Chapter Summaries

Zhang Fan used Yixiouya’s power to control the {Titans} as Anka Star retreated, then learned from Kui that he could use the Erl and Vitter Universes to power the Time Control Device. Zhang Fan refused to go with Yixiouya to the Creator’s star domain, while Kui secretly left the battlefield and Yixiouya confronted Zhang Fan.

• Zhang Fan ordered Shusha to plant every {Titan} seed on Anka Star, and Yixiouya secretly tampered with the Divine Power she gave him.
• The {Titans} joined together under Zhang Fan’s control, and Anka Star began retreating as the Insect Race and Erl Allied Forces cleared space for the warships.
• Valaya, Jiertai, and Hu Baili urged Zhang Fan not to enter the Creator’s star domain, but Zhang Fan explained that the Time Control Device lacked the energy to restore the Milky Way.
• Kui pointed out that Zhang Fan could draw energy from the Erl Universe and Vitter Universe, then separated energy from Zhang Fan and collapsed from the strain.
• Kui secretly stole a fighter and left the battlefield while Anka Star continued retreating.
• Zhang Fan returned to Yixiouya and refused to accompany her to the Creator’s star domain, prompting her to angrily accuse him of abandoning the Milky Way.

Zhang Fan negotiated with Yixiouya, offering her half of the Insect Race in exchange for her abandoning her threat to destroy the Milky Way. After Shusha transferred her consciousness into a powerful Insect Race body, Yixiouya discovered that sharing Zhang Fan’s Overlord Consciousness had left him able to control her.

• Zhang Fan refused to accompany Yixiouya and offered her the Auroran Insect Race and half of his own forces instead.
• Yixiouya tried to activate the energy she had implanted in Zhang Fan, but it had no effect, so she agreed to accept an Insect Race body and half of his Overlord Consciousness.
• Zhang Fan and Yixiouya discussed the nature of life and agreed that she would never come to the Erl Universe if she became the Creator.
• Zhang Fan brought Yixiouya aboard the Kronos, where Shusha transferred her consciousness into the final Beast God General’s body.
• Shusha and the Insect Race hailed Yixiouya as their queen, and she tried to attack Zhang Fan but found that her body would not obey her.

Zhang Fan sent Yixiouya and much of the Insect Race away to Anka after securing the Milky Way, and the Erl Universe eventually returned to peace. A century later, the Okenna Mechanical Race expanded toward the Western Realm while Zhang Fan focused on humanity’s future and continued searching for Kui.

• Zhang Fan used his control over Yixiouya’s body to negotiate her departure, allowing her to take Shusha and Pangu with her as she led more than half the Insect Race into Anka.
• After Anka Star was repelled, the Erl Universe spent nearly a hundred years recovering, and the Insect Race stopped waging war.
• The Okenna Mechanical Race expanded through the Northern Realm, signed a mutual nonaggression treaty with the Insect Race, and headed toward the Western Realm.
• Zhang Fan told Hu Baili to leave the Okenna Mechanical Race to Jiertai and asked whether anyone had found Kui.
• Hu Baili said Kui remained missing, and Zhang Fan angrily vowed to kill him himself if he returned.

Zhang Fan and Hu Baili watched humanity battle the Liruwara People at Ghost Valley, while Zhang Fan arranged for the Liruwara People to eventually leave Earth. The battle was disrupted by powerful creatures brought to Earth by Shusha, and Zhang Fan tasked Hu Baili with stopping Noya and containing the giant lizard.

• Nexis told Zhang Fan and Hu Baili that humanity and the Liruwara People were fighting a decisive battle at Ghost Valley, and they went to watch.
• The humans used domesticated pterosaurs against the Liruwara People’s airborne troops, and Zhang Fan suggested that the Liruwara People learn humanity’s taming skills.
• Zhang Fan offered the Liruwara People first choice of a planet outside the Solar System, and Hu Baili agreed to follow his arrangements.
• A giant lizard and a giant moth attacked the Liruwara People, while Noya rode a giant ape into their camp.
• Nexis explained that Shusha had brought the creatures to Earth to protect humanity, and Zhang Fan ordered the giant lizard confined to a seabed lair.
• Zhang Fan left Hu Baili to handle the lizard and stop Noya before she wiped out the Liruwara People.

