Chapter Summaries

Baiguo avenged her father after a prisoner killed him, then made a deal with the Insectoid Race and rose to become its High Priest. Three hundred years later, she rejected Mo Wu’s peace proposal and launched an attack on the War Planet delegation, leaving Moghu and the others surrounded by Insect People and swarms.

• A prisoner shot Bai Hengshan, slaughtered the logistics staff, and attacked Baiguo, who killed him with a dagger after an Insectoid woman urged her to take revenge.
• Baiguo agreed to make a deal with the woman, who offered to revive her father in exchange for Law Power.
• Three hundred years later, Baiguo confronted Mo Wu at the negotiation table, revealed her scarred face, and rejected peace with the War Planet.
• Baiguo ordered the Insect People to attack, while Moghu tried to capture her and she escaped with the priests under cover of black mist.
• Insectoid Priests summoned swarms of ants, worms, and wasps, surrounding Moghu, Scar, Iron Dragon, and the guards as the battle began.

Moghu sent Mo Wu and the others flying to safety, but eighteen Insectoid Priests pursued them and attacked Enlightenment. After Iron Dragon died protecting Mo Wu, she fought back and discovered the priests wielded powerful Law crystals as their battle continued to escalate.

• Moghu kicked the red table, carrying Mo Wu, Scar, and the others away from the Insectoid forces, while Baiguo held Moghu back.
• The Insectoid Priests attacked the group near Enlightenment, and Iron Dragon took a Corpse Explosion Technique meant for Scar before sacrificing himself to shield Mo Wu from further incantations.
• Mo Wu erupted in anger and attacked the priests, but the Black Ant Priest used an Armor Law crystal to reflect her physical strike.
• The Ladybug Human summoned a scorching fire cloud with a Fire Law crystal, and Mo Wu countered it with Rolling Heavenly Thunder until both powers dissipated.
• The Insectoid Priests raised their weapons together, unleashing violent winds and shaking the ground as the battle intensified.

Mo Wu activated Enlightenment’s highest defense, unleashing swarms of Eight-Clawed Robots against the Insect People while the Insectoid Priests struggled to stop them. The battle left both sides with heavy losses, and the priests refused to retreat without the Insectoid Queen, who remained far away with Ye Liang.

• A veteran crew member activated Enlightenment’s highest defense, and hundreds of Eight-Clawed Robots poured from the ship to slaughter the surrounding Insect People.
• The Insectoid Priests attacked the robots with Law Power, but they could not prevent the machines from killing the Insect People in huge numbers.
• General Mo Hu urged Baiguo to withdraw, while Green warned her that the Insect People faced destruction; Baiguo’s commanded insects spun around instead of attacking Green, and Mo Hu charged at her.
• Hundreds of thousands of Insect People died, and Enlightenment lost nearly two thousand robots as Mo Wu pleaded with the priests to stop fighting.
• The priests refused to surrender unless the Insectoid Queen was released, while the Queen, far away with Ye Liang, sneezed and wondered who was thinking of her.

After learning that the Insectoid Queen had followed him, Ye Liang escaped and flew to the Enlightenment, where an Insect People army was fighting its defenders. When both sides chased him while demanding the Queen, Ye Liang misunderstood their intentions and awakened the Heart of a Strongman.

• Ye Liang pretended to be ill to get away from the Insectoid Queen, then flew toward the Enlightenment.
• Ye Liang crossed the battlefield and used the Chaos Demonic Blade to knock down an Insectoid Priest.
• Millions of Insect People and the Enlightenment’s fighters recognized Ye Liang and rushed toward him, calling for him to return their Queen.
• Ye Liang fled into the sky as Moghu and the Insectoid Priests pursued him, misunderstanding their demands.
• Ye Liang declared that he would fight anyone who stood against him, and the system announced that he had comprehended the Heart of a Strongman and gained 10 Strength.

Ye Liang was captured by the Insect People after his attempt to use the Temporal Anomaly Technique failed, and they demanded to know where he had taken Isara. He revealed her location after Green pleaded with him as her father, leaving everyone surprised by his change of heart.

• Ye Liang used the Temporal Anomaly Technique, but someone struck him unconscious and he woke tied to a stake among the Insect People.
• The Insect People and their allies accused Ye Liang of abducting the Queen, while he could not understand their language or their threats.
• The Insectoid Grand Protector threatened Ye Liang, but Ye Liang remained defiant, prompting Scar, Mo Wu, and Moghu to worry about his fate.
• Green knelt and begged Ye Liang to release Isara, explaining that she was his daughter.
• Ye Liang told Green that Isara was near the Insectoid Holy Land, and the Insect People sent someone to find her.

