Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu and Murong Yuyao faced a renewed Insect Race invasion of Golden Ring Island, where fifteen ninth-tier Insect Emperors, including two upper-ninth-tier ones, threatened to overwhelm the island. Liu Changxu chose to fight rather than retreat, and the chapter ended as he, Murong Yuyao, and the island’s grand formation engaged the Insect Emperors.

• Liu Changxu used the remains of the previous Insect Emperor to refine artifacts for upgrading Golden Ring Island and Fireland Island’s formations.
• An insect army returned at dawn on July 15, Great Han Year 2223, and Murong Yuyao warned Liu Changxu that it included fifteen ninth-tier Insect Emperors, two of them upper-ninth tier.
• Liu Changxu considered retreating but decided to stay and fight, and Murong Yuyao pledged to stand with him.
• Liu Changxu armed himself with his Innate Spirit Treasures and attacked the Insect Emperors while Murong Yuyao launched her Ice-Sealing Grand Formation.
• Golden Ring Island’s Greater Celestial Circuit Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Grand Formation joined the assault, and the battle began.

Liu Changxu used his Innate Spirit Treasures to turn the battle against the Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors, killing three low-ninth tier enemies and driving the rest to flee. He pursued and gravely wounded an upper-ninth tier Insect Emperor, who abandoned their body and escaped as the remaining enemies vanished beyond the horizon.

• Liu Changxu killed a low-ninth tier Insect Emperor with the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror, the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp, three Red Lotus Immortal Swords, and the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd.
• Liu Changxu repeated his focused attacks, killing two more low-ninth tier Insect Emperors and causing another to retreat in fear.
• Liu Changxu targeted another low-ninth tier Insect Emperor, but an upper-ninth tier Insect Emperor intervened and took the attacks, suffering severe injuries.
• The wounded upper-ninth tier Insect Emperor fled using their Space Divine Ability, and the other Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors scattered from the battlefield.
• Liu Changxu's Innate Spirit Treasures pursued the wounded upper-ninth tier Insect Emperor, who abandoned their ruined body and escaped as the remaining enemies fled beyond the horizon.

After Liu Changxu defeated the insect race’s Ninth-Tier Emperors, he strengthened Golden Ring Island’s defenses and sheltered more human refugees. Jin Haonan then told him that the Nine Splendors Sacred Land had fallen and proposed uniting humanity’s forces, leaving Liu Changxu weighing the difficult plan.

• Liu Changxu killed the fleeing low-ninth-tier Insect Emperor, and news of the human victory at Golden Ring Island spread across human territory.
• Human factions and refugees traveled toward Golden Ring Island and Fireland Island, while insect attacks destroyed many flying boats along the way.
• Liu Changxu released most of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty’s sheltered citizens and focused on upgrading Golden Ring Island’s Island-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Liu Changxu and the Liu Household’s Formation Masters completed the upgrade, raising the Greater Celestial Circuit Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Formation to the upper-ninth tier.
• Jin Haonan told Liu Changxu that Wu Jinduo and the Nine Splendors Sacred Land had been destroyed by more than a dozen Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors.
• Jin Haonan proposed forming an organization to unite humanity’s forces and said Su Yuxue would come to Golden Ring Island to discuss the plan with Liu Changxu.

Liu Changxu accepted the title of Human Race Supreme and helped establish the Sacred Court to unite humanity against the Insect Race. After forming an army of thirty million cultivators, the Sacred Court chose a cautious guerrilla strategy, and Zhang Yunping led one million cultivators into occupied territory.

• Liu Changxu accepted Jin Haonan and Su Yuxue’s support and agreed to become the Human Race Supreme, demanding that all human factions obey a unified command.
• Jin Haonan, the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land disciples, and the other cultivators bowed to Liu Changxu and pledged their allegiance.
• The human factions formed the Sacred Court under Liu Changxu, with Jin Haonan, Zhang Yunping, Su Yuxue, and Murong Yuyao serving as Grand Supreme Elders and administrative halls coordinating human affairs and the war effort.
• The Sacred Court assembled an army of thirty million cultivators, but Liu Changxu argued against an immediate assault and proposed building experience through guerrilla warfare.
• Zhang Yunping led one million cultivators aboard the Ninth-Tier Flying Boat into occupied human territory to begin guerrilla operations while Liu Changxu continued preparations for war.

