Recaps

As the Allied Forces overwhelmed the Swarm, Lu Xiao and Luolin worried about the war’s course, while Tina insisted it had only just begun. Lu Xiao realized the Mother Worms were vulnerable, and Luolin decided to summon more gods to protect them.

• The Allied Forces surrounded the Swarm, which lost nearly twenty percent of its forces in a day, while the Hidden Light Race destroyed roughly half the Warship Bugs.
• Lu Xiao and Luolin worried that the Swarm would soon lose, but Tina said the war had only just begun and admitted she had no plan.
• Luolin explained that powerful species survived brutal wars through their strength and that the Swarm could evolve through its genes.
• Lu Xiao noticed the Mother Worms were unprotected and warned Tina and Luolin that a god could destroy them.
• Luolin agreed and decided to summon ten more gods from his clan.

Lu Xiao and Luolin realized that the battlefield’s chaotic space blocked reinforcements unless Luolin opened a gap, while Lu Xiao found he could still call on the Unknown Divine Hall to escape. Twelve allied gods broke through the Zerg, but the Holy Maiden Spiders arrived to attack the Goblins.

• Luolin told Lu Xiao that the disordered space prevented anyone from teleporting into the encirclement unless Luolin opened a gap.
• Lu Xiao confirmed that he could still communicate with the Unknown Divine Hall and potentially escape the battlefield through it.
• Twelve gods led Allied Forces through the Swarm, including five powerful Goblin gods who smashed their way toward the battlefield’s center.
• Luolin explained that the Goblin Clan relied on overwhelming physical strength and ranked among the stronger mid-tier races.
• Ten enormous Holy Maiden Spiders led their race toward the Goblins, and Luolin warned that they were stronger than the Goblins and attacked them and their allies.

The Holy Maiden Spiders hunted down the retreating Goblin Gods while Lu Xiao watched the Swarm's defensive line close. Zhang Chu and his companions arrived as reinforcements, and Dart told Lu Xiao that the humans and Mother God Elves had withdrawn to the Present World, leaving their group as the only ones still in Hell.

• The Holy Maiden Spiders pursued the Goblin Gods, captured one in their web, and devoured him while Lu Xiao watched.
• Lu Xiao saw dead Holy Maiden Spiders release poisonous mist that dissolved nearby Star-level Life, while the Swarm recovered their bodies and avoided the webs.
• Zhang Chu arrived on a Flesh Cloud with Dart, Nico, and others, and Tina redirected the Swarm after Lu Xiao identified him as an ally.
• Dart told Lu Xiao that Doctor and the others had withdrawn to the Present World with the Ninth Group Army, leaving their group as the only humans in Hell.
• Dart confirmed that the Personal Guard of Mother God Elves had withdrawn too, and Lu Xiao recalled that they had avoided taking part in the fighting.

Lu Xiao learned that Gambler had wagered on an elemental Authority appearing and promised Tina that Lu Xiao would help the Zerg kill five Gods in exchange for their assistance. The chapter ended with Lu Xiao realizing Gambler had put him up as the real stake.

• Gambler told Lu Xiao that Angel was heading their way after he had lied to her.
• Lu Xiao admitted he had forgotten about Gambler’s thirteen Heavenly Worms, but Gambler contacted them and confirmed they were alive.
• Gambler told Lu Xiao that Ding Dan had ascended to godhood and mastered the powerful Correction Authority.
• Lu Xiao asked Luolin about obtaining an Authority, and Luolin suggested asking Tina to watch for one among the Gods on the battlefield.
• Gambler made a wager with Tina that an elemental Authority wielder would appear, offering Lu Xiao’s help killing five Gods in exchange for Zerg support.
• Lu Xiao grew angry when Gambler confessed that he had made Lu Xiao the real stake in the bet.

Lu Xiao learned that Gambler had arranged a bet around the arrival of Daimon and the possibility that the Allied Forces would send gods wielding Elemental Authority to oppose him. As Daimon’s army approached the battlefield, Kaitlin remained forbidden to act, and the Allied Forces turned troops to confront the newcomers.

• Nico boasted that she could take an enemy’s head, but retreated when Lu Xiao told her to go prove it.
• Amilia revealed that Daimon and a Demon army were expected to reach the battlefield that day, giving Gambler confidence in his bet.
• Gambler explained that Daimon would join the battle and likely force the Allied Forces to send gods with Authority, some of whom might wield Elemental Authority.
• Daimon sensed a threat as Wayne reported that the battlefield was near, and Daimon ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• Daimon asked Kaitlin, the true Tyrant and vessel for an Old One, not to act because doing so could bring other beings of the same level into the war.
• The Demon army reached the Allied Forces’ encirclement, and Allied troops left the front lines to face them.

