Vol. 14Candidates and Alliances

Lu Xiao and his allies confronted factional conflicts, learned that he had been chosen as a King Candidate, and helped Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong marry. The volume ended with Lu Xiao’s group preparing to support Liu Ni on Mother Goddess Star and Liu Guang seeking cooperation with the Dream Clan.

  • Liu Guang outbid Spiritwood for Spring Day and laced it with Life Poison as he challenged Mother over her control of the Mother God Elves.
  • Calamity and Lu Xiao arranged a private meeting with Spiritwood, while Nuan Meng enrolled at Galaxy Academy and the Warden joined the Deliberative Council as Li Changqing.
  • Spiritwood, Morningstar, and Mad Tiger fought until Lu Xiao entered Morningstar’s consciousness and helped her overcome the others.
  • Lu Xiao’s group concealed Spiritwood’s survival and returned to Earth, where the Doctor investigated his people’s arrival.
  • Technology revealed that the Rule Controllers had chosen Lu Xiao as their King Candidate, but Lu Xiao declined the offer to become the World Will.
  • Lu Xiao reunited with his friends and accompanied Zhang Chu and Liu Guang to the temple on Mount Kunlun.
  • Lu Xiao helped Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong reconcile and marry, and the Doctor’s Collapse Beam Matrix ended the tribulation that struck their wedding.
  • Lu Xiao, the Warden, and the Director prepared to build support for Liu Ni on Mother Goddess Star, while Liu Guang approached Nuan Meng about cooperation with the Dream Clan.
Chapters 1301–1400 Read from Ch. 1301

Arc 53The Woll Galaxy Gambit

Liu Guang and his allies prepared to use Morningstar’s ambitions and Spiritwood’s visit to advance their plans in the Woll Galaxy. As Calamity and Lu Xiao set a trap for Spiritwood, Liu Guang confronted Mother over her hidden motives and her control of the Mother God Elves’ reproduction.

  • Liu Guang anonymously outbid Spiritwood for Spring Day and bought Whisperer’s Cognition, while Morningstar revealed the Mother God Elves’ struggle over Beauty and a chance to advance.
  • Liu Guang advised Morningstar to give up competing or surrender the Biological Base, then offered limited help as he prepared for the possibility that Mother would abandon the elves.
  • Liu Guang mixed life-suppressing poison into Spring Day, while Nuan Meng enrolled at Galaxy Academy and met Lu Qian and Nia.
  • The Warden resigned from his post on Earth, traveled to Mother Goddess Star with Moli'an, and joined the Deliberative Council as Li Changqing.
  • Ding Dan confronted Correction’s original owner and learned from Fate and Fantasy that the Hell Incident had been part of a plan to protect the company, while Correction was a key he had to conceal.
  • Calamity and Lu Xiao waited at Dark Tide for Spiritwood, secured control of much of the high-end merchandise, and used a bribe to arrange a private meeting with him.
  • Calamity sent Spiritwood a bottle of Spring Day laced with Life Poison, while Liu Guang recognized Mother and challenged her role in their mission and her control over the Mother God Elves’ reproduction.
Chapters 1301–132525 summaries Read

Arc 54The Spiritwood Incident

Lu Xiao and his allies survived the clash between Spiritwood, Mad Tiger, and Morningstar, while learning that the battle was part of a larger factional bargain. Spiritwood survived by hiding with Lu Xiao, and the group returned to Earth as the Doctor investigated Spiritwood’s people and their arrival in the universe.

