Chapter Summaries

Zhang Fan sent Shilva north with Noya, Snow White, and Meng Jia to protect the Dark Prince and reach the sealing temple, while Pangu led the assault on Vimans Royal City. At the northern temple, Noya’s forces faced the advanced-weapon Dark Imperial Guard, and Noya destroyed their cannons before unleashing her power on a Photon-armored warrior.

• Zhang Fan failed to break the crystal and learned that the caster who sealed it had to die before the Dark Forbidden Land could be opened.
• Zhang Fan sent Shilva, Noya, Snow White, and Meng Jia north to protect the Dark Prince, while Pangu led the Insect Race army against Vimans Royal City.
• Zhang Fan ordered Shusha and Duolaner to study Viman psychokinesis, and two Vimans were brought to the laboratory for research.
• Shilva and the others reached the northern sealing temple, where the Dark Imperial Guard’s advanced weapons inflicted heavy losses on the Insect Race army.
• Noya flew into the artillery position and destroyed two Photon Heavy Cannons, opening safe airspace for the Insect Race’s aerial forces.
• A Photon-armored warrior wounded Noya’s claw, and she retaliated by cutting him and a Photon Heavy Cannon to pieces with her Qi Swords.

The Insect Race’s Pangu Legion attacked Dark Spirit City, and General Maze struggled to defend the capital as its defenses faltered. The High Priest gave Maze a potion that could empower him for thirty minutes at the cost of his life, charging him to hold the city for three hours.

• Pangu’s Insect Race legion attacked Dark Spirit City, and Maze ordered the city gates shut as the vanguard defenses collapsed.
• Pangu directed his forces to target Kweimans’s electromagnetic pulse cannons, whose blasts devastated the Insect Race’s vanguard.
• Maze sent General Kaja to recruit Kazi to pilot the Elder Mech against the approaching Burrowing Bugs, and Kazi agreed in exchange for command of logistics.
• Kazi prepared the Elder Mech while Maze watched the city’s defenses weaken and realized the machine could not turn the battle around.
• The High Priest gave Maze a potion that would grant him immense power for thirty minutes before dissolving him into blood, and Maze vowed to hold Dark Spirit City for three hours.

With the Dark Spirit Imperial Guard reinforcing the city, Maze confronted Pangu and used a lethal potion to gain overwhelming strength. Pangu emerged from his armored body to fight without restraint while Zhang Fan hurried the battle along because the Dark Prince was running out of time.

• Zhang Fan ordered Pangu to take Dark Spirit Royal City and kill the caster, allowing him to fight but forbidding him from using his full power unless necessary.
• The Dark Spirit Imperial Guard arrived through energy rings and halted the Insect Race’s advance, prompting Pangu to charge toward the city.
• Maze intercepted Pangu in the sky, but after dozens of exchanges he was badly injured and drank the High Priest’s potion.
• The potion transformed Maze and let him catch Pangu’s axe before punching Pangu into a mountain.
• Zhang Fan learned the potion was destroying Maze’s body and warned Pangu about the risk of self-destruction.
• Pangu brushed off the rocks, said he could finally fight without holding back, and crawled out of his shedding carapace in a leaner form.

Pangu transformed into his second form and defeated the High Priest in Dark Spirit Royal City, whose purple crystal proved to be connected to the Dark Prince’s seal. Shilva used the crystal to draw a white silhouette from a spacetime rift, and the Dark Prince emerged as a grown Kweimans man.

• Pangu attacked Maze, slaughtered the Dark Spirit Guards, destroyed the electromagnetic pulse cannons, and blew the Elder Mech to pieces.
• Pangu confronted the High Priest, overcame his psychokinesis by vibrating his wings at high frequency, and killed him, leaving behind a purple crystal.
• Zhang Fan sent the purple crystal to Shilva, who joined it with the other crystal and used it at the spacetime rift holding the Dark Prince’s seal.
• The Dark Prince returned to a rosy complexion, absorbed the nine crystal shards, and rapidly grew into an adult Kweimans man.

Zhang Fan helped Sadran reunify Kweimans and welcomed Ona to Sacred Spirit City as the Three Races Alliance took shape. Ona gave Zhang Fan the Dragon Race’s research on humans, while Sadran revealed new armor needed for their coming fight against Jiertai and asked for help obtaining rare psionic ore.