Daimon joined the battle against the Allied Forces, and Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu fought through enemy Gods to reach him. Zhang Chu’s lightning overwhelmed two Gods, including a metallic one, while Gambler recalled Zhang Chu’s long-standing status as the pinnacle of human combat strength.

• Daimon revealed his Original Body and joined the Zerg’s side with eight former Hell Great Lords, while flames spread across the sky.
• Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu headed toward Daimon after Lu Xiao assigned allies to guard the Mother Worm and Tina.
• Lu Xiao boosted Zhang Chu, who used Ten Million Volts to dissolve one God blocking their path.
• Zhang Chu increased his attack to Hundred Million Volts and drove his lightning into a metallic God’s chest.
• The metallic God’s body softened and melted into a puddle of molten iron as Gambler praised Zhang Chu’s strength.

Zhang Chu and Lu Xiao reached the Demon Clan’s battlefield after Zhang Chu’s lightning accidentally destroyed a god’s divinity, drawing awe and concern from the witnesses. They found Daimon and eight other Demons dominating more than thirty opposing gods, though Lu Xiao warned that the real threats had yet to appear.

• Zhang Chu’s lightning pierced one god and melted a metallic god into a puddle, inadvertently destroying his divinity in less than a minute.
• Luolin and the other witnesses marveled at Zhang Chu’s power, while Luolin warned Gambler that the display could make Zhang Chu a target across the Universe.
• Gambler realized that too many witnesses and watchers could spread the footage for him to conceal Zhang Chu’s feat.
• Zhang Chu joked with Lu Xiao about defeating the remaining gods Lu Xiao owed, and the pair arrived at the battle between the Demon Clan and the Outsiders’ Allied Forces.
• Zhang Chu saw Daimon and the other eight Demons dominating more than thirty gods, but Lu Xiao said the strongest gods had not yet appeared.

Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu joined the Demons’ battle against the Outsider Gods, combining Zhang Chu’s lightning with Daimon’s fire to force most of their enemies to flee. The remaining Outsider God was beaten to death, and Daimon thanked Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu for their help.

• Lu Xiao told Zhang Chu they needed to help the Demons, and Zhang Chu summoned thunderclouds over the battlefield.
• Zhang Chu transformed into his Original Body and cast a Thunder Prison that struck every God, including Lu Xiao, while Kaitlin watched from outside and learned Zhang Chu’s identity.
• Daimon intensified his flames, and his fire combined with Zhang Chu’s lightning as Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu complained about being caught in their allies’ attacks.
• More than thirty Outsider Gods broke out of the Thunder Prison and fled, while the Demons stopped one slower God from escaping.
• The Demons surrounded the captured Outsider God and beat him until his Divinity ran out and he died; Daimon then thanked Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu.

With Lu Xiao absent, the Hidden Light Race Gods attacked Tina, but Gambler arranged for Nico and the Mount Kunlun Lineage children to expose them. A pitch-black phantom emerged as the five revealed Gods struck, then charged toward them.

• Daimon led the Demon Legion toward the Swarm while the three sides clashed again.
• Five Hidden Light Race Gods launched a surprise attack on Tina, and Tina sensed their presence and alerted Gambler.
• Gambler told Nico to find the concealed enemies by sensing unusual water proportions, and Nico transformed into a giant jellyfish to search the Plant People.
• Gambler asked the Mount Kunlun Lineage children for help, and they arranged Talisman Paper into a formation and placed more talismans on their foreheads.
• Nico's tentacles seized dozens of figures as the children convulsed and a pitch-black phantom appeared; five captives transformed into giant Hidden Light Race Gods while the others were crushed.
• The five Hidden Light Race Gods lunged at Tina, but the phantom flew toward them and roared, "Yin and yang overturned, demonic blood stains the heavens!"

The Phantom’s self-sacrifice transformed the five Gods of the Hidden Light Race into Demon Infants that tore through the Outsiders’ Allied Forces. When Gambler realized the Mount Kunlun Taoists were also turning into Demon Infants, he tried to stop the transformation by removing their talismans.

• The Phantom exploded into black mist that trapped the five Gods and caused Demon Infants to burst from their bodies.
• The five Demon Infants devoured the Gods, grew three heads and six arms, and charged in different directions after the Mount Kunlun Taoists invoked the Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas.
• The Demon Infants slaughtered the Allied Forces and grew larger as they consumed beings from across the battlefields.
• Gambler noticed the Mount Kunlun Taoists were convulsing and transforming, and discovered their brown talismans were turning blood-red.
• Gambler peeled the talismans from the children's foreheads, hoping to stop their transformation.

