Chapter Summaries

Zhang Fan learned that Lamya commanded an overwhelming force and lost heart about fighting for Earth's Star Chart. He then dreamed of the Iris crew and confronted Selena, whose explanation helped him understand why she and Yan Hao had made him believe they betrayed him.

• Hu Baili told Zhang Fan that the wounded Dark Azure Dragon Lamya still commanded an army across sixty thousand galaxies, and Zhang Fan refused to fight him.
• Zhang Fan returned to the Divine Temple, exhausted, and fell asleep on his throne.
• Zhang Fan awoke aboard the Iris, saw Yan Hao and the crew alive, and ran from them in disbelief.
• Zhang Fan grabbed Selena by the throat and blamed her for his transformation and Yan Hao's supposed betrayal.
• Selena asked Zhang Fan whether he regretted his choices, and he broke down under the weight of humanity's survival.
• Selena and Yan Hao explained that they had lied because they wanted Zhang Fan to live on without witnessing their deaths.

After a dream of Selena and Yan Hao, Zhang Fan decided to expand the Insect Race across the Western Realm. Its forces spread rapidly, and Snow White rescued Boss Jin from pirates before beginning an assault on Lamei Star.

• Zhang Fan awoke from a dream in which Selena and Yan Hao reminded him that humanity would return to Earth, then declared that he would invade the Western Realm and expand the Insect Race army.
• Zhang Fan ordered Shusha to organize the troops, and the Insect Race rapidly expanded its forces in eleven directions from its Starfield.
• Red Star Pirates crippled the Golden Frog Trade Ship, but an Insect Race fleet arrived through a Portal and destroyed the pursuing pirate ships.
• Boss Jin met Beast God General Snow White, who arranged repairs and told him that the surrounding region was under Insect Race control.
• Snow White led ten million troops in an attack on Lamei Star's outer defensive planets while Boss Jin watched in disbelief.

The Insect Race expanded across the Western Realm while its leaders debated whether to give it authority in the High Council. Zhang Fan accepted an invitation to become Grand Elder, seeing it as a way to enlist the entire Western Realm in searching for Earth.

• Snow White gave Boss Jin permission to select two hundred thousand Insect Race warships and reminded him to find Earth or Qiya Star for the Overlord.
• Snow White prepared to attack Simo Star after learning that enemy warships were resisting there.
• Muya argued that the Insect Race’s leader should preside over the Western Realm council, while the Nagang councilor revealed the Great Emperor had already granted the Insect Race authority.
• Hu Baili and Buffett told Zhang Fan that refusing the Grand Elder position could unite advanced civilizations against the Insect Race.
• Zhang Fan agreed to visit the Western Realm council after Buffett suggested he could use the position to search the Western Realm for Earth.

Zhang Fan took office as the Western Realm Council’s Grand Elder, then learned from Councilor Muya that the Milky Way lay near the Eastern Realm’s border in a Sealing Ground guarded by the Dragon Race. He agreed to halt the Insect Race’s invasion until he found the Milky Way, while warning Muya not to mislead him.

• Zhang Fan rejected the council’s plans for his attire, prepared speech, and interviews, and asked Nexis to handle the interview arrangements.
• Zhang Fan intimidated Gelaxie of the Elves by claiming he could read minds, though he had learned of Gelaxie’s thoughts from Councilor Nasteel.
• After Zhang Fan delivered his inaugural address, Councilor Muya privately asked why he was searching for the Milky Way.
• Zhang Fan told Muya he had a personal feud with the Qiya Star People, and Muya revealed that the Milky Way was near the Eastern Realm’s border in a Dragon Race-sealed Sealing Ground.
• Muya asked Zhang Fan to stop the Western Realm invasion until he found the Milky Way and then lead the Insect Race out; Zhang Fan agreed and threatened the Cassas System if she had lied.

Zhang Fan used the Insect Race’s peace agreement to strengthen Muya’s position and pressured Gelaxie to submit the Elves’ expansion plans for council approval. After Muya promised to locate the Milky Way, she vanished from the council, leaving Zhang Fan wondering whether her disappearance was connected to the search.