• Sadran agreed to ally with Zhang Fan against the Western Realm Great Emperor and said his sealed troops had to be freed first.
• The Insect Race helped Sadran seize Vimans cities, free his nine commanders, and reunify Kweimans in less than ten years.
• At Sacred Spirit City, Ona praised the Three Races Alliance and gave Zhang Fan a dagger containing the Dragon Race’s research on humans across the star domains.
• Sadran presented psychokinetic armor designed to counter Jiertai’s sealing power and explained that the allies had enough rare psionic ore to make only one suit, though they needed at least three.

After pirates stole the psionic ore needed for Sadran’s armor, Zhang Fan ordered an investigation and learned the Harley Pirate Legion was responsible. He returned to Earth with a Dagger containing human history, but Buffett warned that Zhang Fan would still need to help humanity become powerful.

• Boss Jin told Zhang Fan that space pirates had stolen the last available shipment of psionic ore, and Zhang Fan ordered him to uncover the thieves and their black-market contacts.
• Boss Jin identified the Harley Pirate Legion as the group that had attacked the transport ship, while Ona investigated possible ties between the pirates and Geyamidos.
• Shusha reported that the pirates had been found and demanded twenty percent of the trading company’s income, so Zhang Fan told Ona to recover the ore and threatened to intervene himself.
• Zhang Fan stationed the Insect Race troops in the Kweimans System, returned to Earth, and gave Buffett the Dagger containing extensive records of human civilization.
• Buffett examined the Dagger and told Zhang Fan that he would have to keep helping humanity for quite a long time.

After humanity's flood, Zhang Fan kept Buffett involved in rebuilding them while investigating their mysterious origins and reflecting on his own connection to the Insect Race. A pirate ship carrying psionic ore drew Insect Race fleets toward the Eastern Realm, where Madoc ordered Rose to seize the cargo as millions of warships gathered at the border.

• Buffett told Zhang Fan that only about a million humans had survived the floods, and Zhang Fan asked him to help manage their return to primitive life while they preserved the memory of the disaster.
• Zhang Fan suspected an advanced civilization had seeded humans across the universe and restricted their abilities, while Buffett explained that Zhang Fan could survive through the Insect Race's shared consciousness.
• After Shusha reported fighting between the Dragon Race and the Harley pirates, Boss Jin alerted Zhang Fan that a pirate ship carrying psionic ore was heading east, and Zhang Fan ordered fleets to intercept it.
• Geyamidos warned Madoc that the Insect Race was pursuing its goal of uniting the universe, and Madoc ordered Rose to seize the valuable cargo while Hegli dealt with the Ink Race.
• Madoc's forces assembled millions of warships at the Eastern Realm's border as Zhang Fan raced to recover the psionic ore before the pirate ship crossed into the realm.

The Insect Race and Madoc's Rose Knights fought over a pirate ship carrying psionic ore, which Rose ultimately seized and carried into the Eastern Realm. Zhang Fan then planned to pressure Madoc by sending forces to the Eastern Realm and exploiting the Ink Race's conflict with him.

• Qiu Lin and Rose's fleets arrived at the pirate ship, and their forces began a battle when Qiu Lin refused to negotiate.
• The Nine-Headed Ying and Insect Race units destroyed or disabled several Rose Knights' warships as both sides converged on the pirate ship.
• Rose's command ship rescued the pirates and withdrew with the ore while a third of the Rose Knights' fleet stayed behind to delay the Insect Race.
• Zhang Fan became furious over the lost ore, but Hu Baili proposed using the Ink Race to pressure Madoc instead of launching a direct attack.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race army toward the Eastern Realm under the pretext of rescuing the Ink Race, and Madoc received his demands.

Madoc tried to use stolen psionic ore to pressure the Insect Race into delaying its support for the Ink Race, while Zhang Fan mobilized his forces and forced Madoc to reconsider. Black Crow devised a plan to frame the Harley Pirate Legion by sending an empty ship through the Trade Channel, but Zhang Fan recognized the ruse and ordered it intercepted.

