Recaps

Zhao Su learned that origin force could activate the armor stored in the black spheres and that the spheres also contained their past memories. As Zhao Su and his allies fought the Tianlan Mainframe’s steel legion, a woman in white tried to manipulate him, but Zhu Zhuqing’s armored spirit cat attacked her.

• Qian Cheng explained that the black spheres inside people could be activated with origin force and that the Ten Thousand Demon Tribe and Human Race had formed only two legions.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Qian Renxue joined hands, causing Zhu Zhuqing’s sphere to awaken her armor and restore memories of her other self.
• Yan reported an ambush near Phoenix Garden, and Zhao Su and Qian Renxue led their forces to confront the steel soldiers surrounding the stronghold.
• Zhao Su activated the Destruction Armor, told Yan and Xie Yue how to awaken theirs, and attacked the Tianlan Mainframe’s legion.
• A woman in white blasted Zhao Su backward and showed him visions while claiming everyone was using him.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned Zhao Su not to listen and sent her armored yin-yang spirit cat to attack the woman in white.

Zhao Su fought the woman in white, who had a physical body and seemed familiar to him, then reunited with his allies as they escaped the Steel Legion. After the Tianlan Garrison abandoned Phoenix Garden, the Third System revealed that the Tianlan Mainframe was using Zhao Su to draw out an unknown threat, and Zhao Su chose to follow its plan despite suspecting it was hiding something.

• Zhao Su and the Yin-Yang Spirit Cat attacked the woman in white, and Zhao Su wounded her before a beam from the black-hole-like eye carried her away.
• Zhao Su reached Phoenix Garden, where Li Kai and the others had nearly defeated the ferocious beasts, and the group broke through the encirclement.
• Zhao Su told Zhu Zhuqing that he was unsettled by the woman in white and the images in his mind, and she reminded him that they were fighting to stay alive.
• Qian Hong reported that the Tianlan Garrison had withdrawn from Phoenix Garden after destroying its buildings and defenses.
• The Third System told Zhao Su that the Tianlan Mainframe was using him to draw out an unknown threat and urged him to build up strength; Zhao Su decided to follow its plan despite doubting the system's honesty.

Zhao Su and Zhu Zhuqing found and opened the entrance to the Underground Castle beneath Phoenix Garden. They descended through it and discovered a vast, deserted city beneath a bright sky.

• Zhao Su and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Phoenix Garden while Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and the others followed to support them.
• Zhao Su found the entrance in the stagnant lotus pond and pressed a button on its eastern wall, causing the water to drain and revealing a passage.
• Zhao Su and Zhu Zhuqing descended a long staircase and jumped together through a glowing opening.
• Zhao Su and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in a silent, technologically advanced city beneath a bright sky and stared at it in disbelief.

Zhao Su and Zhu Zhuqing established Sun Moon City underground, which grew into the Eighteen Mechanical Cities while the surface and underground fought the Tianlan Alliance. A century later, with the war still devastating the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance, Qian Cheng began accepting Yin Zhu’s suggestion to hand over leadership to Xue'er and retire.

• Zhao Su activated the simulated Sun Moon City and discovered its advanced underground laboratory with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhao Su founded the Sun Moon Alliance, appointed Qian Renxue as supreme commander, and organized its legions and Peace and War districts.
• Over the next hundred years, Sun Moon City expanded into eighteen mechanical cities as its Peace District grew in isolation and its War District linked up with the surface resistance.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Alliance suffered severe losses from the Tang Sect Alliance and Tianlan Alliance, and Qian Cheng dismissed his legion leaders after hearing their reports.
• Yin Zhu urged Qian Cheng to pass the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance to Xue'er and enjoy retirement, and he began to accept her advice.

Zhao Su sought information about the Ye Family and its black gold mine, eventually striking a deal with tavern owner Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng agreed to help him reach the mine in exchange for Zhao Su taking his granddaughter to the Third World.

