Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang fought Sima Ji across the snowfield, surviving a lethal ice trap with the [Shield Ridge] trial reward and using his speed to break Sima Ji’s connection to the snow. Sima Ji raised a domain of snow-covered mountains, and Qin Siyang began smashing through them to prove his strength.

• Qin Siyang’s [Feast Kingdom] retreat point was sealed in ice, and [Shield Ridge] revived and protected him from freezing to death.
• Qin Siyang severed Sima Ji’s connection to the snowfield with rapid spear strikes, then repeatedly shattered Sima Ji’s body as his Doppelganger Resurrection Skill consumed its power.
• Sima Ji summoned a domain of snow-covered mountains and challenged Qin Siyang to defeat them without help from his troops.
• Qin Siyang charged into a mountain with the Godslayer Spear and broke it in half.

Qin Siyang’s overwhelming physical strength let him smash through Sima Ji’s snow mountains, but Sima Ji unleashed a barrage of ice blades and used Chen Xiao'en’s movement-binding ability to trap him. The chapter ended with Qin Siyang frozen inside an ice tomb, his heartbeat stopping.

• Qin Siyang punched through a snow mountain and revealed that his physical strength had been enhanced by more than ten thousand times.
• Qin Siyang charged through another snow mountain, prompting Sima Ji to unleash countless snow blades across the domain.
• Qin Siyang dodged and fought through the attacks, realizing that Sima Ji’s ice and snow were tougher than the mountains themselves.
• Sima Ji’s snow spikes and blades attacked Qin Siyang, while black beasts emerging from his shadow slowed his escape.
• Qin Siyang recognized Chen Xiao'en, whom he had believed dead, and realized the Lie Detector had been deceived by Seventh Domain research.
• Sima Ji used Chen Xiao'en’s brief restraint to bury Qin Siyang under snow blades, freezing him in an ice tomb until his heartbeat stopped.

Qin Siyang broke free of Chen Xiao'en’s restraint and fought Sima Ji while Duan Chongfang and the Eighth Domain’s fighters captured Chen Xiao'en. Qin Siyang discovered a brief opening whenever Sima Ji re-formed, and his spear closed in as Sima Ji returned to the battlefield.

• Qin Siyang shattered the ice tomb, but Sima Ji’s snow blades kept him from killing Chen Xiao'en.
• Duan Chongfang pulled Chen Xiao'en into Southern Glory's Combat Arena and trapped him in an artifact cage with help from Hu Chan, Quan Taibin, and Li Tianming.
• Chen Xiao'en killed himself to escape the cage, reappeared outside it, and began fighting Chu Baxing and the others.
• Qin Siyang advanced through Sima Ji’s snow-blade assault and realized the blades briefly fell out of Sima Ji’s control whenever he died and re-formed.
• Qin Siyang struck Sima Ji as he reappeared and declared that Sima Ji was going to lose.

Qin Siyang repeatedly killed Sima Ji until [Edict of Consumption] locked away Sima Ji’s ice substitutes and ended his revival skill. Sima Ji accepted defeat, gave Qin Siyang William’s body, and killed himself, leaving Qin Siyang and his allies victorious.

• Qin Siyang relentlessly pursued and killed Sima Ji, weakening the snowstorm that powered his revivals.
• Qin Siyang struck Sima Ji’s actual body and activated [Edict of Consumption], reducing his ice substitutes below one and disabling the skill.
• Sima Ji admitted defeat and explained that he would not flee after losing the duel.
• Sima Ji gave Qin Siyang a Storage Box containing William’s body, and Qin Siyang accepted it.
• Sima Ji drove an ice spike into his chest and died, apologizing to Wen Daoqian.

Qin Siyang defeated Sima Ji, securing the Eighth Domain’s victory in the Succession Star Competition and prompting its troops to celebrate. Yu Jianyun emerged from the First Domain’s ruins, while Zhong Dingming’s unexplained departure left his whereabouts unknown.

• Qin Siyang placed Sima Ji’s lifeless body in the Storage Box, confirming the battle was over.
• Wei Rulai ordered the troops to salute Qin Siyang, and hundreds of thousands celebrated the Eighth Domain’s victory.
• Qin Siyang declared that the Eighth Domain had won together and promised an end to oppression, invasion, slavery, and nobles on Earth.
• Niu Douchong argued with Scale Serpent that the rules did not require him to kill Yu Jianyun after Yu had left the First Domain.
• Yu Jianyun met Qin Siyang and credited the victory to the Eighth Domain’s forces, while Qin Siyang praised the value of everyone’s contributions.
• Yu Jianyun told Qin Siyang that Zhong Dingming had left after Sima Ji died, but he did not know where Zhong had gone.