Duan Yuwei underwent her heavenly and heart demon tribulations on Golden Ring Island with Liu Changxu and her disciples standing by. After enduring the trials, she advanced to the early Mahayana stage.

• Liu Changxu sensed Duan Yuwei’s tribulation beginning and went to guard her as Liu Fuzhao, Lu Yuzhu, Zhou Xuetang, and Xiao Ningxue arrived.
• Duan Yuwei used her Violet Star Twin Swords to withstand the first ten bolts of tribulation lightning, then recalled the damaged swords.
• Duan Yuwei summoned the Tribulation-Transcending Pearl and used its protection to endure the remaining heavenly tribulation bolts.
• Duan Yuwei remained clear-minded and passed the heart demon tribulation after the heavenly tribulation ended.
• Thunder tribulation rain dew healed Duan Yuwei and raised her cultivation to the early Mahayana stage.

Duan Yuwei, Wu Xuege, and Liu Fuhai advanced to the Mahayana Realm, lifting Human Race morale amid the Insect Race’s invasion. Ten days after Liu Fuhai’s advancement, Liu Fuyin began her own tribulation and faced its lightning beneath a Tribulation-Transcending Pearl.

• After Duan Yuwei advanced to Mahayana, Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, and others congratulated Liu Changxu, who urged them to focus on preparing for the Insect Race.
• Two months later, Wu Xuege used two Tribulation-Transcending Pearls to withstand her heavenly tribulation and heart demon tribulation, successfully advancing to Mahayana.
• Wu Xuege’s advancement spread hope among the Human Race and further raised its morale.
• Three months later, Liu Fuhai used the Nine-Turn Golden Jade Tower and Nine Suns Illuminating Heaven Seal to pass his tribulation and advance to Mahayana without using his father’s prepared pearl.
• Ten days later, Liu Fuyin began her Mahayana tribulation and used Liu Changxu’s Tribulation-Transcending Pearl to withstand the descending lightning.

After the human race celebrated four new Mahayana powerhouses, Liu Changxu learned that a massive insect army was approaching Golden Ring Island and led an interception force out to sea. The human and insect armies met in the Deep Sea, beginning a battle that would decide the human race’s fate.

• Duan Yuwei, Wu Xuege, Liu Fuhai, and Liu Fuyin shared their cultivation insights at a celebration on Golden Ring Island.
• Liu Changxu and the human leaders agreed to weaken the insect race through guerrilla warfare, but learned that an army with at least thirty Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors was advancing on the island.
• Liu Changxu rejected retreat as the first choice and ordered a sea interception, leaving Duan Yuwei, Wu Xuege, Liu Fuyin, and Su Yuxue to defend Golden Ring Island.
• Liu Changxu led Jin Haonan, Zhang Wenping, Murong Yuyao, Liu Fuhai, and five million troops toward the Deep Sea aboard the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship.
• After seven days, Liu Changxu spotted the insect army, stowed the battleship, and charged toward the enemy as Jin Haonan and the others followed.
• The human cultivators and insect swarm clashed above the ocean, beginning a brutal battle for the human race’s survival.

Liu Changxu and his allies fought the Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors as Liu Changxu killed two of them with his spirit treasures. The upper-ninth tier leaders then broke through his defenses and wounded him.

• Liu Changxu unleashed his Innate Spirit Treasures against the insect swarm and killed a low-ninth tier scorpion Insect Emperor.
• Jin Haonan and Zhang Wenping engaged mid-ninth tier Insect Emperors, while Murong Yuyao and Liu Fuhai battled several lower-tier opponents.
• Liu Changxu used the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror, Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp, and Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd to kill a centipede Insect Emperor.
• The three upper-ninth tier Insect Emperors attacked Liu Changxu together and shattered the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower’s golden barrier.
• Liu Changxu was hurled backward by the combined attack, coughed up blood, and turned pale.