  • Liu Guang learned from “Mother” that the Spiritwood affair was a bargain among competing factions, and accepted Liu Ni as his daughter after she called him Dad.
  • Spiritwood and Morningstar attacked Mad Tiger, whose true form was a giant transparent worm, and the battle engulfed Morningstar’s body and consciousness.
  • Lu Xiao entered Morningstar’s consciousness, merged with her, and helped her overcome Mad Tiger and Spiritwood before offering Spiritwood a chance to survive.
  • Spiritwood expelled his core consciousness from Morningstar and attached it to Lu Xiao, while the group escaped the Dark Star Clan’s contracted space with Morningstar’s remains.
  • Lu Xiao and his companions concealed Spiritwood’s survival while evading Star Chasers’ questioning, then waited for Luolin’s warship and the new Logistics Point.
  • Lu Xiao returned to Earth through the Logistics Point, where Nellie showed him how the Commerce Department’s project was improving people’s lives and took him to the Doctor’s factory.
  • Lu Xiao brought Spiritwood to the Doctor, who questioned him about his people’s arrival and concluded they had paralyzed the World Will to force it to recognize them.
Chapters 1326–135025 summaries Read

Arc 55The King Candidate

Lu Xiao learned that Technology and the other Rule Controllers were preparing for the universe’s end and had chosen him as a King Candidate, while the Star Chasers advanced through Subspace. He declined Technology’s proposed evolution, returned to Earth, and joined his friends in helping Zhang Chu and Liu Guang at the temple on Mount Kunlun.

  • The Doctor helped Spiritwood be reborn in a humanoid body, and Spiritwood told Lu Xiao and the Doctor that his people had fled their destroyed universe through Subspace.
  • Lu Xiao returned to the Woll Galaxy, where an entity of Gray-White Worms attacked Old Feis before Death drove the creatures into Subspace and Technology summoned the group to Draco.
  • Technology explained that the survivors from Spiritwood’s universe were fighting the Star Chasers in Subspace, while Time blurred the universe’s coordinates to buy the Rule Controllers time.
  • Technology revealed that Fantasy wanted to awaken Snow White, that the Species Ranking Tournament would end the story, and that Lu Xiao was their King Candidate.
  • Lu Xiao declined Technology’s offer to become the World Will, and Liu Guang refused a chance to visit other universes so he could support Lu Xiao.
  • The Doctor ordered Earth’s expansion, while humans who had left Earth began returning and the Deliberative Council prepared a delegation.
  • Lu Xiao reunited with Antie, Zhang Chu, Liu Guang, and their friends at a welcome banquet, where Antie urged Liu Guang to clear up his misunderstanding with her.
  • Lu Xiao accompanied Zhang Chu and Liu Guang to Mount Kunlun, where Zhang Chu lit incense at the overgrown temple and Liu Guang swept its plaza as Driver filmed them.
Chapters 1351–137525 summaries Read

Arc 56Wedding and New Alliances

Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong reconciled and married despite a dangerous heavenly tribulation, while humanity became entangled in the Mother God Elves’ political struggle. The group left preparing to build support for Liu Ni, explore the oceans, and seek cooperation with the Dream Clan.

  • Lu Xiao brought Zhang Chu and Liu Guang to Dan Qingrong, where Liu Guang apologized and revealed that Xiao Feng was alive, and Dan Qingrong recounted her history with Zhang Chu and the events surrounding Dan Guofeng.
  • Lu Xiao helped Dan Qingrong and Zhang Chu reconcile, and Doctor organized their wedding, where the couple exchanged vows before a lightning tribulation struck.
  • Lu Xiao and Liu Guang helped shield the newlyweds as Daimon fought the black dragon in the thundercloud, and the Doctor’s Collapse Beam Matrix erased the storm.
  • After the wedding, Liu Guang and Lu Xiao discussed the Mother God Elves’ political conflict with Moli'an and Lan, while Lu Xiao signaled that he was open to cooperation with the Imperial Princess.
  • Doctor gave Zhang Chu a black scale found in the thundercloud, and Zhang Chu confirmed it was an Authority Weapon as Doctor began investigating the oceans.
  • At Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong’s wedding, Weidiya gifted humanity an unclaimed Authority, and Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and the Warden weighed the political risks of choosing a side.
  • Lu Xiao, the Warden, and the Director decided to go to Mother Goddess Star and build support for Liu Ni, while Liu Guang joined their effort and Old Feis urged Lu Xiao to seek allies among smaller species.
  • Liu Guang approached Nuan Meng to discuss cooperation with the Dream Clan, but she first demanded that Lu Xiao repay his unpaid star source in person.
Chapters 1376–140025 summaries Read
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