Recaps

The Director learned that the Empress planned to send him away from Mother Goddess Star to oversee expanded wine production, potentially obstructing his entry into the Deliberative Council. Lan suspected the Andrelo Family was behind the move to maintain a balance, leaving the Director and Lan uncertain about their next steps.

• Vivian told the Director that the Empress had praised the first batch of red wine and wanted him and his team to guide production on a thousand Life Planets.
• The Director suspected the Empress was trying to drive him off Mother Goddess Star, and he went to ask Lan about the decision while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang considered its implications.
• Lan said she had only just learned of the Empress’s plan and asked the Director to delay his departure while she searched for a solution.
• The Director and Lan suspected another Deliberative Council member had opposed his appointment, and Lan raised the possibility that the Andrelo Family was behind the transfer.
• Lan explained that the Andrelo Family’s move was likely meant to maintain a balance, not to secure a Council seat, since there was no limit on Councilors.

After the Director returned to the Villa and described his meeting with Lan, Liu Guang explained that the Empress’s transfer order was meant to prevent two factions from joining forces through the Director and the Warden. He concluded that the Empress wanted the factions to distrust each other and resume competing for power.

• The Director returned to the Villa, where Lu Xiao and Liu Guang were waiting, and recounted what Lan had told him.
• Liu Guang reasoned that the Empress was balancing the Andreiro Family against Lan’s faction, rather than simply yielding to pressure from the Andreiro Family.
• Liu Guang argued that the Empress would view the Director and the Warden, both human allies backed by separate factions, as a potential united force within the Deliberative Council.
• Liu Guang explained that transferring the Director under the pretext of expanding red wine production would trigger mutual suspicion between the Deliberative Council and the Andreiro Family and prevent their cooperation.
• Liu Guang noted that the Mother God Elves, unlike humanity, had no pressing need to unite against external threats.

Liu Guang advised the Director to obey the Empress’s decree and leave Mother Goddess Star rather than stall for Lan, while quietly protecting himself from their political struggle. The Director understood the plan and wondered whether it would leave the Warden to take the blame.

• Liu Guang explained to the Director that the Empress had to balance the interests of the royal family’s supporters and that the Director could not change her decision.
• Lu Xiao advised the Director to carry out the Empress’s wishes without expecting a next step, and Liu Guang agreed that this should be his public stance.
• Liu Guang pointed out that the Director had tied his interests to Lan and warned that she might be trying to make him a scapegoat by urging him to delay.
• Liu Guang advised the Director to leave Mother Goddess Star to grow grapes while showing Lan that he had done everything he could.
• The Director accepted Liu Guang’s advice and grinned at the prospect that the Warden might take the blame instead.

Liu Guang explained to the Director how obeying the Empress’s transfer order had declared his distance from the other factions and could lead to the Empress sponsoring him for the Deliberative Council. The Director realized the Empress could use him and the Warden to weaken rival factions and strengthen imperial authority.

• The Director doubted he could reach a seat on the Deliberative Council, and Lu Xiao assured him that the seat would be his to maintain the balance.
• Liu Guang explained that the Director’s obedience to the transfer order signaled to the Empress that he had distanced himself from the other factions.
• Liu Guang reasoned that the Empress would likely recruit the Director and the Warden after recognizing their independence, using their council appointments to weaken rival factions and consolidate imperial authority.
• The Director praised the Empress’s strategy, then wondered whether the other factions might be cooperating with her as part of a double-agent scheme.
• Liu Guang said that scenario was very unlikely and explained that the Empress could delay their appointments or full council status until they had no choice but to serve her.

Liu Guang explained that the Empress could control the Director and the others, while Lu Xiao suggested provoking the factions into uniting by impersonating a Mother God Elf. After visiting Nico’s room, Lan prepared to head to Pulixidian, hoping to win the Empress’s trust and salvage the political arrangement she had invested in.

• Liu Guang warned the Director that the Empress could keep him and Liu Guang under her influence, and the Director lamented the burdens of becoming a Councilor.
• Lu Xiao proposed disguising the Director as a Mother God Elf to provoke the rival factions into uniting, but Liu Guang cautioned against the risk.
• The Director, Liu Guang, and Lu Xiao found Nico watching a show in a room decorated with posters of Lü Fengxian and Chancellor Cao.
• Lan prepared to go to Pulixidian and considered declaring support for the Empress with her two allies to regain her trust.
• Lan reflected that she had misled the Director about the Andreiro Family because she believed the Empress was balancing the factions, and she had no intention of blaming the Director.

