Chapter Summaries

Kaitlin cared for Lu Xiao’s turtle and worm on Hell Star, which had grown to immense size and reached godhood. When Lu Xiao’s envoy came to retrieve them, Kaitlin was warned that Lu Xiao regarded the two as brothers and would return if they were harmed.

• Kaitlin regularly fed Little Well-Behaved and Big Good Boy, who had grown to extraordinary sizes and ascended to godhood.
• Kaitlin studied mithril relics from the Ash Knights Corps and used the technique to equip a Demon Legion for the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Kaitlin rushed to the imperial city after learning that a Mother God Elf envoy claimed to represent Councilor Lu Xiao.
• The envoy delivered Lu Xiao’s gifts and said she had come to retrieve his two pets from Hell Star.
• The envoy warned that Lu Xiao loved the pets like brothers and would come in person if anything happened to them, leaving Kaitlin intimidated.

Lu Xiao visited Earth to inspect the Farstar Project and advised Nellie to secure transport capacity for the Mother Goddess Elves and meet Driver. The chapter ended as Lu Xiao headed toward Galaxy Academy by teleportation.

• Kaitlin sent the envoy to Big Good Boy and Little Well-Behaved's lair to receive Lu Xiao's local specialties.
• Lu Xiao and Weidiya traveled to Earth to inspect the Farstar Project's trial phase on behalf of the Mother Goddess Elves.
• Nellie picked Lu Xiao and Weidiya up and drove them around Earth, while Lu Xiao asked whether she had met Driver.
• Lu Xiao urged Weidiya to have the Mother Goddess Elves secure transport capacity from the Zhou Clan before other species caught on.
• Lu Xiao advised Nellie to meet Driver and offered to let her use his name; Nellie agreed.
• Lu Xiao had Nellie take them to Galaxy Academy so they could reach it by teleportation.

Lu Xiao asked Novia whether she wanted to stay at Galaxy Academy, then used her position to arrange bulk purchases of Authority Weapons related to luck. He explained to Weidiya that buying through the Mother Goddess Elves and making Novia responsible for screening the weapons could reduce the risk of other species tampering with them.

• Lu Xiao asked Novia whether she wanted to remain at Galaxy Academy or return to Mother Goddess Star, and Novia chose to stay.
• Lu Xiao asked Novia to contact the species represented by academy students and buy large quantities of Authority Weapons related to luck in the Mother Goddess Elves' name.
• After leaving Novia's office, Weidiya asked why Lu Xiao did not make the purchases in humanity's name.
• Lu Xiao explained that other species might suspect humanity was planning something and tamper with the weapons if humanity bought them directly.
• Lu Xiao told Weidiya that he had made Novia responsible for the purchases so she would screen the weapons carefully to protect her position.

Lu Xiao told Li Xiuqi that Lan had been chosen to marry him in a species alliance, and Li Xiuqi agreed to pursue advancement so he could be worthy of her. Lu Xiao then took Weidiya to Las Vegas, where he saw the Rhine River filled with glowing Star Source Liquid.

• Lu Xiao told Li Xiuqi that the Mother Goddess Elves’ Empress had chosen him as the link in a marriage alliance with Lan.
• Li Xiuqi hesitated because Lan was a Great Old One, but agreed to seek a Mother Tree Leaf and advance toward becoming a God.
• Li Xiuqi explained how Lan became his student, developed an interest in Cosmic Sociology, and stayed in touch with him.
• Lu Xiao and Weidiya traveled to Las Vegas using the Doctor’s Quantum Transmission.
• Lu Xiao saw the Rhine River, whose water Gambler had replaced with Star Source Liquid after the city’s gambling profits exceeded his expectations.

Lu Xiao met Gambler at his villa and learned that the Farstar Project would exploit people’s human nature, though he decided not to visit it. They discussed preparations for the Species Ranking Tournament and the lingering injuries Gambler had suffered from law-type attacks.

• Lu Xiao and Weidiya met Gambler, who recalled that Lu Xiao had once exposed his lie but spared him.
• Gambler explained that Farstar Project shareholders planned to profit by making people gamble on human nature, and Lu Xiao decided against visiting it.
• Gambler said Doctor had invested nearly all their funds in training for the Species Ranking Tournament, and Lu Xiao planned to join after finishing his business on Mother Goddess Star.
• Gambler showed Lu Xiao the persistent burns inflicted by Daimon and Zhang Chu, explaining that Antie’s law-type attacks made them difficult to heal.
• Weidiya recognized that such attacks seemed like power normally accessible only to a World God, and Gambler said his group could not learn them because they required elemental authority.