Liu Changxu used his spirit treasures to wound the beetle Insect Emperor and hold off the other upper-ninth-tier Insect Emperors, but more than twenty ninth-tier Insect Emperors then surrounded him. He fought on with his treasures as his armor was damaged and his wounds accumulated.

• Liu Changxu used the Laws of Space and Time to evade the attacks of three upper-ninth-tier Insect Emperors while his artifact spirits moved to restrain them.
• Liu Changxu concentrated his attacks on the beetle Insect Emperor, whose divine soul was struck by the Wishful Soul-Destroying Lamp before the Heaven-Flipping Sea-Splitting Halberd and a Red Lotus Immortal Sword grievously wounded him.
• The beetle Insect Emperor broke free of the Ruyi Void-Mystic Mirror's restraints and fled as the Giant Scorpion Insect Emperor and mosquito Insect Emperor attacked Liu Changxu.
• Liu Changxu redirected his treasures against the Giant Scorpion Insect Emperor and mosquito Insect Emperor, but more than twenty ninth-tier Insect Emperors swarmed in and surrounded him.
• Liu Changxu used his treasures to withstand the swarm, but a scorpion's tail and a beetle's pincer damaged his Ruyi Golden Armor and left him increasingly wounded and exhausted.

Liu Changxu’s group defeated a powerful Insect Race army after a day and night of battle, then recovered while traveling back toward Golden Ring Island. Near the island, Liu Changxu found another battle underway and hurried to help Duan Yuwei and the defenders.

• Liu Changxu’s group gravely wounded three upper-ninth-tier Insect Emperors, killed thirteen others, and drove the Insect Race army into retreat, though Zhang Yunping lost his physical body.
• Liu Changxu summoned the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship and headed back while Murong Yuyao and Liu Fuhai kept watch as the injured Jin Haonan and Zhang Yunping entered seclusion.
• Liu Changxu used the Azure Lotus Creation Disc to recover his injuries and magic power in three days, then continued toward Golden Ring Island.
• Near Golden Ring Island, Liu Changxu spotted a battle and found five Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors attacking the island’s stable formation.
• Duan Yuwei told the Human Race cultivators that Liu Changxu was returning, and their morale rose as Liu Changxu rushed toward the battlefield.

Liu Changxu defended Golden Ring Island from the Insect Race, killing five Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors and breaking the siege. Three months later, he gathered the Human Race’s leaders at Peach Blossom Mountain to plan a counteroffensive, and the meeting ended as he began outlining his strategy.

• Liu Changxu unleashed his Innate Spirit Treasures against the Insect Race army besieging Golden Ring Island and destroyed a mid-ninth tier Giant Scorpion Insect Emperor, including its primordial spirit.
• Liu Changxu trapped and killed four more Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors; two primordial spirits escaped, while the insect tide scattered after its leaders fell.
• Duan Yuwei, Wu Xuege, and the Human Race cultivators pursued the fleeing Insect Race, while Liu Changxu released his five-million-strong army and collected the Insect Emperors’ remains.
• Three months later, Liu Changxu convened the Human Race’s senior figures at Peach Blossom Mountain to discuss a counteroffensive against the Insect Race on the continent.
• Jin Haonan and Su Yuxue pledged to follow Liu Changxu’s orders, and Liu Changxu began explaining his plans.

Liu Changxu led a thirty-million-strong human army from Golden Ring Island to begin reclaiming the mainland from the Insect Race. A month later, he attacked a vast insect nest and fought five ninth-tier beetle Insect Emperors.

• Liu Changxu announced a campaign to drive the Insect Race from Taibai Star, and Murong Yuyao, Xuege, and Yuwei agreed to defend Golden Ring Island.
• Golden Ring Island prepared for war as mainland refugees enlisted in large numbers.
• On the seventh day of the eighth month in 2230, Liu Changxu departed with thirty million troops aboard the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship.
• A month later, Liu Changxu ordered Yin'er to direct the army while he, Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, and Fuhai attacked a beetle-filled mountain range.
• Liu Changxu struck the insect nest with the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal, drawing out five ninth-tier beetle Insect Emperors, and directed his treasures to attack them.

