Recaps

Zhang Chu arrived alone to save the Mother God Elves from the Horned Lizard Race and its allies, overwhelming their forces with lightning. His power astonished spectators, who wondered how humans had developed it, while three mysterious figures credited technology.

• The Zerg Hive propelled itself toward an abandoned planet as flying insects guarded it.
• After three days without reinforcements, Weidiya prepared the Mother God Elves Legion to fight the Horned Lizard Race and its allies.
• Zhang Chu arrived ahead of the Human Legion and unleashed a Sea of Thunder, disrupting the Horned Lizard gods’ control of lightning.
• Zhang Chu struck dozens of gods to ashes with a blow of blood-red lightning.
• Spectators questioned Zhang Chu’s power, and three blurry figures in the Human Settlement discussed how humans had developed their rules.

Zhang Chu’s lightning dragon devastated the Horned Lizard forces, while the newly revealed Peak Gods Rankings showed him leading the tournament. Antie Icarus then destroyed the surrounded Horned Lizard legion with a nuclear explosion, taking first place with nearly forty thousand kills and leaving spectators accusing humanity of cheating.

• Zhang Chu summoned a black lightning dragon that carbonized and scattered Horned Lizard gods as its kill count rapidly climbed.
• The Peak Gods Rankings named Mad Taoist - Zhang Chu first, with 1,789 kills, prompting spectators to dub one boastful onlooker Ten-Thousand-Ton Guy.
• Weidiya watched Zhang Chu overwhelm the enemy, while the Horned Lizard commander received orders to retreat and discovered its allies had already left.
• The Horned Lizards turned to flee but found the human legion behind them, where Antie unleashed a hundred-millionfold nuclear explosion.
• The rankings placed Sun Chaser - Antie Icarus first with 39,017 kills and three authorities, leading spectators to suspect humanity had cheated.

The Human Legion used Antie’s bomb, Zhang Chu’s elemental power, and Dart’s authority of fear to overwhelm the Horned Lizard Race’s legion. The humans were poised to wipe out the enemy without casualties, while rival races grew alarmed by their strength.

• Antie exhausted his energy and divinity to create a super nuclear bomb, leaving the fight to the Human Legion.
• Zhang Chu’s lightning and the flames formed a towering figure, while Dart’s authority of fear intensified the Horned Lizard Race’s terror and left many of them frozen.
• Antie ordered the hundred thousand human gods to attack, and they charged into the enemy ranks to harvest the immobilized Horned Lizard Race members.
• Weidiya was stunned by how quickly the battle turned, and the spectators realized the humans had suffered no casualties.
• Commanders from other competing races urgently studied the humans, while the Starry Sky Sea Demons’ supreme commander was relieved it had ordered a retreat.

After the Horned Lizard Race was eliminated, Lu Xiao’s human army and the Mother God Elves struggled to evade the United Army while searching for the Zerg. When the Zerg’s coordinates were exposed, Antie devised a dangerous way to propel both allied armies toward them before their enemies arrived.

• Weidiya met up with Lu Xiao and told him that Luolin’s Twisted Treant Legion had found traces of the Zerg, while the Humanoid Race had suffered heavy losses against an overlord-level species.
• The humans finished eliminating the Horned Lizard Race, which left the Preliminary Round with zero points, and the Human Legion temporarily topped the rankings.
• As contestants joined forces, the great clan armies became targets, and the humans and Mother God Elves began evading searches while looking for the Zerg.
• Over the next three days, the United Army eliminated a super great clan’s army, while several other great clan armies managed to meet up with allies.
• On the fourth day, the Zerg’s coordinates were exposed, prompting allied racial armies and great clan armies to head toward them and tacitly cooperate against the Zerg.
• Antie formed the human and Mother God Elf armies into a sphere and used nuclear explosions to propel them rapidly toward the Zerg’s location.