Ye Liang left Dora Star for War Planet after the Insectoid Queen’s whereabouts ended the fighting, while Baiguo remained at large. As the Enlightenment arrived, two of War Planet’s princes discussed whether their returning elder sister would lose her claim to the throne.

• Mo Wu and Moghu mistook Ye Liang’s disclosure of the Insectoid Queen’s location for a selfless act of love, and Green thanked him profusely.
• The Insectoid Queen appeared, and the Insect People reconciled with the Enlightenment after learning Baiguo had orchestrated the conflict; Baiguo had escaped.
• Ye Liang departed Dora Star with the main fleet, while Green stayed behind and Iron Dragon’s corpse remained with the fallen soldiers.
• On the Enlightenment, Ye Liang met the coffee shop owner, Bai Hengshan, then General Mo Hu took him to the War Planet welcoming ceremony as the Courageous Heavenly Venerate.
• The Enlightenment arrived at War Planet, where the Seventh Brother predicted their returning elder sister had ruined her chances of inheriting the throne, while his long-bearded brother defended her.

Mo Wu’s group traveled along War North Road and stopped at a guarded rest area, where Ye Liang met the Road Guardian Uncle Ornn, a former Otsutsuki. Later, Ye Liang discovered Ornn training with a black flame technique and realized it was Amaterasu.

• Mo Wu explained why the Enlightenment guards could not accompany the group as they traveled toward the capital.
• Moghu stole a drink from Ye Liang’s gourd, and Ye Liang complained that the rest area resembled a highway service station.
• Mo Wu warned the group that the rest area’s fence was protected by the Law of Thunder, and Uncle Ornn opened its gate with a spatial technique.
• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that Uncle Ornn was a powerful Road Guardian who had once served the Otsutsuki.
• Ye Liang found Uncle Ornn training in a spacious room and recognized the black flame he used as Amaterasu.
• Uncle Ornn told Ye Liang that the technique was an inherited Otsutsuki secret that required their bloodline.

Ye Liang left Ornn and traveled with Mo Wu’s group toward the War Planet station, where he clashed with Xue Yuhai and learned that the planet’s people had undergone genetic evolution. When Xue Yuhai failed to return from renting transport, Moghu exposed a hidden watcher who fled into the forest.

• Ye Liang showed Ornn his Rinnegan and pretended to be an Otsutsuki to avoid being killed for his eyes.
• Ye Liang joined Mo Wu’s group for the journey, and Xue Yuhai attacked him after overhearing his criticism of Mo Wu’s seventh brother; Ye Liang injured Xue Yuhai in their exchange.
• Mo Wu explained that War Planet’s long history of warfare and strong-bloodline marriages had raised the strength of its population.
• The group reached a station near scattered buildings, and Xue Yuhai went ahead to rent transport.
• When Xue Yuhai did not return, Moghu struck into the bushes and revealed a hidden person, who fled.

Ye Liang thwarted an ambush and rescued the unconscious Mo Wu and Scar after Mu Xuehai abducted them in a flying device. Mo Wu suspected the attack was tied to the upcoming strength rankings, which would determine the War Planet’s heir.

• Moghu left to pursue a suspicious person, while Mu Xuehai returned with a clockwork carriage and invited Mo Wu, Scar, and Ye Liang inside.
• Ye Liang detected hidden enemies and killed a field mouse sent to attack him, then blocked the gunmen’s barrage with six Rashomon Gates.
• The attackers’ leader pierced the gates with an Alloy Trident, but Ye Liang restored the defense and discovered the carriage was empty.
• Ye Liang saw unconscious Mo Wu and Scar hanging beneath Mu Xuehai’s flying device, rescued them, and knocked out the gunmen pursuing him.
• Mo Wu and Scar woke at dusk, and Mo Wu explained that the upcoming strength rankings would determine the War Planet’s heir.

Ye Liang and Mo Wu reached War Capital City, where the War King summoned Ye Liang to court as the princes and ministers argued over Mo Wu’s assassination and her conduct. Meanwhile, Xue Yuhai reported that his secret plan had succeeded, and the court debate over Mo Wu’s punishment remained unresolved.

• Ye Liang confirmed that Mo Wu would take him to War Planet’s teleportation site, then he hid the group to rest; General Mo Hu returned after falling into a pit while pursuing someone.
• Xue Yuhai met a black-clad man at the royal palace and claimed their plan had succeeded without anyone discovering his identity.
• Ye Liang and Mo Wu arrived at War Capital City and received a grand welcome, while Scar was sent to a side residence with Moghu.
• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that the War King had specifically requested his presence at the audience, leaving him puzzled about the reason.
• Mo Bai asked the War King to uphold justice for Mo Wu, but the War King condemned him and declared that her near-death proved she was not strong enough.
• Ministers disagreed over whether Mo Wu should be punished for her losses and failure to discover Green’s betrayal.

