distance in a step.

Character interactions

• Qin Zheng briefs Chen Hao, Chen Siyao, and Yang Wanqing, and Chen Hao identifies the creatures and volunteers to investigate.
• Chen Siyao urges her brother to be careful; Yang Wanqing jokes about his failure to bring a jacket, and Siyao answers with a story about his unchanged outfit after years on Mars.
• Fang Yuanzheng formally greets Chen Hao and supplies the coordinates, while Chen Hao declines a reception and leaves without delay.
• At the Sacred Hall, Chen Hao silently reconnects with the Formation Spirit by inspecting and repairing the device he created.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao repairs the Formation Spirit in the Jade Void Sacred Hall, bringing the Origin World’s transmission circuits back online.
• He visits the Amber Star Moth Clan to investigate the Heavenly Demons that attacked the clan and damaged the hall.
• Clan ancestor Xiao Wuwang reports that the creatures have been devouring metal across the clan’s territory and other levels of the Thirty-Three Heavens. The clan suffered 37 deaths, 12 serious injuries, and the loss of several mineral veins.
• Xiao Wuwang pursued the creatures beyond Jupiter but retreated after encountering many more, including at least ten Nirvana Stage demons.
• Chen Hao assures the clan leaders he will deal with the threat, then travels to the Kuiper Belt. There he discovers an enormous infestation covering asteroids and forming dense, asteroid-like masses. His survey identifies 17 Nirvana Stage demons.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains composed and decisive: he listens to Xiao Wuwang’s report, reassures the clan, and investigates the threat alone. His apparent increase in power impresses the clan leaders.
• Xiao Wuwang recounts the clan’s losses plainly and recognizes the danger of confronting the swarms alone. He orders clan members to withdraw to the central region, anticipating a major disturbance.
• Xiao Ye shows grief and tension over the clan’s casualties, then relief when Chen Hao confirms he repaired the Formation Spirit. He privately remarks that Chen Hao seems stronger than before.
• The Star Moth patrols react to Chen Hao with alarm and deference; the clan chief and ancestor greet him respectfully.

Significant themes

• The scale of the threat: What began as attacks on one territory is revealed to be a vast infestation throughout the outer Solar System.
• Duty and protection: The clan retreats to preserve its people while Chen Hao takes responsibility for confronting the larger danger.
• Power and uncertainty: Chen Hao is confident, but the sheer numbers—and the unexpectedly high count of Nirvana Stage demons—suggest the coming conflict may be formidable.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao discovers seventeen Nirvana Stage Heavenly Demons among the Kuiper Belt swarm, but realizes they are only part of a larger, ongoing influx. A fresh trail of spatial disturbances leads from beyond the Solar System, suggesting an unseen source is continuously sending demons inward.
• Rather than attack, Chen Hao decides to observe the swarm’s growth and learn what lies at the trail’s far end. One Nirvana Stage demon notices him but avoids approaching.
• Back in Pengcheng, Chen Hao tells Yang Wanqing he plans to wait. He later gives Chen Siyao limited instructions: Heavenly Demons are gathering in the Kuiper Belt, they should not be attacked yet, and defenses at the Ganymede outpost should be strengthened.
• The Origin World returns online, and its users quickly resume normal activity. Meanwhile, the Special Operations Department marks the Kuiper Belt as a broad threat zone, reinforces Ganymede, and places the Third Fleet on standby.
• Qin Zheng orders intelligence staff to review five years of deep-space probe data for unusual signals. He follows Chen Hao’s instruction to wait, though the source of the demons unsettles him.

Character developments

• Chen Hao shows confidence in his overwhelming strength, but also restraint: he recognizes that destroying the current demons would not solve the problem and chooses to gather information first. His increased abilities are apparent to others.
• Yang Wanqing is curious and eager for details, but backs off when Chen Hao offers no explanation.
• Chen Siyao trusts her brother’s judgment and relays his orders without pressing him for more.
• Qin Zheng remains disciplined and deferential to Chen Hao’s guidance, while quietly taking practical steps to investigate the threat.
• Qin Ling notices signs of Chen Hao’s growing power but accepts that it is beyond her ability to understand.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao tells Yang Wanqing that he will wait rather than fight, leaving her questions unanswered.
• He gives Chen Siyao only the essential facts and instructions; she passes them to Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng and Qin Ling discuss the threat and Chen Hao’s abilities, agreeing to follow his orders while preparing defenses and gathering intelligence.