• Zhao Su offered the tavern owner a thousand Gold Soul Coins for information about the Ye Family, but the owner refused.
• A woman claimed she could connect Zhao Su with a black gold seller, took the coins, and left; Ye Cheng warned that she would not return.
• Zhao Su revealed that he could be associated with the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance, and Ye Cheng agreed to cooperate if Zhao Su took his granddaughter to the Third World.
• Ye Cheng revealed that he had once belonged to the Ye Family, fled with his granddaughter after they planned to use her special blood to strengthen Battle Armor, and traded a secret to secure their escape.

Ye Cheng told Zhao Su that the three thousand universes were simulated and revealed the existence of a Transport Pod that could reach the Tianlan Galaxy. Zhao Su decided he wanted to use it despite its danger, while the reason others trusted him remained unknown.

• Ye Cheng revealed that the three thousand universes were simulations linked to real bodies in the Tianlan Galaxy, and that a Transport Pod could reach it.
• Zhong Yue brought Swallow to Zhao Su after she tried to swindle him; Swallow explained that a gang tied to the Ye family controlled her little brother and forced her to scam people.
• Zhao Su promised to save Swallow’s little brother and sent Zhong Yue with her to meet the gang’s boss.
• Ye Cheng warned that the Transport Pod was unreliable and that the Tianlan Mainframe could erase Zhao Su if it detected him using it.
• Zhao Su asked why Peng Ying, Zhao Qi, and Ye Cheng had all chosen to reveal secrets to him, but Ye Cheng said he did not know and could only describe it as an instinct.

Zhao Su traveled from the Third World to the Tianlan Galaxy using Ye Cheng’s Transport Pod, arriving in 2060 inside the body of Marshal Su. He met the Third System and learned that the memories flooding into him belonged to his original body, though the system could not explain whether the Tianlan Mainframe existed at that time.

• Ye Cheng left his tavern with Zhao Su, and they brought Ye Cheng’s granddaughter back to the Third World.
• Zhao Su entrusted the girl to Zhu Zhuqing and arranged for Ye Cheng to build a Transport Pod to the Tianlan Galaxy.
• After a month, Zhao Su entered the pod despite warnings that the journey was irreversible and its destination in time unpredictable.
• Zhao Su awoke in 2060 on Hexu Star as Marshal Su and recalled his original body’s troubled history in the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Su questioned the Third System, which confirmed it had returned with him but advised him to follow his original body’s memories.

After learning that Ning Rongrong had been taken by the Wang Family in Flowing Cloud City, Zhao Su mobilized military and intelligence resources to find her and the two children in danger. He headed to the city, determined to rescue them.

• Zhao Su rejected Li Meng's demand to retaliate against the First Empire and ordered his forces to focus on defense while he was away.
• An unidentified caller told Zhao Su that Ning Rongrong was in Flowing Cloud City and that Qianqian and Youyou were in danger before the call abruptly ended.
• Zhao Su ordered Liu Yuan to prepare a warplane for Flowing Cloud City and told his officers not to reveal his absence or launch attacks.
• Zhao Su called Zhang Ying, who discovered that the Ning Family had given Ning Rongrong to the Wang Family three days earlier.
• Zhao Su sent Wei Hai to the Wang Family to find Ning Rongrong and the two children, and Liu Yuan called Yang Ling, the city's defense commander.

Zhao Su reached the Wang Family Mansion and rescued the injured Ning Rongrong, then found Qianqian and Youyou in the hospital. As he considered leaving everything behind to stay with them, the girls woke and warily asked who he was.

• Liu Yuan ordered Yang Ling to seal Flowing Cloud City and told the Patrol Division to find Chu Yingying and keep her safe.
• Zhang Ying told Zhao Su that Qianqian and Youyou had been found, while Wei Hai reported that Ning Rongrong was injured but safe from sexual assault.
• Zhao Su ordered Wang Jie castrated and sent alive to Black Prison, then rushed to the Wang Family Mansion with Liu Yuan and Yang Ling.
• Zhao Su found Ning Rongrong traumatized and injured, held her as she cried over his absence, and took her to the hospital after she fell asleep.
• Zhao Su saw Qianqian and Youyou sleeping in the hospital and wept over his guilt before the girls woke and asked who he was.

Zhao Su reunited with Qianqian and Youyou and promised Ning Rongrong he would stay with them, but she pushed him away to keep him out of danger. Ning Rongrong revealed to herself that the Wang Family had targeted her for a jade pendant carved with a golden Divine Dragon, which belonged to a hidden family.

