Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang led the Eighth Domain’s strongest fighters toward the First Domain while the Seventh Domain sent its own force. Frost Tiger tried to stop them, but Mechanical-Bone Ape intervened, and Qin Siyang’s convoy continued as the two gods’ forces began fighting.

• Qin Siyang delivered a declaration against the First Domain, and hundreds of millions in the Safe Zone answered with cries of victory.
• Qin Siyang promised Gu Weirong he would return, then led the Eighth Domain’s strongest fighters out of the Safe Zone as Sima Ji led a force from the Seventh Domain.
• Frost Tiger and other Large Gods blocked Qin Siyang’s route, but Mechanical-Bone Ape arrived with dozens of Large Gods to confront them.
• Mechanical-Bone Ape and Frost Tiger refused to yield, knowing each would die if Qin Siyang’s side prevailed or fell.
• As Frost Tiger and Mechanical-Bone Ape’s forces clashed, Qin Siyang ordered the convoy to advance at full speed toward the First Domain.

Qin Siyang and Sima Ji led their forces into the First Domain despite its perception-blocking mist, while the First Domain’s leaders divided up the invaders as targets. The forces entered the domain, setting the stage for battles between the rival groups.

• Qin Siyang and Sima Ji discussed the First Domain’s mist and their plans, and Sima Ji revealed he had prepared protective gear by cloning captured people from the First Domain.
• Qin Siyang found a way to deal with the mist, and the Eighth and Seventh Domain forces entered the First Domain at the same time.
• At the Round Table Meeting, Duke Henry and Marquis Madison agreed to divide the invading forces between them.
• Marquis Madison led Count Taylor, Viscount Frank, Baron William, and their followers to attack the Seventh Domain’s army.
• Duke Henry left with Count Henry, Count George, and Baron George to attack the Eighth Domain’s smaller force.

Qin Siyang led the Eighth Domain’s convoy into the First Domain, where Duke Henry challenged his view of war and civilization. As the convoy advanced toward the final battle over the star lord succession, a hidden attacker destroyed several war chariots.

• The Eighth Domain’s war chariots endured bombardment behind their Tier Five Barrier as they approached the First Domain’s Safe Zone.
• Two First Domain commanders confronted Qin Siyang, but they were turned to stone and crumbled into dust.
• Duke Henry met Qin Siyang in the mist, and they argued over whether strength or civilization should guide humanity.
• Qin Siyang declared that the final battle would decide the star lord succession, and Duke Henry sent Count Henry to meet the convoy.
• Wind Blades shattered the barrier and destroyed several war chariots, while a young voice mocked the Eighth Domain’s research and its European allies.

Qin Siyang’s group trapped Count Henry and used a Spatial Artifact to isolate him from the Life-Substitution Lamp. Chu Baxing killed him repeatedly until his resurrections ran out, leaving Duke Henry’s grandson dead.

• Count Henry attacked the War Chariots with returning Wind Blades, while Duan Chongfang, Hu Chan, and Qin Siyang’s group used the mist and a decoy plan to approach him.
• Duan Chongfang appeared beside Count Henry and struck his chest, while Chu Baxing pinned him in place with his shadow.
• Qin Siyang ordered Chu Baxing to act, and Chu Baxing sent Count Henry into Professor Li’s Spatial Artifact, which cut him off from the Life-Substitution Lamp.
• Count Henry resurrected repeatedly in the dark room, but Chu Baxing killed him each time and blocked his attempts to fight or escape.
• Count Henry used his final resurrection to call for his grandfather, then Chu Baxing killed him for the last time and confirmed that he did not revive.

After Chu Baxing killed Count Henry, Qin Siyang confronted Duke Henry and argued that their war came from irreconcilable differences between their civilizations. Count George then used the Ironclad Army to weigh down the invaders with his judgment ability, leaving Qin Siyang alone in the mist to face the approaching force.

• Chu Baxing returned from the Spatial Artifact after killing Count Henry, and Qin Siyang challenged Duke Henry to appear and fight.
• Duke Henry questioned Qin Siyang’s belief in equality, and Qin Siyang said their war resulted from differences their civilizations could not resolve.
• A powerful combined attack struck Qin Siyang and his allies, and they realized that Count George and the Ironclad Army were using a judgment ability against them.
• Count George’s judgment shackled the group, and Gu Yunzheng explained that attacking the Ironclad Army would make the restraints even stronger.
• Qin Siyang sent everyone else into the Spatial Artifact and remained alone on the War Chariot, telling Count George he could still kill him.