Zhang Fan decided to remove alien races and their influence from Earth so humanity could develop as the timeline required. After driving the aliens away and destroying their remaining works, he left them to settle elsewhere in the Milky Way while keeping them from interfering with the Qiya People’s invasion.

• Zhang Fan ordered Noya to move the Giant Ape to an island and buried the Giant Moth in its cocoon until it was needed.
• Nexis and Hu Baili urged Zhang Fan to let humanity develop alone, and Zhang Fan agreed to withdraw all alien races from Earth.
• Zhang Fan had Buffett issue notices and purged the aliens who remained on Earth after the evacuation.
• Zhang Fan sent the Human Emperor Academy’s apprentices away, closed Kunlun, and destroyed buildings and cities that did not belong in humanity’s timeline.
• Buffett realized Zhang Fan had moved the aliens away to prevent them from interfering with the Qiya People, and Zhang Fan agreed they could return to Earth after the timeline was restored.

After Nexis helped Zhang Fan realize that Earth might not have been destroyed, they planned to save humanity without disrupting the timeline. Zhang Fan searched for the Qiya People but found no trace of them before Jiertai warned him that the Okenna People had occupied six galaxies near the Milky Way.

• Nexis woke Zhang Fan and explained that humanity had entered the age of interstellar colonization, bringing the Qiya People's attack roughly two hundred years closer.
• Zhang Fan recalled escaping the Qiya People's pursuit aboard the Iris and realized he had only received a withdrawal signal, not witnessed Earth's destruction.
• Nexis proposed saving humanity by allowing Zhang Fan's earlier self to escape aboard the Iris while the Insect Race intervened to rescue Earth.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race to search for the Qiya People, but they found no trace of them among fourteen inhabited planets within 1.8 million light-years of Earth.
• Jiertai told Zhang Fan that the Okenna People had occupied six galaxies beside the Milky Way.

Zhang Fan recognized that the Okenna Mechanical Race’s warships matched those of the Qiya People and ordered an attack despite warnings that it could disrupt the timeline. He proposed a plan to save the people on the M3 Colonial Planet by staging a fake Qiya invasion, leaving his allies to question whether he was deceiving himself.

• Jiertai showed Zhang Fan a blueprint of an Okenna Mechanical Race warship, and Zhang Fan noticed it matched the Qiya People’s ships.
• Zhang Fan decided to exterminate the Okenna Mechanical Race despite Jiertai and Nexis warning that it could erase him and disrupt the timeline.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race to assemble its warships and attack the Okenna Mechanical Race in the Northern Realm.
• Zhang Fan gathered his allies aboard the Kronos and explained that Shapeshifting Insects could impersonate the Qiya People, fake the destruction of the M3 Colonial Planet, and preserve its two billion Earthlings.
• Buffett and Hu Baili questioned Zhang Fan’s plan, but he insisted that staging the invasion would let him deceive himself and save lives.

Zhang Fan launched a war against the Okenna People for revenge, then learned the other Great Emperors had arranged the conflict to let him vent and ordered his forces to withdraw. After a century of reflection, he decided to return to human society, but Nexis reminded him that the Insect Race was due to attack the M3 Colonial Star in three years.

• Jiertai persuaded Zhang Fan to drive the Okenna People back to the Northern Realm instead of wiping them out, while Valaya secretly pressured Moskaya to cooperate.
• Moskaya reinforced the Western Realm Border, and Zhang Fan mistook the Okenna's actions for provocation and sent the Insect Race to attack.
• The Insect Race retook Jiertai's six galaxies and drove the Okenna People back, but Zhang Fan discovered they had been staging a retreat rather than resisting.
• Hu Baili and Buffett challenged Zhang Fan to stop forcing his revenge on the Okenna, and Zhang Fan ordered all Insect Race forces to withdraw.
• Zhang Fan secluded himself for a hundred years, resolved to return to human society, and learned from Nexis that the Insect Race would attack the M3 Colonial Star in three years.

The Qiya used the Okenna Mechanical Race to launch a war against the Insect Race, capturing Domia Star and threatening M3 Colonial Star. Zhang Fan identified the Qiya as the true enemy and began a counterattack, which left Charm Spider battling a giant Heavy Mecha.