Lan received the Goddess Liu Ni in Rheinblue and used the visit to turn Bai Ning’s transfer into a dispute between the Goddess and the Empress. Liu Ni asked Qin Nuo to persuade the Empress to keep Bai Ning on Mother Goddess Star, while Lan accepted the risk of being punished for her maneuver.

• Lan postponed her plan to seek an audience with the Empress when she learned that Liu Ni was coming to Rheinblue, then arranged a reception at a vineyard at Liu Ni’s request.
• Liu Ni arrived with Little Black and asked Lan whether Bai Ning had returned from his hometown.
• Lan began explaining that she had planned to arrange a meeting between Bai Ning and Liu Ni, but Qin Nuo revealed that the Empress had ordered Bai Ning transferred away from Mother Goddess Star.
• Lan recognized a chance to keep Bai Ning on the planet by putting the decision before Liu Ni, and Liu Ni asked Qin Nuo to tell the Empress that she wanted Bai Ning to stay.
• Qin Nuo agreed to speak with the Empress, and Liu Ni postponed meeting Bai Ning until the matter was resolved, intending to surprise him.

After the Director joined the Deliberative Council through Liu Ni’s intervention, the Empress treated him as a possible representative of the Goddess’s faction and sidelined him. Nearly two years later, she learned the incident had resulted from Liu Ni’s lack of guile, and the Director’s refusal to engage convinced her he was an independent figure, allowing Lu Xiao and the others to resume normal lives.

• After more than two months without the Empress’s people arriving, Yiqie'er congratulated the Director on joining the Deliberative Council.
• The Director learned from Liu Ni that she had secretly arranged for him to remain and join the Council, while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang realized the move had put him in a difficult position.
• The Empress removed the Director from the red wine project, transferred the other humans away from Mother Goddess Star, and let the Mother God Elves shun Lu Xiao and his companions.
• As the Council members ostracized him, the Director stopped attending, and he, Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Liu Ni stayed in the Villa watching shows with Nico.
• Nearly two Earth years later, the Empress learned Liu Ni had acted without guile and concluded the Director was an independent figure with interests of his own.
• The Mother God Elves of Rheinblue stopped shunning the four humans, and Lu Xiao and the others returned to their normal lives.

Over five years, the Director waited for the Warden and arranged a New Year gathering for humans working on the Life Planets, while keeping a careful balance among factions. Meanwhile, Earth underwent rapid development, and the chapter ends with humanity’s expansion and technological progress continuing.

• The Director waited more than two years for the Warden as Lu Xiao and the others remained in Rheinblue.
• Liu Guang proposed a New Year celebration, and the Director summoned humans from the thousand grape-growing Life Planets under the pretext of work reports.
• Lan awarded each returning human one million star source, and the Director thanked Lan while maintaining distance from every faction.
• The humans celebrated the New Year together before Lan sent them back to the Life Planets.
• The Warden and Zhang Weidong developed Earth’s surface and established the Human Astral Army at the new spaceport.
• The Minotaur Tribe worked on construction for star source, while Shuns and the Doctor helped drive advances in agriculture and technology.

Humanity built Galaxy Academy on a Pacific island, drawing alien races eager to learn its technology despite the high tuition. The Warden expanded tuition exemptions to calm the competition, while humanity poured enormous resources into research to keep the academy at the center of the Universe.

• Humanity completed the initial framework of Galaxy Academy on a vast Pacific island, where leading scientists and the Mother Goddess Elves' Star God gathered.
• The Warden faced daily appeals from minor-race representatives and offered ten thousand annual tuition exemptions for top students and contributors to humanity.
• Alien geniuses competed fiercely to earn exemptions by helping humans, causing public disorder and complaints.
• The Warden removed the contribution requirement, raised the number of exemptions to twenty thousand, and restored public order.
• The Warden planned to leave Earth for Mother Goddess Star after the first admission ceremony, while humanity's Financial Elites sought more resources for scientific research.

After returning from Pulixidian, the Director told Lu Xiao and Liu Guang that Mother had offered him two choices concerning Liu Ni, who was being held captive in a new palace. He faced a choice between accepting benefits for the Clan while Liu Ni remained imprisoned or risking a mission to the Black Domain Battlefield to free her, and the chapter ended as he looked to Lu Xiao for another answer.

• The Director returned to Rheinblue with Qin Nuo and told her he needed time to consider Mother's order.
• The Director revealed that Liu Ni had been confined in a palace in Pulixidian and appeared vacant when he saw her.
• The Director explained that Mother offered to let him continue his work on Mother Goddess Star while Liu Ni remained captive, or to seek an Outer God with the Rule of Life and bring back its Authority to free Liu Ni.
• Liu Guang argued that the Director should accept the first choice rather than risk the Clan's interests and his life on the second.
• The Director turned to Lu Xiao, hoping he would offer a different answer.