The Zerg Swarm expanded across the Brood Nest while the allied legions raced toward the battlefield, leaving Luolin worried that the assembled enemy forces would attack before reinforcements arrived. He went to the human Command Center, where Zhang Weidong urged him to sit and listen as Doctor presented data to the human officers.

• Antie propelled the spherical formation of legion members toward the Zerg's coordinates with controlled explosions.
• The Zerg Empress ordered the Hive to produce more lifeforms, and the Swarm intercepted a meteorite to feed the King Worms.
• Luolin saw the allied legions converging and feared the enemy would attack the Hive before most of his allies arrived.
• Luolin contacted Bai Xuedong, who calmly said he was thinking about a countermeasure.
• Luolin entered the human Command Center and, after Zhang Weidong spoke to him, sat down to listen to Doctor explain the data.

Luolin learned that the Swarm could not survive until the Human Legion arrived, even if it grew to three times its size. Bai Xuedong proposed feeding enemy corpses to the Swarm and using an early, baited attack to improve their chances against the Allied Forces.

• Zhang Weidong explained that the Doctor's mathematical model was calculating the war's variables, and the assembled commanders waited for its results.
• The Doctor calculated that Zhou's legion would reach the Zerg first but last only 16 seconds, while the Swarm could not withstand the Allied Forces until the Human Legion arrived.
• Bai Xuedong asked the Doctor to calculate how much the Swarm could grow by consuming Zhou's legion, and the Doctor estimated it could approximately double.
• Bai Xuedong asked whether Luolin's people could nourish the Swarm, but the Doctor advised against using the twisted Treant legion because it improved the Hive's reproductive environment.
• Bai Xuedong ordered Zhou to devour members of other races and teleport corpses and allied armies to the Swarm, while the Human Legion prepared to bait the Allied Forces into attacking early.

After receiving Bai Xuedong’s plan, the allied legions regrouped with the humans and prepared to join forces with the Zerg. As the Zhou teleported them toward the Zerg’s position, spectators doubted the humans could survive against hundreds of millions of enemies.

• The allied force shrank to twenty thousand Zhou and ten thousand Holy Maiden Spiders, who began teleporting toward the Human Legion.
• Lu Xiao’s legion rested under Dolores’s black veil while the Mother God Elves healed their assigned human companions, and the humans arranged themselves into combat units.
• The Zhou arrived, and the humans entered their internal spaces alongside the surviving Horned Lizard corpses before the Zhou teleported toward the Zerg.
• Antie regretted destroying tens of thousands of Horned Lizard corpses, which the Zerg could have used as nutrients.
• Spectators saw that the humans intended to join the Zerg and doubted they could withstand the overwhelming numbers of their opponents.

The human alliance used a teleportation, the Zerg, and a formation powered by the Dream Clan to spring a trap on their much larger enemy force. The battlefield remained engulfed in the Eight Formation Diagram, where gray mist confused contestants and purple mist poisoned them.

• The Zhou Clan teleported the Human Legion to the Zerg’s location, then set off to bring the Dream Clan’s legion.
• Ten thousand Holy Maiden Spiders entered the King Worm’s mouth, allowing it to breed Zerg that produced toxins capable of affecting divinity.
• The human alliance attacked the larger enemy force and initially lost more than thirty percent of its contestants, prompting the audience to accuse the humans of cheating.
• The Zerg used fewer than a hundred human fighters to clear a path, while Zhang Chu, Antie, and other top gods led the toxin-bearing Zerg into enemy ranks.
• The Daoist Arts Training Class and the Dream Clan’s hundred thousand gods maintained the Eight Formation Diagram, trapping contestants in gray and purple mist.

Lu Xiao and Gambler guarded the Life Gate while Bai Xuedong ordered the Swarm to use Life Light to multiply rapidly. The Swarm's explosive growth became visible to outside observers, who identified the Life Light as the Mother Goddess Elves' invention.