Significant themes

• Restraint and strategic patience: Power does not require immediate action; understanding the threat matters more than winning a single battle.
• The unknown beyond familiar boundaries: The demons’ origin lies beyond the Solar System, raising questions about what is approaching and why.
• Trust in leadership: Chen Siyao and the Special Operations Department accept Chen Hao’s judgment despite not knowing his full reasoning.
• Ordinary life amid looming danger: Daily routines and online activity resume even as an unseen force advances through deep space.

Plot points and events

• Qin Zheng discovers faint gravitational-wave signals coming from the Solar System’s outer edge. They have persisted for three years and are growing in frequency. Following Mr. Chen’s instruction, he encrypts and withholds the data.
• Three days later, the Human Alliance Security Council officially designates the unidentified organisms the Gold-Eater Clan. It orders a joint fleet of 420 capital ships to form a defensive line beyond Jupiter, raises Ganymede’s readiness, and evacuates noncombat personnel.
• Qin Ling warns that astronomers are beginning to notice changes in the Kuiper Belt. Qin Zheng keeps the threat secret for now, hoping to avoid panic until the defenses are in place.
• Observations show the Gold-Eater Clan’s numbers increasing by 7–12% daily—far too quickly to be explained by reproduction, suggesting they are still arriving.
• The scene shifts to the inner Oort Cloud, where an immense, seemingly endless swarm of light-devouring insectoid creatures advances through space. At its center is Overlord Blind Ancient, a planet-sized commander.
• A much larger subordinate reports that a being called a “High God” destroyed the Clan’s vanguard on Pluto three years earlier. After investigating, the subordinate concludes that this is a local title, not a cultivation rank: the strongest being in the Solar System was then below the Celestial Immortal Realm, and humanity’s civilization is weak and fragmented.

Character developments

• Qin Zheng acts cautiously and pragmatically: he preserves the unexplained data, accepts the military preparations, and prioritizes preventing public panic.
• Qin Ling serves as a direct, reliable messenger, reporting both the Council’s decision and the growing difficulty of secrecy.
• Blind Ancient appears immense and formidable but responds with controlled attention rather than immediate aggression. The mention of a “High God” gives it pause, showing that the possibility of a powerful opponent matters.
• The subordinate presents itself as a careful investigator who has spent years reconstructing the Pluto battle; its findings lead it to dismiss the Solar System’s defenses as weak.

Significant themes

• Secrecy versus public safety: Leaders delay disclosure while preparing for a threat that may soon become visible.
• The gap between appearance and reality: “High God” sounds like a true rank, but the subordinate argues it is merely a local title.
• Scale and vulnerability: Humanity’s military response is substantial, yet the enemy’s numbers and scale make the danger feel overwhelming.
• Knowledge as a strategic weapon: Both sides use observation and analysis to judge the strength of their opponents.

Character interactions

• Qin Ling briefs Qin Zheng and delivers the Council’s classified resolution; Qin Zheng responds by directing that news remain suppressed.
• The subordinate approaches Blind Ancient deferentially, recounts its investigation, and explains why it believes the Solar System has no genuine god-level defenders. Blind Ancient listens silently, its small movements signaling interest and scrutiny.

