Chapter Summaries

Zhang Fan led the Insect Race in a surprise attack on Lamya’s forces, then joined the Dragon and Beast Races in pursuing them to Lamya’s hiding place. As their armies fought outside the planet and Lamya remained unconscious, Zhang Fan ordered the Beast God Generals to seize his head, and Minerva volunteered to join them.

• The Insect Race and Beast Race attacked the Dusk Song warships and Susalas’s Demon King Legion, forcing the Western Realm coalition to retreat while King Muge and Susalas escaped under smoke cover.
• Zhang Fan told Minerva that the Dragon Race must stay out of the Milky Way after the Western Realm Great Emperor was defeated, and Minerva agreed.
• King Muge and Susalas led their forces to Lamya’s hiding place, but the High Priest warned them that Zhang Fan’s allied armies had already found it.
• Zhang Fan’s Insect Race vanguard attacked Susalas’s forces outside the planet, while the Star-Destroying Cannon failed to break through their defenses.
• Minerva urged a ground assault to reach the injured Lamya before he awoke, and Zhang Fan ordered the Beast God Generals to bring him Lamya’s head; Minerva joined them.

Lamya’s High Priest fought the Beast God Generals while they tried to reach the cave, but Snow White killed him after he finished awakening Lamya. Lamya’s power surged from the cave, and Zhang Fan ordered Shusha to wake him as King Muge and Susalas learned that Lamya had awakened.

• Lamya’s High Priest summoned skeletal soldiers and mud monsters to block the Beast God Generals, while Man Ya, Qiu Lin, Meng Jia, Noya, and the others fought them.
• Snow White attacked Lamya’s High Priest and killed him with a cross-shaped air blade after he began an incantation.
• Minerva revealed that she had placed a Dragon Race seal around the area and gave Noya, Snow White, and Charm Spider dragon aura to withstand it.
• Lamya roared from the cave, and Minerva struggled to maintain the seal against his powerful aura.
• Zhang Fan sensed Lamya’s power from atop the Spirit Dragon Brood Bug and told Shusha to wake him.
• King Muge and Susalas smiled as they realized Lamya had awakened.

As Lamya battled Noya, Snow White, and Charm Spider in the cave, Minerva’s seal weakened and the three struggled to keep him away from her. Just as Lamya broke through their defenses, Pangu appeared, stopped his punch, and revealed himself as one of the Insect Race’s twelve Beast God Generals.

• Zhang Fan sent ten million main-force Insect Race troops into the battle as Lamya’s awakening rallied the Dusk Song Legion and the Demon King Legion.
• Minerva explained that the Dragon Race had sealed Lamya’s power, and Snow White, Noya, and Charm Spider fought together to protect her.
• Minerva struck Lamya with a golden attack, but he endured it and transformed into his third form, overpowering the defenders.
• Charm Spider urged Minerva to retreat as Lamya burned through her webs and advanced toward Minerva.
• Pangu appeared, caught Lamya’s full-strength punch, and sent him flying with a counterattack.
• Pangu identified himself as an Insect Race member and one of the twelve Beast God Generals.

Pangu fought Lamya inside Minerva’s seal while Minerva struggled to maintain it, and Zhang Fan secretly arranged to have Blood Shadow kill Minerva after Lamya was eliminated. As the battle continued, Zhang Fan also began plotting against the Primordial Dragon, Dilama.

• Pangu appeared inside the seal, overwhelmed Lamya, and ordered Noya, Snow White, and Charm Spider to attack the Dusk Song Army on the surface.
• Lamya transformed and fought Pangu, while Minerva revealed her golden dragon form and struggled to keep the seal in place.
• Lamya and Pangu’s battle brought down the cave, and the fighters continued clashing in the sky as Minerva’s strength and life force dwindled.
• Zhang Fan watched from the Spirit Dragon Brood Bug and told Shusha to send Blood Shadow to kill Minerva without leaving evidence.
• Zhang Fan planned to obtain Minerva’s planetary teleportation ability and began plotting how to defeat Dilama.