• Madoc learned the ore was psionic ore and offered to return half if the Insect Race helped him destroy the Ink Race.
• Zhang Fan told the Ink Race to hold out, while he waited for the Insect Race forces to assemble and Madoc to grow anxious.
• Madoc ordered troops from Ri Star to return as the Ink Race repelled Hegli's attacks and the Insect Race finished assembling.
• Zhang Fan confronted Madoc and warned that taking the ore would provoke the Vimans, Dragon Race, and Insect Race, then threatened to support the Ink Race.
• Black Crow persuaded Madoc to send an empty fast ship toward the Halley Legion to shift the Insect Race's hostility toward the Harley Pirate Legion.
• After spotting that the ship's movement was too obvious, Zhang Fan ordered warships to destroy it and asked the Dragon Race to intercept it at the Halley Star Sector border.

Zhang Fan and Madoc negotiated an alliance against the Western Realm Great Emperor, with Madoc offering psionic ore and the location of the Great Emperor Divine Domain. They brought the proposal to Mo Xiao of the Ink Race, who agreed to cooperate only if Madoc compensated them for their losses.

• Zhang Fan and Madoc revealed that the Dragon Race and Halley Legion were moving to intercept the fast ship, then discussed joining forces against the Western Realm Great Emperor.
• Madoc gave Zhang Fan half the promised psionic ore and demanded help against the Ink Race, while Zhang Fan proposed recruiting them instead.
• Madoc agreed to negotiate with the Ink Race if Zhang Fan went alone, and Zhang Fan insisted Madoc accompany him to Kaqi Star.
• Zhang Fan and Madoc appeared before Mo Xiao, who attacked Madoc before Zhang Fan stopped him and proposed an alliance against Jiertai, the Western Realm Great Emperor.
• Mo Xiao agreed to cooperate after Madoc stopped the attack, but demanded compensation for the Ink Race's losses, and Zhang Fan urged Madoc to make a gesture.

Zhang Fan cut off Geyamidos’s trade routes and sent the Insect Race to attack the pirate-held Naya Star System while Ona fought for Mata. Snow White’s forces devastated the pirates with star-destroying cannons, but a powerful warship called Yan began emerging from distorted space.

• Zhang Fan divided the realms with Mo Xiao and Madoc, then told Madoc he would attack the Halley Legion while leaving Geyamidos in Madoc’s care.
• Zhang Fan ordered Boss Jin to cut off Geyamidos’s trade routes and sent the Insect Race toward Naya while Ona continued the fight in Mata.
• Snow White’s vanguard entered Naya, took heavy losses from space mines, and used the Mirass Super Cannon to destroy two distant stars and nearby planets.
• After reinforcements arrived, Snow White ordered hundreds of thousands of {Insect-Transformed Star-Destroying Cannons} to fire, destroying a million pirate warships.
• The pirate leader Radobla ordered a counterattack, and the {Coordinating Matriarch} warned Snow White that the immense warship Yan was tearing its way into the star system.

Zhang Fan’s Insect Race tried to capture the enormous pirate warship Kronos, using fungal warfare and infiltrators after a direct assault failed. The Halley Legion uncovered the growing Snow White pirate crew’s connection to the Insect Race, and McHarley ordered its members killed and the ranks searched for infiltrators.

• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race fleet to capture Kronos, and the pirates of eight galaxies fought the Insect Race for three years.
• Nexis proposed using Titan’s fungus to infiltrate Kronos, and Zhang Fan began developing fungal warfare.
• Snow White led an attack force carrying insect-transforming fungus, and infiltrators spread spores through Kronos while the pirates celebrated their victory.
• Insect Race infiltrators built up the Snow White pirate crew inside Kronos, and it became one of the Halley Legion’s ten largest organizations within three months.
• Lambert investigated the crew’s leader, Golia, and discovered that the crew was linked to the Insect Race.
• McHarley ordered every member of the Snow White pirate crew killed and a thorough search for Insect Race infiltrators.

Lambert’s plan to lure the Insect Race infiltrators into an ambush collapsed when they had already taken control of the Halley Flagship’s systems and turned its defenses against the Halley Legion. As Insect Race troops boarded, suspicion left Lambert and McHarley unable to trust each other, and the chapter ended with Lambert helpless before the advancing enemy.

