Recaps

Lu Xiao learned that the war in Hell was a trap that restored the Demon Clan and exposed Technology’s broader plans, then returned to humanity as its leaders prepared to relight a star for his ascension ritual. The arc left Lu Xiao and his companions resting at a hot spring while Doctor organized missions involving the Demon Clan, the Outsiders, and Cthulhu.

• Fantasy explained Earth’s removal from history, humanity’s need for Species Registration, and the Black Zone’s role in Technology’s plan before taking Lu Xiao to Hell.
• Fantasy empowered Tina, while the falling sun and the arrival of the Audience revealed that the war in Hell was a deception aimed at the Audience.
• Fantasy revealed that the tournament had concealed a plan to let the Demon Clan recover, and Iswama revived as Reality while trapping the four beings behind the great species.
• Iswama forced the four transdimensional life forms to submit, while Night completed her arrangements and Tina expanded the Heavenly Insect Clan.
• Fantasy told Lu Xiao that his actions in Hell had fulfilled the Rule of Miracle and triggered an ascension ritual, then a Gate returned Lu Xiao and his companions to Chang'an City.
• Lu Xiao learned that humanity had barely qualified for the Species Ranking Tournament, and Li Xiuqi proposed relighting a star to attract the Universe’s attention and fulfill Lu Xiao’s ritual.
• Doctor recruited Ding Dan and Gambler to investigate Cthulhu among the Outsiders and arrange for the Demon Clan to enter their circle, while deciding Daimon’s loyalty had to be changed before he could be trusted.
• Lu Xiao and his companions reached a volcanic hot spring, where Moli'an arrived and drew Nico’s attention while Antie kept the Taoist Masters away from her.

Lu Xiao and the Doctor investigated god-level remains while the Mother Goddess Elves departed, leaving humanity to prepare for threats from other species. In the Dark Prison, Yao Ling defeated War Elephant and an outer god, and Claudius recruited Ding Dan and Gambler to act against Cthulhu as the Warden watched the Blood-red Hole.

• The Warden chose to remain with humanity, while Moli'an left with the Mother Goddess Elves and a human technical team led by the Director.
• The Doctor identified a bone from the hot spring as a god-level life-form’s finger bone, then Lu Xiao and the Doctor uncovered more bones belonging to three Gods-level beings.
• The Doctor resurrected Daimon in a prepared mechanical body with a new consciousness, and Lu Xiao agreed to teach him.
• The Mother Goddess Elves departed, and humanity’s leaders rushed to ignite a star so they could register their species and gain temporary protection.
• In the Dark Prison, Ding Dan sent Yao Ling to fight War Elephant, who entered a berserker state before Yao Ling defeated him with poisoned steel spikes.
• A neutral lifeform attacked Yao Ling’s Biochip, but Doctor and Lu Xi fought it in a digital battlefield and restored her control so she could kill it.
• Claudius revealed that Cthulhu had planted fragments of his consciousness in every blood crystal and planned to descend into the underground sea, then asked Doctor to kill him.
• Doctor refused Claudius’s offer, but Ding Dan and Gambler agreed to act against Cthulhu as Claudius’s blade, while the Warden watched the distant Blood-red Hole.

Lu Xiao and the Warden pursued revenge while discovering Cthulhu’s influence through tampered Blood Crystals and preparing a plan against Him. Humanity’s allies blocked an Outsider fleet, while the Director reunited with Liu Ni and learned that she feared sharing Daimon’s fate.

• Lu Xiao accompanied the Warden to his ruined hometown, where the Warden revealed that a human-headed, serpent-bodied Outsider had slaughtered his village.
• Lu Xiao and the Warden discovered Bai Suoyi’s plan to duplicate his father and reclaim power from Doctor, and Ding Dan identified tampered Blood Crystals as the source of Cthulhu’s mental assimilation.
• Ding Dan secured Claudius’s agreement to gather Chaos Faction beings for destruction, while Lu Xiao proposed preserving the assimilated victims’ consciousnesses and using their bodies as bait.
• Zhang Chu forced the jungle’s inhabitants to surrender the Human-Headed Serpent-Bodied species, and Li Changqing slaughtered many before imprisoning the survivors in his Mind Prison with Lu Xiao’s help.
• Doctor awakened Daimon in a powerful new body with fabricated memories, and Lu Xiao decided to join the Star-Lighting Plan to help humanity and pursue his ascension.
• Alfred halted the approaching Outsider fleet, while a Silicon-Based Life sealed the starfield and impersonated its communications to lure in further enemy forces.
• The Director contacted Doctor through the pendant and began organizing grape cultivation in Rheinblue, while Liu Ni traveled there under Star God protection.
• Liu Ni signaled to the Director that her situation resembled Daimon’s, and the Director invoked a revelation about her changed fate before arranging a future meeting over red wine.

Humanity prepared to ignite the Sun while Doctor and Lu Xiao defused a conflict between Time and Technology by changing the terms of their bargain. As other species gathered around Earth, humanity negotiated with the Mother God Elves and planned Galaxy Academy, while Time uncovered clues about the universe’s origins and the Outer Gods.

• Lan questioned Director Bai Ning about humanity’s captivity and missing records, then offered him a place on the Mother God Elves’ Deliberative Council and proposed a genetic and marriage alliance with humanity.
• The Three Races’ home worlds came under attack after the Alliance Council abandoned them, so they joined the Chaos Faction and evacuated toward the Solar System, where their fleets found the system’s edge sealed.
• Antie rallied ten thousand recruits to attempt the Star-Lighting Plan despite its seven percent chance of success, and Lu Xiao and the Doctor prepared the mission and its final genetic modifications.
• The hidden beings converged on the Solar System as Technology defeated Time in their contest, the Ghost-Faced Moths surrounded Earth, and the Recorders revealed that the Zerg were approaching the Milky Way.
• Time threatened Earth and forced Technology to negotiate, but Doctor proposed that Technology make its authority universally accessible in exchange for Time retrieving selected lives and granting humanity a possible Council seat.
• Doctor returned to Chang’an City after averting a universe-scale war, and delegations arrived as humanity prepared to ignite its star and join the Orderly Species Faction.
• The Warden weighed Lan’s cooperation proposals with humanity’s leaders, and Lu Xiao proposed that the Mother God Elves fund a science academy whose tuition would be shared with humanity.
• The leaders named the school Galaxy Academy and set tuition at one billion Star Source per student, per subject, per semester, while Time reversed an exhausted star system and learned that Outer Gods had destroyed Earth.