At the royal court, Old General Moghu defended Mo Wu and revealed that an Otsutsuki youth named Ye Liang had helped resurrect the Insectoid Queen and heal a wound caused by Law Power. Mo Wu then appeared before the War King and confessed to three great sins, leaving her punishment undecided.

• Ministers argued over whether Mo Wu deserved punishment or praise until Old General Moghu entered and silenced them.
• Moghu told the War King that the Insectoid Queen had awakened and that Ye Liang had helped resurrect her and heal a wound caused by Law Power.
• The War King asked Ye Liang's name as Ye Liang arrived at the palace with Mo Wu and entered the great hall.
• Mo Wu pleaded guilty to misjudging Steward Green, failing in battle and damaging Enlightenment's reserve mecha, and allowing the Insectoid Queen to revive.

War King praised Ye Liang for three great merits and tried to arrange his marriage to Mo Wu, but Ye Liang refused. War King then ordered guards to arrest him, leaving Mo Wu protesting and Ye Liang bound.

• War King set Mo Wu aside and recognized Ye Liang as the Courageous Heavenly Venerate.
• War King named Ye Liang’s three merits: saving the royal family, gaining strength quickly, and helping defeat the Insect People while uncovering the Insectoid Queen’s resurrection.
• War King rewarded Ye Liang with gemstones, which Ye Liang stored in his gourd.
• War King proposed that Ye Liang marry Mo Wu, but Ye Liang refused and returned the rewards.
• War King sent guards to seize Ye Liang, and Mo Wu protested while Ye Liang allowed them to bind him.

After a month in the War King's prison, Ye Liang escaped through a secret opportunity Mo Wu arranged for him. Mo Wu and Prince Mo Bai then uncovered evidence linking their Seventh Brother to an attack, leaving Mo Wu preparing to deal with him.

• The War King kept Ye Liang imprisoned because his sudden strength suggested an unknown World Realm power was backing him, while explaining that he had supported Mo Wu's marriage to Ye Liang because she liked him.
• After a month in prison, Ye Liang received food from Scar, who said Mo Wu had not mentioned freeing him, and found a key and a note hidden in a pink pouch.
• Ye Liang followed the note's time and coordinates to a city gate, where Mo Wu secretly helped him escape and warned him to stay away until she could plead with the War King.
• Prince Mo Bai showed Mo Wu a mechanical component marked 520, which matched the license number of the flying device Mu Xuehai had ridden, suggesting their Seventh Brother had sent him.
• Mo Wu told Mo Bai to watch their Seventh Brother without alerting him and said she would send someone to deal with him.

Ye Liang fled into the wilderness to avoid being reported to War Planet, but a squad of assassins sent by War Planet’s Prince tracked him down. He escaped their attack with the Flying Thunder God Technique, though the assassins pursued him across the lake.

• Ye Liang chose to enter the dangerous forest instead of seeking help from Ornn at Enlightenment’s port.
• A squad of black-clad assassins followed Ye Liang into the forest, despite the leader warning that the area was dangerous.
• At a pond, Ye Liang was ambushed by more than a dozen assassins and used Shadow Clone Jutsu before attacking their leader with the Chaos Demonic Blade.
• The leader caught Ye Liang’s blade barehanded, revealing his Level 85 strength, and told Ye Liang that War Planet’s Prince had ordered the assassination.
• After the assassins destroyed his clones and surrounded him, Ye Liang used a marked kunai to escape with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Ye Liang ran across the lake as the black-clad leader and the other assassins pursued him on makeshift surfboards.

Ye Liang escaped the waterfall by breaking into an octopus cave, then found the cavern exit guarded by a sleeping giant octopus. The black-clothed leader from the killers’ group recognized him and shouted before Ye Liang’s shuriken could silence him, stirring the monster.

• Ye Liang was swept over a waterfall by a small octopus, which caught itself in a crack and kept him from falling.
• Ye Liang used Earth Release and the Super Weighted Boulder Technique to break through the rock wall, then followed the octopus into its cave.
• Ye Liang passed chambers packed with octopus eggs and found an exit leading into a cavern with a sleeping giant octopus.
• Ye Liang spotted the black-clothed leader bound in the giant octopus’s tentacles and tried to silence him with a shuriken.
• The leader shouted at Ye Liang before the shuriken cut his throat, and a tentacle of the giant octopus twitched.