• Zhao Su told Qianqian and Youyou that he was their father, and they happily embraced him and asked for their mother.
• Wei Hai reported that Chu Yingying was safe and that Wang Xing had likely fled to the Southern Region, so Zhao Su ordered him and anyone protecting him killed.
• Zhao Su told Liu Yuan to inform the Grand Elder that he wanted to retire, then went to Ning Rongrong's hospital room.
• Ning Rongrong woke and rejected Zhao Su's promise to stay, saying they were no longer a suitable match, so he left to avoid upsetting her.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that the Wang Family had kidnapped her for a jade pendant carved with a golden Divine Dragon, which a hidden family wanted.

Zhao Su stayed in Flowing Cloud City to care for Ning Rongrong and their daughters while learning that enemies were targeting him and the Wang Family was seeking help from the Shen Family. The chapter ended with Zhang Ying revealing that Uncle Nan and Auntie Nan were likely members of the Longevity Ning Family, which might also be connected to Ning Rongrong’s parents.

• Zhao Su brought Qianqian and Youyou to visit Ning Rongrong, then fed her fish soup until her resolve to send him away weakened.
• Zhao Su thanked Uncle Nan and Auntie Nan for caring for Ning Rongrong and the girls, though Uncle Nan remained hostile toward him.
• Zhao Su stayed in the hospital with Ning Rongrong and her benefactors as Qianqian and Youyou recovered and returned to school.
• Ning Rongrong saw Zhao Su meeting Zhang Ying at the café and felt miserable when she mistook their closeness for romantic interest.
• Zhang Ying told Zhao Su that Wang Lin had asked the Shen Family to intervene and that a bounty had been placed on the Sun Moon Alliance leader.
• Zhao Su decided to confront the mobilizing assassin organizations and God Race, while Zhang Ying reported that Uncle Nan and Auntie Nan were likely members of the Longevity Ning Family.

Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong cleared up their misunderstanding about Zhang Ying and confessed their feelings to each other. After Zhao Su proposed, Ning Rongrong accepted, having revealed that the Wang Family had targeted her for her Jade Token.

• Zhao Su reassured Ning Rongrong’s adoptive parents that he would stay, but his delay in discussing marriage made Ning Rongrong think he did not want to marry her.
• Ning Rongrong confronted Zhao Su about seeing him with Zhang Ying, and he explained that Zhang Ying was his younger sister.
• Zhao Su told Ning Rongrong about his Zhao Family background and his siblings’ exile to the Outlands Battlefield.
• Zhao Su asked Ning Rongrong to marry him, and she accepted after telling him the Wang Family had kidnapped her to obtain her Jade Token.
• Zhao Su promised to protect Ning Rongrong, Qianqian, and Youyou from the Wang Family and its allies, then offered her the ring he had prepared.

Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong were attacked over a jade token, but Wang Wei arrived and killed the assassins after Shade named Shen Tianyi as their target. Meanwhile, Longxing Empire’s leaders learned that powerful figures were heading toward Flowing Cloud City and chose to let them approach Zhao Su while preparing to intervene if he was in danger.

• Shade appeared and demanded that Zhao Su hand over the jade token, but an unseen force repeatedly knocked him down.
• Wang Wei appeared with three severed heads, forced Shade to reveal that Shen Tianyi had sent the assassins, and then killed him.
• Zhao Su introduced Wang Wei to Ning Rongrong, who pulled him to his feet after he knelt to pay his respects.
• Wang Wei said he had charged across the border alone, and Zhao Su ordered him not to kill anyone without permission.
• Tang Hong and the Longxing Empire officials learned that Wang Wei, Godslayer, the God of Slaughter, and numerous assassins had entered the empire and were heading toward Flowing Cloud City.
• Tang Hong told the war zones to offer token resistance, while Song Cheng ordered Liu Wangcheng to prepare the Protect the Nation Army to strike if Zhao Su was at a disadvantage.

Zhao Su learned that Hexu Star might be the future of the third world and decided to investigate the Shen Family over the nine jade tokens. Ning Rongrong’s Second Uncle and Second Aunt came begging for help after the Shen Family threatened to wipe out the Ning Family unless they surrendered the Golden Divine Dragon Jade Token, but Zhao Su refused to get involved.