Chapter summary

• The Gold-Eater Clan launches a full-scale attack. After hearing that the Solar System may have only one Heavenly Immortal, Blind Ancient orders the entire army forward with a single gesture. Summers, its powerful subordinate, relays the command, and the immense black tide changes course and surges toward the Solar System.
• Chen Hao detects the change before receiving official news. From Blue Star, his divine sense has been monitoring the edge of the Solar System. He notices the Gold-Eaters have shifted from a steady influx to a rapid charge, with their numbers and density rising sharply. His sister, Chen Siyao, confirms that they have begun attacking Jupiter and tells him their numbers have grown to more than twenty times the earlier count. Chen Hao tells her and Wanqing to stay home, then heads to the Ganymede outpost.
• The military prepares to meet the assault. At Southern Heavenly Gate Outpost, commander Fang Yuanzheng manages a stream of urgent reports: fleets are taking positions, the eastern observation post has been lost, and Gold-Eater numbers are escalating. Chen Hao arrives through a spatial portal, and Fang briefs him: the enemy is advancing on Jupiter from three directions, with contact expected in forty minutes.
• Chen Hao takes control of the response. Seeing that the enemy force is vastly larger than before and nearly swallowing Jupiter’s orbit on the tactical display, Chen Hao concludes the fleet does not need to engage. He orders it to withdraw.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains composed despite the scale of the threat. His persistent surveillance lets him recognize the attack’s buildup, and he moves immediately from observation to action.
• Chen Siyao acts as a link between the government’s warning and her brother. She notices his reaction but refrains from pressing him; Chen Hao responds protectively by telling her and Wanqing to remain at home.
• Fang Yuanzheng is exhausted but decisive under pressure, issuing orders to support the fleet and abandon a lost observation post. He defers to Chen Hao once he arrives.
• Blind Ancient reveals its strategic confidence and command over the Gold-Eater Clan: it commits the entire army after judging that the Solar System may have only one Heavenly Immortal. Summers shows eager loyalty in carrying out the order.

Significant themes

• Scale and escalation: The threat grows from a steady arrival into a coordinated invasion, dwarfing the defenders’ fleet.
• Duty and protection: Chen Hao acts to confront the danger while keeping his family out of harm’s way.
• Human forces versus overwhelming power: The military’s preparations seem tiny against the enemy mass, setting up Chen Hao’s intervention as the decisive factor.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Yuanzheng orders the 420-ship fleet to withdraw inside Jupiter’s orbit and await further instructions. Chen Hao leaves the command hall and heads alone toward the Gold-Eater Clan.
• Beyond Jupiter, Chen Hao finds the clan transformed from a scattered swarm into an immense, tightly packed tide advancing toward the planet. Nine Gold-Eater leaders have reached the Dao Venerable true-body level.
• All nine leaders direct waves of lesser Gold-Eaters to attack Chen Hao. He counters with a vast domain of Dao fire, which erases every creature that touches it.
• While maintaining the fire domain, Chen Hao uses spatial singularities to annihilate all nine leaders in under ten seconds. Their deaths do not stop the advance: the remaining Gold-Eaters continue charging by instinct.
• Chen Hao expands the fire domain across deep space, engulfing the entire mass of the invasion. On Blue Star, the Human Alliance publicly announces the threat and asks the population to remain calm.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao acts alone and reveals overwhelming mastery of the ways of fire and space. He recognizes that the Gold-Eater leaders’ single-Dao power is weak by comparison, and shows no need to conserve strength against them.
• Fang Yuanzheng gives up the fleet deployment he had spent days arranging, prioritizing Chen Hao’s plan to pull back. He then urgently orders every observation array aimed at Jupiter’s outer perimeter so humanity can witness and record the battle.
• The Gold-Eater leaders coordinate through mental orders but treat their followers as expendable attackers. The lesser creatures obey without hesitation; even after their leaders are destroyed, they keep advancing, unable to retreat.

Significant themes

• Individual power versus overwhelming numbers: Chen Hao’s abilities can erase vast armies, but the sheer scale of the invasion remains striking.
• Instinct and the absence of fear: The Gold-Eaters’ relentless advance continues without leaders or regard for their own destruction.
• Humanity’s uncertainty and dependence on Chen Hao: The fleet withdraws while observers watch from afar, and the public learns of the crisis only after the battle is underway.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After the Human Alliance announces Chen Hao’s battle against the Gold-Eater Clan beyond Jupiter, people worldwide fear an alien invasion. The Security Council reassures them that the threat is being handled.
• During a livestream, observers spot a strange, unearthly band of light beside Jupiter. It becomes visible across the night sky in 231 countries and regions, lasting forty-seven minutes.
• The Alliance explains that the phenomenon is harmless energy released by Chen Hao. Seeing his power from hundreds of millions of kilometers away makes the public understand, for the first time, what “High God” truly means.
• Beyond Jupiter, Chen Hao has annihilated every Gold-Eater within a radius of 500,000 kilometers, but more continue to pour toward the Solar System. He realizes that killing the advancing swarm is futile while its source remains open.
• He pushes deeper into space, cutting through Gold-Eaters and finding increasingly powerful, organized forces. Their formations suggest they are being directed.
• Chen Hao encounters Summers, a formidable Gold-Eater with five Daos—bloodlust, corrosion, devouring, invisibility, and substitution. Summers’s power is on the same level as Chen Hao’s, setting up a major confrontation.