Lu Xiao returned to Chang'an City with Weidiya and, after a flower seller prompted a romantic misunderstanding, offered her roses while explaining that he wanted her to become Empress. He left her disappointed by clarifying that he was restoring her rightful place as Imperial Princess and began reflecting on whether humans had brought suffering to Mother Goddess Star.

• Lu Xiao left Gambler's villa with Weidiya and returned to Chang'an City, where they visited the bustling street stalls.
• Weidiya ordered fried skewers after a stall owner joked that she was a flower planted in cow dung, and Lu Xiao failed to understand why she was annoyed with him.
• A little girl gave Lu Xiao a flower basket to cheer up his girlfriend, and he eventually offered the flowers to Weidiya.
• Lu Xiao told Weidiya that she was the only candidate for Empress he trusted, but she realized he meant to appoint her for political reasons.
• Lu Xiao denied that his choice was about his interests and said Weidiya had been the Imperial Princess and would have taken the position if Liu Ni had not appeared.
• Lu Xiao recalled Gambler's words about peace existing only on Earth and wondered whether humans had taken peace away from Mother Goddess Star.

Lu Xiao decided to leave the Mother Goddess Star after seeing in a little girl the same hope for a peaceful future he had once seen in a dream. As the Zerg Delegation departed, he and the Warden agreed to explore the universe, while the Deliberative Council began reshaping its leadership.

• Lu Xiao told Weidiya about his dream and explained that the little girl had rekindled the beautiful hope he had lost, then said he understood Weidiya's feelings but that it was not the time to discuss them.
• Weidiya restored the roses in her flower basket with her life aura and went to her mother's bedchamber.
• At the Zerg Delegation's send-off, Lu Xiao told the Warden he had finished what he could on the Mother Goddess Star and wanted to explore the universe before the Species Ranking Tournament and future conflicts.
• The Warden agreed with Lu Xiao that they should leave to see the world rather than remain on the Mother Goddess Star.
• At an expanded Deliberative Council meeting, Sitika admitted she lacked the ability for her role and asked to step down, while the Empress proposed putting the Director in charge of external affairs.
• Lan watched Lu Xiao and the Warden closely as neither opposed the proposal to place the Director in charge of external affairs, a move that would remove the Director from the Council's inner circle.

Lu Xiao and the Warden arranged for the Director to take charge of external affairs and supported Weidiya’s appointment as deputy municipal administrator of Pulixidian. Lan later questioned why Lu Xiao and the Warden planned to leave Mother Goddess Star, and Lu Xiao explained they wanted to travel and stop interfering in the Mother Goddess Elves’ internal affairs.

• Lu Xiao and the Warden backed the Director’s proposal to take full charge of external affairs, and the Deliberative Council approved it unanimously.
• The Empress proposed appointing Weidiya as Pulixidian’s deputy municipal administrator, and Lu Xiao and the Warden supported her appointment.
• After the meeting, Lan ignored the councilors’ unspoken hopes that she would oppose the appointment and left the Conference Hall.
• In Lu Xiao’s office, Lan asked whether Lu Xiao and the Warden were leaving Mother Goddess Star because the clan had disappointed them.
• Lu Xiao told Lan they wanted to travel and no longer wished to interfere in the clan’s internal affairs, leaving her confused about whether the Deliberative Council could function without them.

Lu Xiao and the Warden told Lan they planned to leave Mother Goddess Star and hand authority to His Majesty, with Weidiya eventually becoming Empress. As Weidiya prepared to take office and resolved to keep waiting for someone she loved, “Night” bought Love Gu from a vendor at an Earth night market.

• Lu Xiao told Lan that he and the Warden would leave after entrusting their say in affairs to His Majesty, and that Weidiya was being prepared to become Empress.
• The Warden advised Lan to use her marriage alliance with Li Xiuqi and his ties to humanity to become a balance of power in the Deliberative Council.
• Lan accepted that Lu Xiao and the Warden had decided to leave and wished them well on their journey.
• Weidiya prepared to take office, knew she had public support, and resolved to keep improving herself while waiting for the right time to speak to someone she loved.
• On Earth, “Night” bought Love Gu from a masked street vendor, who revealed an ordinary-looking face after she had left.

Lu Xiao, the Warden, Nico, and Moli'an began a long journey, visiting the Humanoid Race’s home planet to seek information about the Warden’s ability. After “Night” joined them, they changed course for the dangerous Far North of the universe, where primordial beings might know more.

