Chapter Summaries

Doria forced the Jinxiu Galaxy Council to surrender to the Insect Race, demanding its Bio-Boosted Armor, Biohuman forces, and dreadnoughts while promising protection and shared biotechnology. The Insect Race absorbed the council, reshaped the three races’ roles, and used Wade engineering robots to build portals as Zhang Fan prepared to return to Second Earth.

• Doria rejected peace negotiations and threatened the Gomud homeworld, Kapu Star, until Jiesang, Sinderson, and Nord knelt and accepted surrender.
• Doria declared the surrendered council part of the Insect Race, promised shared biotechnology and protection, and demanded Bio-Boosted Armor technology, Biohuman forces, and dreadnoughts as compensation.
• The council transferred its dreadnoughts and programmed the Biohumans to obey and protect the Insect Race, while Zhang Fan ordered the research broodmother to modify the organic Bio-Boosted Armor.
• Zhang Fan recognized that the Nado People's Biohuman technology could strengthen Insect Race troops and that Wade robot technology could manufacture portals, while Insect Race forces continued searching Ferandel for resistance fighters.
• Wade robots built a portal in two months, and the Insect Race reorganized the council so the Nado People rose to second place, the Gomud People became assistant biotechnology researchers, and the Wade People were restricted to engineering robots.
• Zhang Fan left forces searching Ferandel and planned to return to Second Earth to see humanity's progress.

Zhang Fan secured Blue Cardian help to develop long-range Teleportation Pillars powered by the Krami Pearl, allowing the Insect Race to begin its journey back toward Second Earth. He left Sinderson in charge of the Jinxiu Galaxy and assigned Kui the task of shaping a new world on Second Earth.

• Zhang Fan challenged the Portal's limited size and tasked Sinderson with finding the Blue Cardians, while promising control of the Jinxiu Galaxy to whoever secured their help.
• Sinderson used a modified detection Robot to locate Ferandel's Resistance Army, and the Blue Cardians agreed to design a large Portal in exchange for Ferandel's freedom and independence.
• Roser studied the Krami Pearl as an energy source and helped create Teleportation Pillars with a range of five million light-years.
• Ten advance {Emperors} demonstrated the new Portals, and Zhang Fan thanked Roser, who left without responding.
• Zhang Fan appointed Sinderson to govern the Jinxiu Galaxy, left {Matriarch} Ladoa and a million Biohumans there, and told Kui to build a new world on Second Earth.

Zhang Fan agreed to help Boss Jin win the Fufufu Race’s competition in exchange for a share of the proceeds. He traveled to Popocar Star with Nexis, Weasel, and Noya, where the Fufufu natives welcomed the contestants.

• Zhang Fan encountered Boss Jin, who asked for help defeating the Fufufu Race in a competition for access to high-purity argonium.
• Boss Jin listed the defenses and mercenaries he had purchased for Insect Race territory, and Zhang Fan agreed to help him for a sixty-forty share of the proceeds.
• Shusha introduced the new {Intelligent Matriarch} Nexis, and Zhang Fan chose Weasel and Noya to accompany him to the competition.
• Zhang Fan and Boss Jin traveled to Popocar Star while Shusha led the Insect Race army home.
• A Fufufu استقبال Ship welcomed Zhang Fan and his party, and a Fufufu native explained that its refreshing fragrance came from Popocar Star’s red lotus flowers.

Zhang Fan and Boss Jin arrived at the argon gold tournament, where Gegli revealed he had hired the formidable Soro. After the event announced a prize draw, Zhang Fan sensed a hidden presence threatening his life, but could not locate it.

• Zhang Fan learned that the planet's soil was godo mud and warned Weasel to play it safe in the arena.
• Gegli mocked Boss Jin's contestants and said he had hired Soro to win the tournament's argon gold distribution rights.
• Boss Jin explained Soro's reputation and weapons, and Zhang Fan decided to stay and see how strong the Western Universe's experts were.
• A crowned Fufufu announced a prize draw with one tonne of argon gold as the grand prize.
• Zhang Fan felt watched and ordered Noya to bring the Insect Race army, then briefly glimpsed a pair of threatening eyes.
• Zhang Fan searched nearby consciousnesses for the powerful presence but found nothing.