Character developments

• Chen Hao shifts from clearing the immediate swarm to pursuing its source, recognizing that the invasion cannot be stopped through sheer force alone. He remains focused and avoids wasting time on lesser enemies.
• The public moves from fear and speculation to awe. Chen Hao’s distant display of power transforms his reputation from an abstract title into something visibly real.
• Summers is introduced as a major antagonist: powerful, intelligent enough to command forces, and comparable to Chen Hao in strength.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing watch the light from Pengcheng. Yang wonders if it is her master, while Chen Siyao silently recognizes Chen Hao’s fire and ignores calls from Qin Zheng, Fang Yuanzheng, and Qin Ling.
• Old Zhou and his livestream audience witness the phenomenon together; his continued recording helps spread the event worldwide.
• Chen Hao and the Gold-Eater Clan clash as he advances through their ranks. Some attack and are destroyed; others flee. His encounter with Summers marks the first meeting with an enemy on his own level.

Significant themes

• Power made tangible: The light across the sky allows ordinary people to grasp Chen Hao’s immense strength.
• The limits of force: Destroying the swarm’s front ranks accomplishes little while its source continues producing more enemies.
• Escalation and hidden order: The Gold-Eaters grow stronger and more organized the farther Chen Hao travels, revealing that the invasion has leadership—and a greater threat behind it.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao confronts Summers, a Gold-Eater leader wielding five laws. His flame-pattern sword slash destroys Summers’s corrosive blood net and cracks its layered defense, though Summers withstands the blow.
• Chen Hao then uses the way of space, creating Spatial Rift Blades that sever several of Summers’s limbs. Summers recognizes the danger of spatial power and summons reinforcements.
• Seven more Gold-Eaters arrive, making the fight eight against one. They avoid direct combat, instead spreading out, attacking from range, retreating in turns, and hiding among vast swarms of lesser Gold-Eaters.
• The drawn-out battle lasts a day. Chen Hao kills six of the leaders, including one swallowed by a spatial singularity despite its attempt to hide among the swarm.
• Summers and the final surviving leader flee toward the passage leading back to their territory. Chen Hao lets them go, aware of a vast, powerful presence farther in that direction.
• After the battle, Chen Hao examines the remains of a three-law Gold-Eater, pressing his hand to its torso and sending in his divine sense. The chapter ends as he begins investigating it.

Character developments

• Chen Hao demonstrates the combined strength and versatility of the ways of flame and space. He remains composed even when outnumbered, adapts to the Gold-Eaters’ tactics, and chooses not to pursue the survivors because he senses a greater threat ahead.
• Summers shifts from dismissive aggression to wariness after seeing Chen Hao’s spatial abilities. It shows strategic judgment by calling for help and later retreating rather than fighting to the death.
• The Gold-Eater leaders prove capable of coordination and tactical adaptation, but their reliance on swarms as expendable cover cannot prevent Chen Hao from killing most of them.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Chen Hao overwhelmingly surpasses his opponents, yet a day of battle and the distant presence suggest that greater dangers remain.
• Strategy over brute force: The Gold-Eaters prolong the fight through dispersal, ranged attacks, and using lesser members as shields.
• The cost of survival: The leaders treat the vast swarm as disposable, highlighting the harsh hierarchy within the Gold-Eater Clan.
• Restraint and foresight: Chen Hao’s decision to let the survivors escape reflects caution; he prioritizes the unknown power ahead over immediate pursuit.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao and Summers begin with a direct clash: Summers attacks without speaking, while Chen Hao tests its defenses and then injures it with spatial blades.
• Summers responds to Chen Hao’s advantage by summoning seven allies, turning the duel into a coordinated group battle.
• Chen Hao systematically defeats the leaders, while the survivors use the swarm and evasive tactics to delay him.
• At the end, Chen Hao’s attention shifts from the fleeing enemies to the remains of a fallen Gold-Eater, suggesting the next stage of his investigation.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao uses Bloodline Tracing on a Gold-Eater’s remains and discovers that the clan has no remembered homeland, only an instinctive drive to hunger, advance, and obey.
• The Gold-Eaters include more than a hundred innate “Children of God,” each born with a Dao Venerable True Body. Their strongest known being has fused with a hundred Great Daos and is called an Immortal King.
• That being is Overlord Blind Ancient, waiting in the depths of space. Chen Hao realizes Blind Ancient is far beyond anything he has faced and returns to Blue Star to prepare.
• Back in Treasure Sky City, Chen Hao reports that he cleared the Gold-Eaters near Jupiter, but more are heading toward the Kuiper Belt. He warns Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing that a much stronger enemy is behind them and says he needs time.
• At the Solar System’s edge, the badly wounded Summers returns to Blind Ancient with one other survivor; eight Gold-Eaters have been reduced to two. Blind Ancient orders Summers closer, then personally begins healing him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao confronts the scale of the threat and, for the first time, openly admits he needs time. His resolve remains firm: he is preparing, not retreating.
• Chen Siyao calmly checks that Chen Hao is unharmed and relays military observations, then offers practical care by heating food.
• Yang Wanqing is visibly distressed after waiting through the night. She rushes to Chen Hao, asks about the fighting, and quietly closes the balcony door to protect him from the wind.
• Summers returns in a devastated state and admits failure. Blind Ancient responds not with punishment but with a rare command to approach and an act of healing, revealing a personal, unexpectedly compassionate side.