Pangu and the three {Blood Shadows} killed Lamya and Minerva in a trap, while King Muge prepared to sacrifice himself with the incomplete War God Spear. Zhang Fan ordered his forces to retreat and sent Noya and the others to stop Muge and recover the spear’s final fragment.

• Pangu lured Lamya toward Minerva, where the three {Blood Shadows} ambushed Lamya and used his sword to strike Minerva’s heart.
• Pangu beheaded Lamya, and the {Blood Shadows} began devouring Lamya’s and Minerva’s blood to obtain their genes.
• After sensing Lamya’s death, King Muge told Susalas to escape, then began forcing the incomplete War God Spear to activate.
• Duolaner reported that her two War God Spears were vibrating, and Zhang Fan identified the resonance as the final fragment aboard the Dusk Song Flagship.
• After Shusha warned that the flagship’s energy could affect the entire galaxy, Zhang Fan ordered the main forces to retreat and sent Noya and the others to stop Muge and recover the fragment.

Noya and Snow White stopped King Muge from detonating the Dusk Song flagship, and Zhang Fan killed him after revealing his plans for the Insect Race. With Minerva dead and the Western Realm's leadership weakened, Zhang Fan took control of the region and prepared for the Western Realm Great Emperor's return.

• Noya and Snow White boarded the Dusk Song flagship, and Snow White took the final piece of the War God Spear, preventing King Muge from self-detonating.
• Noya fought King Muge and led him to a platform where Zhang Fan and the Insect Race had surrounded him.
• Zhang Fan told King Muge he intended to break the Judgment Dragons' seal and conceal his ambitions, then punched through King Muge's chest and killed him.
• Susalas fled toward Patie Star with her Demon King Legion after sensing King Muge's death, while the Dragon Race mourned Minerva.
• Zhang Fan asked Ona to lead the Dragon Race's arrangements, then sent the Dragon Race and Beast Race home while the Insect Race reorganized the Western Realm under his rule.
• Shusha told Zhang Fan that Nexis had asked him to visit Pluto, and she urged him to go for the Insect Race's sake.

Zhang Fan discovered that Nexis had secretly given birth to a human-insect son, Yaluoxia, and ordered him to face a {Beast God General} after fifteen days of training. As Nexis began preparing him, Zhang Fan watched from the Spirit Dragon Brood Bug and summoned the {Beast God Generals} to assemble the next day.

• Nexis confessed to Zhang Fan that she had secretly conceived and given birth to Yaluoxia, a human-insect child, and had wounded herself to protect him from Pluto's cold.
• Yaluoxia attacked Zhang Fan to defend Nexis, and Zhang Fan fought him before recognizing that the boy had unusual strength and defenses.
• Nexis explained that Yaluoxia had awakened her understanding of maternal love, then tried to take her own life so Zhang Fan would spare her son.
• Zhang Fan spared Yaluoxia but gave Nexis fifteen days to train him before he had to challenge a {Beast God General}; losing would mean death.
• Nexis began Yaluoxia's intensive training, while Zhang Fan ordered Shusha to summon the {Beast God Generals} for the following day.

Zhang Fan arranged for Yaluoxia to fight Charm Spider, whose hatred of his forbidden mixed heritage made the match far more dangerous than he intended. Yaluoxia escaped her webs and charged toward her despite her venom, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Fan chose Charm Spider to test Yaluoxia, then told her to use her own judgment after she asked whether she could kill him.
• Nexis brought Yaluoxia into the Arena and told him to survive as Charm Spider declared she would kill him.
• Charm Spider tried to snare Yaluoxia, but he dodged her silk and later broke free of her restraints and the web beneath his feet.
• Charm Spider blocked Yaluoxia's retreat with webs and formed two venom balls, while Nexis worried she would show no mercy.
• Yaluoxia dodged the venom balls using Snow White's movement pattern and charged straight at Charm Spider.