• Lu Xiao and his companions left Mother Goddess Star for the Woll Galaxy, where Luolin took them aboard his warship.
• At Zirconium Death Star, they learned Calamity and Old Feis had left six years earlier after receiving a revelation from “Death.”
• After more than two years of travel, the group reached the Humanoid Race’s home planet and toured it with an envoy.
• The Humanoid Race’s leaders could not identify the Warden’s ability and advised the group to seek primordial beings in the Far North, where “Technology” had driven them.
• “Night” appeared on the home planet and joined the group, prompting Lu Xiao to redirect their journey toward the Far North.
• “Night” warned that the Far North was a harsh, resource-poor region filled with powerful primordial beings, but agreed to accompany them on one condition.

Night’s attempt to make Lu Xiao fall in love with her failed, and she later protected his group as their warship crossed a lawless forbidden zone. The group reached a Star Chasers trading area, where the oppressive atmosphere greeted them as they disembarked.

• Night fed Lu Xiao a Love Gu, but he mistook it for a tasty snack and thanked her for the surprise.
• Night grew angry, and Lu Xiao fled without asking what condition she wanted him to meet.
• Luolin piloted the warship into the forbidden zone and tried to steer around two battling Old Ones, but one lunged at them.
• Night attacked the Old Ones, frightening the group and the exiles; she dealt with further threats as the journey continued.
• The group reached a Star Chasers trading area, and Night led them down to explore despite the oppressive atmosphere.

Night confronted a Metallic Life stallholder who tried to force her to buy damaged weapons, and Lu Xiao refused to take the man as a mount. When the stallholder fled, Night used his desire to drag him back into her hand.

• Night revealed her true appearance after the stallholder grabbed her, and he recognized her and cowered in fear.
• Luolin and the Warden bet that the stallholder would be sent to the mines, while Nico guessed Night would make him a mount.
• Night asked Lu Xiao if he wanted a mount, but Lu Xiao refused because the stallholder was ugly and rotten inside.
• The stallholder knelt to beg for mercy, and Lu Xiao ordered him to stand up and declared that the new era had no need for slaves.
• The stallholder fled into the starry sky, but Night used the desire in his heart to pull him back and shrink him to the size of a grain of rice.

Night returned to Lu Xiao with a Golden Crystal that Luolin identified as a Divinity containing a Star God's power, prompting Lu Xiao to question how Luolin knew about it. Luolin speculated that Night had obtained it for Lu Xiao, but Lu Xiao doubted she had any reason to help him, and Moli'an left without explaining what she had noticed.

• Night returned to Lu Xiao in her Succubus form, handed him a tiny Golden Crystal, and went back to the Warship.
• Luolin explained that the crystal was a Divinity that could power an Authority Weapon without using its wielder's divinity.
• Luolin said Divinities were rare and their creation could lead powerful clans to enslave and destroy Old One-Level lifeforms for their power.
• Luolin revealed he had heard about Divinities from another Postman and guessed that Night had obtained one for Lu Xiao.
• Lu Xiao doubted Night was helping him, while Moli'an laughed, declined to explain what she had noticed, and walked toward the Warship.

Lu Xiao reunited with Chasing Stars, who warned him against going to the Far North and told the Warden to portray the prisoners in his consciousness cage. After Chasing Stars revealed that another timeline’s Universe had already been destroyed and time was running out, Lu Xiao told the others that powerful outsiders threatened their Universe, and Night explained why ascension could expose its rules to everyone.

• Chasing Stars appeared before Lu Xiao and asked where he was going, so Lu Xiao explained their journey to the Far North and its purpose.
• Chasing Stars warned that the North held unreasonable lunatics and told the Warden he could advance by portraying the prisoners in his consciousness cage.
• The Warden worried that portraying the prisoners would fracture his identity, and Chasing Stars replied that he was also a prisoner.
• Chasing Stars said the invaders had found another indistinct timeline, destroyed its Universe, and left little time before he vanished.
• Night asked Lu Xiao about Chasing Stars, and Lu Xiao promised to explain aboard the Warship.
• Lu Xiao told the group that powerful beings from outside their Universe had attacked and might have overcome Technology, and Night explained that ascension revealed the Universe’s rules to all living beings.

Lu Xiao learned that Technology had blocked Night’s Ascension to protect the universe from outside invaders, leaving Night despairing over her future. He offered to help her anyway, and Night recognized his sincerity for the first time.

• Night realized Technology had prevented her Ascension to shield the universe from beings in other universes, and she left in despair.
• Lu Xiao asked the Warden what Chasing Stars had meant, and the Warden chose to ponder his words before deciding whether to travel to the Far North.
• Lu Xiao visited Night and asked whether another path to Ascension existed, but she did not answer at first.
• Lu Xiao showed Night the golden Divinity and promised to do his best to help her whenever she needed him.
• Night recalled Lu Xiao’s past actions and felt his sincerity toward her for the first time as a voice told her he was a good person.

