Chapter Summaries

Hu Baili and Yata celebrated the recapture of the Thunderflame Star System, while Huobao was promoted to commander-in-chief and stripped Han Bing of control of the Frost System. Han Bing secretly took Zhang Fan aboard his ship, but Zhang Fan immobilized him with black insects.

• Hu Baili returned to Jiede and told Yata that he had finally come home, while Yata said her tear was shed for the Overlord.
• Huobao was promoted to commander-in-chief after capturing King Pamir, despite losing the Thunderflame Star System.
• Huobao ordered Han Bing to retake Thunderflame and assigned Wolf 800 to govern the Frost System until he did.
• Han Bing found Zhang Fan near his warship and secretly let him board, hoping to use him against Huobao.
• Zhang Fan told Han Bing that attacking the Insect Race would be futile, then immobilized him with tiny black insects.

Zhang Fan forced Han Bing to take him to Huo Planet’s Data Nexus, then persuaded the disgruntled mechanical commander to help rescue King Pamir. After Han Bing killed Tieqian and the guards, they escaped Huo Planet together, pursued by Wolf 800’s fleet.

• Zhang Fan used black insects to control Han Bing and made him take him to the Data Nexus, where a miniature {Scarab} retrieved the information he needed.
• Han Bing asked Zhang Fan to modify his body so he could feel real emotions, and Zhang Fan agreed in exchange for help rescuing King Pamir.
• Han Bing and Zhang Fan encountered Tieqian escorting King Pamir; Han Bing killed Tieqian and the guards, then freed the king.
• Zhang Fan told King Pamir that Han Bing was now their ally, but King Pamir accused Zhang Fan of betraying him and threatened Han Bing.
• Han Bing, Zhang Fan, and King Pamir escaped Huo Planet aboard Han Bing’s warship as Wolf 800’s escort fleet pursued them.
• Han Bing warned Zhang Fan that destabilizing elements should be dealt with immediately, while King Pamir continued to threaten him.

Zhang Fan and Han Bing survived an attack by Wolf 800’s escort force with help from Chiwila’s Viper Fleet, while Hu Baili pushed King Pamir to reconsider his anger and learn to lead. Zhang Fan then transferred Han Bing’s consciousness into a living Insect Race body, and Han Bing celebrated being able to feel alive.

• King Pamir wept as Han Bing threatened him, but Wolf 800’s escort force attacked Han Bing’s warship before the Viper Fleet arrived and drove the attackers away.
• King Pamir accused Zhang Fan and Hu Baili of using him as bait, but Hu Baili explained how the rescue had depended on the supposed traitors and urged him to control the Insect Race as a weapon.
• Zhang Fan left the command center with Han Bing and Yata, while Hu Baili challenged King Pamir to recover from his humiliation and lead his people.
• Zhang Fan created an Insect Race body for Han Bing and used a Scarab to transfer Han Bing’s consciousness from his mechanical body into it.
• Han Bing emerged from the incubation pool, experienced pain and breathing for the first time, and declared that he felt alive.
• Yata said her life’s meaning was the Overlord, while Zhang Fan remarked that this meaning was only temporary.

Zhang Fan learned that Moros’s Staff threatened to destroy the Thunderflame Star System, and he began considering how to stop it despite his army’s weakness. The chapter ended with him hinting that a vast, eager force could join the fight.

• Zhang Fan and Hu Baili discussed Wolf 800’s undercover role, and Han Bing received the name White Forehead from Hu Baili.
• Zhang Fan concluded that someone had deleted the expedition’s disappearance location from Huo Planet’s records, possibly to protect something.
• White Forehead realized his hatred of Huobao was programmed, and Yata explained that the Great Emperor had designed the programs to prevent the mechanical generals from uniting.
• Chiwila spotted Nu Feng’s fleet escorting a giant weapon, and Hu Baili identified it as Moros’s Staff, capable of destroying the Thunderflame Star System.
• Zhang Fan learned that Moros’s Staff would take at least six days to charge, but Yata warned that their forces were badly outnumbered.
• White Forehead said he could keep the Frost System’s forces from being mobilized, and Zhang Fan hinted that another vast force could fight alongside them.

