Chapter Summaries

The Zerg launched an attack on the Outsiders’ Allied Forces, forcing Lu Xiao to abandon plans to return to the Present World and stay near Tina. He aimed to protect her and delay Luolin’s intervention while Antie prepared humanity’s Species Registration.

• Niu Bo sent the Ninth Group Army and half the Minotaur Tribe toward the Present World while keeping the Minotaurs’ main fighting force in Hell to await a chance at the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Driver brought Lu Xiao and others to the Holy City, then announced that fighting with the Zerg had begun; Lu Xiao told Antie to finish the registration plan as quickly as possible.
• Driver dropped Lu Xiao near Luolin in the Swarm, where Luolin explained that Tina had ordered the Zerg to attack.
• Lu Xiao warned Luolin not to fight unless absolutely necessary, since the Old Ones’ entry into the war could expose humanity to disaster and delay Species Registration preparations.
• Lu Xiao and Luolin joined Tina, who remained on the ground as bait, guarded by ten Gods and a million Star-level Life forms.
• The Swarm and the Outsiders’ Allied Forces clashed at the front lines, and dozens of Giants appeared.

Lu Xiao discovered seven Hidden Light Race gods concealed among Luolin’s Plant People and helped stop their attack on Tina. Luolin warned that the wealthy race could send more assassins, leaving Lu Xiao prepared for further attempts.

• Tina alerted Lu Xiao through their mental link that several gods were hidden nearby, and Lu Xiao used his authority to reveal seven figures among Luolin’s Plant People.
• Luolin ordered his ten gods to attack the concealed figures, who exposed themselves and charged toward Tina with Lu Xiao in their path.
• Lu Xiao slowed the attackers with his authority while the Plant People formed a barrier, and Luolin’s gods blocked the seven from stomping on Tina.
• Tina summoned flying Zerg to attack the assassins as ten enormous figures restrained them from behind.
• Luolin explained that the Hidden Light Race’s concealment was difficult for other races to detect and warned that its wealth could fund more assassination attempts.

Lu Xiao and Luolin guarded Tina while the Swarm grew after devouring seven Giants, and the Hidden Light Race made no further move. In the Present World, Antie returned from Hell to tell the Warden that humanity had to reignite the Star to prove its civilization had reached level two.

• Tina directed the Zerg that had eaten the seven Giants to the Mother Worm, which soon laid heaps of eggs.
• Lu Xiao and Luolin stayed beside Tina for days, while Lu Xiao wondered why no race was sending supplies to Hell through the Present World.
• The Warden woke with a hangover after Moli'an drank with him from tanker trucks filled with the Doctor’s improvised red wine.
• Antie returned from Hell and found the Warden in the hotel, where Lorn brought a cart piled with dispatch documents requiring his signature.
• Antie told the Warden that he needed specialists to discuss humanity's species registration and that humanity had to reignite the Star to prove it had reached civilization level two.

Antie, the Warden, and the Doctor struggled to find a safe way to investigate the extinguished Star and decided to lure the Great Old One away so they could teleport there. The Warden prepared to ask Moli'an for help, anticipating that she would make demands.

• Antie and the Warden rejected relying on outside transportation because they did not know the exact wording of the rules, while the Doctor warned that building a spacecraft would take too long.
• The Warden proposed opening a spatial Teleportation Gate to the sun, but Antie cautioned that the Great Old One was there in its Original Body.
• The Doctor suggested calling the Great Old One's name to lure it away, and the three agreed to prepare for an initial survey of the sun.
• The Warden was assigned to ask the Mother God Elves to send the people who would call the Great Old One's name far from the Solar System.
• The Warden returned to his hotel, cleaned up, and dressed to visit Moli'an, then told Lorn to find him a red bow tie.

The Warden asked Augusis for help and was told to seek Death's Chosen One when he was ready to act. Outside the Post Office, Moli'an mistook a trunk full of roses for a surprise from the Warden, who played along, while a reversing camera recorded them.

• The Warden remembered Lorn's Humanoid Race could help and brought Lorn to ask Augusis for assistance.
• Augusis agreed to help and directed Death's Chosen One to assist the Warden when he was ready to act.
• Moli'an surprised the Warden outside the Post Office and asked him to buy her dinner, but he pleaded to avoid drinking.
• Moli'an showed the Warden a car trunk filled with 999 roses, which he had originally asked Lorn to prepare for her.
• The Warden pretended the roses were a romantic surprise, delighting Moli'an as the car's reversing camera focused on them.

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.