• Lu Xiao and Gambler led their Fifth Army teammates to guard the Life Gate and discussed using the Eight Formation Diagram as a trump card.
• Doctor estimated that the trapped 1.2 million Gods could let the Swarm quadruple quickly or grow ninefold after about 71 hours of normal reproduction.
• Bai Xuedong ordered the Zerg to use half their prepared Life Light and produce only ordinary units so the Swarm would grow faster and pressure the Allied Forces into a clash.
• The King Worms used the Life Light to lay eggs at an extreme rate, and the Swarm visibly doubled in size in less than an hour.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro questioned the Zerg's growth, and an audience member explained that the Life Light developed by the Mother Goddess Elves accelerated reproduction.

The races agreed to pay star source to those willing to withdraw from the Ranking Tournament and launch a suicide attack on the Zerg Hive. Meanwhile, Liu Guang and Xiao Zhe discussed how they had arranged to feed more people to the Zerg, leaving their plans poised to unfold.

• Shadow Organization members spread exaggerated claims about the Life Light, while the Zerg absorbed its energy and reproduced even more rapidly.
• The assembled racial leaders agreed to compensate withdrawing races with star source in exchange for a suicide attack on the Hive to reduce the number of King Worms.
• Xiao Zhe and Liu Guang walked through the Hidden Light Race's rear command center, where officials acted as though they could not see them.
• Liu Guang asked Xiao Zhe whether he had leaked the Zerg's coordinates, and Xiao Zhe said the battlefield made discovery inevitable and the leak forced the staff officers to act.
• Liu Guang identified the people trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram as nourishment Xiao Zhe had prepared for the Zerg, then revealed that he had prepared nourishment of his own.
• Xiao Zhe praised Liu Guang, saying that even Bai Xuedong was not as capable as him.

Liu Guang allowed the Hidden Light Race to carry out a demanded suicide charge, intending to pressure the other species while following his own plan. As the Swarm continued to replenish and refine itself through battle, Tina led the elite Heavenly Insect Clan into the tournament.

• Liu Guang told the Leader of the Hidden Light Race to proceed with the suicide charge and follow his original plan, despite the predicted loss of many King Worms.
• Liu Guang invited Xiao Zhe to leave the Command Center with him, and Xiao Zhe agreed.
• More than half of the million gods trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram were slaughtered, and their corpses became nutrients for the King Worms.
• The Swarm continued to evolve through internal competition, with powerful individuals emerging from weaker Zerg units.
• Tina led the Heavenly Insect Clan's tournament legion, whose exceptional fighters formed ten tightly organized combat formations.

Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro explained the Heavenly Insect Clan’s origins and claimed that Tina Empress had arranged the Supreme Insect Emperor’s fall as part of a deal with Him. He left the Audience with the revelation that the Preliminary Tournament broadcast had exposed how eating a Brain Worm could trigger a second evolution.

• Ten Heavenly Zerg Clan armies surrounded and attacked a formation of ten Medium-Sized Species legions.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told the Audience that the Heavenly Insect Clan had truly won the previous Preliminary Tournament.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro claimed Tina Empress had entered the tournament to introduce the Heavenly Insect Clan and set a trap for the Supreme Insect Emperor.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro said Tina Empress had made a deal with Him: He would eliminate the Supreme Insect Emperor, and she would serve Him afterward.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro revealed that Tina Empress used the tournament broadcast to show that eating a Brain Worm could cause a second evolution.

Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro deduced how the Zerg Empresses had seized control of part of the Brain Worm Emperor’s Swarm, while the Heavenly Insect Clan fought and climbed the rankings. As a ten-million-strong allied army advanced on the Hive, the Human Legion regrouped to defend it alongside the Swarm.

• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro argued that fear of the Zerg’s potential had led the Brain Worm Emperor to let the other Empresses enter the Hive, giving them a chance to seize part of its Swarm and bring about his fall.
• The Heavenly Insect Clan preserved and ate its enemies’ corpses, then let the allied forces of the Ten Clans escape with thirty percent casualties and moved on to hunt more prey, reaching the top hundred overall.
• The Hundred-Clan Allied Forces assembled for a suicidal assault on the Hive while the humans finished clearing the enemies trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram and transported corpses to the Hive.
• Lu Xiao cursed the approaching army, and Antie ordered the units to prepare for battle and have their bonded elves restore their stamina.
• The Human Legion regrouped beside the Hive and prepared to defend it against ten million gods, hoping to join forces with the Swarm once the enemy approached.

The Hidden Light Race’s hundred thousand gods secretly advanced toward the Hive as intended sacrifices, meant to feed the King Worms and help the Zerg breed third-generation special fighters. Meanwhile, the human Daoist Arts Training Class began preparing a formation under cover of the main force.

• The gods’ advance was slowed by the Zerg swarm, while new Zerg toxins eroded the gods’ divinity and will.
• The chapter explained that the Hidden Light Race had been suppressed by the great clans and that 'Light and Shadow' had offered its leader a path to protect the race’s future.
• The Hidden Light Race’s leader prepared a hundred thousand gods as nourishment for the Zerg, and 'Light and Shadow' arranged for them to enter the battle without openly defecting.
• The Hidden Light Race assassins used their light-folding talent to approach the Hive unseen, carrying out orders to reduce the King Worms’ numbers.
• Nearly thirty thousand members of the Daoist Arts Training Class began setting up a formation with bodily remains as offerings.

The Daoist Arts Training Class activated an uncontrollable trump card, summoning Three-Headed, Six-Armed Evil Nezha over the Allied Forces’ Gods and Swarm. As Nezha prepared to attack, two Neutral Faction beings fled in terror after recognizing the forbidden entity.

• Lu Xiao and Gambler sensed terrifying malice as the Daoist Arts Training Class began chanting with talismans on their foreheads.
• Gambler told Lu Xiao that the Command Center had privately ordered the class to use its uncontrollable trump card against the enemy.
• A black cloud covered the Gods and Swarm, slowing the Gods and turning Zerg life into masses of pale arms that formed a monstrous infant.
• Lu Xiao recognized the infant as Three-Headed, Six-Armed Evil Nezha, and the class commanded him to slay the enemy.
• Nezha stepped toward the Gods as two Neutral Faction beings watching from the arena fled in fear.

Fantasy warned Lightline that humanity’s creation should not exist in this universe, but accepted the risk of attracting attention. On the battlefield, the evil infant devastated the ten-million-god army, while spectators questioned whether humanity had broken the rules and the Zerg gathered the fallen gods for food.

• Fantasy told Lightline that Old Li should be able to manage the aftermath, though the creation might draw unwanted attention; Fantasy said attracting attention could advance their plan.
• The evil infant sent a divinity-devouring ring through the gods, killing nearly a thousand, then charged into their army with a spear that drained divinity.
• The flesh-and-blood lotus throne rose above the battlefield and cast golden radiance over the evil infant as it continued slaughtering gods.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro and the other spectators watched in shock, debated whether the infant’s power violated the rules, and feared their species would be eliminated before reaching the Hive.
• Nia directed the Swarm to collect the shattered gods for the King Worms, and the Zerg empresses recognized that the nutrients could greatly expand their forces.

The Demon Infant slaughtered the Gods as their legion advanced toward the Hive, while the human Contestants prepared to face the coming charge. Dolores and the others urged Lu Xiao to hide and support the battle with his luck, but he refused and chose to fight alongside his brothers.

• Lu Qian told the Swarm Empresses to continue directing the battle after they celebrated the gains from their bargain with Bai Xuedong.
• The Demon Infant killed nearly a hundred thousand Gods as their commander ordered the legion to advance toward the Hive and assigned some troops to defend against it.
• The human Contestants coordinated with the Swarm and hurried to recover before facing the approaching legion of nearly ten million Gods.
• Dolores, Morningstar, Alice, and Weidiya urged Lu Xiao to hide during the first charge because his authority could better support the troops from safety.
• Gambler tried to help Lu Xiao avoid the argument, but Lu Xiao rejected hiding and declared that he would fight while his brothers fought.