Hu Baili seized royal authority from King Pamir and joined Zhang Fan in planning an assault on the four star systems. As slave uprisings spread and the Purple Moon System threatened to destroy the Thunderflame Star System and Myriad Demon Star, Zhang Fan ordered the Liruwara People to evacuate aboard Rebecca and sent the Nagang People a message.

• Zhang Fan proposed arming Lilvara's enslaved people and using {Zombie Bugs} to control them if they refused to fight, giving King Pamir a day to decide whether to accept his plan.
• King Pamir's ministers argued over surrender, but Hu Baili demanded that Pamir abdicate, while Chiwila revealed that the royal guards and royal city were under their control.
• Hu Baili declared the throne vacant and took royal authority, then agreed with Zhang Fan on a four-system assault led by Chiwila, White Forehead, and Hu Baili's forces.
• Zhang Fan learned that slave armies had seized several Nasteel command posts, while fighting continued across the planets and the Purple Moon System's defenders focused on attacking Myriad Demon Star and the Thunderflame Star System.
• Zhang Fan ordered all Liruwara People on Myriad Demon Star to board Rebecca and told his communications officer to send the Nagang People footage of the evacuation with the message, "goodbye!"

The Nagang commanders redirected Moros's Staff from the evacuated Thunderflame Star System to Huo Planet, destroying the planet and its surroundings as Huobao escaped. Hu Baili and Yata then planned to attack Flowing Flame before turning against Purple Moon, and Hu Baili asked whether he could trust the Insect Race after his death.

• Nu Feng, Chi Yan, and Zi Dian argued over their losses as the Liruwara People evacuated Thunderflame Star System aboard the Crocodile-Headed Beast.
• Zi Dian's adjutant advised redirecting Moros's Staff to Huo Planet, and Zi Dian ordered the weapon to target it despite Nu Feng's protest that the supreme commander was there.
• Hu Baili ordered his forces to retreat toward Mumu Star, while Huobao learned that Moros's Staff had locked onto Huo Planet and fled aboard his personal ship.
• Moros's Staff destroyed Huo Planet and dozens of surrounding planets after Huobao escaped.
• Yata advised Hu Baili to attack Flowing Flame before Purple Moon so they could defeat Chi Yan and concentrate their forces.
• Hu Baili praised Yata's plan, then asked whether he could trust the Insect Race after he was gone.

The Western Realm Great Emperor intervened in the battle for Flowing Flame Star and offered to spare the territory if the rebels stopped attacking the Purple Moon System. Zhang Fan proposed surrendering the territory under the Emperor’s rule in exchange for protection and local autonomy, and the Emperor appointed him supreme commander in the Western Universe.

• White Forehead broke through the Nagang defenses and revealed to Chi Yan that he was Han Bing, who had chosen a flesh-and-blood body.
• Chi Yan’s personal warship was destroyed, and the Great Emperor activated Chi Yan’s self-destruct program, wiping out nearby Nagang, Liruwara People, and Insect Race troops.
• The Western Realm Great Emperor appeared before the Rebecca fleet, halted the fighting, and warned the Liruwara People and Insect Race not to attack the Purple Moon System.
• Zhang Fan challenged the Great Emperor and then proposed that the Western Universe remain under the Emperor’s rule while Zhang Fan handled its affairs in exchange for protection.
• The Western Realm Great Emperor accepted Zhang Fan’s proposal and named him supreme commander in the Western Universe.

Zhang Fan accepted the Western Realm Great Emperor’s reward and three-thousand-year demand, then appointed Hu Baili to govern the Western Universe and set out to gather power. About a century into his journey with Rebecca and the Matriarchs, he captured a diamond-shaped spacecraft whose horned, fur-covered occupant emerged.