• Gelaxie invited Muya to sample Tree Spirit Fruits, and Zhang Fan joined them and secretly had a {Progenitor} analyze one.
• Zhang Fan told Gelaxie that the Elves must submit their expansion plans for Muya’s approval or risk giving the Insect Race an excuse to invade.
• Zhang Fan warned Muya to find the Milky Way and threatened her if she deceived him; Muya said she had leads and would provide an answer within a year.
• Muya ordered her spies to find the Milky Way’s exact location and investigate a seal, giving them six months to report back.
• A flash of white light made Muya disappear, and after three days the Casas delegation reported her missing; Gelaxie denied responsibility and offered help finding her.

Muya returned after a month missing and told Zhang Fan she had found the Milky Way, but a countdown threatened to destroy Earth unless she led him there within three days. Zhang Fan used the {Star Kun} to bypass the galaxy’s barrier and bring the Insect Race fleet inside, but he was left racing to locate Earth before the countdown ran out.

• Muya reappeared in the council hall, then privately told Zhang Fan she had found the Milky Way and revealed a countdown threatening Earth.
• Zhang Fan learned Muya had no memory of being abducted and ordered the Insect Race legions to follow her coordinates toward the Eastern Universe.
• Zhang Fan’s fleet reached the Milky Way’s sealed barrier, but its weapons could not break through before Muya’s countdown neared its end.
• Noya suggested using the {Star Kun}, and Zhang Fan discovered it could pass through the barrier while carrying Insect Race ships inside it.
• Zhang Fan searched the Milky Way for Earth by comparing his remembered Solar System with the stars and scattering ships throughout the galaxy.
• With less than thirty minutes remaining, Zhang Fan ordered every Insect Race member to help find Earth.

Zhang Fan and the Insect Race found Earth, but he discovered it was sixty-five million years in the past and inhabited by dinosaurs. After he ordered the fleet to devastate the planet, his companions realized his arrival through a black hole had altered time and that humanity had to survive for him and the Insect Race to exist.

• Muya noticed her countdown stop, and Shusha announced that the Insect Race had found the Solar System and was heading to Earth.
• Zhang Fan joyfully recognized the planets but was confused by Earth's unfamiliar geography, then descended with Noya and the others to investigate.
• When a Tyrannosaurus Rex charged at Zhang Fan, he killed it and ordered the Insect Race fleet to wipe out the dinosaurs.
• The warships' bombardment devastated Earth, and Zhang Fan realized in horror that he had caused the mass extinction he remembered from human history.
• Shusha and Nexis sedated Zhang Fan as he lost awareness, then Nexis explained that the black hole had sent him to Earth sixty-five million years before his birth.
• Shusha warned that humanity had to flourish or Zhang Fan and the Insect Race would never exist, leaving Snow White stunned by their dependence on humanity's survival.

After arriving on Earth sixty-five million years in the past, Zhang Fan moved the Insect Race into the Milky Way and helped humanity survive on Earth while keeping the Race’s existence hidden. As the Insect Race studied the Milky Way’s shared genetic foundation, Nexis formulated a law linking human genes to the origin of the Insect Race.

• Shusha and Noya warned Zhang Fan that removing the Qiya People could prevent the Insect Race from ever coming into existence, so he ordered Hu Baili and the others to move the Insect Race into the Milky Way and protect humanity.
• The Insect Race sealed the Milky Way, built defenses around the Solar System, restored Earth's air, and relocated humans from Second Earth, but fewer than a quarter survived the transfers and harsh environment.
• Hu Baili and Buffett proposed protecting humanity on Earth and guiding its development, and Zhang Fan let them establish a safe habitat while he focused on securing the Solar System and finding a home for the Insect Race.
• The Insect Race surveyed the Milky Way and discovered that its life-forms shared a genetic foundation with only slight variation, which Shusha and the Matriarchs could not replicate.
• After studying the shared gene chain, Nexis formulated Nexis's Law: the Insect Race could not create humans, but human genes could create the Insect Race.

The universe searched frantically after the Insect Race vanished, while Zhang Fan expanded their forces across the sealed Milky Way and strengthened humanity. After learning how much potential humans possessed, he prepared a smaller humanoid body so he could visit Earth unnoticed.