Lu Xiao suspected Mother’s two choices concealed a chance to survive and realized his Authority of Miracle might make the dangerous second option possible. Liu Guang warned that choosing it was a high-stakes gamble, and Lu Xiao and the others had yet to decide.

• Lu Xiao questioned the Director about what happened during his week away, and the Director recalled visiting the deliberative hall, where the council studied faction deployments but decided against sending reinforcements.
• Liu Guang warned Lu Xiao that the second option could be fatal and that, if it failed, the first option would still proceed.
• Lu Xiao argued that Mother’s choices must leave some path to survival, since she could have killed them outright if that were all she wanted.
• Liu Guang said the four of them could complete the task only if a miracle occurred, prompting Lu Xiao to remember his Authority of Miracle.
• The Director recognized that success could bring enormous rewards, while Liu Guang cautioned Lu Xiao that betting on the task could cost them everything.

Lu Xiao and Liu Guang prepared to travel to the boundary, while the Director tested how far “Mother” would tolerate his ambitions. The Director arranged resources for Liu Guang to become a God, and the group began preparing for their journey.

• Lu Xiao insisted he would rescue people he considered important, and Liu Guang decided to accompany him after first advancing to Godhood.
• The Director agreed to help Liu Guang obtain the resources he needed and decided that he and Nico would remain on Mother Goddess Star if Lu Xiao and Liu Guang died at the boundary.
• When Qin Nuo brought the Director “Mother’s” answer, he asked whether success would let him do whatever he pleased; Qin Nuo was briefly unable to speak, then said she looked forward to that day.
• The Director revealed that he had phrased his question to test “Mother’s” limits, then visited Lan to advance his plans.
• Over the following week, Lan helped the Director buy high-level flesh and blood cooked by the Angel Race, which removed its corruption and left pure energy and divinity.

Liu Guang became a god after the Director spent heavily on resources, but Mother’s ultimatum forced the group to prepare to leave. A Chosen One of “Death” gave Lu Xiao a star chart leading him to Calamity in the Vol Galaxy, a vast and dangerous Black Domain Battlefield where the factions’ rules were distorted.

• The Director used resources to raise Liu Guang to godhood, while holding back from pushing him further.
• A silent Chosen One of “Death” visited Lu Xiao and gave him a star chart showing a moving point of light.
• Lu Xiao learned the point represented another Chosen One he knew and deduced it was either Old Feis or Calamity.
• The star chart revealed that Calamity had gone to the border, where the three factions fought across the Vol Galaxy Cluster.
• Lu Xiao considered how Niclade’s “Distortion” and Ding Dan’s “Correction” might interact with the Black Domain Battlefield’s distorted rules.

Lu Xiao and Liu Guang traveled with a shipment of supplies to the Mother God Elves’ frontline outpost in the Woll Galaxy. After arriving, they learned how dangerous the lawless battlefield was and were left at the outpost as Yilu departed to join the fighting.

• The Mother God Elves sent regular shipments of resources through a spatial passage to the Woll Galaxy, and Lu Xiao and Liu Guang arranged to travel with the next shipment.
• Yiqie'er took Lu Xiao and Liu Guang to Keliwo, where they boarded a flagship commanded by the Great Old One Yilu.
• Yilu warned Lu Xiao and Liu Guang that the Woll Galaxy was lawless, rife with plunder, and dangerous even when dealing with allies.
• Lu Xiao welcomed the prospect of fighting without rules, while Liu Guang disliked the lack of control and decided to wait until they reached the battlefield before judging the situation.
• A few days later, the fleet delivered Lu Xiao and Liu Guang to the Mother God Elves’ outpost on a ruined planet, where only deities could survive.
• Yilu said goodbye to Lu Xiao and Liu Guang so she could join the fighting, while the fleet’s shipment of star source liquid and red wine was unloaded.

Luolin, newly promoted to Postman Group Leader and advanced to Star God, was assigned to guard the Universe Logistics Company's point in the Woll Galaxy. He learned that a shipment of Authority Weapons had arrived for the Chaos Faction's Deity Species, drawing powerful beings from across the galaxy to the logistics point.