Zhang Fan watched the Fufufu Race's agency-rights competitions while searching for the person whose gaze had once frightened him. After arranging to prevent anyone from leaving the planet, he ordered Shusha to send {Progenitors} to provoke trouble and reveal the hidden threat.

• Bopomo began the agency-rights competition, and Zhang Fan asked Boss Jin to help identify the person he was searching for.
• Tatan defeated a Half-Beast warrior, but Soro then knocked Tatan out with a single kick.
• Guowa and a masked Silver Crocodile Trading Group contestant competed in an intelligence test, which the masked contestant won.
• Bopomo began the forging contest, and Boss Jin told Zhang Fan that his preparations were complete.
• Zhang Fan revealed that the Insect Race's army had arrived and said he would stop anyone from leaving the planet until he found his target.
• Shusha entered the VIP room, and Zhang Fan ordered Shusha to send {Progenitors} out to cause conspicuous trouble.

The Insect Race took control of the trade ships while Weasel challenged and defeated Soro in the competition for Popocar Star’s argon gold mine representation rights. After explaining how Weasel poisoned Soro, Zhang Fan sensed a familiar presence among the spectators and ordered the Progenitors to find its source.

• Snow White and the Insect Race inspected the Silver Crocodile Trade Ship, and Snow White stopped the Frog-Faced Deputy from provoking its attendants.
• The Silver Crocodile Trading Group’s Dwarf Forging Master won the forging contest by 0.02 microns, temporarily taking the Goodman Trade Group’s representation rights.
• Weasel challenged Soro, endured his stomp, and struck him hard enough to dent the Soro Shield.
• Weasel’s toxin missiles and poison left Soro dizzy and unconscious, and Bopomo declared Weasel the winner.
• Zhang Fan told Shusha that Weasel had poisoned Soro when Soro stepped on him, then sensed a familiar presence among the spectators and ordered the Progenitors to find it.

The Progenitors disrupted the agency-rights competition so Nexis could capture Jieming and his dangerous Kamon Beast, then Nexis won the Golden Frog Trade Group the next contest. The Silver Crocodile Trading Group withdrew before Shadok’s match, leaving the Golden Frog Trade Group with temporary argon gold agency rights.

• Following Shusha’s orders, the Progenitors attacked disguised guards and caused the Green Shrimp and White Dove Trade Groups to be disqualified.
• Zhang Fan sensed a threat from Jieming’s medicine basket, and Shusha revealed the Kamon Beast inside it.
• Zhang Fan ordered Jieming and the Kamon Beast taken back to the Emperor, though he refused to explain his reasons to Boss Jin.
• Nexis argued that the Golden Frog Trade Group would side with the Fufufu Race in a war, and Bopomo declared Nexis the winner of the round.
• Gegli withdrew the Silver Crocodile Trading Group before Shadok could compete, and Bopomo awarded the Golden Frog Trade Group temporary argon gold agency rights.

Zhang Fan secured argon gold and red lotus flowers for the Insect Race, then returned to Second Earth to learn how humans had fared during his absence. Buffett left him with a startling theory about humanity’s origins.

• Boss Jin secured the Argon Gold Mine agency rights for Golden Frog Trading, and Zhang Fan let him distribute some of the mineral to other companies.
• Zhang Fan asked Boss Jin to obtain an exclusive long-term supply of red lotus flowers from Popocar Star.
• Nexis ate Jieming and explained that red lotus flowers could stimulate Insect Race members, while the Kamon Beast’s pheromone could help conceal insect eggs from detection devices.
• Zhang Fan returned to the Insect Domain and secretly rode a {Super Six-Eye} to Second Earth, where Buffett told him that Pangu had died and humans were living in an experimental zone.
• Buffett told Zhang Fan that he suspected humans were living weapons developed by a higher life-form.

Zhang Fan heard evidence from Buffett and Hu Baili that humans on Second Earth might have been designed and genetically constrained. He decided to protect them and let them develop on their own rather than investigate or alter them.