Yaluoxia survived Charm Spider’s challenge and was accepted into the Insect Race after Zhang Fan revealed he had not ordered his execution. The chapter ended with Duolaner bringing the assembled War God Spear to the Arena, where its power astonished everyone.

• Charm Spider wounded Yaluoxia repeatedly, but his regenerative abilities and combat skills improved as the fight continued.
• Shusha stopped Charm Spider from killing Yaluoxia, but Yaluoxia severed one of Charm Spider’s forelegs when she released him.
• Yaluoxia grew strong enough to fight Charm Spider to a standstill, and Noya falsely told Charm Spider that Zhang Fan wanted her to surrender.
• Nexis thanked Zhang Fan for sparing Yaluoxia, and Zhang Fan accepted Yaluoxia into the Insect Race while warning Nexis to keep him under control.
• Shusha suggested Nexis and Yaluoxia stay with Zhang Fan, who left the Arena with them following.
• Duolaner announced that she had assembled the War God Spear, and its arrival in the Arena amazed the others.

Zhang Fan tested the War God Spear, secured its pieces, and returned to Earth to find humanity developing advanced steam technology. As a new global war broke out, Buffett asked whether the Insect Race should intervene.

• Duolaner used the War God Spear to destroy an entire galaxy, and Zhang Fan divided it into three pieces for Noya, Snow White, and Charm Spider to guard.
• Zhang Fan ordered the Insect Race to strengthen its defenses against the Western Realm Great Emperor and said he would leave Madoc alone for now.
• Zhang Fan returned to Earth and learned from Hu Baili that humans had entered an industrial age built around steam-powered machines, aircraft, and robots.
• Hu Baili asked about Yaluoxia, and Zhang Fan identified him as Nexis's human-Insect Race hybrid son and warned Hu Baili not to study him.
• Buffett reported that humans had started another global war and asked Zhang Fan whether they should intervene.

Zhang Fan observed humanity’s final war between the Naturalists and the Steel Faction, then left Buffett’s base to address the Insect Race’s future. He sent Yaluoxia to Mars and warned Nexis not to defy him again as the Western Realm Great Emperor’s return approached.

• Buffett showed Zhang Fan the looming battle between the Naturalists and the Steel Faction, whose opposing views on nature and machinery reflected the influence of Buffett and Hu Baili.
• Zhang Fan said the war would determine humanity’s future and ordered Buffett or Hu Baili to join his universal conquest depending on which faction won.
• The Naturalists’ cavalry and magical archers clashed with the Steel Faction’s machines and mechanized cavalry as Buffett and Hu Baili argued over which side would prevail.
• Zhang Fan left the base with Shusha and Nexis, then decided that Yaluoxia should be sent to Mars and warned Nexis that he would kill her if she acted recklessly again.
• Nexis sent Yaluoxia to Mars, where Zhang Fan planned to let him live comfortably while keeping the Martians under watch, and Zhang Fan turned to planning for the Western Realm Great Emperor’s return.

Zhang Fan returned to Centaurus M3 and weighed the consequences of altering history to stop the Qiya people before learning that the Ink Race was invading the Western Realm. He considered the Insect Race’s limited forces and was asked whether the {Star Kun} could join the battle.

• Zhang Fan revisited Centaurus M3, and Shusha and Nexis discussed the absence of the Qiya people and the danger of changing history.
• Zhang Fan considered using a Time Machine to return to the future and save the surviving humans, but the group had no way to find one or transport the Insect Race fleet.
• Shusha relayed Dosjella’s request for help against the Southern Realm’s invasion of the Western Realm, and Dosjella identified Mo Xiao’s Ink Race as the enemy.
• Dosjella reported that the Ink Race had conquered two galaxies and possessed about a thousand S-Class Planet-Buster Battleships.
• Zhang Fan learned that his forces had at most eighty million warships and far fewer S-Class command ships than the Ink Race, and Shusha asked whether the {Star Kun} could join the battle.

Zhang Fan led the Insect Race army to support the Western Realm Council and sent Meng Jia to test the Ink Race’s strength. Meng Jia’s warship Grasshopper revealed a short-range warping ability that astonished the Western Realm commanders.