Significant themes

• Vast differences in power: Chen Hao’s three Daos are formidable against ordinary foes, but Blind Ancient’s hundred Daos present an unknowable gap.
• Preparation and vulnerability: Chen Hao’s admission that he needs time marks a shift from confident control to candid recognition of his limits.
• Loyalty and mercy: Despite Summers’s failure, Blind Ancient restores him, suggesting that the Gold-Eaters’ hierarchy includes care as well as obedience and force.
• The cost of conflict: The losses among the Gold-Eaters—and Summers’s severe injuries—show the devastation of the recent battle and foreshadow a greater confrontation.

Plot points and events

• After a prolonged energy transfer, Blind Ancient withdraws from Summers and turns its gaze toward the Solar System. It sends the Gold-Eater Clan two commands: “Wait” and “I’m coming.” The advancing black tide halts as Blind Ancient begins preparing to travel toward the system.
• In Pengcheng, Chen Hao recognizes that the Gold-Eaters are waiting for their leader. He enters the Guixu Pearl to assimilate the Way of Water, his fourth Great Dao, hoping to grow stronger before Blind Ancient arrives.
• Chen Hao makes rapid progress: by the fifth day he reaches the second stage of Dao Tribulation, and by the seventh he has integrated nearly thirty percent of the Way of Water. The process strengthens his Dao foundation, with his existing Daos helping him absorb the new one.
• Chen Hao knows that four Daos are nowhere near Blind Ancient’s hundred, but continues cultivating. His meditation ends when he senses that his Divine Sense anchor toward Jupiter has been destroyed by an outside force.

Character developments

• Chen Hao is focused and determined, accepting that he cannot yet match Blind Ancient but pressing ahead with the time available. His cultivation remains unusually fast because he comprehends the Dao intuitively and faces no bottlenecks.
• Blind Ancient shifts from distant commander to direct threat: it decides to approach the Solar System personally after the deaths of six of its eight Children of God.
• Chen Siyao remains attentive to front-line developments and offers to monitor events for Chen Hao, while respecting his need to focus.
• Yang Wanqing shows quiet concern for Chen Hao, asking how long his cultivation will take.