• The Western Realm Great Emperor gave Zhang Fan a purple-energy staff and ordered him to build an army for an invasion of the Northern Universe within three thousand years.
• Zhang Fan explained to Hu Baili and the others that he had submitted to buy time, then appointed Hu Baili as his Western Universe representative and Yata as deputy commander.
• Zhang Fan left Myriad Demon Star with sixty Matriarchs and trillions of insect eggs, scattering the eggs across space as Rebecca carried him in search of power.
• About a hundred years later, Zhang Fan investigated diamond-shaped spacecraft near Rebecca after a distant planet exploded.
• Zhang Fan ordered Venom Bees and Rebecca to capture a spacecraft that tried to leave, then watched as a three-meter-tall, horned, fur-covered creature stepped out.

Zhang Fan followed Yuan Jun to the emerald planet Natawa, where he found a useful parasitic gene and began breeding parasite-bearing bugs. When Yuan Jun’s people tried to destroy the planet, Zhang Fan blocked them, and the confrontation began.

• Zhang Fan let Yuan Jun leave while a little bug secretly tracked him and gathered his genes.
• Rebecca followed Yuan Jun to Natawa, where Zhang Fan examined its forests and found materials that resisted the Venom Bees’ corrosive fluid.
• Zhang Fan collected genes from Natawa’s species and used a parasitic plant gene to create bug-frogs, then began breeding more parasite-bearing bugs.
• Noya reported that Yuan Jun and his people planned to evacuate Natawa and destroy it because its plants had contaminated other planets.
• Zhang Fan sent thousands of Venom Bees to block Yuan Jun’s people and refused to let them destroy Natawa.
• Yuan Jun warned Zhang Fan about the planet’s danger and threatened force, so Zhang Fan left the confrontation to Noya.

Zhang Fan investigated the plant-focused laboratory on Plant Planet, experimented with breeding Insect Race creatures, and failed to revive humans there. After a fungus infected and killed a {Matriarch}, Noya revealed that the planet itself was alive.

• Noya's {Venom Bees} destroyed Yuan Jun's spaceship before Zhang Fan could question its crew, and he ordered {Matriarchs} to establish a base.
• Noya's experiments produced weak, docile creatures through gene fusion and aggressive, dangerous larvae through parasitism; Zhang Fan allowed her to keep the larvae under strict orders to destroy them if they escaped control.
• Zhang Fan tried to create humans but found that newborn babies died outside the cultivation pool, so he decided to wait until he returned to Earth.
• Two {Fierce Tigers} became uncontrollable and fought after green fungus appeared on their foreheads, prompting Zhang Fan to investigate the fungus.
• The fungus infected a {Matriarch}, clouded her mind, and killed her; her corpse then released more fungus.
• Noya told Zhang Fan that Plant Planet was itself a living organism.

Zhang Fan and the Matriarchs fought Jade’s evolving fungal defenses by creating specialized Insect Race units, then overwhelmed the planet and bred new combat species from its ecosystem. With the Tyrant Beast too large and slow to deploy from Rebecca, Zhang Fan concluded that he would have to evolve the ship.

• Zhang Fan withdrew the Insect Race from Jade, developed pheromone camouflage to evade its fungus, and then watched the fungus adapt to infect the disguised units even faster.
• Noya presented Zhang Fan with Parasitic Wasps to control parasitized hosts and Parasitic Ticks that could consume Jade’s fungus, and Zhang Fan ordered both species deployed.
• Parasitic Wasps spread across Jade, driving herbivores to devour plants and producing vast numbers of larvae until the Insect Race stripped the planet of its greenery.
• Zhang Fan directed the mutated Insect Race species through a survival struggle and created Super Six-Eye as an aerial combat unit and the Tyrant Beast as a powerful ground unit.
• Zhang Fan realized Rebecca could not house many Tyrant Beasts and decided that he had to evolve Rebecca.

Zhang Fan turned Jade into Titan, a planetary member of the Insect Race capable of spreading its genes and producing Thunder Emperors. With the Western Realm Great Emperor looming over them, Zhang Fan and Noya prepared to invade nearby planets and expand their forces.