The Demon Infants’ self-destruction devastated the battlefield, but Tina and Dart protected the Mother Worms, who rapidly spawned nearly a billion new Zerg. Lu Xiao returned to the Swarm’s center and found the Mount Kunlun Taoist attendants clinging to Luolin, including one perched on his head.

• Gambler removed the Talisman Paper, causing the five Demon Infants to swell and explode, and their shockwaves killed hundreds of millions across the battlefield.
• Nico shielded Tina while Dart protected the Mother Worms, keeping all of them alive through the blast.
• Tina summoned the surviving Swarm, which gathered the dead as the Mother Worms used the flesh to produce nearly a billion newborn Zerg in under an hour.
• Luolin wondered how the Taoist attendants from Mount Kunlun had nearly gone extinct, while Lu Xiao’s Demon Clan survived the distant shockwaves under the protection of fourteen God-level Demons.
• Lu Xiao hurried back to the center of the Swarm and found the Taoist attendants hanging from Luolin, with one sitting on his head as Luolin supported him.

Lu Xiao and Zhang Chu learned how the Mount Kunlun lineage’s ultimate technique created five powerful demonic infants and why Luolin had become the children’s mount. Zhang Chu then suspected that invoking the name of the Great Deity of the Three Altars and the Vast Seas had drawn an unknown higher-dimensional being’s attention, and he warned Lu Xiao to stay silent.

• Gambler explained that the Mount Kunlun reincarnated Daoist children had created five demonic infants while stopping the Hidden Light Race’s assassination attempt on Tina, and that the infants had rapidly approached the level of Old Ones.
• Lu Xiao learned that Luolin had agreed to become the children’s mount because they refused to take disciples, and Zhang Chu challenged them over their use of demonic arts.
• The children defended their methods, while Zhang Chu’s Grandmaster secretly told him that the technique combined the Mechanism Puppet Technique with “Procreation.”
• Zhang Chu realized that the demonic infants may have escaped control after the children invoked the name of the Great Deity of the Three Altars and the Vast Seas.
• Lu Xiao noticed Zhang Chu’s alarm, and Zhang Chu warned him through voice transmission not to speak.

Zhang Chu warned Lu Xiao that the Demon Infant and the Gambler might have drawn the attention of a Filthy Thing by invoking the Great God of the Three Altars and the Assembly of the Seas. As they considered whether Dan Guofeng had imagined this being into existence, Lu Xiao feared that Time might have revived and altered Dan Guofeng.

• Zhang Chu told Lu Xiao that the old fossils might have called out to a Filthy Thing, and that the Gambler and everyone who heard the name could be marked.
• Lu Xiao realized the Demon Infant might have been possessed by a Filthy Thing, like Ruiqi had been possessed by Night.
• Zhang Chu suspected Dan Guofeng's Authority had imagined the mythological system into existence, possibly creating the being behind the title Great God of the Three Altars and the Assembly of the Seas.
• Zhang Chu asked whether that being had adopted the title as his own, making the name a direct way to call his attention.
• Lu Xiao wondered whether Time had pulled Dan Guofeng from the past and raised him into a being Above the Old One, perhaps after erasing his memories.

Lu Xiao considered using Night's call as a weapon while the Mount Kunlun Lineage's ultimate move let the Swarm take control of the war through explosive Zerg and rapid growth. In the Present World, humanity's Star Source fortune grew enormous, but the Warden worried that the failing war and increasingly hostile alien visitors would spark a crisis.

• Lu Xiao realized he could answer Night's call in a crisis and turn her presence into a weapon against an enemy.
• The Mount Kunlun Lineage's ultimate move shifted the battle's advantage to the Swarm, whose Zerg began self-destructing and releasing poisonous mist before feeding and retreating to the Mother Worm.
• The Allied Forces recognized that the Swarm's numbers kept growing, but feared a third attempt on the Zerg Empress and could not afford to keep sending reinforcements.
• After only two days of war, some races wanted to withdraw, but the others refused because every side had invested Star Source.
• In the Present World, the Warden learned that humanity had amassed Star Source comparable to a medium-sized race's reserves in less than half a month.
• The Warden worried that alien visitors were becoming more aggressive about demanding free teleportation, while the Mother Goddess Elves' presence still restrained them.

The Director, disguised as Liu Ni, pressured Weidiya to punish those who had bullied humans in the Planned District. Weidiya led the Personal Guard in seizing the offenders as the Warden remained undecided about how to protect humanity.