• Lambert persuaded Golia to lead the Snow White crew to Polaya Star, intending to destroy the infiltrators after they departed.
• Golia gathered the infiltrators and secretly left some behind, while Lambert prepared an ambush at the northern bay.
• When Golia’s warship lifted off, the Snow White crew attacked, but the Halley Legion’s electromagnetic interference disabled their ships.
• Golia revealed that her people had already taken control of the main control system, turned the defensive cannons on the guards, and deactivated the Halley Flagship’s outer shield.
• As Insect Race troops boarded and the ship’s systems attacked its own crew, Lambert shot a soldier he suspected was an infiltrator and fought his way to McHarley’s Command Room.
• Lambert suggested opening the vault and using the divine artifacts, but McHarley suspected Lambert was an infiltrator and refused to trust him as the enemy advanced.

Lambert tried to help McHarley retrieve the divine artifact while the Insect Race attacked, but Snow White stole it and let the Insect Race retreat. Snow White brought the artifact to Zhang Fan, who identified it as the Reaper Scythe and prepared to visit the Locarno.

• Lambert let Harley cuff him so Harley could enter the vault and retrieve the divine artifact.
• Snow White and the Insect Race broke into the hall, where an {Enhanced Bug} empowered two {Qi Blade Mantises} to damage the vault door.
• McHarley found the divine artifact, but Snow White swiftly took it from him.
• Snow White freed Lambert, ordered the Insect Race to retreat, and told him the Overlord wanted him to kill McHarley and command the pirates.
• Snow White gave the artifact to Zhang Fan, who identified it as the Reaper Scythe and told her to continue Insect Transformation on Kronos before he visited the Locarno.

Zhang Fan gave Luo Yun the Reaper Scythe’s handle and tasked Boss Jin with searching for Witt Divine Artifacts as he prepared to face the Western Realm Great Emperor. After learning the Dragon Race had a Vitter Universe Divine Artifact, Zhang Fan spoke with Dilama, who warned that reaching his body would be dangerous.

• Zhang Fan visited Luo Yun, learned the Reaper Scythe’s handle amplified the living, and gave it to her in exchange for a promise to revive him if possible.
• Shusha and Nexis oversaw the Insect Race’s purge of the Halley Legion and examined the pirates’ vast treasury.
• Zhang Fan ordered Boss Jin to find Witt Divine Artifacts and told Shusha to distribute the treasury’s weapons and arrange the collection of psionic ore.
• The Interstellar Trade Alliance began secretly searching for the artifacts, while Zhang Fan ordered special attention to anyone capable of resurrecting the dead.
• Zhang Fan visited Ona and learned the Dragon Race possessed half of a Vitter Universe Divine Artifact, held by Lord Dilama.
• Dilama contacted Zhang Fan telepathically and warned that Zhang Fan could not safely reach his body, so Zhang Fan asked him to come instead.

Zhang Fan broke off his alliance with the Dragon Race when Dilama refused to hand over its Divine Artifact, then used his leverage to secure the Time Shard and a promise to find the other artifacts. He returned to the Milky Way to strengthen its defenses and planned to grow stronger while balancing the Dragon Race against the Western Realm Great Emperor.

• Zhang Fan refused to keep helping Dilama unless the Dragon Race gave him its Divine Artifact, then ended their negotiations and warned Ona not to threaten the Milky Way.
• Dilama ordered Ona to seek allies, but Ona failed to reach Madoc, found the Ink Race unwilling to trust anyone but the Insect Race, and learned the Southern races feared defying Zhang Fan.
• Dilama awakened two Primordial Dragons, who discovered the Western Realm had no dragon warriors because Ona had moved them to the Northern Realm.
• Dilama offered the Time Shard after Zhang Fan rejected his conditional proposal, and Zhang Fan demanded the artifact unconditionally along with the Dragon Race's help finding the others.
• Zhang Fan took the Time Shard and returned to the Milky Way, where he reinforced its border defenses and resolved to strengthen himself while maintaining a balance between the Dragon Race and the Western Realm Great Emperor.