• The Okenna Mechanical Race attacked the Insect Race’s defensive perimeter with advanced warships and Cosmic Mecha, then seized Domia Star.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race to prepare for a counterattack after realizing M3 Colonial Star was at risk, and Nexis investigated the enemy’s sudden technological advances.
• The Insect Race’s investigation revealed that the Qiya had conquered the Okenna and were behind the attack, so Zhang Fan sent Insect Race forces to retake Midoa Star.
• A giant Heavy Mecha assembled itself from Qiya wreckage, and Zhang Fan sent Charm Spider to fight it while Noya waited for other opponents.
• Charm Spider attacked the Heavy Mecha with Spider Web and Biological Missiles, but it resisted her web and damaged the Black Widow with missiles.
• Charm Spider unleashed her Suicide Insects, prompting the Heavy Mecha to raise its shield and activate its Energy Defense Shield.

Zhang Fan drove the Qiya People into retreat and returned to the Milky Way to force the timeline back onto its expected course. After the Insect Race staged the destruction of M3 and occupied Mars, Hu Baili and Buffett devised a way to complete the deception without attacking Earth: they would make Zhang Fan believe he had been ordered to leave aboard the Iris.

• Zhang Fan’s forces defeated the Qiya People’s mechas and drove them from the Northern Realm, while he ordered other races not to shelter them.
• Nexis reminded Zhang Fan that the M3 Colonial Star’s destruction date was near, so Zhang Fan left command of the campaign with Valaya and returned to the Milky Way.
• The Insect Race isolated M3, sent Earth a fabricated attack video, and staged the planet’s destruction to make humanity believe the Qiya People had destroyed it.
• The Insect Race evacuated the people of Mars to M3 and then captured the empty planet, but Zhang Fan objected to a plan that risked heavy casualties in an attack on Earth.
• Hu Baili and Buffett proposed controlling Zhang Fan’s superior so Zhang Fan would receive orders to protect Doctor Selena aboard the Iris and leave Earth, completing the timeline deception without fighting Earth’s forces.

Zhang Fan and the Insect Race restored the timeline by sending the Iris through a prepared black hole, returning Earth and M3 Colonial Star to their unoccupied state. Zhang Fan withdrew the Insect Race and returned the humans from Mars, but Buffett warned him against forcing humanity into an alliance.

• The Insect Race used Zhang Fan’s memories to find his human counterpart and arranged for him to become captain of the Iris and escort Doctor Selena and Humanity’s Hope.
• The human Zhang Fan initially refused the assignment, but the controlled general reminded him that his orders were to protect Doctor Selena, the human embryos, and gene sequences, then find a new planet to rebuild civilization.
• Zhang Fan and Hu Baili sent disguised Qiya pursuit ships to drive the Iris toward Buffett’s prepared black hole, while they implanted memories and knowledge in the people aboard.
• The Iris entered the black hole, and Buffett closed it; after waiting, Hu Baili concluded that the timeline had been restored.
• Zhang Fan confirmed that M3 Colonial Star was unharmed, ordered the Insect Race to withdraw, and returned the humans from Mars to Earth.
• Zhang Fan proposed contacting humanity to explore the universe together, but Buffett urged him to let humanity develop on its own while protecting it from annihilation.

Zhang Fan negotiated humanity’s entry into the Cosmic Alliance, limiting its expansion beyond the Milky Way, then returned to pursuing the Qiya People. At a peace conference, he demanded their complete destruction and accused Jiertai of helping them attack the Milky Way.

• Buffett warned Zhang Fan that an alliance could encourage humanity to expand and wage wars, so Zhang Fan decided humanity should develop peacefully while learning about the universe’s dangers.
• Zhang Fan chose to meet humanity as the Insect Race Overlord and brought Nexis, Buffett, Hu Baili, and Mister to Earth’s defensive perimeter.
• Zhang Fan assured the Earth Federation that the colonists were safe and proposed an alliance, while Nexis’s threats heightened tensions during negotiations.
• Zhang Fan agreed to humanity’s conditions and set limits on its expansion, and the two sides signed over two thousand cooperation agreements.
• Zhang Fan returned to pursuing the Qiya People, then attended a peace conference and insisted that they must disappear from the universe.
• Zhang Fan asked why Vaslarld had attacked the Milky Way and accused Jiertai of being involved.

Zhang Fan concluded that someone had manipulated the Qiya People into attacking the Insect Race to provoke their extermination, and he allowed the conflict to proceed to draw out the instigator. A hundred years later, as Vaslarld asked to return to the Northern Realm, Zhang Fan revealed that its primitive life-forms had evolved into cosmic-level civilizations at an impossible rate.