• Buffett showed Zhang Fan Image Bee recordings of humans rapidly developing tools, treating wounds, and slowly learning to walk, and argued that their behavior suggested they had been designed.
• Buffett explained that predators avoided humans while humans hunted stronger creatures for status, prompting Zhang Fan to reflect on his own satisfaction in defeating powerful opponents.
• Hu Baili reunited with Zhang Fan and reported that the Insect Race had brought troops to support him on Second Earth.
• Hu Baili agreed that humans were likely designed and proposed that a genetic lock constrained their potential, while Buffett and Hu Baili refused to try unlocking it.
• Buffett warned Zhang Fan that investigating humanity's origins could be dangerous, and Zhang Fan chose to let humans develop quietly under his protection.

Zhang Fan inspected Yata’s new insect forces and discussed upgrades to transport and communications before Princess Domina arrived to see the army he had brought back. The chapter ended with Domina staring in shock at the Emperor warships filling the star system and asking how Zhang Fan had acquired them.

• Zhang Fan arrived at the Insect Race’s sixth planet, where Yata and White Forehead greeted him and Snow White was warned to respect the elder insect tribes.
• Yata demonstrated the Broodmother’s defenses and Blast Bees, then introduced six specialized insect units developed for ground combat.
• Zhang Fan praised Yata’s work and asked her to develop dedicated troop transports, while Hu Baili reported that twenty unidentified Emperors were approaching the Insect Domain.
• Buffett offered to provide long-range consciousness amplification devices, and Zhang Fan set out to meet Princess Domina.
• Princess Domina asked whether Zhang Fan had brought anything back, and he revealed an army of Emperor warships that left her stunned.

Princess Domina hired Zhang Fan to kill her half-giant brother, Prince Dimis, who had fled to the Western Universe after provoking the Cursed Race. Zhang Fan accepted in exchange for two S-Class warships and began preparing a team to hunt him down.

• Princess Domina toured Zhang Fan's forces, agreed to keep his hidden planet secret, and asked him to kill her brother, Prince Dimis.
• Domina explained that Dimis had fled to the Western Universe after provoking the Cursed Race, and said Zhang Fan's Insect Race consciousness might resist his psychic power.
• Zhang Fan accepted the job in exchange for two S-Class warships, and Domina gave him a single-use image transmission device to record Dimis's death.
• After Domina left, Zhang Fan assigned Shusha to oversee the Insect Race's outer territory and prioritize psychic power research.
• Zhang Fan chose Qiu Lin, Man Ya, Meng Jia, Snow White, and Nexis to accompany him, and ordered them to bring Lilvara's insect troop types once the {Broodmother}'s Teleportation Pillar modifications were complete.

Zhang Fan diverted the {Broodmother} to an uninhabited planet, where the Insect Race discovered creatures and parasites that inspired plans for a mobile fortress and {Broodmine Explosive Bugs}. As Nexis began researching them, a damaged warship approached the {Broodmother}.

• Zhang Fan left Kui and Buffett on Second Earth and set out with Qiu Lin, Man Ya, Meng Jia, Noya, Snow White, Nexis, and ten billion Insect Race members to find Dimis.
• Nexis identified a resource-rich primitive planet where the Insect Race could gather samples and establish a forward base.
• Zhang Fan watched the Insect Race kill a giant centipede and capture its genes and the two-headed turtle's genes.
• Nexis proposed combining the parasite's explosive brood with {Explosive Bug} genes to create {Broodmine Explosive Bugs}, and using the turtle's genes with {Overlord Beast} genes to build a mobile fortress.
• The Insect Race occupied the planet, and Nexis began researching both creations with the other Matriarchs.
• A battered, burning warship approached the {Broodmother} while the research was underway.

Benli asked Zhang Fan to save Mambo Star from Dimis, and Zhang Fan agreed after receiving a piece of the War God Spear. When Mambo vanished and Dimis’s fleet attacked, Zhang Fan drove Dimis’s psychic power from the Broodmother and ordered the Ghost Bugs to find him.