Liu Changxu and his companions destroyed an insect gathering ground, then investigated its seemingly empty abyss and suspected the insects were digging toward underground magma. Ten days later, they reached a weaker gathering ground, where Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, Liu Fuhai, and Liu Fuyin fought its two ninth-tier Insect Emperors while Liu Changxu attacked the ordinary insects.

• Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, Liu Fuhai, Liu Fuyin, and Liu Changxu launched a coordinated assault that killed the mid-ninth tier Insect Emperor and forced the other four to flee.
• Liu Changxu pursued and killed the four fleeing Insect Emperors, though one escaped by abandoning its body, while Liu Fuyin released an army of thirty million cultivators to clear the remaining insects.
• Liu Changxu, Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, and Liu Fuhai descended into the insect nest and found an empty abyss with scattered spirit gold ore and signs of excavation toward underground magma.
• Liu Changxu and the others left the abyss and traveled ten days to a smaller insect gathering ground with two ninth-tier Insect Emperors.
• Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, Liu Fuhai, and Liu Fuyin attacked the two Insect Emperors while Liu Changxu used Spatial Storm to slaughter the ordinary insects.

Liu Changxu and the Human Alliance Army destroyed thirteen Insect Race gathering sites, killing forty-three Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors and collecting abundant spoils. When they found a much stronger site guarded by fifteen Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors, Liu Changxu chose to attack, and the assault began.

• Liu Changxu trapped two Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors in Temporal Space Cages, allowing Jin Haonan and the others to kill them and scatter the remaining insects.
• Liu Changxu sent the human army to pursue the fleeing Insect Race forces, then took them to another gathering site after they finished the extermination.
• Over six months, Liu Changxu led raids that destroyed thirteen gathering sites and killed forty-three Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors, earning the Human Alliance Army rich spoils.
• The Insect Emperors began gathering their forces after the raids, making Liu Changxu and his companions' attacks more difficult.
• Liu Changxu's avatar discovered that a large gathering site held at least fifteen Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors, including one upper-ninth tier Emperor.
• Liu Changxu rejected Jin Haonan and Su Yuxue's advice to avoid the site, ordered Liu Fuyin to command from the battleship, and led Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, and Liu Fuhai into the attack.

Liu Changxu led the assault on the insect nest, killed six ninth-tier Insect Emperors, and helped rout the rest. With the Insect Race defeated, Liu Fuyin’s army and the cultivators exterminated the remaining insects and collected their spoils.

• Fifteen ninth-tier Insect Emperors attacked Liu Changxu and his companions as the insect swarms surged toward them.
• Liu Changxu used the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower to shield himself and sent the Thirty-Six Red Lotus Immortal Swords after the Insect Emperors.
• Liu Changxu trapped the upper-ninth-tier centipede Insect Emperor with the Temporal Space Cage and killed it with his spirit treasures.
• The other Insect Emperors fled; Liu Changxu killed six, while four lost their bodies and four escaped unharmed.
• Liu Fuyin deployed the thirty-million-strong human army, and Liu Changxu and his companions joined in exterminating the remaining insects.
• The cultivators gathered the battlefield spoils, including eleven ninth-tier Insect Emperor bodies and more than seven hundred pieces of ninth-tier spirit gold and materials.

Liu Changxu led the Human Race army to attack the Blood Mosquito Race’s marsh stronghold and destroyed its ninth-tier Insect Emperors. The Human Race army won, but the battle ended with fifty thousand cultivators dead.