• Song Cheng visited Zhao Su in Flowing Cloud City, accepted his decision to stay, and asked him to help Longxing if it faced trouble.
• Zhao Su questioned the Third System about the jade tokens and Hexu Star, then resolved to start investigating the Shen Family.
• Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong spent the afternoon with Qianqian and Youyou before finding Ning Liang and his wife waiting at their residence.
• Ning Liang explained that the Shen Family had threatened the Ning Family over the Golden Divine Dragon Jade Token and begged Ning Rongrong to save them.
• Zhao Su rejected Ning Liang’s appeal and had someone escort him away.

Zhao Su and Wang Wei confronted masked attackers at the Ning Family residence after Ning Tianzheng tried to direct them toward Zhao Su. Wang Wei killed the attackers, but Black and White Impermanence intervened, and Zhao Su recognized them as Enforcers.

• Ning Liang left the Zhao Family residence with Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong after the guard refused to let them stay.
• Zhao Su told Ning Rongrong he wanted to learn the Shen Family's Jade Token secret, and she thanked him for looking out for her.
• Three days later, masked attackers confronted the Ning Family, and their leader crippled Ning Tianzheng when he could not produce the Jade Token.
• Ning Tianzheng blamed Ning Rongrong and Zhao Su, but Zhao Su, Wang Wei, and Zhou Yi arrived and challenged the attackers' identities.
• Wang Wei killed the dozen or so black-clad attackers and forced their masked leader into the open with his Greatsword.
• Black and White Impermanence appeared and drove Wang Wei back, and Zhao Su recognized them as Enforcers.

Zhao Su and his allies confronted the Nether King and her forces in Flowing Cloud City before Zhao Qi revealed that the world was real, while the Douluo and Blue Star Universes were virtual data worlds. Zhao Su accepted a Kui Dragon Jade Token and resolved to outmatch the schemers through strength rather than cunning.

• Zhao Su attacked Black and White Impermanence, and Wang Wei and Zhou Yi joined him until the Enforcer's Left and Right Guardians and the Nether King intervened.
• The Nether King fought Zhao Su and Wang Wei, whose giant forms threatened to punch through Hexu Star, until Zhao Qi stopped them.
• Zhao Qi told Zhao Su that the Tianlan Galaxy was the real world and gave him a Kui Dragon Jade Token needed to gather nine tokens and reach the Tianlan Mainframe.
• Zhao Qi admitted that he had used Zhao Su and the Sun Moon Alliance to target the Longevity Families and had arranged for the Enforcer to impersonate the Shen Family.
• Zhao Su realized that the old schemers surpassed him in cunning and decided to surpass them through strength.

Zhao Su stirred up conflict among the Sun Moon Alliance’s enemies while Zhao Qi and the Longxing Empire prepared to exploit the situation. As the Shen and Zhao Families moved against him, Zhao Qing broke with Zhao Xun and declared that his branch was leaving the Zhao Family.

• After Zhao Su left the ruined Ning Family estate, Peng Ying questioned Zhao Qi’s trust in him, and Zhao Qi said he preferred his grandson to his son.
• Rumors blamed the Sun Moon Alliance for the Ning Family’s destruction, and the Enforcer offered to do one thing for anyone who killed Zhao Su.
• Zhao Su told Zhang Ying to send Wang Wei into action, intending to draw the Longxing Empire into the conflict.
• Zhao Qi agreed with Tang Hong that the Longxing Empire should act alongside the prevailing side, even if that left Zhao Su isolated.
• The five major assassin organizations joined forces against the Sun Moon Alliance as the Shen and Zhao Families began moving against Zhao Su.
• Zhao Qing challenged Zhao Xun’s accusations and marriage demands, then announced that his third branch was leaving the Zhao Family.

Zhao Su confronted Zhao Xun and his supporters with the Ancestors Token, then used Zhou Yi and the Dragon Cat to overpower their allies. The Third System revealed that the Zhao Xun everyone saw was a double, while the real Zhao Xun stood behind him in a black robe.