• Benli offered Zhang Fan the War God Spear’s tip in exchange for help defending Mambo Star, and Zhang Fan agreed to depart in two days.
• Zhang Fan told Benli that Mambo Star had disappeared, and Benli concluded Dimis had hidden it rather than destroyed it.
• Zhang Fan took the Broodmother to the nearby star region, where Dimis’s concealed fleet attacked and tried to control the ship psychically.
• Zhang Fan identified Dimis as Domina’s brother, rejected his offer, and expelled his psychic power from the Broodmother.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Blast Bees to destroy Dimis’s controlled Bullfish warships, including Benli’s ship after Dimis took control of Benli.
• Zhang Fan sent the Ghost Bugs to search for Dimis and ordered them to obtain his genes.

Zhang Fan’s forces retreated after Dimis used mental power to make the Enhanced Super Six-Eyes attack one another. Nexis discovered that rapid wingbeats could disrupt an Insect Shaper’s mental control and proposed modifying Broodmine Explosive Bugs to counter Dimis.

• Millions of Enhanced Super Six-Eyes cleared Mambo Star’s defending warships, but Dimis’s mental power made them attack one another, forcing Nexis to order a retreat.
• Nexis advised Zhang Fan to rely on fewer, mentally resistant fighters and investigate the Insect Shapers’ abilities as a possible counter to Dimis.
• Zhang Fan tested the Insect Shapers against Man Ya and Snow White, but their mental control proved difficult to overcome.
• During a test, Snow White’s rapid wingbeats disrupted an Insect Shaper’s control of an insect egg.
• Nexis concluded that rapid movement could counter mental power and proposed modifying the Broodmine Explosive Bugs.

Nexis devised a plan to get the Sonic Boom Bugs and Insect Race onto Mambo Star by disguising them as falling asteroids and forcing Dimis to catch the Broodmother. The plan succeeded, and Zhang Fan sent the five Beast God Generals to find and kill Dimis while the bugs hatched.

• Nexis created Sonic Boom Bugs whose blasts disrupted the Insect Shapers’ Mental Power control and caused permanent damage.
• Zhang Fan and Nexis arranged an artificial meteor shower carrying Sonic Boom Bug eggs toward Mambo Star, and two Bullfish People Battleships destroyed only the larger fragments.
• Nexis proposed putting the Broodmother and Insect Race soldiers into feigned death so they could fall to the planet, and Zhang Fan approved the plan.
• Dimis used his Mental Power to slow the falling Broodmother and held him above Mambo Star with support from a hundred thousand small Bullfish People battleships.
• Nexis stayed with the Broodmother while Zhang Fan sent Qiu Lin, Man Ya, Meng Jia, Noya, and Snow White to find and kill Dimis, telling Snow White to activate the live-stream device first.
• The Sonic Boom Bugs began breaking out of their shells.

The Beast God Generals fought Dimis’s guardians as Noya and Qiu Lin tried to reach him, while Zhang Fan and Nexis countered threats to the Broodmother. After a blue creature attempted to control the generals’ minds, Zhang Fan left Nexis to handle it and moved to confront Dimis.

• Man Ya fought Niu Man after Zhang Fan freed him from a mental attack, while Sonic Boom Bugs disrupted Niu Man’s missiles.
• Snow White was knocked out of the air by a dark figure, but Noya told Qiu Lin to press on toward Dimis.
• Nexis sent available Sonic Boom Bugs to support the generals, and dormant bugs on Mambo Star began waking and feeding.
• Noya and Qiu Lin reached Dimis’s palace, but a powerful woman struck them back while Meng Jia engaged an armored guardian.
• Zhang Fan blocked a mental assault on the Beast God Generals and discovered it came from a short blue creature beside Dimis.
• Nexis offered to handle the mind controller, and Zhang Fan withdrew his consciousness and descended to confront Dimis.

Man Ya and the others battled Dimis’s forces on Mambo Star, with the fighters on both sides gaining and losing ground. Zhang Fan joined the fight and headed for Dimis, who turned Qiu Lin’s own {Broodmine Sonic Bugs} against him.

