Chapter Summaries

Dan Guofeng’s past revealed how his birth transformed the Taoist temple and how his unusual ability later drew him into the struggle to save civilization. After Dan Qingrong’s cooperation with Li Liangren helped create the Creator and divide the Authority of creation, the Prison Plan and Spark Plan began, with Liu Guang bringing the Authority of life.

• Dan Qingrong gave birth to Dan Guofeng less than a month after becoming pregnant, and Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong became Dao Companions.
• After a senior priest died warning that Heaven forbade the marriage, Zhang Chu left the temple, but the remaining Taoists later died and Dan Qingrong lost her sanity.
• Zhang Chu joined the Anomaly Supervision Bureau, while Dan Guofeng’s imagination allowed the temple’s dead Taoists to exist as spirits and cultivate the Heavenly Dao.
• As an adult, Dan Guofeng left the mountain, joined the military, and was brought to the front lines by Liu Guang after Liu discovered he was Zhang Chu’s son.
• Dan Qingrong retrieved Dan Guofeng and opposed Li Liangren’s plan to use him, but later agreed to cooperate with Li without involving her son directly.
• Li Liangren used Dan Guofeng’s unusual ability to create the Creator and divide the Authority of creation; then the Prison Plan and Spark Plan began, and Liu Guang arrived with the Authority of life.

Lu Xiao invented a wedding surprise to help Zhang Chu reconcile with Dan Qingrong and persuaded her that Zhang Chu wanted to make up for never giving her a proper wedding. Dan Qingrong’s anger softened, while Doctor began arranging the wedding behind the scenes.

• Dan Qingrong turned from resolving matters with Liu Guang to confronting Zhang Chu over his years of silence and absence.
• Zhang Chu struggled to speak as Dan Qingrong questioned whether he was afraid to face her.
• Lu Xiao told Dan Qingrong that Zhang Chu wanted to take her down the mountain and give her the wedding he had never arranged.
• Dan Qingrong’s anger faded after Lu Xiao confirmed the story, and she looked at Zhang Chu with delight.
• Doctor listened through Driver’s phone, quickly planned the wedding, and began notifying the guests while Lu Xiao bought time.

Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong celebrated their wedding with a surprise ceremony arranged by their friends and family. After they each wrote vows binding their marriage to Heaven, a massive Purple Thunderbolt struck toward them, and the chapter ended before its impact was revealed.

• Zhang Chu and Lu Xiao arrived with Dan Qingrong at Zhang Chu's hometown, where a delivery robot brought Zhang Chu a red brocade box.
• Drones and robots staged a musical celebration, while children, Warden, Moli'an, and representatives of allied peoples congratulated the newlyweds.
• Zhang Chu opened the box, found a fountain pen and a Parchment Scroll, and wrote a marriage covenant declaring that betraying his beloved would bring the betrayer's death and dissolution.
• Dan Qingrong added her own vow that betraying her husband would erase her from the Three Realms, then embraced Zhang Chu and declared she had no regrets, even in death and dissolution.
• A Purple Thunderbolt struck toward Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong as their family warned everyone to retreat.

Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong endured tribulation lightning while Lu Xiao and Liu Guang took turns shielding them, and a space fleet prepared to bombard the storm. As another bolt gathered, a fire-wreathed figure appeared and sent a massive pillar of flame toward the thundercloud.

• Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong held each other through a lightning strike, and Lu Xiao moved above them to help.
• A commander in orbit received orders to fire the Collapse Beam Matrix at the storm and began charging the warships’ weapons.
• Lu Xiao took a lightning strike, then Liu Guang used his Crystal Skull and desire-filled smoke to face the next bolt.
• The lightning destroyed Liu Guang’s smoke and weakened him severely, while the Warden and Moli'an felt the smoke’s effects.
• Lu Xiao endured another bolt and fell toward the ground as a fire-wreathed figure appeared and launched a huge pillar of fire into the sky.

Daimon fought the lightning tribulation with fire but was defeated, and Zhang Chu stepped in to protect Dan Qingrong and stop a continent-destroying ball of lightning. The chapter ended as Zhang Chu began forming a Magic Formula while Daimon urged him to stop showing off and act.

• Daimon summoned a sea of fire and fought the black dragon phantom inside the thunderclouds, but the dragon devoured his flames and defeated him.
• Antie realized Daimon had lost but hesitated to intervene because his power could devastate the land below.
• Dan Qingrong defied the lightning tribulation, and Zhang Chu rushed to Daimon's side, declaring that nothing would stop him from marrying his Master.
• The thunderclouds formed a giant ball of lightning as the Warden warned Zhang Chu that its fall could destroy the East Asian Continent.
• Zhang Chu panicked internally but began reciting a spell, and Daimon told him to stop showing off and act.