• After Luolin returned from Hell, headquarters promoted him to Postman Group Leader, and his species rose in standing when he advanced to Star God.
• Headquarters ordered Luolin to remain stationed at the Frontline Battlefield, and he worried that his boss had sent him there because he had offended them.
• Luolin learned that Lu Xiao had arrived in the Woll Galaxy and was assigned to guard the Universe Logistics Company's logistics point.
• Luolin found out that emergency supplies containing an unknown number of Authority Weapons had arrived for the Chaos Faction's Deity Species.
• Beings from all three factions gathered outside the logistics point, including several World God-level beings, to contend for the shipment.

Luolin secured a highly valuable shipment of Authority Weapons at the Universe Logistics Company’s fortified outpost, while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang joined Yilu’s warship to build connections with the Mother God Elves. Yilu welcomed them aboard and shared her private wine before leading her fleet toward a mission to intercept a Chaos Faction assassination force.

• Luolin arranged for his clansmen to leave the outpost and reported the shipment’s danger to the company, which activated planet-wide defenses to protect the Authority Weapons.
• Luolin remained at the Logistics Point instead of visiting Lu Xiao because the shipment kept him occupied, while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang left the Mother God Elves’ outpost aboard Yilu’s warship.
• Liu Guang saw Yilu as a useful connection to the Mother God Elves’ military, unaware that the Filthy Things had already targeted her.
• Yilu explained that her fleet would intercept a small Chaos Faction force attempting an assassination, a mission she expected to be easy and rewarding.
• Yilu toured Lu Xiao and Liu Guang around her flagship, brought them to a conference room, and shared a case of wine from her private collection.
• After setting the destination coordinates, Yilu, Lu Xiao, and Liu Guang drank together aboard the flagship.

Lu Xiao and Liu Guang witnessed Yilu’s fleet clash with the Horned Lizard Race, forcing Yilu to sacrifice a formation of ships to retreat. Liu Guang then advised Yilu on a plan for revenge, while a separate fleet arrived at the Woll Galaxy Logistics Point to collect a delivery as raiders prepared to attack.

• The Mother God Elves’ fleet encountered the Horned Lizard Race, and both fleets immediately opened fire.
• Yilu ordered two formations to hold off the enemy while the rest of her fleet withdrew, and the sacrificed formation was annihilated.
• Liu Guang and Lu Xiao privately decided to help Yilu retaliate, and Liu Guang proposed a plan that excited her.
• A large fleet arrived above the Woll Galaxy Logistics Point to collect a delivery, while hidden raiders revealed themselves and waited to strike.

Luolin completed the handover of the Chaos Faction’s authority weapons to Mad Tiger, and the Raiders attacked before the fleet could leave the Logistics Point. Mad Tiger charged into the battle against the manifested Great Old Ones, while the conflict continued to escalate.

• Luolin presented Mad Tiger with the delivery contract for 324,000 spatial units of cargo, and Mad Tiger signed it.
• A beam struck and destroyed the Chaos Faction’s warship-shaped “Zhou” before it could teleport away from the Logistics Point.
• Tens of thousands of Raiders manifested planet-sized or larger bodies, making the surrounding space unstable.
• Mad Tiger grew larger than a star and attacked the nearest Great Old One, tearing it in half.
• The wounded Great Old One counterattacked Mad Tiger, and the battle continued.

Mad Tiger led the fleet through a battlefield crowded with Great Old Ones while raiders fought to seize the Authority Weapons being transported. The battle escalated as Mad Tiger met a World God and four more World Gods entered the fray.

• Mad Tiger charged through the Great Old Ones, clearing a path for the fleet as warships fired on the raiders.
• The raiders and concealed Chaos Faction lifeforms waited for Authority Weapons to spill from the fleet, while Star Gods joined the fighting.
• When the first cargo ship was destroyed, both factions' combatants abandoned their opponents to seize the scattered Authority Weapons.
• Mad Tiger collided with an unidentified World God, and their clash caused space to collapse and dark matter to surge in waves.
• Four more World Gods joined the battlefield as Mad Tiger and his opponent grappled.

Mad Tiger fought three Raider World Gods while trying to escort a fleet carrying Authority Weapons out of the battle. Lu Xiao and Liu Guang set off aboard an escort warship to find Old Feis or Calamity, and Lu Xiao decided to improve the Transforming Vehicle after learning how slowly ordinary ships traveled.

• Mad Tiger held his own against three World Gods as fleets and Authority Weapons were destroyed or captured around them.
• Mad Tiger summoned three more World Gods to help escort his fleet, but Raider World Gods intercepted them.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang said goodbye to Yilu and boarded an escort warship with its pilots.
• Lu Xiao gave the pilots the star chart from the Chosen One of "Death" and set a course for its blinking dot, which represented either Old Feis or Calamity.
• The Ship Commander explained that the journey would take nearly half a year, prompting Lu Xiao to miss Driver and resolve to raise the Transforming Vehicle's level of life.