Significant themes

• Time against overwhelming odds: Chen Hao’s immediate goal is to gain strength before Blind Ancient arrives, but the gulf between their power remains immense.
• Growth through harmony: The four coexisting Daos reinforce one another, illustrating how power can grow through resonance rather than simple accumulation.
• Resolve and uncertainty: Chen Hao pushes aside the unanswered question of whether he has enough time and concentrates on what he can control.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao shares a simple meal with Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing before entering seclusion. He tells them the Gold-Eaters are waiting for Blind Ancient and instructs them not to contact him unless the enemy moves.
• Chen Siyao offers to track the front lines and report changes; Chen Hao declines routine updates.
• Blind Ancient’s brief psychic message reaches every member of the Gold-Eater Clan, instantly halting their advance.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao leaves the Guixu Pearl and uses Divine Sense to inspect Jupiter. In just seven days, the Gold-Eater Clan has consumed much of the planet: Jupiter has lost 63% of its mass, its Great Red Spot is gone, and its moons are displaced or missing.
• At the center of the wreckage is Blind Ancient, a colossal being who has made Jupiter his nest. Chen Hao realizes the threat arrived far sooner than expected. His three mastered Ways still leave him facing a force vastly beyond him.
• At Haoyue Si headquarters, Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, and Cai Jingwen review footage from the Interstellar Vanguard Fleet’s ship, the Zhenyuan. They learn that fewer than one percent of Jupiter’s Demonic Beasts and Demon Race are confirmed to have escaped.
• Global news reports that the Gold-Eater Clan is only 400 million kilometers from Blue Star. Markets have collapsed, governments have suspended trading, and reports of secret escape plans fuel public fear. Many people believe there is nowhere to flee and ask where the “High God” is.
• Chen Siyao contacts General Fang Yuanzheng, who confirms that the Amber Star Moth race has been rescued. Their wounded ancestor, Xiao Wuwang, explains that Jupiter’s inhabitants initially formed an alliance of dozens of races and managed to fight off lower-ranking Gold-Eaters. His account continues beyond the excerpt.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains outwardly calm but recognizes that the power gap has not meaningfully closed. His composure contrasts with the scale of the approaching crisis.
• Chen Siyao focuses on finding survivors and immediately asks Fang for information, showing concern and resolve.
• Yang Wanqing struggles to speak as she absorbs Jupiter’s destruction and the near-total loss of its inhabitants.
• Cai Jingwen provides the data and monitors the global reaction, maintaining a practical role amid the fear.
• Fang Yuanzheng reports the successful rescue and puts Chen Siyao in contact with Xiao Wuwang.
• Xiao Wuwang, injured but alive, expresses gratitude and begins recounting Jupiter’s failed defense.

Significant themes

• The scale and speed of catastrophe: Even a planet and its many civilizations can be overwhelmed in days.
• Powerlessness and uncertainty: Chen Hao’s strength appears inadequate against Blind Ancient, while humanity has no clear escape or defense.
• Survival and solidarity: Jupiter’s races initially unite against the invasion, and rescue efforts preserve at least some survivors.
• Fear and social breakdown: The impending threat destabilizes markets, governments, and public confidence.

Chapter summary: “Going Alone”

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Wuwang recounts the Gold-Eater Clan’s arrival at Jupiter. A single sweep from its enormous leader shattered eight of eleven powerful defenders—destroying their bodies and souls. The Redfire Python Clan was wiped out, only three Nine-Tailed Spirit Foxes escaped, and few Star Moths survived.
• Xiao plans to take his people to the moon and defend it, reasoning that even a brief delay could give Blue Star time to prepare. Chen Siyao agrees to arrange the garrison with General Fang.
• Chen Hao arrives unexpectedly and says he can no longer remain in seclusion. He intends to confront the Gold-Eater leader himself, though he admits he does not know whether he can win.
• Chen Hao orders Qin Zheng to abandon all other Solar System positions and concentrate troops and resources on Blue Star and the moon. He also calls for accelerated global mobilization.
• He opens a passage into deep space to intercept the enemy. Chen Siyao tells him she will fight with the rear forces and wait for his return.

Character developments

• Xiao Wuwang emerges as a determined leader, choosing a dangerous lunar defense rather than prioritizing his clan’s immediate safety.
• Chen Hao shows unusual uncertainty about the coming fight, but trusts his ability to grow stronger through combat. His willingness to face the enemy alone underscores both his confidence and the scale of the threat.
• Chen Siyao is frightened for her brother but remains resolute, committing herself to the war effort and asking him to come back alive.
• Yang Wanqing and Cai Jingwen react with visible shock and worry, recognizing that Chen Hao’s uncertainty is unprecedented.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and resistance: Xiao and Chen Hao accept perilous roles to buy humanity time.
• Unity through concentration: Chen Hao rejects a scattered defense, making Blue Star and the moon the final line.
• Courage amid uncertainty: The characters act despite having no guarantee of victory.
• Separation and hope: Chen Siyao’s promise to wait gives the chapter an emotional counterpoint to the impending battle.