• Man Ya used {Broodmine Sonic Bugs} to break Dimis’s control over the Bullfish Race soldiers, then resumed fighting Niu Man.
• Snow White tried to lure Hei Duan toward the bugs, but he avoided the trap and survived her attack; she activated her Gomud People’s Demigod Exosymbiote Armor.
• Meng Jia was caught by the heavily armored greataxe warrior’s feint, but Zhang Fan stopped the axe and crushed it.
• Zhang Fan left Meng Jia and flew toward Dimis as the Bio-Ship stabilized.
• Dimis seized Qiu Lin with an invisible force and redirected three {Broodmine Sonic Bugs} toward him.

Zhang Fan fought Dimis while Noya and Qiu Lin battled the Bullfish People, but Dimis’s mental powers and the enemy’s missiles kept Zhang Fan from gaining an advantage. As the Insect Race began to awaken, Nexis sent reinforcements to the ground, leaving the battle unresolved and Zhang Fan dependent on new Sonic Boom Bugs.

• Noya caught the falling Qiu Lin after the Sonic Boom Bugs broke Dimis’s control, and Zhang Fan took over the fight against Dimis.
• Zhang Fan and Dimis traded attacks, but their first exchange ended in a draw as Bullfish People reinforcements arrived and fired missiles.
• Noya and Qiu Lin fought the Bullfish People while Zhang Fan struggled to reach Dimis, whose mental powers and missile support repeatedly blocked him.
• Nexis warned Zhang Fan that the Insect Race would soon awaken, and Zhang Fan decided to eliminate Dimis’s subordinates to free the Beast God Generals.
• Zhang Fan ordered Nexis to send the awakening Overlord Beasts and Bone Shield Elephant Bugs down and have Belita clear the combat zone.
• Dimis tried to control the departing warships, but Zhang Fan disrupted him with Sonic Boom Bugs while hidden Ghost Bugs watched nearby.

Zhang Fan fought Dimis as Dimis seized control of the Insect Race army, but Zhang Fan's rage drove the soldiers into madness and forced Dimis to withdraw his mental threads. After Snow White was badly injured and the Broodmother emptied its frenzied soldiers, Zhang Fan confronted Dimis with Domina's Diamond-Shaped Device, which erupted in blinding light and filled him with pain.

• Zhang Fan attacked Dimis while the Insect Race forces and Bullfish People fought, but Dimis escaped after taking control of an Overlord Beast.
• Dimis used a glowing array to seize control of the Insect Race army, and Zhang Fan opposed him with his Overlord consciousness as Noya flew to help.
• Dimis controlled Noya, who attacked Zhang Fan, but Snow White blocked her Qi Sword and was critically injured.
• Zhang Fan's rage overwhelmed Dimis's control and drove the Insect Race into a frenzy, forcing Dimis to withdraw his mental threads.
• Zhang Fan subdued Hei Duan, left him for Snow White to consume, and the Broodmother released the maddened Insect Race soldiers, who fell from the sky and attacked the Bullfish People.
• Zhang Fan showed Dimis the Diamond-Shaped Device, which unleashed blinding light and caused Zhang Fan searing pain.

After surviving Domina’s bomb, Zhang Fan concealed his survival and planned to build his strength before taking revenge. He left the Insect Race Starfield with the Broodmother and a vast force, while Nexis pretended to take over as Overlord and Domina believed Zhang Fan was dead.

• Zhang Fan awoke three months after the explosion and learned that Dimis had died, Nuo Yan had been badly injured, and the Broodmother was recovering.
• Zhang Fan ordered Nexis to report that he and Dimis had died, send Domina his ruined former body, and claim the Insect Race’s leadership.
• Zhang Fan secretly reached Second Earth, where Kui and Buffett discussed his plan to use the Insect Race Starfield as bait while he expanded his forces.
• Hu Baili reported that the concealment barrier was ready, and Zhang Fan departed with the Broodmother, tens of billions of Insect Race members, and several Beast God Generals.
• Domina arrived and offered to take care of the Insect Race, while Nexis secretly saw through her intentions.
• Aboard the Broodmother, Zhang Fan examined Domina’s two-headed wolf and said he intended to turn it into an Insect Race member.