• Zhang Fan rejected Shusha’s proposal to deploy Star Kun and explained to Hu Baili that humanity cycled between faith in nature and reliance on technology.
• The Insect Race army arrived in the Nebula Galaxy, where Dosjella reported that the Ink Race had established a Forward Base in the Goya Galaxy and repelled three raids.
• Zhang Fan sent Meng Jia and his Elite Squad to test the Ink Race, then ordered Noya and Snow White to support him without being seen unless he was in trouble.
• Meng Jia’s vanguard clashed with several hundred Ink Race warships, whose electromagnetic-pulse defenses had little effect on the Insect Race vessels.
• Grasshopper warped rapidly across the battlefield, and Zhang Fan explained that its short-range warping worked because the Insect Race warships were living beings.

The Insect Race tested its warships against the Ink Race, with Meng Jia escaping a trap and exposing the strengths and weaknesses of both fleets. After the Ink Race withdrew, Zhang Fan spoke with its representatives and learned they wanted to fight other races but not the Insect Race.

• Meng Jia used Grasshopper to destroy Ink Race warships, escaped an electromagnetic trap, and survived the Ink Race's cluster missiles with help from Shapeshifting Insects and Holy Shield Bugs.
• The Ink Race withdrew, and Meng Jia reported that its S-Class warship's missiles were dangerous while Zhang Fan and his commanders reviewed the battle losses.
• Dosjella observed that Ink Race fighters and bombers, rather than its warships, had caused most Insect Race losses, and Zhang Fan ordered defenses and infiltration preparations.
• The Ink Race contacted Zhang Fan, who told its envoy to turn back after it claimed its sacred will directed it toward Insect territory.
• The Ink Race envoy said it wanted to fight other races rather than the Insect Race, prompting Zhang Fan and his companions to laugh at its reasoning.

Zhang Fan drove the Ink Race away from the Western Realm, then took the Insect Race army to the Brocade Galaxy to expand their forces in the Southern Realm. There, Doria showed him her new Mechanical Insect Race, and Shusha challenged their combat strength.

• Zhang Fan learned that the Ink Race planned to seek revenge on the Western Realm Great Emperor before returning to fight his forces, and he agreed to wait for them in the Western Realm.
• Zhang Fan decided to expand into the Southern Realm while the Ink Race attacked the Western Realm Great Emperor, and he led the Insect Race army toward the Brocade Galaxy.
• Nexis told Zhang Fan that Doria had been sending Biohumans to Second Earth through Planet Duolu, and Zhang Fan chose the Brocade Galaxy as a forward base.
• Jiesang, Sinderson, and Nord welcomed Zhang Fan's fleet to Warner Star, where Doria greeted him after hundreds of years apart.
• Doria showed Zhang Fan the Mechanical Insect Race she had created by merging three races and their technologies, including mechanized Swift Spirit Bugs and Steel Mantises.
• Shusha criticized the modified Insect Race as monsters, and Doria defended them, prompting Shusha to challenge their fighting ability.

Zhang Fan watched Shusha's organic insects battle Doria's mechanical army, then ordered the Brocade Galaxy to prepare for the Southern Realm campaign. Nord and Sinderson secretly tried to recruit Doria to their side, ending by telling her Nexis had called her a forgotten, lowly insect.

• Zhang Fan arranged a battlefield where Shusha's Enhanced Swift Spirit Bugs and Doria's Mechanical Swift Spirit Bugs fought, with Doria's Mechanical Centipedes ambushing the organic insects from underground.
• Nexis urged Zhang Fan to send the Brocade Galaxy to war, and Sinderson agreed to obey while privately telling Nord to ask Jiesang whether Doria could be brought to their side.
• Jiesang led Doria to a secluded basement where Nord and Sinderson asked for her help and complained that the organic Matriarchs looked down on them.
• Nord told Doria that Nexis had called her a forgotten, lowly insect, leaving Doria to hear the insult firsthand.