Qin Siyang summoned an island carrying five hundred thousand Mobile Fortress Unit soldiers and used their mass bombardment to destroy Count George’s Ironclad Army. As Qin Siyang suspected Duke Henry remained nearby, Duke Henry revealed himself by confronting Baron George over his betrayal and his father’s death.

• Count George used the Ironclad Army’s Five-Hundredfold Skill Amplification to immobilize Qin Siyang, but Qin Siyang activated Domain Summoning before the attack could land.
• Wei Rulai deployed the Mobile Fortress Unit from the summoned island, and its five hundred thousand soldiers destroyed Count George and the Ironclad Army with a mass bombardment.
• Wei Rulai ordered a second, area-wide skill sweep while Quan Taibin activated an artifact to disrupt enemy Spatial Transmission Tools and prevent escape.
• Hu Chan reported that Count George was likely dead, and Qin Siyang regretted that Duke Henry had escaped and might be plotting nearby.
• Duke Henry confronted Baron George, accusing him of betraying their side and allowing his own father to die for a chance to become Star Lord.

Duke Henry punished Baron George for betraying his family and revealed that he had once used [Phantom Substitute] to save George as a newborn. Left alone after losing his family, Duke Henry activated his Domain Master Skill, [White Mist Monarchy], revealing that he was still alive.

• Duke Henry revealed that he and Marquis Madison had known of Baron George’s secret alliance with Sima Ji, and he condemned George for betraying his relatives and friends.
• Duke Henry told Baron George that he had passed the Phantom Leopard’s trial and explained that he had used [Phantom Substitute] to save George at birth, leaving him unable to save other family members later.
• Duke Henry sealed Baron George inside a dark-purple cocoon and buried him alive as punishment.
• After Qin Siyang challenged him, Duke Henry mourned his lost family and activated [White Mist Monarchy], bringing the First Domain’s mist under his control.

Duke Henry unleashed the white mist covering the First Domain, disrupting the Eighth Domain forces’ senses and communications. After friendly fire nearly hit Qin Siyang and the Twenty-Second Division disappeared into the mist, Wei Rulai prepared to use Quan Taibin’s untested mental-signal tool to coordinate the remaining troops.

• Duke Henry revealed that he was the Domain Master and spread white mist across the battlefield, while Madison acknowledged his strategy and doubted he would survive to their planned contest for Star Lord.
• The mist muffled communications and caused hallucinations, and Wei Rulai ordered the troops to stop and defend themselves.
• A unit mistakenly resumed firing at the enemy’s former position, and Qin Siyang escaped the blast with Hu Chan, Chu Baxing, Li Tianming, and the others before taking them to the island.
• Wei Rulai learned that the Twenty-Second Division had left the Mobile Fortress’s shield and vanished into the mist, likely killed by Duke Henry.
• Quan Taibin offered an untested tool that transmitted mental signals, and Wei Rulai insisted on using it instead of Qin Siyang.

Li Tianming equipped Wei Rulai with a helmet that let him command the troops mentally through the white mist, and the Eighth Domain’s force regrouped. When two large gods appeared between them and the First Domain’s Safe Zone, Qin Siyang chose to contact Zhong Dingming and pursue an attack despite the risk to civilians.

• Li Tianming fitted Wei Rulai with a helmet that transmitted his mental commands to the troops, allowing them to regroup and ignore deceptive voices in the mist.
• Li Tianming, Qin Siyang, and the others discussed targeting the First Domain’s Safe Zone while avoiding the areas where ordinary people lived.
• Two large gods emerged in the mist to guard the route to the Safe Zone, and Duke Henry challenged Qin Siyang to fight.
• Qin Siyang told Li Tianming to contact Zhong Dingming, who planned to seize the Safe Zone’s interior and limit civilian casualties.
• Qin Siyang said he would try to protect First Domain civilians but would not sacrifice the trapped Eighth Domain soldiers to avoid every innocent death.

Yu Jianyun successfully broke through while Qin Siyang’s forces and the gods converged on the First Domain. After Duke Henry revealed his contempt for ordinary people, Qin Siyang ordered Wei Rulai to bombard the Nobles District, leaving the attack underway.

• Yu Jianyun drank a Sequence Potion, broke through, and entered a crystal ball Zhong Dingming carried as Zhong prepared to handle the ordinary people’s district.
• Thousands of medium and small gods charged toward the First Domain, while Mechanical-Bone Ape and the other large gods subdued Frost Tiger’s group.
• Niu Douchong and more than a hundred large gods headed for the First Domain, and Mechanical-Bone Ape stayed behind to prevent Frost Tiger from reaching Qin Siyang.
• Qin Siyang rejected Duke Henry’s offer to duel and, after hearing Henry dismiss ordinary people as livestock, decided the First Domain’s nobles deserved to die.
• Wei Rulai ordered all units to fire on the First Domain’s Nobles District, and explosions followed.