Lu Xiao and the Human Legion faced the invading gods as Nico, Antie Icarus, and Zhang Chu opened the battle with a devastating combination of fire, ice, and lightning. The first clash left both sides locked in combat, with the outnumbered 1st Army holding its ground under War Elephant’s charge.

• Alice told Weidiya to watch over Lu Xiao, and Weidiya promised to pull him from the battlefield if necessary.
• As the enemy advanced, the Evil Infant slaughtered gods and brought the Human Legion to the top of the points rankings.
• Nico created a field of ice crystals while Zhang Chu supplied lightning, and Antie Icarus triggered an immense explosion that disrupted the enemy formation.
• Nico’s fire giant, armored with electricity, charged through the enemy ranks as Antie used the divinity Lu Xiao had lent him.
• The Human Legion met the enemy’s wide-area attacks, and Weidiya healed Lu Xiao as he barely survived the first assault.
• The 1st Army engaged the enemy in close combat, and War Elephant led its fighters forward without retreating.

Humanity and its allies fought off a vastly larger army while the Swarm defended the Hive, which enemy forces were trying to reach from the flank. Outside the battlefield, Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro predicted that humanity would abandon the Zerg to protect its competition ranking, though the humans had not yet turned back to defend the Hive.

• The Daoist Arts Training Class regrouped as the Dream Clan plunged over a hundred thousand gods into a dreamscape, and Antie triggered another nuclear explosion that destroyed alien forces trapped inside it.
• Human troops continued fighting under orders to preserve their Biological Armor, while the Swarm attacked enemies and the King Worms devoured fallen gods and rapidly bred more Zerg.
• One hundred thousand twisted treants guarded the Hive as enemy gods bypassed the human line and approached from the flank, hoping to break through the Swarm and strike the King Worms.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told spectators that humanity should retreat and abandon the Zerg to secure a high ranking, and he praised humanity's rapid development during its registration protection period.

The Heavenly Insect Clan arrived above the Hive and gave the Zerg a disciplined command structure, allowing the Swarm to counterattack and relieve pressure on the human forces. With the siege turning around, Bai Xuedong ordered the Human Legion to regroup while Luolin watched the Twisted Treant Clan’s ranking rise.

• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro argued that the Zhou had arrived to evacuate the humans, and another observer questioned why they would not take the King Worms too.
• A hundred thousand contestants from the Heavenly Zerg Clan descended on the Hive and transformed the chaotic Swarm into an organized army.
• The Heavenly Worms took command of the Swarm, counterattacked the Allied Forces, and tightened an encirclement around the forces besieging the Zerg.
• Tina Empress took charge of the Hive as the Heavenly Worms delivered more than three hundred thousand intact corpses of gods for the King Worms to devour.
• Bai Xuedong ordered the Human Legion to retreat to the Hive’s edge and establish a new defensive line, then watched the live feed with the other officers.
• Luolin watched the Twisted Treant Clan climb into the top thousand and grew excited about its prospects in the tournament.

Luolin and Zhang Weidong discussed how the Heavenly Worms’ arrival affected the war, while disagreements among the Allied Forces kept them from retreating. After receiving a call, Bai Xuedong ordered an all-out assault on the Zerg; elsewhere, Liu Guang explained to Xiao Zhe how he had cultivated informants within many factions.

• Luolin decided he would accept sacrificing some of his clansmen if Bai Xuedong asked again, then discussed the battlefield with Zhang Weidong.
• Luolin and Zhang Weidong concluded that the Heavenly Worms could ease pressure on the Zerg’s command but were unlikely to turn the battle around.
• The Allied Forces’ commanders argued over retreating, but feared the consequences of abandoning the attack and could not agree on an order.
• Bai Xuedong received a phone call and ordered the army to coordinate with the Swarm in an all-out attack to wipe out the ten million gods.
• Liu Guang told Xiao Zhe that he had gathered influence within many factions by supplying people with intelligence they could use to undermine their rivals.

