Chapter Summaries

The Human Legion’s surface sweep advanced while Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, the Director, and several God-level allies ambushed Cthulhu in Northern Europe. As the gods attacked and restricted Cthulhu’s escape, Claudius sensed his descendants’ plans and appeared beside Lucilla’s discarded body.

• The Gamma Type 7 blasts incapacitated the demi-humans at the Beast Arena, but Claudius survived through his Star God regeneration.
• The Human Legion swept a third of the surface by the twenty-sixth day.
• Cthulhu descended into Northern Europe and found Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, the Director, Zhang Chu, Angel, Daimon, and other powerful beings waiting for him.
• Zhang Chu’s lightning sword struck Cthulhu, Angel’s flames burned away much of his divinity, and the demon used Correction to block his consciousness transfer.
• Claudius stopped inspecting his new territory, vanished, and reappeared high above the ground beside Lucilla’s discarded body.

Lu Xiao and the others celebrated after their plan trapped Claudius into covering up Cthulhu’s return, leaving them with leverage over him. On the thirtieth day, the Mother God Elves Delegation departed after signing cooperation agreements with humanity, while most of the remaining characters chose to stay on Earth and help protect or develop civilization.

• The Director asked Liu Guang how he had known Cthulhu would descend into his stepmother’s old body, and Lu Xiao explained that the plan had been designed to draw out Claudius and make him complicit.
• The Director realized Ding Dan had used the authority of “Correction” to stop Cthulhu from sending information outside Earth, and that Claudius would erase any remaining evidence to protect himself.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang concluded that the ocean remained Earth’s only unresolved issue, though exploring it would have to wait until humanity became stronger.
• The Mother God Elves Delegation left on the thirtieth day after humanity and the elves agreed to establish Galaxy Academy, with the elves supplying resources and receiving a share of the profits in exchange for access to human technology.
• Nico left with the delegation, while Dart rejoined Military Headquarters, Zhang Chu planned to remain on Earth for a century, and Ding Dan stayed to watch Claudius.
• Doctor, Shuns, Ivan, Prison Doctor, Daimon, Angel, and others stayed on Earth, while Niu Bo joined research into cutting-edge technology.

Lu Xiao said goodbye to Lu Qian and entrusted her to Nia, who would protect her and the Solar System with her Ghost-Faced Moth Hive. He then departed Earth with the delegation aboard a vast tree-shaped warship, leaving Moli'an and the Warden behind.

• Lu Qian flew around Lu Xiao, said goodbye, and joined Nia after Lu Xiao promised to visit her again.
• Nia nodded to Lu Xiao, accepting his decision to leave Lu Qian in her care.
• The Director announced the delegation's departure, while Moli'an chose to stay until the Warden had handed over his authority.
• Yiqie'er hugged the Director's arm to help him save face when the Warden smiled at them.
• An emerald light carried Lu Xiao and the delegation into a vast tree-shaped warship, which headed into the depths of the starry sky.

Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Nico arrived on Mother Goddess Star and explored the Director’s treehouse, where a star-source chamber made them marvel at the Mother God Elves’ wealth. In Pulixidian, Liu Ni learned the delegation had returned and arranged to visit Rheinblue, while Qin Nuo reassured her that her new quarters would soon be ready.

• The Director brought Lu Xiao and the others to his treehouse in Rheinblue before going to report to Lan.
• Nico discovered the star-source chamber and urged Lu Xiao to rebel, then Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Nico discussed how extravagant the chamber was.
• Lu Xiao vowed to pave roads with star source once he was rich, while Nico and Liu Guang called the plan wasteful.
• In Pulixidian, Liu Ni asked Qin Nuo about the delegation’s return and arranged an itinerary to visit Rheinblue.
• Qin Nuo brought Liu Ni star source liquid and reassured her that her new bedchamber and necessities would soon be ready.

Liu Ni embraced her role as the Goddess and set out for Rheinblue, while the Director took Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Nico to their new mansion. Their tour of the city ended at Civic Square, where the Director hesitated over whether to reveal the statue’s true value.

• Liu Ni felt refreshed and accepted her life as the Goddess, while Qin Nuo regarded her as a sweet, unusually undemanding girl.
• Liu Ni put on a star-gauze gown and left for Rheinblue in a ceremonial procession.
• The Director told Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Nico that he had secured them a mansion in central Rheinblue and took them there in his Zhou aircraft.
• Lu Xiao and Nico jokingly declared an uprising and pledged to conquer the realm, but Lu Xiao accepted that the Mother Goddess Elves were too powerful to overthrow easily.
• The group arrived at Civic Square and examined its seemingly ordinary white-jade statue, while the Director considered telling them its actual value.

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.