Chapter Summaries

Zhao Su arrived on Blue Star with the Heavenly Dao Mark and the Third System, but Tianlan’s forces devastated the planet and left him struggling to regain his sealed powers. Five years later, he encountered Zhu Zhuqing, who no longer remembered their past, as she stood against a pack of Steel Lions.

• Zhao Qi sent Zhao Su through a Spatial Gate with the Heavenly Dao Mark, and the Third System transformed his equipment and origin force to conceal his identity.
• The Third System disassembled Zhao Su and took him to Blue Star; after he and the Heavenly Dao Mark vanished from the Douluo Universe, the universe disappeared into chaos.
• Tianlan’s Steel Behemoth Legion invaded Blue Star and destroyed its civilization, forcing surviving humans to shelter underground.
• Five years later, Zhao Su traveled through a ruined city with five companions, but the Third System had sealed his origin force and prevented him from summoning his armor.
• Zhao Su and his companions hid from a pack of Steel Lions chasing a group of youngsters, and Zhu Zhuqing appeared to protect a boy from the leading lion.

Zhao Su’s Third System activated during a battle with a talking Lion King, granting him Level One Destruction Armor. After Zhu Zhuqing saved him from a fatal attack, Zhao Su summoned the armor and merged with it as the fight continued.

• Zhu Zhuqing fought the Steel Lions while Zhao Su and Li Kai watched, and the Lion King revealed that it could speak human language.
• Zhao Su received the system’s rewards: Level One Destruction Armor and a sturdy underground fortress.
• Zhao Su killed a Steel Lion by striking its head, and the Lion King recognized him as someone from another star system.
• The Lion King attacked Zhao Su and the others, and Zhu Zhuqing blocked a fatal blow but was wounded.
• Zhao Su accepted the system’s prompt and summoned the dark red armor, which covered him and merged with his body.

Zhao Su used the armor to kill the Steel Lion King and drive off the remaining Steel Lions, but learned that controlling the armor drained him because his spiritual power was too weak. When Zhu Zhuqing challenged his story about the armor, Zhao Su claimed he had inherited it from a dying researcher who left behind an Underground Laboratory containing armor research data.

• Zhao Su punched the Steel Lion King, then pierced its skull with a laser and killed several Steel Lions, causing the rest to flee.
• Zhao Su put away the armor and collapsed from exhaustion as the system revealed his low spiritual power and explained how he could increase it.
• Zhao Su admitted to Zhu Zhuqing that he had armor and told her a story about Blue Star scientists, the Tianlan Army, and the Steel Behemoths' invasion.
• Zhu Zhuqing accused Zhao Su of lying and revealed that her father had led the Alliance Academy of Sciences team that developed the armor.
• Zhao Su claimed that a dying man had given him the armor and told him about an Underground Laboratory containing research data; Zhu Zhuqing lowered her dagger and partly believed him.

Zhao Su and his companions fought through steel-clad hound squads and reached the outskirts of Zhu Zhuqing’s shelter. Zhu Zhuqing proposed joining forces to develop battle armor, but Zhao Su’s shameless remark erased her new goodwill toward him.

• Zhao Su led the group toward shelter as the steel ferocious beasts began hunting, but they hid in a dilapidated house when steel-clad cats surrounded them.
• Zhao Su assigned Wang Jie and Yang Hong to protect the children, then led Yan and Xie Yue in a half-hour fight to break through the hounds.
• Zhu Zhuqing invited Zhao Su’s group to her shelter and proposed joining forces, explaining that she wanted to perfect battle armor and eliminate its side effects.
• Zhao Su said he would inspect Zhu Zhuqing’s shelter before deciding, and Xu Yu warned them that the hounds were catching up.
• Zhao Su made a suggestive remark to Zhu Zhuqing, who called him shameless and lost the goodwill she had begun to feel toward him.

Zhu Zhuqing led Zhao Su and his brothers to the Star Luo Shelter, hidden behind a secret entrance on the hundredth floor of the Alliance Academy of Sciences. After the security system detected Zhao Su’s battle armor and threatened him with lasers, Zhu Zhuqing persuaded Dai Mubai to let them enter, and they arrived in a vast underground city.

• Zhu Zhuqing brought Zhao Su and his brothers to the Alliance Academy of Sciences and climbed with them to the hundredth floor, where the shelter entrance was hidden.
• The shelter’s scanner detected Zhao Su’s battle armor and aimed dozens of lasers at him.
• Zhu Zhuqing shielded Zhao Su and secretly told Dai Mubai that Zhao Su’s armor could merge with his body.
• Dai Mubai asked whether Zhao Su was an Alien Legion spy, then trusted Zhu Zhuqing’s pledge and turned off the lasers.
• Zhao Su and the others passed through the white-light transport system and a guarded passage, emerging into a sprawling underground city.