The Eighth Domain’s Mobile Fortress Unit devastated the First Domain’s Noble District while Zhong Dingming protected the Civilian District from the shock waves. As the assault continued, Duke Henry gathered the First Domain’s mist into armor and weapons, then vanished and attacked Qin Siyang.

• Wei Rulai ordered the Mobile Fortress Unit to bombard the First Domain’s Noble District while forbidding attacks on the Civilian District.
• The strike shattered the nobles’ defenses and destroyed their homes and the Round Table Meeting’s hall, while Zhong Dingming’s windmill redirected the shock waves away from civilians.
• Zhong Dingming told the civilians that the Eighth Domain was punishing their slave masters and would restore their freedom after the war.
• Duke Henry threatened Qin Siyang, and Qin Siyang replied that those who started wars had to pay their price.
• The mist across the First Domain gathered around Duke Henry, forming armor, a mask, weapons, a crown, and a robe as his strength grew.
• Duke Henry evaded the Mobile Fortress Unit’s attack, appeared behind the defenders, and nearly struck Qin Siyang through their shield before challenging him.

Duke Henry forced Qin Siyang to choose between retreating and fighting him inside the First Domain, and Qin Siyang accepted a one-on-one duel. Their battle began far from the First Domain, where Duke Henry was shocked to discover that Qin Siyang was faster and stronger.

• Duke Henry blasted through the First Domain's collective shield and warned Qin Siyang that he could kill the army's commanders if the attack continued.
• Duke Henry refused Qin Siyang's proposal to fight elsewhere, arguing that the First Domain would remain under threat unless Qin Siyang died.
• Qin Siyang agreed to duel Duke Henry inside the First Domain and told Li Tianming that killing Duke Henry was necessary to end the conflict.
• Qin Siyang and Duke Henry traveled several dozen kilometers away to fight without disturbing the First Domain or its defenders.
• Qin Siyang struck Duke Henry with the Godslayer Spear, and Duke Henry evaded by dissolving into white mist before reacting in alarm to Qin Siyang's superior speed and strength.

Qin Siyang used his overwhelming physical strength and speed to battle Duke Henry, while learning that someone on Earth had already reached the [Succession Star Competition]'s skill limit. The fight escalated when Duke Henry transformed into mist and entered his strongest form.

• Qin Siyang used [Feast Kingdom] and the Godslayer Spear to overwhelm Duke Henry, whose mist form let him evade several lethal attacks.
• Qin Siyang realized Duke Henry's mist armor could withstand repeated blows and worried that the prolonged fight would leave him weakened against Sima Ji.
• Duke Henry explained that the crow phantom had shrunk because someone on Earth exceeded the competition's skill limit, and Qin Siyang suspected Sima Ji was responsible.
• Duke Henry condensed his white mist armor into his body, entered his strongest form, and said Qin Siyang had forced him to stop conserving strength.

Qin Siyang unleashed [Domain Banquet Order] and overwhelmed Duke Henry’s Mist Clones, but Duke Henry activated his final skill and declared Qin Siyang dead. The chapter ended with Duke Henry dismissing his clones and telling Qin Siyang to speak his last words.

• Duke Henry absorbed the white mist, outpaced Qin Siyang, and created ten Mist Clones that attacked him from all sides.
• Qin Siyang was wounded by the clones’ beams, and white mist poured from his wounds as his strength faded.
• Qin Siyang activated [Domain Banquet Order], greatly increased his power, and battered Duke Henry and his repeatedly re-forming clones.
• Duke Henry recognized Qin Siyang as the strongest opponent he had faced and activated his final skill, turning the mist black purple.
• Duke Henry dismissed his clones and told Qin Siyang that he was dead and should speak his last words.

Qin Siyang learned that Duke Henry had cursed him with a skill that guaranteed death, though neither of them knew when it would take effect. Qin Siyang kept attacking Duke Henry, determined to kill him before the curse took hold.

• Duke Henry withdrew his Clone Skill and told Qin Siyang that the battle was over because Qin Siyang was doomed to die.
• Qin Siyang tested Duke Henry's claim with the Lie Detector, then attacked him repeatedly while Duke Henry's black mist body dispersed and reformed.
• Duke Henry recalled his rise as a young genius and learned that Qin Siyang had reached domain sequence level five in only two and a half years.
• Duke Henry and Qin Siyang confirmed that they were chosen by the eye of the divine crow, and the crow opened its eye.
• Duke Henry revealed that his skill was a curse that guaranteed death once it hit.