Doria and her allies plotted to punish Nexis and Shusha, but their plan led to a confrontation in the council hall and exposed Doria’s experimental Mechanical Beast God General, Chong. Zhang Fan ordered Doria to destroy Chong, leaving her furious with Nexis and resentful of the Native Insect Race.

• Nord persuaded Doria to teach Nexis and Shusha a lesson, and Doria agreed despite concerns about casualties and Zhang Fan’s reaction.
• Back in the council hall, Doria and Nexis argued over their standing and began fighting while Zhang Fan allowed them to continue.
• Chong, a Mechanical Beast God General created by Doria as a replica, burst into the hall and fired at Nexis.
• Doria apologized and explained that Chong was an unfinished test, but Zhang Fan ordered her to destroy him because a Beast God General could not be copied.
• After Nexis called Doria’s forces monsters, Doria clenched her bleeding fists and focused on killing Nexis.

Doria and Shusha let Sinderson, Jiesang, and Nord believe they could overthrow the Insect Race, while secretly preparing to expose their hidden forces. Jiesang lured Nexis into an ambush, but Doria revealed another fleet and trapped the conspirators, whose attack left them surrounded by the Insect Race.

• Sinderson, Jiesang, and Nord inflamed Doria's anger at Nexis until she agreed to their plan to kill her.
• After the three left, Shusha and Doria agreed to play along, uncover their hidden forces, and use Doria's mastery of local technology to develop a mechanical insect force.
• Zhang Fan sent Nexis with a fleet to investigate a supposedly newly spacefaring planet, and Jiesang guided her there.
• Jiesang revealed the planet was a trap, but Nexis challenged his attempt to turn the Insect Race against Zhang Fan, and Sinderson explained their plan to ambush the reinforcements.
• Doria surrounded Sinderson's fleet with a hidden mechanical insect force, and Sinderson ordered his ships to fire on Nexis and Doria's fleets despite the Insect Race forces behind them.

Sinderson and Jiesang tried to escape the Insect Race encirclement, but Nord appeared with a million warships and drew them into a trap arranged with Zhang Fan. After Nord’s fleet attacked them from behind, Zhang Fan accepted their surrender and ordered Nord to execute them in the Arena, then sent Noya down as well.

• Sinderson and Jiesang broke through the Insect Race encirclement after losing roughly thirty thousand warships, then encountered Nord’s fleet.
• Nord urged them to turn back and fight the Insect Race, while Zhang Fan revealed that Nord had helped lure them into the attack.
• Nord’s fleet opened fire on Sinderson and Jiesang’s forces from behind, trapping them between the Brocade Galaxy fleet and the Insect Race.
• Jiesang and Sinderson surrendered to Zhang Fan, who ordered their warships to cease fire and had both men brought to the Arena.
• Zhang Fan ordered Nord to execute the two traitors, then sent Noya into the Arena, shocking her.

Zhang Fan crushed the Brocade Galaxy’s betrayal, placed Doria in charge, and merged the Three Races into the Brocade Race. After three years of preparation, the Insect Race received news that its S-Class Battleships were on their way, bringing the Southern Realm Conquest Plan closer.

• Nord entered the arena with Jiesang and Sinderson, and the two attacked him after rejecting his claim that Zhang Fan would spare them.
• Shusha, Nexis, and Doria discussed the traitors’ failed schemes while Zhang Fan ordered that Jiesang and Sinderson need not be kept alive and appointed Doria governor of the Brocade Galaxy.
• Nord tricked Jiesang and Sinderson into attacking each other, but Snow White killed Nord after he declared he would claim their armies.
• Zhang Fan revealed the betrayal to the Brocade Galaxy’s subjects, warned them against another rebellion, and the Insect Race merged the Three Races as the Brocade Race.
• After three years of rest and refitting, Nexis reported that four hundred S-Class Battleships were on their way from Earth, and Zhang Fan prepared to launch the Southern Realm Conquest Plan once they arrived.