• Vaslarld admitted that someone had implanted Moskaya's hatred of the Insect Race into the Qiya People, and Valaya explained that she had uncovered the memory tampering while investigating their attack.
• Zhang Fan suspected the instigator wanted him to exterminate the Qiya People, so he decided to use the Qiya People as bait to force the mysterious figure to act.
• The Insect Race destroyed the Qiya People's last planet, and the Northern Realm became unclaimed territory after its surviving inhabitants fled.
• A hundred years later, Vaslarld asked Zhang Fan whether the Qiya People could return to their homeland, but Zhang Fan warned that the Northern Realm's unusual evolution might signal an approaching storm.
• Zhang Fan told Vaslarld that cosmic-level civilizations had emerged among the Northern Realm's primitive races within a hundred years, astonishing him.

Zhang Fan challenged humanity’s ambitious new leader, Ouyang Jie, to conquer Mlak Planet as a test of humanity’s strength and a wager that could drive the Insect Race from the Milky Way. After Ouyang accepted, Zhang Fan discovered that Kui had apparently absorbed a dangerous energy meant for him and vanished while injured.

• Vaslarld questioned how biological beings in the Northern Realm had become spacefaring, and Zhang Fan described them as relatives of the Qiya People.
• Ouyang Jie visited Zhang Fan and revealed humanity’s plans to expand, prompting Zhang Fan to warn him against attacking other Milky Way races.
• Zhang Fan offered humanity Mlak Planet to conquer, promising the Insect Race would leave the Milky Way if humanity won, and required Ouyang Jie to lead the expedition without other races’ help.
• After Ouyang Jie accepted the wager, Nexis told Zhang Fan that Kui remained missing and that searches across the realms had found no trace of him.
• Zhang Fan reviewed footage showing Kui injured and realized he had absorbed the energy Yixiouya had planted inside Zhang Fan, likely saving his life.

Humanity launched its first interstellar invasion against Mlak Planet, breaking through the planet’s outer defenses despite an ambush and heavy losses. As the fleet prepared to advance, Zhang Fan revealed that humans had secretly developed alien-derived technology and hinted at the strength of their genetically enhanced soldiers.

• Ouyang Jie assembled a human-only fleet of more than a hundred thousand warships, and Zhang Fan explained to Buffett and Vaslarld that humanity had hidden its military strength and would have to face the consequences of attacking Mlak Planet.
• Ouyang Jie rallied the fleet outside Mlak Planet, and ten thousand vanguard ships entered the Murlak Starfield, where Mlak Planet’s forces ambushed them.
• The human fleet regrouped and counterattacked, breaking through the first ambush ring while suffering over a hundred ship losses and inflicting far greater losses on the Mlak People.
• The humans paused outside the second defensive ring and used modified energy beams to breach its defenses, surprising Buffett with their independently developed weapons.
• Nexis showed the others a hidden human research institute, and Zhang Fan explained that human scientists had studied alien languages and technology and that humanity’s genetic changes were rapidly advancing.
• Zhang Fan pointed out a bullet-shaped warship and said the others would see how strong genetically enhanced humans had become once they landed on Mlak Planet.

Humanity conquered the Mlak Planet and the Insect Race withdrew from the Milky Way, leaving humanity and the other civilizations to develop without its protection. As alien powers began competing for territory and courting humanity, Ouyang Jie welcomed the chance to expand, while Zhang Fan watched the Northern Realm for signs of a coming war.

• Humanity's Superpower Corps and Heavy Mechs helped its forces defeat the Mlak People's resistance, and Zhang Fan explained how humans had developed genetic powers and copied other civilizations' technology.
• Zhang Fan revealed that a subconscious Seal would make humans fear expanding into the Southern Realm, then declared that the Insect Race would withdraw while allowing individuals to remain.
• Humanity occupied the Mlak Planet and returned to the Milky Way after the Insect Race had departed, while Ouyang Jie began planning a major military expansion.
• The Insect Race returned to the Southern Realm, and Zhang Fan secretly sent people to monitor the Northern Realm as Valaya and Jiertai also turned their attention there.
• Other advanced civilizations began occupying nearby planets and seeking peaceful alliances with humanity, while Ouyang Jie and Lei Yin celebrated the Insect Race's departure as an opportunity for human dominance.