• The Warden considered the danger to human workers and the cost of continuing the teleportation business, while the Doctor offered no advice.
• The Director trashed a hotel room and demanded that Weidiya punish those who had bullied his people; after invoking the Mother Goddess, he persuaded Weidiya to act.
• The Doctor told the Director that the Warden needed time to choose, so the Director decided to give him inspiration and followed Weidiya.
• Weidiya led ten thousand members of the Personal Guard into the Planned District with the Director disguised as Liu Ni at her side.
• The Director identified a dog-headed god who had struck one of his people, and Weidiya ordered the Personal Guard to seize him with a thorn-covered vine.
• The Director pointed out more offenders, and the Mother Goddess Elves bound them with vines.

Moli'an silenced the races protesting the Mother Goddess Elves’ arrest of twenty gods by threatening their clans. In the C02 Containment Facility, the Director ordered an armless human to retaliate against one of the captured gods, then asked Weidiya for a weapon capable of harming a god.

• Moli'an arrived as other races demanded an explanation for the Mother Goddess Elves’ arrest of twenty gods.
• Moli'an refused to justify the arrests, warned the crowd against questioning a Great Old One, and threatened their clans before vanishing.
• The Doctor asked Liu Ni whether she had learned from the incident, and she suspected he might be the Director in disguise.
• The surveillance feed showed the Director and Weidiya holding the twenty gods in a steel room as an armless human entered.
• The Director told the human to repay the god who had injured him, then asked Weidiya for a weapon that could hurt a god.
• Weidiya warned that the human could not use such a weapon without risking his life.

The Director gave an armless man nanobot prosthetic limbs so he could wield Weidiya’s sacred sword and take revenge on a god. The man began torturing the god, while the other nineteen gods watched in horror.

• The armless man agreed to offer his soul in exchange for the power to avenge his lost arms, and Weidiya presented him with a sacred emerald sword.
• The Doctor’s staff used nanobots to form new arms for the man, painfully connecting them to his nerves.
• The Doctor explained to the Warden that master-controller nanobots guided the rest through interconnected nerves, and that the procedure’s intense pain could cause shock.
• After recovering, the man took Weidiya’s sword and attacked the bound god within the Director’s five-minute limit.
• The man drove the sword into the god’s head and twisted it, draining the god’s Divinity and energy as the other nineteen gods watched in horror.

A human used the sacred rapier to exhaust a god’s divinity and avenge his people, dying with a smile after returning the relic to Weidiya. The Director’s broadcast stirred public support for the human leaders and fired up the soldiers.

• The human spent five minutes extinguishing the god’s divinity until the god could barely maintain his rank.
• The human returned the sacred rapier to Weidiya, thanked her, and dissolved into bloody slime.
• The Director ordered the cleanup and the next person to prepare while Liu Ni questioned his calmness.
• The Warden reflected on humanity and animal nature, and the Doctor said the livestream would strengthen human cohesion.
• Viewers saw that gods could fear humans, embraced their leaders’ actions, and became eager to stand up to the strong.

After the livestream made Liu Ni famous, the Director learned that Weidiya expected him to return to the Mother Goddess Star for a coronation, while Liu Ni and the Doctor discussed how to handle the trip. Elsewhere, Moli'an invited the Warden to share wine and talk, and he joined her in a red sports car.

• Liu Ni's livestream fame spread, making her a celebrated goddess.
• Weidiya told the Director that he would return with her to the Mother Goddess Star for a coronation and become a true Goddess.
• Liu Ni asked the Doctor about returning to the Mother Goddess Star, and the Doctor described plans to send wine-making equipment and specialists with her.
• The Doctor advised Liu Ni to keep interacting with the Imperial Princess as the Director did and adapt to circumstances.
• Moli'an asked the Warden to share wine and discuss something, and he agreed to go with her in a red convertible.

Moli'an urged Li Changqing to return with her and offered Mother Goddess Elf protection for humanity as a subordinate race. The Warden rejected her proposal and challenged her to wager on whether humanity could ignite a star, leaving the stakes set on Moli'an staying or deciding humanity's future.

• Moli'an asked Li Changqing to leave with her for Mother Goddess Star, but he refused to abandon humanity.
• Moli'an explained that the Mother Goddess Elves would protect humanity if it became their subordinate race, and offered Li Changqing a position in their Think Tank.
• The Warden and Li Changqing argued over accepting the offer, with the Warden warning that the Think Tank's promises could carry a hidden price.
• The Warden took control of the body and proposed a wager with Moli'an over whether humanity could ignite a star through its own power.
• The Warden set the stakes: if humanity succeeded, Moli'an would stay; if it failed, she could arrange everything concerning humanity.