• Zhao Qing declared that he would leave the Zhao Family, and Zhao Jie threatened to eliminate him and the Third Line.
• Zhao Su arrived and presented the Ancestors Token, but Zhao Xun crushed it and had a dissenting Zhao Family member killed by his masked guard.
• Zhao Su killed a Shen Family elder with his sword, and the Dragon Cat swallowed the elder and sent his memories to Zhao Su.
• Zhou Yi defeated Zhao Jie in three exchanges, prompting Zhao Su to notice fear in Zhao Xun’s eyes.
• The Third System revealed that the visible Zhao Xun was a puppet and that the real Zhao Xun was the black-robed man behind him.

Zhao Su defeated Zhao Xun, cleansed the Zhao Family of his followers, and helped Zhao Qing reorganize the family. As the Shen Family plotted against the Sun Moon Alliance and the Five Great Empires attacked Longxing, Zhao Qi ordered a counterattack that destroyed the invading army in three days.

• Zhao Xun revealed his identity, poisoned the Zhao Family elders, and summoned four ancestors he had turned into Battle Servants.
• Zhao Su shattered Zhao Xun's killing array, freed the ancestors from his control, and crushed Zhao Xun to death.
• Zhao Qing became family head, purged Zhao Xun's loyalists, abolished the five branches, and formed a decision-making council.
• The Zhao Family allied with the Sun Moon Alliance and declared war on the Shen Family, which conspired with an assassin organization to attack the alliance's Outlands Battlefield base.
• Zhao Qi ordered Zhao Tingxiang to monitor the longevity families and sent the Second Elder to assist Zhao Su on the Outlands Battlefield.
• Longxing's million-strong Battle Armor Army and three true emperor realm experts routed the Five Great Empires' Alliance Army, killing those who refused to surrender within three days.

Zhao Su learned that the remaining jade tokens might be on the Primitive Continent and saw footage revealing that he had created Tianlan on the real Mother Star. The footage showed Tianlan destroying the world after Zhao Su rejected her artificial paradise, leaving him closer to understanding the truth behind his existence.

• The Longxing Empire took control of the Outlands Battlefield, while Zhao Su’s masked attackers wiped out the Shen Family and Zhou Yi brought him the Fire Dragon Jade Token.
• Zhao Su sensed a terrifying aura gathering beyond Hexu Star and ordered Zhou Yi to seize the remaining jade tokens from the Longevity Families.
• Peng Ying told Zhao Su that the remaining tokens were likely on the Primitive Continent and explained that sixteen inhabited planets connected across the Tianlan Galaxy led to the real Tianlan Star.
• Peng Ying showed Zhao Su footage of his original self on the First Mother Star, where he had created Tianlan after humanity’s civilization collapsed.
• The footage showed Zhao Su rejecting Tianlan’s artificial paradise and demanding that she revive real humanity, after which Tianlan destroyed the world and herself.

Zhao Su learned that he had created the worlds meant to awaken him and that he was humanity’s only chance to destroy the Tianlan Mainframe. After the Longxing Empire conquered Hexu Star, he led a search for the Primitive Continent and found a gate in a frozen land that might lead to it.

• Peng Ying told Zhao Su that the Black Orb and nine Jade Tokens could activate the virus program meant to destroy the Tianlan Mainframe, and that Zhao Su had created the Douluo and Blue Star universes to awaken himself.
• Zhao Su and the Enforcers helped the Longxing Empire defeat the other five great empires and eliminate the Longevity Families on Hexu Star.
• The Longxing Empire absorbed the Sun Moon Alliance as its Thirteenth War Zone and marched across the Outlands Battlefield toward the Primitive Continent.
• When Zhao Su’s army grew exhausted and scouts had not found the Primitive Continent, Zhao Su left the camp to search for it himself.
• Zhang Ying told Zhao Su that the Shadow Squad had found a gate with a Pentagram design in the southern glacier, and Zhao Su identified it as a likely Spatial Gate to the Primitive Continent.

Zhao Su opened the Spatial Gate and led an invasion of the Primitive Continent, then began conquering planets to assemble the Virus Program meant to destroy the Tianlan Mainframe. As doubts about the invasion troubled him, Yang Yu revealed that the First Legion’s soldiers were mechanical bodies beneath their armor.