Yu Jianyun chose to keep walking the Path of the Believer rather than rebuild his strength, while Qin Siyang began freeing the Safe Zones before becoming the Star Lord. In the First Domain, Qin Siyang defeated the last nobles who resisted, displayed Duke Henry’s corpse, and declared the people free.

• Yu Jianyun told Qin Siyang he would continue on the Path of the Believer and live outside the Safe Zone.
• Qin Siyang decided to free the people in every Safe Zone, starting with the First Domain.
• Qin Siyang entered the ruined First Domain with his companions and killed nobles who ambushed them.
• Qin Siyang placed Duke Henry’s corpse on the First Domain’s public trial platform, showing the people that the duke was dead.
• Qin Siyang declared the nobles’ rule over and told the people of the First Domain that they were free.

Qin Siyang declared the First Domain’s ordinary people equal and arranged aid, security, and temporary administration after its nobles were overthrown. He then went to the Third Domain, where powerful locals offered to become his vassals, but he rejected their assumption that he would rule them.

• Qin Siyang told the First Domain’s people they no longer had to kneel or suffer for their birth, promised justice for the nobles’ crimes, and offered food, medicine, and a choice to stay or return home.
• Qin Siyang assigned Chu Baxing to secure essential supplies and systems, Wei Rulai to suppress remaining noble forces, and Gu Yunzheng to serve as temporary administrator and help examine old records.
• Qin Siyang agreed to let Zhao Sifang investigate the Black Market’s ties to the nobles and warned the crowd against using their new freedom to abuse others.
• Qin Siyang led most of his group from the First Domain and chose the Third Domain as their next destination.
• Powerful people from the Third Domain welcomed Qin Siyang and offered to become his vassals, but Qin Siyang said they were celebrating too soon.

Qin Siyang took control of the Third, Fourth, and Seventh Domains, eliminating their remaining leaders and arranging new administrations. After setting out for the next domain, he credited the campaign’s success to the group rather than himself.

• Qin Siyang rejected the Third Domain leaders’ plea for another chance and killed them with the Godslayer Spear.
• Qin Siyang entered the Third Domain, secured its people’s submission, and arranged for Hu Chan, Sun Linshou, and other personnel to help rebuild its government.
• Qin Siyang cleared Alan’s puppets and the new Domain Master from the Fourth Domain, then asked Gu Weirong to send Chu Zhongxiong to oversee its reconstruction.
• Qin Siyang took over the Seventh Domain without resistance after displaying Sima Ji’s corpse, and agreed with Zhao Longfei that Sima Ji had likely planned for a peaceful transfer.
• Qin Siyang told Zhao Longfei, “Not me, but us,” before leading his forces onward.

After Qin Siyang’s liberation of Earth’s evolutionary sequence domains, the regions celebrated their freedom and prepared for the future while he waited for recognition as a Star Lord. Nearly a month later, the enormous crow phantom opened its eyes, froze everyone else in place, and sent star-lit wind down to Qin Siyang as he began his breakthrough.

• Qin Siyang appointed Tang Wangong to manage the Seventh Domain and assigned Olof to coordinate support among the evolutionary sequence domains after Zhao Longfei declined the role.
• The Eighth Domain shared the truth about the apocalypse and sequence abilities, mobilized to hunt medium and small gods, and prepared researchers for entry into the Star Sea.
• Qin Siyang went into the wilderness, where hundreds of large gods gathered around him as he waited without triggering their trials.
• After nearly a month, the enormous crow phantom opened its eyes, stopped everyone on Earth except Qin Siyang, and sent star-lit wind down to him.
• Qin Siyang felt the vast aura envelop him and recognized the sensation of a breakthrough.

Qin Siyang broke through to Star Sequence level 1, becoming a Star Feast Master as his body and Foundation of Self-Enlightenment transformed. His new skills vastly increased his ability to absorb cooked God Remains, though he sensed something about the improvement was not quite right.

• Qin Siyang discovered that his breakthrough had increased his physical strength a thousandfold and made him feel connected to Earth.
• The Foundation of Self-Enlightenment transformed into a planet-like system, with a dark gold sphere forming around a hundred motes of primordial starshine and its outer halo expanding beyond sight.
• Qin Siyang learned that the primordial starshine and the remains he had gathered through earlier efforts had contributed to his new transformation.
• Qin Siyang's panel identified him as a Level 1 Star Feast Master and granted him Star Feast, Island Fire God-Cooking, and Island Fire Feast Distribution.
• Qin Siyang noted that cooking God Remains now increased absorption far more than before, but he felt that something was not quite right.

Qin Siyang examined the strange changes to his skills after becoming a Star Lord and then met the Divine Crow, who confirmed his victory in the Succession Trial. He learned the other contestants would also enter the Star Sea and chose to spend a long time questioning the Succession Envoy.