After arriving at a Starfield where a months-long battle had just ended, Lu Xiao and Liu Guang became trapped in the damaged space and rescued a Wanderer ship caught in a Dark Matter vortex. Liu Guang planned for Lu Xiao to meet the grateful Wanderer leader, Marnal, so the Wanderers would know who had helped them.

• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang reached the Starfield after four months of travel and witnessed the Chaos Faction's fleet flee as four World Gods broke out of the battle.
• After Mad Tiger left and the raid ended, Wanderers entered the devastated Starfield to salvage Authority Weapons and wreckage for Star Source.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang spotted a Wanderer spacecraft trapped in a Dark Matter vortex and decided to help it escape.
• The rescued ship's leader, the God named Marnal, thanked the Mother Goddess Elves over radio, while Lu Xiao noted that he had given the rescue order.
• Liu Guang proposed that Lu Xiao visit Marnal so the Wanderers would know who had helped them.

Lu Xiao and Liu Guang met Marnal, a wandering god who hoped to rebuild his fallen species, and learned about the different groups of wanderers. Liu Guang offered Marnal’s crew a chance to travel alongside them, leaving Marnal with an opportunity to prove he could turn their journey into a lasting connection with humanity.

• The chapter described Star Drifters as scavengers, Star Raiders as pirates, and Star Chasers as powerful black-market traders.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang boarded Marnal’s ship and learned that he was a god with authority whose species had been wiped out.
• Marnal shared his knowledge of the Universe and his determination to rebuild his species, while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang grew impressed by him.
• Liu Guang offered Marnal’s group the chance to travel with them, which could help protect the wanderers and create ties with humanity.
• Liu Guang regarded the journey as a test of whether Marnal could seize the opportunity and build a friendship that might benefit his species later.

Lu Xiao and his companions encountered an abandoned Authority Weapon shaped like a crystal skull, whose strange gravity tore apart ships that approached it. After several Wanderer ships met the same fate, Lu Xiao and Liu Guang suspected the skull was alive.

• Lu Xiao and his companions contacted Luolin, who agreed to search the Logistics Point's territory for a Chosen One of "Death" and wait for them.
• Lu Xiao and his companions spotted a crystal skull surrounded by shipwrecks as they neared the Logistics Point.
• The commander reported that gravity grew stronger near the skull, and a large warship was torn apart when it approached.
• The skull pulled the wreckage into a fast orbit, then let the fragments drift again after about a minute.
• Dozens of Wanderer ships rushed toward the skull during the next lull and were destroyed in the same way.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang concluded that the skull might be alive because it activated without anyone supplying energy.

Lu Xiao and his group spent more than half a year watching the Crystal Skull, concluding that a being used it to lure Wanderers with a power likely tied to Desire. When the skull fled, they pursued it and learned that the chase was leaving slower Wanderers to be massacred.

• Lu Xiao and his group observed the Crystal Skull and concluded that its controlling being used it as bait, likely exploiting a desire for wealth and survival.
• Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and their group remained near the skull for more than half a year as Wanderers gathered and ships vanished.
• Lu Xiao noticed the Crystal Skull moving away, and he and Liu Guang confirmed that its owner was trying to escape.
• Lu Xiao ordered the warship to pursue the skull, and the group caught up while towing Marnal's ship.
• Lu Xiao had Marnal contact the outside and learned that Wanderers who had fallen behind were being massacred.

Old Feis revealed that the Crystal Skull was bait in a trap he and Calamity had set to lure Wanderers into space, where Calamity could complete his Ascension Ceremony. Lu Xiao ordered the Mother God Elves’ warship to fight for the skull, while Calamity attacked the Wanderers left behind.

• Old Feis appeared from the Crystal Skull, taunted the Wanderers, and vanished after leaving the Authority Weapon behind.
• Liu Guang told Lu Xiao that the Holy Relic might raise him to the level of the Great Old Ones, so Lu Xiao ordered the warship to fire on ships approaching the skull.
• The warship commander opened fire and activated the ship’s energy shield as other Wanderers raced toward the Crystal Skull.
• Calamity attacked the Wanderers gathered along Lu Xiao’s route, using his original nebula form to control nearby elements.
• Calamity’s trap was revealed: he had used the Crystal Skull as bait to gather Wanderers for his Ascension Ceremony, while Old Feis hurried to help him escape afterward.