Ye Liang escaped the lava cave by killing the Blue-Patterned Octopus and recovering his severed arm. He found an assassination ledger naming Mo Wu as another target, then left without realizing the octopus had survived and followed him.

• The Blue-Patterned Octopus caught Ye Liang and tried to swallow him, but Ye Liang used Fire Release to make it throw him free.
• The octopus skewered Ye Liang through the arm, so he tore the limb off and used Amenominaka and a Four Symbols Seal to isolate their fight.
• Ye Liang tricked the octopus with Shadow Clones, burrowed underground, and pierced its brain with an Armor Law-enhanced Earth Prism Spike.
• Ye Liang cut open the octopus, retrieved and reattached his arm, and searched the corpses for valuables.
• Ye Liang found an assassination ledger listing Mo Wu as a target and decided to tell her if he got the chance before flying out of the cave.
• After Ye Liang left, the Blue-Patterned Octopus opened its eyes, swallowed the corpses, and drilled through the opening after him.

The War King dismissed Mo Hu’s concerns about Mo Wu’s succession and learned that Ye Liang had vanished into the Exotic Beasts Jungle, though his Life Lamp still burned. Ye Liang escaped the jungle and found shelter with Ornn, while Mo Wu struggled with the aftermath of the assassination attempt and asked Mo Hu whether her father would spare Ye Liang.

• The War King told Mo Hu that Mo Wu might not inherit the throne if she could not prove strong enough, and refused to intervene in the ministers’ dispute over Ye Liang’s escape.
• A masked subordinate reported that Ye Liang had disappeared in Octopus Pool after evading assassins; the War King ordered him to withdraw, then learned Ye Liang’s Life Lamp was still burning.
• Mo Hu left the palace and headed for Prince’s Mansion.
• Ye Liang escaped through the octopus cave, met Ornn near the pond, explained what had happened, and asked Ornn for shelter.
• Mo Wu learned that the killers she had sent to investigate had been killed, then met Mo Hu and asked whether the War King intended to spare Ye Liang.

Mo Wu investigated the evidence linking Seventh Prince to the assassination attempt but Moghu said he needed more proof, leaving her to focus on recruiting retainers for the Cosmic Grand Competition. Meanwhile, Uncle Ornn tried to teach Ye Liang Law Power, but Ye Liang’s recitations from texts of his former life astonished him.

• Moghu examined a hairpin belonging to Seventh Prince’s birth mother and a dried Xue Family corpse, but asked Mo Wu to wait while he investigated the lack of evidence.
• Mo Wu realized the Cosmic Grand Competition could determine who inherited War Planet and worried she lacked capable retainers for its team events.
• At the safe zone, Uncle Ornn explained Law Power to Ye Liang, who failed to grasp the lesson.
• Ye Liang recited passages from the Nine Yin Manual, the Dao De Jing, and the Diamond Sutra, leaving Uncle Ornn trembling with excitement.

Ornn broke through to Level 93 after facing a storm of lightning, which he linked to the Words of Mystery Ye Liang had shared. Days later, Mo Wu arrived with gifts from the War King to congratulate Ornn, leaving Ye Liang to host her despite their awkward relationship.

• Ornn endured and then struck back against the heavenly lightning, rising from Level 88 to Level 93 while Ye Liang watched.
• Ornn asked Ye Liang about the Words of Mystery, and Ye Liang explained that an unnamed expert had recited them to him in a dream.
• The War King learned of Ornn's breakthrough and ordered a guard to summon Mo Wu to the palace.
• Ye Liang continued cultivating and eating exotic beasts until he reached Level 83, while Ornn wondered at his progress without Law comprehension.
• Mo Wu arrived at the safe zone with gifts from the royal family, and Ye Liang led her and her guards to meet Ornn.

Mo Wu asked Ornn to recommend a staff candidate for the Cosmic Grand Competition, but Ornn had no one in mind. After witnessing Ye Liang rapidly break through to Eighth Stage level four, Mo Wu decided that her father had sent her to recruit him and appointed him as her staff member.

• Mo Wu told Ornn that her father wanted her to find a staff candidate, but Ornn said he had no one to recommend.
• Ye Liang offered Mo Wu roast chicken, then later meditated in the training room while she came in for a snack.
• Ye Liang broke through to Eighth Stage level four, leaving Mo Wu stunned by how quickly he had advanced.
• Ye Liang realized that the beast meat Ornn had been feeding him was giving him enough energy to keep breaking through.
• Before leaving the next day, Mo Wu declared that Ye Liang would be her staff member for the Cosmic Grand Competition.