• Qin Siyang found that his new Star Lord skills used unfamiliar units and that some abilities, including Taste of Godhood and Star Banquet Order, had weakened.
• Qin Siyang discovered new powers that let him travel through the Star Sea, move Earth, and strengthen or protect Earth's people within his domains.
• A powerful force pulled Qin Siyang's consciousness back from the star core, where the Divine Crow landed before him.
• The Divine Crow congratulated Qin Siyang on becoming a Star Lord and identified him as the Succession Trial's winner.
• Qin Siyang worried about the other contestants, and the Divine Crow assured him they would enter the Star Sea with him.
• Qin Siyang learned he could call the crow the Succession Envoy and asked to speak with him for a whole day.

Qin Siyang questioned the Succession Envoy about the history and purpose of the Succession Star Competition and learned that the crow had not chosen him as a favored candidate. The crow revealed that Qin Siyang’s God Eater ability was actually an obstacle, because his original sequence would have been far stronger.

• Qin Siyang asked the crow about its many names and learned that it had appeared on Earth throughout the long history of the Succession Star Competition.
• The crow explained that the competition accelerated evolution and that humans remained responsible for what happened within it.
• Qin Siyang learned that the crow launched the Succession Trial to find its successor, though he still had much to experience before reaching that role.
• The crow listed Henry, William, Bedel, Pushpa, Alan, Sima Ji, Ander, and Shen Shisong as candidates it had focused on cultivating instead of Qin Siyang.
• The crow admitted it had misjudged Qin Siyang and revealed that giving him the God Eater sequence had been its greatest obstacle, since his original sequence would have been stronger.

Crows explained that Qin Siyang’s [God Eater] sequence was exceptionally difficult to master and that he had replaced the sequence Qin Siyang was originally meant to awaken. He also revealed that Qin Siyang’s reincarnation was not his doing and that the Eighth Domain’s competition was an unprecedented case.

• Crows told Qin Siyang that [God Eater] had the lowest chance of success among the sequences he bestowed, and that Qin Siyang had made it powerful by pushing its potential to the limit.
• Crows revealed that Qin Siyang’s original sequence could not be named and that he had forced Qin Siyang to awaken [God Eater] because he feared the original sequence’s impact on the Earth System.
• Qin Siyang asked about his reincarnation, and Crows said he had not caused it and had only later learned Qin Siyang was reincarnated from another world.
• Crows praised Qin Siyang’s unprecedented achievement as the first Star Lord to win a [Succession Star Competition] involving hundreds of millions of people.
• Crows explained that other competitions often included pioneers, but they usually lacked Qin Siyang’s numbers, strength, and luck, making the Eighth Domain a one-of-a-kind case.

Qin Siyang asked Crows how Sequence Abilities developed and learned that they adapted to a person’s experiences and changes. Crows revealed that Qin Siyang had been in the Star Sea all along and praised him for acting quickly to become a Star Lord.

• Qin Siyang refused to claim sole credit for bringing hundreds of millions of people to the Star Sea, and Crows argued that completing others’ long-held convictions was an achievement of its own.
• Qin Siyang asked whether Sequence Abilities were fixed, and Crows explained that they changed in response to a person’s experiences, state of mind, and strengths.
• Qin Siyang asked why the Godslayer Spear had not affected his Sequence Ability, and Crows said the artifact remained external to him, though it was unusual.
• Qin Siyang recognized Crows’s writing style in the [Apocalypse Fragment] and asked whether the planet would soon be taken to the Star Sea; Crows told him they were already there.
• Crows said Qin Siyang had completed the [Succession Star Competition] faster than expected, and Qin Siyang explained that he had followed the Fragment’s advice to become a Star Lord quickly.

Qin Siyang asked Crows about the trial’s time limit, his rewards, and why his skills remained weakened after advancing to the star sequence. Crows explained the sequence hierarchy and praised Qin Siyang’s exceptional strength, ending by lamenting that Qin Siyang had killed Sima Ji.

• Qin Siyang learned that the time he took to finish the trial mattered only to him and that he could keep the Godslayer Spear, though it had improperly appeared in the competition.
• Qin Siyang asked why his skills were still weakened, and Crows explained that sequences impose strict power limits to preserve the order between levels.
• Crows said the competition raised the domain sequence level five limit to star sequence level one so candidates could display their abilities.
• Crows explained that Qin Siyang had reached the physical limit, surpassing Crows’s strength when Crows entered the star sequence, while Sima Ji had reached the skill limit.
• Crows said Sima Ji would have become a Star Lord in another competition, but Qin Siyang killed him, leaving the slightly inferior genius dead.