Qin Siyang survived Duke Henry’s strongest curse because curses did not work on him, and he continued attacking until Duke Henry conceded. Duke Henry accepted Qin Siyang as the strongest contender for Star Lord and warned him that Sima Ji and Madison would be difficult opponents.

• Duke Henry revealed that his black mist had already exposed Qin Siyang to his strongest curse, but Qin Siyang remained unharmed.
• Qin Siyang challenged Duke Henry’s beliefs about gods and explained that he suspected he was immune to curses.
• Qin Siyang repeatedly attacked Duke Henry’s black mist clones, while Duke Henry’s Lie Detector confirmed that Qin Siyang did not know why the curse failed.
• Duke Henry stopped fighting and conceded, saying Qin Siyang was the strongest person on Earth and would eventually breach the First Domain.
• Duke Henry urged Qin Siyang to save his strength for the Star Lord competition against Sima Ji and Madison.

Qin Siyang accepted Duke Henry’s unconditional surrender but decided he still had to kill him. After Sima Ji defeated Madison’s final attack, Duke Henry acknowledged his own failure and died by Qin Siyang’s spear.

• Duke Henry conceded without conditions, and Qin Siyang reflected on the old man’s beliefs and his choice to give up after defeat.
• Qin Siyang told Duke Henry he still had to kill him, and Duke Henry agreed not to use resurrection.
• Qin Siyang and Duke Henry saw Madison’s inverted city collapse as Madison unleashed an attack against Sima Ji.
• Sima Ji survived Madison’s self-destructive attack, while the snow-covered mountains held against the blast.
• Duke Henry said he had never been worthy of becoming a Star Lord, and Qin Siyang killed him with the Godslayer Spear.

After defeating Duke Henry, Qin Siyang returned to the Eighth Domain’s cheering troops and faced Sima Ji, who challenged him to a duel to decide who would become the Star Lord. Qin Siyang argued that the Eighth Domain would eventually surpass the Seventh, but Sima Ji insisted that only a personal victory could earn him the title.

• Qin Siyang stored Duke Henry’s corpse and returned to his island, where the Eighth Domain’s troops celebrated his victory.
• Qin Siyang told Li Tianming, Gu Yunzheng, and Wei Rulai that the First Domain was no longer their main enemy, then revealed that Sima Ji had arrived.
• Sima Ji said his mole in the First Domain had not survived, and Qin Siyang corrected him that Duke Henry had fought at full strength and lost fairly.
• Sima Ji revealed that Chen Xiao'en and his troops had been wiped out fighting William’s forces, leaving Sima Ji alone.
• Sima Ji challenged Qin Siyang to a duel, arguing that only defeating him could make Sima Ji the Star Lord; Qin Siyang countered that the Eighth Domain’s forces would keep growing stronger.
• Sima Ji declared that the title of First Under Heaven had to be earned and demanded that Qin Siyang fight him.

Qin Siyang considered whether becoming the Star Lord was worth the risks and responsibilities, weighing his promise to Wen Shu and the Large Gods against his duty to humanity. He ultimately accepted Sima Ji’s challenge to a decisive battle.

• Sima Ji urged Qin Siyang to duel, arguing that their exhausted state would reveal whose combat skill was greater.
• Qin Siyang questioned why he should become the Star Lord and explained that the First Domain’s defeat had already opened the way for Earth’s recovery.
• Qin Siyang weighed his desire to reach the Star Sea and repay the Large Gods against his responsibility to the people who depended on him.
• The Large Gods reacted with alarm as Qin Siyang considered abandoning his chance, while Niu Douchong said they would accept the loss if he did.
• After reflecting, Qin Siyang opened his eyes and accepted Sima Ji’s challenge to a decisive battle.

Qin Siyang explained why he chose to fight Sima Ji, then used his overwhelming speed and strength to break through Sima Ji’s autonomous ice defenses. The battle left Sima Ji blasted out of sight behind a snowy slope.

• Qin Siyang told Sima Ji that refusing the Star Lord competition could make the Large Gods abandon Earth, so he chose to risk a battle instead.
• Qin Siyang estimated Sima Ji had at most a thirty percent chance of winning and attacked with the Godslayer Spear.
• Sima Ji used sudden ice pillars to pursue Qin Siyang, but Qin Siyang dodged them with extraordinary speed.
• Qin Siyang shattered Sima Ji’s ice wall and wounded him, while realizing Sima Ji’s defenses and dodges operated autonomously.
• Sima Ji created a net of barbed ice chains, but Qin Siyang broke through them with his strength and charged forward.
• Qin Siyang thrust his spear into Sima Ji, blasted him backward, and sent him behind a snowy slope.