• The Insect Race disappeared near the Eastern Realm border, prompting Gelaxie, Madoc, the Dragon Race, and others to search for them.
• The Insect Race expanded across the Milky Way and built formidable defenses under Zhang Fan's command.
• Zhang Fan established a lunar base to protect humanity and approved limited human experiments after Hu Baili and Buffett requested them.
• Research revealed that humans had the powerful God Gene and exceptional abilities in magic, qi, and Bio-Boosted Armor, so Zhang Fan agreed to select some for Insect Transformation experiments.
• Zhang Fan asked Duolaner to hatch him a smaller humanoid body, then put on a hooded black robe and set out to visit Earth.

Zhang Fan tried to guide humanity toward abolishing slavery by raising rulers, but his first attempts failed as power corrupted them and succession disputes followed. After deciding to guide people from the shadows, he summoned Hu Baili and Buffett to educate humanity, and they recommended Livia.

• Zhang Fan returned to Earth and chose a courageous slave to train as a king who would abolish slavery.
• The slave became King Aise, but he abandoned his campaign against slavery, so Zhang Fan eventually destroyed him.
• Zhang Fan then supported King Yajie from the shadows, but after Yajie's death his princes fought over the throne.
• After more than a century, Zhang Fan told {Star Kun} to conceal the Milky Way and ordered Hu Baili and Buffett to come to Earth as teachers.
• Hu Baili and Buffett declined to educate humanity and recommended Livia, whom Zhang Fan agreed to summon.

Zhang Fan tried to shape humanity’s development on Earth, but repeated conflict convinced him that war and feudalism were unavoidable, so he chose to observe instead of interfere. When the Dragon Race’s Minerva confronted him on the Azure Dragon Star over his promise to help them, Zhang Fan threatened her after she refused to teach him Cosmic Teleportation.

• Zhang Fan brought Hu Baili, Buffett, and Livia to Earth, where Livia ruled humanity and built a paradise, but a war incited by Saya led Zhang Fan to decide to wipe out the immigrants.
• Livia opposed Zhang Fan and took a small group of humans to Mars; Zhang Fan flooded Earth, then had Shusha hatch a new population that again developed feudalism, war, and slavery.
• Zhang Fan chose to observe humanity, and when soldiers destroyed Hu Baili’s research base and released its creatures, he refused to intervene, while Hu Baili warned him that the Dragon Race was searching for the Insect Race.
• Dilama accused the Insect Race of breaking its promise and ordered Minerva to confront Zhang Fan before sending a fleet; Minerva went to the Azure Dragon Star and argued that finding it himself did not mean Zhang Fan would break his word.
• Zhang Fan asked Minerva to teach him Cosmic Teleportation, and after she refused, he coldly threatened her.

Zhang Fan turned down Minerva’s demand to help attack the Western Realm Great Emperor, then negotiated with Jiertai, who warned him to keep his promise to aid the Western Realm in a thousand years. After Minerva returned to carry out their plan against Lamya, Zhang Fan oversaw the Insect Race’s preparations and inspected its newly assembled army and star-destroyer-class weapon.

• Zhang Fan refused Minerva’s demand to join the attack on the Western Realm Great Emperor, insisting that he would focus on protecting humanity in the Milky Way.
• Jiertai appeared, revealed himself as the Western Realm Great Emperor, and threatened to destroy Earth if Zhang Fan broke their old agreement.
• Jiertai warned Minerva to tell Dilama not to target the Milky Way or the Insect Race, then vanished.
• Zhang Fan told Minerva to find Lamya as planned and said he would remain hidden on Earth while the Dragon Race carried out the next step.
• Zhang Fan checked on the final Beast God General’s modifications, then joined Nexis and the other Beast God Generals to review the assembled army.
• Shusha explained that the army included insect-transformed warships and introduced Destruction, a new cosmic star-destroyer-class insect.

Zhang Fan inspected the Milky Way’s new planetary defenses and the Insect Race’s expanded army, including specialized combat and support bugs. After hearing Nexis’s proposal to hatch humanoid insects using human genes, he accepted that the Insect Race needed to change as it prepared to face a more powerful enemy.