Qin Siyang learned from Crows about lifespan extension, advancement, and the dangers awaiting him in the Star Sea after becoming Star Lord. He accepted that he had no safe way to avoid the Star Sea and ended by asking why he was immune to curses, which Crows could not explain.

• Qin Siyang reflected that he had always wanted to kill Sima Ji and felt relieved that Sima Ji was dead.
• Qin Siyang asked Crows why his information panel showed [Lifespan Extension], and Crows explained that the Star Sequence tripled his lifespan because advancement in the Star Sea was slow.
• Qin Siyang asked how he could advance and whether older Star Lords could destroy Earth, and Crows explained that planetary suppression protected newly ascended Star Lords for about a hundred years.
• Crows warned Qin Siyang that the Star Sea was a world where the strong preyed on the weak, and that the [Succession Trial] would eventually fail if no one became Star Lord, causing Crows to erase all living beings.
• Qin Siyang asked why his body was immune to curses, and Crows admitted he could not explain it.

Qin Siyang learned that the Succession Envoy could not explain how its selections worked and warned him of a challenge waiting in the Star Sea. As Crows departed, it restored sunlight to Earth and the Large Gods were summoned away, leaving Qin Siyang to face the coming challenge.

• Qin Siyang asked Crows whether identical people from different Earths could meet in the Star Sea, and Crows said it did not know why that could not happen.
• Crows told Qin Siyang that he could skip the upcoming challenge but might struggle to support Earth's huge population, then warned him not to die too soon.
• Crows flew into the Starry Sky and laid an enormous egg that became a sun, bringing sunlight back to Earth for the first time in nearly a century.
• People across Earth celebrated the return of the sun, while those born in the dark world saw it for the first time.
• The Large Gods rose from Earth toward the Star Sea, and Niu Douchong told Qin Siyang they would meet again soon as Frost Tiger glared at him with hatred.

After the gods vanished and Earth’s boundaries dissolved, Qin Siyang discovered the Star Sea beyond the sky and went to meet the Star Lords who had summoned him. He reached the edge of Earth’s Star Realm, where familiar Large Gods waited and a gathering of Star Lords reacted to his arrival.

• The gods disappeared, the seas cleared, and the [Evolutionary Sequence Domains] across Earth lost their boundaries and restrictions.
• Countless planets resembling Earth appeared in the sky, and former Star Lords invited Qin Siyang to meet them beyond Earth’s Star Realm.
• Qin Siyang prepared with Life-Saving Medicines and Crimson Armor, then used [Starflight] to ascend to the Star Realm’s edge.
• Qin Siyang saw over a thousand Earth-like planets and recognized Power Bull, Mechanical-Bone Ape, Frost Tiger, and other Large Gods waiting nearby.
• A group of Star Lords approached Qin Siyang, and a crowned blond man frowned and asked why someone from the Eastern Continent had come.

Qin Siyang arrived in the Crimson Crown Sun Domain, where Liu Yu explained the Star Sea, Earth 8149, and the need to move it into orbit to receive protection and resources. Just as Qin Siyang prepared to activate Star Shift, someone urgently warned him not to join the orbit yet.

• People from Huaguo celebrated when Qin Siyang said he was from Huaguo.
• Liu Yu welcomed Qin Siyang to the Crimson Crown Sun Domain and explained that the region was protected by the Crimson Crown Sun God, whose avatar was the Succession Envoy.
• Qin Siyang learned that Star Lords could survive in the Star Sea with Breath Rings, Gill Slits, or a sufficiently high Sequence Level.
• Liu Yu told Qin Siyang that his planet was Earth 8149 and explained that Earths were numbered because some did not survive.
• Liu Yu pointed out Earth 8149's orbit and said joining it would grant the planet divine protection and resources.
• A voice behind Qin Siyang warned him not to join the orbit as he prepared to use Star Shift.

Qin Siyang learned that his assigned stellar orbit would limit Earth's resources and that he could challenge for a higher-level orbit. After the Mechanical-Bone Ape advised him to raise the matter with Liu Yu, Qin Siyang went to do so.

• Liu Yu allowed Qin Siyang to speak with Niu Douchong and the other Large Gods before entering the orbit.
• Qin Siyang exchanged names with the Large Gods, and the Mechanical-Bone Ape asked to hide on Earth because hunters were pursuing him.
• Niu Douchong explained that the closer an orbit was to the Crimson Crown Sun Star, the more resources its planet received.
• The Mechanical-Bone Ape warned that Qin Siyang's level-zero orbit would make Earth's people grow stronger far too slowly and advised him to contest a higher-level orbit.
• Qin Siyang learned that orbit contests involved competing with other Star Lords under rules set by the Crimson Crown Sun Domain, then prepared to ask Liu Yu about them.