The Warden’s group watched the Doctor’s Collapse Beam Matrix destroy a thundercloud and its ball lightning by collapsing the space around them. Alien representatives were impressed and asked about buying the weapon, while the Warden directed them toward the Pivot Council’s External Commerce Department and made clear that humanity would sell weapons, not disclose the technology.

• Zhang Chu and Daimon prepared to confront the ball lightning as it formed inside the thundercloud.
• Blood-red beams formed a net around the thundercloud, and the Collapse Beam Matrix collapsed the enclosed space until the cloud and lightning vanished.
• Moli'an asked whether humans had made the weapon, and the Warden explained that the Doctor had developed it.
• Alien representatives asked about the weapon’s cost and considered whether it could kill a Great Old One.
• The Warden directed the representatives to the Pivot Council’s External Commerce Department and indicated they could buy finished weapons but not obtain the technology.
• The chapter explained that humanity’s alien partners funded research in exchange for priority purchasing rights, helping humanity protect and monopolize its technology.

After Zhang Chu proposed to Dan Qingrong, Lu Xiao reunited with Nico and the others. He tried to set up Councilor Lan with Li Xiuqi, then asked about Morningstar, whose condition still interested him because of the World God in her consciousness space.

• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang recovered from their injuries, changed clothes, and joined the familiar guests after Zhang Chu proposed to Dan Qingrong.
• Nico greeted Lu Xiao dramatically, and the Director explained that she had been watching palace intrigue dramas.
• Lu Xiao asked Lan whether she was seeing anyone and offered to help find her a match.
• Lu Xiao introduced Lan to Li Xiuqi, but she politely declined his matchmaking offer for the time being.
• Lu Xiao changed the subject to Morningstar and wondered about her condition and the World God in her consciousness space.

Lan said Morningstar’s situation was not promising, and Liu Guang suspected the Mother Goddess Elves’ internal conflict threatened Morningstar’s family interests. After Moli'an revealed that the Ji Family could avoid losses by following the planned course, Liu Guang asked whether she had known the Goddess on Earth was an impostor.

• Lan said Morningstar’s prospects were poor, and the Warden promised to handle the problem while the group headed to the banquet.
• Lu Xiao and Liu Guang privately suspected the Andreiro Family was trying to seize Morningstar’s family interests in the Woll Galaxy, while Moli'an, the Warden, Lan, and the Director exchanged their own telepathic assessments.
• After Zhang Chu’s proposal banquet, Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and Spiritwood went to a river, where Liu Guang brooded over the Mother Goddess Elves’ internal conflict.
• Moli'an arrived alone and told Liu Guang that she had come to reveal the truth; she said family interests took priority as long as the clan was not harmed.
• Liu Guang said Morningstar had already rejected his advice and that he would not interfere as an outsider; Moli'an added that the Ji Family would not lose anything if the Ji Clan followed the planned path.
• Liu Guang asked Moli'an whether she had already realized that the Goddess who came to Earth to observe humanity had been someone else in disguise.

Liu Guang and Lu Xiao warned Moli'an that the Andreiro Family’s attempt to seize the Ji Clan’s military power threatened the Mother God Elves’ balance and was likely to fail. Moli'an left to consider their advice, and Lan appeared, setting up another mediation.

• Liu Guang confronted Moli'an about covering for the impostor and questioned whether her family could take power without provoking the Imperial Clan or its rivals.
• Liu Guang advised Moli'an to consult Li Changqing and warned her not to underestimate the Empress or others.
• Lu Xiao explained that the Andreiro Family’s bid to take over the Woll Galaxy and the Ji Clan’s military would disrupt a stable arrangement and could provoke opposition.
• Moli'an acknowledged that the Andreiro Family had been greedy and said she would consider their advice before vanishing.
• Liu Guang noticed someone approaching, and Lan appeared beneath the moonlight.

Lan met with Liu Guang and tried to assess his ties to Morningstar while opening the door to cooperation. Liu Guang declined to commit, but redirected Lan toward Lu Xiao, whom she saw as a potential outside ally in the stalemate on the Mother Goddess Star.

• Lan approached Liu Guang and chatted about events on the Mother Goddess Star and the red wine industrial park before asking about his relationship with Morningstar.
• Lan said the Empress had ordered her to protect Morningstar, and Liu Guang replied with a carefully neutral compliment about the Empress.
• Lan realized Liu Guang would not reveal his position or accept her offer to cooperate directly.
• Liu Guang steered the conversation toward Lu Xiao, who praised his peaceful days in Rheinblue and thanked Lan for her generosity.
• Lan interpreted Liu Guang's words as a move to put Lu Xiao forward and considered humanity an ideal outside ally for disrupting the deadlock on the Mother Goddess Star.