• Shusha explained that Destruction could draw power from planets and withstand the Mirass Super Cannon, and Zhang Fan ordered it deployed on planets along the Milky Way’s outskirts.
• Nexis reviewed the Insect Race’s upgraded troops for Zhang Fan, including color-coded Swift Spirit Bugs, new Mantis types, Flying Locusts, Blood Shadows, support bugs, and enhanced Overlord Beasts, Scarabs, and Elephant Bugs.
• Nexis demonstrated how Mud Bugs could take over biohuman soldiers and use their abilities, then described the Slime Bugs’ additional venom and paralysis abilities.
• Shusha reported that the Insect Race had two thousand varieties, excluding divergent strains and mutants.
• Nexis relayed Lord Buffett’s suggestion to hatch humanoid insects using human genes, and Zhang Fan agreed that the Insect Race needed to change to face a stronger enemy.

Nexis’s forbidden experiments on humans led Zhang Fan to exile her to Pluto and ban all human-evolution projects. As the Dragon Race ravaged the Western Realm and demanded the Insect Race, the council struggled to find a response, while Zhang Fan waited for Lamya to appear.

• Nexis secretly experimented on captured humans, whose mutations sparked a rebellion, and Zhang Fan punished her by sending her to Pluto and banning human-evolution projects.
• Hu Baili and Buffett returned to their research centers and destroyed evidence of their own human experiments.
• Shusha warned Zhang Fan that Madoc’s warships had gathered outside the Milky Way barrier and that Western and Northern Realm Dragon Race forces were attacking across the Western Realm.
• Zhang Fan told Shusha to ignore Madoc and said they would discuss the Dragon Race when Lamya appeared.
• Gelaxie proposed awakening Lamya to stop the Dragon Race, but the council members feared Lamya and could not agree on another solution.

Gelaxie sought Lord Lamya’s help against the Dragon Race’s invasion of the Western Realm, but Lamya refused to intervene directly and gave him a royal decree for King Muge. Gelaxie presented it to Muge, who gathered his hidden strength and prepared to lead an army, though he questioned Lamya’s supposed order to preserve the Western Realm’s balance.

• Gelaxie told Lamya’s emissary about the Dragon Race’s rampage, and the emissary returned with Lamya’s refusal and the Ramu King’s Decree for King Muge.
• Gelaxie flew to Denver Star, where his brother Gelamu tried to stop him from seeing King Muge until soldiers recognized the decree and escorted him to the palace.
• King Muge mistook Gelaxie for Gelamu until Gelaxie revealed the decree, prompting Muge and his ministers to emerge from their fleshy disguises and kneel.
• Gelaxie ordered King Muge to defend the Western Realm and drive out the Dragon Race, then claimed Lamya had also commanded him to preserve the realm’s balance.
• King Muge agreed to repel the Dragon Race but questioned whether preserving the Western Realm’s balance was truly Lamya’s command.

King Muge led the Dusk Song Legion into the Western Realm and battled the Dragon Race, while the Elf Race’s surprise attack forced the dragons to retreat. Lionfang arrived with reinforcements arranged by the Overlord, revealing that his forces were Beast-Fusion Insects and that twenty million Bio-Engineered Troops had come from the Brocade Galaxy.

• Gelaxie persuaded King Muge to leave the Border and attack the Western Realm, while Gelamu stole a ship and headed for Dragon Race territory.
• King Muge’s Dusk Song Legion captured Kaka Star, prompting the Dragon Council to prepare for war.
• King Muge and Ona led their fleets into battle near Xila Starfield, where Dusk Song inflicted heavy losses on the dragons.
• The Elf Race joined the battle with a surprise attack, forcing Ona to retreat until reinforcements arrived.
• Lionfang brought a fleet that blocked the Elf forces and revealed that the Overlord had sent twenty million Bio-Engineered Troops to aid the dragons.
• Lionfang told Minerva that his forces were the Insect Race’s Beast-Fusion Insects and that the Bio-Engineered Troops came from the Brocade Galaxy.