After humanity’s alliance with the Limoqi Race suffered disproportionate losses, the Black-Robed Man appeared before Ouyang Jie and claimed the Insect Race served demons. He gave Ouyang Jie dangerous power and persuaded him to open a hidden gate on Mlak Planet, while Ouyang Jie privately planned to use the power for his own ends.

• Humanity and the Limoqi Race expanded through the Northern Realm, but advanced civilizations targeted the Limoqi forces, leaving them with nearly half their troops lost while humanity lost only six warships.
• The Limoqi demanded an end to their alliance with humanity and an equal division of their occupied planets, while Ouyang Jie wondered why their enemies had targeted them.
• The Black-Robed Man appeared in Ouyang Jie’s Command Room, claimed to be the Creator’s emissary, and urged humanity to return to the Creator’s embrace.
• The Black-Robed Man forced black mist into Ouyang Jie, granting him power that would cause agonizing backlash after seven days, and instructed him to open a hidden gate on Mlak Planet.
• Ouyang Jie agreed to open the gate in exchange for humanity’s supremacy, then privately doubted the Black-Robed Man and considered the immense energy within him.

Ouyang Jie opened a dark gate on Mlak Planet, prompting Zhang Fan to recognize the threat as Anka’s impending descent and order the armies to prepare for war. Lei Yin abandoned Ouyang Jie and led humanity’s warships back toward the Milky Way as darkness engulfed the planet.

• Ouyang Jie took Lei Yin to the Rubble Altar on Mlak Planet and chanted, causing a golden energy gate to emerge and turn black with blood-red threads.
• Lei Yin contacted the Insect Race, and Zhang Fan recognized the gate and warned that Anka was about to descend.
• Zhang Fan ordered Lei Yin to flee and told Nexis to prepare the Insect Race for battle, while Jiertai and Valaya assembled their armies.
• Lei Yin left Ouyang Jie behind, shot a deputy adjutant who challenged his retreat order, and commanded humanity’s warships to withdraw to the Milky Way.
• Darkness spread across Mlak Planet, and Ouyang Jie unleashed a roar that shook the world.

Ouyang Jie’s transformation brought the Evil Legion into the Erl Universe, and Zhang Fan learned that they intended to destroy Erl and seize its power. As the allied forces clashed with the prepared Evil Legion, Zhang Fan ordered his vanguard to clear a path for a devastating attack with black obsidian.

• Mlak Planet broke into eight fragments that joined into a sphere of light around Ouyang Jie, and a gigantic black planet called the Evil Star appeared in the Erl Universe.
• Zhang Fan asked Yixiouya about the newcomers, and she identified them as the Evil Legion, rebels against the Creator who sought to destroy Erl and gain power.
• Yixiouya refused to assist because she was preparing for a final battle with the Creator, while Kaina offered help from the Element Race at the risk of opening the way for Vitter Planet’s inhabitants.
• Zhang Fan assembled the Erl Universe’s Allied Forces, but the Evil Legion attacked their ships as soon as they arrived near the Evil Star.
• Zhang Fan ordered Buffett to prepare six black obsidian weapons and told the vanguard to force a path through the enemy fleet.

Zhang Fan’s Insect Race and Valaya’s forces battled the Evil Legion as Jiertai unleashed the five Judgment Dragons to protect the Western Realm. With the demon leader deploying stronger fleets, Zhang Fan transformed the Insect Race and led an assault toward Evil Star, where the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhang Fan detonated six pieces of black obsidian among the Evil Legion’s ships, inflicting devastating damage before the demon leader sent Samael’s Seventh Fleet against the Insect Race.
• Zhang Fan redirected reinforcements toward Valaya as the Evil Legion concentrated its attack on Jiertai’s Western Realm forces, leaving Jiertai isolated.
• Jiertai summoned five Judgment Dragons, which swept aside Evil Legion troops until five powerful monsters emerged from Evil Star to challenge them.
• Zhang Fan and Valaya chose to attack Evil Star rather than reinforce Jiertai, and Zhang Fan transformed the Insect Race with golden divine power.
• The demon leader sent the Ninth Fleet against the Insect Race as Valaya led the Great Emperor-Class Warships; the Insect Race began gaining ground against Samael’s Seventh Fleet.