Character interactions

• Xiao explains the catastrophe to Chen Siyao and accepts her help in organizing the lunar defense.
• Chen Hao reassures Chen Siyao with memories of his past as a god of war, while honestly admitting the outcome is unknown.
• Chen Hao gives Qin Zheng urgent strategic orders; Qin recognizes their gravity and agrees to carry them out.
• Before Chen Hao leaves, Chen Siyao firmly tells him she will fight and wait for his return.

Plot points and events

• Chen Hao warns his younger sister, Chen Siyao, not to exhaust herself defending the line or damage her cultivation, assuring her, “You have me,” before leaving through a spatial passage.
• In space above Mars, Chen Hao sees that Blind Ancient is still consuming Jupiter while the Gold-Eater Clan army advances through the Asteroid Belt. He takes up position between Mars and the Belt, intending to force Blind Ancient into battle and use the fight to advance his understanding of the Way of Water.
• On Blue Star, Qin Zheng addresses the entire population through a compulsory global broadcast. He announces that Jupiter’s defenses have fallen and declares Level-One Full-Domain Combat Readiness: military forces and weapons are mobilized, a planetary shield is to be built, shelters established, and able-bodied adults enlisted.
• Qin Zheng points to Chen Hao, alone in deep space, and calls on humanity to defend Blue Star while its strongest warrior confronts the invaders.
• After twelve seconds of stunned silence, people begin responding. In Pengcheng, a recruitment line stretches for blocks by three in the morning.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao accepts a solitary role against the advancing threat, deliberately waiting for the enemy so he can grow stronger through combat. Before leaving, he shows concern for Chen Siyao and encourages her to rely on him.
• Chen Siyao remains committed to defending the city but is reminded not to sacrifice her health and cultivation. Yang Wanqing silently offers support by placing a hand on her shoulder, while Cai Jingwen turns immediately to her communications panel to organize the response.
• Qin Zheng presents a grave but resolute call for unity, shifting from describing the danger to demanding coordinated action from all humanity.
• The population’s quiet, overwhelming response—especially the crowds volunteering in Pengcheng—suggests that Qin Zheng’s appeal has transformed fear into collective resolve.

Significant themes

• Individual sacrifice and collective responsibility: Chen Hao faces the threat in space, while humanity must build and hold the defense below.
• Unity in crisis: National, racial, and personal divisions are set aside in the name of defending a shared home.
• Hope amid overwhelming danger: Chen Hao’s stand does not guarantee victory, but it gives humanity a focal point for courage and action.
• The cost of defense: Chen Siyao’s risk of overexertion underscores that protecting others can endanger the protectors themselves.

Summary

• Blue Star prepares for the final battle. Registration centers overflow with volunteers of every age and background. A sixteen-year-old who is too young for combat signs up for logistics instead; an eighty-three-year-old veteran also accepts a support role. Their determination reflects a shared resolve to defend their home.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing witness the volunteers. Yang wonders whether their absent master, Chen Hao, is cold in space. Chen Siyao answers matter-of-factly that vacuum does not conduct heat, then urges them both to help with registration.
• The whole planet mobilizes. Recruitment lines form across continents; space elevators carry weapons and supplies into orbit; the Human Alliance builds a lunar defensive line, supported by Xiao Wuwang and the Star Moth survivors. Earth’s nuclear, particle, and Earth Veins weapons are readied.
• Chen Hao detects the approaching enemy. The Gold-Eater Clan vanguard is six hours from Mars, while the enormous Blind Ancient has left Jupiter’s wreckage and is moving toward it.
• Chen Hao faces Blind Ancient. He powers up his Flame, Space, and Water laws, but the Guixu Pearl’s integration of Water Dao is only progressing gradually. Blind Ancient’s immense pressure—an incidental spillover of its hundred Daos—halts him from tens of millions of kilometers away and begins suppressing his own laws. Blind Ancient finally looks at him, seemingly with no awareness or interest in communicating.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao shifts from observing the crowd to joining its work, while maintaining a practical composure.
• Yang Wanqing reveals grief and fear through her question about their master, though she tries to hide her tears behind a smile.
• The volunteers show that people unable to fight directly still insist on contributing.
• Chen Hao moves to confront a vastly more powerful foe despite his laws being suppressed.
• Blind Ancient is presented as an overwhelming, impersonal force rather than a speaking antagonist.