The Warden and Antie sent a team of specialists to survey the sun and test whether it could be reignited. As the survey team descended toward the photosphere, the Doctor’s doubles began luring Alfred away, and one double drew his attention on a distant asteroid.

• Antie told the Warden that the survey team and equipment were ready, and the Warden agreed to notify the Chosen One of 'Death.'
• The Warden and Antie gathered the specialists at the Post Office, where the Warden encouraged them before they entered the gate to the sun.
• The Chosen One of 'Death' returned, and the Warden ordered the teleportation gate activated as the survey team departed.
• The first specialist emerged onto the sun and saw a dim reddish-brown photosphere, suggesting the star might still be reignited, before its gravity began pulling him down.
• The antigravity vessel arrived and carried the specialists downward toward the sun’s surface.
• The Doctor called Alfred’s name from a desolate asteroid, sensed Alfred’s malice, and severed his main consciousness’s connection to the double.

A stand-in of the Doctor injected himself with a substance that let him look at an Old One, but he transformed into a monster after questioning Alfred. In Hell, Lu Xiao learned that Antie and the Warden had begun their plan while the Allied Forces prepared a desperate attack on Tina, and he remained troubled by the sense that the war was missing something.

• The Doctor’s stand-in injected himself with a syringe, questioned whether Alfred belonged to the silicon-based faction, and became a mindless monster after Alfred answered.
• The Warden and Antie waited anxiously by the spatial Teleportation Gate after taking the first step of their plan.
• Lu Xiao learned that the Allied Forces planned to gather their Gods in two days for a suicide attack on Tina Empress.
• Lu Xiao wondered why no enemy God bearing an elemental authority had appeared and felt that the final battle was missing something.
• Lu Xiao shared news from the Present World with the Gambler, Zhang Chu, and the others, and their conversation eased the somber mood.

As the war in Hell continued to favor Tina’s Zerg, the solar survey team found that the Sun’s hydrogen and helium were still sustaining thermonuclear reactions, raising hopes that it could be reignited. The team began its dangerous return journey, where Meier Gauss and Matthew met the young scientist Li Xiuqi.

• Zhang Chu told Lu Xiao that he wanted to start a media company, and Gambler joked that he could pressure Warden into funding it.
• The Mother Worm continued laying eggs as Tina’s Swarm grew larger than it had been before the war.
• The solar survey team found ongoing thermonuclear reactions in the chromosphere but turned back because they could not safely reach the photosphere.
• Meier Gauss recorded his observations while he and Matthew discussed their hopes for returning to the Present World.
• Li Xiuqi approached Meier Gauss and Matthew for an autograph, and Meier praised his published paper.
• Matthew recognized Li Xiuqi and clapped him on the shoulder.

After leaving the corona, Li Xiuqi and the others helped assemble a Space Teleportation Gate while Matthew and Meier Gauss joked about their pasts. The gate was ready for calibration, and Matthew began explaining how his love story had drawn blood.

• Matthew apologized to Li Xiuqi, asked for his autograph, and received one; Meier Gauss and Matthew then signed Li Xiuqi’s notebook and gave it to him.
• Meier Gauss said he had stopped writing about the chromosphere because his words could not capture what he had seen.
• After the antigravity ship left the corona, the crew reassembled the Space Teleportation Gate, leaving specialists to calibrate it.
• Matthew invited Li Xiuqi to a champagne party, and he and Meier Gauss teased each other about their interests.
• Meier Gauss explained that Matthew had switched from mathematics to astronomy to pursue a junior, and Matthew said their love story had drawn blood.
• Meier Gauss revealed that the junior Matthew pursued was still a virgin.

As the Teleportation Gate neared completion, a vast malevolent eye appeared on the sun and began killing and corrupting the mission team. Li Xiuqi was hurled toward the gate while Matthew warned him not to look back, and in the Present World the Doctor told the Warden that someone had returned.

• Li Xiuqi told Meier Gauss that he chose astronomy to uncover the universe's mysteries, and the mission crew took a group photo before returning to their stations.
• A wave of resentment struck as the Teleportation Gate neared opening, and the staff member calibrating it exploded, followed by others near the gate.
• Matthew and Meier Gauss saw an immense eye on the sun, and Meier Gauss's eyes burst as Matthew became corrupted and shouted for Li Xiuqi not to look back.
• Li Xiuqi felt a sharp pain at his waist and was propelled toward the glowing Teleportation Gate while Matthew's voice repeated, "good luck."
• The Doctor called the Warden and said that He had returned, causing the Warden to drop his phone as Antie asked what was wrong.