Lu Xiao agreed to enter the political struggle among the Mother God Elves, using Lan’s resources while helping build the future Empress’s standing. He prepared to travel to Mother Goddess Star, while Liu Guang took charge of intelligence and Spiritwood chose to remain on Earth.

• Lu Xiao signaled to Lan that he was willing to cooperate and offered to repay the Star Source supplies borrowed from the Imperial Princess.
• Lan accepted his message and left to explore Earth, saying she would convey his words to the Imperial Princess.
• Liu Guang told Lu Xiao to support the Director and use Lan’s resources to advance his own plans and build the future Empress’s reputation.
• Liu Guang decided to manage an intelligence organization for humanity’s participation in the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Lu Xiao asked Spiritwood to accompany him to Mother Goddess Star, but Spiritwood refused because he did not want to be near His gaze.
• The three prepared to leave, with Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong’s wedding the next day and Earth’s expansion still underway.

Doctor showed Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong a black snake scale recovered from the thundercloud, which had survived spatial collapse and Doctor’s attempts to damage it. After the Star Realm Army reported seeing a black dragon in the thundercloud, Dan Qingrong arrived and asked what kind it was.

• Doctor met Zhang Chu in the courtyard and gave him a black scale that he said he had found in the thundercloud.
• Dan Qingrong examined the scale through her puppet and identified it as resembling a snake scale.
• Doctor explained that the scale had withstood spatial collapse, then asked Zhang Chu about heavenly tribulations.
• Zhang Chu described the Heavenly Dao and recounted the warning that Heaven did not permit his marriage to Dan Qingrong, while Dan Qingrong warned Doctor not to investigate further.
• Doctor revealed that the Star Realm Army had seen a black dragon inside the thundercloud, and Dan Qingrong's original body arrived to ask what kind of black dragon it was.
• Doctor said the Star Realm Army had detected no life-forms in the thundercloud and suggested the dragon they saw might have been the scale.

The Doctor confirmed that Zhang Chu could activate the scale as a Lightning Authority Weapon, then decided to investigate the ocean’s unexplained lifeforms. As Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong’s wedding guests gathered, the Warden asked Lu Xiao and Liu Guang about Moli'an’s visit the previous night.

• The Doctor gave Zhang Chu the scale, and Zhang Chu activated it with his Lightning Authority, confirming it was an Authority Weapon.
• The Doctor reasoned that the scale and the Heavenly Dao might be connected, but Dan Qingrong warned Zhang Chu that investigating further could trigger something dangerous.
• The Doctor reviewed what a Star God had discovered about the ocean and decided to investigate it personally using a stand-in at Galaxy Academy.
• Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong entered the ceremonial hall in wedding clothes as alien guests arrived with gifts.
• The Warden asked Lu Xiao and Liu Guang whether Moli'an had visited them, and Liu Guang teased him about not knowing what his wife had done.

Liu Guang and Lu Xiao discussed the Warden’s efforts to find a way to contain the Mother Goddess Elves’ infighting and prevent the clan from splitting. Liu Guang had already identified Liu Ni, who held the Empress Script, as the key to restoring order, and believed Lu Xiao’s entry into the conflict would soon bring it to an end.

• The Warden said the Director had seen through some of the infighting but had stopped trying because his position left him little room to act.
• The Warden explained that he was seeking a balance point on the Deliberative Council so no faction could dominate the struggle and divide the clan.
• Liu Guang understood that the Warden needed someone to enforce rules, but the Empress had joined the game instead of overseeing it.
• Liu Guang identified Liu Ni, who held the Empress Script, as the balance point and kept that information from the Warden.
• Liu Guang believed Lu Xiao’s involvement would soon end the conflict, whether through reconciliation or a limited rebellion by the Andrelo Family.

At a wedding gathering, Liu Guang and the Warden discussed the factions seeking human support, while Moli'an and Lan joined them. Lan announced that the Imperial Princess Weidiya was coming to meet Lu Xiao, leaving him wary of being drawn into an alliance.

• The Warden worried that the Mother God Elves would seek other, stronger allies if they failed to gain human support, and Liu Guang said their infighting would soon end.
• Moli'an arrived in a wine-red gown, and the Warden teased her about stealing the bride's thunder.
• Lan and the Director entered the Hall, and Lan told Lu Xiao that the Imperial Princess Weidiya was on her way to meet him.
• The Warden and Lu Xiao framed Weidiya's visit as a chance to thank her for lending Lu Xiao resources, easing Moli'an's suspicion.
• Lan described Weidiya's visit as a wedding gift and a chance to catch up, while Lu Xiao suspected Lan was trying to bind him to the Empress's side.