The Warden tried to understand Deduction by role-playing Li Changqing and questioning prisoners in his Consciousness Space. He went to Moli'an's room in character, and she invited him inside.

• The Warden released Li Changqing from the Mind Prison, and Li Changqing yelled at his reflection before returning to the prison willingly.
• The Warden explored whether Deduction meant imitating the prisoners and spoke with Li Changqing and Liuguang in the Consciousness Space.
• Liuguang explained that deduction meant using logic to derive a proposition from hypothetical premises, and the Warden agreed they had reached the same idea.
• The Warden assumed Li Changqing's manner, visited Moli'an, and answered her question with a blunt insult.
• Moli'an blushed and invited the Warden inside so they could talk.

Lu Xiao helped the Warden rethink how to use his authority and took him to Night to buy powerful slaves for his Consciousness Prison. Elsewhere, Technology annihilated a mysterious black-hole-like object, and another Answering Robot ordered the blurry figure to find the next beacon.

• Moli'an threw the bruised Warden out of her room, and Lu Xiao advised him that he might only need to copy prisoners' power rather than their personalities.
• The Warden stole Lu Xiao's Divinity, but Lu Xiao noticed and explained how theft could weaken an enemy while strengthening the thief.
• Lu Xiao suggested that the Warden grow stronger by imprisoning more powerful beings, so the Warden decided to start with deity-level slaves.
• Lu Xiao brought the Warden to Night, who asked what level of slaves he wanted, and the Warden requested a batch of deities.
• A blurry figure appeared beside a black-hole-like celestial body, and Technology flew into it, annihilating the body and the surrounding space.
• Another Answering Robot appeared beside the blurry figure and told him to find the next beacon.

The Warden filled his Mind Prison with powerful slaves and discovered he could imitate their authorities, though ascending would demand enormous resources. Meanwhile, Lu Xiao and his companions traveled among minor species and witnessed their struggles for survival.

• Under Night's arrangements, the Dark Star Clan brought the Warden ninety-nine carefully screened Deity-level slaves, whom he purchased and imprisoned in his Mind Prison.
• After filling a prison floor with the slaves, the Warden imitated one prisoner's authority and learned he could wield a weaker version of Deity-level power.
• Over two years, the Warden assimilated the first batch of authorities, then accepted ninety-nine more Deities with different authorities.
• The Warden concluded that his Mind Prison held at most ninety-nine beings of each level and that reaching Deity status had cost him ninety-nine times what others paid, while Moli'an called him a Gold-Swallowing Beast.
• Lu Xiao traveled with Luolin and the others among minor species, witnessing an invasion destroy one civilization and seeing others struggle to endure.

Lu Xiao and his group visited the Milky Way, where he met the Landwalking Sharks’ ruler as a representative of humanity and discussed their species’ relations. He accepted the nominal title of Star Lord of the Milky Way, leaving humanity’s preparations for the Species Ranking Tournament undisturbed.

• Lu Xiao met many minor-species leaders under severe pressure and left statues of himself on the planets he visited as symbols of miracles.
• Lu Xiao and his group chose the Milky Way, humanity’s home galaxy, as their second stop and visited the Landwalking Sharks’ ocean-covered home planet.
• The Landwalking Sharks’ supreme ruler hosted Lu Xiao and discussed relations between their species, hoping humanity’s public friendship would deter their enemies.
• Lu Xiao brought up the Solar System’s ownership, and the ruler declared it humanity’s territory and bestowed on Lu Xiao the nominal title of Star Lord.
• Lu Xiao accepted the title, deciding against buying the Milky Way so humanity could focus on preparations for the Species Ranking Tournament.

Lu Xiao's group traveled through the Milky Way as Night prepared new bodies for rebirth, leaving Dolores and Ruiqi to accompany him. Three hundred years later, humanity had become a medium-sized species, and Lu Xiao had collected nearly a thousand luck-related Authority Weapons.

• Lu Xiao and his companions continued traveling through the Milky Way, where humans and allied species welcomed them.
• Night told Lu Xiao she planned to divide her consciousness, leave her original body guarding the Dark Star Clan, and be reborn in a body she nurtured herself.
• Nearly a year later, Night returned with two new bodies: one carried Ruiqi's consciousness, while the other held part of Night's consciousness and was named Dolores.
• Dolores and Ruiqi began following Lu Xiao everywhere as his group continued its travels.
• Over the next three hundred years, humanity grew into a medium-sized species but produced no Old One-level life, while secretly preparing for the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Novia gathered nearly a thousand luck-related Authority Weapons for Lu Xiao, who spent his accumulated Star Source and received additional funding from Earth's Pivot Council.