Liu Guang challenged Xiao Zhe to think beyond his own interests and promised him everything he wanted if he accepted a mission. Outside the battlefield, Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro claimed several species supported humanity because they stood to profit from the human-run stock market, leaving spectators to consider whether that explained the contestants’ lack of resistance.

• Liu Guang told Xiao Zhe that he needed to give before receiving and said he would assign him a mission only he could perform.
• Xiao Zhe asked what he would gain, and Liu Guang promised him everything he wanted before leaving him to think.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told the spectators that several species had contacted humanity before the tournament and insisted his information was firsthand.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro explained that species invested in humanity-linked stocks wanted humanity to succeed in the Ranking Tournament so they could profit.
• A spectator wondered whether financial interests explained why contestants from other species had failed to challenge the humans effectively.

Xiao Zhe understood how Liu Guang’s stock-market scheme had stirred suspicion and factional infighting among the alien races without relying on the Human Heart authority. Convinced that Liu Guang was helping him become a better strategist, Xiao Zhe grew curious about the task he would be asked to lead, while Liu Guang arrived at the Command Center and Zhang Weidong hinted at a grievance.

• The Horned Lizard Race leader investigated suspected moles after hearing Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro’s remarks and discovered that more than half of the clan’s higher-ups, including himself, held human-related stocks.
• Other races launched similar investigations, and revelations about their leaders caused the audience to believe Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro and consider whether to continue cooperating.
• Xiao Zhe realized Liu Guang’s stock market had fueled suspicion and rivalries by exploiting greed and public opinion rather than making anyone directly betray their clan.
• Xiao Zhe accepted that he had not been chosen to lead the Spark Plan because he was not yet a qualified chess player, and he wondered what task Liu Guang had in mind for him.
• Liu Guang entered the Command Center and sat beside Luolin, where Zhang Weidong greeted him as his old boss and accused him of keeping secrets.

Lu Xiao’s strange Authority caused his enemies to suffer bizarre accidents, while Zhang Chu and Daimon joined forces against the Evil Infant. The chapter ended with the two Gods unleashing a combined command against their powerful foe.

• The Warden endured attacks from over a hundred Gods, with a green sprite sustaining him, while Sly’s enemies moved stiffly under his power.
• Lu Xiao’s Authority triggered mishaps among his attackers, and Hassan went berserk after hearing that his wife had remarried and spent his child’s resources as her dowry.
• Weidiya stopped healing Lu Xiao when excess life energy made grass grow on his body, and Gambler reacted to the sight with unpleasant memories.
• The Evil Infant targeted Zhang Chu, who trapped it in a Sea of Thunder, but neither could overcome the other.
• Daimon came to Zhang Chu’s aid, combining his Sea of Fire with the thunder until the flames turned purple, but the Evil Infant remained unmoved.
• Zhang Chu and Daimon shouted “Stand down!” together at the Evil Infant.

Zhang Chu explained that the Evil Infant was an aggregation of thoughts, but its growing aura remained a mystery. Outside the battlefield, rumors split the smaller clans’ alliance, and their leaders argued over whom to attack before drifting toward targeting the Great Clans instead of humanity.

• The Evil Infant turned away from Zhang Chu and attacked nearby enemies, while Zhang Chu told Daimon it would dissipate once its thoughts were exhausted.
• Rumors of turncoats weakened the smaller clans’ alliance, letting Great Clan contestants exploit their infighting to gain points.
• The smaller clans’ contestants and commanders began slowing down or withholding effort as they weighed the risks of attacking humanity.
• The Allied Forces’ leaders debated whether to target humanity, the Zerg, or the other Great Clans, and accused one another of plotting to betray the alliance.
• The leaders leaned toward attacking the Great Clans, reasoning that humanity’s rise could no longer be stopped and that showing goodwill might protect their interests.