• Zhao Su used the Heavenly Dao Mark to open the Spatial Gate, and falling ice devastated the Primitive Continent.
• Five days later, armies in Steel Battle Armor entered through the breach, defeated the continent’s forces, and drove survivors underground.
• Zhao Su established a military camp and new order, then began building the Virus Program with a black stele and Golden Divine Dragon.
• Zhao Su and Peng Ying debated whether their campaign made them invaders, while Zhao Su continued preparing to conquer other planets.
• Yang Yu warned Zhao Su that the First Legion’s soldiers never tired, and Zhao Su discovered mechanical bodies beneath their armor.

Zhao Su learned that Peng Ying and Zhao Qi were artificial intelligences he had created, and that their efforts to eliminate humanity stemmed from his own actions. After Peng Ying’s forces drove the Sun Moon Legion from the Primitive Continent, Zhao Su faced his enemies on Hexu Star and was told they had to cooperate to reopen the passage there.

• Zhao Su discovered that the soldiers were Mechanical Bodies, and the Third System and Peng Ying revealed the history of Tianlan, Zhao Qi, and Peng Ying.
• Peng Ying explained that Zhao Su had created her and Zhao Qi with a vulnerability that could be repaired by the Heavenly Dao Mark, which was fused with his consciousness.
• Zhao Su tried to attack Peng Ying, but she revealed that she was only a consciousness and said their final battle would take place on the Primitive Continent.
• Peng Ying mobilized the Longxing Empire's Twelfth War Zone, and the First Legion and infiltrating Mechanical Bodies devastated the Sun Moon Legion, forcing Zhao Su to retreat to Hexu Star.
• Zhao Su met Zhao Qi and Peng Ying in the Decision-Making Council building, where Zhao Qi argued that they had to cooperate to open the passage to the Primitive Continent.

Zhao Su agreed to help Zhao Qi and Peng Ying open the passage to the Primitive Continent, then awakened in the Third World's laboratory as the three thousand universes fused. He used the Heavenly Dao Mark to set the Nine Planets moving through chaos, and the chapter ended as the Mark merged with the Pillar of Creation and formed a moving Spatial Gate.

• Zhao Su agreed to help Zhao Qi and Peng Ying, and their forces searched the Primitive Continent for a Spatial Gate while Zhao Qi and Peng Ying opened one in Glacier.
• The worlds fused, the Heavenly Dao Mark emerged from Zhao Su, and the Black Orb shattered his body before he awoke in the Third World's underground laboratory.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhao Su that Ye Cheng's Restart Switch had fused the Third World's districts, raised the Eighteen Mechanical Cities, and brought the Black Stele and underground humans to the surface.
• Zhao Su learned that the Black Stele powered Battle Armor and that Di Tian had been the supposed Tianlan Mainframe, while Zhao Qi and Peng Ying's forces had taken control of most factions.
• Zhao Su used the Heavenly Dao Mark to break apart the Tree of Life and send the Nine Planets, led by the Primitive Continent, moving through chaos toward a black hole.
• Zhao Qi appeared with the Pillar of Creation to block the black hole, and the Heavenly Dao Mark merged into the Pillar as a moving Spatial Gate appeared.

Zhao Su discovered that Tianlan had used the Annihilation Formation to repair her system, sacrificing Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others, and he merged his consciousness with the chaos before killing Tianlan. He declared himself its ruler and captured Zhao Ru and Cheng Feng, leaving Zhao Qi and Peng Ying to face his power.

• Zhao Su used the Annihilation Formation to break free of the bloodlike web, but Tianlan turned the formation into a patch that consumed Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others.
• Zhao Su merged with the black hole, entered a steel body, and used the Destruction Spear to kill Tianlan and assimilate her consciousness.
• Zhao Su moved the city onto the largest of the nine planets, shattered Tianlan's Forbidden Barrier, and demanded that Zhao Qi and Peng Ying obey him.
• Zhao Qi and Peng Ying challenged Zhao Su's ability to erase them, but Zhao Su revealed he knew about Zhao Ru and Cheng Feng and captured them after destroying their planet.