Zhang Fan considered the growing threat beyond the Four-Sided Universe and sought resources to build more powerful warships. After deciding to enter the Vitter Universe, he arranged for others to govern and defend his territories, then departed with Pangu.

• Madoc reported a massive explosion in the Eastern Universe, and Zhang Fan wondered whether the three Great Emperors were fighting an even greater enemy.
• After the Insect-Transformed Kronos was completed, Zhang Fan and Duolaner devised a plan to use enlarged Shapeshifting Insects as powerful warships, but their immense resource needs strained the Insect Race Starfield.
• Boss Jin proposed invading the Vitter Universe to obtain resources and showed Zhang Fan a crimson cube he identified as the head of the Fire God Hammer; Zhang Fan ordered it sent to Earth.
• Zhang Fan called an emergency meeting and assigned Shusha, Nexis, Noya, and Snow White to manage and defend the Alliance while he traveled to the Vitter Universe with Pangu.
• Zhang Fan and Pangu teleported to the Golden Frog Trade Ship near the Olania Galaxy, where the Frog-Faced Deputy greeted them and prepared to accompany them.

Zhang Fan entered the Vitter Universe aboard the Golden Frog Trade Ship and established the Insect Race’s first base on M1, which they renamed Origin Star. After developing new troops and warships there, he ordered Pangu to invade nearby planets and plant Titans, beginning the Insect Race’s campaign in the Vitter Universe.

• The Frog-Faced Deputy explained that ten years in the Vitter Universe passed for every day in Zhang Fan’s universe, and brought the trade ship to M1.
• The Golden Frog Trade Ship landed on M1, and Zhang Fan’s Insect Race forces occupied the planet before the ship departed.
• Zhang Fan named the planet Origin Star and ordered the Insect Race to build a base, while Pangu proposed hatching Origin Dragon Nest Bugs and invading other planets.
• After half a year, Origin Matriarch Sophia reported new Insect Race troops and ships developed from native and original-universe genes.
• Sophia reported that the Insect Race had one billion soldiers, fifty million aerial units, and ten thousand warships, but needed ten thousand years to reach Zhang Fan’s goal of a hundred billion warships.
• Zhang Fan ordered Pangu to invade the surrounding planets and plant Titans, launching the Insect Race’s campaign in the Vitter Universe.

Pangu and Sophia helped Zhang Fan’s Insect Race conquer M2 Planet and F3, gaining electric-charge abilities, a new Titan, and a shapeshifting fleet. Zhang Fan paused further invasions to link the three occupied planets into a defense network, while Vitter’s leaders ordered Plague to monitor the Insect Race from a distance.

• Pangu’s Insect Race struggled against M2 Planet’s electric-charged natives until Sophia integrated their genes into {Charge Frenzy Beasts}, which enabled the Insect Race to defeat them and plant a new {M2 Titan}.
• The Insect Race infiltrated and conquered F3 in a year, then used the civilization’s warship data, weapons, and qi energy ore to develop a fleet led by {Shapeshifters}.
• Sophia advised Zhang Fan to halt further attacks until the Insect Race was more secure, and Zhang Fan ordered the three occupied planets linked by a defense network.
• In Vitter’s great hall, the Varagon commander told Plague to investigate the invaders and eliminate them if they came from the Erl Universe.
• Plague judged the Insect Race likely native to Vitter and left a small force to monitor it without contact, while Zhang Fan remained unaware of the surveillance.

Zhang Fan sent Pangu to Planet D4 to challenge King Sairen after learning the Insect Race could not yet afford to invade the planet. King Sairen accepted the challenge, leaving the two warriors poised to fight.

• Sophia determined that the Time Shard could widen an existing Link Channel if charged with the energy of a hundred {M2 Titans}, though it would also require powerful propulsion.
• Zhang Fan decided the Insect Race should focus on building its army rather than risk costly invasions of the three nearby planets.
• Zhang Fan and Pangu traveled to Planet D4 to meet King Sairen and challenge him.
• Badara, commander of the Imperial Guard, attacked Pangu, who knocked her down with a sweep of his axe and a punch.
• King Sairen welcomed Zhang Fan and Pangu into his hall, rejected Zhang Fan's proposal to join the Insect Race, and agreed to fight Pangu.