Significant themes

• Collective sacrifice and solidarity: the whole of Blue Star contributes to its defense.
• Home and belonging: people volunteer because their families and lives are on Blue Star.
• Grief and resolve: the characters act despite fear and uncertainty about Chen Hao’s fate.
• The scale of power: Chen Hao’s cultivated laws are nearly nullified by Blind Ancient’s sheer presence, setting up a desperate confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Blind Ancient’s mere presence disrupts the Solar System: one step shifts Mars’s orbit, while the pressure of his hundred Daos destabilizes Chen Hao’s laws.
• Chen Hao confronts him directly, building more than ten thousand nested spatial barriers. He fuses his three Daos—space for structure, fire for destructive force, and water to reinforce and repair the barriers—spending 30% of his Dao foundation.
• Blind Ancient pauses to examine the defense, then strikes toward Blue Star with a massive limb.
• On Blue Star, the object becomes visible in the northern sky: a vast, gray-black sphere larger than the moon. Though frightened, people—including an elderly veteran—respond by pressing forward in the recruitment line rather than fleeing.
• Blind Ancient’s hundred-Dao torrent obliterates Chen Hao’s barriers and extinguishes his fire. The attack’s aftershock overwhelms him and hurls him to an asteroid far out in the Solar System.
• Chen Hao is gravely wounded: his chest is torn open, his fire Dao burns out of control, the lingering hundred-Dao poison attacks his body and Divine Soul, and his right hand is nearly crippled.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao shows resolve and ingenuity, using all three of his Daos to shield Blue Star. His effort reveals both the sophistication of his abilities and the enormous gap between him and Blind Ancient.
• Blind Ancient remains silent and seemingly unhurried. His brief attention to Chen Hao’s defense is followed by overwhelming force, emphasizing his frightening indifference and power.
• The people of Blue Star shift from stunned fear to determined action. The veteran’s calm insistence—“Hurry it up”—sets the tone for the crowd, which tightens its ranks and speeds up recruitment.

Significant themes

• Defiance in the face of overwhelming danger: Chen Hao fights to protect Blue Star despite the near-impossibility of success.
• Power and its limits: Skillful preparation and fused abilities cannot overcome Blind Ancient’s vast numerical advantage in Daos.
• Collective courage: Ordinary people answer a visible cosmic threat not by scattering, but by continuing to enlist.
• The cost of resistance: Chen Hao’s defense buys no clear victory and leaves him critically injured.

Chapter summary

• Chen Hao is overwhelmed by Blind Ancient. After a single casual palm strike leaves him badly injured, Chen uses his three Ways—Space, Fire, and Water—to recover. His injuries heal quickly, but he recognizes that his three Ways cannot withstand Blind Ancient’s hundred in a direct fight.
• He devises a spatial trap. Chen focuses on the Way of Space, which can reshape the battlefield rather than simply resist force. He compresses space into tiny singularities and creates thirty-seven of them, spending sixty percent of his Dao foundation in the process.
• The black hole engulfs both combatants. As Blind Ancient approaches, Chen positions the singularities around it and triggers their simultaneous collapse. Their combined gravity forms a vast black hole that distorts Blind Ancient’s laws and drags it inward. Chen deliberately follows, expecting the warped space to strengthen his own Way of Space.
• The fight continues inside. Within the black hole, ordinary directions and physical laws break down. Chen’s spatial abilities become more than three times as effective, while Blind Ancient is battered by gravity and tidal forces. The chapter ends with the two facing off in this altered battlefield.

Character developments and interactions

Chen shifts from accepting that a direct clash means death to relying on creativity, risk, and the unique potential of his strongest Way. He willingly burns through his Dao foundation and enters the black hole himself, showing both desperation and resolve. Blind Ancient, previously indifferent, finally reacts with a brief “Oh?” as Chen’s trap takes effect; its composure is shaken as it is pulled into the black hole. Their conflict thus moves from a straightforward mismatch in power to a contest shaped by Chen’s chosen environment.

Significant themes

• Strategy versus raw strength: Chen cannot match Blind Ancient’s power directly, so he changes the conditions of the fight.
• Risk and sacrifice: His plan nearly consumes his Dao foundation, and he commits to its danger by entering the black hole.
• Adaptation to hostile circumstances: A lethal environment becomes an advantage for Chen because it amplifies the Way of Space.