• Liu Changxu arrived at Marsh Lake with the Human Race army, where eighteen ninth-tier Blood Mosquito Insect Emperors led an attack on the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship.
• Liu Changxu sent Liu Fuyin to hold the front and joined Jin Haonan, Su Yuxue, and Liu Fuhai in fighting the Insect Emperors.
• Liu Changxu and his companions killed the upper-ninth-tier Insect Emperor and several others, then trapped and slew six more with his Time Cage divine ability.
• Jin Haonan and his companions slaughtered the remaining blood mosquitoes, while Liu Fuyin released the thirty-million-strong Human Race army to join the battle.
• The Human Race army won the battle, but fifty thousand cultivators died, leaving Liu Changxu deeply grieved.

Liu Changxu chose Heavenly Lake Mountain as the Human Race’s next target and led an assault to reclaim it from the Insect Race. He killed both upper-ninth tier Insect Emperors, while the battle against the remaining Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors continued.

• After the battle, Liu Changxu ordered the army to clear the battlefield and gathered the Human Race leaders to discuss their next move.
• Jin Haonan reported that Heavenly Lake Mountain’s defenses had weakened, and Liu Changxu declared it their next target.
• More than a month later, Liu Changxu and his allies arrived at Heavenly Lake Mountain and saw the Insect Race’s nests covering the ruined sacred land.
• Jin Haonan charged the insect nests, and Liu Changxu left Liu Fuyin in command of the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship before joining the attack with Su Yuxue and Liu Fuhai.
• Liu Changxu used his Innate Spirit Treasures to battle nineteen Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors, then killed both upper-ninth tier Insect Emperors and destroyed their primordial spirits.

Liu Changxu led the Human Race to defeat the Insect Race and reclaim its ancestral homeland, then gathered the major powers to organize reconstruction and reshape humanity’s postwar government. The Sacred Court retained and expanded its authority as humanity began rebuilding amid the devastation.

• Liu Changxu slew the remaining ninth-tier Insect Emperors while Liu Fuyin led the human army in exterminating the routed swarm.
• Jin Haonan mourned the destruction of the Heavenly Lake Sacred Land and agreed to delay rebuilding until the Insect Race was completely defeated.
• After more than thirty years of war, Liu Changxu drove the Insect Race from humanity’s homeland.
• Liu Changxu convened the major powers at Nine Splendors Mountain to divide territories and interests across the devastated human lands.
• The major powers strengthened the Sacred Court’s authority over military deployment, regional boundaries, resource coordination, and postwar laws.

At the Human Race council, Liu Changxu set border defense as the priority against the Insect Race and left the swarms in Demon Territory for the Demon Race to handle. He then welcomed the surviving subordinate factions into the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, where they pledged obedience and received titles and spheres of influence.

• Liu Changxu and the Human Race leaders declined to launch an expedition into Demon Territory and agreed to strengthen border defenses and warning formations instead.
• Liu Changxu ordered investigators into Demon Territory and troops to destroy any insects that crossed the border, leaving the infestation within Demon lands to the Demon Race.
• After the council ended, Liu Changxu met the surviving cultivation factions formerly subordinate to the Nine Splendors Sacred Land in the Council Hall on Nine Splendors Mountain.
• Liu Changxu declared that the gathered factions would become subjects of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty and required them to obey its laws.
• The faction leaders pledged loyalty to Liu Changxu, who welcomed them as comrades and granted rewards, titles, and spheres of influence.

Liu Changxu secured the allegiance of subordinate cultivation powers by appointing their Tribulation Transcendence experts to the Great Han Immortal Dynasty's Elders' Council. He then convened the Liu Household leadership to plan governance of the new territory and assigned officials, relocation, and army recruitment to key family members.

• Liu Changxu appointed the attending Tribulation Transcendence experts as elders, granting them authority over laws and resources and winning their support.
• Liu Changxu summoned more than three hundred Liu Household leaders to discuss governing the newly acquired territory.
• Duan Yuwei proposed dividing the territory into prefectures and commanderies, dispatching troops and officials, and granting fiefs to Liu lineage members.
• Wu Xuege identified shortages of officials and troops, and Liu Fuhai proposed transferring lineage members, recruiting officials, and expanding the army.
• Liu Changxu assigned Duan Yuwei to select officials, Wu Xuege to oversee lineage relocations, and Liu Fuhai to recruit soldiers and expand the army.