• Zhang Fan created the Thunder Emperor by combining Super Six-Eye and Overlord Beast genes, then discovered that Jade's roots had survived the test shot.
• Zhang Fan and the Matriarchs overwhelmed Jade with mental attacks, allowing Parasitic Ticks to infect it while preserving its infectious fungus.
• After three days, Zhang Fan learned that Jade had become Titan, an Insect Race planet that could parasitize other worlds and produce a powerful fungus.
• Noya began hatching Thunder Emperors directly from Titan, and Zhang Fan ordered Vira to take a force to the Thunderflame Star System and visit the Asha Star System and Death Star.
• Noya assembled six hundred Thunder Emperors, a million Super Six-Eyes, and hundreds of billions of ground troops for an invasion of nearby planets.

Zhang Fan’s Insect Race army attacked a battle between the Moon Ape Clan and Green Vine Clan, then withdrew after Noya broke through the Green Vine encirclement. He reassigned Noya for remodeling and continued after the fleeing Moon Ape fleet, leaving for a nearby primitive planet.

• Zhang Fan sent the Insect Race army toward the Hexagonal and Quadrilateral Systems and ordered it to investigate biological signals like Jade’s.
• Noya led millions of {Super Six-Eyes} in an attack on the Moon Ape Clan and Green Vine Clan fleets, while White Ape ordered the Moon Apes to retreat.
• The Green Vine Clan tried to encircle the Insect Race, but Noya calmed down and found a weak point, leading the fleet through the encirclement.
• Zhang Fan secretly released Insect Race fungi aboard the Green Vine Warships and ordered the army to pursue the Moon Ape fleet.
• After losing the Moon Ape fleet’s trail, Zhang Fan told Livina to find a nearby planet and prepared to remodel Noya.

Zhang Fan claimed a habitable planet as Second Earth, secured its surrounding system, and began incubating humans while giving Noya a powerful new body. After an unfamiliar fleet exchanged fire with the Insect Race perimeter forces and withdrew, Zhang Fan ordered Livina to establish contact rather than risk war.

• Livina reported that the planet had primitive life and air suitable for human survival, so Zhang Fan claimed the system and named it Second Earth.
• Zhang Fan explored a vast ancient temple, ordered the Insect Race to search and guard it, and began incubating human embryos.
• Zhang Fan redesigned Noya's body using human features and Insect Race genes, then equipped her with weapons and an Enhanced Qi Spider.
• Noya accidentally sliced Zhang Fan's carapace spikes with her sword energy and cut Livina's Magic-Energy Ball in two, injuring two Matriarchs.
• Livina reported that an approaching fleet had exchanged fire with the Insect Race forces and withdrawn, and Zhang Fan ordered a Matriarch to make contact as long as the fleet stayed outside his territory.

Matriarch Dolan'er met Boss Jin of the Golden Frog Trade Ship to seek a star chart of Earth and powerful weapons. Boss Jin agreed to trade a Miras Cannon for two Emperor Warships, leaving him stunned by Dolan'er's quick acceptance.

• Boss Jin kept his trade fleet near the Insect Race's territory, hoping to obtain and sell one of their Bio-Ships.
• Dolan'er boarded the Golden Frog Trade Ship, learned the Tacoarans' language through an insect, and warned Boss Jin not to disturb Insect Race territory.
• Dolan'er asked the Tacoarans to find Earth using a star chart of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy, and Boss Jin ordered every navigator to search.
• Dolan'er asked for galaxy-destroying weapons, but Boss Jin explained that such weapons were prohibited and offered the less powerful Miras Cannon instead.
• Boss Jin demonstrated the Miras Cannon by destroying twelve planets, then demanded two Emperor Warships in exchange.
• Dolan'er immediately accepted Boss Jin's price, surprising him.

Duolaner traded twenty-two Emperors for a fragment of the War God Spear and an Atari man, while secretly seeding the trade ships with Insect Race fungi. Back on Second Earth, Zhang Fan rewarded Duolaner with the spear and discovered that he already had the Atari People’s magical power.

• Boss Jin showed Duolaner an Atari captive, but she dismissed him as a pet rather than a valuable magical species.
• Boss Jin revealed a rusty fragment of the War God Spear, and touching it briefly strengthened Duolaner’s body.
• Duolaner agreed to pay twenty-two Emperors for the spear and Atari, then warned Boss Jin not to enter Insect Race territory without an invitation.
• Duolaner returned to Second Earth, where she told Zhang Fan she had seeded the trade ships with fungi and he entrusted her with protecting Second Earth.
• Zhang Fan offered friendship to the Atari man and revealed that he could sense the seven elements; Noya demonstrated magic, and the Atari man suspected an insect had transferred the power to him.