The Dusk Song Legion retreated after Beast Race forces intervened, while Zhang Fan kept the Insect Race hidden and maneuvered between Madoc and the Dragon Race. He ordered Nasteel troops to support the Dragon Race and drive out Lamya’s remaining forces, using the fighting as cover to reveal the Insect Race as an apparent ally of Lamya.

• The Beast Race attacked the Dusk Song warships, and King Muge ordered his forces to retreat rather than face the approaching Northern Realm Dragon Race.
• King Muge ordered the Western Realm forces gathered and refugees sheltered, while Zhang Fan contacted Madoc and refused to withdraw the Insect Race from the Eastern Realm.
• Shusha reported that the Dragon Race and its allies had assembled roughly two hundred million warships against about one hundred and ten million Western Realm ships.
• Zhang Fan reflected on his mortality and rejected the idea of ruling the universe while the Insect Race faced threats on two fronts.
• After Shusha reported renewed fighting in the Gramusu Star Domain, Zhang Fan ordered the Nasteel troops to support the Dragon Race and force out Lamya’s remaining forces.

The Dragon Race and its allies overwhelmed the Elves, so Gelaxie sought reinforcements from King Susalas in the Katasia Star System. After Gelaxie sacrificed blood to revive her planet, Susalas awakened the Demon King Legion and led it toward the Gramusu Star Domain.

• The Nagang People joined the Dragon Race, and their warships and cyborgs destroyed the Elf fortress at Susalas.
• Gelaxie learned from King Muge that King Susalas and her Demon King Legion were in the Katasia Star System, and he traveled there with the Ramu King's Decree.
• Gelaxie found Susalas playing music beside her pet Bibi, and she agreed to help if he provided blood to awaken her army.
• Gelaxie raided two nearby planets and spread their creatures' blood across Susalas's barren planet, restoring its life.
• Sus alas summoned the Demon King Legion, declared that His Highness Lamya would return, and ordered the legion to attack the Dragon Race in the Gramusu Star Domain.

The Demon King Legion joined Lamya’s forces in the Katasia Star System, worsening the devastation as Zhang Fan and the Insect Race watched the major powers fight. After ninety days, the factions changed their matchups, and King Muge pursued Chi Yan, who claimed the Western Realm Great Emperor had sent him to destroy Muge.

• Zhang Fan learned from Shusha that Lamya’s forces had turned the tide, while the Dragon Race gathered reinforcements in the Southern Realm.
• Susalas refused Gelaxie’s plea to restrain the Demon King Legion’s destructive attacks, and King Muge warned Gelaxie that she would not tolerate interference.
• The Dragon Race, Beast Race, Nagang People, Muge Race, and Elf Race reassigned their opponents, with the Beast Race holding off Susalas and the Dragon Race fighting the Elf Race.
• After ninety days of fighting, the Dragon Race overwhelmed the Elf Race, while the Nagang People’s custom warship inflicted losses on King Muge’s forces.
• King Muge chased Chi Yan to capture his custom warship and demanded to know why the Nasteel had joined the Dragon Race.
• Chi Yan told King Muge that the Western Realm Great Emperor had ordered him to destroy Muge, leaving King Muge stunned.

King Muge and Susalas suspected the Western Realm Great Emperor had engineered the war and gave Gelaxie five days to find the Insect Race. Gelaxie found Zhang Fan and brought the Insect Race to the Katasia Star System, where Zhang Fan ordered an attack on the Dragon and Dusk Song forces.

• Chi Yan provoked King Muge with the possibility that the Western Realm Great Emperor had manipulated the war, then evaded him as Susalas called a retreat.
• Gelaxie explained the Insect Race's disappearance and the Dragon Race's invasion, and King Muge gave him five days to find the Insect Race before withdrawing.
• Gelaxie returned to the Insect Race's former location and found Zhang Fan and his army waiting there.
• Zhang Fan pretended to learn that Second Earth had been destroyed, then agreed to take the Insect Race to aid Dusk Song in the Katasia Star System.
• The Insect Race arrived to find the battle apparently over, and a Dusk Song warship accused the Western Realm Great Emperor of arranging the conflict.
• Zhang Fan declared that everyone would die and ordered his forces to attack, alarming Gelaxie.