Lu Xiao avoided taking sides as Imperial Princess Weidiya and Moli'an represented opposing factions, while Antie announced that he would stay after his travels. Meanwhile, the Doctor learned that the surface ocean and the underground Present World ocean were separate ecosystems, and that the underground creatures were far more aggressive.

• Moli'an recognized Imperial Princess Weidiya's visit as a sign that the Imperial Clan had entered the political struggle, while Lu Xiao kept his intention to remain neutral to himself.
• Antie arrived with Futiya and said they had replaced a wedding ceremony with a trip; he then announced that he planned to stay rather than continue exploring the stars.
• The Director told Liu Guang that Bai Suoyi and her companion were stranded on a planet where war had broken out, and that Yiqie'er and Ms. Nelly had gone to retrieve them.
• A stand-in piloted by the Doctor explored the Pacific Ocean and communicated with a self-aware ocean creature that ruled a small territory.
• The Doctor learned that surface-ocean creatures knew nothing of the underground ocean and that the two oceans formed separate ecological chains.
• The Doctor realized the underground ocean might hold greater dangers because its creatures were far more prone to attack than those in the surface ocean.

Doctor investigated the creatures of the underground ocean before setting aside the mystery to attend Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong’s wedding. The wedding’s surprising gifts culminated in the Mother God Elves offering humanity an unclaimed Authority, leaving Warden and the other guests stunned.

• Doctor sent a substitute into the underground ocean, where an unidentified creature attacked and killed it, and he decided to prepare further while postponing his investigation.
• Zhang Chu and Dan Qingrong held an elaborate wedding officiated by Dan Qingrong’s childlike mentor, with the couple and children exchanging tea and red envelopes.
• Augusis presented the Humanoid Race’s gift of ownership of a thousand mineral planets, signaling the Clan’s goodwill toward humanity.
• Weidiya arrived in person as the Mother Goddess Elves’ representative, drawing everyone’s attention to her mysterious gift.
• Weidiya revealed that her Clan was giving humanity an unclaimed Authority, and Warden asked her to take it back; she replied that it would only cause trouble for her Clan.

Weidiya gave humanity the Mother God Elves’ unclaimed authority, forcing Lu Xiao and his allies to choose between rival factions and risk turning the elves against them. As the wedding ended, they had no solution, but Zhang Chu suggested they could overturn the situation with Dan Qingrong’s help.

• Weidiya gifted the unclaimed authority to humanity, shifting the Mother God Elves’ internal conflict onto Lu Xiao and his allies.
• Weidiya approached Lu Xiao and offered to collaborate, but Lu Xiao asked for time to decide rather than shake her hand.
• Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and the Warden concluded that choosing either faction could damage humanity’s standing and prevent Liu Ni from becoming Empress.
• At Zhang Chu’s wedding banquet, Zhang Chu advised Lu Xiao, Liu Guang, and the Warden to flip the table if necessary, saying Dan Qingrong was powerful.

Lu Xiao and the others decided to travel to Mother Goddess Star and help Liu Ni secure her position as Empress before choosing a side. As Old Feis advised them to invest in smaller species, Liu Guang seized on the Dream Clan as a possible opportunity.

• Zhang Chu told Lu Xiao and the others that Antie had proposed intensive training for him and Daimon ahead of the Ranking Tournament preliminaries.
• Lu Xiao, the Warden, and the Director decided to go to Mother Goddess Star, delay choosing a faction, and build support for Liu Ni among ordinary Mother God Elves.
• Liu Guang abandoned his plan to establish the Shadow organization and joined the effort concerning Mother Goddess Star.
• Calamity and Old Feis departed to carry out a mission for Death; Calamity offered Lu Xiao protection, and Old Feis asked him to keep Feis out of the tournament.
• Old Feis advised Lu Xiao to invest in promising smaller species and mentioned the Nightmare Demon Clan; Lu Xiao realized the Dream Clan might be relevant.

Liu Guang began exploring cooperation with the Dream Clan and approached Nuan Meng at Galaxy Academy. She agreed to discuss cooperation only after Lu Xiao repaid his debt to her in person, leaving Liu Guang eager to learn more about their history.

• Old Feis suggested that humanity invest in other species to reduce its dependence on the Mother God Elves, and Liu Guang set out to contact the Dream Clan.
• The Doctor called Lu Xiao and the Warden to organize an underwater exploration, bringing Antie and Nico along for their abilities.
• Liu Guang searched Galaxy Academy’s records, chose Nuan Meng as his contact, and approached her outside her private dormitory.
• Nuan Meng recognized Liu Guang as Niu Da and asked whether he represented humanity or the Minotaurs before discussing cooperation.
• Nuan Meng brought up Lu Xiao’s unpaid star source and insisted that he repay her in person before they discussed cooperation.