Zhang Fan entrusted the surviving Atari People with guiding humanity on Second Earth while the Insect Race prepared to protect it. After ordering a defense perimeter around the planet, he set out with Noya to attack the nearby Plant Warships, just as an enormous Plant Starship Fleet approached.

• Zhang Fan befriended Prince Buffett and showed him the humans growing in the Human Incubation Room, explaining that he hoped the Atari People would teach them.
• Buffett revealed about a hundred surviving Atari People from his Azure Star-Patterned Cloak and agreed to guide humanity using the human embryos Zhang Fan entrusted to him.
• Zhang Fan ordered Duolaner to keep the Insect Race away from Second Earth except for a protective perimeter, and he and Noya left to clear nearby star systems.
• Zhang Fan chose to attack the Plant Warships' planet, and Lador volunteered to join the assault.
• An enormous Plant Starship Fleet approached, and Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race to wipe it out.

Zhang Fan’s Insect Race defeated the Green Vine forces, used a Titan Egg to overrun Green Vine Star, and gave Zhang Fan a powerful new body. He then accepted an invitation to the Universal Combat Auction.

• Zhang Fan’s forces routed the Green Vine fleet with the help of Noya and Insect Fungi, and he ordered Lador to develop fungi that would be safe for the Insect Race.
• Zhang Fan launched a Titan Egg into Green Vine Star, where it spread vines across the planet, then ordered Livina to clear nearby star systems.
• Zhang Fan learned that Parasitic Tick could soften chromium-bismuth alloy and ordered armor and a shield made for Noya.
• After three months of modifications, Zhang Fan emerged with a powerful new body built on Carbon-Silicon Worm genes and enhanced abilities.
• When the Golden Frog Trade Ship fleet invited Zhang Fan to the Universal Combat Auction, he decided to attend.

Zhang Fan arrived at the competitive auction on Oritaya, where he encountered the alien races gathered there and met Princess Domina after accidentally stepping near her tiny squad. He offered Domina ten million {Parasitic Tick} mounts, but a mocking voice interrupted him.

• Boss Jin explained that the competitive auction would let the Insect Race see other universes’ powerful races and that the Western Realm Great Emperor had helped arrange the invitation.
• Zhang Fan, Noya, and Shusha landed in Kalan, where Chuyang trade director Ossar welcomed them and Boss Jin gave Zhang Fan a biological universal translator.
• Zhang Fan sent Noya to register for the opening competition and headed toward the VIP stands with Boss Jin.
• Zhang Fan accidentally stepped near Princess Domina’s tiny armed squad, and Boss Jin apologized before introducing him as the Insect Race’s Overlord.
• Zhang Fan gave Domina a {Golden Parasitic Tick} as an apology, and she asked to buy them all, prompting him to offer ten million mounts.
• An unknown voice mocked Zhang Fan from behind.

Zhang Fan negotiated with Princess Domina and Madoc before a white-clad assassin attacked Madoc in the VIP room. Madoc survived by transferring his consciousness to another body, and Zhang Fan secretly arranged to take the captured assassin.

• Madoc introduced himself to Zhang Fan as the ruler of Mokra World, and Princess Domina offered to buy a hundred {Emperors}.
• Zhang Fan made Boss Jin his business representative and invited Princess Domina to visit the Asha Star System.
• Zhang Fan discovered that a conscious fruit was targeting Madoc, then learned that Princess Domina’s people could control {Emperors}.
• A white-clad assassin attacked Madoc, who repeatedly returned in spare bodies while the assassin destroyed his mechanical forms.
• Madoc asked Zhang Fan to stop the assassin, and Zhang Fan seized him before Boss Jin’s guards took him away.
• Zhang Fan secretly told Boss Jin that he wanted the assassin, and Madoc invited him to watch their people’s tournament match.