Zhao Su and his companions were imprisoned while the Star Luo Empire shelter's leaders plotted to take his armor. When Zhu Zhuqing challenged them, Wang Lei shot her, but Zhao Su escaped and rescued her; he then forced the leaders to let them go by threatening to detonate his armor.

• Chen Jianxun arrested Zhao Su and his companions and took them to the basement on the shelter boss's orders.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai and the other leaders, who admitted they wanted Zhao Su's armor for their own power and rejected her warnings.
• Wang Lei shot Zhu Zhuqing when she tried to leave, and Dai Mubai chose not to intervene.
• A boy freed Zhao Su, who arrived in red armor and killed Wang Lei with a laser before shielding Zhu Zhuqing.
• Chen Jianxun's men surrounded Zhao Su and his companions, but Zhao Su threatened to make his armor explode, and Dai Mubai ordered the group released.

Zhao Su lured a Hound Squad and Lion Pride to the Star Luo Shelter’s entrance, causing them to breach its defenses before he withdrew. When he returned to his own shelter, he found Chen Jianxun and his men attacking it and demanding Hu Liena surrender.

• Shi Tianzheng ordered Chen Jianxun to follow Zhao Su’s group and kill them, while Zhu Zhuqing urged Zhao Su to avoid confronting the stronger Star Luo Shelter.
• Zhao Su knocked Zhu Zhuqing unconscious, sent Xu Yu away with her and Little Treasure, and led Yan, Xie Yue, Li Kai, and Sun Chuantao into the darkness.
• Zhao Su drew the Hound Squad and Lion Pride to the Blue Star Alliance Building, where his companions used bombs to drive them toward the Star Luo Shelter’s entrance.
• The Lion King blasted a breach through the shelter’s iron door, and the beasts charged inside under fire from its Self-Defense System as Zhao Su and his companions withdrew.
• Zhao Su and his companions heard fighting outside their shelter and found Chen Jianxun’s men attacking it while Chen Jianxun demanded that Hu Liena surrender.

Zhao Su’s group killed Chen Jianxun after learning he had caused Xu Yu and Little Treasure’s deaths, then prepared to abandon their shelter and retaliate against the Star Luo Shelter. Zhu Zhuqing woke with a vague memory of an academy, while Zhao Su worried that others from the Douluo Universe might also be on Blue Star.

• Hu Liena told Chen Jianxun that Xu Yu and Little Treasure had died after Chen followed them and ambushed them, and Zhao Su’s group killed Chen and his men.
• Zhao Su ordered Yan and Xie Yue to evacuate the shelter and later checked on Zhu Zhuqing, who had regained consciousness but remembered only a dream of an academy.
• Zhao Su decided to send a secret weapon to the Star Luo Shelter as revenge for Xu Yu and Little Treasure’s deaths.
• As the group prepared to leave for Nebula City, Zhao Su ordered Yan to lead the evacuees while he and Xie Yue carried out the attack, with Zhang Ping assigned to time their departure.

Zhao Su lured the Tianlan Legion toward the Star Luo Shelter by planting a signal transmitter, then escaped with Xie Yue and traveled to Nebula City. There, he learned the Underground Castle entrance was supposedly at Phoenix Garden, only to find the site had become a Tianlan stronghold.

• Zhao Su planted a Signal Transmitter in the Blue Star Alliance Academy of Sciences building, and Xie Yue helped him destroy the building to expose the Star Luo Shelter entrance.
• The Hound Squad, a pride of lions led by the Lion King, and the Humanoid Steel Legion converged on the signal as Zhao Su and Xie Yue escaped through the west gate.
• A month later, Zhao Su's group reached Nebula City and learned that the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance and Tang Sect Alliance were fighting over territory.
• Zhao Su chose to investigate Phoenix Garden with Li Kai, Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing while Xie Yue stayed behind to protect the others.
• Zhao Su and his companions found Phoenix Garden occupied as a Tianlan stronghold, and Zhao Su admitted they would need another way inside.

Zhao Su sought an alliance with the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance and discovered it was led by people who remembered the Douluo Universe. After Qian Cheng agreed to support him, Zhao Su marked the Underground Castle as the location of the armor laboratory.

• Zhao Su chose to approach the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance, and he, Li Kai, and Zhu Zhuqing went to its headquarters while Yan headed out to meet Hu Liena.
• Qian Renxue recognized Zhao Su’s name, but Qian Cheng warned her not to reveal that she knew him until they learned whether he remembered the past.
• Qian Cheng had Qian Hong demonstrate his armor, prompting Zhao Su’s Destruction Armor and Emperor Seven Kill Sword to appear and break through his restraints.
• Qian Cheng revealed that he remembered the Douluo Universe and agreed to make the Ten Thousand Demons Alliance Zhao Su’s ally in exchange for first access to the armor he developed.
• Zhao Su summoned his people into the city and marked the Underground Castle’s location on the sand table.

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.